Things That Are Not All That Good

As a middle aged man increasingly aware of the grim reality of his powerlessness in the face of everything it would make me feel better to point out in some kind of public forum that there are some things in the world that we appear to be required to believe are marvellous which are really not all that good.

It's possibly irritating but otherwise you just feel like someone in a film about aliens invading and taking over everyone's bodies and you're the only one who isn't type of thing. It therapy really is what it is.

So

THINGS THAT ARE NOT ALL THAT GOOD

David Tennant as Dr Who
The films 'Atonement', 'The English Patient',and 'American Beauty'.
Paul Merton.
All Elvis Costello's Albums after the first two and a half.
The Human League
Graham Norton
Jonathan Ross
The Royle Family.
Little Britain.
Catherine Tate.
The Fall.
The White Stripes.
Sir Peter Hall.
Most Folk Music.
Most Old Guitars.
Children in Need.
The BBC.
Fresh Pasta.
Motorist's Rights.
Adverts which have lots of ordinary people co operating together to do something unusual in them.
Lily Allen.
Gardening.
Gardener's question Time.
Kate Adie.
John Humphries.
Cats, or actually, people who own cats.
The News.
All Dr Who episodes apart from that one with the little boy in the gas mask in it.
The RSC.
Ikea.
Post Modern Irony.
Green Wing.
Living in the countryside.
Farmer's Markets.
The Internet.
Poker.
Shameless.
A high proportion of British Made Films.
Private Health Care.
Cars.
Welsh Language Television.
Mad Men.
Bhangra.
Atheism.
Hoemeopathy.
Serious Astrology.
Metallica.
Digital Amp Modelling.
Individualism.
Female singers who sound as if they're not wearing any shoes.
Pete Doherty.
Nirvana (the band not the place).
Home Cinema.
Tattoos.
Chinese medicine.
Young Female folk artists being watched by audiences consisting mainly of overweight middle aged men with beards.
Cooking.
Association Football.

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