# What is your favorite Guilty pleasure in life? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441 "2005-04-27T21:17:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/21 "2005-04-28T05:03:30Z")
Pornography, foofy coffees, and little French pastries. (Not at the same time.) ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/22 "2005-04-28T06:28:40Z")
Ice cream. Especially if I haven’t made it myself, because then it’s unhealthy, a waste of money, and shows that I’m too lazy to make my own. Buying kitchen gadgets. The more I buy, the more I feel like I ought to be cooking all the time, rather than microwaving frozen stromboli. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/23 "2005-04-28T06:37:43Z")
Chocolate Necco wafers. Yes, really. ---
**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/24 "2005-04-28T06:50:55Z")
Cigarettes. I love cigarettes. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/25 "2005-04-28T08:09:33Z")
Incredibly dark chocolate. Lying around in the sun and reading for hours when I should be doing something productive/grown-up. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/26 "2005-04-28T13:43:29Z")
**Sarah** , tell me you don’t take pieces of incredibly dark chocolate and dip them in incredibly strong coffee and pop the half melted coffee-flavored-incredibly-dark-chocolate into your mouth. Or if you do in fact do this, at least tell me that you don’t do it with your eyes closed. If you can’t deny the above, then at least tell me that you don’t sit with old men in Greece munching on cyanide-filled hollow teeth because, well, that’d just be weird. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/27 "2005-04-28T13:56:46Z")
Posting from work, and smoking. (But I only smoke one or two per night, unless we’re playing pool, no more than two or three times a week, frequently less and I bum them all from the same person, so it can’t possibly get out of control like it did the last time, right? Right?) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/28 "2005-04-28T15:11:38Z")
Greek olives, right out of the jar. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/29 "2005-04-28T15:27:27Z")
Smoking, junk food, and the Sims 2. Preferably all at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/30 "2005-04-28T16:39:34Z")
Saturday afternoon. Chores to do. Me sitting on the couch with a book or magazine in my lap. Asleep. Waking up whenever somebody comes into the room, just enough to be reading the book or magazine. As soon as the coast is clear - head back, eyes closed. I’ve convinced myself that nobody else in the house is on to me . . . ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/31 "2005-04-28T16:51:59Z")
Making and eating an entire box of Velveeta mac and cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Tikster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@Tikster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/32 "2005-04-28T17:35:32Z")
coca cola and candy. Damn I must have a huge sweet tooth. -Tikster ---
**Author:** ![SallyBowls](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@SallyBowls](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SallyBowls)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/33 "2005-04-28T18:00:54Z")
Cheesy, overwrought, purple-prosey romance novels. A guilty pleasure and a secret shame. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/34 "2005-04-28T19:22:09Z")
I still watch wrestling. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/35 "2005-04-28T19:24:04Z")
Disaster movies! I like to find scientific errors to nitpick in them. I had a lot of fun a few weeks ago when SciFi channel showed 10.5. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Unkempt\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Unkempt\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Unkempt_One)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/36 "2005-04-28T19:46:23Z")
A bottle of [Jim Beam Black](http://www.jimbeam.com/beam/v5/products/black_label.aspx), a box of [Cheddar Jack Cheez-its](http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?CATID=100537&id=prod972755), and any cheesy horror movie from the 80’s on the TV! ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/37 "2005-04-29T00:24:03Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > **Sarah** , tell me you don’t take pieces of incredibly dark chocolate and dip them in incredibly strong coffee and pop the half melted coffee-flavored-incredibly-dark-chocolate into your mouth. Or if you do in fact do this, at least tell me that you don’t do it with your eyes closed. > > If you can’t deny the above, then at least tell me that you don’t sit with old men in Greece munching on cyanide-filled hollow teeth because, well, that’d just be weird. 😃 Heh. Can’t deny the first accusation… but I am currently reading _ **The Magus!** _ ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/38 "2005-04-29T00:32:11Z")
Chocolate. Not exactly original but true, unfortunately. I’m still trying to come to grips with the notion of ‘moderation’. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/39 "2005-04-29T00:37:39Z")
I am one of the few people who really, really liked both **Charlie’s Angels** movies. But that’s not the shameful part. You know that scene where Cameron Diaz is dancing around in her underwear? That’s me. If I’m alone (and sometimes when I’m not), if the music is right… “Love Shack” is my kryptonite, but anything with a decent rhythm can make me embarrass myself. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441/40 "2005-04-29T00:55:10Z")
-Cigarettes -Cola flavored Freezoni from QuickTrip- am I the only one who detects a hint of dirt flavor in those… and likes it??? -Glazed Devil’s Food donuts -Picking at my husband’s blemishes -Singing Baba O’Riley at the top of my lungs, prancing around like Roger Daltry, using a hairbrush as a mic. \ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-guilty-pleasure-in-life/301441.md?page=3)