- Jack in the Box breakfast food when I have a hangover (drinking to excess I suppose is another, but I don't feel guilty about doing that) - Once a month or two, I'll get a carton of ice cream to eat for a week - Very rarely, I'll get a Mountain Dew or Dr. Pepper, otherwise I never drink soda anymore - Even though it tends to mess with my stomach, chicken nuggets with mac 'n cheese for dinner
- I'll admit, I still like watching porn, even though 99% of it is crap - For a long time I liked watching hentai just to see if I would see something new (I stopped watching them at least a year ago though, which is definitely a good thing) - I have a thing for good female singers, especially ones in rock bands
That's all I can think of for now, I'm sure there are more.
- I have a thing for good female singers, especially ones in rock bands
I think I read something a while back about how people find other people more attractive when they are able to associate them with some kind of art, especially music. I wish I could find the article...
Either way, it's not abnormal or something to feel guilt about.
Some of the FRC are snooty about any sodas or "sugar waters".
Myself included. I avoid flavored sugar water whenever possible. But, I do enjoy the taste of Dublin Dr. Pepper, which I order occasionally, and real root/birch beer. But even then, the idea of drinking something like that more than a few times a week is beyond me.
I am with you on the "more than a few times a week" standpoint.
This still presents an element of morality, which is inherently subjective.
If you're going to play the bullshit solipsism card, everything ever is no more than the subjective interpretation made by our individual consciousnesses of what may or may not be external stimuli.
So, you're technically correct. The best kind of correct. But, it falls into the obvious trap that so universal of a truth prevents meaningful differentiation and stalls pragmatic assessment.
Either way, it's not abnormal or something to feel guilt about.
True, I don't feel much guilt about it. But part of having a guilty pleasure is that you're going against the grain of your peers. For most of the female singers I like, most people would either not care or not know who I was talking about (since a lot of them are JPop/JRock). But I know that for most of my friends, if I said that I think Celine Deon and Shania Twain are good singers (and I do think so, I just don't actively like them), they'd rip me to shreds. It's just not usually popular for a [straight] dude to like pop music in general.
This still presents an element of morality, which is inherently subjective.
If you're going to play the bullshit solipsism card, everything ever is no more than the subjective interpretation made by our individual consciousnesses of what may or may not be external stimuli.
So, you're technically correct. The best kind of correct. But, it falls into the obvious trap that so universal of a truth prevents meaningful differentiation and stalls pragmatic assessment.
A smart aleck answer deserves a smart aleck rebuttal
I have to say, Boylan's cane sugar sodas are pretty much the best thing ever.
I also have a weak spot for Top Chef and the various Food Network reality shows (The Next Food Network Star, Chopped, etc). Actually, I pretty much have a weakness for the Food Network in general.
What about Foxon Park? That right there is REAL soda and contains no trace of high fructose corn syrup at all. Plus the brewery is only an hour away from my house so us Conn kids (Connecticut Kids) love it and always rip on high fructose corn syrup water.
I have to say, Boylan's cane sugar sodas are pretty much the best thing ever.
I also have a weak spot for Top Chef and the various Food Network reality shows (The Next Food Network Star, Chopped, etc). Actually, I pretty much have a weakness for the Food Network in general.
What aboutFoxon Park?That right there is REAL soda and contains no trace of high fructose corn syrup at all. Plus the brewery is only an hour away from my house so us Conn kids (Connecticut Kids) love it and always rip on high fructose corn syrup water.
I have to say, Boylan's cane sugar sodas are pretty much the best thing ever.
I also have a weak spot for Top Chef and the various Food Network reality shows (The Next Food Network Star, Chopped, etc). Actually, I pretty much have a weakness for the Food Network in general.
What aboutFoxon Park?That right there is REAL soda and contains no trace of high fructose corn syrup at all. Plus the brewery is only an hour away from my house so us Conn kids (Connecticut Kids) love it and always rip on high fructose corn syrup water.
So Rym is bashing on sugar water, but is Mr. Super Red Bull.
Redbull is a performance enhancing drug more than a beverage. It also has relatively few calories for the quantities in which it is consumed, which comprise primarily of glucose. I also don't drink it every day.
I treat it verymuch like a drug, as opposed to a beverage. I wouldn't, for example, drink it if I were thirsty, anymore than I'd eat aspirin where I hungry.
I'm having trouble thinking of anything but still enjoying objectively bad punk rock, like Aus-Rotten and Toxic Narcotic. Just horrible, three-chords-ineptly-played, screaming-about-the-system punk rock. I know it's bad, but I can't help myself.
As for guilty pleasures, Bleach is definitely one of them.
Actually, almost got me with that one, but I just read the manga, which actually has very high quality cartooning and visual storytelling. So I can file it under "research".
Actually, almost got me with that one, but I just read the manga, which actually has very high quality cartooning and visual storytelling. So I can file it under "research".
Actually, I read a bunch of Bleach, because of Aido recommending it. I like the staging and design elements he uses, and the characters can be really funny with their personalities, but the plot is soooo shonen fighting show.
As for guilty pleasures, Bleach is definitely one of them.
I finished the soul society story arch (which the planning of was obviously broken on many levels) and then finally managed to tear myself away from that weekly waste of my brain.
I read it 'cause it's more style than substance; I'm always waiting to see what kinds of crazy broken shit happens next. Sometimes one needs that. However, it's gotten to the point where reading it requires more effort than I'm willing to expend.
I like the staging and design elements he uses, and the characters can be really funny with their personalities, but the plot is soooo shonen fighting show.
Agreed on every point. It actually took me like 16 volumes to realize that the whole plot is just a mechanism for having everyone fight everyone else -- probably partially because I'm pretty inexperienced with the shonen fighting genre, and partially because he's just so damn good at comics, and I'm entranced, and not paying a whole lot of attention to the plot.
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- Jack in the Box breakfast food when I have a hangover (drinking to excess I suppose is another, but I don't feel guilty about doing that)
- Once a month or two, I'll get a carton of ice cream to eat for a week
- Very rarely, I'll get a Mountain Dew or Dr. Pepper, otherwise I never drink soda anymore
- Even though it tends to mess with my stomach, chicken nuggets with mac 'n cheese for dinner
- I'll admit, I still like watching porn, even though 99% of it is crap
- For a long time I liked watching hentai just to see if I would see something new (I stopped watching them at least a year ago though, which is definitely a good thing)
- I have a thing for good female singers, especially ones in rock bands
That's all I can think of for now, I'm sure there are more.
Either way, it's not abnormal or something to feel guilt about.
Ahem...
All those children's bodies buried in my basement.
/bows
Also, I have no problem with bodies. It's the killing I don't like.
So, you're technically correct. The best kind of correct. But, it falls into the obvious trap that so universal of a truth prevents meaningful differentiation and stalls pragmatic assessment.
That's the problem with the youth today: not enough fear of death.
I treat it verymuch like a drug, as opposed to a beverage. I wouldn't, for example, drink it if I were thirsty, anymore than I'd eat aspirin where I hungry.
As for guilty pleasures, Bleach is definitely one of them.
However, it's gotten to the point where reading it requires more effort than I'm willing to expend.