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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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You've had your crimes discovered and you're to be banished to a desert island for the rest of your life.
No human contact, but enough food and water to survive.
The Supreme Judge has, however, allowed you to take three things with you.
What do you pick?
THINGS, not people. And he's obviously not gonna let you have a boat or a helicopter.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 10:44, 161 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm sorry, I have a hangover and really should be working. Just had a cornish pasty to soak some of it up.
It's not working yet.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 10:50, Reply)

Pens, Paper (for doodling of course)... and a drum kit! If I was alone I could learn to play without causing anyone’s ears to bleed.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 10:48, Reply)

That would have been slightly more random, hell I could draw a penis with my pens and paper! :)
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:28, Reply)

"How to Walk on Stilts" by John Arbuckle.
A Curly-Wurly.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 10:55, Reply)

call on the Curly-Wurly, I have one of those in my desk drawer at the moment... I fear it might be melty! :(
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 10:56, Reply)

but the rain has made my hair look like one.
*heads off to shops*
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:00, Reply)

Awww that's not good, I hate it when it rains and it makes hair all bouffanty! :(
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:03, Reply)

( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 10:57, Reply)

Mmm...pole.
Not South Pole, obviously. That's not happening.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:01, Reply)

1) A big survival book
2) An Axe
3) One of those striking flint things for making sparks.
A 4th item would be a clockwork radio
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 10:55, Reply)

Solar powered bag
A laptop with the whole of wikipedia on it along with other useful information from the net
A machete
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:02, Reply)

This explains so much about you, and how one can know so much that is both useless and LIES.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:06, Reply)

I make sure people know when I'm guessing about stuff.
People thought it was interesting when I told them that Uranus' rotational axis is almost parallel to it's orbital plane. Mind you I was in a room full of massive geeks.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:24, Reply)

Just because I'm alone doesn't mean I can't look presentable.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:03, Reply)

I think I’d be on an island alone for about half an hour before I turned into a jibbering mess of frizzy hair, teeth and claws, climbed a tree and ate a crab.
EDIT - I'd probably look similar to Animal from The Muppet Show.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:09, Reply)

minus the ridiculous accent.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:18, Reply)

It'd have to be:
1) A set of survival knives
2) An axe
3) A guitar (preferably with a whole load of spare strings hidden somewhere)
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:07, Reply)

Include:
A durable cowboy hat.
A pair of dogs (male and female).
Sunglasses.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:10, Reply)

If Kirk Douglas could make one from a turtle shell, so can you.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:12, Reply)

That would just be weird. There are always turtles.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:23, Reply)

Turtles don't live on islands.
They lay eggs on the beach once a year, if you're lucky.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:25, Reply)

Which is a virtue much prized by fishermen. Apparently.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:57, Reply)

and your choosing of the things that I would choose!
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:15, Reply)

I like a good axe myself.
at the moment I am limited to a very old and much grindstoned hatchet. you kind of have to bludgeon your way through things with it.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:26, Reply)

No human contact?
OMG - IT'S THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
I shall choose death.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:09, Reply)

anywhere but in your tiny pea-brain.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:12, Reply)

To the Isle Of Wight.
I'm guessing that I'm lucky.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:12, Reply)

but I flew over it once. I felt like Wilbur Wright must have done when he flew over the barren wastelands of North Carolina.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:15, Reply)

used to sail there from chichester.
I quite like it.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:15, Reply)

FUCK IT! I'm back where I started.
*gets stilts*
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:23, Reply)

I have a boat though we can go for a cruise though if you like *waggles*
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:28, Reply)

I went there twice when I was a kid. I remember lots of different coloured sands and a seagull eating my chips, oh and a pearl museum. I'm sure there is more though!
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:16, Reply)

like global warming and the dangers of passive smoking
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:14, Reply)

A first aid kit.
An engagement ring, just in case.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:10, Reply)

Are you lying about who you really are, Edmund?
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:13, Reply)

Where was your date? A midnight flight across the South Pole sky?
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:24, Reply)

but due to a terrible spork accident, we ended up at the pub.
He's smaller IRL.
*sniggers*
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:25, Reply)

Huge survival knife
Big flint
SAS Survival guide by Ray Mears.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:10, Reply)

1) Do some dramatic running and jumping
2) Find a hotel
3) Profit
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:16, Reply)

A Kindle or something like that with infinite memory and every book EVER- I love reading and real books, but you can get a whole library on that. Highlights include the entire back catalogue of Neil Gaiman, Steven King, H.P. Lovecraft, The Gormenghast trilogy (should keep me done for about 3 years), and Mills and Boone.
Lots and lots and LOTS of factor 50 suncream.
A piano.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:16, Reply)

Only read one Steven King book, quite like it. Easy to read but quite fun. I read Titus Groan when I was 12 and it has since been the weirdest book I've read. Took bloody ages. And I love Neil Gaiman.
And you need PornLite.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:19, Reply)

Erm. Last grownup book I read...
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Erm. The Man in The High Castle, by Phillip K. Dick?
/science fiction
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:23, Reply)

I like Phillip K dick though so I will stop mocking you for the time being.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:25, Reply)

Though this doesn't explain why all those men like spunking on it.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:42, Reply)

Lovecraft and King you might like Richard Matheson too. He wrote I am Legend and Stir of Echoes, both been made into bad films but the books are brill! :)
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:23, Reply)

Hence wanting to spend eternity catching up.
LOVE "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" though. There's a YouTube of Neil reading it, it's hilarious. Basically an American tourist ends up in Innsmouth and gets pissed wiht the locals.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:29, Reply)

My chappy is really into Neil Gaiman, I haven't read anything by him yet, there on the list of books to read along with all the Terry Pratchett's!
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:32, Reply)

is really close to my name. I felt really popular for a second
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:32, Reply)

But I have absolutely no idea how to play one.
Maybe it'd be better than a guitar, in that you could weather-proof it.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:19, Reply)

On the one hand, you press a note on piano and BING. You leave tuning to professionals.
On the other hand, the nightmare of two hands moving independently of each other. Seriously. I'm a spaz at rhythm.
EDIT: I know the guitar does that, but I can't explain how I find it different. Maybe both hands are producing notes and you can play a lot more than about 10 notes maximum per movement thingy.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:21, Reply)

You're working both hands together to get one note/chord.
With a piano you could have a fuck-load more going on at once, I guess.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:23, Reply)

I don't like how you can produce the same note multiple times in different positions (e.g. open string = string above on 5th fret). It confuses me.
Piano is lully when you get it right though. Occasionally you click and it's great.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:25, Reply)

wish I could. should learn really as I have one in my kitchen
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:32, Reply)

A titanium Leatherman tool with spare parts included.
A small fusion power station
A waterproof PC complete with long range wireless internet and a lifetime's worth of subscriptions to MILF websites, survival guides, movies on demand and an extensive online library.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:19, Reply)

They're so uncomfortable.
I think you'd be better off with a machete :p
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:21, Reply)

A titanium machete with a built in Leatherman and lots of spare parts.
That'll do it.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:24, Reply)

...and by Christ, you're right! I'd never really noticed until just now. The screwdriver is unbelievably awkward and the saw is only useful on branches that I can easily snap with my bare hands.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:25, Reply)

In that you've got all of the bits that you might need in one place.
But the amount they cost is crazy. You could get a tool kit and box for that.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:27, Reply)

I've not got a tool kit either, to be fair.
*shrugs*
Putting together a flat-pack chest of drawers with a screwdriver, a rolling pin and my fists was an experience that I don't wish to replicate any time soon.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:33, Reply)

Screwdriver for, well screwing stuff.
Rolling pin for tapping in fittings.
Fists for hammering the damn thing together.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:40, Reply)

the saw on that could take apart a battleship.
and mine has pliers.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:31, Reply)

On most models.
Fine for basic stuff, but one false move and you've sliced yourself.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:34, Reply)

but that is why you also have a machete
I only use the knives on my Swiss for delicate operations.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:34, Reply)

or erasing lines on a drawing
I rarely use the knife on my army knife really. not the big one anyway. the pliers, scissors and saw are much more useful.
also, it has that thing for sewing leather and stuff. that's bound to come in handy when fashioning a sail for your rudimentary raft out of the sun-cured hides of the sharks you have skinned.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:38, Reply)

...when fashioning a sail for your rudimentary raft out of the sun-cured hides of the
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:41, Reply)

you're clearly more cut out for this sort of thing than me.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:41, Reply)

look at my beard!
I'm already more rugged than all of the rest of you put together.
also, I know how to build a boat. and have many other civil engineering related skills.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:45, Reply)

I know how society works and the tools that make it work, and I can rebuild one from scratch.
I also put out.
I win.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 12:00, Reply)

cat-gnome can be a cabana boy
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 12:18, Reply)

cats like fish and gnomes like fishing, so he can get dinner for us.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 12:22, Reply)

him my island slave. Then I can spend more time doing nothing
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:32, Reply)

And then you could put him on the front lawn on a toadstool, holding a fishing rod.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:34, Reply)

...which would imply some kind of onboard-dildo energy storage cell.
Charge by day, work all night.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:34, Reply)

...she hasn't yet worked out where the batteries go.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:37, Reply)

Huge quantity of pva glue.
GPS.
Papier mache escape canoe here we come!
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:34, Reply)

because there's no way you could be bothered to attempt to escape.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:36, Reply)

and then he'd get bored and make a papier mache cat instead.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:38, Reply)

And concealed within the papier mache cat, before I send it floating across the ocean, a note crudely scrawled in my own faeces pleading for rescue.
Dammit, should have brought a pen.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:43, Reply)

would make little models of us all and a paper maiche crown for himself and pretend he was the king of B3tan.
Hopefully he would squash Mini Al first
*places bet*
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:43, Reply)

Even factoring in how fiddly making the whiskers would be.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:45, Reply)

I wonder what a gnomecat would look like? Probably a bit too much like puss in boots for my liking.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:48, Reply)

I had to hire a look-alike, so I can dress him up in my clothes to make sure I look awesome when I wear them.
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 12:08, Reply)

1. Guitar (crammed full of spare strings)
2. Tuner for said guitar
3. A big pile of assorted drugs*
That should keep me going for a while
*If this doesn't count as one thing then an industrial size tub of vaseline
( , Tue 14 Jul 2009, 13:03, Reply)
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