Things that you're supposed to like, but don't.

[AllPlayedOut]

What things/foods/activities etc that are supposedly good for you, healthy or "improving" do you dislike?

I really hate being read to, and I hate reading to people. I never particularly enjoyed being read to as a child, though I appreciate that my Mother did so but I think it was a relief to both of us when I was able to read a book by myself. I also don't enjoy reading to people though I used to have to do so when I worked in childcare and as a volunteer role that involved reading aloud. I've no children yet but if I do I can't say that reading to them will be one of my favourite activities.

Walking. I hate walking for the sake of it. I can happily clock up a lot of miles walking through cities and towns when I'm shopping or seeing the sights. Or if there's a lot of wildlife to admire on a country walk, but I don't enjoy walking as an activity. If I go for a walk for the sake of walking I'm aware of every bloody step and find it boring.

Camping: I love nature and wildlife but I much prefer to admire it and then return to a comfortable bed with solid walls and a sturdy roof over my head. Each to their own but I've tried it once and it was hell. Never again.

Dark chocolate. I don't mind a thin layer of dark chocolate with a mint or caramel filling, but I can't eat dark chocolate on its own. I don't care how good it is for you or how unsophisticated it makes me, it is so unpleasantly bitter that I can't enjoy it. I'll stick with milk chocolate.

There's probably more but that will do for now.

Handbags - I have pockets in my jeans and coats
Pink
Shit UK summers that are never warm enough
That I'm supposed to be unable to resist chocolate or ice cream or wine
People who think that occasionally being a bit pissed off or unhappy means they have serious mental health issues
Team building and organised fun activities
Mindfulness and self-care and spiritual journeys

Hen nights
Glitter
Prosecco
Gin (both are ok, but I don’t have a daily need for gallons of either, or plaques/cards/mugs idolising them)
Shoes

Real coffee.
I only like instant.

And coffee shops. Loathe it when friends suggest meeting for a chat. Can’t we just sit on a park bench or something that doesn’t involve £3.00 for a cup if overly bitter sludge..

Spas, any mention of spa day fills me with dread.

Coffee. Action films. I’m bored to tears by all the superhero films that are always coming out. So dull.

Thought of another - yoga. Signed up to classes run at work by someone's wife. Can just about cope with them at work but doing them at home via Zoom, gawd the tedium. And they are expensive, and it would be really awkward to cancel as I'm pally with the guy whose DW runs them, and she is lovely and I'm sure an excellent yoga teacher, but give me Joe Wicks any day.

TV Soaps
X factor/ BGT
Shopping malls
Football
Tequila
Pasta
Festivals -waste of life.everywhere Stinks of weed. Music too loud. Too many people.
Crowds.

The sound of children playing. So fucking irritating.

1. Camping. Urgh- words cant describe how much I despise it- freezing cold at night, boiling hot in the morning. Sleeping on hard ground, insects everywhere, have to get up at like, 5am to use the showers as theres a huge queue and no privacy, theyre grubby, have always run out of loo roll. Urgh its just gross. Plus, by the time youve spent all the cash on camping gear you could have spent that on a hotel room!

1. Sunbathing at the beach. Boiling hot, get burnt, sand gets everywhere in your swimsuit, "beachy hair" is a complete BS lie- most times my hair resembles worzel gummidge after a day at the beach. Its boring, tedious and youre packed onto a stretch of sand with about 50 million others like sardines. You have to walk miles to get to the toilet, the sea is freezing cold, and you always stub your toes on hard rocks which bleed and sting in the salt water, and get swept up in huge scary waves that wind you and choke you and just as you feel you wont make it out alive, you end up sprawled on the shore like an embarrassed star fish.

1. Cats. Everyone I know who owns a cat simply adores it, yet it treats them like it despises them and wishes them dead.

1. Snow. Yeah, yeah, it looks pretty for about an hour. Then the world grinds to a halt, everything closes, it turns to a grubby grey slush and you cant drive without skidding dangerously into other people's parked cars. After 2 hours I'm over it already.

1. Drunken nights out. They always seem like they'll be a hilarious laugh when youre actually planning one but the reality is anything but. Someone always goes too far and gets "tired and emotional", one friend always gets lost- goes off to snog some bloke who could be a serial killer and you worry about them, the room spins, you eat some rancid kebab that you wouldnt EVER eat when sober, you totter around searching for a taxi whilst people around you vomit in the gutter, you spend all your money on booze yet feel like utter crap the next day. Mouth feels like a badger's crotch, your head is pounding and you have to go through your phone and cringe at who you drunk texted.

Are you supposed to like camping ?

With you on the camping, I’d rather not go away than camp. Bugs, hard floor, having to set up and down etc. Give me a hotel or ship any day.

Holidays

Tea
Gin
Manicures/False nails
Sushi
Hen nights
Baby showers
Buffets or Carvery type restaurants
Barbecue’s

Are you supposed to like camping

Not sure, but I know lots of people who rave about it- they make it sound like if you dont like it you are rejecting nature or are high maintenance or prissy or fussy etc I dont get that at all- why on earth would I leave my comfortable bed to sleep on the hard wet ground?

Summer, heat, being hot, natural light. I like
Lamplight, dusk, mild, breezy drizzly weather.

Summer clothes. I live in tights.

Weddings. Pointless. Expensive. More about showing off than the marriage.

Rabbits. They don't do anything.

Eating outside/bbq/camping. Fuck off wasps and hayfever.

Lockdown.

Teenagers! I feel like people believe they're 'developing minds with oodles of potential' but I find they make me cringe. Like, I'll walk down a different aisle if there are a couple of them in a supermarket (before lockdown). I make them sound like infestations 😂 but there's just so much about teenagers I can't stand

Agree, @SuckingDownDarjeeling. I have several.

New Year’s Eve I hate it, never liked it even as a child.

The sound of children playing. So fucking irritating

^^ I just love the Mumsnet crowd. I thought I was an absolute misery then came on here and found my people

Books someone said.
That's so bloody depressing.

Opera.

Playing. When my son asks me I find it really awkward and I just don't know what to do. I'd rather set up an activity but when he gets his toys and figures out and asks me to play I hate it

Yoga, the gym, the sun, gardening, self-care and all hippie/alternative fads, other people's dogs and cats, eating outside, manicures, spa treatments, hairdressers, clothes without sleeves, tea and all other hot drinks (except Milo), sunbathing (I wear SPF 50 at home), festivals, driving (I can't drive), beer, binge drinking.

I am sorry if I sound like a real bore but here are a few things I do like (and that you are supposed to like) to balance it out : babies (though I would probably stick to one), skincare and makeup products, ice cream, afternoon tea (the cakes and scones), period housing (Victorian and Edwardian), cocktails, overseas holidays, parks, the woods

Sunlight in the house

• feel guilty for not being out enjoying the weather
• I can see how dusty and dirty the house is [hence the need for spring cleaning]

Fake tans, nails, hair extensions, lip and whatever else fillers, botox. So many people look like inflatable sex toys.