Inspired by enjoying the recent series there's a few things I'd like to put in there:

people that don't turn off keypad tones on phones

people that can't park properly

companies who think they'll be cool by spelling the company name incorrectly:




I win!

[LIFTED].com

I think someone mentioned that site on FaceBook too, although omitting the 'you' from the start of the domain name.

There is absolutely no way I can contribute to this thread in any meaningful way, as once I get started there'll be no stopping me.

Mark

People who drive in the middle lane of the motorway when the inside lane is empty for miles.

I was going to remind the gentle reader about the origins of Room 101 and what it really contains, however, having watched a few examples of the TV show, I note that it's become a figure of fun rather than the location of true terror.

Wires, especially almost proprietary USB cables

It's true.
There was one episode of the programme I saw that wanted all things science fiction putting in to the room.
The irony being that if all things science fiction went in to the room then that would also mean the room going in to the room, thus creating a temporal occurrence that would have even The Doctor hard pressed to sort out.

But yes, the origin of Room 101 is somewhat rather grisly.

Mark

For what it's worth, Room 101 is not a cupboard into which you put things never to be seen again. You get put in there with it. It's your own personal hell. If I had to play the game, I'd be thinking of things I like.

More info: Room 101 was a real office in BBC Broadcasting House which Eric Blair used to work. He didn't like it very much.

I expect that you've been listening to Radio 4's dramatisation of 1984 which was transmitted last weekend. It's still on iPlayer. I'm downloading* it now for later consumption.

*Recording it using WireTap Studio.

yep

I remember the trepidation of having my first English lesson with Mr. Scott, who had a reputation as very strict and his room was 101 - he chose it! I doubt kids would feel the same trepidation these days, with Room 101 TV show and the teachers' lack of countermeasures.

He could hit somebody in the back row on the ear with a stub of chalk, flicked from the front of the room!

If you were disobedient, he would take 2 chalk dusters and clap them over your head.

On the other hand, he was really cool and a brilliant teacher, when you didn't step out of line.

I raise you phone cords and why do some people manage to twist them so badly you can hardly lift the receiver and yet others remain nearly as new?

I read that as Wives!

We had a woodwork teacher like that. Up until the third year we were terrified of him - he shouted at kids doing what they shouldn’t. When he was actually teaching, he was probably one of the most engaging and well spoken teachers I had in that school. He had to be strict - his job was to teach us how to use heavy machinery like lathes and he rightly didn’t tolerate any mucking about in the workshops.

The ones that charge by USB are OK

We have one customer that keeps on totally breaking their curly cords. Just because they do stretch doesn't mean you're supposed to stretch them to the max all the time!