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Hey hey!
How's everyone this evening?

I have to do a brave thing in a minute. How do you work yourself up to do tricky things?
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 18:52, 187 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
You're going to weigh yourself aren't you?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 18:55, Reply)
hell no
it's not that brave
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 18:56, Reply)
Oh! go on.
I did it and stopped crying eventually.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 18:57, Reply)
I have no scales
so it's not even an option

i went swimming today so I'm feeling a little less lardy
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 18:58, Reply)
I tried to go swimming last night
but only the leisure pool was open. The proper one was occupied by some club or something, and I didn't much fancy trying to swim with kids splashing around and dropping out of flumes.

So I came home and ate chocolate instead.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:04, Reply)
I'm concerned that when I am no longer on secondment and don't have access to a private pool
that I will crack and dig a pool in my garden
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:06, Reply)
I could do that
but for the fact it's on a steep hill and it would need to be really deep at one end.

And it would be frozen for a large part of the year.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:07, Reply)
aww, I was in the leisure centre
and had it to myself

*smugs*
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:07, Reply)
That's the sort of reply
one would expect from Vipros.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:07, Reply)
I'm much more smug
the pool I have access to never has anyone in it
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:18, Reply)
Now that I'm no longer 'working' at a university
and don't even get a proper lunch hour, I have to make a conscious effort to go swimming, or take any exercise at all (save for shovelling fucking snow).

Consequently I'm putting on weight.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:24, Reply)
it certainly helps having a pool literally just outside the back door
I'm thinning down nicely, and strangely losing weight at a slower rate.

good for the health though and that is the main thing
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:29, Reply)
ooooh what are you going to do??
it depends on what it is, generally I just tell myself to get it over with already
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 18:57, Reply)
umm
I'm about to send a message to some dude on a dating site who happens to live in Oxford where I will be this weekend to see if he wants to meet up. There is a high chance that I will sound like a stalker. I'm not sure how to get around that
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:00, Reply)
probably shouldn't tell him you love him just yet

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:04, Reply)
I just do them
and then they are over and done with and I can get on with the important business of smoking drugs
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:01, Reply)
is everyone on here tougher and more hard core than me?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:02, Reply)
no, just me

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:04, Reply)
not at all

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:07, Reply)
I'm good thanks Captain Crunch.
This brave thing of which you speak, isn't remotely brave. You signed up to a dating site for this very reason.

Now, either take a shit or get off the pot.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:02, Reply)
but but!
I will probably get rejected on the basis of sounding like a creepy weirdo and then the police will be involved and then I will die from embarrassment
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:03, Reply)
If the police come a knocking then take the advice of this man.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH_StQ6KdW0
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:05, Reply)
I might have to use him for defense at work, too
I'm still trying to talk one of my students out of a project where he goes round mashing cake into unsuspecting strangers' faces :( He did it to me today.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:10, Reply)
What has he called the project?
Cake-Rape?
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:11, Reply)
hahaha
I will suggest this
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:12, Reply)
I thought you lectured in photography
Or are you running a clown school?
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:15, Reply)
I like it when photography gets a bit mad
and some students have clocked this and really gone for the slapstick, gross or mad shit
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:16, Reply)
A bit mad?
I'd be furious if someone randomly attacked me with a pastry.

Hot, Cross and Bunned.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:20, Reply)
are you planning on saying something particularly creepy?
if not then chances are the recipient might be expecting to get messages along those lines, as they have after all signed up to a dating site, presumably with the intention of dating.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:05, Reply)
I dunno
I've only been messaging him for a couple of weeks and I live hundreds of miles away and then say "btw I'm totally in your town this weekend!" sounds a bit stalkery
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:09, Reply)
If you're going to stalk him
do it properly. Find out where he lives and go and knock on his door.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:11, Reply)
have you actually talked to this person before today?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:08, Reply)
only in email form

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:10, Reply)
then go for it!
you obviously have some sort of connection if you're continuing to talk to him and are thinking of asking to meet up
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:13, Reply)
Of course you could always send him a message that doesn't make you sound like a creep weirdo.
It's a radical thought I know, but it might just work.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:09, Reply)
I'm pretty sure I will not manage this

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:11, Reply)
I know!
Why not copy and paste all of your previous message exchanges with this chap on OT and we'll help you write something.

I don't see how this can fail.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:14, Reply)
yup
nothing will go wrong there
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:15, Reply)
Then do it!
*Waits*
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:16, Reply)
Hello, my name's Crunchy.
I like dressing up in exotic costumes and hanging around in fields with like minded strangers at weekends.

HOLY FUCK, YOU'RE RIGHT!!!
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:12, Reply)
I've not sent it yet
but I have mentioned soylent green. But to be fair the rest of the message is about timmy mallet time travelling
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:14, Reply)
I wish Timmy Mallet COULD time travel.
To either a: the time of the dinosaurs so he could get eaten, or b: to the point where John Logie Baird invented the television, if only to realise that perhaps it might not be such a good idea after all.

Granted we'd be denied various televisual delights, but it might just be worth it to avoid having to give screen space to that irritating, about as funny as a rectal prolapse excuse of an entertainer.

Oh, and Timmy, those lolwaki glasses - they may have just worked in the 80's, but these days they just make you look like a cunt.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:18, Reply)
is he still on telly?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:19, Reply)
Apparently he's quite a talented painted.
Although I may have made that up, or been told it down the pub.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:25, Reply)
I don't care.
Even in the 80's he was a colossal embarrassment.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:29, Reply)
He gets wheeled out every now and again.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:30, Reply)
I actually met my girlfriend on a dating site
so give it a go, it might work for you.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:09, Reply)
Not sure how happy I am about the internet knowing this.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:09, Reply)
As long as she's not your long lost half sister
then you're probably fairly safe.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:10, Reply)
OK
done it. Perhaps the world ends now
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:17, Reply)
Woohoo!

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:18, Reply)
*BOOOOOOOOOOM*

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:19, Reply)
What did you say?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:22, Reply)
"hey I'm outside your house
rubbing my tits on your window and watching you type. BTW wanna go for a coffee?"
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:24, Reply)
Hahaha!

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:25, Reply)
in all seriousness
that would make me laugh and would be a good start
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:25, Reply)
Normal people aren't like us Vippers.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:27, Reply)
that is true
trouble is, most of my real life friends are like the people on here as well, so I don't know how to interact with "normal" people
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:31, Reply)
I suspect
I'd be sufficiently interested to be opening my curtains by now.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:26, Reply)
Have he been double glazed?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:27, Reply)
I've just eaten a million calories

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:19, Reply)
Did you eat a million rice crispies?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:21, Reply)
No I had a
fried bacon and fried cheese and fried onion and fried egg sandwich.

Oh with ketchup. I didn't fry that
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:22, Reply)
I had cous cous and chicken.
I bet I get fatter than you.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:24, Reply)
Who cares when we are both so freeking awesome

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:31, Reply)
That ^

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:32, Reply)
True......I suppose.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:35, Reply)
how were the crumpets?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:26, Reply)
oh!
They looked nothing like crumpets, the holes didn't really form but we ate a few at lunch and the other people at work said they were good. Including my boss who will say if things are shit.

They were a MASSIVE amount of effort though. One sec I'll find the recipe I used.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:27, Reply)
hmmm, massive amounts of effort don't sound good
I tend not to make bread and stuff often because of that. I got a bit put off after spending 4 days making turkish bread. It was good, but not good enough.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:30, Reply)
What the hell needed doing
that took 4 days?!
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:31, Reply)
well there was a revolution in the mean time

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:31, Reply)
a sour dough starter
bakeries tend to have the same one on the go for years. it's complicated.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:32, Reply)
Ah, should have guessed
it's not that complicated!
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:38, Reply)

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/crumpets_93122

I used all plain flour though and added water at the end, so you may want to up that to 175m of warm water.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:33, Reply)
reckon I will give it a go
I've got the appropriate flour. Only thing I don't have are the rings.

edit: most importantly, put on Come Dine With Me on More 4, there's a guy who reminds me of Wooks :-D

he won't be happy about that I suspect
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:35, Reply)
aww that's mean. Poor Nick.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:39, Reply)
hahaha

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:41, Reply)
Lifes too short to make your own crumpets.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:35, Reply)
I worry about them for a bit
and then I go 'fuck it' and get on with them. Usually.
I am shit, frankly, and I can't even console myself with snacks because I am feeling unusually fat and bloat-y.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:28, Reply)
I have 3/4 of a bottle of wine.
I think I'll go for it.


*goes for it*
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:30, Reply)
I do not have wine
and in any case, I ought to save myself for saturday!
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:32, Reply)
*there there*
What's the matter?
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:31, Reply)
Didn't get the PhD.
a few other things, but mainly that.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:31, Reply)
I saw that on FB.
Sorry hon!
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:32, Reply)
I shouldn't have semi-convinced myself I'd got it
it's my own fault I'm feeling shit. But cheers love :)
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:33, Reply)
It's natural to keep your hopes up.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:38, Reply)
booo
it's their loss, now what are you going for next? Something much better, surely
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:32, Reply)
No, not really
I applied for a bunch of others but it's been 4 weeks now, I think I'd have heard if I'd got interviews. There's 3 or 4 more I can apply for but then that's it, I'll have to find myself another job rather than study. Chances are when I finish that job I'll either be too old to start a PhD or won't really be any more competitive than I am now.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:34, Reply)
my friends dad started (one of many he had) when he was over 55.
never gonna get too old (never gonna get, never gonna get)
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:36, Reply)
Yeah, but if you think in terms of funding
it's generally for three years. So, I'll be 26 when I finish here in October, probably another three years as a technician, I'll be 29... then three or four years to do a PhD... If I want any sort of career I'd need to then do at least one post-doc before having kids, but that means I won't be able to start a family til I'm what, 36? 37? It's all just leaving things really late, certainly later than I hypothetically wanted to.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:42, Reply)
Lost of women do that now already.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:44, Reply)
Yes, but it's not what I wanted for me
this, of course, all assumes that I will meet someone that I want to have children with in the next 10 years, and overcome the fear, disgust and loathing that I feel about pregnancy.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:49, Reply)
It will go.
At college I was mates with a girl who swore she'd never have kids. Had this loathing of something living inside her. Completely freaked her out. A few years ago she FB'd me and she's had a baby.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:52, Reply)
I think I watch 'Alien' too young, is what it is...
but yeah, from a biology point of view, knowing all the freaky shit it does to your innards really doesn't persuade me in any way that it's a good idea.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:58, Reply)
Yeah
I'd do one now if offered (which I won't be) and I'm old. LIfelong learning and all that
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:43, Reply)
sadtimes :(
make yourself a baconcheeseonionegg sammich.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:34, Reply)
Sadtimes indeed
actually, that sounds rather tasty, I may pop to the shop for bacons.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:35, Reply)
Also contrary to popluar belief
baconz are healthy. Me and wooks have done a lot of research into this
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:37, Reply)
woohoo!

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:40, Reply)
Sorry berk.
Did you get any feedback?
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:36, Reply)
I emailed back and asked for some
it will probably just be that there were other, better candidates...and I can't really do an awful fucking lot about that.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:46, Reply)
Well I'm sorry to hear you didn't get it all the same.
I hope you get useful feedback from.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:50, Reply)
Yeah.
*sigh*
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:56, Reply)
That's the first time you've ever sighed in my general direction without commenting on a pun.
You must be really low. :(

How can OT cheer you up?
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:59, Reply)
I'm not sure it can
I know how it goes, I'll huff and flounce about it for a while and then I'll be fine again.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:02, Reply)
We could have the 'berk awards?'
A bit like the Brits, but we all post songs from the Brit Pop era to cheer you up.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:06, Reply)
I've decided I have a major crush on Dizzie Rascal.
He's on the Brits at the moment.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:37, Reply)
Is this your way of telling us your mid life crisis has started?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:41, Reply)
Yup!
Hang on because it's going to be a bumpy ride.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:42, Reply)
yeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:51, Reply)
I would say that is
B b b b Bonkers
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:41, Reply)
I do like that he is apparently quite humble
and very firmly tongue in cheek. Does he still have that plaster on his face?
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:43, Reply)
I don't really go for black guys as they're not geeky enough or have the same sense of humour but he's got such a nice demeanour and a cheeky face.
I want to give him a cuddle.

What plaster?
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:46, Reply)
Christ I'm older than he is
*sigh* I was sure in his early days he used to have a plaster on his face... that may have been someone else though.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:52, Reply)
Bloodclot honky!

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:53, Reply)
Don't pretend to be hip.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:01, Reply)
I'm more plastic hip rather than down-with-the-kids hip.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:05, Reply)
So hip you have difficulty seeing over your own pelvis?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:06, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5YkmjalDg
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:09, Reply)
So... 80s....

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:12, Reply)
Did you see my suggestion to cheer you up?
It's ^ up there a little bit.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:13, Reply)
I have now
I'm not really in the mood, sorry. But thanks for the thought.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:18, Reply)
wasn't that 50 cent?
Google says Nelly
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:48, Reply)
Nelly I think

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:53, Reply)
Points to K and her rapper knowledge

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:55, Reply)
yessssssss

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:59, Reply)
aww
he's not in oxford that weekend :(
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:50, Reply)
But at least you asked!

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:53, Reply)
yes
and he didn't seem too put out
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:54, Reply)
Aw boo!

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:53, Reply)
Prior to your message was he due to be in Oxford this weekend?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:54, Reply)
I don't know
he claims to be at a wedding some miles away
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:55, Reply)
Sounds feasible.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:56, Reply)
Did he say where the wedding is?
I mean, just to be on the safe side, you could phone ever potential wedding venue in the town/city he claims he'll be in to check.

That would in no way be remotely weird.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:57, Reply)
Haha!

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:58, Reply)
OK
I know the town. Time to start researching...
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:59, Reply)
Good work Crunchy.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:04, Reply)
not sure who those people think they are planning their wedding when you were trying to meet up with him

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:58, Reply)
i no rite?!
checky fucks. I decided this days ago
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:00, Reply)
Jeff!
don't be mean.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:56, Reply)
Crunchy knows I'm just pulling her leg.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:58, Reply)
*sniff*

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:01, Reply)
But at least you've chamois leathered his windows with your tits.
You'll always have that.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:03, Reply)
and now you say I have leathery tits!
You're so mean
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:04, Reply)
That's not what I meant.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:10, Reply)
:D

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:24, Reply)
What does that face mean?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:26, Reply)
Why not go back to him and say
'You're going to a wedding? Fantastic! Be sure to note down the little touches you like and we'll use them for OUR wedding'
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:01, Reply)
I usually just do them immediately
but on occasion I procrastinate and torture myself with mounting anxiety and guilt until I'm on the threshold of madness. In the end I usually say 'fuck it, I will have dessert'.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 19:56, Reply)
My pups birthday is tomorrow, do you think it's too late to get a pretty princess dress like
this for her??
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:07, Reply)
bleugh!

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:09, Reply)
Aw!
I think a nice white collar with diamante studs would look better.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:11, Reply)
She's got a red collar currently with silver studs on.
Maybe I can find something online before her party on friday.
[totally not my idea]
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:13, Reply)
Will you be decorating her cage?

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:15, Reply)
pfft she'll just eat it
my mum made me go buy her some bones and a new toy so she can wrap them for her
I was half tempted to get this cupid set that had angel wings and a head band with hearts on it
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:18, Reply)
Pfft.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:22, Reply)
I'm good ta.
also -- I just plunge in and do it, eventually.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:09, Reply)
Yes we know : )

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:11, Reply)
oh. Okay then.

(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 20:13, Reply)

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