I'm scared of B3tans...
Every time I see a London bash being advertised, I go through this long drawn out process (sometimes takes weeks):
1) I should go to that. I like most people off that there B3ta, I think, and there's a few of the ones who make me laugh are definitely London-based. Yeah. Sounds good. It's not as if I have anything better to do.
2) Maybe I won't fit in. Maybe I'll be the wierd one there. I shall try to persuade my only colleague who is also on B3ta to come too (always fails. He doesn't like people). Doubt begins to settle in.
3) I'll give it a miss this time. Maybe next time. I'm not sure I understand the B3ta hive mind well enough to risk it yet.

Thing is, I'm sure that at least some of you are lovely. My concern is that I might not be.
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 14:16, 25 replies)

To be honest I have the opposite feeling.
I think I will be the coolest person at a b3ta bash.
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 14:37, closed)

I've never been the coolest person anywhere.
And to put that in context, I did a civil engineering degree, and I've been known to play in brass bands.

Seriously.
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 14:46, closed)

I've played in brass bands
too.

And I'm 100% alpha male.
(username failed moderation, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:01, closed)

do loads of cocaine beforehand and you'll be fine

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 14:55, closed)

Bad idea
coke heads think they're the life and soul of a party, but 99% of the time they're rather tedious.

And they hog the toilet.
(username failed moderation, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:02, closed)

there's ALOT of DRUG go on at B3ta BASHES, so I heard
not my cup of tea, like
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:07, closed)

I've got no problem with it
I just find people who do a lot of coke tend to overestimate how engaging they really are.

Advising someone to do a lot of coke to overcome social anxiety is a rotten idea. A couple of beers works much better.
(username failed moderation, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:15, closed)

I might point out at this stage
That I was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek there
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:26, closed)

yeah right jakey
lay off the drugs and stop selling them to our kids!
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:30, closed)

OK, fair enough
Did seem a curious bit of advice . .!
(username failed moderation, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:31, closed)

I think that it is just possible
that TheManWithThePlan was having a little joke there.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:27, closed)

stop trying to cover for him, OD head!

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:30, closed)

STOP HARSHING THE BUZZ, PIG.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 18:35, closed)

Instant Arsehole : Just Add Coke!

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:52, closed)

I would avoid this advice
to save youself ending up like this - www.b3ta.com/questions/internetmeets/post1401928
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 0:42, closed)

Just do it.
People tend to be far nicer at bashs that online and you can be pretty sure of not being the weird one.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 24 Oct 2011, 14:56, closed)

weird weirdest
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 15:08, closed)

True, true.
if it's an /OT bash I'll likely be there.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 24 Oct 2011, 15:11, closed)

just don't

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 15:42, closed)

Out of the 100,000 or so B3tans
around 1000 are sociable. These are the ones who go the the bashes and who are the the odd ones not us the 99%.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:45, closed)

This is probably true
I once planned to create an "Antisocial Network" - kind of a facebook for people who don't actually like people. Instead of inviting people to be friends, you'd invite them to fuck off and die. You'd brag about how many friends you didn't have, and so on.

Then I discovered B3ta and realised that I didn't have to bother.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 16:55, closed)

We should occupy
B3ta, protest about the 1%.

I'm pitching my tent right in the middle of /OT. Fuckers.
(username failed moderation, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 17:03, closed)

Good idea.
The most talented 1% do have most of the good ideas.

This is clearly unfair on the rest of us.
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 17:06, closed)

Doesn't matter.
We have the advantage of;

- Being on the dole, so we can cock about all day whining about people who are doing something.

- Being able to obstruct and harass other posters. In fact what we should do is not occupy /OT, we should go and trash a totally unconnected board who will suffer becuase of it, to make sure we get more attention.
(username failed moderation, Mon 24 Oct 2011, 17:15, closed)

Same here...
but with Northern bashes.

Especially as I don't post very often or memorably.
( e.m.m.y. foxtrot uniform charlie kilo india tango, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 10:20, closed)