This morning, I realised that there were a few odd things that I do when I'm alone, that I don't realise are a bit weird, but probably are. It dawned on me this morning when my sister Lucy walked into the kitchen and found me in the middle of one of my weird solo acts.
As she wandered over for her morning brew, Lucy found me watching a YouTube video.
Our conversation went like this:
Lucy shrugged her shoulders and went about her porridge. She can't really question when she SkyPlusses Doctor Pimple Popper, but forwards through the consultation bit so she can just watch the bit where the goo comes out or the limpoma is removed. She's not in a position to judge me!
The truth is I don't know why I was watching it. All I know is that over the last few months I have got obsessed with the Hoof GP! I'm not even sure how it started.
I'm not a massive YouTube user, I subscribe to my friend Gav's channel Mancaves and Margaritas (a great channel if you like films), occasionally I'll occasionally watch this history bloke talk about the Tudors. I spent ages watching crafting videos when I was trying to make a bloody pompom (I still never worked it out), but that's about it.
I'm from Mansfield, so my farming background is minimal, even when I worked for a radio station that had a farming show, I never listened to it because I thought it was boring, so I'm not sure what algorhythm led me to the Hoof GP.
What I do know is that now I've subscribed to his channel and I'll happily spend 5 minutes watching him scrape out a cow's hoof, sand it down and stick on a bit of plastic so the cow can walk normally, whilst her hoof heals. I find myself watching and saying things like, "steady, don't shave too much off." or "she's definitely got a piece of wire stuck in there and the hoof has grown around it." like I'm James Herriot or something!
The Hoof GP isn't my only guilty pleasure. I watch TikTok videos of people who have turned their vans into a home. I love watching the tours and am obsessed with the ingenious ways in which they incorporate a shower and a compost toilet. Would I want to turn a van into a home, wee in a compost toilet and travel around with my 7 dogs and 3 cats? Hell no! It would be carnage and I'd be back home before the end of "Emmerdale". But I like watching videos of people who do!
Ikea hacks are other videos that pop up a lot. I'll watch someone head to Ikea, buy some random schizzle, spray paint it, stick it together, put some beading on it and turn it into a fruit bowl. I watch and think, "they sell fruit bowls for a pound, why don't you just buy one?" and yet still I love an Ikea hack video, the things you can do with Kalax unit or a Billy bookcase and glue gun.
I'll watch people with long nails who like to tap tupperware containers fill up their mini fridges, which are normally in their office or child's bedrooms. The tapping on the tuprware annoys me, "I can see it's an empyty tupperware container", I want to scream at the annoying "influencer" and yet I can't turn away. I was so affected by these, that I tried to implement the same sort of thing with the little fridge in my office.
It wasn't successful.
I didn't have any mini tupperwares that I could tap that actually fit in the mini fridge, the cans were a bit big, so I had to lay them down and they took up all the room and I'd eaten the mini pepperamis and babybels in the first couple of days.
This is the current state of my mini fridge.
So, what I want to know is, am I a bit odd? (I kind of know the answer to that, but lets stick to the topic of the YouTube / TikTok videos I like to watch) and what are your guilty pleasure TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram video watching habits?
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