Guilty pleasures/displeasures
Everyone has guilty pleasures, but most people also have guilty displeasures (things that you don't like but you feel like you should). LIST THEM! LIST THEM OR DIE!
I can't think of many myself right now, but I still think this would be a good idea for a thread, so here's what I can think of at the minute:
Some of my guilty pleasures:
Creed
Dane Cook
Some of my guilty displeasures:
The Doors
The Usual Suspects
I can't think of many myself right now, but I still think this would be a good idea for a thread, so here's what I can think of at the minute:
Some of my guilty pleasures:
Creed
Dane Cook
Some of my guilty displeasures:
The Doors
The Usual Suspects
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Pleasure = Trolling Stupid threads and telling people to Grow Up!
Fixed >.>
See I can do it too
Kingdom Hearts
Pat Benatar
Broken Sword 3-4
Simon 3D
Ewok movies
Sponge Bob
LOL, not all of these are guilty per say but I am uncomfortable sharing some of these things openly with others.
Plants Vs. Zombies
True Blood
Guilty Displeasures:
Metal Gear Solid
Guilty!.....?:eek:
Semi-guilty. Some of the dialogue does make me cringe - bad humour, cliche lines, etc. And the plot is very predictable, with over-obvious foreshadowing. There are also many elements thrown in to dress and gloss the whole thing up (obviously for the kiddies) - it's a bit like the hooks in a song being too obvious. Overall, it's pretty evident that it's aimed at a younger audience. It's things like that that make it a guilty pleasure, but it's a pleasure nonetheless. I still really enjoy the series, and will admit to watching it.
George Michael... his voice makes me *insert bodily function* my pants every single time. I'm about as straight as they come, but I tell my wife all the time that if George Micheal were to hit on me.... I would leave her right then & there lol
Displeasure = Having to tell people like you to gtfo. -.-
Guilty Pleasure = Buying extra merch I'll never use (ie. ToMI Deluxe Edition) with the primary purpose of supporting Telltale Games.
Yeah, when I say "guilty" I'm also thinking of things that I'd happily share with others but they'd call me a lunatic
Edit: I just thought of a kind of weird guilty displeasure: house parties. I'm a very sociable person, but I really don't like parties. I don't mind going out and getting drunk with close friends occasionally but there's something about people at parties that I find really obnoxious. I hate to sound grumpy, and I hate using this word because it seems so anti-conformist and angsty, but a lot of people at parties seem really fake and it annoys me slightly.
Chewing toothpicks into splinters.
Bad (I mean really, really bad) fanfiction (blatant Mary Sues are the best).
Bad science fiction (makes me laugh every time).
Ridiculous micro-managing type games (like Shogun or various wargames)
Whatever I happen to be obsessed with on a particular day.
lol!
Anyway, Power Rangers. I recently downloaded the first 8 seasons, and I'm halfway through the first one. They're really long seasons, too. Season 1 is 60 episodes, and I've watched 32.
Watching Linkara's History of the Power Rangers retrospective is more than enough Power Rangers for me. Forever.
Sure, Linkara is great, but I don't really like Power Rangers at all (or anime for that matter.)
Like Masters of the Universe? Or TMNT? I watch those too on occasion, to be honest.
Also - I lam a hardcore Sherlock Holmes fan, and one of my guilty pleasures is the 1954-1955 TV series staring Ronald Howard. Plots are predictable, acting is terrible, writing sucks...but I think I've watched every episode over a dozen times. Best $5 I ever spent at Target.
Oh...and I love Chicken McNuggets.
Also, I think Black Books is one of the most overrated comedies of all time. It has its funny moments but in general it's pretty crap.
True Blood
Really sappy romance animes
Stalking friends/acquaintances Amazon wishlists (not sure why this is entertaining to me)
Guilty Displeasures:
Modern Family
The Big Bang Theory (don't know if this would be classed as one, it's been recommended by all my friends and praised everywhere, but I mean this is a series writen by the hack who did Two and a Half Men for Christ sake)
M*A*S*H and any other classic American sitcom for that matter
-bad dubs of anime
-bad movies (particularly horror and sci-fi/fantasy)
-cheesy 80s cartoons
-Jane Austen novels
-twitter
Guilty Displeasures:
- people who complain about stuff they haven't done or watched
- Remakes (most of the time. There are exceptions)
- Avatar. I seriously don't get the movies attraction, guys. Like, at all. It just seemed like Pocahontas with blue cat people.
English Dub of Sailor Moon
Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG
Neopets
Gaia Online
Guilty Displeasures
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Metroid series
Most First-Person Shooter games
Another one is the Animorphs series. I still have every single book on my bookcase, but I've never finished the series. I was reading them as they came out almost all the way until the end, but then it took me a while to get the last few books, and by the time I had the last of them, I got confused about where I was in the series. So now I'm almost 23 years old and I still intend to finish reading a series I started collecting in elementary school. I'm planning on starting over, in fact.
Most of Moffat's episodes I like, and without a trace of guilt.
Nothing to feel guilty about. Jane Austen rocks those books like a champ; if books were muscles, she'd be doing one-arm pushups while simultaneously sipping a cocktail of muscle milk and egg yolk from a glass balanced off the sweaty backs of her less talented colleagues.
I agree with you on the Avatar count: it's pretty much Pocahontas, step-by-step, although it's just as beautiful to look at.
And, about guilty displeasures... I don't like Sierra adventure games, except the Gabriel Knight series.
That is by far one of the best metaphors I've ever heard.
It's only a guilty pleasure based on who I hang out with. When I'm chilling with my mom and sister (rather big Austenites), it's not a big deal, even if it is a bit nerdy. However, I'm a chick who mainly hangs out with guys, and whenever I mentioned I read Austen, I always got the "Eh, she's a female writer, it's a bunch of emotions and crap" response. That's what has made me a little...awkward about admitted my affection for good old Jane.
Ha, cheers. I'll flex those writing muscles you just pumped me with in your compliment.
As opposed to Nicholas Sparks and every male writer who's ever written a sex scene? Sorry; that's about the stupidest thing I've heard since Christy McDonnell was on the news this morning. Knock some sense and sensibility into them by swatting around a paperback copy of Persuasion, say, "Don't be so cocky and proud and prejudiced," and snicker.
Not that I've read anything by Nick Sparks, mind you, besides some cheesy passages from Message in a Bottle.
Series 1 _ONLY_ was good imo, but starting with Series 2 they were just milking the franchise.
Wow I seem to be the only one here with a serious guilty pleasure
Guilty Pleasure:
-Smooking Hookah (so damn good, and it's only "marginally" bad, right?
-Watching 80s cartoons (I grew up in the 80s and remember them, but I still feel guilty)
Guilty Displeasure:
Strawberries. from what everyone tells me I should love them, but despite loving almost all fruit (even tomatoes!) I don't really like them...
I detest the damn thing. I'm an Arab stuck in an Arabic country, right? So wherever I go, it's there. Cafes occasionally make me feel like I'm trapped in the London fog, but instead of Big Ben's chimes there is the scent of double apple and peach wafting through what little actual air there is left. I feel the cancer brushing against my lungs, the stubborn clasp of smoke as it clings to my clothes, and I think that I would do anything to get out of there.
Argeeleh. Hookah. Sheesha. All names for a very bad little joojoo.
I can see your point. Ironically I feel the same way about cigarettes (I know it's sorta hypocritical, but *shrug*) Though here in America Hookah is very rare (one site I order from has a directory of hookah bars and I think there are only like 200 listed in the entire USA)
Really? I've seen a ton of places in Portland that have hookah.
More popular in some places. a friend of mine lives in Cin, Oh and says they have them all over the place too. Seen so few I can count them on 1 hand in GA tho, likewise I dont think there are many in SC.
LA/SF, Seattle, Cin, NY, OK, Vegas, and Dallas seem to be the main places they're super-popular, though pockets appear at random in other states. I could be wrong tho, this is all from personal observation
Well, Chuck Lorre only one of the co-creators. The other one, Bill Prady, wrote "MuppetVision 3D", which makes him awesome.
Anyway, I tend not to feel any "guilt" over having different tastes, but I do like things while being fully aware of their mediocrity. Like "Newsies". Not really a good movie, but I love it.
And then there's "The Room", which I love BECAUSE it's so bad. It's one of the most awesome movies ever made.