What is the most overrated thing?

[Narz]

Probably already been a thread like this is CFC's illustrious history but posting again for the new generation!

I thought to make this thread after seeing a man with Startroopers on his backpack on the subway.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I think sliced bread. It just gets brought up so much more than the Beatles and Star Wars.
Just get a knife.

 

[cybrxkhan]

redheads and maybe blondes if I'm in a bad mood

Hmm. That's a tough question. Twitter? Every other "great" Hollywood movie? Uber-expensive ultimate graphics cards? [Insert literary classic like Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or some angsty Russian dude you were supposed to read in high school or college]? Fingers? Kim Kardashian? The color green? Cheese? Plastic face surgery? K-pop?

...

I'll go with K-pop and K-dramas.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Gotta be sliced bread. I have heard more things described as "the greatest thing since sliced bread" than I can count...and in absolutely every case the thing being described was far better than sliced bread. Sliced bread isn't even better than not sliced bread, usually.

 

[Farm Boy]

Link to video.

 

[classical_hero]

Grampa: "Alright, ya got me. The story of the Simpson family began in the Old Country. I forget which one exactly. My dad would drone on and on about America. He thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sliced bread having been invented the previous winter."

 

[Kennigit]

Bees knees

Not sure they even have knees

 

[Phrossack]

Link to video.

It's sliced bread. I haven't gotten it in a long time and I'm doing fine. I prefer getting a whole loaf or, much more often, bread rolls. Sliced bread dries too quickly.

Also, blondes. They aren't inherently more attractive than other hair colors. Really, I prefer brown or black, or a really dark red.

 

[Farm Boy]

Well, haven't the great beauties of classic history basically all been brunettes? Aint nothing wrong with blondes, tho.

 

[warpus]

Marriage.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Also, blondes. They aren't inherently more attractive than other hair colors. Really, I prefer brown or black, or a really dark red.

I think it's the rarity of non-brown/black that makes folks with blond or red hair more interesting, which, I suppose, for many, makes them more attractive. Or at least that's my unscientific take on it. Also apparently kids with hair that isn't dark tend to have lighter hair when they're younger, so I guess the blond hair is like a youthful thing?

I do think redheads are more overrated than blondes though.

Well, haven't the great beauties of classic history basically all been brunettes? Aint nothing wrong with blondes, tho.

Aphrodite was usually depicted as blonde in classical sources I think. It was considered exotic by the Romans, a contrast to the equally exotic dark-skinned, overweight women from Nubia and apparently the Romans kind of contrasted the two as opposite types of exotic beauties.

As a side notes, some Asians are really into blonds (both genders). My mom is still half-convinced I have a thing for blondes.

 

[Farm Boy]

Isn't there that thing in some asian cultures where the whiter the better? Hence the full body skin covering/umbrellas while at the beach? Don't want to get any sun at all? Peasants get tans. Nobles look like Klan members.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Isn't there that thing in some asian cultures where the whiter the better? Hence the full body skin covering/umbrellas while at the beach? Don't want to get any sun at all? Peasants get tans. Nobles look like Klan members.

Aye, it's a thing, more or less the same as the usual historical preference in most cultures for paler women.

But anyways, a superficial analogy with Asians and (presumably Euro-American) blonde men/women would be the way the American media thinks of Hispanic women or men as exotic. Similarly, blonds to Asians are exotic. Also it's an easy way to indicate a real white person in Asian media I guess since they'd stand out so easily. Apparently in the Japanese sex trafficking trade, blondes from Eastern Europe are in high demand because of this, for instance.

 

[bhavv]

I chose the Beatles.

I understand that the music they made along with their recording techniques using nothing but 4 track cassettes was revolutionary at the time, but its over rated and nothing compared to Mozart.

 

[JollyRoger]

Mozart is the most over rated thing since sliced bread.

 

[bhavv]

I hate you

 

[BenitoChavez]

I guess I'm in the minority here but I couldn't live without sliced bread. Whenever I buy an unsliced loaf I can't cut it into slices. It always ends up crumbling on me. I'm not sure if its the type of knife I use, my slicing technique, or the bread I'm using but it just doesn't work.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I guess I'm in the minority here but I couldn't live without sliced bread. Whenever I buy an unsliced loaf I can't cut it into slices. It always ends up crumbling on me. I'm not sure if its the type of knife I use, my slicing technique, or the bread I'm using but it just doesn't work.

Judgement. The consistency of the bread and the quality of your knife determine how thin you can slice it. It takes experience to judge that correctly.

On slicing technique, slicing bread is probably the best example there is for the old adage "let the knife do the work." Pull the knife through the bread without pushing down on it at all, just let it cut its way down. If you have a good bread knife and use it patiently you can slice just about any kind of bread as thin as you want, within reason.

Vaguely related submarine story:

Spoiler :

We set out from port one time and very quickly the mess cooks figured out they had switched a couple numbers on the stores load order. We had a small mountain of sugar, and a severe shortage of flour.

Bread, being fresh baked, is a staple food for sailors, because even the worst meals the mess cooks might crank out can be salvaged with bread. Or in a real pinch you can just eat bread. So this flour shortage is a real problem, and there is an immediate order from the captain that bread is rationed with a two slice per meal limit.

No one is happy, but we know that if we run out of flour we're all likely to starve at sea, so everyone goes along, mostly. And the bread gets thinner. After a couple weeks, I swear you could read a frickin' book through your two slices of bread. The mess cooks are running the bread through the MEAT SLICER like it's f'ing salami!

I suggested turning pirate and raiding freighters for flour, but was overruled.

 

[Borachio]

I'd say over-rating things is the most over-rated thing. Why do we do it? I've done it again just now, and I really don't know why.

 

[Phrossack]

I guess I'm in the minority here but I couldn't live without sliced bread. Whenever I buy an unsliced loaf I can't cut it into slices. It always ends up crumbling on me. I'm not sure if its the type of knife I use, my slicing technique, or the bread I'm using but it just doesn't work.

I do have real difficulty with that, come to think of it, but I only ever bought one loaf. Other than that I pretty much always buy rolls.