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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?

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nonsensicalmess · 23/02/2020 00:46

Camping
Selfies
Holidays to places like marmaris in turkey, magaluf, Dubai
Cold shoulder tops
Love island
Meat

sashh · 23/02/2020 01:06

Prosecco

Unicorns that are horses with a horn. Unicorns should have a lion's tail and cloven hooves.

James Cordon and Ricky Gervais.

Animal print.

Big screens in pubs showing nothing but sport (99% of it is men's football).

Pinkandbluemcdonald5 · 23/02/2020 01:10

It astounds me that there is an audience for Mrs Browns Boys! It’s like stepping back in time 40 (or more?) years. Cannot believe the bbc has dumbed down to that.

AlexaAmbidextra · 23/02/2020 01:14

Sushi
Leather sofas
Ant & Dec
Cold Play

Mistymonday · 23/02/2020 01:16

oral sex
Abba
Football
Meat
Musicals
Seafood
Wine
Cheesecake
Ant&Dec
Reality tv
Crime novels/tv
Celebs
Coffee
Soap operas
Pixar
Disney
Sweet potatoes
Butternut squash
Avocados
ICE cars
Roasted veg
Chihuahas

OldHarrysGameboy · 23/02/2020 01:37

Dogs. Dirty and dangerous.
Environmental armaggedonism, you know, shouting about "THE PLANET IS ON FIRE". Boring.
Weed. You actually have to be a fuckwit to smoke it. It's a pre-requisite.
Camping. Why the fuck would you pile shit versions of everything you have at home - including a home - into a car, get it all out again and then sit in a field with it for a week? That isn't a holiday.
Vegan everything. But fewer vegetarian options.
Adults on pushbikes. Twats.

BusterGonad · 23/02/2020 02:07

Pouting in selfies. Love Island. Fake nails. Super long nails. Gin (it's nice but not as amazing as its made out to be). Camping, couldn't be arsed with it, not relaxing at all. Fatface. Joules. Boden. Tattoos. Mint flavor chocolate.

BusterGonad · 23/02/2020 02:09

Also how can people not like tea? What is wrong with the world today. I find it very strange when I meet people (adults) and offer them a drink and they don't drink tea or coffee!

Idolovechocolategimmygimmy · 23/02/2020 02:23

Love island

The combination of fake lashes, fake tans (folk looking orange) tattooed eyebrows, and poofy hair piled high right on top of the head with lip injections

Camping

Leggings when you can't see the pants through them

Tillygetsit · 23/02/2020 02:28

Gin. In any flavour. Yuk.

Mintjulia · 23/02/2020 02:45

Philadelphia cheese - what’s the point of something with no taste?

Reality tv - just why?

Smoking - spend money on dancing cycling instead. Much more fun.

Tattoos - ditto

Idolovechocolategimmygimmy · 23/02/2020 02:56

Can* not can't

Flaxmeadow · 23/02/2020 02:57

Ant and Dec
Big ugly cars
Dogs
Wall decals
Personally meaningless ornaments and pictures
Leggings
Fake eyebrows/lashes/hair
Refined sugar
Large TV's
TV's on walls
Breakfast TV and presenters
Soaps
Reality TV
Fictional books/novels
Sportswear
Boiled vegetables

Nestlyn · 23/02/2020 02:58

Prosecco
Lip fillers
Tattoos
Instagram influencers
Cavapoos
People who never walk their dog on a lead, I don't love your dog or thinks it's adorable, or want it anywhere near me when I'm walking in the park.
People who brag, or talk about themselves constantly.

TheoneandObi · 23/02/2020 03:07

Male singers who sound like they're crying when they sing - Lewis Capaldi for example

Fillers and Botox - on any age

Coffee.

But in defence of Saltwater Sandals - they're absolutely magic if you live in an actual coastal place. I'm lucky. I do! 🌊 🏖

rainbow1982 · 23/02/2020 03:19

The 'painting everything grey' obsession (I'm on the mrs hinch Facebook page 🙄)

The 'plumping up' of women's lips until they look like those really ugly fish you only buy to suck the crap off the side of your fish tank

The 'fashion' of men wearing ludicrously tight jeans that are too short, along with no socks and shiny shoes 🤢🤢🤢

toria658 · 23/02/2020 03:20

Social media ( my meals, my family, my lifestyle I assume is of no interest to anyone so erm I don’t have social media)
Reality tv, as in Big Brother, Love Island, Celebs irritating insects in Australia .....
Ginormous televisions
Boats ( here people buy boats to go fishing at enormous expense, plus they get to spend half their lives ‘fiddling’ with them)
Golf ( just go for a walk)

jalopy · 23/02/2020 03:24

Tattoos
Rose gold anything
Grey walls
Talons for fingernails
Leather look trousers
Face studs

allfurcoatnoknickers · 23/02/2020 03:31

Mrs. Hinch/Team TOMM. I am completely baffled by their popularity.

ImOnlyHereForTheCapybaras · 23/02/2020 03:47

TV shows like Love Island, Big Brother

Tindr

Snapchat

those Snapchat filter things. why DO grown women want kitten ears on their photos? (and i say this as someone who is dotty about animals and thinks cats are gorgeous)

Jeremy Corbyn (so many of my friends think he is marvellous and should be PM)

festivals (too many crowds)

Always updating phones- I don't get people who always have to have the latest thing

Gin and the obsesion with it

food served on things that aren't plates. drinks in jars or milk bottles.

man buns (shudders)

the gender neutral trend. Why not dress your kids as their born gender and if they prefer clothes for the opposite gender just let them get on with it?

Topseyt · 23/02/2020 03:56

Love Island.
X Factor (we call it Crap Factor in this house).
Camping.

I'm sure I will think of more.

eurochick · 23/02/2020 03:56

Tattoos. I don't get why you want permanent decoration. You change your clothes, hair and make up throughout your life but you are stuck with some shitty dolphin or Chinese writing that was fashionable when you were 18.

ImOnlyHereForTheCapybaras · 23/02/2020 03:56

oh and to add...

fake eyelashes

disney obsession

fake tans

fake gel nails

weaves and hair extensions- no need unless alopecia, chemo

dreadlocks that look unwashed (this is going to sound racist but mostly white people with them that look scruffy. don't know why. I'm white, before anyone flames me

drag queens (caricatures of women. don't they know that sometimes women wear jeans and minimal make-up or no make-up? and sometimes have short hair???)

thongs (who wants a string between their butt cheeks? thongs need to die. seriously)

stupid celebrities doing that hand thing that looks like two fingers sticking up/goat horns???? what is that about?

Harry and Meghan fascination. Am so bored of it now!

fake drawn on eyebrows on young women. (stop it. you are too young to have thinning eyebrows that need pencilling in. basically you are too stupid to be in charge of a pair of a tweezers and you overpluck. that is why you have no real eyebrows. just give it up)

Ed Sheeran

ImOnlyHereForTheCapybaras · 23/02/2020 03:59

sorry, i thought i'd finished but....

THOSE STUPID COPY AND PASTE STATUSES ON FACEBOOK... I DON'T DO COPY AND PASTE ON FACEBOOK. IT A WASTE OF TIME. Those pass it on chain letters give me the RAGE.

Notajogger · 23/02/2020 04:15

Social media - bloody tedious and seems to make everyone generally feel bad so I don't know why they bother.
Massive tv's
Selfie duck face pouts
Selfies in general
Getting a new phone every year or two - madness
Finger nail talons. Impractical, surely?!
Reality tv. Not watched it but sounds like a waste of life! Plus the people on it are generally irritating as hell.