The sad demise of sites I once loved
Years ago I read an article in The Times no less, about some brilliant web sites and as I'd just got my first laptop I tried one of them...Questionswap.com
Excellent little site where you could anonymously ask questions and then would automatically be asked a question in response. Your answer would be rated by the original poser of the question and in turn you could rate the answers you had received. Some were straightforward and rather like the sort of thing Yahoo Answers does, others were surreal and concerned chihuahuas - that was a particularly strong line of questions posed by b3ta's very own Humpty Dumpty was Pushed.
And in fact that's how I found b3ta - QS had a forum, not unlike Off Topic, I got chatting to Humpty and he suggested I check out b3ta...the rest as they say, blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, over the last couple of years I have drifted further away from QS - it became very very slow and there were server problems. This has now resulted in the site going onto Ning.com and becoming yet another social networking place. It's a huge shame - I understand why this has happened and don't blame Adam the site owner but still...it's a shame to see a great spot of the internet going.

So...what's the last thing you've been sad to see go?
Alternatively do you think Robbie Williams will last longer than Whitney Houston?
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:35, 24 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

My youth.

( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:38, Reply)

You should have tied him down
or kept him in the cellar.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:41, Reply)

Is this relentless self pity
tongue in cheek, or completely serious? Sometimes i can't tell.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:43, Reply)

Haha!
Well if you need to ask then I'm doing it right.
( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:46, Reply)

It's performance art
apply for a grant from the council.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:58, Reply)

I'm self-funding.
My work is based loosely on my life but there is some artistic licence.
( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 10:19, Reply)

one of my colleagues
only ever given a shit about two people leaving the place that I work.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:39, Reply)

Questionswap was good
but it was a bit of a one trick pony. It got dull after the initial interest.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:44, Reply)

True
but if you came across the more surreal questions or began to answer with increasing daftness it could be a lot of fun. It also allowed you to be downright rude to idiots without having to use a meat puppet.

All that said, I haven't used the site for a couple of years so I'm as much to blame for its demise :/
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:47, Reply)

Try the Internet Oracle.
cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:49, Reply)

That looks rather interesting
I shall bookmark that for later. Now it's on with the superhero knickers and off out for lunch!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:53, Reply)

I'm a priest of the Oracle
Don't quote the question in the answer! is the no. 1 piece of advice I'd give.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:59, Reply)

I was in Oracularities once
Many moons ago.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 10:22, Reply)

Back in the day
I had a few Best Of. Even got my own page on the Zadocularities site.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 10:29, Reply)

My mind...
Seriously, you know those days when you just can't seem to do anything right, and then you feel really dense when someone points out the very obvious and crass mistakes you've made? I've had a couple of those on the trot now and I'm starting to wonder if premature dementia is setting in alongside my premature middle-agedness.

I suspect the next thing may be my band. It seems to be increasingly impossible to get everyone together for a jam (which you wouldn't have thought was difficult for a trio) and I'm starting to worry that it will go the same way as my old jazz band, which has been on "extended hiatus" forever and a day now...

*mans the fuck up and stops whinging...*
As for Robbie Williams, I really, sincerely hope he won't last longer than Whitney Houston. I don't like either of them, but Williams is on my list of "People More Annoying than Chris 'Fat, Annoying Cunt' Moyles."
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:49, Reply)

I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Robbie
I can't resist cheeky young men or cheeky old men for that matter.

And I also once had a pornographic dream about him - that settled it because my conscious mind had never really noticed him before - a clear case of the Id leading the Ego.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:58, Reply)

That has disturbed me slightly
I don't know about the whole "cheeky chappy" thing, though...he always came across as "hideously smug" to me. Though that may be because Take That's first incarnation occurred when I was of an age at which I thought girls were smelly and nasty, and of course all the girls liked Take That. Perhaps he got away with it then by being the daft, gurning clown in a group of pretty boys, but every time I've seen him solo I've just wanted to smack him in the mouth...to each their own, I suppose.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 10:03, Reply)

Robbie & Whitney...

Will live forever.

Do you know why? because I put them on my Deadpool hit list...IN FUCKING 1999!

People going onto my list is like a daily swig from the holy grail. No bugger dies!*

The amount of times I've had to take people out to dinner become other gits are dropping like flies.

*Actually - come to think of it - I also had Michael Jackson - Woo!

*Starts phoning friends and family*
(Mr Twisty Cheeky The worst kept secret in B3ta..., Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:52, Reply)

Is that to say
that their continued existence is YOUR FAULT?

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE???
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 9:59, Reply)

I can't apologise enough...
I put them on my list secretly hoping that they'd collectively 'throw a seven' in the near future and their deaths would lead to happy pre-paid cider & Chinesey times for me.

But my list is like the fountain of eternal life for them.

It gets worse - I've also got Andrea Corr on there. What the Pork-sword swallowing fuck was I thinking?
(Mr Twisty Cheeky The worst kept secret in B3ta..., Wed 21 Oct 2009, 10:03, Reply)

For the love of all that is good and lovely
do NOT put Pete Doherty, Jeremy Kyle, Chris Moyles, Patrick Kielty or James Corden on that list.

Nor, for that matter... *unfolds list*
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 10:11, Reply)

*steps in*
I have one or two names I'd like to put forward...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 10:43, Reply)

"to throw a Seven"
... is slang in Sweden for taking a shit. :o)

Just thought you'd like to know ;o)
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Wed 21 Oct 2009, 12:27, Reply)

Who are you stranger?
Don't see you much round these parts anymore. Shame.

Leave the Ikea assembly alone and play with b3ta!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 17:56, Reply)