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best present that you ever got for Christmas?

alt: best month of the year and why?

altalt: who will be the resident cumudgenly old nazi now monty is dead?
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:10, 159 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Best present
Probably an electric guitar for my 18th birthday. I still have it now

Alt: Best month = December. Christmas, birthday, lots of nights out and booze.

Alt Alt:
Stunned
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:13, Reply)
he seems much nicer than Monty

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:14, Reply)
First person that came to mind, TBH

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:14, Reply)
A sewing machine when I was fourteen.
Alt: January. I'm so full of hope and positivity, which slowly starts to ebb away as the months progress.

Altalt: Me?
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:14, Reply)
Hi BGB, where have you beeeeeeeeeeeen?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:15, Reply)
Working hactually.
*prouds*
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:15, Reply)
*promotes*

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:19, Reply)
I figure I should actually earn my money now and then.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:21, Reply)
January is good as it is my daughter's birthday then

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:15, Reply)
I really felt good beginning of last year and I hope I'm the same this year.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:17, Reply)
I always have a sort-out month in January
Financially and health wise. No booze, good grub, exercise.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:19, Reply)
i can't go a month without booze
i managed 3 weeks once, but i was uber grumpy
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:19, Reply)
meh
It isn't a problem
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:20, Reply)
I was at Aber's wedding last January and now I'll be visiting Aber this January to meet the little one.
I'll be starting an new health regime in Jan while I'm in a good mood too.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:20, Reply)
Good stuff

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:20, Reply)
That's a good sign,
The harder you find it to do, the more likely it is that you really should do it.


Edit: Um...this should be up a couple of replies.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:22, Reply)
I do like a fucking good drink but it is no issue for me not to

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:23, Reply)
Sure, sure...
You can stop anytime you like.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:31, Reply)
Indeed I can
However, I intend to get leathered often in December
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:32, Reply)
See. I can't say that without it sounding preachy.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:32, Reply)
Nothing like the sanctimony of a former addict, eh?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:34, Reply)
I try hard not to be.
At least outwardly.

Internally I judge you all and find you lacking.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:34, Reply)
My problem with booze is masochistic rather than addictive.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:24, Reply)
Information please

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:26, Reply)
You're a nosy cunt aren't you : )

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:27, Reply)
A tall nosey cunt at that.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:30, Reply)
trudat

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:31, Reply)
Yes, yes I am
Just interested
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:31, Reply)
What I mean to say is that I know it's not doing me any good physically and mentally and I know I can stop if I want to.
I just don't want to right now.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:36, Reply)
I'm here when you need me...

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:39, Reply)
Lol

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:39, Reply)
In all seriousness I can stop when I'm ready.
I easily gave up fags and drugs when I wanted to.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:41, Reply)
It's OK, I was only joking, I promise.
Although now you protest so much... ;)
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:42, Reply)
I know, I just count myself as one of the lucky ones who can do this.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:43, Reply)
Whoop *injects Tennants Super*

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:39, Reply)
This^
*high fives*
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:40, Reply)
I'm here when you need me...

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:40, Reply)
But you are not there for me apparently
*drinks self to death*
*blames scarpe in suicide note*
*??????*
*profit*
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:42, Reply)
Aw, there, there,
I'm here for you too.

Fuck me, it would be a full time job looking after B3tans with possible drink problems...
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:46, Reply)
Could you just nip to the offy please?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:44, Reply)
Sure.
If I'm not back in half an hour...um...don't come looking...
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:46, Reply)
lolz

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:48, Reply)
Problem, my social life revolves around it and the pub etc
so it's a bigger question than just booze
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:25, Reply)
I have two kids
My social life is historical
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:26, Reply)
You are Tony Robinson AICMFBaldricks

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:27, Reply)
Monty's not dead.
It's just that he has to go to Switzerland to have a full blood transfusion once a year to keep him alive.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:15, Reply)
Indignitas?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:15, Reply)
Well, he doesn't have much dignity, no.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:16, Reply)
Probably tickets for Disneyworld when I was 14
but by the time we went the followingt summer, I was a stroppy 15 year old. I've felt guilty for years that my parents didn't get to see me having the joyful experience they probably envisaged when they booked it.

Best month is August - Edinburgh Festival.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:20, Reply)
An SAS rescue kit
Contents included: 1x machine gun, 1x dagger, 1x full face balaclava, 1x periscope.
I hankered after it for a loooong time after spotting it in the back of the Argos catalogue. My parents could not get hold of it at first, but kept it in mind and got it for me the following year. I loved it.

Alt: a favourite month? Really? Birthday month seems to be a popular choice, but being old I rarely enjoy my birthday. Seriously though, you don't have to rank everything from best to worst, you know?

Altalt: More importantly who is going to keep up the constant bullying of Nakers?
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:26, Reply)
SBS surely with a periscope?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:27, Reply)
Hunh?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:28, Reply)
Special bumder Service
The periscope was to locate Darth's prostate
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:30, Reply)
*tickly*

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:31, Reply)
and i was finally ready to spread my wings and become the beautiful butterfly i know I could be

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:29, Reply)
Butterfly eh?
Tell me, does this rag smell of chloroform to you?
*puts pins through Nakers*
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:31, Reply)

August, April, May, July, June, December, August, January, October, November, February, September.

You mean not everybody does that?
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:31, Reply)
What have you got against September?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:37, Reply)
AA wakes up and he is well grouchy

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:38, Reply)
I got a Kaossilator last year, fucking excellent stuff.
This year I can just about afford to buy the sum total of fuck all, s'gonna make for an interesting day.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:29, Reply)
I read that as Kaolossilator for a second.
The mental image was well boggling.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:32, Reply)
Ha, I'm not sure I could get the same range of noises out of him, not without a full range of tools and implements.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:37, Reply)
I'm fairly sure he'll already own everything you could possibly need.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:40, Reply)
Turns ordinary people into Kaols

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:40, Reply)
Fingerless leather glove wearing gimps?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:41, Reply)
Tall, knife wielding animal wranglers.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:42, Reply)
I thought he worked at a saw mill for some reason...

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:52, Reply)
Best month of this year has probably been this one.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:30, Reply)
One snog with a pretty girl and this has been your best month?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:31, Reply)
OMG you snogged Kroney!?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:46, Reply)
Haha!

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:47, Reply)
Haha! It's been a really shitty year :P

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:50, Reply)
why didn't anyone warn me rachelswipe's a genuine mental? i been barking up the wrong tree all along and made a rod for my back
woman needs a ring of salt pouring round her and some holy water STAT
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:30, Reply)
tsk, lawyers eh?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:32, Reply)
shes #BANANAS

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:36, Reply)
Oh man, you should be on twitter with that shit

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:41, Reply)
i typed # by accident, its right next to the shift key and i got fat fingers :(

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:44, Reply)
You got fat eyes boy

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:49, Reply)
not sure eyes can be fat, i've had enough of being persecuted here and on talk today

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:50, Reply)
You're like a wobbly tooth.
She can't stop tonguing you until you either pop out or her tongue wears down to a nub.

This sounds dead wrong and I entirely, definitely, absolutely did not mean it to. At all.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:53, Reply)
Hmm
Probably my knives and saucepan, they still get used pretty much every day.

Alt: May, because it's when my birthday is, and also BGB's bash. (in previous years)

Alt Alt: I'm too young to apply, sorry!
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:34, Reply)
oh hi agnostic, how are you doing?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:37, Reply)
Better than his mum, LOL

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:38, Reply)
Genuine laughter here.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:41, Reply)
haha, you evil shit

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:45, Reply)
Feeling a little peculiar tbh Quentin
Ah well, yourself?
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:40, Reply)
absolutely GRAND and peachy
whats up?
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:45, Reply)
Not sure
Feel spaced out, like I've taken some strong painkillers, something like that, but I haven't had any in weeks.

So, a bit odd.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:47, Reply)
low blood sugar? what did you have for lunch, get yourself a break and have a snack
if you've eaten a lot of sweets it could be a sugar crash
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:48, Reply)
Nope, no sweets today
Pasta bolognaise for lunch.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:11, Reply)
oh i dunno whats up then ( i hope it wasn't what your mum had?)
oops, lol etc
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:13, Reply)
Hmm, I imagine lung cancer would feel a little different.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:15, Reply)
maybe, the light headedness could be lack of oxygen cos of your black lungs?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:16, Reply)
Lack of oxygen is something I deal with quite a lot
Being a fatty with asthma.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:19, Reply)
looks like your on your way out, nice knowing you

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:21, Reply)
Cheerio!

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:22, Reply)
miss you, give my regards to amberl and monty xxxxxx

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:23, Reply)
You need a stiff drink, get some whiskey in you boy

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:50, Reply)
THIS IS BAD ADVICE

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:52, Reply)
surely not on the internet
Soz AA he's right, have a brandy
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:54, Reply)
Worse advice!
are you trying to kill the poor boy?!
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:54, Reply)
I wouldn't drink brandy, as I feel it'd be wasted on me
I wouldn't appreciate it.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:12, Reply)
This is good advice
Might get a double fireball and ginger after work.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:12, Reply)
Bash will probably be later this year.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:42, Reply)
This year?
Do you mean that or do you mean next year? Only there is no way I can make it this year.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:43, Reply)
Soz! next year.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:44, Reply)
BAGGSYTHEBED!!11111!!!!

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:46, Reply)
Which one?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:46, Reply)
dungeon

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:47, Reply)
Yours

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:47, Reply)
I usually hold a raffle for that.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:49, Reply)

raffle man hostage
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:51, Reply)
i heard it was like a tombola

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:52, Reply)
They fill TGB with tennis balls with numbers on them roll her down the stairs

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:53, Reply)
i like this

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:54, Reply)
WHATEVERASLONGASIVEGOTABEDANDALOCKABLEDOOR

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:50, Reply)
That will be in my bed then.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:51, Reply)
YOULLHAVETHEDUNGEONTHATNIGHTANYWAYSOITWONTMAKEANYDIFFERENCE

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:53, Reply)

I'll bring my own Judge Dredd duvet
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:54, Reply)
have you fixed your space bar and Caps lock?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:54, Reply)
CANTSTOPINAHURRY

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:55, Reply)
Lol

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:54, Reply)
Christ, I can't remember
Collector's edition Battlestar Galactica boxset. Because it was the most recent one, and TV has destroyed my long-term memory oh look a sparrow etc

Actually, probably a Millenium Falcon when I was 6, just for the excitement levels it generated.

Alt: December. I fucking love Christmas.

AltAlt: Rory, if he learns to focus more on hating David Bowie and Jews.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:51, Reply)
Is that the one in the metal tin.
That's the one I got, even though as we discussed before, I gave up after the first 6 or so episodes.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:52, Reply)
It is indeed
I fucking love it. The mate who introduced me to it has just revealed he'll be a father in June, and I'm not betting against him naming the sprog Gaius. Or Kara. Or Apollo.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:58, Reply)
Housten we have a problem

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:58, Reply)
He's not going to name his child after a porn star
Bet you did though. Summer Cummings Ape.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:00, Reply)
"No more Mr Nice Gaius"

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:59, Reply)
they never give a reach around these days

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:00, Reply)
Yes, we've had this discussion
I really think you should give the rest of the first series a go, it gets better. And the second series is just phenomenal
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:05, Reply)
I might do, I did spend £60 on it, after all.
But like I said, even if everything else is great, i'm going to struggle to get past how annoying I find the character of, and actor who plays, Starbuck.

Once I'm done with Fringe and Weeds seasons 3 & 4, I may have a gap in the exciting life of Box set watching that I live to try it again.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:08, Reply)
Yeah that is a bit of a bugger
She doesn't become any less prominent I'm afraid. But if I can persist with Babylon 5 despite Michael fucking Garibaldi, you can endure Starbuck. I believe in you, Scarpe. One episode at a time.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:12, Reply)
its official, she wants me and admitted it
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1449437
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:55, Reply)
strangest courtship EVA

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:56, Reply)
fucken took its time

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:57, Reply)
On your first date you should totally show your caring side by taking her for a walk to the cemetary
where her mum is buried and put some flowers on the grave. And then make her call you daddy while you rut on the floor next to it.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:01, Reply)
i was gonna dig her up and convince old mental mcbeal for a threesome

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:02, Reply)
I guess it would look a bit like this

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:18, Reply)
Hahaha!

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:18, Reply)
Oh BGB
I wish you could just follow me around in my life and say nice things about the stuff I do like you do on the internet. I would be so wonderful.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:19, Reply)
Your drawings are so simple and yet so genius : )

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:20, Reply)
Oh stop, you're making me blush.
I won't be able to look you in the eye at your next bash.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:22, Reply)
Hehehe!
It's not usually my eyes your looking at.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:23, Reply)
Very true, with all the exceptional norkage around that evening it's a wonder I was able to get off the sofa.

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:25, Reply)
the pink one looks a bit too thin to be mcbeal

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:20, Reply)
It's hard to have a fat stickperson.
I did deliberately make her mums boobs a bit saggier as I reckon they'll have gone downhill a bit.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:22, Reply)
just a lot of connected blobs would have done it
your right about the boobs, one probly woulda fall off
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:23, Reply)
oh but i'd have them facing each other too so they could make out

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:29, Reply)
Yeah, in reality that's what'd happen
but it's hard to convey the corpse face from behind and I thought you'd want the living fanny on your face rather than the putrid corpse.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:29, Reply)
swings and roundabouts

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:31, Reply)
Right, done sum edits

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:29, Reply)
better, but you need to remove a boob and have them looking RIGHT in each others eyes
yeah?
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:31, Reply)
Not gonna happen.
Why would I remove a boob anyway?
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:38, Reply)
it'd be rotten and fall off

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:39, Reply)
Exceptional Vaginal Access?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:17, Reply)


(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:20, Reply)
Last year's present I reckon.
I was panicking like fuck over how I'd afford flights to Hamburg for Fulham's European cup final, my mum rang me and told me she'd booked them for me as she didn't want me to miss it. Don't think I'd have made it otherwise. It was in May and seven months early but that what she got me for Christmas. Eternally grateful doesn't cover it.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:09, Reply)
Did you win?

(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:45, Reply)
Monty is dead?
And to think he never got to fist me behind Primark. What a waste of life.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 18:22, Reply)

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