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

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?

American Football.

If it's really something bad or dumb I actually stop watching it.
 

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

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.

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.

Just stay away from the archived Troper Tales (they nuked the old system for good reason), 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.

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

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..."