Darth won a bronze cup in dancing
What competitions have you ever won due to your skill, dedication or dumb luck?


alt: Localboy, what the fuck is wrong with him eh?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:28, 104 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Alt: where to begin?
His gargantuan fleshy palms, covered in salt deposits from his excessive sweating, for one.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:29, Reply)

at awards ceremonies people have to avoid saying 'give him a big hand' for reasons of his sensitivity.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:35, Reply)

He is the anti-Beadle

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:37, Reply)

The big Yin

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:53, Reply)

I correctly guessed nearest to the number of Lego bricks in a big spaceship
and won a Lego spaceship.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:30, Reply)

I also won a solid gold coin for something as a kid
I found it a few months ago and flogged it for £100
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:33, Reply)

I heard that one idea being vaguely batted around to help "raise" the USA's debt ceiling
is to use a legal loophole that unlike gold, allows the treasury to mint a platinum coin to any value that they please, in this case it would be worth 1 trillion dollars...
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:35, Reply)

Yeah, that's a serious solution talked about by serious people.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:39, Reply)

Something about them not being allowed to print bills, isn't it?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:41, Reply)

read the first line again, fuck wit

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:42, Reply)

FYI, let me know if he isn't serious enough for you and your schoolboy economics
www.businessinsider.com/nobel-prize-winner-paul-krugman-obama-must-get-ready-to-mint-the-trillion-dollar-coin-2013-1

seems unlikely that it will actually happen though
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:50, Reply)

Inflation's cause by, amongst other things, minting new coins right?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, because my knowledge of economics isn't even at schoolboy levels, but wouldn't minting, in effect, one trillion dollars all at once cause it to sky-rocket?
( Kroney, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:06, Reply)

Not really, it wouldn't be in the wider economy and wouldn't be spent for anything other than paying off debt.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:09, Reply)

which is owed to someone, presumably?
thus putting it out into the economy?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:11, Reply)

It's about getting around the debt ceiling, which is a fixed number set by congress and not related to GDP
At the moment the US can afford to take on more borrowing and produce bonds. But congress won't allow it because the tea party lot. This is just a way around a default due to politics not economics.
The fact the reserve doesn't then have to sell bonds for 6 months means banks will possibly buy other assets instead and then it'll trickle down.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:16, Reply)

ah, yeah, I see what you mean.
But presumbaly it could "theoretically" be pulled into the wider economy, in the event of say, a US economic meltdown? because it would be worthless unless that was the case.

So therefore Kroney's got a point below. Also, because economics is basically the science of being a cunt to people, if it could theoretically be dragged into reality becuase of a meltdown, that will be exactly what happens.

See Nothern Rock and "everything will be entirely, exactly fine unless everyone asks for their money right now"

".. Oh"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:25, Reply)

But it would be in the wider economy by virtue of simply existing.
THe central bank uses it to pay off the debts, thereby crediting their creditors with however much they're owed. The creditors will then declare it as income or whatever and there it is in the economy.

At least, that's how it looks to me with my total lack of knowledge on the matter.
( Kroney, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:13, Reply)

fair point
but, given he's a nobel prize winning economist, he seems to have missed a fairly important thing, that being that inventing money tends to catastrophically fuck up your economy.

Although, I dunno, maybe it doesn't any more, maybe it's so virtual and fucked up anyway that anything goes.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:08, Reply)

He's only saying do it to call the house republicans bluff rather than actually do it.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:09, Reply)

republicans are fucktards over this kind of thing.
there's nothing mental enough he can call that they will actually back down on.

Because I suspect that a catastrophic meltdown of the US economy suits them to a degree, in that it's their best chance of getting power back in 4 years time.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:10, Reply)

And that is the problem.
Reading about it, A republican has just put a motion "stopping" this from happening and trying to change the law. By saying that, he's implied that it's currently legal to do which makes it more likely to stand up in court.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:17, Reply)

Alt: his massive, mongoloid head and rugby ears.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:30, Reply)

I won a calligraphy prize, which I mention on here at least once a month.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:30, Reply)

you sad lonely boy
no wonder you turned to MDs
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:34, Reply)

Peaked at age 10.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:21, Reply)

I won Rear of the Year in 1999.
Alt- where do we start? Listing everything would be an exercise of gargantuan proportions. Just like his lunar face and his dinnerplate hands.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:32, Reply)

Alt: His dribbly, meaty tongue which flops from his dribbly mouth like a smelly pork suitcase.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:34, Reply)

oh god...people are looking at me funny for giggling

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:36, Reply)

That's not why they're looking at you funny.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:37, Reply)

these are additional stares
the cumulative effect is quite unnerving
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:38, Reply)

My old band won best rock group and best pop group trophys at a music festival once
We were the only entry in both categories.
( Peej, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:38, Reply)

The only competition that comes to mind was a Geography one at school
3 of us were picked to compete against other schools (fuck knows why). We ended up coming second in the region, which was made slightly more impressive by the fact that we were a year younger than the other teams, and we'd not practised in the slightest.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:44, Reply)

how on earth do you practise geography?
"right, now you're warmed up, get down and give me 10 glacial moraines! work those drumlins! Ox-bow! Ox-bow! Huh!"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:48, Reply)

Colouring in race

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:52, Reply)

*Needs more brown and yellow*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:55, Reply)

Map reading, stats, things like that.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:53, Reply)

Right.
I wasn't really looking for a serious answer, chap. I just thought it was a curious turn of phrase to use practice rather than, say, revise.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:03, Reply)

Ahh, fair enough

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:06, Reply)

Alt: his smegma-encrusted penis poncho, covered in weeping pustules

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:45, Reply)

Alt: He bore Monty's child.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:46, Reply)

This is quite frankly astonishing
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/08/piersmorgan-gun-control
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:46, Reply)

Fucking hell
When Cunts Collide
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:50, Reply)

When morgan looks like the good guy, you know that you're dealing with a cunt of a magnitude never before seen

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:52, Reply)

This is so terribly true.
Do the NRA understand just how fucked up they are if they make me agree with Piers fucking Morgan?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:53, Reply)

Alt: his bestial, heavy-browed giant Slavic face topped off with a massive bread-like forehead

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:49, Reply)

I'm spent

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:50, Reply)

I've got a British Physics Olympiad silver medal
for being "good at physics" I can only assume, I can't remember. Also the Gibbs Memorial Prize for being the best graduating student in my discipline at UCL. And various hockey and mountain biking competition medals and shit.

Frankly, I'm amazed I ever got any sex with that kind of life CV.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:52, Reply)

you worked ouexactly out exactly how hard to hit them to turn them unconsious

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:53, Reply)

bees into what, now?


Top ninjing, there.

Now now, let's not bring your seduction methods into this.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:54, Reply)

my phone hates me

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:59, Reply)

I know exactly how it feels

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:11, Reply)

Broke?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:25, Reply)

I was in the newsletter.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:58, Reply)

WINNAR.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 11:59, Reply)

I got a third prize trophy in a works go-karting outing
out of about 20. Due to the complicated scoring in the heats I made it to the final and then rammed the guy nobody liked hard in the leg to take third place. A double celebration, really.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:13, Reply)

I won a bronze cup in dancing
and the telly show. Have I mentioned that today? It seems likely but, you know, just in case.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:17, Reply)

Alt: LocalBoy is notably silent
He must be one of the following;

Carrying out the quietest flounce in b3ta history
Weeping with every new post and making his keyboard too slippery to type with
Laughing his arse off
Making better use of his time
Dead

CAST VOTE NOW
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:20, Reply)

Dead.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:23, Reply)

Or f) secretly loving all the attention?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:31, Reply)

Alt: His insistence on driving at 70mph and no more in the fast lane of the motorway.
As Nakers angrily flashes the lights on his Mazda ineffectually behind him.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:29, Reply)

+ while TUiB paddles his coracle down the ancient waterways of Wessex

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:32, Reply)

Is this a good time to mention our appeal?
www.coraclesociety.org.uk/
At £347 we are some way short of our target of £5000, please give as much as you can.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:37, Reply)

I don't think I've ever won an award ony own merit.
Lots of team trophies and so on when I played rugby. Not one for competitive activities. soz.

alt: actually, reckon he's alright.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:32, Reply)

everyone needs one fan

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:33, Reply)

OK, so I'm 6'3"
If you saw me next to somebody that's 5'1", exactly how stupid would that look?
( Kroney, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:40, Reply)

IT WOULD BE THE CRAZIEST THING EVER?!?!?!?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:40, Reply)

Thanks

( Kroney, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:40, Reply)

Don't let your insecurities about what other people think stop you from following your heart.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:41, Reply)

Gay

( Kroney, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:41, Reply)

Right up battereds bumhole

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:41, Reply)

Are either of you wearing a wacky slogan tshirt?

( Peej, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:41, Reply)

What like
"I'm with him *up arrow instead of side arrow lololol*"?
( Kroney, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:42, Reply)

Or any of AA's MASSIVE collection

( Peej, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:44, Reply)

It would look like the Krankies or sutin

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:45, Reply)

about a foot.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:46, Reply)

Finally, the voice of reason.

( Kroney, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:49, Reply)

I won QOTW twice
but the second story isn't even in my top answers list, proving QOTW is deader than a beheaded drug dealer.
( Peej, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:40, Reply)

My Mam is ace at winning stuff
Me less so. I also won a couple of dance contests when I was younger.
Mine was for money mind not a trophy.
Won a prize for some spelling bee type thing when I was about 9 too.

My Mam is always entering competitions from those womens weekly mags.
She won a trolly dash once that she made me do. I had to get up at 5am to do it before the store opened.
I was a bit shit mind. Instead of madly flinging everything in the trolly I was quite decisive about what I got and the total was only about £300.

It seems I have a weird thing about fabric softner. Got fucking gallons of that.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:41, Reply)

My mum won a massive TV once
but it was a Bush TV and therefore shit and it broke
( Peej, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:44, Reply)

does your mum still have her massive broken bush?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 13:09, Reply)

There's another woman joining our IT department.
That makes two, now. Broken Britain.
( Kroney, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:44, Reply)

that's nothing.
Yesterday I saw a muzzo driving a car.

Leeds is just fucking mental.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:47, Reply)

I once won a free snickers three days in a row from the previous snicker wrapper
but the chain broke :(
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 13:07, Reply)