The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

[Alan]

Speaking of Room 101 and things that need a bloody good moan about: one of the best things about visiting my grandparents as a child was the Magnum Centre in Irvine, not far from where they lived. It was literally the best swimming pool in the world. I mean, perhaps not actually, but from my childhood perspective it was.

Ah I remember the big bowl where the flume would spit you out into a big dish you would spin round before falling out a hole in the bottom. You must lay flat for the duration except my friend (who wasn't the brightest before this) decided to sit up. I have a distinct memory of him shouting "you don't have to lie down" as his head cracked off the bowl as he dropped through the hole.

My better half has only recently decided to try and learn to swim so we have been going to the local basic pools but I was looking for something more fun - not for kids, for us! Time Capsule is closed for renovations, Hamilton Water Palace reviews all say its disgustingly filthy and I think the Aquatec only currently has the standard pool open, not the fun pool. How can it be this hard for a middle aged old man to get a shot on a flume damnit! Two glasgow club pools have one but they're cordoned off. Also flume is one of those words that sounds more ridiculous each time you say it that it gets to the point you think it must be a word you made up yourself and everyone will be laughing at you for using. So I googled it, its fine, its real. Flume. Flume. Flume. ¬_¬

I did fine a small private pool you can take your dog to though!




Bonus 101 - my stupid Samsung telly asked me to accept new terms, I haven't had a software update in well over a year so I just clicked it off because what does it matter? For my sins they disabled HDMI-cec and HDMI-arc till I accepted. I don't see how that can be legal. I hope there is a demand/supply of dumb TVs in the future but where would they put their adverts then? :/

[Stormbringer]

Ah I remember the big bowl where the flume would spit you out into a big dish you would spin round before falling out a hole in the bottom. You must lay flat for the duration except my friend (who wasn't the brightest before this) decided to sit up. I have a distinct memory of him shouting "you don't have to lie down" as his head cracked off the bowl as he dropped through the hole.

I remember when that bowl was first built! I started going to the Magnum years before it was. As well as the 'family slide' (that large white slide with five lanes side by side) and the last development of all (that I remember) was the outdoor pool...which I think must have been the only one of its kind in Scotland. I never went in the bowl myself; always had a fear of fast slides and going underwater.

Also flume is one of those words that sounds more ridiculous each time you say it that it gets to the point you think it must be a word you made up yourself and everyone will be laughing at you for using. So I googled it, its fine, its real. Flume. Flume. Flume. ¬_¬

100%! I thought it was one of those words that perhaps only my mum used...like how she called the sofa a 'settee' when everyone else in the world called it a 'sofa' or a 'couch'.

[Animalmother]

This "Whose still listening/watching in 2025!?" as the top comment in every single fucking YouTube video? I assume these have to be bot accounts setup for the sole purpose of posting the comment? It's up there with cunts who say stuff like "I can't stop crying when I listen to this!"...

Old man rant over.

[Stormbringer]

I find it's actually hard to tell the difference between bots and real humans exhibiting bot-like behaviour online.

I am increasingly of the belief that we actually are bots...just organic ones.

[Alan]

Wait... there's comments on youtube? Nah cant be, sounds like an awful idea.

[Stormbringer]

The most ridiculous thing has happened.

I took my trousers off the other night (and I literally mean the other night) to go to bed...then...in the morning...my trousers had vanished. I have searched all over the house for them and they're just...gone. They're not my favourite pair so I don't especially care about the trousers, but what does bother me is that my wallet was inside the pocket.

The whole family has searched through every room of the house and there's not a trace of them. The doors were all locked, so it's not like someone came in and stole them. Anyway, even if someone did somehow space-warp through my house walls, who wanted to take my wallet, why would they take the trousers as well? I cannot fathom it.

[Wrathbone]

Have you seen a stop-motion clay penguin with a remote control eyeing up your house recently?

[Stormbringer]

I haven't, but the situation is so absurd, anything is possible.

[Animalmother]

1000% your missus picked them up and threw them in the wash basket or something similar and just forgot. Either that or you've got a weird Fight Club style alter ego doing domestic terrorism in your trousers.

[Stormbringer]

1000% your missus picked them up and threw them in the wash basket or something similar and just forgot.

She didn't.

Either that or you've got a weird Fight Club style alter ego doing domestic terrorism in your trousers.

I am willing to believe this theory, and at the moment I think it's the most likely.

[Stormbringer]

So it turns out I had inadvertently stuffed the trousers into an under-sink cupboard in the utility room.

The wallet was found. Case closed!

[Sly Boots]

So it turns out I had inadvertently stuffed the trousers into an under-sink cupboard in the utility room.

The wallet was found. Case closed!

Must have rolled a nat 1 on that WITS check...

[Animalmother]

Where you under the influence at the time?

[Stormbringer]

Not the alcoholic or narcotic kind, but who knows what other influences I may have been under.

[Rusty]

Wonder if you sleep walk?