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Afternoon punters
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What is the best present you have bought someone? Or the best present you have received? Why?

Alt:
Last time you did something illegal
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:29, 274 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
My step-dad really wanted a proper Micky Mouse watch a couple of years ago.
I found one on-line and bought it him for Christmas. He loves it as much as his Rolex.

Every day I do something illegal, mostly in my car.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:34, Reply)
That's cool.
I love doingthose kinds of presents for people.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:43, Reply)
I like your step-dad!

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:44, Reply)
He's alright for an old moaning bastard : )

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:46, Reply)
If he's wearing
a Mickey Mouse watch he can't be that old.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:53, Reply)
He's late fifties.
But he's always been an old soul.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:58, Reply)
I'm sure he's just a child
on the inside.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:59, Reply)
Careful, that is b3th's deptarment.
OH YEAH, TOTALLY WENT THERE. BOOOO-YAH'.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:10, Reply)
I get totally awesome gifts for people all the time, I'm always thinking about other people, I'm a good sort me, really.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:34, Reply)
This is true : )
I loved my Valentines day gifts.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:47, Reply)
=D

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:14, Reply)
I bought my girlfriend the entire Studio Ghibli collection
She went absolutely mental over that, wouldn't stop hugging me.

Alt: Downloaded The Emperor's New Groove the other day.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:34, Reply)
I wouldn't have stopped either!
I got one for me myself. Auto present. I haven't finished watching it, though. No time.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:43, Reply)
Took quite a bit of tracking down, and cost me a fair chunk
But was worth it to see the look of shock on her face.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:01, Reply)
Mine was difficult to get too
and when I finally received it, it was for zone 1 (USA?) so I can only watch it on the PC.

I bet she was impressed!
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:03, Reply)
Very much so

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:04, Reply)
Bought, no idea.
Been bought was a Brooks B17 saddle as a valentines prezzie which was awesome.

Alt: Very boring, but I smoked some pot a moth or so back. Oh and I've probably bent the odd traffic law on my bike, but less than most cyclist by a mile or 2.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:34, Reply)
last time this was asked I said engagement ring
I will have to update that to a cuddly penguin dressed in a squid suit.

alt: spliff last night
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:35, Reply)
AIDS, AIDS,
Alt: Gave someone AIDS
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:36, Reply)
probably an engagement ring
since I sold my MG to buy it, so she understood the importance.

Every single day. Mostly traffic laws to be fair.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:38, Reply)
B?

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:48, Reply)
Midget Gems

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:49, Reply)
yeah, s'in my profile.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:17, Reply)
Afternoon
I do totally awesome presents.

Back I first met mr b3th he used to write to the Wogan breakfast show. He did all these cool sketches, plays, jokes, poems and stuff, and he kept them all on tape. About 9 C90 tapes in all.

When he turned 65, I converted them all to digital, sorted them into categories (poems, plays, etc) and burned each category to its own CD. I did a gift box of 8 CDs all packaged up for him.

Alt: yesterday morning.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:39, Reply)
That is awesome.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:39, Reply)
It took me a few months
and lots of "I'm just going upstairs for while with my laptop. No, no reason."

I bet he thought I was going at it like a boy who's just figured out what it's for...
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:42, Reply)
hahaha!

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:42, Reply)
awww
so what did you do yesterday morning?
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:40, Reply)
a goat.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:43, Reply)
I couldn't possibly comment.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:44, Reply)
Being bummed by the elderly is not a crime b3th

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:46, Reply)
I could be wrong
But I think the Buggery Act of (1580 ish) was only repealed in the 90's (based on seom report I cant remember the name of) for consenting males, and therefore would still be punishable by death for ladies.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:31, Reply)
*stops bumming immediately*

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:33, Reply)
so it's illegal to give
and receive?
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:35, Reply)
The Lord said it is better to give than to receive.
So I guess not.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:43, Reply)
As I say I could be wrong,
But that would make it illegal to receive unless you are packing gentleman bits.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:46, Reply)
you're right in that you're wrong.
it was decriminalised in 1967 for consenting males. There has never been a specific removal in law for heterosexual buggery, although sexual offences act 2003 removes the concept entirely.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:53, Reply)
*starts bumming again immediately*

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:56, Reply)
*Holds up scorecards*

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:04, Reply)
Oh! That's so cool!

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:42, Reply)

Alt: I don't do much illegal stuff, as I'm too scared of being caught. I'm even cutting down on downloading from the web.

The best present I've got must be the first time I celebrated my name's day with Mark. We were working in Belgium and decided to spend the day (bank holiday there) in Bruges. He bought me some very nice beer and it's one of the happiest days I've had.

The best one I've made... I don't know. I like one I made for Mark. Got hold of a bunch of old pictures of Manchester; put them in some nice paper, wrote under each of them the place and date, and framed them in 2 big poster frames. I think he liked them too, although we have nowhere to hung them now.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:41, Reply)
I quite regularly break the law on Her Majesty's highway.
I am also single handedly responsible for the death of music and film.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:42, Reply)
Best present might have been the 78 record of Humphrey Lyttleton's Bad Penny Blues for my nana
She had lent someone her copy when she was about 15, never to be seen again. I found a copy in an antique shop, all clunky and gramophoney.
I also got her the cd so she could actually listen to it.

Last time I did something illegal was only a couple of weeks ago.
It was something very minor. It wasn't even druuugs.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:51, Reply)
Jaywalking?

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 14:59, Reply)
I'm too much of a shithouse for that.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:16, Reply)
alt: every day, I'm WELL dodgy

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:02, Reply)
how many crimes can you commit with boobs?

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:11, Reply)
I look forward to finding out

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:12, Reply)
pretty much any crime you can commit without them
plus a few boob-specific ones.

Edited to add: my favourite was using a pair as a substitute for a rolling mat. :)
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:12, Reply)
or as a substitute for a mirror for more powder-y pursuits
the razor blade doesn't half make a mess though
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:14, Reply)
If I had any interest in coke
I'm sure I would have, but I don't.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:15, Reply)
Boobs often commit fraud

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:13, Reply)
trudat

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:13, Reply)
Hey!
It's the owners committing the fraud, the poor boobies are innocent I tell you, innocent and I shall protect them with my life.

life jism
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:17, Reply)
My boobs are so awesome it must be illegal.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:13, Reply)
COR

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:15, Reply)
I no rite.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:18, Reply)
^this

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:20, Reply)
This calls for a Boob-off
Bagsy I get to referee.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:22, Reply)
aw, man, we're going to need more bamboo.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:23, Reply)
bamboo?!
I think I need to bow out of this one early anyway - I just can't compete. there are a lot of breasts around these parts
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:24, Reply)
food for all the pandering.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:25, Reply)
hahah
not as endangered as they once were
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:25, Reply)
I was expecting some kind of challenge were they are pitted against different obstacles* made of bamboo
*or orbstacles if you will
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:35, Reply)
Bamboo???
Are you insinusating they need propping up?

Edit: *facepalms myself*
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:26, Reply)
^points upwards

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:27, Reply)
my first thought was that it was something kinky
to get the nips all hard, like
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:27, Reply)
pervert

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:28, Reply)
hi!

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:29, Reply)
Smuggling peanuts.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:20, Reply)
Jennifer Aniston should be locked up IMMEDIATELY

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:21, Reply)
for so many many things
her 'acting' not least
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:23, Reply)
And looking like a fucking clown
I can forgive her the incessant output of shite rom-coms, I'm even prepared to forgive the smaller-than-average boobies, but I cannot forgive the whole looking like a fucking clown thing.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:26, Reply)
yes.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:27, Reply)
I think she is attractive and has nice boobs?
What's wrong with you?
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:32, Reply)
I am not allowed to express my opinion of your opinion
Or Kristine will tell me off, so I shall just say that we disagree on all points, but as it is a matter of taste this is fine.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:35, Reply)
I concur

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:35, Reply)
ahh, now you I am allowed to insult
she's fucking minging and I wouldn't touch her with yours, you bearded smugmeister. You have no taste what so ever (except in the areas in which you agree with me obviously)
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:40, Reply)
I can understand that you might not think she's amazing
but she's far from minging.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:43, Reply)
meh, I've had better
but it's all a matter of taste.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:48, Reply)
if boys all liked the same kind of girls
girls like me wouldn't stand a ch...wait a minute. Stupid boys.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:49, Reply)
^this

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:50, Reply)
it works both ways.
I just got lucky. there was a lot of friend-zoning beforehand.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:54, Reply)
I am always the 'best female friend'
so I'm trying stalking instead
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:55, Reply)
good luck with that
I've generally found the most effective technique is be a friend until they conclude that I'm better than everyone else. Last time this took a mere 4 years.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:56, Reply)
It's a good technique.
Worked for me a couple of times.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:57, Reply)
it's worked for me
and soon I will have ensnared her, according to the words we'll be saying, for ever.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:58, Reply)
hmm
I think i'd be better off building a ray-mears-style trap and feeding them drugs until they lose their mind.

Or jam - boys like jam, right? Or is that wasps?
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:01, Reply)
boys don't like wasps
I'll tell you that for nothing
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:02, Reply)
note to self:
remove bait-wasps from man trap
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:02, Reply)
On a scale of one to ten, she is proper ming

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:35, Reply)
This is not an unattractive flat chested woman
www.greek-islands.us/greek-people/jennifer-aniston/jennifer-aniston.jpg
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:39, Reply)
To be honest anyone can be made to look hot with the proper editing tools.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:42, Reply)
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH
IF I WANTED TO SEE STEPHEN KING'S IT, I'D WATCH STEPHEN KING'S IT
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:46, Reply)
UR GAY

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:47, Reply)
She's not unattractive
but she's not very attractive either. I think that's more to do with how whiny her voice is though
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:47, Reply)
Voice of reason here ^

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:49, Reply)
yes, I suppose her 'personality'
is quite involved with how horrid I find her.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:49, Reply)
that's irrelevant
Kelly Brook is nigh on perfect to look at, but she's a vacuous idiot. You wouldn't actually talk to these women, other than to bark orders.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:50, Reply)
Yes, but I like a conversation while I get my breath back
also there is only so much you can do with a piece of meat, it's the mind that animates it that makes it fun.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:51, Reply)
Yeah I really appreciate womens "sense of humour" as well.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:52, Reply)
you have to

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:52, Reply)
this is funny because I'm saying that women have to have a sense of humour to be with you

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:55, Reply)
Wrong, if they understood my jokes they'd realise what a cunt I am.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:57, Reply)
I wasn't talking about your jokes

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:58, Reply)
Yes I got your joke.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:01, Reply)
I thought you probably did

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:01, Reply)
or just be very very drunk

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:57, Reply)
You forgot this (i)

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:53, Reply)
it's (!)

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:53, Reply)
Oops!
It's just as well I'm funny. I'd get nowhere with my interesting conversation : )
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:54, Reply)
No I appreciate their tits mostly
But a nice dirty personality makes it better than wanking with 3D pictures.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:57, Reply)
well that's an entirely different argument to the one that I was having

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:52, Reply)

You might get on better with one of LiC's sex dolls :)
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:53, Reply)
even if I was into that (bleurgh)
the thought of someone else's used sex doll is just so many levels more repulsive
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:55, Reply)
you shouldn't shag meat
the butchers get angry
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:53, Reply)
Gay

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:53, Reply)
not these days, no.
And I'm all in favour of objectifying and using women. However experience has taught me that the one who just lie there and look at the wallpaper get boring quite quickly, where as those that take an active part are more fun, the latter test to be the ones with ' things like brains and a personality.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:02, Reply)
Mass Boobiside, the crime of your tits being so saggy that it looks like you've got two basketballs under each arm when being looked at from behind.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:36, Reply)
Shoptitting, when you go into a shop and stuff breasts into your pockets with no intention of paying for them

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:38, Reply)
Oh man, I do this all the time...

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:51, Reply)
i had a star named after my friend, best present was some nice perfume
Alt: everyday, I'm a regular badass. Sometimes I don't wear my seatbelt, sometimes I go over the speed limit.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:15, Reply)
There's a star somewhere named after
me and my exhusband.

Originally I wanted to call it Cuntbubble, just in case it was found to have intelligent life around it.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:17, Reply)
this has nearly made me suffocate
trying not to laugh at work. Nice one.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:19, Reply)
Just imagine the news reports...

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:22, Reply)
I bet they don't let you name stars stuff like that though.
*sadface*
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:28, Reply)
nope, they filter them
BUT WHO REALLY OWNS THE STARS?

NORTH STAR? NORTH ARSE MORE LIKE.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:48, Reply)
If we all call it that
one day it will be called that
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:50, Reply)
Hi K.
Look, look I was a good and wasn't mean to Chompy or nuffink!
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:50, Reply)
I haven't really been paying much attention, to be honest.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:55, Reply)
Oh, but, well done!

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:58, Reply)
I do good presents
I quite liked the one I got for my dad's birthday last year. Bought a bottle of this www.themacallan.com/shop/detail.asp?pid=841614 some Kendal mint cake and a good book and packaged it all up and sent it to him.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:27, Reply)
As long as he's not a blind, teetotal diabetic, that's a pretty good gift.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:29, Reply)
Macallan is unbelievably good whiskey.
Better be, for the sodding hole it left in my bank account last time I bought some.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:37, Reply)
I think you took an E

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:48, Reply)
Thud board for a fellow Pratchett fan.
As for illegal stuff... erm, probably multiple music downloads, or the odd bit of pot smoking every now and then.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:35, Reply)
if I remember correctly
that's pretty much impossible to win from one side (dwarves?)
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:45, Reply)
I am rubbish at buying presents
But I am the easiest person in the world to buy for. I find this disparity to be most unfair.
My best present received would have to be my 30th birthday present from my friends - each time one of us turned 30 the rest would each contribute £30 towards their present, so we all got a present worth around £200ish (depending on how popular you are). I got a banjo and was very pleased with it.
Alt: Like Vipros - last night's spliff
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:47, Reply)
Apparently I'm the hardest to shop for. Which is why I never get presents.

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:56, Reply)
You'll get nowt from me then
Except maybe some mumbling about how you should set up a wishlist somewhere
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 15:59, Reply)
Alt: never in my life

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:19, Reply)
Lies make baby Jesus cry

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:20, Reply)
so does the sight of Monty with his tattered flasher mac held open

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:21, Reply)
That makes everyone cry

(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:22, Reply)
Best presents received
were from my current GF for my birthday last year. New laptop, and a huge amount of new cricket gear.

In return I gave her a pearl necklace.

Alt: All the time, but mostly of a motoring nature, I'm saddened to confess.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:22, Reply)
I bought my mum a mug with my face on for Christmas.
Ta da: a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/163247_10150120672490120_649460119_8139065_6206345_n.jpg

ALT: Yesterday.
(, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:57, Reply)

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