From Air Supply to assembling Ikea furniture, Albertans share their guilty pleasures

Greasy food. Sappy music. Good old reality TV. Everybody's got their guilty pleasures, but some are quirkier than others.

Well this week, host Judy Aldous asked Albertans to share their secret habits, treats and oddly entertaining pastimes ahead of her own guilty pleasure: catching Australian soft-rock duo Air Supply when they swung through Calgary's Grey Eagle Casino and Resort on Thursday.

And Alberta, you did not disappoint.

Here's what some of you indulge in when you think no one is watching:

Dancing queen

Edmonton's Robert Gibbons is a self-described "total metalhead," that is until someone decides to drop some Abba.

"I am full on disco," Gibbons confessed, blaming his mom for his secret obsession for the stuff of Saturday Night Fever.

"She would always play Diana Ross, the '70s disco era, some Marvin Gaye and Abba … Like when you listen to those songs and those albums, the production values are immense.

"Abba comes on and I am a dancing queen."

Some assembly desired

Calgary's Danielle Kloepfer finds pleasure in an activity where so many find pain: assembling Ikea furniture.

"It just calms me down. There's nothing I love more than ripping open a package and laying out all the little pieces and all the screws and nails and dowlings and getting my allen key ready. I turn on my favourite podcast and get to work," she said.

"It usually goes pretty smoothly, there's that little character who tells you what to do and he's always happy. A little Riesling doesn't hurt to make the experience better."

Edible art

For Yvonne Martinez from Crow's Nest Pass, there is nothing more beautiful than a bag full of Bassett's Licorice Allsorts. Seriously.

Now the thing about those things is you don't just wolf them down because they're so pretty, you kind of take them apart," she told Aldous.

"It's that real black licorice and those little sandwich things that you kind of pull apart and those little round coconut wheels, they are so beautiful … I work as an artist so when I see these things, they're like eating little art pieces. I don't eat them fast but I eat them all."

A healthy outlet

Jeremy Barham of Calgary is a pro at being accepting and open-minded. "I am a psychologist and a therapist by profession, so a big part of my job is to be as non-judgmental as I possible can," he said. But everybody needs an outlet for their frustration.

"My guilty pleasure is reality television and I just judge the heck out of those people," he said. "I'll be yelling at the TV and questioning them and calling them stupid. Really all the things I cannot do as a professional."

His favourite target? "I'll judge The Bachelor: like, 'what are you doing keeping this person?' And then the contestants, it's like, 'are you really human? Do you act this way in real life?'"

Want to share your own guilty pleasure? Let us know in the comments.