Mumsnet is full of funsuckers?

I love this - it sound like heaven to me and yes, a lot of FUN.

I certainly build creative universes around myself to enjoy and none of them involve football matches or weddings (btw who goes to that many weddings anyway?- I've had a handful over the last two decades). It's very much fun. Just because it looks different to the idea of fun the OP has, doesnt make it any less fun for me.

Just leave people be for goodness sake, not everyone is going to enjoy the exact same things as you and that doesnt mean you should call them names like "fun sponge"- thats really childish, incredibly small minded, and mean spirited and actually doesnt make you out to be a very "fun" person either if I'm being brutally honest. People who truly are having fun and enjoying their lives dont feel the need to tear others down or call them names.

Well of course you won’t meet people like me. We’re somewhere else, ecstatically running up hills in splendid isolation. We’re grinning from ear to ear bashing out songs on guitars and pianos in beautiful solitude. We’re lost in a world of fascinating little projects and the joy of tinkering. We are thriving, enthralled by our books and the creative universes we build around ourselves.

The dark side is pretty damn fun 🤩

Yes, and you may be one of them, given that you are being so judgemental. How do you know that people don't have fun just because they don't open a door? They might have enough to interest them than to spend time on the doorstep talking to the Jehovah Witnesses.

Good! That pleases me more than you can ever know.

Yeah, exactly this! And if it's not somebody trying to sell you something or scam you or push religion on you, it's some fucking courier trying to get you to take a package in - because some neighbour didn't have the foresight and intelligence to sort out their delivery.

NO! I'm not taking any packages in. I've got to wait for them to come and get it, or go and take it over to them, and either scenario means I will be kept half an hour talking by them. Sort your own deliveries out!

And no, I don't expect anyone to take mine in either.

I am pretty confident that @brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr feels exactly the same about you.

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Do you think we should shout and rant at them, and say 'huh! Comes to something when people don't like calligraphy, masterchef, the M6, and lawn bowls. It's so DEPRESSING that people don't like this! I like it and I think everyone else should! And they are so miserable and so WRONG because they don't think like me!!!' 😂

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Your comment tells me a lot about your personality - and goes a long way to validating OP's original comment.

Thank goodness I know no-one like you in real life!

Good job I know how to find a bit of fun and joy in my life.

I can't stand football, never have, never will. Doesn't make me a funsucker.

Don't answer the door unless I am expecting someone. Reason? Decades of experience that it is someone trying to sell me something or sign me up to something that I am not interested in. Last time I opened the door I was really ill (explains my actions) to this woman who was trying to sell me something. I only had the door open a sliver and said I was ill and not interested but she tried to push her hand in the door to shake mine. I told her where to go and shut the door in her face. She kept talking to the closed door as if that would change my mind 🙄

The things you mention bother some introverts. Some. Why the sneering and overgeneralisation?

I'm going to assume you're an extrovert. Not all extroverts like/dislike the same things. It's the same for introverts. HTH.

And lo, the introvert bashing begins.

I like weddings very much if they don’t starve me while they have 4 million photos taken after the ceremony.

If your life is depressing then you can change it. And no, you're not a bad person. I hope things pick up for you soon...

@WalkingonWheels all of my friends and family love football. Taking my boys to watch Liverpool play is one of my greatest pleasures

I have a first in Law, certainly not a 'cretin'.

None of my friends or family like football. They are of the same opinion as I am. Same with weddings - any weddings family or friends have had, have been small and intimate. Most of us don't drink.

Sounds like it. As a disabled person with thyroid issues, I think it's a fabulous word and its informal use just means, "A stupid person".

I stand by what I say, some people seem to have really depressing lives. Doesn't make them bad people.

I do like your posts, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Also, how can anybody here know enough to make an assessment of whether other people have fun in their lives or not? It smacks of arrogance to take a position of self-appointed arbiter of who and who isn't 'living their best life' <- not envy

Leave people be.

I think that fun is found in different places. For me it’s most fun being entirely alone, probably running, possibly playing guitar or piano, possibly writing some computer software, possibly reading or watching videos about astrophysics. That’s where I want to be, a wedding is like being wrapped in barbed wire and rolled around.

Obviously people like different things but there are plenty of people on here who don't sound like they have any fun. It's not a value judgement, a lot seem to have difficult or very busy lives that don't leave a lot of room for it rather than not liking it.

Love the football. Like a good knees up at a wedding. Don’t like opening the front door. Cruise is my idea of hell

I've heard tell that some people don't like calligraphy, the M6, watching re runs of master chef, lawn bowls, topiary, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, or eating pork pies.
The fun sucking joyless miserable bastards.

Excellent @brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Exactly!

I dont always answer the door if I dont feel like it- no. It may be inconvenient- I might be in the loo or in the shower or getting dressed or working or cooking or whatever else I am doing. When my kids were babies I actually turned the doorbell off as it would wake them up.

Just in the same vein, I dont jump to answer text/whatsapp messages the same second I receive them for the same reasons. If you knock on someone's door unexpectedly I would argue its actually quite odd to expect they'd be answering immediately- they might be out at work for goodness sake so if you do that then you have to accept the chances are you aint gonna get an answer.

Same with if I ring someone, I have to expect they may not answer as it might not be convenient for them at that very moment. No point getting mad that people arent available to you the second you deem it necessary is there?

other day there had to be an emergency road closure to cut down an unsafe tree on my street, my car was in the way, they couldn’t have done it if I hadn’t answered the knock at the door and moved it….

Thats not really anything to do with "fun" or lack of fun though is it?

Maybe it’s where I live, it’s the kind of place where people quite often don’t lock their doors, will leave a key under the pot for workmen or delivery people. My in laws have a key and let themselves in….so I’m used to a knock at the door

Good for you but most of us dont live in such a place where this would be either safe or advisable so not quite sure how this is relevant.

Whenever I get knocks on the door it's always people selling stuff, surveys, religious groups or some other nonsense that I dont want or need and they're often really really pushy so its not fun for me at all.