What is something that is popular but is something that you detest

[19ptrialprice]

What is something that is popular but is also something that you detest. It can be anything.

Picky bits - can’t fucking stand that phrase
Blake Lively - no, do not and have never got the hype. Rich nepo baby D list actress.
Love Island - trash
Dog/cats being pushed around in prams- if it has working legs, it can walk
Protein products - UPF advertised to the masses as “health” food to make a huge profit. Just eat whole foods that are high in protein.

You?

Thongs. Whoever invented them is a sadist.
And on that subject, men and women who insist on wearing their trousers 'low slung' so you can see their designer pants/thongs and bum crack.

Sex - not had it for years and it was always a chore anyway
Tattoos - I saw a wedding photos of a bride in a beautiful sleeveless dress with a monstrous full sleeve of tattoos down her arm. Just awful
Most modern day "singers" who can't sing in tune
Dogs everywhere - especially in eating places. Add to this people who take offence when you don't fawn over their dogs. I had to move seats in a pub on Friday to get away from a particularly stinky one

The "beauty counters" in large stores. I loathe having to walk through the vilely artificial-smelling fug, watched by over-made-up assistants, to reach other departments.

Brexit, Reform, Farage, and all of those long list of woeful posturing ‘Brexiteer’ Tory politicians after David Cameron had unleashed that colossal fuckup on us all to try to manage the extreme wing of his own party.

I don’t know how any of those lying con artists can sleep at night with Brexit having lost the UK billions let alone all the other social damage

Pizza - I hate it. I can't understand it's popularity. £20 pizza from an Italian restaurant or £1 pizza from Tesco - I've tried them all. I don't understand Pizza appeal and for me it's party food for 9 year olds. See also (and controversially) garlic bread - it's just stodge.

I can eat my own weight in pasta dishes, though.

1. The need to pressurise everyone into conforming, as we are clearly not allowed to be different.
2. The pressure for everyone over the age of 16 to be in relationships. Some of us like being single!
3. The negative attitude that discourages education and encourages people to be dumbed-down versions of themselves
4. The attitude towards drinking and anyone who doesn't drink alcohol (or just not alcohol in large quantities)
5. The horror if you turn down an offer of a hot drink. I don't drink tea, coffee is OK, but I'd prefer tap water, and yes, tap water is fine!
6. "I can't go anywhere because I haven't got anyone to go with!" Go on your own and enjoy it, then!
7. Putting mayonnaise or cheese on EVERYTHING. I do not like mayonnaise and poisonous cheese gives me migraines!
8. Sleeve tattoos
9. Men walking around in public without a top on. A woman would get arrested for public indecency if she did that, so I'm unsure as to why it is fine for men to do that.
10. The news. It's very depressing
11. Smoking/vaping... either way, you're still inhaling chemicals for fun!
12. Using 'like' or an expletive every other word
13. School uniforms that make students look like they work for business firms. Blazers are freezing in winter, white blouses are see-through, and girls don't wear ties once they leave school (unless they are Avril Lavigne in her Complicated phase, or going to fancy dress parties). Just pop them in a polo shirt and jumper!
14. Cosmetic procedures which involve having things injected into your body. I'm not sure that's such a good idea.
15. Spending the best years of your life working (which most people do), and then when it comes to your retirement age, you're too old, unfit or just unable to do some of the things that you've always wanted to do.
16. Having to pay someone else to effectively bring your child up for you, because you have to work full-time to be able to afford to live.

The Americanisation of our language and culture.

"Something that is popular".
Most of these are just personal gripes.
Don't disagree with many of them though :)

@RaraRachael

Dogs everywhere - especially in eating places. Add to this people who take offence when you don't fawn over their dogs.

And can't understand why you're pissed off when you're wearing something decent and their muddy-pawed dog jumps up at you leaving paw marks all over your outfit!

Air travel
Hotels
Having a full diary
Fashion
Driving
Very hot weather
Make up
Scent
Lots of cushions on sofas and beds
Piles of bacon, cheese and sauce in burgers so that you need a ladder to eat it
Chips in a tiny galvanised bucket
Drinking alcohol in belting sunshine
Media walls
Glass box house extensions
Black leggings and box fresh white trainers with box fresh white socks at mid calf
The all grey/black makeovers people do on the outside of their houses so that ordinary houses look like stealth bombers

People who say (or write) "draws". They're drawers fgs. Draw-ers!

The Reform party and especially the popularity of Farage.

Beyonce/Taylor Swift. Overrated in every sense.

You mean Chester Draws?

VAPING - No logical reason for anyone to do it
Crocs - even worse with the white sports sock pulled up your leg like school girl socks
Sliders - same as above
Lip Fillers - Currently laughing at another Mumnets post of a person who complained to HR about her colleague saying she as off getting her lips done

Fake eyelashes - horrendous especially on young girls

I LOVE dogs. But I have to agree with so many PP on here about them. They are just everywhere now, you can't escape them and it's too much.

coffee

doughnut time

lip filler

Ed sheeran

long fake nails

long fake eyelashes

This NEED to be tanned whether fake or real as if pale skin is gross (may be just my group of friends)

Drag queens

Drag queens. I find it insulting to women.

People with tattoos on their backs and on the backs of their legs where they can’t even bloody see them! Pointless, the tattoos, not the gameshow, though come to think of it…….

New build homes. They remind me of the "little boxes" song. They all look just the same. Give me a period property with character any day. Many of the ghastly new builds are poorly made and extortionate for what you get; you may be lucky enough to live next to social housing tennants who have been handed the property for a massively reduced tenancy price.

Especially the ones labelled “Executive homes” which don’t even have enough space to park both your SUVs on the drive and which are so close together that you say “Oh, excuse me” when your neighbour farts or belches.

Therapy speak, particularly the overuse of words like ‘boundaries’ (when 90% of the time it’s used as an excuse for being lazy, justifying getting out of something, or basically just dressing up shitty and selfish behaviour as something healthy and self affirming). See also ‘triggering’, ‘social anxiety’, ‘gaslighting’ and ‘self care’.

Also salad cream. Disgusting stuff.

The only virtue of American plastic Hallowe'en is that it keeps Christmas tat at bay until November!

42wallabywaysydney · Today 11:30

Therapy speak, particularly the overuse of words like ‘boundaries’ (when 90% of the time it’s used as an excuse for being lazy, justifying getting out of something, or basically just dressing up shitty and selfish behaviour as something healthy and self affirming). See also ‘triggering’, ‘social anxiety’, ‘gaslighting’ and ‘self care’.

I agree.

Every normal human emotion or situation has to be medicalised and categorised.

It's as if no-one should ever expect to be hurt, angry, upset, shocked or offended. That's called 'life', and this pretence that we should all expect to be shielded from it is ridiculous.

I remember when I was teaching the mother of a Year 5 (end of year - nearly Year 6) complained that a history lesson had upset her daughter. I just said 'That's OK - it's fine to be upset. I was upset too. The First World War was very tragic and a lot of people died'.

Difference is these two things actively push bad behaviour. The first encourages aggression, division, and at the worst hooliganism, racism and sexism. And other sports don’t have such a loud mouth, drinking, shouting, fighting culture.

reality tv teaches kids that to be famous you need to be undignified, have sex on national tv, show lots of flesh, scream, shout and be vulgar.

other film/tv/books/shows dont do this. Some reality shows don’t tbf (never seen Mary berry with her tits out on the beach) but many do.

im going to add games to the list. Encourage violence and bad language (not all but lots)
and lush too.

Artificial grass
Vapes
Pride festivals
Keir Starmer
Anything 'pro-Palestine'
Botox & filler
Tattoos on women
Thongs under just lace or see through clothing
Tik Tok
Crocs
Stanley cups
Dry robes (unless your actually doing a water based activity)
Laminated eyebrows
Fake eyelashes
Super long fake nails
Tracksuits in public (fine for lounging around at home in)