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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
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. [Razz]

I like most of those shows too but "Animal Cops" I can't watch, even for a minute because I get so furious at all those sick, twisted motherf*ckers who abuse animals and don't think there's a thing wrong with that! Grrrrrrrrr! Animal hoarders are too sick to be believed and the rest of those... "people" (I hesitate to call them that...) are so evil, too.

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
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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.
Don't worry. He hasn't yet bullied me into admitting I saw The Human League live in concert.

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Originally posted by Mr Curly:

Don't worry. He hasn't yet bullied me into admitting I saw The Human League live in concert.
mr curly



Ah - had it been the original Human League (pre "Dare") that would have been very cool indeed. They never toured Australia in that form though I don't think.

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It was the Dare tour. [Hot and Hormonal]

But I have a pre-Dare CD, and yes, they were cool.

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Little House on the Prairie. I am kind of embarrassed but would probably watch a re-run. [Hot and Hormonal]

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Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
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. [Razz]

I like most of those shows too but "Animal Cops" I can't watch, even for a minute because I get so furious at all those sick, twisted motherf*ckers who abuse animals and don't think there's a thing wrong with that! Grrrrrrrrr! Animal hoarders are too sick to be believed and the rest of those... "people" (I hesitate to call them that...) are so evil, too.
I understand. But I like the parts where the animals get rescued and get great new homes. And the court scenes where the malefactors get reamed. But usually not hard and deep enough. [Mad]

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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
I love reality cop shows: COPS, Bait Car

Yes! And Operation Repo and Campus PD also.

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Ah. I think this might be the time to come clean. This embarrassment, however, is of a completely different order from having had an ill-advised haircut (though I, too, admit to having had a mullet at one stage). So here goes: Macarius and I have 6 pet logs. We were in a café on the first floor in Keswick , taking a few days out when Macarius’ mother was dying and we suddenly saw all these cheery little faces smiling up at us. We needed cheery at the time. So we bought half a dozen.

As it was near Christmas, Macarius made them little santa hats and I knitted them cosy scarves… and it sort of developed from there. They live in the porch and we put them in different scenes – spring on the river, say, or Christmas* or tea on the terrace or (at the moment) Doctor Who. The photographs are kept in the Log Book.

There are people that ‘get it’ and people that just think we’re sad. Most, as one of Macarius’ cousins pointed out, do both.

So, is confession good for the soul? I’m not sure it’s good for the reputation.

M.

*They occasionally get their own Christmas cards.

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I knew I had a boring day waiting in the office with no electricity or other work to do so I went to the newsstand and bought the current issues of Commando Comic...

As soon as the laptop battery fails (about ten minutes or so) I shall be tucking into "Freedom - Or Death" and "Cold Steel" while thinking of a way to sneak them past my good lady and into the loft. She would understand porn but I don't think she would forgive me buying war comics.

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Pet logs, M? Is that anything like pet rocks? How do logs have faces?

Yes, sad indeed!

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Originally posted by PeteC:
Pet logs, M? Is that anything like pet rocks? How do logs have faces?

Yes, sad indeed!

I wonder if they are at loggerheads? [Biased]

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I still have my Petra cassette tapes, and they truly are the cheesiest Christian plastic rock in the English-speaking world. However, I must admit that I liked Whiteheart more.

Don't Youtube them unless you have a high tolerance for the extremely naff.

Cattyish, enjoying Zappa's "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk."

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quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
Pet logs, M? Is that anything like pet rocks?

I had a pet rock. My defense was that I was 11, but I'm still kind of embarrassed at how funny and cool I thought the whole idea was till I came across a drawing in the little booklet that came with it depicting several rocks lurking in grass; the reader was told not to attempt to tame "wild rocks." It dawned on me only then that I could have just picked up a rock in the back yard and called it a pet.
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I'll see all your crappy TV shows and raise you one:

I used to like Christian Rock - especially Amy Grant and Sandi Patty. When I was bored I'd watch Trinity Broadcasting Network and the 700 club.

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Crossrhythms (Christian) radio used to broadcast a couple of things on Sky TV by putting cameras in their studio. I thought the presenters were cool. As I recall, they had mightily spiky hair.

Cattyish, fond memories.

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The rowing team at my old university (Trinity College Dublin) used to run round campus naked once a year. Alas (for they were quite easy on the eye) this tradition came to an end when they clamboured all over an elderly female visitor's car back in the early 2000s.
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Anyway, embarassment...

I LOVED Neighbours back in its late 80s heyday (in my defence I was about eight at the time). I had all the Neighbours merchandise and Kylie and Jason were my favourite singers. I remember watching Scott and Charlene's wedding really vividly even though stuff like the fall of the Berlin Wall totally passed me by [Hot and Hormonal]

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I had the 'neighbours' board game.

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quote:
Originally posted by Jenny Ann:
I had the 'neighbours' board game.

Oooo Jenny.... [Disappointed]
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OK...confession time [Hot and Hormonal]

I wrote "I love Donny Osmond" in Esperanto on a school blackboard.

There was one good thing come out of it - I met my best friend through the act and we'll be celebrating our 40th friendship anniversary in September this year [Big Grin]

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Originally posted by Jenny Ann:
I had the 'neighbours' board game.

So did I.

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quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
I love reality cop shows: COPS, Bait Car

Yes! And Operation Repo and Campus PD also.
Campus PD, Beach Patrol, yeah. Operation Repo is soooo cheesy, though! That fat blonde woman with the frightening eyeliner? Oh, and "Lizard Lick Towing"... makes Southerners look even more stupid and rednecky than SOME of them already are!

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In my late teens my almost 24/7 dress code was army fatigues with Mickey Mouse t-shirts. Work was about the only exception.

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quote:
Originally posted by Lev:
quote:
Originally posted by Jenny Ann:
I had the 'neighbours' board game.

Oooo Jenny.... [Disappointed]
I was around 7ish.

Also - I must get bonus points for scaring up a post from Lev, right?

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quote:
Originally posted by M.:
Macarius and I have 6 pet logs. We were in a café on the first floor in Keswick , taking a few days out when Macarius’ mother was dying and we suddenly saw all these cheery little faces smiling up at us. We needed cheery at the time. So we bought half a dozen.

I have a feeling I know where you got those. How do I know... I had one, too. Sadly, x-many moves later (I really can't remember how many!) the Pet Log didn't make it.

Kx

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quote:
Originally posted by cattyish:
I still have my Petra cassette tapes...

We actually saw them in concert when our kid was a teenager!

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Re: Petra, we went in Edinburgh when we were fans. I have a signed t-shirt. I had actually forgotten that until you mentioned you'd seen them.

Cattyish

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I thought the thread was about stuff you did, not TV shows you are embarrassed you liked. But maybe liking is doing?

I once washed a car in winter, and it went down to circa -40° (that's either °F or °C at that level). All car doors froze shut. I tried lock de-icer, a hair dryer, and no go. So I got out a blow torch and heated up the door key. It melted and came apart in the lock. About two hours later I had the loan of some very pointy pliers and managed to extract it. I don't recall how we ever got into the car though.

Can I blame my car adventure on McGyver? Given that TV shows are the general theme, I definitely fantasized about being McGyver. All us geekier types wanted to move in a cooler direction, and thus, he was our idol. You know, give me some pine cones, some drain pipe and you can make a bazooka.

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no_prophet:
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I thought the thread was about stuff you did, not TV shows you are embarrassed you liked. But maybe liking is doing?

Maybe watching is doing. [Razz]

But I do like your story about the winter car wash. Some of us just don't live in such interesting times and have to make do with vicarious embarrassment like those of the jokers on World's Dumbest Criminals. [Biased]

[ 07. July 2012, 02:30: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]

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Originally posted by no_prophet:
I thought the thread was about stuff you did, not TV shows you are embarrassed you liked. But maybe liking is doing?

I think watching is doing. I watched Jason King. Scheizenhauer, he was coooooooooool.

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quote:
Originally posted by ToujoursDan:
I'll see all your crappy TV shows and raise you one:

I used to like Christian Rock - especially Amy Grant and Sandi Patty. When I was bored I'd watch Trinity Broadcasting Network and the 700 club.

[Hot and Hormonal]

I'm going to an Amy Grant gig in London tomorrow! That's not the embarrassing thing - the embarrassing thing is that I used to belong to Barry Manilow's fan club. When I was SIXTEEN! [Disappointed] [Disappointed]

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quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
I love reality cop shows: COPS, Bait Car

Yes! And Operation Repo and Campus PD also.
I watched Cajun Justice. Twice.

eta: And I'm quite fond of Neil Diamond.

[ 07. July 2012, 18:13: Message edited by: Janine ]

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Both me and my partner like Neil Diamond . No shame in that . Whatsmore the guy is still drawing crowds at 71 .

Embarressment would had to figure large over my liking of 70s Glam-rock band "The Rubettes".
I owned not just one, but three of their albums [Hot and Hormonal]

Think what they'd been worth if I kept them . Pretty much zilch I should imagine.

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I used to be a member of the SDP.

I have no excuse. None at all. I'm just very, very sorry.

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no prophet's flag is set so...

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quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
I used to be a member of the SDP.

I have no excuse. None at all. I'm just very, very sorry.

What is it? I did a search and come up with a host of social democratic political parties from countries as diverse as Croatia and Japan, the Society for Descriptive Psychology, and various other things.
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I am embarrassed and ashamed to admit that I used to steal bulbs out of buses just so that I could enjoy they 'pop' sound when I smashed them on the pavement.

I would like to go back and slap my silly face for that.

[Hot and Hormonal] [Frown]

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Originally posted by Boogie:
I am embarrassed and ashamed to admit that I used to steal bulbs out of buses just so that I could enjoy they 'pop' sound when I smashed them on the pavement.

I am interested in the fact that you had access to bulbs. I never noticed that I did.

Moo

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Originally posted by Moo:
quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
I am embarrassed and ashamed to admit that I used to steal bulbs out of buses just so that I could enjoy they 'pop' sound when I smashed them on the pavement.

I am interested in the fact that you had access to bulbs. I never noticed that I did.

Moo

It was a looooong time ago - they had screw-in light bulbs in the buses then.

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quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
I used to be a member of the SDP.

I have no excuse. None at all. I'm just very, very sorry.

What is it? I did a search and come up with a host of social democratic political parties from countries as diverse as Croatia and Japan, the Society for Descriptive Psychology, and various other things.
I can't link it directly on wikipedia as it's got brackets in the URL, but here's the TinyUrl.

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Petra is pretty bad but "Stryper" is far, far worse!
And, I've heard they're making a 'comeback', Oh, goody! Pass me the barf bag...

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I once posted at forum.ship-of-fools.com.
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The5thMary
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Here's embarrassing... I cry my eyes out every time I see that PBS (Public Broadcasting, for you non-Americans) is showing 'Riverdance'. I don't know what it is about that show but I just get so choked up and almost immediately begin to cry. I really like the music and the dancing just floors me but normally stuff like that kind of makes me roll my eyes and make snotty comments.

OTOH, watching that dreadful Michael Flatley ego-masturbation that is 'Lord of the Dance' is just awful. Stupid-ass story and way too much of Michael Flatley. Or however his name is spelled.

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Having it away with a soloist in the organ blower room many, many years ago. The oragn and church are long gone.

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"Till we cast our crowns before Him; Lost in wonder, love, and praise."

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When I was a child I developed an obsession with fairies, fueled by reading some of the Flower Fairies books as well as a book about house fairies by some long-dead author. I attempted to make contact with our house fairies by leaving little morsels of my favorite foods in various quiet spaces of our house, like the far reaches of the closet that ran from my playroom under the attic stairs. My mother eventually discovered these offerings -- long after they'd become mummified -- and demanded to know how they'd gotten in such odd locations inside the house. I was too embarrassed to admit that I was trying to communicate with the little people, so I just stonewalled, leaving my mother to shake her head and express doubts about my sanity.

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I bought 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' by Yes. Four sides based on, allegedly, Shastric scripture. I listened to it, straight through just once. It was the worst four quid I ever spent.

I reckon it did more damage to 'progressive rock' than punk, disco and heavy metal combined.

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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I bought 'Tales from Topographic Oceans'...it did more damage to 'progressive rock' than punk, disco and heavy metal combined.

Oi! I'm listening to it right now, it is my second favourite Yes album (after Close to the Edge of course).
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Once, it fell to me to clean out an old workshop in the back of a garage, to settle an estate of an extended family member. Unfortuantely, they had already held an auction sale there, without including the contents of the workshop, which they apparently considered to be worthless junk.
I found several containers of old, sometimes rusty springs, of all shapes and sizes. Having a few half-sheets of bristol board from my days of teaching Sunday school, I fashioned some springs into a piece of artwork, entitled Spring in Springbank Park with springs running off one another to form scenery.
This became somewhat addictive, and several family members each received one of these masterpieces. In deep and proper appreciation of my artistic abilities, they threw the creations out fairly quickly. But I had fun making them.

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I wrote an entirely fictional tale about somebody who took off - literally - under the power of the Holy Spirit - and died laughing when he crashed to earth.

My beloved sister found it and asked me if it was true. If anyone deserved to know it was true, she did. When I told her I'd made it up, I felt dreadful.

Which is perhaps why my sig. gives me some comfort!

[ 11. July 2012, 19:56: Message edited by: pimple ]

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