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What is your idea of hell on earth?

609 replies

Aubreylights · 08/10/2023 23:33

So nothing biblical.

For me today it was ASDA, 1pm on a Sunday, event going on nearby so huge amount of traffic to get in, even longer queues inside, screaming kids, adults barging by you, having to queue for customer service.

Anything else would include cave diving, pot holing or being on a submarine.

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Twospaniels · 09/10/2023 10:27

Puffalicious · 09/10/2023 10:08

The disgusting perfume of my narc boss. I want to boke & slap her simultaneously.

Can you ask her not to wear that perfume? Tell her it makes your asthma worse or something.
I used to work with a lady who wore A LOT of a very floral perfume and it made me sneeze and gave me rhinitis. I asked her not to wear it to work and explained why. She was happy to oblige, although she changed to a different perfume but it didn’t seem to affect me as much.

StoneColdAlibi · 09/10/2023 10:27

Winter Wonderland in drizzly cold weather with a raging hangover, a really tight budget and whiney kids. Culminating with trying to get on a tube along with thousands of other people, meaning you're crammed in like sardines and way too hot in your coat/scarf/hangover.

MrsRobert · 09/10/2023 10:28

Giving birth.

ASCCM · 09/10/2023 10:29

MartyFunkhouser · 08/10/2023 23:36

Disneyland.

This.

but adding … with In laws 😩

Comeondelicious · 09/10/2023 10:29

hell on earth?

  1. being called laughing stock of the village
  2. how many of the dogs are in the house
  3. I agree re:: cruising, it sucks. prison with pools!! very funny!!
  4. grown-up evil stepchildren (1/3) 2 are nice.
  5. hoover hoover hoover... NOOO.
Nevermind31 · 09/10/2023 10:30

Busy soft play (throw on a stomach bug for free)
Amusement parks and arcades
any organised and prescribed fun (especially with ice breakers)
package holidays

mainly… where I have to mix with lots of people and not on my own terms

cherry2727 · 09/10/2023 10:32

School run!

Castlerock44 · 09/10/2023 10:33

A Blackpool tram, packed with holiday makers.

muddyboots · 09/10/2023 10:34

Open plan living.

GonnaGetGoingReturns · 09/10/2023 10:34

Valley Park/Fiveways (Croydon/Purley). Add in if it’s at Christmas etc…. Stuck in traffic jams and all to go to IKEA/cinema/other shopping areas!

Fortnum and Mason the other Sunday, afternoon, we arrived late so our fault but packed! up and down stairs, in and out of lifts! searching for afternoon tea but we were too late!

@UnNiddeRides agree 100% with car parks with up and down spirals, one near us in Bromley, pitch black inside… we use the one with the straightforward drive through now!

@DeeCeeCherry any part of Westfield Stratford is hell for me at any time! When it first opened my best friend lived nearby so I went there a lot. Soon worked out the location of the relaxing cafe place near an exit!

Snowdrop90 · 09/10/2023 10:34

Family friendly chain pub, with or without soft play attached

Baby showers

Being encouraged / made to stand up and clap along at a concert. I will clap on my own terms thank you 😆The people who get their phone lights out too make me shudder

54isanopendoor · 09/10/2023 10:34

We went to one (for a b'day party)
Once ...

48Times11 · 09/10/2023 10:35

CloudPop · 09/10/2023 09:41

And tell us a "fun fact" about yourself !

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yes agree.

I went to a stupid team building weekend (weekend FFS) in my last job and they asked us one by one to tell everyone why we worked for the organisation and what we loved about it. I had a total blank and blurted out the truth; 'I work for the organisation because I applied for 19 jobs and they were the ones who employed me'.

It was a shit job anyway. Not only did they like team building weekends we also had to go on a three-day 'welcome to the new CEO' event abroad that also covered a weekend... it was made clear that although it was 'optional' it really wasn't. And we had to pay for it ourselves.

Bassetlover · 09/10/2023 10:37

Hen do's and wedding receptions!

54isanopendoor · 09/10/2023 10:38

For me it would be compulsory ice breakers / work 'do's / 'fun' in any form.
Fun is spontaneous & individual. Once it's organised its less so. Once you have to join in or you're being miserable its not fun at all. On a bigger scale, theme parks etc. Disneyland (I'd just do the science bits, when it was empty).

Fightyouforthatpie · 09/10/2023 10:41

Having to work in that open plan office I used to work in with the woman who had swallowed a fucking megaphone and shouted every phone call (she made lots) thereby largely obviating the need for a fucking telephone.

Fightyouforthatpie · 09/10/2023 10:45

it was made clear that although it was 'optional' it really wasn't. And we had to pay for it ourselves
National Minimum Wage issue right there.

JoeyRamonesHair · 09/10/2023 10:47

Beaumaris and Bangor

Donkeyrides · 09/10/2023 10:48

loud parties/pubs
crowds
any type of festival or concert and theatre or show
driving anywhere on a weekend
Supermarkets
other people's children
being around very drunk people
public changing rooms at swimming pools
IKEA
queueing
owning any animals/pets
Family friendly chain pub, with or without soft play attached (stolen from @Snowdrop90)

GonnaGetGoingReturns · 09/10/2023 10:49

I have another one, Washington DC in height of summer. Humid as hell, just about got used to their subway system. Nice place but seemed very spread out.

I literally felt I would die with the humidity.

tenbob · 09/10/2023 10:53

A cruise

Both the idea of being contained on a boat for weeks but also being around the sort of people who love going on cruises

SunshineAndFizz · 09/10/2023 10:56

WhateverMate · 08/10/2023 23:44

Being made to go on a spa day.

I'm with you there. Hate them.

Darkmode2 · 09/10/2023 10:56

When you're staying with extended family and they suggest everyone goes for a walk even though it freezing cold and dribbling rain.

No thanks! Why would anyone want to do that?

5foot5 · 09/10/2023 10:56

Mikimoto · 09/10/2023 05:24

Living in a terraced house in Sheffield or Leeds.

Bit harsh.

My sister's first house was a terrace in Sheffield. I often used to go stay with her for weekends. It was quite a nice little place with friendly neighbours. The garden was tiny but she managed to grow some of her own veg in it.

I also had some University friends who rented a terraced house in Leeds for a year. Stayed a couple of times but can't really give an opinion on it as much drink was usually taken.

thegreylady · 09/10/2023 10:57

Being alone day after day