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What is the best thing you've learnt or found on the internet? (not including purchases)
I learnt how to fold fitted sheets properly and I found some good mates.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:15, 177 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
I've found out that you can have lunch around about the middle of the day.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:17, Reply)
Did it rock your world?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:25, Reply)
ooo, is it lunchtime?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:27, Reply)
Eggy cup?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)
That's an old meme isn't it?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:38, Reply)

b3ta.com/search/posts?q=eggy+cup
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:43, Reply)
I found validation and love on the internet
when quite a few people clicked 'i like this' on my posts
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:17, Reply)
How can you tell?
does this mean no one ever liked any of mine?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:23, Reply)
popular page
I've been on it a couple of times

I have also been FP'd and come second in a couple of compos, but I think that is in the days before it was voted on
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:24, Reply)
I'm so great

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:27, Reply)
hm?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:29, Reply)
I'm just brilliant, OK?
I may not be a perfect physical specimen like I hear you are, but I'm a fucking comic genius
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:35, Reply)
yeah, like a stork and two cellos in a toilet.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:38, Reply)
I think Cavey was being left field there.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:39, Reply)
it's not my fault if the
people who see the pictures are brain-slow
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:40, Reply)
That's one of my favourite pictures that I've seen on here.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:45, Reply)
I've not seen any of these pictures.
Is it something to be found on this Facebook thing?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:49, Reply)
it's in the last thread

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:52, Reply)
The only link I can see is some web comic.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:53, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1329360
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:55, Reply)
I've found fellow larpers
I thought I was all alone
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:19, Reply)
If a larper falls down and dies in the woods with no one around, does anyone care?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:20, Reply)
Hahahaha.
No.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:21, Reply)
:'(''

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:24, Reply)
They're just jealous

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:27, Reply)
Two clicks in as many seconds.
You must feel so coooool.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:24, Reply)
It's this sort of internet validation that gets me through the day.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:26, Reply)
it depends if they were important to the
adventuring party

obviously
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:25, Reply)
There was a guy who told me how to tie my shoe laces so they don't keep coming undone.
Not earth shattering but bloody useful.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:22, Reply)
I found out I'd been tying my shoes wrong for a long time
But I'm not as keen on tying laces as some people in this world.

I think it was you that posted the link.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:23, Reply)
it works though
which I find amazing.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:24, Reply)
Don't you just tie them again after doing the bow?
That's what I do.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:25, Reply)
I used to do that, but it still came undone
I've been doing it the way that guy said since friday and still no problems.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:39, Reply)
Sounds like voodoo to me.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:42, Reply)
me too
but it warks and I like this.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:57, Reply)
Stop trying to turn the subject towards fucking zombies.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:59, Reply)
I've been priviliged to read some very interesting exchanges
on the merits of various waterproof trousers
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:25, Reply)
Hahahhahahaha trouser-piss

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:26, Reply)
Ironically part of the same discussion

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:27, Reply)
My knowledge of the waterproof trouser industry has increased immeasurably.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:25, Reply)
Haha mindpiss

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:26, Reply)
Apparently you can find breasts on the internet
they must be well hidden though, I'm damned if I've been able to find 'em
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:26, Reply)
NSFW obviously.
www.007b.com/breast_gallery.php

Just to explain, it's a gallery of non sexualized pics of boobs.

Always handy when you want to look at boobs but don't want to get turned on.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:28, Reply)
Non-sexualised?
What on Earth is the point?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:31, Reply)
The world has suddenly become a cold and frightening place

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:33, Reply)
But some of those breasts are quite sexy.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:33, Reply)
And others really aren't.
It's true, there is such a thing as a bad pair.

What a horrible discovery. Thanks, BGB. Thanks a LOT.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:36, Reply)
You're welcome hon : D

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)
I'm not looking as I'm at work
but isn't it pretty hard to non-sexualise a breast without, I dunno, detaching it from the woman, or something?

Although even then Chompy would probably get a full-on robochubby.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:34, Reply)
I found what I was doing wrong with steak, as well as with chorizo
Now, I can cook both damn well.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:27, Reply)
how on earth were you getting chorizo wrong?
it's either a) slice and eat or b) slice, cook and eat.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:31, Reply)
I was cutting it wrong
Large chunks, then cubing them.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:31, Reply)
what's wrong with that then?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:33, Reply)
It's not how someone else on the internet does it.
And as well you know, that means it's wrong.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:33, Reply)
ah, of course.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:34, Reply)
When I cooked it in a sauce, the texture went pretty vile
Now, I thinly slice it, and it works far better.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:35, Reply)
of the chorizo or of the sauce?
because if it's the latter I can't imagine why. But, meh.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)
The chorizo, lost 90% of it's taste too.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:38, Reply)
I cannot understand this at all
I cube my chorizo and fry it, it doesn't lose it's taste at all. I made a chicken and chorizo pie like that and it still tasted of chorizo.

Spaniards have been frying their chorizo in big thick slices for years, and I don't think they experience this problem.

I reckon you bought a shit chorizo.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:41, Reply)
In a potentially calamitous internet destroying shock
I'm going to have to totally agree with Al, here.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:43, Reply)
I hate you so much right now.
Will you hold me?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:46, Reply)
I think I overcooked it tbh, it was in the slow cooker overnight.
But I prefer the thin slices now, far easier to do. Also, far more fun to pinch from the pan.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:44, Reply)
You can fold fitted sheets?
What manner of witchcraft is this?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:28, Reply)
I no rite!!
It blew me away when I found it.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:29, Reply)
It's quite easy once you've seen it done.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:34, Reply)
It's changed the way I look at the world Al.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:36, Reply)
I fail to see why anyone wouldn't just
leave them in a pile in the bottom of the wardrobe
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)
it all starts to make sense...

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:42, Reply)
I'm not sure what you're saying here
the way one stores sheets can barely be considered a barometer for one's personality, surely?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:46, Reply)
Surely the way you do everything is a barometer for one's personality?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:49, Reply)
it could be a blip?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:51, Reply)
It combines with your total lack or cooking ability and other d=stuff to from a wider picture

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:54, Reply)
:(
harsh, but fair
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:58, Reply)
I've been told that I'm a bender once or twice

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:29, Reply)
You're a bender all the time.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:31, Reply)
Yes, yes, and you're a transvestite who eats big boxes of sexy, fattening meat-filth three times a day
(Can you show me where to find one of those on Saturday?)
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:33, Reply)
Is it wrong that the idea of getting a Munchy box is very appealing to me?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:34, Reply)
what the hell is this munchy box business?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:36, Reply)
Its this


With this under the naan


(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)
looks delicious and nutritious

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:38, Reply)
I think it would take a hangover from a 3 day not eating boozey druggy bender
before I'd even contemplate that fucker
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:48, Reply)
That is a death row kind of a meal.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:51, Reply)
That actually, genuinely sounds exactly like what I have planned for Friday, Saturday and Sunday

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:55, Reply)
Nope
I'd totally go for one when plastered. Which I intend to be for most of this weekend.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)
Sorry fella, I've never had one
Wouldn't have the first clue where to look.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:38, Reply)
Well, that's my weekend ruined
What the fuck else are we going to do on Saturday then?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:43, Reply)
Get drunk, talk nonsense, and watch the football.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:58, Reply)
*nods sagely*
This is agreeable.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:59, Reply)
play chess, screw...


^FILM!!!!!!!!!
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:01, Reply)
Film I don't recognise, in fact
Thomas Crown Affair?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:03, Reply)
Blazing Saddles, I believe.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:06, Reply)
You can see why I'd think that though

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:08, Reply)
It's canon at this stage AA
You fucking love a bit of filthy munchy box
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:43, Reply)
I've had half the ingredients together, but the one I used to get never contained a naan bread, or chicken pakora.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:45, Reply)
Once or twice might be overlooked.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:33, Reply)
Ah, so that's why the abuse is so constant
So as to ensure the message is not lost upon me.

Does this mean that if I assure you I know now, you'll stop?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:35, Reply)
Yes*



*no
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)
Oh Monty
You really know how to dash a boy's hopes on the rocks of internet rejection
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:42, Reply)
That sounds like the sort of thing a bender would say.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:38, Reply)
You're Once, Twice... Three bends 'till the colon.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:12, Reply)
I've learnt
that when I use one of my multifarious and LOLarious sock accounts to post a link to some of my soul-rending AND PUBLISHED short story writing, a load of HATERS can’t handle the quality and get all shiddy, mate?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:31, Reply)
I have a feeling that thread is going to be referenced a lot in the future.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:35, Reply)
I hope so.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:36, Reply)
Seconded
Bitch got served
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:44, Reply)
That people can be unfazed by badly-written gay slashfic.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:34, Reply)
It wasn't that badly-written
It was extremely descriptive though
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:36, Reply)
I might have to delete it, just to save future embarrassment to be honest.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:40, Reply)
*saves it for posterity*
that's going to take some explaining if anybody finds it.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:44, Reply)
You don't need to deleted it,
just stop mentioning it every fucking day.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:44, Reply)
Oh I was 'fazed' alright - if 'fazed' means 'embarrassed and not at all impressed'.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)
Oh Don't Monty
He's desperately trying to get himself a little niche on here as "the one that writes gay slash fiction" rather than the one who has never known the company of a ladies privates"
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:39, Reply)
Your threats to kill me amused.
I just wish FreeFair had the mother of all flounces when he saw it. Shame.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:39, Reply)
Post any more and your torso will be found in the Thames,
ironically in some 'luggage' like that African boy.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:44, Reply)
I think it's worth saving for posterity
I'm also not sure if Freefair ever got to read it and I think this is a shame, I may gaz it to him.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:48, Reply)
Don't worry, I won't be.
There's something oddly creepy about the whole thing, looking back.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:00, Reply)
Oddly? Looking back?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:09, Reply)
I felt embarrassed for everyone involved.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:47, Reply)
I've found out that my opinons and taste about everything are "JUST WRONG"
and that by liking things that I like I'm "RUINING" media/art/politics/cups of tea/rice/mashed potato/live music/bus travel/tourism/living arangements/fashion/history/economics/gardening for everyone else.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:40, Reply)
You ruined my garden by standing near it.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:48, Reply)
Discovering how to pinroll jeans has been a revelation.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:50, Reply)
what does that even mean?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:53, Reply)
I think it's a euphemism for rimming.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:53, Reply)
*nods*

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:56, Reply)
specifically rimming gingers?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:58, Reply)
Figging?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:58, Reply)
It's a way of doing turn ups on your denim.
I don't really like doing it but it's good when you've got a pair of jeans that aren't as tapered as you'd like them to be.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:02, Reply)
I prefer a nice flare, myself.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:04, Reply)
Jeans have got to be tapered.
Note this does not mean skinny, which makes you look like a twat.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:05, Reply)
I wouldn't be able to wear tapered jeans
for the most ridiculous, neurotic reason. It's the same reason why I like bootcut and flared jeans.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:11, Reply)
I can't do flares
they were the most hated thing when I went to school and I'm never gotten over it. They al;so scream HIPPY at me.

Odly enough neither of these things put me off having long hair or tiedye
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:16, Reply)
I don't like seeing too many shoelace loops
It makes my feet look huge.

/shame
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:17, Reply)
each to their own I guess.
I'm currently thinking I might live in 501s til I die or run out of sources for cheap pairs.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:19, Reply)
*Googles*
That looks pretty gay dude.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:05, Reply)
The Google image examples do look shit, I agree.
I do it my own way, when the turn up is huge it looks utter shit. I get mine as small/narrow/slim as I possibly can so you barely notice. I do it when the hem of the jeans are too wide naturally.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:14, Reply)
I'm sure you do it with style Baz
Also sure it's not my thing. But you know what I respect your ability to do your thing and not give a fuck what anyone things.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:17, Reply)
I'll be honest I get a buzz when someone says 'what the fuck are you wearing'
Which is just as well cos it happens all the time.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:19, Reply)
That people are actually proud of pointing out typos.
Physically pleased with themselves. A totally alien concept to me before.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:53, Reply)
much like spelling, grammar, the clitoris...

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:05, Reply)
One day I shall tire of laughing at and clicking your baiting of Chompy.
Today is not that day.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:10, Reply)
it's so sweet the way you two spar with each other
well, actually the way you spar with him and he ignores you.....
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:10, Reply)
He's ignored her, I think.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:11, Reply)
I thought it might be that.
but it's touching how she persists.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:12, Reply)
It's funny whether he sees it or not

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:13, Reply)
Oh, I agree.
but, you know how you keep trying to float that Cavey and myself much be humping because we fight all the time.....
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:14, Reply)
Yeah I'm giving up on that
She's obviously more interested in me
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:16, Reply)
now there's a meme with wings.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:19, Reply)
oh
great
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:21, Reply)
There are worse men to be accused of fancying
Now give me a few days to think of one.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:25, Reply)
I think I might just make up a fake boyfriend
that'll solve it, right?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:36, Reply)
You're asking me if claiming to have a partner will stop B3tans from accusing you of fancying boys?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:38, Reply)
fair point

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:41, Reply)
That's my one well-reasoned arguent for the month

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:42, Reply)
Thanks to the internet
I discovered that I can look at boobs all day long without any fear whatsoever of getting bored.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:01, Reply)
The internet has been lovely to me.
It has provided me with a husband, a sister in law, a livelihood, some of the very best friends I've ever had, and a vague feeling of belonging.

Also the opportunity to be a terrible bore and an internet bully.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:04, Reply)
you have friends?
what are you doing on here with us sweaty virgins?
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:07, Reply)
we sweaty virgins have to stick together.
Anyway, everyone knows there's no girls on teh internet.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:15, Reply)
This is true
but it's fun to pretend. The Pier is going to shatter so many of my illusions.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:20, Reply)
Alright there 'I'm Dave, 43, a trucker and a real laff.'

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:27, Reply)
I'm Martin, 32, and a telecomms analist'

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:28, Reply)
I wish I was going
I enjoyed worrying people by telling them I was meeting a bunch of internet strangers on a pier
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:29, Reply)
i wish you were going as well.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:34, Reply)
so you could push me off the pier?

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:35, Reply)
as if i would!
i'm affronted!
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:36, Reply)
a-sea-fronted

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:36, Reply)
It provided me with your brother.
Best lay I've ever had.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:09, Reply)
Hey! Me too!

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:16, Reply)
Norfolklolz

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:18, Reply)
I'm going to cop so much trouble for that...

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:19, Reply)
If only you were my sister
Although I already have more than I know what to do with
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:26, Reply)
I really have no idea how to respond to that...

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:40, Reply)
n-dubz
I mean they truly make me happy
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:07, Reply)
I've discovered that an elaborate imagination and the ability to populate your bullshit tales with endless sexual euphemisms
can make one a demigod and a pariah to disparate groups of people on the same website.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:07, Reply)
Horses for courses.
I had a read through /talk recently. Christ, what a bunch of pointless bollocks.
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:15, Reply)
/Talk serves a purpose
It takes Chompy off our hands a lot of the time
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:17, Reply)
a tyre on a rope would do that.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:20, Reply)
where as we only pontificate
on subjects of the most high import and engender change in the world for the better
(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:20, Reply)
Yes.

(, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:21, Reply)

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