Guilty pleasures?

[Critique]

So, now the 'Pet Peeves' thread has been buried for a while, I thought I'd stir up even more dicussion in the form of Guilty Pleasures.

I'm probably asking for trouble here, and will no doubt get many responses full of innuendo, but we might as well give it a shot.

So, from something like leaving the toilet seat up to going on TV Forum, what are your guilty pleasures?

I might as well start off. Although I don't really have any guilty pleasures, one thing that I do and tend to hide from the rest of the world is TV Forum. Television presentation is probably as anoraky as train sets, but I don't tell people about it and it isn't bookmarked or anything.

[Chie]

I haven't done this for several years now, but listening to the BBC News 24 countdown on the bus and carefully timing it so the bus arrives at the station on 0:00. Very satisfying, when it works.

[Sput]

Doctor Who

[Beep]

Rebecca Black's Friday.

Which seat shall she take? Gripping stuff.

[Dr Lobster*]

following people's lives on facebook i really shouldn't (you know, those who sharing every "twist and turn" and all their made up drama... it's quite compelling at times i am sad to admit).

tv presentation, geeky things like programming, and i've got some right shite music on my phone.

i don't tend to share my knowledge of computers too readily (even though it is my job) since i always get asked a 'why is my computer really slow?' or 'my wireless doesn't work' type question (the quick answer: stop installing shite you imbecile) and i'm really not interested.

can't think of any others.

[Alexia]

Sauce sandwiches. Whether it's ketchup, Daddies, barbeque, garlic, curry, squeezy pickle, chilli -- I'll squeeze it over a slice of bread and nom nom.

I do like the Mills & Boon stand in work to be arranged according to colour.

I talk to ducks and cats.

[James L H]

I haven't done this for several years now, but listening to the BBC News 24 countdown on the bus and carefully timing it so the bus arrives at the station on 0:00. Very satisfying, when it works.

Oh, I might have to try that next week.

[Gavin Scott]

Like Michael I talk to ducks and swans and pidgeons outside my office on the waterfront. But I feed them, so I feel a sense of entitlement.

My real guilty pleasure is way too foul to speak of - but its a solo pursuit (if you count talking to strangers on the internet in a saucy way "solo").

Oh, I just spoke of it.

Well whatever. Its a victimless crime. And I'm sure all that knowledge makes me a better lover.

[Bail]

Film soundtracks on my car mix cd. There's something to be said for the back to the future theme playing loudly on the motorway, not doing 88 though of course.

Lego is another childish one, I have a little red car stuck on the dash of my little red car.

Oh and I've done the countdown one too

[Alexia]

Film soundtracks - gotta love them. I love instrumentals in general (as listeners to WCRS will attest). I have on my MP3 player (amongst others):

> Robot Romp from Flight of the Navigator by Alan Silvestri (that synth-heavy groove when David escapes the NASA compound in R.A.L.F.)

> Several of James Horner's bits from the Titanic soundtrack (Leaving Port is one of my favourites)

> Dominic Muldowney's epic, forgotten score for Nineteen Eighty Four

> Most of the Battle of Britain score by Ron Goodwin

> Cody's Flight, the wonderful bit of music from when Cody is riding on the back of Marahuti the Golden Eagle in "The Rescuers Down Under"

> A rare vinyl rip of "Come & Follow Me", the end theme from Short Circuit, as well as the complete Short Circuit score

Anyone who wants anything from the above list, PM me.

[Jamesypoo]

Brass bands. I play in a brass band and love the music. It's a sad old thing and although I do dislike the old oompa floral dance stuff, some modern compositions really are fantastic.

Leading on from Michael, too, a brass band playing a strident film score really is something else.

Also you can't beat loving a genre whose most successful artist is the "Black Dyke" band.