It's so goddamn overrated

[Assertn]

Originally posted by: masamuneehs
Ipods aren't overrated, just overmarketed. You'd think if you had the hottest portable entertainment gadget (this price tag south of the PSP...) you wouldn't have to put so much into marketing... Ipods are great (the new video Ipod is a fucking gizmo! with cords you can get good quality on almost any TV or computer and carry your favorite shows wherever you go!) and useful.

I'll agree with that.
Just a week or two ago, i made the discovery that skyscraper walls have become synonymous with ipod bilboards.

[PSJ]

WD, seems like you took that pretty personal, why is that? You like Depp that much?

More overrated stuff:

LOST
Okay this series is decent, nothing more. Why does half the population get an orgasm everytime the forest shakes or Jack runs over the beach?

MTV
Sure there are some decent shows that you laugh at, not with but the rest is just pure shit.

Dave Chapelle
The only thing he does is white vs. black humor and that's overused these days, it's not funny to joke about how poor black people are and how stupid white people are so fucking stop it!

Porn
At least most of it. Seriously it's just disgusting when some big dude with the biggest cock you've seen get's a blow job for 20 minutes and then assrapes the girl who gave it to him, and she looks like a whore at that. What's so hot about that? I can agree on that lesbian porn can be entertaining once in a while but all other kinds of porn i have ever seen sucks ass.

[KaosSinner]

Every fucking thing is overrated nowadays. We need this, we need that, oh that would be nice..... shut the fuck up. Just think a little. Ads, marketings eating our heads. I agree, Ipods are good stuff but it really pisses me off when new versions come out, smaller ones, have more stuff to them and have more capacity. Theyre just trying to make money from every possible shit they can think about. Making this and that look "cool" thinking we will fall for it, and we do. This fucking capitalist economy just pisses me off. We complain about everything, we have new stupid needs every day while the other half of the worlds just starving to death. Not that we could do anything about it, but the fucking government just steals from those poor countries. And dont think those promises of a better world will ever become true cause thats impossible. Marketing, marketing is fucking overrated, all those things that get into our heads like that rapper is cool, or I want to wear those clothes cause thats fashion, thats just a load of bullshit. Everyone falls for it, I do.

[XanBcoo]

Dave Chapelle
The only thing he does is white vs. black humor and that's overused these days, it's not funny to joke about how poor black people are and how stupid white people are so fucking stop it!

Agree with that. The same goes for the majority of black comedians, as well as some hispanic ones. I'd say Carlos Mencia was overrated too, but no one thinks he's funny anyway [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

About ipods, I don't think they're overrated, but it does bother me that everyone and their dog has one. It used to amaze me that every person I saw on the street or in class had one, but now I've gotten used to it. Even when I can't see the headphones I just assume the cord is hidden. Heh.

[PSJ]

I do think Ipods are overrated however i don't think mp3 players in general are overrated.

[Assertn]

I think saying everything is overrated is overrated

[Winged Dancer]

Originally posted by: PSJ
WD, seems like you took that pretty personal, why is that? You like Depp that much?

Not because of Depp, no. Well, its pretty girlish to obsess with some unreachable guy, so maybe my girly side just wanted to defend that?
Yes, that was my shoujo "One Day My Dreams Will Come True!" side speaking.

Anyway...

I don't mind iPods. Perhaps because they aren't so over-marketed in my country, and hell, mine's been handy. Traffic in my city is unavoidable and unexpected - you never know when you'll be stuck an hour inside your car. A fecking-lots-of-music in a small green thing (I decorated mine with flowers!!!!) is useful enough.

More overrated stuff -

Brad Pitt.
Jesus he's overrated. I thank God Bitney Spears has almost dropped from the face of the earth.

Lesbian porn. What's so fucking grand about it? Sure, I might be lacking the equipment required to understand it, but really!
(what porn does that leave? erotic novels. And yaoi, because I'm a hypocrital bitch)

In my country, the USA is pretty overrated. People of all social classes talk of it as if it was paradise or something... I've been there a number of times and never seen paradise nor anything like that.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Ok, so most Europeans and some americans probably don't know who this guy is but seriously, he's overrated. His ideals were good back in the 70's, when Fidel Castro was a hero.
My mother has a Fidel Castro poster from back when she was a rebel. Funny stuff.
But Che Guevara... you see his face in every fucking t-shirt made by hippies, he is quoted by morons who interrupt lessons at college to ask for money, by bad politics who want to blame EVERYTHING on past politics, etc, etc.
He was a good guy and his ideals were good and noble at some point, but thanks to his followers I've come to absolutely hate him.

And the PSP. Well, it's not nowadays but man was it overrated when it first came out!

[PSJ]

He is the guy that freed Mexico or something right? Mcdonalds in Sweden used his picture when they promoted a mexican type burger and some mexican dude got crazy and said that it was disrespectful to use such a great man in Mcdonalds promotion, Mcdonalds claimed that they just took a picutre of a maexican guy they found and didn't bother to check who he was.

[Terracosmo]

LMAO. Nice move by McDonalds.

Che Guevara is a good example of a person who has reached eternal idolism for no particular reason. Yes, he had "noble" ideals, but so did all the other rebels who died back during that time. Also, people tend to "forget" that he had a lot of bad things goin' on simultaneously... but hey, that's how mankind works. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

[Winged Dancer]

Nope, not Mexico, Cuba.

...did they really did that? If it was me in Sweden I would've laughed my ass off at how things change with the distance. That's it, if I ever visited a McDonals, I think there would be better things to do in Sweden that eat so-called-Mexican-hamburgers...

...offtopic, but the two of you will have to tell me what other silly things Swedes believe about Mexico, its just too funny.
And if you want to know what people in here believe about Sweden -
1. Cold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. As in, very cold. How can you survive? Yes, we know you have clothes, but still!
3. Like, everyone's tall and beautiful right?
4. And people work 24/7.

[ChaosK]

i dunno from terra i got the impression that swedes really love sex...but who doesnt?

[el_boss]

Originally posted by: Winged Dancer
And if you want to know what people in here believe about Sweden -
1. Cold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. As in, very cold. How can you survive? Yes, we know you have clothes, but still!
3. Like, everyone's tall and beautiful right?
4. And people work 24/7.

Mexican stereotypes:
Talk really fast
Sleep all the time aka siesta
Everyone wears sombreros
Extremely religious
I think also everyone has an image of the typical mexican gangster (as seen in "bound by honor/blood in blood out" and such movies)

As for the swedish stereotypes:
1 & 2. Yes it's cold here in the winter, but we also have summer, spring and autumn. It also makes a big difference where in the country you live. Obviously in the north it's colder.
3. It's relative, maybe since I lived here all my life I take these things for granted. I'm a little below average regarding height so everyone seem tall to me.
4. People do work alot, at least that's what I hear.

You forgot the one that everyone are blonde and have blue eyes. And that everyone in sweden commit suicide.

[Assertn]

don't forget the "Swedish Sleep System"

Which is supposedly revolutionary. I guess terra DOES tend to look a bit too relaxed, anyway.

[Winged Dancer]

Mexican stereotypes then -

1.- Not everyone, but I do. Most of my elders can't understand a word I say, but I'm fine with people my age.
2.- Not really... well, my brother takes 4-hour longs siestas, but that's because he's a lazy teen
3.- LOL not at all! Its weird to see people wearing hats and/or sombreros nowadays
4.- ....yes. Which I hate.
5.- The mexican gangster, called "narco", yeah, are like family and stuff, and very religious too. Cynical? Yes!

Also - no you swedes don't have summer! You have a slight less cold time, but no summer!
Just as we don't have winter. I mean, today we were at 22°C. We suffer when it's 7°C, and that's no winter... while our summers are, when cold, 26°C, when hot 33°C, and that's the city.

You know what's overrated?
Winter!! God, they picture everything so white and pretty but they don't picture your toes getting cold and your hair freezing because it was wet nor do they picture you falling into the snow and not being able to get out.

[Honoko]

Originally posted by: Winged Dancer
You know what's overrated?
Winter!! God, they picture everything so white and pretty but they don't picture your toes getting cold and your hair freezing because it was wet nor do they picture you falling into the snow and not being able to get out.

winter isn't overrated if you're into skiing or snowboarding...

[Assertn]

The image of a "white christmas" is overrated though.
I'm surprised how much of an association snow has with xmas even in LA, where the coldest it's been so far during the day is in the 60 F

[KaosSinner]

Originally posted by: Honoko

winter isn't overrated if you're into skiing or snowboarding...

Yeah. I go snowboarding every winter and never get tired of that beautiful white snow.

[isso]

Ben affleck... hate his guts..

[el_boss]

@Assertn: What the hell is Swedish Sleep System? Never heard of it.

@Winged Dancer: You got me there, no summer for us [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] Seriously though temperatures can get up to 33 here in sweden as well. Bwahawhahw weak inferior mortals, 7C is "warm" by swedish winter standards. Here it's concidered cold when it's around -5C. I like the feeling when it's so cold that your nosehair freezes when you breath in.

Another mexican stereotype: All the tap water is dirty and you get ill if you drink it.

[Carnage]

I wouldnt last one minute in sweden. Only good thing about the cold is the snow. YIPEEEEEEEEE!
Todays a SNOW DAY! YAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYA! Today we have like the first snow day in years.