Here's a scratch-board opportunity for you.What would you dump in Room 101.. other than me of course!!
Jim Lawes ● 6406d39 Comments
ConalJust curious, why Phil Andrews. Is it because of his run ins with the Labour party?
Neil Chippendale ● 6400d
Conal - agree with your 3rd suggestion but would have to add Dick (where did I put my barrel of oil) Cheney.
Sue Thornton ● 6400d
Kevin,What about the person in front of you at the hole in the wall who spends 20 minutes or so pressing every conceivable button and at the end, after all that,leave without withdrawing any money and all you want to do is get £20 to go and have a pint or two.
Andrew Sibley ● 6400d
Its three things.1) Phil Andrews2) The Conservative Party3) George Bush
Conal Stewart ● 6400d
Preston's where I lived for a good while before coming to London.It's a hard Northern town with people who don't accept airs and graces lightly from anyone.
Keith Iddon ● 6401d
Esther Rantzen,Jonathan Ross,and his bloody brother,Mark Durden Smith,Cilla Black,Vanessa Feltz,Gabby Roslin,Graham Norton,Lenny Henry,Davina McColl...and last but not least ANYONE WHO HAS EVER APPEARED ON "BIG BROTHER !!!!"
Mark Welland ● 6402d
Why Preston Keith?
Kevin Farnan ● 6402d
Boris Johnson.
Vanessa Smith ● 6402d
1) Supermarket shelf-packers who treat customers as unnecessary evils who simply get in THEIR way when they block the aisles with their trolleys (normally blocking the whole area and making our shopping 'experience' even more of a misery) 2) Shop assistants who refuse to look you in the eye and always have something much more interesting to look at over your shoulder as they nonchalantly or indifferently take your hard earned cash. 3) Supermarket cashiers who pretend you aren't there while they scan your groceries at 100 mph and yak away to a fellow cashier behind them about last nights Big Bruvvva or XFactor. It wouldn't be so bad if they yakked about CSI because then you could try to join in!
Steve Taylor ● 6402d
London also has the rudest people in England,imo.What about the ill mannered b****rds who just push in front of you at a bus queue and then have a real attitude when you point this out to them.If it happened in Preston,I'll wager someone would deck them.
Keith Iddon ● 6402d
1) How about the people who stand at the front of a bus queue for 15/20 minutes or so then when it turns up & the driver opens the doors decide to then start looking in their pockets/handbags/purses for some money or bus pass while you're standing behind in the pi**ing rain!!2) Or the others who wait in the queue to use the hole in the wall then decide when it's their turn that it may be a good idea if they now fumbled about to find their plastic card!!GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Who's that ?
Pat Kingham ● 6403d
BoJo's haircut? A crime against taste.
Vanessa Smith ● 6403d
Agree. Can I add those pull along cases, yes I know they are useful but I can't count the times I've nearly fallen over them on the streets. Also people with backpacks on the Underground, when they swing round they could knock anyone out !
What about people who as soon as an aircraft pulls up at the stand in arrivals cant wait to get out their seat,fiddle about getting their bits out of the overhead lockers and then spend the next 10/15 minutes standing in the gangway waiting for the doors to open?...And they are the same people who then cant wait to get to the baggage reclaim area to then wait another 15 minutes just for the belt to start...GOD THEY MAKE MY BLOOD BOIL !!!
Mark Welland ● 6403d
Yes please.I watch a channel called UKTV or get programmes downloaded off the net. Saw the Christmas "Extras" before it screened in the UK as it was shown in the US on HBO and Midsomer Murder 2 days after it screen on NY day in the UK.I love the net.
Neil Chippendale ● 6403d
I thought that ''Prisoner Cell Block H'' was great!!!!! LOL
Kevin Farnan ● 6403d
We nearly emigrated too - many years ago - my sister and her family having been there since 1960, kids born there of course. My Mum & Dad also went and I stayed here - my Dad couldn't settle and couldn't get back to London quickly enough. When we finally made the journey it finally confirmed what I'd always thought - I could never have lived there in a million years, we had a wonderful holiday - but give me the U.K. and London over anything the Aussies have got. I love the people and have some wonderful old friends out there but agree that there is still an insularity even with the world so small these days.
Neil - Can we chuck in Ozzie T.V.? - only the stuff on offer in the States beats it for awfulness and dross
Hi Neil,Sorry to hear of your difficulties in settling.A friend of mine lived there some years ago and also reckoned it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be.Most of my family(3 sisters and Mum) live there and my sister June lives in (probably)one of the oldest houses in Sydney. It is on Windsor Rd,a dual carriageway,and was built about 1840 by a Scottish mill owner who built a mill in Sydney.I've been several times and despair of the beer and some of the insularity,particularly in the sphere of sport,that can sometimes be encountered.Otherwise I have enjoyed the experience.
Keith Iddon ● 6404d
Yes - people who write 'could of' instead of 'could have' and people who type 'their' instead of 'there' (or 'there' instead of 'their')
Steve Taylor ● 6404d
KeithIve been in OZ for 9 years and I have never been able to settle. I miss London (Brentford) and Sydney isn't London. The weather is awful. Heavy rain, hot humid days. It rains more in Sydney than it does in London.After spending most of my adult life working as a local historian in Hounslow (LBH) and really loving the history of Brentford the history where I work just isnt the same.I live in a house built in 1974 and that is thought of as old. In Brentford my house was built in 1880. The view is different though. In Brentford my garden backed onto to BFC. Here I overlook the bush on two sides and we have a view over the water, not the sea but something called the Brisbane Water.
Neil Chippendale ● 6404d
Neil,you don't come across as being too enamoured with the charms of life down under(I may have it wrong,apologies if so).What are the main bug-bear of living there?
Bus drivers who have ample space to park in off-road Bus Stops but are too lazy to pull off or simply enjoy the 'power trip' of holding up rush hour traffic by blocking the road.
Steve Taylor ● 6405d
Sue,What about the people who insist on using their front lights on full beam in well lit areas or on motorways, thus blinding you every time you look in the rear view mirror.
Andrew Sibley ● 6405d
Sadly, yes.
Neil Chippendale ● 6405d
1.People who say 'outside of'.2.Drivers who have the rear fog lights on, on the clearest of nights.3.Councillors who vote themselves huge increases in allowances whilst claiming they need to make savings. (Phil - I think you abstained)
Sue Thornton ● 6405d
Any computer program that tells you it's taken 30 seconds to do 90% of a task then takes 20 minutes to do the rest.
Tony Wood ● 6405d
Sarah:A scratchboard is an imaginery object onto which you can dig your claws, poke abuse, deposit a rant and also excite your nagging tendencies if you are that way inclined!Scratchboards are essential for some people..although they don't always know it! Maybe these Forums are a scratchboard.. but certainly this thread is meant to be one. Do you have any scroggling rants to dispose off,Sarah? ------------------------------------------------------Another for Room 101: Redundant Brentford buildings left to become an eyesore..without any effort made to surround them with attractive fencing..eg Albany House...next to the Watermans?
Jim Lawes ● 6405d
S'truth Neil..don't be a raw prawn..don't you reside in Oz?
Keith Iddon ● 6406d
Australia
Neil Chippendale ● 6406d
I dislike the expression 'whatever'when used as a reposte to salient points in an argument.
Sorry, what is a scratch-board?
Sarah Felstead ● 6406d
I saw a Jean-Paul Sartre play "Huis-Clos" (No Exit...Closed Walls) at the wonderful Chiswick Tabard theatre a couple of years ago. 3 people are condemned to hell, but there is no torturer, just their own company to probe each's motivations and desires.From that perspective I'd choose Ruth Kelly and Willie Walsh for 101 , whose photos jump out from pages 1,3,4 of this weeks Brentford and Chiswick Observer. They fix the readers eyes with their frank and eager blue eyes. The same blue-eyed innocence seen in so many criminals proclaiming innocence against charges. Willie even pretends he's an ordinary Hounslow resident trying to work out an answer "I don't take it as a given but I am a strong supporter of the plan...". Photography and media have many positive virtues but this is the negative side.So not quite huis-clos but its media version for messrs Kelly, Walsh and why not their photographers.
Michael Fletcher ● 6406d
I'm sure in the Room 101 programme.. you can have at least 10 goes!-------------------------------------------------1) Visitor's car parking facilities at the Brentford Royal Mail Delivery Office in London Road, near Pets Warehouse. (None!)2) Food at Jenny's restaurant in the High Street. ;0((careful jimmie!)3) Yes Gerry, dustbins display at the Watermans!! ..for starters!!
Jim Lawes ● 6406d
Traffic engineers and mobile 'phones - if I can I have two goes?
Vanessa Smith ● 6406d
There are always the rubbish bins at the Watermans.
Gerry Tan ● 6406d
London Rd bus lane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mick OBrien ● 6406d
What is a scratch-board?