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If you had to give up something you really enjoy what would be the most difficult?
Alt: death row meal?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:31, 157 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
Hmmm, probably sex
or maybe cheese of chocolate.

Alt: BLT
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:32, Reply)
And what the fuck is 'Cheese of chocolate'?

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:37, Reply)
It's all dairy innit

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:37, Reply)
It's a cruel thing that the R and the F are so close on the keyboard.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:38, Reply)
It's cruel thing that all keys arte so close together in my opinion

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:47, Reply)
Do head-dobbers not come with a special larger keyboard then?

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:49, Reply)
unfortunately not, or my entire desk would be book sized keys

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:50, Reply)
Masturbation
to both questions
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:32, Reply)
I am giving up smoking weed in the next few days
Whilst this is easily done with no withdrawal effects, I am a little sad because I bloody love being stoned.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:37, Reply)
Conversely
I acquired (at eye-watering expense) some of the nicest hashish I have ever smoked, just last night. It's identical to that which I've smoked in Morocco. It tastes delicious and is stronger than Jeff Capes on PCP.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:39, Reply)
I want that
Haven't had any decent hash in years.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:40, Reply)
This stuff is absolutely magnificent.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:45, Reply)
I think I may do this when my current stuff runs out
although I feel much the same about it as you do.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:00, Reply)
I have adopted this approach to give up.
If it is there, I will smoke it.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:25, Reply)
Spending time with my daughter.
Alt: Not sure I'd bother, actually. What would be the point?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:36, Reply)
No one wants to be hanged on an empty stomach
Plus the growling of your insides might put the hangman off his stride.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:39, Reply)
The point is to savour one thing you really like one final time.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:44, Reply)
That would not be food, ideally.
I'd like a super-massive hit of DMT just before death.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:45, Reply)
The Aldous Huxley approach
I think we discussed this before and opinion was divided between it making the experience all the more terrifying or turning it into something inexplicably hilarious.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:51, Reply)
Indeed we have discussed this before.
Having the bottle to do it would make you a fucking hero in my eyes.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:02, Reply)
My dreams of making it as a Broadway star
Alt: a massive pile of meat
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:37, Reply)
Ever had your piles
tickled with massive meat?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:38, Reply)
Going to catch a lot of stick for this
But I'd hate to give up videogames.

1 3/4" T-bone, blue with Bearnaise, triple cooked chips and a side salad with a simple vinagrette.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:37, Reply)
for both those things
you bender
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:39, Reply)
how is steak and chips gay?
Was it your boyfriend's favourite meal?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:47, Reply)
It is the "beard" of meals
How can I possibly be gay? I'm eating a massive steak...
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:48, Reply)
No, his favourite was jacket potato and cock

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:51, Reply)
With Angel Delight for pudding

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:53, Reply)
and smegma for the cheese course.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:55, Reply)
i just adjusted the way i was sitting and completely crushed my left ball it kills and i feel sick
worst day ever
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:41, Reply)
hey Adam, ADAM
Can i borrow your Soul II Soul record?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:45, Reply)
biting my nails
alt: main I can't decide but I'd definitely have bread and butter pudding for dessert.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:41, Reply)
Booze, by a country mile
Alt: Curry feast and guiness, so whn they kill me and I will shit myself, needless to say i will have the laugh laugh...
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:46, Reply)
Meat, red or white.
Pretty much every meal I eat includes meat. I feel sorry for a friend of mine, he's dating a veggie who complains if he eats too much meat, the whiny sod.

Alt: Massive mixed grill, followed by banoffee pie.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:47, Reply)
Our housemate is a veggie.
He has weekends off though the useless twat.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:48, Reply)
I assume that's not me you're talking about

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:48, Reply)
No, not you

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:50, Reply)
Massive mixed grill follwed by banoffee pie
or translated

mixed race gang bang and then ingestion of spunk from other inmates arses
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:49, Reply)
You're an idiot.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:57, Reply)
perhaps...
but in the morning you will still be ugly
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:01, Reply)
If you were my wife, I'd drink it.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:05, Reply)
I would rather die than stop smoking.
And apparently I can't give up watching Fulham in Europe, swore I wouldn't do any European trips this year. But I was in Poland three weeks ago and today I'm booking up Enschede/FC Twente which is three weeks away as well.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:48, Reply)
did you manage to get kicked out of a whorehouse last time?

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:49, Reply)
Didn't even go in one, let alone get kicked out.
We're doing a stop over in Amsterdam this time though cos it's only half hour away. An utter shithole I know, but an utter shithole with about a thousand opportunities to get kicked out of a brasshouse.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:52, Reply)
good on you!
shithole indeed, it appeals to the worst kind of tourist and everyone else is dutch.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:01, Reply)
I liked Amsterdam...

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:02, Reply)
I like the concentric canals and wonky houses
but the homicidal cyclists and rude people I could do without.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:07, Reply)
I did not notice any of either
at least, no more so than I do in the UK. But then I've only been once and that was off season...
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:11, Reply)
yeah the canals and wonky houses tend to winter in Verbier

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:12, Reply)
I've never been.
But I just know it's the foreign equivalent of Blackpool.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:05, Reply)
I can think of no greater waste of money than watching a shit football team play in a shit league that they have no hope of winning

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:51, Reply)

+ time
a shit
team play in a shit league that they have no hope of winning
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:54, Reply)
What league?
This is a cup competition. A cup competition we have a great chance of winning and a cup competition where we got to the final last time round. It's all a moot point though because football is my last priority on these adventures.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:54, Reply)
league/cup it's all bent in the end

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:56, Reply)
Football is rubbish, aye.
But when your shit team is blessed with the (ridiculously rare) opportunity of playing on the continent, it's not to be sniffed at. Not because the football will be any less boring, but because it's a chance for you and 2000 other people to experience something different for three days and have a laugh with your mates.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:00, Reply)
yeah but they are football fans and thus boorish oafs natch

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:04, Reply)
When facing imminent death I'm not sure I'd muster much of an appetite
Better off popping some valium, some Brandy would be good too.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:48, Reply)
I should say so.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:04, Reply)
Alt:
Amuse bouche: Iced gazpacho topped with a watercress puree

Starter: Lobster risotto

Soup course: French onion

Fish course: Scallops with black pudding, on a bed of pureed peas.

Sorbet: Gin & lime.

Game course: breast of pheasant in a beer and honey sauce on puy lentils.

Main course: Rare rib of beer, goose fat roast potatoes, morrell , shallot & port reduction, baby turnips, steamed savoy cabbage, roast parsnips, mashed carrot & swede.

Pudding: Bitter chocolate and black cherry fondant with crème anglaise.

Cheese: Selection of blue cheeses with water biscuits, celery and chilled slices of apple.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:53, Reply)
That whole meal is ruined by celery

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:54, Reply)
It's just a garnish
No one really eats the celery with the cheese course and when the plate is returned to the kitchen they rescue the bit of celery to stick on the next cheese platter.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:58, Reply)
I do eat celery with cheese. It is magnificent.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:59, Reply)
How can anyone put so much thought into a meal
and end up including swede?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:55, Reply)
Swede is nice
But I think parsnip would combine better with carrot in a mash.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:56, Reply)
Parsnips are best when roasted.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:57, Reply)
The swede helps accentuate the sweetness of the meat.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:57, Reply)
But, but, it's fucking minging
I concur wholeheartedly about the roasted parsnips, however
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:58, Reply)
Swede is delicious you oaf.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:03, Reply)
Will sir be requiring any wines or ales to accompany his meal?
As the French say: having a meal without wine is like having a wife without a mistress.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:59, Reply)

I have started to think about the wines to accompany this menu (a different one with each course obviously) but have yet to finalise the list.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:00, Reply)
Do you not think, perhaps, just maybe
you've put a little too much thought in to this...?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:01, Reply)
Trust me, when you're walking around the street in the evening, pushing a buggy trying to get your baby to sleep you end up thinking about all sorts of things.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:02, Reply)
Yoga ball, babe in arms, bouncfe up and down, works a treat for mini ape
/mumsnet
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:03, Reply)
She gets bored with being bounced after about 10 minutes.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:05, Reply)
oh...that's all I've got I'm afraid

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:06, Reply)
Brandy in the milk

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:07, Reply)
Thanks for playing.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:08, Reply)
These are the actions of a man who fully expects to end up on Death Row
Or, looking at that menu, a fat cunt
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:03, Reply)
Or both.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:03, Reply)
I was forced to make some very difficult choices with this.
Nearly went for lamb with a white onion sauce instead of the beef and grouse instead of the pheasant.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:07, Reply)
herb crusted rack of lamb with a red wine sauce
Beef wellington
BBQ leg of lamb

fuck me I'm hungry now
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:08, Reply)
BBQ lamb sounds wrong.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:13, Reply)
I once ate lamb that had been cooking in a roasting bag on a BBQ
Possibly the best lamb I've ever had, so tender it'd fall apart on your fork. Also made it mildly difficult to eat tidily.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:15, Reply)
BBQ lamb can be awesome. Sardines are the best food for the BBQ overall IMHO.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:17, Reply)
I've never had a barbequed sardine, either
although that sounds less odd than lamb, to me.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:18, Reply)
How, HOW is BBQ lamb odd?
www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=BBQ+lamb+recipe&pbx=1&oq=BBQ+lamb+recipe&aq=f&aqi=g2g-j2&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1156l3452l0l3811l15l9l0l2l2l0l360l2221l0.2.4.3l11l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=4ba2e86320ac44d0&biw=884&bih=249
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:23, Reply)
She meant YOU are odd
odd bent
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:24, Reply)
When you said BBQ lamb
I thought you meant lamb with BBQ sauce, not lamb which had been cooked on a barbeque. I've never done the latter but I will grant you it sounds less weird to me than the former.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:31, Reply)
BBQ sauce?
I thought you were posh?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:34, Reply)
I said it sounded weird...

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:35, Reply)
fishier than a sardines cunt

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:23, Reply)
lamb is the best BBQ EVA
You can do a whole leg, and it will be caramalised and crispy on the outside with a delicious smokey taste and pink and moist in the middle.

that twat who owns have of padstow has an excellent recipe that includes a chilli rub.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:18, Reply)
He owns so much of the place it's known as Padstein.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:20, Reply)
that's the one

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:22, Reply)
And they say nurses have it tough

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:14, Reply)
Nurses have it easy compared to what I went through compiling this.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:17, Reply)
Of course they do
In other news, your list made me hungry enough to eat my packed lunch earlier than intended, and I think that may have brought on another attack of the squits which I had rather hoped would have passed by now.

Updates to follow.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:19, Reply)
Glad to have helped.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:20, Reply)
Please let us know where this falls on the Bristol Scale*


*Please don't
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:23, Reply)
Update; squits are indeed back
I blame Battered for this.

The worst part is, I went to the bog, treated myself to a fag, then had to go back to the toilet again before returning to my desk. A long afternoon looms.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:44, Reply)
You're welcome.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:48, Reply)
I'm now drooling.
Apart from the celery. You heathen.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:03, Reply)
I don't think we will end up eating like that this evening
After the VAST quantity of alcohol we are going to consume.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:04, Reply)
I fear you are right.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:09, Reply)
is it your last meal because you're going to die of a heart attack trying to digest it?

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:23, Reply)
Chocolate
Alt: Chocolate.

Haha, no. It'd probably involve rare fillet steak, caramelised onions and cheesecake. Or something.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:58, Reply)
what kind of cheesecake?
the baked american-style sort or the other one?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:02, Reply)
No, a proper baked cheesecake
the kind with a thousand calories in every mouthful. It is of great personal shame that the one thing I have never managed to bake to my satisfaction is a cheesecake.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:03, Reply)
The key word there is "my"
I've almost certainly never baked anything to your satisfaction but they all tasted fucking great to me
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:05, Reply)
I make a variety of what I consider to be damn good cakes
so I am very demanding regarding their quality. I've made perfectly edible cheesecakes before, they were nice...but they weren't awesome.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:13, Reply)
I shall shortly be making salted treacle tart and some pop cakes
i am excited
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:14, Reply)
I'm going to need proof of these awesome cakes please
I'll gaz you my address
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:15, Reply)
just send them to
MARTIN 32 FROM NORWICH
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:16, Reply)
If you ever bothered to show up to a bash...
then you'd have had proof by now.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:19, Reply)
If you'd bothered to stay at a bash, so would I.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:19, Reply)
I have been to numerous bashes since
and I left cake at the one I buggered off from!
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:23, Reply)
There was cake? Damnation!

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:27, Reply)
There is always cake.
I'll be sure to save you some next time.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:30, Reply)
If she'd bothered to stay at a bash
you'd have tried to plow her
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:41, Reply)
Bashes tend to be far away and full of weirdos
Also; I seem to remember having a pint in Stratford with Labs in June. Where were you and your fabulous cakes then?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:41, Reply)
Wimbledon.
I'd made scones and strawberry jam and everything. You missed out.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:44, Reply)
Did you make use of the things that you found?
You know, the things that the everyday folk left behind...
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:45, Reply)
Haha!

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:48, Reply)
Oh yeah, now I remember
Labs and I did attend a fucking awesome gig in your absence. There'll be another time for cakes

*crosses fingers*
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:54, Reply)
Well, like I said
Get yourself to a bash one day and if I'm there, then there'll be cake there too.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:58, Reply)
Deal

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 13:00, Reply)
I can confirm that Berk's cakes are top notch proffesional quality.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:50, Reply)
There are things you shouldn't share with the board
For example; cakes norks
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:55, Reply)
My sister made a cookies and cream cheesecake last year, sadly I was far too full to eat it.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:07, Reply)
Sausages for both questions
And indeed most questions.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:06, Reply)
Unless they are andouilette

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:09, Reply)
I don't class them as sausages so yes to that.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:12, Reply)
What do you most like in your bottom?

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:09, Reply)
Well, a full lower bowel is a pleasurable experience.
So a bowel full of sausages, yes again.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:13, Reply)
What's your favourite Les Claypool-fronted band?

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:10, Reply)
Can the answer be sausages please?

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:13, Reply)
Les Claypool actually did front a band called Sausage
They weren't very good. Certainly not as good as Primus.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:14, Reply)
So I'm right then.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:18, Reply)
No. You are not.
That was also the most strained "I'll set 'em up..." ever
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:19, Reply)
Oh, OK.
If only I gave a fuck.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:25, Reply)
What meat product has the same mental capacity as Bobby?
Silvio Berlesconi is facing down parlimentary rebellion from both sides of the house, but in his 20 years at the top of Italian politics, what would you say has finally lead to his downfall?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:14, Reply)
Salsiccia

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:16, Reply)
What would you call a short cylindrical tube of minced pork, beef, or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating?

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:19, Reply)
You've got me there.
Is it sausage?
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:26, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1424863
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:28, Reply)
Yay, my first looping answer.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:30, Reply)

b3ta.turb0t.net/questions/offtopic/post1424929
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:31, Reply)
This is like a mobius strip.

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:32, Reply)

b3ta.turb0t.net/questions/offtopic/post1424934
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:37, Reply)
Last night I led in bed watching an old black and white horror movie with Boris Karloff and had a really good scratch.
I'm pretty good at giving up stuff. It's the maschocist in me.

Alt: Chips and curry sauce.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:28, Reply)
What were you scratcing? Did you use your fingernails or an implement?
piss off
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:29, Reply)
I was scratching me, all over. It was lovely.
Meh!
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:31, Reply)
I mean piss off in the nicest possible way of course
or have you done your work/
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:37, Reply)
I have yes. Just have to add some figures up which shouldn't take long.
Thank you : )
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:45, Reply)
I would think that you would have to lead - he's been dead 42 years

(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:31, Reply)
I saw a girl at a Ballroom competition a while ago who was BORFOK
Body Of Rihanoff - Face Of Karloff

I was so pleased with this, and almost no-one got it.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:42, Reply)
Well
I thought I couldn't give up bread but I have only had had five slices in the last two months.
I wouldn't give up cheese, but I've cut right down.
(, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 12:48, Reply)

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