Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits

[BrummieDave]

"Enjoy..."

[panamagold]

"Can I get a plate of grits also?"
I've no idea what grits are, but I'm sure they're awful.

Ah, too young for the 'Beverly Hillbillies' then.

What are grits? Basically ground corn of the cereal nature and not those of the foot. As to the taste? The latter.

[Slarti]

I've no idea what grits are, but I'm sure they're awful.

They are!

Slarti

[OLTB]

I've no idea what grits are, but I'm sure they're awful.

They are!

Slarti

I've only ever seen grits on TV programmes/films and the dish looks like a cross between wallpaper paste and a grey sort of prison gloop.

Cheers, OLTB.

[Watis]

I've no idea what grits are, but I'm sure they're awful.

They are!

Slarti

I've only ever seen grits on TV programmes/films and the dish looks like a cross between wallpaper paste and a grey sort of prison gloop.

Cheers, OLTB.

The taste matches your unappealing description of its appearance!

And I say this as someone who loves porridge!

Watis

[Clariman]

A few things ....

• Car drivers who give no acknowledgement when you have stopped to let them out/pass/through when you have the right of way. What's the harm with raising a hand to say "thanks". It's not difficult!
• Eyebrows of young women which appear to be painted on in the most ridiculous positions and shapes. What's wrong with just trimming natural eyebrows?
• Celebrity culture i.e. people who are famous for being famous, without any actual skill or talent
• Calling Katherine Jenkins or Andrea Bocelli "opera singers" when they certainly are not. They've never sung proper opera, nor are they capable of it.There are 1000s of better singers in music colleges today than either of them.
• Using "less" and "fewer" the wrong way round. The less times I hear that the better!
• Fashion brands that charge ridiculous prices and create a marketing image that they are a "must have". Anyone who does not have them are worthless. I feel sorry for young people who feel the need to buy into that culture. It is so sad to see.
• Getting older and forgetting what the last amazing item for room 101 I was going to post!!

[Clariman]

A few things ....
[*]Getting older and forgetting what the last amazing item for room 101 I was going to post!!

I've remembered but it might not be popular! ....

• When a poster has a sense of entitlement that the LemonFool should be run in exactly the way they want it to be run. And then criticising Moderators or Admin when they discover it isn't run just for them

Present company excepted of course

[Itsallaguess]

Super quick cut editing. Modern trend used in film and TV shows and every Channel 4 documentary.

Cuts so fast you can't actually focus on any individual image.

Often used during a show as a cheap substitute for properly arranged action sequences, or as adverts for a show because they somehow think this will make me want to watch their fare.

A famous recent example of this quite ridiculous trend is the Taken 3 sequence when Bryan Mills jumps a fence.

I give you 15 camera cuts in a 6-second sequence -

https://youtu.be/gCKhktcbfQM

Gah!!

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[Rhyd6]

Drivers who don't acknowledge when you have let them out onto a busy road.
People who don't write thankyou letters - even a phone call will do.
The words please and thankyou seem to be missing from the vocabularly of anyone under 25.

Damn - I'm turning into my mother.

R6

[TedSwippet]

A fair bit of the mainstream media. Specifically:

• Listicles, such as "23 things you didn't know/need to know/should know about ...". This is lazy writing for journalists who are too idle to properly organise their material.
• Adverticles, particularly those where the journalist has simply parroted a company's (or government's) media release without any added value.
• Newspaper article headlines that start with the phrase "Revealed: ...". You are the press. It is your primary function to reveal things. Leave this out.
• Daily Express article headlines that scream SOME words in CAPITALS even though IT is both UNHELPFUL and UNNECESSARY.
• The constant parade of Z-list 'celebrities' in the media. I genuinely have no clue who most of them are.
• Reality TV. Strictly, Bake-off, Big Brother, ... never watched a single episode of any of them (which mostly explains the previous gripe!).

Writing that list ("Six things I detest about the current mainstream media") was however nicely cathartic. :-)

[stevensfo]

The constant parade of Z-list 'celebrities' in the media. I genuinely have no clue who most of them are.
Reality TV. Strictly, Bake-off, Big Brother, ... never watched a single episode of any of them (which mostly explains the previous gripe!).

Agree. The definition of a celebrity these days seems to be anyone who has got their name into a paper, even if it's the North Korean version of Viz.

To add to the list:

Newspapers that use words like 'Outrage', Uproar' etc when in reality, hardly anybody knows, agrees, or cares.

'Gone viral' which means that the editor's wife has read it too.

The phrase 'I know where you're coming from' instead of 'I know what you mean'.

Loads more, but I have to go take my medication.

Steve

[OLTB]

Super quick cut editing. Modern trend used in film and TV shows and every Channel 4 documentary.

Cuts so fast you can't actually focus on any individual image.

Often used during a show as a cheap substitute for properly arranged action sequences, or as adverts for a show because they somehow think this will make me want to watch their fare.

A famous recent example of this quite ridiculous trend is the Taken 3 sequence when Bryan Mills jumps a fence.

I give you 15 camera cuts in a 6-second sequence -

https://youtu.be/gCKhktcbfQM

Gah!!

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

Goodness me, that was an exhausting six seconds.

Cheers, OLTB.

[kiloran]

Sponsored TV programmes....
"ABC is proud to sponsor XYZ" or "ABC happily sponsors XYZ"

Are they really proud or happy? Why can't they just say "ABC is pretty ambivalent about sponsoring XYZ, but at least it gets our name on the telly"

--kiloran

[Lootman]

I've no idea what grits are, but I'm sure they're awful.

They are!

I've only ever seen grits on TV programmes/films and the dish looks like a cross between wallpaper paste and a grey sort of prison gloop.

I went on a mission about this once. Convinced that grits were always terrible I decided to subject my prejudice to the ultimate test. I went to the (at the time) highest rated restaurant in the US South - Elizabeth's at 37th in Savannah, GA:

http://www.elizabethon37th.net/

I figured that if it was actually possible for grits to not have the taste and texture of wall filler then this was the place to refute that. And, sure enough, they weren't bad. I mean, they were edible.

But would i order grits with a "meat and three" in darkest South Carolina? Hell, no. But then hush puppies ain't much better.

PS: Elizabeth's is notable for another reason. It's in a bad 'hood and is the only restaurant I have been to where the valet parking was by an armed guard, with another armed guard to escort my wife and I to our table.

People (mainly young'uns) who say, 'can I get' when ordering something.

I must confess I use that phrase myself. It usually results in one of two responses:

UK: "of course you can, darling"

US: "oh, you betcha"

Nothing wrong with that.

[melonfool]

Late news: I gather that "you guys" is now in the sights of the gender-fluid and trans communities, because (according to them) it attributes a penis to women even though they may have already had theirs removed. (Work it out for yourself...) Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

85% of male to female trans-whatevers have not had 'bottom half' surgery, so they do have a penis and are basically just men in dresses. Most also do not have 'top half' surgery either, but some do. They describe themselves as women. They want to be 'women' while those of us born female and grown up now have to be called 'cis women'.

Oh, yeah, my grump? Men in dresses who think they can be women as if being a woman is just a costume you decide to put on in the morning (and then win awards for their 'bravery' as women!*).

Mel


* see 'Philippa Bunce'

[tjh290633]

"would of".

TJH

[melonfool]

85% of male to female trans-whatevers have not had 'bottom half' surgery, so they do have a penis and are basically just men in dresses.

As Ted would say:

'Jonny, there are no chicks with dicks - only men with tits'

Best of both worlds, innit? Can't tell me it's not just some kind of kinky fantasy!

Mel

(online consultation on whether it's going to be OK for people to just *say* they are the opposite sex: https://consult.education.gov.uk/govern ... ition-act/ )

[UncleEbenezer]

Oh, yeah, my grump? Men in dresses who think they can be women as if being a woman is just a costume you decide to put on in the morning (and then win awards for their 'bravery' as women!*).

* see 'Philippa Bunce'

Hmmm. Men in dresses? Doesn't that mostly happen when we're coerced into it by the women in our lives? I remember with a certain amount of horror a time my then-girlfriend and then-landlady ganged up to send me to a student party in an elaborate dress and other traditionally female-and-sexy costume.

Though having said that, I'd love to live in a world where I could wear a (loose, comfortable) dress and it would be no more remarkable than a woman in trousers. And whenever the BBC bang on about their stereotypes of the sexes (or "genders" in BBC-newspeak), I find myself repulsed by their male and identifying with their characterisation of feminine traits. Doesn't mean I have any desire whatsoever to invade the Ladies, nor any problem with the obvious maleness of my build, my beard, and my bass voice.

[DiamondEcho]

Folk who

Brits who use the folksy Americanism 'folk' referring to people

[AleisterCrowley]

Celebrity chefs who leave the kitchen and become a 'brand'