Over-rated

Smokin Joe

Monty Python.

A few brilliant sketches amid a sea of boring public school type drivel.

finchy

Smokin Joe wrote:

Monty Python.

A few brilliant sketches amid a sea of boring public school type drivel.

80% rubbish, 20% superb. Best Of compilations were surely invented for Monty Python.

Life of Brian and Holy Grail were rather special though.

finchy

Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, f***ing Andie Macf***ingDowell.

partrir

Sex. Except I've been married for 15 years, so I can't remember.

afx237vi

Special K wrote:

Spa hotels

Any non Michelin starred restaurant that still charges more than £40 a head

Having been watching Masterchef over the past week or so... Michelin star cooking is definitely over rated. Poncey nonsense. Give me steak and chips any day.

keef66

Starbucks, Costa et al. have I been in a coma? When did a cup of coffee suddenly rocket in price from 50p to £4.50? And to add insult to injury, the coffee's crap!

Food and drink in cinemas. Jesus Henry Christ! It must cost about 50 pence to make a dustbin full of popcorn, and they have the temerity to sell it at prices approaching those of crack cocaine. What's that all about?? And why if it's so expensive, does most of it end up on the floor??

+2 on the X-Factor etc. And can I please add Big Brother; never really saw the point.

Bottled water.

Friendly bacteria.

DavidBelcher

Smokin Joe wrote:

Energy food.

Tasteless indigestable shite. It's why sausage sandwiches were invented.

And who needs tailor-made energy food when you've got malt loaf, bananas and fig rolls on the market? Yum.

David

DavidBelcher

Chip \'oyler wrote:

disgruntledgoat wrote:

U2
REM
Birthdays
Peep Show
Anything Ricky Gervais has ever done ever
Assos (Just kidding! ducks, grabs tin hat)

I agree with all of them apart from Peep Show. Oh and The Office was brilliant, but now I realise that Gervais wasn't acting in that show. HE IS DAVID BRENT. And this is what he plays in everything else he's ever done.

I feel sorry for Stephen Merchant. I suspect he wrote most of The Office - but his career hasn't risen like one dimensional Gervais has :roll:

I've begun to notice that more and more; he just plays Ricky Gervais in absolutely everything he does, the result being that he is to character comedy what Sean Connery is to regional accents.

+1 in defence of Peep Show, too.

David

fatandwheezing

Peep show rocks, except for season 4, which was pretty cack.

The whole cinema experience is over-rated - you pay 9 quid to get in, see loads of adverts you've seen on TV, get accused of piracy, then unless you're in the very first screening you get to see the film with loads of scratches and hairs all over it.

Ricky "I know Ben Stiller" Gervais - Animals - very funny, Politics - quite funny, Fame - awful.

finchy

DavidBelcher wrote:

And who needs tailor-made energy food when you've got malt loaf, bananas and fig rolls on the market? Yum.

David

Quite right

finchy

fatandwheezing wrote:

The whole cinema experience is over-rated - you pay 9 quid to get in, see loads of adverts you've seen on TV, get accused of piracy, then unless you're in the very first screening you get to see the film with loads of scratches and hairs all over it.

Even worse when you get in on a DVD - I've paid for the bloody thing, so why tell ME about piracy? They should only put those on counterfeit DVDs :idea:

mingmong

mfin wrote:

There's plenty of new ones that arent funny too, Little Britain is 90% crap, Katy Brand and her Big Ass Show ...and that Catherine Tate as well.... all trying to be funny but not.

+1 for the above

sh*te.

Pross

Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, f***ing Andie Macf***ingDowell.

I'd go along with that except for Angelina - wouldn't mind a chance at finding out if she's over-rated!

British TV comedy in general at the moment. It picked up for a bit but has gone downhill again lately.

EDIT Just make that TV in general at the moment is crap. I end up searching through hundreds of channels most nights and can't find anything to watch despite paying £50 for the benefit every month.

symo

Apple iPhone - Just because everyone says it's good doesn't detract from the fact they are sheep. Other better alternatives.
Muse - I live in Devon home of worship to the most bombastic, most hyped stadium laser rock band ever (this is what punk fought for?)
U2 - Were crap and always will make poor music
Coldplay,Keane,Elbow, - So middle class and safe that hearing them makes me want to juggle chainsaws whilst gargling razor blades.
Oasis, Blur - They are not indie bands, they are middle class boys peddling version of previous generations hits. What happened to the innovation of the Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain, Throwing Muses?
MacDonalds - Plastic American food as a Russian friend quite clearlt observed.
Lost - So overhyped I can't face thinking about it.
Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emerdale - What you have this much time to kill? Your life is really this empty? Have an affair yourself you dozy pr@ts
Laptops - They cook your lap and the battery life is rubbish and I still bought a bloody MacBook Pro
Religion - Hmmm yes lots of easy answers to lifes questions, also can anyone name anything else from the Bronze Age that we cling on to so vehemently? No? Me neither its retarded crap after all for a bunch of retards who were stupid enough to live in the desert.
MP3s - Initially a great idea until some retard insists on playing his tinny rendition of 50Cent on the nightbus without any bass what so ever (320kbps is the only choice)
Camera's in Phones - Digital cameras are small enough why compromise?
Lady Gaga - La Roux, check very good; this US singer is not.
X-Factor - Karaoke gone mad, now we have to suffer the school failures telling us about their personal struggles on TV after they win for fliiping years AAARTRRRFGGGHGH,
Internet - "Oh its a great gateway for buisness" they say which should read massive online scams. It is much better at providing porn though. Oh and the BBC iPlayer is pants too.

I could go on, but I feel more cleansed than a session of Yoga.

finchy

Pross wrote:

Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, f***ing Andie Macf***ingDowell.

I'd go along with that except for Angelina - wouldn't mind a chance at finding out if she's over-rated!

I don't think Angelina Jolie's unattractive, just not the sexiest woman in the world, as she is so often proclaimed to be.

afcbian

Crocs
Caravans

afx237vi

symo wrote:

Oh and the BBC iPlayer is pants too.

What does that make ITV Player, or 4OD?

Angus444

X- Factor contestants.

These people are so desperate to become famous, they actually stand in front of Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue, and allow 2 of the most talentless dorks on the planet to give them 'advice' and criticism.......

Lagavulin

johnfinch wrote:

Pross wrote:

Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, f***ing Andie Macf***ingDowell.

I'd go along with that except for Angelina - wouldn't mind a chance at finding out if she's over-rated!

I don't think Angelina Jolie's unattractive, just not the sexiest woman in the world, as she is so often proclaimed to be.

Agreed, perhaps not the prettiest but she sounds dirty as owt though. 8)

Over-rated stuff; X Factor (only way I'd watch the X Factor is if Cheryl and Danni lez off), The League of Gentlemen, The Royle Family, High Definition TV, BT's HomeHub 2.0, public transport, Dominos Pizza, Jenson Button.

I think 4OnDemand is better than iPlayer. You can get some older stuff like Brasseye, The Inbetweeners, Peep Show etc. all available. Haven't found any decent old stuff on iPlayer. We should be able to get old Horizon and Timewatch.

Chip \'oyler

symo wrote:

Apple iPhone - Just because everyone says it's good doesn't detract from the fact they are sheep. Other better alternatives.

mmmmm - care to name them?

Nuggs

Modern life

Cressers

Shimano

nasahapley

France

DavidBelcher

Nuggs wrote:

Modern life

Which is rubbish, apparently. According to the title of a very under-rated album.
Hmm....time for a partnering under-rated thread?

David

all show no go

ALL Saturday Night family 'entertainment' on the telly
The Bible
James Bond movies
The Conservative Party
War (the act of, not the band or song)
Eastenders
Off the peg fixies. All those retro-themed bikes kinda miss the point....you're supposed to build one up yourself.
Jonathan Ross
Ashley Cole
Jo Brand
Russell Brand
Radio One
Ikea
Anything written by Dan Brown
Margarine. (Use Butter...it's proper!)
Harley Davidson. I like my motorbikes to be able to go around corners.
London.
The Royal Family.

d198594t

I'm sorry, but the overwhelming majority of comedy officianados will catgaorically place the Two Ronnies "fork 'andles" sketch in the 'classic funny sketch' box. I'd hazard a guess and say that you're in the minority on that one. Unless you've had a sense of humour transplant or are american then I cannot take the rest of your list seriously.

I suppose next you'll assert that Tommy Cooper wasn't funny!

Anonymous

Oasis
Lily Allen
Robbie Williams
ITV news
Coldplay
Big Brother
Lost
CSI
:shock:

shouldbeinbed

Michael Macintyre - being set on fire is too good for him but I'll give it a go.
+1 Ricky Gervais
Peter Kay - one trick pony thats been flogged to death.
Mick Hucknall - what in god name do women see in the world famous millionaire nightclub owner FFS
+1 U2 clodplay, keane athlete, snow patrol, oasis
rap, radiohead, maroon5
kings of leon - pretentious up their own bum whiny voiced tediumpop
cycle lanes
David Cameron
wearing a tie
celebrity award shows
eastenders and coronation street
alcopops that have crayola colouring
innocent smoothie packaging - you're not funny so just stop doing it
Actors that always play themselves - Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Nicholas Cage, Colin Farrell - Alexander the great straight out of Kilarney.
Katie Price

Nadder

me

Nadder

everyone says i'm incredible but I'm just another human