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( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 17:37, 179 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Damn, I am working now on Wednesday. This means I have to get the BUS again. The fucking bus.
Also I have posted a story on QOTW. *pimps*
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 18:07, Reply)

back to my cold house from a shit day at work.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 18:24, Reply)

I suppose if I burnt the letters from the gas board, the heat from the fire would keep me warm for weeks. *plays with matches*
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 18:31, Reply)

Anyone else listening to it?
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 18:55, Reply)

I'll be getting all fed and watered at my folks' this weekend.
*happies*
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 18:59, Reply)

I haven't been home for a visit since early June. Looking forward to it.
And spending Saturday evening getting drunk with happylittletulip as she lives near my folks.
Should be a good weekend!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:07, Reply)

No Heroes downloads for the next couple of weeks. This sucks major league donkey cocks. Bloody Americans interrupting my TV pleasure to choose a new fucking president.
Incidentally, how're we all?
/Edit
Fuck me, you've all run away. I'll just put this here:
www.snotr.com/video/1786
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:16, Reply)

The whole thing leaves me completely underwhelmed.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:22, Reply)

I see what you did there!
@CU
I am a little bit intrigued by this election!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:24, Reply)

It's happened to me once or twice, but an _ comes in handy.
/Edit
@BK
Certainly not the worst thing I have done in my time here. Grabbing driving examiner's crotches notwithstanding, of course.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:24, Reply)

I shouldn't feel like this. wasted to fuck. Is it too early for bed?
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:27, Reply)

Incidentally, your old QOTW answers have just made me fall off my chair laughing! But, a good way of enjoying fireworks if you can manage a glass of good white wine with that.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:28, Reply)

I can certainly sympathise. My driving instructor is one of the most gorgeous women I have ever met. This tiny little vision of pixie loveliness, but for some reason sat in such a way that her knee was grazing the gear stick. The number of times I almost crashed realising I had a handful of thigh as opposed to trying to change up into 5th gear going down a hill at 55mph...
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:31, Reply)

*huggles*
I met Completely Underwhelmed on Saturday at the Manchester bash and she's a very nice lady.
Top evening all round.
Have you seen myself and Enzyme's Youtubes shenanigans?
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:39, Reply)

Link:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fdleiH-qdRE
Was it hugs?
I was rather tipsy by that stage of the evening.
In that video too!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:44, Reply)

went to have dinner.
I too listen to Radio 4 Charles. Infact Mr Bin and I were discussing that in the style of Channel 4 +1 there should be a Radio 4 +12. Therefore you could hear all the good programs that are on while you are at work.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:47, Reply)

any one got any recommendations? Spooks is on I think. I might go out (If i had a stitch to weeaar). Spent all this month's money almost already I think though.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:56, Reply)

I was planning to watch University Challenge but it's not on cos Bill Oddie's perving at birds again:(
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 19:58, Reply)

Fuzzy had her phone so we danced, and then it got slightly....Brokeback Mountain.
Just after she stopped filming I said, "I'm actually slightly aroused now"
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:05, Reply)

Spooks hasn't been the same since Tom Quinn toodled out the front door and gave a rueful look back to the security cameras. At least Adam 'look, I'm wearing a coat in the office and LOOK I've popped its collar' has left though.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:06, Reply)

I like the fact lots of new B3tans have come on off-topic to join the fun.
It's a community that's growing.
*grins*
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:07, Reply)

*hugs*
We've had a lot of Saturday's reveller son OT today. It's been nice:D
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:09, Reply)

Couldn't resist the welcome mat.
Hello!
(Much prefer 'off Topic', not so many people telling me to feck orrf.)
(Hopefully...)
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:20, Reply)

I have till the end of the week to decide. I think it's looking like a 70% chance that I will return it.
Hello Monty. We never tell anyone to feck off. We are much too refined and gracious on here.
*raises pinky to drink cup of tea*
*slurrrrp*
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:24, Reply)

you know on a road crossing where you press a button for the green man to come on? Not one of the rubbish new ones with the green man lit on the display, the old ones with 'WAIT' which lights up when you press it?
If you put your hand under the bottom of the unit you can find a dial which I believe if you turn diminishes the time you have to wait for the green man to come on. If you turn it it sort of feels like you're turning a mechanism.
Anyone else noticed that?
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:27, Reply)

They're for blind people so they know when to cross the road.
Evening folks!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:29, Reply)

It is there for blind people.
If the crossing is one that doesn't beep then that knob will turn when the lights change.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:29, Reply)

I kept serruptitously turning it, thinking I was fooling the traffic of South Manchester.
I felt like Jason Bourne on Wilmslow Road.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:32, Reply)

I'm popping in and out of here tonight as I'm once again doing work stuff at home as there aren't enough hours in the day.
How is everyone?
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:35, Reply)

*snoggles*
*edit*
Hey bex!
Very well, still recovering from the Manc bash, was a bit drunken
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:37, Reply)

I am really tired and should go dye my hair but procrastination seemed more fun
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:38, Reply)

As for the lessons, well, still learning to drive. Draw your own conclusions :P
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:39, Reply)

I think I like you.
I do like everyone else too but Charles is especially bonkers : )
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:40, Reply)

Hello.
I'm still on dialup. They couldn't get my broadband kit delivered to the postoffice so I'm going to be picking it up tomorrow, or Wednesday if picking something up from the postoffice turns out to be not as straightforward as it seems. So my Manc Bash pics will have to wait.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:41, Reply)

I have 3 people I need to call as well :(
They will be long dull conversations *stretches*
OOOH OOOH check out my awesome new badge on my profile! *mini glees*
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:42, Reply)

Drink some Awesome beforehand.
It'll help you through the dull calls!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:43, Reply)

'Tis true, it's a slimming colour.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:43, Reply)

Blushes...Thinks of something funny to say...trips over ankles falls over.
I know I'm supposed to put those crappy where have they gone aha above the 8 * signs when I mimic an action on internet speak. But ooh, I'm an individual.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:45, Reply)

If it turns to tell you when the lights are changing, if you turn it the other way, does it halt the mechanism? there's definitley more give one way than the other. I'm going out to test it...NOW.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:47, Reply)

Don't worry about being yourself. When I went through my axioms phase (that is, coining more maxims than Benjamin Franklin) I used to say appearances are merely coincidental.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:47, Reply)

I just popped in to see how much fun it was at night time.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:49, Reply)

A usual Monday evening I'm afraid. And I'm fresh out of cider. I need booze... NOW.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:50, Reply)

Booze? Where? I'm fresh out as well. :(
Don't you just hate it when that happens.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:53, Reply)

3 really heavy days on the pop over the weekend.
Time for a little break I think:(
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 20:59, Reply)

A break might do me good. I re-read the "first cigarette" QOTW this afternoon, it really made me consider quitting. I'm really going to do it this time.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:02, Reply)

Nobody seems to have noticed me coming in. Perhaps it's coz I'm on dialup.
* shuffles away to corner and cries *
@TGB: Consider your new badge checked out.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:08, Reply)

Although you might find me posting a few *ahem* irritated messages over the next few weeks. Oh, and BK, should I rip your head off come December, I do apologise. Actually, on that note, anyone else up for that comedy bash in Leeds?
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:08, Reply)

Is always a good idea. As for giving up smoking, it's a good idea as well, I wish I'd never started, but hey, what the hell.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:10, Reply)

I started the proper smoker's cough the other day. My lungs are trying to escape, which tells me it is time to stop as well. If essential parts of your body are trying to climb out through your gob, something can't be right. I'll be quitting when my cigs run out- either Thursday or Friday.
/Edit
Thanks all... and if it gets too much, I can always switch to those natty little inhalators:
www.iwantoneofthose.com/gamucci-micro-electronic-cigarette/index.html
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:10, Reply)

@ PB, ancrenne
I'm also considering making a concerted effort to quit.
Just got a new system at work that sucks so I don't want to inflict Beeker Rage on my workmates.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:11, Reply)

I thought b3ta-ing is enough to prevent you from being well-behaved.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:12, Reply)

I'm dying my hair. And hoping it won't go orange. Which did happen once before... but my hair was pink at the time so that probably didn't help..
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:15, Reply)

Well the combination of having to go on a bus and then shake hands with a vicar the next day meant that I had a cold for the whole of the half term holidays.
As I have a set of lungs that are some what fucked, when I get cold I get a window rattling cough. Which I still have a full week and a half after shaking the had of the man of the cloth.
fucker.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:17, Reply)

I always thought that religion was bad for you, now you've just confirmed it!
Badger, what colour are you dyeing your hair?
EDIT Miss crenne, with asthma I would suggest that tyou stop as well, I think I'll give it a try again soon. It's the drinking that gets me started again though.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:20, Reply)

Normally I go dark reddy brown but they didn't have that so I thought what the heck!
It went a bit gingery a while back which was quite nice but now it's a boring brown.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:23, Reply)

Decided what colour to do mine yet, and I'm still open to suggestions.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:25, Reply)

but the garnier stuff smells yummy! *resists nomming urge*
*noms Dok instead*
*holds cigarettes* I like smoking too much to stop, sorry
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:25, Reply)

@TGB: What colour do you have in store for your hair?
EDIT: It's been answered. Damn this dialup!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:27, Reply)

Annoying isn't it *shakes fist at crappy internet connections*
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:28, Reply)

I don't think I'm a green and orange person though Miss crenne?
I was thinking some shade of purple or blue or red. Dark shades only though.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:34, Reply)

I've been red, green, blue, orange and pink.
The orange and pink were accidental.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:37, Reply)

Yes my eyes are blue, I think compliment would be better, I don't want to be taken for a Chelsea fan.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:40, Reply)

Like a twat I have smoked for the last 17 years and I'm asthmatic. It's stupider than introducing one's genitalia to a Breville.
I have found that Becotide helps, it's a steroid based inhaler which is a preventer rather than a reliever.
My doctor only got me on this 6 months ago and as far as I'm concerned it's the best thing since sliced bread .... I need to give 'em up but they're so, so tasty :(
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:44, Reply)

Conversation at the last bash. If I remember rightly yours are green, or was that Chickenlady?
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:46, Reply)

Re b3ta quitters club:
Perhaps everyone should try and aim to quit on the same day. Maybe even put quit-day in the calendar.
@Badger: Be thankful: I don't even have Internet at my desk.
@ancrenne:
I like the idea of Dok Keith Le Minge, but I'd wonder which hairs he'd have to dye.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:50, Reply)

Ancrenne I fail at remembering eye colours :(
It's normally one of the things I take note of as well. Eyes are the window of the soul, so they say.
Smoking I've been doing that for about 24 years now, and I still only cough when I'm ill, I must be doing something right.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:54, Reply)

This is a headline copied and pasted from the BBC news:
Stab victim 'just out of prison'
A man who died after being stabbed at a house in north Hampshire had just been released from jail.
Doesn't make sense.
*edit* Oh I see, I was reading had as has.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 21:54, Reply)

you have been smoking longer than I have been alive :p
*huggles*
My hair looks pretty good, darker than I thought which is good as it will take longer to fade :p
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:01, Reply)

I've outed my age myself!
*Hugs & Kisses* badger ;)
Just starting on the Paranormal Channel is a film called 'Count Dracula and his Vampire Bride'. Where do they get such fantastic names.
Bye Miss crenne.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:04, Reply)

Laters Ancrenne!
You watching it Dok? is it as bad as it sounds?
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:06, Reply)

Watched a couple of minute, and yes it is as bad as it sounds.
I may watch Prince of Darkness later, if I can pinch a DVD player from someplace, mine's up the creek.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:09, Reply)

Tried it, didn't work. I've never been good with patronising self-help books, which frankly I found Allen Carr to be. I guess I'm the 1/10 that didn't work. Last time I quit (and I was sooooooo nearly there) was with gum, and willpower. And this is the method I shall try this time. The only thing that put me back on the cigs last time was the death of the dog. Oh well.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:13, Reply)

Fiend as well?
Cool, the majority of my collection is horror, some good, some bad, and some are even cringe worthy.
You can't go wrong with a good Horror if you ask me.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:14, Reply)

I do tend to get scared afterwards though so you will have to make sure the monsters don't get me!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:20, Reply)

@doc: That would depend on what I'm thinking the hairs are attached to.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:20, Reply)

That's not a problem, you can have all the snuggles you want if you get afeared.
Spakka, you're a very bad man!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:25, Reply)

That turned into an epic day out :)
I have celebrated my b3taday with four different kinds of whisky :D
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:33, Reply)

Thanks Dok *gets scared just for snuggles*
*cunning glees*
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:36, Reply)

I had a lully b3taday!
I spent most of it talking about b3ta in fact, haha! Mostly to un-b3tans who, based on what I have said, will either rush to join up or run very fast in the opposite direction.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:45, Reply)

Well the one who run away just don't know what they are missing.
Badger, you don't have to be cunning about that! *Hugs*
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 22:47, Reply)

Happy b3taday to you
Happy b3taday to you
Happy b3taday dear Fuzzy
Happy b3taday to you
* throws arms up in the air *
Re talking about b3tans to non-b3tans:
In my limited experience of doing so, one of my friends is now convinced I've joined a cult.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:05, Reply)

Oh you already have! Now for the brainwashing.
You will click on Herr Doktors posts!
You will click on Herr Doktors posts!
You will click on Herr Doktors posts!
You will click on Herr Doktors posts!
You will click on Herr Doktors posts!
You will click on Herr Doktors posts!
You will click on Herr Doktors posts!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:09, Reply)

Thanks Mista! *huggles*
Haha, yeah I think that's what people think about me too!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:14, Reply)

It works.
Now I will pay you in *hugs* and *Snuggles*
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:21, Reply)

Night Night
I'm away to watch Prince of Darkness!
Night night Fuzzy.
I'm not away to bed with Badger mind.
More's the pity
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:22, Reply)

I am watching the X Factor :) Missed it on saturday, but it was worth it!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:25, Reply)

* positions torso so that arms re-attach themselves *
* finds that arms have attached themselves to the wrong socket *
* throws arms up in the air again *
Happy b3taday again Fuzzy. Woo!
* waits for arms to come down again *
Re cult:
But we are a cult!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:25, Reply)

That's great! I never knew it existed.
Only half an hour of my b3taday left... think I may have to celebrate a bit more, with cake.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:32, Reply)

I bring you more B3taday cake with 5 tiers, figurines and icing and dancing moles and twirling ocelots and all that.
Eat more cake, Happy b3taday :)
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:37, Reply)

Swan, with your dancing ocelots you are truly spoiling us!
*noms*
How are you this fine evening?
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:41, Reply)

Good, now that you know it exists, don't forget - Wednesdays, 4pm.
Speaking of which ...
* looks up in air *
* sees arms *
* re-positions torso *
* re-attaches arms *
Ah yes. That's better...
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:43, Reply)

I'm fine thankyou m' dear - Have a spinning marmoset as a bonus. I've had a lovely day doing the grand sum of fuck all.
How's yourself?
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:44, Reply)

I have come across (no pun intended, actually!) that particular ritual Mista :)
Tonight, Swan, I am warm and mostly full of good food and whisky. Win!
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:47, Reply)

Been behaving yourselves?
I'm here for five or so minutes, then gotta pop to the airport.
But I'll be back about half past, for some comic-related photo-shoppery.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:52, Reply)

I, myself, am full 'o the bitter and am being the shit kicking yokel that I am and listening to Kevin Bloody Wilson.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:53, Reply)

You can see 'em too, eh Spak?
God-damn ghost bees, always followin' me around.
( , Mon 3 Nov 2008, 23:58, Reply)

Ah yes, ghost bees. That's what it was.
* whistles the "ghost bees please fuck off" tune *
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:00, Reply)

you need to watch out for ..... They creep up on you and make you think of petunias.
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:08, Reply)

susceptable to suggestion at the moment...
*tries not to think of petunias*
Damn. They got me :(
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:11, Reply)

They'll get you to think of Douglas Adams books .... Then you're just thinking about a whale plummeting towards the Earths surface before turning into a bowl of petunias and they've got you.
Weasels, They're cunts.
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:16, Reply)

The mind-weasles got Fuzzy. And they took her candle!
Do you think the ghost-bees and the mind-weasles will attack eachother given the chance?
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:16, Reply)

And strangely I HAVE been thinking about Douglas Adams books recently. I've been talking about them too, you can ask Kaol!
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:18, Reply)

They'll shag those ghost bees and have them making spunky honey.
Before you know it you'll have thousands of households spreading weasel spunk on their toast in the mornings and hosting a bee/weasel hybrid.
It'll burst out of their stomach in an ectoplasmic/weasel spunky goo ........ Before they mak you think of petunias.
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:22, Reply)

Me likes, but my fave has to be Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:23, Reply)

In that case, I have no choice but to wank on everyone's toast. If they see spunk on their toast, they may decide that's enough and not bother with any honey.
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:25, Reply)

I believe .... Enfield does good work.
But if he were to stand on my front lawn shouting for my 15 year old daughter to elpoe with him I should say "OOOOOOI! ENFIELD! NO!".
Edit. I have scrambled eggs for breakfast tomorrow so let the toast coating begin
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:27, Reply)

is but a pale imitation of the book. Toomany attempts to inject non-DA-esque humour into it.
EDIT: Spunk, scrambled eggs, polo-mints, you name it. Let's all take a stand against the unholy union of ghost-bees and mind-weasels!
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:29, Reply)

That's the very one I've been talking about! That's my fave too! And of course The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul.
Swan... I am becoming increasingly worried. I've been having a craving for honey lately, they must have implanted it in my mind for their nefarious purposes...
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:30, Reply)

as a simplistic creature. I quite like Enfield's voice as Gently, It's got that irritating, keening quality which I always imagined ... I guess as I know the story so well I just hear the voice.
Edit. @WFF. Go for the eggs.
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:34, Reply)

I'm off to bed. I've rubbed anti weasel cream around my asshole to prevent impregnation ... Mind your toast people.
Nighty night.
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:40, Reply)

Personally, I'll be taking part in the Toast King bukkake.
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:45, Reply)

If I don't sleep tonight you're to blame :(
Kaol, help!
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:45, Reply)

I'm afraid that the world famous (well, in Essex, at least) Kaol Black is locked up, following a particularly strange case involving decapitated rabbits...
I'm not sure how much use I'll be...
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:48, Reply)

* tags Kaol *
This half of the anti mind-weasel tag-team is calling it a night. I'll come back tomorrow (pun intended).
G'night!
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:48, Reply)

Well, anti-mind weasel procedure is simple.
Either think about something else, really, really hard.
OR
Wear a hat made out of goat-wool.
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:58, Reply)

the goat wool hat thing is doable. Angora is goats, isn't it?
I have alpaca wool too. I want to grow my own alpacas one day. They are lully. They only poo in one part of the field, and they always give birth in daylight. You're not allowed to buy one alpaca, you have to get at least two (because they are pack animals).
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 1:05, Reply)

My Grandad used to have loads of Angora goats, they were awesome too!
They look like sheep, 'til you shear them, and then they look properly goat-like *grins*
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 1:07, Reply)

I shall grow angora goats and alpacas. And I shall create things of much fuzziness :)
I want to dye my own wool and spin it and everything too. When I say "my own wool" obviously I mean the wool from the goats and alpacas...
( , Tue 4 Nov 2008, 1:30, Reply)
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