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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Read this mental.
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2041464/Cats-dogs-smart--smarter-certainly-men.html#ixzz1Z33KN9lO
Then give your thoughts.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:20, 279 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
what does that even mean you spastic!?!?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:21, Reply)
That article was written by Liz Jones. I'm not reading that shite.
Then I had a quick browse down the right hand side at the "actress wears a bikini - phwoar!" stories.
Then I killed myself.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:26, Reply)
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:28, Reply)
I didn't read the article.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:33, Reply)
when applied to the affected skin area. Christ, if she reads the mail she'll believe that in a heartbeat.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:39, Reply)
*tumesces and aims*
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:41, Reply)
even though Rogue is supposed to be hot.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:30, Reply)
I'm working on a project to manufacture blood from human embryonic stem cells, as an alternative to blood transfusions. We were trying to get a domain name for the project PR website. Do you have any idea how many "blood" related sites are registred to fucking Twilight freaks?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:01, Reply)
would it be financially beneficial to manufacture a "fake" blood as opposed to getting "real" blood?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:08, Reply)
but so far no-one has been able to replicate the oxygen-carrying capability of RBCs with anything else.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:10, Reply)
"we'regoingtosavetheNHSafuckingfortuneinbiscuits.co.uk"?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:14, Reply)
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:15, Reply)
It was great when they used to come to work.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:19, Reply)
it's particularly the ones around "new blood" we were after but they are all gone.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:18, Reply)
I think her cats probably are smarter than her husband, anyone who marries her would be retarded.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:31, Reply)
Fucking hell, hold the front page. Next you'll be telling me Peter Sutcliffe had a few issues with women.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:27, Reply)
- Sherry, Kent, 24/9/2011 23:23
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:27, Reply)
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:47, Reply)
of a newspaper 'journalist' having a weekly column and thinking "shit, I'm being paid to write a weekly column, I'd better flollop my hands around on the keyboard in the vague hope that something readable comes out".
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:39, Reply)
Either find an odd word or make up one with a definition
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:41, Reply)
but I think in this case it's due to Liz Jones being madder than a whole sack of cut snakes. She manages to mention in every third article that she has 14 cats. She does realise that after torturing insects as a child and an unhealthy relationship with your mother, that's the third highest indicator of being a screaming headwrong?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:41, Reply)
My ex has started on that shit, it really is a sign of mentalness.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:52, Reply)
If that's what she wants out of a "companion" then fair play.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:56, Reply)
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:48, Reply)
Liz Jones is a belming fucktard who deserves death by immolation.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:39, Reply)
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:48, Reply)
the woman is deluded in every single way, and crazy as a loon
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:42, Reply)
or do you think they are all as equally retarded and sock puppetish.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:42, Reply)
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:47, Reply)
I am very aware of time wasting this week, what with it being my 38th birthday and all.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:48, Reply)
Just going to make the most of it, is all.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:52, Reply)
"dogs brains have evolved more quickly than cats over millions of years, scientists claim"
Firstly the word she wants is "further" rather than "more quickly", surely?
Secondly, I'm pretty sure scientists aren't "claiming" anything of the sort. They'd be "theorising".
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:54, Reply)
no one gets to be more evolved, it's a continuous process.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:58, Reply)
Although even then it's only in one specific direction.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:00, Reply)
this implied that evolution is directional and has an end point.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:02, Reply)
so in as much as it's talking about anything, it's talking about a specific end result which dogs are closer to than cats. Further's fine in that context, I think.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:05, Reply)
it's not :
"dogs brains have evolved more quickly than cats over millions of years, scientists claim"
Or even:
"dogs brains have evolved further than cats over millions of years, scientists claim"
it's:
"dogs brains have evolved further towards a specific end result than cats over millions of years, scientists claim,"
that end result being better interaction with humans I guess. Anyway that's not evolution, that's selective breeding.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:12, Reply)
but her article is more wrong than I originally gave her credit for?
I can live with that as a result, I think.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:16, Reply)
I', also unsure how you can talk meaningfully about the evolution of a species that has been bred into existence and continues to be bred by humans. They're not really evolving, are they?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:20, Reply)
I think it's fair to say that cats evolved to a certain point that made them a good candidate for a pet as a by-product and we've selectively bred them in specific areas like looks etc.
I don't think it's accurate to say that modern cats are entirely the way they are because of human involvement. The vast majority of their genome had been set by the time we started fiddling with them. They were already a small feline well adapted for hunting small animals at night.
It's not fair to say that they aren't sociable, either. They're just not pack animals.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:28, Reply)
because the fail knows that people love to hate her. and she plays up to it.
i don't agree with a word she types, but you have to admire the fact that she has made a very successful career out of being such a psycho hose beast.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:56, Reply)
Looks like she's the real winner here.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 10:58, Reply)
Perhaps not my own.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:01, Reply)
Best to forget all about that if you're looking to get ahead.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:03, Reply)
the more screaming there is, the more people read the column, the more the fail pays her to do it again.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:03, Reply)
she's only a winner by virtue of having some money.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:05, Reply)
What a fantastic working day.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:11, Reply)
Her entire working day must be fifteen minutes, after which she must doss around. Fantastic stuff if you're talentless.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:16, Reply)
Fucking mad bitch, I am surprised all the Mail hacks haven't been dispatched to Liverpool to write inflammatory drivel about the Labour Party Conference.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:00, Reply)
I just hate them.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:02, Reply)
bashes out an hours worth of shit and gets paid a fortune.
like it or loathe the method, she has done well for herself out of it. without relying on anyone else or holding her hand out for a freebie.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:05, Reply)
Yeah, that figures.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:06, Reply)
that is exactly what i said. you know full well that i was saying, you can condemn her for being a loathsome cunt, which she is, but nonetheless people like reading and talking about her, even if that is because they hate her, and therefore she has achieved a measure of success.
now for the love of fuck, please can you get fed up with being this tedious little prick and go back to being the old amusing al? i liked him. ta.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:12, Reply)
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Errr, yeah okay.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:18, Reply)
whereas you know it's not just me who thinks you've turned into a nasty bitter little man these days, my sweet.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:22, Reply)
I made the same madeline mcann joke for weeks on end years ago, but it's okay to mock someone else's tragedy isn't it, it only gets upsetting when someone mocks your own.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:24, Reply)
you know there is a real sharp edge to the things you say these days. only you know why.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:27, Reply)
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:30, Reply)
nobody else has noticed it, not at all. i'll just leave these here.
*whistles*
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1364791#post1364797
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1362705#post1362710
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1350213#post1353055
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1350130#post1350139
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1318333#post1318344
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1317095#post1317335
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1316528#post1316531
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:40, Reply)
You linked to two posts by Quixote, a poster with whom I have been nothing but exceptionally rude to ever since we first came into contact, a post by the Luggage, a poster who continued virginity, and me noticing and pointing it out, has made them dislike me almost as much as you, a post from fat Bobby, a man who, though he hates me, is quite happy for me to send him ebooks.
And then you linked to a whole bunch of my posts which people appear to have found quite amusing, especially the one about BGB and Wet Ham Man. The one about Fisters car I was clearly arguing a point I had already lost for comic effect, and the weird thing is, after me and Quixote kept trying to get the last word in, I actually deleted the thread, and yet you can still link to it, which surprises me. But also means you must have bookmarked it to be able to find it.
Which is creepy as hell. Stop stalking me.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:57, Reply)
In any divorce, it's always the kids that suffer.
By "upsetting" I obviously mean "amusing"
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:01, Reply)
hers will be very expensive, but heartless. I know in the end you will learn to appreciate the correct ones more.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:04, Reply)
onto a scrapbook then it is.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:06, Reply)
Hopefully they both try to turn me against the other by buying my affection.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:05, Reply)
you think i know how to bookmark stuff? you assume too much about my technical abilities, i've never used a bookmark in my life. just do a 2 second search for something like "al + cunt" or "bigger cunt than he used to be" and you'll see it.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:08, Reply)
gets you a link to this threada;
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1195710?highlight=answers-post-1195917
Which is funny, because it's you having your arse handed to you on a plate, by none other than Darth Foxtrot.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:18, Reply)
doesn't change the point. you used to be funny. now you're not so funny.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:20, Reply)
I can edit my posts later too, and your point has never bee "you used to be funny, now you're not" your point was "other people also think you're bitter" and you've selected three people who I'm sure agree with you since I've said nasty things about them on the internet.
I know it's hard when someone on the internet doesn't think the sun shines out of your vagina, but if it's affecting you that badly, maybe it's an indication that subconsciously you know you are acting like a self centred spoilt little girl.
Or maybe it isn't.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:21, Reply)
she's made some money. she's not in any other way "done well for herself" as she's a fucking loathsome human being. So, if your only metric for success is money, yeah, she's done OK. Even then, she's hardly lighting fires with twenties.
Edit - I suppose she's acquired a measure of fame, too, but again, I see absolutely no reason to give any tiny bit of credit to someone simply because she has some money and people know who she is. I know what you're trying to say, but there really is no reason to show even the tiniest bit of grudging admiration for the awful bitch.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:07, Reply)
you don't even know if she means what she says. it's all words.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:15, Reply)
The first is that she means what she writes, which makes her such a vile human being as to be utterly beyond any form of admiration.
The second is that she actually thinks something else, but writes those columsn pandering to the lowest level of society just to make some money. This also makes her a vile human being, beyond any form of admiration.
The same applies to Jeremy Clarkson.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:17, Reply)
I used to like you too but then you got all married and stuff and spoiled, nay ruined everything.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:28, Reply)
I've totally got that sunday in November in my diary, I'll be getting back from a 2 day wedding so I might be a little bit shaky, but I suspect a nice pint will be just what I will need.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:31, Reply)
Probably best to liaise with Clendrix as I'll be staying with her over the weekend.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:35, Reply)
But I can't agree that being that unpleasant through being stupid is really any more excusible than through being intelligent.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:17, Reply)
Unless your only metric for admiration is the fact that she has made money out of being a fucking awful human being?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:02, Reply)
i don't admire her, i think i would have to kill her if i ever met her.
but she has made a very successful living out of doing fuck-all. wouldn't we all like to do that, albeit of course not by writing that sort of shit!
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:06, Reply)
or I'd have done it years ago. I like to be able to sleep at night.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:08, Reply)
i certainly wouldn't want her life or career for myself, no.
but... i do have a perverse grudging admiration for someone who can be so openly loathsome that she has made a career out of it! i'm so polite in real life, and can be so paranoid about what people think of me. the fact that she totally doesn't give a fuck, and in fact encourages it, shows a strong belief in herself even if it's totally and utterly misplaced. i think i would like a tiny bit of that confidence.
i wouldn't use it to buy 17 cats though.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:19, Reply)
perhaps if I could make the money she does out of being a raging headwrong, I might give it a try.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:07, Reply)
I'm just saying I don't see why you should have any admiration for someone if all they've done is make some money.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:11, Reply)
/shameless pandering
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:23, Reply)
"I flew at the boy, obviously, and tried to persuade him that if he got off the cart and pushed it too, he might deliver my jar of Nescafe a bit quicker, and the donkey would live longer"
Until I read this bit
"After all those endless cookery programmes, why is the best Virgin Atlantic can come up with as a vegan snack a chilly sandwich of two pieces of cucumber and a tomato? I made such a fuss on my flight for being discriminated against I almost precipitated an unscheduled landing"
She's a card isn't she. I imagine her to be a bit like a female version of Rory Lyon. Assuming of course that male really is Rory's real gender.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:01, Reply)
the thought of you imagining anything about me is not a good one, dude
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:09, Reply)
being ground to dust underneath the Gucci sandal-clad feet of the ruling oligarchy, eh?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:06, Reply)
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(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:17, Reply)
I'm not normally one to suggest women deserve a kick in the cunt, but that woman deserves a kick in the cunt.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:14, Reply)
but no such compulsion exists for cats. Legally. It would still be nice if you told the owner.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:22, Reply)
*googles* OK, can't find any evidence, guess I was wrong, wonder where I picked up that non-fact from.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:27, Reply)
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:29, Reply)
sometimes I think you really do not want to be liked.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:30, Reply)
You corrected me, in perfect civility, with pertinent facts.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:37, Reply)
It's not my fault you don't like people to know about your mums tattoos.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:38, Reply)
Edit:
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:43, Reply)
this kind of thing makes me smile.
crude, slightly surreal... vintage al.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:38, Reply)
How can you not see that this is a truly horrible thing for any rational person to suggest? And yet you find it funny.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:41, Reply)
you're not looking for something truly personal about him, forming your own views on it, and then sticking the knife into it. and then coming back, like a dog to its own vomit, to link to it later on!
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:49, Reply)
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:36, Reply)
the new Mastodon album is out today, I pre-ordered it from Amazon a while back and it's been dispatched and is on it's way. But in my mind, if I pre-order something like that, I want it to arrive on the morning of the day of release.
So, I downloaded a copy last night and I'm listening to it now. It's totally okay that I broke the law last night because I paid for it today. That's how it works right?
Also I bought Empire: Total War off Steam. I know steam gets a lot of bad press, but I realy like it, I like being able to be at home and thinking, I want that game, and then you just buy it and a few hours later, it's downloaded on your computer.
Wow, this has got very Gonz-eque hasn't it. Last night the mrs made me Shepherds Pie. It was really good.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:14, Reply)
I don't think it's as good as Crack the Skye on first listen, but there is no overall concept for this one so I need to listen to it a few times to get into the songs.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:20, Reply)
It's exactly what it sounds like. She made lamb and vegetables in a tomatoe sauce and then covered it with mashed potato.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:19, Reply)
I pre-ordered a DVD because it was a couple of quid cheaper than if I'd bought it in the shops and it arrived a week and a fucking half after the release date.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:17, Reply)
I like their name. I assume they're some sort of popular beat combo?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:18, Reply)
They play loud music that makes your parents go "Hmmmm, what's this? It's got a good beat!"
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:21, Reply)
Hang on...
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1367323
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:38, Reply)
the only problem is that most the time games are cheaper from play.com with the manual and all that shit.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:22, Reply)
I got the full Empire and Napoleon games with all the add ons for £10. Which is about 50p cheaper than you can get it on Amazon.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:28, Reply)
I got Portal for free last week, was rather pleased with that.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:32, Reply)
after the first sentence.
needs more interest and excitement and gucci shoes. PINK ones.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:23, Reply)
well as close to pink as I get, which is not very....
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:34, Reply)
I was reaching a bit.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:41, Reply)
I seem to remember Swipey's other half complained when I didn't.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:58, Reply)
Although 'Blood And Thunder' is still excellent to hear live.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:31, Reply)
and it was fucking brilliant. I wouldn't want to see them do that at every performance, but everything I've heard them play off Blood Mountain when I've seen them before has sounded good too.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:39, Reply)
I just didn't enjoy it live as much as I did the album, sadly.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:48, Reply)
I really don't know what I'm doing wrong
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:55, Reply)
I also have taste and dreams beyond a 'luxury caravan and a week in Scarborough every year'
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:08, Reply)
You are 100% correct about miserable, old and git though
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:13, Reply)
There's a middle aged man a couple rows infront of me on the train and he's doing magic tricks with a coin to no one in particular. It's hilarious and mesmerising and I may never get off.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:57, Reply)
Where is everybody's wit and intelligence this morning/afternoon?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:06, Reply)
I'll be honest, I rather wish I was still there.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:08, Reply)
Edit for clarity and pandering: Mine or yours, I'm not fussed.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:09, Reply)
you'll be 'Q' by xmas.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:10, Reply)
I'm not sure I'm enough of a nerd to understand what is said round here
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:17, Reply)
I'll raise my hand to saddo, but I'll leave lolfatty for Al/Bobby/other fatty and virgin for The Luggage.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:23, Reply)
I'm open to suggestions for lengthening it again.
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:12, Reply)
BTW will you be at The Pier, or Monty's bash or the upcoming Manc Bash, to I may sneer at you in person?
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:11, Reply)
(, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 12:13, Reply)
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