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Daniel · 12 answers · 3mo

What is something you are convinced that people only pretend to enjoy?

People only pretend to enjoy really old or even really fine wine over less old or cheaper wine. If you give them a blind taste test, they'll never be able to taste the supposed advantage.

cheating. people who are cheaters themselves often say they wouldn’t care if they were cheated on. even if you’re polyamorous, a partner purposely leaving you out and hiding things from you would not feel good.

Employment, Weddings (when you're not particularly close to the bride or groom) and big events.

i swear NO ONE actually likes the dream smp anymore. other than one of my friends but everyone else? eeeugh

family vacations .... nobody enjoys it. Anger, stress, hatred and even violence is common. The battle usually starts in the open public while driving. And nobody has the same views, wishes and goals. Everybody enjoys different things that are mutually exclusive. So the more powerful or those with the more robust nerves get their will at the expense of the joy of others. That's dynamite on the short term. Not saying there are no families where that works well. But in the great scheme of things family vacation is miserable. Everybody needs time to recover afterwards and that should be a warning sign that things are weird.

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