Hyped-up activities that are actually shite.

[DarkestBerty]

Loads of my friends do yoga. It's really relaxing, they say. It's really mindful, they say. It's a good workout without realising you're working out, they say. It's a really nice community of people, they say.

So on Saturday morning I tried it.

It was bloody awful. Everything about it was bloody terrible. It wasn't remotely relaxing or mindful. I wasn't a very good workout and the people were cult-loke lunatics.

And I've felt a bit lightheaded, dizzy, and just not quite myself ever since.

Tell me about activities that everyone seems to have a wide-on for, but which you hated.

Sound baths

Stand up paddle boarding. I can stand on the ground thanks, why do I need to do it somewhere wet?

I have a similar effect on Wales (the country) Every single bloody time I've been there, even if just driving through some small uninteresting corner enroute to somewhere else, it's rained.

Oh yes ! I paid £50 just to sit and cry for an hour 😂 Went back the following week paid another £50 and cried for another hour. I decided retail therapy/ beauty treatments were preferable and didn’t involve crying. I agree with the hate of many of the activities on here. I do however love a nice beauty treatment or a bit of shopping.

Yes! Silent discos whilst everyone screeches round you - nothing silent about them!

Work nights out 😬

i nt like yoga i cant balance or sit cross legged or anything bendy
camping just why would i want to sleep on the ground

I just snorted with laughter at this.... this is me. I'll be wearing my new jumper next week, even if I cook 🤣🤣🤣

And literally money up in smoke!

Crazy golf

So glad people are saying spa days. I have never understood the attraction of wondering around in your swimsuit and dressing gown and doing basically nothing all day. Ditto sun bathing.

Centre Parcs

Hiring a rowing boat for any more than half an hour.

Hatha yoga if my favourite, but only at home alone (the Lesley Fightmaster "Hatha Yoga for Happiness" series on YouTube is excellent, although if rumours are to be believed it didn't work for her, god rest her soul).

Southampton zoo was shit. Lots of photos of the snow leopard, but we paid £66 to wander round a crappy half-arsed park to see Lego statues of the animals that were all indoors. If I'm paying that, I want a prodding device to force them out for me to enjoy.

Unpopular opinion here… love yoga, hate Pilates. Urgh… all that clenching this muscle but not that one business… tedious.

Tribute bands.
Amateur dramatics.
Pantomime.

I won’t run or camp (glamping maybe if I have my own loo). OP you may have upset the fluid in your inner ear with the yoga.

Horse riding I found so scary and it hurt after 😆
Agree with bottomless brunch, I’d always just fall asleep after and day would be done.

I love Halloween (but now live abroad and it’s very good fun) and love Disney (but have young kids that we had an amazing time with! If they didn’t enjoy it or weren’t well behaved it wouldn’t have been fun). I also love Christmas markets 😭😆

I don’t enjoy trips to farms with my kids since learning about all the gross illnesses you can pick up from lambs and calves and having a toddler that licks everything.

I’m increasingly losing my tolerance to heat and so prefer warm or cool holidays to anything hot!

Swimming with little kids or anything around water is also a no.

I was going to say I love the spa at centreparcs as there’s lots to do and then read further on 😆😆

Yoga
Pilates
Spa days
Hen dos
Baby showers
Afternoon tea
Bottomless brunches
Tapas bars
Sushi bars
Work dos which are evening meals in a chain restaurant and who you sit with can determine how awful the night will be.

My dad fell asleep most of the way through mine - I could have joined him! Was so dull!!

juat after having my baby by c section. Not knowing what a spin class was and booking myself in 🤣🤣 safe to say I wanted to cry only good thing that came from it is that I had booked water aerobics after 🙌

Taking small children to the beach. Takes hours, you have to carry enough stuff to set up a large camp, you settle down, change the kids, one runs into the sea has to be retrieved, the other swallows sea water and is sick. You hand out lunch and everyone complains of sand in it. You end up packing up after an hour and living with the sand in your car for the next five years.

Depends where you did it - I did it in Ecuador and it was genuinely pretty dangerous. Lots of health and safety in the UK and other western countries probably makes it pretty tame.

So glad the fake pumpkin picking has been picked up on already 😂 I can't believe people pay a fortune to pick up pumpkins probably bought at the supermarket and take photos with them for social media. Take a pic whilst I bend down to pick up a pumpkin😂 it cracks me up!

Camping.
I am not going on holiday to live in worse circumstances than I have at home.

It’s great in Nepal, Africa and Australia but can be a bit dull in the UK.

Yes! They are so shite, there are some lovely people I work with but the ones organising the nights out, who see themselves as the Most Fun People Ever, and seem to think that we are all a bunch of teenagers who want to do nothing beyond getting pissed. I don’t drink so just avoid but then get nothing but shit for not going even though it has zero to do with work so I don’t see why I need to.

I will also agree with yoga, it’s boring.