Embarrassing confessions

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE=What Exit?]
The New and Improved Superman - What is wrong with the “the Greatest Hits of Mama Cass.” She was a great singer. She died far too young. She was one of the few Rock & Roller that my Father loved as much as us kids and that now us kids love. (Well for my kids as one of the Mammas)
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All I know is that in the rare instances where I have company over, and someone skims through my CD collection, their reaction tends to go something like this - “Clash, cool…Dead, yeah…Ani Difranco, alright…Mama Cass? Mama Cass? Ahahahahahahahahah!”

Mind you, it’s not my darkest, most secret shame. That would be posting on the Straight Dope! :slight_smile:

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I have lots:

  • I watched Mr. Roger’s Neighbourhood until I was about 15. Seriously, I would get home from high school and turn it on.

  • I read my mom’s old Harlequin romances when I visit my parents.

  • When I can find Squeeze-A-Snack I squeeze it directly into my mouth. No need for crackers.

  • Ditto for that horrible Aerosol Foam “Cheese” product.

  • I dance with my dog. As in, ballroom dance. I’ll pick him and up and hold the appropriate paw and we’ll twirl around the living room. I let him lead.

  • I watch Judge Judy.

I better stop there. There are many, many more.

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I do not (gasp!!) have a computer at home.

Never watched a reality show.

Golden State Warrior fan since 1974.

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[QUOTE=Autolycus]

  • I listen to J-Pop waaaay too much. かわいいだから！ because it’s cute
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    おれもJ-POPがすぎ聞きすぎます。アニメも見て、もうほかの人おかしい思っていますけど。*

(I also listen to J-Pop…too much for my own good. I also watch anime, even if other people think that’s weird.)

*Disclaimer: these are the rantings of a second year Japanese student. Proper grammar and word usage is never guaranteed.

Cowgirl et. al, I read Reader’s Digest only for the jokes. :slight_smile:

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I’m planning a vacation with my family around the HP 7 release. We’re driving eight hours so I can go to a party at a really big book store. :o I’m trying to cover my motives by talking about children’s museums and nice zoos also availble in this city. Mr. Woodhouse isn’t buying it, but he’s going along with me anyway. :smiley:

oh and I adore This Old House. Tommy Silva is my hero. I’m thinking of getting a braclet that says “WWTD?”

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I subscribe to Star Magazine.

I watch That Thing You Do every time it’s on TV. It doesn’t matter if it’s half over, I can’t switch the channel.

I own every season of Three’s Company on DVD.

I watch Little House on the Prairie if I happen to catch it on TV Land or Hallmark.

I get into my jammies almost as soon as I get home from work.

[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu]
Don’t go. I share the Manilow love.

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I’ve seen him live. :o

I was 30 years old at the time and probably one of the youngest people there.

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I also read Readers Digest for the jokes. I’m not ashamed. At least not much.

I also put on my jammies as soon as I get home from work whenever I’m not going anywhere else.

I claim to loathe the movie Grease, yet whenever it’s on TV, I’ll watch the whole damn thing.

I read my mother’s old romance novels, just for the dirty parts. I tell her I’m taking them to the hospital to donate, and eventually I do donate them. (Minus the more graphic ones. I keep them.) All my other books are mysteries or sci-fi/fantasy.

I eat like a 12 year old when I’m alone. When my children are home, I make us all eat healthy, well-balanced meals, but when I’m on my own I’ll have pizza rolls and little powdered sugar covered donuts and call it dinner. I wash it down with Kool-aid.

I love VH1’s I Love the 80’s and watch it whenever I’m home and it’s on. Usually with the dinner menu above…on the couch, in my jammies.

What the hell, you only go around once, right?

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[QUOTE=Nutty Bunny]
I get into my jammies almost as soon as I get home from work.
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EVERYONE doesn’t do this?!? :eek:

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[QUOTE=Count Blucher]
I hate ‘Reality TV’…all of it. When I joked about there being a 'Survivor: Viaquez", with inhabitants having to dodge inbound Navy shells, a part of me was hoping it would actually happen. (I suppose there’s always have Bimini Atoll w/o radiation suits…)

I hate American Idol, all its judges, all its singers, all its songs. If Al-Qaeda took them all out, I’d throw a party (but only if they could verify they definately got ‘Simon’).

‘The Amazing Race’ people need to be directed through numerous different un-marked minefields.

The audience of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ needs to be peppered with angry/drunk frat guys with rotten fruit and half-bricks.

‘The Batchelor’ show should hook its contestants up to a rich man/woman… with Ebola.

Big Brother should have its doors sealed and all food/water cut off. The winner would be decided by who didn’t die of starvation after 8 weeks.

Every third suitcase in ‘Deal or No Deal’ should be an anti-personnel mine. Or an Uzi, with which the model gleefully strafes the contestants and the host. Bonus points if she can lob a grenade through the bankers booth and finally get Blofeld.
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Well, OK but why all the death and destruction? Maybe just don’t watch?

I cry at the finale of Mr. Holland’s Opus. Every time, even if I just flip it on during the scene in the auditorium. It takes me about 30 seconds and I’m a puddle.

I watch MTv’s True Life. I’m fascinated, even though it’s really a waste of time.

I’m also a disciple of Tom Silva. I want to quit my job and work for him, I’d even do it as an unpaid intern if it weren’t for this mortgage and family I have to feed and clothe.

I don’t read much for pleasure, except for the newspaper and the occasional magazine. I read at work all day long, but I don’t read novels, and it’s not just because I don’t have the time.

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I am a really bad singer… to the point that I’ve discovered that I I simply quote the lyrics of a song without inflection, people will recognize it more readily than if I attempt to sing it.
I’m going to play D&D in a few weeks with some friends. I don’t normally play D&D but I do play other RPGS. I started with D&D basic. My boyfriend being a fellow gamer is what initially brought us together.

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[QUOTE=Miss Woodhouse]
<snip>oh and I adore This Old House. Tommy Silva is my hero. I’m thinking of getting a braclet that says “WWTD?”
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Another one of mine is similar - Mike Holmes from “Holmes on Homes” is my hero (according to my husband, he’s “my boyfriend”). He thinks his catchphrase is “Make it Right,” but I actually know it’s “We’re going to have to tear this whole thing out.” :smiley:

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Add me to the list of “The Girls Next Door” lovers. My husband mocks me but I know he secretly likes it too. I think the editors of that show are great. Holly is my favorite but I love clips of Wednesday the cat the best. The look on that cat’s face all the time is priceless. Kendra is also hilarious in the way her only brain cell is taken up by dressing up in clothes and then doing a booty dance in front of the mirror while sticking her lips out at the same time. I am fascinated at the way everything in that house is completely sexualized, yet the women are so utterly infantile and their only sexual relationship is more of a father relationship than anything else. I mean, do you see any passion between Holly and Hef? Yet they are supposed to be the epitome of idealized sex. Ok, maybe I am over thinking this show :slight_smile:

I console myself by saying that I like some shows like this, but I watch them with irony meter fully intact. If you ever find me defending this show as quality television then you will know I have crossed over to the dark side. I mean, I love The Sopranos too, but we are comparing apples and oranges here and I enjoy lots of shows for different reasons.

It took me a while to feel secure enough in myself to put it on the DVR menu though. Like I was crossing some kind of line. It’s ok to watch it, as long as I don’t tape it…

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[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Count Blucher, how were those Embarrassing confessions?
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Its kind of embarrassing because people at work are always trying to make small talk about those shows around the coffee machine. I’m embarrassed because I usually end up nodding and smiling vaguely while wishing flesh-eating virus into the shower-heads of the shows producers for making such un watchable crap and worse…making it popular. I’m embarrassed that its almost expected to have to know that glurg to get along at the office.

[QUOTE=McNew]
Well, OK but why all the death and destruction? Maybe just don’t watch?
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You know, in truth I mostly don’t. I’ve rediscovered ‘Antiques Roadshow’ as something I can watch during dinner, along with the Macneill-Leher Report. All the reality stuff & Entertainment News seems like the ‘Dancing Clown’ from Farenheit 451. I’m sorry about the violent imagery. I think I should count myself lucky, because I really don’t wish murder on those people; its just a frustrated Ali McBeal fantasy thing. Sorry.

If you want kinder gentler embarassing things, I have a few Karen Carpenter songs on my Ipod. I like watching old reruns of ‘Star Trek’ when I get dressed for work in the morning. One of the thousands of reasons I love my kids is having a valid reason to shop at toy-stores. I’m embarrassed because I still have some old shirts & shorts from college that I cant bring myself to throw away, even though they are old ratty and torn. I’m embarrassed that there are 3-speed bicycles faster than my car, but it works and gets OK gas mileage. I’m embarrassed because I still like to game online. I’m embarrased because I know the Saturday morning cartoon line-up better than my kids do (they only watch ‘Cartoon Network’ though, so it really doesn’t count)

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[QUOTE=Count Blucher]
Its kind of embarrassing because people at work are always trying to make small talk about those shows around the coffee machine. I’m embarrassed because I usually end up nodding and smiling vaguely while wishing flesh-eating virus into the shower-heads of the shows producers for making such un watchable crap and worse…making it popular. I’m embarrassed that its almost expected to have to know that glurg to get along at the office.

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I find a fairly polite answer to questions about reality shows is to say I watch the longest running reality shows in the area. The NY Yankees and the NY Giants. I usually get a laugh. :wink:

Jim

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Sometimes, when no one else is home, i can be found in the hallway of my flat… doing the Humpty Dance.

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Oh boy, here goes:

The Blaire Witch Project scared me shitless. I couldn’t go outside alone at night for months.

I can’t get enough of House Hunters, What You Get, Hidden Potential, What’s With That House? etc…

I love Neil Diamond.

I watch CSI (all of them).

I am addicted to POGO.

Thats got to be enough for now…I can’t admit to more.

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I still miss John Denver. Whenever I hear songs from the John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album, I get choked up, knowing that both he and Jim Henson are dead. Annie’s Song and a few others tend to choke me up too.

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[QUOTE=Tikki]
I still miss John Denver.
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I feel that way about Harry Chapin. :slight_smile:

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I watch hardly any television but I’ve got myself hooked on The Biggest Loser. I can’t believe I admitted that in public.

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I ate dinner straight from the pot tonight. Why make another dish dirty?