# What's the most overrated thing, in your opinion? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540 "2008-09-07T22:55:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/21 "2008-09-08T02:31:38Z")
The SDMB; I like it and all, but it is hardly the repository of greater knowledge as some people portray it. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/22 "2008-09-08T03:56:05Z")
The generic definition of success. Why should we let other people define how well we’ve done at life? We should decide for ourselves, and what I think of at successful is often defined by others as mediocre. I stand up for my right to be mediocre! But not too long. 😉 Oh, and Ipods. ---
**Author:** ![jormundgondir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jormundgondir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jormundgondir)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/23 "2008-09-08T04:00:39Z")
Oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/24 "2008-09-08T04:01:10Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > I used to feel that way. Two women changed my whole outlook on sex. It can be mind blowing but unfortunately they both turned out to be batshit insane. Nowadays I lean more towards the other end of the spectrum, fairly good sex with way less drama. Well, hell. My last girlfriend was crazy but that didn’t translate into any kind of sexual skill despite her insanity \*and \*greater experience. She was actually probably the worst; I feel cheated. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/25 "2008-09-08T05:20:26Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Sex is like food Not even. You’ll die without food. On the other hand I’m sure most of us have endured lengthy dry spells which prove conclusively that sex is not like food in that respect. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/26 "2008-09-08T05:29:10Z")
Metallica ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/27 "2008-09-08T06:23:18Z")
Music. In my youth, I was a constant music consumer, I have hundreds of CDs and cassettes from the late '80s thru late '90s. I haven’t bought more than 5 CDs in the last 12 years, I bet. When I listen to the radio, it’s mostly Howard Stern, with some sports radio and a little music mixed in. It just doesn’t move me anymore. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/28 "2008-09-08T06:23:33Z")
Abnormally high intelligence. Kind of a holy grail for all upbringing paradigms, but without wisdom and empathy it is, if anything, a handicap. ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/29 "2008-09-08T06:29:18Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > Music. In my youth, I was a constant music consumer, I have hundreds of CDs and cassettes from the late '80s thru late '90s. I haven’t bought more than 5 CDs in the last 12 years, I bet. When I listen to the radio, it’s mostly Howard Stern, with some sports radio and a little music mixed in. > > It just doesn’t move me anymore. > > Joe That leads us to the REAL most overrated thing. Radio music. Ie the kind of music that is being played on the big radiostations over and over. The kind of music that is made to sell, not to be good, or because it was what the writer really wanted to do. With that being said, there IS alot of great music out there (IMO), the problem is just finding it… ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/30 "2008-09-08T06:56:35Z")
Sex, television, the automobile. Oh, decisions, decisions. I can’t decide. Think I’ll go with: Automobile ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/31 "2008-09-08T07:17:31Z")
Most things Apple (that is, the company in Cupertino). Not that they’re _bad_, mind you, because they’re not, but simply that they’re overrated. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/32 "2008-09-08T07:43:48Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > As to the topic. I don’t get text messaging at all. I understand how to use it but why is this better than picking up the phone and actually talking to the person? Sometimes the sender is sending texts from a place where people frown upon making too much noise such as inside a train, in a library, hospital, etc. Or, on the other side, the person receiving the communication has the phone ringer on mute or vibe mode due to their location so they can’t necessarily answer a phone call, but they can read the message on their screen. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/33 "2008-09-08T07:46:19Z")
Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/34 "2008-09-08T08:27:02Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > I disagree on cell phones. They can’t be beat for convenience, and, when used judiciously while driving, can be a great time saver as they enable you to make appointments or take care of other routine things while en route. > > On the other hand, I probably wouldn’t use a GPS device if you gave it to me free with service. Since I don’t drive to unfamiliar places very often, I just wouldn’t have much use for it. I don’t think that makes them over rated, it just means you don’t have much use for a GPS. I have a GPS and while it has been extremely useful to me (I do end up in unfamiliar territotry a lot) I don’t think its the best thing in the world. Things I find overrated? **Family Guy.** Its not funny. I’m not even mildly entertained by it, but i’ve met people that think its hilarious. Of course they have the attention span of a gnat, so I guess I can see how they would like it. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/35 "2008-09-08T09:43:56Z")
Commercial sports. Cheering on your own kids, or someone you know IRL, is fun. But the whole huge stadium, commercial endorsements, sports players as celebrities thing leaves me cold. Just about all American sitcoms. Almost all of them are based on idiot plots. They’re just really too stupid to live. We need to do some serious weeding out of the gene pool, here. Radio morning talk shows and their “personalities”. Each of them seems to be trying to be more juvenile than the next. And succeeding. Just play some damn music, will you? Your opinions aren’t worth listening to, and I can read the newspaper for myself! Most of the TV news. It rarely goes in depth, and I am truly not interested in what the man or woman on the street has to say about most topics. The average man or woman on the street is pretty dumb, IME. Similarly, when I see a TV weather reporter standing out in the downpour/sleet/hail/tornado, I am not impressed by the location. I AM impressed by the stupidity. I feel that the reporter can report even better in a nice, dry, safe location, which has all those nifty doohickeys and special effects. South Park. Maybe it’s because I got into it too late, but it’s more likely that I just don’t get it. I kept hearing everyone talk about it, but we didn’t get that channel here for years. Oh well, that’s just less TV to watch. I could go on and on, but mostly I am constantly dumbfounded by what seems to be extremely popular. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/36 "2008-09-08T10:14:31Z")
Children. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/37 "2008-09-08T10:38:21Z")
Consumer Choice. Call me a Communist, but I don’t see the point in having such a vast choice in differently-coloured crap. I don’t mind there being a certain amount of choice, between high-end and affordable goods, say; but the illusory individual identities we are expected to piece together from associations sold to us through advertising are grossly wasteful and outright vulgar. ---
**Author:** ![Buckwheat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Buckwheat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckwheat)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/38 "2008-09-08T14:56:59Z")
Harley Davidson motorcycles. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/39 "2008-09-08T14:59:28Z")
> [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](#): > > Faith. I see it touted everywhere as this fundamental necessity of existence that mankind would wither and die without. > > Don’t really get it, to be honest. What IST said. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-overrated-thing-in-your-opinion/462540/40 "2008-09-08T15:10:28Z")
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