Things that everyone raves about that are actually shite

[Letmegetoff]

I'll begin...

ABBA voyage 'concert'
The London Eye
Harry Potter Studios

Yabu re Nando’s

See also those weird Popsy dresses that seemed to get popular during lockdown.

The Kate photo gate ongoing ridiculous saga. Stoppit.

Anything on Style and Beauty.

Avocado
this obsession with Kate Middleton
bubble tea
Thai food
Taylor swift

god I really want a Percy pig now!!

elf (the film)
love actually (but everyone seems to agree with me now)
Yorkshire puddings
winter wonderland

Les Miserables
Clubbing (back in the day)
Air fryers
Mauritius

@Letmegetoff me too, re ABBA Voyage. I’m always incredulous when people I know say how amazing it was….i was just baffled the whole way through. You’re a hologram? You can do amazing things, be supersize, anything! But no…you are normal human size and you have to leave the stage for multiple costume changes?! Wtf?! 😭 Give me an ABBA tribute act any day.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - everyone raves about it but I thought it was so badly written…didn’t get past page 30, maybe the writing improves??

A year ago I would have agreed with you. Then I saw a leopard pair and thought they'd be great for my boggy garden and now they're surgically attached to my feet 😆

Completely agree re Curly Girl! (And the other million copycat step-by-step products)

In the before and after videos their hair just looks really oily and greasy!

I also don’t understand the whole ‘how I discovered I actually have natural waves/curls!’ when they have to go through a long process of rubbing in 3 different products, scrunching their hair whilst drying it then using the diffuser attachment on their hairdryer… that is not ‘naturally curly’ to me!

It's not quicker if you just can't master it, which she couldn't. It caused so much angst and it just hasn't mattered at all once starting high school.

Tea. Yes I’m English but I’ve never wanted a cup of tea. Coffee all the way.

Lattes. They’re just milk. No thanks. Like I said, I like coffee!

Concerts and festivals. I’ve got boring and I’m really not into the crowds. Creeps me out!

Oh my! How could I have forgotten winter wonderland. What a complete pile of crap that was.

I’m really scared to write this but dogs. Hey, I like dogs! Nothing against them! But I do find them overrated and I’m not allowed to say that.

John Lennon
gandhi
david Bowie

While Pride and Prejudice is a great book I would venture the unpopular opinion that Mr Darcy is a grumpy miserable sod who blights any gathering he attends. Mr Bingley is much more fun.

Skiing
Musicals
Light Classics
Gilbert and Sullivan
Prosecco
The Races
Designer handbags
Golf
Football
Minimalism

Oh, and I forgot, those huge, bushy beards

Hot tubs, especially in a spa situation. Why would you want to sit in a tub of hot water with total strangers or friends whilst their, and your, skin,faecal matter and bacteria swill around you all.
Cocktails. Overpriced, sweet and beloved of groups of screaming women who look like satsumas with giant eyelashes.
Anything called Santa World, Christmas world, festival of light. They're always expensive piles of disappointing shite in an inevitably muddy field.
Stacked rings on fingers. Oh the bacteria that's trapped under those things.
People who are described or describe themselves as 'mad', 'crazy', 'life and soul of the party'. " Ooo I'm mad me". Nope you're massively annoying and frantically compensating for something that's missing in your life or trying to hide from emotions you can't deal with. For the love of God calm down and get some help.

That was my experience too but then saw it here (scotland) and it was definitely green squiggles to the naked eye - some purple as well. keep trying (if u can be arsed)

OMG every word of this. I once read an awful story about a girl who got into a hot tub with a minor scrape on her leg, so minor she barely even noticed it. She ended up having to have her leg amputated because this tiny little scrape had got infected. It put me right off the very idea.

I also completely agree about the cocktails and the satsuma women!!

I'm munching veggie gummy sweets (not PPs) right now. They're my guilty pleasure. I love chewy sweets, just so long as they're vegetarian/vegan.

Jupiter seen through a telescope is seriously underwhelming.

Pizza
The Puy du Fou

Air fryers