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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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So, on a topic less likely to get B3ta on the front page of The Daily Mail, I saw Terry Gilliam on the street the other day, who's the best celeb you've spotted and where?
Alt: my colleague just sat at his desk dipping bread into hot camembert for lunch. It stinks. Should I tell him he's a selfish arse?
AltAlt: Why didn't Ultimate Spider-Man #3 come out today like it should have done? (OK, you don't really need to answer that one)
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:11, 240 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
But they've stopped leavingout napkins on the counter and just put one in the bag now. One is not enough to eat one of their Fajitas with.
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I had no lunch as I had a fry-up in the cafe near the office first thing to go through some paperwork*
*read my kindle in peace for half an hour
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I saw Maureen Lipman shopping on my high street.
When I worked in a bowling alley, I sold some games to the guy that plays Draco Malfoy.
I'm pretty certain I saw kd Lang on a tube on the Northern line.
I walked past Neil Morrisey as he was leaving Stanstead airport.
I'm a fucking sleb magnet.
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and he says he was ok until he got the part and then turned in to a massive twat.
A colleague here knows the parents of the Ranga that plays Ginny Weasly and says she is now made for life. She could easily live in luxury without ever working again because when she originally signed up the last books hadn't been written and they had no idea how big a part she would go on to play so they signed so fucking good deals when the later films came out.
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he was coked up and a cock, I have no idea how I ended up speaking to him
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and none left me awestruck with one exception. I literally bumped in to Patrick Stewart on the bridge in Camden. I apologised and garbled a few words and ran away all embarrassed. I mean it was Captain Picard!
I met Rachel Stephens once which in itself was unremarkable but I mention it because though it doesn't appear so on the TV or in magazines she's actually a midget.
I also have fond memories of sneaking back stage at The Guilford festival and drinking wine with The Levellers. They were crusty and smelly but the wine was good.
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when I went to a recording of the Animal Hospital Awards because I worked for the company that sponsored them. They were actually the best part of the whole night.
I mean, they were shit, but they were the best part of the whole night.
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Also, my mates were talking to him at a festival a few weeks ago and he's agreed to play the festival they're organising for next year. Allegedly.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:21, Reply)
I took a while to realise who he was, but having given him (probably wrong) directions I asked him "Are you Richard O'Brian?". "I used to be" he called over his shoulder as he disappeared into the darkness.
Alt: Nope, you should MTFU and learn to enjoy the smell of cheese.
AltAlt: Dunno, because it's gay and crap? Are we talking film here, or games, or comics? I hope it's comics.
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Oh and I totally bottled out of asking Billy Bragg and Phil Jupitus for autographs.
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and yes, comics. So gay and crap probably applies really, but I like it.
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and I don't really do video games, so you're alright by me. Condolences.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:23, Reply)
Bought the first five volumes in hardback but then stopped working in Newcastle so lost track of it (Forbidden Planet was just around the corner from the office).
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I met Ed Tudor-Pole once when the band I was in supported him.
He was crazy and threatened to punch the guy who was doing the sound.
I've got more cool rock'n'roll stories, if anyone wants to hear... No?
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Or did you? In which case, I owe you a pint.
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If I told you that Michael Salahi is a crazy bitch would you give a shit? Probably not, because she's kind of hot.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:41, Reply)
But I'll google her if she is kind of hot.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:48, Reply)
your wife hangs out in places where people snort drugs off other peoples bits
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:52, Reply)
My wife is fucking hot. Just ask those B3tans who have seen pictures.
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I had no idea who he was and just said "Yeah thanks mate" and walked back to the others, it was only when the guitarists dad explained who I had just brushed off that I realised. I also met Brian May once. he isn't actually that tall but his hair makes him look at least 7ft
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:22, Reply)
We don't take kindly to celebrities and their funny ways up here.
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I spent an hour in a pub in Horsham chatting to the bloke who was in Emmerdale playing the nasty man in a wheelchair whose wife killed him (and whose name I didn't know then and don't know now) on his night off from the play he was appearing in at The Capitol. He was incredibly drunk and I got the feeling he spent a lot of his time that way.
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But I don't really know who he is.
Do I win £5?
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:27, Reply)
This put the shits up my mate so much he ran off screaming
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www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/images/2005/12/20/gilly_hope_203x152.jpg
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I spent their wedding calling her "BBC weathergirl Laura Tobin" rather than "Laura" because I'm hilarious. I've met her at christenings and house parties since. Although next time I see her, if she doesn't remember who I am again I'll remove the honour of calling her a close personal friend.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:21, Reply)
She looks tiny
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Oh yeah, total hipster right here. Except rather than thinking they were good before they got popular, I thought they were shit and pointedly ignored them when one tried to increase his chances at chatting up a friend of mine by being matey with me.
Rock'n'roll, me.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:26, Reply)
It worked but I felt terrible, they were just awful.
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Was in a queue in Marks & Spencer with Peter Beardsley. The man's a midget.
Bumped into Clint Mansell from Pop Will Eat Itself at a gig in Newcastle. It wasn't a PWEI gig either.
Had the whole of Fugazi stay in my flat one night as my flatmate's band supported them at a gig. Unfortunately, I stayed at my girlfriend's so this probably doesn't count.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:32, Reply)
This sounds like a lie. Ridiculously, it is the truth.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:32, Reply)
Well, it's not.
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I have heard he talks and acts like that all the time. I think this is ace.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:35, Reply)
He's boxed with the Dalai Lama, you know.
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www.dragonninja.co.uk/28610/kris-akabusi-erotic-short-novels/
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"a clunge so tight it shopped at Poundland." Genuine tears dripping off my face.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:43, Reply)
The first time Kitty linked them on here I was a broken man.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:46, Reply)
That gets me every time. I had to leave the office for about 20 mins after last time as I couldn't breathe for laughing
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:48, Reply)
I was in the town centre at the weekend and noticed a new shop getting ready to open next to Poundland..

(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:06, Reply)
I think it's known to certain b3tans, but in the interests of civic pride I'll keep schtum
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:09, Reply)
..or use some clever internetting skillz?
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:22, Reply)
Its the paving/brickwork
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:24, Reply)
But Strung Out stayed in the same Travelodge as us. After their gig we were travelling up in the lift and they got in too. My step dad, despite having spent the last 2 hours watching them perform asked "Are you guys in a band then" Daft bugger
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:32, Reply)
so I've had a drink with Darren Morgan, Paul Hunter and Stephen Lee. Shared a lift with Jimmy White and had a long chat with the late great Len Ganley. I also had a surprisingly long chat with author Robert Rankin and his wife at a book singing, and he let me have one of his biscuits.
Alt: Anyone that eats a smelly lunch at their desk (unless they have their own office) should fuck the fuck off to fuck.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:35, Reply)
But I do have my own office which makes me a smug fuck too
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:37, Reply)
for the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black. Snooker loopy nuts are we, we're all snooker loopy.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:49, Reply)
I once actually touched a tarantula that was the daughter of the one in that James Bond film, Dr. No I think.
Form an orderly queue Ladies.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:35, Reply)
..and brought me back a genuine prop spider from the film Arachnophobia.
*fails at arachnid-related celebrity top trumps*
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:39, Reply)
I'm also dressed rather smartly, which makes a change.
Today I met the man who wrote the original ICRCL guidance.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:54, Reply)
Mostly poor.
In 2001 I managed to shake hands with two of my heroes - Brian Wilson and Martin Carr. I asked Beck for his autograph in a vintage clothes shop in Dublin, he was unimpressed and I promptly lost it.
I have played gigs with (amongst others) Electric Soft Parade, The Enemy (when they were called Bridges - why didn't I try to stop them? Why?), Trembling Bells, Dave Swarbrick, The Animals (sort of - two ex-members and others), and more equally unimpressive names that I can't remember.
Oh, and like most people in my city, I know someone who knows someone in The Specials (there were more people on the guest list than paying punters when they played here on their reunion tour)
Like I said, mostly poor.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:58, Reply)
No, it's still not impressive.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:04, Reply)
for what ever this may be worth.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:05, Reply)
Plus the guy who replaced Alan Price on keyboards and then the others were various non-members of The Kinks touring band, Creedence Revived (!) and Argent.
Your respect may be a little milder now...
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:11, Reply)
I've heard your music remember. Speaking of which did Monty show?
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He apologised profusely and promised to be at the next one though.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:22, Reply)
He had many opportunities to push them off bridges of hold pillows over their faces and make it look like an overdose but didn't. I won't forgive him. He knows the real reason Oasis pulled out of the V festival though.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:05, Reply)
Well I'm impressed even if no one else is.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:14, Reply)
And I thank you for this internet validation. I'm choosing to ignore Al's comment because Al didn't write God Only Knows or In My Room or Don't Worry Baby.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:20, Reply)
Martin Carr as in The Boo Radleys?
You have low standards for 'heroes'
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Alt: Kill him
AltAlt: Pass
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:12, Reply)
Amazingly Bobby isn't even the best at doing that.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:14, Reply)
he would have practiced on you but you were a greasy deformend little shitehawke so he had to sodomise your mum instead whilst playing the grange hill theme tune at full volume for that extra nonce effect.
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to your wife and/or new baby.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:21, Reply)
You missed it. But even Rory's baiting couldn't cause a flounce. Battered is a man of steel now.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:25, Reply)
Man of steel my arse.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:26, Reply)
I'm pretty sure that comment can be classified as "ironic" (though I'm willing to accept I may be incorrect on this and that the comment is merely "stupid")
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:28, Reply)
I have left for a few days and come back but never once had a bertdown and deficated all over the board.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:30, Reply)
but you suddenly announced "That's it, I'm off" I think it was after Noel did one, and then you disappeared for quite a while before reappearing with a different account before reverting to this one again.
The disappearing is the flounce. The fact it was only for a week or so makes it mini. I never said you had a meltdown.
And neither did Battered, in fact his was even less than yours since he just told a few people he was off by Gaz and then didn't post again until he recently came back.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:38, Reply)
account, I am using both if you have noticed and have a few more even you haven't worked out yet. Battered flaked out after an altercation, I have not flaked out or backed down once so don't compare me to that fucking pussy.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:42, Reply)
nothing to do with b3ta at all.
And I know you really have to prove how hard you are online, but you didn't say you were leaving for a few days.
And I wouldn't flatter yourself with the idea that I'm somehow going around looking for your sock puppets. But I'm glad your ability to set up multiple accounts makes you feel special.
Hope you enjoyed the books.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:53, Reply)
I might not have told you but others knew. It's not all about you al.
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I can only think of 2 famous welsh stand-ups, one isn't funny and the other is not your mate.
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I don't think we have any beef, but you call most of the threads I post "gay".
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but it's usually intentional with me, which is more than some can say.
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I've come to the sad conclusion that this whole sideways-combed-fringe haircut thing is here to stay. I think it is officially the first Yoof trend that I cannot even begin to understand.
/old.
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what does "fam" mean?
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:32, Reply)
Most of the Welshies say "bhat" or "bud"
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if the topic isn't toys, weather, colours, shapes etc I am fucked.
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Do you see?
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He knows more people that are, or are not, "fucking shit" than any of us.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:22, Reply)
no matter what we posted about Monty would offer his views on the shit/not shit status of each posting.
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could have cooked salmon in the kitchen microwave, like someone i worked with once. the manager went mad, saying that the office smelt like "a whore's drawers". next day, we were all banned from hot food during the day.
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would not have done it at work though.
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What a revolting idea. I can understand having smoked salmon on hot toast or toasted bagel, but the salmon itself should be cold.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:42, Reply)
Raw it's too rubbery and greasy for me.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:50, Reply)
Either the ear infection is in fact brain cancer, or you have taken some interesting new drugs.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:58, Reply)
what do you reckon vanilla vodka, baileys and milk would taste like as a cocktail?
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:11, Reply)
as I've had some awful shooters were the Baileys curdles while you drink it. I'm not sure if this is all alcohol or just some though.
Provided it doesn't curdle I see nothing wrong with the idea of said cocktail, though I would probably add some vanilla seeds to make it more like a lovely vanilla milkshake.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:15, Reply)
not sure if I have any vanilla seeds, and I doubt that vanilla essence or vanilla sugar would have the same effect
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:21, Reply)
but don't use much as it overpowers cakes, so I reckon it would be rough in a cocktail if you used more than a tiny dash.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:22, Reply)
and i found a NEW ice-cream (that chok-a-blok brand) which is peanut butter and chocolate ice creams swirled together, stuffed full of chocolate covered peanuts AND chocolate drops AND caramel sauce.
i would have come on the spot, but i still had a 20 min walk home, so i had to leave him in the freezer. but the point is... imagine THAT in a cocktail with vodka!!! x
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:25, Reply)
but not worth dying for (allergic to peanuts) haha.
See that's willpower. I'd probably have eaten it on the way home so no melty problem
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www.chokablok.com/ice-cream-tubs.html
i think this could even make peace in the middle east.
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but i have to go for "billionaire's shortbread" if the peanuts are off the table...
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:39, Reply)
But then, I like my cocktails made with lime vodka and sugar and not much else.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:27, Reply)
Unless it's utterly revolting studnet union vodka I could never profess to be able to tell the difference between any brand of vodka and I'd never drink it neat anyway, so since I like it flavoured with lime juice and mint anyway there seems little point in getting pre flavoured vodka.
I feel the same about gin. I hate bars when you order a G&T and they ask which brand. My response is always "the cheapest". Nobody can tell the difference between gins and anyone who claims to be able to is a liar.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:45, Reply)
but not between ones in the same price range
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I got given a bottle of Polish Buffalo grass vodka, and it was damned nice. Very smooth taste and could be drunk neat.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:52, Reply)
but actually i don't mind microwaving salmon depending on what i am doing with it. eg if i am mashing it up with wholegrain rice and salad vegetables, it's a quick and easy way to do it.
but if you are wanting it on its own, then yeah, baked or poached, clearly.
not smoked though. RANK.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:26, Reply)
I'm not sure I've met any celebs, well not that i knew at the time. I went to school with someone was later in a vaguely famous band, same at uni. Oh and I met the welsh guy out of Coupling at an exhibition i was involved in. Didn't realise who he was until later.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:58, Reply)
DJ I kept bumping into for a while, mainly because he is the go-to local celeb for opening nights
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:59, Reply)
he's the guy who always plays the dame in the local panto, too :( bad imagery
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He is a legend, I loves him totally. I went to school with the daughter of the man who wrote the Dilly The Dinosaur books.
and with that I'm off, have a good evening.
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The actor who played him is in the Prince Of Persia film, it was very odd to see him play something far closer to normal.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:16, Reply)
since he plays such a big character
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Cunt knocked me flying.
Alt: Yes, smelly lunches can fuck off.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:03, Reply)
one of the actors from Misfits. He didn't know who he was but spent a while taking the piss out of him for looking like that guy out of misfits. *head desk*
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