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Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
What have you done this evening?

Alt: What are you doing now?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:02, 147 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Trying to figure out a way to be paid to drink and chat shit on the internet, my beer fund is running out and I don't want a real job.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:06, Reply)
Well, if you find anything let us know.
That sounds like the dream job.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:07, Reply)

Well, the only thing I can think so far is to somehow convince BBC 2 to commission a series in the style of the 'Oz and James' ones and pay me to go boozing around the UK under the pretence of learning, or reviewing or something. The tie-in book could pay for my liver transplant.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:10, Reply)
I saw someone who looked a lot like you today.
Did you catch a Bradford-bound bus in Gomersal, West Yorkshire early this morning?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:23, Reply)
I've been to high table for dinner
delicious. Had some wine and some gin also. Just got back mostly.

How are you?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:07, Reply)
I'm very good thanks Amberl.
I feel like I'm having a good week.

No idea why though.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:09, Reply)
Fantastic :)
are you looking forward to anything in particular?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:10, Reply)
No, I've just got a radiant glow about me at the moment.
Enjoy it while it lasts!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:11, Reply)
I'll just wait till Christmas fully hits
and watch you crumble
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:13, Reply)
Yeah, whilst you are all off having fun, I'll be reaching for the razor blades.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:16, Reply)
make it a good Christmas!
You don't have to buy into every aspect, just the bits and pieces you like to make a special effort that it might not occur to at other times of year
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:19, Reply)
I said more or less exactly this to him last night
he wasn't having it.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:20, Reply)
And I'm still not having any of it.
Christmas sucks balls.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:29, Reply)
Is there a time of year you do like?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:30, Reply)
Hammer time?
Walkies?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:39, Reply)
Hammer time?
Is that when open season of prostitutes starts?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:42, Reply)
Only if you're a truck driver.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:50, Reply)
I just put my road haulage uniform on and grab my hammer and I'm good to go!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:56, Reply)
Don't forget the chloroform...

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:57, Reply)
I never leave home without it.

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:03, Reply)
"red sky at night, nuclear iridescence
like the querulous socialite that i am"
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:13, Reply)
red sky at night, shepherd's delight.
Sheep drowned in the morning, global warming.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:17, Reply)
red sky at night, angel delight
bright sky at night, day
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:17, Reply)
meat and mashed potato
shepherds pie
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:22, Reply)
when lambs die
shepherd's cry
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:25, Reply)
Mary had a little lamb
The Doctors were astounded
Everywhere she went,
Gynecologist surrounded.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:31, Reply)
Half Man Half Biscuit FTW.
Unless you're Monty.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:53, Reply)
No - HMHB
I adore this tune at the moment.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzevl0Hw79g

lyrics to the above.

www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/csi-ambleside/give-us-bubblewrap/
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:57, Reply)
I babysat
and I've just been for a run. Now I'm looking for christmas presents for people (shush, Jeff, I'm enjoying it)
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:07, Reply)
Christmas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVDigo71Ab8
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:08, Reply)
God you're miserable

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:13, Reply)
Admit you smiled.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:15, Reply)
I sighed and rolled my eyes
isn't that the usual response you get from women?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:17, Reply)
No, usually it's a stern warning followed by a restraining order.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:18, Reply)

order leash

bitches!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:19, Reply)
That too.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:20, Reply)

stern warning bop on the nose with a rolled up newspaper?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:21, Reply)
You know too much.
*stares*
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:31, Reply)
Hey, if that's your kink...
I'm not judging!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:33, Reply)
It's worse than you imagine.
I get off on tabloids.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:39, Reply)
Could be worse
could be Heat magazine...
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:41, Reply)
I prefer Bitch On Heat magazine.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:58, Reply)
You only get it for the centrefold...

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:58, Reply)
Yeah.
This month its a 'readers dogs' special and features of small spaniel asleep infront of a gas fire.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:04, Reply)
And you're wanking yourself in to a bleeding, frothing frenzy, I have no doubt

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:08, Reply)
It's like a bloody stump berk, if I'm being honest.

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:10, Reply)
so what's new?

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:13, Reply)
This months edition of 'readers dogs' apparently
slightly soiled now, however...
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:16, Reply)
I heard that Kate's corgi
did a 'spread' for Dog's Gone Wild
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:17, Reply)
I got my wide angle probe RIGHT IN THERE.*
*Some, or all of that statement might be false.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:27, Reply)
pilates
messaged a guy on a dating site (admitted I was a larper, I may not hear back)
listened to my mate's music
sleep soon
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:07, Reply)

listened to my mate's music = eavesdropped.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:12, Reply)
no, as in he put some up on myspace

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:13, Reply)
He should have put it up on his own space.
I hope you tell him that.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:16, Reply)
pff!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:16, Reply)
worked a bit late
went for dinner with colleagues

stumbled into pub quiz

attracted total weirdo who joined our team

failed to cheat because got distracted by blackberry being on b3ta already

failed to win quiz

got cab home
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:09, Reply)
But did you enjoy yourself?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:13, Reply)
More pressingly
did she threaten to overrule him?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:52, Reply)
Objection!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:58, Reply)
I'm listening to
the most unfashionable music you can imagine.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:25, Reply)
Barry Manilow?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:26, Reply)
Synth-heavy German prog rock from 1979.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:28, Reply)
nothing wrong with that
My music is deeply unfashionable itself at the moment. I am almost ashamed but not quite
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:29, Reply)
I'm having a revival
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3rBVb3v4g, house party was shit like I said.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:37, Reply)
Didn't pull then?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:40, Reply)
Man it was awful. Just a shit party, only 15 people of 60 who rsvpd yes turned up.
I just argued with the girls about their shit taste in tunes and tried to educate them.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:41, Reply)
not generally an atmosphere creator that

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:49, Reply)
It was fun, they would play a track, I would play and track and we would argue.
They mainly played glee songs. I felt sick.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:50, Reply)
Erm
I've cunted around on the internet and made comments at the expense of Michael Douglas' health.

A productive evening, I feel, that will be evened out by a late meeting tomorrow night listening to people talk bollocks for a couple of hours.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:36, Reply)
Well, even if Mikey-boy drops dead tomorrow
He has lived longer than his son.

So he has that little victory to his name.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:41, Reply)
I really, REALLY, like the new MCR song.
I should go and hand in any musical credibility I ever had.
It's so catchy!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:46, Reply)
so is aids, doesn't make it good.
That song is gash, just like all the others they shat out.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:50, Reply)
It's pretty damn bad.
Doesn't stop me liking it. Really complex lyrics in the refrain, I have to say.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:51, Reply)
I feel the same about the new Mcfly song. I know it;s shit, I know I shouldn't like it.
But I do. Mcfly have no complex lyrics.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:53, Reply)
The complex lyrics comment was a joke.
The refrain is "na na na na na na na na na na na na na". Though with my favourite band you could just generally babble a stream of words and it'd make more sense than the original. It's improved my vocabulary, though.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:55, Reply)
I've just had an email off okcupid with my 'new matches'
guess who topped the list? My ex. That tickles and distresses me in equal measures. At least in my profile I said I was only looking for friends!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:48, Reply)
ouch
and yet a tiny bit funny. Is it worth signing up to that|?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:50, Reply)
My best mate has just found a boyfriend through it
I am sceptical but it's free (unlike match.com or similar) and you can specify what you're looking for. Just friends in my case but casual sex in his, apparently... Apart from filling in a few bits and pieces I haven't really bothered with it yet - so far. I've not even uploaded any photos.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:53, Reply)
Casual sex...
Will he be wearing a Pringle sweater and merely poke his knob through the fly of his chinos?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:00, Reply)
Unlikely, unless he goes out and buys the aforementioned items first...

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:04, Reply)
A bloke has to have secrets you know...
And I'm off to bed. Night all!
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:10, Reply)
Night DG

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:28, Reply)
Has the ex given an accurate account of himself?
Also, if it fair to say he if over you now?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:02, Reply)
Yes, he has given a fair account of himself
I doubt highly that he is over me already (without wishing to sound immodest) but perhaps this is his way of doing it. I'm not judging (much) given the shenaniganery that I've been up to (although there's not exactly been a lot of that either), but I am a little shocked.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:06, Reply)
So it stands to reason that his 'top match' is you, yes?

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:11, Reply)
Not necessarily
I haven't uploaded any info on there yet, and it sends me matches based on their newness to the site. So even if I did come up in his search, there wouldn't be anything to identify me by.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:17, Reply)
just put the following on that.
'Makes great soup, likes cake'.

You'll be beating them off with a shitty stick.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:29, Reply)
online dating sucks
in my experience, but i do have other friends who've succeeded in not picking complete cunts!!!
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:04, Reply)
Meeting people online just sounds fucking bent.

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:08, Reply)
Mardy pants
I'd quite like to meet you *pouts*
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:09, Reply)
Just to make you feel good about yourself no doubt.

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:11, Reply)
Eh?
How would that work? No, it's just because I'm terribly fucking nosy.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:13, Reply)
hahaha

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:22, Reply)
I doubt I shall persuade you on this one either
so I'm off to bed. Toodles!
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:27, Reply)
Night berk.

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:29, Reply)
You don't need OK Cupid
You have B3ta
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:06, Reply)
Yeah, but you've bagged the cute one already!

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:08, Reply)
I have, but there may be others.
You don't know what they all look like...
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:10, Reply)
True
I shall go to more bashes and get my booze on - it seems to work.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:12, Reply)
if you've done the london bash and roota/wanderlust have nailed the hottest two
maybe a northern bash is in order next!
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:13, Reply)
Bagsy Huddersfield.

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:13, Reply)
I did pop in to Blousie's over the summer
I shall be going to the Brizzle one in a few weeks, but I think I've already met everyone that's going. Although - Col Dracula is hot you say?
/not remotely desperate ONLINE
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:14, Reply)
i don't know what he looks like
i just love him anyway and am totally going to marry him, whether he likes it or agrees to it or not!
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:32, Reply)
Then she can get her pie, chips and gravy on

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:16, Reply)
Haha, mind out for mongs.
I prefer it Kip and La Fawnda style.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:14, Reply)
Beginning to worry
whether I might be a bit intolerant of Relentless. Drank a can just now and spots appeared on my hand, plus a couple of blister types as well
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:51, Reply)
Oh dear.
Keep an eye on that. Blisters, very suddenly? Has something like that happened to you before?

Evening, by the way.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:53, Reply)
Yeah
I've got a whole list of things I'm either allergic or intolerant to- fish, shellfish, peanuts, eggs, apples/pears/bananas and some medicines.

It's how fast they appeared though :S

Evening :) how are you doing?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:56, Reply)
oh noes, they haven't spread have they?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:58, Reply)
nah just on one hand
I reckon it's nature telling me I'm a dead end
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:04, Reply)
well then nature sucks
you're awesome!
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:12, Reply)
Oh god, so many fun things! :(
My father seems to be highly allergic to wasp stings, so I've got to watch out that I don't get stung. I've been stung once, when I was little (through the sole of the foot) and I blacked out. Fun.

Antihistamines? Do they help? No idea about this SCIENCE stuff.

Not bad. Lying in bed listening to Sugababes contemplating a fag. I might just be ok though. Though the idea has been planted in my head and will probably grow and grow til I MUST HAVE ONE.
I'll let you know how Lampito vs. Addiction progresses.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:59, Reply)
Contemplating a fag
is their best single, I feel.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:01, Reply)
I like cigarettes, I like gee-tar, I like nicotine patches even more
Evening, Mr DG.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:04, Reply)
Don't be daft, it's not a patch on "Dah Dah Dah Da-Da Dah Dah Dadadada Dah Dah Dah Dada Dah Dah Dah" or "Oooh Oooh Hayee-Ayooh Ohh Hayyeeh-Ooh".

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:06, Reply)
I look forward to knowing who wins
/Harry Hill style

Antihistamines don't help with the food allergies, but they do a bit with horse dust
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:08, Reply)
flatmates are in bed now, meaning fag on own.
Which is great. And spotify has moved into adverts, so music won't distract me.

ARRRRGH I'll be back in ten minutes or so.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:11, Reply)
enjoy the guilty nicotine :P

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:15, Reply)
Are you allergic to parabens (used as preservatives in some foods, toiletries and medicines)?

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:02, Reply)
I don't know
but probably not. The medicines are aspirin, and a possible reaction to anasthetic. I went under once and all systems pretty much collapsed but they're still not sure if that's because they'd fed so much other stuff in.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:06, Reply)
It's possible
but I can't think of a mechanism that would produce that response so quickly from a drink.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:56, Reply)
not sure what else could
my dinner was allergy free, and same surroundings
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:57, Reply)
Keep an eye on it fo sho.
Bloke I worked with had some chilli in the canteen the other week, next thing he knew he was itching like a peado in Charlie Chalks, his hands came up in welts and his trip to the pharmacy for some antihystemenes was interrupted by his tongue swelling up and a 7 hour stay in ICU thanks to anaphylactic shock...

Not trying to be alarmist, but...
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 23:57, Reply)
I think anaphylatic shock
would've kicked in already if so. I might have a tidy up just to be sure though
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:06, Reply)
Have 999 on speeddial just to be sure....

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:12, Reply)
I have lost my epi-pen
so I'm definitely going to write that, that's what I need on a piece of paper so I can carry it
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:14, Reply)
I sometimes get hivey for no reason
Like now. I'm on the antihistamines.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:07, Reply)
Sorry to change the subject
Glad to hear the eulogy went well.

You okay?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:09, Reply)
Yeah ta, it went down a storm!
My mum and her parents were dicks but meh.
I'm back in work tomorrow and feeling a lot better after seeing the little baba and having a healthy dinner.
You?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:12, Reply)
I good cheers roota lar,
glad this is over for you.

What memories got the warmest response from the assembled masses?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:31, Reply)
Cousin finding Grandad drunk in the bushes while playing manhunt
He found his teeth the next day.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:34, Reply)
Fantastic.
Were you about to present the best of him to all?

It can't have been easy.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:37, Reply)
Nearly cracked a few times
But most of the things I said were too funny.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:43, Reply)
That sounds perfect
The eulogy I had to do, was, without doubt, the most difficult epsiode of public speaking I've ever faced.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:46, Reply)
I've just got back from Saw 3D.
Evidence that you should never let a girl choose what to go and see. I want my six quid back.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:13, Reply)
How could you possibly think
it would be anything other than completely shit?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:15, Reply)
I didn't.
I just gave in when we were deciding what to watch. It's making me angry how bad it was.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:22, Reply)
Hang on?
Someone from the Internet, went out with a REAL girl?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:32, Reply)
Depends if you count a girl made out of pillows and duct tape real or not, I suppose.

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:46, Reply)
Works for me!

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:46, Reply)
like those creepy manga pillows
people marry
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:47, Reply)
Do they take the house when things are over and leave you with a mountain of debt?

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:51, Reply)
no but they do get soggy
and you have to do the 'hang of shame' and all the neighbours can say disapprovingly that she 'looks washed out'
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 0:56, Reply)
That works for me.
How do I get one?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 1:03, Reply)

www.metro.co.uk/weird/816601-man-marries-pillow

also shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=dakimakura very slightly NSFW in the sense of anime girl
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 1:07, Reply)
Oh dear.
I'm the last person left awake on B3ta. *puts chairs on tables and switches lights off*
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 1:57, Reply)
*turns on the desklamp and sits on the one chair left*

(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 2:06, Reply)

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