lol wanker!

But seriously though, you shouldn't be embarrassed, it's your personal choice. I've grown up listening to metal and rock 'n roll, so most of my friends. But as I keep growing up, I've been listening to more varied styles, like Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues, Classical, Circuit Bending, Techno, Hardcore, Turntable and others. First, they didn't understand how I could listen to that, but then, it grew on them, and now most of them listen to other genres. It's something you have to "teach" your friends. And they maybe even like it.

Herpy.

80s music, 80s fashion, 80s computers.

Any embarrassment I feel about liking something is purely based on the people around me. The things I like are relatively mainstream, but it's a minefield trying to predict what other people like, and what they find awful/ridiculous/wtf-inducing. I can't help feeling embarrassed automatically if I'm with someone who might not like what I'm watching/playing/listening to.

It's incredibly easy for someone to make me feel stupid for liking something purely based on their negative reaction to it. Unless I've formulated a strong argument for why I like something, I feel like they're instantly validated in not liking it.

I'm not likely to argue about it with them unless I feel I have a really knowledgable opinion on it, even if their view is simplistic or they don't explain it. Most of the time I can't be bothered with peoples' seemingly random and arbitrary personal tastes and I just wait until I'm alone to enjoy things that they might not like.

IBM PC 5150?

Yes. I had a couple of real 5150s back in about 94 or 95. One had the green screen with dual 360k floppy drives and the other had CGA with a 3mb Otari "Disctron" full height hard drive which used up the other two open drive bays. The original hard drive was a 10mb Seagate that went south for the winter so I picked up the Otari for almost nothing to replace it.

I've heard a 20mb Seagate Hard Drive spin up before. That thing was loud.
I know there was the Zenith computers as well around that time, I really want to get a Zenith Supersport 286/386 laptop. That would be great.

They seem loud compared to today's drives but aren't bad once in the computer. They're not supposed to be that loud, too, unless they have a lot of time on them, and the spindle bearings ROAR from wear. The ST-412 and ST-225 (10mb and 20mb MFM, respectively) are rock solid reliable drives. I had a 286 desktop once with a 10mb drive (make unknown) that was so loud and worn out it was unbearable. You had to leave the room to talk. Still worked.

I recommend listening to the ST-251 (40mb MFM) drive's startup sound, but the best video I could find on Youtube is the ST-277R, a 70MB RLL drive that is basically a '251 formatted from 17 sectors per track to 26 sectors per track. Same drive. I LOVE these!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh6sd-kdFFg

I remember building a 386 computer for my parents' store that had the ST-277 in it. The only problem was that the drive controller I was using didn't support RLL, only MFM so I actually formatted the 70mb drive down to 40mb because of the sector limitation. Good times.

The ewaste yards over here are just lousy with 90s computers and accessories. You'd love it. 80s computers are waaaay hard to find now.

Natey-poo, be a doll and take this to the retro technology thread pls?

I know there was a Toshiba T1100 on eBay not long ago, and there's a Compaq Contura Aero 4/33c on there now. Both of those were 80s.

As a young boy (which was only a few years ago), my guilty pleasure was seinen. And my brother's gnarly Alan Moore comics. The guilt stemmed from both the graphic depictions of... stuff... and the fact that I shouldn't really have been taking my brother's books.

Ponies are my guilty pleasure. Especially Fluttershy.

And you thought Steamer was bad for listening to music.

I like eating raw pasta and pop corn kernels. I guess that's guilty, since it's kind of bad for my teeth.

Uncooked noodles are nice.

dangling my penis in various meat grinders to toughen the skin is another guilty pleasure.

You may enjoy this movie then:




WARNING: Not safe for work. Not safe for anywhere, really. Just... don't watch it.

If I haven't already made it clear, I love shitty movies. Just genuinely grade-A crap in any form, from Chipwrecked to grainy 60's Bollywood Kung-Fu, I'll watch it all and puke my pants in nonstop giggles. I love garbage. The exceptions to this rule are invariably boring horror movies with awful CG that take place in small-town America. They air this crap on the SyFy and Space channels and I find it INFURIATING when they make a movie called 'SPACE TWISTER' as melodramatic and BORING as possible.

However, there's a line, even for me. There's but one man who takes the crapcake all the way home, cuts it into various other cakes and sells it as different types of cake for 15 years. Also Ninjas.

Godfrey Ho, also called 'Ed Woo' is a legendarily prolific martial arts director who made 100+ films with a variation of NINJA KICKBOXER in the title. His dubbing, editing and incomprehensible plots are like a rose garden of cinema to me. It's just so bad
. He'd make two or three 90 minute action films over the course of about an afternoon, cut them to pieces and assemble like a dozen different movies with two simultaneous plots that only slightly crossover. His most famous work is perhaps USA CATMAN:



Here's some weird fan video that shows all of the moustachioed caucasian men he loved to cast as Alexander, John, Albert or, rarely, Tyler. Because last names just make things too overcomplicated.


If you want to get into being a cynical bitter butthead like me, start combing your local Value Bucket for his stuff and similar. You will (not???) be disappointed.

So I take it that you are also a fan of The Room and Plan 9 From Outer Space?

The Room is absolutely hilarious. I'd pay good money to sit in those cinema showings where people throw plastic spoons at the screen during their favourite scenes.

I wanna go to one of those so badly!

I also love the first Mortal Kombat movie, but Annihilation is total crap, I hated that movie.

I do my job the best way I can. :D

The Room isn't a guilty pleasure.
The Room is genius and your love of it should be shouted from the rooftops.

I DID NAT HIT HER, I DID NAT

O hai, Mark.

HI DOGGIE
You're my favourite customer.

YOU'RE TEARING ME APART!

Drawing half-naked bald men with mustaches and muscley necks and noses.

That's not a guilty pleasure, everyone does it. You would be guilty for not doing it because you know you should be.

Can flans be guilty pleasures? If so... Flans.

Masturbation. I think that's the only real guilty pleasure.

I think masturbating with a flan is the only real guilty pleasure.

I'm usually quite open about my personal man to hand sex life (not to the point that I'm describing in detail or being out of line.) I think that because everyone does it I can't see it being a guilty pleasure.

When I think about it, there's really nothing that I like that I would classify as a guilty pleasure. I've openly admitted in a group of lads that one of my favorite shows as a child, even till now, is the Powerpuff Girls.