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What do people believe about you that isn't correct?
Alt: my iPad keyboard is really starting to fuck me off. What technological elements of your life annoy you?


yes, I know it's not the best of threads, but it's got to be better than the one below.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:36, 190 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
"What do believe about you?"
The fuck?

EDIT: Bastard.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:36, Reply)
iPad keyboarditis strikes again.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:38, Reply)
People think I'm alright, but I'm not.
Alt: The annoying second or so my phone takes to go to contacts. It should be immediate. It isn't.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:45, Reply)
That I'm a dull wanker.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:46, Reply)
I have a horrible feeling that most of the things people believe about me are true :o(

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:47, Reply)
Such as your homosexuality and promiscuity down the docks?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:48, Reply)
*sigh*

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:49, Reply)
The fact that you're nearly 40, but look closer to 60?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:20, Reply)
Nothing. I stand guilty as charged.
Alt: When you log on to an internet messageboard and there are nothing but shit threads.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:47, Reply)
Alt: no Internet in my new house. Well 3G but that's shite.
Hi battered
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:48, Reply)
alright lad
coming out to Jeffstock?
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:49, Reply)
I owe you a kidney.
I don't even know when it is, ill have a ganders at the calendar now.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:52, Reply)
couplea weeks
I'll settle for a pint
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:52, Reply)
I agree to these terms.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:53, Reply)
Thought you might.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:53, Reply)
I warn you, he bailed last time
he's like the anti-Dozer.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:21, Reply)
I hope he doesn't develop 'emergency diabetes' like Bart.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:28, Reply)
Alright bob. I'm still waiting for broadband in my new place an' all. Should be done by the 21st. Annoying.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:49, Reply)
12th for me. It's a pain in the arse. New place? I thought you loved your house?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:52, Reply)
Getting divorced innit. Moved out.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:54, Reply)
Sorry to hear that. Genuinely innit

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:57, Reply)
Thanks. It's for the best in the long term, particularly for my daughter.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:57, Reply)
I am on docs orders today. Am at home. NO STEREO CHAT.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:59, Reply)
Gaaaaaaay.
What's occurring?
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:01, Reply)
Manky foot

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:03, Reply)
Diabetes related?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:04, Reply)
Diafeetes

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:07, Reply)
Yup. 3 weeks now.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:09, Reply)
ARGH!

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:10, Reply)
Irritating. Was OK 'til this morning.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:15, Reply)
Never mind, keep up the fags and they'll cut it off for you in a year or so.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:17, Reply)
I'm all about saving NHS money!!!!

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:30, Reply)
I'm a lot taller and fitter than I really am :(

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:48, Reply)
people believe that I am able to start a thread
that is both witty and liable to start many replies.

This is evidently wrong.

Alt: Phones, possibly the rudest thing on the planet, you wouldn't accept someone walking into your office in the middle of a meeting demanding attention but if your phone rings and you are in a meeting people often answer it
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:49, Reply)
Dunno
People are either nice to me, or ignore me completely.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:54, Reply)
I think you've only got one hat.
There, I said it.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:57, Reply)
I can never find a hat that either fits or looks good
I seem to have an unusually large head
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:59, Reply)
Which probably explains why me and my mother don't get on

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:59, Reply)
:0 M-my head's too big for hats, too...

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:00, Reply)
Wow
Imagine what our children would look like, Frisbee
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:05, Reply)
Like god would have entered the big-head cheat on our family :'(

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:06, Reply)
Up, Down Square, Triangle

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:07, Reply)
*falls over*
*can't get up*
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:08, Reply)
Well on the bright side, I know where my USB key went :(

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:12, Reply)
I doubt he has two anythings
monoballed mong
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:00, Reply)
I HAVE FEELINGS YOU KNOW

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:05, Reply)
Only on the left hand side

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:08, Reply)
If you go to the Albert Hall
You will find the other one
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:08, Reply)
Funnily enough I went to the Albert Hall a little while ago
It didn't occur to me to search for any testicles. I should've asked someone.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:09, Reply)
*ignores*

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:58, Reply)
*acts with dignity*
*goes home and cries*
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:58, Reply)
We still on for this evening?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 8:59, Reply)
See above.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:00, Reply)
YEAH? WELL I THINK YOU'RE A FUCKING CUNT!

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:27, Reply)
Yeah right
Like you've ever thought anything in your life
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:28, Reply)
I once thought about licking your bald head.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:31, Reply)
Well I only just shaved it
So it's as smooth as a honeydew melon
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:33, Reply)
Well, that's my 3rd boner of the day.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:35, Reply)
Show off.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:43, Reply)
He says "day"
He means "ever"
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:47, Reply)
Well that seems more realistic.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:49, Reply)
I think you're neither windy nor a pig.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:28, Reply)
I've seen your face and I know you're not a frisbee

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:33, Reply)
+although I would like to see it caught in a dog's jaws

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:37, Reply)
Oh...oh that's cold :(

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:51, Reply)
I'm a mean-spirited bastard and no mistake

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:56, Reply)
YEAAAHHHH

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:29, Reply)
et tu, Monty?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:29, Reply)
get fucked

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:36, Reply)
not really xxxxx

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:36, Reply)
Oh man....Imma gaz you something
2 secs
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:37, Reply)
Not sure where to start with this...

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:04, Reply)
Well shut up then.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:06, Reply)
It's nice that you're missing me, but you need to learn to understand and accept your emotions rather than blindly lashing out with rage

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:22, Reply)
I'm really from Peckham
Alt:
Computers are "fucking shite". If they worked properly and correctly all the time, Kroney and I would be unemployed.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:06, Reply)
'Working properly and correctly' is no obstacle to your average office drone mashing the keyboard in despair and phoning IT
About 50% of my office phone up panicking every time a piece of software they use every day pops up with an upgrade notification.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:11, Reply)
I'm having Java woes at the moment

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:13, Reply)
try instant

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:14, Reply)
I can only open one excel doc at a time or it has a spas

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:23, Reply)
"Hi, I've had a message pop up on my screen"
"What does it say?"
"To finish updates restart, with buttons that say 'now' or 'later'"
"OK?"
"So what do I do?"
"I don't follow"
"Do I restart now or later?"
"Er...well, do you want to restart now?"
"No"
"Then maybe hit the 'later' button".

^This conversation happened.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:42, Reply)
How did you NOT hunt them down and punch them in the face?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:43, Reply)
I honestly don't know.
But the amount of stupid conversations I'll take before going on an office shooting spree are now measured in single figures.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:45, Reply)
I do feel sorry for you
but wonder if perhaps this line of work is really 'you'?
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:07, Reply)
That my name is indeed 'Bill Clay'
Alt: Thanks to the combined powers of morning TV and the interwebs I have so far this morning been subjected to David Cameron's pasty moonface and multiple images of 'Cooked Whole Chicken In A Can'. *dry heaves*
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:08, Reply)
Oh dear.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/969091_10153111270835177_1754703631_n.jpg

This popped up on my facebook feed.

Q - That I work in porn. It's just not true. The rumours even spread as far back as my home town. Strange, strange people.

AltQ - Backing up my NAS. Make it simple plz.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:11, Reply)
piclols

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:11, Reply)

fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/969091_10153111270835177_1754703631_n.jpg
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:18, Reply)
Thanks Chompers

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:23, Reply)
*finger guns*

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:26, Reply)
Wonder what he did...

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:27, Reply)
You don't want to know

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:32, Reply)
Definitely do, Montgomery old chum.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:34, Reply)
What’s important is that I’ve said sorry.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:36, Reply)
Pissed on some bouncers

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:42, Reply)
Not surprised.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:46, Reply)
hahaha

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:31, Reply)
I have never killed a man.
Alt. Stupid people being allowed access to the Internet.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:13, Reply)
alt Soz Bye

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:14, Reply)
Not you bonzo, please don't go.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:22, Reply)
That I'm a people person
youse can all fuck off, to be honest.

Alt: I spilt wine on my laptop keyboard a couple of weeks ago and fucked it. I have a USB keyboard and it's fine except that every so often the laptop keyboard spazzes out and just starts sending a random key in an unstoppable////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:18, Reply)
Luckily you had something to eat and the laptop repaired itself, right?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:33, Reply)
No idea. Probably all sorts of things.
I am annoyed that I can't get Word 2013 to maintain different types of endnote citations in the same document. I've been trying for over an hour. Do not understand.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:20, Reply)
This guy can help
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23601984
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:29, Reply)
Alright double millinery topped person?
Totes going to nag that guy to do my homework.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:31, Reply)
Worth a try
Might be worth flashing him a bit of ankle. Let's be honest...he'll probably be thankful for the attention.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:35, Reply)
Can't I just like, show a toe and get away with that?
Not sure I want to show so much as ankle.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:36, Reply)
That's dangerous territory
He might be a toe person
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:48, Reply)
true. How about an elbow then?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:50, Reply)
Yeah, elbows are pretty safe
I can't say that I've ever seen a sexy one
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:51, Reply)
sends self shot gaz of sexy buttered elbow

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:53, Reply)
I stand corrected
cor e
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:01, Reply)
What sort of monster has more than one type of endnote citation?
It's people like you who are ruining academia.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:30, Reply)
It's a stupid assignment. I have to submit the same document with both Nature and Cell formatting, and then a final one using Cambridge.
It's annoying as fuck. It's people like my unit chair who are ruining academia.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:31, Reply)
I'm not sure it's possible to ruin something as inane as "academia".

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:44, Reply)
You haven't met my unit chair.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:51, Reply)
Is she hot? I assume she's hot, otherwise why would anybody want to sit on her?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:00, Reply)
Hotter than your mum is, that's for sure.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:15, Reply)
Dontcha wish your mother was hot like me....
DONTCHA
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:16, Reply)
Them's some sassy italics right there twoey

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:27, Reply)
I don't like opening packets of rice or pasta but I find airline food acceptable
this is for the alt I guess I don't know
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:30, Reply)
Those fucking juice carton tops where there's a hinged plastic opening
and a silver pull-out tab are worse. Fucking cunts.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:35, Reply)
why can't we be living like the jetsons yet monty?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:39, Reply)
It's a question I ask myself every single day.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:52, Reply)
Good Morning.
That I am the Messiah.

alt. Nearly all of them.

Just bought a book about iPad. What's yours doing wrong? It may be in there.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:57, Reply)
What his iPad is "doing wrong"
is not correctly interpreting his hamfisted smashing of its keyboard properly. I'd prescribe a course of not being a fat-fingered oaf.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 9:59, Reply)
Or failing that, at least read back what gobbledygook he has mashed into it before posting.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:07, Reply)
That's just crazy talk!

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:17, Reply)
I think I just need to turn off auto complete.
I've now tethered my phone to my laptop which should be better.

Certainly a quicker connection than I was expecting. Good old 4G.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:19, Reply)
Yer. Turned mine off too.
I was forever saying to it, "I never said that, you bastard!"
I was surprised with Siri though. Typing feature is more accurate than I expected.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:25, Reply)
Never used Siri. My daughter (23 months old) has managed to activate it several times though.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:28, Reply)

phone neck
my laptop a high beam
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:25, Reply)
Yes indeed
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-23608812
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:01, Reply)
lol
top marks
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:02, Reply)
hahahaha

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:06, Reply)
The thing that annoys me about this
Is that since when has 'bad taste' been a problem when it comes to making people laugh? Isn't the 'famous british humour' been about bad taste and toilet humour? Grow up or fuck off.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:10, Reply)
YEAHHHH

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:16, Reply)
I'd love to see someone, instead of that 'I had a lapse of judgement and I'm sorry' thing,
say 'It was a fucking joke. What's wrong with you people? Are you going to let the tabloids tell you what to be upset about all your lives?'.

Of course, it would have to be somebody who can afford never to work again...
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:20, Reply)
Definitely
I'd also like a politician say "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??? I'M LITERALLY TRYING TO MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY HERE!! DO YOU THINK THAT'S EASY??? FUCK!!! JUST GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK, AND JUST FUCKING TRY IT OK?? JUST TRY NOT BEING PRICKS FOR ONE FUCKING SECOND AND MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, THINGS WILL IMPROVE!! FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!"
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:28, Reply)
its the fucking hand wringing
online martyrs/ grief tourists that wind me up. and have created this situation where we have to be shocked
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:45, Reply)
I'm really not a workshy layabout who stays in bed till lunch, then goes back for a post-prandial nap.
I am, however, a housewhale.

Alt: the bulb in my bathroom blew over a week ago, and the only time I remember it needs replacing is when I try to switch it on at night. Gah.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:15, Reply)
Some might say
That you've remembered it now....GO DO IT!
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:16, Reply)
But that would involve getting out of bed

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:16, Reply)
Hells bells

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:19, Reply)
Housewhale? I just have an image in my head of a giant house underwater, singing whale songs.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:24, Reply)
The only thing thats been blown in your house for a while eh eh eh

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:25, Reply)
I GET THIS.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:37, Reply)
nudge nudge
wink wink
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:37, Reply)
Who want's to read a fucking shit article???
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/07/10-rules-managing-penis-sexting-wine-toaster
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:20, Reply)
Fucking hell

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:24, Reply)
Well, that's made any other article she writes pretty much pointless.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:25, Reply)
I don't know if this one is shitter or not.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386420/Did-TELEPATHY-make-young-engineers-kill-Official-s-bizarre-theory-spate-deaths-military-research-site.html#comments
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:26, Reply)
*returns bazooka pills*

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:37, Reply)
I liked this...and 'liked' it
b3ta.com/talk/7673546
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:38, Reply)
Would someone please start a new thread?

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:38, Reply)
Done

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:39, Reply)
Thank you.

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:40, Reply)
and instantly fucking STOMPED by Boyce

(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 10:40, Reply)
Most of my memes are at least 60% untrue.
I think only the steam punk one is totally untrue though.

Alt: not a fan of every fucking thing being touch-screen, I miss buttons. every phone trying to be an iphone is a bit stupid too.
(, Thu 8 Aug 2013, 11:01, Reply)

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