What is it that first drew you to B3ta all them years ago?
For me it was the image challenge and QOTW, which used to have some LOLworthy answers. I hardly look at them now.

What keeps you here now besides procrastination.
This is easier for those of you who meet IRL.

Alt. Something about food. Suggest me something to cook this weekend. Must be meaty
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:09, 42 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

The image challenges originally
Not quite sure how I found offtopic TBH but it feels comfy and snug (like YM) so I stayed

Its still funnier than 98.5% of the internet

Alt:
Risotto
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:11, Reply)

Yes I do love OT. it brings me joy in otherwise crappy work days
Im running out of new ideas for cooking. I try and cook me and the other half something new each week as he isn't too diverse in cuisine.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:15, Reply)

Jamaican mutton curry with rice & peas?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:22, Reply)

No he ate it of his own accord

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:23, Reply)

I still can't master rice 'n' peas, it's better to use cow peas rather than red kindney beans as they don't break up

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:25, Reply)

Maybe just bung em in at the end?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:31, Reply)

That's not the way I've been shown

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:38, Reply)

me neither but it would stop em from breaking down

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:40, Reply)

Top suggestion. Maybe not mutton...

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:38, Reply)

goat then

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:38, Reply)

Mutton is one of the finest meats.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:40, Reply)

Im not sure my Sainsburys's stretches to mutton

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:44, Reply)

if you are looking for something to cook with the other half
you could do the Armin Meiwes special
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:28, Reply)

for - he hates cooking!

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:45, Reply)

He wouldnt be doing much of the cooking in this instance

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:58, Reply)

Ohhh... Googled.
Tastes like chicken
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 15:03, Reply)

You'd know

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 15:04, Reply)

I was very pleased with this reference

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 15:15, Reply)

wots the other 1.5% sports?
just for research innit
( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:18, Reply)

Knowing Sporty it's probably Bovine porn

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:20, Reply)

tggi ^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:22, Reply)

+ Austrian

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:25, Reply)

d'ya think its totally necessary to use that aboretum rice for a risotto?
dunt see why there has to be a special rice for teh flucker, normal rice does just fine in my opinion
( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:19, Reply)

More starchy innit
Holds its shape better
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:25, Reply)

arborio
shorter grains and more starch.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:40, Reply)

i used to read the questions of the week
'cept it was usually when they were over so i just saw the popular ones that were proper stories n shizz. then i started seeing all the guff that went on when the question was open and they was much fannying about and then i started lurking round here where the fannying guff increased tenfold and was multiplied by flid so i stuck around then started posting and got called after all sorts, but these counts is alright deep down really

alt: i saw summat at the weekend that were those pork cheeks thats feckin in the vogue at the moment done with some tarapalmersalata on a flatbred. that looked alright
( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:16, Reply)

Tarapalmersalata... with a light dusting of coke.

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:19, Reply)

^ This ^
Alt: You should do a roast suckling pig, I tasted a really good one that used Root Beer and brown sugar in the recipe
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:19, Reply)

A Jamie Oliver image challenge which had me weeping with laughter.
Alt: my kid made me some chimichurri - you should make some and slather it on a BIG FAT STEAK.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:18, Reply)

When I first had a work email address, my boss used to send round the occasional lolarious picture.
It transpired that most of them originated from b3ta.
He also mentioned to me that he would occasionally read qotw, so I used to have a read of it as it was quite a discreet thing to have open.
It soon became apparent to me that the conversations in the replies were often more amusing than the stories, which ultimately lead me to off topic.
Unfortunately off topic was shit and weird for ages, with all the HSH threads and nyommy caykes, but it did eventually get better.
I stay here because I love you all.

Alt: Can't help you with that.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:19, Reply)

I just found the site by chance when bored at work, and started reading the QOTW and gradually explored the rest of the site until years later joined in 'ere.
I only stay here for the procrastination element. That's the best bit. And the regular hearty Lolz.

Alt: Quail.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:20, Reply)

Pretty much the way that Reg found it via QOTW, I lurked for years before I opened an account
After reading /ot I was hooked
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:23, Reply)

HARTERS!!
I bet you have already had a return fanfare but have another!!

*FANFARES*
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:39, Reply)

Watch out double H
it would appear that a predator is after you...
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:42, Reply)

Please...
If that were true he would have had a rohypnol special way before now.

Beside's, Im happy with what I got.

*Jenny from the blocks*
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:46, Reply)

Cheers Jay
That means a lot
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 15:10, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsGj32Vp7vc
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 15:12, Reply)

I was forced at gunpoint to
sign up and read the whole of B3ta, by Israelis due to my suggesting that they were behaving completely legitimately in Palestine
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 14:28, Reply)