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.

Camping holidays.
Spending BH on a rammed beach with every other person in a 100 mile radius.
New Years.

Agreed. There was a whole toe nail in one I was in on a holiday once. Vomited and never ever ever again. It’s like sitting in a warm bubbling sewer 🤢

Sambucca in coffee for breakfast is the ultimate start to a weekend.
With you on the fuckboys.

I tried yoga op and felt the same as your friends - I loved it. But it sent me dizzy and nauseous and I only did it twice. I’m sure that triggered vertigo in me. I’m not an expert but I think all the twisting your head and low down dog (or whatever it’s called) dislodges the crystals in your inner ear that give you the sense of motion stability. Why it happens to us and not other people I’d what is like to know!

Oh and in answer to your question about hyped up activities - I can think of loads - hen dos, massive music concerts, cheap package holidays, Hamilton…

We call them spermy sex pools. 🤢

😂😂😂

I don’t know if it’s hyped up but people who run regularly baffle me. It’s SO boring to me. I also don’t like climbing, I was excited to try it but it’s terrifying and exhausting.

All of this! 👆👆

Oh my word, yes camping. That is dire.

The original broadway production of Hamilton on Disney + (I think) is great. We saw it in the west end, not so good.

Yes, not everyone gets a euphoric response to running. I do most of the time, but when I don't I come home thinking, "That's an hour of my life I won't get back."

😂😂 I quite HP and was excited when my DD got to an appropriate age to start watching films and reading books. She HATES it. ‘Everyone dies’ she says 😂😂

You had me all the way up to Chinese takeaway (I know it's inauthentic, greasy, salty, gelatinous, suspiciously coloured - but that's what makes it so delicious)

Reminds me of Giles and Mary on Googlebox.

M: blah blah… you know, that man that runs down the lane every day…
G: I know. Wasting his life Mary.

Sums it up for me.

Hen dos. Overpriced ersatz packaged “activities” that are just a cover for drinking - usually quite cheap booze, considering how much you’ve been charged. Bonus points if a) the organiser has desperately tried to fill a whole weekend with “fun activities”, b) the bride has used this as an excuse to make everyone do stuff she’s always wanted to do but no one else does and/or c) the cost slowly ratchets up due to “let’s cover the hen’s cost”, “unforeseen expenses” etc.

Also, New Year’s Eve. Everywhere’s rammed, you suddenly have to buy a bloody ticket for the pub you walk into free on every other day of the year, you can’t leave early if the evening is panning out to be dreadful and taxis cost an arm and both legs. Just no.

Clubbing. Paying a fortune to wait in a queue for an hour to get in to hear crap remixes of songs which were probably crap in the first place, flooded filthy loos, extortionate low quality devil piss drinks, so deafening you can’t hear anyone speak and your ears ring for days afterwards - I just bc abbot see the fun

see also festivals: similar but with even worse toilets and people throwing cups of piss over the crowd.

I’ve tried to get into running but I’ve had more enjoyable experiences standing on Lego.

Now yoga on the other hand… 😉

Christmas
Stadium gigs
Crowded beaches
Halloween.
Christmas markets (certainly the ones near me)
Buffets unless I can be first in. Everyone handling the serving utensils unless there are serving staff. Children arsing about in the queue.

Sounds like my idea of hell @Gelertoe194

I first tried yoga in my 30s and found it irritatingly slow. Gave up on it. Took it up again in my 60s and now I'm heading in to my 70's I'm convinced it's the reason I able to get up and down off the floor easily compared to some of my friends, and am still doing all the heavy jobs in the garden without doing my back in. I'd recommend it to everyone with an ageing body to keep your strength and balance as long as you can.

New Year
Running/jogging
Christmas Markets
Travelling by plane
Pantomimes..would rather chew one of my own arms off.

Oh no you wouldn't!!

Food in most of Spain. I love Spain as a country and speak Spanish, but yer gods.

I hate yoga, pilates, running, anything repetitive/meditative. They'll say 'clear your mind' - I can't, there's always something in my head when you're not giving me anything to focus on!

However I love high impact, fast paced and/or requiring full attention/mildly dangerous exercise works for me - boxing, some martial arts (like judo, not tai chi), climbing, kayaking etc. I love swimming but not lanes, has to be outside.

running, cycling i can enjoy and have a good ride, but i never saw the intrest with running