What’s the Lamest Thing You Enjoy?

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I was perusing the golf thread and the fortnightly mystixboi guitar walk of shame thread and Deebo’s continued existence and considering “What’s the full tilt lamest thing I enjoy?” And I was considering and upcoming trip to New Orleans and I realize that I really do enjoy mass depravity. Like absolute pants-wetting carnivalesque nonsense. Bourbon Street. St. Patrick’s Day. College town bar crawls. March Madness. Mark Wein Band Milfscapades. Kegs and Eggs. Times Square. I once hugged strangers because a baseball team I kinda dislike won a championship. My love for Halloween knows no bounds. I’m a total slut for big dumb party your pants off “fun” — the more squalid the better.

So what’s your guiltiest pleasure? Your lizard brain desire? As long as it’s not golf or Rush or freezer burritos this is a judgment free zone.
 
Easy - Half bottle of Buckfast, chilled and drank out of an empty 500ml Diet Coke bottle (no glass or cans allowed) on my supporters bus to the football.
 
The Monkees
Swisher Sweets cigars ( I've ended this little indulgence because of throat problems).
 
Reading peen simmons posts

watching those retro 1980's commercials on Youtube (dave's archives)

I'm also a sucker for the halloween season but I don't participate...instead I love watching the 70's and 80's horror movies...but it's totally seasonal so it starts like right now till about a week after Halloween.

I love laying in bed all the lights off and listening to the last podcast on the left

waking at 4 am when everybody else is asleep and the world is so quiet and then walking my Chupacabre on the dark streets
 
Mundane everyday routine. I get an unreasonable amount of happiness from things like going to bed on time.

Also swords. Like historically accurate medieval swords - not actual antiques, which would be marginally less lame, just stupidly expensive modern reproductions. I'm self aware enough to not hang them on the wall or anything, or mention them publicly (I know you are all total dorks, so this doesn't count), but still.
 
don't know. dave porntoy pizza reviews? he's a scumbag and an idiot but those are some good-looking pizzas. and he shares a love of well done thin crust with that orange-red fat-separated/sauce-cheese alchemy look on top while also disapproving of the tavern cut.
 
yabba said:

Also swords. Like historically accurate medieval swords - not actual antiques, which would be marginally less lame, just stupidly expensive modern reproductions. I'm self aware enough to not hang them on the wall or anything, or mention them publicly (I know you are all total dorks, so this doesn't count), but still.
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This right here is the stuff.
 
yabba said:
Mundane everyday routine. I get an unreasonable amount of happiness from things like going to bed on time.

Also swords. Like historically accurate medieval swords - not actual antiques, which would be marginally less lame, just stupidly expensive modern reproductions. I'm self aware enough to not hang them on the wall or anything, or mention them publicly (I know you are all total dorks, so this doesn't count), but still.
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is chicago a sword town?
 
There are a lot of things my kids think I'm a dork about.... Dad Jokes, making toys for the Cats (like drawing condos, space ships, night clubs, or even funny bodies on the sides of cardboard boxes and laughing when the cats stick their heads out the hole.)

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Normal people probably think I'm a big dork about comic books, MCU movies, and shows.... while comic people probably think I'm a dork because I like college football, beer, and NBA basktball. :shrug:
 
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The Chicago Swordplay Guild is one of the bigger historical fencing clubs in the US that focuses on the Italian tradition rather than those filthy Germans
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guess you're not into collecting dueling scars then. lame indeed! :mad:
 
yabba said:
Mundane everyday routine. I get an unreasonable amount of happiness from things like going to bed on time.

Also swords. Like historically accurate medieval swords - not actual antiques, which would be marginally less lame, just stupidly expensive modern reproductions. I'm self aware enough to not hang them on the wall or anything, or mention them publicly (I know you are all total dorks, so this doesn't count), but still.
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Having a consistent bed time and wake up time has been one of the best things I ever adopted. There has to be a really good reason for me to deviate.

swords are sweet. I’ve done my fair share of organized fencing and who can’t resist a good movie style sword fight? Knives, fixed and folding, are more my thing. The blending of form and function with mechanical engineering is a pull.

My lame thing is having to understand how things work & deep dive into whatever I get into for the moment. I’ll take stuff apart and put it back together just to know how it works and fix anything. I have to DIY everything and know entirely too much about it, the process and any cultural significance. Make some bread? Sure, I’m going to research heirloom wheat varieties and plant some so we can make bread after harvest and I build a small mill.
 
Earlier this year my wife and I discovered that Lifetime had made no less than 14 (!) tv movie adaptations of VC Andrews novels. We straight-up binged them in about a week.

https://www.mylifetime.com/vc-andrews-movies-and-series

So completely over the top and chocked to the gills with plots about beautiful, sensitive poor girls from a shack in the bayou who discover that they have a long lost super rich family, and then end up banging their own twin brother, meanwhile their mustache-twirling villainous uncle is plotting to kill them, and suchlike.

It was awesome trash and super enjoyable.
 
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