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

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

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?

I'm the same! I've always had people moan at me because I dislike lager, but I drink it just to be social. Although I prefer Cider even though that tastes like piss after a while. Lager really is shit. Spirits > Beer. Despite it not being 'blokey'.

Agreed on basically all counts. Also, if you're throwing a party and get a few crates of the stuff in, you're pretty much guaranteed to spend about half the day after picking up stray bottles and mopping up stains in the carpet from the stuff. That said, I do love going down the pub and trying out some of the local brews - tastes about a gazillion times better than any of the cheap shite in the supermarkets. And I dread to think what 'lite' beers taste like, probably a diluted form of Corona (which never really crossed my mind as being possible 'til now). Whiskey and gin over beer anyday for me.

Cool thread.

Bah. I will happily be the guy necking 8 or 9 pints of beer and belching in the ladies face. Well, hopefully i wouldnt do the latter but i like beer. Infact im not much of a spirit drinker, i could get by on consuming only beers and lagers alcohol-wise for the rest of my life and not miss the alternatives.

Im looking forward to this thread. Here we go again...

What about 'ladies' that drink beer? Give me a cold Stella over spirits any day. Apartfrom the rare occasions when I find a pub that sells Sailor Jerry's anyway...

If I see a 'lady' in a bar and I quite like the look of her, if she's drinking lager it would probably put me off. Girls drinking lager = common.

Fixed ;)

Exactly. :D She'd have to be something special for me to still be interested after watching her neck lager.

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!

Depends if it's from a bottle or not and how drunk she is.

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.

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. :)

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.

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.

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.

Back of the net again sir :D

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.

wisdom.:clap:

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"

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...

I have people that do it, they feel the need to tell me they're on the bus and they're late for college.. Like I give a shit. My phone has unlimited texts and 800 minutes and that's all I need.

Actually, after your second paragraph I'm surprised that you don't see the the point of light beer. It has roughly the same percentage of alcohol as a lot of other beer (for example Bud Light is 4.2% alcohol while Guinness Daught is 4.0%) but by virtue of its being "light", it's much easier to drink a lot of it than it would be to drink a lot of a heavier beer. Also, in my personal opinion it tastes better but I know most people probably disagree with me on that.

Otherwise, though, I totally hear what you're saying about beer. I have it sometimes but my preferred beverage is bourbon.

Saying that though, I did once use my friends phone to tell the Facebook world that I saw Rik Waller running away from a group of kids throwing pebbles at him. I think that sometimes there may be exceptional circumstances... Otherwise, yes, generally overrated as a whole.

That kind of news just can't wait until you get home, so I will permit that. ;)

Ahh that'll be the source of my confusion then.

After reading up on it it would appear that Lite beers in the US means low calorie whereas in most parts of the world it means low alcohol (Under 3.5).

Forget I said anything

That's interesting. And, yeah, that kind of light beer sounds pretty pointless to me too. Sort of like non-alcoholic beer, something I've never understood the point of either. Tastes worse than regular beer, won't get you drunk. Nice combination there.

Speaking for the lasses that get drunk on beer, and beer alone, I'd like to assure you: we don't wear them high heels to the pub.

The high heels drinkers, come with martinis, margueritas, tequila and cosmopolitans.

Non-alcoholic beer, I've never understood the use of that. Unless it's for alcoholics who are trying to go cold turkey it seems pretty useless.

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I wish i'd thought of doing this for the first entry pic earlier :(

The girls ive known who drank pints werent the high heel types either. They were feminine enough to be attractive but not "too" girly. Theres nothing wrong with being "too" girly, thats just a personal preference but give me attractive and a beer drinker i can have a laugh and get wasted with like i would my mates over alot of the girls i see in the pub anyday.

Er I wear high heels and often enjoy a nice bottle of beer. I'm a big vodka drinker, meaning if I go to asda I dont buy beer, but i do enjoy a good bottle every now and again :). and I dont get ratarsed to the point where I cant walk. I never do that.

edit: I love urbans rants.

I have a feeling iPod's are going to be pretty high on the list.

ipods? No way. I can't live without my ipod and I doubt anyone here could either (well...an mp3 player at least). I loved the days of CD's...but come on. Every album I own in one tiny place? How is that overrated?

The only problem with iPods are you can't fit all your music on. Especially since I bought a 30 gig in 2005, back then that was an unthinkable amount of GB.. now it's filled up, if I want to upgrade to one with a bigger memory, it will cost too much. Ipods aren't overrated, they're overpriced.

I can definitely agree with this. I recently upgraded to a 160GB after my 60GB died on me...though it set me a back a few coins, I am definitely loving the space.

How much are 160GBs? That's what I really need, the space would be great. The thing about music, it's always gonna go up, never down. Unless you decide to trim some albums from your collection that you don't like. We all have them, the ones that are just sat there and you have no intention of listening to them.

I'm just about to do the same. Conveniently, about the same time I filled up my 2 year old 80gb it started having hardware problems, so I don't have much choice. 160gb it is.

Well, I lied. I do have a choice. I could get one of those silly iPod touches, but they're quite expensive and I would probably never use the other features. I could also get one of those tiny iPod Nanos, but I feel like I would lose or break it. Also, both the touch and nano don't come with enough memory, so I'd be cherrypicking from my library what I want to put on them.

I paid $270 USD for mine, which converts to (if the online converter is up-to-date) 186 British Pounds.
A pretty shiny penny.
EDIT: That included taxes.

Hmm, I may have to invest in one soon. My current iPod is too small in capacity and really scratched and the screen only half works.. 5 years on and I have to part with it.

It's around $250 American...looking at the UK site it looks like 193£. I didn't think it was too bad, but I am definitely worried for when I fill this thing up. I don't mind trimming albums here and there, but for the most part I like my whole collection regardless of how much I listen to something. Add the fact that I am now a bitrate whore and that space gets filled up quick. I also highly doubt apple will go much higher than 160GB. The only people that would need more are people like us here at MB and we represent a very very small portion of the population. Most people are happy with 5 GB (sad). Damn...