# 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:** 2
**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, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/21 "2010-02-28T05:20:29Z")
> [@brendon\_small](#): > > For my wife, it would be worms, or slugs, or both. > > For me, flying bugs - Ok, you two feel free to swap rooms with me. Worms, slugs and bugs are doubleplus good. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/22 "2010-02-28T05:48:56Z")
Getting limbs and appendages cut off. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/23 "2010-02-28T08:06:38Z")
A neverending [del]story[/del] panic attack. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/24 "2010-02-28T08:11:15Z")
Several of my relatives. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/25 "2010-02-28T08:34:05Z")
Being crammed head downward with my arms pinned against my sides into a narrow shaft that’s slowing filling with water. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/26 "2010-02-28T08:36:51Z")
fire ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/27 "2010-02-28T08:46:32Z")
Just solitary confinement will do it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/28 "2010-02-28T09:51:24Z")
Politicians. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/29 "2010-02-28T09:57:07Z")
A film on repeat, of all the various mistakes of my past. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/30 "2010-02-28T13:07:30Z")
Loud, thumping music, probably rap. Volume varies greatly overtime, and I know where it’s coming from, but I can’t turn it off. ---
**Author:** ![figure9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/31 "2010-02-28T13:13:24Z")
An endless shaft, where I would keep falling forever. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/32 "2010-02-28T15:06:19Z")
Snakes…even little harmless ones… ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/33 "2010-02-28T16:46:51Z")
In my Room 101, there is loud rap music playing, of a kind that even rap fans would regard as rather repetitive and crass. With the bass well to the fore. For company, there are only four people. The first is a very evangelical born-again christian who is concerned about my atheism, and who wants to share with me why he reckons everything he believes can be proved to be true (ignoring that this undermines the concept of ‘faith’). The second is someone who more or less lives her whole life according to astrology, and who helpfully ‘informs’ me that ‘…and science has proved that it works’. The third is a die-hard sports enthusiast with a terrific memory for statistics, who cannot be made to realise that I’m just not even remotely interested in sport. The fourth is a professional Brazilian lingerie model who tells me she used to be fond of walking around wearing very little. However, she converted to Islam yesterday and now chooses to wear the full Burkha, so that only her eyes are visible through a dark veil. The only food is [fish head stew](http://www.motivatedphotos.com/?id=42977) and the only available drink is pure lemon juice. There is a phone in the room, but I can only phone my bank. The authorities have informed me that there is one - and only one - way out of Room 101. They have promised to release me if I can call my bank and get them to admit that they have made an error on my statement. I am only allowed to call the bank at very busy times. There is a TV in the room. It is on all the time. All it ever shows is a 30 minute video clip from a regional council meeting about a supermarket planning application, on an infinite loop. The sound is loud but is about three seconds out of sync with the picture, the aspect ratio is incorrect and the ‘vertical hold’ is unreliable. Next door, someone is teaching himself to play The Final Countdown on the accordion, but has no musical talent or aptitude whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/34 "2010-02-28T17:06:36Z")
Rush Limbaugh in the nude. ---
**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, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/35 "2010-02-28T17:07:10Z")
**ianzin** , that was fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/36 "2010-02-28T17:29:09Z")
The bullies I remember from elementary and junior high school. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/37 "2010-02-28T17:29:30Z")
Moldy and fungal honeycombed walls with slimy serpentine things crawling in and out of them. The floor would be dirt, with massive ant and termite hills dotting it at random intervals. There would also be a stagnant, mildewy lake where surinam toads are breeding. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/38 "2010-02-28T17:39:51Z")
Spiders, definitely. And my coworker that I share an office with: she has a southern accent a mile thick, can’t use an ending G to save her life, and tells everybody your business. She also cannot butt out of a conversation. Her voice alone grates on my last nerve. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/39 "2010-02-28T17:59:02Z")
I’m really kind of wondering if some folks here get what “Room 101” is about. It’s the room where you would betray the one you love the most, ask the tormentors to put her in your place, just so you can get away from it. And supposedly, you’d have no choice but to do so, since the horror of Room 101 is so deep and instinctive that you’d _reflexively_ thrust your child or spouse into it just so you don’t have to. ---
**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, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704/40 "2010-02-28T19:41:19Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > A neverending [del]story[/del] panic attack. Ooh, wait! This! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-room-101/530704.md?page=3)