__________ is/are overrated.

[wanderer2575]

Caddyshack is overrated.  Some funny scenes but very unfocused.  Every scene with Bill Murray or Chevy Chase is unfunny and drags the plot to a halt.

[Rothman]

Caddyshack is overrated.  Some funny scenes but very unfocused.  Every scene with Bill Murray or Chevy Chase is unfunny and drags the plot to a halt.

Disagree to a point.  Yes, the movie is chaotic, but viewing it as each comedian in their own movie helps a ton.

Rodney Dangerfield famously never got what "Action!" meant, so Harold Ramis just would tell him, "Do your bit!"

[Scott5114]

Carolyn Hax

I dunno, I feel like she's more realistic than the typical Dear Abby/Ann Landers/Miss Manners type advice columnists, and certainly the other ones in the Washington Post. There's been some stuff she's written that's made me stop and think. (Also the fact that she can somehow successfully work on the column with her ex-husband kind of says to me that she might know what she's talking about when it comes to managing relationships.)

Now, if you think advice columnists as a whole are overrated, then you might be onto something there.

[Rothman]

Needing to make money causes all sorts of rivers to be bridged.

I've found Carolyn Hax's advice to be inconsistent over time.  Sometimes reads more like horoscopes than advice founded upon solid principles.

[Rothman]

The red warning to keep people from posting in old threads (especially when the new post is a legitimate extension of the old thread):

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=35269.msg2945300#msg2945300

[JayhawkCO]

The red warning to keep people from posting in old threads (especially when the new post is a legitimate extension of the old thread):

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=35269.msg2945300#msg2945300

Agreed. Since it's already against TOS to make stupid, inane posts, if someone opens up a long dormant thread, it should be assumed that the new post is of value.

[vdeane]

The red warning to keep people from posting in old threads (especially when the new post is a legitimate extension of the old thread):

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=35269.msg2945300#msg2945300

Agreed. Since it's already against TOS to make stupid, inane posts, if someone opens up a long dormant thread, it should be assumed that the new post is of value.

I would say that the threshold of value is higher for bumping an old thread (especially a really old one).

[1995hoo]

The forum guidelines seem clear enough on when bumping an old thread is acceptable:

Bumping topics (responding to a post older than 120 days) is highly discouraged. Topics should only be bumped if there is new and relevant information to add (such as a old topic on a proposed construction project, where construction has recently begun). Simply posting the word "Bump" (or something similar) to force a topic to the top of a page will force a newer and potentially more relevant topic to drop from the first page of the forum. Continued abuse can lead to your posting privileges being curtailed or suspended.

The word "such as" in that parenthetical clause make it clear enough that it's but one example.

[webny99]

Another rule that extremely ironically never gets brought up:

What's not allowed:
...
Posting in a topic that someone broke such-and-such rule. This isn't necessary. Please use the "report a post" feature.

[Max Rockatansky]

People calling themselves "professional drivers."  Especially after they get called out for trying to make limited access driving seem like the "worst" or "most dangerous" thing ever.

[formulanone]

Hocus Pocus ...Much cringe.

[Max Rockatansky]

That has become the Halloween equivalent of A Christmas Story.

[Rothman]

That has become the Halloween equivalent of A Christmas Story.

A Christmas Story still holds up.

I have no idea why Hocus Pocus has had so much endurance.

[Max Rockatansky]

That has become the Halloween equivalent of A Christmas Story.

A Christmas Story still holds up.

I have no idea why Hocus Pocus has had so much endurance.

Held up enough for my wife that she has custom build decorations for the yard.  I thought it was "okay" when I saw it in the theater.  There is a lot really flat acting and wooden jokes that don't land unless you're into corny stuff. 

[Rothman]

Lindsey Stirling

[Rothman]

Historic preservation

[SectorZ]

Historic preservation

You'd love your old state right now with that then. Both Groton and Newbury have people going ape poo over derelict homes being torn down just because they're old. Style points to the one in Newbury because it's pink, or at least used to be pink. Even the governor has involved herself in that one.

[hbelkins]

Historic preservation

In general, or its relation to the highway construction process?

Although I have to admit, the historic bridge giveaway programs we've done have been interesting. Some have gotten attention from as far away as Great Britain.

[Rothman]

Historic preservation

In general, or its relation to the highway construction process?

Although I have to admit, the historic bridge giveaway programs we've done have been interesting. Some have gotten attention from as far away as Great Britain.

In general.  Although I do see it having a role in preserving truly significant locations and other miscellany, too often I see an aging house falling down around itself being forced to be preserved and thus contributing to blight, just because someone likes the architecture rather than it being significant.

Even worse and closer to home, NY's State Historical Preservation Office (SHPO) has stated that they will oppose historic bridge trusses being replaced by gussetless trusses in the future, thus making infrastructure inherently more dangerous if they require gusseted trusses.  Hopefully, a practice of using the old truss as decorative on a new structure can be continued.

I've also yet to see a truly successful sale of a historic truss bridge out of a handful I've been involved in.  All that process has done is delay projects.  You get some interest, the interested parties come and go and then eventually just become disinterested. In the meantime, months, if not years, have passed.

I just see historic preservation practices crossing a line from needful to oppositional.  I like the new National Park Service sites that have been established in the name of preservation; saving a dilapidated house just to have it sit there and rot due to the cost of renovation or force an unsafe structure to exist for many more years?  I just see it being more of a problem than solution.

(personal opinion emphasized)

[hbelkins]

I've been involved in publicizing several bridge relocations, but we only had one successful relocation. Of course, it was a smaller bridge, repurposed for use in a city park walking trail. All the rest of them have been larger truss bridges that would have been impractical to relocate.

[mgk920]

'Old' ≠ 'Historic'.  There has to be more to it than that.

Mike

[LilianaUwU]

I'm Good (Blue) by David Guetta. Even if it was widely considered the worst song of all time, it would be overrated, simply because it's the music industry's equivalent of rebooting movie franchises to make new garbage.

[Rothman]

Elden Ring

[kernals12]

The Dark Knight- too many plotlines that went nowhere and not enough screen time for Batman.

Casino Royale- way too sober for a Bond film and I cannot understand why the audience is supposed to care about Vesper

[Rothman]

Ugh.  Can we ban him yet?