What things are you “supposed” to like as adult, but don’t.

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I don’t like alcohol. So all this gin time and wine time flies over my head.

I don’t like pyjamas which is annoying because there are really cute ones out there. I prefer nighties.

I don’t like high end food. Oysters and stuff like that..bleh

Boulez, stockhausen and all other squeaky Gate composers. Yes, I'm sure it's all very clever but it is also unlistenable bollocks so off you fuck.

I also don’t like alcohol, coffee (or tea really, unless it's ice tea) or driving. I also would add those depressing "original British dramas" - I don’t have the energy to be that miserable 😂

Also - smart shoes, false nails, fake tan worrying about what your eyebrows or pubic hair look like..
Handbags (or rather knowing anything about fashion / brands of handbags)
Olives, pate and whiskey - but to be fair I think most of them are a bit marmite and loads of adults don't like then.

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I love coffee but entirely agree it has a tomcat aroma when you open the packet, south & Central American ones in particular, so glad it isn’t just me that thought that 😭

Oh yes and running and gadgets

Working

Cars and driving
Museums
Clothes and shopping
Experimental music
Wine tasting

Working.

Olives and mouldy cheese. Oysters🤢

Massages
gardening (it’s just outdoor housework!)
jazz. It’s shite

Me too!

Tea
Coffee
Wine
Beer

Opera. Which in my case is just bizarre. I'm a choral singer (good amateur), I love early music, I adore a good oratorio - but operas leave me cold.

With everyone on the massages/spas/'pampering'. Yuck. Ditto make up and clothes shopping.

I'm in Germany and fail the German-adulting test on two counts - dislike saunas and can't get excited in the least about asparagus (which everyone goes collectively mad over annually).

Spas, saunas, steam rooms etc, they all resemble underground torture chambers with cruel and unusual punishments around every corner to me.

Coffee or any hot drink 🤢 I'm 50!

Paris. It may have been the centre of art and civilisation 100 years ago, but today it’s a dirty, crowded let-down.

Hot sunshine. I love the sun, but god I loathe the heat. These last few weeks have been torture.

Career/Work. I have never had a job I enjoyed. I bitterly resent working, and regard every second of it as a waste of my (short) life. I can’t bear people who bang on about their career. And I hate people who “love their job”. Unless you are in the SAS or working on a cure for cancer, I don’t want to know.

Children. Noisy, smelly, selfish and boring. They ruin relationships. Frankly, I’m amazed any marriage survives kids.

Youth/pop culture. It’s 99% worthless garbage.

Other adults.

Alcohol, make up, high heels, driving, sunbathing, shopping centres, gyms.

Boulez, stockhausen and all other squeaky Gate composers. Yes, I'm sure it's all very clever but it is also unlistenable bollocks so off you fuck.

This. Somehow atonal composition got the upper hand and for a long time no composer could write anything else if they wanted to be taken seriously.
I wonder how many people actually like it, as opposed to pretending they like it.
No wonder people want to go to Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals.

Tea, coffee and posh restaurants.

Opera. Eating out anywhere with more than one course. Small talk. Also, all adult clothes. I want to wear some hurt-your-eyes-print polarn-o-pyret-style romper all day every day with matching booties because all adult clothes are uncomfortable and either bland or sexy.

Apart from driving, this is me

Being able to choose what to have for dinner. Can someone just put it in front of me please

Modern art and contemporary music. I like representational paintings and tunes that I can hum and pick out on the piano.

’Erotic’ literature/art. It’s about as arousing as a day at the pig farm.

Eating formally at the table
Much prefer it on my knee with none of the etiquette that goes with eating a meal.
Give me a fork and I'm good.

Rollercoasters! I just hate them. Infact anything theme park just doesn't do it for me. I usually hang out by the ice cream shops 🤣 weirdly tho I love the atmosphere so I'm always happy to go