Things that have been ruined by other people doing them to

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Was thinking this today when driving to work and taking one of my little shortcuts to beat the traffic. Only bloody everyone knows the shortcuts now so it doesn’t work! Damn them!

Anyone else care to share things that were great until other people got involved?

@Rejoin2020 - my DH does that.

apparently gin is on the way out, and rum is the new trendy thing.

Hasn’t rum been trendy for at least 10 years already? it’s pretty much all I drink when I go out if not whisky.

Likewise, TBBT, did the newer writers never watch the original episodes?

Yes yes yes!! The first few seasons are so much funnier than the later stuff. That teeth grindingly irritating thing they did to Raj’s speech was the nail in the coffin for me.

Ha ha, yes to DD’s name. Shot from pleasingly quirky to totally ubiquitous in about 5 years.

there are so many that are so disgustingly sweet

Sweet gin is an abomination!

My village. Used to be very small, peaceful and quiet. They've ripped up a field next to my house and are putting 70 new houses on there so it's constantly noisy, muddy, smelly and vastly unappealing. It's also going to completely change the village with 140 new cars expected.

I'm considering moving because I hate it so much.

Anime characters. They're exclusively used as avis by Twitter wrongmoes these days.

Weird one but drinks or serving trolleys.

I've always had a soft spot for a good art deco drinks trolley or a naff 1970s food serving trolley. I've collected them for years. I used to be able to get them free from skips or for single figure ££s.

Now they're popular the second hands (sorry vintage) ones are really expensive and they're fucking everywhere. My collection isn't quirky and individual and cool anymore, everyone's at it. FUCKERS.

@lastqueenofscotland 100% with you on the craft beer thing. I love sour beers and get so annoyed with places that claim to sell craft beer and only sell bog standard IPA’s. I wish more people would get into the more unique beers so they become more common place!

Venice, it makes me so sad what the cruise ships and day trippers have done to the place.

Prosecco, I have always drunk it but now it’s so popular you have to really hunt not to find cheap sweet shit. I agree with a pp Cava and Cremate usually a safer bet these days.

My hometown, it was a lovely wee place with rail links to the big city when I was a kid so always popular, but these days it has been swamped by ugly newbuilds and doubled in size so lost a lot of its charm.

I blame social media.
Years ago you could do things and scarcely anyone knew about it or what you were up to apart from your own family or friends. Now it could end up on in the Internet ( or they can find out about it themselves easily enough) and the mystic has gone ; that quiet hotel or obscure pleasant seaside town is now full up of people raving about it ; the reviews are good , let's go! No such worries back then! 😂

The gin thing is annoying!
I've always been a fan of the ordinary with plain tonic now it's all fancy and comes with raspberries (it's pink gin ) and ' infusions'
Whisky will be next for becoming trendy. 😀

The gentrified East end is a thing of wonder!
Very expensive too.

Agree re mumsnet. Was better 10 years ago tbh.

Sausage dogs. I hate this one as I now look like a young trendy thing out walking my 2.

@cologne4711

No the joggers assume there are no cars entitled to use the road ergo they are the ONLY thing on the road and in complete oblivion listening to their ipod. Quite dangerous really as every now and then you get a large vehicle trying to see if it actually is a short cut when the main road is busy. Or white van man delivering. They zoom along at 60 mph

Parking charges in my nearest big city are extortionate. But a few years ago, I found a really handy street with No houses which was on the outskirts, but had a bus stop and I could catch the bus literally to my office door. Bus fare was about £2 return as opposed to £15 a day in the city centre car park. No residents lived there to complain and there were no parking restrictions.

I did this little “park and ride” for ages and I was delighted that I was the only one who’d thought of it.

Except then, suddenly loads of other people started doing it too.

Fortunately I no longer work in the city, but if ever I have to go in, I can never get a space in the handy little street now.

My dgf lived in east london all his life-i lived with him for a while

different place now

I agree with the gin. I just want a Gordon's, Tanqueray or Bombay Sapphire with a slimline tonic. No frozen berries, no enormous strawberries and no juniper berries, just ice and a slice. I also don't want an enormous balloon glass or a straw.
My other bugbear is the previously cheap cuts of meat like brisket which is now not much cheaper than a regular joint of beef. And fish like mackerel ever since Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall et all started raving on about it, it increased in price by a huge amount.

It makes me laugh when people say 'their' holiday spots have been 'ruined' by other tourists. As if you have more right to be there than other tourists - you are all three for the same thing!

My MIL is like this - she went to Machu Pichu and said it was 'amazing but ruined by all the tourists'... As if she wasn't a tourist herself and there on some sort of special invitation!

My favourite day out place used to be just me and kids and a few hikers and dog walkers. It was bliss.
Now carpark full and full of yummy mummys and their posh pushchairs and couples and families and old people and everyone!!!

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Hill walking. I've been hill walking in the highlands of Scotland for nearly 40 years. At some point in the 80s Muriel bloody Gray did a TV programme about the Scottish munros and now every bastard is a 'munro bagger' with a tick list. They are all 'smashing it' and boasting about how many they've done and asking how many you've done. I don't know and I don't bloody care because that is not the reason I go into the hills you brainless, soulless, achievement obsessed over competitive twats. Gah!

@GabsAlot I second the cinema thing. When I was younger you’d get one or two trailers then the film.

Now you can’t watch any film without having to sit through half an hour of adverts!

I would avoid these and turn up later to miss them, but our local cinema doesn’t have allocated seating, so if you want a good seat you have to turn up before the adverts and sit through them in teeth-grinding annoyance.

I also hate how often the cinema will have adverts for itself- yes thanks, I know I’m in a Cineworld, I don’t need an advert in between every advert and trailer telling me I’m at Cineworld!

Photography. Back in the day film and developing was so expensive that people only took photos on holiday.

Now everywhere you go, if you want to take a photo there are hundreds of people posing by the thing you want to photograph, and you can't do anything without having to wait while all and sundry are taking their shot across the gangway.

Photos were a rare thing it's true , mostly because the carrying of cameras was a bit of a pain and developing them via boots or snappy snaps etc was expensive and could take weeks! Plus the costs of the films.
Digital cameras were ok but you then needed a PC or laptop to download them !
Now with most mobile phones it's so easy but it's lost its magic somehow ( only good thing is deleting the horrible / grim shots of me ones before anyone can see them I suppose!)
The photo albums of the past will become relics