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Things that everyone raves about that are actually shite

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Letmegetoff · 20/03/2024 18:11

I'll begin...

ABBA voyage 'concert'
The London Eye
Harry Potter Studios

OP posts:
ruffler45 · 21/03/2024 08:08

Anything involving alledged "celebrities"

Itsallfunngamesuntil · 21/03/2024 08:11

Meowandthen · 21/03/2024 08:07

If "it's never done a lot" for you, then it's being done poorly. Sorry your partners have been crap.

They haven't been. But vaginal sex.....I can literally come in 30 seconds with the right guy

StarlightLady · 21/03/2024 08:11

The idea that “naice girls” must not have sex on a first date.

ruffler45 · 21/03/2024 08:14

43ontherocksporfavor · 20/03/2024 18:51

What’s up with underfloor heating? I’d love that.

How much energy is wasted heating up the floor rather than the room? Never quite understood it.

Judellie · 21/03/2024 08:18

The Royal Family.
I am not interested in Harry and Meghan or Kate and William and whatever the rest of them are called.

Mallani · 21/03/2024 08:19

Chai-anything. Tastes like pot pourri.
Kimchi and sourkraut - food that's been left out to fill with tons of bacteria, more like.
Clinique 'suits everyone' black cherry lipstick - gave me a mouth that looked like a dog's bottom.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 21/03/2024 08:21

curiousasacat · 21/03/2024 07:37

I agree with the Mona Lisa. I love art but why is this the most expensive painting in the world?- very average looking woman with no eyebrows and a half grin. Enigmatic my arse, she just looks annoyed to me

I would take any portrait Rembrandt painted over the Mona Lisa any day. I have no idea why it's such an icon or why people stand yards away to take pictures of it when they could buy a much better postcard.

IMO it's a masterpiece of hype (and I saw it when you could get up close to look at it).

Idontjetwashthefucker · 21/03/2024 08:22

Not heard anyone raving about them as such but skin-on fries! The thought of putting them in my mouth makes me heave, yes I have a couple of food issues, but I'm not alone in this; my friends kids are autistic and will not eat them. I suspect we're not alone and it would be nice to have a choice Sad

ImNotReallySpartacus · 21/03/2024 08:24

Lelophants · 20/03/2024 22:38

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.

You are definitely allowed to say that and you are right.

curiousasacat · 21/03/2024 08:24

IMO it's a masterpiece of hype (and I saw it when you could get up close to look at it).

I agree and don't get me wrong- its waaaay better than anything I could ever paint lol so I recognise the skill involved

But the most expensive/famous in the whole world?- yeah. No.

Mallani · 21/03/2024 08:24

UK summers also - if it manages to be hot, it's always wierdly sweaty with tons of small flies. Take me abroad, or give me spring or autumn.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 21/03/2024 08:27

curiousasacat · 21/03/2024 08:24

IMO it's a masterpiece of hype (and I saw it when you could get up close to look at it).

I agree and don't get me wrong- its waaaay better than anything I could ever paint lol so I recognise the skill involved

But the most expensive/famous in the whole world?- yeah. No.

Leonardo's drawings, OTOH, are stupendous and awe-inspiring. Such a shame he didn't live in an era when he could have donated his brain to science so they could find out what made him tick. But his paintings? nope.

xSideshowAuntSallyx · 21/03/2024 08:29

SOxon · 21/03/2024 08:05

Public proposals, cringe
Razzmatazz weddings, renewal of vows,
revealing, low cut wedding dresses, hyperbolic declarations of adoration,
exaggerated petal strewing entrances, especially outdoors, especially
Italian clifftops,
baby showers, gender reveals, puppies in gift boxes,
Jonathon Ross- how? why?
pushed in face difficulty breathing dogs, French bulldogs, pugs, boxers
the ghastly Madonna
overhyped Beyonce, Emma Stone, Cillian, Lewis Capaldi, many more,
but most of all the appalling Miriam Margolyes

YT cooking tutorials by ladies with long hair brushed forward,
not tied back or covered, poor kitchen hygiene, cannot watch, hair soup anyone?

Oxford - filthy streets, (buses through pedestrianised section ?!)
totally lost its vibe, sadly

M&S food overloaded with sugar or palm oil, ditto Waitrose

Brooklyn. Beckham
Oxford Street
Regent Street
Covent Garden (pickpocket paradise)
The Coronation

Picturesque villages cut adrift by Oxford Council’s removal of hourly bus service, residents then complain the village is being spoilt by too many cars, speeding drivers, when as car owners they didn’t campaign to save the minimal bus service which didn’t run on Sundays or BH anyway, isolating teenagers, older residents, anyone who for whatever reason does not drive.
The Cotswolds, especially Bourton on the Water

Skincare and cosmetics still tested on little bunnies, despite companies saying they don’t, this practice still takes place in China
‘celebs’ or models advertising cruelly tested cosmetics
‘celebs’ obviously merching
the cult of the designer handbag, inspiring envy, desire, jealousy, resentment
speaking of fashion disasters, Vogue magazine,
‘influencers’ be they for lifestyle, clothes, interiors, shopping haul, clean with me, be there whilst I open this box of a new appliance, just bizarre,
Down allegedly collected from nests after the birds have flown away, eyeroll
New Years Eve
New Years Day

I hate New Year anything. I went to the gym New Years Day it was lovely and quiet about 5 people in the class.

I'm trying to think of an excuse to get out of going to a baby shower at the moment. The thought of going is filling me with dread.

NewGirlinClass · 21/03/2024 08:29

Only just seen this thread, was surprised McDonalds not on first page.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 21/03/2024 08:31

Covent Garden (pickpocket paradise)

I worked down the road from CG in the early 90s when it was full of quirky little shops. Now it's just another generic shopping centre.

I could have written the rest of your list, as well.

the80sweregreat · 21/03/2024 08:32

People who love hot weather
Just why? It is dreadful
People who moan about rain .. we need water folks!

KnitFastDieWarm · 21/03/2024 08:32

Cats
Baths
Sunbathing/heat in general
Beach holidays that involve lying on the beach (clambering about on rocks is fine)
Blue cheese
Any form of organised fun
Steak
Botox
Grey window frames/furniture/general aesthetic
Front doors with those long vertical metal handles
Being thin
Professional haircuts
Festivals

I feel much better now!

Mushroomsouptonight · 21/03/2024 08:35

'Going shopping' as an activity or fun thing to do. It seems so naff to spend hours and hours wandering around shops for more and more things. Then overflowing wardrobes and cupboards and often moaning about having no money 😒

KnitFastDieWarm · 21/03/2024 08:35

Oh and London! Grew up around there, bloody hate the place 😁

YetAnotherSpartacus · 21/03/2024 08:36

Air fryers. Everything tastes weird.

DaBlackCatsAreDaBestCats · 21/03/2024 08:37

seafronty · 20/03/2024 18:57

This is the worst cat I've ever seen.

I’m laughing. How? Why? Cats are the best!!!! 🤣

swayingpalmtree · 21/03/2024 08:38

Overpriced skin care. The market is completely oversaturated with skin creams. Each one trying to make outrageous claims about how they'll make you look 20 years younger.

The ingredients are getting more and more ludicrous. Eg "this cream is infused with real gold and oil from the moringa plant which is native to the Brazilian rain forest. It only blooms once every ten years and we select empathic Gregorian monks to pick the blossoms gently whilst singing Gregorian chants to "settle" the oil. They carry it back to their village in organic hessian bags and then they press the plant whilst wearing vegan lambskin gloves to release the oil at the stroke of midnight during a full moon. Only then do we collect it, add loads of chemicals and preservatives to it and shove it in a plastic pot in a factory to sell to you for the bargain price of £2,500 for 30 ml"

Its just grease for your face FFS

Tdcp · 21/03/2024 08:43

Wine...

Lifestooshort71 · 21/03/2024 08:46

The whole family food shopping
Dogs being treated like babies (and not pack animals)
Starbucks coffee (just milky yuck)
Randoms acting like celebrities cos they were on some reality show and now think they're celebrities when they've got no talent

Mushroomsouptonight · 21/03/2024 08:50

Influencers.

Celebs.

Instantly switch over when vacuous people appear on TV.

Unfortunately, celebs and influencers appear on so many programmes so bonus is less tv.

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