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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Since BGB is off to the gym
what is everyone doing tonight then?

Alt Q: Are false eyelashes and fake tan acceptable?

Edit: and to answer my own question, I have a finalist friend, so am already quite tipsy. Then drinks on the lawn and clubbing
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:01, 141 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
I've just been pottering around in my forrest


And, Clendrix, SHUT UP, IT IS NOT A VALLEY OF DEATH, this year it'll bare vegtables and fruit and I'll be all like "Oh man, I have so much fruit, I could sell some to Tescos, I think I could stock the north london stores" and then I'll wallow in home made chucknees and mojitos.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:03, Reply)
If you're going to be baring your fruit and vegetables on the roof,
I'll not be round visiting anytime soon.
Sicko.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:23, Reply)
The tedious and slow job hunt continues
Apart from that, tea and mediocre telly.

OH and I'm on the 100 pushup program!
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:03, Reply)
Good luck with the job search
They're called pressups on this side of the Atlantic, though.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:40, Reply)
A guy needs to make his moobs look good, you know.

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:49, Reply)
I was not aware of this
I shall press away. The less Americanizations the better.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:55, Reply)
And yes it was intentional

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:55, Reply)
travelling to Bristol as I have a course tomorrow and Thursday
I prefer pale women, and think too much makeup etc. looks shit, so no, not acceptable.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:04, Reply)
you see
I am as pale as pale can be, and relatively blond. I'd like to have a tan, but am unsure if even light fake tan is right
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:06, Reply)
it'd have to be really quite light
you are pretty pale, so even a moderate amount would probably look rather fake
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:08, Reply)
I've bought a fantastic new dress
but it is much shorter and tighter than anything I'd usually wear, so pale legs would be a bit worrying with it.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:09, Reply)
I think giving yourself a hint of colour on the legs would be ok
as they aren't next to eyes, hair etc. (not publicly visible hair anyway) so would look ok
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:11, Reply)
or I could solve the problem
by getting drunk before dressing
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:19, Reply)
always a winner

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:20, Reply)
I like to think so
because that way no matter what I look like, I'll feel fine
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:24, Reply)
that's a good attitude

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:26, Reply)
Thank ye gads
the madness of the last thread is over. The plan tonight is cycle to band practice, sing like a bastar', cycle to beer festival. Find Halfy. Realise he can't stand up. Avoid Halfy.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:05, Reply)
Dunnorrr
either Soho or Dalston.

Fake tan, never. Falsies, awesome.
Quite the opposite of fake tan, I guess...
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:06, Reply)
good work there

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:08, Reply)
We went out as Batman Villains
I was not going in a catsuit as Harley, so I improvised

My friend as Poison Ivy was great.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:12, Reply)
both good efforts

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:12, Reply)
We also had Catwoman
her normal clothes, plus cat ears. We almost bought a whip :(
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:13, Reply)
is Catwoman a Batman villain?

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:24, Reply)
Yes

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:26, Reply)
that is quite pale
like me :)
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:10, Reply)
Wearing white makeup!

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:12, Reply)
Are you a mime?

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:21, Reply)
If only

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:41, Reply)
mime is money

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:46, Reply)
roomates softball game
I think they are acceptable in moderation
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:08, Reply)
My parents are taking me out for a meal,
not sure where yet, any suggestions?
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:11, Reply)
I have no suggestions

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:12, Reply)
Thanks for being honest.
I think I'm going to get them to take me to Raymond Blancs restaurant near me.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:13, Reply)
that sounds like a good plan
I like the way he cooks
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:14, Reply)
It's quite good in there ;)
Took some clients in there when we were working in MK
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:16, Reply)
Why are you winking at me?

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:17, Reply)
Isn't it obvious?

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:38, Reply)
Bernie Inn

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:18, Reply)
Would you like egg or pineapple on that?

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:20, Reply)
how about
The Birch - quite nice there.......Swan in Woburn Sands quite good too - belated greetings BTW
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:05, Reply)
Yes
and maybe, depending on the subtlety thereof. As long as you don't look like a tango-d slapper with obvious falsies that comb your eyebrows, you're probably ok.

Jordan, you fucking dog - I'm looking at you.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:12, Reply)
I'd give her two weeks

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:16, Reply)
Tuesday Night....
...is Dogging Night.
Woop, woop!
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:12, Reply)
Oh boy, oh boy!
*excites*
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:14, Reply)
I'm gonna go home and play some Red Dead Redemption
Then pick up the Lady from work about 8:30.

False tan is a definite NO. False eyelashes can look good, so long you don't cake the makeup on.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:17, Reply)
nope I only ever wear eyeliner and mascara
because green eyes tend to need it
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:19, Reply)
Some people would kill to have green eyes
But I'm glad you don't go out like an explosion in a Maybelline factory.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:23, Reply)
one thing I'd change about my mrs is giving her green eyes
mmm
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:35, Reply)
you can buy them

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:46, Reply)
I'd like to have properly emerald eyes
a bit like Harry Potter.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:47, Reply)
that would be cool
mine are very grey, which I quite like
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:48, Reply)
mine change colour depending on the light
and on my clothes. So usually green with gold bits, but grey on overcast mornings or if I wear grey clothing
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:50, Reply)
interesting....

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:51, Reply)
it'd be really cool
if I could control the colour change or had two distinct colours, but grey and green are fairly similar
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:52, Reply)
yeah it would be cool
I seem to recall people refusing to admit mine were grey when I was younger because they didn't believe that grey was a legitimate eye colour.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:53, Reply)
that is quite odd
grey eyes are rare, but not unheard of. What colour did they insist your eyes were instead?
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:58, Reply)
blue or green depending on who it was
this all happened before I came to the conclusion that most people are stupid.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:01, Reply)
I could be very wrong
so don't quote me on this, but aren't grey eyes a rare combination of mostly blue genes, very light shades of, while green eyes are just an actual mutated colour?
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:09, Reply)
perhaps
but mine really are very grey indeed.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:11, Reply)
then you're lucky
I'd love properly grey eyes
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:12, Reply)
my fake tan isn't obviously fake (unless I put it on like a spac)
but it does smell like shreddies when I'm in bed all warm.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:47, Reply)
haha
that sounds rather nice in an odd sort of way. I bought some fake tan wipes, and some Sally Hanson stuff for my legs
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:49, Reply)
I tried the wipes once
but where the wipe had first touched my skin was a completely different colour to where it finished off, I had to wear trousers in the end.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:58, Reply)
Oh dear
maybe I shouldn't try this!
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:59, Reply)
I'm going to play board games in the pub.
*geeks out*
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:20, Reply)
How many sides will the dice have?

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:21, Reply)
2d4, 6d6, 4d8, 4d10, 1d12, 4d20
Standard.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:22, Reply)
Only 6,
but they're all custom.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:36, Reply)
I'm going home in a mo
so I don't flake out on the tube like the loser that I am. Then I'm going to eat a Twister lolly and sit in the sun! :)
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:23, Reply)
years since a twister lolly
maybe I should buy some icecreams
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:25, Reply)
Doooo it!
They're full of win and slightly less food colouring!
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:26, Reply)
They're ace.
Do they still make Zaps? I used to love those as a kid!
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:27, Reply)
Only from some ice cream vans
They're still full of doom and once you've eaten one the world still seems as green and swirly as it did when you ate one as a kid! :)
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:29, Reply)
Toodlepip! :)

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:31, Reply)
I really want one now.

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:32, Reply)
so do I
unfortunately my fridge only freezes things I don't want frozen. So they'd have to be eaten as soon as they're bought
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:34, Reply)
How is this a bad thing?

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:31, Reply)
Blues jam, Soho. I'm becoming a bit of a regular there now.
But first, I'm allowing my medical-student-friend to poke me as practice for her exams. As long as she doesn't try to stick needles in me, I don't mind...

And Alt Q: No, unless you're a fan of insectoid oompah-loompahs
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:28, Reply)
off to play bass in a pub out in the sticks somewhere
hopefully
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:31, Reply)
Going out for a joint birthday do
I will be consuming coffee and Red Bull beforehand as I am SHATTERED.

GONZ, your flat is my perfect abode.
Roof action, high street action, lofty safety from the hordes.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:36, Reply)
I do that
and then I crash spectacularly later on, it's great
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:41, Reply)
I'll just pretend I'm going to the toilet
then leg it home when they're not looking
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:43, Reply)
I did that at a wedding on Saturday
me and my friend told the bride we were just off to the bar and then did stealth rolls to the car.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:45, Reply)
i prefer just disappearing
causes comment on occasion though...
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:46, Reply)
I hate when friends do that on nights out
because you don't want to leave the pub until you've found them.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:49, Reply)
I just assume they've done a Roota

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:51, Reply)
I worry that they'll end up lost and missing
if they've just got chatting to someone. Like in Homeward Bound.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:55, Reply)

a
EVERYONE HAS!
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:55, Reply)
You haven't

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:57, Reply)
I curse god for that fact.

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:58, Reply)
have they ?
I don't want to anymore :(
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:58, Reply)
ah
you're missing out
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:07, Reply)
it's usually because i'm too drunk
and so is everyone else by that point.

so no one notices...
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:55, Reply)
I wear a bit of fake tan on my legs because I have to get them all out for pole and they're blue otherwise
but false eyelashes are just annoying. I hate that girls are wearing them all the time now. The big thick caterpillar ones look silly and make girls look tarty.

Having said that I have been known to put the individual ones on for a special occasion.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:40, Reply)
yeah my cousin can't blink for the weight of her lashes. Looks stupid.
She also got annoyed to discover that she'd paid thousands of pounds to be the same size boobs as me. Like I didn't deserve mine cos I hadn't paid good money for them. Hers look well bigger than mine anyway if you ask me.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:43, Reply)
I would pay to have the same size boobs as you
but I can only afford one and that would look silly.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:45, Reply)
I'll chip in for the other.
It's the least I can do after the joy your introducing me to 'Busi has brought to my life.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:51, Reply)
The b3ta breast fund

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:53, Reply)
We could have a totaliser
like they had on Blue Peter in the 80s for the dying black children.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:54, Reply)
haha yeah it's just as philanthropic

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:55, Reply)
How insensitive.
The last thing dying black children need is a boob job
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:55, Reply)
They can just wear really tight belts and push their bellies up...

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:02, Reply)
Hahahahah

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:02, Reply)
It would be a massive pair of breast that inflated with every donation
Suggested scale:

Kate Moss - no breasts for anyone :(
Catherine Zeta Jones
Pamela Anderson
Jordan
Lolo ferrari - breasts for everyone :)
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:05, Reply)
A 'titaliser', if you will...

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:06, Reply)
Absolutely, however I suspect one of the presenters
may get caught wanking over it with sticky backed plastic whilst on a massive coke binge.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:14, Reply)
*applies for presenter job*

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:20, Reply)
This, I would like to see
'This week children I'm going to show you how to make a crack pipe out of your Barbie and Sarah is looking at the history of Absinth'
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:23, Reply)
Blue Peter for the NOW Generation
I'll bet viewing figures would go up.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:25, Reply)
These are the really basic ones
I don't think you can see them, they just make your eyes look darker
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:43, Reply)
I like them
we classy ladies are subtle.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:44, Reply)
Haha
I originally thought that was a reply to the boob job thing. Basic boobs, 3 for 2 at boots!
To be honest, for some of the boob jobs I've seen basic boots boobs would be an improvement.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:56, Reply)
I'm going to dinner with my dear mama and her 'partner'
in the Victoria area. Neither of them will be wearing fake tan or indeed false eyelashes. Or feminine clothes.

Were I not doing this I would be going round to see my daughter as, unbelievably, she (and her unemployed-for-nearly-five-years mother) is leaving her luxury Shoreditch home and is off to Spain in the morning, til next Tuesday: two days before we fly out to Cyprus for a fortnight.

It's so hard being a parasite, these days, eh? I'm very happy for my little girl though. By her 2nd birthday she will have had more foreign holidays than I had in my first 20 years of life.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:50, Reply)
How was she at the weekend?

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:54, Reply)
Fucking great, thanks
I took some beautiful photos of her that you can pretend to be interested in next time we do beer.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:02, Reply)
Going to Koko
for the UNKLE gig. Woo and indeed yay.

I think fake tan (in moderation, no Cheshire-orange tans for me thankyouverymuch) OR false eyelashes. Never together, for that is too much. False eyelashes on a speshul night out can look marvellous on a goth girl.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:01, Reply)
James Lavelle is a fucking wanker.
I know this to be true from personal experience.

Have a good time!
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:04, Reply)
Did he wank you off?

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:06, Reply)
Really roughly, yes.
EDIT with sandpaper gloves on.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:07, Reply)
That must be how he 'scratches'...

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:12, Reply)
Ouch.

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:26, Reply)
cheers!
was alright. I saw them at Somerset house a couple of years ago and they were better back then. I liked the support this time though (Dark Horses) so it all evens out.

Yes, I can imagine James Lavelle being a bit of a tit. I still think Edit Music For Film is a brilliant piece of work though.
(, Wed 26 May 2010, 10:23, Reply)
i'm off to the gym, too in about 40 minutes
but I'm cross about something I won't bore people with: can I request some empty platitudes, please?
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:31, Reply)
I have a hollow platypus*
Will that do?
*might be lies
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:35, Reply)
damn you asterix
it was looking good until then
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:39, Reply)
Sorry
I do have a pair of small leather camels, but they weren't so good for punning
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:41, Reply)
how does that even happen?
are they made from camel leather? What are they for? This raises more questions than the hollow platypus
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:48, Reply)
Bought them as souvenirs when in egypt
For a friend (who i've seen many times since and keep forgetting them), when she said she wanted me to bring her back a camel
Its very fake leather, will grab a pic in a minute.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:52, Reply)
Pic
Camels FTW
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:57, Reply)
wow!
they are quite something
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:58, Reply)
If you spot me on tomorrow lunch
Remind me of them, I'm seeing the person I've been supposed to give them to for the last 3 months in the afternoon
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:59, Reply)
You mean asterisk.
Unless of course you were cursing the famous cartoon Gaul.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:48, Reply)
I meant what I said
...honest
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:51, Reply)
Well seeing as you said 'honest'
I believe you entirely.
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:54, Reply)
There are several in this week's QOTW

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:37, Reply)
perhaps I should
do bibliomancy on it
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:40, Reply)
Don't bother. It's fucking shit.

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:45, Reply)
good advice

(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:47, Reply)
of course
hope you feel better about it. Exercise will at least distract you
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:40, Reply)
cheers
perhaps there will be punchbags
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:44, Reply)
Doing all the stuff I've been meaning to do over the weekend
but couldn't bring my self to do since it was sunny.
i.e. laundry, revision, a vague tidying up.
pretty boring really.
Might wander upstairs later and see if I can convince other people they really don;t want to revise and we should play board games to entertain me
(, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:35, Reply)

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