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.

Legoland

Pilates (i daren't even try yoga) makes me sick and dizzy and I got trapped nerves from it too.

Wild swimming in the UK.
It's cold, bloody cold. You have to wear your cozzie under your clothes to go, park somewhere awkward and trek to your chosen river or pond etc lugging your gear while your costume chafes under your clothes. The water is usually murky, freezing, you can't see where to put your feet, it's slippery/muddy/pebbly/uneven. You get pond weed wrapped around your ankles. Once you are done you have the hideous task of trying to get your sopping wet costume off under a flappy dryrobe in front of everyone else, dry yourself and get some clothes back on before you flash your bits or your fingers fall off from the cold, while trying not to step in the goose shit, which you inevitably do.
The only good bit to it is drinking a cup of hot chocolate laced with rum afterwards in the company of your fellow ruddy faced swimmers.

It’s not that deep ;)

Music festivals. Hate camping, hate portaloos, food and drink hugely overpriced, too many people, if you're at the back you're fucked, shit sound, the band/singer never does a full proper set, no sleep, no shelter from sun or rain, if you get dirty you're staying that way for 4 days, takes 5 hours to get out at the end of it, tickets stupidly expensive in the first place, you have to sit though a load of old shit for a handful of bands that you like (if that), too many drugs being consumed, people take them way too seriously and wear the wristband for months afterwards which is unacceptably lame.

BBQs. Standing around hoping to get some meat that is safe to eat and hoping the salads are interesting, Please,no one eat all the bread (is there even enough? the children (if small ones about) aren't poking everything and why have I got a paper plate? Can't we go somewhere where they grill lamb/beef/pork and serve it to you? And having read some MN posts there will be CF hanging about trying to make sure there are left overs that they can take home.

parkrun. I like running, I like parks. I do not like being made to feel inadequate by the super fast club runners after standing by myself, lining up with 500 other people, running round being yelled at to keep left, and then go home again. It is neither supportive or social at our local ones so I don't know why I tried so many times.
Food festivals. Pay money to go and buy food and then eat it sitting on the floor with wasps
I do like wild/outdoor swimming, but tried a much hyped Wim Hof day and it was absolute bollocks

Asmr bollocks videos. Creepy whispery voices, tapping(fucking tapping),wet mouth sounds(shudder) and slightly porny. I actually get asmr-like having my hair brushed, arms stroked, drawing with fingers on my back(like we did on the mats in infants), but that weird shite can get in the bin.

Festivals.
i love live music and they always seem such fun on tv but they are Miserable irl. Manky toilets, no sleep, no comfort, cold at
night and shit food

Has anyone mentioned C.H.R.I.S.T.M.A.S? (I have not read the full thread yet but the only thing I've seen mentioned that I don't also hate is walking, which I love).

I hate bloody Christmas. It's more or less unavoidable, it costs a fortune and it never comes up to expectations.

My list is long!

Christmas
NYE parties
Running
Cruises
Hen parties
Destination weddings
Bottomless Brunch
Stadium gigs
Music festivals
Pub crawls
Camping
Clubbing
Sunbathing

Park Run. Did Park Run. Did junior Park Run with children. Will never do again.

That happened to me! BPPV from dislodged ear crystals after an hour of downward dog and being encouraged to try a headstand on my first session. I had to take two weeks off work until the spinning stopped!

That happened to me! BPPV from dislodged ear crystals after an hour of downward dog and being encouraged to try a headstand on my first session. I had to take two weeks off work until the spinning stopped!

@YetiRosetti

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

That is just vile, does it often happen?!?

Cocktails - overpriced syrup, fruit juice and spirits

Fireworks. Garden variety and display variety. I've seen them before, I don't need to see them again. They're very boring.

Oh penises!! Absolutely. And the masks with the grooms face on them🤮

Oh my goodness - I’ve found my tribe!

I agree with pretty much all these. It’s not even the activities themselves - as pps have said, it’s the hype.

i think frankly it’s the 21st century that is the cause of most of these tedious ways of wasting our lives.

• Summer 'fun' days (bunting, loud squeaky tanoy, crowds, hot, wasps, forced fun/money drain)

• Summer, particularly an Indian Summer in late-September/October, when it should be nice and autumnal.

• Parties

• City breaks

• Meal prepping (takes so long and then there's soooo much mess afterwards)

From what I've heard, you get food but not unlimited, but you can have unlimited jugs of cocktails or prosecco and everyone gets bladdered 😂 would probably have loved it in my 20s but not now I'm in my 50s!

I thought it was an all you can eat breakfast. Very disappointed now.
It can get in the bin with holidays and Christmas and organised fun

Don't mind yoga but I gave up as got so embarrassed as I fell asleep each time at the end relax bit (young kids and not much sleep)

Disneyland. Absolute shite.

Everything that everyone has said except this.