Things that people say are amazing but are actually shit

[Horehound]

I'll start:
The food at IKEA. Especially the over hyped meatballs!
Cheap crap!

Mindfulness

@AcornsTrustee

IndiaMay

Buying fine jewelry (like engagement rings) brand new. (Antique jewellery you get so much more for your money and it's way better made).

Good value, yes probably. But why are they up for sale? Divorce, death?
Buy new every time, unless you want someone else’s vibes literally around your finger

I would love you to explain the actual, you know, real science behind the theory that rings can hold on to vibes

Actually store-bought Swedish meatballs are okay, just not the ikea ones .

Tea is very overrated brownish water.

Zelflora

Sport. Entirely overrated.

Cream cake
Ant type of spoof-is-it- real-or -not TV
Getting pissed

Also films.

@Greenpop21

Sorry @SluggishSnail I just can’t bear that precocious forced style of singing. “Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow!”

You make a good point. Annie does not feature in my top 100 musicals! Musical theatre entirely sung gets away from the shouty numbers (e.g. Les Miserables, Hamilton, Miss Saigon, Jesus Christ Superstar)

I've missed musical theatre more than nearly anything else in lockdown....

Am quite fond of Ikea meatballs though, but not with the weird grey sauce. A homemade spicy tomato sauce is better, and served with pasta.

I've seen people say they don't like films a lot on here recently. Is that absolutely all films? I find that quite strange!

Judi Dench.

Standing bolt upright and reciting lines with the emotion of a robot is NOT acting.

Why do people chuck awards at her? Is it a pity thing?

Sport. All of it. I am very bitter that both teens played several sports at county level.

Hot tubs. Or Chlamydia Pools as I like to call them.

Centre Parcs. Like a very over priced gulag.

I came on to say Nando's, but can see I am not the only one who has noticed it is overpriced, dry, boring chicken with some nicely branded sauces!

I don't get IKEA full stop. Everything looks cheap and generic, the queues are insane, it is like a maze inside, and the food is beyond inedible (when you eventually get through the queue to get it, and then the second queue to pay for it). Though I do like their Daim bar cake- so there's that. And they do watch DS for an hour for free which can be handy. Oh and their live plants are decent. But in general I don't get the hype!

Costa. Bad coffee, worse treats, even worse food. Give me Pret or Nero, or even Starbucks any day. Also their staff always seem so hapless.

Of things that haven't already been mentioned:

50 Shades of Grey series (books and movies). So badly written and badly acted.

Glamping. Equally shit as camping at 4x the price.

Malta. Nothing spectacular there. Felt like a more uptight Tenerife- though some spots were beautiful.

Ant & Dec. I just don't get them.

Waillams
Barlow
Williams
Murs
Ant and Dec
Pandora
Nando's
Gin
Donner Fucking Kebabs
All Inclusive
Following A Sports Team
Going To The Races
The Fucking Soaps

Massage

Sport mentioned quite a lot here. I've missed live sport more than anything this lockdown. Was really looking forward to Euros and Tokyo Olympics and all the other summer sport. I'm a dad enough person that I've been watching repeats on sky sports but it's not the same.

Re films - I just can't be arsed. Get bored halfway through. I used to like films, pre-kids. I think now I've so little time to myself that there's just a thousand things I think of that I'd like to do instead of spending two hours watching an entirely predictable amount of gurning set to piano music.

A sad enough person not dad. I'm a mum.

I like films. But I also like sport because they are not predictable so I get your point to an extent.

Pouting selfies

Dogs, however if you could invent non shitting, non licky, non smelly version I’d love a dog.

Withnail and I

Coffee, wine & beer

Fake nails/tan/nails/eyebrows

Summer (urgh, the heat, clammy bodies, sun induced migraines, stinky sweatiness)

Holidays abroad (the stress of them are not worth it)

Roast dinners

Dogs, however if you could invent non shitting, non licky, non smelly version I’d love a dog.

I would say the same about children.....

@AgeLikeWine

Social Media Reality TV Hot weather Beach holidays

You are on Mumsnet, therefore, you’re on social media.....

Cats. Fuck all point to them. You know they hate your guts, don’t you?

Afternoon tea. What IS the big deal?!
In a similar vein - coffee mornings.
Also matte lipstick.

Oh and David Attenborough.

He isn’t a saint. Believe me.