‘Nice’ Things That Aren’t Actually

[WheelieBinPrincess]

Just a random musing.

Breakfast in bed- lovely idea, reality is you need to get up for a wee and then a tray is plonked on your lap, and groggy from sleep you are supposed to exclaim in delight over bits of pastry flaking into your sheets and slopping coffee down yourself and trying to subtly get the sluggy bits of fat off the bacon because you usually just get medallions.

Relaxing massage- I went the other day and I kept thinking ‘I’ll switch off and enjoy it in a minute’ but just kept thinking about whether to get the tube or the bus home and if there are oven chips in the freezer or not or if I watered my peace lily last week and if not it’s probably died. Then it was finished and it cost me £80.

Anyone got anything they can add to things that sound so nice as an idea but in reality are just not really?

"Being pampered." Yuck. Take your hands off me and give me my money back.

[quote ThePlumVan]@ThumbWitchesAbroad OI OI !!

You’re all welcome but you’ll have to at least put the kettle on first [/quote]

In the thick of the pandemic - Online quiz night

Christmas markets and all other massively overcrowded seasonal events (firework displays, marathon, carnival etc). Sound fun, in reality one gigantic angry queue.

@Hoolihan

Christmas markets and all other massively overcrowded seasonal events (firework displays, marathon, carnival etc). Sound fun, in reality one gigantic angry queue.

Also farmer’s markets etc

@SunShinesBrightly

Cheese on toast. First bite is delicious, feel a bit nauseous after the next few.

Fish and chips - as above.

No. Sorry. Must object. What is wrong with cheese on toast?

I was enjoying and nodding along to this thread until then.

FAKE NAILS

FAKE LONG NAILS IN A NEON COLOUR

I don't get the hatred for baths at all. Left to my own devices I would spend my entire life in the bath.

@KohlaParasanda

"Being pampered." Yuck. Take your hands off me and give me my money back.

Being pampered = paying to be shoved into someone's armpit while they prod you inappropriately.

Cocktails, Dubai (Milton Keynes with hot weather and much better hotels) , Xmas dinner, picnics, BBQs, camping unless it involves glamping, most festivals (unless you are backstage) holidays to anywhere really humid(I get bit to death and just feel really crap)

All the Christmas confectionery that hits the supermarkets mid November and pollutes the world with an avalanche of plastic packaging.

Window1
Sorry!

What is a sex pond?!?!?!

A hot tub?

Dubai (Milton Keynes with hot weather and much better hotels)

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@Steelesauce

Days out with little kids. They tantrum and there's always some kind of drama. Always costs a fortune as they want everything.

I went to the zoo the week they reopened. I felt so sorry for the parents who had spent a fortune for a "lovely" day out. Every family we passed had at least one child crying or having a tantrum. It made me reflect on all the money I have spent on "lovely" days out with my 4 kids or my 6 GC. I swear I'd be rich if I'd just left them to play in the garden and they'd probably have been happier.

Afternoon tea - i'd rather have more sandwiches / savouries and the pastries can just do one. Especially with prosecco - it doesn't go!!!

In fact, just the scones would be fine. (Yes I know this is just a cream tea - that's fine by me!!)

I agree with nearly everything on here… except baths. I like a nice hot bath. Otoh I detest showers. Invigorating, my arse. We had a waterfall shower fitted, and I have not had a shower since. The water goes in your eyes, in your ears - it’s traumatic!

In hotels I inch into the shower suspiciously in case it’s one that’s scalding hot, or has the feature of only wetting half of you, with the other half shivering with a damp shower curtain rhythmically slapping your bottom.

@ravenmum

75% of avocados. The other 25% are delicious.

True. Same with mangoes.

Self catering holidays.

@Lovealovestory

Christmas markets. The theory is lovely but the reality not so much. Thousands of people shoving past you to look at tacky mass produced market tat.

I would feel like this if I was basing my Christmas market experience on any of the local ones around here, or even in central london. But I've been to a few in Europe and they were AMAZING. A lot less tat, or if it was tat, it was classy, wooden tat. Pretty much everyone in my extended family still has at least one "special" item from a Christmas market we all went to together about 20 years ago! In the UK, I've heard Winchester is good and Edinburgh too.

Yes yes to beauty treatments. I love a massage but everything else is a chore that I do because my feet are disgusting/my hair is grey etc.

Summer. Do not want.

@BlameItOnTheBlackStar

Yes I have and it was still a fucking rip off. How do people afford to drink cocktails all night? On a night out I'd have, say, six beers. Which would cost about £30. Six cocktails would cost more than the shoes I'd be wearing. It's absolute wankery. It's just a measure of alcohol and a mixer, maybe some random herb thrown in.

Because the idea isn’t to drink expensive cocktails to get shit faced. Have 3 or at a push 4 and that is quite enough. You are meant to drink them slowly and enjoy not guzzle it down like a fosters!

Online work social events - I've yet to go to one that actually works. Quickly becomes an exercise in who can make an excuse to leave the call fastest..

Carol singers at the door.
I don't like trick or treaters either and object to strange children and their parents disturbing me and begging for sweets.