Room 101: 1500+ Words of Unadulterated Therapy

Advantages: Getting lots of pent up frustrations off my chest
Disadvantages: It's a LOT of pent up frustration!

...INTRODUCTION I have had very little to complain about during my time here on Ciao. The community is great, the reviews are of an excellent standard (most of the time) and I very much appreciate the reads, rates and comments. However, having been born in England, I feel a pathological need to complain, so when casting about for ideas for a non-product review, I was delighted to find Room 101. There are certain things in this life that cause me a disproportionate amount of stress given their relative insignificance. I wish I had the patience to deal with them. But I can?t. They annoy me, frustrate me, and drive me to distraction. Some even stir primitive, near-homicidal urges. If the mythical Room 101 were to exist, these are the types of people, things and behaviours I would seek to banish within. Trust me - the world would be...

Hishyeness 19.10.2009 · Read review
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room 101!

Advantages: feel much better to get it off my chest
Disadvantages: its not real

...chain and are needed so that other animals can live and there are 3,000 different species. But whatever anybody will say will not change my mind on how much I hate these creatures. The moment I see one, whatever the size of they are, the hairs on my arms stand up. The fact they run around with their long hairy legs freaks me out. I hate the look of them whatever the size. Just typing this is making me feel sick. If I ever find one the only thing I can do is get someone to get rid of it by taking it out of the house. Reading facts like spider bites can be very painful and even fatal makes me even more freaked out. But even though they do help with the food chain and all that I will still put them in room 101 and let Mother Nature to sort it out. People who abuse animals and children What kind of evil person can enjoy the pain...

emi_angel 12.04.2006 (04.06.2006) · Read review
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Room 101

Advantages: the world would be free'd from all annoyingness!!!
Disadvantages: never gonna happen....

...An easy subject for me, being easily wound up, here are a few of my choices for room 101 1. colds My first choice may seem a strange one, but i have had 4 colds in as many months, i think i am just passing the same one between my colleagues. Its really annoying, i have to take time of work, losing what little money i have, and get to spend all day in bed, and of course, being a man, i always have the worst cold there has ever been!! On the whole the country would function better without them, which brings me very nicely onto my next choice... 2. Politicians I understand that they have tough jobs, big decisions to make, stressfull times etc, but so do the fire service who they are so quick to slam when they strike, and the bin men who have to survive on the minimum wage to do quite an important job. These people are real...

barney_mcrury 07.01.2004 · Read review
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My room 101 is filling up

Advantages: some..?
Disadvantages: some..?

...I have read many of these reviews and as I do enjoy the odd rant or two I thought I'd add my tuppence worth so as to basically get it off my chest? So we begin?. Get ready to open the door to room 101... The first thing to go into the room would have to be the constant bombardment of reality tv shows and how every time you turn a page in any newspaper some 'fame seeking' has been is smiling back at me? I try my hardest to avoid the likes of X Factor, strictly comes dancing, big brother and all the others by not watching the television in the first place? but I find it hard to stay sane when it is pushed into every nook and cranny on every corner of the street?What is all that about..? I mean, fair enough if you like to watch this stuff then watch it with my blessing, (not that you need my blessing of course)? but why do they have...

blissman70 12.12.2008 · Read review
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Why isn't Room 101 real?

Advantages: Would be the greatest thing in the universe if it was for real
Disadvantages: It isn't real

...ROOM 101 Room 101 is something I truly wish existed, but there might not be enough room in it for everything I?d on a day to day basis like to give a hefty shove through its portals. I published a Room 101 article on DooYoo in my early days as a member there, but I?d like what I say here on Ciao to be different, making a completely new list of some of the most infuriating things that life throws in my face. Of course this article doesn?t cancel out what I previously wrote on DooYoo?.it adds to it. This could turn out to be quite a long list, as the older I get the more I find there is to be grumpy about. So, open the doors to Room 101 wide please ? and I hope there?s infinite space inside for the following, which are in no specific order as I probably find them all as screamingly annoying as one another. 1. VEGETARIANS WHO...

CelticSoulSister 04.11.2009 · Read review
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My Room 101

Advantages: Let out fears!
Disadvantages: Let out fears!

...If I were able to be a guest on Paul Merton?s show ?Room 101?, I have five distinctive items to include in Room 101. I wonder if you agree with me. **Item One** Spiders: I know it is illogical as spiders rarely hurt humans, but I hate them. Spiders kill flies and other irritating bugs but for as long as I can remember spiders have caused me to shiver and shake. Even writing this down this item, I am feeling very uncomfortable. I abhor these smallish creatures with a passion; it really does not matter about their size either. When I was eighteen years old I took part in a psychology experiment by a Cambridge Post Graduate Student about spider phobias and the researcher was rather surprised by my reactions, I cannot even look at pictures of spiders without feeling repulsed. My personal detest for these creatures has got worse over...

wulise 19.09.2002 · Read review
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Katy's Room 101 - Filled with people in general!

Advantages: See review!
Disadvantages: It won't ever happen :(

...Well here you go, something for you to spend your Saturday night reading, it's my room 101, please bear with me it might take a while! People who push when I'm getting off a train: I mean if they want to get on surely it's better to just wait until I've stepped off the train then I'm not blocking their way but once I actually got trapped on the train and missed my stop. I was extremely vocal about it and funnily enough there was a space cleared around me at the next top as I effed and blinded my way back off! Annoying sofa adverts: They seem to have an endless stay, why don't they just stop saying it's 'The Easter Sale' 'The Blue Cross Sale' 'The End Of Season Sale' and just concentrate on telling people that they have all year round 'low' prices, it's just beyond me. I find them SO annoying, nowadays they tend to have a 'family...

katyeverett 05.06.2009 · Read review
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My Room 101

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: endless

...This challenge is an excellent excuse to have a good old moan. We all love a grumble, and these are my selections for items to be put in Room 101, never to be seen again. Some you may agree with, some you may be confused about and some are just strange. So here goes: Roundabouts ^*^*^*^*^*^*^* It?s not so much the concept of roundabouts themselves, they are a really good idea, but it?s the idiots that use them. Is it just me, or does no-one know how to use a roundabout these days? You have to give way to the right, unfortunately most of the people on the Isle of Wight, where I live, do not understand this simple rule. I have lost count of the times that my car has nearly been written off by some lunatic shooting across the roundabout while I am either on it or approaching. This modern day phenomenon is increasing on a daily...

purplelynne 01.07.2004 · Read review
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Room 101 - here they come

Advantages: Learning to be tolerant
Disadvantages: Learning to be intolerant, violent, angry, rude

...; girls were screaming for you and now you pretend you are so clever. C'mon...straight to the room 101. 3. People with long and untidy nails Of course, I don't count here people who are completely untidy (nails do not stick out then). I am talking about people who look completely clean and have nice clothes but nails are slightly longer and some are with this special dark feature on the top. In my 'tolerance' phase I usually say to myself - 'It must be that he plays the guitar so he needs longer nails'. Here, there is no mercy. Room 101 - this way... 4. People who pretend too much This is a tough one to explain. Lets say, these are people who say too much white lies, who laugh on things not funny to them (just to please someone), who pretend that they are in a good mood 100% of the time they are in public. This behaviour...

JohnCheese 14.10.2008 · Read review
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The vile pit which is my room 101

Advantages: I wish I could really get rid of these things
Disadvantages: Shame I can't

...Okay, in an attempt to immerse myself further into the Ciao Café, although I don't think much of the coffee they serve, here is my take on what should be despatched to the depths of room 101. Some serious, some less so, but all things which annoy me in one way or another. 10. LUSH Sorry ladies, maybe it's me being a typical bloke, but what is so great about Lush. I have to admit that I like the ethics behind the company naturally, handmade products which no animal ingredients and no animal testing. But what I don't understand is why anyone would put something into their bath that leaves a mass of bits after you finish. So, before you kill me, and in an attempt to understand, I have tried a couple of Lush bath ballistics (shock horror - a bloke trying Lush), purely for research purposes I assure you. Sorry, but it just...

christianfilmcritic 18.03.2006 · Read review
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