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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 16, 2011 17:31:40 GMT
It's been done before I'm sure...but no harm in dredging it up again. Without being TOO serious what 5 things would you like to banish to Room 101, never to be seen again.
Take it as read that we've already put war, famine, pestilence and paedophiles in there...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2011 17:57:38 GMT
I just knew the title had something to do with horror movies.
I will put brainless bimbos and himbos, fig newtons, cockroaches, shoot-em-up video games and religions with rules.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 17, 2011 17:32:39 GMT
1984....
Mobile phones (I know that they have their uses but I think that the terror people have these days of being without somebody to talk to ALL THE TIME crazy)
Spitting in the street
People who don't clean up after their dogs
The dumbing down of just about everything from the media to museums and galleries (all seem to be aimed at 5 year olds)
I'm going to have to think about my fifth one....
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 17, 2011 17:46:05 GMT
Ha ~~ I took it as 101, meaning a beginner course in something.
That could be my first thing to banish -- the way we lose unused skills or knowledge over time.
Unnecessary noise that ignores the rights of other people to not have their ears & spaces assaulted. Why do our brainwaves have to be jammed all the time?
Anything any politician says without immediately following the statement with a suggestion(s) for a practical remedy.
Fake foods.
Lobbying. (HOW can that be legal??!)
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 20, 2011 18:02:05 GMT
Smug slim people....(I read that somewhere and thought YES!) Room 101 refers to a room in Evelyn Waugh's 1984.....where torture takes place....people are sent there and their worst nightmares are realised... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_101it's also the title of a tv comedy over here....Stephen Fry ranting about the pretentiousness of film critics
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 20, 2011 20:23:30 GMT
judgmental people (and I can be one, but am working very hard on that) injustice wastefulness people who won't let others be just because they have different plans than themselves disrespect.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 21, 2011 7:47:07 GMT
oooh yea verily.... ;D
Thing is...it's scarily easy to think of 5 things that we don't like isn't it? Stephen Fry (at the end of the programme) asks that they have an alternative show 'Room Fluffy' or something...where we put 5 things that we absolutely adore....nice concept... ;D
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 21, 2011 10:40:24 GMT
It IS awfully easy, CPB!
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Post by foreverman on Aug 21, 2011 11:10:57 GMT
1. Idiots on the roads 2. People who talk loudly into mobile phones so everybody within 100 yards has to hear their conversation. 3. Deaf people who dont wear hearing aids so you have to repeat things over and over. 4. People who call their babies stupid names you find hard to even pronounce let alone spell 5. Doctors receptionists who ask you why you are here...................to see the bloody doctor, of course
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Post by onlymark on Aug 21, 2011 20:01:28 GMT
Room 101 refers to a room in Evelyn Waugh's 1984..... Errrr...... Is that an alias for George Orwell?
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Post by onlymark on Aug 21, 2011 20:03:36 GMT
1. Smartarses like the post before this one 2. Spelling Nazi's 3. Countries that have too many rules 4. Excessively humid weather 5. Internet list making.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2011 20:35:01 GMT
The spelling Nazi would like you to know that there is no apostrophe in "Spelling Nazis." As for #3, you must leave Germany immediately and absolutely not set foot in Jordan. But you know that already.
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Post by onlymark on Aug 21, 2011 21:24:10 GMT
That'd be a grammar Nazi, by the way. Not a spelling Nazi. Just thought I'd point that out.
Went out for a walk to get some food and saw the usual people waiting at the red pedestrian lights when there is no traffic in sight. I risked the 'tut tuts' and crossed anyway. Rebel that I am. Then I got a furious bell ringing when I stepped into the cycle path on the pavement accidentally. Nice bread though here.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2011 21:37:37 GMT
Oh yes, I know that detail about Germans (and Californians) -- they will not step into a totally empty street, not even if their life depended on it, if the traffic signal disagrees.
You should have watched out for the bicycle -- I have finally learned to do that, but the reflex does not come easily, due to the silence of those things (except when they are ringing their bell).
I often wonder if the German visitors have become "perverted" after a trip to France (or Italy or NYC). When there are 25 French (and/or other crosswalk outlaws) who cross an empty street against the light, leaving 2 Germans (or Swiss) behind, the remaining people usually look to the right, look to the left, looktotherightlooktotheleftandlookagain and end up joining the pack even though they feel it is evil. I imagine that in less than a week, they have been "retrained" and then I worry about their return to the homeland.
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Post by onlymark on Aug 21, 2011 21:53:22 GMT
And then suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. Bless 'em.
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Post by fumobici on Aug 22, 2011 0:49:50 GMT
I might have mentioned this earlier but in Italy of course crosswalks afford no protection whatever for pedestrians, you better make sure the way is clear- the cars won't stop. And just across the imaginary line into Switzerland cars will stop for you if you even look to be thinking about stepping off the curb. I feel a bit sorry and concerned for Swiss that venture across the line and forget. In the US it can go either way but then the US is more like a continent than a country.
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Post by rikita on Aug 22, 2011 6:06:29 GMT
hm, on a german forum i post at, someone (who it seems also posts on english speaking forums) called someone else a grammar nazi. caused a big fight...
and can i put people who keep standing around on the cycling lanes here? to me, that's kind of like standing on the middle of the road... i am usually in a hurry when i cycle...
in berlin the traffic light thing is mixed i think, in some areas everyone crosses when it is red, in some they don't... some people normally cross but wait when there are children around, some only cross when it is red...
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 22, 2011 6:34:00 GMT
I think I'm the only one in Cambodia who stops at a red light after it's got dark.
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Post by onlymark on Aug 22, 2011 15:49:13 GMT
Rikita, Berlin is another country. They do things differently there. And I think I mentioned before but it seems the capital letters on your keyboard don't work.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 22, 2011 18:31:32 GMT
Room 101 refers to a room in Evelyn Waugh's 1984..... Errrr...... Is that an alias for George Orwell? AHA!....you noticed the deliberate mistake didjer? fiendish..... ;D thorry....
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Post by onlymark on Aug 22, 2011 18:58:42 GMT
I'll let you off this time.
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Post by rikita on Aug 22, 2011 20:38:00 GMT
in berlin, we don't do capital letters...
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Post by onlymark on Aug 22, 2011 22:18:55 GMT
I know there were austerity measures on the eastern side when the wall was up but I never thought they'd do away with big letters.
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Post by frenchmystiquetour on Aug 22, 2011 22:59:43 GMT
To reiterate Fumo's point about Italy and crosswalks, I was riding my Vespa there through the downtown of a village and stopped to let an old man across a crosswalk. The police then waved me over and gave me a warning, the reason being that I was going too slow.
People not only wander without looking into bike lanes but wander into the street without looking if they don't hear a car or motorcycle engine. Everyday (literally) I have to ring my bell at someone who has walked into a street without looking. This always surprises me since biking is such a common mode of transportation here yet people always look so surprised when they hear my bell.
1) Walking around with a gallon sized drink in hand 2) Anti-intellectualism (perhaps the same thing as dumbing down) 3) The Tea Party 4) Assholes (see above) 5) Reality tv (which is full of assholes)
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Post by fumobici on Aug 23, 2011 2:11:49 GMT
^^^ +1
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Post by rikita on Aug 23, 2011 5:54:29 GMT
actually, i am in west berlin now. have been for over ten years. and as west berlin wasn't a capital back then, they decided they don't want capital letters either. in east berlin, they do have capital letters.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 23, 2011 7:43:00 GMT
To reiterate Fumo's point about Italy and crosswalks, I was riding my Vespa there through the downtown of a village and stopped to let an old man across a crosswalk. The police then waved me over and gave me a warning, the reason being that I was going too slow. People not only wander without looking into bike lanes but wander into the street without looking if they don't hear a car or motorcycle engine. Everyday (literally) I have to ring my bell at someone who has walked into a street without looking. This always surprises me since biking is such a common mode of transportation here yet people always look so surprised when they hear my bell. 1) Walking around with a gallon sized drink in hand 2) Anti-intellectualism (perhaps the same thing as dumbing down) 3) The Tea Party 4) Assholes (see above) 5) Reality tv (which is full of assholes) Excellent. Can I have another 5?...on a more serious note... 1. Most Politicians news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4817734.stm2. Privatisation of State owned utilities (see above) 3. Lack of self discipline and social responsibility 4. Irresponsible, sensationalist reporting in the media 5. The fact that the church has a disproportionate influence in British society. It REALLY annoys me that they automatically have seats in the house of Lords. Medieval.....(apologies to people of faith, it's my opinion tho...)
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Post by onlymark on Aug 23, 2011 8:04:32 GMT
that explains it then rikita. I shall amaze my german friends with that titbit of knowledge i'm sure they don't know about. i learn something new every day.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2011 8:28:02 GMT
Are you in Berlin, too?
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Post by onlymark on Aug 23, 2011 17:19:40 GMT
Unfortunately not, otherwise I'd have offered coffee to rikita. I'm in the city of wbankers, Frankfurt. I had a day of necessary shopping yesterday, the only free day I've had alone, if not for that I'd have much preferred to drive up there. I'm now at the airport awaiting the flight out.
I thus may well be incommunicado for some time.
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