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Alright cunts
it's my birthday today. what are you going to do about it?

Alt: best xmas no 1 ever?
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:21, 155 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Woo! happy birthday.
You're around my age aren't you? Or am I completely barking up the wrong tree.


I've just realised how many dog references I've made since meeting Jeff.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:24, Reply)
thirty fucking seven
oh man I feel old
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:25, Reply)
I was 36 on the 4th
*sadfaces*
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:27, Reply)
Wish I was 36 : (

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:36, Reply)
You probably didn't when you were 36!

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:39, Reply)
I was happy enough being 36 apart from the crippling depression I was suffering with at the time.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:41, Reply)
Hmmmm
It must be a 36 thing then.....

Nah, I'm just a miserable cunt I think, not depressed
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:44, Reply)
I think i'm just starting to get over my crippling depression
well... fingers crossed, anyway.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:49, Reply)
Well it does get better.
I'm as happy as a pig in shit now.


Apart from the inability to find a partner which I'm not supposed to mention any more.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:52, Reply)
Wish I was 37.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:31, Reply)
Oh! I thought you were older for some reason.
It's your husband that's a lot older isn't it.

Or am I thinking of someone else?
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:35, Reply)
yep
mr b3th is 65
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:37, Reply)
Wow! he must be some guy : )

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:39, Reply)
i had a bit of a charlotte's web flashback there

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:44, Reply)
A silver surfer.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:44, Reply)
Wish you a happy birthday
Alt Q: I don't think I could name a Christmas no 1
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:33, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_number_one_singles_%28UK%29
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:37, Reply)
Cheers
Based on that maybe Mad World
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:40, Reply)
Good track
Original is shit. Then again, isn't everything by Tears For Fears shit?
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:42, Reply)
mumbles
I quite like some of their songs
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:51, Reply)
Tbh, I don't know many
But Mad World is shit, Everybody Wants To Rule The World refuses to stop burying itself into my subconscious, so I end up singing it all the fucking time, and Shout just gets right on my tits.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:08, Reply)
Mull of Kintyre.
I love singing along to it.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:43, Reply)
The Mull of Kintyre looks like a man's rude parts

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:04, Reply)
Haha! I've seen that pic too.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:05, Reply)
we were channel-hopping last night and came upon a programme on either channel 4 or cvhannel 5
that had men's rude bits on.

When mr b3th asked why they would want to show that, he wasn't very impressed with my suggestion of 'in case women want a laugh'
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:08, Reply)
Hahaha!

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:14, Reply)
if you go back more than seven years
then there were other non-x factor related songs that were no. 1
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:41, Reply)
I don't really tend to remember music
around this time of year!
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:42, Reply)
1993 is clearly the best on that list

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:43, Reply)
Alt Q. Moon River.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:36, Reply)
I'll celebrate by phoning someone infeasably old
when I finish work. Which is after 17:07 to the workshy among us.

Saviour's Day. Fucking tune!
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:37, Reply)
screw you bitch
you moan when i don't call you, you moan when i do call you.

miserable fucker. and where's my arsing birthday present?
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:38, Reply)
yeah about that...
I spent all my money on a ring for this tart.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:42, Reply)
Bakewell?

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:43, Reply)
check your phone on that note
edit: no :( it didn't send
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:44, Reply)
he's not buying any more rings
so back off beeeetch
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:54, Reply)
I was sending him a picture of you!*
*may not be a real picture

*makes joke about rings*
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:06, Reply)
I'll pay you not to show him
I WAS YOUNG AND NEEDED THE MONEY!
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:10, Reply)
I was worried there for a second
I thought, "OMG, what evil magic have you done!?"
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:54, Reply)
It's an email now
I sent it to you because me and poppet saw it and wanted to send it to Roota but not having phone/email of hers hampered that, and since I forgot facebook, sending it through you seemed a second best idea
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:08, Reply)
ummmmmmm
I'm telling!
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:47, Reply)
I have birthday presenty goodness for you
However it will be ever so slightly tardy (much like your bro).
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:52, Reply)

+re
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:53, Reply)
I should think so too
on that note, I happen to have your birthday card still sitting on my desk....
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:54, Reply)
shows how highly I regard them that I didn't notice

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:56, Reply)
Ahem...

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:52, Reply)
Happy Birthday, oh venerable one!
Alt: I hate 99% of all christmas songs. Although the track by The Darkness raised a smile.

This is the greatest Christmas song of all time. NSFW
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:41, Reply)
It was Christmas number 2 though so that's ok.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:45, Reply)
And while I hate to admit it
'Proper Crimbo' and 'Christmas, My Arse' made me chuckle first time I heard them.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:46, Reply)
WAHEY HAPPY BIRTHDAY
It's my brothers birthday too.
But he's dead.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:43, Reply)
*dead brother highfives*

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:44, Reply)

 
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:46, Reply)
I know but it seemed funny in my head.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:47, Reply)
I'm sure loads of things do.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:55, Reply)
Well it is B3ta. I wouldn't have said that in an email.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:56, Reply)
I know dear, I'm just joshin'

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:00, Reply)
Aw! you got me.
*punches on arm*
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:01, Reply)
I'm so glad you'll never say this to my face
I'd laugh without meaning to. Not at your brother, but at the way you've just said it.

*dead Mother high five*
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:45, Reply)
Princess Diana died on my dads birthday
but he was dead so he missed it.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:46, Reply)
She died 23 hours after my Nan, and the funerals were on the same day.
What a bitch.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:47, Reply)
And I bet no strangers put shit loads of flowers out for your gran

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:51, Reply)
Nope
And they fucking should have, she was magical. Could knock up a roast dinner for 4 adults and 6 kids without making a single noise from the kitchen.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:52, Reply)
With a single small pan?

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:56, Reply)
I never even saw pans, we never had need to go near the kitchen, as she'd offer drinks every 10 minutes

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:10, Reply)
only thing you heard was the doorbell when the takeaway arrived?
my gran was similarly ace. i used to love her big sunday roasts
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:58, Reply)
sorry : (
it's also nostradamus' birthday. And the day Prince Albert died.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:46, Reply)
in a can?

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:57, Reply)
????
nope, rissing like a good'un here...
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:59, Reply)
prince albert is some sort of tobacco in a tin can here
something like people would call a store and ask if they've got prince albert in a can, if yes they'd say BETTER LET HIM OUT ROFFLE

it's also the name of a penis piercing
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:04, Reply)
well, I knew the piercing one
but I couldn't figure out a meaning that involved it being in a can.

Tsk, you foreigners and your foreign stuff...
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:06, Reply)
Dead happy with the cake???

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:46, Reply)
Areet, Sis.
I am on reception and not being very observant, so I posted this here www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1006637
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:49, Reply)
Happy birthday, hope the day's going well thus far.
I don't particularly care, to be perfectly honest (about the number ones, not your birthday)
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:49, Reply)
but lets be honest you don't give a shit about that either.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:54, Reply)
I don't give a shit about much to be honest

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:56, Reply)
Best Christmas number one
is Bohemian Rhapsody. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:51, Reply)
I'll buy you this as a present.
www.as-photography.co.uk/blog/?p=107#comment-141
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:51, Reply)
Iron Maiden's Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter narrowly missed out on Christmas No. 1
I suspect foul play
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 14:56, Reply)
I suspect it's fucking shit.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:02, Reply)
Agreed

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:07, Reply)
well, it's certainly no 'mr blobby'

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:10, Reply)
My step daughter would've had Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter as the No 1 on the day she was born had she arrived on her due date.
By arriving three weeks early she got "Ice Ice Baby".

I'm not sure which is worse.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:00, Reply)
The latter would have been far, far worse
If she'd been stillborn.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 17:13, Reply)
hahahaha
This! Operatic nonces the lot of them.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:09, Reply)
I take it you've never been to the opera then
by all means dislike them, but do it right
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:14, Reply)
OK then
Out of tune warbly shite singing coupled with guitar wank
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:15, Reply)
I said get it right, not make things up
I don't much care if people dislike bands I like, but genuine criticism is required. You may not like his voice, or the music, or you may think he is the Simpson's tie of the rock world, but Bruce Dickinson really can sing, he has a tremendous range.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:20, Reply)
^this
certainly it's not opera-metal
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:21, Reply)
I find his voice really grates
and the guitar solos have considerably more notes than is needed.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:33, Reply)
doesn't mean he can't sing.
as metal bands go, I'd suggest they are about average in terms of notes per guitar solo, but they aren't too everyone's taste. They have got some fucking cringeworthy songs.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:44, Reply)
Must be me then
but he sounds out of tune
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:47, Reply)
Oh he's in tune, alright.
The problem is the tune itself.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
Haha!
Handbags at dawn then is it?
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:17, Reply)
tell dj he looks like chad kroeger
he loves that
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:24, Reply)
*files away for future reference*

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:25, Reply)
But he doesn't.
*is confused*
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:30, Reply)
he did when he had long girly hair
the big poof.

it's really not looking good for my birthday present now, is it?
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:33, Reply)
haha!
Bless him!
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:48, Reply)
I am going to combine your main and alt Q's
and tip you all to a US garage classic:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM9_g6ecUas

Christmas records are without exception fucking bent. Even the Christmas jingles Hendrix did. Happy birthday though.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:00, Reply)
Have you not seen the link I posted above?
You'll fucking hate it!
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:11, Reply)
Oh dear me. What utter tosh.
I have to admit as they go, The Darkness' effort is a good one.

Blue Christmas by Elvis is a good tune, as is Run Run Rudolph by rockin' sex pest Chuck Berry.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:37, Reply)
Dead Christmas by Monster Magnet is good

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:50, Reply)
I think I'm going to move to hawaii
make my cousin come with me, bring her kids, oh man it will be awesome
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:11, Reply)
What brought this decision on?

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:15, Reply)
it's fucking cold here
plus I think I hate it here
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:16, Reply)
She's the world's biggest 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' fan.

And rightly so.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:22, Reply)
I've reassessed my judgment
1962 or 1979 were the best years, Elvis or Pink Floyd
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:17, Reply)
Another brick in the wall
I was going to be horrified if it hadn't been mentioned by the time I got to the bottom of the thread.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:28, Reply)
It’s one of the worst, most pompous piles of wank ever recorded.
Gay, cod disco with abysmal pseudo-portentous lyrics and one of credible music’s entry level no-no’s: singing fucking kids*.

*The Stones’ otherwise excellent ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ is fucking ruined by those ghastly choirboys.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:40, Reply)
it's got a good guitar solo though

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:46, Reply)
Happy Birthday. It's also my step daughter's birthday.
Do you ever get fobbed off with the "joint present"?

The No 1 on your first Christmas was Slades' Merry Xmas Everbody
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:37, Reply)
I Hear You Knockin' - Dave Edmunds is the the best.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:43, Reply)
Good call.
Ever heard his ‘London’s a Lonely Town’?

So like the Beach Boys it’s amazing.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:45, Reply)
Unfortunately, I haven't. I think he's really talented chap. Good guitarist, arranger and producer.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:48, Reply)
this is one of my very biggest ever 'pet hates'
dj's birthday is in april, and no one ever gave him a joint birthday-present-and-easter-egg.

It's not like my birthday is a surprise - it's the same fucking day every year.

grrrr

EDIT: no 1 the day I was born was 'I love you love me love' by Gary Glitter.

I still maintain 'another rock n Roll xmas' is one of teh bast xmas songs ever
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:43, Reply)
My best friends is on Christmas Day, he gets wound up by it too

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:20, Reply)
i'll be listening to christmas carols sung in caribbean accents
this never ceases to amuse me. there is something v incongruous about landing in a baking hot airport, white sand and turquoise water and waving palm trees everywhere.... and christmas trees.

also as none of you cunts wanted to risk sleeping with me, the sharing with baby niece is due to commence. she is v excited apparently. gah.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:46, Reply)
have just seen that story about the kitten that was thrown onto the motorway
how can people do this?

if i saw someone throw a kitten out of a moving car, i really don't think i'd be responsible for my actions.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 15:56, Reply)
What happened?

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:02, Reply)
someone threw a kitten onto the motorway
it got rescued and should be ok but its face is all banged up from where it hit the motorway from a moving car.

this incenses me.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:08, Reply)
I hate the president of one-upmanship that BatshitBoresMe has set here.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:10, Reply)
how he got elected I'll never know.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:12, Reply)
Alright you lot?

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:04, Reply)
Who, me?

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:06, Reply)
Well, not specifically you, but sure, why not?

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:07, Reply)
I'm very well thank you. Hope that the new place is warm and full of festive cheer.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:08, Reply)
Not so much festive as relieved and a bit horny to be honest.
But it's cheer nonetheless!
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:10, Reply)
That's a good starting point..

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:13, Reply)
Have you wanked in every room to establish ownership?

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:22, Reply)
*counts*
Almost. Do cupboards count as rooms?
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:24, Reply)
They do.
That's what I tell the fifteen Chineses 'tenants' I have, anyway.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
Oh hello you, how are tricks?
How's the house?
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:06, Reply)
Oh hi Lampito bbs!
The house is fucking dandy now I've sorted all the shit out. Work, on the other hand... you know how lesbians are a really good idea, but then you accidentally imagine them all covered in superglue and razor wire and electrified and all that? that's how I feel about work at the moment.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:09, Reply)
Sounds shocking. The electrified lesbians, that is.
Glad to hear things are coming up peachy. Apart from the work. Work is shit.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:11, Reply)
This work IS shit.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:12, Reply)
I take it you're plumbing then?

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:16, Reply)
*facepalms*

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:18, Reply)
There will be no apology forthcoming for the quality of the above
Normal service may be resumed later in the day
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:22, Reply)
I'm okay thanks
how are you?
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:08, Reply)
Woo, it's you!
I'm pretty bloody good. Oooh, oooh, what can't you talk about? I bet it's right juicy gossip.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:11, Reply)
Sadly no juicy gossip here
I know none :( it was a carry on from the facial mask joke me and poppet had a few days ago.

Why so cheerful?*

*in a reverse question of a famous Batman villain
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:13, Reply)
A few things just seem to be going in the right direction, you know?
*beams*
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:23, Reply)
good for you :)
you deserve some good stuff. Anyone special on the horizon then?
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:24, Reply)
I dunno, sometimes I think maybe, sometimes I'm not so sure.
I'll keep you updated though.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)
exciting times :)
*jealouses*
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
Happy Birthday.
In my world St Etienne have a Xmas number one every year - and Sarah Cracknell sings it in person.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:09, Reply)
She has funny eyes, dot com.
Pete Wiggs is one of my favourite people EVER. I used to get so, so fucked up with that man it is truly amazing we are both alive. Bob Stanley has odd masturbation habits.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:20, Reply)
I would have been so much happier if you said...
...she had the odd masturbation habits.
As for her eyes; I know what you are saying but I still thought she was as hot as lava-on-toast.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:24, Reply)
Sarah Cracknell was born on xmas day, wasn't she?
as was annie Lennox.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
And Shane MacGowan.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:29, Reply)
and hitler
this is not true.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:34, Reply)
Hitler liked to drink his own urine.
What a pissy-breath bastard.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:38, Reply)
Slade
and I don't care what you bunch of Christmas musical snobs say with your ironic suggestions. Slade fucking rules.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:13, Reply)
Even 'Christmas In Hollis' by Run-DMC is bollocks.
As for Christmas Rappin' by Kuris Blow - ouch. Truly dire.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)
Glad you found that 'n'.

(, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)

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