What is your vice?

[Stargazer86]

We all have vices which are of course hard to break. Which of the following could you not live without?

[Helga]

I will never agree that coffee is a vice!!! never!!! it's a tasty drink that I don't want to be without!!!!
I used to smoke but I don't do that anymore, I do think it's a vice how much I watch tv...

[JBI]

Marijuana, Caffeine, and liquor - coffee to keep me up (though, coffee from any coffee store here unless it is a real one, which are hard to find, generally doesn't faze me - the only drink that actually effects me at all is a double espresso if I have two of them), marijuana to keep me sane, and liquor for all the rest. Though, lately I've been off the marijuana, and more onto the caffeine.

[Haunted]

- coffee to wake me up;
- alcohol to knock me out;
- prescription drugs taken with alcohol to REALLY knock me out

[Niamh]

Over three months ago i would have ticked cigs...
Now its just chocolate. :)

[Stargazer86]

Helga- You know the first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem :P
JBI- Before I was pregnant I would have also counted marijuana as a vice. Now it's an occasional treat. I also switched heavily to caffine
Haunted- lol I hear ya!
Niamh- *doh* I totally meant to put chocolate as a choice and I forgot! I don't suppose there's a way for me to edit to add a choice?

[Virgil]

Coffee is not a vice, but I checked it. Yes I know it has caffeine, so what? It's not a vice. Oh and I love a glass of wine with dinner. Drinking a glass and remaining sober is not a vice either.

Edit: And if anyone doubts whether they are vices here's the definition of vice:

vice 1 (vs) KEY

NOUN:


An evil, degrading, or immoral practice or habit.
A serious moral failing.
Wicked or evil conduct or habits; corruption.
Sexual immorality, especially prostitution.

A slight personal failing; a foible: the vice of untidiness.
A flaw or imperfection; a defect.
A physical defect or weakness.
An undesirable habit, such as crib-biting, in a domestic animal.

Vice A character representing generalized or particular vice in English morality plays.
A jester or buffoon.

[Stargazer86]

Coffee is not a vice, but I checked it. Yes I know it has caffeine, so what? It's not a vice. Oh and I love a glass of wine with dinner. Drinking a glass and remaining sober is not a vice either.

Well yeah..."vice" is a bit of a strong word. But it was the best I could think of to put for the question without getting too wordy or over explanitory
Although I guess "bad habit" might have sufficed :P


But I think ya'll more or less gets the jist of what I mean ;)

*edit*
lol look we posted at almost the exact same time

[Haunted]

Well yeah..."vice" is a bit of a strong word. But it was the best I could think of to put for the question without getting too wordy or over explanitory
Although I guess "bad habit" might have sufficed :P


But I think ya'll more or less gets the jist of what I mean ;)

*edit*
lol look we posted at almost the exact same time

Vice is a great word! Gets people's attention. Sure got mine! :)

[Stargazer86]

Vice is a great word! Gets people's attention. Sure got mine! :)

lol I'll make a new thread about vices with the following choices:
Prostitution
Devil worship
Smoking speed
murder


Think anyone would respond? :P

[Niamh]

aww nutz! now tea is on the list too and i'm other... :( chocolate and tea are my vices...

[The Atheist]

lol I'll make a new thread about vices with the following choices:
Prostitution
Devil worship
Smoking speed
murder


Think anyone would respond? :P

Hell, I'll always vote in a vice thread - I have more vices than most engineering workshops.

[Stargazer86]

Hell, I'll always vote in a vice thread - I have more vices than most engineering workshops.

I imagine you're a lot of fun at parties then

[kratsayra]

coffee is definitely a vice for me. the doctor said I shouldn't have caffeine basically ever (long story, don't want to elaborate on why), but it's so incredibly hard. I don't even drink that much coffee at all, but I love the taste of it so so much. So I try to limit myself to one or two coffee drinks a week, but even that is hard.

And I love soda. But it's so very unhealthy. I think about how much I want soda all the time, but I've really been trying to limit myself.

[Haunted]

lol I'll make a new thread about vices with the following choices:
Prostitution
Devil worship
Smoking speed
murder


Think anyone would respond? :P

hmmmmmm very interesting.......haha

let me count the number of guys I killed after I put away the Satanic emblems....

[higley]

I like to snack a lot, so I don't buy junk food--just fruit and veggies that it's healthy to munch on. I am a muncher. :D

[Stargazer86]

I like to snack a lot, so I don't buy junk food--just fruit and veggies that it's healthy to munch on. I am a muncher. :D


lol well I would call that healthy living and certainly not a vice! Have you always been that way or did you have to train yourself to eat like that?

[higley]

It's an acquired habit. As I've gotten a little older I've become more conscious of what I eat, though don't get me wrong I still love a good brownie. :D It takes a lot of effort to restrain myself!

[*Classic*Charm*]

I'm a sugar wh**e. Any form, but especially candy. And once I have it, I'll eat it all in one sitting. I can't not have sugar. I once ate two pounds of jujubes in an hour.

[Stargazer86]

I'm a sugar wh**e. Any form, but especially candy. And once I have it, I'll eat it all in one sitting. I can't not have sugar. I once ate two pounds of jujubes in an hour.

wow...how did that not put you into a diabetic coma?

[*Classic*Charm*]

wow...how did that not put you into a diabetic coma?

Not quite sure to be honest. I was young too- only 10 or 11. My pony had just died :sick: which is the only reason my parents let me get my hands on that much sugar.

[qimissung]

I love chocolate. I find my job somewhat stressful (I'm somewhat of an introvert teaching 9th graders which isn't even a step up from middle school-the energy!) so almost every afternoon I eat either a Hershey bar or Peanut M & M's. I just MUST have them and then I feel much better. Chocolate has been linked to serotonin levels in the brain, and it's actually good for lowering one's cholesterol (providing it's dark), so it's not really a vice, imo. Unfortunately, I had to have a root canal as a result.

[Virgil]

I didn't realize I could have picked more than one. I guess chocolate and tea are "substance" I also abuse. :p

[The Atheist]

Well, I picked eight different ones and want to know if anyone can manage better.

I must protest tea, however. It's more a way of life than a vice.

[kasie]

....I must protest tea, however. It's more a way of life than a vice.

Absolutely - vice, indeed! I'm far more vicious without my cuppa, positively evil in fact.

[V.Jayalakshmi]

Dear Viewers,
My vice??Whatelse:).Giving advice without invitation.:yawnb:

[PoeticPassions]

Well I would say chocolate and sweets are my vice because I have a weakness for them and sometimes (or a lot of the time) tend to overindulge.

I put alcohol as well, though I don't think it is really a vice. Except when I overdo it... which has been known to happen. :)

[Madhuri]

Chocolate, tea, ice-cream and chips would be mine. However, except tea, I eat the rest in phases....some days I would want to eat only chocolates, or chips and so on.

Tea is a must everyday :D I do not like the vending machine tea; it should only be prepared by me...just as I want :D

[Stargazer86]

Chocolate, tea, ice-cream and chips would be mine. However, except tea, I eat the rest in phases....some days I would want to eat only chocolates, or chips and so on.

Tea is a must everyday :D I do not like the vending machine tea; it should only be prepared by me...just as I want :D

Vending machine tea? I've never heard of such a thing

[kasie]

Vending machine tea - eughhhh, avoid it at all costs (unless you are gasping) especially if the machine also makes coffee or, worse still, soup, as it will have the strange combined flavour of all of them. The trouble is, the machine does not use boiling water, only nearly boiling, so the tea has a curiously dead flavour as a result; also they often use a sort of powder that seems to be made from stewed (over-brewed) tea which is revolting - cold, stewed tea - I can't think of anything less refreshing and reviving.

[SleepyWitch]

Coffee is not a vice, but I checked it.

of course it is. Coffee is suspected by scientists to be a mind-altering drug with long-term effects on your personality. If coffee can really alter your personality, it changes the way God created you and is therefore a sin on the same level as wearing make-up or cloning. It's unnatural. :D:D:D:D:D:D [hehehe, I should pose as a Christian fundamentalist in the religious forum, they'd never guess I'm an atheist]

My sin is coffee. I do smoke way too much, but I can live without cigarettes for up to a year. I could never live without coffee, especially if/when I don't smoke.

[Virgil]

of course it is. Coffee is suspected by scientists to be a mind-altering drug with long-term effects on your personality. If coffee can really alter your personality, it changes the way God created you and is therefore a sin on the same level as wearing make-up or cloning. It's unnatural. :D:D:D:D:D:D [hehehe, I should pose as a Christian fundamentalist in the religious forum, they'd never guess I'm an atheist]

My sin is coffee. I do smoke way too much, but I can live without cigarettes for up to a year. I could never live without coffee, especially if/when I don't smoke.

Ok smarty pants. ;) Mind altering doesn't necessarily mean it's a vice. There are positive mind altering and negative. There are health benfits to coffee. From Web MD: http://men.webmd.com/features/coffee-new-health-food

[PoeticPassions]

Everything in moderation, really. The moment is becomes a vice is when one over indulges and uses something to a degree that it creates dependency. Or so that's my take on it.

[Maximilianus]

[hehehe, I should pose as a Christian fundamentalist in the religious forum, they'd never guess I'm an atheist]


They hardly ever guess a thing, with all due respect for fundamentalism :p


Ok smarty pants. ;) Mind altering doesn't necessarily mean it's a vice. There are positive mind altering and negative. There are health benfits to coffee. From Web MD: http://men.webmd.com/features/coffee-new-health-food

Why! Thanks for that link Virgil, I knew my loyalty for my beloved beverage would one day pay in kind. :p


Everything in moderation, really. The moment is becomes a vice is when one over indulges and uses something to a degree that it creates dependency. Or so that's my take on it.

So true! My take too.

[eyemaker]

Chocolates, chocolates, chocolates! lol

[Emil Miller]

There are only two true vices that a man can indulge in: women and drink.

[1n50mn14]

Coffee
Occasionally cigarettes
Definitely alcohol (eh, I'm Irish and Native american, what do you expect ;) That's in good humor!)
Prescription drugs *loves her sleeping pills and blood thinners and pain killers and etc. But they are actually prescribed for real disorders... not abuse.*
Chocolate
Tea (by the gallon, daily)
I guess I should have checked illegal drugs. But marijuana isn't really illegal here in Canada... :lol:

[Zee.]

Honey on toast :D

and tea

[Stargazer86]

Coffee
Occasionally cigarettes
Definitely alcohol (eh, I'm Irish and Native american, what do you expect ;) That's in good humor!)
Prescription drugs *loves her sleeping pills and blood thinners and pain killers and etc. But they are actually prescribed for real disorders... not abuse.*
Chocolate
Tea (by the gallon, daily)
I guess I should have checked illegal drugs. But marijuana isn't really illegal here in Canada... :lol:

Is it legal or just decriminalized? And is it that way in the whole country or only in certain provinces?

[1n50mn14]

Is it legal or just decriminalized? And is it that way in the whole country or only in certain provinces?

Oh, I was just being snarky, :lol:. Marijuana is much less serious here than in the U.S.A and other places. At events such as the Marijuana March in Toronto and 4/20 (April 20th) gatherings, weed is openly smoked on the city streets. A lot of people light up on their porches in the evenings, and outdoors in parks, etc. Criminal punishment for possession seems to be MUCH less serious than in other places, if you even get pinned at all.

[Eggys]

Does using the Internet count too much? I voted other.

[Stargazer86]

Oh, I was just being snarky, :lol:. Marijuana is much less serious here than in the U.S.A and other places. At events such as the Marijuana March in Toronto and 4/20 (April 20th) gatherings, weed is openly smoked on the city streets. A lot of people light up on their porches in the evenings, and outdoors in parks, etc. Criminal punishment for possession seems to be MUCH less serious than in other places, if you even get pinned at all.

Where I live it's not that big of a deal either. I guess it's technically legal. State wise...not federally though. However, the DEA announced that they would stop raiding the local dispensaries after that drug cartel thing in Mexico.
We have a marijuana march here too. Surprisingly, not on 420
I think it should be legal, but there are bigger things to fight for first
I've never actually seen anyone punished for having weed. Not by the authorities anyway. Well except one time when my friend's bong was broken by a cop because he had it in the car when he got pulled over (dumb).
But I heard that pot was actually legal in BC

[Madhuri]

Vending machine tea? I've never heard of such a thing

It is a machine that dispenses a variety of beverages like coffee, lemon tea and hot-water mixed with milk powder, you can use tea bags to make your tea. Maybe I put it incorrectly.

[Stargazer86]

It is a machine that dispenses a variety of beverages like coffee, lemon tea and hot-water mixed with milk powder, you can use tea bags to make your tea. Maybe I put it incorrectly.

Still...never seen one of those. That's pretty cool though

[Madhuri]

It looks like this:

http://www.allstatesvending.com.au/images/CM1.jpg

You press the number for the type of beverage you want.

[*Classic*Charm*]

But I heard that pot was actually legal in BC

It's not legal, but it's ridiculously common there because the climate is perfect for growing. BC pot is supposed to be way better than anything grown anywhere else in the country.

[applepie]

It's not legal, but it's ridiculously common there because the climate is perfect for growing. BC pot is supposed to be way better than anything grown anywhere else in the country.

It is;) Let's just say I didn't have an entirely misspent youth:D

As for my vices, coffee, tea, chocolate, sweets... I would actually have to say I'm the worst about tea. I collect it in the way that some people collect baseball cards. If I see a new variety, I MUST buy it, and I've about a three foot section in my pantry full of nothing but different teas. The sad bit is that this is after I've been cutting down and not allowing myself to buy much more than the necessities (green tea with jasmine and vanilla red tea) for going on two years. I should likely just cull it all out since so much of it is old.

[Nietzsche]

Soda and tea. I like my sugar/caffeine. Not really a coffee drinker, though. I like energy drinks okay but don't drink them often at all, so its not really a vice.

[OrphanPip]

Ha, I'm so boring. I occasionally drink coffee or tea, maybe once or twice a week. I've never done any drugs, never smoked, and I can count the number of times I've been drunk on one hand.

I love to gamble when I get the opportunity, I have enough sense to avoid the casino though.

[JuniperWoolf]

Benzo and painkillers have my number. I used to be dependant on Gravol, and if I have one sleeping pill I'm screwed for the week. I was getting pretty close to being a smoker after last weekend, but I fended off the urge to buy a pack.

I indulge in alcohol and "illigal" drugs (like Becca said, we don't really consider marijuana illigal here), but I don't think it's a "vice," since I don't need it.


It's not legal, but it's ridiculously common there because the climate is perfect for growing. BC pot is supposed to be way better than anything grown anywhere else in the country.

Anywhere in the world, some would say.

[DanielBenoit]

I'm somewhat boring too. I'm addicted to coffee on and off, I've smoked pot a few times but not often in the past few months, actually not at all. As for my dear muse, wine, whenever I get my hands on them bottles I drink in moderation and usually fall asleep if I get drunk :lol:

I checked off sweets along with coffee, but I'm sure that I can find a way to live without any of that stuff. If there is something I cannot live without, it is precription drugs. If I go a day without my anti-depressants I start getting quasi-suicidal.

[OrphanPip]

If there is something I cannot live without, it is precription drugs. If I go a day without my anti-depressants I start getting quasi-suicidal.

That's not a vice though, you do what you have to get through the tough times.

I survived a suicide attempt and a really rough patch in my life a few years back, things get better.

[1n50mn14]

Beer (and a lovely song) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x781jcQuFE&feature=PlayList&p=0C1E03D6E5DD5757&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=13)

[Heathcliff]

Ah, Danny-baby. You need plenty of cuggles. And that stuff is NOT healthy. Naughty...

Can't half imagine how anyone can mess up a suicide... You'd have to be really unlucky. Or lucky.

I can't live without water. Really weird. Don't smoke, drink, take drugs. Probably won't.

[OrphanPip]

Can't half imagine how anyone can mess up a suicide... You'd have to be really unlucky. Or lucky.


I chickened out and called the ambulance ;). Two days in the hospital followed by 2 more in a psychiatric ward, and 6 months of therapy. Not a highpoint of my life.

[Heathcliff]

I chickened out and called the ambulance ;). Two days in the hospital followed by 2 more in a psychiatric ward, and 6 months of therapy. Not a highpoint of my life.

Ouchy.

A friend of mine online jumped off a bridge and landed on a boat. Only now he's happy he lived.

Only that is because people chose difficult methods. Although I haven't put much thought into it recently.

[DanielBenoit]

I chickened out and called the ambulance ;). Two days in the hospital followed by 2 more in a psychiatric ward, and 6 months of therapy. Not a highpoint of my life.

Aww you poor thing :(



Ah, Danny-baby. You need plenty of cuggles. And that stuff is NOT healthy. Naughty...

What the wine? Well ever since taking the anti-depressants (around a year or so) I've been less and less able to drink. Either way, I rarely drink that much, except at fun times :party:

Can't half imagine how anyone can mess up a suicide... You'd have to be really unlucky. Or lucky.



I can't live without water.

No way :eek5: :lol:

No, but seriously, I have a great passion for water too. I even wrote a poem about it, heheehe.

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[OrphanPip]

I haven't thought about it in years, I'm in a much happier place these days.

[Heathcliff]

DB, I meant the smoking pot. Then again, neither is drinking. Not at our age.

Water is a good thing to be addicted to. I've never heard of anyone die of a water OD.

Great, Pip, six long months must have done something. Whereabouts I'm at, nobody close to me has ever killed themself. That's lucky.

[Katy North]

Actually, I have heard of someone dying of water OD. Some radio show had a contest where someone had to drink as much water as possible in one sitting, and someone drank a gallon (or was it two?) in less than two hours and died. Not common, but possible :shocked:.

My biggest vice is caffeine. I honestly think I'm as addicted to it as some people are to smoking. I got addicted when I first started college about 7-8 years ago and a few months ago I was drinking something like four cans of soda a day to function... now I'm cutting back to one or two cups and have switched to diet, but I still need my caffeine or it's hard to stay alert.

[BibliophileTRJ]

I think I should be disturbed by the fact that I checked off more than two thirds of the choices on that list..... but luckily I'm too drunk, stoned & fat to care.

(I'm just glad "sex" didn't appear on the list......)

[Heathcliff]

I checked off icecream, even though I don't really eat it.

Shame school isn't on there, I couldn't live without that.

[DanielBenoit]

Shame school isn't on there, I couldn't live without that.

Kinda weird how I could :p

[Snowqueen]

I like chocolates and sweets but I'm really addicted to tea and it's not good for the health isn't it?

[Virgil]

I like chocolates and sweets but I'm really addicted to tea and it's not good for the health isn't it?

Tea is supposed to be very good. Antioxidants. Tea, and actually caffeine in moderation, has proven to be beneficial. Only problem with tea, and coffee for that matter, is that it stains my teeth.

[Idril]

I am hopelessly addicted to pop...or soda depending on where you live. Coke, more specifically and no matter how hard I try to switch to water, that brown, fizzy, sugary goodness calls to me. The really unforgivable thing is that I've passed that addiction down to my kids. Sam is addicted to Dr. Pepper and Isaac to Mountain Dew. :p

[Heathcliff]

Kinda weird how I could :p
As if. Where would you be now if you didn't know anything in theory?
You like it. There is no denying that.

I love school. It is the place where strangers almost appreciate me. And litnet.

[DanielBenoit]

As if. Where would you be now if you didn't know anything in theory?
You like it. There is no denying that.

I love school. It is the place where strangers almost appreciate me. And litnet.

Almost everything I know I taught myself. When in high school do they teach deconstruction and semiotic theory?

:p

[Heathcliff]

Almost everything I know I taught myself. When in high school do they teach deconstruction and semiotic theory?

:p

Nope. And they clearly haven't taught me much metalanguage.
I must stop going on about that.

They taught me how to read and write. And how to decode the colours on a resistor.

With out that, both of us would be a little pathetic.

[Nax]

Unfortunately for me i have an incredibly addictive/obsessive personality.

for me its pretty much anything I get my hands on. alcohol, drugs, women, hobbies, information.

pretty much anything my mind is interested in, it will latch onto and compell me to further myself in it, bad or good, until its either burnt out on it, or it destroys me.

currently my biggest vice is relationships, im a serial monogomist, and its causing problems because im not always of the greatest mindset, have alot of personal issues which impact on my interactions greatly.

its something im trying to overcome tho, getting there.

[JuniperWoolf]

Unfortunately for me i have an incredibly addictive/obsessive personality.

Haha, yeah. You're a pretty bad panda.

[Shalot]

Okay, so I have more than one vice on here so i haven't voted yet.

I like coffee.. Lots of coffee in the morning.

There wasn't a choice for excessive internet use was there? I skimmed over it and didn't see it. But I am on the internet way too much. I think it all started with this forum. then I got on myspace. Then facebook. And on facebook I discovered apps. And got hooked on apps for a while. Then I got annoyed with the fact that I had to have my real name on my facebook account and all these people from high school and even elementary school added me as friends and that was weird. And then there was the fact that my coworkers were on my page so I deleted everybody pretty much so I quit with the facebook. But I got a myspace page for apps because you can have a fake-ish profile on myspace. Well, you can with facebook too, but I ended up on myspace (long story) but it all has to do with a game I can't stop playing on there. It's ridiculous. And it makes me so mad and these people on there are crazy and they write the way they talk (I imagine). One day I logged on and there was a conversation going on about child support and the last thing I read was "men be devious with they child support." There are no typos in that sentence. Not their child support, but they child support. They replaces their in that sentence. Okay so that was totally off topic, but the point is, I am addicted to a stupid internet application. And no one listens to cool music and every once in a while there is a dispute about someone calling someone else a racist and there are these flame wars. I was actually called a "hoe" on that game...for playing the game. And I still log on and play. It's sad. I need help. At least I've never been called a hoe on lit net.

At one time I thought maybe I had a problem with too much beer in conjunction with my internet posting but well, that's alright now.

and sugar - gummi bears and chocolate are too good.

So, let me think on this a while longer and then I will vote.

[soundofmusic]

It's not the vices that really get me; it's the consequences of the vices:brickwall

[Maximilianus]

I've come to believe that posting can be a vice, especially when I type what I later regret for some reason. Mayhap I should take some time away from the computer. Mayhap I should take an eternity away from it.

[marcolfo]

my name is marco and..
i have a problem...
my vice is books. yeah its hard to admit it but, i can´t live without a book in my hands.

[Nax]

Haha, yeah. You're a pretty bad panda.

lol in that case im also addicted to bamboo.

[Heathcliff]

I've come to believe that posting can be a vice, especially when I type what I later regret for some reason. Mayhap I should take some time away from the computer. Mayhap I should take an eternity away from it.
Are we all that special?

I can't live without sleep.

Me when I'm tired:
http://drivenet.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/angry_gorilla_small.jpg

[Maximilianus]

Are we all that special?
Certainly! :D


I can't live without sleep.

Me when I'm tired:
http://drivenet.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/angry_gorilla_small.jpg

Awww, poor tired dear! :Yawn: You need cuggles :grouphug: http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/friends.gif and more sleep http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/lazy2.gif

[Heathcliff]

Certainly! :D
Why you are a gentleman. ;)

Awww, poor tired dear! :Yawn: You need cuggles :grouphug: http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/friends.gif and more sleep http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/lazy2.gif
Hehe. Now you're saying cuggles. :grouphug: :smilewinkgrin:
I love sleep.

[Maximilianus]

Why you are a gentleman. ;)
And you're a lady :)


Hehe. Now you're saying cuggles. :grouphug: :smilewinkgrin:
I am! :D

[Heathcliff]

And you're a lady :)
I am? Wait... Yep. Haha, no kidding.

[Scheherazade]

I need to add sushi to my list. Has turned into an addiction during the past 6 months or so.

:-/

[IceM]

Can we add indecision to that poll? I'm writing a practice college entry essay for my English 12 AP class and can't decide on which of the five different directions I want to highlight.

FML