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.

😂😂

Hiking.

Couldn't agree more - a waste of a good spirit!

Skiing

Roller coasters

whale and dolphin watching - you never see them and it’s bloody cold and you feel sick in the rough sea

Gail’s bakery, there are much nicer baked goods elsewhere

Drinking alcohol

Anything in a stadium, you can never see

Reading through a lot of these I realise I enjoy a lot of things more than everyone else 😆. Maybe I've just figured out what I do and don't like and do the things I like only. Or maybe I have a low tolerance to fun as I have a toddler and don't get out much!

I love a nice spa day but at specific spas. There's an incredible spa I go to every time I'm in Spain for instance and I love every moment (I go on my own usually). I enjoy yoga - I didn't use to, but now I've got into it, and again depends on the instructor. I make the most of any child free moment! But I'd definitely rather be at a spa or yoga than watching TV.

I also love most sport, apart from running and spinning. Actually I hate spinning.

The thing I think I dislike most is staying up really late for events - I've never loved clubbing, I tolerated it a lot in my teens then just started going home when I wanted in my 20s, even if was on my own. The only part I liked was getting ready then the relief of getting into my pjs at the end of the night 😂. I really dislike NYE - probably for this reason. I also don't like crowds. I've never been to a festival, because I know I probably wouldn't tolerate the crowds and waiting around.

Facilitated meetings. No, I don’t need an icebreaker session, break out groups or - even worse - a “let’s move everyone round!” change of seating half way through.

I’m not 5 and I couldn’t give one shiny shit about “group exercises to get everyone thinking”, let’s just discuss or decide the thing we’re here to do then we can all fuck off and get on with our lives.

Escape rooms - why pay a lot of money to be locked in. I don’t get it tbh.
Pumpkin patches - a small fortune to slide around in the mud but prettyish pumpkins
Busy Bars/pubs I’m over 40 I don’t want to shout at my friends I just want a normal volume conversation
Aeroplanes - with small children it doesn’t look fun. Was a no for me.

When I was a teen, me and my mum went to a yoga class. We only went the once because, during one of the moves I did a really loud fanny fart in the complete serene silence of the room. I was beyond mortified. Even now, nearly fifty years later, I blush.

Just because you didnt like your one particular yoga class you dont need to call yoga shit.
Didfferent style, different teachers or a different teacher will make a huge difference.

I agree with yoga. Even worse than yoga was was hot yoga - I could write an essay about why it was the worst thing ever.

NYE celebrations have never lived up to my hopes.

Any work related social stuff

Yoga, I went to loads if different ones and different instructors too, I even tried yoga on a paddle board. Never again but I do aqua fit x3 a week which I love

Hiking/camping/outdoorsy stuff. I'm not outdoorsy but I like it outside - when the weather is good

Autumn and Winter

Air shows (I'm ex-RAF but hate all that crap)

Team building

Works nights out. I work with these people, I do not want to socialise with them thank you. (Even though they are really nice people).

Hen Do's - never, never, NEVER will I attend one.

Went to one a few months back - £65!!!!!!

Good plan.

Day out specific -

Disneyworld in Florida is shit

I also really hate zoos and aquariums

Struggling for other examples but a lot of these I have never tried as I know I wouldn’t like it

Anything involving horses

Parties! Bloody hate them

holidays with small children.
no matter how nice the resort, it’s the same shit different place.
One howling because they only want a red spade but the shop only has ten other colours for 15 euro each,
one eats five ice creams and then vomits
the baby drops all it’s food on the floor over and over again
recovering from the flight out there takes all week and your’re fucking dreading the 3am return
£3k down the toilet should’ve stayed at home

All of these except hot holidays. I am not a let’s go to Scotland/ Sweden person.

Bank Holidays. Just a very expensive, busy Sunday vibe.

Tea. Yuck. Herbal tea. Weak weird yuck

Shopping too many choices which invariably someone else buys a week later at half price.

Spa says and massage. Why why why?

Yes, I thought that too...

Going to work every day. It’s not all that, is it.

Massage are actual torture. The ones I have had had been so painful that I thought the masseuse was actually enjoying using torture devices on me. Absolutely the opposite of relaxing 😣 and very painful for some time afterwards!

Going to the beach when it's sunny. This one makes no sense; there's no logical connection between sunshine and the beach. It also doesn't make sense to lie down when it's sunny, and the sand is uncomfortable. I'm convinced that going to the beach is one of those activities that people only do because they want other people to see them doing it.

Pubs and clubs. Not possible to speak to anyone because the environments are too noisy, and getting drunk is not particularly fun. Young men like these places because the movies tell them that the women are desperate to have sex with anyone, but the men quickly become bored and move on when they discover that real life is different from the movies.