# Have you ever been underwhelmed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 25, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764 "2024-11-25T16:43:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/221 "2024-12-15T20:08:02Z")
My wife has a collection of prehistoric implements. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/222 "2024-12-15T22:41:43Z")
As a child, I was underwhelmed by the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop when I was finally allowed to stay up late and watch it. I had somehow assumed that (1) everyone in attendance would be dressed in formal attire, and (2) the ball would actually **drop** - as in, someone would push it off a platform high above the square so it plummeted fifty feet and crashed into the blacktop below. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/223 "2024-12-17T03:39:22Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > My wife has a collection of prehistoric implements. Does she like photography? Snap Snap? Could be taken on Holiday! Nudge Nudge Wink Wink! ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/224 "2024-12-17T23:01:37Z")
IMHO, to really appreciate it you need to walk or bike over. The Golden gate is pretty impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/225 "2024-12-17T23:05:10Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > IMHO, to really appreciate it you need to walk or bike over. That is something I want to do sometime. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/226 "2024-12-17T23:18:48Z")
I have a feeling that in the end, the whole drone thing will be underwhelming, especially to some of the conspiracy theorists and doomsayers. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/227 "2024-12-18T00:53:14Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > IMHO, to really appreciate it you need to walk or bike over. The Golden gate is pretty impressive. I’ve driven over lots of times & walked across a few times. It’s a pretty setting. The world is full of those. It’s also a bridge. Humanity has vastly surpassed the GG’s scale in every way since it was built when my Dad was a toddler. FTR I’m old & he’s dead. So impressive in the patronizing sense of “Wow, those primitives were really a credit to their benighted condition.” I don’t get the worship, I really don’t. Not that you specifically were, but lotta folks do. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/228 "2024-12-18T01:05:12Z")
My family visited Watts Towers when I was about 8. So, the early 1960s. I still remember it, very cool indeed. Generally a bad idea to revisit your childhood high points, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/229 "2024-12-18T01:30:24Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Humanity has vastly surpassed the GG’s scale in every way since it was built when my Dad was a toddler. Wow, I guess you’re pretty hard to impress! I would disagree that walking or biking across is the way to “get it.” But if you can look out from the Marin headlands and not feel a deep sense of “someone had enormous balls,” you must drive a Tesla. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/230 "2024-12-18T01:35:11Z")
Yes, it’s ballsy. So are another hundred other sites. IOW … Impressive? Yes. Unusually impressive? Not really…The more of humankind’s works you see the less each of them stands out. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/231 "2024-12-21T02:02:10Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I did. I walked across and back. Across and back? No one can ever say you didn’t give the old bridge every opportunity. 🙂 San Francisco is just one of many places in California that I miss. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764/232 "2024-12-21T20:20:38Z")
As long as we’re talking Golden Gate Bridge… I took a cruise to Hawaii leaving out of SF, and I’ll tell ya, that ship just barely fits under that bridge. I was as high up as I could get as we passed under it, and I think I could have hit it with a rubber band. That was pretty cool, I thought. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-underwhelmed/1010764.md?page=11)