You know it's rubbish, but you love it regardless......

Alima, this is a gentle, lighthearted thread from Fanny which most of us seem to be enjoying. Why are you taking it so seriously? We are not discussing world dominance of the Footsie 100 just frivolous chat which is lovely.

Cheasapeake Shores (it should be called Cheesy peake Shores but I’m addicted to it.

Goggle box! ?

Place in the Sun - so many identical flats with kitchen leading into a living room where the sofa is along one wall with the TV opposite. But I can't resist the programme!

The Eurovision Song Contest. I even got my husband to make pizza and watch it with me this year.

Primula Cheese with Chives

Sorry, but I love those weddingy programmes - Say Yes to the Dress (whichever country), Don't Tell the Bride etc. As a divorcee, I really should hate anything to do with weddings, but I'm just fascinated by the tantrums that some throw (and that's just the bridesmaids) and how the retail staff in the different countries speak to their customers! As well as some of the gown designs from pretty to almost pornographic! I just wish that they did a follow up to show how the couples are several years down the line!

Another one. Bacon sarnie, without the fat cut off, BUTTERED sliced white bread and ketchup.

However, in my defence, I honestly haven't had one for at least 10 years.

Oooh yes. As another poster has said, staying in bed. I LOVE lolling on my bed. It's instant chill out for me. Helps me switch off.

Marmite. LOVE it even though I'm sure it's super bad for me.

Pop Rocks. I adore them. Everything about them is so bad.

Pork scratching fish finger sandwiches ( with mayo of course) and mc Beaton books - Hampshire and agatha! And crime to i.e. Murder she wrote!

Film: The Housesitter" with Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin. My husband (a film buff) was horrified but bought me the DVD for Christmas one year, now that's love
Fried egg sandwiches (on white of course)
The original Death In Paradise series and also Grissom CSI
Watched them over and over, comfort viewing!
Eating two cream cakes in the car park outside the supermarket while (I hope) nobody is watching

Candy Floss! I just can't resist it. Have been known to eat two bags/tubs in one sitting.

Gransnet!

Cheesy pasta that comes in a box. Also like Agatha raisin books , Britain s got talent and X factor

'For heaven's sake Linda', I'd think, (her name is Linda - it's not a Karen thing),
'it's a lemon drizzle - not flipping crack cocaine'.

Judge Judy! Does no one else enjoy her?

Watching A Place in the Sun. Total rubbish, but sort of soothing in an odd way.

And of course, Gogglebox, great stuff

Daily Mail online: love reading the apoplectic comments. Is the Great British public really like this/

Never heard that, FannyCornforth.
The friend told us at around the same time, and I very much doubt that he’s the type to have lied about it.

I hope that no-one knows my real identity....!

I love the Eurovision Song Contest. I have watched almost every one ('cept one:. as newly marrieds, we didn't want a television!).

My mother was invited to be on the panel choosing the British entry in 1966/7. She went into town in an evening dress, a far cry from now!

Yes to the dress - the American version, 'though.

Gogglebox (where it's fascinating how despite geographical and other differences, people generally think the same way).

Just watching Married at First Sight, Australia but wondering if it it is loosely scripted ....

I saw MawBe's comment above, so perhaps not.....

crazygranny

Dear God I cannot believe that anyone would willingly put money in the pocket of that appalling Murdoch by buying his dreadful paper! After using Fox News to prop up Donald Trump (the man who pushed the 'covid hoax' conspiracy theory. Murdoch pushed ahead of everyone to get his vaccine in the UK late last year. That paper promotes all the most loathsome tensions in our society. Don't forget how hard it worked to get us into the dungheap that Brexit landed on us!

If you're talking about the Daily Mail, it isn't owned by Murdoch. You're thinking of The Sun (and also the Times)

Witzend

*FannyCornforth*, you can probably blame a schoolfriend of dh, who went into advertising and coined the ‘Naughty But Nice!’ slogan for promoting cream cakes. Probably early 70s but can’t be sure.

I thought that it was Salmon Rushdie who came up with 'Naughty but Nice'

crazygranny

Dear God I cannot believe that anyone would willingly put money in the pocket of that appalling Murdoch by buying his dreadful paper! After using Fox News to prop up Donald Trump (the man who pushed the 'covid hoax' conspiracy theory. Murdoch pushed ahead of everyone to get his vaccine in the UK late last year. That paper promotes all the most loathsome tensions in our society. Don't forget how hard it worked to get us into the dungheap that Brexit landed on us!

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Murdoch doesn't own the Mail btw.
But don't let facts get in the way of a superior sneer fest.

FannyCornforth, you can probably blame a schoolfriend of dh, who went into advertising and coined the ‘Naughty But Nice!’ slogan for promoting cream cakes. Probably early 70s but can’t be sure.

Mine's a film: Girl on a Motorcycle. Probably the most ridiculous film ever but Marianne Faithful is so gorgeous.

I don't like the term 'guilty pleasures' though - what's to feel guilty about enjoying something? Unless it's dangerous or illegal, I guess!

There was a recent thread about snobbery - if you need a definition, the entry by Crazygranny shows it! I would not dream of belittling anyones taste in newspapers or anything else - and I, too, read the Mail and have for over 40 years!

Bear in mind it's also the only newspaper that had the guts to put those murderous young men who killed Steven Lawrence on the front page - all the others chickened out.

I've always valued the fact that gransnet is not political - dragging in Brexit is unfair and not in line with what I thought were the basic principles of it. And not all of us were sorry to see the back of the European Union!

Re Hammer Horror, I saw the first Christopher Lee Dracula at about 14 and still remember how unbelievably scary it was.

At the time I had a very old edition of Dracula, which had belonged to a granny - a hardback with a dark green cloth binding and ‘Dracula’ in a black, creepy Gothic script.
I couldn’t even sleep with that book in the room, in case it somehow summoned him! Had to keep my bedroom window closed in case he crawled in that way, as a bat!
I knew I was being utterly daft, but still couldn’t help it.

A school friend who saw it at the same time could hardly sleep for days afterwards.

GrammarGrandma

I love coleslaw! And marmite. But I don't feel guilty about anything that gives me pleasure.

Exactly. That's why I didn't use the expression 'Guilty Pleasures' in the title. I don't like it either.

It used to drive me mad in the staff room, when women would say how terribly 'naughty' they were being by having a slice of cake.

'For heaven's sake Linda', I'd think, (her name is Linda - it's not a Karen thing),
'it's a lemon drizzle - not flipping crack cocaine'.