Things that we’re embarrassed about liking, or embarrassed to admit that we like, but like anyway.
(We don’t know where this thread came from. It just seemed like a good idea.)
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Infomercials?
Yes! I love infomercials!
Lots and lots of chocolate. LOTS.
(first?)
Guilty pleasures? Umm… reading Buffy Wikiquotes page. Yeah, I’m obsessed…
Going on the computer and on MB when my parents aren’t around.
Chocolate in immense quantities. Eating raw gingerbread dough (Without eggs
). Kim possible (occasionally) and reading the Andromeda Wikiquotes page… 
Chocolate, even in large quantities, doesn’t strike me as being embarrassing. To be a guilty pleasure, I think it would have to some sort of bad chocolate that you wouldn’t want to be seen eating — like Three Musketeers bars (which probably aren’t available in Austria). Twilight probably also falls into the “extremely guilty pleasure” category for some people who claim not to like it.
For me, Whoppers malted milk balls are a guilty pleasure. They’re bland, waxy, fattening, and almost devoid of redeeming content, but for some reason I can eat them by the box.
If I had been nine years old when Pokémon came out, I suspect I would have developed a guilty crush on Jessie, the Team Rocket girl.
No, but I went tick-or-treating in America twice… *liked them*
But immense quantities of chocolate ARE fattening. And they’re also sort of bad-skin-causing, but I still shove my mouth with it…
That’s true. Still, if a pleasure punishes you for indulging in it, then I’d say that dilutes the guilt factor somewhat.
Tormenting little sisters.
Tormenting older sisters.
Tormenting sisters of all sorts, actually. Often beginning with “This one time on Buffy…”
No, no, no. Never ever torment little sisters. It classifies as cruel and unusual punishment. *is a little sister*
*is an older sister* It depends on the sister. With me off at boarding school, my sister needs occasional tormenting.
No, it’s extremely fun!
No, not fun! Only torturing big sisters is fun. Torturing little sisters is mean. *sniffle*
Agreed, and yet it happens.
And that’s the story of my life.
You horrible, horrible person. -is an older sister- My little sister tries to strangle me and shoves dirty socks in my mouth and hits me and pinches me and twists my arm and you’re telling me isn’t OK for me to torment her?
I’m an older sister AND a younger sister. In other words, I’m tormented by both!
I wish I had a sister.
Heck no you don’t- I did, until i got one.
Wait, sisters aren’t that bad….I mean, my sis and I tend to bicker and fight a lot, at least when the parents are around, but get just the two of us together? We actually get along fairly well, or did over Thanksgiving Break. Sisters can actually be quite enjoyable to have…..
I’m sure mine will be eventually, but for now she’s six years younger than me (she’s 7) and socially insecure, which is hard for her because she used to be socially secure (unlike me…) Anyway, I love her very much, she’s just a bit of a pain. It was worse when she was a cute little baby who couldn’t talk or play at all and everyone ignored me and went around adoring her, but hey, she was REALLY cute therefore hard to get mad at….
You’re lucky. My sister is extremely odd, extremely hyper, and extremely hyper. Especially when I’m hanging out with my friends. A fifteen-year-old friend of mine freaks out whenever he sees her. And calls her crazymonkey. XD I wish I had a reasonable sister that wouldn’t pretend to be a cat or dog and bite people.
Well, I’m never going to get one.
Well, when the age gap is like 8 years, sisters can be annoying ( *cough*MIMI*cough* ) but sisters close in age are, like, fun *waits for Pseudo to come along and contradict this*
Hmm…they’re not awful, but my sisters and I tend to fight a lot so it’s pretty annoying…
(1) Piggy: Infomercials? Really? Which ones?
All of them other than ones for “get rich quick” schemes and diet plans. They’re so worthless yet so unbelievably entertaining. Infomercials for knife sets and vacuums are perhaps the best.
my brother loves infomertials. He will watch the same one over and over again. His current favorite has to do with golf.
Reading the headlines of those awful magazines that line the check-out lines at the grocery store (you know, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, US weekly, etc.). Basically the ones that Muse is an alternative for. >.<
I'm such a turncoat.
Oh, me too.
Oh yeah, same here…and you can’t forget People!
Same here. And, when finding one, gossiping about so-and-so.
I like the tabloids better-the ones about aliens and babies born in avocados…I don’t really feel as guilty as I probably should, though.
Oh yes! I saw that one! How ridiculous… A baby in an avocado. Make it into some guacamole… *severe guacamole craving*
Oh gross, baby guacamole.
Does anyone else smell a dead baby joke here?
Oh, I hate dead baby jokes! They’re so sad! Just like what happened to Tess Durbeyfield…
Ooh yes. I make fun of them though, and I don’t feel guilty about it.
My guilty pleasure for years and years and years was sucking my thumb.
My current guilty pleasure is probably family chanel. I know the shows are garbage: there is no emotional involvement what soever, but still I find myself sitting infront of the television with my knitting watching Phineas and Ferb. (other guilty pleasure TV shows: iCarly, Drake and Josh).
Guilty pleasure….Um, soap operas, I guess. They’re worthless trash, utterly predictable, and yet….when I’m home alone during the day, I am wont to switch on the TV and switch back and forth between the soaps on ABC and the kids shows on PBS. Mind numbing entertainment during which I can work on cross stitch, or the like. If we had cable, I’d probably numb my mind on Disney. *shudder*
I’m with Robert on the Whoppers.
Guilty pleasure? Neopets.
I fall in love with the obvious characters in books/movies–the dark, lonely, usually-on-the-evil side guy. Especially if they have long/dark hair. Even in animated stuff.
HOWEVER DREAM IS THE EXCEPTION AS HE IS ACTUALLY MY LOVER.
*ahem*
I could swear you just described Severus Snape: “dark, lonely”, sorta on the evil side, and “long(ish)/dark hair”.
I did in fact lose my heart to Young Snape a bit. See?!
Better than old Snape……Not that I’m guilty of that, or anything. *coughcoughyeahrightcoughcough*
Buying People the day before my family goes on a planned trip to the beach, bringing it to the beach, and snarking at all the celebrities’ dresses with my mother. (“Oh, that skirt is much too long, and that color just doesn’t work on her.” “Oh, she looks like a deranged Christmas tree.”) It’s ridiculously fun and utterly against everything I stand for in People.
10.1~ Oh good, I’m glad I’m not alone.
11~ Oh, Drake and Josh, iCarly, the Suite Life of Zack and Cody…..definitely guilty pleasures. Spongebob used to be one of mine, but thankfully I’ve gotten over that and survived to tell the tale. (I don’t have TV, so I didn’t get too much, but still….)
Oh, and What Not To Wear. That’s a good one. But that’s less emotionally scarring than the others mentioned…
Oh, I read the headlines on those magazine, too….
Even though I don’t know who half the people are. 
Crushing on C. It’s a stupid crush that’s starting to verge on pathetic
Oh, boy, do I know how you feel. That sounds very much like my crush on A.
Except he might actually like me, but that’s probably my overactive imagination making me think that.
Hmm…guilty pleasures. I could probably write a book on mine, but here are a few:
-Definitely going on the computer (Namely, MB.) when I should be doing homework or studying ranks pretty high
-Cramming the night before a test (Or even worse, the morning of!) and still acing it!
-Eating dessert/candy when I shouldn’t. Definitely a guilty pleasure…
-Dreaming about being in a movie.
Watching communitychannel videos obsessively…
Oooh yeah…or spending all afternoon on the Wii when it’s nice outside.
DEFINITELY!
LIFETIME MOVIES
i love the ones with long titles, those are usually good for more lulz
Uh…True Blood cause it’s terrible and hilarious
I love watching stuff like Bridezillas too.
also trashy historical fiction.
also I’m gonna say it cause yallz thinking it. the twilight move is good for so many laffs. i also think the cinematography is cool even if the lines are hilariously bad. my favorite part is when she wakes up and he’s in her room ~smoldering~ with ~desire~
I like to read the Wikipedia/Mavel Appendix entries on concepts from really stupid/strange old comics, like the 70s Captain America “Secret Empire” story arc.
It’s a transparent Watergate analog, except that, this being Marvel, the president is a supervillain working for an organization who have flying saucers!
They steal an alien rock brought back by the Apollo missions to give a random guy superpowers so he can kill Captain America!
And they’re funded by an oil company who send private armies of super-soldiers between dimensions to steal resources!
(And all of this was actually PUBLISHED!)
I like reading the Wikipedia articles on… everything.
Procrastinating. and pretending during dance classes that i can’t do a split so i can take a break while i pretend.
Playing Neon Maze, Bloons Tower Defense 4, Fly Squirrel Fly, and Cubefield on Notdoppler.
More….?
*Computer usage
*Taking pictures. Especially fanciful self-portraits. (Not vanity, but it’s fun to pose or take on different personas.)
*Stalking my friend’s FaceBook profiles. >.<
*Reading pulp fiction, garbagey books (not much anymore though, I got over that when I looked at how much time I was taking reading, and how many really good books I wanted to read, and how I could get them and more done if I substituted THAT reading for the garbage novels….)
*Figuring out what I'm going to wear each day by co-ordinating colors, textures, patterns, etc.
*Making up stories to explain the behaviour of people in public spaces. (Like if someone has a strange look on their face I'll imagine why by making up a story sometimes.)
*Shoes. Patterned, coloured, wild, comfortable, whatever. SHOES.
*ThinkGeek.
*Umm…..lying on my back and watching leaves/light patterns/clouds/things that I think are beautiful and thinking about any and everything in whatever order it happens.
I enjoy staring at total strangers for long periods of time with a completely straight face to make them feel uncomfortable.
I also like raw egg whites
Raw egg whites?! That’s the strangest thing I’ve ever heard!
I like…
raw cookie dough, with or without eggs.
playing my Nintendo DS on the bus
SNOW DAYS!!!!! (but who doesn’t! :lol:)
Well, this is the place for it. They’re best with Nutella. Yes, I know you can catch salmonella, etc, blah blah blah, but seriously, according to most medical journals that risk is highly exaggerated.
Haha my friend Amanda does the same thing, except she does it to me and people at my school. ‘S funny.
Reading chick lit novels.
Writing disturbing stories from the point of view of an insane person. And also drawing disturbing pictures of my friends. (I drew one of T impaled on a guitar.)
Reading those disturbing stories.
Like the one about “flowers” and “red paint”?
Chocolate. Typer Shark. Twilight.
Oh! Oh! We play Typer Shark in Computers Ed sometimes…tis most addicting.
It is. I’m a crazy fast typer now because of it.
It actually unnerves people.
Cafeteria hotdogs. Cafeteria everything, for that matter.
Cafeteria food? Some days I’d rather eat ready-to-go microwave-able food than cafeteria food. Our cafeteria isn’t that good…
Neither is ours.
My cafeteria food as decent to tell the truth.
Ew. Gross.
I know. I feel all sinful.
Our café is awesome.
-A
Watching America’s Next Top Model, the worst show ever for countless numbers of reasons but…so addicting. But mostly I just watch clips of summaries on Youtube, not the actual episodes. Which I guess is a bit better but still…
Yes. And they have one episode after another, so it’s far too easy to be sucked in for hours.
One of my guilty plesures: Twilight
Looking at Facebook using my mom’s account. My dad does that too.
Hacking people’s Facebooks appears to be a widespread guilty pleasure at my school. Fortunately, I have not been hacked yet.
I don’t exactly hack it, I just look at it.
She uses the same two passwords for just about everything, so it wasn’t had for me to figure out which of the paswords she was using.
Teen romantic fiction!!!!
Yep.
Uh-huh.
More:
Online Tetris.
Fixating on shiny things.
Old, obscure Disney stuff, like the history of certain theme park attractions or the original concept art for animated characters who ended up looking nothing like that in the finished movie.
Shiny things? SHINY!
Yes, and touching them if I can.
Reading The Clique.
The piece I’m playing for intergenerational orchestra. It’s an amazing Beethoven piece. Choral Fantasie in C major.
Watching Ugly Betty or Veronica Mars.
Long car rides. I love sitting there and doing absolutely nothing. I’ll listen to my ipod and just stare out the window. For hours.
It’s a change from the rest of my life.
They’re very good for brainstorming.
Glee.
Anonymity. I’ve gotten into trouble with the state police for this one, actually.
Staying up late. Five and a half hours until I’m supposed to be waking up, now.
Also eating sugar straight. And chocolate chips by the [five-pound] bag. And also mixing sugar and just about any liquid that isn’t already sweet. And chips; definitely usually make me feel guilty, especially Sunchips, because I will not stop eating those.
… Come to think of it, why am I not fat?
-A
Mmmmm. Sugar straight is delicious. Fortunately I don’t do that so much anymore, but for awhile I would eat powdered sugar by the, well, not handful, but you get the idea. And chocolate chips and marshmallows, mixed together and eaten by the handful, or, equally good, melt the chocolate chips and dip the marshmallows…..
And BBQ potato chips by the family size bag. Although that was something that only began after starting college…..
…..As for why you’re not fat, probably the same reason as me, whatever that is.
Your metabolism is very very, high?
I guess. Really the only explanation… I do run, too, but not too much lately, and I’m still less than my average.
-A
Tapeworm?
Do you know……My parents have actually suggested that.
Jokingly, mind you. I’m pretty sure if either me or gradster actually had a tapeworm we’d probably be aware of it by now…..
I’ll go with the high metabolism.
I’m scared I have a tapeworm.
I’ll hope for a fast metabolism.
Glee, definitely. Jane Lynch as a deranged cheerleading coach? Totally. And Chris Colfer as Kurt. Hilarious.
*coughs*
Sorry.
As many other MBers, I cram for tests the night before and ace them (after reading and doing fun things).
I like tortilla chips. Once I ate a whole bag of Mission tortilla chips. Ack. (Luckily, I have a high metabolism.)
Vortex, that game on iPods.
Another guilty pleasure of yours: disappearing for long periods of time, only to reappear momentarily with no explanation.
Really, this is bugging me, m’dear.
Elwing does that too. I was thinking about who would have Christmas first, so of course I thought of Elwing in New Zealand, and realised I haven’t seen her in months. WIth sbf I only thought about it a couple of times, and it was only when I read last year’s December thread that I realised how many other MBers vanished into the woven beyond.
Calling things uncommon names in my writing, just to be unique. “The Net”, not “The Web”, for instance. Also, I almost never say “cell phones” in a story when I could say “portable phones”, “smartphones” or “satellite phones”.
Hmm, using irregular punctuation when writing dialogue. I do not feel that it makes sense to include punctuation in the quotation marks when it has nothing to do with the direct quote. So I put it outside of the quotation mark, an example; What do you mean by “interesting”? as opposed to What do you mean by “interesting?” If the person being asked had used “interesting” not in a question.
If that makes any sense.
But maybe that’s correct? I don’t know. And I double-space between sentences. *sigh*
I’m currently working to kick my two spaces between sentences habit. My friends have insisted that it’s wrong, and finally, our English teacher looked it up. According to MLA, either 1 or 2 spaces is allowed, but 2 spaces “looks old”.
Well, I, for one, have no problem with “looking old”. I’ll stick to the 2 spaces until and unless some jerk of a teacher chooses to mark me down for it. In which case I would get really pissed off and try and challenge en on it…….
Is that two spaces right there?
It doesn’t look like it…
-A
WordPress automatically strips out extra spaces, so everyone’s posts are reduced to single spaces between sentences regardless of their typing habits. Unless of course they want to take the time to add non-breaking spaces….
Fiddler: Putting the question mark outside the quotation marks is, in fact, correct in that sentence.
41.2~ Oh good! I’ve always thought that looked better and made more sense, but wasn’t entirely sure. I have issues with grammar; I can usually tell what is correct, but I have a hard time explaining why.
41.1~ Looks old? What’s “old” about having enough space to make it easy to read? I don’t always double-space, I’m currently trying to catch myself off guard to see what I really do…. I guess I double space when I’m starting a new thought, that doesn’t deserve it’s own paragraph. Hmm. Strange.
The Sea of Trolls…. awesome book, so nerdy…
Playing online mahjongg and solitaire on my iPod.
Me too. Actually, my addiction’s wearing off, but my 6-year-old sister still loves iPod Monopoly.
This isn’t a guilty pleasure for me. It’s a strategy I use to survive class.
-A
Complaining.
Science Fiction movies. Star Trek, Stargate, Star Wars. (You know, all the originals.) Wow. All Star-somethings.
Comic Books- again, all the originals.
Books- in general.
Music- The Beatles/Queen/Jefferson Airplane/AC-DC/Electric Light Orchestra/Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra/Aerosmith/Anvil/Metallica/Love Thing/David Bowie/The Who/Led Zeppelin/The Police/The Rolling Stones/Pink Floyd… and a million others that would make this post way too long.
Those aren’t guilty!
46- There’s nothing guilty about comic books or original SF.
Bubble Struggle. Listening to Lady GaGa.
SFTDP
Marching around dead threads with a sign threatening bunny apocalypse and yelling “REVIVE REVIVE REVIVE”.
48-True, but I had nothing else to list at the time.
Solitare and spider solitare. This is a real problem since I do most of my school-related work on the old PC that I’m not supposed to put online. So…….yeah. You have imaginations, you can use them, I’m sure.
Listening to “The Commander Thinks Aloud” by The Long Winters and “Phoenix” by Julia Ecklar, even though I know they’ll make me all sad.
Reading summaries of episodes of The Twilight Zone on Wikipedia, even though I haven’t seen any episodes. Ever.
Enceladus- I’m guilty of just reading Wikipedia. At one point, the pages open were IPA for English, Gemination, West Germanic Languages, John Herrington, Endangered Species, and the Pigskin Library. Though that last one didn’t exist, for some reason.
In one particularly memorable session, I sat down and learned about rapid eye movements for about an hour straight. Saccades are awesome.
-A
The Pretty Little Liars series, if anybody’s heard of it.
53- You know how I know who all the Dr. Who characters are and I’ve only seen one episode? Yeah.
Any and all anime and manga that I read/watch. Anytime that I spend not strictly doing something “useful” like homework or college applications, and any website that aids me in avoiding the above. Museblog. There’s also this one website called tvtropes that occasionally reminds me of the atmosphere here, for some reason. I once spent 9 hours reading through all the different articles.
57- TVTropes is insanely addictive. Even if you try to control yourself and only revisit specific pages to see if your edits are still there, you’re still going to be on for at least an hour.
That’s probably why it’s listed as an example under Archive Binge, and why there’s a trope called TVtropes will Ruin Your Life.
58.1- Yes, I’ve seen that.
44- ooh, and that “unblock it” game that’s like rush hour. *has already done about 500 puzzles on it* My friend’s worse- she’s done about 800 at least in a few weeks…
Reading, and laughing at, the various teen magazines in the grocery store, most of them devoted to twilight and Disney stars.
Absolutely!
I sing 80s pop songs when I get scared or travel-sick, mostly by Starship and Heart.
Guilty pleasures:
Chatspeak.
There was one other but I forgot what it was!! Arrrrrgggghhh.
*wracks brains*
*BRAINS*
While I’m here, Top 40.
And that other one…ughs.
spending hours on end with my cows
Mooooooooo!
Star Wars. No, wait, I’m not guilty about that. Ummm… that’s hard…
66- Self Reference is a guilty pleasure.
classical music. I crank up my Ihome when my older sister is out! 8)
Watching Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network… Specifically the silly cartoons. I watch the other stuff too but I don’t think of those as “guilty” pleasures that much.
Oh yeah, and cursing.
*raises hand* Cursing is one of my guilty pleasures, or at least, it used to be. I’ve cut down a lot on it.
One of my biggest guilty pleasures is reading with a flashlight, listening to my ipod, and eating dark chocolate when I am “sleeping”.
Going around barefoot.
Wearing fingerless gloves when I don’t feel cold.
Joining random FB groups.
Taylor Swift.
I’m late, but Taylor Swift songs are addicting in an annoying way for me. Like, for some reason, (I don’t even like country that much!) I still have some of her songs on my iPod, and when they come up when I’m on shuffle, I always think, “Oh, I’ll change the song”, and before you know it, the song’s over. (So maybe my iPod is telling me something…)
“24”. It’s like a soap opera with nuclear bombs and extreme torture. What’s not to like?
Oh, and swearing in a mixture of German and Spanish just to elicit weird looks from those around me.
Okay, I’ll admit it. I like listening to pop music. I listen to Kiss 108 ( Local pop station ) all the time. ( GAPAs it’s for all Massachusetts, not just where I live, so I hope that’s not too much information? )
In my defense, I detest some songs, like the bedrock song and “In My Head.” Okay? Also “Rude Boy”.
I like kiss 108 too.
YAY *highfive*
I also like to read fashion magazines, celebrity tabloids, and Entertainment Weekly…but come on, I dare anyone to deny liking those.
Also, I like the Twilight movies. Especially the first one.
I hate them! Yay! (Hey, you dared anyone, of which I am part!)
ANIMORPHS!
That’s not guilty.
Really? It is the sort of book that you see stuffing library shelves that you KNOW someone reads but don’t actually read yourself…you read them too? *is happy*
I read them when I was younger, and I liked them very much. Now I don’t read them, but that’s only because I’ve read them before. If I could ever find the time, I might re-read some.
ANIMORPHS! Yay! Another addict! My friend says they are just typically fantasy characters replaced by aliens (Andalites are Elves, for instance), and he’s kind of right, but I still love the series!
No kidding. Why is it that people see the covers, say “That’s dumb”, and walk away without trying them? It’s an amazingly complex and deep story if you actually read them.
I was one of those people.
Sorry. The main reason I didn’t read them, though, was that all of the library copies were ratty. (I hate reading ratty library books.)
‘Twas quite interesting reading about Tobias and Rachel. I’ve read the entire main series, but only most of the Chronicles and a few Megamorphs. It always struck me that Marco was the only character who never had a girlfriend (or boyfriend). Even Ax dated another Andalite in one book.
Meh, I always thought he had a soft spot for Cassie…
POKEMON!POKEMON!POKEMON!POKEMON!
Shinx: Oh, shut up all ready.
57, 58, etc- TVTropes is also a guilty pleasure for me. Oh, and romance novels, and listening to my friend obsess over David Tennant.
Star Trek. Star Trek fan fiction. Lady GaGa, Kesha, etc. Did I mention obsessing about Star Trek already? Bubble Trouble. Making Doctor Who/ Star Trek references I know no one will get.
This one certain game on FB. I’ve mostly cut video games out of my life, except for that one.
I might be successfully defeating my addiction, though. Maybe.
Darn! I just got addicted to TVTropes!
Lurking in the library of the astronomy building looking at crumbling old almanacs written in Russian phonetics. (In Russian, but using the Roman alphabet) I usually can’t make heads or tails of what’s being said, but the pictures are cool, and it’s funny reading the write-ups of space shuttle (“ASV Kosmoplan”) flights and seeing how the names come out differently.
Sort of like Translation Party, I guess. Sometimes I have to say the names out loud to actually get who they’re talking about. (Ride = Raida, Fisher = Fisere, Musgrave = Masgreivs.)
Putting my dog in my bed, and enjoying her fuzziness, until she gets annoyed, jumps up, and barks a lot until I let her out of my room. Also, reading the twilight series. (I normally had drama/romance novels.) Umm.. what else… oh yeah, eating lots of junk food while I’m bored.
Fashion blogs. I’ve never cared that much about fashion, and I don’t use the tips I read there at all, but somehow I’ve begun to find them interesting. This is so different form how I used to be a few years ago, when I just ignored it. Now I look at the pictures, and actually go through them and say, “Oh, that one looks good…and that looks like a garbage bag. Seriously, high fashion?” And I have a good laugh at the expense of people who actually care about this type of thing.
Glee. It’s plots are over-the-top, it’s unrealistic, it has vaguely offensive/stereotypical character portrayals, and liking their songs more than most of the originals makes me feel I have no taste in music… But Sue Sylvester and Kurt are awesome.
TLC’s What Not to Wear
This is sort of related to my previous post, but with extra guilt, because it’s you know, reality tv.
Fashion magazines. I’m sorryyyyy~ *hides in a box*
Overproduced pop.
I appreciate all kinds of music, and I make it clear to people that the only things I don’t really ever listen to are country, modern heavy metal (see: Avenged Sevenfold, Meshuggah, Brad Paisley) and pop, like Rihanna and Katy Perry.
But I do, on occasion, listen to Katy Perry and Rihanna, and I hate it because I know it is specifically designed to make lots of money by being formulated to be pleasing to my brain. But I don’t really mind.
AND NOBODY ELSE KNOWS MY SECRET SO SHHHHH