Things that sound nice but actually aren't

[WeeAgnes]

I'm putting forward Fruit teas.
Some of the combinations sound so promising and positively delicious.

In reality, they taste what I imagine drinking pot pourri to be like.

And then some bloke gets out an acoustic guitar and insists on singing to everyone.

I don’t like eating outside much. Even if it’s warm and sunny or your on holiday , it feels wrong. I know people love it and it’s meant to be pleasant , but I do prefer being indoors really.

I don't usually like it either. It's OK if the sun isn't in my eyes and if there's no annoying breeze.

@EstoyRobandoSuCasa@the80sweregreat Urgh I hate Al Fresco. Flies, ants, too hot or cold or breezy (my immune system is dysfunctional). I much prefer a cosy old dark pub with a fire, cushions & atmosphere that I can sip the odd glass of red in whilst I eat.

That sounds lovely! I hate tent camping because it is a cold, hard, bad night's sleep. But I do love the rest of camping - being out in the open air, watching the stars etc. A really good campervan sounds like the best of both worlds.

It is! I can't recommend it enough if you like the nice camping bits. And you can go all over Europe.

Last time I went camping, I had a thick airbed and a thick duvet. I slept better than I ever do at home.

Oysters. DH loves them and queued for 45 minutes to get some on Christmas Eve, despite having ordered them well in advance.

I think they are like sea-flavoured snot.

Sitting outside on your lunch break during hot weather/heatwaves….. No thanks as then I have to go back in, all sweaty and uncomfortable in my work clothes.

Also heatwave related - those annoying headlines that “Manchester is warmer than Barcelona today” or people laughing that you happened to be on holiday during the only hot week in the UK. As if I’d forgo the chance to be on a lovely holiday instead of taking the opportunity to be here in my non-air conditioned house.

Eh? You work that out in advance, why would you need to be wasting the actual weekend don’t something you should have figured out before you got there? That’s if you even need to use it, though. Most people on a city break choose them because they DON’T need to use transport once they’ve arrived. All the things to see and do are usually in the city centre.

obviously large cities are different, such as London, Barcelona etc, but even then plenty of people love to walk between places. Rome is an example - you don’t need public transport as all the main sights are walkable.

Hot chocolate - watery crap
You've just had rubbish hot chocolate. Nobody likes watery chocolate.

Olives. Yuk.

Wrong. They are like shrivelled labia from a corpse that’s been lying at the bottom of a pond for 50 years. They are not food.

Absolutely. Glad I'm not the only one.

We went to Amsterdam - the city centre hotels were so expensive, we had to stay a bit further out, so transport was a real issue while we were there.

Kumbaya.

It is always Kumbaya...

It’s always fizzy pineapple 🤣🤢

"Breakfast in bed" apparently sounds nice to some people, but the reality is very uncomfortable indeed and results in a bed full of crumbs and spilt tea etc.

"Marriage" apparently sounds nice to some people, but best to read dozens of daily threads full of misery on Mumsnet before you take the plunge.

@Leavesandthings yes ! I went to a sort of spiritual thing up in the mountains, an all night vigil and celebration of some auspicious thing (forgotten what !)
But we were pretty high up so were actually in cloud cover ALL the time, and it rained ! I was freezing but they got the fire going as that is a very important part of the 'ceremony'. However I couldn't get near it because of the smoke, and as an asthmatic it was very far from ideal. It was ghastly. I couldn't warm up at all. And everything stank of damp wood smoke the next day. I used to love the smell of bonfires when I was little, burning leaves (and things !) But never affected me like this one did 🥺

Or a total butchering of Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman.

And mushy, tasteless papaya. It wasn’t until I visited a country that grows papaya that I realised how delicious how delicious it can be.

😁
And the ones who all seem to think they magically morph into Ed bloody Sheeran the minute they get a guitar in the hands.

😂 I wondered what that rank pap was, thought it was off mango. It smells weird.

I see your kumbaya, Dylan and Sheeran wannabes, and I raise you...

Extremely middle class, white men with dreadlocks singing about anarchism 😂
Would you like some deep cringe with the smoke in your face?!

That does sound bliss. I love sleeping outside. I just hate being cold and I hate hard beds.