My first look at off-topic..
Dear Regular Off-Topic Posters,

after noticing some weird overreactions and politics creeping in to QOTW in recent weeks I decided to check out Off-Topic. I can't say I'll be back, the word clique seems to sum it up.
I'm sure you're all nice people, and I very much enjoy your stories in QOTW proper but you're not very nicely behaved in here sadly. It's a very small and relatively insignificant corner of the internet, you can have it all to yourselves, with my sincere blessing.

All the very best,

Finch.
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:08, 102 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

urrr, thanks
/sits in naughty corner
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:11, Reply)

I don't know half the people who've been arguing on here today
I find it most agreeable mostly.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:11, Reply)

^what the scouser said
We had a bit of /talk invasion earlier this afternoon. It's normally more sedate than this.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:13, Reply)

:)

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:14, Reply)

I'd say it's pretty nice here, tbh
Today was a bit er, odd.
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:27, Reply)

I didn't like today
Well I liked some of it.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:31, Reply)

what the hell happened today?
everyone seems pretty riled
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:13, Reply)

i know
They're all pure eating their own faces with rage.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:14, Reply)

are they hippos?
/readies slapping hand
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:15, Reply)

DO IT

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:15, Reply)

So glad you stopped by to tell everyone that.
Of course, cliques on the internet are unheard of. QOTW has never been accused of that kind of thing. But then, some of us remember when all this was fields, and when there was no such thing as a 'reply' button.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:13, Reply)

Tell us about the war, DiT

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:14, Reply)

The war?
I remember the fire!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:15, Reply)

Crikey!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:17, Reply)

Yep, the Great Fire of B3ta
It was terrible - BGB had to hand out flasks while we sheltered in a tunnel and sang.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:27, Reply)

I would have LOVED that

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:28, Reply)

*ahem*
Word on the street is you started the fire...
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:30, Reply)

I didn't start the fire
I just love a good disaster because it makes everyone cuddle up in the shelter and sing and neck.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:31, Reply)

There was no necking
This was in the Good Old Days - we were all far more innocent back then. Edmund hadn't started his reign of cock-terror, in fact I don't think we'd even seen Hitlercock back then either.

Ah...those were the days.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:33, Reply)

Wot no nylons or Hersheys???

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:34, Reply)

Hersheys is vile
And we made do with a marker pen until someone 'accidentally' sat on it. I think that was Al.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:36, Reply)

alright Billy Joel

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:35, Reply)

It was terrible
Terrible, I tell you. Some of us even had to TURN OFF OUR COMPUTERS and go outside

Some people thought they'd never be the same again.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:30, Reply)

Oh God, the great fire of b3ta!
I would talk to you, chickenlady, but that'd be cliquey.

Sorry.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:17, Reply)

That's okay
I won't talk to you either.

We can pretend we've never seen each other.

Who are you anyway?
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:26, Reply)

pff!
I remember when it was just a thread
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:18, Reply)

*bows down*

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 20:46, Reply)

I'm pretty new
and I've actually found the /offtopic board to be pretty friendly and amusing
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:18, Reply)

Sicko

( thealternativefact, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:20, Reply)

I'm taking pills for it
I'm sure I'll soon be called a cunt just like everyone else :)
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:23, Reply)

cahnt

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:25, Reply)

Cunt!
You're welcome.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:27, Reply)

feels better

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:29, Reply)

you lav it

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:20, Reply)

I'm with Amberl
I like it here, and I haven't been here long. Only one person has said "fuck off" to me, and I even "friended" some people earlier today, which is in no way stalkery.

Oh, and I found a fellow Forest fan in Norwich, and we're going to the pub to watch the match later this month.

/gayness
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:27, Reply)

You're just sick
you and your sort - arranging to meet people OFF THE INTERNET!

Sickos the lot of you!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:28, Reply)

I just discovered the friend button recently as well
and real life meetups. Sick that's what you are
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:30, Reply)

just a few months ago
i was just an occasional poster to the main board with nostalgic reminiscences of 4rthur. But now look at me, I have a gigantic arm and am basted in sweet chilli sauce
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:32, Reply)

Your username seems familiar
Cunt!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:03, Reply)

If you read and post somewhere regularly
you get to know the people involved, and also jokes, terminology and references that the casual observer might not. Whilst that may give an impression of exclusivity, to my mind /OT is not deliberately cliquey, merely the result of associating with the same people over time.

For example, you might not know what I meant if I was to call you a shirter, but others would, using their highly developed 'shirtdar'.

It's not personal.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:27, Reply)

I concur!
Anyone who's reading this who's unfamiliar with OT, Monty speaks the truth, and I'm not just saying that because I'm a fucking chicken and am terrified of him, although I am
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:28, Reply)

Excuse me...
but there is nothing wrong with being a fucking chicken.


Thank you.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:31, Reply)

I'm not scary, surely?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:33, Reply)

terrifying

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:34, Reply)

I've heard you're actually very fetching
I think the word fetching was used.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:34, Reply)

I suppose that's preferable to 'felching'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:37, Reply)

Oh...maybe that was the word
or perhaps that was just what someone wanted to do to you.....





/stir
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:41, Reply)

Ha! Fetching I may be,
it's my personality that is deficient....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:56, Reply)

But as we all know
this is almost a requirement for this site.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:27, Reply)

I'm terrified out being outwitted and/or humiliated in a reasonably anonymous internet environment
It's a very specific phobia. So rare that I am yet to make up a name for it, although shirtophobia is out in front at the minute.

I'm here to confront my fears, live on the edge. Because bungee jumping is for crazy people
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:37, Reply)

Who are you?
And what have you done with the real Monty?
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:33, Reply)

You should have posted hello,
then maybe you would have been wrapped warmly into the lovin’ embrace that is OT, but you didn’t even give us a chance you great big wobbly bumhead!

*throws ice cream cone*
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:28, Reply)

well said
EDIT - am seeing the BF later and can't wait to try that spectacular phrase on him!Let you know if I manage it......
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:32, Reply)

And of course none of the other b3ta boards are in anyway cliquey at all

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:31, Reply)

No never
/talk treat you like a long lost friend.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:01, Reply)

Hahahaahahhaahahahahaha!

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:28, Reply)

Dipshit.
Would you walk into a pub you've never been in before and say that to the locals?

No. You'd get to know them first.

Then call them cunts.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:35, Reply)

do us a favour
go to the bar for us, would ya?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:38, Reply)

Sure.
What do you want? *Holds hand out for money*

PS Is that your own special tankard? Nice.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:45, Reply)

pint of scrumpy and scampi fries
/hands over bottle caps
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:51, Reply)

Ok.
*Checks bottle tops*

Is there enough here for one for me?
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:08, Reply)

should be
there's a gold one in there, help yourself
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:12, Reply)

Ah, got it.
Barkeep! Barkeep! Two scrumpies and two packs of crispy cunts please.

*pays up, gets twatted by barkeep, returns empty handed*
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:17, Reply)

worst trip to the bar ever
next time, I'll send someone competent
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:18, Reply)

It was the dog's fault.
I'll try again.

*Returns with drink and crispy cunts. Barkeep was busy in the other room. Score*
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:23, Reply)

win!
*quaffs*
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:25, Reply)

I made a friend with someone on the internet once but then felt bad that I wasn't friends with everyone else because they would feel left out.
This is also why I don't date.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:41, Reply)

Gonz, you're just too nice for your own good!

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:42, Reply)

I know =(

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:55, Reply)

Dear unknown internet user,
Your opinion means sweet fuck-all, especially if you're never coming back again.
Lots of love,
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:44, Reply)

unknown every
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:55, Reply)

nicely put
saves me typing it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 21:20, Reply)

Fuck off then

(PsychoChomp, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:54, Reply)

this^
Short and to the point
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 17:58, Reply)

Seriously,
come over here read briefly, don't contribute, judge us, then fuck off with a post barely disguising their contempt.

I'm certain he believes he's in the right too, which is the most annoying thing.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:12, Reply)

Or
we've just risen to the bait of an awesome troll.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:14, Reply)

hmmm, that's possible.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S REAL ANYMORE???
(PsychoChomp, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:15, Reply)

Hardly awesome.
Just a tired replicant of an unoriginal theme.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:16, Reply)

noone suspects...
thefinch!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:16, Reply)

Bet he's got a tiny cock though
Also hardly original, but I'm willing to bet he is reading this, whatever he may claim, and feeling smugly superior to our protestations. Which is why I'd like to remind him that I have a much bigger penis than him.

Just because
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:22, Reply)

Phew - near miss there.

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:05, Reply)

Noooooooooooooooo!
Don't leave me.

Everyone leaves me : (
( girlinthehole, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:07, Reply)

I'll never leave you BGB

(Bazongaloid, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:09, Reply)

: )
Not while I have those photos you won't.
( girlinthehole, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:11, Reply)

Or while you keep him chained in your cellar.

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:30, Reply)

There there.
Everyone leaves everyone else in the end. You're not alone. Have a big fat hug.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:09, Reply)

You fucking cliquey cliquester!

(Bazongaloid, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:10, Reply)

I'll clique you in a minute!
Fucking leprous outcasts, coming round here with their bells and their rags.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:15, Reply)

fuck off the lot of you
rawr
etc
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:11, Reply)

Hi Kristine
how are you?
(Bazongaloid, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:11, Reply)

FUCKING SUPER
totally reading up on the dramz on /talk
they're so funny

how're you?
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 18:22, Reply)

Hehehe - you said Shirter...
happened to see so many responses and well... I got off better than I deserved.

I must have been in quite a bad mood earlier - or at least some stuff I read was unsavoury and it got my dander up. Can't help it sometimes, a bit like when the dog gets his lipstick out.

I've had a packet of nik-naks and feel much better, risk of further gobshite nonsense has faded back to normal levels, still quite high though sadly.
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 20:21, Reply)

what sort of nik-naks
YOU WILL BE JUDGED HARSHLY IF YOU GIVE THE WRONG ANSWER!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 21:20, Reply)

Well?
We are waiting for an answer.

What flavour of nik naks
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 8 Mar 2010, 21:40, Reply)

The nik naks were
Nice'n'Spicy

g'night all
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 22:53, Reply)

Other acceptable answers include
Rib'n'Saucy and Scampi'n'Lemon
(Bazongaloid, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 22:57, Reply)

we have a multipack
so if I get a look in before the missus scoffs the lot I'll have a bag of scampi & lemon with my humble pie.

I fucking hate humble pie - it tastes like shite.
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 23:01, Reply)

Do they actually still make Scampi and Lemon?
I just threw it in there as it was always my favourite flavour, but I thought they had stopped making them.

Your Humble Pie tastes like shit because it's actually your mrs' way of indicating she wants a good rimming. But she only enjoys it if you're being humiliated while you do it.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 23:08, Reply)

I think you'll find
that your mum is the one that likes the rim.
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 9:39, Reply)

Hey, you came back!
This place is usually alright. Just like the other boards there's an occasional drama but that's what makes people feel alive. ALIVE! Whatever happened to cream cheese Nik-Naks?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 8:05, Reply)

well at least
I caused a bit of a drama myself. Exciting!
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 9:40, Reply)

oh god
that's gross.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 9:47, Reply)