Room 101... Here I come! (Room 101)

Member Name: upsykimsy

Product:	Room 101
Date:	26/10/09 (58 review reads)
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Advantages: Letting off a lot of steam

Disadvantages: having to feel I need to let off steam in the first place

Someone asked me the other day what my pet peeves were. Unfortunately, I didn't have the courage to tell him he was one of them. Anyway, after a few glasses of wine, my housemate and I started discussing the topic. And I eventually came up with a definitive list.

1. My phone. Yes, it seems an odd one. And my peeves with it are self inflicted. So far, it's survived being thrown at the wall, dropped down two flights of stairs, and having a relaxing lavender bath. Yet, the only thing that's wrong with it affects the whole functionality of the phone. The back button does not work. At all. I have to go through this ridiculously complex method of returning to the main screen. And if I accidently knock the photo viewer, that's it. I have to turn the entire phone off and back on again. Slightly annoying.

2. Facebook stalkers. At any one time, my mother, my best friend, my coursemate and my on-off boyfriend can tell you what my status is, when I last logged on, the last person to post on my wall, the last group I joined. It's got to the point where Mummy Dearest phones, and I can't think of anything to tell her because she's read it all.

3. Dance music. Not just any dance music, but the kind that takes a perfectly good song, which was never intended for the dance genre, and puts it through the most torturous, painful, long-winded death imaginable. And then reaches the top of the chart. Please note. If anyone ever tries this with The Libertines, Frank Turner or Ryan Adams, I cannot be held responsible for my actions.

4. The newspapers. I believe Russell Howard covers them perfectly in his stand up gigs... You can almost always guess what paper someone reads by their socio-political views.

5. People who play their music so loud that you can't work out who the act is, what genre they're in, or what they're singing. Surely that's not the way to listen to good music. Turn it up by all means, but at least make sure you can still actually listen to and appreciate it.

6. People who become stereotypes of themselves. You know, the type of people who cover themselves in tattoos so they "look hard" then decide to start "acting hard" too. Or the people who decide that just because they listen to whichever emo band, they have to pierce their lip, adopt a pout and look miserable as sin all the time. Oh please. What happened to individuality?

7. People who make snide remarks under their breath. Especially annoying if you're sitting in class, and trying to listen to what the tutors telling you, as you actually want to get a distinction on this course, and someone's continually slagging off the teacher. If you think you can do a better job, YOU teach the class.

8. Buses. In Great Yarmouth in particular, they're awful. To get to my son's childminider takes two bus journeys, then another bus journey to college. Altogether, I spend 3 hours onwards travelling each weekday. And to make matters worse, the buses run on a half hourly basis, and one of them is not pushchair accessible. So I'm left getting a toddler, a changing bag, a college bag and a stupidly bulky pushchair onto the bus. How they expect wheelchair users in Belton to manage, I don't know...

9. Swearing like a trooper. Ok. I admit, I'll occassionally let the odd profanity slip from my lips. And if I'm really angry, I'll close the bedroom door and mutter every curse under the sun about someone. But if you're using expletives constantly in general conversation, you're seriously lacking in both the vocabulary and intellectual department.

10. The people who think it's their place to talk down to you. Unfortunately, there's two in my family. One blames her attitude on "a hard lilfe" and the other blames whoever he's talking down to. Firstly, no-one deserves to be spoken to in a patronising manner. Secondly, if you've had a hard life, isn't that suppposed to create an element of empathy? Or am I misunderstood on that.

Anyway, I think that's everything. But there's always the edit button....

Summary: Just be careful not to get my bad side