ROOM 101

The recent trend of saying yeh/no whenever someone is asked a question. It is spreading like wildfire.

I think my son calls me "mummy" most of the time. He's 31 (or perhaps 32). I remember going through a period when I would jump on it every time - when he was about twenty. "You cannot call me "mummy" any more!" Didn't do any good.

I quite like it now.

DD2 calls me by my christian name. Especially in busy shops, when she barks it out!

DD1 is the only normal one.

that was in respond to Fontana's post btw.

no it wasn't. it was Fondasharing

Ant and Dec; Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond - I'll keep James May.

I have a friend who not only puts on a little girl voice but also refers to her, deceased, parents as mummy and daddy - she is in her early 60s. It does annoy me - especially when she does her silly voice in restaurants, but she is the kindest, sweetest person so I forgive her little affectations.

(I know there's an earlier thread on it, but) is it only me or is the new series of Silent Witness dire? All that soft focus on trembling lips, accompanied by awful music - and once again what actually are the main characters supposed to be doing? Because they seem to want to do the police work, possibly because they don't appear to have enough to do. Room 101.

Credit titles at the end of television programmers that roll so quickly or zoom to a small size that you cannot possibly read them

The woman on SKy who starts shouting about what's coming next, just when you're enjoying the final song in the soundtrack.

Trailers and "voice overs" that butt in to the end of the programme that you have been watching and totally destroy the amosphere

Grannyknot . You got there before me

Haha yoga great minds. I'm glad it's not only me! You'd think the programmers would know. I shake my head.

"Sorry, guys"....to a long queue of mainly elderly ladies (older than me!), when there was a problem at the till in Iceland.

Letter boxes that almost take your hand off. I'm sure that posties across the land will agree with that. I have just cut myself on my neighbour's letter box, delivering a letter that had come to me by mistake. I used to come across a lot of these in my political activist days and had many a broken nail as a result. Have just checked mine which, I'm glad to say, is not quite so impenetrable.

Cold callers who ignore my sign saying

WE DO NOT NEED
Double glazing, home extensions, life assurance, home security
Cavity wall insulation, religious groups,
A new kitchen, central heating, financial advice, solar panels, market research..
DON'T KNOCK, DON'T CALL, DON'T RiNG

For feetlebaum...use-by/best before whatever.......... just eat it!

Ella - you must bring out the nit-picker in us!
(not really )

Ana Yes!

Married couples who call each other mummy and daddy, non relatives called auntie or uncle - it's just not right!

Particularly if they have no children, only a cat or dog!

People who pronounce st as sht as in, I'm a shtudent on my way to the shtation. Where did that come from?

Our local police station provides a door sign similar to Nanado's It tells callers that if they return, they are breaking the law. Possible deterrent? Pity it cannot be heard on the phone by cold callers.

My OHs ex wife put on that voice whenever she called us. It was so childish I thought it was one of his girls. Funny thing is, we couldn't be more opposite in that department. I have a very loud voice.

What is room 101

Television programme on BBC