Topics include sandy beaches, other people's opinions and being Scottish. Frank Skinner hosts as Jimmy Carr, Steven Moffat and Rochelle Humes compete to have their pet hates and peeves consigned to Room 101.
That's the most brilliant sort-of-apology I've ever heard. Jimmy Carr basically blamed the government for his tax avoidance but did it so well I came away liking him even more than before.
@englishmanspeaks That's a distinction without any moral difference whatsoever. But I can tell you're one of those awful Daily Mail, how's-my-house-price types, who think no-one should pay any taxes and the poor are all habitually lazy, so I'm not going to debate you.
@englishmanspeaks " I'm probably more educated than you could ever hope to be." I sincerely doubt it. "Read a book mate" Which one? "if what I said is factual, then am I lying." Ermmm....what?
@englishmanspeaks I didn't say it wasn't. I said the distinction is irrelevant since in both cases you're wriggling out of paying your fair share. One's legal, one isn't, but in both cases it's unethical. But like I said I'm not interested in having some argument with you about this. I know people like you and I know the things I'm going to hear: 'scroungers', 'free-market', 'too many people on benefits', 'taxes too high', 'get Brexit done', etc. Everything about you screams little-England Tory, right down to the username, and it's rarely productive to debate with people like that.
I have that same Kilt. I proposed to my girlfriend in November at Heroes and Villians Fan Fest in Atlanta Georgia in it. I did it at John Barrowman's table. He loved it!
That Australian politician is called Bob Katter, he has his own party based in North Queensland (very arid) called Katter's Australian which are basically a peculiar mixture of UKIP and Socialism. Imagine if Dennis Skinner and Nigel Farage formed a coalition, then it's kind of like them lot.
That is the worst location for an airport I've ever seen. You're going on holiday to relax but instead you get deafened by the sound of an airplane engine?!
That’s on the island of St Martin. The planes fly about 100 feet over the beach when they land. People don’t go to that beach to relax. Tourists go there for the experience.
My own room 101 top gripes would be...When in a shop at the checkout,the assistant licking their fingers before offering you a bag,then loading your food into the bag with the same hand.And when, yours is the first car at red traffic lights with 2 lanes for same use direction ,,the car approaching you from behind, will always choose the other lane than rather than the one you have chosen. Then when the lights change to green they attempt then, to either overtake or undercut you.Never following in the same lane as you...this hacks me off so much.
I agree, if you don't want a tax loophole to be taken advantage of, then close it.Funny they went after certain people like Jimmy, small fry really, when Mick Jagger had huge amounts in Cayman Is and barely paid any tax in UK...no problem!!
He baldly stated that his morality was flexible. I don't know what more honest thing he could say about it. The loopholes never get closed because the super-rich have no intention of giving them up, and this is true of humanity in general, all over the world, and occurs everywhere that it isn't expressly prevented and constantly enforced. This might be because many of the persons who make up humanity have flexible morality as well.
20:29 Here’s a beach tip: When you’ve finished for the day, before you get in your car or whatever, sprinkle baby powder all over your body and rub it around. Not only does it have a nice clean fragrance, but it absorbs the moisture and removes the sand a lot easier.
In that case you should read the paranormal exploits of Mercy THompson who lives in that part of Washington. In the area. ahh who is that author? try Amazon and search in books for Mercy Thompson. I think the first book is Moon Called.
With the HDTV you pay a premium for the HD channels, so you might as well get what you pay for. I was happy when we got to DVD quality having grown up with VHS cassettes and TVs where half the picture was snow on some channels lol. My Dad always used to say an Englishman is never without his jacket lol, but I wear one just to carry things in too unless it's ridiculously hot.
I hate listening to the washing machine draining out waste water because instead of having its own water pipe it’s been connected to the sink outlet by a lazy plumber who thought it would save him time rather than the washing machine having its own dedicated outlet system. So every time the washing machine drains you have to put the plug in the plug hole to reduce the incessant noise that sounds like an elephant dying. So I’m putting lazy plumbers into Room 101…..!
Funny, the depiction of the "scotsman" with the cross in his face looks like the norwegian comedian Vegard Ylvisåker, wich is abit strange, atleast to me.
I would put people who pronounce the letter H “hache” into room 101. I’ve heard Brits on other shows pronounce it that way, but many don’t. Is it a regional thing? I realize Brits pronounce many things differently from Americans. If, for whatever reason, they want to pronounce the letter Z as “zed”, that’s fine, but, for some reason, the “hache” thing bugs me. That, and when they pronounce “tortoise” as “tor-toys”
I agree, speaking as someone to moved to England from abroad ('the colonies' where we learnt proper English). It is a Northern thing I think, for both the H and the tortoise pronunciation. My grandmother, from Lincoln, said 'toy-toys' for tortoise. You learn to accept it. England is full of these little anomalies.
You're not meant to aspirate an H whatever side of the pond you're on, and not all of us do. As for why Z is "zed"; that would be because every step of that word's evolution has had a hard consonant sound at the end until it got to the States and they decided that was a wee bit too difficult for them. And "taught us" is a description of what a teacher did, not the name of a marine reptile.
@@TheValeyard92 Yes, you're right, when it comes to the letter Z, the US is more evolved, but no one said anything about "taught us". Actually, Z derives from the Greek Zeta, which does not have a hard consonant sound at the end. Zed is one letter and one syllable shorter than Zeta. Does that mean the Brits found Zeta to be a wee too difficult?
@@asterix7842 That'd probably be a real zinger if the Greeks used the same alphabet, if the "a" at the end of "zeta" wasn't indicative of how most Mediterranean languages elongate words with a small vowel sound, and if "zed" had come straight to English from Greek with nothing in between. In any case, I have no problem with any evolution of any word. You lot, however, always seem to treat anything that came before your version as some kind of mistake... Even though the language is called (say it with me now)...
It's more of a stupid thing than a regional thing. I think the biggest cause of this is bad teaching in nurseries and primary schools. Some teachers would go through the alphabet, making the sound each letter makes, like, "T. Tuh, tuh, T. As in T for train." So, with H, they'd go, "H. Huh, huh, haitch. As in haitch for happy." I used to have a (pretty stupid) girlfriend who worked at a nursery, and we would have arguments over this. She insisted that it's haitch because it makes a "huh, huh" sound. I thought it was shocking that she was allowed to teach young children. Well anyway, these children then grow up saying haitch, and they pass it on to their children. Any sensible, educated person in England knows it's aitch. However, some people who _do_ know better still end up saying haitch in an attempt to sound more tough, common or working class. There's a real stigma in England about being too posh or middle class. My brother is a good example of this. He would say aitch normally up until he was about 16, and now he says haitch. Yeah, so I guess there's a sense of peer pressure too; maybe one or two of the cooler/tougher kids at school say haitch, so others start copying them. It's got really bad though. When I started primary school (in 1993), everyone said aitch. I didn't start noticing haitch being said until about five years later, but still, only about 5% of the people would use it. Honestly, it now seems like it's at 50/50 with haitch and aitch. You even get people doing voice-over work (perhaps for an HSBC or H&M commercial), saying haitch on national TV. It's awful. It's definitely not a regional thing. I'm from the southeast of England, one of the least "regional" places in England (the accent here is pretty much the standard English accent you'd hear in films or documentaries), and people still say haitch here. Frank Skinner (the host of this show) is from Birmingham, one of the more "regional" places in England, and he says aitch properly. In fact, you see he does say haitch at first, probably to make the woman feel comfortable, but he then thinks better of himself and goes back aitch. The Scottish man (also with a pretty "regional" accent) says aitch properly too. It really just comes down to the person, rather than where they're from. I have heard that it comes from telephone operators back in the day, having to say haitch because H could be misheard as A, but I don't know if there's any truth to this. I still say it just comes down to people being stupid. Sorry for the long rant, but really hate this. This is something I would be putting in Room 101 too.
If your HD TV is “too sharp” then you need to change the settings. Go into your settings and turn off smooth motion, and it will greatly improve your TV experience.
on a black-tie night out with my ex gf she was exactly like franks partner expect with her phone so I had to go around carrying her phone when she could have brought a very small clutch.
Most importantly I should make it clear that I’m an American and an American talking about British tax rules is probably the height of arrogance. However, I’ve been called a very arrogant person so I’m going to live up to that standard. I think Jimmy Carr is wrong or was wrong to cave into the pressures by the government officials who are doing exactly the same thing that he was accused of as being inappropriate. Tax avoidance should be okay if there’s a law that says you can do it. Jimmy Carr should have in my opinion made a public statement that until they change the law that he was going to take every advantage of tax avoidance that he possibly could because all they had to do to correct the situation was to change the tax rules so that everybody paid the same tax. Otherwise, if they are willing to do that then it shows just exactly what kind of lying bastards those government officials truly are. Then Jimmy Carr could have kept the prices for his shows down and he would be a whole lot richer until the government finally admitted that they were greedy wealthy individuals.
The thing is, and its pointed out on his speech here, despite what alot of people think, he is a decent guy. He could have just not payed the tax and carried on not paying taxes, none of what he did is illegal. But it is unethical And that's what he had a problem with. That's why he paid the tax and stoped doing what he did and went out of his way to learn about the topic. For him it isn't about the legality of it. But the morality of it. And that's what he says in his speech, is there is always going to someone else that does what he did and doesn't care about the morality of it. So the law needs to change because those people never will. He saw why what he was doing is wrong but the next 100 people that do it won't. So you need to change the law, because you can't have a system that rewards having poor morals. He has been very out spoken and active in getting the tax law changed the last few years. It does seem like he took it in his stride and learnt from the situation and educated himself on the subject and is now trying to make things better
10:02~10:14 and how much tax has cameron paid? the same amount as Jimmy saved in tax none. Oh and then there's that tax avoiding toerag louis hamilton, millions of dollars tax NOT PAYED
I would -put: "The following": into: "Room: 101!!"!! "(ALL of the following (things)":) =Weddings, Marriages, Monogamy; "formal_relationshi*s!!" And/or; hell and/or; the rule: "No sex out-side of marriage!!"!!
HDTV is a bit of a pet hate of mine. I think there can be such a thing as too much clarity. EastEnders, I haven't really watched for years but I think it looks too glossy now. Standard definition gave it a grittiness. I don't even like wearing my glasses when I don't absolutely have to, I hate walking down the street and seeing everything really sharp.
Well, yeah. That's what Room 101 is all about. And HDTV is something I'd offer as a first world problem of mine. I'm not going to suggest putting something like Vladimir Putin in there, it's meant to be a bit of fun. Let's not get real. You take a a frivolous annoyance and exaggerate its importance, as a joke. So I don't see what your point is, of course I'm going to talk about first world problems to go into Room 101.
Ken Dodd ripped off Benny Hill. Dodd said "I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside." Benny said, speaking of his wife in the joke, "She won't send money to the Inland Revenue because we live on the coast" Joke thieves are everywhere.
steven Moffat ( the guy who couldnt make Dr Who into a series, only the odd special) should go to Whitehaven Beach Australia, it will blow his mind, sand like baby powder.
