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Things that everyone raves about that are actually shite

1000 replies

Letmegetoff · 20/03/2024 18:11

I'll begin...

ABBA voyage 'concert'
The London Eye
Harry Potter Studios

OP posts:
UnctuousUnicorns · 21/03/2024 14:28

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 21/03/2024 14:26

Ftr, I take my tea to be hot, (I warm the milk beforehand so it doesn't cool it too much)

Warm milk. In tea. TEA.

That comet that's going to wipe us out can't come too soon if this is where we've got to as a species.

Don't tell me you microwave it, my nervous system couldn't take it.

👍🙂

BlueBadgeHolder · 21/03/2024 14:28

Disneyworld Florida is fine, but it is just an overcrowded and overpriced theme park. It is also a bit run down as the rides keep breaking down.

SheerLucks · 21/03/2024 14:29

Cotswoldbee · 21/03/2024 13:13

Soho Farmhouse.
Just being able to say "I'm a member😁" instead of "what an overpriced dump🤮".

This!

www.instagram.com/reel/C17UVH4ILv0/?igsh=MTUwZHRheXhmcmhlcw==

Jomummy1013 · 21/03/2024 14:31

KFC 🍗 🤢

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 21/03/2024 14:32

Tea with milk - it tastes utterly vile to me.
I know I’ve got weird taste buds, though.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 21/03/2024 14:34

Ditto to Les Mis - except for the ‘Master of the House’ song, I found it totally underwhelming.

Flippingfruitflies · 21/03/2024 14:35

Ninja 15 in1 multi cooker!
what a faff
abandoned to the cupboard for a couple of years and thrown out

kurotora · 21/03/2024 14:35

FKAT · 21/03/2024 14:18

UK holidays 100%.

There's a thread on here every week about some poor sucker hiring an 'upmarket, lux' cottage for a mere £5k a week (off peak) which turns out to be rat-infested, mouldy, filthy hellhole, 15 miles from the nearest (garage) Spar and 20 miles from the nearest (over-priced, over-crowded) attraction.

I'd rather not go on holiday again than go to a UK airbnb or hotel. Thank god I'm old and have lived/travelled all over the country so have no yearning to do the Cotswolds or the Lakes or fucking CORNWALL ever again in my life.

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Exactly! The prices are mind blowing. I hear it from so many people at work, they have booked a week in insert overpriced English seaside town and it’s costing them a mere few thousand for some self catering caravan/cottage. In bloody October or something when you know it’s windy and horrible, because you’d need a second mortgage to go in summer. Then you can pay through the nose for mediocre fish and chips.

Most of the budgets have exceeded what I’ve paid to go on awesome US road trips, some cottage hols in Cornwall have exceeded what I paid for 2 weeks touring Japan in cherry blossom season!

Frenchtoast99 · 21/03/2024 14:35

Dogs (sorry)
Green tea
Vegetables
Having kids ( I have one)
Being in a relationship
Titanic museum in Belfast
Van Gogh interactive experience
Swimming pools (they're disgusting)
Oral sex ( receiving it)
The Hoover that just goes about by itself, ( god it's utter shite!)

The above aren't all shit, some of them are but some are just over rated.

BlueBadgeHolder · 21/03/2024 14:41

kurotora · 21/03/2024 14:35

Exactly! The prices are mind blowing. I hear it from so many people at work, they have booked a week in insert overpriced English seaside town and it’s costing them a mere few thousand for some self catering caravan/cottage. In bloody October or something when you know it’s windy and horrible, because you’d need a second mortgage to go in summer. Then you can pay through the nose for mediocre fish and chips.

Most of the budgets have exceeded what I’ve paid to go on awesome US road trips, some cottage hols in Cornwall have exceeded what I paid for 2 weeks touring Japan in cherry blossom season!

Just booked a week in a villa in Greece. £670 a person for flights and a villa with an unheated pool and air conditioning.

PossumintheHouse · 21/03/2024 14:42

Frenchtoast99 · 21/03/2024 14:35

Dogs (sorry)
Green tea
Vegetables
Having kids ( I have one)
Being in a relationship
Titanic museum in Belfast
Van Gogh interactive experience
Swimming pools (they're disgusting)
Oral sex ( receiving it)
The Hoover that just goes about by itself, ( god it's utter shite!)

The above aren't all shit, some of them are but some are just over rated.

Vegetables.... what, just the whole lot!? I couldn't go on without onions, tomatoes and aubergines. 😂

EraOfTheGrey · 21/03/2024 14:42

Coffee that is so complicated that it takes 13 minutes to order
Beige co-ords that are the colour of hearing aids.
Grey sofas, walls, carpets, cars and kitchens

BarrelOfOtters · 21/03/2024 14:46

EraOfTheGrey · 21/03/2024 14:42

Coffee that is so complicated that it takes 13 minutes to order
Beige co-ords that are the colour of hearing aids.
Grey sofas, walls, carpets, cars and kitchens

I think there should be some form of system at coffee shops where you can skip the queue if you just want to a straight coffee rather than a wanky coffee.

Or a law that you can't order a wanky coffee at busy times.

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 21/03/2024 14:49

The Oscars, the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Awards, blah etc. Actors. Is there any other profession that needs so much validation for reciting a few lines and pulling the odd expression in front of a camera? The men who empty my bins are far more useful members of society afaic.

whatamess100 · 21/03/2024 14:52

The minky heated airer

Dr browns bottles everyone ive had leaks!

Dontcallmescarface · 21/03/2024 14:53

Roast potatoes
Happy Valley
Line of Duty
Dirty Dancing (the film).
MAFS

silverbubbles · 21/03/2024 14:56

EasternStandard · 20/03/2024 18:40

One Day I just couldn’t watch the whole first episode

I thought the same but stuck it out and finished it last night - when you get towards the end you will glad you are watching it.

silverbubbles · 21/03/2024 14:58

Going to the races.... so dull

VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji · 21/03/2024 15:00

BarrelOfOtters · 21/03/2024 14:46

I think there should be some form of system at coffee shops where you can skip the queue if you just want to a straight coffee rather than a wanky coffee.

Or a law that you can't order a wanky coffee at busy times.

And tea

middleofthenightmediumsizedtoblerone · 21/03/2024 15:01

PossumintheHouse · 21/03/2024 13:12

Scotland! WTF. Where have you been to in Scotland?! Aberdeen?

You'll change your mind if you visit the Highlands and Islands.

My DH has been and we're both looking forward to taking our campervan. Some of Scotland is supposed to beautiful.

@ivyleafgeranium what don't you like about it?

Lelophants · 21/03/2024 15:01

Stranger things(tv show). Can’t get into it. People say it’s amazing but when does it get good?

Same with that cheesy show This is Us. I love cheese but for some reason couldn’t get into this.

Begaydocrime94 · 21/03/2024 15:02

Roast dinners - extremely mid
dogs - honestly see them as something desired because it completes this picture perfect ideal of a family, when really they’re just a drain on your time, energy and bank balance. Cats though 😻

Margery80 · 21/03/2024 15:02

Yorkshire puddings
Brighton beach (STONEY)

Ididivfama · 21/03/2024 15:04

Stony beaches. In fact most British beaches. The sea itself ain’t that exciting imo. Has to be a good one.

Ididivfama · 21/03/2024 15:06

Maybe I’m just a meanie but labradors and golden retrievers. I like some dogs but I’ve never found those type cute, I don’t know why. Everyone goes on about them like they’re the best ones. Maybe because the ones I know are kind of gross?

love a terrier, so cute. Probably because they remind me of cats which I prefer.

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