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From the BBC Website
*Tributes are paid to agony aunt, broadcaster and patient campaigner Claire Rayner, who has died at 79.*

Do you think that if Claire Rayner was less patient a campaigner, she'd have achieved more?

Alt Q: To celebrate the passing of this agony aunt, share your problems and let the good people of OT advise you.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:37, 164 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
How innappropriate is it to get a chinese delivered to my desk?

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
food or illegal worker?

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)
ha ha ha

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)
Food delivered by an illegal worker.
I'm hungry.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
Go for it!

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:03, Reply)
Dear B3ta
People keep starting shit threads that make me want to punch the in the face.
What should i do?
Love
Badgerkins
xxx
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)
Dear TGB
Feel free to start your own, less puncy threads.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)
I fucking love you sometimes.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)
We need a symbol for "word rearrangement"
as well as strikethroughs
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:40, Reply)
<->
only works in the subject though
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:41, Reply)
Dear QOTW
I lack confidence when it comes to the ladies, do you have any advice for an ex internet shut-in.

Regards,
Maxi
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)
Give me that hoodie you're wearing in your profile and I'm yours

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)
It depends, I only seem to attract mentals, are you a mental?

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
oh god yes
like you wouldn't believe.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:50, Reply)
Don't listen to LAK they're jealous of my AWESOME

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:57, Reply)
Yeah our badges are double sided
on the outside it says "WE HATE TGB" but then when we get inside our secret meeting place we turn them around so they say "BECAUSE SHE IS TEH AWESOME" and then the points of the meeting all involve how we can be more like you. Snacks usually include Dairylea and something with the word Munch in it.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:01, Reply)
I knew it
Monster Munch ftw
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:03, Reply)
When you move to London
and I take you to Tayyabs are you going to bring a packed lunch, and have some mittens on elastic up your sleeves?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:07, Reply)
No you're buying me lunch
and I lost my mittens :(
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:37, Reply)
I met her once. She wasn't mental
She likes cars. Her breath doesn't smell of catfood.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:41, Reply)
There's more chicks here than on /talk.
You've made the first step.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)
Awesome *fist pumps*

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
If you can make a *Kerr-ching* noise whilst pumping your fist, they'll be like putty.
*nods wisely*
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:46, Reply)
They *do* like that.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)
You're very cute and self effacing.
You should have the ladies falling over themselves to get jiggy with it.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:50, Reply)
Yeah, we all know chicks FUCKING LOVE the shy guys.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
SOME DO!!

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:52, Reply)
It's always worked brilliantly for me.
Wait, no, never. I get those two confused a lot.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
Hahahah

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)
I love Monsters Inc.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:00, Reply)
Whereas I
have a monster sink.

How weird is that?

*Seinfeld face*
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:01, Reply)
Grate

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:02, Reply)
I've devised a plan using mainly spoons.....

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:03, Reply)
hehehehe!
I have to watch this all the time as my daughter loves it!
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
It's amazing!
I also enjoy occasionally breaking out into the
Put that thing back where it came from (bom bom bom) so help me!

srly though I'm not mental
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:14, Reply)
I think I may have to watch this when I get home tonight...

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
I'm nowhere near as shy as I used to be

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)
you do have a bit of an emo sig
are you an emo? If you are I'd probably need the hoodie and at least two drinks
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:05, Reply)
and your lunch money.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:07, Reply)
Sometimes

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:13, Reply)
That'll be the rugby
and the buggery. The buggerugby.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:42, Reply)
you know what chicks do love?
guys who DON'T CALL THEM CHICKS.

it is not 1968 and you are not teh fonz.

bird is fine, though.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
It fucking is 1968.
My bloodstream says it's 1968, and so does my record collection. Therefore it is.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:22, Reply)
^ this
you have been validated ONLINE. Now stop moping :)
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:13, Reply)
:)

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:20, Reply)
Didn't "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" (or Newman & Baddiel)
take the piss out of Claire Rayner, asking why it was always really ugly women who give sex advice on TV? This was followed by a hideous alien saying "I like to wear split-crotch panties for my partner"
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)
which in turn reminds me of the joke
where the husband has lost interest in sex, and the wife tries to reignite the flame with some sexy underwear including crotchless knickers. When she throws herself back and invites him to ravish her, he looks at her with disgust, and says 'for god's sake I'm not having sex with that, look what it's done to your knickers'
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:52, Reply)
Ha!
ewww
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)
*steals*

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:55, Reply)
Hahahah genius

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:01, Reply)
Didn't "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" (or Newman & Baddiel)
never ever do one single thing that was remotely amusing?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:00, Reply)
That's you that is.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:01, Reply)
Milky milky

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:02, Reply)
Just. Not. Funny.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:08, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post907351
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:19, Reply)
Agreed.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:24, Reply)
Stop ruining things for me!
Bowie is dead to me because of you. You have planted the "He's shit" seed of doubt in my brain.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:19, Reply)
I don't make these imbeciles shit.
I just point it out.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:21, Reply)
But he was always my default choice when people asked what music I liked
I would say "Bowie" and they would nod approvingly and I could get on with killing my brain with alcohol.

Now what am I going to say? "Mozart"? Not bloody likely, I don't like being shunned/beaten.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:32, Reply)
Tell them you love The Sonics and The Fabulous Wailers
but really in the mid-60s Texas was producing the best music, in your opinion. The Spades and The Stoics are hard to beat, to your ears.

You will be 'knee deep in fanny' within 15 seconds. Guaranteed.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:34, Reply)
I was thinking The Sonics (after you posted the link to The Witch)
but such a comment wont go down well with the carrot-crunchers around here, a narrowing of eyes and in instant labelling as "queer'o'sexual" is the best I can hope for.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:40, Reply)
I hate to be the bearer of bad news
but they already think that.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:45, Reply)
That would explain the firebombings and "POOFTAHS OUT" graffiti on my car

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:49, Reply)
Lots of people calling you a cunt
isn't exactly the same as knee-deep in fanny, Monty.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:46, Reply)
They were fucking brilliant on the radio
it just didn't translate well to telly. IMO.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:43, Reply)
clare rayner - now with wings!
(if noone else remembers those dreadful adverts, this won't make sense)
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)
I do remember those adverts.
How we laughed in school.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:42, Reply)
I was thinking that
but then I am wearing a blue leotard and being pulled along on rollerskates by a pack of dogs..."WAAAAA BODYFORM, BODYFORM FOR YOUUUUUUUU!"
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
What time are you parachuting?

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
Period'O'clock
(probably best to put up an umbrella if you're anywhere near the drop zone)
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
ha ha ha

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:55, Reply)
rank
colonel i am surprised and disappointed by you
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:04, Reply)
What? It might be raining...
...the devils treacle
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:15, Reply)
i feel very very sick
that is literally the worst phrase i have ever heard
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:30, Reply)
I blame B3ta (coz that's where I got it from)
this is everyones fault but mine
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)
I never let a celebrity death Rayner my parade.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
this sounds like something Cave Duck would say

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:03, Reply)
Dear b3ta
I have a bump on my vagina near the hole. I never had sex and I'm not on my period. Is this of puberty or do I have genital herpes?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)
I kept meaning to ask how the op went

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)

I have a small bump on the inside of my outer labia. The best description I can think of for it is a pimple. The kind of pimple that is under the skin so it hurts a lot when it is touched. The bump I have just showed up this morning. It wasn't there yesterday and I just noticed it after I woke up because it hurt a little when I walked. I did run a short distance in my jeans without underwear on (which isn't typical but I didn't have time to find underwear, something urgent just came up and I had to go) so that have irritated the area but I'm not sure. It isn't really off color or anything. There is a really tiny, pin-point spot right in the middle of the bump that is a darker red then the rest of the area but that is the only thing that is abnormal about the color. It does hurt though when it's touched and it’s not like a raw part of the skin, it is a bump. I have read some things about glands swelling and wondering if that is all it is. I’m just not sure because everything I have read on here talks about more than one bump and I only have one. So if anyone has anything that would help me please let me know.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)
wtf is the labia

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
I despair for you.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
: /

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
Oh ffs, he only changed his name yesterday.
It's that twat with the mohawk.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
hahahahahahaha

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
*shrugs*

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:52, Reply)
POTD
Contender?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:52, Reply)
Well I clicked it

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
That makes me feel rather sad, for some reason.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:08, Reply)
Dear B3ta
There is this strange man on the internet that keeps flirting with me and he seems a bit suspect. He's got a very off colour name and a terrible attitude towards our four legged friends.

What shall I do?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
Sleep with him?
*Although he has pointed out that you keep gazzing him.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
Liar!

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
Objection!
*LA Law mode is on*
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:57, Reply)
I may have gazzed you when you were mullered but not recently.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)
also Phoenix Wright mode

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:13, Reply)
Did Claire Rayner write The Body Book?
I remember lolling at that when I didn't really understand it. Last year.

I felt bad for her on Brass Eye when he kept getting her to say she would beat off all the men.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
Ooh I have a problem
I need a backdrop for cupcake photography on Friday, but I'm well skint. Does anyone know enough about photography to tell me what kind of fabric or paper I can buy as a cheap substitute for a proper expensive backdrop?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
Use those rubber bedsheets you were telling me you bought

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)
god,
Does IN SECRET mean nothing to you?!
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:56, Reply)
Wait, what website is this?
Shit, I thought this was FetLife.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)
No this is the super happy cupcake times website
WHICH DOES NOT INVOLVE PISSING ANYWHERE. I learned that in Basic Food & Hygiene.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:04, Reply)
My bad

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:09, Reply)
Use human skin

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)
you're both very helpful!

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:56, Reply)
What colour does it need to be? Can't the photographer supply a background?

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:57, Reply)
He's a student photographer
so he doesn't have that much of his own equipment yet unfortunately.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:05, Reply)
On a serious note
Blackout curtains maybe?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:57, Reply)
I need it to look like a non-existant background though and the weave on blackout material is pretty coarse
I think. I really don't know though to be honest.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:06, Reply)
If the focus of the pics is the cakes,
he should easily be able to blur the background out. So use white bedsheets or something
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:07, Reply)
That's true, I have quite a bit of white coutil for my corset making which is thick white fabric
but it's got a herringbone pattern so I thought that might show up, but I never thought about the focus thing. I know nothing about photography.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:09, Reply)
Get in close and use a large aperture
Then the background will be out of focus.

Or, I've just been rather rude.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:56, Reply)
I think I get what you mean
but I don't know what an aperture is.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:09, Reply)
Low F number.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
I am none the wiser.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
It doesn't have to be in doors
depends what lighting you want for it
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 10:57, Reply)
It'll be done on Friday night so it would be dark outside
I really don't know to be honest, I've never done anything like this before. They just need to be photos of the cupcakes themselves, they're not going to have fancy sets or anything.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:08, Reply)
Plates??

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:08, Reply)
I'm not sure yet, I was going to mess about with them and see which looked best
I do have some nice black square plates but that would kind of mess up the white background bit I think, so I might just put them straight onto the backdrop. Obviously the focus wants to be the cakes themselves, but I was going to do a little bit of decoration, for example on the strawberry ones there will be the cake itself and then I was going to have a couple of whole strawberries next to the cake, things like that.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:13, Reply)
you could use the black plates
with the cupcakes that have white icing
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
Then the photographer should easily be able to blur the background
so the material of the backdrop doesn't matter. For the lighting effects that he might be able to produce, the herringbone pattern wouldn't matter even if it did show up, especially since you're going for a 1950s style anyway :)
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:13, Reply)
that's true
maybe I should include more stuff in the photos, like ribbons and lace and shit, since the company will be called Corsets & Cupcakes. Good thinking BatAmberl
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:15, Reply)
that would be good
ribbons round the cupcakes (the nice satiny type) and you should consider either modelling with a cupcake or getting a friend to do it- sitting there with a cupcake that sort of thing, open-palmed so it's fully displayed etc
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:19, Reply)

palmed legged
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:29, Reply)
Best get a friend to do the modelling
Someone who's at least alright looking, and doesn't look like the cupcake they're holding is the sole survivor of a feeding frenzy.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:39, Reply)
I hate you

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 13:02, Reply)
I think you should just get loads of photos of people eating them looking happy.
Pictures of food are DULL
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:40, Reply)
Now I really want to do a photo where I put the cake on her shoulder and try and get her to eat it

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 13:04, Reply)
Use a labia or something.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:00, Reply)
I was unaware until this morning
that lumpy faced, comedy sideboarded food critic/tv chap Jay Rayner is her son

INTERNET FACTS, RIGHT HERE
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:08, Reply)
He's alright, is Jay Rayner.
For 'one of them'.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
"one of them"?
He is cool, I like him. Quite funny on his new food show thingy
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:11, Reply)
He gave Tayyabs a glowing review so I like him.
He's also a generally NICE CHAP.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:13, Reply)
Monty in like someone shocker!
Yeah, he seems a good'un
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:14, Reply)
Is he?
I can see the resemblance now.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
But Jay isnt dead

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:12, Reply)
Dear QOTW,
I sometime ejaculate methyl methacrylate
Which isn't idyllic
As I have a fear of acrylic
However, my irrational fear
Of this plastic that is clear
Is but a parlance to describe
The lovely carbon chains I imbibe
That produce the oh so lovely methyl methacrylate.

Now, what the fuck should I have for lunch? I was thinking about a lovely chicken wrap molested with garlic and raped with chilli. mmm....
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:09, Reply)
Brilliant

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:16, Reply)
4 years at Uni...
Is finally paying off.I can make rhymes about plastic. whooo!
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:25, Reply)
Or were you talking about the chicken
?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:25, Reply)
I was talking about the ryhme

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:28, Reply)
I think I may be getting my kitchen and sitting-room floor sanded and revarnished for free.
The free cleaner who spent six hours slaving in my flat last weekend damaged my lovely wooden floor with oven cleaning chemicals. I complained and now the bloke is sending someone round to sort it.

Does this make me some kind of cunt?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:12, Reply)
yes
yes it does
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:16, Reply)
Nope
Many other things make you some kind of cunt, but getting something sorted that you didnt break is not cuntworthy
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
it makes her a pretty shit cleaner

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
Why was the cleaner free in the first place?
Just because she was free doesn't mean she can do a crappy job.

I don't think it makes you a cunt. Plenty of other things do though, so don't get complacent.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
She was free
because I told my ex I couldn't babysit whilst she went out on Friday night as I had to clean my house (my mother and daughter were coming round the next day). Her best friend and landlord owns a property management company and offered to send his cleaner round so I could babysit.

Re-sult. Night with child, house cleaned for free - and now, possibly, new floor...
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:20, Reply)
it probably means
no more free cleaning though. He'll probably not want to do the same thing again
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:22, Reply)
I'm pretty sure it was intended as a one off anyway.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:26, Reply)
Fuck it, take what you can - it isn't hurting anyone.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
Some kind of cunt?
Please list at least three kinds of cunt for the purposes of clarification. ta.
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:26, Reply)
Tidy ones
Knackered kebab-looking ones
Footballers
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:32, Reply)
It's a pretty footballer thing to do.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:47, Reply)
I have little idea
about Clare Rayner. I think I exist outside the medium of popular culture sometimes.

Alt Q: If you tell someone to go fuck themselves but add a smile after it, (written not spoken) is it over aggressive?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:29, Reply)
If you add a smile after anything
it is you who should be going and fucking yourself, as a matter of extreme urgency.

Hope this helps ;o)
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:32, Reply)
I had to do something
to disarm the situation ;)
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:33, Reply)
That's what a punch in the fucking face is for.

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:35, Reply)
alright Lampito?

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:36, Reply)
Didn't Viz do an advert for sanitary towels
with a picture of Rayner and a caption saying "Look! It's Fanny Twat!" and she was advising us to "Stick it on your cunt!"
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:29, Reply)
That was a dream, pet

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:30, Reply)
Noooo
Oh maybe it was Smut. No! It was Viz!
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 11:32, Reply)
Dear Jeff Rayner
Now the uni classes have been split I am one of two men in a class full of ladies. How will I cope?
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 13:08, Reply)
Admirably!

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 13:11, Reply)

admirably perversely
(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 13:12, Reply)
Yay!

(, Tue 12 Oct 2010, 13:14, Reply)

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