Now, I know that Radio 3 Forum users are not, as a rule, grumblers or complainers 
I don't want to start a negative thread, to spoil the atmosphere.
But I'm curious.
Borrowing from Orwell and the BBC TV format, if boarders could nominate one aspect of modern life which they would hope to see consigned to Room 101 and the door securely locked, what would it be?
There are some dreadful things which would self-evidently qualify as "the worst thing in the world" (to quote Orwell)... but I'm more after more idiosyncratic personal nasties that people here would gladly be rid of.
To start the ball rolling, what I would like to see locked away in Room 101 is the modern method of construction of ladies' shoes which means that the heels are so heavy or resonant that whenever the lightest of women walks along a corridor or pavement, it sound like a cart-horse is passing. It happens constantly at the office, and at home in the room facing the street: the noisiest thing that happens bar a fire engine or similar going by with sirens on, is that a lady with 'heeled business shoes' walks by. An intrusive CLIP CLOP CLIP CLOP.... If she happens to be running (or, dare I say it, of more substantial build
), goodbye concentration, or even conversation 
Yes, I know. Time for my meds.
Any more for any more?
I don't want to start a negative thread, to spoil the atmosphere.
But I'm curious.
Borrowing from Orwell and the BBC TV format, if boarders could nominate one aspect of modern life which they would hope to see consigned to Room 101 and the door securely locked, what would it be?
There are some dreadful things which would self-evidently qualify as "the worst thing in the world" (to quote Orwell)... but I'm more after more idiosyncratic personal nasties that people here would gladly be rid of.
To start the ball rolling, what I would like to see locked away in Room 101 is the modern method of construction of ladies' shoes which means that the heels are so heavy or resonant that whenever the lightest of women walks along a corridor or pavement, it sound like a cart-horse is passing. It happens constantly at the office, and at home in the room facing the street: the noisiest thing that happens bar a fire engine or similar going by with sirens on, is that a lady with 'heeled business shoes' walks by. An intrusive CLIP CLOP CLIP CLOP.... If she happens to be running (or, dare I say it, of more substantial build
), goodbye concentration, or even conversation Yes, I know. Time for my meds.
Any more for any more?
, yet the announcement coyly says 'If you see anything suspicious, please tell a member of staff'.)
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