Profile for Griffy Savalas:
B3ta - the advanced truths
1) Nobody knows exactly where the line is, but you will find out quickly when you have crossed it.
2) The mood, will and whimsy of the board is not to be fathomed or dictated.
3) If your post count per year exceeds your salary, then you probably spend too much time on B3ta.
4) If you open B3ta outside of your usual days/time period, don't expect to be popular, understood or even liked. However if you are not popular, understood or liked in your usual days/time period, then this doesn't matter.
5) /talk boarders all secretly want to be /boarders but they will never admit it.
6) Lurkers are always watching.
7) Mods have never seen daylight.
8) Deleting a thread is often worse than creating an inappropriate thread in the first place. Nobody can tell you exactly why.
9) The majority of people who suggest compo entries never enter the compo or ever post an image. These are the people who will email all the good pics to their friends and Nuts/Zoo
My username
if you remember this then you may remember the poor bastards that had £1 placed by their parents into one of Midland Bank's Griffin Saver accounts. You got a dictionary and a black nylon holdall - thereby negating the need for your parents to buy you a proper Adidas bag for school.
Only one problem - the holdall had the cocking Griffin Saver logo at each end of the bag in bright yellow and made you look a right spaz. The solution - colour in the yellow bits with a marker pen. Hoorah!
Did it work? Did it fuck - you just ended up with a black nylon bag with a shiny black Griffin Saver logo at each end and looked like an even bigger spaz for being forced to try this concealment.
It didn't stop people trying it though and it made you look like you were in some kind of spaz gang.
The day I got a new bag for school meant I could hold my head up high and laugh and point at the spazzes with everyone else. My dad used the Griffin Saver bag for work instead to take his sandwiches in. He didn't moan or care. He was a proper man with a proper job - making steel.
Underneath it all though I am still carrying my Griffin Saver bag with the logo coloured in.
Since about 2007 My username is now just a variant of Griffin Saver.
Nowadays
I'm slowly turning into an 'old bloke'. I know about tropical fish and DIY. I listen to Muse, the Foo Fighters and Placebo. I predictably hate most music in the charts, especially by new type of cockrock bands like The View, The Twang etc. I do like Bloc Party and Maximo Park, at least for now.
I don't understand most things Japanese and do not get enhorned by pencil drawings of furry animals, no matter how nice their tits are.
I appear to have become a bit of a DIY whiz after years of practice and several injuries. I get to watch loads and loads and loads of DVDs as Mrs Savalas trades them for a living.
I live in Swindon (if 'live' is the right word). Swindon gets a lot of flack. It deserves some of it, but not all. Its a very nice, comfortable average place to live. it's not far from anywhere, which is good as we are usually off to somewhere else.
My b3taring consists of flippant responses and poorly executed images. I use PSP rather than Photoshop as I have PSP and do not have Photoshop. I am limited by my skills. I tend to b3ta while I am thinking at work or waiting for something to happen - this is quite common in Systems Development, which is what I do. I do this in the booze industry. This is a good industry. I'm welsh BTW.
Why am I telling you all of this? Dunno - it just occurred to me to do so.
I have never met another b3tan, having never been on a bash. Only Happy Toast knows what I look like and that's cos he zombied me. I am a little paranoid about my real life and my cyber life mixing, although I think I'd like it to happen a bit. I did have some b3ta friends on Facebook, but in a fit of I-don't-know-what deleted them along with everyone else I had never met in real life.
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- has posted 52 stories and 13 replies on question of the week
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B3ta - the advanced truths
1) Nobody knows exactly where the line is, but you will find out quickly when you have crossed it.
2) The mood, will and whimsy of the board is not to be fathomed or dictated.
3) If your post count per year exceeds your salary, then you probably spend too much time on B3ta.
4) If you open B3ta outside of your usual days/time period, don't expect to be popular, understood or even liked. However if you are not popular, understood or liked in your usual days/time period, then this doesn't matter.
5) /talk boarders all secretly want to be /boarders but they will never admit it.
6) Lurkers are always watching.
7) Mods have never seen daylight.
8) Deleting a thread is often worse than creating an inappropriate thread in the first place. Nobody can tell you exactly why.
9) The majority of people who suggest compo entries never enter the compo or ever post an image. These are the people who will email all the good pics to their friends and Nuts/Zoo
My username
if you remember this then you may remember the poor bastards that had £1 placed by their parents into one of Midland Bank's Griffin Saver accounts. You got a dictionary and a black nylon holdall - thereby negating the need for your parents to buy you a proper Adidas bag for school.
Only one problem - the holdall had the cocking Griffin Saver logo at each end of the bag in bright yellow and made you look a right spaz. The solution - colour in the yellow bits with a marker pen. Hoorah!
Did it work? Did it fuck - you just ended up with a black nylon bag with a shiny black Griffin Saver logo at each end and looked like an even bigger spaz for being forced to try this concealment.
It didn't stop people trying it though and it made you look like you were in some kind of spaz gang.
The day I got a new bag for school meant I could hold my head up high and laugh and point at the spazzes with everyone else. My dad used the Griffin Saver bag for work instead to take his sandwiches in. He didn't moan or care. He was a proper man with a proper job - making steel.
Underneath it all though I am still carrying my Griffin Saver bag with the logo coloured in.
Since about 2007 My username is now just a variant of Griffin Saver.
Nowadays
I'm slowly turning into an 'old bloke'. I know about tropical fish and DIY. I listen to Muse, the Foo Fighters and Placebo. I predictably hate most music in the charts, especially by new type of cockrock bands like The View, The Twang etc. I do like Bloc Party and Maximo Park, at least for now.
I don't understand most things Japanese and do not get enhorned by pencil drawings of furry animals, no matter how nice their tits are.
I appear to have become a bit of a DIY whiz after years of practice and several injuries. I get to watch loads and loads and loads of DVDs as Mrs Savalas trades them for a living.
I live in Swindon (if 'live' is the right word). Swindon gets a lot of flack. It deserves some of it, but not all. Its a very nice, comfortable average place to live. it's not far from anywhere, which is good as we are usually off to somewhere else.
My b3taring consists of flippant responses and poorly executed images. I use PSP rather than Photoshop as I have PSP and do not have Photoshop. I am limited by my skills. I tend to b3ta while I am thinking at work or waiting for something to happen - this is quite common in Systems Development, which is what I do. I do this in the booze industry. This is a good industry. I'm welsh BTW.
Why am I telling you all of this? Dunno - it just occurred to me to do so.
I have never met another b3tan, having never been on a bash. Only Happy Toast knows what I look like and that's cos he zombied me. I am a little paranoid about my real life and my cyber life mixing, although I think I'd like it to happen a bit. I did have some b3ta friends on Facebook, but in a fit of I-don't-know-what deleted them along with everyone else I had never met in real life.
Recent front page messages:
Best answers to questions:
» Call Centres
I took a cold call from a company wanting to sell me a conservatory
despite hearing them properly, I feigned a daft old boy voice and told them I had voted labour all me life, me dad had voted labour all his life and his grandad before him, and I wasn't about to start voting for those tory bastards now. Good Day.
The laughter on the other end of the phone made me smile as I cut them off
(Fri 4th Sep 2009, 12:44, More)
I took a cold call from a company wanting to sell me a conservatory
despite hearing them properly, I feigned a daft old boy voice and told them I had voted labour all me life, me dad had voted labour all his life and his grandad before him, and I wasn't about to start voting for those tory bastards now. Good Day.
The laughter on the other end of the phone made me smile as I cut them off
(Fri 4th Sep 2009, 12:44, More)
» World's Sickest Joke
How do you get a pikey girl pregnant
cum on her feet and let the flies do the rest
(Wed 1st Feb 2006, 16:09, More)
How do you get a pikey girl pregnant
cum on her feet and let the flies do the rest
(Wed 1st Feb 2006, 16:09, More)
» World's Sickest Joke
what's black and white and can turn a fruit into a vegetable?
Siegfried and Roy's tiger
(Wed 1st Feb 2006, 16:56, More)
what's black and white and can turn a fruit into a vegetable?
Siegfried and Roy's tiger
(Wed 1st Feb 2006, 16:56, More)
» The Boss
while working for a paper merchant in Slough
I had this right cockend of a boss. He thought he was really sophisticated and funny but in actual fact was just a chubby little tit with a goatee. His assistant, (another total knobend who was in the TA) was always licking his arse.
Anyway, the company agreed to take part in a fly-on-the-wall documentary by the BBC. This just made him 10 times as much of a twat.
The worst day ever was Comic Relief and the company decided to do some fund-raising stuff. We had just witnessed a disco dance by the area manager and one of the girls which was nice, but then the boss decided he had to do one better with this almighty spazz of a dance which he reckoned was a fusion of "Flashdance and MC Hammer shit" He made a total cock of himself.
They made him redundant after that.
Oh no wait. This didn't actually happen to me did it?
(Tue 23rd Jun 2009, 12:57, More)
while working for a paper merchant in Slough
I had this right cockend of a boss. He thought he was really sophisticated and funny but in actual fact was just a chubby little tit with a goatee. His assistant, (another total knobend who was in the TA) was always licking his arse.
Anyway, the company agreed to take part in a fly-on-the-wall documentary by the BBC. This just made him 10 times as much of a twat.
The worst day ever was Comic Relief and the company decided to do some fund-raising stuff. We had just witnessed a disco dance by the area manager and one of the girls which was nice, but then the boss decided he had to do one better with this almighty spazz of a dance which he reckoned was a fusion of "Flashdance and MC Hammer shit" He made a total cock of himself.
They made him redundant after that.
Oh no wait. This didn't actually happen to me did it?
(Tue 23rd Jun 2009, 12:57, More)
» The most cash I've ever carried
exchanging several hundred pounds worth of travellers cheques in India for rupees
the rupees were stapled together in bricks - we then went for a walk through Mumbai at night through beggar district.
not very funny really.
(Mon 26th Jun 2006, 10:50, More)
exchanging several hundred pounds worth of travellers cheques in India for rupees
the rupees were stapled together in bricks - we then went for a walk through Mumbai at night through beggar district.
not very funny really.
(Mon 26th Jun 2006, 10:50, More)