Is Calling Things 'Overrated' Overrated?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 5:08pm

 

Because...oh for crap's sake.

 

[After Eight]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 5:14pm

Not at all.

Especially when it's spot-on.

As we've seen just recently.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:52pm

This thread is 'overrated'.

[Cfried]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 6:53pm

Often times the thing that is called 'overrated' is actually underrated. 

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 7:29pm

Being normal is overrated. In fact, in our industry, it's a death knell!

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 7:52pm

Depends who's doing the rating

 

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 7:53pm

Nothing in the world is real.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 8:33pm

 

This thread is 'overrated'.

No. That thread is overrated.

 

[Broadwayhunk]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 10:27pm

I hate posts posed as questions.  They're so overrated.

[haterobics]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 10:29pm

Overrated and hype are just clues that people went to something to see what the fuss was about, and found no fuss. Typically has nothing to do with something was good or bad, since we're just comparing someone's advance notion versus their lived experience.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 10/30/16 at 11:34pm

Joey, I do agree the Stephen Sondheim thread was a bit much, but this is a bit much too

[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 10/31/16 at 1:29am

I wasn't even going to look at the Sondheim thread until I saw this one.  I'm not sure if "overrated" threads are overrated, but I do know that "iconic" is way overused - but that's a whole other thread.

 

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/31/16 at 10:05am

 

Broadwayhunk said: "I hate posts posed as questions.  They're so overrated."

One could say that calling oneself a "hunk" is overrated.

One could, but of course I never would.

 

 

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 10/31/16 at 3:18pm

payjoey you are definitely NOT overrated

you rock!

[SamIAm]

Posted: 10/31/16 at 5:26pm

The definition of 'overrated' is: to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate. 

So, if you are asking whether claiming that something is overrated is an action that is, in and of itself, an action that is appraised to highly or overestimated well...I just have NO idea what you are asking. 

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 10/31/16 at 9:51pm

i love how meta this thread is.....

[devonian.t]

Posted: 11/1/16 at 7:35am

I have completely ignored that obvious troll-bait thread, posted by one of the most mind-numbingly foolish posters on the site.  It was just waiting for the w*nkers to pile on with their tired, ersatz gripes.

The only response I could have made would be: "But is Michael Phelps really a good swimmer?"