# What's in your "Room 101"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 27, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704 "2010-02-27T23:41:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/1 "2010-02-27T23:41:31Z")
I’m sure we’ve done this before, but I guess it’s time to do it again. In Orwell’s \*1984, \*there’s a “Room 101,” which is a torture chamber. For each victim, the room contains the one thing that is his “worst nightmare.” For the book’s protagonist, the room contains rats. For me, it would contain maggots . . . about five feet deep. What’s in \*\*\*your \*\*\*Room 101? ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/2 "2010-02-27T23:45:39Z")
Puke. ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/3 "2010-02-27T23:55:07Z")
Either Liverpool fans, or spiders. Maybe a room full of arachnophiles, with their pets, who support Liverpool. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/4 "2010-02-28T00:05:42Z")
Bikini girls with machine guns. It’s not so bad. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/5 "2010-02-28T00:16:40Z")
Suffocation. Blindness. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/6 "2010-02-28T00:20:16Z")
Gagged and restrained. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/7 "2010-02-28T00:27:29Z")
> [@missred](#): > > Gagged and restrained. For me, that’d be in a totally different room. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/8 "2010-02-28T00:29:09Z")
Chocolate. With caramel. Scary, scary stuff. Oh, no, not room 101! ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/9 "2010-02-28T00:40:09Z")
Eels. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/10 "2010-02-28T00:54:18Z")
Mold. ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/11 "2010-02-28T01:05:47Z")
Spiders. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/12 "2010-02-28T01:14:11Z")
A real-life lotus boob. Just Google it if you don’t know. I can’t even look at the Google results without wanting to fling my laptop across the room. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/13 "2010-02-28T01:26:51Z")
For my wife, it would be worms, or slugs, or both. For me, flying bugs - or cockroaches. I used to deliver and pick up furniture for a rental business. Cockroaches galore in some houses, especially in televisions and appliances. I hated those things. Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/14 "2010-02-28T02:01:43Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Chocolate. With caramel. Scary, scary stuff. > > Oh, no, not room 101! “I was bred and born in a briar patch!” My room 101 would probably be loads of white grapes that had been stepped on. Or it would be big angry dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/15 "2010-02-28T02:50:12Z")
Karaoke ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/16 "2010-02-28T03:00:52Z")
A room with no light, mirrored walls, and a single, large spider. Separately, the first two are no problem for me; however, putting me in a dark room with a mirror is pure torture. I have no clue why it bothers me so much, it just does. As for the spider, they just plain creep me out. It’d leave me a gibbering mess in a matter of minutes. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/17 "2010-02-28T03:20:28Z")
Rodents, rednecks and dumb people. ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/18 "2010-02-28T04:41:59Z")
Big, angry dogs. Or a fire. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/19 "2010-02-28T05:06:33Z")
A pool drain. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/20 "2010-02-28T05:20:04Z")
The tiny elevators that go up inside the Arch in St. Louis, with the others seats occupied by the faceless cat. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704.md?page=2)