[Closed] Irrational-national treasures

...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.

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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?

Football.
Brighton.
Night out in West End.

All ruined by gaudily dressed thugs.

Hugh Grant
Richard Curtis

Pass me a bucket

Vanessa Feltz.

Richard Curtis

+1

Go to America and watch the telly, it's ****ing awful. STORAGE ADVERTS WARS, GOLD ADVERTS RUSH, BUY ADVERTS SHITE ADVERTS PRETEND ADVERTS ITS ADVERTS WORTH ADVERTS LOADS, MADE ADVERTS UP ADVERTS 'REALITY' ADVERTS SHITE and ADVERTS ADVERTS ADVERTS.

Christianity.

I love rhe beeb.
Hexhamstu - completely agree about merkin telly. One evening the telly (in USA) was on in the background and this advertisement came up for tablets to correct 'penil erection disfunction', this was at 7.30 in the evening. A bit embarrassing as I was the only female in the room.

Cheshire cheese? CHESHIRE CHEESE!?

Outside, now *dons kicking boots*

Coronation st and emmerdale. Complete shite.
Sunday roasts. How do we make boiled veg and a lump of meat taste better? Pour meat juice mixed with water over it 😐

Sunday roasts.

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Ok, Mr. Bean. About as funny as Mrs Brown's Boys.

They are just so easy to get wrong. Soggy overcooked veg, tough meat, watery gravy, sloppy stuffing and non-burnt parsnips. Maybe I've been eating at the MiLs for too long.
I always end up smearing mustard or horseradish all over it.

Soggy overcooked veg, tough meat, watery gravy, sloppy stuffing and non-burnt parsnips.

That's just bad cooking, though.

I'd agree with ransos partially; [b]pub[/b] sunday roasts. They are unfailingly crap and drowned in something akin to bitumen

I agree that a bad roast dinner is a travesty, but it doesn't have to be that way!
Gravy can make or break a roast...

Stephen Fry.

+1, the epitome of sanctimonious hypocritical luvviedom - I thought Peter Hitchens's put down of him was quite good "A stupid person's idea of what an intelligent person is like".

Sir Bradley effin Wiggins...... good grief not so much him as the adulation surrounding him...

the 1966 world cup squad and trotting the memories out everytime we play the bleeding Germans.
In fact - football in general.

The Queen.

Cliff

Richard Curtis

Bankers they trashed the economy and get a bonus for doing so.
Rugby union. The sport is great the fans ...less so.
Mountainbiking a pastime for off duty bankers and rugby fans
Scotland ...Irvine Welsh is right "we are the lowest of the low"

Barbara bloody Windsor.
She can take her chirpy cockernee giggle and do one!

mefty - Member
Stephen Fry.
+1, the epitome of sanctimonious hypocritical luvviedom - I thought Peter Hitchens's put down of him was quite good "A stupid person's idea of what an intelligent person is like".

+1, the epitome of sanctimonious hypocritical luvviedom - I thought Peter Hitchens's put down of him was quite good "A stupid person's idea of what an intelligent person is like".

God forbid that someone on TV should try and focus on the cerebral, rather than the lowest common denominator. How dare they 🙄

+1 for Barbara Bloody Windsor.

Janet street porter

Cliff Richard

Bruce Forthsith

Virginia Wade.

/End of Thread.

Tony Robinson
John Humphreys
Maggie Smith

The veneration of "Dodgy Geezers" and the East End criminal fraternity of the 60's

just piss off with that shit.

Soggy overcooked veg, tough meat, watery gravy, sloppy stuffing and non-burnt parsnips. Maybe I've been eating at the MiLs for too long.
I always end up smearing mustard or horseradish all over it.

mum?

And you're quoting Peter sodding Hitchens? Really? You are Mr Daily Mail 2016 and I claim my five pounds!

Do you not like Peter Hitchens? I rather enjoy reading him occassionally, he has a wonderful line in invective, such as the one I quoted, and challenges orthodoxies - which keeps one on your toes. He also take the battering he gets with good grace. That said, I believe he is published in the Mail on Sunday.

God forbid that someone on TV should try and focus on the cerebral, rather than the lowest common denominator. How dare they

I don't watch a lot of TV but do you honestly think he does? And if so, in which programme?

I don't watch a lot of TV but do you honestly think he does? And if so, in which programme?

So you're saying you are commenting on something you don't know much about? Do your own homework.

Barbara frigging Windsor
Carry On films
Michael hyuck hyuck fnaar McIntyre
Wimbledon
The Grand National (****ing embarrassment)
Paul McCartney
FAnnie Lennox
Wood Stoves

So you're saying you are commenting on something you don't know much about? Do your own homework.

First, I was commenting on Stephen Fry who is pretty ubiquitous across many forms of media. Second, I have seen a few of the shows, which he appears in, and frankly they ain't cerebral - Jonathan Meades is cerebral - but I am not omniscient. Third, are you a second login for Jivewhatshisname - I think the 'do your own reserch' line is better.

I wholeheartedly support the NHS and the BBC. They must be defended from privatisation, lest they suffer the same fate as Royal Mail; under-valued and undersold to Tory chums.