doing things again, and again, and again....

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After a week with my parents, I think they're living in a groundhog day existence. They have the same things every week for food. (Monday fish, Tuesday pie, Wednesday stew etc etc). They have been on holiday to the same apartments on the same Greek island every year for about 20 years. Suggestion of a lovely hotel on another island was met with "Oh not Kos! We're Crete people!!" Inlaws the same - you can predict what meal FIL will have whenever we're out as he always has steak. And MIL always has salmon. SIL watches episodes of Friends constantly - she must have seen them all 20 times or more.

Why on earth would you want to watch TV programmes over and over, especially when there is SO much on telly to watch? OK, you might start watching a Scand-noir and decide it's not for you but you've not lost anything by trying. Do your homework on resorts and you'll find dozens (or hundreds) of little Greek fishing villages just as nice as the one you always go to. Is there anything less interesting than having such a rigid schedule that you know instantly what you'll be eating months in advance?

This is also partly what I dislike about Christmas. The telly, food, music, decorations, events are the same year after year and it's BORING. I would love to piss off somewhere where they don't celebrate Christmas just for a change.

Ahahahahahahaha oh OP, you’re talking absolute bollocks 😂

Onalongsabbatical wins the "Pot, Kettle, Black" award for saying I'm the patronising one.

I'm in my mid-40s, I've been around the block.

Just live and let live. They aren't hurting anyone.

I'm dead interesting, me. My friends find me funny, intelligent and multi faceted.

I eat the same food pretty much every day. And go to the same hotel on holiday every year. And do the same jigsaw every Christmas.

Doing stuff and being stuff are totally different things.

Yes, dahling, it was deliberate. I believe it's called irony.

And the ones who think they are interesting because they claim to never do the same thing, watch something or read something more than once, never visit the same place etc and have lived this wonderfully exciting life are usually the same people that talk at you rather than to you and despite what they think, are actually quite boring and a bit cringy

Meh. I have an active, interesting life; have lived here there and everywhere, but every year DH and I go to the same hotel on the same Greek island (and usually stay in the same room), I wear the same pared-down things every day of the week, I not only cook the same food repetitively but we can happily eat the same thing Mon-Thurs if it’s particularly tasty and I’ve made a large pot of it... doing all these things means that my time and mental energy can be spent on things that are more interesting to me.