# Things That Are Overrated **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505 "2013-01-27T01:54:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/1 "2013-01-27T01:54:47Z")
What I think is overrated: Sex under water Beer Long hair Thong underwear Professional sports Those Twilight kids California Potato salad Obviously, YMMV. What do you think is overrated? ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/2 "2013-01-27T01:59:36Z")
hey guys stop liking things I don’t like ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/3 "2013-01-27T02:04:30Z")
The ignore function, otoh, is highly underrated. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/4 "2013-01-27T02:07:01Z")
Sex under water - you’re doing it wrong Beer - you’re drinking it wrong Long hair - you’re wearing it wrong Thong underwear - ditto Professional sports - you’re watching it wrong Those Twilight kids - they are wrong California - them too Potato salad - you’re making it wrong ---
**Author:** ![steviep24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@steviep24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steviep24)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/5 "2013-01-27T02:09:04Z")
Most pop stars ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/6 "2013-01-27T02:09:34Z")
They’re just my opinions. It was a thread to see what your opinions are, not so much to seek correction of my opinions. I see there’s a thread is Cafe Society about what foods other people like but you don’t. I don’t see people going in there to correct the OP and tell him that he should like the things he doesn’t. Maybe _you’re_ doing it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/7 "2013-01-27T02:12:41Z")
Getting what you want. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/8 "2013-01-27T02:21:55Z")
Being the first to have sex with a female virgins. What the heck is it with all the men who have had this focus on virgins? Logically a woman with more experience is going to be better. ---
**Author:** ![desertmonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@desertmonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desertmonk)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/9 "2013-01-27T02:23:14Z")
You are wrong about thongs, OP. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/10 "2013-01-27T02:23:47Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > They’re just my opinions. It was a thread to see what your opinions are, not so much to seek correction of my opinions. I see there’s a thread is Cafe Society about what foods other people like but you don’t. I don’t see people going in there to correct the OP and tell him that he should like the things he doesn’t. Maybe _you’re_ doing it wrong. My apologies it was meant to be a joke. So, in the spirit of the OP. Expensive weddings. Breaking Bad. Anime. Pasta Most anything with Indie in its description. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/11 "2013-01-27T02:25:54Z")
Anything that makes the cover of People, Entertainment Whatever, the View or any of those TV, print or media shows. I’ll automatically discount and reject any of the above as being not only overrated but probably utterly worthless. /snob maybe and ask how big a shit I give about your opiinion. Hint: none. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/12 "2013-01-27T02:30:30Z")
The movie “Fargo.” ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/13 "2013-01-27T02:32:48Z")
The Olympics as a forum for nations to engage in healthy, non-violent competition and exchange respect, and foster communication and cammeraderie Thank God for the Olympics then, or else the 20th century would have been a fucking bloodbath. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/14 "2013-01-27T02:44:10Z")
I think the Porsche 911 is over-rated. The CEO of the company, Ernst Furmann, wanted to dump the model in the 1970s, but the Porsche family (mostly Ferdinand Piech) fought it because it was the last model designed by one of the family (Ferdinand “Butzi” Porsche, who just passed late last year). By the 80s, Fuhrmann had been pushed out and a new CEO brought in who spent tons of money and research re-vamping the model, culminating in the 993-derivation that showed up in 1994. But Fuhrmann was right - Porsche’s best work has been the cars they’ve designed without being restricted to the 911. The mid-engine 914, the 944/968, the 928, even the Boxster/Cayman have all been dynamically superior and potentially better cars - and Porsche always hamstrung them so the flagship 911 would stay on top. The cars that came after the 993 are basically 911-shaped versions of what Fuhrmann wanted to do in the 70s: water-cooled, high horsepower, luxury GTs. ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/15 "2013-01-27T03:01:02Z")
_Arrested Development_ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/16 "2013-01-27T03:14:05Z")
The miniseries _Rome_. I was just reading the thread were recommending TV series and several people mentioned this one. Some even said it was one of the greatest shows ever. It didn’t work for me. I found it barely watchable. I felt it took really interesting events and reduced them to just a soap opera. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/17 "2013-01-27T03:19:09Z")
Pretty much every one of life’s “big events” There is the build up. The anticipation. The work/luck to get there. Then it happens and meh…that was nice and 5 minutes later its back to life as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/18 "2013-01-27T03:29:12Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > What I think is overrated: > > Sex under water Too boyant! > [@](#): > > Beer gross > [@](#): > > Long hair Well obviously you’re not a black man because they love long hair so much. > [@](#): > > Thong underwear Yeah, that one ain’t happening. > [@](#): > > Professional sports. > Those Twilight kids > California > Potato salad Well, potato salad is fairly good if they don’t ruin it with pickles. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/19 "2013-01-27T03:32:53Z")
Liberalism. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/20 "2013-01-27T04:08:08Z")
Funnel cakes. After the fourth bite, you just wanna die. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505.md?page=2)