Room 101

Subject: Room 101
From: banjoman
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 05:26 AM

What would you put in room 101 if you could. For me it would be the loads of sticky labels with my name & address on that every charity in the country seems to send out. I can at most use one or two but I now have thousands and they are difficult to dispose of without causing a security risk.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 05:37 AM

Daft Mudcat postings.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 05:48 AM

With Fred on this. Especially when you can't even be bothered putting a BS tag on it.

sticky labels with my name & address on... are difficult to dispose of without causing a security risk

Why? Are you really famous or something? Anyway, matches are quite cheap...

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 06:55 AM

Folk Music. Then I might live again the last 40 years of my life in trouble-free contentment.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 07:02 AM

Mudcatters incapable of posting without a plethora of "fucks" and similar disagreeable locutions.

Not worried as to danger of packdrills; so will mention that Musket (Ian Mather) comes particularly to mind...

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Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,Rahere
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 08:15 AM

Pukeleles. The Dolmetsches, now we've moved on from their guestimates - so the Early Music Shop and Hobgoblin as well, for selling crap instruments.

Has anyone attempted to sort out what has been consigned to Room 101 by the program behind this thinking? What tagset classification might apply? Kitsch, for starters

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,Mike Yates
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 08:34 AM

Morris dancers....

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,#
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 10:17 AM

More morris dancers.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 10:24 AM

All the Jeremy Clarkson clones of UK Folk...


.. and carnival whistles & shakey eggs

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Musket
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 11:33 AM

Just so long as you identify which of the three musketeers eh Mike? Not really fair, but fully accepted on the basis nobody cares what you think.

Out of interest, it was this Musket (Ian) that drew you into looking an arse earlier.

I'd put old men in Room 101. I'd be choosy though. I might extend the list to include;

People who pretend they don't enjoy Top Gear.
Scousers
Jim and Mike (in case they somehow avoided the old men section)
Car showroom staff who want to tell me about their company when I am only interested in the cars they are franchise holders for..
Moles.
The announcer on this sodding train I am on right now
Moles
Companies who sell mole traps / vibrators / food reducers
Moles
The bloke in The Reindeer who suggested sand castle type windmills in the molehills
The bloke who then sneaked a photo of my far lawn and put it behind the bar
You know who you are, twat.
Moles
People who call the song Lamona and not Pomona
Moles
People who don't put cow juice in tea
Moles
People who find an excuse to say "fuck" gratuitously rather than in context in posts. (Mike's above for instance)
Fucking moles (see? In context.)

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 12:00 PM

Musket, my mrs pisses herself laughing watching "Top Gear".
Even though she hasn't the slightest interest in cars
and knows deep down how much she loathes Clarkson and everything he stands for..

but, she still thinks he's hilarious....???

Real life is a bit complex like that , innit...


I think mrs punkfolkrocker would put horror films about dolls and toys that come to life
into room 101..

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 12:44 PM

Thread 59418

Surplus threads on the Palestinian-Israeli impasse.

Surplus threads on religion.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 12:45 PM

I gather Room 101 is located metaphorically in the UK.

For my part, I would applaud Michael if he were able to herd a majority of 'fuck' users into that room. They seem to define 'in context' as any situation in which they are unable to phrase a comment using myriad other locutions in that wonderful language they treasure so deeply.

(Oh, we have 'em over here, also, but we seem to have no special room for them... they roam freely and breed.)

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 12:54 PM

Bodrans, no one seems to play it well, played badly, it is horrific.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 01:10 PM

cats
people on here who repeatedly hi-jack threads to make personal and petty attacks on each other
i have no problem waiting in a supermarket queue unless the person in front of me has a daily mail or telegraph in their basket - i need to say 'excuse me, you do realise that if you buy that stuff people will think you're a tory?' and i hate them even more for making me feel like a mad and grumpy dave spart
climate change deniers
bosses, tories, soldiers and all other aggressive men the world over

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: olddude
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 01:34 PM

That prat gordon Ramsey

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 01:40 PM

"Moles"

They can be removed-what part of your body are they on?

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 02:13 PM

All the people out there who somehow get delight from pissing matches.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Firecat
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 02:13 PM

Some of these are true for both me and my husband.

Justin Bieber
Sodcasters (people where you can hear the tinny bass from their headphones)
My neighbours
Soaps (or "serial dramas" as they prefer to be called)
Chuggers (charity collectors who accost you in the street)
Spiders
Cold calls
Politicians
Smoking
Katie Hopkins
Richard Madeley
Ricky Gervais
Jonathan Ross
People who are rude about Doctor Who
People who judge me for not trowelling make up on
Malicious practical jokers that take things too far
People who judge me for being teetotal
People who use the phrase "But everyone enjoys it" when they mean "I enjoy it!"
Programmes with background music that drowns out the dialogue
People who think that, because I'm female, I should like pink

Better stop there - that's 20! I could go on, but 20's probably enough for now... :-P

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 02:16 PM

The counterintelligence service ought to search out the moles.

If they don't get rid of them, the moles will ruin your lawn.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,grumpy
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 02:18 PM

Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 02:28 PM

The Room 101 TV programme seems, to me, to have got hold of the wrong end of the stick. George Orwell's Room 101 is a place that holds your worst fear, to be used against you when the system wants to coerce you into conforming to its wishes. The TV programme, on the other hand, treats it as a place to banish your worst fears, never to be seen again.

I would have thought that the best things to send into Room 101 would be those that you really like but pretend that you hate. With a bit of accomplished acting and a few crocodile tears, you could have a whale of a time and get one over on the system.

DC

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 02:39 PM

Good thinking DC-
George Orwell and Achmelvich

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 04:42 PM

Scotland

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 04:43 PM

"The Room 101 TV programme"

I knew it! UK!

My next nomination is all those extra letters... especially the 'u's, in words like color and doubled letters in program. (Think of all the savings in ink!) ☺

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 05:15 PM

People who obsessively complain about Justin Beiber.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Musket
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 05:23 PM

Fucking Bill

People who don't appreciate gratuotous context.

People who think moles that can dig under your lawn are a problem for your face.

Granted, I now have a nervous twitch.

Not the point.

Moles

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 05:26 PM

The USA marketing tendancy to shorten or bastardise (aks bastardize) the spelling of English words, like colour, and kwick kopy.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Oct 14 - 10:06 PM

There are a few UK words that I prefer to those I am used to in the US. Like 'lift' for elevator. No idea why we use such an unwieldy word nor why we keep it.

But some word usages I don't understand at all. Like 'leftenant'. Why? I realize that pronouncing it 'lootenant' is also not the French pronunciation but it is at least closer.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 01:45 AM

I agree, Ebbie.

FWIW, I hear more and more the U.S. pronunciation 'Lootenant' here, very likely due to the influence of the U.S. TV programmes (note correct spelling, Bill! :-) ) and films (or 'movies' as ex-colonials quaintly refer to them) with which we're bombarded.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 01:51 AM

Agreed that 'leftenant' one of life's great mysteries. I think of it alongside the name of the city I live near [& your Mass name-clone], Cambridge; which cannot possibly be pronounced the way it is; except that it is!

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Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 02:01 AM

So how do you pronounce Cambridge?

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Musket
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 02:03 AM

Oh well, if we are going to include American influence on UK society....

My niece's boy dressed in a suit looking all dressed up in a photo she sent us. Why? His school "prom.". Bah humbug!

Years ago now, BT added 911 as getting you through to 999 because kids watching American sit coms and films had that number hard wired in their heads.

If anyone told me moles originated in America, my xenophobia and Room 101 list would be complete.

Southern pronunciation. Put that bugger in. It's bath, not barth.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 03:25 AM

The use of the word "decayed" in place of "decade", if it a period of ten years being referred to the stress is on the first syllable not the second.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 04:49 AM

"The Room 101 TV programme"

I knew it! UK!

There I was trying to be so clever and reckoning that I could beat the system .... but I have given myself away after just a few words! You know more about me than I had intended to convey.

Difficult things, these mind games.


DC

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 04:50 AM

Ebbie -

came-bridge

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Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 09:50 AM

Casualtitty
Holby Citititty
Moles
Rabbits (it would have to be a bloody big room though)
Bodhran "players"
4x4s
Citroen Picassos (stupidest-looking car ever invented)
Citroen Picasso drivers (unfailingly idiotic)
People who type same-sex "marriage"
Volvo Estate drivers
Beamer drivers
Tractors which go more than 100 yards on A roads
Apple sauce
Vegetarians
Farmers who moan about people on benefits (bwahahahaha!)
Prince Charles and all the other idiots who promote homeopathy
Superfoods
Actually, all the Royal Family
Graham Norton
Low-slung skateboarding jeans that make you look like you have no arse



Thanks for asking.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,John Bercow
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 10:17 AM

MPs

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 10:29 AM

The odd, and over-used term, "on the other side of the pond".

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 10:37 AM

Anyone who uses the expressions "on a daily basis" or "albeit" or "prior to".

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,#
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 10:46 AM

People who misspell Bieber (with the exception of Ed T).

Worn out expressions like 'other side of the pond'.

Anyone except Werner Heisenberg who uses 'at this point in time' while talking.

People who cannot distinguish between the usages of its and it's.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,punkfolrocker
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 10:46 AM

I wanna add some more...

Shaving, shitting, cutting toe and finger nails....

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 11:14 AM

Pukeleles. Concertinas.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 12:27 PM

Thanks for the exception, unknown guest, I will use this exception, liberally and respectfully-though I have never actually heard the youth sing.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 12:30 PM

The thirteen hundred and fifty-two people who post as "Guest"on Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 01:38 PM

"O wad some Pow'r the guestie gie him (all 1352)
To see himsel as ithers see him!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:"

apologies to Burns

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 01:43 PM

People who don't like MGM Lion's picks ;-)

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 02:06 PM

Eh? My 'picks'?

No idea what they may be; sorry.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 02:08 PM

"O wad some Pow'r the guestie gie him (all 1352)
To see himsel as ithers see him!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:"


People who eat haggis, and write poems in weird English.

Subject: RE: Room 101
From: akenaton
Date: 17 Oct 14 - 02:10 PM

I don't "fear" anything so couldn't fit in with Orwell's idea of what R101 contains. Rationalisation defeats "fear"....religions CAN be rationalised.
The TV programme encompasses anything that the participants do not like, which is twisting Orwell's work and meaning.
This has occurred on various different occasions pertaining to his writing.