Room 101 - What are you putting in ?

[Nibble]

Cafes and restaurants that leave you confused. Do you order at the counter? Where are the menus? Where is the cutlery? Do I ask for a bill or go to the counter again? Happy to get my own cutlery, get up to order etc but I hate it when I find myself wondering around with random strangers doing the same, trying to figure out how to get scrambled egg on toast.

 

[m20gull]

Calling school pupils students.

 

[Nibble]

People serving hot drinks in cups with black interiors. It makes any hot drink look foul.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Self check outs. Jesus, how on earth hasn't the revolution started.

Where else can you get avocado's for the price of potato's?

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Calling school pupils students.

It saves letters

 

[Hyperion]

Bagels - over rated stodgy roll with a hole in it.

Shouty parents

Old people that seem to want to get on a bus before anyone else no matter where they are in the queue

 

[Vegas Seagull]

100% this, but including people (usually women) at the till in a shop that don't have money/card ready when the total rings up and have to delve into their cavernous handbags to find their purse. Why are you surprised you have to pay ??

Drivers using disabled parking bays when they're patently not.

People who can't chew with their mouth closed

Mobile phone keypad tones, especially on early morning trains (tap tappity tap.....)

Actually, stopping now. I could go on all day.

People that walk around Tesco for an hour that have parked with a disabled sticker when my big car won't fit in a standard space without getting an £800 scratch

 

[The Legend that IS Lawro]

People who celebrate Thatchers death by writing a song

Agree. Our street party, fireworks, special cake, two days off work and commemorative scarf was ample.

 

[Guinness Boy]

People who wield wheely suitcases in a crowd without looking where they're going.

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

Young people and old people, particularly old young people.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

People in supermarkets who think it us ok to put their stuff on the conveyor belt & then go back to get something they have 'missed' however the look on their faces when they their stuff is shunted behind mine is fun

Those that pay two bills one of £2 for a pack of sausages for their sick mum....just buy them

 

[MACCAPACCA]

People who constantly talk at concerts. Back in the day you paid your money to watch your favourite musicians and that's exactly what you did. Now nothing is more important than telling your mate what you did today. This is particularly obvious during the quiet numbers when all you can hear is the loud humm of noise.

 

[Buzzer]

Pigeons.
People who feed pigeons.
Teabag left on drainers or in the sink.
Being served a cup of tea and the teabag left in it.
Liptons tea. Disgusting stuff and the only tea that Johnny Foreigner seems to have in their countries.
Rugger buggers.
Golf.
The Guardian newspaper.
Self-righteous Guardian readers.
TV panel shows.
Tomato juice.
Manchester United.

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

- Facebook
- Reality shows (scripted and non)
- Consultants (not the medical kind)
- Anyone that holds their phone uo during concerts. Take a picture by all means but don't watch the whole bloody thing through a screen.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Classic FM
Manchester United
Parsnips

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

People who constantly talk at concerts. Back in the day you paid your money to watch your favourite musicians and that's exactly what you did. Now nothing is more important than telling your mate what you did today. This is particularly obvious during the quiet numbers when all you can hear is the loud humm of noise.

I went to a concert a few years ago in Portsmouth by the Blues Band, whose lead singer is Paul Jones of Manfred Mann fame. There was someone there talking very obviously. He actually stopped the music during the first number, turned to where the talking was coming from and said something along the lines of "Should we all join in with your conversation, or would you like to shut up so that we can concentrate on the music". He was loudly clapped.

 

[portlock seagull]

People who open their bag, purse then wallet AFTER reaching the cash point. Count the money AT the cash point and then reverse the original action AT the cash point.

Unlike the majority of the population who are quite able to walk and do other things at the same time.

What exactly are they going to do if the money is wrong. Have an argument WITH the cash point ?

This! This! This! When was it ever a good idea to equally arrange a new mortgage using a cashpoint?! As many must be doing giving the time they spend in front of me

 

[Nibble]

People who do charity runs in Superman shirts

People who tell you what they're like rather than just get on with being what they're like.."The thing about me is, what you see is what you get" etc

People who think they have the perfect way of selecting and cooking a steak and telling you about it whenever food is mentioned.

People who when offered a sandwich or other food item rather than just politely turning the offer down and moving on go on to tell you about their intolerance to said item, usually placing a hand on their stomach and groaning at the same time.

 

[Gerbil]

Front fog lights at night when it's not foggy.

Shoreham McDonalds drive through.

Being called a customer not a supporter.

Old people at cashpoints.

Estate agents.

Tess Daly.

Vanessa Feltz.

 

[portlock seagull]

Can I also give n honoury mention to Petrol stations that have basically become a shop with a bit of fuel as a side business? Many still don't have a pay at pump option and you have to wait whilst people in front do their weekly shop, buy a coffee etc and that's before they have a natter with the checkout man/woman...usually only one of them too! I just want to buy some bloody petrol!!!