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That thread seems to have degenerated into internet name-calling
and so a winner must be declared.
I declare autism the winner.

Anyone know a good cure for man-flu?

Alt: weird folky/old wives cures that actually seem to work for you?

Alt alt: Is it still too early to talk about xmas?
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:26, 155 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
There is no cure, only time
Drink water, rest, man up.

Alt: No
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:27, Reply)
Oh and Alt alt: The religious festival talk began while you were dead
So I guess not...
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:29, Reply)
I'm going with the drinking/resting/keeping warm/waiting strategy
but I could do with a large dose of MTFU, because I'm a big fat gayer when it comes to being ill.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:30, Reply)
Haribo cures the flu
trufax
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:30, Reply)
There is some evidence that supplementing with zinc will reduce the severity and lifespan of a cold
But you should have started taking it as soon as the symptoms began.
Oh and it might not too.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:31, Reply)
Maybe I should just play it safe and sacrifice a goat

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:32, Reply)
Feed a cold, starve a fever

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:36, Reply)
That's what mr b3th keeps telling me
but the downside (or possibly upside) of a cold is that it completely kills my housewhale appetite, and I just don't feel like eating.

Or were you suggesting I eat the goat?
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:38, Reply)
If you are proper flu fucked then rest, rest and more rest
If it is the snotty nose, head cold, tired thing then lots of fluids and more rest. Get a fucking spicy curry and snot your face off

Alt:
99% of headaches are sorted for me with a drink of water. Sitting down in the shower and having the water pour over my head for 5 mins cures a hangover

Alt Alt:
We already did!
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:30, Reply)
Your alt is correct.
A lot of my headaches are mostly dehydration, and are almost immediately cured by large drinks of water.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:31, Reply)
I hate to take pills for no reason
I'm sure most of the time when people take 2 paracetamol it is the water they take them with that sorts it.

I know when I'm getting dehydrated as I get really narky (I know!)
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:32, Reply)
Alt alt: Most definitely

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:31, Reply)
That's what I thought
but I seem to have missed some xmas related japery. Have we already put the decorations up in here?
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:33, Reply)
The fucking whats?
No we have fucking not.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:38, Reply)
Full of the joys of the season, I see.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:39, Reply)
Absolutely.
Nothing warms my heart more than having round the clock adverstising for pink plastic vulgarity and vile Iceland party 'food' rammed down my fucking throat. I fucking LOVE it.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:46, Reply)
I've now seen that advert that everybody hates
and i can see why they all hate it. Kid, your mum isn't 'wicked', she's a fucking spastic.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:49, Reply)
The worst by far is for Disneyland.
The pressure these cunts put on poor parents is fucking disgusting.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:58, Reply)
If you're not taking your loin-fruit to Disneyland
you obviously don't love her AT ALL.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:00, Reply)
don't watch telly
I've not seen a christmas advert yet except about 3 seconds when I looked up at the screens in the gym.

The real horror is the christmas lights round here
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:49, Reply)
Do they have electricity in Wales now?
That must have been exciting for teh troglodyte natives.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:51, Reply)
yeah
you can see all the stalactites now and the canaries stopped dying, you can't move for the little yellow bastards nowadays
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:52, Reply)
I don't watch a lot by any means, and 99% of that on iPlayer.
However I have to deal with tubes/buses/billboards wherever I go; the shit is all-pervasive.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:53, Reply)
It's almost as if we live in a capitalist society!
/decadent west blog
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:55, Reply)
AH NOAH!!!

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:00, Reply)
Everyone is too much of a twat to be able to sign up for a party anyway.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:33, Reply)
I really can't be arsed to try and organise anything.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:34, Reply)
I feel the same way.
We can do something in the new year perhaps.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:35, Reply)
Just pick a night and go to the pub
Christmas party sorted.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:36, Reply)
December sorted, more like.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:39, Reply)
This is why I can never go out for a meal anywhere on my birthday.
Everywhere is full of office parties and restaurants automatically double their basic prices for the whole of the month.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:42, Reply)
Same

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:43, Reply)
Screw them and their stupid xmas menus!
*December birthday fives*
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:45, Reply)
Yup, me too.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:57, Reply)
Nope.
Alt: None of them.

Alt alt: yes.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:33, Reply)
i go away for half an hour and look what happens.
alt: orange juice sugar and ginger. I might make some for me now

alt altr. yes.

also - woe is me! Car is now in surgery and will cost a million pounds to fix :(
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:33, Reply)
My car is off in for a free winter check on Thursday
which will no doubt cost me loads
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:34, Reply)
sounds free

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:39, Reply)
Your poor car.
You may have to sell a kidney.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:35, Reply)
:(
i'm like a money spending machine at the moment.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:39, Reply)
yes

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:36, Reply)

www.b3tards.com/u/260dc0d40192ddcfe80a/foq.png
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:39, Reply)
hahahahaha

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:39, Reply)
yes

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:40, Reply)
Needs more 'you OCD flid'

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:40, Reply)

You cocksucker! I work for Dick Jones! Dick Jones! He's the Number Two Guy at OCD. OCD runs the cops.
You're a cop
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:42, Reply)
You're a cunt.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:44, Reply)
fuck it

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:45, Reply)
Nice.
you're getting better, your almost as good as the parrot.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:25, Reply)
Happy to oblige

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:50, Reply)
OCD runs the cops!

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:51, Reply)
Beautiful.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:00, Reply)
My pleasure.
This may be the first in a series of these I create. Shame they will have to be SFW
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:02, Reply)
Totally safe for work there, dred

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:41, Reply)
Opps. Will change it.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:42, Reply)
Noooooooooooooo!

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:42, Reply)
By the way
I'm not dead. Just so you know.

Well, I'm nearly dead, but not quite. Just enough to worry my family and that. Or not, apparently. *sulks*

Got your heating sorted yet?
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:44, Reply)
Glad ur not ded blud
They're flushing the frigging thing this week then coming back next week to drain the shit out of it. I've been right for two years!
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:46, Reply)
You're always right! Don't they know this yet?
I hope you're getting a huge reduction in rent for all this fannying about.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:47, Reply)
Nah, but it's cool. I'll be off soon.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:48, Reply)
I bet it certainly is 'cool'
what with the heating being off and everything.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:49, Reply)
THAT'S IT, I'M FLOUNCING

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:13, Reply)
Man-flu is deadly, sorry.
However, if it's simply a headcold, and you need to be functioning, I find the lemsip max strength tablets to be a godsend. I can't actually do my work properly if I have a thick head, so I need them.

Alt: None that I'm aware of.

Alt Alt: Yes.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:36, Reply)
I'm calling it man-flu
I have a feeling it might actually be Jeffaids :-(
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:40, Reply)
Not good

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:45, Reply)
Alt: Gyppoes really ARE bad luck. Choking them to death with heather works as a preventative measure.
As does sneaking into the fair at 4am and burning down the dodgems.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:37, Reply)
should have spread this out a bit over a few posts

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:38, Reply)
I wish someone would spread you out over a few counties.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:39, Reply)
Northern ones

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:39, Reply)
what like dorset and that?

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:40, Reply)
Oi!

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:58, Reply)
geordie for 'hello'

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:09, Reply)
How can Miss Graham live with herself?

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:38, Reply)
She's only the getaway driver and mobile-phone camerawoman,
her hands are relatively clean.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:39, Reply)
Bet the rest of her is filthy though *hopes*

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:52, Reply)
fucken perv you'd never have a chance even if she was blind deaf dumb mute dipped in hunny and thrown at you naked

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:07, Reply)
Take one Quentin Oftiweak
Burn liberally with a welding torch
Mock endlessly for 3-4 working days
Remove extremities over a period not exceeding 24 hours (hacksaw recommended)
Load trebuchet with remains
Aim at France
Fire

This will not cure your man-flu, but you'll feel a hell of a lot better
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:41, Reply)
this is supposed to be the nice board, thats what lou said

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:45, Reply)
That was nice.
If it was mean, he would have Maddie'd you first.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:46, Reply)
It is.
You should go and spend sometime elsewhere and find out.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:46, Reply)
I hear Mumsnet is well fucking vicious

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:47, Reply)
In their defence
I probably shouldn't have posted all those pro-abortion links.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:48, Reply)
No, this is the mean board.
Someone here once said Darth's wife looked young and he went mental. Understandably.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:48, Reply)
I'd be offended if they said my boyfriend looked like a young woman too.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:49, Reply)
are you telling me that darth foxtrots wife is a peado?

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:50, Reply)
5 mins without a reply means its a fact, darth foxtrots wife is a peadeo

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:55, Reply)
POTD

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:46, Reply)

rn m
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 16:59, Reply)
woo! yeah

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:00, Reply)
You sound like a 'Hip-House' record

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:01, Reply)
a hip house is that a care home?

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:01, Reply)


(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:06, Reply)
enjoyin these, like your effort

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:07, Reply)
Just realised it should actually read

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:11, Reply)
best one yet

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:12, Reply)
Just shut up and get on with it.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:13, Reply)
too small to read, could you blow it up in big white letters on a black background plz?

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:23, Reply)
Acually hang on.
Maybe you are one.

1) irrelevant - check
2) widely despised - check

You are Doug Lazy AICMFP
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:02, Reply)
Did you mean to post that to yourself?

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:03, Reply)
I'm CERTAIN I'm not Doug Lazy.
Hang on, I'll check just in case...
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:04, Reply)
I have no idea who Doug Lazy is.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:05, Reply)
He was a hip-house artist.
Late 80s house/acid with rapping on the top. Some of it was quite good, despite being hampered by fucking terrible MCing.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:09, Reply)
Either that, or poor poor pop-punk band, Zebrahead.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:06, Reply)
hahaha this isn't bullying Gary.
Fucking hell, he feels bullied by darth.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:01, Reply)
He doesn't know he's fucking born.
Everyone else simply wishes he hadn't been.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:02, Reply)
Gary's ok. He's a friendly little troll and you lot DO think he's funny.
You popular page him a shit load.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:05, Reply)
see

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:06, Reply)
fucken well loved mate

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:06, Reply)
'Fucken' well bent mate.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:16, Reply)
i'm taking that as a kiss with tongues

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:16, Reply)
I think he's a fucking flid.
It's not me clicking him. I might catch something from such unsavoury activity.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:10, Reply)
The more you show your internets rage, the more he'll post.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:12, Reply)
I know.
I'm pretending in the hope of causing an IRL meltdown. If you look at his posting stats he's dangerously unstable as it is.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:13, Reply)
Dunno. Just roll with it and try some better put downs than the disabled jibes.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:15, Reply)
YEAH YOU PRICKS

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:16, Reply)
Shut up Gary.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:21, Reply)
oh mmps, your the only one here who means anything to me :(

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:22, Reply)
Christ Quentin, you're embarrassing

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:22, Reply)
FUCK OFF ADFAM YOU SHIT PRICK CUNT FUCKER BITCH WHORE COCK

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:23, Reply)
Fucking hell Adam. Don't infect OT with your shite.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:23, Reply)
yeah adam, you prick

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:25, Reply)
Wasn't even thinking about coming here
before Gary started pissing and moaning about some fella called darth and his wife being a fiddler.
Then I thought "uh oh, what's he done now?" and came to look.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:25, Reply)
your wife's a PEADO!

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:25, Reply)
Seen as your here, stick the kettle on son. Milk and two.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:26, Reply)
Nu-uh, you spotty ned
This teaboy's a copyboy now
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:27, Reply)
I'm off, have fun
And don't let gary stay on too long, okay?
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:28, Reply)
GOING HOME

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:28, Reply)
I *mumble incoherently* you too Gary.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:24, Reply)
i fucken love you man, you were my first
you mean so much to me
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:25, Reply)
:'(

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:15, Reply)
oh please
his spakka flipper clicks "i like this" on himself
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:12, Reply)
Does work more than once.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:12, Reply)
Self clicks don't count in b3ta.
Is that what you do swipey?
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:12, Reply)
Would it work if you used one account to click another?

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:14, Reply)
Only once per account.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:15, Reply)
great, so we establish that this dull as shit dullard has many accounts?
marvy.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:16, Reply)
nah i've tried that before it dunt work

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:16, Reply)
i have never clicked my own "i like this" button
if that is what you are asking...
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:15, Reply)
You've never clicked your own button?
The rumours on this board would appear to be false.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:17, Reply)
it almost sounds as if you are trying to make this innocent conversation into sleazy smut
shame on you. SHAME ON YOU.

and as for you, battered...
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:20, Reply)

never often c f "i like this"
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:17, Reply)
its been pretty upsetting actually, i don't aprecate you makin light of it

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:05, Reply)
It's all abit caancel estate to be bangin on about Christmas in fucking november
You'll be goin on about paying a fiver a week into the Christmas box since march cos your a div with money but you and Tracey still want the perfect chritmas wif snow and everyfing
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:02, Reply)
Ha ha.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:04, Reply)
innit doh?
We were driving through an 'estate' earlier today, and saw one house with enough xmas plastic bling in the front garden to drain the National Grid. In the middle of fucking November!

Although, to properly clarify my pikey roots, I was heartened the other day to see that you can still get paper xmas decorations. I thought they were all foil these days. I did my old git happy face.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:08, Reply)
I'm sure your 'old git' did have a 'happy face' if you 'did' him.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:12, Reply)
hello rory!

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:12, Reply)
Whisky
Lots and lots and lots of whisky.

You won't feel any better but on the plus side, you won't care.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:06, Reply)
Dinner tonight will involve hot toddy, hot bath, and early night.
and more drugs.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:24, Reply)
This^ actually
Make honey and lemon with real honey, lemon juice and lot's of whiskey, won't make you better quicker, but makes life more bearable.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:33, Reply)
Fuck the lemon and honey. Drink it straight from the bottle, all of it.
Not only will you feel better, you'll feel invincible. The flu will just be some prick giving you hassle and you'll give it a peice of your mind. Admittedly it won't make any sense but in your head you'll be Bamber fucking Gasgoigne.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:39, Reply)
Amphetamines.
Never had a cold for about five years.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:42, Reply)
just osteoporosis, missing teeth, a ruined stomach lining and amphetamine psychosis...
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Sorry I genuinely don't know why I am being so foul today.
(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:45, Reply)
Time of the month, I suspect.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:49, Reply)
YEAH BUT I NEVER GOT A COLD.

(, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 17:54, Reply)

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