What would you put in Room 101?

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What would you consign to room 101?
There are no right or wrong answers and no one can question your choice.

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Are you going to start us off, Arcalia? :slight_smile:

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Trump, Musk, Farage, Putin, Bibi.

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There would be a long list. :rofl:
But probably my biggest bug bear is the increasing inability of people in jobs in the UK, where good communication is vital to pronounce TH using F instead.

Sitting on an Easyjet plane, the automated safety instructions got to ’ place the mask over your MOUF and nose’. Your what? Easyjet have passengers for whom English is not their first language, so it’s particularly annoying.
Ian Wright commentating on a football match. " Bellingham frust fru the defence". ’ what’s frust ’ I asked OH. We listened to it several times. He meant Thrust through.

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Yes, but don’t forget that the point of Room 101 is actually that you are in there with them.

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Without their support networks and me armed :rofl:

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That wouldn’t be “Room 101” really, would it :rofl:

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Room 101 itself?

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I think that might be physically impossible.

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No, surely not. I’ll have revise my list.

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My pet hate list is also linguistic, and very long.

First that comes to mind is people who agree to be interviewed on the radio and then start off with ‘thank you for having me’ and thus wasting limited radio time and being shuffled off early. I shout at them ‘no need to thank them you are doing them a favour otherwise they wouldn’t have a programme’. As a boy I was taught by my Mum when invited to a friends party, to say to his Mum before I leave, ‘thank you Mrs. X for having me’ while smiling sweetly :innocent: Mind you the halo slipped a bit when older when the thought of saying it to an intimate girl friend tickled the imagination. :grinning_face:

By the way, another is the way they get rid of you with ‘I’m going to let you go now’.

I half expect them to plead ‘oh no please don’t, I am enjoying it so much’. Also it puts me in mind of the pitiful Jaques Brel and his plea ‘tu ne me quitte pas’ (sobbing), something we are used to in this house as Jules hates people to leave and howls pitifully when he senses they are about to, hence it has become his nickname. :rofl:

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I think the initial reference is to the wireless programme, rather than to the book, where Room 101 was where Winston Smith confronted his worst fear (rats, I think: “Do it to Julia!”).

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I’d say those people on phone-ins who grandly say, “Thanks for taking my call.”

IT’S A PHONE-IN. THAT’S HOW IT WORKS.

Sorry. I thought that was buried.

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Glad to see that I am not the only shouter at radios. :rofl:

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David, that is perhaps the only advantage of Alexa. As soon as someone says something annoying, you can bellow, “Alexa, stop”!

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Yes but doesn’t she then switch off, denying you the pleasure of further instrument abuse?

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I always thought, room101, was where you dumped things/people that annoyed you. But if you’re now saying you get locked in too, that changes everything! I can think of a person I’d be quite happy to be locked in a room with for awhile​:rofl:

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Yes, is this the BBC ‘Room 101’ or the Ministry of Love’s ‘101’..?

Assume the former - camping cars followed by VSPs.

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Then car drivers indicating left into a roundabout but in fact turning right…

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Then car drivers go all the way around a roundabout on the inside lane.