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!

Popcorn..... just don't get it!

De-constructed food - fuck right off with that shit.

"Gravy - I don't like gravy on any food and it's particularly disgusting on chips"

Imagine being this wrong about something.

Can't believe all the hate for Bali! I absolutely LOVED it and wouldn't recognise it from the descriptions PPs have given. Having said that - we didn't go in peak season; and we went very luxury/high end - private villas with their own pools, being driven everywhere (and not in taxis). We went to the beach once or twice, spent a fair bit of time in Ubud, and were also there for the Balinese festival Nyepi which was pretty special.

I don't like Hong Kong. Not mad on Portugal.

Hate Mrs Browns Boys
Oasis are a bit shit
Fake eyelashes
Too-long nails
Rose wine
Touch eclat
Slimming World
Saying "bless him"/"bless her"

Influencers , although I doubt anyone has ever described any of them as amazing

Wax melts

Our local 'posh' chippy. Serving it in a box does not make it taste better

Wuthering Heights - novel. It is dire. Full of ridiculously over-written characters doing stupidly dramatic things.

Shawshank Redemption movie.
I get about 2/3 the way thru & give up, every time. I just don't care about a single character in it so go do something else.

Over tea tonite I discovered DD feels the same. Soulmate!!

A lot of modern art (I'm probably just v uncultured but I dont normally get it)
Harry Potter (why why why?)
pinot grigio (tasteless, boring)
London (guess I'm just fed up of people going on about how amazing it is, lol)
Glastonbury Festival (line up always looks pretty shit to me though ppl tell me this is "not the point as it's about the experience", seems a bit wanky to me)
Expensive skincare (doesnt seem to be any different from cheap brands tbh)
Cake (a lot of cake is boring and dry and I'd rather have a brownie or a pastry)

Radiohead.
Kate Bush.
Kylie Minogue.
Miami.
Wine.
Those ludicrous false eyelashes that are so heavy the person looks like they're fighting to open their eyes. Ditto overdone brows. l don't want to look like Noel Gallagher in a wig.

Ridiculously over inflated lip fillers.
Soaps.
Reality tv shows.

Tk max
Dubai

A few people have said Bali - but I loved it 🙈

The sex doll make up look
Football
Leonardo DiCaprio
Fruity super sweet flavoured ciders (I mean like those strawberry type ones) and gins. Normal gin is fine, thanks.
KFC
Grime music

@Quarantined I went to Ubud too! Totally loved it.
Everyone else must use went somewhere else 😉

-Gel nails and false nails
-Lip jobs
-TV soaps
-Nandos
-Camping
-Dogs

Strictly come dancing
Distressed furniture
Curry
Live music and concerts

Thailand - Bangkok in particular.

Also home grown fruit and veg.

Not that I'm raging after all the effort, time and expense put in for a handful of moth-eaten, woody, bitter shit food that the kids won't even eat.

Everyone else must use went somewhere else

They probably did, to whichever bit of Bali is basically the Benidorm of the southern hemisphere.

Haven’t rtft but no doubt there's many posts writing off places like the Canaries, Mallorca, Spain etc by people who've only ever been to mass market AI hotels built to attract people who like to drink, eat British food and sunbathe on holiday, or even worse they've never been but assume that's what the entire places are like.

McDonald's even when I was little I didn't understand the fuss.
Nando's (it's just chicken)
Sex I just don't like it.
Prosecco

The music of Ludovic Einaudi. Sounds like the pianistic doodling of a GCSE music pupil trying to come up with ideas for their composition.

Contemporary Classical music. Sounds like someone chucking stuff out of a cupboard.

Contemporary art - emperors new clothes but when created by a ‘name’ is an investment.

Living in the present - sometimes having something to look forward to is the only thing that keeps me going.

quarantined and bunhead we also stayed in one of the 5* Ubud hotels overlooking the forest and didn’t think it was a patch on other luxury hotels we’d stayed at.

We also found Ubud to be the worst place in Bali for aggressive touters (and the drivers provided by many of the hotels save you the hassle but charge 4x the rate of Grab) and worse than that, there was SO much animal cruelty in Ubud

Bjork

Noooooooo! Love her!

However, on my shit list:

All those Towie/Essex/Chelsea shows
All those 'talent' shows
All those Housewives shows
Noel Edmonds
Vic Reeves/Jim Moir
Any film where the token woman /minority is killed within the first few minutes!
Too many films and books to mention - but the Newest Blade Runner really got my goat!
Mrs Brown's Boys
Fake shovel shaped nails
false lashes
Trout pouts
Marker pen brows
heavy yellow/orange foundation - makes a 20 year old look 50!
Dark brown lip liner - very Eurotrash
Hair extensions - rat's tails!
CK 'perfumes' = ugh! Especially Obsession that smells like fly spray
Serving food on anything other than a plate (like I go to restaurants often, ha ha)
Sickly sweet scents
sickly sweet food (even though I do have a sweet tooth, and a savoury one come to that),
Me trying to diet
Being made to feel guilty
Hypocrites moaning about people when they do the same thing themselves!!
People queue jumping (yes I am very British!)
Waterproof mascara that ain't.
Eye make up remover that stings! Yes, looking at you, Boots essentials!
Misogyny
People that insist the whole bus listens to their rap crap LOUD
Cruelty to animals - well cruelty full stop really.
People that always make a great effort to put you down.
Bloody sensitivity - allergic to strawberries/ get prickly heat/itchy scalp/Hay fever (I bet the only thing I am not allergic to is hay!
People who cannot believe I am happy to be on my own at Christmas (I get to do what I want, eat what I want, listen and watch what I want - what is sad about that??!)
Price rises (though I know they are inevitable.

There are loads more but I am quite a cheerful person most of the time!!!!

@elQuintoConyo; I agree with you on everything except Bake-Off. I love that. (Not the professional one though)

BBQ’s - nasty food, cooked outside with flies and frequently going cold by the time you get it.
Fake nails - yuck
Talent show tv - it’s fixed as to who gets to compete, they want a story
Reality tv - just pap for the brain
Small children with earrings - just wrong
Babies in jeans
Brussels sprouts