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To ask you your secret vice?

224 replies

Sadit · 24/06/2015 23:59

Mine is the daily mail.
I'm sorry.
It's free and it's funny.

OP posts:
AmberNectarine · 25/06/2015 16:58

Eating peanut butter from the jar with my fingers.

If I could be arsed to namechange I could give some much juicier ones.

Bullshitbingo · 25/06/2015 16:59

Chewing muslins. I have no idea why I do it. But I love it. Freshly washed ones obviously, they just taste like fairy and smell so nice. Nobody apart from my baby knows I do this, it's just too weird.

I also have a mild binge eating thing. I like to stand in the kitchen eating bread slathered with ketchup whilst making the kids tea. I can't seem to stop myself!

Mrsjayy · 25/06/2015 17:02

Read that as chewing muslims Blush

Bullshitbingo · 25/06/2015 17:10

mrsjayy I suspect actual Muslims might object to me chewing on them Grin

WhoreGasm · 25/06/2015 17:11

Trash chick-lit and cheap slabs of Dairy Milk.

When I'm feeling more highbrow I read Iris Murdoch whilst eating poncey artisan chocolate from our local deli.

WhoreGasm · 25/06/2015 17:13

Oh, and Betty Crocker's Chocolate Fudge Icing eaten straight from the tub with a spoon. I always eat the whole tub, obviously.

It gives one helluva sugar rush Smile

PurpleHairAndPearls · 25/06/2015 17:16

I'm currently watching Dynasty. The box set.

In my defence I am poorly and so loaded with morphine it's about the only thing I can follow...although the Fallon/Jeff/Jeff's uncle thing is confusing my slightly Grin

Goodmum1234 · 25/06/2015 17:21

Boxes of toffeefee from the pound shop. Can't get enough ????

Goodmum1234 · 25/06/2015 17:29

After reading above, I've thought of more.....occasional sneaky fags, Marlboro gold. I'm 38 but act 16, sneaking out when everyone in bed then cleaning teeth and washing etc ???? house wives of Beverley hills, Jeremy Kyle, eating a whole tub of Pringles in one go. I'm fat btw, I do often wonder why ????????????
I laughed my head off a pissing in a cup etc...-and pulling a sicky and laying in bed. ????????????
Best thread in ages, thanks op for cheering me up x

StarsInTheNightSky · 25/06/2015 17:31

Cigars, the nice proper Cuban ones with a glass of brandy, wearing sparkly high heels and my feet propped up on a table watching the sunset. I do it about once a month. DH and I worked in Cuba for a couple of years and did this a lot, despite not being a smoker. We had to attend a lot of evening stuff and it was sort of expected. There was something so absurdly stereotypically 1950s masculine about it that I used to get a real kick out of it, I'm a bit strange!

WyrdByrd · 25/06/2015 18:00

Stars I am so Envy of you having lived in Cuba. I've never smoked a cigar but love the smell so can easily understand how that would become a vice.

My 'secret' vices:

Writing fan porn fiction (ironically part of one was set in a cigar factory in Cuba - I shit you not Grin)

Watching GemsTV - have never bought anything but I do like looking at the shinies

Spending far too much money on art materials and fibbing to DH about it

Richard Armitage - ok that one is not a huge secret Blush

johnwinstonlennon · 25/06/2015 18:30

mine too!!!

johnwinstonlennon · 25/06/2015 18:32

same here!

shipinabottle · 25/06/2015 18:46

Looking at sale prices of people's houses I know
Looking at rightmove even though I'm in no position to buy.
Watching four in a bed and homes under the hammer

LovelyFriend · 25/06/2015 18:49

I love weed

Bullshitbingo · 25/06/2015 19:02

Ooh shipina I do that with zoopla and peoples houses Blush. It's so nosey but I just find it fascinating.

StarsInTheNightSky · 25/06/2015 19:12

Wyrd It was amazing, I worked there before DH and I were together too (I'm a scientist and the Cuban Gov asked me to do some research, and then some follow up research for them). I dated an army general for a while the first time I was there (it got pretty serious and then I got spooked!) so I'm fascinated by your cigar factory fanfic! Grin. I love reading fanfic.

confusedandemployed · 25/06/2015 19:12

Mine were covered on pages 1/5 and 3 and are at probably the furthest extremes you'll get on here. Only one could be classed as secret though.

WhySecretVices · 25/06/2015 19:15

None - I am open entirely about my vices

Except that I still sleep with my comforter from when I was a kid. No one bar DH knows that... Even DC can't borrow it Grin

MrsKravitzFromAcrossTheStreet · 25/06/2015 19:27

The poster above who mentioned Find A Death has reminded me; I sometimes spend a happy half hour reading the website of my local council's coroner's office. It details all the inquests that take place. I find the reports absolutely fascinating (and sad obviously), but I can't tell anyone that I do it as it's too morbid and weird.

I also like to look at photographs of celebrities taken after death and murder crime scenes. I blame the book 'Hollywood Babylon' that my DM had in our house when I was at a very impressionable age. The celebrity death photos were second to none.

GlitzAndGigglesx · 25/06/2015 19:27

I don't know if this counts but sometimes when making dd breakfast I stand there scoffing biscuits down my throat and deny all knowledge if she sees me doing it and asks for some. I think that makes me a bit of a bitch actually Grin

vicecity · 25/06/2015 19:29

BDSM porn Blush

squizita · 25/06/2015 19:31

I like youtube videos where they explore old buildings illegally. Very Blair witch.
Also "Londonist" and their London transport geeky videos.

If you want to shit yourself and never get the last train again... youtube ghosts of the underground. 45 min of sheer channel 5 cheap docu-terror.

Also ghost hunting tv shows on obscure sky channels and weird conspiracy stuff about inca aliens.

Toadinthehole · 25/06/2015 19:59

Removing other people's skid marks from the toilet bowl by pissing hard on them.

(I'm male).

Squizita how can I find these illegal exploration videos?

squizita · 25/06/2015 20:01

Search "urban explorer" or "abandoned mansion/fairground" etc. Then more of tge same comes up to the side.