101 Hotel, free, sky tv, swimming pool. (Room 101)

Member Name: uncle_bob

Product:	Room 101
Date:	17/08/02 (639 review reads)
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Advantages: Let of some steam

Disadvantages: cant actually physically throw them in

Room 101 huh. What a great subject. Finally somewhere I can let off steam on a few things.
No real order to this lot, just writing them as I think of them.
However, I must say, at the start, before all the comments start coming in, this is only a bit of fun. Although the items listed do get on my nerves, it is only a personal opinion, and I am by no means insulting, or aiming it at any particular people.
This is a bit of fun, that's all, so don't take it personally if you fall into a particular category.

But the first thing that would be in that room and have the key thrown away forever has to be Microsoft!.
Sorry, I know without them, we wouldn't have Windows, or things like that, but that's just it. There are so many alternatives, which are better than Microsoft, but they wont let anyone use them.
I don't like their tactics in how they got where they are today, let me tell you, it wasn't through great software and hard work!
I don't like their products, even though I have to use them.
Don't like what they do to other companies who become a slight threat to them.
The way they monopolise, I could go on and on, but I think I will save it for another opinion.

Next in, S-Club Juniors!!!
What's that all about? Not content with making a band with adults, the record companies have resorted to 10-14 year olds. Mind you, S-Club 7 probably had about the same mental age!
I'm sorry, but that's just sad, I cant even think who it appeals too, where's the appeal?
I mean are they all gonna say they are virgins too? God help us if one turns out to be Gay. No i'm sorry, it doesn't work for me, shows they are getting desperate i'm afraid.

And that George W'a Bush. Whats he on? He would have to go in too i'm afraid.
Now I respected him, I mean fair play, he came into office, and then had September the 11th thrown on his doorstep, and he did we
ll I think, kept it together, but I think now he has gone to far. The middle East is a volatile area at the moment, it doesn't need some trigger happy red neck in there stirring it up, He should go back to saying 'God bless America' and reading speeches written for him, and leave the Middle east to the experts, who ever they are.
Bring back Clinton, that's what I say. Ok so he liked a bit of Intern, but hey, who doesn't eh? he was good for them I think.

Ok, and since I am on the subject of America, I would also have to throw in Ford.
Fix Or Repair Daily! Now whets the story with Ford these days. They used to be a good car. My old Granada was great. Now they are all these funny looking things, that look like they were stuck together in the showroom by blue-tac with these silly huge frog eyes for headlamps.

Ok, next in, has to be the whole system in this country for dealing with Gypsies.
Answer me this. They can put a man on the moon. They can see a rock, ½ mile wide 329,000 miles away in space in such detail they can tell you what it's made of. They can build machines capable of diving over a mile under water and withstand such great pressure, but they can't move a caravan from a lay-by? Whats going on there?
We have a big problem with gypsies around here, they park up in the lay-bys, steal our cars, vandalise our property, start fights, all sorts, make a complete mess off the area with old gas bottles and burnt out cars, yet the police wont touch them. They cant move them on, have to give a weeks notice and then they have the time it takes to get a court order etc, by which time they are gone. In Ireland they come along in their Land Rovers, hook up the caravans and tow them away, don't mess around with procedures, that's how it should be.

I appreciate you letting me go on like this, I'm starting to feel much better :o)

Now, the boys at Creative Labs are next to win the fre
e one-way ticket to 101 hotel.
I have a £180 soundcard, the Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. I was kindly informed on installing Windows XP that SoundBlaster Live! Products are not supported in XP.
HUH?? Now I'm sorry, but Creative are probably one of the biggest sound card manufacturers at the moment, and Windows is the most popular operating system, so why can't they make these 2 products work with each other?
Creative released a driver pack, 21MB file you download which makes it work in XP, great? No, it makes the card work, and the software, but the Live drive stops working. So the main part of this soundcard people buy it for doesn't work, really useful guys, thanks. Fear not, Microsoft have a patch that makes the Live drive work, guess again, it makes the live drive work, but kills the software that you just made work with the driver pack. End result is a £180 conflict! Now why cant the boys at Microsoft, and those boys and gals at Creative bang their heads together and make a driver that does everything? Creative wont admit there is a problem, said it is a one off and they don't know why. But it isn't a one off, you can read through their forums and find hundreds of people with the same problem. Come on people, sort it out.

Ohhh and speed cameras. Make me so mad I could eat ball bearings and poop BBs. I wouldn't like to put these in room 101, because I would probably get a ticket for everything else I throw in there because I threw it to fast!
I think I summed these up pretty well in my opinion on them (you can find it under my profile, fair way down the list now I think)
How can they say these are to help prevent road traffic accidents when they hide them, and put them on roads that have just been built?
They have been told around here to remove hundreds of them, because they are obviously there to make money and not to keep people alive. They have also had to paint them bright yellow, to help them b
e visible, but I think, best bet is to take them down altogether, apart from in towns and villages, and spend the money on improving the road system. That would have better results for the public safety I think.

Next in would be all those porn bots that seem to invade my pc with Instant messages and adverts in chat.
For those who go into chat or use Yahoo! Messenger, i'm sure you know what I mean. Those who don't, a porn bot is an automatic advert generator. It is set to go through all the rooms in Yahoo! Chat and spam adverts for hot chicks live on cam, or horny wet teens waiting for you, etc etc. Now they have got programs that send instant messages to anyone on the Yahoo server currently logged in via Yahoo Messenger.
Do they not have anything better to do? And I suppose Yahoo! Are to blame too, for letting them. Not very good in terms of influence to the 12year old boy using yahoo is it? Even worse is if you ignore them, they still end up getting through under different names, add a 1 to the name and so on. If I wanted to see this site, I would have clicked it the first time, what makes them think the next 30 times are any different?

I hope 101 Hotel is a big place, it's getting a bit full.

Next item checking in is the Channel Tunnel
What idiot thought up that idea?
I know, lets spend millions of our taxpayer's money on a big tunnel across to France, and then anyone can come and go as they please.
Hold all calls please, we have a winner!! Sorry, but the best thing for that tunnel is a well placed stick of dynamite.
We don't need it. There is nothing wrong with the ferry or a plane. It is just used as an easy, legal, way for France to offload a few immigrants.
Now, I am not on about the immigrants themselves, I am just saying it is being abused, and unfortunately it is the French government who are abusing it.
It's a good idea, but is it needed? Was all that money well spent? I
don't think so, maybe I am just being silly.

And speaking of wasted money, I think room is needed in our now very popular room 101 for the millennium dome.
Millions spent on a big tent, so much potential claimed, going to be money well spent.
Now what? Government say, oh, it hasn't worked as well as we hoped, we think it was a mistake.
Well where you park your squad car Dick Tracy, I have been saying that from the start. That was never going to work. Ended up with a huge big dome, that leaks, and nothing to put in it. So hey, lets just rip it down again and put it down to experience.
Personally I think it should be sold to the Ministry of Sound, because it would make one wicked club!

Next in, and this is a late entry, the helpers in Microsoft Word. As I sit here typing this, I have a cat on my screen licking himself. I must have missed something in the Help file, because how does that help me?
Now I admit, it is cute, and fun to animate, but when you are trying to write a serious opinion like this, the last thing you need is a yellow cat running around your screen.
Don't think it would go into room 101 though, don't dislike it that much, maybe it can sit at the window to room 101 and look in instead. I kind of feel bad for threatening to put it in, its now sitting there looking at me wagging its tail around, and looking pitiful. Oh ok, it can stay out of room 101, it just chased a butterfly, I feel mean now, there there little kitty?

However, what can go in and join the party in 101 is the infamous 'white van man'.
How many of you have been driving a long, minding your own business, only to look in your mirror and be confronted with a big white Transit van up your exhaust pipe, with some man in the drivers seat smoking a Marlboro and talking on his phone, while desperately trying to overtake you at the most dangerous time he can find?
Is there a course in being a white van man? They
are everywhere. Was an accident outside my house the other day, car turning right was overtaken by, yep you guessed it, a white van, which side swiped her car and totalled it. Why he overtook her when she was clearly signalling right, I don?t know, but the end result was a shaken up woman, and very poorly looking Ford Sierra and a slightly damaged White Transit.
Maybe it should be made law that all White vans should be painted bright pink, maybe then they wont be so keen to get close to you on the roads!

Ok, and my last entrance into 101, and this one is going to get me into trouble I know, but I have to add it, I'm afraid its women. And no, not women themselves, it's the thing all blokes want to say, but haven't got the guts.
Learn to work the toilet seat!
If it's up, don't come tell us about it, put it down yourselves.
The whole toilet seat thing has to go in I'm afraid, just to help improve the human race and help all men in the world better get along with women.

Ohhh I'm starting to feel much better now. Been as mad as a little baby girl sucking a little red lollypop, oh no, that's how cute I am.
Hmmm, as mad as Coca-Cola? Oh nope. That's how sweet I am.
Ohhh, lets just say I was mad and leave it at that.

Feel better now though, appreciate you all for letting me let of a little steam here.
I'll leave you with a little thought for the day.
If you have more than one computer mouse, is it mice, or mouses?
Answers on a postcard please.

All you fellow Dooyooers? You all have a nice day.

:Bobber:

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