5 years, 6 months and 9 days
Happy birthday B3ta.

I have no idea how I found my way here but I do know that I survived the FIRE!

Strangely the servers where the fire was also hosted the site where Mr Entity 'hung out'.
As we couldn't talk to random people on the internet we were forced to talk to each other!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 12 Sep 2011, 20:31, Reply)

Woo yay hoopla!
Well, I joined 9 years and one month ago. I think I found this through my brother working with nicey from a nicecupofteaandasitdown.com met, munkt0n on here, I hand sewed a fear doll and gave it to spacefish. The original creator of the fear. I took hand puppet shark and badger to our first bash in the time badger badger was new and the shark helicopter were new. Munk0n spawned 4rthur which did not survive. We moved in together and have seen jh4c and jeffna get married. Got married ourselves and seen bats girl marry evistevie too. I have never seen a place spawn so much happy.
( jiva nearly always up for a game of scrabble, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 20:25, 6 replies)

Just stopping by to say Happy Birthday B3ta!
Ten years of quality shoppage and CDC's galore. Woo, Yay, Hoopla and even a Panowie!
( parttimedogfish is a Born-Again Reincarnationist, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 20:19, Reply)

10 years, where does the time go?!
8 years, 2 months and 7 days is me. Found my way here through that electric dreams video and then moving down south and meeting some folks who were members who told me to sign up. I've met some wonderful people thanks to this place, friends who I hope to have forever. The bashes used to be ace too, especially the ones in Brighton, London and Manchester. I've even got a mug somewhere that I won in 2003 at one of the raffles!
(DMQOB, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 20:18, Reply)

4 years, four months, and two days.
Good old b3ta. I don't post on here anymore, but still occasionally browse.

I got in the newsletter a few times back in the day. Good times.

Peace.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 20:13, Reply)

Blimey. I see that I joined 9 years, 2 months and 18 days ago.
Thanks to a cartoon (Coo?) by somebody whose name I can't recall, like so much else, which was linked on Cix (a bulletin board - younger readers may wish to consult a glossary).
Lots of fun, lots of nice people, some intense transatlantic messaging (hello, Cheryl), crowded bashes - I remember going to the something Celeste with great trepidation for my first one, and immediately meeting the wonderful Freshlegs, and realising that B3tans are OK. Also Rob trying to deter me from going into a bash, because he thought I was some lost dotard in the wrong place, looking obviously far too old to have anything to do with his young hip board ...
( Cassidy : Vissi d'arte, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 20:12, 2 replies)

Those were the days
I've been a member for 9 years, 5 months and 28 days, although very little posting of late.

I remember some very messy london based bashes in 2002, 2003 at the Daphne and Celeste pub. I'd like to think my liver is still suffering to this day.

I think I found b3ta through a reference to it on some fictional TV show about an internet startup - I think it was called 'Attachments'...
( rosey, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:46, 2 replies)

Ten years! Blimey.
9 years and 18 days since i registered, and i know i lurked for a month or so before that. I cant remember how i found it - an image posted on another forum i guess. I quickly got addicted - and in those days you could read the whole board after getting home from work - learned some very rudimentary photoshop, got a bit drunk and dived in. Soon learned i liked the getting drunk more than trying to coax my pitiful talent, so stuck to the social side. Met some smashing people (who i still count as friends to this day, although we dont see each other very much), and some complete wierdos.
Many laughs, many heated debates, and many many hangovers - its been a blast.


Edit: Favourite memories - Ijon Tichy in a roman centurians outfit, Hillstomp playing a gig at 200%'s flat, the corridor bash, Fnord's fabulous m3tatween project, Freshlegs nearly buying a submarine, and many many hours giggling inanely whilst making a rubbish photoshop.

Edit Edit: And Stouffer's FOUR POUNDS.
( discostu oh my, its back, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:43, 1 reply)

8 years, 5 months and 21 days ago blah blah
I have no recollection of how b3ta found me. But I am glad that it did.
(Phooey I COOK MUD, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:41, Reply)

Happy flaming candle day b3ta.
My mate directed me here, to QOTW as it happens.
I then signed up with the intention of posting on /board.
They all called me a hamtoucher and told me to fuck off, that I should go and annoy the pricks on /talk.
So I did.
They all called me gay and told me to fuck off.

Nowt much has changed really, I sign in and get called gay and told to fuck off on a daily basis.

I stay for the love *hugs you*
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:37, 2 replies)

Well then!
Happy decade b3ta.

I found the site through (I think) Buffy's Swearing Keyboard. The rest is fairly well recorded in hideous photographic detail...

Creatively, the highlight for me has always been taking part in phases 3+4 of Fnord's epic M3tatw33ning project, and going to see it screened at a little festival somewhere near Leeds. I did e-mail him about 2 years ago to try and get a copy of it, and he replied but I never followed it up. If anyone has it I would love to see it again.

It's that kind of non stop collaborative creativity that I think sums up all the positive things about b3ta and the internet in general. I used to love that a simple text post could inspire a song, then a flash video, then a whole website within a few hours. The "daughter" sites have been great too, with m3ss3ng3r and 4rthur doing a great job of forerunning social networking on a home brew scale.

Most of all though I am thankful for the people I've met through b3ta. If it weren't for b3ta I would never have met my beautiful fiance and wouldn't have my gorgeous daughter.

I'd never have picked up enough IT and internet knowledge to give up working in pubs and start a pretty successful career in broadband support.

And, or course, I'd never have been shot at while hitch-hiking from St Albans to London. Or decided the best way to pick up a dog is to hold it like a duck. Or played Photoshop Tennis. Or drunk vodka with a cider mixer for breakfast in Joel's kitchen. Or any of the other 10,000 amazing and ridiculous things I have done with so very many of you lovely people.

Now do fuck off, again.
( supermoore: HUNG, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:27, 10 replies)

Back in the day...
Smale's mention of the BBC reminded me just how much the BBC loves b3ta:

-There was the time when Click asked people to photoshop a picture to win a memory stick...and my shark/helicopter/bridge got shown on TV.
-And that time when GSTQ got a goatse on the news

Good times
( thistle, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:16, Reply)

Mere snippets from a decade of woo.
I was lucky enough to arrive early on with B3ta, the Kill Your Friends game's amazing theme song got me to visit the site and you could post without an account so I did that at first. I thought at the time getting id 498 might mean in 10 years time I'd feel honoured to be one of the first 500.

Some of my very early favourites were Giant Bee, Electric Dreams with Hawking and the Cursor Love Bunny... we could be here another 10 years if I go through all of them.

It was all amazing, the speed at which things were made, the love put into them, just for the sake of a quick joke or to get some crazy idea out of your head.

I was always confident that b3ta was going to explode in popularity because it was so full of incredible things.

I made this predicted growth chart in June 2002

This is the updated version with the actual results superimposed, the Introducing Monday site was the kink in July 2002.

Bandwidth was a strain back then many times we'd get a red x once a pic's hosting had exceeded it's limit but being on blueyonder I was fortunate to have unlimited bandwidth. I thought I could test out just how unlimited when Joel asked if I could host a couple of flash files for his animations Outtathaway by the Vines and a Blode Episode. They're just a few hundred k, no big deal. Wow! is all I can say. So many gigs worth of hits came in month after month I kept waiting for the phonecall and a huge bill but thankfully they never came :) (Still hosting them to this day)

Another early favourite was Joel's trip around London with a crab mask from Newsletter 20. I ended up bumping into him a few months later and recognising him from this so he was the first b3tan I met (if you don't count the ones I found out later I'd gone to school with). The bashes began in earnest in 2002 and so many great bonds were formed and chaos was released from the furtive minds.

I should save all this for a book one day ;) The m3tatweening (Phase 1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1yeD17rVQE was one of the best things I remember from a collaboration point of view (the b3ta fish screensaver that appeared from nowhere one afternoon from scratch was another - if anyone has the swf of that let me know www2.b3ta.com/screensaver/ )

The first one was just meant to be a long animated gif, but I got so many people wanting to take part I realised I would have to make it a video, then more b3tans added a soundtrack to it. If you#ve never heard of m3tatweening it's a b3tan stream of consciousness animation where each one of 20ish animators only get a start and end frame. They can get from one to the other any way they want, then all of it will join together using those key frames.

EDIT: M3tatweening Phase 2 now online again for the fist time in 5 or 6 years - vimeo.com/28960828

By the time it got to Phase 3 & 4 vimeo.com/7464540 - (Full HQ version) people were using full on video, particle effects, ms paint, imageready, anything you could imagine and yet it all still flowed together, it's a hefty 24 mins and full of great woo! All from such a simple idea.

Domo Darko (removed from Youtube now) was made the day millions marched around the world to protest against the upcoming Iraq War. It is probably the best received thing I made on b3ta but it only exists because b3ta does. The same goes for so many wonderful things we have seen over the years.

Part of why the Domo Darko song was so great to me was that I first saw the film Donnie Darko at the Curzon in London with some b3tans; Misteralfie, Bob the Dinosaur and maybe a couple more, the night before the 1st B3tan halloween bash in 2002. The film's timeline leads up in date to halloween so it all seemed so right.

B3ta also once led me to ask the Liverpool St. Station announcer to put a call out for 'Kaiser Bulbmeister' who had gone missing on the way to a bash. The poor guy really didn't seem keen on the Kaiser part but was more than happy to ask for a Mr. Bulbmeister.

Anyway, I must stop all this reminiscing now.


My Regius Professor of Chronology comes from Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul btw, early on I had actually managed to keep up with reading every single post on b3ta (and posting as much as 5% of them myself).

Timespaz back to any archive pages from 2002/2003 and pretend you're a lurker. Even if some of the images are missing the banter and laughs are still there. I can't pick out a few, if you knew me back then I thank you for making b3ta such a special place. Treasured memories are treasured.

Edit: For the record 9 years, 9 months, 9 days. (8 but I couldn't wait until after midnight to post this and 9 looks better)
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 19:13, 9 replies)

Hello hello, I'm still here 7 years on...
I've made some great friends that despite the great distances between us always look forward to travelling to meet. I've also been lucky to be able to claim b3ta user Jessie as a friend for as long as the time she was given - cut far too short - which while it was not long enough it was well worth every moment and I'm glad that we spent some good times before there weren't any more times left.

I've done some photoshopping but probably always been at best a rough amateur-level technical photomasher, if I REALLY REALLY TRY HARD. It's actually helped me with work as my diagram skills have improved. Still, it helps you exorcise a stupid idea from rattling around your head once you actually get it out into the form of a picture.

I had an incredibly pointless session trying to blend into /talk and finding that I'm not psychologically suited to that kind of rough house banter, and trying to inject a thread based on something 'interesting' doomed me to failure- thus resulting in the infamous Nonce Legal Threat fail and flounce- not to mention being identified as both 'bash photographer pervert' (my flickr photostream and individual pictures have been accessed over 220,000 times though even though I've given up on it recently so someone must be interested in seeing pictures of internet shut-ins)and 'Piston_Broke's substitute dullest-bloke-at-bash' after I threatened to hose down baldmonkey's improvised match head bomb with a fire extinguisher if he did try and set people on fire with it. Which was unneccessary really as it was so badly designed and implimented that it wasn't going to ignite the way he was handling it anyway.

Turned up to my first bash in my native (then) Coventry and as I was nervous and expecting a collection of professional graphic artists who all knew each other, brought along prints of some of my board pictures as an aide memoire look at pictures instead of reading who dun them- another mistake, as it renders me looking 'hideously pathetic' apparently.

But still ,look on the bright side- b3ta was a useful resource for passing evenings while single and bored with TV and I still enjoy it, have some great friends (oh and a b3tan girlfriend!) as well as a social life which was something I didn't really have 7 years ago....

Carry on.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:52, 14 replies)

Where do you start?
First joined 8 years, 7 months and 22 days ago, tried to photoshopping, failed, so just commented on stuff, QOTW started and I felt at home there until my true/maybe slightly embellished stories were found by my gf at the time, que major fallout and begging to Mike to delete all my answers (which he kindly did), luckily I had a backup account which is this one I use. (I got caught out again but had toned it down a lot just to be sure)

I've only been on one bash, last year in fact, where I met some very cool people, got another one on the 29th October to go to, where I'll hopefully meet lots more.

I'm not sure how may people have got together due to b3ta.com, but as of the other week I'm one of the list, she's ace and as we're both as nuts as each other we get on fantastically :-)

Can't for the life of me remember how I found the site though??

I miss spanky and several others on QOTW too.

Cheers b3ta.
(Kip, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:47, Reply)

Holy Moly!
I used to post on HM (pre-facelift/fuck), and made a good friend on there who has turned out to be one of my fave people in the World.

When HM turned to shit and became just a group of AB's (I love you really, AB!) tearing every post to shreds unless it met their high standards of wit and repartee, she pointed me in the direction of B3TA - 2 years, 9 months and 0 days ago.

Since then I have used b3ta (in particular QOTW) to cheer me up after some pretty shit times, and even attempted to amuse others on occasion with some tales of my own.

I do miss spankyhanky though.
(Galahad is out of his gourd on yellow bentines, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:45, Reply)

Either Joel's rathergood or Jonti's Weebl steered me here
Fuck them both for it.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:45, 1 reply)

1 year, 10 months and 13 days
I am a baby compared to all you old dears posting today!
Thanks for keeping it warm till I got here.
I was linked, by a massive lurker friend, to a glorious story about Peaches Geldof in Celebrities part II.
A whole new world of wonder opened up to me. I mostly read and posted on QOTW for a while, survived, just, and *clicked* on the other boards.
For various reasons, I then had to spend more time at home than usual and got the balls up to post on /links more, and now have an addiction, symptoms of which are my bookmark menu contains about 60 sites, and none of my friends send me stuff anymore as they were sick of me saying……’oh yes, I have seen that’
Then after a few drunken evenings started posting on /talk. Survived that, and have spent many an evening there with those lovely people too.
I am constantly amazed with how creative and inventive people can be with their pictures, words or videos, amused by the battle of wills and clashes of personalities, and often overwhelmed at how bloody lovely people can be to each other in times of crisis, of one kind or another.
I have been lucky enough to have met some of you and now have some smashing RL friends because of it. Others I consider friends I have just not met yet.
I SUPPOSE I should also mention I now have a smashing b3tan man in my life, who, like you lot, makes me smile every day.
Thanks b3ta! Happy Birthday!
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:44, 7 replies)

After 9/11
b3ta reminded us that life goes on. Sick? Yes, but as (I think) Billy Connolly pointed out, the only true test for a joke is whether it's funny. If it were really, unforgivably, sick, you wouldn't have laughed.

Straight to Hull, I suppose.
(rogerzilla, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:40, Reply)

5 years 9 months and 4 days.
I found this place through rathergood.com.
I've found some good people on here who are readily helpful and I've found some real twats - just like real life.
I've read some of the best prose, some truly heartbreaking stories and some of THE funniest material EVER on here. I've been supported, done down, patted on the back and called a liar - again, just like real life.
Some of the words have gone into my vocabulary - fucksocks, arsebiscuits and mongwrangler being just a few (I also have a sneaking suspicion that a few of my younger colleagues are secret B3TANs as I've heard them using the same phrases)
I have been truly remiss in going to bashes, my new year's resolution will be to go to as many as I can next year, the people I met were awesome. The only fly in my B3TA ointment is that my G/F doesn't get it - the whole B3TA thing. I could explain it from now until the end of time but.... ah well.
It's also kinda good that one of my best friends is a leg end - sorry, that's legend, on here.

I'll be here as long as I can, it's an odd place - I feel I fit in.

Wibble.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:36, 5 replies)

6 years, 10 months and 14 days later
Not been about as much recently work took over and life has a habit of catching up and changing things. Memories, good and bad - saddest times included the loss of "That Nikon Fella" and of course "Jesse" (and knowing me I've spelt their user names wrong there) Both fine board users in their own rights and both taken from us far too soon. I never got to meet them but in a strange way felt that I knew them personally so it really was a genuinely sad moment when I learnt of their passing.

Happy moments? too many to mention, winding up trolls was fun - playing tunes on late night "radio" to drunk fellow b3ta users was indeed something I won't forget in a while (nor indeed will my neighbours on that night I forgot to unplug the monitor speakers and broadcast my entire show at full volume at 3am)

Happy Birthday indeed you cunts.
( TBL I posted this on, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:12, 1 reply)

Like most people, I can't remember how I found this place but I'm glad I did.
I love the way you can never guess what the next post will be. A kitten headswap, a Goatse reference, a bandwagon hurtles by and then an amazing leftfield post that has tears rolling down your face.
There have been some great moments on the board and at the manc b3tabashes over the years and this place really is filled with some genuinely talented, funny and creative individuals.
I don't post as much as I used to but I'll always regard b3ta as my home on the internet.

Cheers b3ta!
( Threepwood is heading back to a town called b3ta, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:10, Reply)

I found it via some article on underpant toast.
I don't remember why I was looking at underpant toast.

When I started I was running a business and wasted my time on /board. 8 and a half years later, the business has gone, I've had 8 jobs, I've been married and divorced and now live on the little island of /OT for way too much of my sad existence.

I've also been to 3 b4shes, but not got laid at any - WHAT THE HELL?!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:07, 2 replies)

I don't have any funny stories
So have some links to my favourite old stuff

that's a neato what now right - Was something to do with the hitherto unnamed Nintendo Wii I believe.
magnets - magnets sir, thousands of them.
my name is jacob dyer and i live in bristol. it is fantastic. i sound like barnaby bear. i like barnaby bear. one time he went to france. i went to france. but some kid burnt my neck. i didnt like it.
RIS? I don't get it
( Paster of Muppets is an incredible screen name, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:00, 1 reply)

Obsessed
I signed up to b3ta just under 4 years ago, following a mention in a BBC website story about comedy websites. Now I can say I am completely obsessed and I don't think a days goes by without me checking the site at least once.

I've discovered lots of funny images, great stories, and had a few of my own in the newsletter. Getting onto the QOTW popular page, even if it's a link from somewhere else, always gives me a little buzz of excitement. Pathetic really. But I keep coming back...
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 18:00, Reply)

Footballers with handbags
This image led me to b3ta.com in mid-2002, when it appeared on the front of the Daily Mirror. I explored the whole site and wished I could 'shop / create pics like that.

I don't post here much, except for occasional comments on QOTW. I didn't even sign up for a username until 4 years ago. But I reckon I've wasted more hours lurking on b3ta over the last decade than any other site on the web. Except teh donkey pr0n ones, obviously.

Long may it continue. Oh, and i still can't 'shop for toffee. Maybe in another 10 years...

/relurk
(WillI'mNot logs in twice a year, every year, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 17:59, Reply)

Fucksocks
will forever be in my (and a few non b3ta mates) vocabulary.

I have had 4 or 5 QOTW answers and 1 top tip make the newsletter. My only regret is not making AB's fail archive
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 17:53, Reply)

4 years, 2 months and 3 days…

Buggeration, time passes quickly! Wrapping up what B3ta has done for me without making it sound like a sycophantic awards ceremony is going to be difficult…but hey, in the name of my grizzled grot-socket (which after last night’s lovely takeaway is now as fiery as a dragon’s nostril) I’m going to give it a bash!

First of all, I’m sorry my posts are so ma-hoo-sive. I just can’t stop myself. I apologise for that. I have been on the arse end of so many ‘TL:DR’s that I was thinking of having a tattoo done. On my forehead.

I realise that I am an overly convoluted, simile-riddled and alliteration dropping 3 trick pony (if I’m lucky). Yet some people have been kind enough to say they like what I write - and that feels cocking brilliant. Not only have I not yet made AB’s blessed 'fail archive', I have actually once received praise from the archivist himself (he probably won’t thank me for reminding him of that). I have been lucky enough to have my rubbish rambles copied and pasted on other websites…I’ve even been published (including on a certain gay-magazine that I was ‘informed’ about, not being a regular subscriber and all that). I believe that one of my posts has even been turned into an animated mini-movie thing. I have been very lucky.

Before I continue, I cannot recommend going to bashes enough. It’s one thing having an idea about how great these people are, but when you meet them, those feelings generally increase tenfold at least. These guys fucking rule – you should meet as many as possible.

Now…before the 'credits' - I thought long and hard about naming names, but I won’t. I don’t think I have to, you know who you are.


After discovering B3ta I quickly began to read posts by a man I consider to be a ‘living legend’ who after just a couple of my initial meagre efforts, went out of his way (by reply) to welcome me to B3ta and say that he thought I had a talent... (before saying he was going to send some militia men to come round and kill me). Without his endorsement. I wouldn’t have carried on. It meant a metric fuckload to me in the early days; I have never forgotten it and now (for what it’s worth), when I see a noob on QotW whom I consider funny or talented, I will send them a gaz to welcome them.

Then there’s the lady…in my opinion, the ‘First Lady of B3ta’, who inbetween writing some crotch-grabbingly saucy and funny-as-fuck posts, gave me free legal advice which directly saved my family and I thousands of pounds when the council tried shafting us…The council are cunts…she is wonderful.

I remember the ‘twisted literary genius’ who offered advice and coaching on my writing ‘style’. (How he must tear what’s left of his hair out at every post I spew onto these pages)

There’s the man that gave me shedloads of advice regarding earning a few extra pounds from home when I quit the band…

The man who sent me demos of his music…and humours me by saying he values my opinion.

The man who picked me up and took me for a mad razz up and down the A46 in his Aston Martin.

The people whose IT savvy have saved my sorry arse countless times- and allowed me to post another day…with a special mention to the man that has developed the proxy that allows me to post from work.

There’re countless people that take the time to reply to posts. The ones who are kind enough to say they miss me when I disappear from B3ta for months due to my job, and the ones who welcome me back when I return with a fresh pile of bollocks to dump over these sainted pages. The ones who sympathised when my nephew was tragically paralysed in an accident. The ones who (badly) fought back the sniggers and sympathised when I got gout…the list goes on.

There’re the few B3tans whose intelligence, social awareness and writing ability eclipses mine on a quite biblical scale yet they still take the time to let a pleb like me run amok in their playground.

There are so many more...I remember the ‘fireballs’ who come blazing in to b3ta, quickly getting followings, becoming too big for their boots and burning out early…

I remember Wanking Wednesdays…I remember everything...

But most of all… there’s a lady that has been a selfless, unending supply of friendship, support & encouragement from the day I popped my B3ta cherry. The first person to congratulate me when I did well, and the first person to tell me to 'stop being a twat' when I was…well…being a twat. The bash she threw will always stay in my memory, but not as much as the complete awesomesauce that she regularly dedicates to everyone on here. She is a national B3ta treasure who deserves nought but our unconditional love and respect. Her class and grace is priceless. I salute her.


Along the way I have offended some people – but not too many. People can usually tell when I’m full of shit (i.e. most of the time). And I thank the people who gaz me their objections to my posts and allow me to explain myself. Every single time the dispute can be resolved amicably, and there grows mutual respect.



This site is chock full of people that share their thoughts, fantasies, shit jokes and personal tragedies with us all. I laugh, cry, applaud and spit god-knows-what all over my monitor regularly because of you. B3ta is like a family. You get out of it what you put into it.

There is no monetary value that can be placed on having a community like this…on being able to share your feelings, knowing that you can rely on an honest answer. We all have it here in abundance…and all you have to do is ask. Let's not take it for granted.

Every single person mentioned here has made a difference in my life. Yet not one of them had to. The internet is faceless. They could have kept their opinions, knowledge and advice to themselves, and we would never have known they existed. Yet they choose to make that effort as an act of kindness to a stranger, and sometimes their only motivation has been because they liked the stuff we write here.

Cherish what you have here, people. B3ta is classless, ageless, raceless…and free…in every sense of the word.

Whilst we continue to have our highs, lows, heartaches and health problems etc. (btw if somebody with B negative blood has a spare kidney, let me know) B3ta will prevail. So many of the posts we read are humbling in the fact that they have actually helped people to live better lives…

And why do we do this?


Because B3ta…B3ta is what we live for.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Mon 12 Sep 2011, 17:50, 15 replies)

The say 10 years ago one of the worst things to happened to mankind...
I don't think B3ta is that bad

I found this place through rathergood.com, lurked for a bit through uni and then joined up. It sustained me through early graduate jobs, I was there when Happy Toast posted for the first time, I loved the stories Legless told, the sage advice from Resident Loon. Dave the Hat's Lunch facts and everyone else from the board and QOTW.

Since then I've moved on, but still check back in from time to time. Seem to be a whole host of other impenetrable cliques and memes now. If I'd continued practicing Potatoshop, I can only imagine how good I might be now...
( Moonraker isn't the droid you were looking for, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 17:44, Reply)

I don't really have any right to post in here, I've only been posting a few months but I've been laughing at b3ta artwork(and later qotw) for years. I remember when I first heard the term 'b3ta' vividly. I was depressed and fighting a losing battle on a project when someone sent me some images created by b3tans. I believe my favourite had the caption 'Oh no, this isn't delicious beef, this is pin pie!'. WHY this tickled me quite so much I don't know, but I had tears rolling down my cheeks. A colleague looked at it and said 'Ahh that's from b3ta'. I didn't realise he was such an avid b3tan, but everytime I view pictures of b3ta bashes he's usually in there. So thanks 'K' for turning me onto b3ta. You've all got me through long, dark days at work with wit, tales and imagery which something I can't ever repay you people for.

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Thanks y'all.
(skgorsky, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 17:40, 1 reply)