BS: Guilty Pleasures

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: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 01:27 AM

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

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
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: 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: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 08:53 PM

What if you like feeling a bit guilty?

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: 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: 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: 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 - 07:20 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: Fossil
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 06:46 PM

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

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

Dark Toblerone

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: olddude
Date: 29 Mar 15 - 05:19 PM

Easy CHOCOLATE my downfall

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.