Urban's Top 100 'The Most Annoying & Over Rated Items In The World' Thread

[TheCunningStunt]

Originally Posted by Tea Supremacist

Does it make a difference if it's a pint or a bottle? I'm lady-like enough to insist on drinking bottles rather than swilling a pint everywhere...

There's an important distiction between bottle drinkers and pint drinkers!

Hm, good question. I think a glass is actually more appealing than a can/bottle. I don't know other people's feelings on it, but I know more "ruff and ready" people and they're like "oooh just give me the can", I insist on having a glass.

So it's a tricky one, I don't think either would sway my decision. I'd probably avert my eyes to someone with a white wine spritzer.

[Mojo]

Actually im quite partial to lasses who drink pints. A lass who can attempt to drink me under the table if you park a case of Brown Ale infront of her is a lass after my own heart.

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

99 : 3G Phones

Yippie!!

Now I can check MusicBanter for updates any time any place any where on a screen the size of a postage stamp.
Hooray for technology

As far as I'm concerned no email is so important that it can't wait till I'm next on a computer rather than shell out a couple of hundred quid for one of these bloody things.

[TheCunningStunt]

To drink me under the table, she'd have to drink a fair bit... And I find nothing more unattractive than drunk slappers trying to manoeuvre themselves in their high heels whilst slurring their words.

[Tea Supremacist]

Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

Hm, good question. I think a glass is actually more appealing than a can/bottle. I don't know other people's feelings on it, but I know more "ruff and ready" people and they're like "oooh just give me the can", I insist on having a glass.

So it's a tricky one, I don't think either would sway my decision. I'd probably avert my eyes to someone with a white wine spritzer.

Ahh, see, now drinking out of cans is a different kettle of fish.
My (slightly skewed) logic for beer drinking ladies is that Pints look bad (and are far more easily spilt - nobody likes wastage of drink). Bottles look slightly more in scale in lady hands than a pint, but cans... Oh no. Not ever in public. Just wrong.

[Bulldog]

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

99 : 3G Phones

Back of the net again sir

Totally pointless items. I've had my internet-less phone for two or three years now. As long as I can call people, send texts and play that mini golf game on it, I see absolutely no point in getting something new, nevermid one of those confusing as hell touchscreen ones.

[Antonio]

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I almost feel incomplete when I'm not doing one of these.
Like the last one, this isn't in any order.

100 : Beer

I'm going against all my working class roots here but this stuff is vile.
I've never liked beer, I've never even pretended to like beer.
I might have the occasional one to be social but that's more not to rock the boat and be difficult if someone else is buying a round then having any great love for it.
I can honestly say I have never ever seen the appeal of drinking beer at home. I just don't find it refreshing in the slightest and to be honest at least in a pub you can vomit on someone else's carpet rather than your own.
While everybody else in England watches the World Cup from their sofa with a huge case of beer in the fridge i'll be much happier with a fridge full of cold refreshing fruit juice.

The main reason I dislike beer isn't so much the taste aspect though. I mean I drink whiskey so I can't really use the taste as an excuse to include beer here.
It's more to do with the sheer amount of volume of the stuff you have to consume of it to have any effect on you.
Why the hell would I want to knock back pint after pint after pint of the stuff when instead I can get the same amount of drunkness from casually sipping on a Jack Daniels & Coke without all the sweating, belching, farting pissing & dribbling that comes with drinking several pints of beer.

It's a sartorial thing as well, I want to stand there sipping on a whiskey or a brandy looking cool & sophisticated just in case I attract the attention of any nice ladies that happen to be in the vicinity. And if you are a woman and your idea of coolness & sophistication is watching some bloke necking 5 pints & belching in your face then quite honestly I'm sure i'll manage without your attention.

And what the hell is America's obsession with 'Lite' beers?
Isn't that like drinking beer that's twice as pointless?

wisdom.

[TheCunningStunt]

Originally Posted by Tea Supremacist

Ahh, see, now drinking out of cans is a different kettle of fish.
My (slightly skewed) logic for beer drinking ladies is that Pints look bad (and are far more easily spilt - nobody likes wastage of drink). Bottles look slightly more in scale in lady hands than a pint, but cans... Oh no. Not ever in public. Just wrong.

If they can carry it well (not literally) but I mean if they don't look like common scum and don't get absolutely smashed then maybe I'd let it slide.

Internet phones are pointless. You're never too far away from a computer really are you? The only time I might need one is when I start work. On the spot research but even then, I just need to be prepared with information. Internet phones are just used for people who spend all day on their computer on Facebook, they decide to go out for an adventure and whilst they're out, they decide to update their Facebook status telling us what they're doing. "**** is on the bus lol"

[Tea Supremacist]

I don't even know how to use the internet on my phone. It sends texts, it rings people and it plays music. I'm not quite sure what else I would need a phone for to be honest... Updating my Facebook status from "Gemma is on the bus" to "Gemma is now off the bus" to "Gemma is drinking tea in a cafe" holds no appeal for me...

[Bulldog]

Originally Posted by Tea Supremacist

I don't even know how to use the internet on my phone. It sends texts, it rings people and it plays music. I'm not quite sure what else I would need a phone for to be honest... Updating my Facebook status from "Gemma is on the bus" to "Gemma is now off the bus" to "Gemma is drinking tea in a cafe" holds no appeal for me...

^ That as well.

Talking of which, I hope facebook's somewhere on this list...