***disclaimer: before beginning, i want to remind everyone that “overrated” doesn’t mean “bad”, “worthless”, or even “average”, just not as valuable/noteworthy/important as common sentiment would suggest.***
1. beer
you know, i’m not even going to talk about the taste (which makes me think of how brewed and malted cow urine must taste) or the fact that the smell reminds me of women who sound like doc rivers. no, what makes beer so overrated is the ad campaign revolving around it being the ultimate party starter, when in reality there are myriad things (rum, vodka, midgets, white women, crackheads, ovulation, etc) much more efficient
2. orgasms
i mentioned this already earlier in the week, but when you consider the lengths we go through to get them, the potential downside of having them (unwanted emotional attachments and children, disease, etc), and the relatively short time they last (five to approximately thirty-five seconds) you can’t help but think that orgasms are the tupac of life: short-lived, volatile, and much better in theory and memory than reality
3. the 70′s
even those who weren’t alive during this era regard it in a lovingly nostalgic manner, (rightfully) lauding the music, the movements, and the time of free love. but, maybe, just maybe if our parents didnt spend so much time f*cking, burning shit down, and snorting mushrooms off the backs of white camels in reno with rick james, maybe the 80′s, 90′s, and 2000′s wouldn’t have been so royally f*cked up.
4. new york city
***taken from “biting the apple“***
between the cost of living, the traffic, the chinese, the tendency for disasters to occur, the crime, the dipset, being governed by a blind jiggalo, and the fact that its more densely populated than jakarta, if i want diversity, good food, great entertainment, bad sports, and tons of different dialectics and dna, i’ll just move in with frankie and neffe
5. black american inventions
look, while we all know that cats were using ipads on spaceships in zimbabwe before europeans even figured out that infants aren’t meant to be edible, the whole black american invention game leaves much to be desired. while we’ve definitely been great innovators, pioneers, and iconoclasts, when the the doorstop is listed as one of your 50 greatest new contributions in a 400 year legacy, maybe its time to re-think those commemorative stamp plans
6. (tie) any rap music made before 1992 and any professional sport played before 1980
to anyone still actively promoting the “best ever“ merit of babe ruth, public enemy, the 70′s steelers, whodini, wilt chamberlain, bob cousy, rakim, joe louis, arnold palmer, run dmc, bdp and etc:
“i don’t believe you, you need more people”
btw, by “i dont believe you, you need more people” i mean “you’re a f*cking idiot“
7. dying
quite possibly the most overrated thing on this list, as approximately 95 percent of the worlds population (including me) follow a belief system explicitly stating that their death will be legions better than their life ever was, but only maybe 10% of that 95% are actually looking forward to it.
basically, we’re all full of shit
8. russia
i’m still not completely sure how a country whose only contribution to the rest of the world is best served with cranberry juice managed to be a superpower worthy of fear, respect, and apollo creed’s life
9. dogs
because cats and cat people always have and will always be better
10. being underrated
seriously, who the hell came up with the idea that being the person who didn’t get the credit that they were due was a good thing? i mean, if you asked one million random kids what they wanted to be when they grew up, i’d bet “overlooked, and generally undervalued” would be even further down the list than “big ben’s next rape victim“, but somehow we adults have treated this like it was something to be proud of. no wonder everything’s all f*cked up now.
i’m sure i’m missing a few. any additions?
—the champ
1. A wanted pregnancy
Being pregnant sucks from sore boobs and bladder leaks to carrying. a 10 pound watermelon
During the middle of summer and let’s not talk about the actual birthing process
2. Marriage. I have a great relationship
But it aint. The fairy tale I was promised as a child
3.Growing up. I couldn’t wait to be grown… But paying your own bills and being responsible
Is really for the birds
@shay-d-lady,
Cosign
Cosign
Cosign
We weren’t properly warned.. In fact we were lied to.
@shay-d-lady,
Definitely have to jump on board with Growing Up. It really isn’t what you thought it’d be.
Let me add onto that with: A Brand New Car. Because having a high ass car note and inflated insurance is NOT what’s poppin’ in the hood. lol.
But in regards to the original post. Totally agree with number 1. I hate beer with a passion. Give me liquor any day…or time. lol.
But as a New Yorker…sorry, you get no vote from me on NYC being overrated. Fact: It is the shit. It’s science.
@Amadeo Plaza,
Of course you wouldn’t agree….all NY’ers think it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
I agree w/ NYC being overrated. And I’m from Jersey. It’s cool to visit during the day…maybe even at night. I would NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER live there.
@La Bakir, same here. loved working and hanging out in the city. I’d only live there if I had a huge apartment in a great area. so, never.
@La Bakir,
I’m going out of order, but you’ll see why in a second
2. Pac was nice. I still listen to some of his songs and think that they’re way better than a lot of stuff out now. Hit Em Up is possibly the best diss song EVA. No, not “ever,” EVA.
8. Champ and P, the Kremlin will be watching this site from now on. Expect a visit from Ivan Drago or at least a stern email in broken English…
4. I can get witcha on everything BUT the sports teams. Yankees just won a World Series, Giants won the Super Bowl in ’08, Jets just went to the AFC title game. Sure the Knicks suck, Mets are decent, and the Rangers and Islanders are about to fall through the thin ice they’re skating on, as NY fans get impatient, but the whole of NY sports aint a bad look.
Speaking of NYC though, that cost of living is hard to bear, but I cant mess with this commute. (80 minutes each way) I’m in “the living in NJ, working in NY” boat, but I’m seriously thinking about moving over to the city just to be closer to work. Good or bad decision my fellow Jersey commuters?
@Mr. Upthere,
And I thought my commute was wack. Where the hell you coming from? If anything I’d move further north in NJ. I feel your pain though, however there has got to be another option beside moving to NYC
@Mr. UpDownAroundThere
Pac was nice. I still listen to some of his songs and think that they’re way better than a lot of stuff out now. Hit Em Up is possibly the best diss song EVA. No, not “ever,” EVA. .
I agree!!! I just love the opening lines ? First off, f*ck your bitch/ And the click you claim ?.
@Mr.Upthere, yeah, where are you? when I worked in NYC I got to work in about an hour (to work, meaning, at my desk). I live in Union County.
@Amadeo Plaza, yeah, I cosign on the new car. every time I get a new ride, i’m going to want something bigger and better that i really can’t afford new. Certified pre owned works for me!
@shay-d-lady,
I’ve only experience growing up but I co-sign each of the three things you’ve listed. I’m so glad I didn’t get married and preggers when I was in my early 20s & thought it would be the best thing to ever happen to me because now that I’m in my late 20s and have witnessed through others all that comes w/ marriage and having a baby, I think I want them less and less w/ each passing day.
…I’ve tried though.
The growing up part I could’nt avoid
@shay-d-lady, 2. Marriage. I have a great relationship
But it aint. The fairy tale I was promised as a child
So co-sign this. In the past few years GOD has revealed to me the truth. I am a single woman and I am in no rush any more to get married.
@shay-d-lady,
1. I am DEATHLY afraid of bearing children. Like, I don’t particularly want kids anyway, but I’m talking about the actual, physical act of giving birth that terrifies me. I must be missing that part of “woman” courage because I’m sure that I would be passing out in the delivery room right next to my (fictional) husband.
2. *sad face*
3. cooooooooo-sign. you know when they said, “this is the best time in your life”? ugh. who knew they would be right. being an adult doesn’t suck. and it has it’s great parts. but i wish i could have experienced adulthood, then childhood, then adulthood, so that i would have known to maximize my kid years. i wouldn’t have wasted all that time being shy or self conscious. although, i kind of never wanted to grow up, so i guess i was always sort of insinctually on the right track.
@shay-d-lady,
I completely co-sign with growing up. I think that the worst thing I ever did in my life was to grow up
@shay-d-lady,
Yeah, growing up is definitely overrated. Who actually WANTS all the added responsibilities that comes with being an adult? The only thing bad about being a kid is that adults always try to f*ck up yo’ life with all their shullbit.
@shay-d-lady,
preach…
i did get some good advice..i just didn’t heed it…
somethin like…”don’t be in rush son…you got all the rest of your life to be grown up”
@shay-d-lady,
3.Growing up. I couldn’t wait to be grown… But paying your own bills and being responsible
Is really for the birds
one great thing about growing up, though, is being able to eat shrimp scampi for breakfast and watch “the dark knight” naked in your living room
@The Champ,
*watch “the dark knight” naked in your living room*
smh…man..lol…the chairs in your crib..i don’t want to know
@The Champ,
one great thing about growing up, though, is being able to eat shrimp scampi for breakfast and watch “the dark knight” naked in your living room .
Yup Yup Yup. Well replace “the dark knight” with “what about bob”. I love being able to walk around in butt naked glory. I feel free. LOL
@shay-d-lady,
3. I dont know about that one. Bills suck, but I couldnt wait to grow up and I’m loving it! My mom can no longer force me to eat brussel sprouts, I dont have to ask for lunch money every day, and I dont have to wear those horrible rainbow colored outfits. As a kid I wanted for nothing, but as an adult I can do whatever the hell I want!
@shay-d-lady,
“Growing up”
let the co-sign tally begin…
co-sign number 1…
@shay-d-lady, Add to that graduating from college as the be-all-end-all to find a job and have financial security. People in my hometown acted like a degree was the holy grail of success. I’m sure our parents thought that and they meant no harm, but still…that shit was HIGHLY overrated in that area. Hard work, in any form, is the key to success. A college education doesn’t do anything unless you do something with it.
usc
@say_cheese, hater.
@Liz,
Yea man… you know I kinda took offense to the hate that was just thrown at my school. lol
@say_cheese,
are you talking about the trojans?
@say_cheese,
welcome and shit
@say_cheese, trojans or gamecocks?
@Plain Ole Peyso, yep definitely talkin bout the trojans…gotta hate man hahaha…go bears!
A college education?? The experience great. What I learned was not taught in any course I took.
How many of us are working in our respective fields? Yea…
And of everyone questioned how many of us are paying back those loans?? Yep.
@JumpOnIt, Agreed. How many of us can actually remember stuff we learned in class and explain it to someone who doesn’t know much about it? LOL
@JumpOnIt,
“Cosign”
(That seems to be the lingo here)
I was just talking about this. I actually happen to be working exactly in the field I went to school for and doing exactly what I wanted to do for a living (marketing/advertising strategy), but I learned the ins and outs from my internships (which I got on my own), not through my classes. My classes didn’t prepare me for anything.
@JumpOnIt,
This!
I had it right the first time when I passed up college for real life experience- working to stack up paper…. *sigh*
Now, I got my fart brain arse in these online courses. hmph!
@JumpOnIt,
Yea I think T.I. said it best “school just a white man game and it’s ran good!” I mean for all the time they tell us to go to school and get that degree, no one seem the need to tell me that I needed to work in my field while in college to gain experience! 4 years of time that I could have used to gain experience was used to get my degree, now they tell me I don’t have the experience needed! aint dat about a blip
@Kirk Lazarus,
just reading that quote made me think, but TI really did need to go to school…can’t help myself.
@RocktheCatbox,
just reading that quote made me think, but TI really did need to go to school…can’t help myself.
LOL
@RocktheCatbox,
**snickering**
Tiny could use a little schooling too. I mean at bare minimum speech classes. I wonder how their kids talk.
@RocktheCatbox,
Tiny quotables
“T.I. dohn’t want me to work no moe’.”
“I got dis nail shop, I been runnin fo bout a yeauh nah.”
@Mr. UpThere,
Right about Tiny. She sounds like an escaped slave! Every time she talks, I think who let Queen into the big house?
@Kirk Lazarus,
“Yea I think T.I. said it best “school just a white man game and it’s ran good!”
T.I. is the last dude that should be saying this. He can’t even say the word “Christmas”.
@Humble_One,
Don’t talk about TIP! lol
@Humble_One,
T.I. is the last dude that should be saying this. He can’t even say the word “Christmas”.
Should I feel bad that I have a degree and still say “Chirsmas”
@Kirk Lazarus, I mean for all the time they tell us to go to school and get that degree, no one seem the need to tell me that I needed to work in my field while in college to gain experience!
BINGo
@JumpOnIt, i disagree.
The swindle is in taking hard arse majors. They tell us to pick a major in what we want to do later in life when i actuallity w/ should have all taken rocks for jocks and graduated w/ 3.9s. We need a degree b/c though we needed experience to get a job or didnt learn anything, most places aint hiring a mofo w/ no degree.
@JumpOnIt,
Well, in my humble opinion, school is not meant to get you a job, it’s supposed to provide you with “an education”, knowledge in something or the other, gymnastics for your brain, and all that jazz… So the argument that people are not really working in their “fields” is not necessary against college, if anything it proves that your brain knows how to adapt to different situations and process complex tasks quickly… Now could that be obtained outside of school? Most definitely. School is just one of the easiest, most reliable way to get that brain to working/adapting/performing all kinds of gymnastics.
But, eh, you can play sudoku too.
p.s: I do work in my field.
LOL @ dying being overrated…but I get your point. As soon as an entertainer dies everyone wants to talk about how much they loved [the entertainer] and how he was the best despite the fact that when the person was alive they only had one or two mediocre albums. Now that they are dead they got a greatest hit compilation album.
Beer is hella overrated. UGH…it doesn’t even taste that great, and you could get a beer belly if you drink too much. Rum ftw.
@Ms.Bee,
“…dead rappers get better promotion”
—jadakiss
welcome and shit, btw
You know I can’t agree with NYC being overrated now…
Sure it’s expensive, but it’s the shit and always will be. lol.
@Amadeo, Yes! LOVE NYC! The men and their accents is so sexy to me!
@Natasha,
Accents? We New Yorkers don’t have accents. We annunciate and pronunciate. Everywhere else has an accent.
@JumpOnIt,
LMAO…word. I will hold to my theory that every other place in the US besides the Tri-state area has an accent.
I was in Cali and got into an arguement w/ this dude about me having an accent…this ninja soudning like O-dog…and I have an accent? Stop it.
@JumpOnIt,
Yes, you all have accents, but you’re all self-absorbed so can’t nobody tell you sh*t…
I once had a someone from New York tell me they were the only one’s who speak normally as being the only people to do something isn’t the exact opposite of what normal means.
@JumpOnIt,
“Accents? We New Yorkers don’t have accents. We annunciate and pronunciate. Everywhere else has an accent.”
Is that why producer is pronounced producah and coffee is pronounced cauwffee in New York?
@JumpOnIt, No the people that don’t have accents are people from the midwest. It is the standard American way that people are supposed to talk. If you go into a field on television like the news you are supposed to have a standard midwest accent.
@JumpOnIt, LOL
@JumpOnIt,
Accents? We New Yorkers don’t have accents. We annunciate and pronunciate. Everywhere else has an accent
LMAOOOO!!
*do not co-sign.
FTR (for the record): everywhere you are NOT from, the people have an accent to them. I’m from Canada and I’ve never said ‘aboot’ (aka about) in my life. I dont think I have an accent, but when I visit the states, they know I’m not local.
I will admit to saying eh – BUT everywhere has their own dialects/lingo/expressions.
@Humble_One,
Alright…I’ll give you that. I caught myself ordering a “cauwfee” real hard one day. lol.
@Amadeo,
“You know I can’t agree with NYC being overrated now…”
you’re wrong, but welcome and shit anyway
@Amadeo,
Ummm…no…after living in NY for 3 years I was more than happy to return to the real world. I liked living there while I was there, and still like to visit, but living in a closet, having mice run across my feet underneath my desk at work and seeing more roaches and rats then an Orkin man far from qualifies as better.
Being Good Looking- While studies show people who are deemed more attractive will make more money, it comes with the stress of people undermining your intelligence. And believe it or not, we don’t have sex as often as you think because you become more annoyed with everyone else trying to get at you.
Dating someone Very Good Looking- Men who know they are good looking act a little too brand new. They try to pull some stunts. When you date someone not as attractive, they tend to treat you better. I’m just saying!
And ALSO- as a native New Yorker, I disagree with #4. You can find whatever, and I mean WHATEVER YOU NEED, at any hour, any day of the week in New York City. We aren’t called the “City that never sleeps” for no reason. Home of the 27th Championship NY Yankees, the Sports franchise with the most Championships ever! More than ANY OTHER SPORT! We host NY Fashion Week. Bronx, New York, home of Hip-Hop, Not to mention all the wonderful cultral aspects New York City has to offer, the parks, the museums, the cultural diversity. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
*Sorry, I take hits to my city personally!
@MissBXNYC,
You might think being good looking is overrated but it damn sure beats the alternative
@MissBXNYC, “And ALSO- as a native New Yorker, I disagree with #4. You can find whatever, and I mean WHATEVER YOU NEED, at any hour, any day of the week in New York City. We aren’t called the “City that never sleeps” for no reason. Home of the 27th Championship NY Yankees, the Sports franchise with the most Championships ever! More than ANY OTHER SPORT! We host NY Fashion Week. Bronx, New York, home of Hip-Hop, Not to mention all the wonderful cultral aspects New York City has to offer, the parks, the museums, the cultural diversity. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
*Sorry, I take hits to my city personally!”
EXACTLY!!! Every time i am away from home this becomes MUCH more evident. There is no place like New York City. I work for the government so I can’t stay there now and climb these ranks but once I retire I’m heading RIGHT back to the capital of the world! Though I will admit some of us actually need to leave NYC to be able to appreciate it more.
@IVR BK Boy in Germany, Tru and no matter where you live/work/go to school a New Yorker (Bk stand Up!) will go by any means to venture back
@MissBXNYC,
Thanks, fellow Bronx chick, for gettin it said…gotta rep our city! And did you catch him tryna throw BDP out with the bath water too?
Jealouy is so unbecoming… :p
@bittersweet’s baby, co-signin all of my NY brethren & sistren….the city that’s often imitated, but never duplicated ..also in agreement with IVR BK Boy in Germany -some folks gotta leave to truly appreciate it & to truly be able to save up some $, BUT once you a New Yawker….always a New Yawker-even if you currently live in Florida where the most ignant a$$ ninjas also reside…there ain’t no place else in the world like it …*cue “New York State of Mind”…:-)
@MissBXNYC, COSIGN!! I’m not a native NYer but I’ve been here so long that I feel like I’ve always lived here.. There is no where else on earth like NYC!! Sure, its not perfect but that’s part of the allure, part of the “grittyness” It’s crowded, NYers can be a**holes, its expensive, etc. But no where on earth will you find some many nationalities all living peacefully amongst each other… so many world class restaurants, world class arts and entertainment, Broadway shows, the nightlife, unlimited opportunities…
Sure NY aint for everybody.. if you want a nice easy life, its not for you.. but if you can handle the struggle and the hustle, the perks make it worthwhile….
@BKSweetheart,
so many world class restaurants, world class arts and entertainment, Broadway shows, the nightlife, unlimited opportunities
and how is this different from, lets say, toronto?
@The Champ,
Are you really comparing NYC to Toronto?!?! LIES! Funny how you never hear about people gushing over Toronto.
@The Champ, toronto everything closes at like 2am or something. Couldnt find anywhere to eat after the club. In NYC, never an issue
@The Champ,
“and how is this different from, lets say, toronto?”
our population is 2 mil (in comparison to the 8 mil in NYC) and USA doesn’t take Canada very seriously. (yes, we are a younger country, yes we spell centre and colour and our subway line doesn’t run 24/7, Oh and CFL is a JOKE in comparison to NFL.) but I don’t have a complex about living above the ‘superpower’, I just like the shopping and some of the men!.
Toronto is Canada’s answer to NYC:
-we are ‘hated’ on by the rest of the country
-most of the financial, cultural, culinary, sports, entertainment industry is focused here
-the world migrates here (accounting for the multiculturalism)
-and more im sure…
Another key difference: the swag and hustle. People here think they have swag because they are big fish in a small pond..until they go the states and come back with tails tucked between their legs.
But the constant hustle in NYC also makes it unique. Our city does sleep. Which makes us less cranky. LOL.
*sings AKeys hook here.. in newwww yoooorrrrrrk…..
@MissBXNYC
@ Plain Ole Peyso
1. you dont hear people gushing ON A WORLD SCALE because we are a smaller city in a smaller country. Like I said, Toronto is the NYC of Canada. This is where people move to ‘make it’ so to speak.
2. Yes, most of the city shuts down at 2 (clubs close at 3am), there are places to eat that are 24 hrs, there are transit lines that run 24 hrs.. Like was mentioned before..24/7/365 access is NOT always a good thing. (Re: BlackBerry). Except for when you are leaving a club, how often are you out looking for Lebanase Kibbeh at 3:46am?
I was born and raised in Toronto, so am smart enough to NEVER compare it to NYC.
Before I get to eye-twitching though..wherever you are born and raised is where you will rep (unless there is some reason not to). The glitz and glamour of NYC calls many, but like the song says: half of them won’t make it. It’s an amazing place to some, but all that makes it good, makes it exhausting and bad to others. There is NO perfect place on earth. Period.
I love NYC, almost moved there and would have been happy to rep it as my new home city. I would have missed peace and tranquility as well sight of clean streets of Toronto. Am I saying Toronto is better? Hell no!
Sure there are things unique to the city that never sleeps and things that make it a phenomenal city, but I think Champ’s question was more on the things that MOST metropolitan/cosmopolitan cities has (world class restaurants, world class arts and entertainment, Broadway shows, the nightlife, major league sports). Detroit has an Opera House. Chicago is known for French cuisine. Montreal (Cdn city) is becoming a Fashion city to watch (because it’s a french city, lots of stuff from France goes there BEFORE NYC).
There are great cities everywhere, and yes there is only one NYC. As a resident, you are expected to rep and have bias – but I think it’s important to look at the good, bad and ugly.
@MissBXNYC,
You can find whatever, and I mean WHATEVER YOU NEED, at any hour, any day of the week in New York City
yeah, and you can get all of that at a crackhouse too. whats your point?
@The Champ,
*snickering*
And speaking of which, being a crackhead is WAY overrated. So is being a drug dealer.
@The Champ,
Sorry, I don’t use drugs, so I’m not familiar with your reference. I meant getting anything in general.
Definitely co-sign on the beer. Ugh that isht is nasty! It tastes like failure, disappointment, and month old chitlin pot liquor.
@miss t-lee,
lol sh!t feel like hear grandpops talkin…..lmbaooo
@kingpinenut,
LMAO!! *waving*
This did sound like something a 90 yr old man would say.
@miss t-lee,
every time i see a cup of beer i want to take a piss in it
@The Champ,
and you should.
@charli skipper,
Agreed.
@miss t-lee, see, i think that most people that hate beer have just never had good beer. sure there are beers that taste like 3 year old piss (bud, miller, pbr, milwaukee beast, i’m looking at you) but there are some great beers out there. lots of microbrews are quite tasty. sweetwater 420, blue, and hummer (sweetwater is a brewery in atl) are like heaven in your mouth, and the belgium folks have mastered the art of crafting a good brew
@a plus, I agree. ‘Beer hate’ is overrated. Folks just don’t know good beer. Wuda!!! Where you at?
@Miss Patterson,
Beer hate’ is overrated. Folks just don’t know good beer.
thats like saying, “you know, there were some really nice nazis”
@a plus,
My boss is a microbrewer and I have been at his house when they had “tastings”… As a wine snob, I was really reluctant to try it… but yup, I tasted some excellent beers!
@a plus,
Yeah…I hear ya talking. Every person who is a beer lover has tried to run this game on me, and everytime I’m pissed that I tried a new beer. That ish is horrid.
I’m sticking with my vodka, tequila, and sparkling rose’…lol
@a plus, cosign. But after having beer( my replacement drink for everything while in Germany) I now hate it.
I’d be argumentative about this, but
This is too funny.
@Ulysses,
thats my plan for world domination
@The Champ,
Does that make you Pinky or the Brain?
@INFJgurl,
deez. it makes me deez
Being an independent, got-her-own, strong black woman. Why? Because everyone needs love, help, support and space to be tired, weak, lost, vulnerable, etc. Folks act like the SBW doesn’t need those things. Instead they are a luxury that she can take or leave. Do with or do without. SWB who get trapped in their own independent strongness find themselves unable or unwilling to ask for help, concede defeat (in the battle, not the whole war) or try a new path. Sad, really.
Also, must whole-heartedly DISAGREE with you Champ on orgasms being overrated. You must feel that way because you aren’t capable of multiple-Os. Because when you get two, three or four of those bad boys in a row, awwwww lawd. Por quoi? Because you never really fully go back to “normal” or “neutral” after that first one. Instead you are “semi-orgasmic” or “pre-orgasmic” (that feeling of being riiiiiiiight there before it actually happens) until the next one arrives. So, imagine waves of pleasure sweeping over you, some bigger, some smaller, but definitely a continuous series of waves. Lasts waaaay longer than a few seconds. Definitely. Not. Overrated.
@INFJgurl,
Yeah, I’m so ready to be
I-ND-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T, doyouknowwhatmeans???@bittersweet’s baby,
Ooh I’m so illiterate @ 2:30 in the mawnin’. But so is lil bootsy/boosie {ck artist}…
@INFJgurl,
maayyyyne speak. being independent is fun and it’s nice to hear yourself say “i got all this by myself” and jam to songs by Ne-Yo and Jamie rightfully, but errrybody needs love, support, and a little help every now and then. and i won’t even get on a man’s strong need to be well, needed. lol.
and CO*bleepitybleep*SIGN on orgasms. Mangasms must be soooo much less spectacular than a woman’s. lol. but you have to remember that the whole time during a session, they are trying NOT to have one, and trying to make sure we have several. lol. just ain’t fair i tell ya. but i won’t complain. hehe.
@INFJgurl,
You must feel that way because you aren’t capable of multiple-Os.
you haven’t been talking to any of my ex’s, have you?
@INFJgurl,
COSIGN…yes girl. I have a good career and I’m stable in many ways…but I love and yes NEED to have a man/support system/etc. It’s that kind of thinking why men are AFRAID to date us.
@SmartFoxGirl,
I also think its that kind of thinking that makes US AFRAID to date men in the way they need to be dated. Men need (and fellas correct me if I’m wrong) to be needed and to provide and make fire and ish. If the SBW can do everything all on her own and won’t let the man actually be the man, then what is he good for? Why should he stick around?
And the SBW is sitting there, giving him the side eye like what happens when you fail me? (Because the last one (or Daddy) did.) So the SWB wont trust a man to be a man. It’s her way or no way. And the SBW ends up alone.
@INFJgurl,
“Because everyone needs love, help, support and space to be tired, weak, lost, vulnerable, etc. Folks act like the SBW doesn’t need those things”
This is the story of my LIFE! Everytime I’m down/going through something, most of my family/friends respond with, “But you’re strong, so you’ll be ok”. Hell No….I’m not gonna be ok!! I’m hurting damnit!!!!
@CNotes,
And that’s the most wrongest (is that a word?) thing about being a SBW. Once you are there (whereever there might be), its like you have to have everyone else’s back, but ain’t nobody got yours. I hate that crap.
Try saying: “I need your help and I don’t know how I will do this without you.” That should make them pay attention.
By the way, I got your back CNotes.
@INFJgurl,
Awwwww!!!!! Thank you *relishing in my newfound friendship*
@INFJgurl, @CNotes
This whole post and replies to post…
CHUUUCH, TABERNACLE AND AAAAMMMEENNNNN!
Speak that truth.
@CNotes,
“But you’re strong, so you’ll be ok”
That sentence burns my soul!!! Ugh!
Admittedly, it’s probably my own doing since as a first born with no boys in the family, I tend to think the world would unravel if I don’t hold it at the seams… And sometimes, it can get overwhelming… But I’m not going to pretend that it’s easy for me to be “vulnerable”…. Reason #321 why MiDude is a godsend… because I can be all broken and crying and sad and miserable with him… but he still thinks I try to be too strong all the time… Boy stop, this is me being vulnerable!!. Lol!
@Sula,
You are so fortunate to have someone that will support all spectrums of you! Most of the time a SO will do that for you. : )
@INFJgurl, we should be friends cuz we think alike. I say I’m independent because I have no one to depend on but doesn’t mean I love being independent. I was listening to “good girl” by Chrisette Michele this morning. She was talking about how she was a good girl and a true lady because she didn’t need support from a man. I wanted to make a declaration to ban that song because some of us BSW want and needs the love, care, support from a man chet.
Oh yes and about the orgasms…I triple billion times co-sign on that. There is nothing else better in the world than the orgasmic interval waves!!!
@T’Lu,
Consider it done. We’s friends now.
@INFJgurl, I couldn’t agree more with this whole post.
@INFJgurl, it’s what our black mother’s teach us (bless their heart; they didn’t know any better). Go to school, get a good job, buy your own house and car, then get a man…..meanwhile momma got married at 19.
I’ve been sayin NYC was overrated for a minute now. Glad some people agree! It just always been a hassle for me.
Beer for sure! I’m a vodka type of dude myself!
Definitely gotta add marriage/family life. Marriage just seems like either a good or bad business deal, depending on the partners involved. And whenever I see families in the park or wherever, their lives just seem so lame to me. I dunno.
@OmarLittle,
My God. Yes to everything. I lived in NYC half of my life (birth to college), moved and when I visited I thought it truly, truly sucked! It’s not the only place you can “get” culture or whatever you want 24-7…you can do this in foreign countries and in other states, NY does not have the lock on culture. The only difference is thatin other places you can breathe the air without getting ebola. NYC is dirty, smelly and even the “nicer” parts have a thick layer of funk that gives a hot garbage-y sheen to everything. I just will never move back there. Plus everyone thinks they’re the shit, just on principle, even when they’re just …shit. On top of that, I went to high school with the entire cast of Gossip Girl and it made me hate old money having racist NYC cokeheadeds and by association the entire city.
I, too, hate beer and people who try to convince me that beer is an aquired taste. Yeah, so is sperm and I’m not interested having either down my throat.
Married life seems like it’s just plain awful, there is no way around it! Being forced to ignore things that bother you because you are too tired to put up a fight and just having a sucky life, getting by with no sleep when you have kids (so being a zombie 24-7) where the most exciting thing is your kid taking a dump on its own when normally it’s strapped to a plastic case of poo. Even when married people talk about their lives to me as though it’s something I should want, I wonder if they know how sad I feel for them.
@RocktheCatbox,
“I, too, hate beer and people who try to convince me that beer is an aquired taste. Yeah, so is sperm and I’m not interested having either down my throat.”
LOL…you’re gonna get me fired saying stuff like this….got a brotha’s sides hurting from laughter.
@RocktheCatbox,
I, too, hate beer and people who try to convince me that beer is an aquired taste. Yeah, so is sperm and I’m not interested having either down my throat.
thats not what i heard
@The Champ,
Sperm, no. Sperm containers, yes.
9. dogs
because cats and cat people always have and will always be better
You ain’t slick, Champ! Is this dedicated to your girl?
Also, this: any rap music made before 1992 , overrated??! compared to the crap rap played these days??!
*confused face*. I’ma call blasphemy. You’re a smart guy… you should know better.
@Made In Hawaii,
He had a disclaimer that said overrated doesn’t mean bad or average or anything like that. Most of that music is overrated cause hear anyone from that era about it and you’d think every word out of those rappers mouth was heavenly. I’m not saying it was bad cause it wasn’t but I’m sure they had their share of corny, untalented rappers it may have just been harder for them to blow because they couldn’t make a mixtape on their computer and send it out to the world in 2 days.
@A-Town Genius,
I know, I know. I just decided to get my panties in a bunch because I had to listen to Soulja Boy and Nicki Minaj for a couple of hours Thursday evening. *sounds of horror to my ears.* As soon as I got in my car, That Rakim & Eric B saved me. LOL!
@A-Town Genius,
I understand the disclaimer and all and I agree that SOME rap before ’92 is probably overrated, but considering the contributions of the Big Daddy Kanes, Slick Ricks, NWA’s, Run-DMC’s, Salt ‘N Pepa’s, Kid ‘N Play’s, and the likes who laid the blueprint to what many cats just emulate, I can’t put it in the overrated category. It’s kinda like saying the invention of the wheel is overrated, but still lauding automobiles, luggage with rollers, etc.. Not to mention the sheer energy that surrounded the music then. When you put a Public Enemy live show up against any garden-variety “emcee” or group out today, there’s no comparison. Rick Ross can’t get the crowd riled up to the point where you fear a riot may jump off like Chuck D and Flav. DJ Drama’s my man, but he’s light years from Terminator X…or even DJ Jazzy Jeff.
@Monk,
I was with you until Kid ‘N Play, I liked them as a kid but honestly they were the Soulja Boys of their day.
@A-Town Genius,
Most of that music is overrated cause hear anyone from that era about it
I agree. I think it’s the most PC way for EBPs to say “I think I’m cool, I listened to old stuff and not the new stuff, I’m better than you”…. Meanwhile none of them is actually checking for some new music that is good and are still bumping to songs on the radio talking about “I just listened for the beats”… Please stop.
disclaimer: sorry for the rant, had that argument with a dude who doesn’t even know who Little Brother is and talking about no good rap music has come out in the last 15 years. Ninja, is you serious?. *smh*
@Made In Hawaii,
9. dogs
because cats and cat people always have and will always be better
You ain’t slick, Champ! Is this dedicated to your girl?
lol. cats have grown on me. they have more character than dogs, and i appreciate character
Any beer that comes with a major marketing campaign is like a Black Woman with the word “DIVA” attached to anything attached to her…
And…
…will ruin your taste for anything labeled BEER.
And how the hell does the doorstop beat Mark Dean anyway?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dean_(computer_scientist)
@Ulysses,
Any beer that comes with a major marketing campaign is like a Black Woman with the word “DIVA” attached to anything attached to her…
LOL
Being in a relationship. Relationships are tough and takes a lot of time and attention. It is not what the hype pubs it to be or what most folks want to believe it is.
Being nice. I used to go out of my way being nice too everyone. I mean I am already kind by nature, but I would turn it up a notch lol. For what? Because some how putting other peoples feelings, thoughts or whatever before our own supposed to be the right thing to do. Draining!
@Natasha,
Being nice. I used to go out of my way being nice too everyone. I mean I am already kind by nature, but I would turn it up a notch lol. For what? Because some how putting other peoples feelings, thoughts or whatever before our own supposed to be the right thing to do. Draining!
yeah. you know what else is overrated? liking people. whats the point of actually liking people since we’re all going to be dead in 80 years anyway?
@The Champ,
80 years? Try two years. 2012 is just around the corner (if you’re all superstitious and sh*t)!
@Caballeroso, LOL
@The Champ, Yea cause when your dead everything is overrated!
–College/post grad graduation—um…..sure, in the long run I bet it’s more awesome than a bag of bubbles, but the immediate period of life following your final graduation is sort of…um….crappy. or, not really crappy, but let’s just say that you should probably use that time you spent preparing a big party, drinking, and gettin your head blown up by your country a*s family and friends to roll some quarters and cultivate you a side hustle to tide you over until all those mythical “big bucks” start rollin in.
–world travel–don’t get me wrong: i do agree that it’s important to expand your horizons (i can’t stand people who don’t accept that american culture doesn’t trump every other culture) and experience other ways of living,but there are a variety of ways to do that. i don’t really have a strong desire to see europe, asia, africa (don’t look at me like that yall. you know i don’t mean it like THAT) or any other continent other than the americas at this time in my life. (that’s not to say i won’t ever have a passion for travel or that i absolutely DO NOT WANT TO, it’s just not at the top of my priority list right now.) now some folks would have you believe that people that haven’t/don’t travel abroad are some barefoot, toothless, uneducated bums that don’t enjoy life. that’s just not really the case. i totally respect people who feel that international travel is important, but at the same time, i can always spot the person who is just saying they want to go to paris because they don’t want to look like the odd man out at the sushi bar. chile, you don’t know ish about the louvre, you don’t give a damn about the louvre, and you need to own that and sit your ass down. because it’s ok.
–getting drunk–tipsy is good. but have you ever looked at somebody throwing up or being carried into their house by random associates and think, “really? what’s great about that?”
–nikki minaj–i just don’t get it.
@charli skipper,
World travel may be overrated, but not by much. I do agree with you though you shouldn’t go until you’re ready otherwise you will probably have a terrible time.
Being stupid drunk might be the most overrated thing on this whole list. I don’t see anything positive about not knowing what the f*ck happened last night.
@A-Town Genius,
i guess i shouldn’t say that world travel is overrated. i can’t speak to that as i’ve never left this continent. i guess what i meant was that “the idea that one will be more cultured as a result of world travel” is overrated. i’ve met so many closed minded bamas who’ve “seen the world” that i’m beginning to think that they all went together and caught the ignorance on the plane back here. like, i don’t get it.
@charli skipper,
cosign on that minaj chick, it makes my head hurt trying to figure out the big deal…
@naturallyalise1, i’ve expressed my feelings for that manaj chick on here before so….i co-sign also
@charli skipper,
now some folks would have you believe that people that haven’t/don’t travel abroad are some barefoot, toothless, uneducated bums that don’t enjoy life. that’s just not really the case. i totally respect people who feel that international travel is important, but at the same time, i can always spot the person who is just saying they want to go to paris because they don’t want to look like the odd man out at the sushi bar. chile, you don’t know ish about the louvre, you don’t give a damn about the louvre, and you need to own that and sit your ass down. because it’s ok.
***nodding head***
@charli skipper,
Cosign and head nod – TWICE – in cursive.
@charli skipper,
I think world travel is overrated if you are not a traveler at heart. There is a distinct tribe of travelers at heart (all my Anthony Bourdain’s fans say Hey!) for whom world travel is ABSOLUTELY not overrated… ever. Even the dysentery you get while traveling in a remote era of Sri Lanka is worth it in the end.
Co-sign everything except 9: Are we forgetting of the joy of cats stealing socks to make a bed, jumping on tables when your eating breakfast, and lying on your face when you sleep on the couch?? How about waking you with a dead rat in her mouth in the morning…..yea
(Other than that i think its rather adorable that Me and SO’s Cat ,named “noob” will sit next to me and watch the CNN)
@Mr. Gundam,
Co-sign everything except 9: Are we forgetting of the joy of cats stealing socks to make a bed, jumping on tables when your eating breakfast, and lying on your face when you sleep on the couch?? How about waking you with a dead rat in her mouth in the morning…..yea
this gives them character
@Mr. Gundam,
“Are we forgetting of the joy of cats stealing socks to make a bed, jumping on tables when your eating breakfast, and lying on your face when you sleep on the couch?? How about waking you with a dead rat in her mouth in the morning…..yea.”
I thought only my cats stole objects. He has more expensive taste like earrings and necklaces but a thief is a thief.
No dead rat in my mouth yet, but I do find toys in the bed quite often… cat toys.
and another thing:
–matching. i hate it when people have to match the (tennis) shoes to the handbag to the shirt to the nail polish. um….can you join me in 2010, please, baranqua? you’re aging (and countrifying) yourself. thanks. you’re going to go through all that trouble trying to find the perfect shade of lime green, but when you show up to the club, at best, nobody’s going to even care. and at worst, they’re going to think you live on a farm.
@stephchavis@yahoo.com,
you sure you put this in the right entry?
- Cooking: I’m a great cook, but I hate doing it because of my eating habits. I inhale food. I’m the guy who eats while walking/driving back home. I’m the guy who’s damn near cleaned his plate by the time you finish blessing the food. I’m the guy who kills the greens straight out the pot while waiting for the chicken in the oven to finish. I’m the guy who causes the waiter to ask “Do you need more bread?” four times before the actual food is brought to the table. So it’s a little disheartening to spend 2+ hours in the kitchen making something that’ll be gone in five minutes.
@P., I gotta agree with cooking . . . I like cooking if folks are coming over but the elders are always trying to make me cook for myself . . . for WHAT? I never make small portions and end up beasting what was supposed to last me a week in 2 days . . . I’ll take a hungry man meal and call it a day.
@P., *File under people to avoid if they become a zombie
@Mr. Gundam,
This made me LOL
@P.,
*snickering* I’m visualizing you (well…an imaginary you because I don’t know what you look like) standing over a pot of greens (eating) while the chicken hasn’t been put in the oven yet. smh : )
@P., Funny!
@P.,
So it’s a little disheartening to spend 2+ hours in the kitchen making something that’ll be gone in five minutes.
That is hilarious!
But I understand… find some quick recipes that you’ll still enjoy!
The underdog story- I think it sounds nice in theory, but no one wanted to really see a Butler v. Duke championship. I think that when it is used in context it can be a great thing. I think now the powers at be try to make underdog stories that are just too unbelievable. I mean does any one want to really believe that Katherine Heigl is gonna have a relationship with an out of work Seth Rogen because he made her laugh?
@Kirk Lazarus, “I mean does any one want to really believe that Katherine Heigl is gonna have a relationship with an out of work Seth Rogen because he made her laugh?”
I think it was the laughter that got him in there . . . the fact that he knocked her up got him the call back
@Kirk Lazarus, “I mean does any one want to really believe that Katherine Heigl is gonna have a relationship with an out of work Seth Rogen because he made her laugh?”
The laughter got him the in . . . the knockedupdedness got him the call back.
@Kirk Lazarus,
The underdog story- I think it sounds nice in theory, but no one wanted to really see a Butler v. Duke championship
this is one of the reasons why i love the nba playoffs so much. because you have 7 game series, the team thats truly the best (instead of just lucky) wins 90 percent of the time.
@The Champ,
“this is one of the reasons why i love the nba playoffs so much. because you have 7 game series, the team thats truly the best (instead of just lucky) wins 90 percent of the time.”
can’t co-sign on this one..
the playoffs start in april and run until NFL starts again.. WHY!?!?!?! that’s FOOLISHNESS! The 1st round DIDNT NOT NEED TO CHANGE to best of 7. It doesn’t make it more exciting. It makes more money.
Period. Full Stop.
I’ll take full court press and 1 and done over half-jogs and crocodile tears all day, errryday. (And will still take NFL over them all).
Very thought provoking….
I agree on almost everything….except about dogs..cat people are some of the craziest people you will ever met..hence, the term “cat lady”…not “dog lady”….lol.
Russia is a non-issue at this point..I think, everyone knows we need to be looking at Korea and Iran. right?
How are you going to clown black american inventors….they invented something. Did you? Im just sayin’….
I grew up in the 80s…the best of times and the worst of times..but definitely the best era in my humble opinion…..the 70s were historic and momentous…I cant hate.
Oooh New York. Never did understand the draw of that city..been there….done that…nice place to visit ( I guess)..don’t want to live there.
That is all.
@QueenT,
How are you going to clown black american inventors….they invented something. Did you? Im just sayin’….
i invented deez
@QueenT, “I grew up in the 80s…the best of times and the worst of times..but definitely the best era in my humble opinion”
Yeah, crack and Ronald Reagan, it get’s no better than that…
another thing that’s overrated: bubble baths and those sweet scented, body wash gel-soaps. um….antibacterial much? call me crazy, but at this point in the grooming process i’m just trying to kill germs and not get hives. we have plenty of time to worry about fragrances.
@charli skipper,
Yeah…who has time for this ish anyway…& if I get another friggin gift card for B&BW somebody’s drinking that ish!
@Alovelydai,
**jumps up and down raising and waving hands** I’ll take them I’ll take them. Send them to me!
@charli skipper, I can’t remember seeing a picture for you before, so I’m going to assume that’s new. Nice pic!
@sanen85,
thanks! back atcha
@charli skipper, Thanks. Why is your pic showing up in some comments and not in others?
@charli skipper,
i forgot to change my email to the gravatar one anywhere except my laptop. i got confused…
PDA’s/SmartPhones/etc… – Being a former Blackberry owner, after the first week or so I really didn’t miss it. Yes, it had a million functions but in reality I do not want to deal with EVERYTHING on alleged free time. In fact I miss the days of no call waiting and no one being able to reach you when you when you left the house. We have way too much access to each other.
Vegas – It is fun and all I won’t deny, but it has been overhyped beyond belief, the key I guess is not to stay too long, bc it will get old real quick…
Cheescake Factory – Besides the cheesecake itself, everything there is a mediocre overpriced interpretation of regional fare
@naturallyalise1,
PDA’s/SmartPhones/etc… – Being a former Blackberry owner, after the first week or so I really didn’t miss it. Yes, it had a million functions but in reality I do not want to deal with EVERYTHING on alleged free time. In fact I miss the days of no call waiting and no one being able to reach you when you when you left the house. We have way too much access to each other.
If I had my way, the world would be magically transported through some sort of worm hole and competely skip through the invention of the telephone and all related tracking devices (cells, PDA, iPhones, faxes, laptop), and re-emerge with all other modern day conviniences. I hate; no loathe, neigh abhor phones; you can’t avoid people anymore. They really are like the electronic tracking device they give to people under house arrest.
@ofloveandotherdemons, I have absolutely NO problem with ignoring calls. It’s quite liberating. Go on, try it.
Them: “I tried to reach you earlier, but you didn’t answer.”
Me: “Yeah, I saw that I missed your call, what was up?”
Them: “Your phone is ringing, you gonna get that?”
Me: “Nope. If it’s important, they’ll call back or leave a message.”
@naturallyalise1,
i heart vegas, but you’re right, the key is to not stay long.
i think i’d wither and die without my PhoneBerry, but at the same time… i curse it at least twice daily bc of mentioned hyper-access. like dang, what happened to the good ol days when you’d have your little brother answer the house phone and say “umm she’s not here” while you’re standing in front of them shaking your head ‘NO’ vigorously? gosh. lol
and don’t get me started on work emails that come straight to my phone… ergh.
@naturallyalise1,
Co-sign on Vegas! I’ve been plenty of times and every time I go I always talk about how overrated it is on the way back. I really think people (myself included) get caught up in the marketing, perpetual Vegas movies, hearsay,
women,partying and dreams of winning BIG.When all in all it’s just a psychological mindf*ck to get your money…
@naturallyalise1,
PDAs–Amen, Sister. I hate the notion of being always available to everyone in the world. Especially the job. PDAs make it impossible to escape bosses and clients with “pressing” issues. Trust and believe, 95% of the time, that mess can wait until tomorrow morning. sigh.
@naturallyalise1, 100% agree with Cheesecake Factory. The food there is mediocre, at best. CF is the modern day Red Lobster.
@naturallyalise1,
I’m not gonna argue about the cheesecake factory food… HOWEVA that brown bread they bring before the meal is my favorite pre-meal food from any restaurant and I really like the strawberry lemonade there also
Oh I got another 1,
knowing better-This whole concept that “if you know better you should do better” is vastly overrated. I would like the abiltiy to be ignorant to all the bad things I see for at least half of my day.
@Kirk Lazarus,
you sound like daisy from the great gatsby
Also. Being an independant woman
Whohoo I get to take my hard earned money and buy my own dranks at the club
Shyt. Them dranks get expensive sometimes a lil dependancy aint all that bad
@shay-d-lady,
“Them dranks get expensive sometimes a lil dependancy aint all that bad”
this is why everyone should have a flask
RE: #6 – any mention of Whodini reminds me of Jalil Hutchins’ shorts in the Freaks come out at Night video. Actually, there were some pretty questionable outfits in hip-hop/R&B before 1992. Remember Bobby Brown’s spandex onesie and everything about Full Force? You can’t talk reminisce about the good old days of hip-hop without remembering the bad old days of high top fades and Cross Colours.
@ViK,
yo…..Sade..Ice T and Full Force…save a ninja in argentina from the damn accordion!!
Beer is completely UNDER RATED!!! There is a million brands and style out; a little bit of everything for everyone.
Overrated things:
1. SoCal- It might just be the jadedness talking, but good climate doesn’t trump crazy cost of living, crazier traffic on every phucking highway and by and even crazier hipsters/goths/valley/insert walking stereotype here dotting this place.
2. Reality TV- Aren’t they all just slightly tweaked rehashes of a previous show that got cancelled two months ago on a competing channel at this point? Good Lawd let us get some scripted TV shows on the air again.
3. Sex- both over and severely under rated.
4. Biological family- If they haven’t done s**t for me than blood isn’t a good enough excuse to keep them in my life. The family you choose for yourself plays an equal, if not larger, role in your life anyway.
5. Following the path laid out to you by parents/guardians/social norms/ peer pressure whatever. Until I’m 100% that reincarnation actually occurs, and that I’m coming back as a trust fund babies, I’m going to live this life for me.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
3. Sex- both over and severely under rated.
expound
@ofloveandotherdemons,
4. Biological family- If they haven’t done s**t for me than blood isn’t a good enough excuse to keep them in my life. The family you choose for yourself plays an equal, if not larger, role in your life anyway.
while i don’t have the same hate for my biological fam, i do see this point and raise you one. lol. my close friends ARE family.
Family isn’t just the people you are related to by blood.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
5. Following the path laid out to you by parents/guardians/social norms/ peer pressure whatever. Until I’m 100% that reincarnation actually occurs, and that I’m coming back as a trust fund babies, I’m going to live this life for me
FTW!
I’ve got to disagree with a few.
1. Beer is underrated. Cold beer from a bottle is the best way to relax when it’s 92 ° with 80 % humidity.
8. Can’t co-sign on the Ruskies. Ask any old German who was around in the spring of 1945. They scare the shit out of their friends. If the countries of the world could be described as famous people Mother Russia is a coked-up Mike Tyson off his meds. Sure he’s not what he used to be but he may buy you a drink of he beat your ass to a bloodly pulp.
9. If treated well a dog will have your back. Cats are disloyal sadists who don’t have people’s best interests at heart.
My overrated list:
1. Rims. Really, did your late model crown vic really need 26′s?
2. Exclusive sneakers. I’m generally against anything that makes the tight-pants crowd happy. . . whiney bitches.
3. The MLB and NBA regular seasons.
4. Spike Lee
5. SEC football. I love it and yes, it’s better than every other conference but Miss State, SCarolina (sorry), and Vandy can cause nausea.
6. Mixtape rappers
7. Tim Tebow.
8. Summer block busters
@Wu Young Agent of M.E., All I’mma say is “School Daze” and “Mo’ Better Blues”… I’d trade Tyler Perry for Spike on your list enday!
@Yeah…SO!?!,
***disclaimer: before beginning, i want to remind everyone that “overrated” doesn’t mean “bad”, “worthless”, or even “average”, just not as valuable/noteworthy/important as common sentiment would suggest.***
I loved “School Daze” “Crooklyn” and “X” but I’m suffering from “What have you done for me lately”syndrome. Now that you mentioned it most of the big name directors can be considered overrated too for various reasons. Co-sign on Tyler. I’m not sure why he is even rated at all.
@Wu Young Agent of M.E., FYI- uh I saw the disclaimer spank you very much!- lol
@Wu Young Agent of M.E.,
I liked your list until you got to #4 & #5.
Spike Lee has made some classic films and he directed Inside Man not too long ago which isn’t a bad movie. He also did Miracle at St. Anna, which looks like a good movie. He does have misses like Girl 6 (I think) but he changed the game.
I graduated from an SEC school (the first USC, the ‘real’ USC, take that, take that) and the SEC is stacked. The Gamecocks may not be the best team in the conference but we send players to the league (i.e. Sidney Rice, Sheldon Brown, Dunta Robinson, Sterling Sharpe, etc.).
What college football conference you know has a conference championship game that is 9 times out of 10 more dramatic than the BCS championship?
That’s my humble opinion on those matters.
@Soulgerian,
I forgot about “Inside Man”. “Miracle at St. Anna was so-so but it was a little too long and I’ll refrain from the cliche “the book was better”. Spike has his hits and I forgot to mention “Do The Right Thing” which was his best effort to me. Spike has his moments but he spends too much time b****ing rather than making dope films.
I love the SEC. The SEC is stacked and they are dominate their comp with unreal defensive front sevens and running the ball. I want more offenses like Spurrier’s at Florida and other pro-style packages so they can Really dominate the rest of the nation. I want other teams to fear coming south to play these teams even more. I’ve been pulling for Bama fulltime since I was in middle school when they handled the U, and I heart the Gamecocks in Columbia because the bulk of my family was educated there. (I think I’m the only member of my fam who went else where. That and I hate Clemson. I think Clemson is a reflection of everything that is wrong with SC.) The Cocks just frustrate me with all of that NFL ready talent but they can’t get over the hump. This upcoming season presents a perfect opp for them to step up.
When it comes to SEC and Spike whole my standards are too high.
@Wu Young Agent of M.E.,
Okay, when you put it like that, I get your point.
Spike was on fire in the late 80s/early 90s. I think he does good films when he works with Denzel.
The University of South Carolina’s football team….I love ‘em….next season has to be the proverbial ‘next year’ we’ve been waiting for….if not, I don’t think Spurrier is going to make it. It always befuddled me how the team would be on the verge but never get there and have solid talent make it in the league (quite an oxymoron).
I appreciate your strong dislike for Clemson.
We’re cool, thanks man!
@Soulgerian,
I think with a lot of black folks and Clemson is that we look at their student body and don’t see very many of us. I could say the same thing about my Alma mater but it’s the vibe I get from Clemson.
@Soulgerian,
Miracle at St. Anna was horrible. It was long as hell and I still have no idea what was going on in most of the film. I like Spike but M@SA was NO Inside Man.
@Soulgerian,
What college football conference you know has a conference championship game that is 9 times out of 10 more dramatic than the BCS championship?
Well since there is only 2 conferences that have a championship game, I guess the SEC would have a 50-50 chance of winning. And the championship game last year wasn’t even close…
@Wu Young Agent of M.E., Co-effin-sign on Tim Tebow!!!!!!
@Complex Simplicity,
It’s nothing personal against him, but “The Legend of Tim Tebow” will only hurt him from this point on. He’s been put on a pedestal and if he ever does anything unbefitting to his legend the public will tear him apart.
@Wu Young Agent of M.E., No hate to him as a person…but they have him hyped up like he is going to come into the NFL levitating, thowing passes blindfolded with one arm tied behind his back….he is just another quarterback…only time will tell with Tebow…
@Wu Young Agent of M.E.,
I predict Tim Tebow will be the next Tiger Woods.
@Wu Young Agent of M.E.,
see, i can’t agree with you about the nba regular season, especially since most casual sports fans think its overrated already (which actually makes it underrated)
@The Champ, most casual sports fans think its overrated already (which actually makes it underrated)
Should I be worried that this actually makes sense to me?… I’m a bit concerned.
9. If treated well a dog will have your back. Cats are disloyal sadists who don’t have people’s best interests at heart.
Damn Wu, you got all of that from some cats? LOL I dont like em either but you might be looking a little too deep…
@Dom,
If a cat get’s it’s paws on a bird, rat, or small animal they will toy with it before ending their prey’s life. Not cool.
@Wu Young Agent of M.E.,
If a cat get’s it’s paws on a bird, rat, or small animal they will toy with it before ending their prey’s life. Not cool.
they just have a sense of humor, thats all
@The Champ,
You just compared cats to Waffen SS interrogators and The Joker.
@Dom,
Cats are disloyal sadists who don’t have people’s best interests at heart.
…and don’t forget sneaky and at times somewhat snobbish. And as a child, I would dress them up in doll’s clothing so they’d appear more “innocent”. Yep, “The Elvira” (Looney Tunes) of my day…hold on, did I just describe a certain type of woman? LoL
@Wu Young Agent of M.E.,
I also love the SEC but I’ma need you to add UK to this list. I was tempted to add Arkansas but they are just good enough every now and then that they don’t totally embarrass us. And since we are speaking about the SEC I hate florida go dawgs!
@Wu Young Agent of M.E.,
I so-sign with #5! The SEC is top heavy, with Florida and Bama. But after that you got LSU and Georgia, who are both getting worse, and then its everybody else.
Now I disagree with you on Tebow. For everything that he has done in college football he is no where near overrated. He was on 2 national championhship teams and won another BCS bowl game in 3 years starting. So he actually deserves the credit he is given. Now as far as being a true QB, Florida never produces those! And his pro rating is about where it should be, undecided!
“punch* for implying that my slain husband Tupac is anything but the best anything. tupac was genius. thanks. and i thought that while he was alive.
“7. dying
quite possibly the most overrated thing on this list, as approximately 95 percent of the worlds population (including me) follow a belief system explicitly stating that their death will be legions better than their life ever was, but only maybe 10% of that 95% are actually looking forward to it.
basically, we’re all full of shit”
that last line killed me. bwahahahaa. that makes so much sense. we all believe it’s so much better in the after-life, yet i am honestly still amazed when i see people who’ve lived a happy full life and are 95 years old say they are ready and okay with dying. and i always doubt them too, like nah you’re just a quitter. lmbo. (i’m totally joking. sorry)
DOG PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE BETTER THAN CAT PEOPLE.
cats are evil, disloyal, they hack up random balls of fur, they bring bad luck if a negro one crosses you (why is black a symbol for everything evil? ugh), and everyone has a crazy ‘cat lady’ whose house smells like mothballs and stale feline urine in their neighborhood.
plus i’m allergic to them, so that makes them automatically suck. lol
blaspheme on orgasms being overrated. yeah.right. if you were a woman you’d disagree. like i said above, men spend the whole time trying not to have one while trying to make the woman have several. sucks to be you. lol.
*now, things i think are overrated
–someone mentioned pdas/smartphones above, and i will cosign the excessive access people gain to you when you own one. but more specifically BBM! wtfness. for those who don’t have a PhoneBerry, it’s BlackBerry Messenger. there is no way to LOG OFF! ergh. and people don’t respect a punk arse red ‘busy’ dot by your name. i’ve had to delete 70% of my (very small) contact list because of “yo, i KNOW you read my message, i see the ‘R’ next to it.” or “why are you on twitter/facebook/blogger and not reading what i bbm’d you?” OR “you were on the phone for two hours and twenty-two minutes last night…” type comments. why won’t blackberry let me
ignore peoplebe great? way too much info knowing not only when your message has been delivered, but the exact moment it’s read, and furthermore exactly when and how long your phone is unavailable because you’re on it or it’s turned off. damn. blackberry is trying to ruin relationships. i have it figured out. lol.–extremely high priced shoes-i love shoes just as much, if not more, than any other fashionista, but spending $400+ on a pair of shoes just because some designer and some fashion magazine decided their leather is better than everyone else’s is crazy.
–long hair- hear me out. i mean, it’s pretty, yeah. but overrated. long hair seems to make (in people’s minds) a woman much more attractive than she actually is. especially if it’s her hair. women will forgo paying a bill to spend six hours getting some bald woman in India’s hair sewn onto their head for the sole purpose of looking better for a man. annnd in my own personal experience, for the last 2 years, i’ve had hair that was hitting my lower back/almost to my waist when straightened, and a huge curly fro when not. subsequently, for those 2 years, i was always described as the ‘brown girl with really long natural hair’ by anyone whom didn’t know me. not even kidding. bc of my hair texture and/or length, i’ve had to field some of the dumbest “what island are you from/what you mixed with/that ain’t really your hair, is it(as they grab it)?” questions from men AND women of every race, and had the shallowest, most vain men on the planet try to date me all because they like my hair.
i recently chopped 6-7 inches off and even though i *may* grow it back, i still attract men, but being objectified and random come-ons by weird hairwhores and hair-fetish dudes’ have been eliminated, and that’s a very good thing.
*cues India.Arie’s “i am not my haiirrrr”*
–also, i don’t want to say overrated, but, prayer and God’s help is HEAVILY misused in my opinion. if i hear one more black person say “God’s gonna get me through/pull me out/provide a way” as they hide their car at your house bc the repo man is looking for them bc they prefer to get long-hair instead of paying their car note.. or start praying as they slide their maxed out credit card through/write a bad check for the $200 outfit they don’t need, i’m going to scream. God is not your aid and abettor. he helps those who help themselves. and i may be wrong, but i don’t think it’s a blessing from God when someone else’s $700 paycheck that they worked all week for is mistakenly deposited into your bank account, but rather the fault of an inept teller, and you should notify the bank… not pay your rent bc you spent yours on weave and club clothes. imjussayin. give it back.
*whew* rant.over.
btw, i think i just won longest comment ever in the history of comments. i’m a writer, i can’t help it. send me a t-shirt. thanks.
@Muze,
Sista I am SOOOOOOO with you on the long hair thing… people have threatened my life every time I want to chop it off even when they don’t have style, maintain, or carry this hair around on sticky summer days. And I’m real tired of hearing…”Girl if I had all that hair…” What? You’d throw it up in a bun 4-5 days a week just like I do!
@Muze,
“i’ve had to field some of the dumbest “what island are you from/what you mixed with/that ain’t really your hair, is it(as they grab it)?” questions from men AND women of every race, and had the shallowest, most vain men on the planet try to date me all because they like my hair.”
I never could understand the hair thing. I’ve seen dudes mesmerized by women and long hair. IDK. Growing up with a “afrocentric” mother probably is the reason for that. My mother has worn her natural for almost my entire life. I’ve seen cats play in woman’s hair they don’t even know. Naturally the women were pissed. I was shocked. Like damn dude you don’t her like that. I was so embarrassed at that those 2 situations. Another embarrassing situation is when I was talking to a Ethiopian girl and a friend of a friend told one of her friends that she didn’t look African. I was sooooooo embarrassed. The girl that I was talking to looked at me like wtf. Needless to say I schooled that guy and I told my homeboy to never bring that negro around us if we are going out.
@Humble_One,
yay for natural mamas! lol.
eeek. yeah. i can’t even tell you the number of times random men have asked to touch my hair, or have just did it without saying anything. ew. such a violation. and yes, i’ve heard that from a few ethiopian women… they get more ignant comments than a little bit. i get the island thing more than anything… and then they have the nerve to look disappointed when i say i’m from michigan. lol. ugh. glad you aren’t one of ‘those’ guys.
@Muze,
Girl we are *here* with everything!!!
@Muze,
btw, i think i just won longest comment ever in the history of comments. i’m a writer, i can’t help it. send me a t-shirt. thanks.
no
@The Champ,
LOL. yousuck. i’ll ask the
niceother VSB then. or Liz. so na.@Muze, also, i don’t want to say overrated, but, prayer and God’s help is HEAVILY misused in my opinion. if i hear one more black person say “God’s gonna get me through/pull me out/provide a way” as they hide their car at your house bc the repo man is looking for them bc they prefer to get long-hair instead of paying their car note.. or start praying as they slide their maxed out credit card through/write a bad check for the $200 outfit they don’t need, i’m going to scream. God is not your aid and abettor. he helps those who help themselves. and i may be wrong, but i don’t think it’s a blessing from God when someone else’s $700 paycheck that they worked all week for is mistakenly deposited into your bank account, but rather the fault of an inept teller, and you should notify the bank… not pay your rent bc you spent yours on weave and club clothes. imjussayin. give it back.
Say that! Very true.
@Natasha,
Preach Natasha!
Yes, prayer is never overrated but what a lot of people pray FOR is. I hate to hear someone “claim a new car in the name of Jesus” WTH?! You can “claim” your car when you have saved enough money to pay for said car, FOOL! HA! People get on my last when they pray to make a car note but just yesterday went to the “hit em’ up weave shop”, borrowed money from their Auntie to go clubbing and who knows what else! People don’t have to pray for a new car or anything else material. You need to get your priorities straight and learn how to save and or want what you already have.
“throws hands in the air”
@Muze,
it’s BlackBerry Messenger. there is no way to LOG OFF! ergh. and people don’t respect a punk arse red ‘busy’ dot by your name. i’ve had to delete 70% of my (very small) contact list because of “yo, i KNOW you read my message, i see the ‘R’ next to it.” or “why are you on twitter/facebook/blogger and not reading what i bbm’d you?” OR “you were on the phone for two hours and twenty-two minutes last night…” type comments. why won’t blackberry let me ignore people be great? way too much info knowing not only when your message has been delivered, but the exact moment it’s read, and furthermore exactly when and how long your phone is unavailable because you’re on it or it’s turned off. damn. blackberry is trying to ruin relationships.
WHY OH WHY am I literally laughing out loud and ever so LOUDLY @ this!! BBM is bad, but the inability to sign out is WORSE! (and don’t get me started on the BBM groups..at least you can hide those notifications..). I love my BB like your POTUS does (big up Cdn product!! woot, woot!), and will neva eva EVA hook it up to the work email – but yes.. have to be careful not to become (even though I probably already have) one of THOSE people.
I did a fundraising gala last night and during a brief intermission in a dark corner away from tables, were there about 5 people checking their phones and BB’s. I found it quite hilarious. Better then them checking at the table I suppose.
@Keisha Brown,
omg BBM groups… i’m only in one and that was recent… and i (somewhat rudely now that i think back) asked how i could stop notifications without leaving the group… cause that’s what was about to happen. lol.
i seriously heart my PhoneBerry… but if there is a reason someone (who most likely doesn’t have your actual phone #) should have 24hour access to you without you being able to log off, please tell me now. lol
@Muze,
there isn’t.
*runs to send BB an email about this. lol.
@Muze,
I can’t explain our infatuation with hair I’ve thought about it and it honestly makes no sense it just is what it is I guess…
I would never play in some random girls hair if I didn’t know her… except for yours
@Muze
also, i don’t want to say overrated, but, prayer and God’s help is HEAVILY misused in my opinion. if i hear one more black person say “God’s gonna get me through/pull me out/provide a way” as they hide their car at your house bc the repo man is looking for them bc they prefer to get long-hair instead of paying their car note.. or start praying as they slide their maxed out credit card through/write a bad check for the $200 outfit they don’t need, i’m going to scream. God is not your aid and abettor. he helps those who help themselves. and i may be wrong, but i don’t think it’s a blessing from God when someone else’s $700 paycheck that they worked all week for is mistakenly deposited into your bank account, but rather the fault of an inept teller, and you should notify the bank… not pay your rent bc you spent yours on weave and club clothes. imjussayin. give it back.
Lol! My friend and I hate “just pray” and “let go and let God.” When you play a part in getting yourself through the sitaton? God’s going to do his part, you’re the questionable one.
@meka,
HAHAHAHAHAHA omg I laughed all through and up and down that comment.
Atlanta – that sh*t is dirty and draby, most of the men are gay, women are ghetto, etc
Corporate America – there is always going to be some ignant arse ninja that needs to be slapped because they misrepresenting the black race. and before anybody says otherwise, YES, if you are black in corporate america, you represent ALL of us.
“Beautiful” People in Miami – I just got back and saw maybe 5 “10s” (men and women) and thats it. I was expecting Denzel to be walking down southbeach.
@MissDiannaT,
Damn…I have that romantic idea about beautiful people in Miami…say it isn’t so…
@Alovelydai, I’m gonna have to co-sign the Miami thing, unless you’re of the “paler nation” Miami just ain’t gonna do it for you, unless of course you’re lookin for , fake-a$$ beautiful people who bought their looks from some South Beach plastic surgeon…No Denzel there at all…mens in Miami,,still country as he!!-shoutout to Luke n’em
@MissDiannaT, I will have to co-sign the Miami thing….being raised in Miami…I can’t understand the facination with Miami and the women/men…please most of those “beautiful people” don’t even live there. Miami is like any other city…with just average @ss folk.
@MissDiannaT,
Atlanta is extremely overrated. I’m from LA but i go 2 school in ATL, this city is so boring (once you’ve been to the (strip)club a couple of times). cosign on ALL the gay niggas.
@MissDiannaT,
**Atlanta – that sh*t is dirty and draby, most of the men are gay, women are ghetto, etc**
WAIT A MINUTE. I’m not gonna say ATL doesn’t have it’s share of problems (a multitude of gays, poor public trans, hot as hell) but dirty and drabby we are not, it ain’t NYC down here.
@MissDiannaT,
“Beautiful” People in Miami – I just got back and saw maybe 5 “10s” (men and women) and thats it. ”
I went to MIA for Pro Bowl weekend, and even with all the celebs/ballers and therefore the groupies in town.. I wasn’t impressed either. I expected Will Smith video 24/7. LOL
@MissDiannaT,
Wow I’ma need you to stop goin in on my city. I mean calling us overrated is one thing but insults are not appreciated lol. I know I’m biased because I’m from here but I haven’t visited too many other cities that I would rather live.
Overrated:
*Grindin’ (Work) – I keep wakin’ up to folks talkin’ this “rise and grind” bullshyt like it’s fun to HAVE to go to work. Even if you love what you do, the fact that you HAVE to do it make it less enjoyable. Grinding when I feel like it is a much better option. I know it’s good to be working, paying bills on time, and all that responsible shyt that we’re trained to believe makes you a better person, but I’d rather spend time leisurely and actually LIVING as oppose to “making a living”.
@Monk,
*cosign
@Monk, actually LIVING oppose to “making a living”.
kinda long but I’d rock it on a baby tee
@Monk,
Amen!
@Monk,
you done said it right therra
@Monk,
yes. si. oui. (and all other languages)
“7. dying
quite possibly the most overrated thing on this list, as approximately 95 percent of the worlds population (including me) follow a belief system explicitly stating that their death will be legions better than their life ever was, but only maybe 10% of that 95% are actually looking forward to it.
basically, we’re all full of shit”
Lol, I died after reading this because it is so true.
“9. dogs
because cats and cat people always have and will always be better”
I’m going to have to disagree with you. I am a born-again dog lover. Used to have an evil dog growing up that bit me every chance it got, but now I have the kindest yellow lab that loves everyone. You just can’t beat dogs.
I’m going to add Alicia Keys and Drake. I’ve always been an Alicia Keys fan, but she is definitely overrated. Drake just needs to go away.
@Carter,
You just can’t beat dogs.
tell that to michael vick
@The Champ,
Lol, I think I walked right into that one.
@Carter,
“Drake just needs to go away.”
It’s our plan for global domination..one rapper turnt singa at a time.
Being Vegan/ Vegatarian…too much effort, too costly, and a Porterhouse for 2 @ Ruth Chris is the ish!
@Alovelydai,
seriously
@Alovelydai,
I don’t know about that one. (Goes back to biblical, humans were intended to be vegetarians, ask Adam, Lillith (no Caballeroso) and Eve.) There are amazing health benefits to eating more fruits and vegetable and natural fibers. Meat is all good and tasty as heck, but it shouldn’t be the focus (biggest portion) of the meal. That’s how people eat today.
Q: What’s for dinner? A; Chicken.
All that meat without the balance of the whole grains and veggies and fruits leads to bad stuff gunking up your arteries. (Also, its not still a veggie if you deep fry it or cook it so long that all the nutrients leech out into the pot liquor). In sum, eat your fruits and veggies.
That is all.
@INFJgurl, ” don’t know about that one. (Goes back to biblical, humans were intended to be vegetarians, ask Adam, Lillith (no Caballeroso) and Eve.)”
:/
@Caballeroso,
” :/ ”
mi ‘scuzi:
Should have been (hat tip Caballeroso). Sometimes I think faster than I type. Sometimes I type without thinking at all.
@MissDiannaT
Gurrrrl, I’m so glad that you said Atlanta although I disagree with your reasons. There’s a superificial side of Atlanta that I don’t like. Lots of folks putting up an image that’s far from reality (and this was long before the recession).
@meka, I moved to Atlanta from Miami and OMG….everyone here is soooo superficial, everyone that I have met here is a rapper, a singer, a model, a producer, a CEO, a President…where are the regular people? Where is Joe the janitor and Susie the teacher? Seems like everyone is playin keep up with the Jones’ up here…
@Complex Simplicity,
Where are y’all meeting these people at cause most people I know are just trying to make it down here. Must be the transplants
@A-Town Genius, Maybe…but I swear, every person I’ve ever met since I’ve moved here is either, a rapper, actually met a few of those…a model….a CEO/business owner (sellin Ardys, Noni juice, sh*t air for that matter). I am tired of getting business cards when I meet people….Even my co-workers handin out business cards for their side hustle…d*mmit is no one just a regular person anymore?
before i get going…that ain’t a dog..it”s a horse
i don’t drink……#1 don’t apply
bustin a nut is nirvana…..plain and simple….
i loved the 70′s…..esp the Steelers
i’ll tell you what *is* overrated…..responsibility….
@kingpinenut,
before i get going…that ain’t a dog..it’’s a horse
its a dorse
*prepares for verbal lashing*
Cassie- I think she is a beautiful girl. However, the way she is blown up over her beauty….eh. I see her Tuesday at a taping for “Inside The Actors Studio” with Diddy and in my opinion she wasn’t as beautiful as she was in her pics. Def overrated. She looked like a typical Asian woman w/ a blonde hair (maybe that’s what was throwing me off).
Rollercoasters- Seriously…being scared as hell and screaming my brains out is not my idea of fun. Then my friend has the nerve to suggest hang gliding. No one is strapping my black arse to the back of a kite and pushing me off a cliff. Extreme sports/activities…..go that way ——–>
Long Hair- it’s a pain to maintain…whether fake or real. Chicks be holding on to those thin arse, transparent ponytails…just so they can use the purple rollers at the doobie shop.
Horror movies- I haven’t seen one which actually had me scared. Unless “Rosewood” counts
@La Bakir,
“Rollercoasters- Seriously…being scared as hell and screaming my brains out is not my idea of fun. Then my friend has the nerve to suggest hang gliding. No one is strapping my black arse to the back of a kite and pushing me off a cliff. Extreme sports/activities…..go that way ——–>”
i’m man enough to admit…they scare the hell out me….
and F hershey park for havin cameras to catch the fear….
nothin like gettin off the ride….walkin down the row to a screen of your black ass cringin like you done seen freddy kruger….and *everybody* clowin your ass…..
@kingpinenut,
walkin down the row to a screen of your black ass cringin like you done seen freddy kruger
LMAO…especially @ “done seen”
@LaBakir,
and wife got the sh!t on the fridge…it might be on my coffin when i roll out….
@kingpinenut,
LOL! I can’t! I’m surprised she didn’t purchase a frame for it yet :p
@La Bakir, Kingpinenut
I can handle rollercoasters…that’s not a problem. What punks me is the d@mn rides at state/county fairs that are like 3 inches off the ground…if it rotates or goes in a circular motion, I’m all dizzy, disoriented and sh*t. That centripetal force is a mutha, I tell ya. Even the ride with the little teacups spinning around…too much for me.
I consider myself a pretty manly guy, but on the real….a fair ride will make me b*tch up real quick. *hangs head in shame*
@DG,
I can’t handle anything but the wack rides…like the “run away train” and “skull mountain” @ great adventures
@La Bakir, I agree with your list. Heck I’ll throw in Beyonce up for judgment too. I honestly do not see the big deal with her. She’s overrated in my opinion and praying she disappears soon. Rollercoasters =’s death to me and both are overrated. Horror movies are comic relieve for me. The background music the characters faces… Hilarious! The only movie that actually scared me but is probably not considered a horror movie was “Mothman Prophecies”. That movie had me running to mommy. Mind you I was 20 yrs old…
@T’Lu,
LOL!!! *high fives*
@La Bakir,
I hate amusement parks,always have, so I definitely cosign on the rollercoaster thing… you stand in line for 2 hours in 95.8% humidity behind an ignorant gaggle of musty folks for 30 seconds of pseudo-pleasure (dang, that sounds like college secks)
I cosign on beer, NYC, and dogs.
I don’t, however, cosign on a college education being overrated. You/we are benefitting more from our college educations than we are aware of (and I’m not just referring to the experience). To give a really basic and superficial example, your degree(s) gives you a status (for lack of a better word) that gets you in the door (what door? That’s up to you).
Here are a few more:
1) Outdoor seating at restaurants – b/c flies like grilled chicken too.
2) T*tty-f*cking – The juice just isn’t worth the squeeze.
3) Baseball – Is it me, or is baseball season the longest sh*t ever! Sportscenter absolutely dies in the period of time between the end of NBA playoffs and the beginning of football season. Greatest game my azz.
4) Coffee
5) Kim Kardashian’s azz.
Honorable overrated mention goes out to Lil Wayne, Duke, and Kobe….I’m just sayin’
@Intellegentleman,
Here are a few more:
1) Outdoor seating at restaurants – b/c flies like grilled chicken too.
2) T*tty-f*cking – The juice just isn’t worth the squeeze.
3) Baseball – Is it me, or is baseball season the longest sh*t ever! Sportscenter absolutely dies in the period of time between the end of NBA playoffs and the beginning of football season. Greatest game my azz.
4) Coffee
5) Kim Kardashian’s azz.
wow. i agree with everything here. welcome and shit
@Intellegentleman,
Here are a few more:
flies like grilled chicken too – BRUHAHAA. truth.
T*tty-f*cking – Yeah.. I dont get this either.
Baseball – Is it me, or is baseball season the longest sh*t ever! – Nope. that would be hockey season. (Or maybe that’s cuz I’m Canadian and that’s on SportsCentre all day EVERYDAY..ugh). But seriously..it’s a winter sport that starts in WINTER and ends in JUNE?!?!!? WTF? (and dont get me started on US states that don’t have snow..but yet..have hockey teams).
@Intellegentleman,
This list is the truth. My brother and I have a funeral for sports every year right after the last game of the NBA Finals and wait for sports to arise again in August.
@A-Town Genius,
Oh and if you need to place heaters outside or pass out blankets like I have seen some places then it’s too cold to be sitting outside.
@Intellegentleman,
“2) T*tty-f*cking – The juice just isn’t worth the squeeze.”
This just made me laugh for 2 whole minutes.
Good job!!!
1. Drake – Maybe light skin ninjas is back, because that is the only explanation I can see for him being this mediocre and this popular.
besides stop trying to be hard you’re from Canada2. Ivy League undergrads – they don’t have the best engineering programs and only one has a business program, so a lot of them end up with the same amount of student loans as doctors and lawyers with degrees in the history of poetry. You would honestly be better off starting at community college transferring to a state school and going to a big name grad school, and saving a small fortune.
3. Black Leaders (not in elected positions) – I’m just sayin’ at this point, any ninja with access to a microphone can do what they are doing. Food for thought: Michael Baisden does on the side what many of these dudes do for a living…
4. The East Coast Cities North of Richmond – It is unnecessarily cold, expensive, and violent. And Boston and NYC have as many racists as any southern city.
@Losing It…,
Food for thought: Michael Baisden does on the side what many of these dudes do for a living…
solicit prostitutes?
@The Champ,
That too.
@Losing It…,
Maybe light skin ninjas is back, because that is the only explanation I can see for him being this mediocre and this popular. besides stop trying to be hard you’re from Canada…
hey now…
while as a Torontonian, I will support Drizzy (not his epic fail video or other foolishness), it’s AMERICANS that have put him on the map and play his music a helluva lot than we do. (While visiting MIA and DET recently.. his tunes were EVERYWHERE!!). So….umm…I rebuke this.
Plus his eyebrows ALONE were a recent trending topic on twitter (which I am not a subscriber..but retweets on FB..had me kiltup!), how can you not be entertained??!
@Losing It…,
4. The East Coast Cities North of Richmond – It is unnecessarily cold, expensive, and violent. And Boston and NYC have as many racists as any southern city.
Agreed.
Here’s my take on things.
What I agreed with
#1) Beer is an acquired taste. Yes there are probably thousands of varieties and flavors of beers in the world. At times, when I drink beer, I wonder, why am I drinking this? But the beer ads are some the most hilarious/slick/smooth commercials out, especially during the Super Bowl.
#4) I love New York City, I have friends and family that live there. It was the birthplace of hip-hop. I get that. However, why would I want to be in a city where people for the most part are rude, think too much of themselves and their sport teams (Yankees are so unfair and the Knicks haven’t been good since the mid-90s and never won a NBA champsionship). The cost of living is high, the living spaces are small (in the city), it’s crowded, and it is way to cold in winter. I get tired of up north cats coming down south with their stories of how hard it was and this and that? You do a little research on them and find out that they didn’t even live in NYC but on the outskirts….SMH. Have you ever wondered why in those, the world is coming to an end it always seems to happen in New York City? What’s up with that?
#4b) NYC rappers-I have to add this and I love hip-hop and I respect NYC hip-hop scene but there’s too many rappers up there and they all seem to have beef or are super-lyrical but don’t blow (Papoose, Maino, Jae Millz, etc.). There’s a plethora of mixtape rappers up there. Most of these rappers don’t have a buzz outside of their borough or the city. (And I know I’m about to get some major hate on this one).
What I disagreed with:
#7) Dying can’t be overrated. Look at what it has done for Elvis, Tupac, Biggie (or better yet Sean Combs Mr. Take that, Take that), and Michael Jackson (was in debt near his death and know his estate got a deal for a quarter of a billion dollars). I don’t want to sound negative but everyday is a step closer to death and knowing that we want to/should make the best out of our lives.
#8) Russia can’t be overrated, they have nuclear warheads, they party HARD, it’s extremely cold, they gave the world Vodka, and they get money (the prospective, soon to be owner of the New Jersey Nets).
My List
#1)Trey Songz- Ladies don’t be made at me. He’s a good artist and I will buy his albums just in case and when his latest album came out, all over facebook, the ladies went nuts. However, he has studied R. Kelly and Usher and blended those guys’ styles. His latest album hasn’t gone platinum yet but he has some hits. Have ya’ll really listened to his lyrics (‘will you be my Marge Simpson?’ lol).
#2)Young Money – Lil’ Wayne is prolific and gifted and sounds like a goblin (‘what’s a goon to a goblin?’). He puts in work and has been rapping sincehe was a teenager. Drake is a good artist but if he doesn’t put out his album soon, his buzz will fade quick. Nicki Minaj gets alot of hate but she does her. Tyga is cool. The rest of the roster, what is their purpose? *kanye shrug*
#3)Record Labels- why are they still here? They still exist? They are going the way of the dinosaur and they haven’t adapted to the internet/download age that we live in.
#4)FM urban radio stations- If I wanted to hear the same songs in rotation every hour or two, there are mp3 players, Ipods, Zunes, etc for that. Maybe in bigger cities, it’s better but in smaller areas it sucks.
#5)NCAA basketball regular season and tournament brackets. It seems the level of competition is getting even. The super-squads from the past are not on top of things like it used to be. The regular season games don’t mean much. Plus, everyone who did a bracket for the tournament really saw it go up in smoke (unless you were a Duke fan, congratulations!).
That’s all I got for now.
@Soulgerian,
Back off of #5…right now!
@Intellegentleman,
I’m just saying NCAA basketball isn’t as exciting as it used to be, I’m not saying it’s terrible but the teams aren’t as deep as they used to be (too many 1 and done players) and I tried to watch the regular season games and I only watched maybe 3 before the tournament started, that’s all.
@Soulgerian,
#5)NCAA basketball regular season and tournament brackets. It seems the level of competition is getting even.
nodding head, and this is coming from someone who’s so much of a diehard hoops fan that ive literally spend weeks watching and/or playing basketball longer than i slept
@The Champ,
Thanks Champ!
This year’s tourney had upset specials galore!
Outside of Evan Turner and John Wall and some people that made a name for themselves in the tournament, this year’s NBA Draft is going to be pretty weak/uninteresting to watch outside of the first two picks.
I hate to say it but some of these one and done guys will be playing in the NBDL or overseas.
@Soulgerian,
NCAA basketball regular season is extremely overrated. I can do without the super squads of the past though. I don’t wanna just watch UNC, UK, Kansas, and Duke every single year playing for the title. I like the idea that a Butler or George Mason can realistically pull through and make the tournament
1. Megaclubs – big clubs are talking points for people who want to feel special that they went but, meh, not for me.
2. Relationships – I’m reminded weekly that I need to be with someone. I thought about it…no I don’t.
3. Bus Boys n Poets (for my DC Fam) – Sure it’s a nice place to have a decent brunch and their bookstore carries a nice selection, however this place is usually mentioned whenever someone wants to sound artsy and edgy.
4. Nikki Minaj’s azz – People don’t even know the difference between synthetic and conventional oil, yet her pseudo-cheeks seem to be headline grabbers. Also, she’s how old calling herself Barbie?
@CPT Callamity,
4. Nikki Minaj’s azz – People don’t even know the difference between synthetic and conventional oil, yet her pseudo-cheeks seem to be headline grabbers. Also, she’s how old calling herself Barbie?
pseudo or not, them shits is nice to look at. lol
@Saule Wright,
True. But to me it’s like staring at one of those Lamborghini kit cars. You know it’s actually a Pontiac Fiero underneath but damn…it looks like a Lambo…
@CPT Callamity,
Not the Fiero!!!!
@CPT Callamity,
Nikki’s ass is alright but shes pretty bad. Have you seen her video? shes BAD.
@knightnick, I have to agree I think she bad too.
@Natasha,
I think so too. The hips only make her BAD.
3. Bus Boys n Poets (for my DC Fam)
Blasphemy! Their buckwheat pancakes and $5 Mimosas are incredible. CPT, You need to learn how to LIVE mayne!
@CPT Callamity, DISAGREE big time with 3 and AGREE big time with 4.
Ok…lemme tackle the list.
1. Beer….a younger Saule WRONG would have argued you down, but this mature Saule WRIGHT has to say that you are correct. I like to grab he occasional Henn or wine and prefer those much more beer.
2. Orgasms….all I can say to that is “bullshyt hillaldo” (c) Martin
6….as I dust off my “Rakim is GOAT” response….how can he NOT be. On his latest CD, lyrically, he’s STILL crushing the lyrical flatulence of current airplay kings. Now, I’m not one that really gets into ranking the emcees, but I personally say there is Rakim at 1, then everyone else at 2. I could go on and on, maybe I should continue this on my blog or talk about it on nappyafro.com…cause I would be here a while.
My additions…
1. Mohawks, skinny jeans, etc….the idea of being “different” by doing exactly what everyone else is doing is insane.
2. Being a nice guy…trust me, I’ve been doing it for the majority of my life, and it gets you surrounded by beautiful women that treat you like a eunuch, male friends that drag you along to stave off the “bodyguard” girlfriend, and a lot of stress at work for working harder than the person sitting right next to you. Then again, I guess there is a thin line between being nice and being a pushover? Hmmm…that brings me to my next thing……
3. Being “REAL”. – Essentially, being real or keeping it real is a pass to say some hideously rude shyt and gateway to being obnoxious. “Did you LOOK at what you had on before you came out? I mean, who wears that out in public? I’m just keeping it real” …fugged up, yes you are. You can be REAL and be considerate, it’s not hard.
4. Jagged Edge….I have NEVER seen a group make more money, for longer, and get so much adoration, for using the same melodies and lyrics over their ENTIRE career. Think I’m wrong? You can take “Let’s Get Married” and play the lyrics over any other Jagged Edge ballad track with no editing.
You know I’m right.
@Saule Wright,
Jagged Edge is mediocre, especially when compared to Jodeci and Ready for the World and After 7 and ‘em. But you know who sucks worse? Jaheim. That is the most emotionless, boringest, monotoningest, nicca around making paper. I can’t stand that fool.
@INFJgurl,
“monotoningest” is my new favorite un-word….
@Saule Wright, Jagged Edge….I have NEVER seen a group make more money, for longer, and get so much adoration, for using the same melodies and lyrics over their ENTIRE career. Think I’m wrong? You can take “Let’s Get Married” and play the lyrics over any other Jagged Edge ballad track with no editing.
So true but I love them still tho.
@Saule Wright,
1. Mohawks, skinny jeans, etc….the idea of being “different” by doing exactly what everyone else is doing is insane.
Ok, I usually let this one slide but since you’re fam and all, I need to address this (#donthateme.
)…
Y’all had your high-tops and crazy-colored jeans, and neon colored shoes and the likes… Could we please let the kids enjoy THEIR fashion? I mean dudes were walking around with big chains, wearing big ass jeans and those stupid oversize white tees… Nobody complained. Can’t the kids find their own “weird” fashion they will cringe at later?
I hereby plead with all folks whose youth and teenage years are over to please let the kids be. It’s their time now, let’s stop imposing our sensibilities onto them. Thanksmuch.
Yes, I do it for the kids…
@Sula,
i lub you too suga. (#novenom)
I should have prefaced that with, kids, fine. Grown ass men…fail. I’ve seen more grown men rockin’ mohawks, rainbow bright shirts and shoes, and overall looking like chillens, all for the sake of being “different”.
Vegas and South Beach….sure it’s cool…you have a nice time. But I’m soooo over it. For the same amount of $ I can take a cruise to the Caribbean or something. I don’t gamble, so Vegas has abosultely no allure for me. PLUS…they’ve become the new hood vacations. The average ninja and ninjettes w/o passports travel there. If I wanted to see the hood, I’d travel to my hometown of Newark.
@LaBakir,
I’ve been to Vegas had a good time but i can tell you don’t want to be there for to long. South Beach? Never been there. Is it really overrated? Why do you say it’s overrated?
@Humble_One,
I say South Beach is overrated b/c it’s nothing out of the ordinary to do there. Just of bunch of people (for the most part) trying to stunt….everything is overprices…the beaches are ok at best…you really can’t experience new foods…and besides water actitvities and a few tours…there’s not much to do. Wet Willies and their alcholic concotions is the best thing down there.
And never make the mistake of going during Memorial Day weekend.
And never make the mistake of going during Memorial Day weekend…
Information that would have better served me two years ago. My virgin eyes are still trying to recover!
@LaBakir, Oh God, Memorial Day Miami is the worst. Never seen so much ignance
@Deeds,
You ain’t never lied!
@LaBakir,
“Wet Willies and their alcholic concotions is the best thing down there”
co-signing.
this was my SB vacay: beach, walking around, shopping, food, walking by ppl clubbing at 4am, rince and repeat. I’m sure that a heavenly vacay for some..but not for a full week. maybe an extended weekend. (oh and the clubs were wack..but maybe that’s where i went).
@LaBakir, this is the truest thing i’ve ever read..
everyone that comes into town, guess where they wanna go?? i’m like, “i hope south beach ain’t the reason you came, cuz i can put you on the ‘S’ bus and you call me when you’re done..”
mostly, what Memorial day is (for those that live here) is the day that you don’t go to the beach.. strippers just use it as an excuse to bring out their plastic shoes (that light up), and think it’s cute, cuz they’re in like company..
the beaches are HORRIBLE!! and mostly it’s just a people watching fest.. the parties SUCK!! and by the time you park and hit the door, you’re out 20-30 dollars..
i can’t do it… truly, i can’t….
Okay so I’m getting into this site…and sh*t.
I agree with everything except for orgasms…of course! You must have just had sex when you typed that cause for us who have them far and few between….they’re greeeeaaaaattttt lol.
I think I would add:
~ Crazy sex (i.e. upside down, acrobatic positions, etc) Between hurting myself and the concentration that takes away from the end result…I think claiming to be a “freak a leak” is overrated. Stick to 3 bomb positions.
~ SUVs…are definitely overrated
~ Crash diets and counting calories …I feel that if you eat healthy overall with moderate cheats (like eating cake at a birthday party)…you should be able to maintain a good weight. All this emphasis on calorie intake and gadgets for this and that really doesn’t do much at the end of the day.
I work with mostly white people…(who constantly talk about their calories/meals and diets. At the end of the day, year after year…they look the same: BIG
@SmartFoxGirl,
~ SUVs…are definitely overrated
as is law and order svu
@The Champ,
I might be slow but how do I post a pic next to my name? I don’t see the field.
@SmartFoxGirl,
go to http://www.gravatar.com to get a pic next to your name.
@SmartFoxGirl, You’re not slow at all. Sign into gravatar.com with the email address you use to post comments and upload a photo there
1. Little Brother- LB stans are the worst type of hip hop fans, so self-righteous and pretentious. I bought The Minstrel Show, 9th Wonder’s beats were great, listening to two marginal rappers rap about how overlooked they are was terrible. Joe Scudda had the best verse on the album, 9th should have gave all those beats to rappers with actual talent.
2. Bun B- he’s the definition of average, yet is on everyone’s album. i never want to hear another Bun B verse again.
3. Eminem- incredibly talented, can outshine any rapper on a track, but his albums are terrible. To be in the best ever conversation, u should have at least one classic album, most Eminem fans say the Marshall Mathers LP is a classic, half the tracks on there are skippable. Bottom line, any album with a D-12 feature can’t be classic status.
@In The Pursuit,
I can’t believe you said two marginal rappers!?!? Phonte’s got skills and Big Pooh is better than most MCs. I don’t think they get enough credit. 9th Wonder has good beats, I must admit.
I think Bun B has an OG pass, UGK put in work and was a blueprint for southern hip-hop/rap artists.
Eminem can definitely kill a feature but he has that standard ‘let me clown pop artists and famous people who won’t do/say anything back’ first single.
@In The Pursuit,
1) I think Pooh and Phonte are tad bit better than average. At least you have met LB stans. Outside of a few friends most people I know never heard of them.
2) Bun B is better than average. Listen to his verse on Three 6 Mafia’s “Sippin’ on some Syrup” or “Big Pimpin” with Jay-Z.
3) Em is nice but I don’t listen to his new ish. I miss the old Eminem e.g. his verse on “Dead Wrong”.
@In The Pursuit, 1. Little Brother- LB stans are the worst type of hip hop fans, so self-righteous and pretentious. I bought The Minstrel Show, 9th Wonder’s beats were great, listening to two marginal rappers rap about how overlooked they are was terrible. Joe Scudda had the best verse on the album, 9th should have gave all those beats to rappers with actual talent.
This is sad but true. This is why I stopped going to their fan site called the LAWN. Everyone felt they knew what “real” hip-hop is. I out grew it, but stil and LB fan tho.
@Natasha,
“This is why I stopped going to their fan site called the LAWN. Everyone felt they knew what “real” hip-hop is. I out grew it, but stil and LB fan tho.”
The LAWN was a bit much to deal with. I like LB but some of my fellow fans should get lives. “I Know What Real Hip Hop Is” stans are up there with die hard Beyonce stans in my book. Tonya Morgan has a few stans too.
@Wu Young Agent of M.E.,
“I Know What Real Hip Hop Is” stans are up there with die hard Beyonce stans in my book
Truer than life.
@In The Pursuit,
welcome and shit, and i think i agree with everything on the list. are they wack? not at all. overrated? a little bit
@In The Pursuit, I wanted to add that it is true about the fan part but Pooh and Phonte are nice!
@In The Pursuit,
I am a bit of an LB stan, but I do agree that some of the stans can be a tad bit irritating, some that I meet at shows make me furious with their narrow minded view of what constitutes “real”….
@In The Pursuit,
“2. Bun B- he’s the definition of average, yet is on everyone’s album. i never want to hear another Bun B verse again”
*Gasp*
This is blasphemy.
That is all.
Blogging- It is hard being consistent and writing great posts for a host of mothaf^ckas that dont like to read in the first got d@mn. All they wanna see is a movie.
Reading-I’d rather see the movie.
Fellatio- Man, fellatio is quite overrated I mean, I like watching you do it. But I wouldn’t die if you didn’t do it. But I do want to give that facial that’s what I lay it down to have the right to do, “the facial.”
Getting to know some1- Like what happened to all my risk takers? Why apply the sh!t sum square did to you back in the day? To one saucy negro like me. Im just saying
Commercials with black people in them-No matter how loving or respectful the commercial is I always believe there is some underlying racial connotation hiden with in it.
Little kids-Little kids talk to d@mn much, why do I want to beat the azz of a specimen 1/5th the size of me. N little kids can literally get to you. They say some slick sh!t at times.
Titties- Im not goin to complain if you have sum big knockers, but Im an azz man. You should know how to at least do two tricks with ur azz. N besides a man can have titties. I could careless for them. That azz is what gets me.
@TheSunk.com/TheHallway,
“Titties- Im not goin to complain if you have sum big knockers, but Im an azz man. You should know how to at least do two tricks with ur azz. N besides a man can have titties. I could careless for them. That azz is what gets me.”
COSIGN. As a fellow @ss man I feel you. And a woman that can do tricks with her @ss at the same time your hitting it? Words can’t describe it.
@TheSunk.com/TheHallway,
Blogging- It is hard being consistent and writing great posts for a host of mothaf^ckas that dont like to read in the first got d@mn. All they wanna see is a movie.
WORD!!!!
@TheSunk.com/TheHallway,
“Titties- Im not goin to complain if you have sum big knockers, but Im an azz man”
Yessir….I can appreciate the illusion of cleavage created by Wonderbras, pads, etc., but a nice a$$ will have me following you around and sh*t.
@TheSunk.com/TheHallway,
Fellatio?! SOMEdamnbody stop this man.
@TheSunk.com/TheHallway,
“Little kids-Little kids talk to d@mn much, why do I want to beat the azz of a specimen 1/5th the size of me. N little kids can literally get to you. They say some slick sh!t at times.”
They DO talk too much. At one time I did not want children, and I had to admit that this was one of the reasons.
2Pac – Yeah I said it
*runs and hides while all the monte carlo ninjas grab their guns.*
He was an average MC. But what he had a great flow and was able to touch the emotions of every sensitive thug that can’t understand metaphors, similies, and other word play. I like Pac and have his musci but he is always deified by people that feel that listening to anything “lyrical” is like doing nuclear physics.
Working for a big corporation. – I have worked for a big and small company. As far as status (the ability to say you work for ____) and money the big company wins . But the trade off is that it is harder to get noticed and you don’t get many opportunities to build your skills. Once you get accustomed to making that type of money with not a lot of skill you get stuck. If that big company ever decides to lay you off you are in an even worse position. I think once you get about 10-15 years experience a big company is ok to work for. For new college grads and younger workers it may hinder their growth.
Toyotas – Growing up all my family drove were Toyotas and Nissans. The Toyota I grew up with is not the same company. They still make good cars (present issues excluded) but they are soooo boring. They are like refrigerators on wheels. Also their quality is overrated. Not to say they have bad quality but it isn’t that much better than every one else. It amazes how people have given this company a pass over the past 10 years.
Street Knowledge/Book Knowlege – One thing I have noticed about some of my friends is how they over value street smarts. Yeah you know how to cop and flip this a zillion ways, game this or that dude, and but you can’t apply that to everything. There is a limit to what you can do with street smarts. After a while you have to read and educate yourself to be able to better understand your surroundings and other issues so you can make better decisions. People that have gone to college and are professionals overestimate their theory. Just because it works perfect on a chalkboard or paper does not mean it will in real life. I see a lot of “smart” people that have problems with real life application of things. Book smart folks also tend to overrate their skills also. It’s easy to be great when all you are in books all day.
@Humble_One,
Street Knowledge/Book Knowlege – One thing I have noticed about some of my friends is how they over value street smarts. Yeah you know how to cop and flip this a zillion ways, game this or that dude, and but you can’t apply that to everything. There is a limit to what you can do with street smarts. After a while you have to read and educate yourself to be able to better understand your surroundings and other issues so you can make better decisions.
nodding head
Champ, allow me to shoot some fish in a barrel a.k.a. make some easy additions to your list:
1. Celebrities and all of the cult ish that comes with them: people who become famous for> having 8 babies, giving bjs to Greek oil tycoons etc= bull
2. The Tea Party: really folks, let’s just call these sad folks by their real name> KKK 3.0 and move on…
Major co-sign on #4: as an ex-New Yorker, NYC looks like a bad episode of Sex & The City with lots ‘minority’ extras who are allowed to walk in the background.. EPIC FAIL
Regarding your list Sir Champington,
#2 Orgasms are overrated? Sorry to get graphic but I remember with great detail and fondness the first few times my SO made me squirt= I’m gonna reminisce over dat ish ’til I’m dead!!
#5 Black inventions/innovators are overrated?: dude I’mma say it again> check my ninja James McLurkin and then tell me that he ain’t Morpheus…(http://people.csail.mit.edu/jamesm/)
@GeekChicness,
#2 Orgasms are overrated? Sorry to get graphic but I remember with great detail and fondness the first few times my SO made me squirt= I’m gonna reminisce over dat ish ’til I’m dead!!
i stan for squirters
@The Champ,
i stan for squirters
I also stan for squiters
I agree with everything. Good list, Champ.
More overrated ish….
1. work- You work 8+ hours a day, 40+ hours a week. No overtime for salaried employees, and not much vacation time. At this point, all I want is to be a housewife, pop out some babies, hire a nanny, then spend my days being one of those philanthropic housewives who spend their day at the community center, homeless shelter or something like that.
2. USC
3. Notre Dame
4. Dogs– this needed to be repeated. I used to love dogs. But now, everytime I see a dog, I want to kick it, and kick their owners who refuse to clean up behind them.
5. Marathon s*x sessions– Seriously, I enjoy the act, and I like nice long session on occassion. but, give me a good and solid 20 minutes, and I’m good.
@N.I.A. naturally,
how is USC overrated? 3 heisman winners since 2002? 2 championships? the most 1,000+ yard rushers? the 3rd most active players in the NFL?
@N.I.A. naturally,
Complete cosign on marathon sex.
If it’s really good, half marathons will do.
@N.I.A. naturally, 5. Marathon s*x sessions– Seriously, I enjoy the act, and I like nice long session on occassion. but, give me a good and solid 20 minutes, and I’m good.
U know I used to think marathon chex was the chet but u know what I realized, marathon chex is mostly needed when foreplay is lacking and head game is oh so wrong. I agree tho, a good solid 15-20mins that gets the eyes rolling, legs shaking, some squirts here n there is magnificent
MAN CHAMP… WHY NOT JUST KILL ALL A BRUTHA’S ASPIRATIONS.. DAMN SINCE YOU STARTED, I MIGHT AS WELL FINISH THE LIST..
1. FREEDOM: Truth be told, I think some niggas was just better off as slaves. To quote my grandmother “Freedom just wasn’t made for everyone.
2. CREDIT: Most niggas just steel what they want anyway.
3. BLACK WOMEN: Mexican women don’t argue as much. (Warning* they do have a tendency to get big as shit on you though so watch out)
4. READING: Really, did we have to spend all those years learning this shit. Fantasia didn’t, and she sure turned out all right.
5. BREATHING: There’s a long list of Mutha Fkas that I wish would just STOP. And I’ve asked them to on several occassions.
6. PAYING BILLS ON TIME: Does it really matter, cause you get another one every 30 days regardless. That’s why I don’t care how much the bill is.. I don’t care if it’s only $4.00 I always just put “Sumthing” on it.
7. WASHING YO’ BALLS BEFORE SEX: They just gonna get dirty again anyway.
8. GAIL KING: Come on yall, what does this bitch “really do” aside from being Oprah’s Hype Man. And Rappers been doing that shit for years.
9. GOING TO WORK: I really don’t mind going to work “per say”.. my issue is.. Do we really have to do that shit “EVERY” day. How about 2 on/ 4 off.
10. READING ANY OTHER BLOG BESIDE AB AND BRETTANDTHECITY: (of course I had to stick a lil plug in) hahaha
Number 10 was a typo. I MEANT TO SAY READING ANY OTHER BLOG ASIDE FROM VSB. No disrespect intended. I LOVE THIS SITE. Dare I say this shit is genius and what I aspire too.
Keep up the great work guys.
9. GOING TO WORK: I really don’t mind going to work “per say”.. my issue is.. Do we really have to do that sh*t “EVERY” day. How about 2 on/ 4 off.
And what about the 7th day? ? ? ? ?
@Brettandthecity,
*Side eye and lip smack @ black women*
You know you love us.
@Brettandthecity, I’m sorry but your list sucks
@Yeah…SO!?!,
Right!!!… I was sitting here thinking “What kind of shyt is this!?!…lol!!
@TLC, I agree. Where’s the uncool or the strongly dislike button when you need it….
@Brettandthecity,
“GAIL KING: Come on yall, what does this bitch “really do” aside from being Oprah’s Hype Man”
*snickering loudly*
Dogs are not overrated. I love my dogs.
but i cosign: black inventions and dying.
Other than Obama, kids have been learning about the same black contributions to society since 1975. Can we stake claim to some new ish?
other overrated things include:
1. the HOV lane, because there is always some dumba$$ driving just as slow as normal traffic
2. The Matinee Movie times, because the ticket is about a dollar cheaper but then you have to look at the trolls, elves, and goblins they hire to work during the day. (Seriously, those day time people are typically missing limps and whatnot.)
#1 IDK about this one. I like beer and liquour. There is nothing like a borderline frozen red stripe, heineken, etc. Beer is good especially some of the local microbreweries.
#3 I agree. Although I do think the 70s was the decade of swag. The clothes were terrible but it seems like Black folks had more soul back then.
#6 I can agree with you on sports but the music I can’t. The hip-hop before 1986? I would say yes. And I enjoy that type of old school too. But 1986-92? I can’t agree. Most of the rappers from that era will run circles around these new ninjas. Plus their motivation to make music was different and the rules in hip-hop were more stringent.
Overrated:
1. Those extremely LOOOOONG VSB comments, hate those.
@knightnick, bwahahahaha… ooooo you about to get it!- lol
@knightnick,
In the spirit of this post I’ma just lol and keep it moving
What’s overrated? Hmmmmmm…
Nicki Minaj – her delivery is corny at times with all that “Everybody loves Raaaaymooooond” and “Guess who’s playing Freddy/Jason” references. Someone said she has the same swag as Firemarshall Bill… I agree. LOL
Kobe – Take Shaq off of those championship teams and Kobe = Tracy McGrady.
Bachelor’s degrees – depending on what degree you get, Bachelor’s degrees are overrated. You’re sold the dream of go to college, get a degree, get a job… but you graduate and they tell you, “WAIT! We know you just spent $xx,xxxx on your education, but now you need experience!” LOL.
Real Estate “investors” – everyone seems to have a side hustle of real estate… 98% of these people are realtors and, no, being a realtor doesn’t mean you’re a real estate investor.
Sneakers that are collector’s items – I love a good pair of J’s or A1′s, but why pay $700 for a pair of “Limited Edition” shoes?
Independent Women – Not actual independent women… but the idea of us men wanting an independent woman. Jamie Foxx broke it down on Foxxhole Radio last week: us, men, say we want an independent woman, but some of us can’t handle an independent woman. Independent women actually do ish, travel, have hobbies, lives, etc… some dudes trip b/c the girl they met yesterday didn’t respond to their txt 30 min ago… how could they handle an independent woman? lol
@SouthernCharm,
A guy friend once told me that he wants an independent woman, but she can only be independent when he wants her to be.
Go figure.
@YouMissMe,
lol… that’s bass ackwards.
@SouthernCharm,
Nicki Minaj – her delivery is corny at times
By “at times” I’m sure you mean ALL THE TIME… that chik sucks
Bachelor’s degrees
So damn true… I shoulda gone to beauty school
Real Estate “investors”
huh?
@Yeah…SO!?!,
“Nicki Minaj – her delivery is corny at times
By “at times” I’m sure you mean ALL THE TIME… that chik sucks
Bachelor’s degrees
So damn true… I shoulda gone to beauty school
Real Estate “investors”
huh?”
Yeah, you’re right. It is all the time!
It seems like every professional or upwardly mobile black person nowadays is into real estate, calling themselves investors. Most of those people are just realtors… not actual investors who buy properties.
@SouthernCharm, oh… I thought you were saying real estate investors were overrated- O_o lol
I just chalk(?)/chuck(?)/chop(?) that up to people trying to SOUND like they doing better then they really are, hence the reason flossing is overrated- dat isht needs to stop… the people you flossing for are just want to stuck you dry (no Superhead) anyway.
Overrated – BaduBooty
(And I’m probably mad cause I don’t have one.)
@SexyCool, “Overrated – BaduBooty”
Not Really
@SexyCool,
“Overrated – BaduBooty”
bullsheit
@SexyCool,
Seriously???
A Badubooty serves so many purposes, though: visual stimulant, pillow, armrest, etc. Badubooty can turn hood ninjas into hippie vegetarians, for pete’s sake. There’s almost nothing that Badubooty cannot do.
@DG,
So….TheDude was just being a
good boyfriend….er, um,stroking my ego….lying when he said that it was mostly just visual, but served no real purpose.Although, he had prefaced that with “I see why them dudes be losing their minds.”
LMAO!
Giving TheDude the same side-eye I gave him when he first said that mess.
Overrated – Twitter
I have to disagree here champ…dogs are awesome! Cats on the other hand…suck.
Champ’s predicted response ( I already know)
@Chalkolet
” I have to disagree here champ…dogs are awesome! Cats on the other hand…suck.”
suck deez.
Lol
Being white
@Jahmar,
*cremated*
@Jahmar,
LMBO!
Yeah, that’s gots to be overrated seeing as though they stay trying copy Blacks.
@Jahmar,
iDIED!!
@Jahmar, It’s true. Why do you think they STAY hatin on us? Call me naive, but I believe it’s jealousy. That’s why they keep us down. If black folks was making money we would all be ruling the world right now.
@thechamp……Mmmmmm you might wanna rethink #5. If we got more credit for our inventions I believe we’d see the value in our contributions to society a whole lot different.- and it would not be ‘overrated’. I mean how long was it going to take for Dr. Vivien Thomas to get credit for pioneering the first infant heart surgery?! And with out peanut butter where would we be. Half of us- you included- survived on PB&J in college and still do! *snap*
@Daydreamer,
you mentioning “pioneers” instead of actual “inventions” proves my point and shit
1) You must drink sh!tty beer.
4) Anyone who hates New York hasnt really been to New York. Yea, you’ve been to the city but Brooklyn and the cool parts of Queens? City Island? Riverdale? NYC is more than the skyskrapers
5) I disagree. Blood plasma, stop lights, gas masks, peanut butter, the filament(sp?) for the light bulb, the thingy that drips oil into train engines, supersoakers, train to station communication, the furnace, potato chips, refrigerators, air conditioners, ironing board, hair comb, and thats all i can name of the time but im sure there are more.
9) Cats are evil. See this video as evidence – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLIPWjks_M
@Plain Ole Peyso,
1) You must drink sh!tty beer
thats what everyone keeps saying, but i’ve had approximately 100,000 different brands just to find one that actually tastes good. i still havent succeeded.
@Plain Ole Peyso,
Lived in Riverdale and….ummm…yeah NYC is still overated **shrugs**
I was cool with your list until I got to the dogs. I’m glad to see other commenters spoke on that already.
I will never own a cat. I like the companionship of dogs. I believe cats are the spawn of satan, but I try not to judge their owners. I rarely succeed though. LMAO
@Reecie, Two snaps!!!!! Cats are evil and I often find cat lovers are the same…. EWWWWW . YUCK!
Some how i keep gettin caught in moderation, smh
Most overrated: Pen1s the size of Aretha Franklin’s arm…sad face!
::currently charging up my hoverround::
@afatgirl,
welcome and shit. and thanks for ruining my lunch
I’m still stuck on the Rocky IV reference in #8. LOL!!!! (which, btw, is my favorite Rocky movie).
Things I believe are overrated:
Any degree other than an MBA: Before everyone starts throwing e-apples at me, hear me out (other Masters degrees are valueable from a standpoint of knowledge in general). An MBA is the only degree that almost guarantees a significant increase in salary shortly after the degree is acquired. In many cases it can be the difference between making $45K and $100K annually. Partially because before even being accepted into an MBA program, you must have a certain number of years of relevant work experience. Second, an MBA is valuable in every single industry (period). Unless you’re truly passionate about a field other than business and are not looking to boost your salary in a short amount of time without putting in 10+ years, then an MBA is not necessary for you. Even with a law degree; with the number of hours attorneys have to put in, they might as well be ringing people up at Marshalls. Again, I’m not knocking other degrees, I’m just saying.
Long Hair: Here is my issue. I do not dislike long hair (actually I think its beautiful). I’ve had long hair most of my life. But, growing up (in the south) it was like long hair gave those who had it an automatic “you’re pretty” pass. If it were between an average looking (or even unattractive) girl with long hair (and I’m talking real hair people…not weaves) and a stunning girl with short hair, the long hair gets props for being better looking. I despise this. Even my mother sometimes will see someone with long hair at church and say, “look at how long her hair is!…..wow SHE’S pretty!” and I say, “No she ain’t Mama, you just like her hair”. Second disclaimer: I THINK LONG HAIR IS BEAUTIFUL. But, I can’t get with thinking that automatically makes a girl attractive.
@CNotes, “But, growing up (in the south) it was like long hair gave those who had it an automatic “you’re pretty” pass. If it were between an average looking (or even unattractive) girl with long hair (and I’m talking real hair people…not weaves) and a stunning girl with short hair, the long hair gets props for being better looking. I despise this.”
ditto, girlie! I never understood it. its like ppl dont look at the FACE! You have to notice face with short hair. same for long hair when you pull it back in a pony. Thats all face right there.
@Reecie,
Giiirrrllll…don’t add some light(ish) skin to the long hair. Lawd geezus, I grew up with this chick that looked like a donkey about the face but was always called *so purty* cause she had *good hair*.
@Reecie,
ditto, girlie! I never understood it. its like ppl dont look at the FACE! You have to notice face with short hair. same for long hair when you pull it back in a pony. Thats all face right there.
you know what, though: we (black men) get blamed for doing this, but black women do the exact same thing. if i had a dollar for every woman i’ve heard laud a guys attractiveness just because he had locks i’d have enough to pay big ben’s lawyers
@The Champ,
I know some boogerbears with locks. I do not wear LockGoggles.
@Reecie,
” I never understood it. its like ppl dont look at the FACE! You have to notice face with short hair. same for long hair when you pull it back in a pony. Thats all face right there.”
I think many of men still look at face first…hair is cool, but it’s one of those things that women stress over moreso than us (I’m pretty sure hair was mentioned a time or 2 in yesterday’s post). Long hair doesn’t really do anything for me personally…I could take it or leave it…but some pretty eyes, cute smile, and nice smooth skin gets me everytime….truth be told, some of the most attractive women I know have just a lil’ more hair than me, and I rock a baldy. Hair is simply the frame to a work of art (i.e., her face), and a Picasso is still a Picasso regardless of the frame.
@CNotes, Having a MBA only makes you quantifiable if you go to a Top 10 school- real talk. A mentor of mine who graduated from Chigago GSB- when it was named that- informed me of this as I did my search. With everybody and thier mama trying to get an ‘MBA’ because its the thing to do, it serves you no good to go to a subpar program.
And I totally disagree with any other masters being overrated. We ‘talented 10th’ are told an MBA will open doors and change your career BUT an MBA is only as good as the field of study you are using it in; as can be said for any post graduate degree. True, an MBA can be pretty transferrable but an MPA or a MS in Communications trumps an MBA if you are going for a senior level position in those respective fields. Employers want to see that you have taken 2 plus years out of your adult life and learned tangible skills directly related to their needs. Why learn hard core quant skills when you are aspiring to be the Chief of XYZ City Public Health Administration? An MPA serves your needed skill set A LOT more than an MBA would.
I say, go back to school for what you really need what what everyone says you need…..Your pockets will thank you later.
@Daydreamer, *not what everyone else says…
@Daydreamer,
“And I totally disagree with any other masters being overrated. We ‘talented 10th’ are told an MBA will open doors and change your career BUT an MBA is only as good as the field of study you are using it in; as can be said for any post graduate degree.”
Exactly. If I want an engineering manager I want an engineer with a masters in engineering not a MBA. Retail, finance, accounting, etc. is fine for an MBA. The only time I see it feasible is if you have a MBA on top of the expertise of your field. But most people think an MBA can run any business.
@Humble_One,
From an operations standpoint (which is exactly what having an MBA is about) I would argue that point.
@Daydreamer,
I agree that MBA’s who graduate from top tier schools see the highest salaries right out of business school because they get hired by the best companies. But, like my jewish mentor (*wink*) mentor told me “there are many more profitable companies that one can work for other than a Google or Pfizer who would accept an MBA from a tier 2 or 3 school (I’m a witness). The point I really wanted to make was regarding the jump in salary of an MBA as opposed to other specialized graduate degrees. (especially without having reached manager level experience before doing so) MBAs in many cases are not required to put in as much time before seeing that ROI.
@CNotes,
“(other Masters degrees are valueable from a standpoint of knowledge in general). An MBA is the only degree that almost guarantees a significant increase in salary shortly after the degree is acquired. In many cases it can be the difference between making $45K and $100K annually.”
As far as money you are correct. Which is why MBA’s are becoming a dime a dozen. The problem I have is that MBA’s are lauded as if they are the end all and be all as far as business. In some businesses MBA’s are not a good fit.
@Humble_One,
Agreed…MBAs are not the end all be all. But, that type of education is transferrable (which is attractive to many businesses; especially in this economy).
because cats and cat people always have and will always be better
I see the girlfriend is working her magic on you.
Funny stuff though.
@Sula,
I see the girlfriend is working her magic on you.
dont give her any ideas
“40 year old virgin”
I really tried to like this movie. I soooo wanted to laugh. It had it’s “moments” but EVERYONE I know thinks this movie is so effin’ funny. I just couldn’t get into it. And I like Steve Carell and Seth Rogen. This movie was overrated. Terry Crews’ Old Spice commericals are a 1,000 times funnier than that movie.
@LaBakir,
whaaat? the 40 year old virgin was hilarious. You are right about Terry Crews Old Spice Commericials. They are funny as hell. I know they are paying him well to do that in his draws.
@Humble_One,
*looks dejected* this bothers me b/c I’m a funny person and have a great sense of humor…and I just couldnt get with Humble…I just couldn’t
Now the 1st time I saw Terry Crews and Old Spice I fell out laughing and YouTubed the 5 other commericials he has
“Odor blocker! POW POW POW!”
@LaBakir,
“Odor blocker! POW POW POW!”
You made me laugh out loud with this.
@LaBakir,
I could watch 40 year old virgin just for the Kevin Hart scene. It’s a very quotable movie
@Atown,
That was like the funniest scene in the movie,lol. And yeah, it’s very quotable…P*ssy Pedestal is one of them.
But still overrated…now “Step Brothers” I fux w/ that
@Humble_One,
LMAO! I did my civil duty for the day. Now I’m about to go watch them!
@Humble_One,
Laugh it up my e-friend..laugh it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl5uyn5K7k
@La Bakir,
“Laugh it up my e-friend..laugh it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl5uyn5K7k”
LMAO!!! You got me over here holding in my laughs in this computer lab. Explosion!! AHHHH!! The tiger screaming. LMAO!!!!!
@Humble_One,
LMAO! I was doing the same thing…my body was shaking violently trying to hold in laughter! That tiger was just plain dumb! And when they went in his ear….ROTFL
@LaBakir,
“40 year old virgin”
I really tried to like this movie. I soooo wanted to laugh. It had it’s “moments” but EVERYONE I know thinks this movie is so effin’ funny. I just couldn’t get into it. And I like Steve Carell and Seth Rogen. This movie was overrated.
what do you store in the place your soul would be?
@The Champ,
Cut it out! You guys are gonna force me to watch it a 4th time to see if I laugh.
@LaBakir, Nah no need to see it again. I saw that movie 9 times and nothing. Not even a smirk.
I know I’ll get e-slashed for saying this but I’ll also include “Knocked Up”. That movie is soooooo overrated. I’ll never understand what’s so funny about it.
@T’Lu,
“Knocked Up”. That movie is soooooo overrated. I’ll never understand what’s so funny about it.
c/s…but that was funnier than “40 yr old virgin”. watching my nails grow is funnier than that
Overrated – Tattoos.
Especially on NBA players.
Rihanna
B/c this is the type of influence she has:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCXJ1_q4M90
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31256414/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1
Are you kidding me? Cat people are weird. Cats are weird. And I am not even a dog person.
@jg123,
that was seriously the ugliest cat I’ve ever seen! and i’ve seen some ugly cats.
@La Bakir,
“that was seriously the ugliest cat I’ve ever seen! and i’ve seen some ugly cats.”
I want to ask how you have seen some ugly cats but I’m scared.
@Humble_One,
LOL…b/c there’s this ugly cat…that we call catcoon..looks like the love child of a and ratcoon!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31256414/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1
Are you kidding me? Cat people are weird. Cats are weird.
And I am not even a dog person.
@jg123,
Amen
Peppy people at work.
Why must you try to act like you are happy alllll day? You know you don’t want to be here. Stop faking.
LMAO! I am new here…I love this blog its soooooo much better than Bossip btw!! ugh! A mess!
Sooooooooo funny, The Champ = <3
+ Monogamy
It is an illusion that one single person can fulfill and meet all aspects of your character and personality as well as your needs, be it spiritual, be it physical. I see so many people in unhappy relationships that at some point and to a great extent “accept” and resign – I mean come o n this can’t be it.
I am not talking about polygamy, swinging or the like. Have relations with different people on different levels, but don’t ever be jealous that you are not the almighty all fulfilling superhero(ine) – you ARE so much loved, know it. Tell the nasty voice of your ego inside of you to shut the eff up.
+ Have kids for wrong reasons like for example make sure you're not lonely when you're old.
) have no reason to produce more offspring. Ever.
There is call of nature, but you must prevent this feeling, oppress!
A l o n g time ago sapiens were a minority and felt that crowding up was the meaning of life (*cough*) and a process called evolution came into play that would easier develop in teams than in a group. But hey, we are so super numerous (and stupid) so most of us (me included
Only those should have children who are willing to give and make everything that their kids have the most awesome, a$$ kicking childhood imaginable.
Everything else creates retarded idiots who are nothing but redudant. No, no, no.
Would I be a hater if I said Erykah Badu? lol I’m sorry…I just don’t get the hype. She’s weird.
@SmartFoxGirl,
She’s weird.
And therein lies the hype… But I guess you have to be weird to get it.
i think everyone has basically stated what is underrated, thus i wil focus on films and sitcoms.
seinfeld- frasier is much better
the game- i really dont understand people who like it
love jones- the soundtrack should have been made into a film
precious ( the movie) and the colour purple- good, not great
tis all for now
* runs fast so i dont get stoned, and my black card doesnt get revoked.*
@michaboa, meant overrated. ok bye
@michaboa,
seinfeld- frasier is much better
You know what? I agree…
i think everyone has basically stated the majority of things that are underrated, thus i wil focus on films and sitcoms.
seinfeld- frasier is much better
the game- i really dont understand people who like it
love jones- the soundtrack should have been made into a film
precious ( the movie) and the colour purple- good, not great
’tis all for now
* runs fast so i dont get stoned, and my black card doesnt get revoked.*
@michaboa,
seinfeld- frasier is much better”
as much as I like seinfeld I think I actually agree that frasier was better
the game- i really dont understand people who like it
I like the game…but I liked it much more before it because a dramedy…back when it was regular Melanie and Dirwin dealing with relationship problems…now it’s just too much
love jones- the soundtrack should have been made into a film
one of my all time favorite movies…but still pretty over rated and cosign on the soundtrack
precious ( the movie) and the colour purple- good, not great
tis all for now
i was actually kinda pissed when I left Precious…yeah Monique did a good job playing a monster but it wasn’t the best acting I’d ever seen..and the Color Purple is chock full of great one liners but was it really as great as people make it out to be???? hmmm probably not
so basically I cosign your whole list
@klysha, yay
I know there’s been a good 50leven comments already, but to I have to add my .02
Being in a relationship/being single
Neither of these are all they are cracked up to be and both have their pros/cons, and I blame the hype on the folks that are married and wish they were single or the other way around. If one more person tells me that I should be happy because I’m single or that I should stop being “picky” and just find a man… These people are the reason for both failed relationships and dysfunctional, long-lasting relationships.
Being generous by nature. Also, being helpful by nature. There’s usually a point where you have to question whether you’re being taken advantage of.
LMAO at all of this! I hate I waited til the end of the day to finally read this post…..
I want to cosign Champs whole list…except i’d probably add cats (since I don’t really like cats that much either)..but I guess cats don’t get that much hype which makes them underrated…which puts them on the list by default….
Great list Champ.
A few more to add (I call it the 3R’s):
1. Rich People: Money does not buy happiness and we saw that with the failing of the economy and the rise in suicides. So, learning to not be after money.
2. Relationships/Lack of Relationships: Depending on the day who knows what they want. The grass is always greener on the other side until you realize it is ASTROTURF. So enjoy your weeds on your side of the fence.
3. Reality TV: I am all about seeing into the lives of real people, but when it gets to the point that you have Chili, Brandy, Ray J, Peppa, and Basketball Wives with Reality TV Shows…where did it go wrong? To bad I am guilty of watching them all.
ROFLMAO at all – I’m from New York and I love it but # 4 is absolutely hilarious
Seeing how Orgasms made the list at #2 I think all men who are in relationships, yet cheat, need to admit that “New P*ssy” belongs on this list. It can’t really be worth the devastation, humiliation & fear for her life for a whole 6 months pending a (-)HIV test that’s inflicted upon the woman you supposedly love, right?
Totally self serving since I’m a woman but true nonetheless
This is hilarious!
*Overrated phrases:
“You can be anything you put your mind to” ….even President of the United States < — and yes, I am saying campaigning to become POTUS is soooo overrated. Way too much shullbit to put up with for something you may or may not live to "see".
“How are you?” I’m thinking: “Mofo, you don’t really want to know how the heyal I’m doing today” ….but my reply is: “Fine.”
…a damn LIE.
* ….which leads me to Lies. Lies are overrated. Everydamnbody lies everydamnday.
I’m cosignin’ tatoos (with so many, dude just looks dirty-go bathe)…..skinny jeans (…I’m thinking: That boy got stretch pants!)….Reality shows especially anything with “Housewives” in the title (hot azz garbage), Facebook, Twitter, MySpace (booo), Craigslist (who the heyal IS Craig?)
I also skimmed and noticed someone mentioned orgasms being under/overrated. Expound and sh!t? Don’t mind if I do….
Overrated: Because after all that hard work, sweat and tears (if it’s that fiyah)…as stated: the sensation only lasts a few milli-seconds, however if it packs that extra umph…it leaves your chest pounding from heavy breathing like a runaway slave after smoking a pack of Newports….ya nana feeling a little tender and him with an ultra “sensitive d!ck”. And if you want to catch another, you gotta your azz right hop back on “The Diesel”.
Underrated: Mofos find themselves in denial when they’re more tense than usual, a lot more edgier (if that’s a word) than normal and ready to kill anything that breathes….instead of just admitting to themselves that they’re overdue for their next “fix”….hence all the “late fees”.
That answer your question, Champ ?
* ….which brings me to this: PORN. Yeah, I said it, poooorrrrrnnnnnNuh! Call me what you want, but sitting & watching other folks “get down” instead of doin’ the dayum thang myself just p!sses me off. And don’t even think about it. Put my hand where? On myself?…when the chick in the movie has dude “down there” eatin’ milk n’ cookies??? …not to sound too vulgar: but dude’s gotta put his face in it. Virtual orgasms ? Naw. I can meet him half way with phone sex, however that would be under the pretense that he’ll be on his way shortly. Quit playin’.
*Folks who are somewhat overrated:
Most celebrities (paid to play pretend & dress up)… singers turned actresses/ turned fashion designer, comedian turned radio/television host turned relationship guru turned author (of tell all book)….pro athletes …and yes to include T. Woods.
*Which brings me to: Infidelity. And how long has this been going on in the history books? Just saying.
* Saving your virginity till marriage. From the stories I’ve heard/been told that was hardly ever practiced. It simply wasn’t talked about….hence the fate of the little slave girls….great-grandmothers and all. Even several young ladies who survived female genital mutilation in other countries tried to get away with some things…so I’ve read.
*And lastly, you mentioned dying as being overrated?…but what about: Living ? …or merely Existing ??? Especially through such trying times there are folks hanging on by the skin of their teeth trying to make it through another day, when its almost certain the day that lies ahead will be just as difficult as the day before…hence the phrase “it’s going to get worse before it gets better”. This is the reality of many. And the more that I think about it, I ponder if their determination to
LIVEEXIST is “overrated” or not.Okay, I’m done babbling…
1. Watermelon: I want to enjoy it, but every two bites I chip my teeth biting into seeds. I don’t see how eating it became a stereotype, because it is way too stressful to eat.
2. Double Majors in College: My degree just says I graduated, it doesn’t tell people that I majored in Comparative Costa Rican Communism and Erudite English Essays.
3. Thai Food: Living in lower Manhattan, I can vouch that Thai restaurants are everywhere. The food isn’t even that good, it’s like spicy-Chinese food.
4. Getting Drunk: I always spend more money than I want, say something ignorant (i.e. telling a white girl she has a big booty), eat at mcdonalds at 4am, and wake up with a hangover that means I’m screwed the next day.
Now I must disagree about the comment on New York on principle. I find that people tend to be more tolerant in New York in the sense that, unlike my native New Jersey, people can’t willingly segregate themselves so white/asian people won’t cross the street when they see you.
Crime in Detroit. —> so overrated it’s almost become WORTH talking about.
Hi, Everybody.
I’m new, but want to spend my two cents, anyway.
Over-rated Items
Ginormous dix
1) False eyelashes
2) Indian hair
3) Luxury resorts
4) Hotel Gloriana
5) Cologne
6) Dining out
7) Shopping (groceries, notwithstanding)
9) Bald dix
10) Los Angeles
Wow I always assumed all guys loved the taste of beer,I’m a girl and have tried it several times,+been told I ‘have to aquire the taste,you’ll grow into it’. But no,don’t like the taste,don’t think I ever will.
When I’m out I want to drink stuff I like the taste of(basically alcoholic fruit juce/liquified candy lol).And also,if you’re drinking to get drunk,why have 5 beers to get the same effect one double vodka and coke will give you?It may be cheaper,but you have to drink shitloads of it to start feeling tipsy.
One of my friends (non black)has got into drinking beer and maybe its old fashioned or I heard my older sisters say it too much but,girls drinking beer is just WRONG.
Hah about pre 1992 rap,my sister hates and I mean HATES old school rap,whenever its brought up she does an impression that goes like
(in super slow talky way)’I went to the corner and I saw a cat,I walked to the side and I asked for a ride…’bwaha.
I don’t,but it does annoy me in the sense that I hate when people (mainly indie white kids who hate popular black culture,but pretend to like oldschool to sound cool)
are all ‘oh rap now is shit its all ho’s and money,I’m into old school rap’.
I bet in 20 years time their kids will be decrying the current rap and namechecking 50cent and Soulja Boy as when rap was ‘real’ ha.
When it comes to nostalgia,most of the time,things weren’t better in the ‘old days’,they were actually considerably worse.
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You should have added, any coffee that costs over 99 cents.We are wondering why we always broke but then head out and buy an “extra hot double grande non-fat with whip, mocha.” Ooops I let that one slip.
Peace, Love and Chocolate
yea cats ftw!!! i dont understand why people are always hating on cats….
You forgot Jimi Hendrix and EVH lol
The most absurd list I’ve seen.
Mine is even more absurd, but it ulitmately depends on the person, where he/she lives, and when he/she has lived, I guess.
1- women
2- looks and appearances
3- social status/recognition/acceptance
As to beer, I don´t know american beer, but then again I´m european and so I don´t need to know either
Dying? Overrated? Perhaps you wanted to say, hum, Living?…
Cats, I´m also a (more) fan of cats, although I also have three dogs and I love ‘em, as well as all dogs
How are black inventors overrated? Black people don’t even know most black inventors nor their inventions?
You missed California.
NYC is overrated. And far everyone who says “everyone, from all parts of the world, live so peacefully together” . . . um, you do realize that NYC is segregated, not it’s a bad thing, so that’s why they get along. The nationalities that live in NYC are no more peaceful than those that live in LA, Boston, Chicago, San Fran, London, Paris, Dublin etc. You’ll been drinking the mainstream media Kool-Aid a bit too long. Not only that, but comments here prove that NYC are one arrogant bunch.
Tokyo trumps NYC.