# Guilty Pleasures
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 7, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419 "2000-09-07T21:48:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/1 "2000-09-07T21:48:05Z")
What are yours? Some of mine:
The Backstreet Boys - For them, I would even go to Burger King to buy CD’s!
QVC - I watch all the time but have never purchased anything.
William Shatner - I can’t explain the hold this man has over me.
Watching golf on TV - It’s so relaxing and even entertaining sometimes!
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2000, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/2 "2000-09-07T23:20:47Z")
Audrey Hepburn: Wasn’t she THE sweetest?
The Smile Of A Pretty Girl: _sigh_
Tim Tams: you poor Americans don’t know what you’re missing out on.
SClub7: Yes, a bubblegum group, but their music just makes me happy. Go figure.
Going to the cricket with my mates: if you have to ask why you’ll probably never understand.
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### Author:  [@Solkee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solkee)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/3 "2000-09-07T23:30:38Z")
Singing ‘Hit me Baby One More Time’ at the top of my voice while doing the dishes…that’s not just guilty, it’s a felony.
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### Author:  [@Lazarus7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazarus7)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/4 "2000-09-07T23:37:33Z")
leering at British girls … mmm …
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/5 "2000-09-07T23:55:06Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by HelloKitty \*
> **QVC - I watch all the time but have never purchased anything.**
You’ve **never** purchased anything? Wow. I can’t resist the things they have on there sometimes. I’ve lost track of how much I’ve spent on QVC. Right now, I’m staring at my very nice Bushnell® telescope. I love QVC.
Pop music. (Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, \*NSYNC, and so on. Don’t hate me!)
I’m too ashamed to admit anything else.
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### Author:  [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/6 "2000-09-07T23:56:32Z")
Icee. Any flavor.
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/7 "2000-09-08T00:10:34Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Silver\_Fire \*
> **Right now, I’m staring at my very nice Bushnell® telescope.**
[whispering] you’re supposed to stare THROUGH a telescope, not AT it. [/whispering]
I watch the Animaniacs, even when no kids are around.
Jackie Chan movies.
When a Dixie Chicks song comes on, I don’t change the station.
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### Author:  [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/8 "2000-09-08T00:25:18Z")
Cartoon Network, except Scooby Doo.
TV Land.
And a bowl of Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Ravioli.
And a glass of Kool-Aid (grape, preferably).
And a big fluffy pillow so I can lie on the floor and watch TV and eat lunch.
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um, **dpr** , what are Tim Tams? 😕
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### Author:  [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/9 "2000-09-08T00:39:47Z")
Pizza Hut Lunch Buffets/Shakey’s Buncha Lunch
…man, I can be such a pig…
_errrrrpppp!!!_
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/10 "2000-09-08T02:13:51Z")
The Animaniacs are a guilty pleasure?? I watch them whenever I can and I don’t even have kids…
_sigh_
_adds Watching Animaniacs to his list_
Tim Tams? Imagine a long chocolate biscuit. Imagine a second one. Put a layer of chocolate icing between them to form a sandwich of sorts. Cover it all in chocolate. And you have heaven.
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### Author:  [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/11 "2000-09-08T02:30:51Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by dpr \*
> \*\*Tim Tams? Imagine a long chocolate biscuit. Imagine a second one. Put a layer of chocolate icing between them to form a sandwich of sorts. Cover it all in chocolate. And you have heaven. \*\*
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
chocolate…
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
:meditates self into chocolate nirvana:
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
:mental note to self - 1) find Tim Tams; 2) thank dpr.:
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/12 "2000-09-08T03:57:40Z")
Dpr, will you please send me a box? Please oh please? I’ll send you some, um, something. What do we have in the US that’s good? I dunno. It’s probably all exported anyway. Stupid country. Oh, well, shipping a box of cookies to the other side of the world is probably a ridiculous idea anyway.
My guilty pleasure is silly fantasy novels. They have no redeeming value, and yet I keep reading them.
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/13 "2000-09-08T04:24:09Z")
I’ll send some if you like though you may find it easier to order yourself. There’s a few places in the US that import them. I found: [http://www.aussiecatalog.com/indexa.htm](http://www.aussiecatalog.com/indexa.htm) with little effort.
The good news? They have tim tams for sale.
The bad news? They’re damn expensive!! On this site they’re asking $3.60US a pack!!! Highway robbery! Last night I bought a packet for AU$2.50 which converts to about 10cUS (OK I went for a cheap laugh - it’s really about US$1.30 atm).
Maybe I should send them myself…
The bad news Part II? They only have the original flavour. No double choc. No caramel. No chewy caramel. No Moccha choc.
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### Author:  [@Angie\_Gailbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angie_Gailbird)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/14 "2000-09-08T04:57:59Z")
The Game Show Network.
I used to work in a nursing home, and we had it playing a lot of the time, because the residents liked it. I’d often find myself watching it when I had nothing else to do, instead of doing something constructive, like cleaning.
Romance novels. Even the really bad ones.
Wham! Especially “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/15 "2000-09-08T05:22:41Z")
Bourbon & coke
T.V. Land, Cartoon Network, Game Show Channel, old commercials- in fact, anything retro.
Listening to the neighbors fight through the window.
Listening to the neighbors phone conversations on the scanner.
Valley Girl, My Chauffer, (any Deborah Foreman movie)
Cheap beer(Kingsburry, Red,White,& Blue etc.)
Straight Dope Message Board
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### Author:  [@Teach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/16 "2000-09-08T05:36:56Z")
My guilty pleasure is watching idiotic Japanese TV shows for hours at a time. They’re lowbrow, usually loud, sometimes violent and almost always degrading to women. I can’t seem to get enough!
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/17 "2000-09-08T05:56:01Z")
More from me…
Brady Bunch reruns
Game Show Network
Full House reruns (I’m sooo ashamed!!)
TRL, Say What? Karaoke, and all that is MTV
I think I’ll just break my television now…
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### Author:  [@Space\_Vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vampire)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/18 "2000-09-08T08:37:00Z")
I can’t get enough Beverly Hills 90210; and I’m an otherwise not-abnormal young man.
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### Author:  [@Lnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lnix)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/19 "2000-09-08T14:14:50Z")
Randy Quaid. I don’t know how or why this happened but there it is. Every time a movie comes on with him in it (which on my cable system is apparently 24 hrs a day) I can’t help myself. Maybe it’s that he’s tall and has a Southern accent. Maybe it’s the way he says ‘Bingo’. Maybe it’s the supertight pants he wears in the Vacation movies. Whatever, I’m just going to have to face it.
(standing)
My name is Lisa and I’d like to have sex with Randy Quaid
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### Author:  [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures/32419/20 "2000-09-08T14:32:08Z")
[ul][li]Infomercials. I love 'em. The Total Gym, The Ab Dolly, The Rotozip Rebel. I simply can’t turn away.[/li]
[li][Zoboomafoo](http://www.pbs.org/zoboo/) - I watch it even when the kids aren’t around.[/li]
[li]80s music that I hated when it was the 80s. I love it now. Men at Work anyone?[/li]
[li]Syndicated Xena-esque adventure dramas. _The Beastmaster, The Lost World, Amazon…_. I truly have no shame.[/li][/ul]
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