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It seems everyone knows more than me about being domestic
so perhaps we should have a thread of top tips for stuff.

I know about other things so here's a tip: zoom out your camera lens as far as it will go and get really close to your friend's face to take a picture. They will look stupid and distorted and will be cross when you put it on facebook

alt: talk about other things
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:40, 158 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Oh. What would be brilliant would be if b3ta had a whole 'top tips' section.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:41, Reply)
who the hell reads that shit

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:42, Reply)
Back in the day
a friend of DJ's who was studying media or something showed me how to do that pan-zoom thing.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:41, Reply)
the one in films
where you move forward as you zoom out?
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:42, Reply)
Yeah, that's the one.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:43, Reply)
contra zoom
i went to such a shit uni, my lecturer told it was called a 'trombone shot' and meant it.

the useless cunt.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:06, Reply)
A contra zoom during some tromboning would be some seriously fancy-dan porno.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:18, Reply)
Whats wrong with calling it a trombone shot?
Its a common term used for a track and zoom shot
(, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 11:43, Reply)
I don't know any domestic tips :(
apart from the hang silk clothes in a slightly steamy shower-room to help get rid of creases
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:43, Reply)
I'm too common to have silk clothes

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:44, Reply)
but if you did you'd now know a handy tip

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:49, Reply)
When the weather is really warm at night, sleep with a small towel on your pillow.
It will be cooler and soak up the sweat, saving your pillow cases.

Also running the cold tap on your wrists cools you down.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:43, Reply)
I always do the cold water on teh wrists thing
it cools you down faster than anything.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:45, Reply)
Best tip I ever learnt.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:45, Reply)
what about the 'cupping the balls' thing?

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:50, Reply)
Second best then!
Well third after the finger in the arse thing.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:52, Reply)
When booking train tickets, book them dead early as they are cheaper.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:45, Reply)
Duh!!

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:46, Reply)
I've been having a gander for a cheap hotel, but the cheap ones look shit.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:47, Reply)
You get what you pay for in this world Jeff.
As long as the room is clean and I have my own bathroom I don't care.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:48, Reply)
Hang on. Are you saying that my cheap rail tickets won't be as good as more expensive ones?
*Writes off cash, decides to pay on the day*
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:49, Reply)
Pfft!
Bar travel tickets, you get what you pay for.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:51, Reply)
I'm not familar with the areas the bar Monty has selected, so I don't know if it's worth staying local to there or travelling a bit further.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:52, Reply)
Ask Monty then.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:53, Reply)
Evidently.
That would be the answer.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:54, Reply)
I bet everywhere is 'fucking shit'

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:55, Reply)
'Monty's Fucking Shit Guide To London'

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:56, Reply)
hahahaha
All I want is a resonably priced hotel in a useful location.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:57, Reply)
I always find that the hotel nearest the train station is best for those morning after the night before departures.
Better to traverse London whilest pissed during the evening than do the tube the next morning feeling like death.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:04, Reply)
The other option of course, is to find a casino and stay there until the following morning.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:05, Reply)
that's basically like making money

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:06, Reply)
It really isn't Captain. It's a daft plan. But it's a daft plan I've done more than once.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:08, Reply)
Have done so before as well

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:12, Reply)
there speaks teh voice of bitter experience

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:05, Reply)
I fucking hate the tube sober so using it with a hangover would be hell on earth for me.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:07, Reply)
London is bent.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:08, Reply)
this^^

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:09, Reply)
They've invented these things called "buses".
Although they've gone a bit shit in the last few years. They've started organising them properly and putting maps and helplines and shit up. And they have little voices that tell you where you are and where you're going. Any cunt can use them now.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:09, Reply)
Why would you bother with a hotel after a night on the lash in That London?
It's a city. It's open all night. Keep going and catch the lunchtime train the next day.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:07, Reply)
I'm old.
I can't do all nighters anymore.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:08, Reply)
How old is old?

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:09, Reply)
46

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:15, Reply)
Pah.
If it doesn't start with a five or a six then you're broken. Buy better drugs. That's the best thing about being grown up. Better drugs.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:17, Reply)
Did the drugs thing in my twenties and thirties.
All drugged out man!
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:20, Reply)
If you're a recovering crystal meth addict then the following might come across as somewhat insensitive.
Ahem.

Don't be a fucking nancy.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:21, Reply)
There comes a time in ones life when you have to put aside foolish things like drugs and meaningless sex.
I like being fit and healthy. It's such a buzz.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:26, Reply)
Whereas I've reached an age
where I think I should start doing these things
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:31, Reply)
I'm lucky that I don't have an addictive personality.
I could go back to that shit but really I only miss getting stoned.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:33, Reply)
I've always been fit and healthy.
What the fuck does that have to do with recreational drug use? And what the fuck is meaningless sex? You fucking puritan.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:33, Reply)
Mine turned into non recreational drug use for a while.
Me a puritan? hahahaha!
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:36, Reply)
Did it fuck.
You sound like somebody who occasionally dribbled on somebody else's spliff. Who knows ... you might even have had some sex in your youth. But if you were a party animal then I'm Saint fucking Patrick.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:42, Reply)
Think what you like mate.
I've nothing to prove.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:44, Reply)
I think you're a tragic fantasist.
Probably a fat one.

Mind you ... I think that about almost everybody here. You're in shit company.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:46, Reply)
jusr because you are...

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:51, Reply)
Podgy I may be but no fantastist.
Right! bed beckons for this Billy Liar. Goodnight Dr.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:51, Reply)
"It's all shit, don't fucking bother"

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:58, Reply)
same goes for aeroplanes

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:46, Reply)
I've never booked a plane.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:47, Reply)
I hate to break it to you, but that's not a good tip.
I'm not very domestic, I hate cleaning and go weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks without cleaning my bathroom and I can't even remember the last time I cleaned my shower.

alt: I don't like breaking my routine. In fact, I hate it so much that if someone has the audacity to ask me to do something during the week, not only do I get angry [they ought to know I'll say no!!!], I also make sure I don't do it.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:48, Reply)
then do the opposite
make nice portraits by standing back, zooming in and using natural light coming from the side
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:49, Reply)
I thought that both of those tips were "general knowledge"
though if you asked me to do anything other than point and click a camera I couldn't help
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:51, Reply)
me too

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:54, Reply)
You should apply for a job EVERYDAY for the next year
*Basks in my evil genuis*
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:49, Reply)
are you OK when you plan things in advance?

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:51, Reply)
Probably. The thing is, is that my pup is in her cage 9 hours out of the day.
What really pisses me off, is not that people ask me to go out and do things with them, but they expect me to just put her back in her cage after she's been in all day. It's not right, and it's not fair to her.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:53, Reply)
It's a dog.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:54, Reply)
your face is a dog

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:55, Reply)
All this dog talk....

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:56, Reply)
My face is two dogs fucking and one of them isn't too keen.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:57, Reply)
Okay, fine.
If she's in her cage too long she's like the tazmanian devil and keeps me up all night.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:57, Reply)
Beat it.
Honestly. It's a dog. I don't want to come across all animal hater or owt, but it's a dog. If it thinks it's the fucking boss and makes a racket all night then kick it until it remembers that it's just a dog and you're a person and it's. Just. A. Dog.

/barbara woodhouse

edit: also ... why is it in a cage? Why isn't it out in the yard chasing its tail and eating its own shit? Is it a tiger? That would be awesome cool. You could train a chimp to bottle feed it.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:58, Reply)
Shhhhhhhh!
Gonz might hear.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:01, Reply)
Awww. The big soppy heeb.
I'd keep him in the yard and make him eat his own shit.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:02, Reply)
but on toast
with some kind of fancy sauce
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:07, Reply)
Of course.
I'm not some sort of monster.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:11, Reply)
because it's hotter than hell outside, there's no fence here
And she'll destroy my room if left out
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:25, Reply)
Swap it for a cougar or a jackal something.
Really ... what's the point of buying of buying a dog that can't survive outside?
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:31, Reply)
she was free!
And she's gorgeous. And she's definitely a princess. Her dresses will get ruined.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:49, Reply)
I'm not entirely sure I understand why people would be particular about cleaning a shower.
It gets washed every time you use it. And it's not like you take a shit in it very often.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:52, Reply)
Alright shambo?
Seanconneryblytonesqueracismlols
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:53, Reply)
I have no idea what this means so I'm going to smile and nod.
*smiles and nods*
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:56, Reply)
Sean Connery saying the word Sambo would sound like 'Shambo'.
'Sambo' is an Enid Blyton era racist term for a coloured, and Shambo is a shortened version of your B3ta username. I merely put these facts together in the manner of a joke.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:59, Reply)
I now understand and appreciate your humorous response.
Many thanks. I am fine.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:59, Reply)
Pleased to hear it.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:03, Reply)
Hair conditioner and shave gel cause a bit of soap scum.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:54, Reply)
I wouldn't know.
I use soap and I don't shave owt.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:55, Reply)
Don't you have a wife?

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:58, Reply)
Yes.
I should imagine she probably cleans the shower from time to time.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:59, Reply)
Mould innit.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:54, Reply)
Open your windows.
That's damp, not lack of hygiene.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:55, Reply)
The easiest way to clean a kitchen is to pay a feeble-minded but good-hearted char lady to clean your kitchen.
Also: What if I'm using a prime lens?
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:51, Reply)
select the right one, obvs

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:51, Reply)
I once tried to spong a cow with a 20mm prime
but I got so close that it snotted all over my face. True story.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:53, Reply)
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout.
That's what I heard is the way to respond to Jeff's advances.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:52, Reply)
I can see how that might work for some.
*Throws PD a bone, gives it 5 minutes*
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:53, Reply)
I already have a quite impressive bone.
On.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:55, Reply)
Don't tell Jeff that
he won't be able to contain himself
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:56, Reply)
:-)

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:56, Reply)
Alright Jeff
how are you doing?
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:58, Reply)
I'm a bit under the weather Amberl.
But I had some food earlier and I've yet to throw it back up again. So I reckon I'm on the mend!
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:59, Reply)
Glad to hear it
a stomach bug?
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:11, Reply)
Yeah, I was throwing up and feeling like shit.
But I've kept some food down and I'm feeling a fair bit brighter so I am!
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:14, Reply)
Happy that you're getting better
and the food will definitely help
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:20, Reply)
Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on. Bone on.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 21:59, Reply)
Toothpaste is awesome for covering hair-dye stains on white painted bathroom walls
If you can get old school white tooth paste that is.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:09, Reply)
The walls of student accommodation are made up of an average 67% toothpaste.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:10, Reply)
Toilet cleaner will get lime scale off taps
Washing up liquid is good for getting grease out
A hot iron and kitchen towel works for candle wax
Vinegar cleans coffee machines, and thwe 15P value stuff is just as good as any for this.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:12, Reply)
I only know the candle wax one from doing textiles
washing up liquid is also a good replacement for wetting agent which you use in a final rinse in processing films
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:17, Reply)
That would have been useful 14 years ago
for me. My housemates didn't like me that day
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:16, Reply)
it was brought to mind
as The Peoples Hair will soon be deepest RED.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:19, Reply)
really?
colour or political affiliations?
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:20, Reply)
Both.
done now, not quiyte bas red as i'd have liked, but it'll do.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:39, Reply)
how much is your bathroom destroyed?

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:41, Reply)
none really. The shower's a bit pink, but I think that will pass.
I have done this before, many times and with much more hair.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:42, Reply)
I have an awesome picture
I took of stupid ex husband dying his hair through the shower door. It looked like he was encased in ice and it freaked his mum out. I entered it into a portrait competition, it didn't win, though
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:45, Reply)
wish I had a picture of when I stareted to rince,
must have looked like I'd been attacked with a chainsaw
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:49, Reply)
dramatic

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:52, Reply)
Aw man! everyone will say I've copied you when I get mine done.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:22, Reply)
I heard you say it first
he's the copy cat!
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:23, Reply)
Thanks : )

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:30, Reply)
Nah, you're on record as having the idea first.
I just had a spontaneous moment of boredom while you were planning.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:40, Reply)
Fantasy fans?
http://screenrant.com/fantasy-novels-tv-show-series-mcrid-120193/?utm_source=scribol&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=scribol

Discuss...
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:10, Reply)
Scrotum.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:14, Reply)
it'd save reading through some of those long, turgid books
and save time for the good ones.

I mean Feist, FFS
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:14, Reply)
Someone tell me how to fucking cool down.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:14, Reply)
cold water to your pulse points

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:14, Reply)
Yeah. Stick your temporal artery under a tap.
You'll look well cool then.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:20, Reply)
I was going more for 'wrists and throat'
but sure, go for it.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:21, Reply)
Chill, man.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:15, Reply)
Put your thumbs up and say 'ayaaah' before tapping the side of a jukebox so your favourite song starts.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:15, Reply)
When I was with someone earlier
I went "I'm ridiculously hot. The weather's nice, too". She didn't get it. I want to lie in bed and watch Arrested Development but I'll melt in there.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:25, Reply)
it's not that hot here
but it's been bright in the day time, that or I'm not used to being outside.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:30, Reply)
Put your feet in cold water
if your feet are cold, the rest of you will follow
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:18, Reply)
people always say to wear a hat when you're cold
so putting your head in cold water should do the trick
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:19, Reply)
or run through the sprinklers
so you're cool, and your wet clothes will continue to cool you off
Sleep on plastic sheets
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:53, Reply)
K! my tattoo is itchy
and there's little bits coming off. Is that a good thing?
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:55, Reply)
good, no, normal yes
don't pick it or scratch it.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:56, Reply)
i've been dutifully not picking it
I thought you didn't have one?
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 22:58, Reply)
I don't have a womb either
But I'm aware bleeding once a month is normal.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:02, Reply)
bleedin' moths!

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:04, Reply)
If you are bleeding moths you have a problem.

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:08, Reply)
gorram ninjas!
but the imagery is great
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:09, Reply)
for you maybe
The idea of a woman bleeding moths from her clunge is not one I'm fond of.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:15, Reply)
I think they are red moths which fly from her
and swarm around her and then she gets to fly off with them.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:18, Reply)
God I wish I lived in your world.
it sounds nice there.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:23, Reply)
OK, darker
A thousand mouths chew from the inside out and dark wings fly from her in a dark, destructive cloud. They crawl on her skin up her body and over her mouth and nose, stopping her breathing, and into her eyes where they feast on the soft, delicious eyeball meat
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:27, Reply)
I've changed my mind.
that's not so nice. *sadface*
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:33, Reply)
gotta keep the balance...

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:37, Reply)
I don't like balance
if it means nastiness. I like fluffy kitums. I think 'm getting old.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:40, Reply)
lame
I hope I don't turn into that in a year and 2 days
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:43, Reply)
sure you'll be fine.
I'm not that nice really, I have my dark phases, but i'm liking the light ones better.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:47, Reply)
ok - mild diversion
I'm in the middle of an idea happening.

What scenes do you remember from classic sci fi books - imagery here more than anything, like mise on scene kind of thing
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:50, Reply)
hmm, often words more than images.
the chair from Use of weapons, that's an image...
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:53, Reply)
OK, I like where this is going
any others? It's pretty much how the words write the pictures, you know, those images that are in your head from the book.

OK, perhaps from film, too. Maybe just other stories, fantasy, kids stories. Hmm, wittering now
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:56, Reply)
OK, i'll see what I can do then off to bed.
The cloths Case wears in Neuromancer and the cheap reproductiojn weapons he buy early on.

The taste of Mike at the end of Stranger in a strange land (they eat him but in a nice way)

the boy coming out of the makeshift cell in The Dispossessed

Luis debating the etiquete od a challenge with a Kzin in ring world.

films is harder, not many good ones. The dog bursting in alien 3

Helen mirren counting down in russian in 2010

rivers fight scene in serenity, oh god this.

sorry going to bed now, if you want more i'm happy to help, gaz me or fb me and i'll get to it, but i'll be away again tomorrow, so not on here much as i'll only have my phone. fuckit this sounds interesting i'll gaz you my email in case it helps I think i want to here more about this project.
(, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 0:13, Reply)
yeah, it's normal
I put a fuck ton of cocoa butter lotion on my last one, it's the best looking one so far, and the lady said it was the worst spot to get one
(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:06, Reply)
i've put lots of moisturiser and nappy rash cream on it

(, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 23:07, Reply)
Jugs of Joy
time for bed.
(, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 0:14, Reply)

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