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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Moments in history
If you could have witnessed any moment in history, what would you have liked to seen and why?

Alt: Lunch.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:26, 174 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
When woman discovered fire.
Ryebread with cheese and quorn.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:28, Reply)
I don't think seeing a woman walking out of a cave to see a bloke with a fire he's just lit would be that special

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:29, Reply)
ha top historical smuggery here

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:27, Reply)
The only thing women ever discovered
was inferiority.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:29, Reply)
The only thing man delighted in discovering was his penis.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:32, Reply)
everything else he discovered to shut woman up

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:32, Reply)
That sentance makes no sense.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:33, Reply)
he delighted in discovering his penis
I then implied that he discovered everything else, and that he did so to shut up the nagging women around him.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:34, Reply)
alternatively
your face makes no sense
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:34, Reply)
Haha!

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:35, Reply)
Put the kettle on, love.
Good girl.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:33, Reply)
What instead of putting my penis in it to see if I can fuck it?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:33, Reply)
Shh dear
men are talking.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:34, Reply)

......about when they last got laid.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:35, Reply)
Some of us can recall it, yes.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:35, Reply)
Touche!

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:36, Reply)
:P

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:38, Reply)
what has a man done to you recently that has made you go all irrational?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:36, Reply)
Just sparring a bit.
Don't get your knickers in a twist.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:37, Reply)
I'm not
just curious. It seems like regression, and you were doing so well ;-)
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:38, Reply)
I recently had a minor bump but I'm back on the straight and narrow.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:39, Reply)
glad to hear it
who was the minor bump?
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:40, Reply)
Nobody you know.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:41, Reply)
:-o

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:42, Reply)
Wasn't even a bump, more like a nudge : )

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:45, Reply)
hahaha

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:48, Reply)
A daily delight for most men

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:34, Reply)
Make sure you have Tuna Suprise tomorrow.
You've been run down what with having a cold and I reckon a nice bit of tuna will sort you out.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:35, Reply)
Will do Jeff : )

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:36, Reply)
And maybe some crisps.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:37, Reply)
Or a cake.
A nice cake from the bakers.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:37, Reply)
I'm on a diet again.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:38, Reply)
one of Zeppelin's mid-70s Earl's Court gigs
would have been absolutely amazing.

Being a safe observer of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs (if that is in fact what happened...) would be pretty incredible too. Or a significant volcanic eruption.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:28, Reply)
Krakatoa would be rather impressive

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:33, Reply)
The crucifixion of Jesus
Just so I could point and laugh.

Alt: Pork & apple curry with spinach and potato, on rice
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:30, Reply)
pork and apple curry?
that sounds both wrong and great
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:32, Reply)
It works very well, just add it right towards the end

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:34, Reply)
If you like to laugh at people being totured to death surely being present at a freshly dug pit in a Russian Forest in the 1940's would reap more entertainment

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:37, Reply)
Nah, they were innocent
Jesus deserved it, the hippy.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:40, Reply)
Were they?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:42, Reply)
In comparison

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:45, Reply)
The Byzantine Empire
under the rule of Justinian I, I think. Although Basil I's reign was also quite interesting.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:30, Reply)
He started as an Ice Cream man
Before opening some care homes and then health clubs. After than he became a Dragon.

I don't think it would be that interesting.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:36, Reply)
LTI

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:38, Reply)
Woo-Hoo!
I've not been asked to LTI for a few days.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:39, Reply)
Are you getting Justinian/Basil I
mixed up with Duncan Ballatyne?
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:40, Reply)
Byzantine
Bannatyne
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:41, Reply)
Ugh
With a knife.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:41, Reply)
SPOON!

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:43, Reply)
*waves at Rainier*

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:44, Reply)
Actually, didn't Justinian start off from fairly humble beginnings
a peasant family, then his uncle was in the imperial guard and adopted him. So very similar.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:50, Reply)
AND Belisarius thought he was a twat.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:02, Reply)
He sounds like a fat dinosaur.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:03, Reply)
you sound like a fat dinosaur

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:10, Reply)
I'd like to have have been in Galleli when Jesus walked on water
I would have pointed out that the cheating bastard had stilts on

ALT: Beef and horseradish andwich and chicken and ham sandwich + fruit
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:31, Reply)
I would have liked to see the Atlantic pouring into the dry lake where the Med now is

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:33, Reply)
That'd be awesome
there'd be dinosaurs and panic and Gene Hackman leading the survivors up a Christmas Tree.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:35, Reply)
I like this

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:39, Reply)
*fingerguns*

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:41, Reply)
I'd witness the bit just before poor poor Marilyn topped herself.
I'd try and stop her.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:40, Reply)
Her candle burned out long before, the legend ever did.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:42, Reply)

s fingers and
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:42, Reply)
What?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:48, Reply)
fingers and tops!

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:50, Reply)
What's that?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:50, Reply)
I shall let you guess

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:53, Reply)
It's rudey isn't it?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:54, Reply)
It is, yes

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:04, Reply)
Nooo! She would have ended up as one of those stretched and tucked old actresses.
Better to remember her the way she was.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:43, Reply)
Dead.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:43, Reply)
hahahahahaha!

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:44, Reply)
Was, not is.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:46, Reply)

is was.

*Walks dinosaur*
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:47, Reply)
*gets on the floor*

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:48, Reply)
*opens the door*

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:48, Reply)
Shut that door
/graysons
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:49, Reply)
Mindpiss.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:49, Reply)
What's mindpiss?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:50, Reply)
Posting the same reply or idea as somebody before.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:54, Reply)
Posting the same reply or idea as somebody before.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:55, Reply)
It had to be you Jeff.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:57, Reply)
Thanks Sinatra.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:59, Reply)
*Opens door*

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:48, Reply)
She wouldn't.
She'd have got help and been happy and wrinkly like Jane Russell.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:50, Reply)
Back in the day in Rome
Just to see what day to day life was like then

Alt:
Noodles with green pepper, red chilli, brown mushrooms, light brown chicken, dark brown soy and shit brown peanut butter
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:41, Reply)
European Cup final 1979
or 1980, I'm not fussed. If I have to choose something that happened outside of my own lifetime, it'd be finding out what the fuck happened to Atlantis
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:47, Reply)
Re: Atlantis.
It was the Stonecutters.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:47, Reply)
Oh
Well that's disappointing, frankly
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:51, Reply)
They also made Steve Guttenberg a star.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:53, Reply)
I know. Most irresponsible of them.
Makes you wonder if the metric system's all that bad
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:56, Reply)
And who would really win Oscars if the event wasn't rigged.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:57, Reply)
We could be here all night
Fnarr
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:01, Reply)
Just being around Jesus I think before he started really annoying the religious authorities.
And find out exactly what he was smoking, or just to see if he was genuinely a nice bloke.

Lunch- beef salad sandwiches with a hefty dollop of horseradish sauce- best of all the sauces.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:48, Reply)
Horseradish is magnificent

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:50, Reply)
So, you'd like to be Jesus' wood work teacher.
Yon know what Jesus, you are not really cut out to be a carpenter. Have you thought of something you would like to do instead?
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:51, Reply)
Like Merlin to King Arthur?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:02, Reply)
The crucifixion I think
or getting to walk round the Domus Aurea (without being seen by Nero obviously)

Alt: two bags of hula-hoops and a can of coke
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:49, Reply)
Obviously : /

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:50, Reply)
obviously ;)

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:52, Reply)
Would you eat Jesus's easter eggs and then claim you had no idea he was going to come back from the dead?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:51, Reply)
There was no way he could eat all the choc
in the days before he went back to heaven anyway, so he wouldn't mind
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:55, Reply)
Would you go to the last supper as well.
Just to see if they had Vienetta for dessert.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:59, Reply)
crucifixition?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:52, Reply)
ew why?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:04, Reply)
Hula hoops are quite nice

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:12, Reply)
hahahaha I meant the crucifixion, you saucy minx

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:15, Reply)
See if it happened/ if anything supernatural happened

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:17, Reply)
slinking through the shadows to catch the resurrection...Amberl, the first creeper

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:21, Reply)
I like the beef ones the best.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:16, Reply)
Alt: artichoke, mozzarella and olive garlic salad with rice
I have literally only eaten wedding leftovers this week
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:53, Reply)
I've never eaten artichoke

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:01, Reply)
You should; with hollandaise sauce

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:03, Reply)
Haven't tried that combination
I'm most fond of the hearts, in salad
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:04, Reply)
hollandaise is great

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:10, Reply)
I only had my first one a couple of years ago.
Truefact!
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:03, Reply)
You poor northerners, deprived of even slightly exotic vegetables

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:12, Reply)
Artichokes are not exotic

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:14, Reply)
irony innit

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:14, Reply)
Just a touch
spinach more so
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:20, Reply)
Hahaha!

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:31, Reply)

Anything Religious to see if it was true.

The fall of pompeii

The JFK shooting from the grassy knoll to see who it was.

Homemade salad and strawberries. Im on a health kick.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 12:55, Reply)
Are you a fat virgin?
We seem to be collecting them at the moment
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:01, Reply)
Don't worry, we know you were the first.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:03, Reply)
I AM NOT FAT!
you set em up...
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:13, Reply)

No, but thanks for your concern??

odd.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:09, Reply)
My pleasure
The health and wellbeing of OTers is of great concern to me, what shall i file you under:

Sweaty perv
Stalky loner
Over the hill
fat virgin
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:16, Reply)

Can I phone a friend..?

Just put me in your pile. I'm guessing angry jobsworth.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:26, Reply)
I'd like to see the moment that one of you uses your amazing hook up for me to meet n-dubz :) :) :) :) :) :)
alt: it's only breakfast here, I may just have a soda
oh I have irn bru at home! I want that now :(
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:07, Reply)
Irn Bru sucks
there's something wrong with people from the North and Scotland, they like horrible drinks, like Vimto
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:09, Reply)
never had it
Irn Bru on the other hand, is amazing
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:12, Reply)
Add Vimto to the list of things to try when you make it over the pond!

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:13, Reply)
Do not
Add Ribena, it's awesome as you would say
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:19, Reply)
I'm a bit confused Ape.
Are you suggesting you add ribena to vimto or for K to just drink ribena?
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:20, Reply)
Add ribena to the list you crazy bastard

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:24, Reply)
K will spend all of her time being force-fed regional delicacies.
Everything from the Munchy Box to Monty's chemicals.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:26, Reply)
I don't understand the munchy box meme.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:31, Reply)
it is a hideous conconction of take away meats and shit; donner meat, fried chicken, onion rings
it also doubles as a euphamism for Bella's mimsy as these are both things that AA likes to eat
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:35, Reply)
he doesn't like to
he just can't help himself
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:36, Reply)
Vimto is nectar. Ribena is foul.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:14, Reply)
I don't care for Ribena either

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:16, Reply)
I've still to try Vimto
I promise to correct this before pier day.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:17, Reply)
^^This

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:17, Reply)
If it's breakfast time why not make yourself a nice fruit smoothie
Or 'a charming Darth' as it's known in the UK.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:12, Reply)
How long have you been waiting to wheel that out?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:13, Reply)
I just thought of it.
I rarely call Darth a bender. Unless he is handing out points.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:14, Reply)
because I work in a garage, there's a shortage of fruit, ice and blender
l
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:15, Reply)
that reminds me
there's an old shop near my mate's house called Exeter Fruits, and the proprietors name is the same as Labs real initial and surname. I must remember to get a picture of it.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:15, Reply)
n-duz annouced a two year break this morning Krizza...

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:18, Reply)
OFFICIALLY?!!!!
Why did no one wake me when it came on the news :(((((((((((((((((

Actually I knew they were taking a years break, but now two?!
Fine, KP and Tula it is!
Who's got the hook up???
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:19, Reply)

*snigger*
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:20, Reply)
*stabs you in the face*
I just don't see why you people want to hurt me so?
First it's "DON'T COME TO THE UK!"
Now it's "*massive grin* HAHA N-DUBZ BROKE UP KRISTINE!!! LOLOLOL"
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:22, Reply)
I'd love you to come to the UK, I think you'd make a great Englishwoman

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:23, Reply)
I wouldn't be though, I'm American and I love all the things you lot hate.
Like N-Dubz, Katie Price, Bud Light.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:30, Reply)
We're giving you a taste of your bullying

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:23, Reply)
The Battle of Crécy
Why? Because it would have been well smart innit? 2nd choice Kristallnacht for the same reason.

Alt: None of your fucking beeswax, sunshine. Got it?
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:17, Reply)
You've got too much of *that* for a honky.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:18, Reply)
Just had a quick look at the info on that battle
Fucking hell, what a massacre!

Also, that's made me realise that I'd quite like to have seen the Battle of Plataea.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:19, Reply)
I would also dearly love to have been present
when the Spaniards first went to Central America, to have seen what it was like before they fucking destroyed it all from greed and religious intolerance. I’ll bet it was amazing.

I’d also like to have been present at Trafalgar, the trouncing of the Armada, Masada, Flodden, El Alamein, Rorke’s Drift, Waterloo, Stalingrad, Battle of Issus, fucking hell loads of them.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:33, Reply)
Basically you love murder

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:34, Reply)
If he was really there, he'd wet his drawers and hide.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:35, Reply)
It isn't a hide, it is his hair

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:36, Reply)
Blimey...

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:37, Reply)
I NO RITE

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:38, Reply)
I would join you in Central America
I bet it was fucking brilliant.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:35, Reply)
Sure, if you enjoy having your heart cut out.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:36, Reply)
Heart?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:38, Reply)
I'd like the see the first time someone [blacksmith, not sure what it's called?] made a crown.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:34, Reply)
depends what the crown was made of

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:35, Reply)
Crown of Thorns

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:36, Reply)
horticulturalist

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:37, Reply)
Monty is an haughtyculturalist

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:38, Reply)
Jeweler?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:36, Reply)
Crowneriser

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:36, Reply)
the first crown was made by Elizabeth Duke
And was sold for £3.50 - although it had a suggested retail price of £4.80.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 13:39, Reply)

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