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, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

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)