Today TMI Tuesday is all about guilty pleasures.

Jack’s Answers

1. What TV show do you love to watch but are a little embarrassed to tell friends that you simply cannot miss an episode.
Honestly, I don’t really know. I don’t watch much TV, and what little I do watch doesn’t fall under the trashy reality TV heading. Real Housewives, Duck Dynasty, Doomsday Preppers, Honey Boo-Boo, Hillbillies Picking Through Someone’s Trash – that’s the kind of show I might feel a bit ashamed of watching, but then I don’t watch them. If I was the sort to find those shows entertaining, I’d probably be proud of it, and flaunt my fandom in the face of those hifalutin types who watch Downton Abbey.

2. What website and/or magazine do you read and it’s your guilty pleasure?
Again, I’m not sure. I want to just say none. I read a few magazines regularly despite print media being more or less dead. But I don’t read anything that really makes me feel like I should wear a trenchcoat with the collar pulled way up when I buy it at my local Barnes & Noble. However, I’m guessing there are those who would be mortified to be seen with such reading material. I refer primarily to a few horror and science fiction periodicals, the occasional cooking magazine, and of course Mad Magazine, which I’ve been reading since I was about five. And despite its self-deprecating attitude, I don’t really consider it a guilty pleasure. As for websites, maybe just the usual porn sites? But I don’t really feel guilty about any of them.

3. What is the grocery store item you buy but you know you should not?
Again, I don’t have much to contribute here. If I was a big consumer of tabloid journalism I’d mention that here, but these days I wouldn’t be caught dead reading People, much less The National Enquirer or The Weekly World News. Some varaiety of really unhealthy food seems ideal to mention here, but I honestly don’t buy that much. I try to eat healthy as much as possible – not enough, I know – and while I buy a lot of bacon I don’t really give a fuck if it kills me in ten years because a baconless existence seems really empty and worthless to me. Same thing with cheese.

4. Tell us about something you do at work that you would not want your co-workers to know that you do.
Remain in the office after close of business under the guise of working late, and then masturbate while looking at the family photos on their desks. Full disclosure: I don’t actually work in an office and have never actually done this. Actually I kind of wish I had; I’ve had a lot of hot co-workers, including Christine. Remember her?

5. Do you have a secret stash? What is it?
Okay, this one I have a legitimate answer for. I’ve retained a number of pairs of panties from old girlfriends. In some cases they were left at my house when said girlfriend dumped me. In other cases they were given to me as a memento, in one case when I was embarking on a several-day trip without her. They date back more than twenty years in some cases and I definitely should have tossed them by now. I don’t use them for masturbating. I’m not sure what the hell they’re still doing here. But, essentially, that is my secret stash.

Bonus: What is your most embarrassing guilty pleasure?
I occasionally like to sing the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein, in particular Oklahoma! when no one’s around. Please don’t tell anyone.

Jill’s Answers

1. What TV show do you love to watch but are a little embarrassed to tell friends that you simply cannot miss an episode.
Pretty Little Liars. This is not the first or even the second time I’ve cited that show as my guilty pleasure. See the two previous instances here and here.

2. What website and/or magazine do you read and it’s your guilty pleasure?
I don’t think there are any. Maybe I’ll go with Cook’s Country, to which we have a subscription. I love quality home-cooked meals, and there’s something incredibly fun about imagining a hot naked man in my kitchen cooking for me.

3. What is the grocery store item you buy but you know you should not?
Potato chips. I love them, and I frequently need to be on guard against eating an entire bag in one sitting. This is why single-serving bags of potato chips were invented.

4. Tell us about something you do at work that you would not want your co-workers to know that you do.
I take topless pictures in the bathroom when I’m on my lunch break.

5. Do you have a secret stash? What is it?
It’s a bag of Peanut M&Ms in my desk drawer at work. And it’s getting emptier by the day.

Bonus: What is your most embarrassing guilty pleasure?
I take a lot of topless pictures in bathrooms (not just at work). It happens a lot when we’re out at a nice restaurant, so much so that I suspect Jack knows to expect one when we’re out at dinner. Also, it secretly turns me on to think I might get caught. Well, I guess it isn’t a secret anymore.

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