Overrated Things, Words and Phrases

A wise man once said you are never along in your thoughts no matter what they are.  Since in today’s world it’s obvious some people have really bizarre thoughts I might not agree as easily with that as say 20-30 years ago but I get the point.

I bring this up after reading a segment recently in “Men’s Health” about things that are overrated and one of them was dead on.

“Breaking News” once meant you had to stop what you were doing and focus intently on the television or radio.  As written in the magazine when you heard those two words something BIG was going to be announced. The president had been shot, the US Military found and killed Osama Bin Laden. I mean big stuff.

Flash forward to today and you can’t watch a TV newscast without hearing “Breaking News” for just about any developing story and often they are trivial and insignificant.  Stealing a line from the article, “until we land a guy on Mars let’s sticking to calling it “news.”

There were a couple of other overrated things that are worth mentioning:

• First names with creative spellings. Two reasons for that:  One their parents had no faith in their child’s future personality.  Two, the nurse at the hospital was home schooled.
• Red wine. Actually I like red wine but I do laugh when you read the label and it says the wine has hints of things you honestly can’t taste.  Plus I could care less about the wines rating. If I like it I like it.
• Getting Drunk. Nobody wakes up after a night of heavy drinking and says, “What a night.  I met some amazing new friends, got a job offer and may have fallen in love with the perfect woman.”
• California Rolls. For a food to qualify as sushi it needs to have come from East Asia, not Los Angeles.  Did Californians invent Godzilla movies?

By the way one of the things they thought was overrated was The Beach.  Clearly I’m not in agreement with that one but in fairness of equal time they explain it’s relaxing in theory but when you get there it’s always crowded, garbage is everywhere, you’re hassled by seagulls, sand gets up your shorts, etc.  You just have to find the right beach.