Banish those things that make your life misery to Room 101. What would you send to the Orwellian nightmare vault and why? 
I will start us off with:
The metric system. We want to keep our pounds and ounces and feet and inches. :mad:
Ms. That is the noise made when a mosquito is hit in the genitals and should be treated with the same amount of respect.
In they go
Heh, I started a thread like this a while back, mine are:
Soap operas
“The Caretaker” By Harold Pinter
Kilroy
There are more but I’ll stick with those for now.
My number 1:
This bloody message board.
It’s taking up far too much of my time when I should be working, and it’s making me feel unintelligent, un-witty and…oh… lot’s of other un- things.
Mid-terms and term papers. Gah!
Had you asked last year I would have said oral exams. I’m not sure yet what’s worse, five mid-terms and four term papers, or one 15-minute oral.
And had you asked two years ago, I would have named a person. Actually, I think I’d still send her, just to eliminate the chance that I’ll ever see her again.
And one last thing–my friend’s sex drive. Nice guy and all, but without this he’d be a lot more bearable for me and a couple other female friends.
Isn’t the latter what you get for doing well in the former?
exams.
'Nuff said.
Yellow jackets/wasps/bees go in there. All I need is one to go near me and I freeze and start hyperventilating. And I’m not even allergic. Just freakin’ scared of them. That noise when they buzz near you and aroung you and you can imagine that little stinger wanting to plunge into your skin… ::shudder::
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s entire collection of works.
This cough, for one.
Just thought of another one -
The flu.
Lemon Curd - For fuck’s sake what is that all about?
Them pink wafer biscuits you get in tins of biscuits. I don’t know anyone who likes them - in my house we end up throwing them away (and I have kids that eat their own bogeys but won’t eat these)
Cyclists - Specifically the ones that ride on the pavement, and the smug ones (all the female ones have hairy legs)
Vegans - Not natural - it’s an eating disorder and these people should be force fed if only to get rid of the sense of superiority they seem to feel.
Vegan cyclists - beyond description
Arsenal - Bribed their way into the league, have been a byword for dishonesty since; fans are all newfan wankers in jester’s hats. Should bugger off back to plumstead and leave decent people in peace.
My next door neighbour. - You’d have to meet him.
Richard Branson - where to start?
Sports commentators who indulge in puerile byplay, and “Jim” and “Roger” each other the whole time.
Driving on the right-hand side of the road.
Whats up with that?
That definitely has to go.
It seems from my brief anecdotal research that most of the world agrees with you on this but in our house they were really popular. We (kids) used to fight over them. :o
For Room 101 I’ll put in sports commentators full stop. Also have to second the 'flu. And pearls earrings. For some reason they just bug me. Maybe it’s the association with the horsey, collars up and ralph lauren shirt-wearing crowd that my mind makes when I see them.
Consistently rude people.
My ex-husband and his secretary. Please.
I love the metric system! Can I please dump the English system??
I rescue the metric system from Room 101 in a daring heist,
and throw in, instead,
the common cold, cancer, AIDS, malaria, mosquitos, those annoying pop-up windows, bad traffic jams, nuclear weapons, Dubya, several assorted dictators, temper tantrums, splinters, and rude people.
I have to agree with you about that stuff . Many years ago I was forced by a teacher to eat this gunge during school dinners. I got my own back though , I was spectacularly sick in the classroom a couple of hours later.
I’d have to chuck in spiders and that Katie Melua, oh how I despise her :mad:
Oh, and Chavs/Pikeys
I like lemon curd, as long as it’s proper sharp home-made stuff and not that sickly-sweet stuff you get in shop-bought LCTs (that’s lemon curd tarts).
So I’ll scrape the lemon curd out of Room 101 and replace it with small dogs. Any dog that is smaller than a decent-sized cat is just ridiculous.
I add to the “superior” vegans everybody who feels some weird need to proselytize about their diets, whether vegetarian, Atkins, or whatever. I don’t want to eat the same stuff you do, deal with it. I’m not even terribly interested in hearing about it unless one of us is cooking for the other, or we are trying to decide on a restaurant to go to.
People who for some reason don’t think the rules that apply to everyone else apply to them. An example would be cyclists who don’t think red lights and stop signs apply to them.
Budget cutbacks on my project at work, and the uncertainty of having to find a new project on short notice. 
People who think pets are disposable, and that it’s OK to turn their dog or cat over to a shelter (or, worse, just throwing it out in the country) the second it becomes inconvenient or not cute anymore. I know there are legitimate reasons for giving up a pet, but these aren’t it.
Telemarketers, especially ones that call early in the morning. I can’t believe no one’s nominated them yet.