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?

My 4 favourite things. We'd get on swimmingly

Yes, salmon. I do not get that, it's slimy 🤢

lamb

Fillers and surgery that beautiful women subject themselves to and end up looking ghoulish.
Package holidays- as I’ve got older I’m starting to detest cramming myself through airport queues, landing in some over heated fly ridden destination to be treated with contempt by the locals. It suddenly seems tacky and gross.

personalised number plates
ratten garden furniture

I disagree entirely. I refuse to allow sentimentality to stifle or silence a debate. It's why we are now here as a society.

What does this even mean? Debate is about having different opinions surely?

Reality tv
Nigel Farage
Grey joggers or any clothing in the same colour.

Social Media.

No, don't try to claim Mumsnet is "social media". It's a discussion board and these were around a long time before we ever got social media.

those housewife reality programmes
love island

So many people using "of" when it should be "have".

People who don't like dogs - sorry.

Large tattoos, or tattoos covering a large part of someone's body. I would actually like to have the semi-colon tattoo on the inside of my wrist, but my skin is too sensitive for the ink.

Smoked salmon is, but if your normal salmon is then you need a new fishmonger

Capitalism.
Potato wedges.
Victim blaming

Because I enjoy it?

Judgemental people - except for me on some rare occassions 😉🙈

All 3 are surely linked.

Oh loads of stuff... where to start

Tattoos
Drinking culture
Dogs being treated as children
Indie style music... The 90s were tough for me
Huge 4x4s being driven in London
Action films

Or those horrible cycling short- leaving nothing to the imagination. Yuk

Alcohol. Don't like the taste, the smell or what it does to people.

The dumbing down of the English language (no apostrophes, 'of' instead of 'have', no understanding of there/their etc etc etc)
Facial aesthetics (unless for medical reasons)
Mrs Brown's Boys (just so horribly crude)
Drugs and alcohol (their misuse ruins so many lives)
Eating animals (there's no longer any excuse for such barbarism)
That it's acceptable to mock Christianity
Any temperature over 21 degrees
Cars that are able to exceed the maximum speed limit (other than rescue/police vehicles)
Charities that pretend to be all about the animals but are actually no help whatsoever in a real-life situation (you all know who I mean!)
Pornography (no explanation needed, surely)

But dogs are almost the same as children, and most non-working breeds love being treated as such - I'm ducking down!

Nigel Farage/ Reform/ Brexit/ Tories (not that the current Labour govt are much better!)

Reality TV (in fact most mainstream TV)

Pop music (and most mainstream music, especially of the last 20ish years - prior to that, some proper music actually made it into the charts)

Obviously fake beauty treatments - trout pouts, massive lashes, long acrylics, etc

Lounge wear worn out of the house - matching jersey trousers and tops, etc - looks like PJs

Those ghastly bum scrunch leggings/ shorts

Playing audio out loud from phones in public

Fake grass - looks tacky and is an environmental disaster

The ubiquitous grey home trend - diamante or mirrored furniture, crushed velvet sofas, etc

Those social media videos that are just someone pulling a face, with a caption usually starting "POV'

Those social media videos of women tapping their nails on things

White cars - just not a fan, I think dark colours look so much nicer

Gin - I want to like it, so many gin drinks look so pretty - but it tastes how I'd imagine aftershave tasting

@ToutesetBonne What's wrong with mocking Christianity - or any other religion or belief? Isn't that just free speech?

Sex.
Travel.
Fake grass.

Nothing wrong with mocking religion if that was what actually happens, but it's (almost always) just Christianity. It's unjust.

Reality TV
Botox/fillers/pumped up boobs and bums
Fads that everyone has to follow - Stanley cups, Prime drinks etc
Girls with sprayed on gym wear or skirts/shorts so short you can see their arses
Blokes with their waistbands round their thighs
Blokes walking around topless in public (not the beach), they're either flabby or they think I'm Mr Adonis
Glastonbury
Hot tubs in small back gardens
Gentle parenting
Screens for small children
People addicted to gaming, whether they're kids/teens/adults
Clothes on pets
Influencers
Social media 'hacks' that start with someone wagging their finger
Likewise, social media posts that are so fake eg "gender reveal ruined by MIL"

I could go on and on 🤣