Christopher Hitchens' 'overrated' poll

did he say it in some sort of disdainful upper class british accent *swoon*

also as far as i can tell the picnic naysayers on here are mainly UK resident. just sayin'

cooper chickenhawk

i fuckin love picnics a'it

picnics are prob not worth the effort but the rest of these are just fine.

I'm willing to go on a picnic with chickenhawk if he brings the lobster but keeps the buggery at home in his closet.

usually it's BUGS you have to worry about at a picnic

we should have a lobster picnic w/ buttsex & bubbly in CH's honor

oh shit i got excited and thought richard dawkins was dead

we should have a lobster picnic w/ buttsex & bubbly in CH's honor

― Dr Morbius, Friday, December 16, 2011 9:38 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

def. think if you combined all 4 they all would be better

Champagne probably tasted like Sprite to Hitchens so I'll cut him some slack. The other 3 are legit overrated. Lobster wouldn't be overrated if it wasn't expensive.

buttsex is a multifaceted construct

Maybe I just don't have the best back, but I always find it hard to simultaneously sit on the grass in a position amenable to eating AND feel comfortable enough to get romantic or chilled out or whatever mood picnic it is.

Are we voting on "most overrated" or best of these? I'd probably say champagne is the most overrated -- even *good* champagne tastes kind of like a soft drink to me.

It tends to be sweet and cloying.

picnics are horseshit and the good thing abt champagne is that it's alcoholic fresca

picnics are great, gtfo my rug you sourpusses

lobster is the worst of these no contest, its disgusting

Lobster is tasty, champagne'll get you drunk, picnics involve food - there's really no upside to anal IMO

(Good) Champagne is great, picnics are underrated, anal sex can be great, lobster is meh, a lot of work and not all it's made out to be, so lobster

feel like "a lot of work and not all it's made out to be" can also be applied to anal

Maybe I just don't have the best back, but I always find it hard to simultaneously sit on the grass in a position amenable to bottoming AND feel comfortable enough to get romantic or chilled out or whatever mood anal it is.

nice work!

picnics are great. bring a spliff. then have anal.

feel like "a lot of work and not all it's made out to be" can also be applied to anal

― nuhnuhnuh, zaterdag 17 december 2011 0:53 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

lol feeling for u bro

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

feel like "a lot of work and not all it's made out to be" can also be applied to.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................lyfe

lol it's all off the page

shld we unleash the dragon and make this a TMI thread or wut

feel like "a lot of work and not all it's made out to be" can also be applied to working silver mousse into your hair every single day of the calendar year 2000

also ~lyfe~

woah, life and anal are both great, don't know what observational commedian stole my login above. sorry guys :(

lyfe and anal are both great, they give us chocolate cake

risotto is worse than these tbh

risotto is cool but its just flavored rice and doesnt compare to anything on the list

Hitchens obv had a restrictive definition of what constitutes a picnic. For me it is eating any meal outdoors without a waiter/waitress.

1) Outdoors is a nice place.
2) Eating is pleasant.
3) No tipping required.

Sounds like a little piece of paradise to me.

i know right, bring some lobster and champagne even

champagne is awesome also jho otm about chris hitchens. hero to most a few but he never meant shit to me.

yeah i appreciate ppl who can write coherently and drink fabulously but i can generally get that on ilx without the warmongering, etc.

i guess the outpouring of whatever seems slightly less weird to me than that for steve jobs, tho.

people's remembrances of him have been moving. it is jerky of me to say idgi at this particular moment, i know. i don't get the great stylist thing either, tbh; the stuff i've read by him seemed overwritten.

cool

never received anal. abstaining.

it was very important that i expressed myself on this point in a thread about something else entirely

it's ilx, horseshoe

people act like nobody's hated this hitchens guy before or something. he was around for a long time. long enough to be hated, that's for sure.

i over-ated at a picnic once. way too much potato salad.

Champagne is overrated if you're living in North America, but not so in France. It's far cheaper, and the cult around it is subdued... there, I'd say it's rated correctly. With oysters, it's divine. For a man such as Hitchens, who could travel to France, and bring with him home a 25 E bottle of Lermandier-Bernier, and share it with friends on a holiday? I would've urged Hitch to reconsider.

Anal sex between homosexual men is rated exactly correctly. Within the boundaries of a heterosexual relationship, it has been quite underestimated and underrated, so I've been told

Picnicking with children is overrated, but its close cousins "al fresco" and "street food on a park bench" seem to acquit it?

In contrast, a lobster meal requires the diner to forcibly tear apart the cruelly executed carcass of an exoskeletous rat, gingerly extracting a single mouthful of meat while avoiding cloaca, before sucking at its feelers in desperation.

Within the boundaries of a heterosexual relationship, it has been quite underestimated and underrated, so I've been told

Anal sex is underrated if anything!

Todd