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What a frightful start to the day.
Shall we try again?

1. Given your life over again, if you could make one change what would it be?
2. Where do you see yourself in five years' time?
3. Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet?
4. You can only eat one nationality's traditional food for the rest of your life, which do you choose and why?

Answer, one, some or all. Or indeed none - get fucked.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 8:59, 188 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Hmmm
1 probably work harder at school, bit obvious, but true.

2 really don't know.

3 Duran Duran

4 Italian, can't do without pizza. Unless it includes drinks, in which case England.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:06, Reply)
Yo
1. Travel more
2. House in the country, 3 kids, commuting to london shotgun in my mouth
3. Neither, ever
4. I'm gonna say French due to its variety
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:06, Reply)
I've got a recipe book which is just french roast stuff.
It's good.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:15, Reply)
Yeah, sheep in protest of petrol prices

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:27, Reply)
1. Accept my place at Winchester
2. Plodding away in drudgery
3. They're both so good, I just can't decide
4. Italian. It's not even my favourite food but there is enough variety to keep me from getting bored.

Which is more than can be said for this thread's prospects :o(
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:07, Reply)
Your answer to 2 seems the most likely outcome for many.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:09, Reply)
It's good to have an ambition!

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:11, Reply)
1. Only one???
2. Hugely successful with The Yurtsmiths and/or dead
3. +d +d - I'll take the option of capturing Jane Fonda
4. Indian, of course, because it is the best for vegetarian food. I could eat seven nights a week from my local place and have something different and delicious each time.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:07, Reply)
Yes, only one.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:09, Reply)
1. Nothing, all seems pretty sweet now, got some good stories, wouldn't wanna risk it being worse.
2. I'd like to be self employed, maybe in lieu of running a small contractor
3. Duran Duran everyone.
5. Thailand
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:08, Reply)
\o/
1:Properly warming up so I don't rip my Achilles tendon.
2:Still fucking around on here
3:Duran Duran
4:Agreeing with team Baked ape here
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:09, Reply)
Hello hippy.
I'm being nasty to people today. So sod off.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:11, Reply)
You were just nice to me a minute ago.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:12, Reply)
Shush don't tell people.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:15, Reply)
Anyway, why did you turn down Winchester? Socialist principles?

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:14, Reply)
Didn't fancy being a choirboy.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:17, Reply)
3 reasons:
1) my father was a master there, I predicted problems for both of us because of this
2) school on Saturday mornings
3) fucking shitloads of sport
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:19, Reply)
Surely institutionalised buggery was a bonus?

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:22, Reply)
always with the buggery.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:27, Reply)
wanted to spend more time at the Hat Fair

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:19, Reply)
the Hat Fair was and still is fucking gay.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:27, Reply)
gay and shit
tangles would love it
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:37, Reply)
It's why I love you so much
xx
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:42, Reply)
In answer to your questions
1) as someone else said I wouldn't change anything, overall my life is pretty sweet, and while there are things that you think would be better would you really give up the good bits now, If I worked harder at school I might have gone to a different Uni and I wouldn't have met my wife etc.
2) in the mirror with my haggard face
3) WILD BOYS (wild boys)
4) Indian, has the widest variety of foods
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:18, Reply)
*content with the cards we've been dealt fives*

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:25, Reply)
Possibly even "chest bumps"
Woooooooo Yay USA USA USA
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:45, Reply)
1. Probably not very much, although I might have done a law conversion after my Fud.
2.I'm contractually obliged to say "up to the back wheels in your mum"
3. No Kemp chat
4. Spanish. It has almost everything Italian does, with added North African influnces and better beer.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:25, Reply)
Is this another one of those threads where everyone posts a list and no conversation takes place?

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:27, Reply)
1. yes

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:28, Reply)
I asked a question below here that I'd like you to look at.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:29, Reply)
2. no

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:29, Reply)
1.yes
2.probably

3.MARR

4. see 1.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:30, Reply)
Hey, Monty and any other London types, it's my birthday next week.
Ladypig has suggested a couple of days in London. Can anyone suggest a hotel? Nothing too expensive, driving is no issue as we have the disabled stickers to park wherever and I don't mind paying congestion charge on a birthday jaunt. Also any awesome things to do mid week.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:28, Reply)
Claridges
YO
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:30, Reply)
Fine things to do midweek include drinking until you shit yourself.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:30, Reply)
Sorry not exactly cheap but I liked them
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2006849
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:33, Reply)
RE Hotel Shoreditch, it's next to my flat, woo!!!!!!!
As for things to do - fuck me, where to begin - other than with 'what are you into?'
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:35, Reply)

, where to begin - other than with 'what are you into
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:38, Reply)
Also, hullo Monts.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:38, Reply)
yo

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:38, Reply)
I was hoping he'd see what I was driving at

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:38, Reply)
Oops....sorry

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:39, Reply)
other men mostly

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:38, Reply)
Is it nice though?
Also, I imagine being in Shoreditch might mean I have to punch my way through crowds of people in vintage clothing
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:52, Reply)
what sort of things?
give us a clue
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:43, Reply)
During the day nice summery outdoor nonsense,
Dinner and drinks in the evening. If you can find me a gig as well that would be nice.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:47, Reply)
i would go to a park with a lido
somewhere like brockwell park - bit out of the way but still zone 2 so an easy drive or overland train, really nice and far fewer fucking tourists pissing around

or walk all along the river from hammersmith to barnes, then sit in a nice pub and have a drink

richmond is awesome - has beautiful park as well as richmond hill, there is a little boat you get across the river, lovely old garden centre for wandering around (sounds gash but trust me it's stunning) and then you walk across a meadow to an italian ice cream shop and numerous old pubs
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:57, Reply)
also beautiful hotels in richmond = cheaper than central london and still 20 mins on train
so basically, west london rocks
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:58, Reply)
There's a cracking pub crawl along the river from Hammersmith out to the Fullers brewery
used to do it all the time when I was a postgrad. Sunny warm day? fuck the lab. Meet at Hammersmith station at 1pm, let's do it.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:03, Reply)
that's the badger
literally, in your case
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:12, Reply)
Cool, thanks swipeypoo.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:13, Reply)
London is shit
HTH
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:46, Reply)
your face is shit

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:46, Reply)
:-(

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:02, Reply)
Hmmm
1. Nothing. Everything that's happened to me has contributed to getting me to this point. Sorry, boring.
But if you twisted my arm, I'd make sure to treat girls slightly more disrespectfully when I was a teenager. Being nice does not get you any action.
2. At this very desk, with any luck.
3. Prolly Duran. I like Wild Boys. That being said I also Through The Barricades just as much.
4. British. Say suttin' WHAT.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:29, Reply)

1. I wouldn't answer the rest of these questions.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:29, Reply)
I have had a great start to the day.
Podge brekker which was nice. One of the bitches is fetching birthday Krispy Kreme, coffee on it's way.

1. Take that first job offer at a merchant bank.
2. Doing your daughter.
3. DD. All day.
4. Italian because it's the best, most varied and tastiest.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:32, Reply)
OK
1. I'd fuck Sally from Oxford up the arse again
2. Being screamed at by a 10 year old and a 7 year old and a 32 year old
3. How many bullets?
4. Japanese, because I have never eaten better than when I was out there. Fucking gorgeous.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:35, Reply)
Lack of ambition, PJ
why not find a more varied selection of ladies to fuck up the arse?
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:39, Reply)
Who says I haven't?

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:46, Reply)
Remember, as we've established, I know Sally
as there clearly can't be two Sallies in Oxford partial to anal.

So I say again, sir, - lack of ambition.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:55, Reply)
1. Not listen to so much Green Day that my Mum kills herself
2. No idea yet
3. Spandau Ballet
4. English

Fucking hell, I overslept.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:39, Reply)
Click.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:41, Reply)
Hmm.
1. Not taken redundancy two years ago.
2. In full time permanent work, hopefully. And debt free.
3. Simon and the boys, no question.
4. Too difficult to choose, although I bought the missus a Jewish cook book a few years ago and there's some stonkingly good dishes in it. And it's cosmopolitan enough to cover most tastes.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:40, Reply)
I'm so tired I feel drunk
1. Have sex with every single woman rating 7 or above who ever offered
2. Probably still this fucking tired
3. I'm not going to dignify that with a response, other than this one; OBVIOUSLY DURAN DURAN
4. Southern Indian

No YOU get fucked
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:43, Reply)

7 3
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:44, Reply)
You saw through my cunning code

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:46, Reply)
For about 8 years I fucked anything with a pulse

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:47, Reply)
I have turned down some genuinely stunning women in my time
in an attempt to retain the interest of just one of their number. If this proves futile I shall be PISSED
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:49, Reply)
I spit when I talk
I fuck anything that walk
/Eminem
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:52, Reply)
*slightly overslept morning terrors*
1. I wouldn't pull out to spunk all over your mum'ses tits
2. Same bat place, same bat channel
3. Duran Duran.
4. Indian. Even their bland dishes are a lot tastier than most other stuff. Also contains nice breads and meat.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:43, Reply)
I'm gonna go suit shopping this afternoon, i am genuinely excited by this beacue I'm a massive ponce

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:44, Reply)
Did you not get that Paul Smith one?

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:45, Reply)
sold oiut : (
gonna pop into the coventy garden store and see what's what, but at full price they are a bit punchy
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:46, Reply)
We have his main warehouse near us, the twice yearly sales there
are beyond fucking manic
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:02, Reply)
Can you correct this typo please?
I keep thinking you are planning on visiting Homebase in Coventry.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:02, Reply)
I need a black suit for Monday :o(

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:46, Reply)
no you don't, you need a sombre suit
Best of luck with it, Mrs Ape has a relative on the way out and will be very sad about it
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:49, Reply)
No, I've been instructed
BLACK
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:51, Reply)
Full on face paint as well then
With a jaunty "rasta" hat
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:06, Reply)
My latest "selfie"

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:12, Reply)
Really sorry mate

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:50, Reply)
Blues Brothers fancy dress party yeah - what a nightmare!!!

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:52, Reply)
Jesting aside sorry man, gonna be a horrible day

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:52, Reply)
I like a good funeral.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:54, Reply)
Only 'cos you burn them and smoke the ashes

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:55, Reply)
genuine coffee choking lols

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:53, Reply)

1. year out at 18 and another crack at oxbridge
2. senior solicitor but hopefully with something published/on tv
3. what for?
4. anything middle eastern because houmous
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:45, Reply)
MORNING
1. more anal
2. doing anal
3. anal from all of them
4. arse
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:47, Reply)
I DON'T DO ANAL
YOU KNOW THIS
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:48, Reply)
hahahaha

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:48, Reply)
Protesteth too much

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:54, Reply)
balls.
You must have pegged Greggs Hat to within an inch of his life.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:57, Reply)
THAT NAME IS VERBOTEN, the fucking cunt
ok shouty caps going off now
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:59, Reply)
soz :(

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:00, Reply)
that's quite alright darling
it's nothing you didn't tell me multiple times
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:01, Reply)
Not after your 'experience' with Chompy......

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:59, Reply)
What was so bad about Greggs hat?

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:09, Reply)
The millinery.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:10, Reply)
his selfishness
when i said there are things that we would both need to work on, he said, "what could i work on?"

erm, how long have you got??
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:17, Reply)
1. If I could do so without changing the whole course of my live, I would skip the ex wife
2. In reality, about the same only fatter, in my fantasy world, running a pub with the current Mrs. CQ
3. Motorhead.
4. Italian, I love pasta and pizza and pretty much any Italian food.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:46, Reply)
There's a pub in Oxford looking for a new manager.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:48, Reply)

manager customer to replace the dead one
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:53, Reply)
We'll rename it The Lithium & Razor Blade
It'll be ace.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:58, Reply)
to steal from Psychic Bob
"Your Glass is always half empty, thus proving once and for all that 'Your Glass' is a fucking shit name for a pub"
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 9:59, Reply)
A steampunk theme pub - it'll be brilliant!!!

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:01, Reply)
Good point.
How about The Lithium & Goggles?

I like that better.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:07, Reply)
You really don't want to run a pub.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:07, Reply)
I think most people that want to run a pub
have a cosy idea of open fires, colourful, gentle local characters, the burble of good conversation and so on. I don't think cleaning sick off the carpet and finding corpses in the bog really figures into the fantasy.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:08, Reply)
Also, no holiday, no weekends off, constant stress about rent payments and takings.
It's stressful enough just being a manager, but at least I can go away for the weekend and know that all the infrastructure is in place to keep it going. If you're running it yourself you won't be able to afford to pay a manager a decent wage as well at least for the first year or 2 so you will always be there.
I lived in for 8 months and nearly lost my mind. I'd only do it with a business partner I trusted, so that both of us could get time out of the business. Doing it with a spouse would be relationship suicide.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:12, Reply)
Wasn't Relationship Suicide a Manics song?

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:14, Reply)
I fucking hate the manics.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:15, Reply)
You're not alone there.
Just sounds like one of their dirges, that's all.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:30, Reply)
I for one was overjoyed when Ritchie Cunning-ham topped himself

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:36, Reply)
HES NOT DEAD HES LIVING HAPPILY IN GOA YOU PRICK

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:38, Reply)
This is good advice

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:16, Reply)
I take a salary, if the business has a slow month or 2,i still get paid,
If you own, or lease, then your business struggles and you are directly out of pocket, so you have to put back a delivery payment, then a glasswasher breaks, so you hold payment on a fish delivery, or a food run, then you have a second slow month, have to borrow cash to pay suppliers or get no stock, it goes on personal loans and credit cards and very soon you're on a lot of debt. You can make money, but I'd say only if you buy the pub outright as freehold. And that's a huge amount of cash.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:20, Reply)
^ This ^
People don't realise just how demanding the job is, this also works for someone that mentioned to me that they was going to retire and buy a B&B
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:28, Reply)
Nah, it'd be fun
I wouldn't run it anyway, the missus would do that. I'd be ornamental.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:09, Reply)
Is your wife already working pubs?

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:12, Reply)
Always with the death

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:13, Reply)
....and ninjas

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:13, Reply)
Nope, She's Queen of the Steampunks
but she's thinking of abdicating.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:20, Reply)
These questions are shit.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:02, Reply)
Further to this, I put it to you that they were asked by a cunt and all.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:03, Reply)
You've made an excellent point here.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:05, Reply)
Morning, Monters
1. Honestly, I'm relatively happy. The only real change I'd make would be to not have got involved with the ex. Without any malice, it was just a massive waste of my time and pretty obviously doomed to failure right from the start. Without that relationship, I'd have been further ahead with my life by this point. Most of my time and money got sunk into seeing her.

2. Five years time I should be a homeowner, on a new career track and have a good few more trips abroad under my belt. I don't have any massive ambitions beyond trying to stay comfortable and happy, really.

3. Duran Duran, I think.

4. I'd stay homegrown. British all the way.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:05, Reply)
fucking yurt prick

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:09, Reply)
My boss brings in some fantastic fucking cakes
Todays selection:
www.patisserie-valerie.co.uk/p118_Chocolate-Strawberry-and-Banana-Gateau.aspx
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:05, Reply)
And this is why you never eat the dinners I cook?

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:08, Reply)
Woah....frighteningly similar to Mrs Hats there

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:09, Reply)
Madame Deux Chapeaux

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:13, Reply)
Indeed
And weirdly, she teaches French. I mean it's weird that she does...she doesn't teach it in a weird way.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:14, Reply)
That's a shame. I like the idea of French being taught through a headstand or a squeaky voice, or something.

(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:25, Reply)
An excellent attempt to recover the day
1. have a LOT more confidence in my non-repulsiveness
2. what do you think?
3. Duran, probably.
4. Cherman.

*gets fucked*
(, Wed 10 Jul 2013, 10:20, Reply)

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