Things that are unsatisfying

Every episode of Ghost Hunters.

They never find ghosts. They just hear noises.

Pancakes. They look good, but after a couple of bites, you realize they're just tasteless globs of dough.

Seeing Trump walk away completely unscathed after getting 34 felony convictions and multiple felony indictments.

99% of drag shows - same old thing over and over

The Democratic Party.

Presenting hole. I keep doing it because of the advice of DL, and people aren't impressed. I'm not allowed back in White Castle.

Watching Naked and Afraid and hoping they'll miss a crucial blur on a hot guy's privates, but they never do.

Sex with Matt Bomer.

Checking into a hotel in the 1990s, paying for the X-rated movie, and realizing they've edited it to cut out any shots of the guys' cocks.

New music from Mariah Carey.

Marry me, OP. Let's watch commercials on streaming channels and whine about potato chip shards together.

Bakery items. They look so very pretty, but rarely taste as good as they look. I think that's because I bake myself and tend to use ingredients I know will yield the most tasty results.

High school prom.

Life after college.

The Alamo.

Kale chips.

Mediocre pizza

Overhyped movies

A hot daddy who speaks like a 12 year old girl

Cheap ice cream/gelato where one can taste the corn syrup and additives. I can eat a whole gallon and not be satisfied.

r12 "that's because I bake myself"

That's hot

Things that are unsatisfying?

Gentleman callers that are not really tops?

Gentleman callers, who failed to show or reschedule their dates with me.

Gentleman callers that are premature ejaculator.

Gentleman callers who forget to bring champagne, Belgium, chocolates, and roses to my abode.

Opening a DL thread and finding nothing entertaining.

Most American wilderness and scenery east of the Rockies.

80-90% of new movies.and TV shows

Most gay themed movies or TV shows

R22'S, the vast majority of American ones, agreed.

The Champs Elysees.

R23 an important clarification. Thank you!

My husband!!!

Ice cream that’s been allowed to thaw in the store freezer and is then refrozen, unbeknownst to the customer. You can tell, because it’s full of bits of ice.

The current administration. Now that's a whole lot of unsatisfying.

Being molested

Biting into an apple. I used to love them. I haven't had a good one in years!

Pump-and-dumps.

Consciousness

Hooking up with a verse bottom.

Leftists.

Watching Sound of Music for the 100th time and insanely hoping the Captain wises up, marries the stylish Countess and sends Maria back to the convent. Alas, it never happens.

Lately, it’s rare to have a good meal in a restaurant. Even expensive-ish restaurants have gone to shit.

I haven’t been to a true “fine dining” restaurant in years — maybe they are still ok.

The lack of angles on the Charlie Kirk video.

Life.

Handsome straight friends. Holly fuck they are so pretty and unavailable. Damn, they smell so good to me. I’m a dirtbag, sorry.

R39 here. He’s a more beautiful version of Jim Carrey and he is adorable. It sucks that he is straight. I’m trying to be a good friend, but I fail. That is such a hot body. Damn.

R12 I have never bought a cake as good as one I can make at home.

Meals at most restaurants. Fast food, pizza places, mid range chains, even mid range mom and pop. All run by teenagers or college age kids and producing subpar food with their only goal being to guilt trip people into paying outrageous tips being pushed on a tablet.

And yet, they are tortured, R42. It is home cooking foe you. You will always nead Rwgono;. It shows up in Recopies>

American politics outside of California.

Pringles. Contrary to advertising slogans, I can stop after I pop.

Why is that a dry taste, R45? Yes, they are tasty, but there is an after-taste that stays on the tongue. I gave up on them.

A Big Mac, fries and a shake at McDonalds. They used to be so delicious. Now they're crap and the large shake which used to be humongous is a small. And wow the price tag and the restaurants have been painted industrial grey. I keep thinking I want my fix and then I realize it's turned to shit.

Soap opera return from the dead story lines.

R48 - It's never as satisfying as when it happens in real life.

Getting older while the world collapses around you.

R48 must be watching General Hospital

I wonder if the food quality of McDonalds actually declined or we just all developed taste buds and got tired of crap food that hasn’t changed in 50+!years.

Luxury hotels. I can’t stop thinking that I could have gotten something 80% as satisfying for less than 50% of the price.

Completing a life goal or long-term project. Anticipation has long since eaten up Reward.

[quote] but there is an after-taste

That's silly, there is no after-taste.

[quote]Completing a life goal or long-term project. Anticipation has long since eaten up Reward.

Yes. I recently lost 37 pounds. 5 more to go to my goal weight. I don’t feel one bit of happiness about it. (Though I physically feel better— no more joint pain.)

I didn’t used to be like this.

many formerly much appreciated well made luxury items. Unsatisfying in 2025.

Posting on DL because I keep getting banned. I thought the whole concept was pointless bitchery but perhaps not. Yes I know I can just leave.

r35, Captain von Trapp was never going to stay in Austria after the Anschluss because he would have been drafted and had to fight for Hitler. So thr Countess would have ended up with all his stuff while he herded his spawn over the mountain alone. Plus no musical career.

"Posting on DL because I keep getting banned."

And not knowing why you were banned, or by whom. I really want to know what delicate, hot-house flower I offended, so I can make sure I do it again and again and again, just to irritate the fuck out of the asshole.

R52, the food quality has taken a nose dive. I think people still go there because their memories allow the current food to taste like the food they remember.

I worked at a McDonald's in 1978. The food was actually cooked on grills. There were empty cartons of eggs in the garbage because the breakfast egg dishes were made from fresh ingredients. Now, other than the fries, nothing is cooked fresh. Burger patties come out of some warming drawer as do the buns. The chocolate shakes were made from cartons and put into the blender. Now, they are so sweet and there's not even a HINT of chocolate flavor in them.

A bad adaptation of a beloved original work.

Thinking of you, “Day of the Jackal” (2024)

Earrings

CAFTANS!

Everything

Fruit that doesn't ripen properly. Goes from unripe to rotten without a "good" stage.

There’s no basement at the Alamo!

The inability to edit or delete posts on DL.

Playing mahjong with the ladies of The Joy Luck Club as a transracial Chinese lesbian. None of my stories of hardship as a cisgender white male seem to be very impressive.

The sex lives of most heterosexuals!

Avocados that are all black inside, stringy or mushy. Especially after you waited for days for them to be ripe enough and then you missed that 15-minute window.

Onion or garlic powder - granulated works, but the powders are shit.

Also, Bond No. 9 Soho. Their other perfumes are awesome. I didn’t care for this one. The swirly bottle design was offensive to the eye and the scent faded too soon. I went back to their Lafayette. It’s a friendly, optimistic, non-sexy scent. It has an original Lagerfeld vibe.

NYC winters. It's been decades since we've had a super heavy thick blanket of snow made by big fluffy Christmas-Card cotton-ball flakes. If we get any snow at all its little icy wet flakes and a thin snowfall that turns to grey slush in a day.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, specifically the balloons. There were commercial character tie-ins from the start, but now nearly all the balloons are corporate logos.

If you attend it you will find there are huge empty stretches of boring between the bands and floats.

Contemporary American fiction. Just not my thing.

Overpriced crappy concessions at arenas and sporting events.

Masturbation. I can't even satisfy myself!

Relationships in which the other person has zero empathy.

Food quality at American McDonalds has declined to the unsatisfying zone.

This becomes apparent when dining at McDonalds in a country with strict controls over ingredient quality. It can be almost tasty like the old days in USA. Still, the texture has become "mushier" as a marketing choice.

Ah, Babylon isn’t what it used to be. The temple boys these days don’t even speak proper Akkadian. Half of them can’t declaim a single hymn to Ishtar without checking their tablets. Back in the day you could find a proper temple youth, perfumed in cedar oil and quoting Gilgamesh. Now it’s all rough trade from the upper Tigris!

R79 Thank you 😂😂😂

Brain drops on roses and liquor in kitties,

Being stung by nettles and big phony titties,

Brown paper packages flaming with shit,

These are some outrages giving me fits...

Emojis debase the esteemed contribution of R79.

You need to ask?

You want to make brownies and discover ants in the bag of granulated sugar AND it’s raining very hard out.

Emojis debase a contribution? OK, noted. I just wanted to say thank you.

[Imagine what I'm really thinking about R82's pointless bitchery but I don't want to get banned again.]

My pleasure, R85 R80.

--R79

R84, use a strainer & your sugar will be as good as new.

[quote] Emojis debase a contribution?

🤷🏻‍♂️

When I watch a movie I loved as a child and find that it's stupid and boring. Especially horror movies.

Not enough salt can defeat anything -- vegetables, chips, my mood.....

Most melons.