Questions of the Week

1. Which of these two police inspectors would you rather have on your case in an emergency: Inspector Clouseau or Inspector Gadget?
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2. When eating ethnic foods, does it matter to you whether that food is authentic?
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3. Would you rather buy a foosball table or a stick hockey table for your apartment?
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4. Is there a reason most advertisements on YouThink pertain to religion and psychology?
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5. When someone asks you to say hello to so and so, do you actually do it?
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1. What kind of weather are you?
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2. How much do you know Mortal Kombat?
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3. Which Cartoon are you?
Added by: mk9

4. What Creature Are You?!?
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5. How well do you know the U.S?
Added by: allamerican8

Funniest Comments of the Week

In a thread titled "How have you changed since you joined YT?" :
Putterer: Then: An unemployed,(and not in school) anti-social 23 year old with no girlfriend, no hopes or aspirations, living with his sister who spent most of his time online.

Now: I'm 31.

In a thread about the NFL draft, talking about USC QB Mark Sanchez:
Soulforged: lol, I bet Mark Sanchez is a bust.
CPayne: I think Sanchez will be alright. He's got the tools. He needs to sit though. He's not ready to play right away. His best situation would be where he gets to sit for two years.
Soulforged: MARK MY WORDS!
travbowman: ON YOUR MARK!
cpayne: Why are you guys trying to mark Sanchez down. Just give him a chance to make his mark is all I'm saying.
soulforged: Because he's a marked man.
travbowman: I hear that he's dropping down the draft boards because of a problem with drinking too much Maker's Mark.
soulforged: He doesn't have the mark of a champion.
putterer: So, you're all saying he's a question mark?

Q: Do you think bisexual people are disgusting?:
Macora: A persons sexuality depends on the way a person id educated. They are trying to make people gay in schools.
pepperdrinks: I know that's why I'm a lesbian. I made the mistake of taking Softball 101 and Intro to Flannel in high school.

From a News thread titled 'Did Obama bow to the Saudi king?': :
Cindy_: I heard he was considering the Three Stooges eye poke and nyuk nyuk nyuk, but thought it might cause some misunderstanding. When in Rome...?

In a random newbie's journal where they kept typing words with missing vowels and other text speak:
JayY: vwls r mprtnt pls s thm
pedalmetal: bt thyr s xpnsve

Joke of the Week

What do you get when you mix a pitbull with a collie?

A dog that'll tear you a new one, and then go get help!

Member of the Week

The member of the week is chief_13. A member since May 2005, Chief recently finished 3rd out of 21 entries in the YT college basketball picks group. A cool guy who goes unnoticed a lot of the time, more YTers should get to know him. Congrats!

JoeInterview's Member Feature

This week's interview features biffa. This interview was conducted by travbowman.

JoeInterview: First off, how did you find YT?

biffa: It was during my first office job, around 04 I think? Remember being on here during Euro 04 anyway. I use international football tournaments to place all the events of my life. Basically I used to toss it off all day, my monitor faced away from the rest of the office so I could get away with surfing the web whilst pretending to look busy, which is a skill I still use to this day. Think it was throught the usual route of bored.com I stumbled across it and got hooked.

JI: What would you say is the biggest reason you keep coming back for more?

B: Right now, I really only come here for one person. There used to be a nice little group of Brits who all got along pretty well- me, Moleboy, Carly687, Pi, *estella*, Keiren22 and a few others. But they've all long gone. There's still a lot of people I like on here but I dont really post as much as I used to. I spend most of my time now in PMs, killing each day at work, and that is the main reason I log in each day. I only really check the forums inbetween wating for PMs. I also like the wide variety of people and opinions, and the wide variety of the way people express those opinions. Im a bit of a lurker tbh

JI: Since all of your life events are measured by international football tournaments, what do you hope to have accomplished by World Cup 2010?

B: By 2010 I would hope that myself and my girlfriend would have our own place and be settled and happy, that is pretty much number one on my list. I also want to start learining Bulgarian, Mrs biff's native language, so I can talk to her family and friends without needing her there to translate! Other than that. just general health and happiness. Not really got any major career aspirations- I enjoy my work and they are pretty good at putting me on courses and stuff, payed for me to get my forklift truck driving license and put me on a city and guilds electrical safety course, so pretty much anyhting they offer to put me on I bite their hand off. Just play it by ear really! And I would love to England reach at least the semis in 2010- but that's never gonna happen.

JI: What do you think will be the Achilles heel for the English side in 2010?

B: They are always massivley over hyped by the media and the public- we always seem to be amongst the favourites but we haven't reached a semi final since Italia 90, we have too many players who cannot re-create their club form at international level, specifically Lampard and Gerrard. And just a general lack of players playing at the top level. In the last round of champions league games, which is the biggest club competition in the world, there were 4 english teams but only 11 english players played (or 9, discounting Carragher and Scholes who have retired from internationals) compared to 33 Brazillians and 27 Spaniards..so basically Brazil could have fieled 3 teams and England could not have fielded 1. The top top clubs only have 2 or 3 English players in their starting 11 (or 1, in Arsenal's case) and that reflects on the national side.

JI: How did you and your girlfriend meet?

B: 'Pon this very website. We'd been PMing for a while, we got on really well so we arranged to meet up in Prague in july of last year. We found we got on just as well IRL as we did online, and here we are today!

JI: You're known on YT for your sense of humour. Have you always been the jokester growing up?

B: Yeh, at school I was more interested in getting a laugh out of my mates than in learning. Drama was my favourite class, it was an opportunity to showcase my comedy talents. Our peices always ended up like an episode of Bottom, lots of penis jokes and over the top fist fights. We'd be given a brief to act out, like about drug addiction or repressed women in Iran or something, but I'd always manage to get a kick to the bollocks or something in there. Happy days.

JI: Whose sense of humour always gets a laugh out of you any time you read/watch/hear it?

B: That is difficult, there aren;t many people who are funny all the time, they might be good in sitcoms or stand up or whatever but then you see them/read them in interviews and you're thinking, is this the same guy? Like Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge is probably my favourite comedy character ever, but Steve Coogan as a person isn't particlularly funny. Ditto Vic Reeves and Ricky Gervais. But I;d have to say Johnny Vegas always makes me chuckle heartily, and Rik Mayall is a legend

JI: What music has been getting the most spin from you lately?

B: I've got this habit of not listening to an album for ages then going back to it and really getting into it again. At the moment this is the case with Scary Monsters and Super Creeps by Bowie and After The Goldrush by Neil Young. I sort of forget how good albums are sometimes. My music of choice when im getting ready to go out is currently Costello Music by The Fratellis, some great feelgood tunes on there, always puts me in a good mood. And there's a electronic/dance group called Metronomy that my mate got me hooked on, not usually my kind of thing but they are class.

And of course Stone Roses and Ian Brown are never far from my CD player!

JI: When at the pub, what's your drink of choice?

B: Pretty much any bottled lager. Used to drink pints but I drank them too fast and always ended up getting smashed and sending embarrasing text messages. I still do that with bottles but it just takes longer. I do like Stella, and Corona or Sol with lime, Kronenburg.. dad tries to get me to drink local bitters, and some of them are quite nice, just a bit of an old man thing to drink! Special mention to Zagorka, which I just cant find over here anywhere. And Desperados. And Tecate.

JI: What's the craziest thing you've ever done while drunk?

B: First off I would like to make it clear that I no longer get so drunk that I do really daft stuff, the worst stuff I do now is send stupid texts or go on facebook or something and make a tit of myself. Back in the day, like early 20s, me and my pals all used to go out every friday and saturday and just get wasted. A load of us went to Magaluf two years running, did the usual drunk Brits abroad stuff there- skinny dipping in the sea at about 4am, puking in the street, my mum would have been so proud. But I think my crowning moment happened on a night out in a town near us, we were walking to a bar, all well oiled, and there was this little bmx in the street, not chained up or anything. So we took it, all had a bit of a spin on it as we made our way to this bar. I happened to be on it as we got to the bar entrance, so I got off and told the bouncer to "watch my wheels"

He didn't find it as funny as we did and wouldn't let us in, which looking back was fair enough. So I got back on the bike and rode past him into the bar. I didn't get too far when the bouncer grabbed me in a headlock and threw me into the street, which thinking about it I probably escaped pretty lightly. Not been back there since, even though it was like 4 years ago.

JI: What surprised you most about your travels to America?

B: Just the diversity in climate and landscapes. We left Vegas to drive to San Fransisco early one morning, went through Death Valley, which was just unbearably hot, then about 3 or so hours later we were in Yosemite throwing snowballs at each other. When I showed my mum the pics of us in the desert then in the snow in Yosemite she was like "did you never change your clothes you mucky git?"And I had to tell her that that was all in the same day, just a few hours later. Crazy.

Also, not as many obese people as I expected, and every body told me the women would go mad for English guys over there, which was bollocks.

JI: Where would you like to travel that you've never been?

B: I've only ever been to Paris in France, and I'd love to see more of that country, especially the Dorgone region. The Cinque Terre region of Italy looks stunning, and the Plitvice lakes national park in Croatia also looks beautiful. They are my top 3 for sure. And all the Polish lads at work keep saying how beautiful parts of their country is, and my local airport does dirt cheap flights to Krakow, so thats another on the list

JI: What's your most prized possession and why?

B: Okay, I'm gonna give a really soppy answer here that might ruin my reputation as a rugged tough guy, but sod it. It's a purple silk robe that my aforementioned girlfriend gave to me during our trip to Prague, after the trip we weren't sure when we'd be next seeing each other and it was sort of a souvenier until we next saw each other, I gave her a stuffed tiger and she gave me that. Just reminds me of her, I chill round the house in it, I love the feel of silk on my skin, and I look pretty hot in it, if I say so myself. Not as hot as her, but still pretty stylish.

Honourable mentions to cards from the mrs, and a Miletich FS t shirt signed by all the fighters, including Tim Sylvia, Robbie Lawler, Jens Pulver and the man himself, Pat "The Croatian Sensation" Miletich. Massive thankyou to Rain for that, she's a legend

JI: What's the story behind your username?

B: It was my nickname at school, after a character in the British "adult humour" comic Viz called Biffa Bacon. He's always getting into fights and uses foul language, and at school I was always getting into fights and using foul language.

JI: What's the best insult you've ever hurled at someone?

B: My insults are always an unimaginative tirade of typical swear words. I only ever loose my head during footy really, and my rants typically consist of several f*ckings, a few cocks and one or two c*nts. Then afterwards I always think of something witty that I should have said.

JI: Whose side is the most fun to mock?

B: Aha, well I actually meant I only loose my rag when I'm playing footy. Play in a 5 a side league at work every wednesday lunchtime and there's a mixture of ages and abilities, and some guys take it VERY seriously, some nasty tackles and plenty of bad blood, but that makes it more enjoyable.

If you're talking about a pro team, then it's got to be Man City- all that money and they're still wank. Plus they have Craig Bellamy, and he is the biggest tosser in professional football.

JI: Describe your job to us.

B: I work as a storeman in the Engineering department of Leeds University..basically anything that gets ordered comes through us, be it boxes of paper for the secretaries, drilling machines for the workshop, chemicals for the labs, new PCs for the students, whatever. We offload it, check its correct, log it onto a database then distribute it to whoever ordered it. And that is pretty much it, and it's as boring as it sounds, which is why I'm on here most of the day.

JI: What would be your dream job?

B: I always thought being a football commentator would be pretty good. I could put my statto like knowledge of the game to good use, get to games for free, trips around the world for 90 minutes work. Cushty. And I've already had good practice, when I used to play Fifa 95 on my mega drive I always used to commentate to myself, cos I was a bit of a geek like that.

JI: What's your forte in the kitchen?

B: I am a crap cook. About the best I can do is beans on toast with cheese, or some pasta or brown rice with chicken and veg..that's about as good as it gets.

JI: Any final words of wisdom to share with your fellow YTers?

B: Er..nah, not really. I'm trying to think of something witty and profoundto say but I really can't. Just, thanks for making this place like it is!

This week's article is titled 'Woody Harrelson claims he mistook photographer for zombie', and the thread was posted by Pantala.

This week's link is titled 'Best & Worst States For Taxes', and the link was posted by allamerican8.

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Featured Article of the Week

The Real Medium
Excerpt: It had all started with such subtlety, it had slipped by unnoticed for the first few weeks. Just a few things misplaced, that was all. A few odd sounds, but that was nothing special; after all, it was an old house.

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