Room 101

So, what I wonder is why aren’t adverts getting stopped forever? Well, when asking around I’ve been told that some people wrongly think adverts are useful, saying they use this time either to go to the toilet or make a drink or snack. Well, when counting up the amount of advert breaks in-between an hour-long program I was watching yesterday, there was a massive 4 breaks interrupting it! No way do people need to get up and do these so-called useful things 4 times in an hour, which is every 15 minutes, which is ridiculous!

Furthermore, adverts are there simply to advertise different products or services. But, who actually watches the adverts? Definitely not me, and I’m not the only one. A massive 94% of people don’t pay any attention to the adverts, and 86% of these people change the channel over whilst the adverts are on.

So, adverts, they do nothing but annoy people, they ruin the programs you watch and the advertisements don’t get any attention by the vast majority of the population, therefore meaning they aren’t doing the job they are there for. They are annoying and pointless, and I am sure everyone will agree they should definitely be put into room 101.

The second thing that I hate greatly is family meals. This doesn’t include meals with only your parents; it’s a meal with the whole of your family including grandmas, uncles, aunties and little cousins. So, you may wonder, why do I hate family meals when they should be a time of happiness and catching up with relatives? Well, this hate is mainly due to personal experiences, but I believe people of any age will be able to relate to me. Here is a typical family meal:

• There are always hundreds of little distractions that keeps the meal going on for hours and hours. Due to their being a large amount of people, it is guaranteed that at least one person gets the wrong meal and the fussy eater of the family wont eat their dinner. The older members of family take ages concentrating on cutting up everyone else’s food instead of eating their own. The baby’s cry and cry and the younger children run around, throw food, and do everything that generally annoys everyone else. Therefore, everyone ends up stressed and frustrated, not enjoying themselves at all. The meal takes up the main part of your day, therefore wasting a day on something you didn’t want to do.

But, family meals are important aren’t they? I believed it was to keep the relatives happy. They like to meet with the whole family, enjoying it and looking forward to it.

Well, research proves this is totally incorrect. Interestingly, on average, in a family all but one of the relatives who attended the meal would have rather used that time doing something else. So, why do we bother with family meals? No one enjoys it, it’s stressful and frustrating, puts you in a bad mood and everyone would rather be somewhere else. Family meals need to go into room 101 and the sooner the better.