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I think the Red Hot Chili Peppers went from under-rated to over-rated in a very short time span. Those guys aren't actually that young - they are all well into their 40s now, and a lot of thier best music came out around 1990, and that's when they actually were relatively unknown and under-rated. I think the difference is that no one considers the Red Hot Chili Peppers to be among the greatest bands of their generation, which is why I'm hesitant to place the "most over-rated" label on them. The Rolling Stones and Nirvana were considered among the best of their era, which - unless I'm really missing something with the Red Hot Chili Peppers - doesn't apply. Then again, I hardly listen to music at all any more, so maybe their popularity has soared in recent years.

I do have to agree with the JFK comment. While he was wildly popular, his accompliments while in office are rather short - but that may very well be a function of only being president for about 2.5 years before being assassinated.

I also feel the need to compliment Rawgrim on a great post - his list of greivances is at least much more comprehensive than other peoples. I agree with most of them except one of them:

Of the asian women I have seen, they all fall into one of two categories with me: either completely unattractive, or among the hottest women I've ever seen. I've never seen a somewhat attractive asian woman.

 

+1 for the Thread.

After seeing an African at the local mall here, with a Vitiligo affliction, i realized that black people are white too...deep down...so.

The US and EU should leave the Middle east as soon as possible. They won't and will never fit the Western-dogma. The day the natural resources run dry, no western power will ever feel the need to liberate the people of XYZ again.

People are stupid. To the point that there is no remedy anymore.

Nuclear Power is not clean power...nor save.

Facebook and Co, suck balls. Those social places gather asocial people.

Zionists are people too!

My parents are sux They didn't listen to me, now my older bro, ripped them off.


PS. Asian chicks do rule! They are the new gold. The Asian-wave has yet to start properly.

 

This.
I commend chinese for taking relatively drastic measures to prevent population boom that would inevitably happen. Some parts of Africa are just huge human breeding grounds, while we toss in humanitary food for them to breed more.
Humanitary abuse in general. I so bloody hate all those whiners you see on TV, standing smoking in front of their ruined home, while their family huddles on the ground behind him, just lying there. The guy is obviously complaining not over what happened to him, but over the insufficient help received, like it's something expected and guaranteed. How about getting the **** off your ass and actually doing something to fix your home/house instead of just mouthing off to the camera.

Overall, people take themselves WAY too seriously. All those apocalyptic scenarios ala Terminator type in relation to Singularity (Ray Kurzweil google if unfamiliar) and the dread and horror of it. Whyever?
I doubt very much that the potential superintelligence will be anything like the foreign agency entity, enforcing their imperatives through tanks and bombs, while we get a chance to be tragic heroes charging off into the sunset-filled AI horizon with naugh but a club in our hands yet again. I daresay we're doing far more damage to the world and fellow people easily enough by ourselves. Is it really such a disaster if it's decided that half the human population die off so the rest can live more quality lives instead of squabbling over scraps in the slums among the unwashed throngs?
But obviously, we can't but feel singularly unique snowflakes, the best thing that ever happened to our planet, a downright blessing of God/Gods, wrapped up in our nice selfconfirming cocoon of bubble lives. Nevermind all else.


Oh, Mesmero. Your signature <3

 

Despite their inexplicable success, the tv shows 'Germany's Next Topmodel', by Heidi Klum, and Dieter Bohlen's American Idol equivalent (I have no idea which is a spin-off of which) 'Deutschland sucht den Superstar' are grievous insults to the intelligence of any sentient life form.

 

They are actually separate shows in the US. There's American Idol and America's Top Model. The former is a singing competition, the latter a um... modeling competition.

 

You have to pass an exam before breeding more of you

 

You people moan too much.

 

Do you not also suffer from this horrible people condition, or are you something other than a person?

 

That's due to all the sex.

 

Agree, and add Aerosmith to the list.

Aesthetics being what they are, I don't mind that people love and even adore Aerosmith and the Stones, but I do find it objectionable when some love them so much that they can't accept that we might not all feel the same way.

Halle Berry is a borderline poor actress, but the hotness question is another matter entirely. I suspect that her stature in Hollywood is due almost entirely to her looks. Many beautiful women get their butts kissed to some degree because they're hot, but not many are given Oscars. So she's either actually a great actress or she's transcendently hot.

 

That's not an unpopular opinion, my signature is generally well liked I thought about changing it to "Dyslexic people unite!" after this.

My opinion formed a while ago when I was actively looking at adds from people who were trying to find band mates, and every single one listed the RHCP as an influence. Maybe it's also a geographical thing, I think the RHCP are bigger here than Nirvana ever was.

 

DMC - Amazing. I completely agree with almost every single point, even Obama. The only exception was Jolie, who I think is attractive, can act, from what little I have seen, and seems like a nice person. Too bad her dad is such a dick head.

She does, and despite all the "fashion" nonsense, she has real talent, IMHO.

 

She's very talented, I think. A little too derivative of Madonna, but - overall, she's the real deal. I'm a fan.

I definitely agree on Obama, too. He hasn't quite lived up to his promise, I'd agree. But then he's nowhere near the disaster conservatives said he would be (or still say). All things considered, he's been very good - but not at all great.

DMC, I don't know if there's a single item on your list that I would consider unpopular. They're all reasonable, non-offensive and pretty well down the middle.

In other words, no god damn fun at all.

 

I agree, I don't regret my vote for Obama either, DR. I think his biggest mistake is marginalizing Howard Dean, one of the few Democrats with some real backbone in him.

 

You aren't implying that any white guy who shaves his head is trying to be black, right? I know a lot of guys who shave their head, and I wouldn't classify any of them as trying to be black. Now, if you meant that white guys who shave their head AND are trying to be black, or white guys who shave their head in an effort to ACT black, then I agree.

Now that point I find a bit surprising. From my experience, how big of a problem illegal immigrants are can usually be traced back to the area of the country in which you live. Being from Maryland, Hispanics make up a relatively small percentage of our population, and considering that most of them are probably legal, I'd say we don't have a problem with it.

OTOH, if you live in California, I'd expect many there to consider it a huge problem. I don't know if the ratio of legals to illegals is any higher there, but you'd think there would be a heck of a lot more of them overall due to the much larger Hispanic population in California (especially southern California).

 

Religion causes more problems than it solves, which is suprising considering it's a giant pile of horseshit.