Lunchtime thread!
Due to today being Tuesday, I'm having a Meatball Marinara for lunch. Lettuce, onions, peppers, oregano, black pepper, and a little BBQ sauce. Not bad for £1.99.

What're you lot having? Obviously, CHCB will be eating her young.

Alt Q: What is your opinion on the whole Chuck Norris craze? I find it mostly unfunny, but I read a couple the other day that made me laugh.

Alt Alt Q as the first one doesn't really provoke much discussion: How do you explain to people that you go to meet people off the internet often? My work colleagues still don't quite get it.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:40, 142 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

No idea yet
Alt: The Chuck Norris meme got old years ago...
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:41, Reply)

About 5 minutes after it started, aye

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Moroccan spinach and chick pea soup, onion bread and hummus.
Alt: gay and shit, like all memes not started by me.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Who sung this?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Yup, just like that one.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:44, Reply)

(PsychoChomp, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:46, Reply)

I am aware of that.
You're going to keep posting these until there's nothing left but lolcats aren't you?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:47, Reply)

No, I'll stop now.
I did make a double rainbow joke on facebook the other day, no one got it.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:48, Reply)

"It's so beautiful"
I got it. I just didn't dignify it with a response.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:57, Reply)

I DEMAND A THUMBS UP THING

(PsychoChomp, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:08, Reply)

S
THING MY ASS!
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:10, Reply)

Stop that
You're not me.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:10, Reply)

A "nommy sammich" containing tongue, mustard and gherkin
And probably my work computer if it doesn't get it's fucking act together sharpish.

Alt Q: It's not really a craze any more, is it?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:47, Reply)

I couldn't really think of another way to put it...

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:49, Reply)

Well, "meme" is probably a more accurate description.
Meh, there are a couple of those "Chuck Norris facts" which are still funny, but the vast majority were shit even at the time.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:54, Reply)

It seems odd to call it a meme, when it stops being an 'internet only' joke
The ones that made me laugh the other day were "The giraffe was invented when Chuck Norris uppercutted a horse", and "Chuck Norris once accidentally climbed Mount Everest"
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Yeah, see, those ones were funny
(As were "Chuck Norris is the only person who has been able to slam a revolving door" and "Chuck Norris does not believe in the periodic table. He only believes in the element of surprise.")

But most of them just seemed to be unfunny tales of Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicking people in the face. It became like trawling through a bad QotW for the stories that were worth reading.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Chuck Norris does not sleep; he waits.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Chuck Norris' tears can cure cancer, but Chuck Norris does not cry.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:02, Reply)

I do like the fact that on the website there are the ones that Chuck Norris himself has chosen as his favourite

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:18, Reply)

My favourites are
There is no evolution, just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live

and Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:17, Reply)

Carrot and coriander soup
and a kitkat chunky. I have no opinion on Chuck Norris ('Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny' is probably the only thing I've seen him in and that was as a cartoon) and I try not to explain to my friends that I meet people off the internet as they just look at me weirdly. Plus I don't want to attract any of them to b3ta, as from my QOTW answers they'd probably know who I am.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:48, Reply)

I've got a few friends on here that I knew IRL before b3ta
Didn't know any of them joined until I recognised their usernames, or they noticed mine.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:49, Reply)

Is that just a regular KitKat
Or the caramel one?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Regular
I'm not overly enamoured of the caramel kitkat chunky.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:52, Reply)

It tastes weird.
And the peanut butter one is rank and makes my mouth go funny
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:53, Reply)

Peanut Butter is foul anyway

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:54, Reply)

Get out.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:55, Reply)

No.
Marmite is far superior.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:59, Reply)

See, now you really can leave
marmite is the devils arse scrapings.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:01, Reply)

What do the women have against Marmite here?
The woman who cooked my bacon butty this morning was the same.

Weirdos.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:01, Reply)

It has nothing to do with my gender
and EVERYTHING to do with the fact that marmite is simply wrong.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:03, Reply)

wrong magnificent.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:05, Reply)

It's rank, end of story
now shush, there's a good boy.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:07, Reply)

No.
Marmite is superior to all other spreads.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:28, Reply)

Marmite and peanut butter together is the most incredible combination
those peanut butter kitkats are fucking rank though.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:01, Reply)

this
But only crunchy. And pref no added sugar.

Marmite are doing cheeseboard giftsets this christmas. Eeeeeeow.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:04, Reply)

I have seen those.
I want one. OR ALL.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:17, Reply)

I've never had the peanut butter one.
But it sounds wrong.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:54, Reply)

I dislike peanut butter immensely
so have never tried that one. And you're right, the caramel tastes odd.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:54, Reply)

It's like a caramel Rocky
Just not right
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:54, Reply)

My mouth has gone weird just thinking about it

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:55, Reply)

No, that's the Soya Milk, rather than proper milk.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Peanut butter + chilli sauce = cheapskate satay.

(ThomsonsPier consumes, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:18, Reply)

This. My best friend still thinks it's weird that I go to meet "the internet"
Let alone that I travelled all the way to Todmorden for the same. It's a shame, as I think his sense of humour would fit in well here, even though he can't type for shit. Likewise for people tracing me back here - if they read half the stuff I post on here then I'd be worried that they wouldn't realise that most of it's tongue-in-cheek and think* I'm a really horrible person.

*_{think realise}
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:52, Reply)

My best friend introduced me to b3ta
but has never been to a bash. She was mildly aghast that I was planning to venture all the way to London and get drunk with a load of strangers and she knows what it's like on here - trying to explain it to the rest of my friends who have no idea, well... it's just easier not to explain.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:58, Reply)

Oddly enough, the same happened to me. It was a good friend who sadly doesn't post much here
But laughed off my suggestion that we could go and "meet the internet." Seemed a little hypocritical given he inspired me to sign up to the place.

I have, however, been bold/foolhardy enough to force the interweb on my real life friends - my regular drinking crowd have had both Monty and Lampito inflicted on them on occasions. Though when people ask Brian and I how we know each other, it seems less embarrassing to say "we met at a blues jam" than "we are from the internet."
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:02, Reply)

Spikeypickle was named my 'man date' for months after I first met him.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Fortunately, Lampito and I have a non-internet mutual friend
Which helps when my mum asks why it is I know her.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:06, Reply)

See, I think I've mentioned to my folks that I post on b3ta
(Not that they'd be curious enough to look it up, I hope), but I've shied away from admitting to them that I meet up with its denizens every so often. I think it would be too hard to make them think it wasn't weird.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:09, Reply)

I suspect my mum would either completely
fail to understand what b3ta was, or pitch a fit because I'm going to a strange place to meet a bunch of strange people.
Or both. I've long since stopped trying to convince her that most of the things I do aren't weird (probably because it's not true).
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:11, Reply)

A friend of mine who managed to internetstalk me to here
_{(my own fault really, longish and uninteresting story)}
insisted that it wasn't weird and sad, and that sites like b3ta were little communities where like-minded people met one another, and that the only real difference from a beer festival, a convention or a jam night was that these people met and got to know one another over t'web. It was just people's perception that, because it was on t'web, it was "weird" and "sad."
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:15, Reply)

My mum has met Kaol.
I don't know what I was thinking.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:22, Reply)

Presumably via you
Rather than by stumbling across him in a dark alleyway sharpening one of his machetes?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Yup.
I let him, Catface and Clenders come round my parents' place before the Edinbash. Fortunately no-one was killed.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:29, Reply)

Brave man
Though I imagine Clenders and Catface are lovely enough to compensate for Kaol being a bit stabby. But then I've never met the man, so perhaps I judge him too harshly.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Nope, you've got him about right.
He has mellowed a lot since those days, thankfully. Hahaha "Mel"lowed. Becuase his missus is Mellicious, you see. Hahahah.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:35, Reply)

yeah Applebite would rather tell her parents that she met me through pole dancing
than on the internet.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Tbh, she'd rather not tell them about you at all
She's thoroughly ashamed of you.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:22, Reply)

A lot of my friends work in IT
so when I told them I was hanging out with b3ta quite a few of them were impressed. This worried me quite badly.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:58, Reply)

Lad I work with was on it years back
That freaked me out somewhat.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Do they assume it's like some sort of exclusive club
that only the true interweb elite get to hang out with?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:03, Reply)

It clearly is.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:22, Reply)

Pretty much yes.
My protestations that "it's not the cool bit with the photoshop, it's not even /talk" gave fallen upon deaf ears.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Steady on, you do have some very good QotW stories to your name
I have been known to recount some of the more believable and entertaining stories to people in the past (usually under the FOAF qualifier than admitting I read it on here though) to rapturous belly laughs (i.e., not a Spanky story or anything posted in the last eight or nine months)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:27, Reply)

I am aware that this place is immeasurably better for my presence.
It's the rest of you scummers who give qotw a bad name.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:36, Reply)

My gf told me I was "going on a group blind date" when I went to the bash the other week.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:10, Reply)

Ha! That's a pretty good description actually.
(And didn't your eyes just light up when you saw me?)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:11, Reply)

Maybe when you were modelling those pink Edna specs.

(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:12, Reply)

I suspect I'm going to need glasses later in life
And I think I've decided what look to go for.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:23, Reply)

I can, erm...see that working out for you... sort of
'Please welcome Dr Crow, important and respected physicist and raging tranny, here to give us a seminar on atmospheric something-or-other'
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:28, Reply)

Oi!
I'm a lot of things, but "respected physicist" is not one of them...
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:29, Reply)

Well, maybe by the time you need glasses you will be?
Either that or the revolution will have come and you'll either have been burned as bourgeoisie or living as a witchdoctor-y type in a cave somewhere terrifying the locals.
especially if you manage to buy those glasses before the revolution...
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:35, Reply)

Oi!
There's only one tranny here
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:29, Reply)

Put yourself away, love
we've all seen it, and nobody needs to see it again.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:32, Reply)

But I like it when people click on it, and go "ARGH!"
It makes me laugh
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:33, Reply)

You could get a job at Transformations

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:35, Reply)

Means nothing to me I'm afraid...

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:36, Reply)

a place that Monty & I saw near the bash
www.transformation.co.uk/en/transvestite-shops/london
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:37, Reply)

Ahh, fair enough!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:42, Reply)

I'm sure they would have if they hadn't been blinded by the sight of the Transformations shop around the corner

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:13, Reply)

Having received a text. I shall be using my lunchbreak to go home, find daughter's PE kit and take it to school.
Lunch will be whatever is left in the fridge, which isn't promising as tomorrow is "big shop" day.
(Cave Duck, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:50, Reply)

I'm having massive rest
As ordered by the doctor.

Apparently I've got proper influenza, which is worse than ManFlu according to the quack.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Wow, that's properly diseased and stuff
are you sure it's dogs you've been fucking and not pigs? (or birds, or whatever the hell it is this winter)
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:51, Reply)

Who's going to blow your head off when you come back as a zombie?

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:58, Reply)

r head off when you come back as a zombie?
Best ask Blousie.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Tsk.
You aren't funny. You just think you are.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:04, Reply)

I'm hilarious
it's just people are usually laughing at me rather than with me...
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:08, Reply)

hilarious rubbish.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:19, Reply)

I can't be that bad
or you would't keep talking to me. Even if it is only to mock me for the hash I'm making of my life.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:25, Reply)

You're not making a hash of your life.
You are amusing me on the Internet.

Which is good.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:38, Reply)

Thanks.
that makes me feel a whole lot better.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:39, Reply)

*beams*

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:44, Reply)

*tries to resist*
*fails*
al
Sorry.
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:48, Reply)

If they way I've been blowing my nose is anything to go by
I'll be able to do that myself.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:03, Reply)

I've only just had breakfast
So I won't even consider lunch til about three.

Alt: Don't care

Alt Alt: I don't. You lot are my dirty little secret, only my sister and my housemate know I'm actually an internet loser.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:52, Reply)

What was for breakfast?
p.s. I thought of a new insulting name to call you, but it doesn't make sense here, so keep an eye out.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:53, Reply)

My usual
Orange juice And a bowl of shredded wheat, bran flakes and alpen with soy milk.

Oh dear.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:54, Reply)

the breakfast of indecision.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:55, Reply)

All in the one bowl?

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:55, Reply)

Yep
Just a little bit of each. If I have fewer than two cereals in one bowl I get bored.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:56, Reply)

And if you say "less" when you in fact mean "fewer" I get dreadfully, tiresomely pedantic.

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:57, Reply)

She's such a bitch.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Sorry, what?

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:58, Reply)

I'm being a dreadful pedant again. (Partly because TGB likes to wind me up over this one)
"Less" is used for continuous quantities, whereas "fewer" is used for individual items. So, e.g., if you put a smaller quantity of cereal is the bowl, that would be "less cereal," whereas if you put two types of cereal in the bowl instead of three, that would be "fewer types of cereal."

/pedant crow is pedantic, and the sort of person driven to vitriolic, stabby rage by the checkouts labelled as "five items or less."
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:06, Reply)

I know that,
I was saying sorry, what? cos I edited and now your post doesn't make sense.
/psychochomp
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:07, Reply)

Arse.
A little observation would have saved me a lot of typing there, wouldn't it?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:09, Reply)

Yep
Too late now
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:12, Reply)

Resisting the urge to go for massive strikethrough lols here
I keep to a strict one-cereal-in-the-bowl policy, that is if I can be bothered having breakfast.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Story of my life.
Breakfast is the best meal of the day! How can you skip it?
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:58, Reply)

When your days consist mostly of sitting around the house
There isn't much need to take in many calories. I also once sank so low as to have cheese and ham toasties for breakfast.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:00, Reply)

you can eat whatever you want for breakfast
most of the world thinks that eating cereal for breakfast is fucking weird according to some tv programme I watched.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:01, Reply)

That sounds like the ideal breakfast to me.
The only problems in my case are that I don't have any ham. Or a sandwich toaster. And I'm far too addled in the morning to make such a complicated concoction and would probably end up with raw ham on my head, cheese in my trousers and bread on the ceiling. And a toasted eyeball. With butter.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:11, Reply)

morroccan chicken soup
chuck norris: used to be amusing. now less so.

apart from the bit in the Ultimate Showdown, and the last line in Dodgeball.

I try and edge around the subject of you internet weirdos.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:54, Reply)

in theory nice fancy langans
In practice i am not going to make either lunch or the pre-lunch meeting to discuss screeding and recovery of cost via sinking fund if the strand doesn't fucking well unclog.

Oh. Sharp handbrake turn and taxi is now lurching towards embankment scattering pigeons and tramps alike. Really hope does not hit pigeon.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Seeing as I have approximately
no money now, because o2 have stolen it all, porridge.

*cries*
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:00, Reply)

serves you right for texting Other Women

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:02, Reply)

Too easy...
wo
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:04, Reply)

It was actually
tethering my phone. Except I'm going to get all the money back because they didn't make me aware of the terms and conditions of Blackberry Bolt-On.

But until I do, it's porridge and crying.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:08, Reply)

I spanked a metric fuckton
of money in the christmas sales last year and had porridge three meals a day for about a week. It wasn't great.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:02, Reply)

diet coke for breakfast
has anyone got a spare room I can move into?
I think I'm done with my current living conditions.
Alt: I don't give a fuck about him.
Alt Alt: I don't need to explain because I don't do it often.
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:09, Reply)

What's wrong with your living conditions?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:22, Reply)

basically it has the cheapest insulation money could buy and anything said or done in the kitchen
echoes and magnifies in my room
so when people are in there partying I can't sleep
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Bad times.
Is moving going to be quite easy?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:34, Reply)

not at all
I'll probably have to move into my parents for a while
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:39, Reply)

That's a shame
Maybe making a move now might be the kick-start of great things!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:46, Reply)

yeah, maybe
probably not, though
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:48, Reply)

Come on.
Be positive!

If you move back in with your folks you'll be able to save money - hell, you might even be able to have your European adventure!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:51, Reply)

oh noes, what's happened?
are they Dicks with a capital D?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:22, Reply)

and yes, because they fucking know but they don't care
every month, a night or two, they're up until 3 in the morning, even if I say something, and by then I'm so fucking stressed I can't sleep

and it keeps fucking happening
I can't handle it anymore, I've lived there for a year, I shouldn't have to tell them anymore
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:29, Reply)

oh, and it's gearing up to be the same way tonight since it's my roommates birthday
that will be night three without any sleep
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:32, Reply)

that's really selfish of them, knowing you have to go to work
do they not have jobs?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:33, Reply)

yes, they do, but they don't fucking care
if I drink during the week I'm watching tv
I never invite anyone over
and if I've ever kept anyone up they've never said anything to me about it
now that the roommate has a new girlfriend they'll likely be up partying all of the time
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:39, Reply)

Whatever's in the fridge and cupboards.
Not a lot, in other words. Probably a scotch egg and some cheese and crackers as I didn't have the time or inclination to make any bread last night. I want your lunch.

Alt Q: Some of them are funny. I like the giraffe one above.

Alt Alt Q: I've only ever had to explain to my girlfriend that I was going to meet local NaNoWriMo people in the cafe about two minutes from my house. As she writes a lot herself, it seemed perfectly sane to her.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:14, Reply)

Too early for lunch for me.
Alt: meh - though I like some of those posted here already.

Alt Alt: more interesting. Not sure I've even mentioned b3ta to any non-b3tans IRL. (Crow kind of excepted though, I guess.)

I tend to think about b3ta a bit like my favourite pub near to where I work (City, near St Paul's). It's quite a non-City-pub sort of a place, looks like a little country pub inside, very mixed clientele, not heavy on braying suits. Almost always has five decent ales on too. Not on a through street either, instead amongst old-London-Town-type passageways. So, the people who end up there are almost always either aiming for the place, or happen to wander in because it looks a bit interesting.

It's also slightly too far from the office for the vast majority of the (somewhat) lazy swine I work with to bother walking to, which suits me fine! One or two know about it, but it's not talked about in the office much, if at all. I think that's one of the Pete McCarthy rules of travel - don't bang on about some great place you've just discovered, otherwise when you next go back, it'll be rammed with idiots.

Yes, that about sums it up I think!
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:17, Reply)

I don't suppose this pub has a hot barmaid by the name of Rosie, does it?

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:26, Reply)

Sadly, no ... that's one of the things it's missing, to be honest.
Now I'll have to try to guess where you're on about ...
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Dunno. It's not a pub I've been to I'm afraid.
I know her from elsewhere. Apparently it has squirrels, if that helps?
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:33, Reply)

I got nothin'.
I am officially confused.
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:39, Reply)

I am mercilessly mocked by my human friends for meeting people off the internet.
Really, really laughed at.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Have you brandished Lusty at them yet?
And then bellowed "WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, FUCKOS?"
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:27, Reply)

She'd make a very effective tickle stick
A la Ken Dodd

She's going to kill me for that, isn't she?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:28, Reply)

It took a long time before I could convince any of my friends that meeting this lot wasn't weird at all
I introduced them to Spikeypickle, and later Lampito, and they realised that everyone off the interweb is mental, and just don't ask about the bashes anymore.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Ha! Not everyone is mental
*gibbers*
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Not everyone
Some are rather normal.

However, those two are not. Perfectly sweet, but not normal at all.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:31, Reply)