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Bluesheep8 · 14/10/2017 17:34

OK, share things that "everyone RAVES about" but when you tried it/went there/ate it etc it left you properly underwhelmed and you've almost ashamed to admit it. Don't need to give details or reasons, just name THE THING
I'll start........

Australia

OP posts:
MrsPeel1 · 15/10/2017 08:48

Pubic topiary

Babymamamama · 15/10/2017 09:17

Action films
Science fiction films
Films based on cartoon characters
And obviously Adele and The Beatles

TheVanguardSix · 15/10/2017 09:22

Beyonce

TheSnowFairy · 15/10/2017 09:27

Coffee (even the 'proper' stuff).

PolkaDottyRose · 15/10/2017 09:28

Michael Kors handbags - everyone has one, but I don't see the attraction (and the price!)
Hotel Chocolat - expensive, tasted ordinary.
Sex in the City - just no.
Cloudy bay wines - taste like burnt rubber/plastic to me.

TheCatsMother99 · 15/10/2017 09:32

Beyonce

Iwanttobe8stoneagain · 15/10/2017 09:32

Slimming world ended up
Gaining weight/ developed lifelong hatred of muller lights (there's got to be some sort of backhander going on here). Any Michelin star place I've been to. Poncy people poncy food. No matter what you earn if you're a carvery kind of girl you're a carvery kind of girl

Brittbugs80 · 15/10/2017 09:39

Adele
Times Square (bloody love the rest of NY)

Beerwench · 15/10/2017 09:40

This might earn me a few Shock but
Game of Thrones
Just couldn't get into it, the book nor the TV series.

bagelbaby · 15/10/2017 09:43

Cath Kidston
Prosecco yuk

Super Matt lipsticks

Sunday roast dinners at a local pub

splatattack · 15/10/2017 09:45

Pirates of the Caribbean...all of them, including the first one.

candlefloozy · 15/10/2017 09:45

Gin.
Wine.
Cars.

SapphireSeptember · 15/10/2017 10:02

Modern art is a load of shite, I went to the British Museum a few years ago and someone had done some paintings of shapes in primary colours, so square, triangle, circle, etc. FFS, go to any primary school in the land and you can see the exact same thing! What happened to pretty pictures and the portraits of people that look so realistic you expect them to move? I get up to the Impressionists before I get bored.

Alcoholic drinks, I no longer drink them and I can't say I miss them, ditto coffee, I tried a sip recently and it's so bitter! Yuck! And people who claim to be passionate about coffee can fuck right off.

I like Harry Potter, but the books are full of plot holes, I thought the last two were dire, the films were terrible, and most of my favourite characters were killed off. I still haven't forgiven JK Rowling for that! And then there's all the extra stuff she keeps babbling on about, shut up! (Which I've ignored, because I'm a rebel.)

Designer anything, keeping up with fashion, overdone make up and all the Instagram rubbish that seems to push the terrible make up that's trendy. I love make up, but I do it in my own way, which is probably the wrong way according to everyone else. I also got rather annoyed a while back because for several years whenever autumn rolled around Goth stuff would be in fashion. They seem to have got over that now.

Game of thrones, just no! I've tried to read and watch it, but I can't stand it. It's too depressing.

Reality TV and reality TV 'stars', go away! And all these TV programs about making stuff. You could just make this stuff yourself, you know.

Styling my hair, it's long, yes. All I do to it is wash it and brush it, occasionally I'll put it in a bun or ponytail. I don't dry it, straighten it or curl it, or do anything to it that requires anything other than shampoo and conditioner.

Oh and dogs, and the kind of people who insist you must love their mutt as much as they do. I have no desire to be covered in dog hair and to smell like dog. There are some rather random people where I live who try and sneak their dogs into places they shouldn't be. (Guide dogs have a job to do, that chihuahua that's just taken a dump in the bank does not. I suppose at least their owners cleaned it up. Same woman and her daughter took their two dogs into New Look and got kicked out, and weren't allowed into Poundland at all. I just don't understand!)

maddiemookins16mum · 15/10/2017 10:05

Tracey Emin's 'bed'. Euugh.

poppym12 · 15/10/2017 11:13

Christmas
Selfies
The Royal family
Camping
The coconut oil obsession

Steaksauce · 15/10/2017 11:16

Nespresso/Tasimo machines.

I stayed in a hotel that had one in my room. I though “ooooh perfect! I’ll try this”

Waited fucking ages and it was absolutely rank.

And they’re wasteful.

I agree with whoever said sex and the city. What a shit program.

Peanut anything. Why would you ruin a perfectly good kit Kat by adding peanut butter to it?

ladybirdsaredotty · 15/10/2017 11:16

Ikea
Camping
Box sets that are too long (Once Upon A Time)
Putting toddlers-plus in a sling. Everyone else can do what they like but it hurts my back, no matter how brilliant the sling/carrier
Hot (as opposed to warm) weather
BBQs (although I'm veggie so they're really not worth the faff)
Theme parks over the age of 18 or so. I used to LOVE them but now the queues are too long and I feel sick.
Going most places in the school holidays, although now I have a school aged child I do make the effort.
TV soaps. Always amazed at people I otherwise get on well with finding them thrilling.
Ditto 'chick flicks'/'chick lit' (definitely NOT 'lit')
Big parties for adults. Organising kids' ones makes me anxious enough (obv I don't let that show!), I definitely don't want 30 people to celebrate my own birthday!

Sometimes I feel too introverted for the world.

chipscheeseandcurrysauce · 15/10/2017 11:18

Starbucks. It’s overpriced and the coffee is mediocre.

HolidayHelpPlease · 15/10/2017 11:26

Costa (always get burnt beans and sickly seeet milk)
Sainsburys (I don’t know if it’s the layouts, or the orange or what ever but I don’t ‘get’ big sainsburys)
The Cursed Child.
Days off work sick.

ladybirdsaredotty · 15/10/2017 12:07

Oh yeah, and baths. I SORT OF get it, but I need a shower afterwards to actually feel clean.

LIZS · 15/10/2017 12:10

Wetrooms

BiscayTrafalgarFitzroy · 15/10/2017 12:25

Breaking Bad
Aperol Spritz
Also, Pimms urghhh

Catra · 15/10/2017 12:27

I can tell you with utmost clarity the cavalier Spaniel on my lap is not trapped and if I "set him free" he would get run over or starve to death.

Of course he wouldn't survive if you set him free because as I said, for aeons humans have domesticated animals for their own selfish reasons. I'm sure your dog has a happy life with you because he doesn't know any better.

GabsAlot · 15/10/2017 12:39

whats an aperol never had one

bloody harry potter hes a wizard-and?

Herja · 15/10/2017 12:48

Doctor foster
Boden
Call the midwife
Harvey nichols
Prosecco
That horrible hush tube skirt that was all over hear last year
M and S food

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