This is just me being curious
curious nosy, but how did you discover B3ta?

A friend had a quote from an image challenge as his MSN name. I asked where it was from, and he linked me to it - the inappropriate books for children one I think. And it was all downhill from there.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:20, 28 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Badgers

( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:22, Reply)

eh?

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:24, Reply)

Badgers

(PsychoChomp, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:25, Reply)

Badgers
www.badgerbadgerbadger.com

Which then lead me to weebls-stuff, then to rathergood, and then to b3ta. And of course, the subsequent warping of a gentle young man into the cynical bastard I am today.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:25, Reply)

From a link emailed to me I think,
long time ago though.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:22, Reply)

Guy at uni showed me
The "Simon Weston Grill - So good I put my face on it!" picture.
It grew from there.
( Cawl, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:25, Reply)

I think I discovered it through rathegood.com
in a roundabout way.
I looked at the image challenge and links for aaaaages, then read the QOTW for aaages, then signed up but didn't post for aaages.
Then posted something shit to break my duck.

And now I'm addicted to talking balls here...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:30, Reply)

Buffy Sweary Keyboard link from rathergood.
And never looked back. Well, I do obviously. Occasionally. But only when the blue flashy lights and air horns start up.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:31, Reply)

At school....
Back in the early days of widespread broadband usage me and my classmates used to frequent our own forum we set up while in computing.

And we'd each post amusing pictures that we could chuckle at in silence and post replies to, etc.

Well one day I found an image on this here site, which opened up a whole world of images which I pillaged for that little forum. This must've been about 2002 - I only actually registered last year or so, so I've done a fair bit of lurkage!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:32, Reply)

Weebl and bob
there was an ad for b3ta on it
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:34, Reply)

My housemate
before he was my housemate and we worked together linked me here to relieve my work boredom. Read all the QOTW (before they got wank) then saw OT and broke my lurking.

Then I met most of the regulars and thought it would be rude to stop so I kind of have to stay now...
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:40, Reply)

second vote for the badgers
although it was a while ago and i lurked for a couple of years before becoming a "live" b3tan
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:45, Reply)

Many years ago...
my brother sent me a link.
Since then, he's become a lurker and has a successful career.
I stayed and I have no prospects whatsoever.
( thealternativefact, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:45, Reply)

On the plus side,
You met me.
( Cawl, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:46, Reply)

*cries*

( thealternativefact, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:47, Reply)

That was meant to be a good thing...

( Cawl, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:48, Reply)

About a week off
Being a year ago!
( Cawl, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:48, Reply)

24th June 2008

( thealternativefact, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:50, Reply)

Yep!
I've still got the advert for that gig laying around somewhere!
( Cawl, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:51, Reply)

I got lost on the way to ASDA.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:54, Reply)

I found RatherGood when I was in year nine
But didn't make the link with b3ta! I loved Tales of the Blode and the northern kittens...

Then about a year later, BadgerBadgerBadger and weebl's stuff. Again, didn't make the connection.

Finally found a link to the album covers challenge, started looking around. Only signed up about a month ago, and look at what's happened!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:57, Reply)

Ooh, I remember!
I'd seen rathergood and the buffy swearing keyboard a couple of years previous, but never looked more into it.

I was on a forum, and we were trading sick jokes. Then one lad came out with about 20 in a row, I asked where he'd stolen them from, he sent me this URL - b3ta.com/questions/sickjokes/

I read that one, but never thought to look further. One of my friends discovered peoples photoshop's, and started too, so I helped a bit.

It wasn't until I started my current job that I came back, after being bored one day, I started reading QOTW.

The rest, as they say, is history.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:07, Reply)

I fell into a hole in a beautiful garden
and when I landed on a huge pile of orange leaves, I was confronted by three small cycloptic bald women. They took me to a tiny building and gave me what can only be described as the best Ovaltine I've ever tasted, before ushering me out into the wilderness.

I wandered a little way down what looked like a trail, and came across an archway with a small door and a plinth. There was a key-hole in the door, around the size of my wrist, maybe bigger. I looked around for a key, but none were found.

On the plinth, there was a PortaMuff pocket pussy and a bottle of lube. Someone had scrawled "FUCK ME" on the sex toy in red lipstick, so I unzipped, squirted some lube on mini-me and started plugging away on the rubber clunge.

I reached my peak, filled the toy with my baby milk and withdrew. My todger started growing and growing, getting thicker and longer, and I struck upon an idea. I stuck my cock in the key-hole and it swelled up to fill the gap. There was a click and the door opened.

What my eyes saw is hard to describe, but it was a thing of incredibility and no mistake. An enormous flat-screen monitor with the most wonderous Web site ever devised shining forth from its LCDs. I'd discovered b3ta.

I started to move toward this beautiful sight, but my cock was stuck in the key-hole, getting ever bigger, and quite painful...
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:13, Reply)

You as well?
*clicks pointlessly*
( chart cat has an itch, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:17, Reply)

Funnily enough.....through Ebay and the Spiderman will make you gay clip.

( girlinthehole, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:17, Reply)

No idea
My brother gets the newsletter, and occasionally forwarded links. Eventually I just sort of drifted into reading QOTW. Then TheRiddler posted a story about proposing to his girlfriend at a football match, and I'd been at that match, so I created an account to reply.

Then I sort of drifted onto off-topic one morning of a day off and was doomed.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:28, Reply)

Like many on this list
I encountered rathergood.com and weebl before I discovered b3ta.

I even had a near brush with b3ta after I read Private Eye's little report on the PriceWaterhouseCooper piss-take (See the "Introducing Monday" animation).

It was only later that Bearded Whumpus - before he became Bearded Whumpus - started sending me links to various QotW answers or amusing things on /board. I think it was the "Pretentious" QotW which lit the pilot light of interest. (Still quite a while before I became a b3tan, though)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:58, Reply)

My friend introduced me to it
...as a means of procrastination. During my finals. Damn you, 2ii!

Consequently b3ta was my nemesis for a while, and then I just gave in. Having a job where they don't monitor net activity helps...
(berk, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 14:23, Reply)