We all know those things that everyone claims to love…but secretly, most people might not actually enjoy. What’s something you think 90% of people are just pretending to enjoy? Share your thoughts below!
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Football. You are watching a bunch of overpaid prima donnas playing kick about with an inflated pigs bladder.
I watched a match once. Red shirts versus blue shirts. Apparently it was a crucial game because one of the teams could get some points or something. It was criminally boring.
Years later a supposed friend said I should watch another match, saying how important it was. White shirts versus orange shirts. Something to with having the world's biggest cup or something, and I had to watch it for patriotism and loyalty and love of my country etc.
I swear to you, apart from the different coloured shirts it was the exact same match I had watched years ago. Ooh look they have passed the ball. Ooh look they have lost the ball. Ooh look the other team have kicked the ball towards the wooden frame with the net. Fascinating.
I did feel sorry for the bloke in black, he was running up and down the pitch more than most yet he hardly ever got a touch of the ball! Very unfair.
It seems my whole town goes shopping on game day to load up on beer, as if enjoying it sober is not an option.
I feel the same way about NASCAR. 200 to 500 laps of "look! he made a left! Oh! he made another left!"
I was bored several years ago. I watched England play Portugal in the final of some important thing. Like you say, a bunch of people running up and down the field. Then there was extra time so they could do it a bit more. Then some extra extra time. And finally, getting sick of all of this, they just had a bunch of them line up and somebody else kick a ball through the people lined up. Whatever, Portugal won. Just think of all the trouble they could have saved if they did that end bit first. Get the winner declared after two minutes and then two hours for drinking beer/tea, which sounds a lot better to me.
My follow up rant on football, should anyone ask, is literally this! Make it penalties only, let's face it, this is the most exciting part of the whole sport, let everyone have a go, so they all have a chance to score, no faffing, get it wrapped up quick and everyone for an go about their day.
Load More Replies...American football is even worse. And due to the rules, one game can drag on for hours.
Not with you on this my friend. I love football. It's the drama and skill on display. You have to be invested in the outcome of the match though. If you don't care, then you don't. But if you put your heart into a team, as they approach goal you feel your hope start to soar. You see an opening in the play, and your adrenaline is pumping. They take their shot, but the keeper was too fast. Now your team is on defense, and that hope very quickly switches to anxiety. It's a rollercoaster of emotions, and very cathartic. Not saying everyone should love it, but I do. I have a few teams I am passionate for. My national team, Brazil, of course. Botafogo, my home team. And to a lesser extent, Arsenal, in your country. I grew connected to the team when I lived in London, and all my friends were fans. We'd go to the pub to watch matches, and watching them play reminds me of those good times.
Loud bars or clubs.
Who wouldn't want to pay $20 for a drink while dancing to the decibel equivalent of a jet engine as sweaty men try to grope you?!
Celebrity/influencer drama
It's the fact that 90% of people DO enjoy this that makes me sad for the world.
I think it's more like 30%, those who just can't shut up about it. Most of us don't give a f*ck.
Babysitting toddler grandchildren.
The wonderful thing about being grand parents. You can return them.
Load More Replies...Grandparents are well aware of active 3-year-olds and younger...despite the exercise.
Holidays (as a mom). I gave up the "I love this time of year!" charade last year when I was around other moms, and every single one agreed it's the worst (even the ones posting endless pictures of their godforsaken elves on shelves.
I am not a fan of the Christmas. It's too much pressure, particularly in having to travel to visit family. Halloween is where it's at.
I agree. The only thing I do for Christmas, now, is hang a four inch jingle bell wreath on on my door. However, I have a very eclectic collection of ornaments in storage. Many from Macy's on 34th St. so, some collectibles. Secret: go after Christmas and ask to get ornaments off of their display trees. Bees, I have as much Halloween as I do Christmas and many of them can cross over.
Load More Replies...I love Christmas/Yule. I have made some decisions about it that still gives me a sense of "this is my holiday". Since I'm Ásatrúar I don't decorate with angels but I go all in on nisser and other things that symbolises my faith. Also, I enjoy the melodies of most religious Christian Christmas songs but not the texts so I will just hum the melody when the rest of the family sings the songs. I do love the Christmas songs about how you celebrate Christmas and I will sing those. My fav Christmas celebrations, however, was the ones where I was alone. Those were Yule magic right there.
My extended family often ends up celebrating the weekend before, which is often on the solstice, which makes much more sense to celebrate to me. We've hit the shortest day, longer days are coming. Stock up on sugar and salt for the coming winter.
Load More Replies...We do Hanukkah instead and I'm not envious of the stress a lot of mums go through at that time of year, only to have most of the credit snatched by an old white guy in a red suit.
Being Alive.
I think most people, even in relatively wealthy societies, suffer stress and other negativities most of the time. We are chasing after desires that don’t really satisfy. Relief is only momentary before we feel the impulse to start chasing after the next thing. We are always either running away from something or chasing after something. And this very moment of being alive is lost.
This deserves more votes. It’s pretty profound, if you think about it.
I came to write this. For many (but sadly not all), childhood is great and fun and then the adult time starts and it sucks massively. You're supposed to go and perform and be great at something that allows you to "be successful" and friends become competitors, but you have to find one friend that's special to hook up with to make children because that's expected and then raise a family together while still being successful as everything changes around you. What if you're just not like that? Why can't I quietly sit under a tree and read a book, like, forever?
Actually, for the most part, you can. Sure you have to work, but choose not to have children or a partner and find that tree to sit quietly under. When you retire then you are free, forever. I'm just about there now myself and it's wonderful.
Load More Replies...I've adopted the philosophy that one of the highest purposes of life is to "Find Neat Things and Share Them". It helps. I'm chasing after things not to own them, but to experience them and bring them to my friends' attention. Helps me keep a modicum of perspective.
When Nietzsche said 'God is dead' it wasn't just in triumph over the Christiantiy he hated so much, but also in despair of the nihilism the would ensue. As I understand it he advocated 'amor fati', embracing life including all it's suffering. I've heard this described as 'life affirming nihilism'. How to practice this? Well, that's the question isn't it... The 'chasing after desires' may be a clue, as the Buddhists noticed some 2500 years ago.
The internet in general. It was fun back in the 90s, when only smart people and quirky, nerdy people were interested in it. As soon as business people figured out they could make money out of it, that changed. Now most people have to use it at work. And you can’t do even the most basic daily tasks without an app, an account, a password, and 2FA. It’s gotten so that if you make me log into an account, I don’t want to do [whatever.]
I just want to read an article! I don't want to have to create an account, give you all of my personal info, phone number and email so you can spam me infinitely, give you my first born and a leg of my turkey from Thanksgiving dinner! JUST THE ARTICLE!
The two factor authentication is one of my annoyances. I cannot bring my cell phone into the office and some websites will only send a code to or interact with your cell phone and no other way.
Getting so drunk you don't remember much afterwards.
I don't like the taste of alcohol and just thought people forced themselves to drink alcohol (and coffee) until they learned to like it. I had an epiphany in my 20s that I did not need to continue drinking to try to fit in.
That was a bit pointless as many don't want to drink alcohol when young find those people, they make less of a fool of themselves.
Load More Replies...Church.
That's not necessarily true. I'm an atheist, but some people genuinely enjoy religion. It gives people a community to be with and something to believe in. Same with other places of religious worship. Things can be taken too far, and that's where this is true.
This. Gathering of people who share the same interests and beliefs, help the community etc. can be a great thing. It's when they become a collective cult and when everyone in the parish knows everyone's business and the rector's cheating with the minister's wife and Mrs Snootibarker is the church gossip and... shall I go on?
Load More Replies...Being social for sociability's sake, not because you really like the person(s) and want to spend time with them.
Trust, if I don't want to be around you, I can ignore you so hard you'll begin to doubt your own existance!
The majority of young humans are ovine until they find their field in life
Wine and beer. Stuff tastes absolutely horrible.
Coldplay. The result of someone asking what musical beige would look like.
To me, Coldplay is a band created to make music for car commercials. And that's okay, their songs make excellent music for car commercials.
I remember the songs and music before the titles and the artists, except for the Beatles and some of their contemporaries!!! I know I am sure to enjoy Coldplay when I hear it...
They're not my cup of tea either but I don't care if other people like them. The older you get, the more you realise that people have songs/bands that are special to them for various reasons and it's not up to us to judge them for it. For example, I know someone who lost their young son who liked Coldplay. They listen to Coldplay sometimes to remember him by and I would never take that away from them.
Pants! 🤣 And kale.
I love pants. Skirts are drafty and my thighs rub together all the time
Is it part of the grand design that women's thighs rub together?
Load More Replies...Pants and long shifts are my regular wear. I don't even own a dress or a skirt. since my 50s. I am also heading too swiftly to 87
Any kind of tube that traps my legs is pants to me. 😁
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Load More Replies...Super hot food and jazz music.
I don’t like the particular kind of jazz that jumps all over the place; it gets on my nerves. Give me blues instead.
The best description of jazz I've heard is 'a group of musicians on the same stage, each one playing a different tune.
Load More Replies...I like jazz because it moves forward unpredictably and surprisingly like life itself. The dialogue between the players as they communicate through their instruments is wonderful and sometimes leaves me speechless with appreciation. I like mass-produced pop the least because it is refined to sound good but predictable. The lyrics are easy for the general public to relate to and the genre combines recycled melodies with slight variations. Many of them really taste like they are produced to make money for the production company. I may be in the minority if I view music more as art and art is not always beautiful and pleasant.
Ninety-nine percent of jazz is just a musical circle jerk, only enjoyed by the people participating. I know, different strokes for different folks. You probably hate the music I like too.
Traditional Jazz is wonderful for the soul if not always the ears. Real music with skill. I will give all chillied hot foods a miss now.
I believe we can reasonably assume Campy was not referring to the temperature.
Load More Replies...Jazz music people try to tell you how intellectual and sophisticated their music is, compared to whatever you like, as they secretly dislocate their jaw trying to hide a yawn while making you listen to it.
"Good music" is another name for "music I like."
Load More Replies...California reapers are tasty and about a million times hotter than a jalapeno
Death scrolling, unwanted invites, quiet time alone, influencer videos, pumpkin spice, matcha drink ( however you spell it).
Yes, there comes a point during the day when everything just sounds like it's blaring at you and you need the static to stop.
Load More Replies...Lmao there's all my introverts!!!! I knew the only way to weed you out was saying nobody liked quiet time. Now I'm done. I've had my fill of social interaction, have. A good one!
If I'm going to taste grass, it will be in the form of a sleep gummy.
Load More Replies...That would be toilet time for me. Once I pranked my ex hub when I went out for Thai food, in TX and he wanted it spicy. So when I went in I asked for Thai spicy, not American spicy. He was sorry that he got what he asked fir.
Load More Replies...Time alone RULES. Agree about all the rest, though. Pumpkin spice is fine in baked goods—it does not belong in beverages.
I have never tried matcha, the only time I tried anything pumpkin spice was in a Debbie cake It wasn't to bad, but meh. I get more excited over twizzlers or a heath bar to be honest.
Load More Replies...Dealing with babies/toddlers, even their own.
Fair. I love my kids, but occasionally I pray for temporary deafness; the riddler on 'coke-aine'* asks fewer questions. *For the poorly-trained sensor bot.
One well-behaved, beautiful, lonely child of one working Mum is not ideal, no matter bots an 'bums'
Load More Replies...S*x! Just the act is for most women absolutely not a pleasure, and men think they are overachievers!
Self-service….that way, you always get what you want. 😏
A fun fact that I just made up - Donald Trump is so narcissistic that when he makes love to a beautiful woman he closes his eyes and imagines that he's masturbatíng.
Load More Replies...Yeah, I thought the same thing until I found the right partner
I recently realised I must be a uuhhmm.... grey asexual? Is that right? Because yeah, I tried s*x a lot and never enjoyed it. I like it in theory (fantasies, getting turned on, masturbating etc) but actually having s*x? Nopes. Not for me. I have gotten three kids and I will also do it to please a partner. But it is not for me.
S3x, hopefully, should be a way to exalt your partner. To do the best *for them* that you can possibly do.
Is that so? Men do see women as s*x objects, by their means, it is inbuilt for good reproduction, originally, women...have their own perspectives, always have, always will and need to be true to themselves if not.
Patriotism.
And, oh look, patriotism is on the rise all over the place. The outlook is NOT great.
Patriotism is different from nationalism. The basic definition is: patriotism "I love my country". Nationalism: "all other countries are s**t and must be punished"
me
I'm not pretending, lots of people seem irritated when I start talking a mile a second
Load More Replies...We are often our own worst critics and our own worst enemies. Everyone has their quirks that are off a bit, but for the most part, us weirdos are special. We are the answer to most things in life. The proverbial "they" just wont listen.
Music festivals and camping there
I did an Alpine Valley WI Grateful Dead show in the late 1980s. Two days on, a day off and two days on. Oh that was a crazy wonderful experience. We got pulled over on the way home, by WI state police. They are N-P*o dudes and you pay or are jailed. Rachel was driving my car, we had 5 people in a Nissan Pulsar and the cop needed my permission to search. He opened the trunk and I looked at him and said "If you are going to take that all out to search it, then you have to fit it all back in." No search, they let us go. Rachel paid the fine, she was driving so it was all on her, even though it was my car.
I used to work there as a teen!! Unfortunately after grateful Dead stopped touring, but the Phish and Jimmy Buffet shows were everyone's favorite because the crowd was so fun. And possibly from the contact hígh... Best summer job ever!
Load More Replies...Camping, camping is more comfortable compared to many music festivals! But both are individual experiences; music makes many forget where they are.
Work.
Thats not necessary true. You just have to find the right type of work that you enjoy. I work in a kindergarten and I love it.
I loved being a translator almost more than anything until the industry died due to AI. It gave me such satisfaction and variety, every day. Now I'm a number-cruncher in logistics and will probably be replaced again by AI at least once before I reach retirement age.
Load More Replies... Nirvana. I get that they were a big thing wgen they started bc it was basically a completely new style. But for today they simply sound boring as f**k.
I think that most people like them because everyone around them do and because of Kurt Cobain.
I've got a theory that it was exactly this sound that hit the nerve of the era. The soundtrack of having no idea how the present situation should turn out in the future.
I think the word you're looking for is 'Zeitgeist' - "the spirit of the times".
Load More Replies...Every era was/is inspired by many well-known talented musicians and singers.
Sleeping in a tent. As an adult. I think my kids could have slept on a bed of nails
As an adult, I find ensuring the ground is adequately distanced from my body with reliable padding in a sleeping bag. It is getting out of and upright that has become the challenge of a lifetime.
Life. It's nothing but grinding cruelty.
I'm sorry you feel that way. I hope you find some little cracks of light soon.
No, man, overall, has been cruel in every race and society, from the own kind to the animal world. I am not biased; it is a fact. Some women's fractured brains rival those of men as well.
Agreed. This planet would have been so beautiful without humans destroying it all. We really are toxic waste doing terrible things to everything.
Bored Panda
For me BP is one of those "is what it is" places. I like the smaller and often quirky user base to interact with but it is still mostly just when I'm bored. And, "anyone can write on BP". I found this specifically looking for user submissions and not recycled content. Have a great day. 😊
What I like about BP is that you can agree with a person on some things, and disagree on others. It’s not all-or-nothing, and you don’t hate each other forever. Real life used to be like that, back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
I beg to differ because I’ve been on this site for years under 2 accounts and I was practically raised by the community. God knows where I’d be if I never met all the wonderfully kind souls on here
I hope you are doing well in the "real" world.
Load More Replies...I don't know if this is a joke or not but I am serious. Now that I am paying!!! to use bp only for darkmode because I only read at night...it has turned into the worst of what I believe is clandestine data mining disguised as quizzes (buzzfeed) and the worst celebrity bs (daily mail) and it is ALL recycled garbage from 3 years ago except for a small handful of new stuff some of it good but the stuff obviously written by AI is unreadable....and I will say it again I hate having that gd purple word premium appear next to my ""handle "" 10-4 good buddy ****which isn't to say I don't appreciate the hard work that goes into making a good riveting intriguing list there just aren't enough of them. You can continue to pander to this animal lover all night. I'm a sucker for all of that
No need to pay for dark mode. You can force dark mode onto BP for free. Copy and paste this link into the chrome browser: chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark
Load More Replies...A place I like to visit, except for their many demands for me to Whitelist to view, and turn off my ad blocker every time. Nope, it is there for a reason. I have to pay to have that. Keep giving me more or all choices with 'a light ad experience' on every Bored Panda post, and I will be happy too. Otherwise, I just delete. If BP can't offer that and why not all?
You know, certain things are obligatory: work and taxes, for example. But other stuff is entirely optional. If I get fed up with BP to the point where I pretended to waste my time here...well... NEWSFLASH! I can simply not. My browser doesn't force this on me. I can go scroll the long list of stuff I'll never watch on Netflix instead. Or look at all the gloom on a news site. Or take a Wiki walk. Or hop around some random SMBC. There's nothing *forcing* a person to be here. So, with that in mind, I don't think 90% of people are just pretending. I think they're just pandas, and they're bored. QED.
It definitely used to be much better. A few years ago there were no AITA posts or quizzes, much less celebrity gossip and so much more content showing positive content like: thrifting finds, woodworking projects, DIYs, and educational posts from medical professionals and scientists and professionals in other fields.
Working out it really depends on the workout. Running is absolutely terrible and I don't understand why people enjoy it so much and act like it's the most superior form of cardio. And salads can definitely be good with the right ingredients
Load More Replies...Working out it really depends on the workout. Running is absolutely terrible and I don't understand why people enjoy it so much and act like it's the most superior form of cardio. And salads can definitely be good with the right ingredients
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