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.

Axe throwing. It's just... lobbing stuff. I'd have as much fun being at home repeatedly chucking some cutlery at the fence. That said... I never manage to get it to stick in the target and that's why I'm biased😂

I don't mind targety sports generally but much prefer archery or target shooting which feel more fancy!

If people aren't at the beach to tan, then why do most people lie down on the beach?

This is what I mean when I say the beach is weird and makes no sense.

They lay on sunloungers under umbrellas.

For a good ten seconds there I thought bottomless brunch meant brunch in your pants.

Actually I have to recant, I don't like "Spa Days" but I have had hot stones, cupping & acupuncture when I was trying to concieve & I've never felt so relaxed.. so apologies to the Spa Days!

Hen Dos
Weddings
afternoon tea
crazy golf
Live concerts, with the prices, the golden circle, the long walk in and out, the price of a drink and then not actually seeing the artist as you are so far back and can get no where near enough to the stage.
festivals (music or food)
bbq’s
I’d love to love running but I just don’t, I’m not good at it and my hip is in bits.

OMG yes! Tbf I don't drink tea, so that reduces the attraction straight away, but I never understand the froth over afternoon tea in general. Paying through the nose for a few sarnies and bits of cake just because they're served on a silver stand with doilies. I mean, I know people who really love afternoon tea, but personally I really don't get it.

The beach conversation is weird.

I get tanned wherever I go as I have olive skin. I love the sea and the pool when I'm abroad. I've been on a lake too today in France.

Yep, reality TV. I keep trying so I can be in with the yappers at work. I get 5 mins in and want to gauge their eyes out and leave them for dead.

I know...I'm going straight to hell...

Anything to do with Christmas.

I just don't get all the buying and cooking frenzy and the forced ''fun''.

Bottomless brunches sound bloody awful.

In fairness yeah lots do this, could never understand it myself but like @ProperButterOnNewPotatoes said she's olive skinned as am I & I'm usually in a wet suit or just out of one, my friends & I are there to dive, swim & make sandcastles

I say this as someone who had a sister who used baby oil to maximise her tan

Pumpkin picking. Usually in a wet field, costs a fortune, and is really not enjoyable.

Shopping as a hobby/activity with a friend. I like clothes and enjoy looking nice, but I buy most stuff online and if I need to go to the shops I try to make it as targeted and brief as possible. Certainly not a day out.

A woman in my hairdressers was talking about her Mickey Mouse nails all ready for her Disney cruise. I couldn’t imagine anything worse but each to their own I guess.

I am so sorry for your loss. It must be very difficult. Hugs.

I used to run and only got endorphin release around 7 miles….it was incredible but Jesus, hard work to get there, anything lower was a bloody slog.

Reminds me of a friend of mine who went on a New Kids on the Block cruise. Twice. She went on it twice.

Think she was actually sleeping with Joey or whoever

Sound baths.

ESCAPE ROOMS…..sorry for the caps but bloody hell, so boring. Next to pottery painting.

Christ alive…🙈🙈🙈

I have travelled all over the word and I can honestly say a Disney Cruise was one of the best trips I’ve been on, I’m not even into Disney.

Beaches are the best place in the world (hence my username)! take a snorkel, and find out what's below the surface (if there are rocks)! Go rockpooling! Lie and read a book! Fall asleep in the breezy sunshine (I'm talking UK... superhot beaches abroad are a different story).

Speaking of which:

Foreign travel. The very idea of queuing through airports and border controls and being herded on/off planes, for HOURS... gives me a nosebleed nowadays. Then to find yourself in some strange place where it takes you all week to work out how to make the most of the place.

Also posh hotel breaks. I do not want a stranger coming into my room and moving my toiletries around turning down my bed at night and leaving a chocolate on the pillow and tuning the radio in to some weird musak. I do not want to face a roomful of strangers at breakfast.

Totally agree afternoon tea is shite. We pay more than £25 in my area for a few small shitty sandwiches and some buns I'd rather spend that on a good dinner

Brownies
Crazy golf / ten pin bowling
festivals
prosecco
spa days