Things you enjoy which are supposed to be terrible

[InPraiseOfBacchus]

I'm inspired by a thread about ""Nice" Things That Aren't Actually Nice" over on the AIBU board.

I'd love to know about things you (secretly or not-so-secretly) love which you're "supposed" to find dull, inconvenient, or just plain crap.

For me: the cheapest tinned vegetables, replacement bus services (nicer view sometimes!), Travelodges.

Nickelback
50 shades of grey
Assembling flat-packed furniture
Cheap chocolate
Tinned tomatoes on toast
Beef paste sandwich

Burger king whopper
Instant coffee especially Gold Blend
Ironing
Whetherspoons

My cat loves Strictly Come Dancing. They obviously love a bit of sparkle and glitz

Liver
Kidneys
Kimchi
Aeroplane food
Long haul flights

Minecraft
Maccas
KFC
Any movies or show that featured werewolves, vampires ect
Anchovies

@VividImaginationAgain

Lockdown - no pressure to socialise, no parents evenings, everyone cosy and safe at home, no extracurricular activities - I could go on (but I do feel guilty to feel that way when it has been so hard for many people)

This! I felt just the same.

Also ironing, travelling by bus, and being in a tent when it’s raining.

I'm going back to the 90's here, with "The Hitman and Her."
I went to all the indie, gothy, punky places as a student and then we'd come back home and put this on as it was on until late and we could have a living room disco continuation of our night out. It was good.

@MsTSwift, me too! A bit of mindless TV that I don't have to follow a plot or use my brain for to understand, just got to watch them argue or gossip. Very relaxing 😁

Definitely agree with November. And I would also add January.

Rain - favourite weather

Weeding.

@Brigittebidet

Jilly Cooper novels

The Goes Wrong Show - this should not be funny, and people I have recommended it to have told me it's not funny, but I find it hilarious; which makes no sense as I hate slapstick. It is one of the only things on television that makes me properly laugh.

Instant coffee

Currently watching this on iplayer. It's hilarious and I don't know why. Also love Bullseye... The clothes, hairstyles and memories of Sunday teatime eating chicken toasties

My log burner, we don’t live in a town or city, but yeah I know I’m going to hell
Dark nights
Keeping up with the kardashians
Serial killers
Steak Canadian sandwiches
Mac Donald’s
Kebabs
Tinned beans and sausages
Making lists

A rainy afternoon in the week after Christmas, sitting at my kitchen table chopping up excess veg (my DH and DS both work for the same catering supply company , who give them each a Christmas box full of all the fruit and veg they could possibly need , plus a pudding or another treat , so we have quite a bit left over ) and putting it in the freezer whilst watching Miss Marple/Midsomer/ Foyle.

I don’t know how I stand the pace.

Supermarkets abroad.

Morris dancing and scampi fries.

@Trenisenne

Definitely agree with November. And I would also add January.

Rain - favourite weather

Weeding.

Yes January! The shortest day is over. The expense of Christmas is over. The fake fun of New Year is over. You can just sort your life out quietly over the rainy and dark days. I put it out on MN every year that a birthday as an adult anything after the 8th is brilliant.. Everyone still has going out clothes and a babysitter on speed dial . Restaurants are doing specials. Hotels and flights are their absolute cheapest. Everything is in a January sale.

Pot/super noodles
Teen mom and its eleventy billion spin offs
Team meetings...everyone moans about them but I quite like my team and enjoy the chat

My birthday is in January and I hate it! I feel like everyone is still skint from Christmas. Nobody wants to go out cos its cold and miserable and no longer festive. The days are still generally rainy and cold and its dark and gloomy by 4ish still. Urgh

Hallmark Movies

pteradactyl
I’m sorry. Are you you youngish?
People definitely want to go out in January because they got used to it.
in December. There’s always someone doing Dry January willing to do lifts which doesn’t happen in say, June.
Yes people are broke but that’s why everywhere has a deal.
I quite like getting everyone’s unwanted Christmas presents too. I get twice the amount of gifts other people get!

Cleaning the skirting boards and dado rail.

God, I need a life

Also ... working over the Christmas holidays while everyone else takes a break.
It's the only time my inbox seems to take a break too, so I can get on with things without disruption.
It also provides me with a legitimate reason to avoid stressful family situations.

DuckonaBike I love being in my tent anytime but especially when it’s raining!

Tap Water.
I can't stand bottled water, I'm sure I can taste the plastic in it. The water from my bathroom sink tap seems much colder and refreshing from my kitchen tap! Odd I know.

Tinned hot dog sausages heated through and eaten sandwiched in thickly buttered cheap white bread, that's also been slathered in mustard

I agree about nights in - I love them!

Lockdown - I love having an excuse to stay at home
Sending emails
Lumpy custard and rice pudding