Things we, as a nation (apparently), have utterly indefensible romantic attachments to.

Cadburys Dairy Milk chocolate: God in heaven, what a foul, greasy smear of an excuse for “chocolate”. I’ve just swiped one of Jr’s stash as I had a sugar urge, and frankly I wish I had just reached straight for the wine.

But No! We must not question the godliness of the Dairy Milk. Rubbish.
Same goes for Paul O’Grady, “Auntie” BBC, and the NHS.

Anything else?

…and the NHS

+1

The sooner it’s all sold off the better. I can’t wait to start explaining myself to health insurance companies.

From crap chocolate to dismantling the BBC and the NHS in one post 😯

I guess its one of ths I like the fact that my ability to not die of illness, or get treatment for long term illness, is not at all related to my wealth/ability to pay…i wish i was more heartless but hey I guess the BBC made me this way 🙄

Yeah screw free healthcare and quality broadcasting, I demand to pay thousands for a hospital visit and only watch reality TV shows.

James Corden. ‘but the emperors not wearing any clothes’
dunno if he’d be considered a national treasure though.

Yeah I for one look forward to the end of free healthcare at the point of need, maybe saving £10 a month on the license fee will help me pay for the insurance for me and my family. Being pelted by adverts and Rupert Murdochs opinions masquerading as facts is a small price to pay.

Well it’s a tough audience here at the London Palladium tonight. I should probably have saved this one until Friday night and the squares were in bed with Terry Wogan (gawd bless’im guvnor) and everyone else was a few sherberts into the weekend.

But I ate some chocolate I didnt like.

That’s sarcasm and facetiousness right there, that is.
I’m with you on O’grady though.

That Nicholas Cage film was shocking as well.

I guess its one of ths I like the fact that my ability to not die of illness, or get treatment for long term illness, is not at all related to my wealth/ability to pay

Junkyard – you need to step outside of your Utopia. Some of us are having to pay for our medical care for a life-long condition, in fact I’m now paying for treatment for a second health condition as the NHS have been in denial about Lyme disease. Go me. 😐

Shakespeare. Painful.

oohooh, now your talking.
Yorkshire Tea
Cheshire cheese
Hilary Mantel

Sir Paul McCartney. Just shocking. Really not looking forward to the months of false praise and adulation when he pops his clogs.

Well it’s a tough audience here at the London Palladium tonight.

Or your views are completely out of kilter with the UK for you are a right wing free market loon…. you decide based on the reception. Perhaps a graph will help 😉
@ C-G

There’s currently no clear consensus on the best treatment for post-infectious Lyme disease because the underlying cause is not yet clear. Be wary of internet sites offering alternative diagnostic tests and treatments that may not be supported by scientific evidence.

🙂

Any raft of celebrities, epitomised by Simon Cowell and anyone who has appeared on big brother.

the NHS have been in denial about Lyme disease

Ermmm what now? They seem to have pretty good information on it to me:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Lyme-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Anyways, the OP:

I’d cite the relatively recent National Treasure of “Mrs Brown’s Boys”.

😆

Well played

cant agree with you there MOAA. That would include both Keith Chegwin AND Ulrikakakakaka.

Oh… go on then.

Stephen Fry.

Sort of okay at times, but also pompously annoying. Pompous in a way that for some reason people seem to go – ‘oh he’s so clever’, but I just find tediously boring, verbose and tiresome.

Sorry Steven, I’m sure you’re a great bloke really… 🙂

I’m sure you’re a great bloke really.

No, really Im not.

Cadburys Dairy Milk is no longer a national treasure it is a foul, bastardised excuse for chocolate foisted on us by their American owners. Damn you Kraft and your cheap ingredients. Aldi milk chocolate for me from now on.

Cadburys was pretty ropey before kraft muscled in.

I vote for Adele

Football. I mean, really? It’s not much of a sport, the players aren’t good sports, the money, the slavish attitude of its many millions of followers, the national “team”, etc.

Just been reminded: Grayson Perry.

Ant and Dec.
They are a few years younger than me so the realisation that they will most likely outlive me and pollute broadcasting with their inane grins and pathetic glib banter until my dying days is something I am having trouble reconciling.

Bruce Forsyth: Odious, unfunny, annoying.
Jade Goody and the rest of the famous for being famous celebrity clique.
Chas n Dave
Cockneys

RichS +1

I am so with no_eyed_deer on this one. And no, I’m not sure Stephen is a nice guy, really.

Good call on Adele. All she seems to do in her songs is f******g moan. Albeit in a reasonably nice voice. Apparently, when she’s not singing/moaning, she’s quite amusing.

I tend to regard Kylie as an irrational national treasure. Yet in the same way, perfectly rational.

Could I claim both racist and sexist for that?

Jade Goody and the rest of the famous for being famous celebrity clique.

Don’t worry, Jade died 6 years ago. 😐

Don’t worry, Jade died 6 years ago.

It’s a true fact. It said so in my Cards Against Humanity hand the other night 😈

That is true but it doesn’t stop her being treated as such, it would seem.

Hovis, Kingsmill… White bread in general. It is shite. Every other European country laughs at our attempt of a loaf

It’s a true fact. It said so in my Cards Against Humanity hand the other night

My thirteen year old daughter loves that card.

Cards Against Humanity is for 13s and up right?

Crap white bread, milk chocolate, greggs, crap larer, Boddies John Smiths and Tetley’s, Crap tea plenty more out there

Royal family. Why?

Royal family. Why?

Agreed. And Sir Elton John. And Lord David Beckham.

Football.
Brighton.
Night out in West End.

All ruined by gaudily dressed thugs.

Hugh Grant
Richard Curtis

Pass me a bucket