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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I have a day off so woo to me.
What the fuck are you thankful for?
I'm thankful for my family.
Alt: What are you not thankful for?
I am not thankful for credit checks and cunts that mooch off the system for food stamps to buy things like steak and ribs.
You're on welfare bitch, buy hot dogs and hamburger helper.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:31, 286 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
for, after a lot of trying, finally having a good man looking after me.
I'm not thankful for having had to try so hard and meeting so much crap.
I'm thankful for my parents too, despite hating them sometimes, and for having been born where I was, with enough money to live, and have an education and now a good job.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:35, Reply)
In fact, I have a massive sense of entitlement and feel that I haven't got all that I'm owed yet.
/state of the nation blog.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:36, Reply)
It's a right bitch when it's apparently everybody else aside from you.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:39, Reply)
once a year at christmas is enough
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:38, Reply)
and for some unknown reason I was beyond thrilled when I won a free turkey at the supermarket
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:28, Reply)
how did you win it? Or is "win" an american term for "steal"?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:31, Reply)
here we have "bonus buys" and you get bonus points for buying certain things and after 300 points you get a certificate for a free turkey under 20lbs.
They were all 12 pounds and I was majorly disappointed because of this which is stupid, I don't fucking like turkey and the leftovers will likely go in the bin.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:34, Reply)
or is it bad to give them people food?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:41, Reply)
"Diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin the scene with a gangsta lean wooh-ooh-ooh"
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:40, Reply)
That work have finally realised nobody is at any of our sites on Christmas and New Years Eve and have given us the afternoons off for free, meaning I get to spend it in the pub! I'm also thankful for our "wonderful" Royal wedding which allows me 11 days off for 3 days holiday
I am quite entertained by the lunchtime student protests in Newcastle at the Monument where 50 or so student have about 150 police to watch them, complete with helicopter, police photographers, screaming police cars, etc. No overkill there, no sirree bob.
Alt:
I am not thankful for the chocolate machine running out orf Double Deckers. BAH!
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I didn't realise you were sensitive about the issue.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:03, Reply)
That's the only problem I have. The more insane ones are ok. But I WILL NEVER HAVE ANAL SEX
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:08, Reply)
it's also a term for shitting in a toilet cistern
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:46, Reply)
after the "Saved by the bell" character who sat on chairs that way
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:57, Reply)
I was in town earlier, took me a while to realise what the helicopter was there for. The whole of Haymarket is on lockdown, despite the fact I saw a whole four students with protest signs.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:57, Reply)
Wandered over into town round Monument and the market thingy and there were about 50 students there
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:59, Reply)
That must be depressing. There's nothing there.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:24, Reply)
I live in Jesmond with all the other student twats. I hate everyone here.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:32, Reply)
Backworth is near Shiremoor or if you'd prefer inland from Whitley Bay
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:34, Reply)
Mainly because over the summer I had nowhere to stay so lived in my mate's family's hotel on the seafront for a week. My very own Alan Partridge experience.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:37, Reply)
not thankful for how shit Arsenal are at the moment it's making me sad.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:44, Reply)
"the other team are disgraceful and didn't just step aside and let us play our beautiful Tesco-Value Barcelona stylee"
Although, having said that, Arsenal were a bit robbed last night. Although I might have more sympathy if they actually TRIED to put the ball in the fucking goal.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:55, Reply)
having discussed dating flowcharts yesterday, today I have discovered this.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:47, Reply)
"Thanks" is never good, it's not even "Meh". It's BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD.
I've just given you a semi-decent seeing to and you're thanking me?! Good lord, boy.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:52, Reply)
"I'm going to pound the farts out of you."
But yeah, it should pretty much always be you doing the thanking ;P
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:01, Reply)
It was my first post on here, I gave someone I erally liked a blowjob on said trampoline*, and at the end of it he looked down at me and said "Well done, [name]. Don't mean to sound patronising, but well done". The last time I sucked off the ex he did it to me too.
Either I'm decent or they feel sorry for me.
*I found out recently he was lying on his back looking up at the stars trying to work out how he got into that situation :(
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:12, Reply)
What a raging knobend. I'm surprised you didn't smash his face in - I'm fairly placid and I would have done...
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:19, Reply)
a high-altitude elbow-drop to the nuts would be the way forward?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:22, Reply)
It hadn't occurred to me that on a trampoline, with a high enough start, you could get two or three elbow-drops for the price of one.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:28, Reply)
I think the king of that has to be, at 6am, an ex I shagged because I was ver very very very drunk asked me to leave because he "wanted to go downstairs to play FIFA and pretend this never happened".
-takes a bow-
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:23, Reply)
Then you could primly descend, maybe with a few choice tramplings on the way past. He'd look up at you as you paused at the door, and just as he begins to form the word "why?" you'd cut him off, wink and depart with "Of course, I was never here."
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:27, Reply)
I was a little traumatised though. But at least there was lots of sex.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:38, Reply)
I think he's a good candidate for setting on fire. What a cunt!
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:27, Reply)
He's not even that good in bed. I'm just fucked up.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:35, Reply)
You're still only barely out of your teens though. Everybody is fucked up and angsty at that age - I know I surely as hell was.
and look at me now, a paragon of normality! *gibbers*
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:38, Reply)
Carry a knife on you.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:30, Reply)
Identifying and eradicating those of gross cuntitude.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:40, Reply)
Sad but true.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:49, Reply)
"If you don't want to walked all over, then stop lying on the floor with "WELCOME" printed on your front"
Cave Duck's Big Book of Homilys - In shops now.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:53, Reply)
also, if you can't even like yourself then what are the chances of other people managing it?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:53, Reply)
Stop giving away my best material.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:55, Reply)
but it's not working with me and I certainly don't hate myself
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:53, Reply)
I whine about somethings like my legs/weight. But personality/mentally wise I'm actually alright with myself. I accepted a long time ago those are things you can't change
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But I may be wrong though.
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That would turn me on.
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Where on this chart is "GERONIMO!"?
Otherwise, the most I've laughed all day. Ta for that!
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:23, Reply)
I'm not thankful by the amount.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)
I have spent more on herbs and spices than I have on booze.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:55, Reply)
but I'm contemplating the decent 2 for £20 at Tescos at the moment. A litre and a half of Russian Standard for that amount would see me very well.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:01, Reply)
It's a premium lager of last resport.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:23, Reply)
Well, it will be on the 4th, when I can drink it again.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:25, Reply)
A Tuesday! What good is that to anybody? Friday's what you want, not TUESDAY.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:58, Reply)
or maybe a better pizza delivered.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:01, Reply)
i cried at the amount of tax that got raped out of my salary. then spent the feeble bobbins that was left to me on debauchery over the weekend.
and i have a wedding this weekend, so although it's a free bar, we also have taxi/hotel bills to pay.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:01, Reply)
You work hard and I don't begrudge you it, but "feeble" could be construed as a touch rich. Pun not intended.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:03, Reply)
that being said, i could have a LOT more fun if i didn't forcibly spunk 3k a month on crap like education, the NHS, transport... who needs that shit, eh?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:04, Reply)
I'm not having the best morning.
EDIT: I do know what you mean, a third of your wage hurts however much it is.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:05, Reply)
Holy shit. I think your bottom line (cough) must still be pretty impressive.
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Albeit I'd also have to sacrifice a lot more free time, pay more in rent, and likely have to cut my hair and shed piercings :/
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Stratford's not far off London prices though, so that wouldn't be a huge step up for me.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:25, Reply)
*sad faces*
bought all my family's presents and sent them off and my wallet is in paaaaaaaaaaaain.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:12, Reply)
If you're happy enough now then why worry.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:24, Reply)
that includes the weighting. Science sucks balls, it really does.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:24, Reply)
Oh well, I doubt I'd want -or be able- to do your job anyway.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:28, Reply)
My salary goes up by £2300 in London. Fucking matched salary scales. Mind you, I can't complain, I'm not at all badly paid except when I remember the salary I left in industry :( :(
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:29, Reply)
a lot of the jobs at Imperial/UCL are fairly well paid even before the weighting. Around £20k is average for a technician now, but I'm a ways off that sadly.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)
I thought all the academic scales were matched? I got the same salary when I moved from UCL to here because they couldn't pay a lecturer any more and they wouldn't give me SL straightaway. Bah.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:38, Reply)
Certain areas it's 17-21, but in places like Cambridge and London it's 20-24. Either way, it's always between 17-24.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:42, Reply)
I'll hardly say "lucky you" given how shite support salaries in academia are.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:43, Reply)
If I'd gone in to the graduate scheme at McDonalds, by now I'd probably be earning twice as much. Sad, isn't it?
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:46, Reply)
Did you see the fucking GQ "rock stars of science" thing? how can a society be so fucked up? Why do we want our scientists to be compared favorably to rock stars? for fucks sake, in any civilised society it should be the other way round.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:06, Reply)
"Hurr, tits!"-grade australopithecines.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:16, Reply)
sometimes i love my job, love my clients, love my colleagues, think i am lucky to earn such a silly amount of money for such a great job.
then i have whole weeks of working 7am-2am, sweating over court deadlines and expert reports and witness evidence whilst juggling it with the more standard 8am-8pm bread and butter work and billing and business development and senior solicitor duties... during those weeks, they could pay me three times what they do, it would still not be a third enough!
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)
I don't think anyone here seriously believes you don't deserve your pay, you work ridiculous hours for it.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:36, Reply)
That's not a complaint, mind, personal choice innit. fair play.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:41, Reply)
that's why so many people apply to be lawyers every single year, of course they aren't doing it for love of the law!
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:47, Reply)
I'm low of brow and dragged of knuckle.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:07, Reply)
I am thankful for my home, the fact that I have a job, my family, my health, my vast intelligence, my breeding, my devastating good looks, my encyclopaedic knowledge of obscure music and other useless shit, and for the fact that I am not a smelly African.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:57, Reply)
they don't loik the bliks
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'Reasons to be Cheerful' by Ian Dury and the Blockheads in my head.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:58, Reply)
to think of anything original to say suggests that i have posted too much of my brain on here, maybe it's time for b3tasuicide.
anyone who agrees can go fist a camel or be fisted by a camel, depending on preference.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 14:59, Reply)
I could be looking like a right old hag by now.
*waits for obvious post from AA*
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Evidently she didn't like my summer outfit.
*sulks*
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:19, Reply)
If you don't like it fine, you have forced us out on the streets, you win now shut the fuck up and get on with your lives. Everyone poisons themselves somehow so pick your weapon of your choice and hurry up dying.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:12, Reply)
handy amount in tax really.
Hardly wrong 'forcing people out' though, since although they have a choice to kill themselves they don't have the right to inflict it on others
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:15, Reply)
We'll keep out of your business when you keep it out of our faces.
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So there's loads of commercials glamorizing it.
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showing a guy ripping his earring out, tearing his jacket, spilling kebab down himself and vomiting on his shoes, then it says "you wouldn't start a night like this, why end it that way?"
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:48, Reply)
we don't have anything like that here
they're stuff like this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTdzRaw55zo
and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFj3FJlBT8Q
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:56, Reply)
not many ads over here actually have a sense of humour.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:04, Reply)
too bad miller light is disgusting
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I'm thankful that in the last 10-15 years micro-brewed beers have become so available that you can actually get good beer in the US now.
I'm not thankful that American “beer” Budweiser is the biggest selling beer in the world and the last two times I was in Ireland, it was very visibly present in every pub I went to.
(It’s funny though when rednecks drink their Bud and say they wouldn’t drink anything but an American beer made by an American company when Bud is owned by a Belgian company. The same with Wild Turkey the “American” bourbon now owned by Campari and until recently owned by the French Pernod- Ricard)
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:27, Reply)
that Wild Turkey is delicious (and not a bourbon)
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:29, Reply)
www.wildturkeybourbon.com/
What makes a whiskey a bourbonis that it is brewed with at least 50% corn. otehr than that it can have barley, rice, rye, or whatever grain the makers feel is best.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 17:06, Reply)
Wild Turkey is a standard bourbon brewed with corn, malt and rye
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 17:10, Reply)
because last time I had it, I had the rye whisky which a quick look at the internet tells me is only 20% corn. Whichever variety though, it's much much better than most bourbons. I'm very fond of it
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 17:18, Reply)
I feel all warm and fuzzy now (maybe it's the Woodford Reserve bourbon I had with my pre thanksgiving lunch)
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 17:41, Reply)
apparently they own stella now?
that's what someone told me last night
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:47, Reply)
It's off to the re-education center for you. Bud Light is NOT beer, it's horriblt tasteing carbonated water with a little alcohol and malt.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 17:08, Reply)
The Americans made their own version and registered the name.
You can still get Czech Budweiser - Budvar and the dark lager is quite good.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 17:24, Reply)
have to call it Czechvar because Budvar is too close to Bud which has trademarked the name in the US.
It's not bad here but not as good as I got in Austria years ago. (I've never had the dark lager and didn't even know they made it).
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 17:46, Reply)
selection of "real" cask ales, also has glass fronted chiller room with a selection bottled beers from around the world. There is a menu on the bar but it is a menu of beers rather than food.
I happened to see the dark lager in there and was intrigued (I don't normally drink lager at all). It's worth trying should you come across it. It's unmistakably lager, but with depth and body.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)
though I've never seen it over here
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:29, Reply)
+ it's illegal to drink in the streets of most towns/city centres, arguably a similar law to the smoking ban.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:34, Reply)
liquid doesn't actually trickle into your throat. And as Labs and BGB pointed out you can't drink in public places either
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:38, Reply)
I'm thankful my diet is working, that I get paid on Friday, and that in 2 weeks I get to see some of my favourite people!
Alt: I'm not thankful that my work has taken my holidays off me.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:06, Reply)
Extremes of temprature. earthquakes, tornados, monsoon, tsunami.
And it's also relatively politically and financially stable.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:11, Reply)
It's the first syllable. I don't even want to type it. Eurgh.
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(Repeat ad nauseam to the side-drum rhythm of Ravel's Bolero)
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that you don't have cramp
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But they sure can dance.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 17:28, Reply)
maybe we need dozer to assess it's merits
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 17:33, Reply)
'Go on! hit him! Clump him!'
'Ahh! Crump!'
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 17:26, Reply)
NOT EVEN GOING TO LIE.
And some cheesecake.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:24, Reply)
I'm quite worried about continuing to live here.
All he said was "I'm not worried about myself but I'm worried about my daughters future, if she has children..." and I was like fuuuuuuuuuck.
Our economy is going to tank.
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fraud squads, and also for delicious sandwiches.
Alt Q: I'm not thankful for people with a massive ego swanning round the place
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I have my health, a flat, a job I love, I'm skint but I'm not poor, a family I can depend on if I *really* need to (but who are a bit flaky otherwise), ditto for friends...
I'm still fucking grumpy about my lot though.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:23, Reply)
Sometimes I'm annoyed with myself how everything I have still doesn't make me happy.
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and when I'm not I do generally tell myself to man up and look around, it's not so bad...but sometimes I really do just think well what is the fucking point, eh?
*throws toy to floor and stomps off upstairs to bed*
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:31, Reply)
but I am so tempted to buy one now
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:26, Reply)
because right now I could really do with a lottery win
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:39, Reply)
however I probably don't have £2 to spare until Monday...
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and she doesn't get the ticket until after the draw
But seriously, get one on the same ticket as me and we can split it if we win. I don't 'do' the lottery anyway so it'll hardly mess me up
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:52, Reply)
I wouldn't say no to a holiday if you do win, though...
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:51, Reply)
I am thankful that I get to see lots of lovely people over the next week that I haven't seen in a long time. I am not thankful that I have about three pence and a fluffy mint in my purse to do so.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:26, Reply)
If the three pence and a fluffy mint magically turns into some proper money, and I can find a place to stay, and take the weekend off work, yes!
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I was worried I was going to have to resort to scrounging off my parents.
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Plus, imagine that conversation: "Heyyyy Dad! How are you? So, I was wondering - can I borrow some money to go meet strangers off the interwebz?"
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:51, Reply)
Less worrying for them.
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I've just inhaled half my water, before coughing it back up. Ow.
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I was just going to spend all the money I had saved to buy xmas presents and then borrow the money off them. But your idea has its merits.
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This only solves one problem though, I still have nowhere to crash and have to persuade people at work to cover for me.
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Yeah that sounds good. Fuck it, I'm just gonna order my coach tickets now and sort out trivial details like not being fired and having somewhere to sleep later.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:05, Reply)
Booked and booked. I look forward to meeting you all next weekend. I'm going to apologise in advance for anything stupid I do.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:12, Reply)
BK bought non-alcoholic Beer.
BGB fell over and landed on me.
Lampito punches people.
etc etc
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:18, Reply)
Ah yes, I will fall over at some point. That's more due to being a bit crap at standing up though. Honest.
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:30, Reply)
All I will say is that my knees are often so mangled up they look like those of a four year old.
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Fair play to him, he gave it a shot, I wouldn't.
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"I've got the opportunity to widen my social circle by meeting up with people from the "debating society".
(, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:58, Reply)
"What was the 3rd one again?"
"Erm...Religion?"
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