What would you put in Room 101?

[AP16 0]

I would shift this to one of the other forums, but i''m sure not many people read them! If you had the chance to appear on Room 101, which 3 items would you want to dispose of?1. Microsoft Windows I wouldn''t to dispose of it right away because everything would disappear! But I''d like to replace it with Linux as its stable and does what it''s told! Other than Windows NT and 98SE all of their operating systems have been a pile of poo. They crash far too easily, ignore user requests, and are generally unstable if you want to do anything other than word process!2. French CarsFor all of you the have got a french car I apologise, but they are crap. Honestly, what posesses people to buy them? Alright they shift a few stars in the NCAP but they are unreliable, have shocking engines, rubbish parts, and disgusting design. The peugeot 1007 has been modelled on a Hotpoint Fridge Freezer and the Renault Megane looks like its backside is too big for its body! And yet people still buy them! 3. Statistical AnalysisHaving just finished an 8000 word essay analysing statistics and formulas this has to go in room 101.

[Kathy 823]

Eric Hall.

[Two Tails 0]

[quote user="Safri15"]I would shift this to one of the other forums, but i''m sure not many people read them! If you had the chance to appear on Room 101, which 3 items would you want to dispose of?1. Microsoft Windows I wouldn''t to dispose of it right away because everything would disappear! But I''d like to replace it with Linux as its stable and does what it''s told! Other than Windows NT and 98SE all of their operating systems have been a pile of poo. They crash far too easily, ignore user requests, and are generally unstable if you want to do anything other than word process!2. French CarsFor all of you the have got a french car I apologise, but they are crap. Honestly, what posesses people to buy them? Alright they shift a few stars in the NCAP but they are unreliable, have shocking engines, rubbish parts, and disgusting design. The peugeot 1007 has been modelled on a Hotpoint Fridge Freezer and the Renault Megane looks like its backside is too big for its body! And yet people still buy them! 3. Statistical AnalysisHaving just finished an 8000 word essay analysing statistics and formulas this has to go in room 101.

[/quote]You do realise that Windows 98 was one of the most unstable operating systems ever? XP has been a revolution for people who where using 95/98

[Tom NCFC 0]

Pete Doherty

The Dresden Dolls

Kevin Muscat

Moldy cheese (Stilton, Danish Blue)

I imagine theres more but I can''t think of it right now

[Two Tails 0]

I would also put room 101 in room 101.

[mbncfc 1]

James Blunt.

Neo-cockney rhyming slang has never been so accurate...

[Evil Monkey 52]

[quote user="mbncfc"]

James Blunt.

Neo-cockney rhyming slang has never been so accurate...

[/quote]I''m with you on this one, mbncfc... but would like to add pseudo "rock stars" who makes a living from living up to stereotypes - Pete Docherty is one, but I saw Donny Tourette in Joshua Brooks in Manchester on Monday night... unfortunately there were plenty of hanger''s on licking his a*se and only one or two of us loudly taking the p*ss! Absolute nonce...Instead of Microsoft Windows, I''d like to put Microsoft Office forward for Room 101.  Word and Excel in particular seem to have a life of their own and have been the bane of my life for the last few weeks trying to do a report and mainly failing due to sh*t technology!

[Karl Pilkington 0]

Should that not be "What would you put in Ipswich?". Going to either is just as apealing

[In Dubious Battle 0]

Smudger.....(only joking)

[sussexcanary 0]

Neil Doncaster

Rob Mcaffery - Mind you would have to put him in a straight jacket first.

Andy Murray

Paul Gallagher

Worthy

Gavin Hendson (but only coz he''s S*gging Charlotte Church lucky bugger !)

That really weird weather bloke on BBc1...is it Daniel Corbett !?

 

 

[Smudger 0]

[quote user="Say Hello To The Angels"]Smudger.....(only joking)


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oh dear....

I was going to say Delia Smith, MWJ, Munby, Skipper, Fougler et al

But if I am already in there then they can stay OUT!!!!

[Herb 0]

ChavsMichael Scumacher fans (not Schumi himself, just all his cretinous worshippers)Mac users (smug, and invariably clueless)Pensioners who shop in supermarkets after 6pm (they''ve got all ****ing day to go, but they choose to clog the place up with their shuffling, lethargic wandering and get in normal people''s way)Greedy buy-to-let landlords (who totally **** up the housing market for first time buyers rather than actually work for a living)Soap-dodging students protesting about...well, almost anything.

[The poster formerly known as ? 0]

[quote user="Safri15"]I would shift this to one of the other forums, but i''m sure not many people read them! If you had the chance to appear on Room 101, which 3 items would you want to dispose of?

1. Microsoft Windows

I wouldn''t to dispose of it right away because everything would disappear! But I''d like to replace it with Linux as its stable and does what it''s told! Other than Windows NT and 98SE all of their operating systems have been a pile of poo. They crash far too easily, ignore user requests, and are generally unstable if you want to do anything other than word process!

2. French Cars

For all of you the have got a french car I apologise, but they are crap.
Honestly, what posesses people to buy them? Alright they shift a few stars in the NCAP but they are unreliable, have shocking engines, rubbish parts, and disgusting design. The peugeot 1007 has been modelled on a Hotpoint Fridge Freezer and the Renault Megane looks like its backside is too big for its body! And yet people still buy them!

3. Statistical Analysis

Having just finished an 8000 word essay analysing statistics and formulas this has to go in room 101.


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1 If it weren''t for Windows how many people would even be reading this post? As someone who learned computers in the late 70''s early 80''s, believe me, learn to love Windows, embrace it. Linux is like a step back in time to early 1990''s Win 3.1, it has potential but still needs too much work to be viable for most users.

It always surprises me that Linux lovers always slate the instability of Windows as a major factor. Fact Win pre 98SE, and Millenium were unstable. NT4 + up to and including XP are extremely stable even when pressed, and keeping a machine healthy should be no problem at all for anyone with enough PC knowledge to be capable of using a Linux based OS so why do they have all these stability problems?

Sorry can''t allow Windows into room 101.

 

2) French cars Renault 18 one of the best cars ever made. Renault 5 Gordini, red seat job, the original hot hatch (not the Golf GTI as the myth says), renault espace, comfortable for family of 5, allows for extra two passengers on top of these five, a family can have a picnic in one whatever the weather with their tables and captains chairs, remove the rear seats it''s a van which you can forklift a euro pallet into. Try it if you dont believe me.All great cars I have owned, the cylindrical cylinder system has proven to be one of the best engines ever designed.

 Unfortunately all new Renaults now look like a blurred photo of them travelling at speed and Citroen just dont make interesting or particularly good cars, neither is there a mainstream French Supercar Company so into room 101 for french cars.

 

3 Statistical Analysis. : A brief lesson.

100% of statistics are manipulated to produce the result the person commisioning the statistics wants. (This is the only true statistic)

It''s that simple, and in 7985 words fewer than your analysis.

Into the room with stats.

 

 

 

 

[Master J-Do Pur 0]

I would like to put people who say arsenal need to change there style of play into room 101. It''s so refreshing to watch Arsenal play and the only reason English players don''t get into the team is that our coaching system to too focussed on winning at such an early age. If an English player is good enough i''m sure he would play them.I also would like to see Patrick Kielty in there. He is so annoying and not funny. I don''t understand how the media industry is so difficult to get into but presenters like this get on TV. I don''t even know when to laugh when he is talking he is that boring and unfunnyAlso, are you allowed to put AIDS in? I suppose the world would be fairly better without it. Just a thought

[AP16 0]

To: The poster formerly known as.....Paul Merton?You got the wrong end of the stick with the stats.......I was given statistics to produce moving averages, residual errors blah blah with to then analyse the results and produce an executive report with my findings. It is the most complicated, tedious, piece of work I have ever done. I agree with you about Windows, I just can''t stand it, it does my nut in.

[hogesar 10,761]

[quote user="Two Tails"][quote user="Safri15"]I would shift this to one of the other forums, but i''m sure not many people read them! If you had the chance to appear on Room 101, which 3 items would you want to dispose of?1. Microsoft Windows I wouldn''t to dispose of it right away because everything would disappear! But I''d like to replace it with Linux as its stable and does what it''s told! Other than Windows NT and 98SE all of their operating systems have been a pile of poo. They crash far too easily, ignore user requests, and are generally unstable if you want to do anything other than word process!2. French CarsFor all of you the have got a french car I apologise, but they are crap. Honestly, what posesses people to buy them? Alright they shift a few stars in the NCAP but they are unreliable, have shocking engines, rubbish parts, and disgusting design. The peugeot 1007 has been modelled on a Hotpoint Fridge Freezer and the Renault Megane looks like its backside is too big for its body! And yet people still buy them! 3. Statistical AnalysisHaving just finished an 8000 word essay analysing statistics and formulas this has to go in room 101.

[/quote]You do realise that Windows 98 was one of the most unstable operating systems ever? XP has been a revolution for people who where using 95/98[/quote]98 second edition was FAR, FAR more stable than windows ME. ME had very few drivers pre-installed, and had a lack of support for joysticks, and other Plug and Play hardware.XP Media center is currently windows best operating system, with Vista going the same was as ME, very poor..

[Canary02 0]

I''d stick in at-home-mothers who drive 50 yards from their driveway to the local primary school to drop the kids off and pick them up.

On a similar theme, people who drive whacking great freelanders, jeep cherokees etc when all they have them for is the school run or popping to Asda, and they usually struggle to control them on small city streets, park abysmally and generally make life difficult for the rest of us.

That Tricia Penrose on Fame Academy can go in too. Desperate wannabe.

And Norwich Union!

 

[Syteanric 1]

jobs that ask for "experiance" - how do u get experiance unless someone is prepared to give it to you?

people over 65 on the road - get off it!

Drinks machines that dispense gruesome coffee!

jas :)

[sket 0]

my life. ooops time to stop listening to cold play.

[Stevie Wonder 0]

1. Cheese - it is food that has gone off!

2. Lorries in the outside lane of the A14 - I had 4 months working in Stratford upon Avon last year which meant a weekly commute on the Monday morning and Friday night. Would have got home hours earlier but for all the lorries overtaking each other on the A14 - all the things are limited to 56 mph!!!!

3. Vauxhall Nova''s.

4. People using mobile phones whilst driving.

5. Fabian Wilnis.

6. George W Bush.

7. Country music & line dancing. Why?

8. Riverdance - dancing without moving your upperbody!!!

9. Gt Yarmouth in the summer - full of chav''s.

10. Horse''s. Fed up with dealing with idiot''s who ride them & fall off. Stupid creatures who get spooked by a butterfly & who have to be shot if they get any kind of injury.

11. People who own horses. Even worse than the horse itself. Rudest most arrogant people in the world.

Hmmm. It is getting a bit full, I''d best stop noe before I totally alienate myself.........

[Hissing Sid 160]

a) Is it possible to put the whole town of Ip***ch in there?

b) any chairman who goes along with this idea of doing away with draws in league games, replacing them with penalties.

Finally, if a) is not possible, how about Alan Brazil?

[Shack Attack 0]

1. People who base their opinion of Pete Doherty on what they read in the press - Admittedly the Babyshambles album was a bit hit and miss (although I found the rawness of it quite refreshing in an age where every band seems so polished) but a lot of the stuff he did with The Libertines was top quality. The tabloid press are after him and a lot of that is down to envy at the fact he happens to be sleeping with one of the best looking women in Britain IMO. Donny Tourette is a tosser though, I''ll give you that.

2. My mother and father''s copy of the Sunday Express - Every Sunday I go round and every Sunday I get the same thing, "You''ll never guess what they''re up to now!". They are invariably either a) the Labour party b) Muslims c) Illegal immigrants d) Travellers e) The French. Every week I try and point out that you shouldn''t believe everything you read in the paper, every week I get told "This wasn''t in The News of the World or any of those scandal papers, the was in The Express". I''ve now given up trying to explain!

3. The serving of coffee in pubs - There surely is nothing more annoying then getting into a pub on a hot day, gasping for a nice cold pint and finding you have to queue behind twenty old women who each want a capafrappcino or whatever they''re called. GO TO STARBUCKS!

[7rew 0]

1. Linux Nerds.  I would put in people who believe that we should all use Linux because basically "windows is evil/stupid/crashes" especially if they call it Li-nux.   Lin-ux is just a poor mans version of Unix, without the raw computing power but with added stupidity and crashing (when the user has average computer skills).  The operating systems that should be used are Windows for simple stuff (word processing, speedsheets, movies, music, games) and Unix when you need computing power (it has a very lerge simulataneous processing capacity).2. Latex clothing. I do all my word processing using the computer program LaTeX, and the clothing leads to lots of fairly dodgy results coming up whenever you google something in order to fing out how to code it.3. Simon Cowell and his ilk. The music industry that produces lots of pre finished, indenti-kit "bands" that play awful, awful music and then massively promote them to the point where they are very difficult to avoid the mind numming pap. 4. The "underground" hit "I wish I were a punk rocker" for two reasons: 1) if you did wish you were a punk rocker why not play some good music rather than the extremely dull stuff that you claim is music on your record.  2) If it was an underground hit with her in ner basement on a webcam, why did she have an ad company promoting her.

[Cluck 0]

[quote user="Shack Attack"]

1. People who base their opinion of Pete Doherty on what they read in the press - Admittedly the Babyshambles album was a bit hit and miss (although I found the rawness of it quite refreshing in an age where every band seems so polished) but a lot of the stuff he did with The Libertines was top quality. The tabloid press are after him and a lot of that is down to envy at the fact he happens to be sleeping with one of the best looking women in Britain IMO. Donny Tourette is a tosser though, I''ll give you that.

2. My mother and father''s copy of the Sunday Express - Every Sunday I go round and every Sunday I get the same thing, "You''ll never guess what they''re up to now!". They are invariably either a) the Labour party b) Muslims c) Illegal immigrants d) Travellers e) The French. Every week I try and point out that you shouldn''t believe everything you read in the paper, every week I get told "This wasn''t in The News of the World or any of those scandal papers, the was in The Express". I''ve now given up trying to explain!

3. The serving of coffee in pubs - There surely is nothing more annoying then getting into a pub on a hot day, gasping for a nice cold pint and finding you have to queue behind twenty old women who each want a capafrappcino or whatever they''re called. GO TO STARBUCKS!

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What wonderful insight into your psyche Shack....and a vivid explanation as to why we aren''t on the same planet on most things.   [:)]

I would put you and all of the namby pamby equal rights types in....along with the "green movement nutters" and  leftie do-gooders who are so busy messing up this society. Also animal rights layabouts who think humans should suffer rather than have a few monkeys sacrificed in an effort to cure the ills of the world!

Oh....and Garibaldi biscuits. They are seriously vile.....hate them!

[mbncfc 1]

[quote user="Cluck "]

Oh....and Garibaldi biscuits. They are seriously vile.....hate them!

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You got me. 100% spot on.

I''d put NME in too.

As for Mr P Docherty, the man is a waste of atoms. That isn''t based on media opinions but on the fact he keeps turning up at court for being smashed out of his face but doesn''t have to go serve his sentence because he''s got a tour coming up and it''s all going quite well... meanwhile, loads of kids look up to this guy as some kind of cool role model. (and yes, I thought The Libertines (musically) were excellent).

The Kooks... what''s that about?... Drama School to Cool Social RocknRoll in one seemless transition - gimme strength.... The same sort of thing will be happening in politics next (oh, hang on...)

[Evil Monkey 52]

[quote user="Shack Attack"]

1. People who base their opinion of Pete Doherty on what they read in the press - Admittedly the Babyshambles album was a bit hit and miss (although I found the rawness of it quite refreshing in an age where every band seems so polished) but a lot of the stuff he did with The Libertines was top quality. The tabloid press are after him and a lot of that is down to envy at the fact he happens to be sleeping with one of the best looking women in Britain IMO. Donny Tourette is a tosser though, I''ll give you that.

2. My mother and father''s copy of the Sunday Express - Every Sunday I go round and every Sunday I get the same thing, "You''ll never guess what they''re up to now!". They are invariably either a) the Labour party b) Muslims c) Illegal immigrants d) Travellers e) The French. Every week I try and point out that you shouldn''t believe everything you read in the paper, every week I get told "This wasn''t in The News of the World or any of those scandal papers, the was in The Express". I''ve now given up trying to explain!

3. The serving of coffee in pubs - There surely is nothing more annoying then getting into a pub on a hot day, gasping for a nice cold pint and finding you have to queue behind twenty old women who each want a capafrappcino or whatever they''re called. GO TO STARBUCKS!

[/quote]Sod it, I just want to put Starbucks in! The evil chain of identikit stores, with 73 types of coffee and a "cup of tea", and over-priced snacks that has led to a rise of what I would call the "Starbucks Generation" - kids of about 15/16 who all wander round with Starbucks cups, doped up to their eyeballs on caffeine and dressed in the latest fashions.  The whole chain just amounts to a bloody fashion accessory for the type of people who will end up in an office and telling everyone how wacky they are for having drunk two pints that lunchtime...Oh, and the Libertines'' first album was immensely brilliant and I still get a kick from listening to it... doesn''t mean Pete Doherty isn''t a muppet, though...

[Karl Pilkington 0]

[quote user="Shack Attack"]

1. People who base their opinion of Pete Doherty on what they read in the press - Admittedly the Babyshambles album was a bit hit and miss (although I found the rawness of it quite refreshing in an age where every band seems so polished) but a lot of the stuff he did with The Libertines was top quality. The tabloid press are after him and a lot of that is down to envy at the fact he happens to be sleeping with one of the best looking women in Britain IMO. Donny Tourette is a tosser though, I''ll give you that.

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I agree the libertines albums were superb, not sure how much Pete and how much Karl Barrett. The reason most people dislike Mr Doch is that he is a heroin and Crack addict. Anyone who thinks this is acceptable is a fool. It''s also hate how the papers treat him as some kind of style icon. Moss is just as bad. She''s not that good looking, but okay as scrawny croydon birds with no tits go.

Babyshambles album was okay, but far too raw for my liking. Sounds like demos that need more work.

[Mello Yello 2,572]

Everything I dislike........far, far too much to even contemplate mentioning.

But...........Nah, better not![8-|]

 

[Shack Attack 0]

[quote user="Cluck "]

What wonderful insight into your psyche Shack....and a vivid explanation as to why we aren''t on the same planet on most things.   [:)]

I would put you and all of the namby pamby equal rights types in....along with the "green movement nutters" and  leftie do-gooders who are so busy messing up this society. Also animal rights layabouts who think humans should suffer rather than have a few monkeys sacrificed in an effort to cure the ills of the world!

Oh....and Garibaldi biscuits. They are seriously vile.....hate them!

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I''m so pleased that you can get such a wonderful insight into my psyche from three light hearted points made on an internet message board.

My point about Pete Doherty was that he always seems to pop up on these lists but nobody seems to know why. If it''s because he''s a heroin addict, why not just put heroin in? Like I said earlier the bloke''s obviously got talent but a lot of people (and I''m not necessarily referring to people on here) base their opinions on what they read about him in the newspapers.

Oh and Cluck, I think it says a lot about your psyche that you choose to put ''equal rights types'' in Room 101, don''t you?

[Cluck 0]

[quote user="Shack Attack"][quote user="Cluck "]

What wonderful insight into your psyche Shack....and a vivid explanation as to why we aren''t on the same planet on most things.   [:)]

I would put you and all of the namby pamby equal rights types in....along with the "green movement nutters" and  leftie do-gooders who are so busy messing up this society. Also animal rights layabouts who think humans should suffer rather than have a few monkeys sacrificed in an effort to cure the ills of the world!

Oh....and Garibaldi biscuits. They are seriously vile.....hate them!

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I''m so pleased that you can get such a wonderful insight into my psyche from three light hearted points made on an internet message board.

My point about Pete Doherty was that he always seems to pop up on these lists but nobody seems to know why. If it''s because he''s a heroin addict, why not just put heroin in? Like I said earlier the bloke''s obviously got talent but a lot of people (and I''m not necessarily referring to people on here) base their opinions on what they read about him in the newspapers.

Oh and Cluck, I think it says a lot about your psyche that you choose to put ''equal rights types'' in Room 101, don''t you?

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Yep...may as well say it as think it. Equality is fine...but there are too many whingers out there these days trying to be more "equal" than anyone else....and there''s the rub.