Popular things you wouldn't even do for free... (Glastonbury for me)

[BringYourOwnBullshit]

Me? Glastonbury. There isn't enough vodka in Russia to get me there. Too many people, too much noise, hay fever, having to piss and shit (both of which I need to do a lot) in shared portaloos probably with no bog roll, not having a proper shower or proper anything wash wise, feeling sticky and unclean, not having a real bed to sleep in. The list goes on and on and on. If someone offered me £50,000 to go from the very beginning to the very end I'd probably consider it but even then I doubt I'd bite. If I did I'd probably die of misery by day two anyway. Utter, utter misery.

What's yours?

There's a thread about what food you can't get enough of.

The answers aren't kitkats and pepsi!

I'm exactly the same!!

I can see the appeal, but my fear of being trapped on one outweighs any & all of it.

I felt that way pre covid, now you'd have to pay me at least 1/2 a million & promise/contract an air lift off under ANY circumstances.

Go to Disneyland type places (or any theme park)
Live in the countryside
Go to Dubai or places of this ilk or any big AI hotel
Go to McDonalds
Go on a cruise
Own an SUV
Have any kind of plastic surgery or botox

Things in this list I do and love

Cycling in traffic
Glastonbury/festivals
Edinburgh fringe
Living in a city
Camping
Skiing

Football. Any of the big games especially. Genuinely can't think of anything worse bar camping. ⛺️

Most of the above, plus bungee-jumping, white-water-rafting, and parasailing (did it once, only because dds called me chicken for not wanting to - never again!)

I agree with most of these, except Dubai. Went for work a lot and then took my family. They have the best hotels in the world. Really safe, great for children. No fat, tattooed Brits in football shirts. Yes, the occasional plumped up lips / tanned TOWIE type, but on the whole I encountered nice families, never seen anyone drunk. I have a few friends out there (all women in their 40s) who have quadrupled their salary since leaving the UK and working in Dubai.

I appreciate it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but the OP’s post said ‘Popular things I wouldn’t even do for free’. If you ever get the chance to go to Dubai for free, then go. Worst case it’s staying in a top notch hotel for a week in the sun.

I went in 1998 and 1999. Enjoyed it back then! Obviously all this time later my idea of fun has changed.

You have beguiled me! If I go to Cornwall, I shall certainly go and Tripadvisor the hell out of it! 😂

The Lancaster Butterfly House.

Have been. Had my first panic attack in that horrible place. I felt like Tippi Hedren in, "The Birds." Only with butterflies.

You can't even clap your hands about to defend yourself because a rare African Giant Leopard Print Peacock Tailed Moth will suddenly turn to dust in your fingers and everybody will call you cruel.

I agree with every single one of yours, @Tortielady , except vintage cars - if I see a 1930s car I get such a surge of visceral delight and longing that I can only imagine that, in a past life, I was a dashing gel who bombed around in one of my own like Toad of Toad Hall... Poop poop! 🐸🚘

Have children.

Assuming you mean the bits in Spain where brits tend to congregate. It’s a huge country!
Having said that, we probably don’t want the tourists to start destroying the north

Camping and Glastonbury - both very questionable hygiene and am too old to be around all the drugs and stinkyness

Skiing - not paying thousands to be cold and probably end up arse over tit in the snow

Wild swimming - eww and cold

Fake long nails and tattoos - both tacky

Australia. Everything there is designed to kill you - the spiders, the bull ants, the snakes, the sharks, the box jellyfish, the blue-ringed octopus, the heat, the ice storms.
Also the casual racism and rudeness and the lack of culture (excepting the Indigenous Peoples).
I'd say 'No Thanks' to an all-expenses paid trip to Oz.
For stunning scenery and great beaches I'll stick to shark-free North Devon or Cornwall.

Same. When I was 5 my dad took us on the “holiday of a lifetime” to Disney. He had saved and spent some inheritance on this trip. Turns out I have a paralysing fear of mascots. Cried the whole time.

Rush off to the beach when its announced were going to have decent weather.

Spend out on going to a wedding/hen do abroad.

Reconnect with the sibling.

I understand that. I look at a lot of old magazines as part of my research and the car adverts are among the most appealing material. Cars were sold to young women as potentially liberating and were very much part of the zeitgeist; women got the vote on equal terms with men in 1928 and were moving into areas that would have been unthinkable for their mothers and grandmothers. A modern young lady was encouraged to see herself as the one in the driving seat and rightly so. After all, men couldn't be completely relied on. You could see it in Mr Toad, who stood for a particular sort of masculinity, ie, the sort that comes to a bad end. 😁

I don’t imagine you’d get very many hen dos at Disneyland…

Afternoon tea with prosecco.

Fancy dress.

All of those. Also -

Wear jeans with rips in
Wear false eyelashes
Have lips plumped up.
Go camping.
Go to a pantomime or musical.
Take any recreational drugs.
Have a tattoo.

If that makes me boring, so be it.

Taking part in a reality TV show.

Me too…and Glastonbury! My idea of hell on earth.

Camping holidays

Spa days

Celebrating my birthday!

Another vote from me!