Things that everyone raves about that are actually shite

[Letmegetoff]

I'll begin...

ABBA voyage 'concert'
The London Eye
Harry Potter Studios

Hamilton

Going out for dinner. I’d much rather go out for breakfast or lunch. Night time is for being all snuggly and warm at home. God I sound boring.

Also summer. Too hot and too many expectations, I get weird anxiety fomo. I prefer spring and autumn.

Yes! Oh the bobbling.

That’s the point!

Buffet dresses, all these frocks in large flowery prints
pie crust collars and frills in general
Air fryers
Blocky heels
Rampant consumerism

Gym as in The Gym
Hen Nights
Spa treatments
Doing your nails
Hairdressers
Depilation
Growing veg in containers
Homework
Long haul
Running
Marathons
Sponsored running
Normal People (the book)
Poor Thing (the film)
Opera

But leave Les Miserables alone!!!

Ballie Ballerson

Ant and Dec

Wicked. Absolute worst thing I’ve ever seen at the theatre. Bored to tears.

Bifold doors
Wordle
plastic plants/flowers
Uggs
huge tellys
hair extensions
Range Rovers

We realised this over lockdown. Now we go out for breakfast/ lunch together once a week, just the 2 of us. It's lovely. There's no alcohol involved so my post menopausal sleep is not buggered up, it's cheaper, the food is simpler and nicer, the music is quieter/ not there at all so you can chat properly. I'm asleep by 9pm and it's cold and dark at night. Much nicer to be out in the daylight.

Notting Hill Carnival
Christmas cards
Michael Macintyre
Nandos

Oh yes, dark blue living rooms
Fake marble laminate worktops
Cuppas
Cars
Bicycling to work

Any dark coloured living room.. farrow and ball are just trying to sell you paint, and want you to paint it over again in two years cos it's so oppressive. And sell you primer too to cover up the Hague Blue and Railings.
Dark blue halls.

Babysitters/Going out and leaving the kids
Laminate flooring

Designer bags
Sushi
Kitchen islands. You really know that you don't need one because you mostly reheat pre prepared food and if you don't then you don't need one as you use a chopping board near the cooker .

Avocado??!! I love avocado!

Nandos

Heart to Hearts
Handbags
Extendible dog leads
Theatre without intervals

@anxioussister I'm with you on truffle- tastes and smells like sweaty socks

McDonald's
Starbucks
Dubai
Disneyland Paris
Thick eyebrow/fake lash combo - ( when we lived in Copenhagen my son who was22 at time commented on how pretty all the girls looked without that 'look' - it just wasn't 'a thing' there

Very orangey fake tans
Most reality TV
Influencers
Cocktails
Prosecco

I mean it’s no more niche than all the other things in this thread!

I remember not being allowed a pen in primary school because my handwriting wasn’t joined up. I felt really stupid.

Now I work in primary schools and still think it’s fucking stupid that they’re still bloody banging on about it. Poor kids.

Avocado
Olaplex
Camping
UK beach holidays
Dyson Airwrap
Fiat 500s
Love Island
Prosecco

Hotel chocolat

Lip gloss - nasty greasy stuff, looks and feels horrible and sticky and messy and just aaaarrrgh

The Traitors

Spa days & “treatments”

yep absolutely hate salted caramel it's shit what dickhead thought that one up! very difficult to find just normal caramel on anything anymore, it gives me that rage!

Oh no I love all these things! Maybe not that keen on facials and spa days are too expensive, (did an evening one recently with a friend to keep the price down, that was nice) - but the rest are great.

The friend was a Mum friend from primary school - she is my one really good friend from then but we have a group of two others (and DHs) where we meet up every so often and have good times. But also I know I could ring and say 'help I've broken down' and they would help if they could, that sort of friend. So school gate Mums are not always awful.

And play dates is a dreadful name but I learned to embrace it because it's a great thing! Kids love playing with their friends. We live in the back of beyond so no village green to congregate - all meet ups had to be pre-arranged and driven to, since DCs were in reception. Apart from the admin, and maybe feeding random kids (worse when they have sleepovers.....😀) - surely it's just something to suck up so your kids have fun and learn to socialise.....?

And when they go home you have the wine and prosecco.......😁