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Coffee chains. OK, so Starbucks can make good coffee - but it's damned overpriced!

French mustard. It just doesn't add anything for me. Despite trying lots of variations, I prefer a local, less snobbish brand far, far more.

Arcade Fire and Modest Mouse.

[yawn]

Poker.

There's dozens of better card games to play.

Totally agree with that one. I find Poker takes far too much time and just isn't fun enough. I also dislike playing for money.

We have a popular card game called pusoy dos. Object is to get rid of all your cards, but you can only play a card or card combination higher than what the preceding player has put down. IIf the first player in the round puts a single, everyone has to put down single cards until someone wins the round. If someone puts down a five-card combination (straight, flush, full house etc.) then next person has to put a higher combination.

Games typically last no more than 15 minutes, making it ideal for large groups who have to share one deck of cards.

Betting/ gambling generally. Everything is so saturated by it. Every sporting event including many of the sponsorship deals; newspaper articles that give you the odds in the text and that are right next to gambling ads (not accidentally); TV companies that run lucrative betting sites on the side and on and on.

Cleome, you are so right! I'm so glad to see someone else thinks they are overrated.

Make like Aussie Reprint Cap and DEMAND the right to wear short sleeves!




There's also LA Mockingbird's no-pantlegs look, but...start with the sleeves and proceed from there.

Don't forget ties! Useless, difficult to wear, and uncomfortable. Bah!

Great for bedroom games though!

Hmm. I may have to rethink my opinion on ties!


Besides, Blaze looks so sexy in one.

[bows]

Glad I could help, H.

You are not alone guys. Most underwhelming.

Getting my hair cut.

I used to enjoy it, but now there's this magical triangle that has to be filled, with one point being 'Do I have the time?' and the second point being 'Do I have the money?' and the third point being 'Do I give a ****?'

Lately, I can't seem to fill up all three points on that triangle.

Someone at work said I looked like I'd spent the year on a desert island (and was probably not referring to the dude from Arrow, who spent five years on a deserted island and came out of it looking super-buff...), so I suppose I should trim it back, at some point...

Starbucks coffee (yuck!)

(not to mention too expensive!!)

Cronuts. Though maybe I just don't have enough of a sweet tooth...

Brie. Warm mushy flavorless goo. It's a waste of good cheese that could have been gorgonzola or port wine cheddar!

Links Golf. Turns otherwise lovely scenery into desolate wastelands to allow men in hideous jumpers to go round trying to out-snob their peer group.

My mother in law just gave me two rounds of golf as a christmas present. Bwaaahahahahahahah.

I don't try to out snob people, I out redneck them.

Christmas season reunions. Unless they're with good friends. But the ones with your high school/college class or old clubmates where they invite over a hundred people, but you only really want to talk to 8 of them ever again...

Funny Christmas songs.

There should be (1) for every generation. More than that, and well...no one likes an also ran. Especially Santa, Jesus and the legendary poster known as Cobalt Kid*.

*Jesus and Santa actually do like also rans, I'm told. Cobalt Kid hates them.

While it's traditional to eat Brie at room temperature, no law says you have to. I personally enjoy it more right from the fridge.

Only time I'd ever had it, I'd accidently sat down at a fancy cafe. I only bought it because the name sounded fancy. It was coated and deep fried, on a plate with strawberry jam and crackers. I recall really liking it.

Can't get my nose past blue cheese though, unless it's in dressing.

I'd say another over-rated concept are these touch screens. Why exactly is having one of these on a laptop a good thing? I want a mouse so I don't have to sit close to my screen but how do you not have to sit closer in order to use the touch screen? Exactly what can it do that the mouse cannot? I haven't found anything yet.

Sounds like of like a localized version of Brie baked in a crust, and/or served with fruit. I see that a lot around here.

It's okay, but generally with cheeses as snacks I like the simple approach best. (Even Blue. My favorite way to eat that is a few crumbles on a thin slice of green apple. Or crumbles over a vinaigrette-dressed salad.)

I can relax at this time of year, with my room temperature Brie because a thing I think is overrated is:-

Sales Rush:-

Every year there are images of people who have spent their Christmas night outside a shop to be in pole position for the attack on the doors of a store at opening time. People obsessed with brand names more than quality. Consume! Consume! Consume!