Maybe it's a show, a game, food, a song, or even a book, but what's that thing you love even though you know it's objectively bad?

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[–] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

you mean other than jorkin it?
Food. Good god. I've been right on the line between obese and overweight for most of my life, but there was a brief period like 5ish years ago where I finally dropped like 30 pounds and got myself looking the way I wanted.

Then I started living on my own, and while that's been really good for me in a lot of ways... oh boy, I went hog wild. I've always enjoyed cooking and baking, but not having to worry about hijacking the kitchen (or anyone stealing the fruits of my labor!) meant I was making all kinds of cookies, brownies, babka, breads, bagels, I've made croissants from scratch a couple times... eventually I memorized my brownie recipe and I got into the habit of, several times a week, making a "single serve" brownie by just throwing everything into one little oven safe bowl (sorta like these) and then eating the whole damn thing.

Last week I made enough dough for 3 pizzas, so I did one basically normal, and then inspiration struck. For the second one I made a southern-style gravy and used that instead of tomato sauce, and then the last one turned into a dessert pizza. Made a chocolate sauce out of cacao powder, melted butter, sugar, and honey, and then topped it with shredded coconut. Holy fuck, so easy, so tasty, both fresh out the oven and cold out the fridge. Highly recommend. But anyway I ate all 3 pizzas in 2 days.

Surprisingly enough my weight's actually been trending downward this month. Maybe if I'm lucky it won't have to be such a guilty pleasure for too much longer lol

edit, I keep forgetting to take pics of the stuff I make or else I'd post about it, but at least I did take this one of the dessert pizzathis one

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  • [+] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    A can of Pringle chips

    I secretly buy about three or four cans whenever we go grocery shopping. My wife's unwell so I have to do everything at the grocery store and most times I'm on my own. But in just about every trip I buy the chips and sneak them around the house and eat them myself. I love the stuff and my favorite is BBQ.

    Sometimes I feel like some alcoholic sneaking bottles around the house. I have a can in the basement, one in the garage and always one by my desk. I keep track of them all to keep them fresh and renewed.

    I have a problem don't I? ... yeah I know ... but I love it.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Walking around town with a plug in.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So, real talk...you ever cough or sneeze and rocket it out onto the sidewalk?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    does it feel good or something because I imagine it just feels weird

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Sitting quietly in a room for hours at a time literally doing nothing. I once got curious and just sat in my living room for around 10h straight because I wanted to see what my living room and neighborhood was like at night. Im talking no phone, TV, or anything else just me sitting alone staring off chilling.

    Fun fact: I average 3 cars an hour over night in my neighborhood and we aren't really a busy neighborhood off a couple side streets too. Some of the cars leave then come back a few minutes later. Probably drug dealers or something.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm a basic bitch: sugar, salt and fat.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Oat milk lattes. I can't afford my own machine yet, so I have to pay someone else to do it. Dear god I'm poor, but it scratches a tiny itch that nothing else does.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    What's so special about an oat milk latte that you need a special machine? With a little practice you can make quite good coffee with a regular moka pot, specially if you plan to dilute it with oat milk.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i want the steam in my milk to make it super sexy

    espresso is only part of the sexy

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, that steam thing is really nice, it heats the milk and makes the foam in one go. While you're saving have you tried a small french press to foam the milk? I haven't tried with oat milk but with regular milk i like magic, that's how I make cappuccinos at home when I want them fancier.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I had a crush with whom I have never talked to but I still fantasize about them time to time creating scenarios in my head which will never happen. It's not healthy I know but makes me feel good feelings.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Cigars. I only smoke one every month or two, but obviously tobacco isn't good for you. That acknowledgement aside, I really enjoy them, and have a humidor full of probably $2000 worth of cigars, many aged a couple years.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I recently had a cigar dream and I’ve kinda been craving one. I don’t wanna be outside, don’t have a garage, and don’t want to smoke them indoors, though. My last ones I can remember smoking were a Romeo y Julieta and a Monte Cristo, but those were like a decade ago.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Watching romantic K-dramas. We start them together with my wife, because I would never choose to watch one alone, after a couple of episodes it usually slows down and she falls asleep for most of the rest of the series, and I watch it alone while she is sleeping on the sofa. Once she wakes up in between or at the end I summarize what she misses for her ^^

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm 49 years old and every once in a while I still say "Fuck it....for supper tonight I'm having a giant ass bowl of Lucky Charms cereal"

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I had none.

    If it brings me pleasure I feel no guilt.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've been on a break for some months now, but weed. It's the only thing I really like that I feel somewhat guilty about doing. As much as others might disagree, I don't feel guilty for enjoying frozen pizza and cheap kebabs, or listening to girly 90s pop, or constantly using emojis to better express myself. 🤷

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    In an age of text-based communication dominance, especially at work, and especially remote work, I feel that emoji use is vital to at least attempt to avoid miscommunications. I do not understand people who do not use them, often literally, and they make me uncomfortable.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Genshin Impact.

    Yes it's a crappy casino for horny teenage boys, but damn if they didn't put a surprisingly decent game on the ground floor of said casino.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I'm weird. Playing nsfw games while trying to avoid nsfw. Some of them have cool stories and not shying away from mature themes make them much more enjoyable. And some are simply way too expansive sims, I swear that horny is the second biggest motivator for building life sims after dwarfs.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

    Either that, or a nice cup of earl grey tea.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Beer.

    I enjoy getting buzzed, but hard liquor or cocktails is never my first choice. Beer will always be my favorite.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Haribo gummies. They give me awful reflux if I eat a bunch (which of course I always do), and they’re probably messing up my A1C royally also.

    But goddamn.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's probably the sugar, you should try the sugar free ones. Just eat a bunch of them the first time you try them!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Kanye is a terrible person and the lyrics are typical drivel… but god damn do I love the Daft Punk remix in “Stronger”. It distills the pure glitchtard joy of what daft punk did.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Peaches. I can't eat them without having a seriously bad time for a day or two. Still, if I see a Georgia peach that's soft I usually just deal with the consequences later. They've been the hardest fruit to give up.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    National Treasure is a mediocre movie that I will always watch the shit out of. It is the perfect balance of ridiculousness and action, and just always brings me joy.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    negative stereotypes about the French

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Crappy romance movies. Like the crappy Christmas ones on hallmark or Netflix

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I am 100% too old for it, but I absolutely LOVE the preschool level cartoon Franklin and to a slightly lesser extent the 2011( ? ) 3D CG reboot Franklin and Friends. I used to have one of the edutainment games ( the clubhouse one ) and the domino set as a kid and loved them.

    Now, at some point if I ever live alone or at least not with family, want to get all of the PC edutainment games, the domino set, and the original books that weren't based off of an episode of the show. I will someday manifest my inner child's dream!

    Edit:

    And if there ever comes a time where there is an official box set of every episode out there in the original English dub, I would trample kids at the store to get it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    What things do you love about it?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    For starters, as a furry, the anthro characters, love their simple designs. I also love how wholesome it is the majority of the time. Also how chill the show is, especially the backgrounds.

    I also like, to varying degrees, most of the songs from the films and official CD ( which I own a copy of ). I personally love the song in the beginning of Back To School With Franklin because I think more people should live life by the lyric "sometimes doing nothing can be such a busy thing".

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Romantic movies. I love me a good romance movie or TV series where the characters go through all these tribulations, drama, or some sort of stressful situation but in the end they end up together and get married. I don't think anyone I know knows this, but I've cried to a few of them and I'm not a cryer. I love me a nice, happy, romantic ending.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Real Housewives of Anywhere

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Okay I had to actually switch accounts before replying, ha ha. My absolute favorite guilty pleasure is reading and writing m/m paranormal smut. Absolutely love it. I hoover that shit up.

    Family knows I write urban fantasy, so when I started writing m/m smut, I had to get a pen name. They think I stopped writing after two books-- but that's not accurate since I have three books under the pen name. The middle book is so smutty that I would be horrified for anyone to connect me to it but it is a damn fine piece of writing. Damn fine. So full of absolutely animalistic descriptive sex, it's frankly amazing I managed to fit a plot in there somewhere.

    So, writing and reading smutty books. 😚

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Typing random numbers into nhentai to see what absolutely depraved shit is out there.

    Makes a great drinking game in the right group of people.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    My incognito Bing history would fit the bill.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The Amazing Spiderman 2 has a terrible script but I enjoy it. I think it's cause I like the actors and their chemistry

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Alcohol, but I've cut back immensely in the past 4 years. Turns out you can't drink like you did in your 20s when you're in your 40s and expect to feel fine the next morning. I think I'm almost at the point where I'm gonna give it up entirely, or just have it on special occasions, because it's just not worth it anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm in my 40s and could use a motivator to slow down a bit... Maybe I just hydrate enough to feel fine the next day lol

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Easiest way to do it is just not buy it, that's how I've been approaching it. Or if I do, I'll only buy on a Friday enough to last a weekend (1 bottle of wine or a 4-6pk of cider/beer/vodka seltzer for me), and that's it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I was in the exact same boat 2 years ago. I don’t know what happened exactly, but I just decided it was time to stop. At the time it was to see how it went, and how long I could go without it. And I honestly never looked back. I feel tons better, and I’m sure I’m overall much healthier as well. And I don’t miss it or crave it anymore, except very occasionally when work gets to the “You have got be shitting me right now” level, and even then it’s not a strong craving and I just ignore it until it goes away. And the $avings!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Zuckerberg budget saver monster pops, cherry pineapple frozen treats.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ghost Adventures. I watch an episode before bed like 3 times a week. I used to work in tv production and know it’s not real. But in my experience, more than the other ghost shows, it weaves in some cute tricks along with obvious ones. Something about that mix keeps me just the right amount of entertained but relaxed in a way that helps me fall asleep.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yoooo, this show is a fucking riot, I love it for the cheese factor

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I know right! I have no when or why I watched it for the first time, but I’m with it tbh

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I came across it years ago when it was first airing on TV, a friend of mine was super into Zak (imo he's an overgrown child but to each their own). Got into it because they are so extra, it def works as a comedy. Then later in life had some roomies and we'd watch it while smoking. Hilarious, have quite a few phrases that live in my head rent free from that show

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Can't say guilt is in any way associated with it but soda is my smokes. Have quit a few times and all it takes is some stress and im back.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Maybe not objectively bad, but mine is '60s music. Even the super sugary pop crap (well, minus bubblegum). Even though a lot of the lyrics haven't aged well. I just love it. SiriusXM's '60s Gold stays on my radio dial!

    Also, I love being in the sun. I'm super pale and I've had to have a bunch of things removed and biopsied by the dermatologist, so now I load up on sunblock and avoid the sun like a vampire, which makes me sad. I know it's bad for me but I really do love the sun 💛

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The movie White Chicks - Personally can't get enough of how offensive it is to literally everyone

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