The Overrated Thread

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901

Ronald Reagan, the most overrated politician in history.

In his mind, Trump’s handling of the crisis feels like an eerie callback to the 1980s, when then-President Ronald Reagan chose to ignore early warnings about the threat from HIV/AIDS. About 450,000 Americans died of the disease between 1981 and 2000, a toll that Gonsalves believes can (at least in part) be blamed on Reagan’s “malign neglect” of the outbreak. For Gonsalves, the Trump response to coronavirus feels like the same thing all over again — just with the time frame sped way up.

When the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the 1980s, the Reagan administration’s first reaction was chilling: It appeared to treat the epidemic as a joke.

In a new documentary short by Scott Calonico called When AIDS Was Funny , posted by Vanity Fair, audio of press conferences reveals Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, Larry Speakes, and members of the media joking about the HIV/AIDS epidemic — which they called “gay plague” — and laughing about one of the reporters potentially having it.

902

I don’t know if I’d say ‘overrated’, more cuntish.

903

The southpark pandemic special. One good line (I fucked a lad of bats), otherwise tedious low grade juvenile sniggering

904

Deary me…

905

South Park is overrated

906
907

Really long songs in general are overrated I think. November Rain is the same. 5 minutes of shite to get to 90 seconds of decent music

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908

Some shocking opinions on show here.

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909

good point, there are some exceptions but most of the long songs are generally self indulgent, normally guitar, wank.

910

Last two minutes of November Rain are shite

911

Some fellas just haven’t got the mental latitude for songs longer than 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

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912

Yup going by the logic of these bumpkins Mozart & Beethoven hadn’t a clue what they were at and were only self indulging in that piano shite.

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913

Oooooooft!

914

Sure Beethoven’s Fifth may as well be over after 5 seconds. The next 35 minutes is just pointless noodling by the deaf cunt.

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915

How fucking dare you.

916

98.6% of Beethoven’s stuff is sheer tedium. His string quartets are an embarrassment to the entire Beethoven clan.

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917

The sonatas are where it is at.

918

thatd be an oooft if you could name any beethoven songs

919

And the romances

920

A song should only be 7 minutes long if it needs to be.