Of Dubious Utility At Best

[commodorified]

I am, in general, firmly with oursin wrt guilty secrets.

OTOH, I am not sure what else to call the fact that sometimes after midnight when I am ripped on cold meds and yet cannot sleep I sometimes spend a surreal, googleicious and youtubeish hour or so attempting in a lazy sort of way to figure out exactly what Bez actually does, and why.

Comments

[fajrdrako]

I think most people use the phrase "guilty secrets" to mean "pleasures I am slightly embarrassed about in intelligent company."

[krait]

I left a comment on the post over there, seconding someone who suggested that "silly pleasures" seems like a more accurate description of the things mentioned, i.e. "things I would be slightly embarrassed if people knew".

I dislike the abuse of the word "guilt", so I'm firmly behind any suggestion that "I ate chocolate" be called something other than a 'guilty' pleasure. (Unless, of course, it's truly warranted; if by eating the chocolate you have violated a moral principle you hold -- did the chocolate belong to your friend rather than you? were you supposed to be fasting? -- then you can certainly say you are guilty.)