QOTW
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OK. Last time I did something similar to this I got banned. I never learn.

It was the "Teenage Poetry" question and I objected quite strenuously about it.

Fine. It's your site and what the mods says goes - but it's us that have to write the sodding answers.

Think about it this way. If you're down the pub and if you're slightly pissed and chatting about your life and amusing anecdotes you have. If everyone around the table is saying:

"Come on - who has a story about:
My First Love
The Police
Take My Mother In Law
Wanking Disasters
etc"

Then the conversations flow, the stories come thick and fast, each one sparked by one a mate has told and then, the spotty little turd in the corner pipes up with:

"How about Teenage poetry? That was a laugh eh? Or "Mix Tapes" - someone must remember the fun you used to have, in your bedroom, making "Mix Tapes".

Why bother having a suggestion page for QOTW when you come up with this?

I'll leave you with a quick preview on next weeks QOTW.

It's about "Losing Your Socks In The Washing Machine."

Can't wait.

Cheers

Edit: It's early in the QOTW and it's never been done, but any chance of a different question....?
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 14:42, 17 replies)

I have a great contribution to next week's, then...
After one load of washing, I left a sock in the machine and didn't find it again until after the next load. You can imagine how I felt!

I can't wait until I can post this in earnest.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 14:45, closed)

ohooooh, me too, me too!
Once I found someone else's sock in my washing machine! My, how we laughed!

*slowly chokes herself with matching sock*
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 14:47, closed)

We Have A Winner!
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( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 14:47, closed)

As with
Posages comments i agree with you Legless, this Qotw "as much as i know cthonic is the boss and works hard for b3ta" has no scope for decent stories.
( Trollman, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 14:49, closed)

Stalking, Cheap Tat, Mix Tapes....

For god's sake where is the poo, the piss the pools of blood and fear!

But most importantly *failing to avoid sounding like David Brent* where is the laughter?

With out wishing tosound like a ball licking suxk, if Legless has no amusing stories for a QOTW then it's probably doomed!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 14:54, closed)

I lost a sock
IN THE TUMBLE DRIER!!!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111eleven

I gave you a click because your suggestion made me giggle.

Actually, maybe I'll click every post that's whinging/taking the piss out of the question, so the popular page is just a load of bitching/shit puns.
Mwahahahahaha.......
(Bearded Whumpus In chav Britain, schoolgirl offers sweets to YOU!, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 14:55, closed)

I agree
I know I've only been around for about 2 mins comparitively but I've been reading for a quite a while and this isn;t the greatest ever. Surely there must have been better suggestions? and if not, why not?
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 14:59, closed)

I'll second this
I'm regular reader, occasional poster but please, for the love of mankind change the question.

B3ta is what keeps me going through the week, i'll have to find something else to do, maybe even go outside!

*sobs*
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 15:02, closed)

here f*cking here!
the only story I had was making the Macc Lads & Biff tape for you.... and, and, it's not even a story. How about, "when's the last time you did a lovely shite, only to find there was no bog-roll left! What did you use on which to wipe your arse???" FFS!

I have been known to put dirty underwear in the fridge during menstruating weeks, thus losing items....... There's another qotw suggestion - stupidest thing you / a lady friend have done whilst "up on blocks"?

bollocks, man, I'm gonna do a cathetic one...
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 15:05, closed)

i
will have to work *sobs*
( Trollman, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 15:05, closed)

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Yeah I'm aware that when you start complaining about qotws its maybe time to get out a bit more.. but mix tapes? Its not that nothing's ever happened to me, but I can't possibly imagine what COULD happen to someone involving a mix tape?

Maybe they could slip on one and land on their cat, who subsequently makes a strange noise like a fart?
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 15:12, closed)

Now look,
Even browsers on our side... it must be bad!
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 15:15, closed)

I
am going to make a story up.

I intend to use lots of porn erotica influences and have a bit of fun.

Otherwise I'll have to do some work.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 15:15, closed)

angel
Can I tell you the story of how I encountered a genuine angel yesterday?

I had to drive to Ikea in croydon to return some chairs. I only passed my driving test a few months ago so I still find it quite stressful.

Anyway I had been driving around central croydon for an hour, round the one way systems, all over the place, with no idea where i was going.

Eventually I stopped at a garage and got out, and looked at the A-Z trying to work out where I was. I was standing there, close to man-tears, when someone wandered up and in a thick Geordie accent asked if was OK. I replied that I didn't know where i was. I was annoyed that he was talking to me - he smelt of booze and I thought he should mind his own business.

He said "I'm not from round here, but why don't you follow me, like?"

I thought this was ridiculous but i was too polite to say no, so I jumped in my car and followed his van, which was waiting around the corner.

I followed him for about 5 minutes, and he turned a corner. I went around the corner and he had completely disappeared! And in his place were the tall, blue and yellow Ikea chimneys, beckoning like flatpack lighthouses.

And that is how I met a drunken geordie being from another world.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 16:19, closed)

Sir...
I prostrate myself at your feet.

To be honest, I hadn't been reading this far into the QOTW before getting bored, deciding that this particular QOTW is shite and posting my complaint in my own particular sarky arsed idium.

My post seemed to touch a nerve with chthonic though, and you get a mention.

www.b3ta.com/questions/mixtapes/post119454

For what it's worth (ie - not a lot) I heartily endorse your idea of the B3ta Hierarchy collectively agreeing that this QOTW sucks ass before knocking it on the head for a new idea...and possibly, although a radical thought, actually choosing something from the multitude of suggestions that have been placed?

But what do we know eh Legless? After all, we're just the poor schmos that fill the pages with free entertainment.

*Goes back to cheap wine*
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 7 Feb 2008, 20:13, closed)

Much as I don't want to end up on the naughty step again
which is where i did end up last time i grumbled about a QOTW, i do agree, so have a click.


The QOTW is all i've got, i'm shite at photoshop.
( ogwen69 has returned from Reddit, Sat 9 Feb 2008, 1:32, closed)

*wistful sigh*
Wanking Disasters, etc........I miss them.


on another note, I haven't lost any socks in the washing machine this week. But that is only because I haven't actually done any laundry in that time.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sat 9 Feb 2008, 2:34, closed)