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If you had to choose forever between books and music, which would it be? Answer and pose your own dilemma in your reply.
Alt: what was the last lie you told?
Alt alt: did you get away with it??
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:14, 140 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Italian or French food?
Alt: I'll be back by 6.
AltAlt: No.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:20, Reply)

However, if you posed the 'Chinese or Indian' choice I'd be screwed.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:49, Reply)

I had a Chinese takeaway last night. meh
Never as tasty as a good curry
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:55, Reply)

I'll admit that a lot of Chinese takeaway food can be pretty meh, but then again so can Indian. Home-cooked, either cuisine is fantastic and there's so much variation in both.
Don't make me choose between spring rolls (the proper ones that look like deep-fried mutants and are chock-full of awesome not the uniform machine made type) and real samosas.
DAMMIT, that's me going down the Foleshill road today to stock up!
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:02, Reply)

It shits on Chinese from a great height.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:08, Reply)

Life without either would be so utterly shit I couldn't face it.
Alt: I never tell lies.
Alt: Just now
Alt alt: Well I would have if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:25, Reply)

That, and you bumming cats
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:53, Reply)

Dogs or cats?
Alt: "Of course you've got a chance with her, go for it!"
Alt Alt: He got shot down almost immediately.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:39, Reply)

Nope, I can't do it...
You'll end up legless.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:45, Reply)

Alt: I said 'Books. 100%'
AltAlt: I don't know, I owned up too quickly.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:40, Reply)

If it was a 'gun to the head' choice it'd be music.
Alcohol or coffee?
Alt: No I won't be well enough by Friday to attend the meeting.
Alt alt: Totally!
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:42, Reply)

I need coffee to be able to interact with the world enough to buy booze
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:59, Reply)

So I'll keep alcohol too.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:05, Reply)

Music evokes far bigger emotions than books but I NEED to read often!
Daddy or chips?
Alt:
That we have chips
Alt Alt:
Not so far. Chips anyone?
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:43, Reply)

Of course I would miss books, but I suppose I could always read the liner notes on the backs of the records.
Alt: I won't cum in your mouth
Altalt: I was found out immediately and your dad still hasn't forgiven me.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:43, Reply)

Can learn a lot from books, not much from music. You can learn ABOUT music FROM books though.
"No, that coffee stain on your boob isn't hugely noticeable"
No.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:48, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/hoarding/post1608559
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:50, Reply)

And you wonder why people who post on off topic have a bad reputation.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:04, Reply)

And also given him a brief review of his book which I think might be of use to him.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:10, Reply)

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WOT NO VITRIOL ?
Killroy woz ere.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:21, Reply)

I got asked once, would you rather be blind or deaf? I settled on short-sighted and a bit hard of hearing.
Can't remember, we lie all the time; QOTW should be thoroughly checked out.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 8:53, Reply)

Oral or anal?
Alt: It's every other sentence, I can't be expected to remember.
Alt alt: More often than not.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:07, Reply)

I mean, how would you stop a man walking down the street who has just seen a pretty girl, from whistiling the theme tune to zelda? How would you stop a man who has just found out his father no longer has cancer, from whistiling the theme tune to zelda? I don't know how one could stop someone who has just found out that he is a father with the women he loves, from whistling the theme tune to zelda. The theme tune to zelda is VERY infectious. DO dooooo doDoDO DOOO. God I love that that theme.
And with books, pretty much all written word cold be a book, like Andy McNab and Chris Ryan. How can someone stop that? Even killing the printing press wouldn't do it anymore.
I donno what my last lie was, probably when myself and one of the guys in the corner shop played a joke on the third guy. I've been learning Tamil from them and I shocked one of the guy's sons or nephews or whatever. I only started learning Tamil 'cus I asked where they come from, to make general conversation, and I suddenly thought that they would think I'm racist if I don't follow it up with "Oh, ok. Great. I've never been there". This is also mostly how I learnt turkish too.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:11, Reply)

But it looks like that isn't the case.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:28, Reply)

'Ah. Sorry'
Lusty's old flatmate was once asked whether she learned kung fu at school (she's of Chinese extraction). 'What, in Basingstoke? No we didn't'
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:29, Reply)

( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:32, Reply)

was me pulling the corners of my eyes up and sticking my top teeth out, whilst pronouncing Confucius with a comedy Chinese accent.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:37, Reply)

I think that's why.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:31, Reply)

I demand dual-language road signs and translators to help with my dole applications please.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:33, Reply)

like assuming that if i posted it, it's about tits or blowjobs. or both. or if gonz posted it, it's about food. or if al posted it, that DIY and/or running will be the subtext...
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:43, Reply)

my new meme might have to be the gym and blue cheese.
sign of incipient middle-age.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:49, Reply)

partly because if they have a thick east end accent it seems a bit silly to ask where they are from, even though what I'm really interested in is which country did their parents/grandparents come from, and in asking such a silly question the implication could be that even though they sound English I could be inferring that they couldn't possibly be english because of their skin colour.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:35, Reply)

But as 'swipe says below, you could always pose the question to ask about their origins. People often like to talk about that sort of thing.
Just don't get my mother started on genealogy though, she can bore for England on the subject.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:43, Reply)

i'm always interested to learn about people's backgrounds.
you know, just to check they are fit for me to associate with......
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:45, Reply)

and indeed will be doing so this very summer at the 'twenty twelve' Olympics.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:51, Reply)

But needs to check with the IOC to see if this is permitted under their rules.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:55, Reply)

Where you from?
How long have you been here?
I've never been there; what's it like?
I've heard of/tried [x] dish, it's pretty good, whats the rest of the food like?
You heard of the EDL or National Front? No surrender Noooo Surrender. NO SURRENDER to the ta-li-ban. SPORT ARE TROOPS.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:32, Reply)

"where you from then?" not great. "where are your family from originally?" shows you are interested in someone and in hearing about their background. and if you're not interested in them, fuck off!
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:38, Reply)

'Very jolly good sir' in a 'comedy' 70s 'Indian' accent whilst wobbling your head from side to side, you get welcomed into their community and given free fags for life.
Particularly if they are Turkish.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:39, Reply)

( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:45, Reply)

What do you have to do to get some of that yummy Efes pilsner?
Actually, I don't want to know.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:47, Reply)

it's like a secret code to get her sold into slavery.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:59, Reply)

Is it one of those 'aluminum' things where it's just plain wrong?
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:30, Reply)

When they are trying to present the appearance of not being an uneducated prole.
Cf. receptionists misusing reflexive pronouns.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:35, Reply)

if you look at the periodic table you've got Sodium, Magnesium, Potassium, Rubidium etc. so the original name was actually Aluminum it's just we changed it for some reason.
But Sulphur should always be spelt with a ph not an f.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:37, Reply)

Over and over again I discover that the 'wrong' US versions of words/terms are actually the original ones and thus are more 'right' than ours. Cf spelling things with a Z rather than an S.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:41, Reply)

So. Z vs S. "S" was codified by the Victorians as being the correct spelling. Prior to that, people spelled everything however the hell they god damn felt like it because, prior to the Victorians, the world was a savage place full of barbarians that only occasionally stumbled across something useful viz Newton.
At some point int he early 20th century Teddy Roosevelt, president and contender for the title of Hardest Man That Ever Lived, codified US spelling as part of his personal quest to simplify and phonetise it. He chose Z as the default as that is closest to the sound the majority of the words use. Linguistically, neither are any more right or wrong than the other. Aside from the fact that they're Americans and are therefore wrong by default.
Aluminium was originally called Aluminum. I can't remember which nationality originally discovered it, but the Royal Society decided it was fucking stupid to have a periodic table full of "iums" with only the one "um", so they changed it. The Americans, being wrong by default, ignored their betters and remain wrong to this day.
Happy to help.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:53, Reply)

on his own culture.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:57, Reply)

The OED favours Z over S repeatedly, to this day. Thus even in the UK there's no overall consensus even now.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:00, Reply)

oxforddictionaries.com/words/ize-ise-or-yse
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:07, Reply)

Presumably, the ize ending is now archaic at least, I certainly was always taught to use ise when at school.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:09, Reply)

Something to do with the Greek origins of particular words. It concluded that -ize was technically correct.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:04, Reply)

but I can't be bothered to check
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:59, Reply)

although its commonly accepted that 'turtles' tend to be sea bound, whereas tortoises don't have flippers and live in old peoples gardens
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:00, Reply)

( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:08, Reply)

He consistently goes on about 'Pakis'. I haven't the heart to break it to him that to all his colleagues in the warehouse that's precisely what he is.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:08, Reply)

i love books but to read you need to make time to read, whereas you can have music on in the background while you do almost anything
you alt and alt alt are too shit to bother with
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:41, Reply)

in my head.
you've done a lot of bad things in your time, but this is the worst.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:51, Reply)

Here, replace it with this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQlImg2bm28
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:53, Reply)

is why Tom Jones' mum was telling Tom Jones not to shoot his bolt.
"Put it over me tits, tidy boy".
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:57, Reply)

stupid fucking wellsh cunt i hope he's dead
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 9:59, Reply)

by suggesting that coming was no way to have fun.
son.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:36, Reply)

( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:27, Reply)

All the Corrs means Andrea, Angela, Jasmin* and man Corr
*not sure of real names
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:16, Reply)

that you say "all" and one got picked at random.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:17, Reply)

Go big or go home. I'll be dead of sexual exhaustion after that drummer whatever happens.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:21, Reply)

Congrats on your first socialist president in 26 yeras.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:17, Reply)

Alt: I'll definitely make those changes to the annual report on Friday.
Alt Alt: Well, yes and no.
( , Tue 8 May 2012, 10:34, Reply)
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