Your guilty pleasure thread?

Bits_n_Bobs

Do you have a boards thread that's a bit of a guilty pleasure?

My own are the weather threads with all the graphs that I don't understand. I dunno why the hell I check it out utter waste of time, it's all meaningless gobbledegook to me and yet....

I have a strange and obsessive and compelling desire to look at it.

All those graphs with colours and lines and weird numbers and people using jargon about stuff that I have no idea of, predicting crap and arguing over it...I never contribute, just spectate...like some weirdo weather voyeur.

I might need counseling.

mikom

Foxy Knoxy thread.

The Backwards Man

Watching the Winter Olympics in the middle of the afternoon.

Merkin

I love the Weather forum as well. I've been asking Mr. Merkin (who is a super nerd and has a doctorate in science) to explain all the graphs and swirly bits to me so I can go and impress everyone over there

Love the Christmas forum too - time for a visit there soon seeing as it's only 10 months away

And Ranting & Raving for a really good cathartic bitch

Jester252

Starting fights on Youtube

Cupcake_Crisis

Farm heroes saga....

Lapin

mikom wrote: »

Foxy Knoxy thread.

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Watching the Winter Olympics in the middle of the afternoon.

Jester252 wrote: »

Starting fights on Youtube

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

Farm heroes saga....

Never heard of any of these threads.

My guilty pleasure is exposing posters who don't understand the OP on this thread.

KeithM89

The one where people stick up photos of their dinner.
Foaming like a rabid dog at some of them.

The Backwards Man

Lapin wrote: »

Never heard of any of these threads.

My guilty pleasure is exposing posters who don't understand the OP on this thread.

It had a different title when I posted on it.

I love reading the spammer notification thread. Riveting, so it is

dmc17

Merkin wrote: »

I love the Weather forum as well. I've been asking Mr. Merkin (who is a super nerd and has a doctorate in science) to explain all the graphs and swirly bits to me so I can go and impress everyone over there

Love the Christmas forum too - time for a visit there soon seeing as it's only 10 months away

And Ranting & Raving for a really good cathartic bitch

Well, between the snow in the weather forum and the Christmas forum, you had may as well put the tree back up

kev1.3s

I occasionally nip into the prison forum.
Nothing like taking pleasure from other peoples misfortune.

mikom

mikom wrote: »

Foxy Knoxy thread.

Lapin wrote: »

Never heard of any of these threads.

My guilty pleasure is exposing posters who don't understand the OP on this thread.

I absolve you of guilt
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057050879

meemeemee wrote: »

The retrial of Amanda Knox for the murder of Meredith Kercher has begun in Italy today. Amanda Knox is not there, being in the US.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0930/477250-amanda-knox-court/

The sensationalist coverage of the crime always mentions Knox and Sollecito, and alludes to the motives such as a Satanic ritual / drug fuelled "sex game" gone wrong / jealousy over Meredith being prettier / an argument about the cleaning rota.

Meredith's poor family regularly appear in the press stating that they want to "Find The Killer" and "Bring The Killer To Justice".

Yet the name Rudy Guede is rarely mentioned. He was found by Italian courts to be the killer and was brought to justice, being jailed for the crime.

Rudy Guede was a local man, linked to a number of recent burglaries in the area, who was tried and convicted of Meredith's murder. Rudy Guede's "DNA" was found "inside" Meredith naked body. His "DNA" was found on Meredith's body and underwear. His handprint in blood was on the bedsheets under Meredith's body. His fingerprints were found all over the crime scene. He left an unflushed turd in the toilet and his DNA was found on the accompanying toilet paper. Meredith's body was locked inside her bedroom from outside. Her keys, money, credit cards and mobile phone were stolen. Guede fled to Germany, where was eventually apprehended. Taken back to Italy, at his trial his defence was that he was at Meredith's apartment at her invitation, and he left her fully clothed in her bedroom to go for a dump. Upon returning to her room from the bathroom he found Meredith as she would later be found by the Police, with an Italian man in her bedroom (who had presumably raped and murdered her) who he fought with, but the man escaped. No DNA or fingerprints of this rapist/murderer were apparently ever found at the crime scene. Only Guede's. Even Amanda Knox's fingerprints were never found at the crime scene.

I feel sorry for Meredith's family, but it is amazing how often a sensationalist story about the crime and Meredith's family's quest to "find the killer", and a profile of the "crazy" Amanda Knox is published without ever referencing these facts. There are numerous people who have followed coverage of the case and are amazed to be informed that somebody was indeed convicted of Meredith's murder.

Here is RTE's coverage of the retrial.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0930/477250-amanda-knox-court/

No mention of Guede's conviction. Surely, in the interests of fairness, any coverage of the matter should involve reference to the fact that somebody was convicted of the crime ?

There seem a lot of people out there that simply don't know that the event resulted in a conviction, probably not helped by the nature of the reporting.

whitewave

The creepy things that have happened to you thread in Paranormal.

Don't know why I do it, I always end up nope-ing the f**k out of there within seconds cos I get too scared

Sir Arthur Daley

After Hours where grown men talk about their bear collection.

Ilyana 2.0

Some threads in the Pregnancy forum. I'm neither pregnant nor have a desire to be, but it's just so interesting!

whitewave

Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »

Some threads in the Pregnancy forum. I'm neither pregnant nor have a desire to be, but it's just so interesting!

You say interesting...I say horrifying!

force eleven

A Mar Bar, melted in a saucepan (or microwaved) to sauce consistency with broken pieces of digestive biscuits thrown in and a dash of cream , then poured over a bowl of vanilla ice cream.

Sorry what thread is this again?

Ilyana 2.0

whitewave wrote: »

You say interesting...I say horrifying!

That too! Some of the stories in there would put you off it for life :eek:

PirateShampoo

Conspiracy forum. It's where the crazy hang out and where you can be accused of being a lizard or a government agent if you happen to disagree with them.

I go to the Paranormal forum for the chuckles. It's amazing what mental gymnastics people will do to maintain a belief in ghosties, ghoulies, astral travel and presences in their backseats.

The fact it's all explicable using ordinary pedestrian psych or science is completely ignored.

whiskeyman

Personal Issues / Relationships threads.
Seeing some of the crap some people have to go through in life is a real eye opener, and makes me very grateful for what I have.

BillyMitchel

Paranormal and Christianity for the craic.

greentea is just wrong

The comments section on the daily mail.

krudler

whiskeyman wrote: »

Personal Issues / Relationships threads.
Seeing some of the crap some people have to go through in life is a real eye opener, and makes me very grateful for what I have.

At the same rate some people could turn making mountains out of molehills into an Olympic sport.

burnhardlanger

Post a pic of your watch in 'Watches and Timepieces'.

Merkin

I absolutely love the Stingy thread in AH as well, some of the stories beggar belief and are hilarious

vitani

All of the weight loss threads in Nutrition & Diet - both the ones that have been going on for months and the ones where a newbie comes on to ask advice about their current diet.

clumsyklutz

Wedding forum, purely cause I'm getting married, though some of the stuff is pretty funny, bridezilla galore over there :P, hopefully I don't become one. I'm sure time will tell :P

Collie D

Conspiracy Theories and Shooting forums. Have no interest in either subject but often find myself reading through them

Penny Tration

kev1.3s wrote: »

I occasionally nip into the prison forum.
Nothing like taking pleasure from other peoples misfortune.

Nip in? I'm subscribed to it!