I wanted one for insufficient marijuana usage.
The idea that hooking up with a different woman from the bar every week could be a vice had never occurred to me. I thought that was a skill.
Heh. I checked four of the entries on the list. Looking at the current results, those are the top four items.
So… we’re all a bunch of fat, lazy internet addicts? Then again, this is an online message board, so that should hardly come as a surprise.
Slightly different from “Sloth,” I bet “Procrastination” would be high on many of our lists – and the highest on mine, which I believe leads to some of the other vices listed.
No judgement here (at all), but I noticed that my temper abated quite a bit as my alcohol use and porn use went down. Something about maintaining some balance, perhaps.
I have a hobby I know I devote too much time to. I have always devoted too much time to hobbies. I feel like I am fine with that but I know it has cost me relationships and too much money.
Yes. This isn’t exactly sloth, but it’s in the ballpark.
Also, lying to myself and cheating at solitaire.
Overeating, plus under-exercising because I sit on my bum too much and faff around on the internet). The sitting around on the computer also leads to a messy house. It’s not too bad at the moment but I’m not exactly Martha Stewart and I’d really like it to be a lot less cluttered than it is.
I wish I could overcome my love for people of the opposite gender. It has cost me more money and more trouble than anything else in my life.
Lust can be a terribly expensive vice. Especially if you get married and then divorced.
Divorce lawyers must be extremely wealthy.
A friend of mine (no longer) went to Law School and told me the way he made his money was by becoming friends with rich people. Then, when the rich people got divorced, he would get something like 35 percent of all the assets he recovered from the spouse.
What a rat!
Yep, procrastination! It’s not sloth, I get tons of stuff done that doesn’t need doing.
The bathroom is pretty clean, but where is that paper on transitional justice in Tunisia? :smack:
Whoops! I didn’t see “sloth” on there when I voted. (should’ve included it in my vote)
I voted for overeating - the one thing on the list that one absolutely CANNOT go cold turkey on (mmmmm, turkey…). You can quit wasting money. You can quit the internet (maybe YOU can but I sure can’t)… you can quit looking at porn. You can quit drugs.
You can NOT, however give up eating. Sigh.
Tell that to Karen Carpenter.
I watch too much TV, and by that I mean all video media: broadcast, cable. on demand, streaming, downloaded, etc.
Actually, I drink rarely like - once a month. And even then it is a couple beers, or a few glasses of wine, I don’t get trashed. There is a history of alcoholism in my mother’s side of the family, but I inherited SOMETHING from my dad’s side where I abhor feeling nauseous. I really only get tipsy at most.
As for porn - that is an interesting take. I’ve never really linked porn and anger…would you care to elaborate?
Another vote for procrastination. I don’t think it’s all that closely related to sloth - I can be very busy doing other things while I’m avoiding something I don’t particularly want to tackle. For instance, I currently really am not particularly interested in troubleshooting that program, but I’ve knocked a lot of other stuff off of my to-do list. (And spent probably a little too much time websurfing.)
I can honestly mention my two from the list – Internet usage (SDMB, mainly!), and callous behavior toward others (though “unintentional”) – and add a third: biting my nails.
My main one is internet usage. I use the internet primarily as a way to procrastinate and as a way to wind down and relax. Relaxing is fine if I’ve gotten everything I need to done, but my procrastination is getting out of hand. Plus, it’s not even fun. Sure, one the surface you have a few hours of work you need done, and by putting it off, you get free time, but that time is spent stressing out about the work and what a terrible person you are for not doing it. In the end, you just stretch the work out over hours and hours of time instead of just doing it.
I’ve been vice-free for 30 years, except for the one I’ve had the longest: Overeating.