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I feel I can totally relate to Cheryl Cole
what with my husband cheating on me and my having to deal with the harshness of fame and being beautiful.

What celebrity can you most relate to?

Alt: if you were allowed to pick up and move anywhere, and everything would be taken care of for you, where would you go?
I would totally go to Hawaii.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:28, 149 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Renee Zellwegger.
She seems really nice but still cant find a suitable guy.

Alt: The outer Hebrides.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:39, Reply)
Yeah, but Kenny Chesney, eh? Those tight jeans...phwoar.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:47, Reply)
Urgh!
What the fuck did she see in him. And obviously something went wrong.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:50, Reply)
ARE YOU KIDDING
I've seen him in concert like 5 times, he's gorge.
If he keeps his hat on.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:52, Reply)
Elisabeth Fritzl,
I got grounded once, true story.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:41, Reply)
I think I'd go to New York possibly

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:43, Reply)
New York would be awesome.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:48, Reply)
lets go
I actually really want to go to Jersey
mmmmguido
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:50, Reply)
OH MY GOD YES
seriously please, yes
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:51, Reply)
shit yeah
Jersey is like 3 hours from me
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:52, Reply)
I want to go back to America at some point yesss

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:56, Reply)
One day
think I'll try and get to Russia first
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:57, Reply)
Ooh, I'd love to go to Russia too.
Package come yet?
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:59, Reply)
Texted you :D
It's lovely, thank you :) was a lovely surprise to get after being sick all day
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:07, Reply)
No problem, and thank berk too :)

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:08, Reply)
Jersey?
Doesn't Trenton have the highest murder rate in the US?
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:57, Reply)
no idea
but I reckon the highest shag rate is at the shore
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmguido
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:58, Reply)
That bit up by Asbury Park?
Or Atlantic City?

Been to the latter (Vegas by the sea) - wouldn't mind spending a bit of time up at the top bit there.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:02, Reply)
I don't know anything about it, really.
My uncle used to go to Atlantic City all the time to gamble.
I want to go...like...everywhere.
Someone should give me a reality show and pay for me to go places and have fun.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:05, Reply)
I'll be dead
Before I get to see all the bits of the US that I want to see, and I've never really travelled in Europe at all.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:08, Reply)
Do you have an annoying accent too K?
That is key to being Cole.

Alt: I don't know. I loved the time I spent travelling around Ireland, so maybe somewhere in Ireland.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:44, Reply)
Ireland would be my second choice.
I'm a celt at heart.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:44, Reply)
I'll be amazed if anyone chooses to relocate to Wales.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:47, Reply)
Yup!

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:53, Reply)
Why the Hebrides?
I've never been there myself.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:55, Reply)
It's a beautiful place and far away from the madding crowd.
I'd get a crofters cottage and keep some animals and paint and stuff.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:57, Reply)
You'll be a horder.
If in your shed you've got animals and tins of paint.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:59, Reply)
Do you know Scotland well?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:00, Reply)
Not at all.
But I know I'd love it.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:04, Reply)
I'm trying to book a weekend
up there at the moment. I really want somewhere quiet and beautiful, preferably with a pub
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:08, Reply)
That would be great but I'd wait till the summer or autumn.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:14, Reply)
I just need badly to get away

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:15, Reply)
surfbash?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:20, Reply)
as long as it comes soon
I don't care where I go as long as it is reasonably scenic and not in England (rest of Britain is fine)

though I'd make an exception for surfbash
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:21, Reply)
I was going to suggest the lakes, since they're relatively easy to get to
But they're in england.. Perhaps you could get a cheap flight to Jersey or somewhere? It's probably easier than getting buses up to the middle of nowhere in scotland..
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:52, Reply)
I didn't think of the Lakes
there's probably some isolated bits there
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:59, Reply)
^ Very much this.
Scotland is beautiful but bad weather can make it unbearable.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:16, Reply)
Hoots mon, there's a moose loose aboot this hoose.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:19, Reply)
I don't have too much of an accent, until I get to drinkin'
then the southern drawl comes out
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:49, Reply)
Why would you choose Hawaii?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:51, Reply)
because it's warm and tropical and doesn't require a passport

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:51, Reply)
But when you get round to getting your passport, the world will be your oyster.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:52, Reply)
oh yeah, definitely, once I come up with the hundreds of dollars it requires to get on a plane and go somewhere
nevermind lodgings and food and my DOG
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:53, Reply)
Small details!
You're looking at the problems, not the solutions!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_passport

Get Echo a passport too!
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:58, Reply)
Alright, now to solve the money issue
reckon I should start buying lottery tickets
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:03, Reply)
Or you could use the money you were thinking of spending on lottery tickets
and putting it in a savings account until you've enough to cover the cost of where you might want to go?
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:04, Reply)
the chance of that generating enough money for me to travel, would be about as helpful as me buying lottery tickets

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:07, Reply)
Well it would depend where you wanted to go and how long you wanted to travel for.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:08, Reply)
for_ev_er
ah well, we can't have everything we want, right?
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:14, Reply)
And realistically?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:15, Reply)
for the rest of my life
but that is unrealistic I s'pose

I don't want to live a posh lifestyle, I want to go to villages and meet people and see normal life.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:26, Reply)
Depending on the countries you choose, it needn't be that expensive.
I've got a friend who travels a lot, he can survive on less than $10 a day in most of the places he like to go.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:30, Reply)
I could do that.
I just need a kick in the arse to get it started.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:55, Reply)
Sean Connery
I am Scottish, dark haired, very good looking and very suave. It's a real burden.

Alt Q-Rotterdam, Delft, Den Haag or Amsterdam.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:46, Reply)
you're old and not a very good actor?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:47, Reply)
Ha!
No and yes.

Connery has zero range but tons of presence. And the best Bond by a long way.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:49, Reply)
Connery has zero range but tons of presence
You make him sound like a cheap shotgun.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:50, Reply)
I'd rate Daniel Craig
as better than him. I'm not a Bond fanatic but Craig really nailed it in Casino Royale
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:58, Reply)
Craig is a good Bond, but Connery is the yardstick.
He was a powerful, fearsome Bond. A callous bastard, just as likely to punch you as charm you.

Someone somewhere has said this before and I completely agree- Connery and Craig are the only Bonds where you can easily imagine them in the forces. Bond is of course a Navy man.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:01, Reply)
Like I said
it's hardly the subject I know the most about, but I prefer Craig. He fits the original books better for me
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:04, Reply)
Celebrity -The Chuckle Brothers
Because of their ability to irritate everyone within a ten mile radius of their presence.

Alt Q - Dallas - no doubt about it.

Alt alt Q - Destination Zululand.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:55, Reply)
Um diddy diddy diddy, um dayooo.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:56, Reply)
I have no idea what that meant...

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:58, Reply)
People came from foreign lands
On motor-sikkles and in vans.

I've just rediscovered that little psychobilly gem.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:59, Reply)
Evening TD

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:58, Reply)
Evenin' Jeff.
Word up.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:00, Reply)
Did you read this?
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/somerset/9360244.stm
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:01, Reply)
That's a shitter
I got a text at 12.10 yesterday saying that it was a national disgrace that Woakes hasn't got a knighthood....
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:05, Reply)
Someone wasted 12p asking you that?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:07, Reply)
I have dull friends
Birds of a feather, etc..
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:15, Reply)
alt: Brighton

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:16, Reply)
That's gay.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:17, Reply)
perhaps
but there's lots of art there and people who make robots and there is sea (although the stony beach is crap) and there are lots of my friends. Not all of them mind, I think I'd move the other ones there, though
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:24, Reply)
I'm pulling your leg Crunchy.
The South East is a lovely part of the world.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:25, Reply)
well, it's not like I'm ever going to get to choose where I live
unless I start poisoning certain lecturers in certain colleges to make the positions become available
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:27, Reply)
What about the job you mentioned the other day?
(Or it might have been today, even)
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:28, Reply)
yesterday
don't know if I'll apply, especially since that elusive full time contract is likely to magically appear in the next week or two.

It also means teaching younger kids and moving to London, both things I'm not sure about
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:33, Reply)
No harm in giving yourself more options though.
And London is closer to Brighton than Wales!
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:36, Reply)
I lived in london for a while and it made me sad
but then I had a job that was 10 hours a day in a darkroom underground paying less than £200 a week
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:40, Reply)
Were you working on the Tube?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:42, Reply)
they don't have darkrooms on the tube
they have dark rooms but not darkrooms
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:45, Reply)
There is no celebrity like me
because people like me shouldn't be famous.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:25, Reply)
Ditto.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:26, Reply)
Tritto
thus my lack of reply above
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:27, Reply)
Don't really know where I'd relocate to, either. Somewhere with beaches, maybe.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:30, Reply)
Nice beaches are better than crappy beaches

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:32, Reply)
Crappy beaches are better than no beaches though.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:33, Reply)
I suppose
Swansea bay isn't great (you definitely don't go paddling) , but it's nice to walk along. Brighton is stony, though and difficult to walk on
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:34, Reply)
Think about all the really shite people who are famous
Why are you less deserving than them?

Unless you don't want to be famous. I don't.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:28, Reply)
I'd just like to be well known
for what I do. I'd like to be the kind of person who photographers, artists and galleries recognise the name of, but not x-factor loving twats
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:31, Reply)
I can handle that
If I did something really groundbreaking and important I'd accept recognition.

If I mimed to a song I'd accept a bullet.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:34, Reply)
If you were celebrated.
What would you like to be celebrated for?
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:28, Reply)
being an artist
or in a rock band. The latter is less likely since I've never been in a rock band.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:30, Reply)
What about being a celebrated rock-band photographer?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:33, Reply)
yes
this would be the best of all outcomes
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:33, Reply)
Why not start taking photos of bands then?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:34, Reply)
I used to when I was a student
But the local music scene is non-existant here and it's crawling with younger photographers, mainly because I teach them :)

I might have a go again sometime, though
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:36, Reply)
Is it possible to get yourself a accreditied
So you get free tickets and the chance to take your mad photo skillz at larger venues?
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:39, Reply)
Perhaps if you fuck more rock stars
actually, I see no downsides with this
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:41, Reply)
While they sleep.
It's edgy and requires stealth. You could be like a pervy Banksy.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:37, Reply)
YEAH!

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:37, Reply)
Plus, you're on b3ta, I bet you could get someone to do you a really good deal on chloroform.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:43, Reply)
Indeed
I can steal you some from work for free..
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:45, Reply)
a plan is formed!

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:46, Reply)
If we've got chloroform, can I come with you?
To like... help you sneak, and... um, hold things?
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:48, Reply)
but of course!
this is a team effort

but I will fight you for DAve Grohl
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:53, Reply)
Ok, you can have Dave Grohl.
Dibs on Conor Oberst though.

And if we ever branch out into actors, Jake Gyllenhaal is MINE.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:56, Reply)
Want to give me a hand
restraining Christian Bale?
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:58, Reply)
When you say 'restrain', it sounds seedy
Let's go with 'pose'.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:00, Reply)
you're right
that's a lot less rapey
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:01, Reply)
And that's what matters in court.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:02, Reply)
'Your honour
he totally wanted it.'
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:04, Reply)
The OT chloroforming and in no way raping hot rock stars and actors
art collective
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:06, Reply)
'he just didn't know that at the time'

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:06, Reply)
'What do you mean
'Stockholm Syndrome'. It's love!'
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:10, Reply)
I'd settle for delusions if it meant having a pet Jake Gyllenhaal.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:13, Reply)
Same
for either Christian Bale or Edward Norton
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:19, Reply)
I seem to have stumbled across the b3ta rape fringe.
I'd just like to say you're all SICK.

SICK I TELLS YA.

*Here boy!*
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:08, Reply)
It's not rape, it's art.
The kind of art where we drug hot rock stars and actors and potetially 'molest' them a bit, in order to bring attention to the.... government being wankers or something.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:12, Reply)
So really it's a public service?
*Goes to check on the well-being of Louise from Sleeper*
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:13, Reply)
No, if you do it you're a horrible person who deserves to get bummed to death in prison.

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:14, Reply)
You confuse me with your many rules.
It's like a rapey game of Mornington Crescent here sometimes.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:16, Reply)
We're girls. when we talk about kidnap and rape it's cute.
If men do it, it's icky.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:19, Reply)
*Makes notes*

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:21, Reply)
Didn't we have a fantasy rock band photographer
On here a while back? Quickly dismissed.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:36, Reply)
oddly
some of my students have that as a brief for their current project
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:37, Reply)
Pretending to be a top band photographer and posting shite on b3ta?
You can get a qualification in anything these days.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:39, Reply)
*writes new brief*

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:40, Reply)
Jack Black
Good bloke most of the time but doesnt know when to stop and irritates people.

Whistler, or Vancouver Island.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:26, Reply)
Are people who are famous on the internet celebrities?
Because I identify with Allie at Hyperbole and a half a LOT. Especially when she talks about being a useless internet addict. I am nowhere near as funny as her though.

Alt: I'd say Rome, but realistically, I'd hate to live outside of the UK, so, maybe Manchester? God, I'm so exciting and adventurous.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:35, Reply)
Why wouldn't you live out of the UK?
Rome is gorgeous though I guess the language barrier could be a deal breaker
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:36, Reply)
The language barrier mainly
Also, I hate the thought of just upping sticks and leaving everyone. Plus, I maintain that the UK has some of the best community spirit in the world, if you know a good pub.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:40, Reply)
Pubs are pubs
The world over. I can't speak for North Korea, or Borneo, but a good boozer in any country you go to is always the most egalitarian experience you'll ever get.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:54, Reply)
haha, yeah
her CLEAN ALL TEH THINGS comic was exactly how I operate
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:38, Reply)
No... INTERNET! FOREVER!
I can't describe how much that post *is* me! I'd link it but I'm on my phone :(
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:41, Reply)
here you go
hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:45, Reply)
Yay!
Oh man, I love Allie.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:49, Reply)
haha
For a minute I was all excited, guess what my real name is?
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:54, Reply)
Man?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:54, Reply)
yeah, it's unfortunate
but it's just the name I was given
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:56, Reply)
I empathise
My big sister was christened "Totally". My younger brother got "Thoroughly". I just got "The."
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:01, Reply)
Was your father a Major in the army?

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:06, Reply)
How did you know
That my stepfather's surname is Eyeswater?
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:08, Reply)
Hey, if this "photography" thing takes off, I'll love you too!

(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 19:57, Reply)
Alt Q:
Boring answer but New York. Or Hope Town in the Bahamas.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:32, Reply)
new york sounds awful
so very packed and fast and claustrophobic
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:37, Reply)
It's like London really
Lots of touristy stuff in the middle. All the fun stuff is on the outskirts.

But with a lot more homeless people.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:45, Reply)
And Merkins
Of the bad variety, not the b3ta-frequenting variety.
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 20:56, Reply)
ohh
the Kate Winslet hairpieces
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 21:08, Reply)

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