# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/41 "2013-01-27T14:38:50Z")
I like long hair on girls but I don’t have it myself. It’s not that I think I’d look bad, it’s that I get headaches unless I buzz my hair very closely. But I also agree that big boobs are overrated (well, not on guys, cause they’re bad on guys too but they’re not overrated :)) > [@](#): > > Red wine. (actually, most alcoholic drinks) Most alcoholic drinks _except_ red wine. Okay, and around half of all red wines as well. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/42 "2013-01-27T15:13:17Z")
Cookie dough anything, other than, of course, for baking cookies! In ice cream and milkshakes? Let it go already. Also including green tea (next it will show up in detergent !), and ultra high caffeine drinks! ---
**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, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/43 "2013-01-27T15:55:50Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > K well are you a woman with long hair who dates black men? Obviously not because if you were, you’d have heard it eleventy billion times. I bow to your experience. I’m not a woman, nor do I have long hair (I’ve practically no hair - I trim it scalp close), but as a black man I’ve been in innumerable conversations with other black men about what’s attractive. A great deal of it was summed up by Sir Mix-A-Lot (though that’s not my own preference), but the talk has ranged over the whole of female anatomy and long hair hasn’t come up once. Hence my own “yeah, right” reaction to the above. I’m thinking age might be a factor, as I’m in my 40s; long hair isn’t common in my age group. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/44 "2013-01-27T17:39:02Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Texas, faithfool? I hardly know a soul who doesn’t throw up in their mouth when that wretched state is mentioned. > > Maybe they’re STILL overrating it, and they should be performing seppeku when it’s mentioned instead. It’s mostly overrated for natives. If you lived here, you’d choke on the ridiculous amount of state pride. It doesn’t just border on fanatical, it kills that puppy like a former marine sniper in a bell tower. \< shudder \> Two more from me… The color pink Being girlie Maybe those should be related? 😛 ---
**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, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/45 "2013-01-27T18:25:15Z")
1. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/46 "2013-01-27T18:39:53Z")
Tropical beaches. Cupcakes. I mean, I like cake, but just making small ones and dumping a shit ton of icing and sparkly crap on doesn’t actually improve them. Also bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/47 "2013-01-27T18:54:48Z")
Starbucks Big Boobs Meat The Mellow Mushroom God Gold Hot Tubs ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/48 "2013-01-27T18:58:34Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > 1. The traditional way, or with two wheelchairs? ---
**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, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/49 "2013-01-27T19:01:07Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > The traditional way, or with two wheelchairs? Gosh that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/50 "2013-01-27T19:03:45Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > I bow to your experience. I’m not a woman, nor do I have long hair (I’ve practically no hair - I trim it scalp close), but as a black man I’ve been in innumerable conversations with other black men about what’s attractive. A great deal of it was summed up by Sir Mix-A-Lot (though that’s not my own preference), but the talk has ranged over the whole of female anatomy and long hair hasn’t come up once. Hence my own “yeah, right” reaction to the above. > > I’m thinking age might be a factor, as I’m in my 40s; long hair isn’t common in my age group. Yeah, I don’t hear that from a lot of black men, either. Blackberry, if you have long hair, that’s why you are hearing that. Black men will do that. I’m a big girl, so I hear from black men all the time about how they just LOOOVVVVVEEEE a big woman. Yeah, whatever, dude. On the other hand, lots of black women use harsh chemicals which prevent long hair. I can see how the rarity of long hair would make black men love it more than your average guy. I don’t know. Sorry, Alice, I will address your OP: Home ownership is overrated. My family members who decided to do it all complain and cry about it now. To be fair, I have never owned a home, but I just can’t imagine it being something I ever want to do, let alone it being the American Dream. And Alice, I always wondered about sex underwater. Something told me it wouldn’t be great. I know sex on the beach sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/51 "2013-01-27T19:20:52Z")
Starbucks NFL The Keg Restaurant Nickelback Methamphetamine Religion ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/52 "2013-01-27T19:42:25Z")
Big Macs-greasy, tasteless, and chock full of bad stuff ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/53 "2013-01-27T20:34:04Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Three ways. You’re doing it wrong ---
**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:** [January 27, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/54 "2013-01-27T20:37:24Z")
Cell phones ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/55 "2013-01-27T20:39:43Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Cell phones Wha? Ok. That’s the game we’re playing? Fine. My answer is ‘medicine’. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/56 "2013-01-27T20:45:26Z")
Neck ties All distilled spirits & most wine (but all beer is great, even the cheapest) New cars Motor sports Athletic scholarships (only scholars should get scholarships) Big bewbs (big is not bad mind you, but medium to small are just as good) Long nails (ridiculous) Nail polish (ridiculous) Most make up Underwear (except thongs on women, and I guess bras are necessary for sports) Perfume-cologne-aftershave (some perfumes give me hours-long coughing attacks) Most brewed coffee Tea bags Caviar (cannot stand the stuff, it literally makes me sick) Buttermilk Pimento cheese Religion Almost all English poetry since about 1900 Almost all pop music since about 1985 Rap Home ownership This is fun, I may do another. ---
**Author:** ![YourAdHere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/65b543/32.png) [@YourAdHere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YourAdHere)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/57 "2013-01-27T20:47:44Z")
“Fight Club”, but I think I just broke a rule by mentioning it. It’s not bad, I just didn’t think it was as great as so many people I heard made it out to be. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/58 "2013-01-27T20:52:28Z")
New Years Eve ---
**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, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/59 "2013-01-27T20:54:11Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > I’m thinking age might be a factor, as I’m in my 40s; long hair isn’t common in my age group. I’m always wondering when I’ll be too old to pull off long hair. I’m 30 and my mom said 30-year-olds used to look more grown up than they do now. She said it I want people to start thinking I’m a real adult I should cut my hair and dress more formal. Not happening ☹ > [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Yeah, I don’t hear that from a lot of black men, either. > > Blackberry, if you have long hair, that’s why you are hearing that. Black men will do that. I’m a big girl, so I hear from black men all the time about how they just LOOOVVVVVEEEE a big woman. Yeah, whatever, dude. But nobody tells me they love hazel eyes. > [@](#): > > On the other hand, lots of black women use harsh chemicals which prevent long hair. I can see how the rarity of long hair would make black men love it more than your average guy. Yeah, I think that’s probably why. Also I think men tend to like long hair in general anyway. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > 1. Yeah, that’s stupid. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505/60 "2013-01-27T21:10:43Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > California Wrong! California is amazeballs. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > Getting what you want. Wrong! Getting what you want is the awesomest thing that there is. I will trample over orphaned babies to get my way. > [@Blackberry](#): > > K well are you a woman with long hair who dates black men? Obviously not because if you were, you’d have heard it eleventy billion times. I’m a woman and date black men. I have shoulder length hair, and it seems we’re not really on the same wavelength here. I think men in general regardless of race, all things equal, prefer long hair to short. That said, I also have found most don’t get too crazy about it though. Most don’t seem to go in for super duper short hair, but outside of that, so long as you’re pretty and your hair looks nice, meh. Like others have said, you’re going to get complimented on whatever it is you look like. Do men everywhere love women who look just like me? No, but the ones who are attracted to me do. But anyway, things that are overrated in my book: I dunno, mimosas I guess. Way too filling without enough pay off. Oh, and all foods that take two really awesome things and then combine them. They never taste like a synergy of fantasticness. They always end up tasting like a good thing ruined by doing something silly to it. I’m looking at you, lobster corndogs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-overrated/648505.md?page=4)