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What’s a controversial thing you don’t like it than everyone seems to like?

742 replies

NoGoodUsernamee · 13/10/2022 21:20

I’ll start… dogs 😬 Never goes down well & I think if I owned one I’d probably grow to love it but in my eyes they just smell and dribble and are annoying. How about you?!

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boobot1 · 14/10/2022 06:35

Tsort · 13/10/2022 22:01

Roasts: when I first moved to England and was hearing people hype up roasts, I was SO excited. To the extent that I thought the first one I had was a joke. Like, why do you guys like them so much? It’s utterly boring food! (Someone will be along to tell me ‘I just haven’t had a good roast’. No, I’ve had roasts cooked by Michelin starred chefs and by people’s feted mums. I don’t like them.)

Full English breakfasts, ‘spag bol (an Italian nonna dies every time one of you makes this desecration of a ragu), pies, fish and chips. Basically all British food makes me want to barf. There’s a reason that, despite colonising much of the world, Brit food is pretty much nonexistent anywhere else. It’s just not very good.

Its funny I always think this about French and Italian food. Utter

Redfrangipani · 14/10/2022 06:38

boobot1 · 14/10/2022 06:35

Its funny I always think this about French and Italian food. Utter

I love baked dinners. My mother made the best using leg of lamb and mint sauce as well as gravy. I used to go to a Greek restaurant and they cooked a great baked dinner (a bit different) but very good.

ParentallyUnprepared · 14/10/2022 06:40

Maltesers.

Not even ashamed.

boobot1 · 14/10/2022 06:40

Sorry posted on its own🙃. Utterly boring food. Italian food in Italy was actually inedible and that was top restaurants. French food is just tasteless. Not keen on French wines either.

endlesscraziness · 14/10/2022 06:47

Butter

glittereyelash · 14/10/2022 06:52

Cake, avocados, beer, any of the soaps, spice bags, getting my nails done, buying clothes, modern houses, tiktok, channing tatum, Turkey at Christmas, Easter eggs, advent calenders, chain fast food restaurants.

EmeraldShamrock1 · 14/10/2022 06:55

The Kardashian clan.

DarkNecessities · 14/10/2022 06:57

Cake
Desserts
TV
Shopping
Beach/Pool Holidays
Cheese

Dollydea · 14/10/2022 07:00

Italian food

DarkNecessities · 14/10/2022 07:01

…. also
Fake Nails
Long Nails
Fake Lashes
Overstyled Hair

Smileandtheworldsmileswithyou · 14/10/2022 07:17

Sweet potato

CherryLongIsland · 14/10/2022 07:22

Chicken Nuggets, the smelly, blob shaped ones with the weird mushy chicken in.
Not the strips of normal chicken in breadcrumbs or batter

lightisnotwhite · 14/10/2022 07:22

Cockerpoos - ugly pointless dogs with all personality breed out of them.
Hobbies done in groups - walking, cycling, choirs, yoga . So needy.
Tea - herbal tastes of bad tap water and normal tea is like something 5 years old make in a mud kitchen.
Mud kitchens- used to give kids pans and dirt and say they were pretend cooking. Now it’s a “mud kitchen” with emphasis on the the equipment not the activity.

Thepeopleversuswork · 14/10/2022 07:25

Marriage.

Righthandcider · 14/10/2022 07:55

Almost all tattoos.

People saying they "want to be the best they can be" when all they mean is they want to be physically buff / fit rather than trying to be a better person.

Righthandcider · 14/10/2022 07:57

AND that fish face every single woman under 30 seems to pull when a camera comes out.

CuriousCatfish · 14/10/2022 07:59

Snuggling under blankets with a hot chocolate.

bloodyplanes · 14/10/2022 08:01

Alarm59 · 13/10/2022 23:51

Afternoon teas
baby showers
hen parties

I forgot about Hen parties and baby showers...absolutely detest them! Oh and gender reveals! So tacky!

Righthandcider · 14/10/2022 08:08

bloodyplanes · 14/10/2022 08:01

I forgot about Hen parties and baby showers...absolutely detest them! Oh and gender reveals! So tacky!

Will we have a whole new phrase in English, "The gender assigned to me before birth."?

YouSoundLovely · 14/10/2022 08:09

Dogs
Make-up
Clothes shopping... bloody chore
'Beauty treatments', esp when framed as some kind of indulgence
Beer
Gyms
New phones. I just want one that works and I'll use it until it dies
Matchy interior decor
Leather sofas - wtf?
Heels - sexist origins, terrible orthopaedically
Cruises
AI holidays
Hot weather (warm = good, hot = not so, although 'hot' begins for me at about 29°C)
Sandals

WireSkills · 14/10/2022 08:29

"posh" chocolate.

I don't even like Thorntons. Give me the cheap shite you get in Christmas ornaments or Cadbury's and I'm a happy bunny!

NicolaSixSix · 14/10/2022 09:09

girlfriend44 · 13/10/2022 21:31

Christmas
Adele
Lewis Capaldi
Strictly
Soaps
Ordering Takeaways online.

Lewis Capaldi?!?!??? Noooo! luv him

Hobbesmanc · 14/10/2022 09:33

Kettle chips- in fact any posh crisps. Luxury ends at Beefy McCoys
Festivals- just dirty and dull
Champagne- gives me heart burn
Beaches- who wants sand everywhere

Dotjones · 14/10/2022 09:43

Dogs
Drag (female impersonators, not NHRA-type car racing, I'm indifferent to that)
Gin (fine with other spirits)
Women's football (I know I am unreasonable but it grates how we're expected to love it now because there's women involved... when it was just men's football on TV it was fine to hate it)
Tennis/Sue Barker
Lidl (the shop is fine, the customers are horrible)
M&S (the shop is fine if expensive, the customers are horrible)
Reality TV

BaileySharp · 14/10/2022 09:49

Ha lots that others have already mentioned
Dogs
Drag
Coffee
Alcohol (I rarely drink at all now but I always only liked drinks that don't taste like alcohol)
Clubbing
Halloween is also really overrated but I don't hate it