What do you know of that is inferior in many ways and yet wildly popular?

Liberalism.

Apathy. And the BNP. I am so ashamed of my region

I can't speak for everywhere, but around here light beer is popular. Never understood the point in that...

That's all that comes to mind right now, but I'm sure I'll think of more sometime when I'm not near a computer.

Adam Sandler's 'humour'.

Rel..

Oh doesn't matter.

Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Word.

Coca-Cola and other soft drinks; sugary and salty junkfoods; rap music; PCs (computers that aren't Macs); most of today's schools and school curriculums.

Most processed and packaged foods; fast food; soda; the Yankees.

north american made cars

You have my vote FordGuy....liberalism, socialism has become accepted by too many....very bad, inferior.

Reality TV, especially American Idol (and all shows like it)

ignorance

liberalism, country music, sports bars and electric cars are a few

the SUV..........

> Most processed and packaged foods; fast food; soda; the Yankees.


ooooooooooo, "the yankees", it's like a knife through my heart Enheduanna............... this may cause me to fall out of love with you!!

It's not that I really even care about baseball much, but you can't live in Boston for 12 years and not become a bit of a Sox fan! Mostly, though, it just popped into my head.

Sports bars? Where am I supposed to drink my beer?

At a titty bar?

I don't like sports and anywhere you go the pizza places, bars, etc. have big screen tv's going and always have sports on. I think that's a mistake to assume everyone likes to watch sports. I would never intentionally watch a sports program on tv and actually have the satellite tv guide programmed to not even show ESPN and any other sports channels.

I only seem to like stuff that other people hate. So I think it would be wildly egotistical of me to say that everything that the rest of the world likes, sucks.

I'm with you brother. I never watch sports, read the sports section, or have any idea what the current play off situation is. I agree with you that it is a bad assumption to say that people like watching sports. But it does sell liquour and food. It makes me wonder though - what if there were such thing as a News Bar. Same as a sports bar, but news instead. I think too many 'men' are conditioned to 'like' sports just so they can fit in. 9 times out of 10 I listen to Active Mind radio anyway.

Facebook.

Pretty much anything made by Apple.

Ugg boots.

One, have you seen them?
Two, the classic ones (tall and short) that are widely popular, easily get dirty, worn/creased, are bulky, and overall are just literally an "UGGh, those are UGGly".

"Reality" television shows, talk shows in which people air their dirty laundry for public consumption, baggy jeans without belts.

> Coca-Cola and other soft drinks; sugary and salty junkfoods; rap music;
> PCs (computers that aren't Macs); most of today's schools and school
> curriculums.
Ermmm...do you mean curricula?

Oh yeah, thanks.

pretensiousness

Reality T.V. shows

I think too many
> 'men' are conditioned to 'like' sports just so
> they can fit in. 9 times out of 10 I listen to
> Active Mind radio anyway.

I find it uncomfortable when another guy will mention sports teams, games, etc. in a conversation since I know nothing about it and it is hard to respond.

It is funny. My older son who is 39 is a total sports nut and wouldn't miss a Sunday football game on tv for anything. My other son (37) could care less and would prefer to watch movies or work on his cars.

I imagine it wouldn't be as loud and rowdy. Imagine if people really got that loud over news stories.

There have, in the past, been bands and TV shows, that I have raved about, ony to be dismissed, only for said band or TV show to become huge in later times. Rammstein for example.

I didn't really answer the question..... But what Biggles said, the BNP, the fact they have two seats now is horrendous. What's happening to the UK?

Oh yeah, those saggin pants. They advertise "I am ignorant and trashy.", but people feel the need to wear them anyway. Wearing jammies in public. Mindless sheeples. People want to look trendy, even if it looks totally ridiculous.

Walmart.

The Twilight Series. Ick.

Agreed. :(

Um, cell phones? The batteries on my non-wireless landline with 20' coiled handset cord never went dead, which is more than I can say for every friend of mine using either cell phones or wireless phones.

Cable. I can get some 60 digital TV stations (all but one) perfectly in LA just using an antenna I made from five coat hangers.

It's a hard question to answer. I look around to jog my memory, but I tend not to own things which are inferior unless it's things I found in the alley like bookshelves.

Oh, psych meds. I've never tried one yet which didn't have side effects worse than the improvements.

I'd go for an art bar, something playing Classic Arts Showcase, PBS's all night fine arts equivalent of MTV videos. It's great stuff: theater, classical concerts, guitar virtuosos, vintage abstract claymation, ballet.

I had my own idea for a bar called either 'Show and Tell' or 'The Trading Post'. It would encourage people to show off their specialty, be that vintage radio repair, fire dancing, jelly making, fashion design, or whatever creative thing they do. The place would sell all sorts of crafts people made. It would also sell exotic pastries, hors d'ouevres, and fruit smoothies. It would of course have a stage and a few instruments and costumes kicking around for any amateur musicians or actors. It's rather the opposite of a bar with music up too loud to talk. The idea is to involve everyone and get to know each other.

dogs

CRap and Hip Hop music... Yeah and I agree Liberalism but only the Far Left Wing Loon Liberalism...

Junk Food!!

Sounds cool... but you didn't mention beer...

Holding the door open for people who don't have their hands full

Homemade chocolate ginger raspberry doppelbocks, spruce lagers, and such.

People showing off their latest concoction, like gingerale with frozen OJ concentrate, Ouzo, Rimpleminze, and pomegranate grenadine.

Home made floral meads.

Carbonated port with herb & spice infusions.

Whatever it is, something worthy of praise or interesting discussion.

I'll be the tall guy at the end of the bar with the Ford t-shirt and the John Deere hat, trying to figure out what in the hell a doppelbock is. But enjoying every minute of it.

Doppelbock: Typically a christmas beer of high specific gravity, sweetness, and potency, created by a much higher proportion of syrups during brewing. I'm sure you'd enjoy them.

One can increase the sweetness by inclusion of non-fermentable sugars like lactose, otherwise the tendency is to climb to 21% alcohol without any sweetness unless one otherwise kills the yeast.

> I'll be the tall guy at the end of the bar with the Ford t-shirt and
> the John Deere hat, trying to figure out what in the hell a doppelbock
> is. But enjoying every minute of it.

You don't know what a doppelbock is? As much as you love beer??? Where have you been? Or are you just one of those Bud guys?

Here is an article discussing bock beers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock

If you get a chance, find a high-end grocery store or German restaurant in your area and get a bottle of Aventinus Doppelbock Weizenbier mit Hefe. Don't drink more than one if you're driving. It comes in 22 ounce bottles, I believe, and has an alcohol content of 9%.

JACK DANIELS

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it.

You may have had one by now already without knowing if you've ever gone to a German pub.

I used to make ice beers too. Never tried an Eisbock though.

When one batch of beer came out poorly, I made peppermint schnapps with it.

We don't have many... ok any... German Pubs in Alto. All we have is the Alto Bar. It's chuck full of drunk rednecks that like to fight each other over stupid stuff. I'll be in New York in July - taking Jodi for her birthday - maybe I'll find a place there.

"You may have had one by now already without knowing if you've ever gone to a German pub."
In case there was any doubt, I meant not knowing you had had a bock, not not knowing if you've ever gone to a German pub. That takes drinking considerably more beers.

No German pubs, what a shame. There was a delightful one in Santa Cruz which shut down, a half outdoor 'BierGarden' full of steins and german chocolates. There was another in the hills of Santa Cruz with a great German restaurant.

> No German pubs, what a shame. There was a delightful one in Santa
> Cruz which shut down, a half outdoor 'BierGarden' full of steins and
> german chocolates. There was another in the hills of Santa Cruz with
> a great German restaurant.



There is a Biergarden here in Portsmouth, VA, half outdoors as well. I wonder if the folks moved from Santa Cruz to here.

Maybe. I suspect it's a fairly conventional sort of operation though. They probably have them in Africa and the Phillipines, old cross-country skis hanging on the wall, and people in bikinis playing accordians with bongos.

Basically every perfume.
Crocs!

i don't know

space travel

That's a good one. Few people probably consider how boring it would actually be most of the time. On the other hand, I suppose it would be the modern equivalent of a sea mariner, and that sure had it's following.

> That's a good one. Few people probably consider how boring it would
> actually be most of the time. On the other hand, I suppose it would
> be the modern equivalent of a sea mariner, and that sure had it's
> following.



Ever hear a jet fighter's description of his job? "Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror."

Space travel would be the same, except substitute "weeks" or "months" for "hours".

A cop told me the same thing, like 98% boredom, 2% terror.