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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I'm playing football this afternoon.
I'm a goalkeeper, and quite a good one. I'm playing against my day to day colleagues, for our other office. I've been a cocky bastard all week about it, but have just found out that Darren Huckerby (formerly, Man City, Forest and Norwich hero) and Gary Docherty (former Norwich captain) are playing for my usual office team (Darren is usually our referee, but has dug out his playing boots, as has Docherty).

What unexpected news has made you feel or look like a bit of a twat?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:00, 133 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
none - I am teh awesome!
I totally just wrote my first meeting agenda! It's like I'm a grown up

I'm sure the excitement will wear off very quickly
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:02, Reply)
Feeling like a grown-up is over-rated
Next you'll be staying late in the office and taking on additional responsibility. And worse, taking it seriously.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)
too late
I've stayed late loads of times. I'm paid for 25 hours a week, but I'm in from 8:30 to about 5 (sometimes 6 or 7) every day.
I already took on extra responsibility (hence the meeting agenda)
I do not, however, take anything seriously.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)
Lab, please post your football pic.
Thank you.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)
Uncanny
I was just loading up b3tards while you posted this.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)


(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
This never fails to amuse me.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
That is brilliant!
Although football is really incidental to the question.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
To be honest
I read the subject, then the first few words of the post, then fired up b3tards.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:06, Reply)
Well worth it
But don't you remember the advice your teachers gave you about reading the whole question before answering?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)
Your post is as such:
FOOOOOOOOTBAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL
Question.
My answer: If football makes you feel anything other than hatred, then you are part of an inferior race.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:11, Reply)
This gets my nomination for POTD

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)
Seconded.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)
NO... the post is that as a result of my prideand misplaced confidence I'm going to suffer humiliation
But maybe I wasn't as clear as I should have been.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)
I was too blinded by FOOTBALL to see

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:23, Reply)
Well, I suppose my skills are dazzling
(sorry)
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:28, Reply)
haha
its like an automatic reaction

i'm not sure you would pass a turing test
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)
If I fail it, does that mean I'm a cyborg?
I think it would mean I'm retarded, so I'm sticking to the cyborg bit.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:08, Reply)
we're all cyborg now
According to Donna Haraway. Also, according to my mate who reckons wearing a watch makes you a cyborg
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:12, Reply)
I think you need more technology than a watch.
For instance, my arms are held together with metal. I'm half man, half machine, all strange.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)
When I broke my leg, the docs said the break was too close to my knee to use metal bindings/pins
This made me sad.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:14, Reply)
I have 2 titanium bolts and 6 screws in my L4, L5 and S1 vertebrae.
I refer to this as my hyper-alloy super chassis

(I know that titanium is not an alloy).
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)
That does sound impressive.
I'd love to use it to attract girls.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:23, Reply)
who have magnets in their boobs?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:24, Reply)
spinal fusion. Not as amusing as spinal tap.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:26, Reply)
yes it is.
Well, titanium itself isn't but the screws will most likely be made of 6AlV4 which is an alloy.

/medical geekery strikes again.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:32, Reply)
So it is a hyper-alloy super chassis. Excellent.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:36, Reply)
I believe so.
Now please don't use your superpowers for evil.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:39, Reply)
I wouldn't dream of it...

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:43, Reply)
maybe, but really as soon as our identities become entangled with technology of any kind we started the process of cyborgification
Especially when we do things like commit our memories to machines. I mean, how many people when asked if they know something now refer to where they can find the information rather than actually knowing it? Computers and books are extensions of our selves and our knowledge.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:18, Reply)
this isn't true
for any scientifically accepted definition of a cybernetic organism. But I kind of get where you're going, but it's not in any way a cyborg until you actually have something in you, rather than vice versa. Thoughts and memories do not equal organism.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:43, Reply)
man, that took a long time for someone to call 'bolllocks' on ( coz it really is)
Really, I was using cyborg in a more 'identity' way rather than a purely physical one
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:54, Reply)
Yeah,
But contact lens wearers could be described as cyborgs.
We walk among you.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 13:40, Reply)
I think it makes you a zimboe, doesn't it?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:18, Reply)
FOOTBALL IS SHIT

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
see above
I think i may have to find a slightly different way to illustrate my question next time. I forgot the internet isn't sporty!

(nor am I relly, I'm a fat cripple with broken arms and knees that dislocate for fun).
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:11, Reply)
Football sucks.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
I refer you to my above comment

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)
I didn't read past "I'm playing football"
I skim read words like Norwich Captain and Man City and knew it wouldn't interest me.

I'm channelling Monty in this thread.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)
Is Man City where lots of men live?
And I'm presuming Norwich Captain is in charge of a ship or something. I can't be bothered looking into these things further.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)
'Man City' is DF's favourite nightclub in Soho.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)
I almost love you for this

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:21, Reply)
He will be unhappy about this.
He's not keen on being called a MASSIVE BUMMER.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:24, Reply)
Good work, Nommers.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)
Darren Huckerby
Blast from the past; he was in my Panini album when I was younger and massive at Coventry when I moved to the area.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:06, Reply)
He's a lovely bloke
Constantly assailed by fanboys, but never rude or angry.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:08, Reply)
I wouldn't feel bad
In order to beat you, your other office has resorted to playing two former professionals, I think you win in life by default.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)
This is a valid point.
But nevertheless I feel I'll be bending down to reach the ball regularly today.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:08, Reply)
I love football.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)
I like breasts

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:11, Reply)

football paperclips
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)
I can love both.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:18, Reply)

can both man fat
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)
baldmonkey will stop now.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)
pour quoi?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)
I moaned to cr3 about it in public
www.b3ta.com/talk/7008511
so now he'll stop because he doesn't want to be banned and is actually a bit of a coward. AREN'T YOU BALDMONKEY?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)
He's banned from qotw now
There seems to be a lot of banning going on recently.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:30, Reply)
he can't answer this now
because he's permabanned from /qotw lol.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:31, Reply)
can he still see it though?
Let's be horrible about him.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:34, Reply)
I don't get why SSG is complaining about it though
It's fairly obviously trolling, and I don't mind the flooding, but the pictures are blatantly NSFW
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:34, Reply)
Agreed
I had him on ignore for most of yesterday because of the flooding. Took him off this morning, then put him back on when I saw one of the pics (I assume he posted more).
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:37, Reply)
He takes the "moral" high ground very often,
I think he wants to be a mod
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:37, Reply)
He's possibly jealous of the rapid rise of cr3 and Scaryduck.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:42, Reply)
I'm not sure it's a massive rise for cr3
As he has been an internet god for ever.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:44, Reply)
Surely being a mod on b3ta
is the pinnacle of net achievement?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:46, Reply)
If you've seen what he can do with computery stuff
then no. He's terribly talented, the cunt.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:48, Reply)
I'm in awe of anyone who can use computers properly.
I can cope with b3ta, but still don't even know how to put a link into text.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:55, Reply)
I thought he was dying
or was that just a funny joke?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:45, Reply)
i think you were suffering from wishful thinking.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:46, Reply)
Yeah he pretended he had cancer for a while.
i think what actually happened was his girlfriend dumped him for having depression, and his wrists suddenly started leaking.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:47, Reply)
Wow, that's fucking hilarious that is.
I loved Gonz comment that baldmonkey gets special treatment because he actually is a real life spastic.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:49, Reply)
this whole baldmonkey thing is quite literally the most boring thing i have ever read
and i am drafting lengthy turgid advice on regulatory reforms to the landlord and tenant act 1954.

it is quite a feat to be more boring than this.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:34, Reply)
Reasonable balance rather than banning him from the whole site.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:38, Reply)
(mod)eration was shown

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:47, Reply)
i don't need news to make a twat of myself
it just happens. in the last 5 mins i nearly fell over in front of Insolvencyboy because my patent shoes stuck themselves together, ffs.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:16, Reply)
No designer name for those patent shoes?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)
yes this particular pair
are by a highly exclusive designer called marks and spencer.

intensely irritating. strangers stop me on the tube to ask where i got them from. they were £25 from marks. how many people notice the £300 pairs? none. that's how many.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:27, Reply)
I just spent £200 odd on shoes for my wife
They're lovely and get a lot of attention.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:31, Reply)
on odd shoes?
i'm not surprised, get her a matching pair next time.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:33, Reply)
The attention comes because she's in a wheelchair
and has to balance them on her lap.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:34, Reply)
Proper Officelolz at this.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:36, Reply)
My nutty ex has some M&S shoes that I couldn't believe were from there.
They are patent actually. Bet they're the same ones.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:46, Reply)
probably
they do have really good stuff.

the problem, as you've just proved, is that everyone has it!
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:49, Reply)
InsolvencyBoy!
The latest marvel superhero
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)
i used to have the biggest
heart thumping sweaty palmed tongue tied crush on this guy. he is the only other person who is ever allowed to drive my car, ffs. he kindly looks after it when i am on holiday. he is doing me a favour, that's all.

but now he has a gf (well actually it turned out he had one all along) i don't fancy him any more. at all. not even a little bit. but the more i try to tell my colleagues that, the less they believe me!

anyway. he's no superhero. but he would look bloody good in some tight red and blue lycra.....
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:29, Reply)
Is it their adhesive nature that warranted patenting them?
When are you going on Dragons Den?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)
never
i hate reality tv!

except ANTM, which is legendary.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:31, Reply)
What is ANTM?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:38, Reply)
america's next top model you philistine

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:39, Reply)
Sorry
I don't watch telly owing to working and then having a life.

(by which I mean, being run ragged by a small child).
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:40, Reply)
This has happened to me before.
I also once got the heel of my left shoe caught in the beautiful little velvet bow on my right show and proper face planted in the office. I grabbed a chair to stop myself but it was a wheely chair so it just made it all the more comical.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:35, Reply)
this is when you suspect skulduggery
but then the shoes are so beautiful there is no way they could have meant to hurt you
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:36, Reply)
have you seen my facebook update? I've linked some proper fit shoes.
I really hope someone buys a pair for me, THEY'RE SO PAINFUL LOOKING!
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:43, Reply)
And we all agree that pain is the primary reason for buying shoes
I fit my insoles with big spikes to ensure a proper fit.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:45, Reply)
"really hope someone buys a pair for me"
Christ... your sig is truly fitting.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:45, Reply)
is it now....ugly?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:55, Reply)
*sighs*

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:57, Reply)
I actually changed my sig before I saw this.
I have lols.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:58, Reply)
no!
as soon as the trainee buggers off to court (i am throwing 30 people out of their "homes" this afternoon, well, hopefully anyway), i will get on and have a look
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:48, Reply)
You're making 30 people homeless?
Good for you swipey, you're a credit to the world.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:55, Reply)
they were homeless already
they thought they could move into my client's property, live there for free, and trash it.

my client is a charity. which now will have nowhere to train its guide dogs for quite a while because of the needles and LOLdrugz that have been going on here and require specialist cleaning. so yeah... personally i hope these waste of skin squatters die in a fire!
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 13:03, Reply)
Al voted for Nick Clegg.
I think his opinions on ANYTHING AT ALL can be safely discounted.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 13:07, Reply)
I have never been so dissapointed in anything in my whole life
as I have been in Clegg and Cable. I expected nothing but stupidity and incompetence from the tories, but I genuinely thought those two actually had some integrity.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 13:18, Reply)
You can weep on my liberal democratic middle class academic shoulder.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 13:44, Reply)
Thanks

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 13:47, Reply)
They look good, if incredibly painful
Why don't girls just wear comfortable shoes?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:53, Reply)
shut your stupid face

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:55, Reply)
Is there not at least some middle ground?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:57, Reply)
No.
Actually there is, the more expensive the shoe the more comfortable they tend to be, annoyingly. Some are proper crippling but others are beautiful and comfortable.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:58, Reply)
Shoes should be practical
Shoes are never beautiful as such, they only attain any merit when worn by ladies in nothing but sexy lingerie.

Stockings OR hold ups, i'm not too fussy.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:45, Reply)
rubbish!!
what about skinny jeans tucked into fuck-me boots, or fitted/flared black or charcoal trousers with a hint of shiny red high heel peeping out from underneath?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:47, Reply)
Ah, boots are another dimension altogether
Fuck me boots, with thick woolen stockings peeping over the top....aaaaand not much else, thanks very much
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:49, Reply)
i have loads of pairs of boots
i only have one pair that is (are?? is??) too slutty for work, though. i need moar slutty boots.

not so sure about the thick granny stockings though, you might be on your own there, pal.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:51, Reply)
Dont get me wrong, I 'll take stockings of any denier
But i do have a thing for those thicker ones, with or without boots....the ones that end just above the knee, preferably slightly rolled down at the top, with the legs then wrapped round my face.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:56, Reply)
I'm in.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:51, Reply)
what, the boots? or the red stilettoes?
they are properly painful, but they go very well with red fishnets.

if, of course, you were the sort of girl who owned such items of clothing.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:51, Reply)
which we are not.
I also have some pale pink fishnets, they're so pretty
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:57, Reply)
I have some thigh high fuck me boots
I've only worn them once though, to a pirate party.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:55, Reply)
are we on shoes
AGAIN!?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:59, Reply)
see this is why people think you're a guy

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 13:34, Reply)
Good boots are a winner
when on nice legs
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 13:02, Reply)
I'm not a fan of stockings
I think they're a load of faff.

I don't really like frippery and over-elaboration in anything to be honest; functional yet attractive when it comes to underwear, brutalist when it comes to architecture (I'm a Park Hill and Hyde Park, Sheffield veteran), and minimal when it comes to possessions.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:53, Reply)
Hold ups are beautiful.
And practical.

Disasterprone - King of Tesco Value seduction.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:56, Reply)
I feel justified in the comment i just posted below, and will buy you some airmax.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:57, Reply)
Hey, I do all the good stuff - nice food, posh place, nice clothes,
and enjoy all the build-up fun, but I'm just not a fan of over-complicating things!

I remember one girlfriend who just went to a load of effort, and tried to do everything slowly and teasingly. I just got fucking bored.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:59, Reply)
That sounds awesome

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:47, Reply)
haha disasterprone, bobby agrees with you.
This is like when Mugabe said he thought the Tories were ok. It's not the kind of support you want.

Sorry Bobby, I didn't mean to liken you to a murderous Zimbabwean dictator.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:50, Reply)
Everyday you slip a little in my estimation o'hara.
I don't like poles (not the race) but I don't call you a skanky butt hole for rubbing your fanny on one. Football is fun he is playing with ex pros. So it still sounds awesome.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:53, Reply)
I'm sorry I know I've been a bit cruel of late.
I don't mean it though.

Also, you love poles you massive liar.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:54, Reply)
I think it's down to your uncomfortable footwear.
Buy some trainers and you'll be much kinder.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:57, Reply)
Man you are easy. I have no probs with you I am loving
The banter this week. Back t lectures now.
Balls are better than poles! Wahey
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:57, Reply)

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