h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No! Just plugged it in... turned it on... worked for a few seconds.... then exploded..... no flames though, this time, which was a little disapointing.... I think the filter gets clogged after a while, and it overheats....

Badgers tend to clog filters unruly creatures in the bedroom it has been said

Its definately the hairdryers faults!; they al explode, electricute me, or burst in to flames, eventually! this is... err, about the fifth or sixth, in... err... a decade or so me and electrical things don't alwayhs get on

Sorry for the delay just checking which planet I am on

Toast is so wholesome that enjoying it doesn't seem like a *guilty* pleasure to me. Bubble baths and long hot showers likewise. I always thought that guilty pleasures were those things that people might disapprove of it they knew about them. Drinking until you black out, or smoking in bed, though those are admittedly extreme examples, and so unsafe that disapproval would be extreme.....

Enjoying very outdated things that are not yet retro would be guilty, to my way of thinking. Being a slob, but with no serious health consequences likewise. Odd combinations of foods -- ketchup on cottage cheese, mayonnaise on potato chips, peanut butter in spaghetti sauce -- would be guilty pleasures if you enjoyed them. [And if you didn't enjoy them, they would not be pleasures. ]

Like how I prefer to have roast dinners with salad cream rather than gravy?

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>>mayonnaise on potato chips<<

There goes half of northern Europe sailing away on a guilt trip.

Mayo on chips so much betterer than ketchup Mind... sometimes there is soemthing to be said for a bit of HP.... depends, really on what one is having ones chips/potato chips, with.... steak N kidney pie = HP sauce, with a probably mayo on their own.... yeh, mayo

I wonder if my increasingly large collection of corsets constitutes a guilty pleasure... I mean... they're not exactly necessary...

Odd combinations of foods -- .... mayonnaise on potato chips

Yup - an absolute standard here in Germany (Well, that counts as Northern Europe, too, really). Although they can't get their heads round chips with vinegar.

Chips and artar sauce with minced clams.

[Tries to extricate foot from mouth, hoping that people won't have noticed the peanut butter in spaghetti sauce mention]

Good grief! What's the matter with you all? There is only one pleasure in life and there's no guilt about it..


It's a necessity...

@Paulh, oh I definitely noticed it...

I don't know if this is a guilty pleasure, but it's a pleasure in any event: fruits and vegetables that are in season. We all know about tomatoes that taste like cardboard in January, but the ones that are picked fresh from my parents' garden in August or September taste sweet and wonderful.

Why on earth would that be a guilty pleasure??

Plucking off a delicious looking tomato, or two on the way into my Mums without asking if they had been nurturing them for their salad for tea, now that is something to feel guilty about

Yes. You are right.