Room 101

[Guest David]

You must be his ghost - because that first comment you sent is exactly what he said when I asked him for an autograph. He was the most horrible guy.

[Windsor 2,233]

I could forgive the trash he prints. I could forgive the illegality of his methods. I could even forgive the whole Milly Dowler thing.

 

Murdoch must be destroyed!: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17106365

[Phantom 2,532]

People who work religion into everything and then brainwash their children with it.

I've got no problems with respecting other peoples' religious beliefs, but when I hear "Please and Thank You, are not magic words because God doesn't like magic" from the mouth of a 5 year-old, all I could was just shake my head and walk away.

[Windsor 2,233]

People who work religion into everything and then brainwash their children with it.

I've got no problems with respecting other peoples' religious beliefs, but when I hear "Please and Thank You, are not magic words because God doesn't like magic" from the mouth of a 5 year-old, all I could was just shake my head and walk away.

 

At least you showed you were the bigger man.

 

I, on the other hand, would've given'm a slap.

[Phantom 2,532]

People who work religion into everything and then brainwash their children with it.

I've got no problems with respecting other peoples' religious beliefs, but when I hear "Please and Thank You, are not magic words because God doesn't like magic" from the mouth of a 5 year-old, all I could was just shake my head and walk away.

 

At least you showed you were the bigger man.

 

I, on the other hand, would've given'm a slap.

 

Well it was my daughter's best friend from school. I resist the temptation when her dad comes to collect her wearing a t-shirt that says "Organ Donor - I gave my heart to God"

[Windsor 2,233]

People who work religion into everything and then brainwash their children with it.

I've got no problems with respecting other peoples' religious beliefs, but when I hear "Please and Thank You, are not magic words because God doesn't like magic" from the mouth of a 5 year-old, all I could was just shake my head and walk away.

 

At least you showed you were the bigger man.

 

I, on the other hand, would've given'm a slap.

 

Well it was my daughter's best friend from school. I resist the temptation when her dad comes to collect her wearing a t-shirt that says "Organ Donor - I gave my heart to God"

 

Isn't it ironic how most Christians think homosexuality is a sin, yet they tend to be the biggest fags you'll ever meet.

[Godot 149]

People who work religion into everything and then brainwash their children with it.

I've got no problems with respecting other peoples' religious beliefs, but when I hear "Please and Thank You, are not magic words because God doesn't like magic" from the mouth of a 5 year-old, all I could was just shake my head and walk away.

 

At least you showed you were the bigger man.

 

I, on the other hand, would've given'm a slap.

 

Well it was my daughter's best friend from school. I resist the temptation when her dad comes to collect her wearing a t-shirt that says "Organ Donor - I gave my heart to God"

 

Isn't it ironic how most Christians think homosexuality is a sin, yet they tend to be the biggest fags you'll ever meet.

 

Windsor as far as I know Fraserburgh stiil belongs to the United Kingdom and even if/when Alex Salmond cuts you adrift I hope and trust a fag in Scotland will remain what it is in England - something to be puffed, not shagged, behind the bike shed. However I assume a fag in New York would be quite happy to take a puff in the behind at the back of the aforementioned shed. As for the shag, well put that in your pipe and smoke it.

[Josco 49]

I could forgive the trash he prints. I could forgive the illegality of his methods. I could even forgive the whole Milly Dowler thing.

 

Murdoch must be destroyed!: http://www.bbc.co.uk...otland-17106365

Not sure what Murdoch's angle is on Scottish independence, but what ever it is will certainly be to his financial advantage.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Today's entry in Room 101 is KPN, a Dutch telecommunication company and my digital TV provider. Half a year ago they did a Good Thing: they added BBC1 and BBC2 to the standard package. Now some imbecile there has ruined it: they added the Ceefax subtitles for the deaf as a feature you can't switch off, which makes watching the Beep unbearable, because I can't help reading the subtitles, that have a lag of several seconds to the spoken words.

 

I used to work for that company, but as far as I'm concerned KPN may die for this crime against TV enjoyment.

 

regards,

Hein

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

Southern Electric can suck my balls.

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

Children. You work your balls off for them, night and day, your whole life revolves around them - I have sacrificed my once-a-fortnight no-kids Saturday morning filthy lay in at my betrothed's house, to come home and sit on the internet at 9am to try and get tickets for her to see One Fucking Direction. And the worst thing about it? She doesn't even know - I'm doing it as a surprise out of the goodness of my heart, so I can see her spotty little face light up on her birthday. I'm TOO good.

[Toast 16,129]

My mother once queued up for Led Zeppelin tickets to stop me skiving off school to do so. Back in those dim and distant pre-internet days, it's what you had to do. I still can't quite believe she did that. There was a huge generation gap in terms of musical tastes back then, not like today when you see whole families going to a gig together.

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

Well, I got the tickets so that's guaranteed me the best nursing home in the country in my old age! But I can't tell her till her birthday - three months away!

 

Of course, in my day it was a case of begging the parents to sit on the phone waiting to get through to buy tickets for us on their credit card, me and my best mate would harrass one or other of our parents until they agreed. My dad even did a 100 mile round trip so me and two mates could go and see The Black Crowes in Bristol once - silly thing was I was 18 and had my own car, but he didn't want me driving into the centre of Bristol without him! The things we'll do to see a smile on the face of our offspring, eh?

[Toast 16,129]

The things we'll do to see a smile on the face of our offspring, eh?

 

Indeed - during my sulky teenage days, my mother was almost permanently consigned to Room 101 but I let her out on that occasion Obviously would have been more fun to skip school and queue myself, but still.

[Lady Grendel 139]

NHS agreeing to replacement joint surgery for people who are over 80 and most definitely senile. Apologies but this is a bit of a rant. My dad, who is nearly 81 and a star of a man, he has been slowly nosediving into what is called 'Senile Dementia', he is clear for Alzheimers but the degeneration is much the same. I'm sitting here most nights watching my dad forget what he has just watched on the telly, forget he'd just let the dog out, forget he'd just boiled the kettle for a cup of tea, forget he'd just kissed my mum (his wife of nearly 50 years) goodnight, forget he'd said goodnight to me and do it all again.

 

NHS seem to think he will be fine to have a new knee, we are not allowed to challenge this as we don't have Power of Attorney. They don't care that he won't have the mental wherewithall to undergo the physio. i can only hope that at some point in the next 4 weeks someone will listen to my concerns.

[Windsor 2,233]

Bus drivers - miserable bastards.

 

Today I tried to pay a £12.50 fare with a £20 note because I didn't have any change. The bus driver tutted, shook his head, and made it feel like he was doing me a favour by taking my money. Honestly going in a sulk because he had to give me a £5 note, two pound coins and a 50p piece in change.

[Phantom 2,532]

NHS agreeing to replacement joint surgery for people who are over 80 and most definitely senile. Apologies but this is a bit of a rant. My dad, who is nearly 81 and a star of a man, he has been slowly nosediving into what is called 'Senile Dementia', he is clear for Alzheimers but the degeneration is much the same. I'm sitting here most nights watching my dad forget what he has just watched on the telly, forget he'd just let the dog out, forget he'd just boiled the kettle for a cup of tea, forget he'd just kissed my mum (his wife of nearly 50 years) goodnight, forget he'd said goodnight to me and do it all again.

 

NHS seem to think he will be fine to have a new knee, we are not allowed to challenge this as we don't have Power of Attorney. They don't care that he won't have the mental wherewithall to undergo the physio. i can only hope that at some point in the next 4 weeks someone will listen to my concerns.

 

Unfortunately it's painful to watch. I went through the same thing with my gran, her dementia was undiagnosed for almost 30 years.

Eventually she had to go in a nursing home as there was no one in my family who was able to look after her. I'd go round to her flat to cook her dinner every other evening so she wouldn't get food poisoning. She had it in her head that if it says gas mark 4 for 50 minutes she could throw it in on gas mark 8 for 25.

Then when she'd come to visit, she was hoping to catch the eye of the elderly man next door by flashing her ankles at him.

By the time she was in the nursing home, she thought my sister was my mum and my nephew was me. She recognised my voice, but not my face.

Probably the saddest thing was that both her and my other gran lived in the same nursing home and never met in the 35 years that my parents were married for at the time.

I can understand a little of what you're going through, sadly it's those closest that suffer watching the decline and there's yet to be a cure.

[Godot 149]

The pathetic brass brass band that supports the England football team, inanely playing (badly) the theme tune to the Great Escape ad fucking nauseum, and the national anthem that no-one wants to hear and Rule Bloody Britannia. Am I alone in cringing with embarrassment and wanting to put a boot through the TV every time I hear this. Now if they could play the Muppets' theme tune it might be appropriate.

[Godot 149]

Bus drivers - miserable bastards.

 

Today I tried to pay a £12.50 fare with a £20 note because I didn't have any change. The bus driver tutted, shook his head, and made it feel like he was doing me a favour by taking my money. Honestly going in a sulk because he had to give me a £5 note, two pound coins and a 50p piece in change.

 

Twelve pounds fifty for a bus ride? Where was he taking you? Honolulu?

[Windsor 2,233]

Bus drivers - miserable bastards.

 

Today I tried to pay a £12.50 fare with a £20 note because I didn't have any change. The bus driver tutted, shook his head, and made it feel like he was doing me a favour by taking my money. Honestly going in a sulk because he had to give me a £5 note, two pound coins and a 50p piece in change.

 

Twelve pounds fifty for a bus ride? Where was he taking you? Honolulu?

 

That gets you 42 miles to Aberdeen and back. I thought paying with a £20 note would be fine because the last time I used the bus it cost over £15 for the same journey.

[Godot 149]

Photographs of sunrises and sunsets. Out of boredom I joined one of these online photographic sites where everyone is nice to everyone else. One woman posts the same sunrise scene every fucking day, I kid you not, and it seems to get other posters creaming their jeans. I post a flower or an interesting rock or something and no fucker notices. At least I can come here and sound off or exchange insults. I mean some people post really shit pictures and people are putting up comments like "gorgeous" and "magnificent". No-one can bring themselves to say the obvious. It's as if you pass through a shit-to-nice converter when you enter the portal. Even I find myself making pleasant comments on stuff like an out-of-focus pepper pot that some misguided disillusioned twat believes is a work of art. All I can say of the experience so far is that it disproves the infinite monkey theorem. There ain't no David Baileys in that place.

[Phantom 2,532]

Photographs of sunrises and sunsets. Out of boredom I joined one of these online photographic sites where everyone is nice to everyone else. One woman posts the same sunrise scene every fucking day, I kid you not, and it seems to get other posters creaming their jeans. I post a flower or an interesting rock or something and no fucker notices. At least I can come here and sound off or exchange insults. I mean some people post really shit pictures and people are putting up comments like "gorgeous" and "magnificent". No-one can bring themselves to say the obvious. It's as if you pass through a shit-to-nice converter when you enter the portal. Even I find myself making pleasant comments on stuff like an out-of-focus pepper pot that some misguided disillusioned twat believes is a work of art. All I can say of the experience so far is that it disproves the infinite monkey theorem. There ain't no David Baileys in that place.

 

I can post any old crap and I'll get about 20 people "liking" it. The wife invited me to Pinterest. I've yet to put anything up there and already have 10 people following me.

I might wait till I get 100 people following me until I decide to do anything. Can't remember how many are following me on Twitter, I have posted anything there for several months and still get one or two new people a week

[Windsor 2,233]

Photographs of sunrises and sunsets. Out of boredom I joined one of these online photographic sites where everyone is nice to everyone else.

 

Awful, isn't it?

I joined a family history site with the same calibre of posters. They get upset so easily. I once helped someone find what happened to one of their great great great etc grandmothers. The old woman committed suicide. I posted that...I got a telling off and my post was removed because the poster may have found it 'distressing'.

If you are critical of them, they almost have a nervous breakdown! Any 'controversial' threads which lead to differing (usually political) opinions are locked. If you question the moderator's judgement, you get PM'd by someone higher up the chain to be told 'be nicer to the mods because they have been kind enough to volunteer their time'. It really is terrible. So far I have managed not to get banned, but I don't post much there any more.

[Godot 149]

Photographs of sunrises and sunsets. Out of boredom I joined one of these online photographic sites where everyone is nice to everyone else. One woman posts the same sunrise scene every fucking day, I kid you not, and it seems to get other posters creaming their jeans. I post a flower or an interesting rock or something and no fucker notices. At least I can come here and sound off or exchange insults. I mean some people post really shit pictures and people are putting up comments like "gorgeous" and "magnificent". No-one can bring themselves to say the obvious. It's as if you pass through a shit-to-nice converter when you enter the portal. Even I find myself making pleasant comments on stuff like an out-of-focus pepper pot that some misguided disillusioned twat believes is a work of art. All I can say of the experience so far is that it disproves the infinite monkey theorem. There ain't no David Baileys in that place.

 

I can post any old crap and I'll get about 20 people "liking" it. The wife invited me to Pinterest. I've yet to put anything up there and already have 10 people following me.

I might wait till I get 100 people following me until I decide to do anything. Can't remember how many are following me on Twitter, I have posted anything there for several months and still get one or two new people a week

Pinterest deserves its own spot here. I had a look then got outa there fast. Sooner or later you won't be able to go for a piss without someone knowing on the internet or comparing "streams" in iPhone pics. It's all getting out of hand, pardon the pun.

[Godot 149]

Photographs of sunrises and sunsets. Out of boredom I joined one of these online photographic sites where everyone is nice to everyone else.

 

Awful, isn't it?

I joined a family history site with the same calibre of posters. They get upset so easily. I once helped someone find what happened to one of their great great great etc grandmothers. The old woman committed suicide. I posted that...I got a telling off and my post was removed because the poster may have found it 'distressing'.

If you are critical of them, they almost have a nervous breakdown! Any 'controversial' threads which lead to differing (usually political) opinions are locked. If you question the moderator's judgement, you get PM'd by someone higher up the chain to be told 'be nicer to the mods because they have been kind enough to volunteer their time'. It really is terrible. So far I have managed not to get banned, but I don't post much there any more.

That reminds me. I posted this image in the landscapes section that was maybe a bit marginal and the twat who moderates the section kicked it out - and he's a shit photographer too. So I started a forum debate on what or was not a landscape, pointing out loads of other pics in the section that were a lot dodgier and far crapper than mine and people were getting kicked out left right and centre so I didn't make myself too popular there. But I did have fun.