The "Why the Hell am i Watching/Doing This" thread

[Bells]

So, quick story... a friend of mine sends me a youtube video, going "Oh man you gotta watch this" i watch it. It's a video of a HUGE, freaking HUGE pimple getting popped.

Disgusting, mildly amusing and it's done.

...then i see in the related videos a couple more of those.

5 more videos later, i caught myself going "WTF am i doing?..."

So, there is that :dance:

There are some, trully, Meal Repelant home videos on youtube about that stuff... guh...

So, what have you done or watched that made you question your better judgment about the fact that you were watching or doing it?

[Eltargrim]

American Football.

[synkr0nized]

That video, or at least a video like it, was on at least Tosh.0 if not Web Soup or the other shows like that. Thankfully for television viewers some of the clip was missed when they cut to audience reactions. hahahah He also showed his audience Two Girls One Cup.



I'm usually up until ~4 in the morning wondering why I am still reading whatever LP or comic or playing whatever random game a lot. I don't regret it or anything but am usually not happy that I didn't go to bed.




e: Oh no wait I started wondering this about twenty minutes into Natural Born Killers but didn't want to be a party pooper with the group I was with [one girl was really into it and wanted us to all watch it].
I also kind of feel this way while watching A Clockwork Orange.

[Azisien]

Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Blu-Ray. Again.

[akaSM]

A fashion reality show on Discovery Home & Health (the home part added a ton of crap IMO). I was getting the living room ready to set my desktop PC there and somehow I ended watching that thing o_o.

[Ecks]

TVTropes binges. I've been on one for admittedly around six hours today AND NEED TO GET THE HELL AWAY FROM IT. I EVEN STILL HAVE AN OPEN TAB WITH THE GINORMOUS LITERATURE: HARRY POTTER PAGE UP!

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!1

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

TVTropes binges. I've been on one for admittedly around six hours today AND NEED TO GET THE HELL AWAY FROM IT. I EVEN STILL HAVE AN OPEN TAB WITH THE GINORMOUS LITERATURE: HARRY POTTER PAGE UP!

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!1

I can beat you on that; I not only spend ages reading tvtropes on a regular basis, but I often go back to re-read the same articles multiple times! Some pages are just worth it though, like the Warhammer 40k page with its literal list of 1000+ tropes.

[Loyal]

Just stay away from the archived Troper Tales (they nuked the old system for good reason (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT4vg9MtsLU)), and do not begin contributing to the articles yourself. For that matter, also stay away from the Homestuck page. It's pretty terrifying in size and scale.

There was a 6+ hour marathon of Law and Order: SVU on a couple nights ago. I ended up watching through the whole thing. It wasn't terrible, but I really have to wonder how someone makes a successful crime series wherein every single crime is linked in some way to sexual assault. Even with the one case where they thought a boy was being molested but he actually wasn't, it turned out someone else involved in the case had gotten raped instead.

[Bells]

There was a 6+ hour marathon of Law and Order: SVU on a couple nights ago. I ended up watching through the whole thing. It wasn't terrible, but I really have to wonder how someone makes a successful crime series wherein every single crime is linked in some way to sexual assault. Even with the one case where they thought a boy was being molested but he actually wasn't, it turned out someone else involved in the case had gotten raped instead.

uh.... dude... it's SVU... They are a unit specialized on Sexual Offenses and Sex Crimes, it's the whole concept of the show.

It's like how CSI is mainly based on crimes that can be solved by enhancing things

[Loyal]

I get that. i understand that is the point of the series. Perhaps I should have phrased the question as "who gets the idea to..." or "how does it avoid becoming repetitive when..."

[Aerozord]

I get that. i understand that is the point of the series. Perhaps I should have phrased the question as "who gets the idea to..." or "how does it avoid becoming repetitive when..."

cause its sex and American's are so sexually repressed that seeing it on TV peaks ones interest.

[Red Mage Black]

Hmm... I first thought that when I first looked into MLP:FiM. Technically I still wonder why I even THINK about it. I kind of stopped around Episode 3(right in the middle), because my connection slowed down significantly to make it not even worth waiting for the episodes to buffer.

For Law and Order:SVU and all those shows, I'd like to think I'm not sexually repressed. I see it on TV and I just shrug. Desensitization? Maybe. Maybe I just got it all out of the way between ages 13 and 18.

[Ecks]

cause its sex and American's are so sexually repressed that seeing it on TV peaks ones interest.

Understatement of the millennium there, Aerozord.

[Magus]

I personally like the cut of NTSF:SD:SUV's (http://www.adultswim.com/presents/ntsfsdsuv/index.html) jib (National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle), since it manages to make fun of CSI, NCIS, and Law and Order all in one title.

I never understood the need for more than one Law and Order show at any one time, either, since it basically meant that they'd have to work three times as hard to come up with three decent plotlines. Pretty much all the plots started just to be copy pastes of real-life crimes and trials instead of just some of the plots. Of course, now they are simply down to one (SVU, inexplicably. Maybe they will just rename it Law and Order since there is no longer any reason to have the subtitle?)

The need for even one CSI never made any sense to me, either.

On the other hand, they need a third NCIS show.

Alright, you know what stupid thing I do without realizing it, is think, sometimes for like an hour at at ime, about various plot lines, characters, even lines of dialogue, etc. for stories and so on. However, I don't type the stuff out as a I think about it! What a complete waste of time. When I get in the mood to think about stuff like that I should be typing out story outlines and stuff instead of just thinking it in my head, that way I'll remember it better later. I have forgotten all kinds of cool stuff, or it comes up in my head months later if I'm lucky and I write it down then. It's terrible to spend time thinking about stuff and not be able to write it down and then forget it.

[Ecks]

I miss Gil Grissom. After he left, I honestly didn't care much for Lawrence Fishburn's character and stopped watching CSI. I want to get into Miami (because the whole Sunglasses Moment thing is kind of funny, not really due to interest) but can't because then I feel like I'd be watching the show for the first three minutes and then losing all interest.