Who is the smuggest Briton?
Posted by: Kevin-W on 16 August 2009
Here's something to divert you for a few minutes on a cloudy Sunday morn. And make you feel really smug.
The SIndy is running a poll to find the nation's smuggest person. Some quite funny entries in there, such as The Guardian. And I'm quite pleased (almost to the point of smugness in fact) to see Sting is in the running.
You can view the list and vote here:
Currently, as you might expect, Lord Mandy and Tony B Liar are out in front.

The SIndy is running a poll to find the nation's smuggest person. Some quite funny entries in there, such as The Guardian. And I'm quite pleased (almost to the point of smugness in fact) to see Sting is in the running.
You can view the list and vote here:
Currently, as you might expect, Lord Mandy and Tony B Liar are out in front.
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Gary S.
Mick Parry? No, sorry only joking! The recent recession thread was good fun though wasn't it.
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by nodrog
That'll be this wanker, then:

Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Diccus62
Dawkins gets my vote though I tend to agree with much of what he says. Mandy was running a close second
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Howlinhounddog
What about Peter Hitchins, anytime he appears on Question Time I have a barely controllable desire to injure the television. Closely followed by historian and Royalty sycophant David Starky.
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Kevin-W
The other person not on the list who'd get my vote is that graceless, overpaid, cowardly bully Richard Littlejohn.
He fancies himself as a scourge of political correctness/trendy leftyism and as a voice of commonsense but just sits in his rural retreat pocketing the Mail's millions while heaping calumnies on people who can't answer back (or who don't read his paper). You couldn't make it up. Wanker!
He fancies himself as a scourge of political correctness/trendy leftyism and as a voice of commonsense but just sits in his rural retreat pocketing the Mail's millions while heaping calumnies on people who can't answer back (or who don't read his paper). You couldn't make it up. Wanker!
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by nap-ster
My vote goes to Mandy.
He's had more comebacks than munch.
He's had more comebacks than munch.
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly
Jamiroqoi ( sp ), the Pratt in the Hat.
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Kevin-W
quote:Originally posted by Mike Lacey:
Jamiroqoi ( sp ), the Pratt in the Hat.
Thanks very much Mike! I'd completely forgotten about that twat, now I can't get his smug face out of my heard. Aaaargh!
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Mat Cork
That tw@t Alex James - once bass player in Blur, now media expert on country life and jam making.
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by BigH47
What a twat.
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Whizzkid
All NAIM users.
Dean...
Dean...
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Mat Cork
quote:Originally posted by Mike Lacey:
Deeply pleasing.
Lucky his boys weren't there!
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Diccus62
Not one for violence myself but i did grin ;-)
Posted on: 16 August 2009 by Kevin-W
quote:
Mike - thank you so much! Haven't laughed so much in ages! What a... There is justice in this world after all!
Posted on: 17 August 2009 by scottyhammer
my vote goes to 555 

Posted on: 17 August 2009 by Consciousmess
I love Ricky Gervais - he's my favourite comedian....
.....but I found myself voting for him!
Jon
.....but I found myself voting for him!
Jon
Posted on: 17 August 2009 by Mat Cork
I'd also like to bid for a few lashes for:
Sting - smugness personified and soooo righteous; and
Bono* - smugness personified and soooo righteous.
*Ok Bono isn't technically a Briton, but they all want to be don't they? ...did I really type that out loud?
Sting - smugness personified and soooo righteous; and
Bono* - smugness personified and soooo righteous.
*Ok Bono isn't technically a Briton, but they all want to be don't they? ...did I really type that out loud?
Posted on: 17 August 2009 by Kevin-W
What about Quentin Letts, Daily Mail columnist and theatre critic, and one of the most unjustifiably self-satisfied boobies I've ever come across.
He was also the author of the Mail's pitiful "Clement Crabbe" column, a weekly drone that purported to take a "scabrous" look at modern Britain, but which did absolutely nothing or the sort.
Here he is (puffing another of his silly books): A sniggering little public schoolboy who could do with a slap. A bit like Jamiroquai really.
He was also the author of the Mail's pitiful "Clement Crabbe" column, a weekly drone that purported to take a "scabrous" look at modern Britain, but which did absolutely nothing or the sort.
Here he is (puffing another of his silly books): A sniggering little public schoolboy who could do with a slap. A bit like Jamiroquai really.
Posted on: 17 August 2009 by Christopher_M
Esther Rantzen's got to be there or thereabouts.
Chris
ps. But she did good things with Childline though.
Chris
ps. But she did good things with Childline though.
Posted on: 17 August 2009 by Bruce Woodhouse
Sting is definitely a good call.
My personal nomination is probably going to get me in trouble; it is large chunks of the output of Radio 4 with particular emphasis on those desperately self-satisfied little quizzes (where the same old bunch wallow in mutual self-congratulation at just how funny they are) and with an honourable mention for Gardeners Question Time which just makes me want to pour Paraquat over the entire Home Counties.
There, got that off my chest.
Bruce
I would have nominated Tony Blair without hesitation but I'm just trying to blot him out these days.
My personal nomination is probably going to get me in trouble; it is large chunks of the output of Radio 4 with particular emphasis on those desperately self-satisfied little quizzes (where the same old bunch wallow in mutual self-congratulation at just how funny they are) and with an honourable mention for Gardeners Question Time which just makes me want to pour Paraquat over the entire Home Counties.
There, got that off my chest.
Bruce
I would have nominated Tony Blair without hesitation but I'm just trying to blot him out these days.
Posted on: 18 August 2009 by Derek Wright
Radio 4 is local radio for chaps in the South East, it is not for chaps in glottal stop land where you have "trouble 't mill"
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Posted on: 18 August 2009 by Howlinhounddog
Completely forgot about Michael Winner. Now there's a face built for slapping.I saw him on tele last night advocating spending £20 grand on chartering a private jet to fly to the south of France thus ensuring he did'nt have to travel with the Plebs. (I'm sure the Plebs are pretty cut up about not getting to travel with Michael Winner- tosser).
Posted on: 19 August 2009 by Roy T
Heston looking rather sumg at winning a foodie award.
Posted on: 19 August 2009 by Mat Cork
quote:Originally posted by avole:
It's a shoe-in for the Clarkson.
He's got the 'stupid and small-minded' thing going on like nobody else, and he know's it...the cocky b@stard.