BS: Guilty Pleasures

Subject: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 04:57 PM

I know we all have guilty pleasures: things we don't readily admit to liking because we thinks we are above all that sort of stuff....
Here are mine...what are yours ?
And, oh yes, if we could keep this thread as light banter and stay away from the acrimonious and arguementative, it would be great.

My guilty pleasures..food..Jammy Dodgers, KFC (about once every five years or so. Two kinds of tinned soup..Heinz Tomato nd Cream of Mushroom, about once a year. Hob Knobs , salt and vinegar crisps.

Music.. Abba, Lily Allen, and Enya... lots more I suppose but people seem surprised that I like these.

Books...The Occasional Low class murder mystery, sea stories by Julian Stockwin and very bad poetry.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: olddude
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 05:19 PM

Easy CHOCOLATE my downfall

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: akenaton
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 05:28 PM

Bagpipe music......a school friend's son is world champion.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Van
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 06:00 PM

Dark Toblerone

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Fossil
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 06:46 PM

Sleeping in the afternoon (maybe I'm just getting old...)

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 07:20 PM

Sleeping in the afternoon, getting acrimonious and argumentative, Carly Simon. One word against Carly Simon and I'll get very acrimonious and argumentative. You have been warned.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 07:29 PM

I spent the morning in church, and then went home to a pastrami sandwich with sauerkraut, a beer....and a nap.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 07:35 PM

I spent the morning in Waitrose (I had money-off vouchers), went home, had a prosciutto cotto sandwich made with Paysan Grande Mange bread, unsalted Cornish butter and Hellman's mayo, with a mug of tea...and a nap.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 07:56 PM

Fresh haddock, pan fried in butter, lemon juice and black pepper-served with new white eco potatoes, green tomato, chow-chow and steamed carrots. Yummy.

No nap, but followed up with a cup of hot white tea, (infused with mango, orange peel, apple, pineapple, tangerine, strawberry, safflower petals, nd marigold blossoms).

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 08:35 PM

I know we all have guilty pleasures

Wow, that's really impressive to have asked everyone in the world! For some reason, you missed asking me, and I don't have 'guilty pleasures'. So your ridiculous generalisation is clearly wrong.

I'm very much with Mark Radcliffe (UK radio presenter and author) when he describes finding '9 to 5' by Sheena Easton in John Peel's box of favourite singles. To quote:

"So was Sheena Easton what you might call a guilty pleasure for Peel? No, because no right-minded music lover, unless shackled by the notion of what's 'cool', need feel guilty about liking any record. If you like it, you like it. You don't need to justify it in any other way."

Amen to that.

And as for feeling guilty about a very occasional KFC or tin of tomato soup? What the fuck's that about???

As long as your pleasures aren't illegal, immoral or going to kill you, get on with it! Without guilt.

Ed

I quite like Abba and Enya too. Happy to have anyone know it.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 08:53 PM

What if you like feeling a bit guilty?

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 10:11 PM

Haven't you heard about the guy who couldn't be black-mailed because the stuff other people tried to hide, he *bragged* about?

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 10:24 PM

I don't feel guilty about this, and I would never deny it or conceal it, but as an old guy who usually has no interest in teenage girls' music it seems strange that I love the music of Lennon and Maisy Stella:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR_Fku7uM5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Mr2pmuad4

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 01:17 AM

I don't do 'guilty pleasures' - same as I don't do 'so bad it's good'...

if I enjoy something, no matter how high or low brow, that's good enough for me
and I don't care who knows it...

Let's just say I have very eclectic tastes....

errrmm.. for example this extremely irritatingly catchy pop theme song
from a completely bonkers Chineses comedy martial arts movie...

Michelle Chen Cluelessboy

And I rate The Archies first LP as one of the finest American pop cultural artifacts of the 20th century...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 01:27 AM

.. and here it is... The Archies debut LP

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 01:40 AM

No guilt here whatsoever - Abba, Dolly Parton, Fish and Chips with mushy peas, banjos, bagpipes, chocolate, bread and butter pudding, spotted dick.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Musket
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 02:19 AM

Steve and his Carly Simon fixation... Never knew you were so vain.

My guilty pleasure would be ligging in bed after Mrs Musket has gone to work, reading Rebus crime novels.

Oh and hidden in its case in a box room off a spare bedroom?

A banjo.

But for Clapton's sake, don't tell anyone.

Come to think of it, buying a £4k guitar and telling her it was "a few hundred quid" means I'll never get to Narnia....

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 02:27 AM

Plenty of pleasures. No guilt I'm glad to say :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 02:29 AM

Good man, Dave!

Musket, will we hear your banjo virtuosity at Ep'th any time soon? 😄

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Musket
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 02:59 AM

That would be a virtue and I don't do them on a Wednesday. Mind you, I do occasionally pick up Mr Windle's frying pan, although mainly for the odd occasion people want to join in a chorus song so volume rather than virtuosity...

If you haven't heard me you aren't missing anything. Bringing my new toy this week if you can make it. Music Room in Cleckheaton are having a bit of a sale and lots of good guitars at half price so I wandered over and got an Eastman dreadnought.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 03:50 AM

I do the musical challenge on Radio 3 at 9.30 every morning. I get the answer three or four times a week and have had my name read out twelve times. Today's answer is El Salon Mexico by Copland. Hoping to get my name read out in a few minutes...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 03:54 AM

Never knew I was so vain, eh, Musket? Maybe, but nobody does it better...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 04:10 AM

How come people didn't know about your Carly Simon fixation anyway? I thought we had no secrets...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 04:42 AM

How could a person like me, a legend in his own time, possibly keep anything secret?

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 05:54 AM

Hi

Like Dave I have no guilt, but I like many of the admitted "guilts" by most of the above messages.

Oh Steve I love Carly Simon and in fact James Taylor too.....LOl

If I were to feel guilty I guess it would be Macallan 30 year old whisky.

Hic

Cheers

Mikel2

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 06:05 AM

But there are some times I wish I never know some of those secrets of yours...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 06:07 AM

Is that a threat? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 06:23 AM

Only if it gives you pleasure or makes you feel guilty...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 06:53 AM

Sorry Musket, band rehearsal on Wednesday evening. Hoping to make it in two weeks' time.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 07:27 AM

I have lots of pleasures, some of which some people might not think quite the thing. Should I feel guilty for not feeling guilty about any of them?

Peccavi -- mebbe.

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Musket
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 08:34 AM

I'd feel guilty about your obsession with that new craze, "What the Butler saw" machines when you go to take the ozone at the coast,

If I were you, that is...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 08:56 AM

Culture Club, some of their early hits. This is an endless source of amusement for my wife.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 09:09 AM

Mikel2, no fair mentioning McCallan's 30 year old. I' ll have a whisky drooth for the rest of the day.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 09:13 AM

Oops, a senior moment - "Macallans"

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 09:32 AM

I quite enjoy some Carly Simon..I think that "Boys In The Trees " is her best album. What is you favourite Steve ?

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: fat B****rd
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 11:05 AM

Unlike some people here I don't consider what I liked as a much younger person to be inferior in any way to the much more "mature" and/or "cool" music I listen to as a pensioner unless, of course, you ignore "Sparky's Magic Piano" and Linda Scott singing "I've Told Every Little Star"!
Great thread.
Oh well. just of for a roll-up and definitely non-decaff coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 11:09 AM

hi guest DTM

A drooth ?? And only for a day??.

Slangevar.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 03:17 PM

plenty of pleasures. guilt -like worry- is a useless emotion

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Ed T
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 03:24 PM

Nuts, once I start eating the ones in a tin, I find it difficult to stop.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 03:53 PM

When I said " guilty pleasures" all I meant was those things that fall outside of usual field of interest. I did not mean to offend Ed by not consulting him personally, NPR did I mean to suggest that these thing were somehow inferior. So let's us not get to argu Bathurst about it, ok
I love all kinds of music but some of the things I enjoy are outside my usual areas of interest...that is all I meant! So, I love Natasha Khan , tinned oysters, freeze dried garlic,Shrek films and the occasional fast food meal.
Nothing posh or sinnister, just good fun!

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: akenaton
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 03:56 PM

"Slangevar"?........"Slainte mhath!" shurely.

Och it's jist merr lik "Slan" nooadays.    :0(   Bloody Sassanachs!

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 06:37 PM

I quite enjoy some Carly Simon..I think that "Boys In The Trees " is her best album. What is you favourite Steve ?

Ahh, that's a hard one. I must confess that most of my Carly collection is from the early days. My first fiancée (I'm not a bigamist - she broke it off, sensible girl) bought me No Secrets and it brings back a memory or two when I play it. Hotcakes filled my head with earworms which I carried around for a blissful five weeks hitching around Scotland in 1974. "Haven't Got Time For The Pain" always reminds me of hitching along Loch Ness from Ballachulish Ferry. Don't ask me why (could be a thread theme in that...). I've made up a pick 'n' mix collection for playing in my car. My very favourite songs are "Mockingbird" (I love to try to sing James' bits), "Nobody Does It Better", "Reunions" (ah, the bitter-sweetness of lost youth...), and, supreme among them all, "Anticipation". That one's coming on the desert island.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 07:26 PM

Once I feel guilty about them, they cease to be pleasures.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 07:52 PM

The priests at my school made all us wretches guilty about everything. They told us to raise our eyes to heaven and pray to the Blessed Virgin whenever we were washing our "private parts". Dammit, guilt if you washed 'em and guilt if you left ' em dirty...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 02:14 AM

Makes you wonder doesn't it, Steve. If the blessed virgin is up there in heaven watching, what will she make of all those pubescent schoolboys staring up at her while soaping up their privates?

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Musket
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 03:17 AM

I find wiping it on her curtains covers the guilt adequately Steve.

Guilt is two things really. Guilt because someone tells you to be guilty (religious mind control nonsense) and your own sense of guilt kicking in.

Farting in church v farting in a crowded lift.

I suppose these days I have to declare watching old Top Gear episodes as a guilty pleasure....

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 03:22 AM

Oh I deliberately go to another room and start dusting and hoovering, or emptying the dishwasher, or tidying my desk while the Memsahib is watching old Top Gear episodes - it makes me feel superior, which is a really guilty pleasure! 😄👍

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 06:55 AM

Eating meat in big chunks is not sustainable.
I really like meat.
Choosing organic makes it not so bad, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Wesley S
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 08:03 AM

It's been years since I had some - but I have a craving for fried Spam.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 08:12 AM

In batter? Very nice indeed, I love it - heart-attack on a plate!

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 08:18 AM

God, yes, the Spam fritter! Nectar!

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 08:43 AM

Eating meat in big chunks is not sustainable

I just cut mine up into smaller chunks. Easier on the teeth, I find.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Ed T
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 08:59 AM

"I just cut mine up into smaller chunks. Easier on the teeth, I find."

And, easier to play the bagpipes, while eating.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: fat B****rd
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 11:22 AM

Is playing the bagpipes a guilty pleasure?

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 11:23 AM

I am pretty sure cutting them up into smaller pieces is...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Mar 15 - 12:22 PM

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Musket
Date: 01 Apr 15 - 08:19 AM

You could be onto a commercial winner there Dave. Northumbrian smallpipes cost more than bagpipes so cutting up bagpipes and selling them as Kathryn Tickell Signature models???

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Apr 15 - 09:43 AM

Defining a "guilty pleasure" gets tricky, don't it. I might say that one of my favorites is a bit of skinny dipping with my favorite lady when I get a chance, but then again I don't feel at all guilty about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Apr 15 - 10:27 AM

I don't feel guilty when I skinny-dip with your favourite lady either, Froggie! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 01 Apr 15 - 10:47 AM

Any kind of activities with 'favourite ladies' is a long gone vice of the far distant past....

I never felt guilt, just intense anxiety of the wife [at that time girlfriend]
finding out...

On that occasion that she did, she went violently ballistic - so I've tended to behave myself ever since...

It's a now lot safer and stress & injury free just keeping a harem of guitars...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 01 Apr 15 - 04:34 PM

so you are not ..stringing....anyone else along now then !.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Apr 15 - 08:03 PM

"I don't feel guilty when I skinny-dip with your favourite lady either, Froggie! :-) "

Oh, crap; I thought some of her excuses for coming home with damp hair sounded a little dubious...

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 02 Apr 15 - 12:51 AM

LOL! She's looking pretty good for her age! 😄

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Firecat
Date: 02 Apr 15 - 06:09 AM

Musical - Eurovision, Spice Girls, Disney songs

TV - kids' shows (Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Horrible Histories in particular)

Food - chocolate(!), hot dog sandwiches, bread with tomato puree on it

Books - Horrible Histories

Films - Disney, cartoons in general

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Apr 15 - 08:29 AM

Then there was good sounding bubble gum music, disco music, and George Hamilton the 4th.

Subject: RE: BS: Guilty Pleasures
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Apr 15 - 08:43 AM

And, there is this 

Good old boy music and cats.