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What UK based attraction/monument have you always fancied visiting, but never bothered?
Alt: If you were given £250 and told to go out and spend it on yourself, what would you buy?

Alt Alt: Natter!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:05, 135 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Hadrians wall.
alt: moar boots. (Actually I could do with a new cooker.)


Alt alt: crap weather for August innit.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:12, Reply)
Boots are more fun than a cooker.
Get the boots (although don't expect me to give you the £250 to get them with).

Arr, the weather has been properly moody this year. No 'summer' as such, just a few days that haven't been as miseable as others.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:14, Reply)
Alt alt: in comparison to Hawaii, yes.
In comparison to every other summer we've ever had in Britain, par for the course.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:14, Reply)
Last summer was better.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:16, Reply)
ah, back in the seventies we had real summers....

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:16, Reply)
Innit.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:29, Reply)
GOLF!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:16, Reply)
That abbey in Whitby.
Or that open air theatre in Cornwall.

alt: this. Or a tablet.

Alt alt: we're winning 2-1! I'm really not sure how this is possible.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:14, Reply)
You could buy two of that thing you've linked!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:17, Reply)
I know!
Then I could have a spare one!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:22, Reply)
And have double the amount of the one you don't like left at the end!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:23, Reply)
yay!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:25, Reply)
I've been to both of them
the Minack is incredible, but make sure you wrap up warm.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:35, Reply)
Blousie.
Can you answer a question for me please.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:18, Reply)
ok

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:26, Reply)
Did Lisa Stansfield ever find her baby?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:27, Reply)
I don't think so.
But then I lost track years ago.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:28, Reply)
She looked in more places than Kate McCann

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:29, Reply)
Maybe that's where Kate went wrong.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:29, Reply)
The question popped into my head earlier and I thought you might have the answer.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:29, Reply)
Sorry!
Not a fucking clue.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:30, Reply)
Never mind.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:30, Reply)
She's still looking according to her Facebook group
her baby is proving more elusive than both Shergar and Lucan.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:31, Reply)
For two years I used to live literally ten minutes from Diggerland Castleford, and never went.
I was a fool.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:18, Reply)
Menkle!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:28, Reply)
90Nz0's flat

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:21, Reply)
I didn't bother visiting London until I was about 24
despite living only about 30 miles away my entire life.

*Technically* I suppose I did since I lived there until I was 3, but since I don't remember any of that, I don't count it. So NER.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:28, Reply)
At least when you got to 24 you could appreciate just how shit London is.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:31, Reply)
Really, once you've done the tourist attractions, and the museums
all there is to look at is grinding poverty and pikeys.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:32, Reply)
Say what you want but all this disability legislation has proved a good thing for head dobber access in the capital

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:33, Reply)
Rory, not a night goes by that I don't raise my flippers in thanks
for the legislation allowing flids, spastics and mongoloids the freedom to shamble around aimless and dribbling.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:34, Reply)
Joseph Merricks dream has come true
You'll get a curiosity fuck out of it one day, mark my words.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:38, Reply)
John Merrick you flid.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:08, Reply)
I'd love to see Salisbury or Canterbury cathedrals
Or the Shetland isles, or some of the other equally remote ones up there.

Clothes, probably. Or I'd put it towards a new laptop or a holiday.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:34, Reply)
Salisbury cathedral's lovely
but utterly ruined by the shameless, grasping begging of the caretakers.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:35, Reply)
I've been to both those cathedrals
I love churches and cathedrals, me. Which is odd, considering what a godless heathen I asm.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:48, Reply)
Wells cathedral is worth a peek too

(, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 8:46, Reply)
I'd go to brighton for the weekend with a friend, not sure who would be up for it, but that's what I'd do. Get a real real cheap B&B and visit some lovely resturants and walk along the lanes and see a show there.
Who would like to go with me?

I quite fancy doing the London Eye, never done that before.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:44, Reply)
Darth'll join you.
Although you might find yourself eating alone.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:45, Reply)
and he'll have to pretend to be asleep in the next bed with the duvet pulled up over his head listening to the horrors of Darth boffing a sailorboy

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:48, Reply)
Surely he'd be the receiver?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:49, Reply)
I'm vague on the details, all I know is the sheets will have to be thrown away the next day

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:51, Reply)
He's probably the sort of bloke with ear rings and a face.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:50, Reply)
Hey!
I have earrings and a face!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:52, Reply)
Yeah', but your voice is at the right octave.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:03, Reply)
and how would you know?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:03, Reply)
I hacked your voicemail.
BTW, your father says you've run out of bog roll and asked if you can pick some up on the way home. I think he was your father, he called you sweetie-pie and sounded old.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:07, Reply)
omg
that's so spooky, cos we're running low on bog roll, and my old man does call me sweetie (when he wants something).

*worries*
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:08, Reply)
Get him some extra soft stuff, show him you care.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:11, Reply)
I was debating about taking my girls on the London Eye next month
but I can't decide if it is, to paraphrase Monty, 'fucking shit'.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:50, Reply)
Is the Weston eye still there?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:51, Reply)
It is indeed.
I drove past it just this very afternoon.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:52, Reply)
If you've not bothered with that, I can't imagine the London eye would be any better.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:53, Reply)
The view is supposed to be amazing, I've seen pictures and they look 'wow', and even then, I don't think they could do it justice.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:52, Reply)
I'm guessing they'd love to see it
but the tickets where you jump the queue are about £30 and I can't decide if that's worth it.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:55, Reply)
Hmmm, I'm not to sure then.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:06, Reply)
Noel and I only paid for the ones where you don't jump the queue.
Was still pretty ace. Loved it, despite the absolute FEAR it gave me.
(, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 0:12, Reply)
Some shoes. I looked over mine
and I don't have any suitable for interview. With enough left over I'd buy a couple of skirts as well.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:54, Reply)
Any joy at all workwise Amberl?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 21:56, Reply)
No. I did a day's temp work today
and Kroney reminded me of the Civil Service, but I might need a slightly better C.V.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:12, Reply)
I've been asked around on your behalf.
Who did you temp with today?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:13, Reply)
Cheers Jeff
A managed marketing place. Literally stuffing envelopes.

Also, how rude, how are you doing?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:15, Reply)
It's all going quiet
what happened to the nattering?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:19, Reply)
You natter away.
I'll join you in a natter.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:19, Reply)
what about them young 'uns, eh?
wasn't like that in my day. Six of the best'd sort them right out.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:21, Reply)
Are you on about the riots, or just beating kids in general?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:23, Reply)
a little from column A...

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:26, Reply)
I'd send them all to WsM for 'rehab'.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:27, Reply)
oh yeah, that'd help.
there's enough chav scum here to fill a jeremy kyle show for a year
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:31, Reply)
Pier bash will add to the number!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:32, Reply)
not attractions per se but I'd like to visit a few of the islands
Isle of Man, Sark, Jersey, Guernsey. I get the impression that they're all a bit mad and disconnected (in more than a physical sense) from the mainland.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:24, Reply)
I watched Wicker Man.
I can see where you're coming from.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:26, Reply)
does scotland count?
Alt: Tattoos or lego
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:32, Reply)
Have you had your tatts finished now?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:33, Reply)
bit more on my back, another few hours on my arm then having a break for a while
as it's quite restrictive on social activities.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:35, Reply)
You mean wanking, don't you.
Why aren't you coming to the pier bash?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:37, Reply)
He's not coming?
Bobby you queer, come to the bash!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:40, Reply)
no, swimming, going to the beach etc
what weston bash?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:54, Reply)
Have a look on the calendar.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:59, Reply)
I'm in

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:09, Reply)
I retract my calling you a queer

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:10, Reply)
In which case.
Please allow me to call Bob a queer.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:12, Reply)
go right ahead

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:13, Reply)
good, I retract shitting in your pillow case.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:12, Reply)
QUEER!
B3th made me say that.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:14, Reply)
Yes. Yes, I did.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:17, Reply)
biatch

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:26, Reply)
woo yay!
I can laugh at your tat in person, happytimes.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:14, Reply)
tats - i have loads, making me street innit

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:19, Reply)
you mean dual carriageway

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:20, Reply)
Fuckin' bus lane inn-ee!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:20, Reply)
DAS AUTOBAHN

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:21, Reply)
Probably The London Eye.
Alt: probably a new (well second hand) laptop, this one's getting a bit tired.

AltAlt: My flat is now quite tidy, and with my bed in it's new position, I can lie diagonally upside-down on it and post on here, which makes me happy.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:04, Reply)
hurrah!
*bed posting high fives*
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:07, Reply)
Hello loverly B3th.
I'm resisting making creepy comments about being in bed together, so I'll ask how are you doing? I gather you team did well in the game thing, I trust this pleases you?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:13, Reply)
The Porridge beat the Bacon.
Meaning that the 'not the best breakfast' won the game.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:15, Reply)
I'm still in shock

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:16, Reply)
This makes every bit as much sense as sport things usually do, please do not explain further.
Glad your day got better. I finally booked time off and put my name down officially for the pier and I'm all excited, especially if there is crazy golf.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:18, Reply)
I might attack a seagull with a putter.
I've not decided yet.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:19, Reply)
I think we actually have two crazy golf courses...

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:19, Reply)

That's crazy fucked up.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:20, Reply)
*bounces*

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:21, Reply)
We could have the first ever B3ta-pro-celebrity-invitational tournament!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:23, Reply)
Cool, who get's to be a pro and who's a celebrity?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:25, Reply)
ANYONE who plays golf is a pro
the rest are celebs.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:26, Reply)
I've done a bit of pitch and put, does that make me a pro?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:30, Reply)
teeing off next is Ernie Els.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:31, Reply)
Is he a golfer?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:34, Reply)
yes

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:35, Reply)
right.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:39, Reply)
We could argue about that nearer the time.
My general rule of thumb would be that all women are prostitutes, thus making them 'pros' - I'm guessing the blokes would be the celebs, based on that.

Granted, this logic is a bit 'tarts and vicars' but I reckon it'll work.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:27, Reply)
Well, I can't fault your logic.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:31, Reply)
If Crazy Golf is open. I might even buy a trophy.
The 'Dog Fucker Cup' might be the prize that people want.

Plus I'll make sure it's cheaper than the cost of a pint.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:34, Reply)
You don't know the cost of a pint!
Not on the pier, anyway.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:37, Reply)
There's beer on the pier?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:39, Reply)
There might be.
No-one's been to check yet.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:40, Reply)
*coughs*
I thought you were going to check before the Yanks arrived?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:43, Reply)
No, no.
*when* they arrive.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:45, Reply)
What the fuck with Septics know about the cider selection!!!!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:45, Reply)
I don't know, Jeff!
Do I have to do everything myself???
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:47, Reply)
Yes.
Yes. You. Do.

Failing that, just give 'em a bell.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:48, Reply)
mutter mutter mutter
http://www.grandpier.co.uk/contact-us
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:51, Reply)
Fuck that.
If you want Bristol info, I'll gladly find things out for you. It's your manor. You call 'em.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:52, Reply)
I think I could be either.
and I am spectacularly shit at mini golf.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:27, Reply)
Fountains Abbey
and the British Library.

Alt: Oh, I don't know. Lose eighty of the pounds then pretty clothes with the rest?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:39, Reply)
I'm doing the british library on Saturday, it's going to be ace.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:40, Reply)
It's one of the ones I feel I should go to.
I still want to go to the beach. Crow and I had GRAND PLANS and then we were busy. We're not looking at much free time until October :(
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:42, Reply)
Any particular beach?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:44, Reply)
Not sure.
I like the grey and the chilly so I'm in no hurry.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:49, Reply)
I do like a stormy sea.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:50, Reply)
Think of the stingrays!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:43, Reply)
I want to see penguins too, actually
Stingrays are velvety, did you know? I've stroked one.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:49, Reply)
I've stroked more than my fair share of stingrays! :-)
(Actually, in real 'stingray' terms, no I haven't. But I did witness a 'collective' of rays coming into shore everynight at the same time to be fed by hand when I was in the Maldives).
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:51, Reply)
Saggy milk-sacks.
nighty night all.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:55, Reply)
you called?
yeah, me too. night boys and girls.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:59, Reply)

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