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# It's from George Orwell's 1984.
It's a room where your worst nightmare is.
They find out what it is by monitoring you, and they torture you and 're-educate you' into being a complete drone following the political party.
You have to read it, really.
It was also a television programme where people chose things they hate and tried to persuade the host to put them into room 101, which is more of what the coursework was about. We'd just studied 1984, you see.

Edit: You would also understand 'Talk Shows on Mute' if you read 1984, seeing as that's what inspired the song ;)
Hence the line 'Come one, come all into 1984' and one of the reasons why I love the song so much.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 19:55, archived)
# Ahh
I remember 1984! Not too well, though.
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 19:56, archived)
# Animal Farm is better,
I take it you've read it?
Read it again.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 19:57, archived)
# Animal Farm or 1984?
I never read Animal Farm.
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 19:58, archived)
# Nineteen Eighty-Four
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:06, archived)
# Oh okay.
I think I read it in, like, 5th grade? Fuck! That's aages ago. I will reread it, then.
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:08, archived)
# OMG GUESS WHAT!!
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:10, archived)
# OMG WHAT?
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:11, archived)
# YOU JUST LOST THE GAME
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:14, archived)
# AH!
BITCH!!

WHY ARE YOU SO MEAN!?
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:15, archived)
# I'm not mean :(
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:16, archived)
# No
'Course not.

I hafta go now. Stupid godlovers. *hugs* See you later, dear.
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:23, archived)
# Aww ok :(
How long will you be?
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:25, archived)
# Prolly only a couple hours.
i hope.
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:26, archived)
# bullshit
Nineteen Eighty-Four (the title is not numeric, and considering you've been having a go at people for being lazy with their english you should know better) is far superior. animal farm is a great book, and an incredibly intelligent analogy, but not as good as eighty-four

down and out is a difficult read, but well worth the effort
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:02, archived)
# I did know it was not numeric, but I forgot :P
I like Animal Farm because of the fact that I'm a history student. I study it anyway.
Nineteen Enighty-Four is entirely fictitious, despite its similarities with the world today, and I don't like it as much.
Maybe YOU like it more, but I don't.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:05, archived)
# psst
Animal farm is also completely fictitious, it is just based around events in Russia and the USSR in the 20th century.

eighty-four is also more inventive and more structured.
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:10, archived)
# Animal Farm is the story of the Russian Revolution
just substituting the characters and settings.

I agree 1984 (oh shut up) is more inventive, and I repsect the fact that you like it more, but I don't.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:16, archived)
# it's not just the revolution
it's a good 50 years starting with marx's original theories and ending with the start of the downfall of the USSR.

but it's still fictional. as i said up there ^^^^ somewhere, it's a fantastic political analogy, but it is (deliberately) far from the facts.
if it wasn't it wouldn't have stood the test of time. I first read it when i was about 8, and obviously didn't get any of the political references. also, if it was the full story of the revolution it'd be dull. as apart from the major events (which are all referenced) it was (as most revs are) quite dull
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 20:28, archived)