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So, I had a weekend mainly by myself, and though I was content, I did get a bit bored.
How are you with your own company? Are you a lone wolf or do you need to be social? I think I sit somewhere in the middle. Better with small groups.

Alt. Piers Morgan sacked by CNN or some other American thing. Who would you banish from the earth and why?
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/cnn-axes-piers-morgan-live-due-to-falling-ratings-9148478.html

AltAlt. Alright?

That Dr preference is a bit rude.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:02, 168 replies, latest was 11 years ago)
I dunt need nobody or nuffink

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:04, Reply)
That's the spirit!

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:06, Reply)
I'm a home today as I've got a really unpleasant stomach bug
I've been shitting through the eye of a needle for the last three days.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:05, Reply)
delightful!

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:07, Reply)
Did you catch it from your daughter? I've found I've come down with more bugs since micro started hanging out with other kids - they seem to catch all sorts from each other.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:07, Reply)
Probably, she's fine though.
Since the middle of December I've only had about a week when I've not been ill with some sort of bug, and the coincides neatly with her starting nursery.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:09, Reply)
Seems to happen to most parents I know. I'm not looking forward to mine having chicken pox, but I know it's inevitable.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:13, Reply)
I've always been fine, clearly you both have inferior immune systems to me on account of me being genetically superior

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:15, Reply)
Or your child is so unpleasant that other kids avoid it.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:16, Reply)
either that or mini ape is the kid that nobody goes near, so she doesn't pick up anything

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:16, Reply)
Except without a regular testing and bolstering of your immune system, you are likely to be killed by a relatively innocuous bout of flu.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:18, Reply)
my uncle has genuinely never had a cold in his life
we've just been told he's got cancer. he's flatly refusing to tell his kids or grandkids, as apparently cancer is a sign of weakness or some such bullet headed Yorkshire farmer nonsense.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:20, Reply)
If only he'd had a few colds

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:21, Reply)
he's like a lump of granite
I suspect he'll see off the cancer. fucking hope so anyway.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:41, Reply)
Aqueous calamine.
I've heard glowing reports of how good it is. Much better than calamine lotion.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:16, Reply)
Its Aids
HTHs
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:15, Reply)
I stupidly googled my symptoms over christmas and once again confirm that I have both AIDS cancer and TB

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:16, Reply)
Oh man thats the worst sort of Aids/cancer/TB as well

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:27, Reply)
this^
One calf in nursery, one calf in school, one wife working at a school

3 x the illness

Apart from me, who appears to be almost immune to most things
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:22, Reply)
The old feller spent so long working on sewerage treatment plants
that he's practically immune to everything now. Except cancer, obviously. The massive drama queen.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:23, Reply)
I had that cancer once, couple of paracetamol and an early night and I was back in work again the next day.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:25, Reply)
Yeah, he's all 'Oh, I'm dying, wah wah wah.'
The big jessie.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:31, Reply)
I'm not sure if it is a good or a bad thing to not be ill TBH

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:26, Reply)
It's a bad thing.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:29, Reply)
*fears*

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:31, Reply)
I didn't see anyone over the weekend :'(
I'm alright with my own company, but not all the time. Gets a bit dull with no interaction innit.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:08, Reply)
I spent the weekend in Oxford with friends. Good to catch up with them & also to get out of London for a change.
As I'm such fascinating company I don't mind spending some time on my own.

Alt: Every gypsy, romany & traveller. Thieving cunts.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:11, Reply)
Shocking bullying of Rory.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:12, Reply)
Alright saggy?

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:14, Reply)
Is it in their homeland education that they all need to play the accordion?

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:13, Reply)
+ steal.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:14, Reply)
I was in Liverpool just before xmas.
We got a bit sidetracked, and ended up walking past the same corner about four times in an hour. Every time we went past, this same gypsy woman was playing the exact same (incredibly poor) rendition of Jingle Bells on a fiddle.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:15, Reply)
I would have spat on her and smashed her fiddle.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:17, Reply)
^ Hard man

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:18, Reply)
We just laughed.
A lot.

We may possibly have been a bit drunk by that stage, though.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:20, Reply)
I quite like kicking around on my own, but that's probably because it doesn't happen very often

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:13, Reply)
Hard to avoid people in a Yurt.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:18, Reply)
Are you an only child?
I am and I find it incredibly easy to be alone.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:23, Reply)
Nup, I have a sister*
It's just a lot of my hobbies are best enjoyed alone



*FOB
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:26, Reply)
I am too and I really do enjoy alone time. You get used to having someone round though :)

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:39, Reply)
Peace and quiet is very under rated

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:40, Reply)
I was six when DJTP was born, and I *hated* being an only child.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:42, Reply)
I like having a walk about with my headphones on and the world out.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:48, Reply)
Cup of tea lols
l n
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)
A weekend by myself would be absolute heaven
but it's rarer than a decent Die Hard sequel these days. I love my own company, when there's other people around they expect you to do stuff like talk and stop wanking.

Alt: Noisy eaters
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:17, Reply)
tggi^
The only words you speak when alone are grunting out YMs name when on the vinegars
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:25, Reply)
i am very social (you may have heard that i have LOADS of friends) and like to be out every night if possible
however I also need time on my own, and get very grumpy if I don't get it. although I've never had the chance to do it, a holiday on my own sounds rather blissful.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:18, Reply)
Depends, really. I'm happy enough with my own company, for the most part.
I like a bit of company, but I get that from the mrs. The times I've been single I've got a bit bored without company after a while.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:18, Reply)
^
Doing life and that is much better if you have someone to bitch about it with.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:19, Reply)
The problem is almost everybody grates on me after a while.
I really am the prickliest, most intolerant person around. Luckily the other half somehow manages not to wind me up at all. At least, I haven't discovered any annoying habits, yet.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:24, Reply)
this^

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:25, Reply)
Definitely a keeper then.
I don't think I've ever met anybody who I could be with 24/7
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:26, Reply)
We bonded over our mutual hatred of our fellow man.
Dead romantic.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:43, Reply)
alt: i would banish cheapskates and rude people
and cyclists (actually they would be covered by both categories above)
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:18, Reply)
Let it go, chompy and CQ are long gone

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:19, Reply)
pffffft, he said off the planet, not off here
you know the kind of twat that turns up to a party empty-handed, claiming that there was nowhere open selling wine, or they left it at home, or a fox ran off with it. or who turns up with a half-swigged bottle of red wine, as some twat's mate once did to me - "thanks, you really shouldn't have".

although interesting that you considered both of them to be cheapskates...
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:22, Reply)
This is known as 'doing a Light in Chains'.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:23, Reply)
I'm pretty sure he stood his round the last time we were in Brizzle.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:25, Reply)
He has mentioned it at least 200 times

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:25, Reply)
there's worse than him
he has bought me drinks and he has paid his way in restaurants. some people don't think that they have to do this.

(I am talking about people everywhere, not on here)
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:28, Reply)
\o/

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:48, Reply)
They can have tap water and maybe a nibble on the party favours but NO MORE!

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:40, Reply)
Cheapskates?
Like, the sort of people who begrudge paying for a kitchen?
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:21, Reply)
i do really
I think they should give it to me for FREE.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:22, Reply)
Offer to let them feature it in their brochure / on their website.
Should be good for a fairly decent reduction.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:32, Reply)
So, me then?

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:22, Reply)
I am always happy in my own company
I find it odd that some people seem to struggle with it as a concept,

Alt The Internet
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:24, Reply)
I think once you have a family, time on your own becomes more pleasant
I spent two hours in the garden yesterday and it were reet lush
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:32, Reply)
Exactly this.
I've got an allotment, not a huge one mind you, precisely for this reason.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:43, Reply)
This is the plan for the bottom of my garden
Cow's allotment
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:43, Reply)
+ and wanking shed

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:44, Reply)
Of course

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:46, Reply)

wanking milking
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:47, Reply)
There was a woman on TV last night called Moo

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)
The best name I've heard on telly recently was someone on Question Time called Tokyo Sexwhale.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:53, Reply)
Our council just created an allotment site down the road at the back end of last year
So this will be my first year at it. Quite looking forward to it. Just going to try loads of stuff and see what happens.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:48, Reply)
This will be my farming technique too

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)
I dont have a family
apart from wife and dog. But I still love my time alone, once a few years back the missus was away I managed to go from 6pm on Friday until 8am on Monday without speaking to a single other human. Bliss
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:49, Reply)
I just found that toffee crisp i thought i had lost

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:31, Reply)
\o/
Best Monday ever
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:32, Reply)
I was pleased, it was in my bag after all

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:33, Reply)
all melted and mangled

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:40, Reply)
PERFECT CONDITION

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:41, Reply)
My hangover's kicking in :(

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:40, Reply)
Start drinking again.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:43, Reply)
tggi^

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:43, Reply)
If I wasn't at work, I would definitely do this.
Instead, I've got to wait until hometime.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:47, Reply)
All the twos

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:48, Reply)
Amateur.
Lunchtime pint or GTFO
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:49, Reply)
I am equally comfortable on my own, or in groups. Like most normal people I guess.
Alt: Piers Morgan is a self important little prick, and I'm glad that the Yanks have finally caught on.

AltAlt: Maybe?
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:42, Reply)
1st world problems
I was chopping some logs for my wood burner at the weekend and one half of the log I'd just chopped smashed off my shin, just above where my boots were. This HURTS.

After making sure I hadn't actually broken my leg I continued with chopping the next log. Which then proceeded to smash off my shin IN EXACTLY THE SAME FUCKING PLACE!

I think I invented some new swear words when I could actually breathe again
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:42, Reply)
You're chopping wood wrong.
Happy to help.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:43, Reply)
Some would say I was chopping it too well

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:44, Reply)
No, you're being inefficient.
There's no need to transfer so much energy into the wood to cause it to bounce off.

I hope it gets you in the testicle next time.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:46, Reply)
Me too!
Proper man job chopping wood

Outside, axe, fire
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:46, Reply)
Give it a tap to get the blade in and let the weight do the work.
If you don't, then I hope you miss and cut your cock off.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:47, Reply)
Nah
More fun to leather it
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:48, Reply)
Tell that to your shin and, hopefully, your testicle.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)
My shin bears battle scars

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)
So does mine, from an idiotic stunt when I was fourteen.
Sliced it open right to the bone, like a fucking flid.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:52, Reply)
I have so many scars it is unbelievable
Its all lies though. Chicks don't dig 'em
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:55, Reply)
yeah they do
what chicks don't dig is your face
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:56, Reply)
They look like they've had a go
With a pickaxe
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:57, Reply)
What a cupid stunt

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:55, Reply)
I told the story as one of my first qotw answers.
http://b3ta.com/questions/scars/post22939
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:56, Reply)
Excellent work

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:57, Reply)
My gran taught me how to chop wood and lay a proper fire.
I reckon I could still do it now. Never leaves you.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:48, Reply)
My fire SKILLZ are Jedi like
When we used to go to festivals/camping I was known as Pyromaniac (insert real surname)
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:49, Reply)
That should be Pete
or Paul, otherwise its a shit nickname
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:55, Reply)
Better than "yeti" which was my college one

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:55, Reply)
I just meant for the alliteration
Your real name leads itself to a version (NO REAL NAMES)
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:57, Reply)
I went out with a rural Canadian.
I can chop wood, lay a fire and throw a double-headed axe with reasonable accuracy. Believe it or not, that's a sport over there.

I made sure we were indoors when I had an argument with her.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:49, Reply)
Was he a lumberjack?

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)
Nope, she worked in a mental home.
I can only assume they were the best behaved dribblies in the area.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:51, Reply)
He certainly got Mountied

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:51, Reply)
I saw Mounties. I was disappointed.
They look like coppers in all cars and that. No red jackets or horses to be seen. Didn't see any fucking bears or moose, neither. I got literally nothing from that relationship.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:53, Reply)
Oh man
Due South lies!
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:54, Reply)
Did you buy her suspendies and a bra for crimbo?

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:51, Reply)
He just let her borrow his.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:52, Reply)
So you're an idiot who doesn't learn from his mistakes?

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:45, Reply)
Yes
Yes I am
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:45, Reply)
Two children.
That's all I'm saying.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:48, Reply)
Z I N G!

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:49, Reply)
Burn them instead of the logs?
That was b-u-r-n, before Barters pipes up.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)
I fell over drunk on Friday night & scrapped all the skin off my left knee. It hurts.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:47, Reply)
I've not been falling over drunk for ages.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:54, Reply)
Me neither. Had one of the best doner kebabs I've ever had that night. Just what I needed after a night drinking Stowford Press cider.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:55, Reply)
Our local kebab shop does a mixed chicken and lamb one which is truly amazing
Excellent char-grilling
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:56, Reply)
When hacking a tree out of the garden
I managed to smash my shin with the back of the axe... I said OW.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:51, Reply)
Blunderjack

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:52, Reply)
Excellent work

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:53, Reply)
Noncing on /board!
Someone tell tell b3th there's NSFW images being posted!
b3ta.com/board/11059555
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:43, Reply)
Trips tho

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:46, Reply)
Bartleby is knocking one off the wrist right this minute

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:46, Reply)
How is that noncery?
It's quite clearly an adult. Children don't have waists and hips.

Also, I'm not allowed to police /board. They have grown-up mods for that.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:47, Reply)
typical mod, too busy fingering kids to police the place properly.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)
pretty sure this makes you an accessory to the noncery, by spreading it around
POLICE
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:52, Reply)
It's a fair cop.
fair ginger
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:00, Reply)
I AM SENDING A GINGER CURSE YOUR WAY
may every hair on your body turn redder than rob's dilated nostril hairs when he catches the scent of a dog's bumhole on the breeze
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:03, Reply)
Top picture posting on /board badger.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:03, Reply)
I'll see you all in a week.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:05, Reply)
YES
Edit: No :(
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:47, Reply)
I was waiting for it too :(

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)
Damn that Gormo
Hardly ever posts, then sneaks in to nick all the glory :(
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:52, Reply)
I know, part timers should really check and leave stuff like that for those of us who would appreciate it more

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:53, Reply)
Never see the like of these glory days again
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2000000
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:54, Reply)
Oh, well done!

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:56, Reply)
I don't really understand what I've done here tbh.
Edit: nvm, worked it out.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:56, Reply)
Don't be modest

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:56, Reply)
dubz
didn't you check 'em?
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:57, Reply)
Those aren't simply dubz silly

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 11:58, Reply)
Girls eh? They never understand the important things
Edit: Also, nice dubs
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:00, Reply)
No fucking clue. I mean, if you want dubz, look no further than here.
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2222244
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:00, Reply)
Played.

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:04, Reply)
I think 2222444 will be up for grabs today too

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:05, Reply)
Nah, I'm leaving that one for someone else

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:13, Reply)
I keep missing tweets like this.
I feel I should celebrate the numbers by tweeting something mundane.
(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:04, Reply)
Er this ent twitter, Jase

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:05, Reply)
@tuib sorry you missed out on 2222222 #loser RT etc

(, Mon 24 Feb 2014, 12:06, Reply)

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almost...

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What are you talking about jaysum?

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Nuffink. Dosent matter.

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Well this is good!
My brain's still in limbo.
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NEW THREAD!

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