Guilty pleasures
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Skeptisk

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8,897 posts

133 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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What are the little things that you treat yourself to every week, or every now and again, that help get you through the working week?

One for me is to go by myself to one of my favourite cafes on a Saturday and/or Sunday morning, enjoy a good coffee, bite to eat and read the newspaper or a novel in peace.

What is yours?


Jordie Barretts sock

6,018 posts

43 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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I couldn't read that! It's all foreign!

silly

I like people watching. I was sitting in my car at a motorway services yesterday watching all the harassed parents driving in with excited kids at the promise of a McDonald’s. Or the pensioners confused as to why a random Friday way so busy - Bank Holiday weekend and start of school half-term.

Skeptisk

Original Poster:

8,897 posts

133 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Jordie Barretts sock said:
I couldn't read that! It's all foreign!

silly

I like people watching. I was sitting in my car at a motorway services yesterday watching all the harassed parents driving in with excited kids at the promise of a McDonald’s. Or the pensioners confused as to why a random Friday way so busy - Bank Holiday weekend and start of school half-term.
It’s me that is foreign, not the language!

Spare tyre

12,079 posts

154 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Crisps

LimaDelta

7,950 posts

242 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Skeptisk said:
What are the little things that you treat yourself to every week, or every now and again, that help get you through the working week?

One for me is to go by myself to one of my favourite cafes on a Saturday and/or Sunday morning, enjoy a good coffee, bite to eat and read the newspaper or a novel in peace.

What is yours?

Not sure that should elicit any guilt, seems perfectly pleasant to me.


anonymous-user

78 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Skeptisk said:
What are the little things that you treat yourself to every week, or every now and again, that help get you through the working week?

One for me is to go by myself to one of my favourite cafes on a Saturday and/or Sunday morning, enjoy a good coffee, bite to eat and read the newspaper or a novel in peace.

What is yours?

That's not a guilty pleasure, that's just a pleasure.

Jordie Barretts sock

6,018 posts

43 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Skeptisk said:
Jordie Barretts sock said:
I couldn't read that! It's all foreign!

silly

I like people watching. I was sitting in my car at a motorway services yesterday watching all the harassed parents driving in with excited kids at the promise of a McDonald’s. Or the pensioners confused as to why a random Friday way so busy - Bank Holiday weekend and start of school half-term.
It’s me that is foreign, not the language!
I know! biggrin

Skeptisk

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8,897 posts

133 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Exasperated said:
That's not a guilty pleasure, that's just a pleasure.
There are always lots of jobs to get done at the weekend so taking time out by yourself to do something unproductive and solitary makes me feel a bit guilty - I agree it shouldn’t.

Exiled Imp

755 posts

242 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Steak and wine. Health-wise I shouldn’t as often as I do

Jordie Barretts sock

6,018 posts

43 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Exiled Imp said:
Steak and wine. Health-wise I shouldn’t as often as I do
I'm on board with this. Wine is definitely a guilty pleasure. I don't do steak enough though.

thepritch

1,564 posts

189 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Skeptisk said:
There are always lots of jobs to get done at the weekend so taking time out by yourself to do something unproductive and solitary makes me feel a bit guilty - I agree it shouldn’t.
You’ve summed it up perfectly. It’s my biggest (guilty) pleasure too. I just love going on my own to one of three possible cafes. One of them you can watch for dolphins, the others I’ll sometimes take a notebook and just brain dump from the week. Total ‘me’ time.

StuTheGrouch

5,903 posts

186 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Those slices of plastic processed cheese.


Boom78

1,496 posts

72 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Cheap low % pissy lager, for some reason I prefer coors, carlsberg, bud lite etc. yes, premium stuff is ‘better’ but not as quenching/crisp on a hot day. I do feel like a council yob buying the stuff from the local 7/11 though hehe

Monkeylegend

28,480 posts

255 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Galaxy Chocolate yum

leef44

5,154 posts

177 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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There's all these jobs around the house which I've yet to do and I like to sit around just reading pistonheads biggrin

Acorn1

2,991 posts

44 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Beef Flavour BIg Hoops (Hula)

Addicted to the bloody things

ferret50

2,731 posts

33 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Sugestive biscuits. The one's that are coated on the underside with dark chocolate.....

Skeptisk

Original Poster:

8,897 posts

133 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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Sticks. said:
Agreed, stronger beers can be sweeter, and I don't want too much alcohol, so Carling it is boxedin

A seaside sausage sandwich.

Watch out for the seagulls…

Ken_Code

1,566 posts

26 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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ferret50 said:
Sugestive biscuits. The one's that are coated on the underside with dark chocolate.....
Coated on the top Shirley?..

Defcon5

6,460 posts

215 months

Saturday 25th May 2024
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ferret50 said:
Sugestive biscuits. The one's that are coated on the underside with dark chocolate.....
Surely the chocolate is on the top, not the bottom?

When you eat one you have the chocolate bit facing upwards don’t you?