Room 101

Sorry to be a pedantic bore, BlueBelle but the misuse of the term Room 101 really gets on my goat!
Orwell’s Room 101 contained what you were most scared of.
In Winston Smith’s case it was rats.

It probably (I hope!) annoys my old English teacher; Doctor of Literature, and presenter of the BBC’s Room 101, Frank Skinner; that he, more than anyone has caused the misuse of the term

Sorry to have annoyed you so early in the morning Fanny
I m not as well read as you and was referring to the TV programme Room 101 which I thought might give us a laugh in these gloomy tines

If I have annoyed everyone else you can always report it and get it deleted

I m off for a swim leave you all to it

Don’t be daft! Of course you don’t need to delete it! I was just chatting.
Enjoy your swim!

Maybe the title could be what most irritates ?

I’m not scared of much but I’m with Winston Smith where rats are concerned.

What most irritates me currently is the constant references to extreme heat and drought. I’m sitting in the north west where it’s pouring with rain - again. My garden lawn is a beautiful, healthy green. I don’t mean to be flippant and I’m not denying global warming but - I long for a day when I don’t need to take a waterproof and wear wellies walking the dogs

I agree about squeezy bottles.
I’m also finding that antiperspirant aerosols are becoming increasingly unusable.
But my main bugbear at the moment (well, all year really) is my entire flipping house…

Agree Iam64....☔☔☔

Hello farview - the rain just stopped, the sun appeared. I’m off with the dogs but - I’ll need wellies - whoops, too late we now have sun and a downpour

FannyCornforth

Sorry to be a pedantic bore, BlueBelle but the misuse of the term Room 101 really gets on my goat!
Orwell’s Room 101 contained what you were most scared of.
In Winston Smith’s case it was rats.

Quite rude Fanny.

Not really!
The thread is about what annoys you, and I replied!
I’m surprised that you haven’t reported me though, so thanks for that

I also apologised first, and called myself ‘a pedantic bore’.
And then mentioned a popular misconception.
I don’t know why that is ‘quite rude’

Yes apologised and then were rude to the OP.

I’ve just thought of one.
The word obsessed
It seems to be everywhere at the moment in ads and girly stuff.
‘We’re obsessed’, and then a picture of gel nails or a pillowcase.
Or, ‘it’s your new obsession’, and a picture of something inconsequential

Vintagejazz

Yes apologised and then were rude to the OP.

How? Tell me how

Vintagejazz

Yes apologised and then were rude to the OP.

Liz Truss for starters

Sorry didn’t mean to have a quote there. I was just answering the OP

Those Charlie Makesy “inspirational” things. So twee.

Lucca

Those Charlie Makesy “inspirational” things. So twee.

I’ve had to look them up!
I agree.
I think that we could have a good go at making up our own.

All those “professionals” and their “hacks”. There seems to be a new one every day popping up to reveal some groundbreaking cleaning method we’ve all been using for decades ?

I'd put the whole RF in room 101 be done with them let them work for a living instead of getting paid millions for doing very little. Lazy entitled th lot of them.

Hotels that advertise themselves as having a swimming pool, but then have it fully booked between 10am and 5pm with swimming classes, aqua aerobic sessions etc for locals so residents can't use it.

I’m 100% with you on the plastic squeezy bottles, Bluebelle - dh has been firmly told never again to buy honey/ mayonnaise/anything else in plastic, when there’s a glass or metal alternative. A nice, wide-mouthed container you can easily get a spoon in.
Latest he brought home was Golden Syrup in squeezy plastic ? - it had never occurred to me that I’d have to spell out that he needed to buy a good old traditional tin.

Dermot O’Leary’s voice.
Nothing against the bloke, but I can’t understand most of what he says.
He seems to breathe in while he’s speaking. And whispers at the end of sentences.

Oh Witzened golden syrup I made the mistake of buying a golden syrup squeezy Never again I duly stood it on its end when I d used it obviously hadn’t clicked the top firmly enough until I saw it dribbling through the cupboard door
never never again
I agree about the heat thing Iam64 we normally get about one week or two if we re lucky and everyone goes on and on the country practically comes to a stop, dire warnings that
we re all about to die I can’t imagine how they manage in Greece and Spain
Never heard of Charlie Makesy now off for a Google

Here’s another Cookery programmes surely we re in overload now