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I make that lunch o'clock.
EDIT: Picking up on what Gonz has said.

'What would you do to make OT more entertaining?'
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:00, 149 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Everyone's hiding, Jeff.
This board's shit, let's slash the seats.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:05, Reply)
We'll bow down to the exit signs as we leave.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:05, Reply)
Lots of people at the b4sh said they left because of all the lunch threads and all the BBC News threads.
So I think we need a new schtick when it comes to making threads because there is no conversation. How about a "Your day so far?" thread? Could add a twist to it each time, like maybe told from the perspective of someone you live with or a collegue.... or maybe a dead celebraty or something, I donno.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:05, Reply)
people leave because they get bored, or their personality or situation changes
Doesn't matter what the fuck the threads are about.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:07, Reply)
This, and they can always make their own threads the lazy cunts.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:10, Reply)
and exactly this as well

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:10, Reply)
For a couple of days after my enforced 100 replies, bbc news link thread.
There were a number of decent threads. I might have to bring that out again.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:11, Reply)
Surely if they were that bothered, they'd start threads that don't reference either lunch or the BBC.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:09, Reply)
exactly this

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:10, Reply)
It has been pretty dull these last couple of weeks.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:11, Reply)
I was at glastonbury.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:11, Reply)
it's been the same as always

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:11, Reply)
Hmmm, the fact that you haven't noticed a difference speaks voumes.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:14, Reply)
He's always stoned,
he probably hasn't even noticed the lodger is sleeping with his fiance yet.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:15, Reply)
I'm never stoned at work
that'd be extra stupid.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:17, Reply)
He thinks he's upstairs in his room alone
but in his stoned haze he forgets that his fiancee isn't sitting next to him.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:17, Reply)
They're just both having a nap, then having showers,
every night.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:19, Reply)
only on about how little I actually care
the sole purpose of using this site is to alleviate my boredom. Up until very recently it has done that in pretty much exactly the same way. The people have changed a bit, but broadly things are almost exactly the same.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:15, Reply)
It has, that.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:12, Reply)
It's a user-generated content site.
People complaining about the stuff other people produce seems stupid. They could you know... make their own.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:11, Reply)
Oh my God! I've said this a million times and NO-ONE UNDERSTOOD.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:15, Reply)
Like you have to do with sexyfuntiems.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:17, Reply)
I don't really think there were enough to be called "all"
what you suggest is a bit too much like creative writing
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:10, Reply)
You don't think there have been many lunch and BBC threads?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:11, Reply)
one lunch thread a day
and one or two news links are hardly a lot.

and I don't see anything wrong with them anyway.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:12, Reply)
O shit, just now I signed someone's leaving card, and I normally call people at work [first initial]'dawg, except girls who are known as T'star.
but I had written it down and everyone had written on the card and I was the last and OH SHIT OH SHIT, and then I wrote over it to make it look better but it made it look worst and I'm such a fucking twat.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:13, Reply)
DAMN IT I AM NOT COOL ENOUGH TO REFFER TO COLLEGUES BY NICKNAMES

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:16, Reply)
Alt:
More new people, maybe a rule that we have to be nice to them for maybe 48 hours. Someone should be responsible for a countdown.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:13, Reply)
Then when they're comfortable point out everything they said wrong in that 48 hours.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:13, Reply)
maybe not being nice
but not being a complete dick for no reason. Alternatively, we should just get rid of Bobby
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:14, Reply)
Wait until he explodes from eating his own body weight in ribs.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:15, Reply)
if only
I'd be able to see the explosion from here
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:17, Reply)
I don't think you should have to be nice.
But I think everyone should stop assuming any new people are Bert/Roger/CraigClodough unless it becomes somewhat obvious that someone fishy is up.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:16, Reply)
I think it's the load of accusations that bring those psychos back.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:17, Reply)
They do so thrive on the attention.
Chompy, I have another Excel question if you wouldn't mind.

I have a protected worksheet to stop my retarded colleages from deleting the formulas it took me ages to get right, but I would like them to be able to sort the columns not just filter them, and when I try it won't let me as the sheet is protected.

Any ideas on how this can be achieved?
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:19, Reply)
Would it be possible to keep the entire workbook as read only?
That way, they could change it, but not save it?
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:21, Reply)
That's one way of doing it, but it becomes a pain when you have to update it.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:23, Reply)
Exactly
I don't want them creating new versions every time the update it.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:23, Reply)
Ahh, fair enough

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:24, Reply)
What I tend to do is have the formulars in a hidden sheet,
then get them to link back to the front sheet and password protect that, but that could be a lot of work if you didn't do that at first.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:26, Reply)
Yeah, it's a sheet that tells them how overdue things are based on when they were sent off
and how quick a turnaround was requested.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:28, Reply)
Um... tools/ protect sheet/ then just click the options you want them to have,
sort's in there but you'll probably need select etc so they can copy and paste.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:22, Reply)
Hmmmmm, I have sort ticked, which is why I was surprised.
May be I should try doing it with sort unticked and then do it again with sort ticked.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:23, Reply)
Did you protect the workbook or the sheet?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:25, Reply)
The sheet
Should I try the workbook?
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:28, Reply)
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:35, Reply)
Invalid column name,
Excel only goes up to IV, duh.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:36, Reply)
No the sheet should be the one that works,
not sure why it's not I'm afraid.

Other thing would be change the formulars to conditional formatting so they highlight the overdue things, that way they're pretty hard to fuck up.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:36, Reply)
Nude arm wrestling.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:14, Reply)
A little
'Over the top'
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:16, Reply)
That was on Sky the other night, but I didn't record it.
I should have.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:16, Reply)
It's shit.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:16, Reply)
Nude arm wrestling was on Sky the other night?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:18, Reply)
No, the Stallone film "Over the Top" in which he plays a professional arm wrsetler.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:20, Reply)
Don't think I've ever seen that.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:21, Reply)
*ponders*
I don't think so.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:17, Reply)
*Rips sleeves off jacket*

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:19, Reply)
Get your kecks off as well.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:20, Reply)
Did you get any sausage at the weekend Blousie?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:21, Reply)
I don't eat red meat Al, as you well know.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:21, Reply)
What about purple?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:22, Reply)
I'm sorry, I was refering to penis in a roundabout way.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:22, Reply)
Ah I see.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:23, Reply)
So, any sexyfuntiems?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:24, Reply)
Whatever did or did not happen is between me and whoever I did or did not do it with : )

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:27, Reply)
and the people that did or did not film it and stream it to redtube.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:27, Reply)
Yes.
There was a big paddling pool set up in the pub and it was full of ketchup and Rakky and Swipe totally did some wrestling in it.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:27, Reply)
aw, man.
nude ketchup wrestling? Saucy.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:29, Reply)
They went for the ketchup option
as HP would be completely abhorrent to Swipe.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:34, Reply)
Cool
Did Swipe give any hint that she might be returning?
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:31, Reply)
Not to me, no.
But she's really nice irl and it would be a shame if she didn't.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:32, Reply)
I reckon she's probably got the good sense to stay away...

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:33, Reply)
^this

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:33, Reply)
She sounds like me
but with breasts.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:34, Reply)
I can't unimagine that image

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:54, Reply)
penis in a roundabout?
that some niche porn there, Al.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:27, Reply)
The old school roundabouts with the steel tubing
You get it spinning really fast and then the guy dangles his johnson in it and it gets thwacked sideways lots.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:29, Reply)
like a genital-based wheel of fortune.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:31, Reply)
In the old days there used to be smaller threads, people wouldn't stick in one conversation at a time
If anyone tries that now they're seen as threadstomping, so I think a return to that would be a good idea.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:17, Reply)
I have wondered why there was a bit of a fuss about having multiple threads on the go at once

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:20, Reply)
Its easier to hang around in one
just as I am doing now
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:20, Reply)
Because people got jealous.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:21, Reply)
people need to stop being so needy and shit

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:23, Reply)
This^

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:24, Reply)
How was the boxing?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:25, Reply)
How was the zoo?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:25, Reply)
Enjoyable.
I saw a spider monkey do a wee on one of the visitors, which was quite amusing.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:26, Reply)
A bit meh.
Haye didn't try hard enough, and Klitchko knew he didn't have to KO him as a points decision was a given, so they danced around each other and not a lot happened.

But I got quite drunk and we did Kinect bowling for a bit.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:27, Reply)
Sounds like my evening was better.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:28, Reply)
Did you have sex with BGB?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Ew! Al.
It would be like having sex with a brother.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:30, Reply)
racist.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:30, Reply)
Haha!

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:31, Reply)
I'm trying to figure out who's bones you jumped.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:31, Reply)
Or may not have jumped Al.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:32, Reply)
if indeed that is your real vagina.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:33, Reply)
Exactly!

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:34, Reply)
Remind me to give you your socks back next time you're up.
*opens can of worms*
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:33, Reply)
; )

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:34, Reply)
... and that's a niche masturbatory accessory.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:34, Reply)
whose.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:33, Reply)
I hate that, one at a time, like a condenced /talk, I don't have the inclination to keep two tabs open at once for this place.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:23, Reply)
not everyone has to be involved in every thread though

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:24, Reply)
i'd make it more entertaining by not being stuck in a fucking meeting all day
I really do not need to be here *sad face*
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:35, Reply)
Ah, meetings...
I remember those well.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:37, Reply)
I feel the urge
To call you a smug geordie git, all be it one with an awesome coat.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:48, Reply)
I'm having a bowl of Special K. Only just got in from Wireless.
Christ I'm in a fantastic mood.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:35, Reply)
I thoroughly enjoyed Pulp last night.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:36, Reply)
How fucking good were they?
Ended up in Vauxhall afterwards and shagged a girl I met at Wireless. She was twenty seven and amazingly attractive, not to mention funny. I have an actual skip in my step today.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:41, Reply)
So all told, a good weekend then Bazza.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:46, Reply)
If indeed that's really what he got up to.
By watching Pulp, he means on DVD. By ending up in Vauxhall, he means a P reg Corsa, and by attractive 27 year old girl he shagged, he means knocked one out over a picture he found in the glovebox.

Probably.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:48, Reply)
Fandabbydozy to say the least.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:48, Reply)
You need to get yourself to the Cottage.
Weekends with that much win in them don't just 'happen' you should go and give thanks to Michael and worship at his shrine.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:50, Reply)
Are you suggesting that Barry goes cottaging?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:51, Reply)
I am.
He has cottaged all over europe.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:54, Reply)
Every other Saturday between August and May.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:54, Reply)
A whole bowl of horse tranquiliser.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:36, Reply)
genuinely massive drugs

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:37, Reply)
Make everyone lie all the time
Oh.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:37, Reply)
See my ketchup wrestling comment above.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:38, Reply)
Yesterday I bought some "Guiness HP Sauce" and then decided it was the nicest sauce I've ever had in my entire life and got fish'n'chips so I can have the sauce a bit more.
I think I went through about 20% of the bottle.

I'm wondering now what else I could have that would use up that lovely sauce that is healthy.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Guinness HP sauce is magnificent stuff, I agree.
How about whacking some in a bolognese or something? Glaze some tuna steaks with it, or somesuch similar idea?
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:44, Reply)
Oh my goodness, yes, I could mix it up with cold chicken and put it in a sandwich with some lettus.
Totally gonna try that one.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:51, Reply)
Full english breakfast?
Not sure where you stand on the whole "pork products" thing.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:57, Reply)
I dig the swine.
Yup, that sounds alright too. Have you ever had those little 'potato ludkas' ? You can get fake ones at the supermarkets in the frozen section, they're like tiny 50p sized hash browns. Oh my DAYZ, them with a fried egg and some bacon and OH MY DAYZ.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:07, Reply)
I shall look out for them
they sound Polish, I might try Lidl or Aldi.

I had leftovers from the barbecue last night so had 2 cheese topped baps each with burger, sausage, bacon, cheese, tomato, onion, jalapenos and ketchup for my sunday dinner. Had a bit of a meatsweat going by the end.

I've still got some sausage and bacon left, might have a hot sandwich for breakfast tomorrow if I remember to get some eggs.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:13, Reply)
Hello Chickenlady, you're looking well fit today, if you don't mind me saying.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:39, Reply)
Ta.
I do try.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:44, Reply)
OMFG FACEBOOK IS DOWN

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:39, Reply)
SHIT, NO!
Not on my computer it isn't.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Oh man, it's just my account then :(

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:43, Reply)
*gets hysterical*

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:41, Reply)
HOW WILL I KNOW WHO MY COUSIN IS FEUDING WITH????

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:43, Reply)
HOW WILL I KNOW WHICH RELATIVE HAS DEFRIENDED ME?
Last week it was my aunt. Bitch.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:44, Reply)
If my cousin ever finds out I have mocked her facebook activity she'd do more than defriend me

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:46, Reply)
*URGENTLY SIGNS UP FOR TWITTER*

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:45, Reply)
Can you issue death threats on Twitter?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:48, Reply)
As long as it's not related to an airport, knock yourself out.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:48, Reply)
Oh it's not for me.
But my cousin would be mortified if she couldn't issue the usual vows of vengeance.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:52, Reply)
Does your cousin solve crimes?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:53, Reply)
She commits them

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:10, Reply)
You should hook her up with Barry.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:12, Reply)
Is she 27 and attractive and funny?
It may already be too late.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:14, Reply)
No.
Didn't somebody get done for that a while back after threatening (jokingly) to blow up an airport?

/Edit: mindpiss.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:49, Reply)
Why do we only get news from the BBC with their LEFT WING MEDIA ELITE AGENDA?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:50, Reply)
I have a roast chicken and spicy Morroccan hoummus wrap for lunch and some tangerines
and I've been to the gym, stick that in your pipes and smoke it internet fatties
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 13:54, Reply)
I just read something from the London Review of Books
It was long and complicated but I found it really interesting and read all the way to the end. I feel smart now (although the author deserves a great deal of the credit).

It's all about the imminent collapse of the Greek economy; I have already casually brought the crisis up in conversation in order to sound clever and informed.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:01, Reply)
Is there an actual link this is based on?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:02, Reply)
oh alright then
www.lrb.co.uk/2011/06/30/john-lanchester/once-greece-goes

I figured it had been a while and people might have dropped their guard.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:04, Reply)
Excellent article that.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:22, Reply)
It is good isn't it
I wasn't aware quite how critical Germany was.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:28, Reply)
Turns out I had a slightly better understanding of what was going on than I thought.
That has surprised me.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:41, Reply)
hahahahaha
You got me.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:04, Reply)
Yay!
I feel vindicated. Vindicated and smart.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:05, Reply)
My wallet

(, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 14:20, Reply)

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