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Belinda Carlisle's
father-in-law is James Mason.

This, for some reason, really surprised me.

What useless crap trivia has surprised you lately.







alt q: Would you? I would.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:51, 163 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Why the big paws?
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:54, Reply)
Near the top
www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/rastamouse-added-to-kidz-field-bill
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:16, Reply)
I watched that the other day.
It's fucking ace.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:20, Reply)
Why the fucking line breaks?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:54, Reply)

'cos I'm typing on a tiny screen.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:02, Reply)
And
it looks better with the line breaks?
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:13, Reply)

Indeed. Else, I can't read it all.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:41, Reply)
i don't know who he is

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:56, Reply)

Maybe he meant to write james may's son
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:57, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mason
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:01, Reply)
Whenever Eddie Izzard does the voice of God, he sounds like James Mason (supposedly)

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:17, Reply)
and Noah is Sean Connery.
"no, I am building a schpeedboat"
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:20, Reply)
punching a baboon lols

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:26, Reply)
Why a new thread when this one would largely answer what Monty asked in the previous?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:57, Reply)

I'm not sure if it's something he *should* know.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:03, Reply)
I'd still do Whigfield

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:58, Reply)
Blonde bimbos FTW?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:04, Reply)
I found that 'Saturday night' really reached out to me in a very cerebral way

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:11, Reply)
I had you down as more of a Gina G type.
You live and learn.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:12, Reply)
If only she had half the talent of whigfield

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:14, Reply)
Only if your cerebellum is in your pants.

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:12, Reply)
er
he's a guy. of course it is.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:25, Reply)
I can do the dance.
ICMFP.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:13, Reply)

+ palsy
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:40, Reply)
Hmmmmm.....?
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Whigfield2.jpg/220px-Whigfield2.jpg
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:43, Reply)
She was having a bad day there
it's allowed you misogynist
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:09, Reply)
this may be the most disappointing thing i've read today
and i've spent the last 2 days trying to get clients to agree to bills.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:11, Reply)
I'm disappointed too Rswipe.
I thought he was better than that.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:13, Reply)
hmmm
that's not what you gazzed me the other day...
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:13, Reply)
; )

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:15, Reply)
Oh man I sniff gossip like dogshit
Break it out
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:15, Reply)
i don't give it up that easily
i have some class and standards...
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:17, Reply)
And if I offer you some chocolate?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:23, Reply)
Valor chocolate
I have a lot at home.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:23, Reply)
yay!!
god i miss villajoyosa. homesick murp!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:24, Reply)
Ok, I'll send you some
Now, that gossiping you were talking about...
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:27, Reply)
is it the white chocolate with almonds in it??

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:40, Reply)
I'm sorry it isn't
but I can get it.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:54, Reply)
My mother didn't buy me an easter egg this year
instead she bought me some chocolate buttons from Hotel Chocolat. But they're in the shape of vintage buttons, like the sort on army jackets etc. They're amazing.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:31, Reply)
that place should be banned. i work so near one it is lethal.
however, i have given up chocolate for [insert emo personal whingey reason here] and haven't touched it for about 2 weeks.

i haven't really missed it. but i got asked out by a personal trainer the other day and he is trying to get me to give up diet coke. this is why i am not going to date him. well, this and the fact that the difference between "your" and "you're" is a concept that has escaped him. i don't care if they are hot or ugly. i care a lot if they are dumb!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:42, Reply)
Give up Diet Coke?
You should do it with Charms. She's trying to cut down, at least. I don't actually drink that much, so I'm ok.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:01, Reply)
i've tried
i've tried everything. i cannot give that shit up!

and on that note, lunch. itsu probably...
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:04, Reply)
they sound delicious
you still up for Saturday?
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:51, Reply)
Provided I've not killed myself, Hell yes.
May I ask you arrive closer to late afternoon/evening/suppertime? I need to fit in some library time. We can go somewhere supertasty for dinner!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:59, Reply)
www.asgreekasitgets.com

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:04, Reply)
This is why you go there.


You love them.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:06, Reply)
Of course :)
I get in about 2.30pm, but I can go see F&F 5 :D
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:08, Reply)
I don't know either of them
But I would, why not, you only live once.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:08, Reply)
I think I've made it quite plain on this forum that I would given half the chance.

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:09, Reply)
Here
xkcd.com/887/

The surprising bit comes when you mouseover on the drawing.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:09, Reply)
I saw that
Sadly, I was not surprised by what I read in the mouseover.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:18, Reply)
I was
I still can't believe it's made it so many times to the headlines.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:22, Reply)
Well, it's not headlines so much as hits from google searches
And there are a lot of opinionated crackpots on the internet...he says, posting his opinions unabashedly over the internet! But yes, unfortunately it seems a lot of people are quite happy to use this modern internet-thing, but are strangely reticent to accept the modern view that ethnic diversity is no bad thing.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:38, Reply)
The
Daily Fail is a strangly dangerous beast it would seem. That and Fox news of course.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:44, Reply)
Sad, I think it is
that people are so worried about mixing and being different. Sad and stupid.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:47, Reply)
I wrote a blog post !
www.coll3ctive.co.uk/news/politics/paulypops/some-funn-ways-to-tell-bigots-to-f__k-off/
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:09, Reply)
I liked it
I liked the first picture.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:12, Reply)
Thanks =)

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:17, Reply)
nice one
I'll will write something in the next week and a half
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:17, Reply)
Ace ! No hurries =)

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:28, Reply)
omg jimmy wong
that was hilarious
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:22, Reply)
That was brillient !

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:30, Reply)
Ohh, I forgot about something, *updates*

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:39, Reply)
no, she's old

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:10, Reply)
i am often surprised
when b3tans add me on fb (yes, sporty, i'm looking at you!) and they look NOTHING like i imagined.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:13, Reply)
so which one are you saying
you're gonna do?
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:14, Reply)
No-one, I'll guess. Anyone apart from Monty
might infect her with socialism. I can sense the fear in her eyes from here
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:16, Reply)
i am immune

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:18, Reply)
it's a slow-burner
lies dormant for years and then BAM! you're done.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:21, Reply)
i think
you know me better than that.

but there is no yoghurt to be woven here today, so.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:23, Reply)
Please, we knit yoghurt
we weave tofu.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:24, Reply)
They are all using fake pictures
I'm really 52 a truck driver. As are you, right, Dave?
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:14, Reply)
of course Dave
we're all Daves here
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:17, Reply)
no
i am actually in disguise. i am a 21 year old virginal bi-curious 5'11" size 6 blonde supermodel with an identical twin. i just pretend to be old and ugly on here for fun.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:18, Reply)
way too young
and I'd break a size 6.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:19, Reply)
i don't do married guys anyway
so you're quite safe.

you are another one who is much better looking than i thought you would be, though, being an online weirdo and all, so kudos on that!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:24, Reply)
I'm not actually married yet
but that's a technicality, I grant you.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:26, Reply)
Are you going out
with a super hero with an Honda Accord?
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:21, Reply)
*Puts up hand*
*roundhouse kicks perp*
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:23, Reply)
how did you guess?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:23, Reply)
I'm that clever
Has he been kicking ass recently and posting it a webpage full of true stories about real life?
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:25, Reply)
you must hate being that tall and having to look at the top of everyones head

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:23, Reply)
what?
how short are you?
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:25, Reply)
5'9"

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:33, Reply)
that's not short
good job.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:34, Reply)
I only know one person as tall as me!
i hate being fat AND tall
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:37, Reply)
seriously?
I'm 6'2" and I know a load of people taller than me
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:38, Reply)
It's all that in-breeding down there.

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:40, Reply)
hey hey hey now
you didn't mind it when you were boinking one of us now did you
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:42, Reply)
I was talking about where Vippers is from, not America.

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:44, Reply)
yeah, I know where he's from, I have met him

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:46, Reply)
You've met vippers?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:53, Reply)
oh shit no
yes see, what was said down there
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:55, Reply)
Right, here's how it works.
Joke about inbreeding down in Devon, Kristine makes the gag that you didn't mind inbreeding whilst you were boinking TRL.

You were still talking about Vippers, Kristine was still talking about TRL. You two get confused, I get face-palmy, the end.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:55, Reply)
Mixed connections.
Easily done.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:56, Reply)
not many have been that lucky blousie

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:59, Reply)
I do feel blessed.

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:59, Reply)
glad to hear it
even if you didn't notice you were sat next to me for a while....
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:02, Reply)
I had a hangover and I'm shy.

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:04, Reply)
awww

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:08, Reply)
Tops out at 6'3"
Bow before me pitiful midgets!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:47, Reply)
tall men ftw
i have too many beautiful pairs of high heels to need to wear trainers every time we go out!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:48, Reply)
: (
Todmorden is full of short arses.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:51, Reply)
*6'3" fist bump*

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:52, Reply)
*bumps back over average people's heads*

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:54, Reply)
Next time they're playing with a ball, right.
We intercept it, right. Then we throw it to each other and laugh.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:56, Reply)
Mwah ha ha ha ha
Pitiful dwarves, cower beneath my lofty gaze!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:00, Reply)

ball frisbee
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:03, Reply)
You see, we'd need to steal it from people already playing with it, that's the joke.
Who'd be a big enough fucking idiot to be playing with a frisbee? It's not even a real sport.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:05, Reply)
what sort of tea making fuckwit would play ULTIMATE frisbee?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:13, Reply)
what kind of tea making no hoper would play ULTIMATE frisbee?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:17, Reply)
No one taller?! Really?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:39, Reply)
my dad
yeah I see plenty of tall people but I don't know them
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:42, Reply)
most of my male friends are over 6ft

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:50, Reply)
mine aren't, they're mostly 5'7"

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:55, Reply)
You work for Willy Wonka
AICMFP
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:59, Reply)
Bitch I AM Willy Wonka

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:05, Reply)
Willy Wanka more like.

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:07, Reply)
and you're a Willy Wrangler

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:13, Reply)
Haha!

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:14, Reply)
Oi! Internet wife.
Don't encourage her.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:15, Reply)
You're not the boss of me.

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:16, Reply)
Don't you oppress me.
*Sulks*
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:17, Reply)
What on earth is a Willy Wrangler?
It sounds like a denim cock.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:14, Reply)
I often wondered
why teenage girls didn't simply use the same tactics on the Internet and pretend to be 45 year old, fat, lorry drivers.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:40, Reply)
SORRRRRYYYYY!
I forgot to email people when I added them. My defence was I was talking to Gonz at the time
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:31, Reply)
I've managed to find out who you are
and so have added you. I'm not going to talk to you on there though. Just see if you have any hot female friends.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:33, Reply)
I have a few

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:34, Reply)
you'd better...

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:38, Reply)
Actually swipey
My profile pic on here is originally from Facebook. So you lie!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:35, Reply)
this makes the massive assumption
that i had ever clicked on your profile though!

/lawyer
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:48, Reply)
Would I what? What would you?
I feel sorry for fat girls with pointy tits like womble's noses. Worst of both worlds
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:17, Reply)
:(

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:18, Reply)
Hahaha!
How random.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:18, Reply)
Womble comes up as Wimbledon in my predictive text
Spooky
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:20, Reply)
Clicking I like this doesn't seem enough
I fucking love this!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:36, Reply)
Oh god like that Ablisa girl
The punchy one off X Factor or whatever. They were barely there.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:38, Reply)
If I was fatter
I'd probably be like that.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:52, Reply)
Not trivia.
But the wireless in the Classics section of the library, which I needed for finding books and researching translators? Didn't work. Sitting out in the gardens, 10 metres outside the doors? Works just fine.
Fuck the mezzanines.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:25, Reply)
Outside is better anyways

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:36, Reply)
difficult
to read laptop screens in the sun though. Oh, what shame!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:40, Reply)
i hate that word
mezzanine floors kept me here til 3am the other day.

why can't people not build them, or at least take them with them when they go, instead of giving me a legal headache?!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:47, Reply)
Why, did you get lost on one?
I could believe that.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:50, Reply)
if i turn my computer off and on again
will that make you go away, IT-boy?!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:02, Reply)
hahaha!

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:03, Reply)
No.
This isn't even the stupidest question I've been asked in the last five minutes. You can do much better, I've seen the proof.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:03, Reply)
Surprises?
Here I am, thinking it's just an hour to go home and wondering why I'm so hungry. And I just realized I haven't had my lunch yet. Silly me.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:50, Reply)
Shouldn't you be asleep at this time of day, anyway?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:57, Reply)
I should
I certainly should. It's nap time. I might have one today before the match.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:58, Reply)
I haven't, but I'm fasting.
I'm going to eat lots of MEAT tonight. Oh, and go out for dinner.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:01, Reply)
Fasting is bad.
*points finger and looks stern*
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:05, Reply)
I had breakfast!
and I had it quite late. I'm quite hungry though. But don't want to spoil my appetite...
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:08, Reply)
Ok I'll let you off but fasting messes with your metabolism so does more harm than good.

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:09, Reply)
You want food little and often
Apparently 6 small meals a day is the best way forward
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:18, Reply)
Trouble is the SMALL part

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:18, Reply)
are you not eating all day in order to have a larger meal for dinner?

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:05, Reply)
Yes.

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:07, Reply)
*is envious*

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:14, Reply)
ARGH!
I am due to be getting a nice free iPhone from work but they haven't turned up yet. If it does not turn up tomorrow, I warn you b3ta, I will be sulking.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:16, Reply)
oh poor you!
i'll just get my tiny iviolin to play for you
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:22, Reply)
If you could please
It may help
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:26, Reply)
I'll get the cheese to go with the whine!

(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:28, Reply)
I'd do Marijne van der Vlugt
Even though she's two years younger than my mum. To be fair though I've wanted to do her since 1995.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:51, Reply)

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