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Thread: Stuff You're Embarrassed to Admit You Did
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Squirrel
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All of us have done things that we don't want others to know about. I'm not talking about morally unacceptable behavior, or things that happen to us that are embarrassing. No, I mean just plain stupid stuff that made sense then, but which we'd like to forget. Here's one true tale:
Back in my undergraduate days I was a big fan of Pat Robertson and his "700 Club" television show. I thought old Pat was brilliant and that he really did receive "words of knowledge" when he prayed with his eyes closed. "Right now God is curing somebody of cancer..." How this could all happen on a show that was videotaped never occurred to me. I'll even admit to occasionally kneeling by the television and praying along with him.
That was eons ago, of course. Now I regard Robertson as a complete kook for thinking stuff like the Haitian earthquake was caused by voodoo.
So, friends, do you have anything you'd like to admit to?
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"Five to one." - George S. Patton
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Squirrel
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Another time he announced God was healing somebody of a headache.
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"Five to one." - George S. Patton
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Yerevan
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Well statistically speaking he might have been right, but I doubt Pat had anything to do with it.
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The5thMary
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I am extremely embarrassed to remember that when I was eleven years old my favorite television program was "The Dukes of Hazard". That's not even the worst part of it, though... I used to watch it wearing a black felt cowboy hat and screaming "Yaaaaaaahooooo!" like the actors did...
Oh, God... oh, dear God...
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Kelly Alves
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That... actually makes me respect you a little, Paddy. Takes moxie to admit that.
My crime is not so benevolent, I'm afraid. I spent the first few months of the year 2000 defending George W. Bush to my fellow Democrats. "He's a compassionate conservative", I'd say earnestly. "Give him a chance..."
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QLib
Bad Example
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The first record I ever asked for was a Cliff Richard record.
To be fair, I was only about 5 years old.
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The5thMary
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quote: Originally posted by Kelly Alves: That... actually makes me respect you a little, Paddy. Takes moxie to admit that.
My crime is not so benevolent, I'm afraid. I spent the first few months of the year 2000 defending George W. Bush to my fellow Democrats. "He's a compassionate conservative", I'd say earnestly. "Give him a chance..."
Hol-ey shit, Kelly! Me, too! I'm pretty damn liberal but had started to hang around with some Republican and N.R.A. types because they were fun to be around (mostly) and I was interested in learning to shoot handguns (still am, does that make me eeeeeeeevil?! LOL). Anyway, I was getting rather irritated with my tree-hugging "it takes a village to raise a child" mystical chakra crap liberal friends and started to get into extremely heated arguments with them... to the point where one of them said she wasn't sure if she could be my friend if I voted Republican. Ha ha ha... ohhhh, dear, oh dear. I ended up voting Democrat but I had my moments again when George W. started the Iraq mess. I was actually ON HIS SIDE for almost a year...
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Schroedinger's cat
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I used to read the Daily Mail every day.
I should point out that this was a long time ago, when it was not the pile of sensationalist crap it is now. I was actually far more right wing then, at a time when it seemed like a different political approach might work.
30 years ago the politicians, journalists and bankers were not quite the fucking pond life they are today.
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Twilight
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quote: Originally posted by Squirrel: I'll even admit to occasionally kneeling by the television and praying along with him.
Awwwww. There's great power in the prayers of the innocent homwever tacky the instigator.
Squirrel on his knees in front of the tube and Paddy in her cowboy hat doing the rebel yell make me a little misty eyed. See. I don't have to dig up the past to embarrass myself.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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I...
oh dear.
I used to watch "America's Next Top Model". first and second seasons. It was addictive.
I'm so ashamed.
-------------------- Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
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Gamaliel
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And you've ... admitted it?!
Seriously, I hope you confessed it to your priest ...
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Japes
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quote: Originally posted by leo: Voted Conservative - but I was only 18 at the time.
Me too... one and only time. I was young, I was foolish, I was beguiled by the glorious thought a woman was Prime Minister.
quote: Originally posted by Gamaliel And you've ... admitted it?!
Seriously, I hope you confessed it to your priest ...
I have. It was nearly the end of a long time friendship, and the penance I had to do.
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Twilight
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quote: Originally posted by comet: I...
oh dear.
I used to watch "America's Next Top Model". first and second seasons. It was addictive.
I'm so ashamed.
Well if we're going to go there. I've never missed an episode of "Survivor." Once we lost our electricity just before show time, so I drove to the nearest public place that had lights burning. It was a biker bar and I asked them to switch from the sports they were watching to "Survivor." I think they were afraid not to.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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I'll see your "survivor" and raise you "Bad Girl's club." I've had people walk out of the room uttering phrases of disappointment and disgust at me for watching this show, and rightly so-- it's like a primer in female self-hatred.
I kept tuning in hoping they'd, y'know, LEARN something.
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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infinite_monkey
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I remember loudly defending to my high school friends my belief that the lyrical stylings of Bon Jovi were far, far superior to those of Nelson.
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Flausa
Mad Woman
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quote: Originally posted by Zappa: I once liked Neil Diamond
Shame on you for only liking him ONCE!
I once lost eight hours of my life playing SIMS. I never played it again, because I didn't want to lose that much time again.
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Ariston
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Happily, Squirrel, Jesus no longer thinks you're a jerk.* *If your workplace has issues with subversiveness and/or Frank Zappa, you probably shouldn't click that.
We're not going to talk about those really truly awful Eastern European metal albums I actually paid for back in college. There's bad lyrics, and then there's bad. These are still worse.
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Uncle Pete
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quote: Originally posted by Flausa:
I once lost eight hours of my life playing SIMS. I never played it again, because I didn't want to lose that much time again.
I host one of the SOF forums I feel your pain.
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Jack the Lass
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I was in the Kajagoogoo fan club.
I think I win
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birdie
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quote: Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture: I am extremely embarrassed to remember that when I was eleven years old my favorite television program was "The Dukes of Hazard". That's not even the worst part of it, though... I used to watch it wearing a black felt cowboy hat and screaming "Yaaaaaaahooooo!" like the actors did...
This is all perfectly normal. Nothing to be embarassed about.
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lilBuddha
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quote: Originally posted by Flausa: quote: Originally posted by Zappa: I once liked Neil Diamond
Shame on you for only liking him ONCE!
The first step is admitting you have a problem. We are here for you Flausa, when you are ready to renounce your evil ways.
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Chorister
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quote: Originally posted by Jack the Lass: I was in the Kajagoogoo fan club.
I think I win
Well you did until I let on that, as a young teenager, I was a fan of the Bay City Rollers, and made myself tartan trousers, slightly too short, so I could look like them at the weekends.
And, when I went to Scotland, I spent my whole time looking out of the coach window, hoping to catch a glimpse of them walking down the street.
-------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Kaplan Corday
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If we can project as well as retroject, I'm going to see the Three Stooges movie tomorrow, DV.
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Meg the Red
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quote: Originally posted by lilBuddha: quote: Originally posted by Flausa: quote: Originally posted by Zappa: I once liked Neil Diamond
Shame on you for only liking him ONCE!
The first step is admitting you have a problem. We are here for you Flausa, when you are ready to renounce your evil ways.
Sigh. . .
I just loaded Sweet Caroline and Forever in Blue Jeans onto my iPod.
I know, I'm beyond redemption
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Squirrel
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At one point I donated money to Anita Bryant's organization. Got tons of junk mail from her.
-------------------- "The moral is to the physical as three is to one." - Napoleon
"Five to one." - George S. Patton
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote: Originally posted by Squirrel: Got tons of junk mail from her.
Don't you love self-generating penance?
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Lyda*Rose
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I love reality cop shows: COPS, Bait Car, The First Forty-eight, Alaska State Troopers, Body of Evidence: From the case files of Dayle Hinman, and all the Animal Cops shows. The somewhat embarrassing thing is that I'm admitting it here; more embarrassing is that I'm not that embarrassed; and my final degradation is that I'm still going to watch the damned things!
Oh, and I still rather like Neil Diamond.
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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[aside] quote: Originally posted by Lyda*Rose: Alaska State Troopers
was there ever an episode about a crazy guy who lit himself on fire in a village park? 'cause I was there when they filmed it. (and arrested him, etc) He had earlier been throwing beers at kids and cussing at them, and I was on my way over to give him what-for after my son told me what had happened. that was a few days after he stole a lady's baby stroller and got his kicks by rolling it into the street in front of cars. Not. Cool.
I've never seen the show but they've gotten quite a bit of footage from our bizarre little corner of the state. apparently we're a reality show gift that keeps on giving.
keepin' it real, yo. [/aside]
-------------------- Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Kaplan Corday
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In the late Sixties I regretfully protested against the Vietnam War.
I am not embarrassed about that, because there was a reasonable argument that the conflict contravened one of Aquinas’s principles for a just war (which is that it should, on balance, do more good than harm) on the grounds that the Vietnamese people were suffering more from the war than they would from living under a communist dictatorship.
What is embarrassing is that I marched alongside ideological, racist arseholes who were drooling at the prospect of Asians being forced to live under a tyranny which they themselves, as Westerners, would have found intolerable.
They carried icons of not only neo-Stalinist thugs such as Che and Ho, but history’s worst mass murderer, Mao.
Not that they were completely ethically insensitive – after all, they went into paroxysms of moral panic a few years later over Watergate.
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leo
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quote: Originally posted by Chorister: quote: Originally posted by Jack the Lass: I was in the Kajagoogoo fan club.
I think I win
Well you did until I let on that, as a young teenager, I was a fan of the Bay City Rollers, and made myself tartan trousers, slightly too short, so I could look like them at the weekends.
And, when I went to Scotland, I spent my whole time looking out of the coach window, hoping to catch a glimpse of them walking down the street.
I saw them for real at Leeds Grand Theatre.
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leo
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quote: Originally posted by Gamaliel: And you've ... admitted it?!
Seriously, I hope you confessed it to your priest ...
I was certainly over-scrupulous and went to confession far too often.
However, the priest from the neighbouring parish, whom I idolised, was very tory so I would probably have got an indulgence of three. [ 02. July 2012, 15:15: Message edited by: leo ]
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Erroneous Monk
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I played a nine-hole round of pub golf (it was a good round - I got a hole in one on the bitter and the guinness) then used one of my colleagues' phones to text my boss.
But I'm a lot older now.
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Lyda*Rose
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comet: quote: was there ever an episode about a crazy guy who lit himself on fire in a village park?
That would be one to see. But no, I haven't seen that one.
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Holjo
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I got extremely drunk at a works residential in a country house.....I had what I thought was a Malcolm X moment and as a protest at the lack of black senior leaders within the national charity I am part of, took a permanent marker pen and wrote the word black on all of the walls of the training room and around the original portrait of the founder of the movement. In the morning I was so mortified I did a runner....
I once took my wife to a posh B and B and whilst waiting for her to pay found an interesting little button by the front door. It was to much for me to resist and I depressed it only to find that the whole house went into full alarm, all of the residents were evacuated , and police were contacted directly to attend. To make matters worse the car wouldn't start and I had to ask the owners of the house to give my wife and I a bump start..
I did the same thing in Prague , whilst on the tube ( buttons and me don't mix) and stopped a packed escalator by pressing the emergency stop....
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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I used to have a mullet.
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Zacchaeus
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quote: Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid: I used to have a mullet.
I take it you don't mean the fish either..............
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Sober Preacher's Kid
Presbymethegationalist
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I probably would have looked better with a fish on my head.
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Jack the Lass
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quote: Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid: I used to have a mullet.
So did I
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Kaplan Corday
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quote: Originally posted by Holjo: I got extremely drunk at a works residential in a country house.....I had what I thought was a Malcolm X moment and as a protest at the lack of black senior leaders within the national charity I am part of, took a permanent marker pen and wrote the word black on all of the walls of the training room and around the original portrait of the founder of the movement. In the morning I was so mortified I did a runner....
I once took my wife to a posh B and B and whilst waiting for her to pay found an interesting little button by the front door. It was to much for me to resist and I depressed it only to find that the whole house went into full alarm, all of the residents were evacuated , and police were contacted directly to attend. To make matters worse the car wouldn't start and I had to ask the owners of the house to give my wife and I a bump start..
I did the same thing in Prague , whilst on the tube ( buttons and me don't mix) and stopped a packed escalator by pressing the emergency stop....
It is a miserable, freezing, wet morning here, I have just reluctantly got up and checked my emails, and my half-awake wife is seriously disturbed at my manic guffaws.
Thank you for a brilliant start to the day.
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Zacchaeus
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quote: Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid: I probably would have looked better with a fish on my head.
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Zappa
Ship's Wake
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quote: Originally posted by Mr Curly: There is stuff . . . but I'm too embarrassed.
mr curly
Aw, c'mon. We're all friends here
I should admit, however, that as a mature nearly-40 adult(ish) I became addicted to Lara Croft, playing with her pointy bits (OMG that heavy breathing ...) until the wee smalls, waking up shaking and with headaches, waking from nightmares of giant leaps across hot molten choco ... er ... lava.
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Dormouse
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I used to love Chris de Burgh and I had all his albums and knew all the words and I thought they were good.
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Mr Curly
Off to Curly Flat
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quote: Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid: I used to have a mullet.
Me too. But not in the Biblical sense.
Those who've seen Abba The Movie will remember that one of the concerts was (in the film and in real life) disrupted by a bomb scare. I was at that concert.
mr curly
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Bob Two-Owls
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I was a member of the Federation of Conservative Students. I was at a good university, studying a good subject with a job giving me a fair bit of disposable income and a lovely girlfriend and I thought that I had it made. I went to a very upper-middle-class church and all was well with the world. In short I was a typical 80s loadsamoney dickhead.
Within a year the meningitis outbreak robbed me of many of my friends, much of my eyesight, my girlfriend, my job, my place at university and all contact with the church. Karma is a bitch like that.
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Squirrel
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I had two Partridge Family records.
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"Five to one." - George S. Patton
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lilBuddha
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quote: Originally posted by Mr Curly:
Those who've seen Abba The Movie will remember that one of the concerts was (in the film and in real life) disrupted by a bomb scare. I was at that concert.
mr curly
You shouldna let Zappa bully you to admitting that. There is embarrassing, then there is embarrassing.
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