Howdy fuckers!
Have a HSH thread! How's everybody's heads after the bash????


(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 6:45, 146 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

good morning Vampyrecat...
my head is great thanx, cos i wasn't at no damned bash!!

and how are you?

;-)

edit: keith floyd is on balamory, now how about that for a bit of early-sunday-morning surreality!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 7:39, Reply)

*Fanfare or cockerel crowing - whichever is cheaper*
Morning VC, Morning B69 Marrer.

Another day, another dance in the endless masked ball that is the internet.

Keith Floyd on Balamory is good, but PINK Floyd on Balamory would be a magical Sunday morning moment.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 7:51, Reply)

it's sunday evening here
I'm having chinese takeout for tea. Yummo!

And I'm listening to Powderfinger. However - if I could find my copy of Dark Side of the Moon then I'd be even happier :D
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 7:54, Reply)

hey there dissappointed gadgee!
VC seems to have chuffed off somewhere...

how's tings down your end this morning?

edit:aah, there she is!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 7:54, Reply)

I hadn't left
I was just writing a third part to my bar story. I'm debating whether or not to post it here. :S
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 7:56, Reply)

VC
is that teh neil young song or some modern band referencing him? cynical? moi?

edit: POST IT HERE!!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 7:57, Reply)

I'll be back shortly
grabbing the takeout!
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:02, Reply)

Post it! Post it!
You know it's right.

B69 - all fine and dandy thanks.

Nice bit of Manics just come on 6 Music so unusually I have very little to complain about.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:03, Reply)

me back shortly too...
gonna go and make breakfast-in-bed for my darling wife, 'tis her 26th birthday today!!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:04, Reply)

OK
I'll just whistle to myself for a bit then.

Shout up when you're back.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:07, Reply)

BACK - have a continuation
The cool air kissed my face and made white plumes from our breath. Her hand was warm and soft in my own and I could feel her thin body begin to tremble as she pressed herself against my side. Her scent, soft and muted in the bar where all you could smell was alcohol and cigarettes both overwhelmed and intoxicated me more then the pints I had consumed during the night.
She was fragile, tiny, ephemeral. The wrong move and she would be gone forever. Hell, she might be hone forever when she saw me in the clear morning. I had never wanted anyone in my life as badly as I wanted her right this second. I waned to push her back against the wall, feel her breath on my neck; her heart beating under my hand while I crushed her lips beneath my own.
Instead, I slowly slide my arm across her stomach, settling my hand on her hip, pulling her around to face me in the darkness; feeling the corners of my mouth being pulled upwards as her hand ran down from my shoulder and over my chest before snaking over my belly to rest on my waist.
Her lips brushed my collarbone through my shirt and I let go of her hand to gently tangle my fingers through her hair. She lent her head into my hand and I could feel the heat begin to rise from her skin.
I bent my head down slowly and kissed her. Her lips, soft as they had been in the bar now seemed to burn my own in the darkness, leaving them tingling as we began to kiss in earnest. My fingers trailed over her hip to sneak underneath her top, feeling her smooth and supple skin contract and erupt in goose bumps. I felt her fingertips grazing over my jaw, the burning sensation now where she had touched me. A button on my shirt was undone, followed swiftly afterward by another and another.
I couldn’t do this here, as much as I wanted to, I simply couldn't do it. I took her hands in mine and took them away from my shirt. Even in the semi darkness I saw her bite her lip and look away, hurt and embarrassment emanating from her. She was too good for me to do this with here, against a pub wall. A hot droplet hit my hand and I groaned inwardly. Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck! I’d made her cry. Guilt shot through me and I wrapped my arms around her, crushing her against my chest, tucking her under my chin. How could I possibly explain to her that it wasn’t her, it was that it was here? Under the dodgy light from the door, against the wall of a pub which smelt at best like something you didn’t want to think about?
“Not here,” I whispered. I led her to my car, watched her get in, sat down in the drivers seat, before turning the ignition and pulling out of the parking space and onto the empty midnight road.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:33, Reply)

success!
fresh coffee, homemade bread toasted then lemon-curded, muesli and yoghurt. and let's not forget the pink rose...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:34, Reply)

geee baz
wish I had a spouse right now and that it was my birthday!
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:38, Reply)

let's pretend...
bakes bread, brews coffee, toasts bread, lemon-curds bread, wraps present, selects and cuts rose...

happy birthday VC


(am i now a girly?)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:43, Reply)

HEY EVERYONE!!!

I IS NOW A GIRLY!!

YEEHA!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:44, Reply)

thanks baz.
means a lot.

My birthday was two weeks ago actually lmao.
So what did you think of the continuation??
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:46, Reply)

A fine bit
Of breathless soft erotica for a Sunday Morning.

Thanks VC.

Never really seen the fascination with breakfast in bed myself. Mind you my normal breakfast is a very strong black coffe and a couple of Rothmans.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:48, Reply)

what is a rothman?
/confused.

And thanks :)
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:50, Reply)

A cigarette
A very strong, particularly carcinogenic cigarette.

When your lungs go into shock your heart starts beating faster and the adrenaline gets moving.

That's my justification anyway.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:54, Reply)

fine piece of writing...
tumesces...

travels back in time, delivers breakfast, creates space/time rupture thingy...

@disappointedgadgee...isn't it pronounced woffmans anymore?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:56, Reply)

I'd go
With "Rothmans" - as in Henry and Philip.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:01, Reply)

i was thinking about...
that character from Viz...
ring any bells?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:04, Reply)

Cockney Wanker?
Only ever read Viz sporadically.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:06, Reply)

think you may be correct...
but after that bit of prose from VC i'm a wee bit fuzzy...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:09, Reply)

Right
My turn to slope off for a while.

You two behave yourselves - and if anyone comes to the door claiming to be a social worker but looking suspiciously like a wolf...

DON'T let 'em in!
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:13, Reply)

righto TD
VC you still there? i'm scared...what with being a girly...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:15, Reply)

awww okay disappointed
Not by the hairs on our chinny chin chins then?

EDIT: I'm here. I just disappeared to have a shower and to freshen up.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:15, Reply)

liking teh sound of that teehee...
so what we gonna get up to whilst the big fella's away?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:17, Reply)

that sounds so bad lmao
Erm. Who is this Viz larrakin you were talking about?
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:18, Reply)

yeah, was meant to...
sorry, just allowed my tone to fall to normal B3TA level...

Viz is a kind of comic book but for adolescent males, lots of anti-hero characters with lots of swearing and stuff. it's where the "top-tips" section of B3TA comes from...

and anyway, you calling me rude? pots, kettles and so-on!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:22, Reply)

Oh I *know*
that I'm rude.

but it's a little unexpected having someone who is not Bert or Al or Kaol or Halfy saying those things.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:24, Reply)

yeah...
those buggers have infected me...

i tend to be much more refined, coming from the north.

but sometimes it just kinda slips out...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:26, Reply)

Slipped out, eh?
You filthy beast, you.

Morning all!
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:33, Reply)

fnaar fnaar!
talking of viz earlier kind of got me going...

edit: favourite viz characters?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:34, Reply)

LIC! /glomps
how's it going?
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:35, Reply)

A little short on sleep
but otherwise okay. Had a good time at the bash.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:37, Reply)

awww
well at least you had a good time :)
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:39, Reply)

For a bunch of spunk-encrusted tramps
they were surprisingly good company.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:41, Reply)

well that's usually the case
don't judge by the cover as the saying goes. :D
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:43, Reply)

WHOA
Wasn't drunk last night. That's gotta be the first sober Saturday in my life!!

Football training to look forward to and a day of tea + nerdy games on the xbox :D
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:47, Reply)

right folks, time to get outa here...
before the tone gets too low for me LOL

off for a shave and a haircut.

as ever VC it's been a pleasure, disappointedgadgee i'll see thee marrer, LIC take it easy and get some IRN BRU down yer neck!

ciao for now ;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:49, Reply)

congrats weeker
I am quite sure that when I get to a b3ta bash that I will get quite drunk

Edit: bye baz. :)
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:50, Reply)

Good morning/evening, all!
Just a flying visit, before I shoot off to the gym.

Just had my brekkie (bowl of porridge, those jocks got something right) and watching Bloomberg TV.

VC, if you like "Dark side of the moon" then, may I recommend Golden Earring's "Radar Love". It is one of my top 5 favourite songs.

www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=rJ4EID2hjxY
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:54, Reply)

Stiggy!
I think I've heard this song before - it sounds very familiar.

But yes - I love it.
My all time favourite song is Nightswimming by REM.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:56, Reply)

REM are gods!
Michael Stipe is a genius. Screw Michael Jackson (most children have), Michael Stipe is far better.

My top 5 favourite songs are (in no particular order):

1. Golden Earring: Radar Love.
2. Mike and the Mechanics: Looking back over my shoulder.
3. Pulp: Underwear.
4. Suede: Beautiful Ones.
5. The Doves: Sea Song.

Here's a link to "Sea Song".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXB_h9Ybc2I

I do have a soft spot for this one.
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:01, Reply)

well I like michael jackson's music /ducks from blow.
but my favourite songs are - in no particular order (with nightswimming at the top):

1. Nightswimming - REM
2. Annie's Song - Jesse Younan's version
3. Distant Sun - Crowded House
4. Throw your Arms Around me - Hunters and Collectors
5. Songbird - Fleetwood Mac
6. Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
7. Long way to the Top - ACDC
8. In the Air tonight - Phil Collins
9. Unforgiven - Apocalyptica

Sorry - branched out a bit there. Yes I am really 17. Yes I have very odd music tastes.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:09, Reply)

That explains
why you liked Something Corporate. Similar sound.

You should give Dogs Die in Hot Cars a listen.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:11, Reply)

MJ can kiss my behind! He sucks, big time!
You sure you weren't born in the 70's?

I thought my tastes were slightly "old", but it looks like I've been well and truly beaten here!

I do like more contemporary stuff, like Keane, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, Blink 182, etc....

The UK has a lot of good bands....and a lot of crud, too!
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:12, Reply)

I'm back
Sunday Morning production meeting = Oxymoron, as we produce even less on Sundays than the rest of the week.

Nothing much grabbing me in those top tunes. I quite like Radar Love but wouldn't get into eulogies about it.

VC - mentioning "favourites" and "Phil Collins" in the same sentence looses you all the kudos you got off me for the story continuation.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:13, Reply)

I'm not born in the 70's
I just grew up listening to this stuff. I like modern stuff as well, just not as much as this.

Missy Higgins, Green Day, Kaiser Cheifs, John Mellencamp, PowderFinger, Evanescence, Matchbox Twenty are all featured on my most played list. As are Metallica, SOAD, Three Days Grace etc.

EDIT: Oh come on - I'm sure you have music you're ashamed to admit you love. Who does it for you? Britney? :p
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:17, Reply)

Britney?
Does she class as "music"....?
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:19, Reply)

that's my point stiggy
/grins
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:20, Reply)

Is Lily Allen
a bad thing to admit to?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:21, Reply)

Actually...
....does she class as a human being? Someone who's committed that many crimes against music, should be up in The Hague on crimes against humanity!
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:22, Reply)

By all that's good about irony
"Making Plans For Nigel" by XTC has just come on 6 Music.

XTC are the greatest band EVER and are why I'm called The Disappointed.

As for guilties...don't know...I once owned a Garth Brooks album but it went quite quickly.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:23, Reply)

yes.
Lily Allen is a terrible thing to admit to.

Go wash your hands you filthy boy... :D

EDIT: Garth Brooks counts too.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:24, Reply)

Lilly Allen
Is acceptable in my book.

Smashing arse too.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:25, Reply)

Okey dokey...
....I hear the gym calling. That porridge needs burning off!

Have a good day, all! Speak soon!

P.S. I hope Slumdog Millionaire wins tonight! Danny Boyle deserves the award!

P.P.S. Speaking of guilty music pleasures, does this count?

www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=WfM6nRVBvGs

The piano solo in the middle is class! Enjoy!
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:28, Reply)

the piano is awesome
but the rest definitely counts.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:35, Reply)

Always freaks me out
when music I have on my random play at home comes on the radio.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:36, Reply)

oh that happened to me
on friday catching the bus to school. On came Greenday's "Time of your Life" (another favourite) and then it came on the radio.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:40, Reply)

Morning all
Although "all" seems to be about 5 people! Obviously everyone who went to the bash is a lazy bugger who won't emerge till gone noon
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:46, Reply)

Hi TGB
how are you poppet?
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:48, Reply)

Don't forget The Cult
that is all
(CheatingRabbit, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:51, Reply)

I'm good thanks VC
Had a very productive day yesterday and went out for a meal with some of my friends in the evening :) Just waiting for my dad to show up now to take some chairs down to the tip shop!

How's you?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:52, Reply)

I've spent
20 years TRYING to forget The Cult.

Good job I hadn't resorted to expensive therapy as you'd have undone it all with that untimely reminder.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:53, Reply)

who are The Cult?
I'm well thanks TGB. Spent a solid chunk of the day doing homework - wrote another bit for my bar story, had chinese for tea, and am now gazzing a lovely b3tan.

And then school brings me back to reality :(
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:57, Reply)

*checks gazzes*
*cries*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:03, Reply)

The Cult
Were - I use the past tense with immense relief - a ridiculous attempt at capitalising upon the growing independent goth scene in the UK in the '80's (Spear of Destiny, Sisters of Mercy etc) by dressing up some buffoons and making them throw vaguely sinister shapes.

Awful pompous idiots with not a scintilla of ability.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:03, Reply)

The disappointed
Glad to be of service...
(CheatingRabbit, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:04, Reply)

urgh
sounds like the equivalent of some of those awful emo bands today.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:11, Reply)

Oi TGB
I'm up. I was just watching QI.

The Cult - probably fair to say their best known song was "she sells sanctuary".
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:14, Reply)

lodelly
My favourite Viz character is Roger Mellie. No, Jack Black.

No, I mean, Viz? I certainly don't read them, don't have practically every issue since 1996.
( djtrialprice, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:31, Reply)

I saw the Cult
and they sucked. I actually liked them until I saw them live.

In my defence, they were supporting Guns and Roses.

Mr Nong all *sunday hugs*
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:31, Reply)

Eek Thread - death
Plus the cat just tried to jump on my lap, almost didn't make it, and clawed me where a gentleman doesn't want clawing.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:31, Reply)

what?
the prostate gland?

Talented cat.
( djtrialprice, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:33, Reply)

ouch
that sounds painful.
My cat has clawed my boob before. that hurts. A lot.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:40, Reply)

Not the best way to get
throbbing balls.

I have two choices today -
1. Go to t'pub - the good one - and have a pub lunch, and get home in time for the footy at 1:30 and watch over the internet; or
2. Go to t'other pub - the not that good one - have a not-that-good pub lunch and watch the footy on the big screen.


Decisions, decisions.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:46, Reply)

go to t'pub
sounds better. you'll enjoy yourself more.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:54, Reply)

Why not
Go t'good pub first, have a good feed, then proceed t'less good pub to watch the lawn fairies.

Blue sky thinking, that's called.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:58, Reply)

Or I could eat at the good pub and watch the footy at the not-so-good one
It's a Cunning Plan!
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 12:00, Reply)

great minds
think alike.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 12:00, Reply)

night folks
thread death has occured and I need to be up in 7 hours for school. have a good one!
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 12:20, Reply)

Night VC
I'm off down the pub.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 12:37, Reply)

Yup
Nearly finished, knock off in about half an hour, go home, walk hounds.

Sithee.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 12:55, Reply)

Happen as like
Yer as rough as a badgers arse.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 13:46, Reply)

Afternoon
Bash was good! Am surprisingly un-hungover (although perhaps my hangover yesterday gave me some hangover-tolerance). But still had a lie-in (even though the kids next door woke me up again). Managed to do a bit of tidying up* before I logged on.

_{* moving a few things around}
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 14:03, Reply)

threadb0rk
I think I'll go on a bikeride now. Catch ya's laters.

BTW:

Favourite Viz Character: Buster Gonad.

Musical guilty pleasure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLbEZU7YB-w

Is it just me or has anyone else lost interest in Viz since they became a b3ta-addict?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 14:59, Reply)

Nah
Still buy the odd copy and always get the annual for Christmas. But it can be a bit hit and miss sometimes.

Favourite character - probably Jack Black, just for the sheer Daily Mail wrongness of it. And Biffa Bacon.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 15:07, Reply)

for the love of cunty fuck
My team are, to use a technical term, a giant bucket of shit.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 15:24, Reply)

Afternoom
Afternoon folks :) Anyone about?
(weekirst23 Is broken! Silly ice. Silly High heels!, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 16:33, Reply)

Afternoon
Anyone here?

Are the Oscars tonight?
If so please watch as my cousin designed the opening credits!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 16:53, Reply)

Yes.
The Oscars are tonight, MrsBin
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 16:58, Reply)

Hurrah
Guess I'd better watch then.
Not that I've had anything to do with him for the last 20 years, but still, family is family.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 16:59, Reply)

MrsBin...
...I just want "Slumdog Millionaire" to win. It was a brilliant film!
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:02, Reply)

I've not seen it
I don't tend to go to the cinema much now as it's so damn expensive.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:05, Reply)

It'll be out on DVD soon....
....honestly, it really is good!

How you been?
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:13, Reply)

I'm good thanks sir
I've been off all week as it is half term.

You?


Ohh about 5 police cars have just hurtled up my road with their lights on.

Another murder?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:19, Reply)

I've been good....
....going to the gym, trying to trick myself that I'm healthy!

Is it me or is B3ta getting a little lame of late?

Nice alliteration....
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:27, Reply)

I've not been here much
the last six weeks or so as I have been busy with work.

Do you mean Off Topic or B3TA in general?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:30, Reply)

In general...
....stories aren't as funny as they used to be, people being nastier, etc.
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:38, Reply)

I think it's the QOTW topic
the Vegi bashing is really getting on my nerves.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:42, Reply)

you a veggie, yourself?
I think B3ta is getting poor.
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:44, Reply)

I am
but I don't give a fuck what other people eat and never mention it unless I really have to.

It's my choice and it effects my life, no one elses.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:47, Reply)

All right!
Jeez! I was only asking!
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:49, Reply)

Sorry Stig
I tend to get a bit touchy because as soon as you mention it people seem to think they can start to criticise and ask dumb questions like 'if you were stuck on a desert island and all there was to eat were rabbits what would you do?'*



Sorry. Will calm down now.


* I'd eat the damn rabbits, I'm not dumb
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:55, Reply)

Right I'm off
to make dinner,

Laters
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:58, Reply)

I know what you mean....
....I went through a phase of only eating white meat (chicken and fish, really) and I had everyone questioning why I was doing it.

"Oh so it's ok to eat chicken and fish but not lamb and beef?"

The reason was I was trying to turn veggie an didn't want to shock my body.

Laters!
(The Stig, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 18:00, Reply)

Yay me!
I've just discovered a major shortcut for my commute into work. Thanks to a hidden cyclepath and Pythagoras's theorem, not only do I have a shorter bikeride, but it's less hilly and I now avoid the big roads most of the time.

Woo!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 18:02, Reply)

3 cheers for Pythagoras!
Oh, and hello all :o)

*licks spak's face*

Excuse me, I'll be in and out this evening, having the folks round for dinner, so need to keep checking the kitchen.
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 19:17, Reply)

Hmmph.
Finished work.

Came home.

Walked hounds.

Had a nap.

Had some tea.

Had a shower.

Crept into B3TA to realise that I'd inadvertently stepped into the internet's very own Marie Celeste.

Will quietly creep out again so as not to disturb the slumbering ghouls and ghosties.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 20:36, Reply)

*is disturbed*

( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 20:49, Reply)

Sorry
I'll creep more quietly next time.

Maybe I need some slippers.

Edit - I'm quite disturbed too but that's one for my psychiatrist to deal with really.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 20:59, Reply)

3 cheers for Pythagoras's ass
* treasures the residue from Tourette's evaporated lick *

Re b3ta being lame: Some of the regulars aren't posting as much as they used to, meaning that there are fewer posts. Instead of whingeing about it, we should post some more interesting stuff ourselves. Also, part of what makes b3ta the way it is is the synergy between the fluffy and the spiky. If someone tries to push it a bit too far one way, it upsets the Yin-Yang balance. As individuals, we all have our own idea of what a good b3ta post should look like, but as a team, we are t3am b3ta. When the whole HSH-thread thing started, many of the regulars either were unemployed, had boring jobs with Internet-access or had no lives. For many of us, thus has changed. Either we need new blood or we should quit our jobs to become fulltime b3tans.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 21:18, Reply)

Errr
Could you knock up a flow chart for that hypothesis please?

Not too sure that I follow what you're telling us, but if it's a sufficiently strident message I'll wave the flags.

Where do I sign?
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 21:26, Reply)

Basically, it means
Don't whinge.

Be yourself.

Post more.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 21:32, Reply)

OK
1 - I am prone to whinging and it's not a good trait.

2 - Be yourself?? This is the internet, dear boy. It's where the socially inadequate come to big themselves up from the anonymity of their squalid desolate bedsits. That's a BIG ask.

3 - Post more - would if I could but spend most of my working days in meetings, on the shop floor or out on the road.

You've missed a point.

Be inventive, creative, literate and amusing.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 21:38, Reply)

It's the inventive, creative, literate and amusing peope
who post less than they used to.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 21:40, Reply)

Fair enough
I've only recently lurched into OT myself, from occasionally tampering with QOTW over the last few years.

The main reason I've lurched is that I've come off a permanent nightshift onto days.

Maybe I've missed the glory days. Or is nostalgia not what it used to be?
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 21:45, Reply)

Ayup
any one still around?
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:00, Reply)

Me
But not for much longer.

Oppressed by the harbingers of apathy.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:10, Reply)

Ah
you've been watching My Family then?
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:10, Reply)

And other animals?
No - don't need to watch that. Have a walking talking mouth breathing one of my own.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:12, Reply)

I
don't have one of my own.

I do however, have a Japanese housemate who is stressing himself into an early grave over whether or not he can get a mortgage in this country.

He has a student visa, no job, and his fiance is in Japan and doesn't want to move to the UK. He's worrying over something thats never going to happen for him.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:18, Reply)

Set him
To worrying about world peace, or a cure for cancer, or a means by which we're not all going to be paying 98% income tax for years to come.

That's constructive worrying.

Bedtime.

Sithee.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:31, Reply)

Watching Family Guy
Mr Bin and I have decided that the 'British Porn' is exactly right.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:35, Reply)

literate, socially functional, and writing from a bed-sit
Hello fellow interweb weirdos. My CrackBerry lives. Agree with what Mista said about online people, at least B3tards.
( cackers, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:47, Reply)

I'd post more
but I've got a job now!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:48, Reply)

I'm
eating Kiwi Fruit. There has to be more to life than this.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:53, Reply)

G'evening
I'm just back home from my London weekend.
Had a fuckin' awesome time.

I was on my best behaviour at the bash, didn't get banned from anywhere.
( Cawl, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:57, Reply)

I
had an interesting weekend.... I saw the ex with her new boyfriend... ended up getting very drunk and in a weird houseparty with a stoned venezuelan and a drunk canadian.

Then I walked 2 miles home.

Now I'm watching Tango on youtube.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:01, Reply)

Ah...
Mr. Z, it's been fuckin' ages, how's it going?

Other than the ex and drunk-stuff.
( Cawl, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:04, Reply)

Evening y'all
I'm back up in my flat after a weekend at home, which was intended to be relaxing, but really wasn't.

And woot on no bans Kaol. Well done.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:05, Reply)

Theres been
some ups and downs, but I've cut away the dead wood (namely the ex) and have been knuckling down and working as hard as I can...

Hows life with you?
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:09, Reply)

Sounds alright!
Stuff with me is good thanks.
Work's still crap, but other things are pretty damn good.
( Cawl, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:15, Reply)

Yeah
thats a potential problem here... come July I need to find a job. Great.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:18, Reply)

Hmmm...
July?
That's far enough away to not worry about yet.
Well... If you're me, anyway.
( Cawl, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:27, Reply)

Heh
possibly. But not far enough away if to figure out what I'm actually doing with my life....
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:29, Reply)

Get two options,
Flip a coin...
( Cawl, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:31, Reply)

....
alcoholism / unemployement

Wooo
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:32, Reply)

Well,
Heads or tails, Hobo Society grows by one.
( Cawl, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:34, Reply)

Hobo Society
I'd like to see the Burketts Peerage of Hobo Society:

"Stinky Mary is a descendent of Mad Batterer Harry"
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:37, Reply)

We had a guy
Called "Mad Frank" in the town I went to school.

He collected litter and shouted at red cars.
( Cawl, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:41, Reply)

Cool
Near my parents house is a guy who wears a blond school girls wig and serenades cars on a toy pink guitar
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 23:42, Reply)

"hearing aid beige" cars
deserve the most abuse
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 0:34, Reply)

i haz borked thread?
*notices time of Kaol's & Zap's last inserts*

*realises the tumbleweed has long gone*

Ok so, feck it, i'm goin' in the bike shed.

(For nothing more rude than a Marlboro)
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 0:39, Reply)