The usual case
It's in the reply because it's 500 words long
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 13:29, 8 replies)

The timing couldn't have been apt if I'd have planned it.
Mrs Sandettie's friend, Michelle was round yesterday evening and for some reason their conversation drifted on to films. I noticed a bit of a pattern in Michelle's choices, which all seemed to fall into the chick-flick and rom-com genres. Now, I've known her a long time and I know how vehemently she avoids the girly fairer-sex stereotype, notwithstanding her choice of films she's watched recently.

So, being the puckish little twat that I am, I asked her how many times she's watched the 'Sex and the City' movie, whilst my inner-voice shouted 'FIRE IN THE HOLE'.

Well, the vitriolic tirade of feminism that spewed out of her was a sight to behold.
"What are you trying to say? Just because I'm a girl you automatically think I watch something like that? God you're such a chauvinist, you just make a disgusting assumption...". At this point, I'd opened the sluice gates that allows sounds to enter one ear and out of the other without any of that cumbersome processing when my brain gets in the way.

Mrs Sandettie was about to tell her that I was just winding her up, when I noticed that our resident house spider, Alan, came crashing out from under the settee right next to Michelle (who for some reason I couldn't fathom was sitting on the floor leaning against said settee). I'd given up trying to evict Alan, who was a big bastard, as it keeps getting back in. I'm sure it's got its own key. The next few seconds transpired thus:

"...and another thing, I bet you think I'm a right ditzy cow just because I'm blonde and that I ARRGGHHH!!, look at the size of that fucking spider! Arggh arghh, " and she scrambled up onto the settee like a cat avoiding a kicked over mop bucket. "Quick get rid of it! Eek"

I was struggling so hard not to erupt into laughter that I was at risk of an aneurysm, but it was in vain. Mrs Sandettie, in the style of the housekeeper in the Tom & Jerry cartoons shrieked "Thomas! Thomas!". Well that was it, my knees buckled and I fell against the door, helpless with laughing. Not just ha ha ha, the proper uncontrollable laugh that makes you sound like a right dozy tit. This of course set Mrs Sandettie off, and it must have been a good five minutes before I'd composed myself, during which Alan stood in the middle of the room, did three circuits, then ran under the settee. Thirty seconds later it emerged again.

Each time it passed the settee, Michelle's squeaking and shrieking would change pitch and volume like some sort of human Theremin. She would not get down off the settee until I had trapped the spider between a bit of Tupperware and a CD case and tipped it out of the window, after which she began to see the funny side, although she blamed me as if I'd trained the fucking thing.

The moral of the story: Don't get on a high horse if you can be easily unseated from it.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 13:34, closed)

Sounds like an ex of mine....
check this:

www.b3ta.com/questions/sexism/post599408#answers-post-599408

Although I have to concede that I am a grown man who is absolutely terrified of spiders.
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 13:42, closed)

Does clicking "I like this" on a QOTW reply count?
It's not that long, whack it in the main thread :-)
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 15:32, closed)

I'm not sure
I've done this 'in the reply' thing a few times, and on one occasion it won the QOTW, but I couldn't say where the clicks were placed.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 16:37, closed)

There's a simple solution then...
...clicking the top level post too. Excuse my poor confused brain, it feels very walnutty after xmas celebrations :-)
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 16:46, closed)

Alan
sounds like a lovely house spidie. We used to have one that enjoyed a run-around of an evening under our sofa. 'has his own key' made me giggle as well! Leclik!
(dragondracus, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 16:55, closed)

Aww, this reminds me of Spider Joe.

He lived so happily in that discarded little razor blade box on the bathroom window sill. Always popped his head out to say good morning while I brushed my teeth and would be there again to wish me a goodnight at the other end of the day. Then one day he was gone; just like that, leaving nothing behind bar a webby box and some dry fly carcasses.

No loyalty these spiders, none whatsoever.
( Moey, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 17:37, closed)