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.

I've tried theatre several times but I just don't enjoy it. It seems too obviously 'pretend' to me, and a bit self-important, even with first rate actors. And yet I Iove films, so I don't really understand why.

I was in a PTA. It really was impossible to leave. 3 out of 4 of us ended up not only leaving the school but the city all around the same time. We joked that it was the only way we could get out of the PTA it wasn't a joke

I have left two! I just said life was too short to read books I didn't want to read on the WhatsApp group

I hear you, OMG I hear you. And I'm in Germany, with added "I cood neffer goovitchoo noo matter how I vanted too".

is better (although her aerobics are a bit distracting).

Full English breakfast or anything with bacon, I think it smells like urinals.
Any sport with loads of equipment you have to assemble, dry, disassemble afterwards (this includes most watersports, in fact not keen on swimming in indoor pools either, hate getting dry and changed afterwards! Outdoors is ok)
Driving to the gym or other exercise
Cinema during the day especially in good weather - would rather be outside or at least in daylight
Paintball - ouch
I've never done a spa day and hardly ever had a manicure done but probably more to do with being a bit stingy - if a friend asked me to go with them I would.

I do tai chi - in my mid 60s it's one of the few classes at the gym I can still do. It's a lot harder than it looks.

Oh, scuba diving. Uncomfortable and claustrophobic. Snorkeling is lovely - and free!

Yes; it's basically a martial art, slowed down.

Ice-skating. Tried it enough that I feel I can say "no, not for me" and just enjoy a hot chocolate from the side!

I hated scuba diving. I agree, so claustrophobic.

There's a popular, very long -established performance bar space in Hong Kong called the Wanch in a drinking district where they host local and touring bands like the Buzzcocks last year.
I went last year with some people I know and it was horrible. Quite dirty, the concert was so loud you couldn't hear yourself think. The acoustics were so bad that even up front (standing room only) I couldn't even hear the lyrics. Just a nightmare and a migraine.

I'm short, shorter than everyone who was there including the people who were there with me and I remember drunks almost falling on me. I just lied about work and left. In the nightclubs here I've been manhandled because I'm short.

The tram and bus ride afterwards on the way home was most delightfully quiet. I have a friend who doesn't like it either. It's too loud.

I did it very rarely and quite liked the novelty of it. Then I had the intrusive thought of falling over and someone skating over my fingers. I've never done it since. I later heard that even worse injuries can happen in ice hockey. Ice-skating is now in my Not Worth It pile.

I used to teach it and it’s not suitable for claustrophobics or acrophobic’s for some reason. Warm clear water helps.

FaceTime and phone calls (apart from my sister). Prefer to write a letter.

What's interesting is that young people sometimes give it a go but simply cannot do it - things like standing in the tree position for a few minutes. Older people can do this. I don't know if it is too boring for them or a muscle based issue. But honestly lots of them just walk out.

The Aquacise class (which I studiously avoid) at my DL is like this - over-loud ‘music’ and excessive shouting by the instructor - why do they do this? It makes them sound so bossy, which I suppose they are, or they wouldn’t be in that job. (OK, I’ve been influenced by bossy, sadistic PE teachers at school, and still loathe the breed in general.)

I used to work in a library with a hall next door, where some sort of exercise classes used to take place. The bloody instructor used to shout so loudly, we’d have to go next door and ask her please to turn the volume down - our poor readers were trying to choose their books in peace.

Similar story here! We went a fair bit as kids - I must have liked it enough for us to keep going/been ok at it. But then one day we were hurriedly ushered off the ice as a pool of red rapidly spread...I think some poor person had lost a fingertip and/or there'd been a head injury? Didn't go so much for a while and as an adult it just wouldn't compute - couldn't get past the shuffling stage again whilst thinking of all the different perils that could befall you 😅

I don't like dancing. Really don't. At a rooftop bar recently, despite the DJ playing great music I just wanted to go home while my friends were dancing.

Festivals/outdoor concerts - sitting/dancing in the rain, using portaloos and everyone drunk.....

so interesting that so many people hate book clubs.
I hated mine too!
Dominated by a friend group who had conversations amongst themselves which a few of us couldn’t contribute to. Venues which were too noisy.
I went for years and years even though I hated it.
It eventually disbanded but I do wonder if they carried on in a whatsapp group and just included the friend group!
Oh well, I’ll never know and at least I don’t have to go to the fucking club ever again!

Anything involved with being in an 'audience' and to think you have to leave your home, travel and queue. And thats after you have paid a fortune for a 'performance'

I actually squirm watching anything on a stage...Am Dram - vomit - even worse when its a village/local production and you actually recognise people.

Musical Theatre - embarassing and without exception awful, atrocious.

Ballet - hearing the dancers 'thump' on the stage as they land and wishing the music could drown it out.

Musicals....awful- monotonous, wishing the time away for an interval.

Plays - a good place to sleep.

Concerts - Never as good as the recorded version - never....

Finally, the worst ever thing everrrr.....Pantomime.

SO many people who want to be watched, cheered and clapped. Art? My ar**e....

Lake swimming . I've tried 2 or 3 times. Found it weirdly cult like. Annoying the way you have to follow an exact route, with people overtaking me as I swim slow. And theres weeds underfoot and you have to pay for the privilege.

Much prefer swimming in the sea or doing lanes at the lido. Feel i can do my own thing. Swimming in the leisure centre pool is not v scenic but still preferable.

Yes! My camera has been 'broken' since 2016...

What is fake pumpkin picking?!?

when pumpkins are just spread out on a field. not actually growing there.