Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Things you don't get why they are popular?

315 replies

FunkyTime · 22/02/2020 22:18

I will start

Dubai
Magaluf

Why do people in numbers go there?

OP posts:
Sproutpie · 23/02/2020 13:07

David Bowie
Tennis
Wasps
Game of Thrones
Fashion shows
Christmas

JaneJeffer · 23/02/2020 13:27

Wasps
I don't think wasps are popular? Grin

Russellbrandshair · 23/02/2020 13:42

Wasps?! I am cackling! I don’t know anyone who likes wasps

Sparklingbrook · 23/02/2020 13:51

I am not so sure about wasps. I started a thread about my wasp pub last year and I got called all sorts. Grin

ilovesooty · 23/02/2020 13:54

Hen parties
Snow
Autumn and winter
Halloween
Bonfire night
Christmas

whitesoxx · 23/02/2020 13:56

@FlamingoAndJohn 😂😂😂

I can't read any of them now without getting my Billy Joel on 😂😂

whitesoxx · 23/02/2020 13:56

Bloody hell Sooty you sound a right laugh 😳

MozzchopsThirty · 23/02/2020 14:02

Oh fuck yes CHRISTMAS

I hate it! The 4 month build up, the expense, the fake jollity urgh

MargotsBumpyNight · 23/02/2020 14:02

How I Met Your Mother. It's not funny, terrible acting, rubbish storylines. I've tried it a few times as it's so popular with devoted fans but.. Nahhh.

beepbeeprichie · 23/02/2020 14:10

Increasing self absorption in general. For example;
Hen dos getting out of control (requirement to own and post on social media a million photos of things that say “bride squad” on them)

The fad for having a big party and some sort of gender reveal.

ValleyClouds · 23/02/2020 14:13

Out of sootys list I'd agree with all except one.

Christmas is so hard when your life isn't storybook

Hallowe'en if it was embraced in this country the way it is by the Americans, great. But it isn't and its dragging kids out in the dark with high expectations from films, with one or two houses lit up per street and the rest having to sitting in near darkness and hope no one knocks. Also Mischief Night is a thing were I live and generally terrorises people.

Bonfire Night. Noisy, cold.

Hen Parties. Tacky, cringe

Snow, renders me housebound.

I like Autumn/Winter though

Ticklemeelmo · 23/02/2020 14:15

Steak
Beyoncé
TV soaps
Butter
Mrs Brown's Boys
Camping
Mushrooms

bringincrazyback · 23/02/2020 14:20

The royal family.
Anything Disney.
Breaking Bad. yaaawn
Women 'doing' their eyebrows.
Mrs-Hinch-style immaculate 'homes' that aren't actually homely.
Baby showers and (ick) gender reveal parties. (ick)
'Live Love Laugh' scrawled all over the place.
Food, cooking and eating out. Except on a special occasion it's just fuel to me, and I don't understand why everyone seems so obsessed with food these days. Perhaps it's my age. (50+)

ilovesooty · 23/02/2020 14:43

Thank you @ValleyClouds Flowers

FWIW I like quite a few of the things on other people's lists. Perhaps @whitesoxx needs to understand that people are all different.

NeverGotMyPuppy · 23/02/2020 14:50

@ilovesooty honestly I wouldnt take it to heart. I cringe at the race to hate everything!

Bluesheep8 · 23/02/2020 14:53

Cupcakes

whitesoxx · 23/02/2020 14:55

Sorry Sooty I did come across harsher than I meant to there reading it back.

Apart from the hen parties yours are all things I love seeing the kids enjoy.

I really should've commented on the poster who doesn't like cheese 😳

MrsTHardy · 23/02/2020 14:58

Pouting selfies and stealth boast
HD brows
“Hun”/“babe”
Vaping
Package holidays
Spa days
Girls nights out
Carvery and all you can eat buffet restaurants
Tequila Rose, sugary alcopop type drinks
Ant and Dec
Holly and Phil/this morning generally
Reality tv
Joules
Barbour coats not in the country
All that messing about with your face Botox etc
Tomato ketchup
Getting a new phone every 5 minutes

I will have all the olives and cheese please! Did someone actually put “oral sex”? 🙄

Gogolego · 23/02/2020 15:31

Veganism

ProperVexed · 23/02/2020 15:34

Weddings

Vaper1 · 23/02/2020 15:39

Second Prosseco

missmouse101 · 23/02/2020 15:40

Children, Christmas, painted long fingernails, shopping, expensive foreign holidays, bloody massive cars.

LightDrizzle · 23/02/2020 15:47

Prosecco
Dream catchers, = fugly dust catchers
KFC , not snobbery, I enjoy the odd MD quarter pounder.

lostinleaves · 23/02/2020 15:53

fluffy dice in cars, for some reason the people who have them get all upset if I ask them if they need to roll a double six for their car to start.

notacooldad · 23/02/2020 15:55

fluffy dice in cars
I've not seen them in over 35 years!

Swipe left for the next trending thread