Everyone is at a Spa with cocktails in hand!

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ChoccieEgg49 · 23/03/2024 16:12

On social media, almost every woman I know uploads photos of them at a spa day with obligatory cocktail in hand snaps complete with fluffy white robe. Is it a competition to look like you have friends/drink cocktails on a Tuesday afternoon/have a fun life? I rarely do these types of things with friends, if I do it's with my DH mostly.
Tbh I've become a lot more introverted and cba with trying to make my life look fun fun fun on social media. I don't do much with friends really these days, bar the odd coffee or lunch (not uploaded to SM)
I often wonder if many arrange these trips purely to 'upload' onto social media - or maybe everyone else's life really is much more exciting than mine 😂
All feels very showboaty imo. Or maybe I'm just a miserable perimenopausal old trout!

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KreedKafer · 25/03/2024 00:42

zingally · 24/03/2024 11:42

There's a lady on my FB who is just like this.

Honestly, she's not a friend. We were "friendly" at primary school, and went to the same secondary. But honestly, I've probably not had an actual conversation with her in 25 years.
She posts all the time, photos of her with gangs of indenti-kit women, with faces absolutely COVERED in make-up, lips-closed-bored-smirks, with glasses of wine in hand. I don't know who she thinks she's impressing. She's not living the high-life by any stretch. Like a lot of us, she lives in the next town over from the one we grew up in, and works in an local office. She's a bit over-weight, and her DH is very over-weight. She's not the hot stuff she thinks she is. All a bit weird.

What planet do you live on where going out with your friends and wearing makeup is somehow considered an attempt to impress people, rather than just, y’know, socialising and enjoying yourself?

What’s anyone’s weight got to do with it? Why do you think having friends, drinking wine and wearing makeup is somehow at odds with working in a local office? Are only wealthy model-like women allowed to like getting dressed up and cracking open a bottle of wine?

You sound so astonishingly bitter and resentful of a perfectly normal woman, doing perfectly normal things, that it’s actually blowing my mind. What’s your origin story? Did you turn into the person you are because your parents were murdered with a Pinot Grigio bottle by some women wearing slightly heavy foundation or something?

MrsTerryPratchett · 25/03/2024 03:00

BadLad · 25/03/2024 00:24

There's a lady on my FB who is just like this.

Honestly, she's not a friend. We were "friendly" at primary school, and went to the same secondary. But honestly, I've probably not had an actual conversation with her in 25 years.

She posts all the time, photos of her with gangs of indenti-kit women, with faces absolutely COVERED in make-up, lips-closed-bored-smirks, with glasses of wine in hand. I don't know who she thinks she's impressing. She's not living the high-life by any stretch. Like a lot of us, she lives in the next town over from the one we grew up in, and works in an local office. She's a bit over-weight, and her DH is very over-weight. She's not the hot stuff she thinks she is. All a bit weird.

Amazing post.

AmazingLY TERRIBLE, HATE YOURSELF

To misquote Pitch Perfect.

Lampslights · 25/03/2024 06:41

OffToBedforshire · 24/03/2024 18:48

The people I know with the most exciting lives don't post on social media anymore

Yup because the two are mutually exclusive.

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