b3ta.com qotw
You are not logged in. Login or Signup
Home » Question of the Week » Off Topic » Post 1823182 | Search
This is a question Off Topic

Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.

(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
Pages: Latest, 836, 835, 834, 833, 832, ... 1

« Go Back | Popular

What was the last
Book you read?
Film you watched?
Album you bought?

And review it.

Alt. What would you send into Room 101?
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:31, 136 replies, latest was 13 years ago)
Last film I watched was Serenity, I was educating the girlfriend.
It's very good, and if you don't like it go fuck yourself FIVE STARS
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:34, Reply)
this^^
i love serenity so very much
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:36, Reply)
I'm going to get in the Serentiy appreciation sub-thread.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:41, Reply)
you are wise
for one so young
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:42, Reply)
i'm also quite handsome.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:50, Reply)
those aren't pictures of you, then?

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:04, Reply)
oh,
well, that was mean.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:08, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1822842
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:21, Reply)
it's pretty average

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:44, Reply)
it was a fairly bland double episode

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:51, Reply)
Rubbish, one of the best space battles in sci fi.
Two main characters die
One of the best villans I've ever seen in any film.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:09, Reply)
oh god what
I can't even remember the space battles
main character deaths are lazy twists
Generic space samurai baddy

holy shit how long have you been able to resize the quick reply box by grabbing the bottom right?
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:16, Reply)
I can't do that on IE7 :(((

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:17, Reply)
Is this the one that you and CQ dressed up as?

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:52, Reply)
not quite

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:54, Reply)
very nearly almost

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:12, Reply)
Alright twiglet?

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:13, Reply)
hey there meathead
if your going for historical accuracy BTW, people called me Twig
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:20, Reply)
Is it because you're brown and sticky.
Ie shit.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:24, Reply)
dull story
a guy got drunk and started calling me twiglet head, I adopted it as there were several people called in my group of friends, plus I was young and sad and desperate for an identity. for 10-11 years everyone called me Twig, I ditched it about 5 years back but some old friends still use it.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:30, Reply)

dull story
a guy got drunk and started calling me twiglet head, I adopted it as there were several people called in my group of friends, plus I was young and sad and desperate for an identity. for 10-11 years everyone called me Twig, I ditched it about 5 years back but some old friends still use it.


lol @ ur epic zing chomp
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:34, Reply)
yeah, that.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:35, Reply)
I do love that film.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:49, Reply)
What did she think of it?
It's ok like but nothing outstanding. He's wrote better.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:15, Reply)
She liked it but she wasn't expecting such a sad film.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:33, Reply)
"I'm a leaf on the wind..."

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:34, Reply)
how the fuck did this post get on the popular page?

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:36, Reply)
Because /OT is full of the sort of wankers who think that 'watching a film they've never seen' with someone is 'educating' them.

(, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 8:51, Reply)
The Night Circus - magically bent
Skyfall - Bardem is a great baddie
album: Alt J An Awesome Wave - needs a few listens

alt: football
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:35, Reply)
ooh, I got Alt J at the same time as django django
I only caught their last track at Green Man
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:38, Reply)
The Space Merchants (Pohl and Kornbluth)
Surprisingly ahead of it's time for 1953, but very readable.

The Hobbit
Long in a good way.

django django
Makes me dance. In a good way.

Will that do?
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:36, Reply)
I want to go and see "Django Unchained"

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:39, Reply)
I hear that's one of those 'films'

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:40, Reply)
i believe that it is

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:41, Reply)
You might expect them to be twice as good as Django Reinhardt
But they're not.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:47, Reply)
The last book I read was Fatherhood-The Truth.
Film was The Ides of March

Erm, I can't remember when I last bought an album, but that last bit of music I bought was 212 by Azelia Banks.

Alt: fuck knows. It's monday, I can't be thinking about deep shit like that.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:44, Reply)
don't read the books, they're shit and contradictory

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:45, Reply)
I know, but this is a comedy one.
as in, the guy is a comedy writer. It's OK.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:48, Reply)
fair enough

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:49, Reply)
You should read Gina Ford too, so you can upset all the other mums at the groups you will inevitably end up attending.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:49, Reply)
We start NCT classes tomorrow night.
My wife has made me swear on everything that I hold dear that I will not open my mouth about anything, no matter how ridiculous it is. She's only going to meet people who'll have babies at the same time.

I'm so going to get us thrown out, I know it.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:51, Reply)
You are going to find that incredibly difficult.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:53, Reply)
I got through the "marriage classes"
no-body died.

But, yeah, this'll be harder.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:54, Reply)
It's very easy to make pregnant women cry.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:55, Reply)
It's OK, mine's a rational one.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:56, Reply)
In my opinion pregnant women
can do what they like. The whole thing looks like it sucks and therefore any shitness during that time if forgiven.

Parents, however, JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:00, Reply)
have your parents grounded you?

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:06, Reply)
she just needs to get pregnant so she can come in at whatever time she likes

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:21, Reply)
Ask if you can put breast milk on cornflakes
always goes down a storm
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:53, Reply)
it wasn't that bad as I remember, just let it wash over you
mainly it's dull
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:54, Reply)
I'm told they like to show you a melon
as an example of how much the birth canal can stretch, for "positive re-enforcement" of natural birth.

How producing a huge piece of fruit and going "see that? that's coming out of your foof whether you like it or not" is positive re-enforcement I have no idea.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:01, Reply)
Don't remember that on any of ours
some bloke did ask the cornflakes question though, to an embarrased silence.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:07, Reply)
can you eat them with breastmilk?
do you fill your pants with them to soak up the broken waters
what happens if your baby comes out with a big green and red cock?
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:39, Reply)
my wife massively promotes the use of drugs when giving birth

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:09, Reply)
^^this very much
book an epidural early on, the anaethetists are very busy and if you decide late on you need one it's tough titty.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:17, Reply)
bascialy pre epidural, she was miserable
after the epidural she was fine.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:19, Reply)
Yup
pity you can't get them as a monthly prescription
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:24, Reply)
I've still got a load of Meptazinol left over from when Mrs tangle didn't give birth at home.
I haven't worked out a way to use it recreationally yet though.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:28, Reply)
shove it up your cockend and shit out a Monty

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:30, Reply)
blow it up your bumhole using a trumpet.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:30, Reply)
Looks like a waste of time
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3829579
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:36, Reply)
just take it all at once
intravenously
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:40, Reply)
maybe it's a double bluff and you should dissolve them in rum and siphon it up your self

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:41, Reply)
"limited abuse potential" is just med test speak for "people aren't trying hard enough"

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:45, Reply)
Good point.
I shall try all these suggestions then.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:51, Reply)
The Marcus Berkman book?
Yeah, I read that too. It was alright.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:46, Reply)
yeah, that's the one.
It was recommended and I needed something cheap to download to my stupid bloody kindle.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:47, Reply)
I started reading a self-published book written by a college friend, but then gave up as I got bored.
So I guess my review of that is: bit boring.
I rarely watch films, but I watched Gulliver's Travels with little tangle over Christmas; review: bit too much of a kid's film for my tastes.
The most recent album I have bought hasn't been delivered yet.

Alt: A copy of Nineteen Eighty Four, to give the producers guidance on how they could make the programme more entertaining.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:44, Reply)
would you just send it back with a post it note on it reading MORE TITS

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:52, Reply)
I fully recommend the glued eel course of action, here.
Although perhaps spell MORE "MOAR"
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:53, Reply)
Which one?
Actually it doesn't really matter, that could improve all of the above.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:54, Reply)
1984 is probably one of thge most
misquoted and misused books of modern times
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:58, Reply)
One from the library about Bletchley Park
Ice Age 4
No idea, not bought one in ages

alt: Everyone selfish and/or ignorant. And anyone who enjoys "shopping".
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:49, Reply)
shopping as a hobby
is everything which is wrong with the world.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:03, Reply)
David Gemmell - Bloodstone.
Third part of a fairly good, if not a little predictable fantasy/sci-fi/western thing. Enjoyed the series, but then, I like Gemmell and fantasy stuff, can imagine it wold not be for everyone.

I watched that Bucket List film. In a word. Shit.

Album was MGLA - with hearts toward none, a polish black metal band, i missed it's release last year somehow, so picked it up the other week. Really good album, very close to the early black metal, without it sounding like it was recorded on a potato.

alt: I dunno. Carley Ray Jepson?
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:49, Reply)
The Hobbit - Still one of my favourite books, absolutely excellent
Wrath Of The Titans - Mostly shit, but good fun.
Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin - I haven't had a chance to listen to it properly yet, as it was a gift for the other half.

Alt: A customer we're having difficulties with at the minute, happily.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:51, Reply)
A book on D-Day by the bloke who wrote Band of Brothers. Very good indeed
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Watchable crap
Depeche Mode - Greatest Hits. Good

Alt:
CLOWNS
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:56, Reply)
see, nobody cares about the Jews.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:58, Reply)
I agree on Mission Impossible
Watched it over Christmas.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:58, Reply)
And mine are:
We Need To Talk About Kevin. Nice little psychological read with a twist at the end that I didnt see coming. Film of the same name was a bit arty and left loads out.

Nightwatch/Daywatch - Russian Matrixy comic book fest. A bit confusing at first for those unfamiliar with the book but still a good watch and some great effects.

Skunk Anansie - Black Traffic. More rocky than Wanderlustre but not as good. Lots of short, sharp song.

Alt. Vanessa feltz
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:12, Reply)
oooh, nightwatch/daywatch is rather good.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:17, Reply)
I've seen Nightwatch, but not Daywatch.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:19, Reply)
those are on my list to read
as they are broth fantasy and Russian.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:20, Reply)
Sounds an interesting soup.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:34, Reply)
It concludes the story if you enjoyed the first.
There are 4 books in the series. The rights for a third got passed to some American production company and nothing has been done about it.

Buggers.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:20, Reply)
I've seen Baywatch, but not Night/Daywatch.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:22, Reply)
it's like that
only with russian vampires
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:22, Reply)
Best watched alone with the sound off?

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:24, Reply)
Right.
Book you read?

‘Ninja’ by John Man. Superb – a well researched and very readable study of Japan’s shadow warriors. I’d recommend it to anyone with an interest in C14th-15th Japanese history, or ninjas. It was a present from Battered (RIP niggah), and a fucking cracking one at that. I am now on ‘London Under’ by Peter Ackroyd – it’s almost as good as his (much larger) ‘London – A Biography’ which is the best book on the subject I know of.

Film you watched?

I made the mistake of watching Avatar for a second time the other day. Visuals aside it was so utterly fucking awful with a seriously iffy ‘message’ underlying the piss-poor plot that I became really quite angry about it. What a wasted opportunity. Cunts.

Album you bought?

My heart weeps to say that I cannot even fucking remember what the last one I bought was, it was so long ago. The last one I ‘infringed copyright’ on was the expanded Hendrix at Winterland recordings – utter fucking genius of course.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:13, Reply)
Has Battered been banned?

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:16, Reply)
7-day stepping, final warning before perma-ban.
For fuck all, as well.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:16, Reply)
hahaha, what did he do?

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:17, Reply)
Pretended to be a mod and started a QOTW poll.
Really fuck all.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:18, Reply)
they are getting really prissy aren't they
I wonder if one of the QOTW gimps who is always crying about getting bullied is a secret mod
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:23, Reply)
Multiple comedy accounts.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:18, Reply)
That's not fair.
None of them could be described as 'comedy'
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:20, Reply)
Avatar is mindless entertainment
Basically Pocahontas with blue folk.

I do enjoy it though, not too mentally stimulating and pretty.
Much like all of Camerons movies!
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:25, Reply)
Last book - Re-read 'Angry white pyjamas' makes me wistful for my Aikido days
Last film - 'John dies at the end' - truly screwed up but hugely enjoyable.
Album - 'Dance of flies' by John Shanahan. Didn't buy it, it was sent to me by the artist (go me!). A frickin' excellent album with some great songs, the song 'Dance of flies' kinda defined my attitude to life in my twenties.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:15, Reply)
Im intrigued by that 'John Dies At The End'
Didnt know it was a book, have seen the trailer for the movie
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:26, Reply)
Don't watch it stoned or tripping!

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:40, Reply)
you wouldn't have heard of any of them

I got them at a farmer's market
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:17, Reply)
i read the "hunger games" trilogy
great fun, if you accept that it is exactly that.

"the imposter", last night, about the algerian/french guy who pretended to be a missing 16 year old american boy, returned to his family after a kidnapping. brilliant. utterly gripping. and totally fucked-up.

haven't bought an album in years. last single: p!nk "blow me (one last kiss"), love a bit of pink action.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:21, Reply)
oh dear...Pink, really?
I heard about the imposter, sounded interesting, although the reviewer could say too much about it without giving it away
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:24, Reply)
it's nearly all given away in the first 5 mins really
but it's utterly utterly gripping nonetheless
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:26, Reply)
(I like Pink too)
Her last 2 albums have been grand.

Not that I paid for either.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:28, Reply)
I thought you preferred "brown"?

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:30, Reply)
Oh, textbook.
It was a sharply-lifting delivery Athers, nearly took him by surprise, but he's offered up the face of the bat at an angle and glanced it over the slip cordon for four.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:32, Reply)
you're still talking about bumming, right?

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:33, Reply)
If you like.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:35, Reply)
we do talk about little else
bumbumbum
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:42, Reply)
For someone that professes to maintain their bottom as one-way only
you've got a curious obsession with it, I have to say.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:43, Reply)
she can't have held onto a gay boyfriend for this long without taking the odd delivery in the tradesman's

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:45, Reply)
She's not rising to it.
Must try harder.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:53, Reply)
i'll see what i can do

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:58, Reply)
I if i ever tried a shot like that it would go straight to a fielder like it would during catching practice

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:33, Reply)
I can only do "down on one knee and launched for six over cow corner"
"clubbed back over the bowler's head for six"

Or "out flailing like a cod on a trawler deck"

The third being by far the most common.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:35, Reply)
i like this, we'd be the worst batting partnership ever

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:37, Reply)
RIP CMJ

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:38, Reply)
There's all the best chocolate cake in TMS heaven.

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:44, Reply)
BA DUM TISH!

(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:32, Reply)
I'm Halfway through The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
so far it's good for fantasy which is not usually my genre, I may well read the sequel.
Film was The Vikings. stone cold classic, which Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis competing to see who can be least convincingly medieval. Earnest Borgnine are the Viking king is surprisingly well cast. Good family fun, sevela stars.

Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape. not really blown away by7 this. I got it because I'd heard some good tracks from it, but sadly this seems to be one of those times when those were the good tracks and the rest is not as good, or maybe just different.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:27, Reply)
Lies of Lock Lamora is excellent!
So it Colour and The Shape, btw, you are wrong
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:28, Reply)
liking it so far, given that most fantasy bores me.
bought based on the author's put down to a 'fan' I saw on face book, not regretting the decision.
scott-lynch.livejournal.com/159686.html
it's not bad, but most of it it not that like My Hero or Monkey Wrench, generally seems slower and quieter which is not what I was looking for.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:34, Reply)
OK
Book: Rogue Trooper Tales of Nu Earth, (yeah well fuck you too) great book and it really is for grown ups honest.

Film: Moon, the twist was pretty obvious but very well acted and I would recommend.

Album/ Muzak: Best of Black Sabbath (I think)
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:38, Reply)
Book: My Idea of Fun
Film: The Iron Lady
Album: Hallelujah! Don't Bend, Ascend!

Reviews:
1- Good debut novel, but he's better at short stories and journalism;
2- Meryl Streep is uncannily good;
3- Silly name, serious music.

HTH xx
(, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 14:48, Reply)

« Go Back | Reply To This »

Pages: Latest, 836, 835, 834, 833, 832, ... 1