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 absolutely love Summer and hot weather but I also enjoy Autumn and getting my boots and jumpers out.

I also love campervanning, paddle boarding & swimming.

Running though, I don't understand how people enjoy it. Especially in the hot weather.

Even worse than Christmas markets - Christmas Craft Fayres. Badly made, tacky and overpriced. There was one at my primary school that I loved as a child, so I'm always taken in by the promise of beautiful handcrafted gifts - only to find that it's slightly wonky felt tree ornaments, fussy knitted baby clothes and table centrepieces made by amateur hobbyists. Which is fine - I've made DS some wonky, badly finished trousers a few times and I'm inordinately proud of them. But I'm not trying to sell them to unsuspecting members of the public for £15!

😂

Can I please add anyone who bangs on about ‘hygge’, which to me was just a very clever marketing ploy to get people to buy lots of candles and throws etc. which they could have bought anyway, without deluding themselves and that they were being all Scandi.

Karaoke.
Camping.
Running.

😂😂

Loving some of the grumpy posts on here

Jazz Dance classes (mid 1980s) I’ve always done dance classes and this was the ‘new’ big thing… due to the “Fame” craze.
It was held in the local nightclub on the manky dance floor, during the daytime. The woman who ran it was a lunatic obsessed with “Fame” and adopted a New Yawk twang when speaking to us! She hated the girls and only spoke directly to the men. The absurdity of it still bemuses me now, 40+ years on! It was all so pointless, just an ego boost for her. Bizarre!

I thought this for years. I have been running for years. Never got a 'runner's high'. Then one day I ran a 5K PB in a new bra, and got a soft tissue injury from it.

Except, I didn't notice I was in any pain... until after the run. Then I was in agony with an embarrassing bra-related injury. I presume this was due to endorphins while exercising. Turns out all these 'endorphins' seem to do to me is stop me realising I'm injured. Which actually seems quite unhelpful, no?

I've never tried running or camping but concur with PPs that both look shite enough for me to never, ever, ever bother with.

Until this thread, I also thought bottomless brunch meant as much food as you could shovel in your gob 😬

I didn’t like/get yoga until I did a lot of it with some really good teachers.

Are bottomless brunches still popular? I thought that peaked 5 years ago. Most are dire, the same as most afternoon teas.

Team sports - watching and especially playing. Horrible, every single one. Used to quite like playing hockey, but I can't be arsed with the mud and bruises now.

Hen dos. So much is forced - forced jollity, forced outfits/sashes/tiaras, forced to be around penis straws and penis ice-cubes and god knows what else to do with penises. Forced to laugh at penis themed tat or get told off for having a face like a slapped arse. There's always penises, even when you are promised it will be 'tasteful, and not tacky at all'. NO.

Camping. I hate accidentally touching the tent as I get up in the morning - being touched by the condensation of everyone's breath revolts me.

Paddleboarding. Fuck me, I hate it

? So a bottomless brunch isn’t lots of brunch, til you can’t eat any more brunch?

It’s actually a bottomless drink as much cheap vinegar as you can??

That’s a trading standards / false advertising issue!

I run regularly. I'm shite at it, it's so boring and I hate it but if I didn't do it I'd be the size of an elephant. I do weight training as well but running is the only thing that gets rid of my post-menopausal belly 😓

Most Yoga in the west isn't authentic, it's some white washed version. You may also feel worse after yoga as it's releasing your past traumas.

Modern musicals (don’t mind me some Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Watching dolphins
hen do’s
gardening
Anything in caves
RSPB birdwatching sites

‘Anything in caves’

YES. It’s a tourist attraction. Come to the cave. A cave in Barbados is still a cave.

Agree 100% Harry Potter is such a load of shite, JK really hit the jackpot. Thankfully kids showing no interest thus far..........

Will it release that time on Friday when the self-checkout at tesco refused to understand I did not have an item in the bagging area?

We call them pube soup 🤢

Paintballing. Why anyone wants to submit themselves to massive fuck off bruises is beyond me. Each to their own though I guess.

Parties. All of them. They’re always shit.

Going out in couples. No. I don’t want to socialise with your boring husband. I don’t like him, I like you.

Food fairs, or Christmas fairs. Horrible food, thumping music, some depressed owls chained to perches, some guy making shit woodcarvings with a chainsaw, shit local bands, compered by a shit local DJ. No.

Team sports, both participating and observing. The players always look like the girls that used to wait for me outside the school gates so they could batter me. The Lionesses trigger the fuck out of me.

I can't quite believe this post.

There are many different forms of yoga. No idea which one you tried, but some are very intensive.

Yoga is great for those who know how to combine it with mindfulness, relaxation and concentrate on breathing. You clearly can't do that.

I hate spinning but that doesn't mean others can't love it!

Jesus....

Go Ape, paintballing, ten-pin bowling, Escape rooms