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.

For those who don't like running: i think running is about the endorphins afterwards. Lasts for whole day. And helps keep weight down very effectively in my experience. So your weight loss activity for the day is done in 30 mins in the am. It's fairly cheap and simple to do.
I think running apps are good motivation but can make it grim. You can try the first week of a a 5k app and just stick to that week on repeat. You are getting exercise. Move on only if your body demands more/you get bored.
If you want to try running, try running at dusk, I find it about 3x easier, plus I never go without music. It's dancing really.

Dreading the dark mornings and afternoons. I wish it could stay like this all year round.

Another vote for Halloween.

Camping!!!!
circuses or theme parks
anywhere insanely noisy

Dare I say uni graduation (as the parent). Other than my own son being there, I had zero interest in any of the other students and was dropping off listening to the various lecturers/professors etc, droning on. It was on par with all the faff at a wedding (Very happy to support my son though).

Holidays.

I don't want to go on holiday and I would love it if people would stop saying that DH and I should. We like home. Our family is nearby, the pets are here, we like our house and garden. It isn't a mystery and I wouldn't dream of telling anyone they shouldn't go anywhere, but we don't want to.

See also: Christmas.

I'd be tempted to ignore my point about holidays and go away to a nice air b&b over Christmas (just 3 nights) so we could let it all happen without us. But our family seem to quite like us so we stick around for them (but we're done by teatime)

I think it's possible that we are just lazy - we are very content though.

Motorhome ownership. Endemic among my peergroup, sounds like a total pain in the neck and a great deal more expensive than staying in a hotel or renting a house from time to time.

I think you and I could be friends ☕️ 🍰

Yoga. Omg yes! I tried and tried but no, boring as hell.

hen dos. My idea of hell - especially with stripograms.

finally, New Year’s Eve. Nope not happening here.

The gym, Sambuca and blond boys. Wasted a lot of time and effort on all three. Totally not worth it.

Out:
Theatre (of any genre)
Anything spa/massage related
Art (viewing or creating)
Exercise
London

In:
Actually informative museums
Overpriced afternoon tea (love it)
Sitting down

Not the point of the thread but I wonder if the getting dizzy doing yoga could be down to BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) @DarkestBerty. I don't fully remember the explanation but it's something to do with when you get in different positions crystals in your inner ear get dislodged and make you feel dizzy. The only thing is I'm not sure if it would have such a long-lasting effect. I'd never heard of it till recently when I started experiencing dizziness every time I moved my head too suddenly. Horrible feeling!

Pumpkin picking looks awful. All for the gram with their fake uggs, woolly beige jumpers and matchy matchy hats🤮

hen weekends esp when the bride wears white and others dress strictly to the dress code

bum enhancing leggings.

Christmas Day.

Camping.

Baby showers.

Hen parties. (Especially hen weekends).

Why don't you go real pumpkin picking? We go to a farm and literally pick off the vines. It's a lovely day out

Urgh that reminds me - weddings 😴😴😴😴

@Blodwynne I love dancing, running is not dancing.

I hear yoga makes you fart

Pressed post too quickly!

no exercise requires leggings like tgat which proves its for the benefit of. Again, instagram or blokes in the gym watching you do your squats.

Excellent thread.

Many of these but especially music festivals. Explain why I would want to pay multiple times the price of a ticket to see a band I actually want to see, in order to see ten that I don’t care about and one that I loathe, in a field that is either too hot, too wet or too cold, surrounded by stoned and/or drunk people, miles from anywhere I want to be.

"Mindfulness". I'm mindful that following a broken hip, I've been left with nerve damage in my foot and leg, leaving me dragging it around with a walking frame. Moving anywhere is a major effort. Fuck mindfulness. Just give me a decent book, film, tv programme or music to listen to, so I can take my mind off how shit things are now. I don't want to be "in the fucking moment" - I'd rather be anywhere else but there.

Same with DP and I. People at work have stopped asking if we're going away. No, we're not. We don't like travelling, we like our comfortable house and doing the things that we like doing.

Walking.
Camping.
Beer pong.

all three bore the pants off me and are not in any shape or form at all fun!

Christmas markets, which are full of expensive tat and overpriced nibbles and wine. Second only to the local historic house / garden stringing up some Christmas lights and charging double to walk around the grounds in the dark because it's nearly Christmas.
Any 'fun' team sport, because it never ever is, someone is always serious!
Baby showers, large scale (attendance-mandatory) non-milestone birthday parties (I only class 18, 21, 30, 40 etc as milestone) and all the other me, me, me events (destination weddings and hen/stag-dos).
Most tourist attractions - especially the romantic ones or ones with a swing.

Christmas