What do YOU think is grossly OVERRATED?
I got to thinking about things/people/places that are raved about by many and put high upon a pedestal – but I personally don’t get it or remotely agree with it. So I put my own little list down below and please feel free to agree and be my bud, disagree and tear me a new one, or come up with your own deal.
#1 – AL GORE and HIS GLOBAL WARMING MACHINE of CHAOS and DESTRUCTION
Being a purveyor of doom and gloom is big business these days, and Albert Arnold Gore makes millions in speaking engagements world wide. Scientists across the globe have publically challenged Uncle Al, claiming that his second-hand theories about polar ice caps melting (he’s a politician, not a scientist, please let’s remember that) are bupkis. The once cardboard cutout presidential candidate now wears jeans, tells jokes and wants us to buy into his fear-mongering hype. The only thing going green for that windbag is his mammoth bank account.
You’ve gotta watch this YOU TUBE video> AL is Fulla Shineola.com
#2: OPUS X CIGARS BY FUENTE
For ten years they’ve been raved about, lauded, and put high upon the cigar world’s golden podium. The OPUS X has received more attention than Rosie O’donnell at an all-you-can-eat buffet – and quite simply, I don’t friggin get it. They are not well rounded, have little to no depth, and are basically just plain blow your palate out, powerful. Of course every OPUS gets a 90 plus rating in Cigar Aficionado, which we all know has NOTHING to do with the six full-page ads an issue Fuente has in the magazine.
#3: DANE COOK
Perhaps the “un-funniest” comedian who ever roamed the face of this earth. I have NEVER, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, laughed at one single word from his mouth.
#4: SURVIVOR
Year after year I scratch my head wondering why people get ga-ga over this mindless pap. A group of cutthroats and backstabbers eat grubs and bat feces while living in some God forsaken, rat infested volcanic jungle – ok, all for a cool million bucks, but the losers get diddy squat. The first season was made famous by a flaming poofter who won the million by parading around in his birthday pajamas while lying to and manipulating everyone who trusted him. F@#k these immunity sucking, alliance faking lowlifes – I’ve been married for twenty years and I am without question, the REAL survivor!
#5: DIVAS
Mariah Carey, Babs Streisand, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner – They are the prima donnas of our time and they think their shit smells like rosewater. Their music sucks, their “holier than thou” attitudes suck, and their shoe closets have more square footage than my entire house. F.U., you pill poppin’, bitch-slapped, Guam baby adopting, sequin gowned, re-hab regulars. No, really…F.U.
#6: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Is it just me, or was this movie harder to follow than reading Shakespeare’s original old English version of Hamlet while snorting multiple viles of crack? Somebody, anybody, please – for the love of God, tell me what happened – especially at the end? Maybe I’m just a trite dumb-ass who digs popcorn flicks, but when a movie like this (and My Left Foot, Chariots of Fire, & Out of Africa) wins an Oscar and is hailed as best picture, it is quite obvious I am not the fu-fu Hollywood film purist type.
#7: ABS
You don’t need six of ‘em to be a “real” man. I have a one pack and it’s filled with love… and red meat. Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.
#8: OHIO STATE FOOTBALL
They won’t lose in the NCAA Championship game this year because they won’t get close to being there. How does a supposed national “powerhouse” open against a team like Youngstown State? And, wow, did the USC Trojans unmercifully kick their asses up and down the field. Overrated last year as well.
There you have it… that’s my two cents. Care to throw in some more coin?
What or who do you think is highly OVERRATED?…
August 16th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Well, I’m with you on Dane Cook. Al Gore is sincere, but he’s worried about people starving in 20 years when there are people starving now. Don’t get me wrong, let’s reduce CO2 and energy usage, but I bet that the sea does NOT rise 80 feet in the next few years. If it takes a century, well look what we survived in the 20th Century. Let’s actually feed the poor, now, if you want something to feel guilty about!
August 17th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Bill Belichick… good coach but drinks too much of his own Kool-Aid.
Keith Olbermann… My gawd, sportscaster turned political pundit… sucks ass at both.
Callaway golf clubs (X-18s). Didn’t hit worth a crap… not my fault.
Underuse of ellipses… can never… have too many… ellipses… in a blog.
August 17th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
you forgot “celebutants”
August 17th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Overrated, hmm let me think. Al Gore, geez, I gotta agree with ya Zman. Didn’t we learn anything from the “media” releasing guess-ta-mations of what was happening in the superdome during Hurricane Katrina? And Al Gore is trying to do that on a global scale.
add Hip Hop Music to the list ZMan. If a four year old can’t come up with “My Humps” or “Make Love in this Club” then maybe a three year old can. Kids are going to look back 20 years from now and say,”Geez that guy still hasn’t gotten laid?!” cause thats all todays top 40 is about.
Love it or Hate it I think the Mojito can Go-jito. A mint drink?! A MINT DRINK?! Who came up with this, Mentos?! Give me a bruski anytime.
ZMan Rules!
August 17th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Do you like my lady lumps?
August 17th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Uncle Al has spawned again!? This time it’s a new group of global warming zealots that has entered the fray. It aptly calls itself “Inconvenient Youth,” the would-be progeny of Nobel Laureate Al’s monumental cinematic deception “An Inconvenient Truth.”
The youth group’s mission is to “mobilize other young people to educate the local citizenry about environmental science” in order to solve the problem called – not climate change – but global warming. (Great idea: “…and a child shall lead them…”)
The associate editor of Newsbusters, Noel Sheppard, stated: “Isn’t that sweet? Now Gore’s got kids brainwashing other kids to further climate hysteria in hopes that Congress will eventually enact a carbon cap and trade program that will likely make him a billionaire.”
Uncle Al – a winner every time!
August 18th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Your lady lumps are over rated.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Nice post Clivus. Everyone loves a fraud.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:22 am
While we’re talking over rated cigars, don’t forget Fuente’s God of Fire, Stradivarius, Zinos, Davidoffs, Padron Anniversary, Don Carlos Anniversarios, Ashton ESG, Partagas 160, Edicion de Silvio, most Cubans, and just about any super limited edition, ultra premium cigar today.
Yes, a lot of the cigars I mentioned are good, just not good enough to justify the outrageous prices they ask for them. Just because there are people with more money than sense, who are willing to shell out that kind of dough, primarily so they can go “Look what I’m smoking”, doesn’t mean those kind of prices are justified.
There are tons of great cigars available that don’t require you to sell your second child into indentured servitude to be able to afford to smoke one.
Yes, occasionally, I’ll go a little overboard for a special occasion (daughter’s wedding, birth of a grandchild, Giants winning the Super Bowl (okay that’s really not that special to me)), but overall, I’m not made of money where I can waste it on that overpriced stuff very often.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Also, Andy Dick sucks. At least he’s named properly!
August 18th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Text messaging. I F’in hate text messaging. If there is something you need to tell me, call, speak, hang up. Don’t spend 5 minutes typing out a message that is going to cost me .10 cents when you can call for free in 3 seconds. Give me the message in 10 seconds. Then hang up.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Can you imagine getting a text message from Al Gore?
August 18th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
txt frm AG:
dr z, thx fr the gr8 pub on my glbl wrmng efrts. u r the bst.
ur bmf al
btw, tppr sez shd jn edwrds w/u any tm…. lmfao
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Constant irritants of mine start with any and all Career Politicians…. Any slime ball that spends more than one term in office needs to be staked out on an anthill for attitude modification…
Al Gore whenever he opens his tater trap on ANY subject, let alone climate shift…
People who insist on voting for the Obamanator, with out having actually listened to what this Marxist is actually saying…. In his own indistinct way!
PETA tards who assign more value to an animals life, than to humans, and then can’t figure out why the rest of the world is laughing their asses off at them.
Newspapers that slant their content by 3 inch blaring headlines on the side of the story that they favor, (anti-whatever) and bury the side that they don’t like on page 19 below the fold just so they can say they peddle fair and balanced reporting…..
Smarmy news commentators, that spoon feed crap to unsuspecting viewers who don’t have the proper cynical attitude to put it in perspective…..
As is probably pretty obvious, anyone who takes advantage of the uninformed, or the ignorant… (be it school of education or the school of hard knocks)
September 14th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Never watched “Survivior” so fug yeah I think it’s overrated. OSU and all of the Big Ten is overrated IMO and I just watched “no country for old men” last night and I thought it was way way overrated.
September 26th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Amen, my brother! Though I did like No Country for Old Men.
I think ALL Hollywood actor or actress, rock star, reality star and any of that ilk are highly overrated. It’s ridiculous that some skank like Paris Hilton gets the press she does.
Anyway, go Beavers!