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Lunchtime thread... Collecting things - good hobby or crap idea?

Alt. Racing pigeons - Do they know they are racing? What other "sports" aren't sports?

Alt alt I'm still a noob on this board. What's your best insult.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:04, 163 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Depends on what you're collecting and why
hth

Alt: fuck knows. hth
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:07, Reply)
I got my smartwatch thinggy today, i'm well pleased with it.
getpebble.com/
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:07, Reply)
I love collecting things, always have done.
Without people 'collecting things' our great museums and galleries would be barren. Hurrah for collecting!

But boo for sports. By their very nature pointless, and dull as piss.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:07, Reply)
I get why people play sports...it's fun and generally it's good exercise
but watching sports? What's the fucking point?
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:08, Reply)
There isn't one.
Unless you're gay or looking for a punchup. Or both.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:10, Reply)
Puts one hand up.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:11, Reply)
NOT THE FACE, I BEG YOU!!!!

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:12, Reply)
I'm just punch-up curious

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:11, Reply)
0 for 0 until Friday 11am.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:12, Reply)
YESSSSSS

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:14, Reply)
^ GOONER ^

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:08, Reply)
TIL I DIE M8

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:09, Reply)

collect steal
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:30, Reply)
I dunno, people like greece get all upset when you collect all their stuff

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:51, Reply)
They're oppressing our travelling traditions

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:53, Reply)
Yeah we should go over there and beg for
their artifacts and if they won't give them to us we should steal them from their pockets.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:05, Reply)
One should only collect usable things like records and books.
Yngling is not a sport. It's not even a word.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:08, Reply)
Does this mean I'll have to disband
my yngling club?
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:09, Reply)
Try telling that to the ynglers that meet round our way
Noisy cunts.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:09, Reply)
It's all that singing yngtong, yngtong...

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:11, Reply)
Ying tong iddle-i poo!
is a great way to answer the 'phone.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:12, Reply)
It's really not, you know.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:18, Reply)
It is the way I do it.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:19, Reply)
£10 says it's not

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:23, Reply)
Hahahahaha like you've got a spare £10!

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:24, Reply)
My 'money' is safe.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:28, Reply)
WRONG!
You owe me £10.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:36, Reply)
Oh fuck.
Can you lend me £10?
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:41, Reply)
Phone him up and ask him.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:07, Reply)
I will!
I shall declare "Ynglers! Sodd off you ... no names!"

And they will accept defeat, and go away.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:12, Reply)
They will if they know what's good for them!

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:13, Reply)
Fuck is yngling?
I thwarted an effort at guerilla knitting yesterday, some fat girl in an ill fitting 50's style dress was trying to put knitting on my outside furniture. I politely asked her to stop.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:12, Reply)
Thank goodness you were there to strike a blow for reason.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:13, Reply)
I may be leaving, but while I'm still in charge, that hipster bollix will not be tolerated.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:14, Reply)
fucking liberty
I mean...you don't go where she works and pour beer over her furniture! Or do you? Is that why she did it?
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:14, Reply)
I think there's more to this story that this fellow is letting on.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:15, Reply)
*whispers*
He NEVER tells the whole story, Monts! You watch him...he's a rob dog. And THAT's swearing.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:16, Reply)
why are you being mean to me today? :(

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:16, Reply)
Oh Hi Windy!
How are you hun?
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:20, Reply)
You know, I'm not coming to Portsmouth,
And I hope your wife turns in to bald monkey.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:40, Reply)
:(

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:51, Reply)
*whispers back*
I knew it!!!!
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:18, Reply)
I sweat beer, maybe she works at the gym.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:15, Reply)
Well you are extremely lickable.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:16, Reply)
Yngling is a type of boat.
3-person racing keelboat. If you really cared.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:17, Reply)
I think you're lygling

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:26, Reply)
I thought it was a kind of fishing, from New Zealand.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:28, Reply)
this is really quite good.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:32, Reply)
Not that these oaves will notice, Badgy B.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:39, Reply)
I noticed it Mince, I gave it a click but didn't have time for a 'Hhahahaha' as I was on my way for a poo

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:08, Reply)
Altalt Hi Al

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:08, Reply)
I have never understood how boxing can be considered a sport.
It's just two people hitting each other.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:09, Reply)
Well if Battered doesn't understand...

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:10, Reply)
Sport (noun):
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:11, Reply)
No, doesn't sound like boxing to me!

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:12, Reply)
Oh not again.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:11, Reply)
AND man has never landed on the moon.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:14, Reply)
Oh not again.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:15, Reply)
Good sig.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:15, Reply)
altalt
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(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:10, Reply)
I sort of thing collections are a weird thing,
It makes sense for books a d records and things you can get entertainment from, even that warhammer stuff I can sort of understand. But porcelain pigs or temps just strike me as odd.

Alt: they don't. Golf.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:10, Reply)
The problem with collecting figurines and that sort of thing
Is that you'll very quickly amass a massive collection that will have cost you a small fortune. A collection that as soon as you get them out of the box, depreciates by about 99.9999999%
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:12, Reply)
When you're like 14 it's fine,
But fully grown adults should at least move on to scale airfix or something a little less childish if that's how they choose to waste they're time and money.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:42, Reply)
Teeny Terrapins are cool though, right?

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:59, Reply)
They are in my book.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:05, Reply)
Typical scenario is someone goes on holiday
and comes back with a twatty plastic toad because they have zero imagination and gives it to mum as a present. Other lazy family members follow suit so mum, with no effort or intention, quickly becomes known as a collector of spacky amphibians. You know she's been indoctrinated when she starts buying them herself.
Some years later someone goes on holiday and there are no slimy hoppers in the gift shop so they buy her a Friesian cow chamber pot and the whole sad thing starts again.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:22, Reply)
'someone' yeah edj?
'someone' called edjogs, right?
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:27, Reply)
She loves them honest.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:33, Reply)
Course she does. Course.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:33, Reply)
In other news, Stephen Fry is a Jew, and likes sport:
www.stephenfry.com/2013/08/07/an-open-letter-to-david-cameron-and-the-ioc/
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:23, Reply)
I TOLD YOU
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2041367
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:24, Reply)
Being a Jew doesn't mean you're gay, Monts.
We're all friends now, you know - it was a long time ago.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:28, Reply)
Stephen Fry is whoever he thinks
will get him the most attention at any given moment.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:29, Reply)

attention cock
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:30, Reply)
Alt: Watersports.
eh? eh?
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:28, Reply)
Actually some of those windsurfer chappies work damned hard.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:29, Reply)
I was thinking more of the watersports that edjog's mum partakes in, old bean.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:31, Reply)
Oh, waterskiing. Gotcha.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:33, Reply)
You're thinking of Wetherspoons
(I can't do that strikethrough palaver)
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:34, Reply)
<s>the thing you want to strikethrough</s>

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:40, Reply)
<s>thing</s>
\see it's where you put it that I seem to be lacking (missus)
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:42, Reply)
Only works in body text bit, not title text bit.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:42, Reply)
but it only works in the body not the title, <s>like this</s>
but it only works in the body not the title, like this
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:43, Reply)
Not like this
like this?

9 years of ignorance and poof!

Thanks teach.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:47, Reply)
Yiss

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:47, Reply)
By jove I think he's got it
ot it ay
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:48, Reply)

Not like this
like this?

9 years of ignorance and
Hi I'm edjogs, I'm a massive
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:49, Reply)
+ter

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:00, Reply)
You know what? I *do* like this!!!

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:47, Reply)
Collecting records is well cool and anyone who does it deserves the respect of everyone here.
All other hobbies are shit and all sport is bent.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:36, Reply)
Do you mean criminal records?
Such as Abba?
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:40, Reply)
I mean does the horse that's running second say,
"What's so attractive at the other side of this fence?" Oh I see, grass.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:39, Reply)
No.
The horse is following commands trained in to it by the jockey and trainers.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:45, Reply)
I wonder about this guy sometimes WP, I really do.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:48, Reply)
He's new, we'll soon see him right.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:53, Reply)
Well OK. We'll see.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:00, Reply)
No, really, we'll sort him out.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:09, Reply)
The jockey I can understand...
...but talking footwear???
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:54, Reply)
I can think of at least two Enid Blyton stories where this is the main plot device.
I'm not sure what the relevance of this is, mind.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:58, Reply)
'5 Catch a Nigger' , right?

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:00, Reply)
Sambo is way too fast, they'll have to use their cunning to trap him.
"A trail of bananas leading to a bear trap is just the thing" said George joyfully
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:07, Reply)
10/10

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:17, Reply)
I used to work for an extreme sport's website, there was some really entertaining things to watch on that.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:41, Reply)
I think extreme ironing is an excellent idea and taking part definitely doesn't make you a prick.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:56, Reply)
I like to jump up, kick a wall and then yell "PARKOUR".

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:58, Reply)
I do the same, but with children's faces.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:59, Reply)
But that's with Asian kids and you yell 'PAKI'

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:01, Reply)
I think you're getting Parkour and Pakour mixed up.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:03, Reply)
and pakora

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:04, Reply)
I thought that was when you fried them.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:05, Reply)
Yes milady?

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:33, Reply)
No I don't, that would be racist.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:04, Reply)
It's the only way they'll learn, i'm suprised this methodoly isn't taken up by NUT.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:25, Reply)
It's not the sort of thing prickish medical students would do, I know that much for sure.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:59, Reply)
It's an autistic/man thing
It can have it's moments but generally it's a bit to close to OCD for my liking.

ALt: meh

AltAlt: I don't never insult nobody nor nuffink.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:49, Reply)
altalt: WEE-WEE TAPIR!!!!!!

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:53, Reply)
Has that stupid cricket competition finished yet?
or gymkhana, or whatever it's called.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:55, Reply)
I didn't know there was one.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 13:58, Reply)
Well, from what I understand, what happens is that these "cricket teams"
rove around various countries until they settle somewhere and inflict cricket on a large proportion of people that aren't interested. Then they have a fight over a burned stump or something and then TMB and Al call you a racist.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:02, Reply)
Right you are.
It all sounds rather tiring.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:05, Reply)
I don't know what all these sports teams have against balls, Monty, I really don't.
They seem to spend all their time beating nine bells out of them. Maybe they're all nullos and it's some sort of psychological catalyst for their feelings of emasculation.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:07, Reply)
Pfft...."teams"
They're called cricket groups, Kroney. Sorry, but you made a bit of a tit of yourself there.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:08, Reply)
I've got a really itchy but on my shoulder and it's too awkward a position to get a good scratch at.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:10, Reply)
Tell sportscow to sit somewhere else then

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:11, Reply)
Meh

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:14, Reply)
*does wobbly hand motion*

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:20, Reply)
Get someone to scratch it for you
You don't buy a dog and bark yourself
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:13, Reply)
I'm alone apart from a couple of customers

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:23, Reply)
So?
Say to one of them "Do you want anymore booze today? Then scratch my fucking shoulder."
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:24, Reply)
They're weird old men,
I don't really want them to touch me. But it's alright, I've found a solution.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:30, Reply)
Showering once in a while?

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:34, Reply)
You're such a horrid bully sometimes you know that?

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:43, Reply)
But on your shoulder?
You could try cosmetic surgery.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:17, Reply)
Have you tried rubbing your back up and down a tree like Baloo?

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:18, Reply)
There are no trees in the pub.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:23, Reply)
Huh...call that a pub?
More like a...no-tree place for QUEERS or something! Hahah queers.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:25, Reply)
There used to be a pub in Oxford with a tree in the middle of the bar.
It might still be there but it's in a really studenty bit that I try to avoid.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:29, Reply)
Sounds like someone has pub-tree envy
pssst....I'm talking about you
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:33, Reply)
Look, Windy, I like you but I can't do all of your thinking for you.
You can lead a horse to water...
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:25, Reply)
but you can't make it perform cpr

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:28, Reply)
I found a rough knot of door frame about the right height.
It's all sorted.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:28, Reply)
did one of your legs start going like you were chasing a rabbit?

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:38, Reply)
A little.

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:45, Reply)
Chopsticks are great for scratching, especially the wooden ones you get for free in a take away.
Because you're not eating with them, and are against waste, you can put them back afterwards.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:29, Reply)
137/12
woot.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:02, Reply)
Climbing on icy mountains or skiing on them
and falling off and getting smashed to pieces? That's not sport.

Flying around in a helicopter and picking up the bodies. Now that's collecting.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:16, Reply)
I think people who collect records are just secretly into ultimate frisbee

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:32, Reply)
I think people who secrete frisbees are ultimately into collecting records

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:34, Reply)
it's like a bent venn diagram

a bvennt diagram
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:37, Reply)
i just had a 2 hour training session on "unconscious bias"
was interesting. everyone's favourite fat bald poster should definitely have to read it.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:36, Reply)
Can we pretend for a minute that I don't know what half you people look like,
And have decided that you're all fat and bald.
(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:45, Reply)
you'd then have to choose your favourite

(, Wed 7 Aug 2013, 14:47, Reply)

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