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 Post subject: Guilty pleasures
PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:57 pm 
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Leading on from discussion in the 'Middle Class Bollocks' thread about high/low/middle brow, what are your guilty pleasures, or things that might be made to feel like guilty pleasures when you're surrounded by the intellectual superiors (you know who you are and I'm not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely in awe of some of the knowledge on show) on here! :wink:

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-Road Wars, nothing like watching scum [/Jeremy Kyle] getting some justice

-Top Gear, I like it, but I'm a regular cyclist as well as a driver, so it's not the gospel, it's just entertainment.

-Call of duty, no obscure japanese games here, just shooting foreigners in the face for the fun of it.

-KFC, it's shit and rubbish and they torture chickens to death or something, but I get a strange craving for it when I'm hungover. I probably only have it 3 or 4 times a year.

Welcome to the zone of no judgement, feel free to share: :D

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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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Cheesy Latin American pop music like Shakira and Julieta Venegas.


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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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The Apprentice - more often than not I cringe when I watch it but that seems to be part of the enjoyment

Pointless - I enjoy the fact that obscure answers win

Carry On films


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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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Bernadette wrote:
The Apprentice - more often than not I cringe when I watch it but that seems to be part of the enjoyment


Watching an obnoxious egomaniac* getting a well deserved sacking every Wednesday. No need to feel guilty about that one. :D

*Not that nice one that won, obviously.


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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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The Wright Stuff - it's the Daily Mail of the televisual world.

Jeremy Whine - it's the Daily Mail of the radio world.

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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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I love Pointless. What's to feel guilty about?

Corrie. And the Dinner Ladies/Thin Blue Line double-header currently showing on Gold or Dave or whatever. Actually, that's pretty shameful.

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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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In no particular order...

Burger King
Pointless
Star Wars
London Underground track bashing

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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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mojojojo wrote:
I love Pointless. What's to feel guilty about?


It would seem perhaps very little, which is good.

(I'm a recovering Catholic, feeling guilty is almost a default setting)


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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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Tabatha's Salon Takeover

Biddu Orchestra

Lager and Lime

Johnnie Boden (clothes, not the man per se)

Those films where it snows in London with Hugh Grant (Notting Hill etc)

Teen films from the 80's (Pretty in Pink etc)

There's rather a camp pattern emerging. Oh well.


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Space Raiders crisps, particularly the beef ones.


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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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Family Guy, 80s hair Metal, KFC, Russell Howard....

I'm sure there are more.

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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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Top Gear, The Jeremy Kyle Show :oops: , eating a whole bag of salt and vinegar Kettle Ridge Crisps at one sitting, trashy US celeb magazines where I have never heard of anyone in them (only do this when in the US), Sweet Valley High books (I am 37 ffs and still rushed out to get the '10 Years On' follow-up when it came out earlier this year), pickled onion Monster Munch.

Those are just the ones I can think of now, I'm sure there are more...

My brother is addicted to Jeremy Vine (he doesn't agree with him, just likes to laugh at his and his callers' ridiculous views). I'm sure part of the reason why is that every time I'm in the car with him and Vine comes on I start ranting which he finds very entertaining.

I wonder why so many pricks are called Jeremy?


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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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Eggheads, despite largely hating them with a passion, except Kevin, he seems ok.


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 Post subject: Re: Guilty pleasures
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Fflaps wrote:
Sweet Valley High books (I am 37 ffs and still rushed out to get the '10 Years On' follow-up when it came out earlier this year)

When I was at school, my best friend and I wrote a play based on Sweet Valley High. We managed to convince the nuns to let us perform it in the church hall, albeit with a few cuts and a suitably morally correct ending. I was Lila Fowler, the snobby gossipy one. I dread to think how bad our script was; it actually hurts to be reminded about SVH at all.

I presume, as a fan, you hated the tv show.


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Harry Potter - books and films


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