12 Weird Things Lifehacker's Readers Secretly Love

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Last week, we invited our readers to talk about their guilty pleasures - shameful pleasures that they enjoy in secret from others. Most often, there is nothing illegal in them, but many are embarrassed to share that they order fast food at night and watch stupid reality shows.

But we believe that declaring this to a wide audience is therapeutic not only for the narrator himself, but also for other people who have not yet decided to confess their guilty pleasures to society. Therefore, read the stories of our subscribers - perhaps they will relieve you of the shame of what you secretly love.

1. Watch Male / Female

I got hooked on this program after watching the release, the heroes of which were the inhabitants of my city. It was interesting to look at fellow countrymen, and then sucked!

While cooking, she turned on random episodes on YouTube in the background, trying to choose the most clickbait titles like “Feeding the child with vodka”, “Pregnant from her father” and other trash.

You watch this and enjoy your quiet, comfortable and sober life. It took me a couple of months - the content is rather monotonous and quickly gets boring. The characters are not particularly sympathetic. Although I remember the issue with a teenage girl, whose mother suffered from Plushkin's syndrome and filled up the apartment with garbage. The girl was very sorry!

2. Watch Korean Housewife YouTube Channel

Honeyjubu is a super efficient woman. Most of all, I like videos that capture her usual day: she got up at 5-6 in the morning, brewed beautifully tea, washed all the surfaces in the kitchen, cooked meals, cleaned the house, looked after the flowers, walked with dog. On the way, I grabbed long tongs and collected garbage in the park - cool!

Calm measured life. Something that is very lacking when you read the news.

I also like the video where Hanijubu cooks a gala dinner for her husband's birthday. It's a pleasure to look at the amount of food!

Sometimes, when watching, I feel uneasy, and I shyly stuff the dust under the plinth with a slipper.

3. Stalker pages of former classmates

They usually get carried away at night, from idleness, when you suddenly remember that you haven’t heard anything about “that boy from the parallel” for a long time.

It is interesting to compare how life scattered everyone in different ways: who gave birth, who got married, who in exile. New material for gossip with girlfriends…

Opinions about everyone change over time, of course. That's how I learned that a seemingly good boy grew up to be a terrible sexist and misogynist. This is even frustrating!

4. Watch "Pregnant at 16"

In the evening after work, I sit on the sofa and think: “Do I want to watch an interesting, spiritually fulfilling film with great story or do I need a brain-thinning show right now?” There are times when this is clearly the second option.

“Pregnant at 16”, “The Bachelor” and similar programs are light, relaxed content that helps you relax. While watching it, you can do other things that do not require active inclusion. If you get distracted, nothing terrible will happen - you will not miss an important plot twist.

Sometimes the characters on these shows elicit a "hands-off" reaction. You think: “Well, everything is not so bad in my life yet.” I think that's why I and other people like them. I know a lot of people are embarrassed to watch this. But there is nothing wrong with that!

5. Watch videos on which acne is pressed.

The more disgusting, the better! I’m not specifically looking for them, but if something like this comes across on YouTube in the Shorts section, then I’m definitely stuck. You watch one video, and all subsequent ones will be similar - about removing black dots or ingrown nails.

Interestingly, I am wildly afraid of the sight of blood or the process of introducing syringes into the human body. But the videos that are being pressed acne, for some reason do not cause disgust!

It's like popping bubble wrap: you don't quite understand why you're enjoying doing it, but it's fun.

6. Listen to Indian movie soundtracks.

I do it in secret from friends, relatives and loved ones. When I'm alone in the car, I turn on Indian music to the maximum. I sing along, twitching in a sit-down dance. At this time, it’s as if I’m moving into another world - around the smell of spices, a riot of colors, fluttering fabrics.

The most favorite soundtracks are from the films “Blind Love”, “Vir and Zara”, “Bikers”, “Meeting That Gave Love”. This is my little pleasure, which only my favorite piece of iron on wheels knows about.

7. Watch Stas Asafiev's channel and laugh at his jokes.

His videos are of very high quality. I like the news section. The author saves his audience from the psychological attack that comes at us from the media. He is always positive and is not distracted by the political agenda.

When I watch Stas' video, it seems to me that I am young again. I want to have fun and have fun! At this moment, I forget that I am a serious uncle - the head of one of the largest banks in the country.

Of course, Stas sometimes has such jokes... Not common in the society of people with whom I communicate. So I think it's guilty pleasure.

8. Go to the hairdresser depending on the phase of the moon

I get some completely illogical and inexplicable pleasure choosing the “right” day for haircuts.

I started doing this at the age of 12 thanks to Zemfira and her track “Goodbye”. I thought, since “The moon is waning, it happens” and Zemfira goes to get a haircut, then I will.

Judging by the calendar, there are many aspects that the Moon influences - this is luck, career growth, and relationships. I always look at what days are most favorable for going to the hairdresser.

The main joke is that after careful planning, in a matter of minutes I forget what exactly such a good trip to the stylist should bring me on this particular day. But I feel very satisfied! Colleagues who read this will laugh at me, but okay!

9. Watch the series "Fortuneteller" and "Blind"

I don't have a TV at home. But when I come to visit my mother, complete relaxation begins. I turn on TV3 and degrade.

There is absolutely nothing useful in the series on this channel. Primitive plots, duplicates, shot as if from the first time... But they work very well for them! There is a feeling that "Fortuneteller" and "Blind" help me to be in good shape during the day. I don’t get tired of work tasks so quickly, because my brain hears the voice of Baba Nina and at the same time rests. Sounds crazy, but it really works! In order to watch The Fortune Teller, I even subscribed to Premier.

By the way, I’m not superstitious at all, I don’t believe in signs and other esotericism. Therefore, I am amused by advice in the spirit: “All the troubles come from the fact that you roll up your socks in lumps, and they should be a pile” or “You can’t sleep on black bedding - family life will not stick together.”

Sometimes my mother or husband and I watch some series and guess the plot. Surely someone cheated on someone, they were caught. But it turned out that the reason for everything is that the main character poured pepper into the salt shaker, and salt into the pepper pot!

10. Fall asleep to the series "Next"

He talks about how he investigates various crimes fictitious Federal Expert Service. Their methods are always advanced and do not exist in reality. This is very funny, but presented with a serious look!

The plots are usually very strange. Yesterday, for example, there was a series about how the wife of an elderly man killed young virgins and pumped blood out of them in order to transfuse plasma to a dying husband. At the same time, she portrayed that a ghoul was committing crimes - she left bite marks on the victims.

Since the series is as stupid as possible, it does not cause interest at all. Under it, you can safely fall asleep without worrying about the plot.

11. Think of fantasy stories

For me, this is one of the ways to relieve stress after hard work. This technique was recommended to me by my personal psychologist.

As a rule, ideas come during meetings and communication with clients. Usually the story takes place in some fictional country. People, elves, dwarves and other peoples lead a life and build relationships with each other.

I think this is stupid, because all these stories remain inside me and are not very interesting. But they help me to abstract from real situations and look at them from the outside! By analyzing the relationship of characters, I help myself find new ways to solve problems.

12. Watch Four Weddings

My guilty pleasure is the Four Weddings show. Its essence is that four participants from different cities go to each other's celebrations and evaluate wedding elements: bridal outfit, decoration, food and so on. At stake is a honeymoon trip.

I only watch this show with my girlfriends and that makes it doubly fun. You can gossip a lot, guess which of the heroines will turn out to be the meanest and will underestimate the grades, and which of the four is the cutie. It's funny, for example, that in almost every issue someone is sure to be indignant at what a bad road to the place of celebration. But the bride cannot lay new asphalt!

The host's sarcastic comments are a separate thrill. Well, what really - I wonder how much people are willing to spend on one day.

Individual episodes of the show are not particularly memorable. They are all bright and rather meaningless. But if you just want to scream at the TV without thinking about anything, this is a good option.