@ruouttaurmind
/image “Put a Brain in the White House”

@ruouttaurmind I’m pretty sure that’s a galactic sheep.

@ELUNO Squint your eyes, turn your head a bit to the left, drink half a bottle of Jamesons… THERE! You see it now, right?

@ruouttaurmind No new taxes?

Isn’t today the day that Amazon starts charging sales tax in every state that has one?

I blame the goat of April.

@2many2no I feel where you’re coming from. I’ve been paying sales tax at Amazon for 2 or 3 years now.

@ruouttaurmind http://dealnews.com/Goat-Simulator-for-iPhone-and-iPad-for-free/1948130.html

@CaptAmehrican Simulator? We don’t need no stinking simulator! I’m living the mayhem. All month long.

Thanks for the link. I knew the hundreds of dollars I overpaid for my iPhone and iPad was going to save me five bucks some day!

My nephew loves it, so he’s going to be SO excited the next time he comes to visit uncle @ruouttaurmind and wants to play on the iPad.

@narfcake I would exchange many American dollars for that “Put a Brain in the White House” button. Many.

@huja Well I did an image search - it is officially:

Pinky and the Brain Put a Brain in the White House vintage campaign button 1996

https://www.etsy.com/listing/255519251/pinky-and-the-brain-put-a-brain-in-the (but it is already sold)

@huja They also made a mug - cool inscription inside too - was a mouse running for president

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/pinky-and-the-brain-put-a-brain-in-the-white-house

OH WAIT - YOU CAN BUY THAT BUTTON NOW for $13.00 (and a t-shirt with that on it is for sale)

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=house+industries+shirt&LH_PrefLoc=2&_sop=15&isRefine=false&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xput+a+brain+in+the+whithouse.TRS0&_nkw=put+a+brain+in+the+whithouse&_sacat=0

@mikibell

@mikibell @galmaegi I guess bribery will get you anything you want.

@mikibell I will really miss you. Mostly, the goat thing doesn’t do much for me, but you really made it fun, and interesting, and I looked every day to see what clever thing you’d thought of for the topic of the day.

/image fireworks

@Shrdlu I guess we can vote in @mikibell for another term.

@Barney absolutely. Especially since her term was cut prematurely short.

I full intend to continue to blame her for the next 8 hours regardless of whether she likes it or not.

@galmaegi I you even more!

@Shrdlu Thank you, I truly value your compliment!

@f00l I blame @ruouttaurmind that Galactic Goat can’t possibly be as entertaining as @mikibell, and therefore won’t even try.

As the 34th Goat, I will strive to be the 16th best goat ever!

@ruouttaurmind Slightly below mediocre. Right?

@Kidsandliz Indubitably!
/image participation award

@Pavlov I belong!

@OldCatLady Perfecto! Born on April 1st, so they can name the calf f00l and it’ll be April’s f00l!

@dashcloud she did…and I appreciate it!

@narfcake Ok, ok, ok… send me five bucks and your shipping address and I’ll send you the double super secret @narfcake Fuk.

@narfcake You missed an entertaining approach if you didn’t even try. I tried. Got through the quiz. Clicked on buy on the last page and got no order confirmation. Oh well. Then tried the /buy command which of course didn’t work either. Hmm the later would be @ruouttaurmind’s fault. Right?

@Kidsandliz I take the blame, but share your pain.

@ruouttaurmind I would want that.

@CaptAmehrican Ok, I share your pain as well!

@thismyusername When did you set up surveillance cameras in my yard?

Hey, you have your exercise routine, I have mine!

@mfladd @ruouttaurmind The GoaT Illuminati meet the second Tuesday of every week. Current and surviving former goats attend religiously.

@OldCatLady Meaning never - right? LOL By the way, between which two days is the second Tuesday of the Week? Hopefully between Saturday and Sunday so the weekends are longer?

@OldCatLady

@RiotDemon I am hoping in Oct. you will choose the Dark Goats (if you make it till Oct. - I am withholding my vote till then because I want that month to be Spooktacular, and particularly EviL !)

@mfladd
I agree. @RiotDemon should be held in reserve until October. When she becomes @EvilRiotDemon or the like.

@mfladd fuck. we got a 401k now? do we match? this is becoming a lot of work. can’t we just go back to the old days of booze, beer, pizza, and whoring ourselves out?

@ruouttaurmind the blood shot is mostly vodka. maybe a couple drop of cranberry. eh, who am i kidding. i’m just gonna handle you the bottle and you chug as much as you want. i’ve also got some aha toro anejo and some captain morgan 1671. if you have any requests, feel free to email them to @KittySprinkles. it’s not like she does anything else except sit around and torture people all day. so, just some basic rules.

if you finish the coffee and don’t make another pot:

if you don’t change the roll of toilet paper:

using the mehcronomicon as a coaster:

and if you happen to be a little kinky:

so, welcome to our humble abode.

@carl669 We do match. 75% on 6% of the fuck count. 100% on 4% of evil deeds (the dirtier, the better).

And a end of year bonus if you get banned, or are able to hack or corrupt Morningsave.

@mfladd If the bed is a rockin’, I’ve got possession.

The vision plan sucks ass, I can still see you.

@Kidsandliz Yes, the third day of the weekend is clearly marked on my calendar. Possibly meh.com could print the Goat Illuminati Calendars, so everyone who aspires to goathood could see the benefits.
/giphy calendar Illuminati

@KittySprinkles

@mfladd

@OldCatLady

@mfladd Yes, and that’s just what we do during the week, right? Road access to the secret island is known only to GE (Goat Emiriti). We go to the halfway point on the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel, turn east, and straight on till morning. Dolphins mark the channel. Could you take a photo next time you pass it? Sorry, I have a cold and am a little loopy.

@OldCatLady I am waiting for the tunnel to spring a big enough leak and you will then need a submarine to make it through that low point. What? You are ignoring the channel markers there and using dolphins instead? What about whales? We saw one once around there. All they need to do is follow an outbound tanker to know which way is east by the way.

@mfladd @f00l
Thanks, I’m hoping with enough persuasion people will wait until October. I don’t feel right being a goat in the spring/summer.

@RiotDemon I believe I’m well suited for “the month of fools”. I’ve done some damn foolish things in my day.

@mfladd
Wanna be

/giphy "wanna be"

@ruouttaurmind said:

I believe I’m well suited for “the month of fools”. I’ve done some damn foolish things in my day.

You’re learning. You show promise, Grasshopper.

@f00l

Too lazy to even check Woot?

@f00l Where the fuck is the GoaT?
I’m sorry, did he somehow think he has weekends off? Or, that even having a life other than being goat is acceptable?
I think he needs to read the goat contract again.

@someRiverNoise
Too demoralized to check out that aspect of Woot constantly after all the deactivating and silence.

@f00l

Meh. Your loss.

@someRiverNoise
I spoze.

@f00l, @mfladd, What? No weekends? No holidays? There’s a freakin’ goat 401k but no time off? Who the eff is the shop steward? I demand a sit down with the labour chairperson in situ!

@ruouttaurmind
Goats don’t get sitdowns. They have to be goat 24/7.

@huja I will sense a disturbance in the goat force when there is truly a grievance in need of a responsible party. Until then… this is not the blame you are looking for…
/giphy obi wan

@ruouttaurmind The Farce is strong in this one.

@f00l I am humbled. It’s been a challenging few days. Since Thursday I’ve flown 5000 miles, driven at least 450, spent hours in hospital, and arranged about a dozen sources for home health care. Plus, I managed to hop on here four or five times in a feeble attempt to annoy all you losers.

Now… home at last, I’m home at last. Exhausted, drained, and never loving my hoopty old worn out recliner as much as I do at this moment.

I will never be as amazing a goat as @mikibell, but I unless there’s another family emergency in the next 4 weeks, I shouldn’t be MIA again.

@ruouttaurmind Hope the family emergency is going to end OK

@Kidsandliz Thank you. When the term “home hospice care” is involved, there is really only a single obvious culmination. We must pray for it to be a peaceful one.

@ruouttaurmind I am sorry to hear that. And yes… peaceful and pain free.

@ruouttaurmind

In case one hug is not enough!

@ruouttaurmind p.s. should have mentioned you needed peace, we would have provided you cover!

@mikibell Thank you! @f00l said you are sweetness and sunshine, and it’s so!

@ruouttaurmind I would have been in similar boat in Feb…we lost a young niece…my kids are still feeling the pain. While I did not have as much responsibility in the planning/decision making as you, loss is hard and hurts…

It helps to have people to lean on…

@mikibell I am sorry to hear of this.

May your children swiftly reach peace with their loss.

@ruouttaurmind
I’m so sorry to hear that your family faces this difficult time. I also hope that it is peaceful, and that you get to see a lot of each other, including the ill person, and that you get to see the best of each other and be the best of yourselves for each other.

I’ll be thinking of you and your family.

@f00l Kind thoughts, and I am grateful for them.

@ruouttaurmind I’m sorry your life is so full of stress, and I hope that the care you’ve arranged works smoothly, for the sake of all.

@ruouttaurmind that is very sweet of you… I was trying to console YOU!

As adults, we process things at a different rate than the kids do. I was unaware of how much it still weighed on their mind until the elder child asked if we could do something to celebrate my niece’s birthday…(they used to share family party-- my daughter, son, niece and her twin brother)
ugh…heartbreaking. All I can do is respect her for the continued love and support she shows towards others.

@ruouttaurmind Sorry to hear about all the chaos and family difficulties. You have my best wishes in all matters. I hope you catch up on your rest

That being said…

@mfladd I’m on it. Galactic Goat v2.0 “A Goatly Reboot” is installing now and should be uploaded very shortly.

@mfladd Done, and done.

@Kidsandliz
Perhaps I must leave you off any future goodies lists?

@f00l Well you were the unofficial deputy goat last month… just saying. And I didn’t have the heart to blame @ruottaurmind so soon and since you are kind I didn’t think you’d mind taking one for the team and for @ruottaurmind in particular (grin)… And we had 8+" of rain overnight (so those of you who have this coming - eg Alabama, etc watch out, this storm is nasty) and there is flooding around here. Where I live is dry although down the street is not, don’t know if my stuff in storage is dry, rivers and creeks are overflowing, moderate flood stage. A friend I used to live with (and my mail still goes there) is flooded…Gotta blame somebody or a couple of somebodies for this mess.

@OldCatLady wouldn’t it be goat and kid. Baby goats are called kids.

@CaptAmehrican @OldCatLady

Isn’t @f00l the designated deputy goat?

@someRiverNoise that is what I thought - although then @f00l threatened not to send treats when I blamed…

@someRiverNoise
@f00l is Deputy Goat only within the boundaries of @Eluno’s Tiny Insect Mind.

(@f00l speaks of @f00l’s self in the third person in order to appear more Regally Id10tic ).

@someRiverNoise

@f00l sees someone who doesn’t want to be on @f00l’s Treats List.

Didn’t @f00l mention Either/Or in the split checks thread?

@f00l now orders thou back to thy Kierkegaard.

@OldCatLady

@f00l thanks @OldCatLady for volunteering. Most commendable.

@f00l Doesn’t bother me, I’m just looking at pictures anyway.

@f00l I think it is catching on! You are now oficially Deputy Goat for everyone!
Congrats!

@f00l Done, and done.

@cinoclav Pointless blame is easy, peasy! I’ll take all of that you can dish and never break a sweat!

Thanks for the kind words RE: family. Things are starting to settle in. We shall see what the future brings.

@f00l Don’t forget to blame @ruouttaurmind for this becoming a thing.

@ruouttaurmind
Yeah no kid. (Ha ha ha worst pun ever!)

@f00l blames you you you!

@f00l I need a tweet translation of this please. What the heck does @Eluno have to do with this? I think, maybe, your post making @Eluno a proxy for you as deputy goat on say, the second Tuesday of the week as long as @Eluno doesn’t hack your meh account and post as you?
![enter image description here][1]

Maybe just chill and listen to Mozart’s Requiem in D minor K626. The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields version is quite nice.
[1]:

@f00l ran out of edit time… should be: I think, maybe, your post IS (cap so you see the change) making

@f00l What’s that? I don’t speak Deputy Goat language.

@Kidsandliz

@Mozart and @TheAcademyOfSaintMartinInTheFields are royal buddies of the Royally Id10tic @f00l, The Existence Of Whose Infinitesimal Mind Is A Matter (bad pun) Of Uncertainly.

@ELUNO

Thou Alone speakest the language of Imaginary Virtual @f00l acting as Deputy Goat, springing from the Insectizoid Imagination of the @Eluno Tiny Insect Mind. For this Virtual @f00l who acteth at Deputy Goat is thy creation, to be animated only by Thy Will and Thy Tiny Insect Mind.

Thou Alone can fill this need. Will Thou allow the Community to Suffer?

Help me, @Eluno’s Tiny Insect Mind. Thou art my only Hope.

@f00l Is the English translation of this - you like Academy of St. Martin in the Fields?

Please develop, and send to google translate, a dictionary of FOOL speak and Standard English. Thank you.

@Kidsandliz

@f00l The Regal Id10t prefers the current language set, as it beautifully emphasizes the regal id10tic aspects of @f00l The Great.

@f00l Talking in the 3rd person again? Perhaps multiple personality disorder with grandiose ideas of self importance? LOL

@Kidsandliz
Only for the blame thread does this Id10tic @f00l speak in the Regal Third Person.
Emphasis.

@f00l
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@Kidsandliz

What do you mean by “some of the time” ?

@PlacidPenguin I am taking poetic license…

@Kidsandliz

So did the Vogons.

As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t!"

@f00l, As a humble novice goat, and least senior member of the goat clan, it is with respect I offer this easy solution.

Goat becomes senior goat pro tempore becomes goat alumni. In other words, once a current goat has fulfilled their servitude they become senior goat, and fill in if there is a situation with the current goat. Then they are replaced by current goat when a new goat is appointed. Simple, sweet, painless.

@ruouttaurmind
Speakest thou then to Previous Goat And Tiny Insect Mind @Eluno, who alone understands the functions of the Holy Deputy Goat.

Id10tic @f00l wishes thee well.

@f00l Why mess with the classics? @f00l Goat Deputy for life!

@ELUNO
Only @Eluno’s Tiny Insect Mind is capable of understanding and performing the mysteries of Deputy Goat.

@f00l The Great is busy being Id10tic elsewhere.

@narfcake @ruouttaurmind

BLAME

Saw this, went to the link, watched the video, and now I’m in tears.

@PlacidPenguin Road trip to Carnegie, PA?

http://www.librarymusichall.com/event/1437816-animaniacs-live-munhall/

@narfcake

Only 389 miles.

@PlacidPenguin Still tix available for the 2pm show on the 15th! Starting at only $20, a bargain at twice the price!

Take a ride on over there…

@ruouttaurmind

I found starting at $39 (with an optional but not optional $50 VIP add-on).

@PlacidPenguin I think @ruouttaurmind has the two venues mixed up.

@narfcake, @PlacidPenguin, You would be correct. I clicked on a rogue link and it took me to the 4/15 show in some unknown (to me) locale with 2pm show tix at $20.

I blame @ruouttaurmind for being a moron.

@narfcake
What locations have this production?

@narfcake

I SHOULD be glad that that’s the closest location since saves me a decent amount of money, but I’m not.

@mfladd
Order unsweetened tea. They have it everywhere. @f00l Of The Infinitesimal Mind of Uncertain Existence is addicted to lt.

PS. The Confederate Battle Flags can get on one’s nerves. Like, the “polite, well-mannered South” apparently does not care about being offensive.

You don’t see so many of those here, except at certain funerals. (Sigh.)

We have a better flag or two locally.

@mfladd Hey, nothing says home like good 'ol sausage ‘n grits pizza on a thick waffle crust! Wash it down with a tug of sweet tea an’ ya got yerself a feast!

@mfladd And the eastern shore isn’t even the deep south. Try Mississippi - now that was culture shock and not in a good way.

@mfladd
UNSWEETENED ICED TEA.

Do not forget this.

@mfladd are anywhere near Chesapeake? I have a friend there who might be able to hook you up with a charger…

@f00l They do not have unsweetened iced tea everywhere. And at a lot of places it is undrinkable because it sits for too long since everyone drinks the sweet stuff.

@sammydog01
Oh well. Texas does. I thought everywhere in the South did.

Apologies, @mfladd.

@f00l I didn’t bother telling you

@mikibell haha…that’s ok, but thanks. I will be in Chesapeake tomorrow.

@ruouttaurmind Blame. I could basically get whatever I wanted for dinner, but I am in a mood, so ended up with Papa Johns - WTF!

@mfladd phewwww…the more I thought about it, the more secrets I remembered this friend knows…it could be dangerous if he met you!

@mikibell hmmmm…maybe I do need that cord.

@mfladd hehehe I know more secrets about him than he knows about me…his mom lives here… they all think I am such a nice girl and give me the dirt!

@f00l

UNSWEETENED ICED TEA

I was commuting between Nashville and extreme rural Tennessee this weekend. Nashville understands what iced tea is. Bubbaville, TN has NO CLUE. Very pretty server (still referred to as waitresses there) and in her most adorable southern accent exclaimed “ooooohhhh! You mean Sweeeeet Tea darlin?”

@mfladd PapaJohns and waffles?

@PlacidPenguin I had to check the interwebs to make sure I understood what I did. We’re talking Animaniacs plushies here, yes? Freaking corporate America conglomerate merch monopoly price fixing, that’s what it is.

@ruouttaurmind

I feel like this should be pinned more on @narfcake and less on you.

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Now I blame you that I’m having this thought.

@PlacidPenguin You do know they’ve been out of production for 21+ years now, right?

The ones by Dakin/Applause are the nice ones. Play-by-Play are okay. Ace Novelty made the “carnival grade” ones and used “paper by-products” for filling. Seriously. You don’t want those.

@narfcake

Got an email 23 minutes ago about a Play By Play plush lot.

@narfcake

This is the one I got an email about, though I’m assuming I could get it cheaper.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/232277627410

@PlacidPenguin Way too much for that size.

(Back in the day, the large Dakin plushies were $30 each at the WB Studio Stores.)

@narfcake

(Naturally.)

I found this set, but they are only 10". I’m finding various listings for them at different prices, but I can’t find 3 from the same year.

Dunno why, but I feel that all 3 should have the same year.

@PlacidPenguin The smaller ones (which sold for $8) were released after the large ones. Applause bought Dakin (or merged or something), so later lots had a different tag/different year. And Play-by-play licensed later, hence a different year also.

@narfcake

Decisions… Decisions…

@PlacidPenguin
/image save your work

@medz

I did.

@PlacidPenguin
/giphy shrugs

Head Scratch…

@medz

Slightly good news: I managed to do stuff and I got an .asd for it. After opening it up in notepad, I discovered that yes, this is the file which I need.

Edit: Too lazy to open it “correctly”. Copied and pasted from notepad to Word.

@narfcake I think you forgot to shake it up first. You gotta shake up the 8ball before asking life’s most important queries.

<shake shake shake>
/8ball should @narfcake buy the purple kittencorn now that they’re back in stock?
Signs point to yes

@narfcake A bit of Galactic Goat magic dust on it for ya and there ya go.

<shake shake shake>
/8ball Does @ruouttaurmind get extra blames now?
Without a doubt

Hey, it works!

@f00l I blame @ruouttaurmind for having nothing relevant to blame @ruouttaurmind for right now.

And I blame @mehmarkdown for not having a “I blame” command that auto-completes with a callout to whoever the current goat is. Get on it guys!

@narfcake

I almost bought that from Woot last mont. I would have too if I wouldn’t have placed an order an hour prior to finding this.

So when are we playing it?

@PlacidPenguin Whenever we get around to it. I have 6 that are still new in box … which I might add cost me less total than the price on this one.

@narfcake Just to be clear what I’m responsible for… are you blaming that Wootopoly was $15 at Salvation Army, or that Wootopoly is actually a thing?

@ruouttaurmind The price.

@narfcake

“meow” much did it cost originally?

/giphy meow

@f00l Very very originally, I don’t recall, but I bought them during woot-offs for $0.99 because I paid shipping that day already.

So…

I decided to send it in.

Especially since I discovered that my 16gb micro sd card is having issues as well.

@PlacidPenguin I feel your pain. I use microSD for my drone cameras and have endless challenges. Compatibility, lost data, unable to reformat… and its not limited to the generic ones. PNY, Adata, Samsung, they’re all just as likely to give me grief.

@PlacidPenguin BTW, may I ask what you decided to do with the Pi? I grabbed one on Pi Day but haven’t messed with it yet.

@ruouttaurmind

For the last year, I have been using it solely as a private cloud.

For a while it was only a localized cloud (to be accessed on the same network), but then I decided to set it up with OwnCloud after talking about it for months.

Had that setup for a couple of days, but ended up removing it (since it was having issues with the USB I was using for storage).

When I have it working again, I will probably set it up with OwnCloud again and just use the micro sd for storage.

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Tip: Don’t use a multi-port wall adapter. Your Pi will get jealous (even if only 1 port is used),and start causing slight issues.

@ruouttaurmind

The 64gb which keeps on corrupting is from Transcend.

@PlacidPenguin
Have you had problems with Sandisk or Samsung?

@f00l

The 16gb card currently giving issues is SanDisk.

With the exception of my Pi, I don’t use micro sd cards anymore, so…

@f00l @ruouttaurmind

So…

On Tuesday Transcend received the micro sd card.

I just went to a detailed review of the RMA, and it shows that yesterday the card was marked as good.

Now I have to wait until the 21st for the card to be delivered to me, and in all likelihood, it will be the same card, and it will corrupt in a couple of weeks.

@f00l

@f00l

@ruouttaurmind
/8ball Should I blame @ruouttaurmind because Clover hasn’t been tinted orange?
Yes

@PlacidPenguin /giphy sunglasses

@woodhouse, @PlacidPenguin, The irony is not lost on Galactic Goat
/giphy woodhouse

@ruouttaurmind

Nor on me.

@mfladd supposed to be 79 here in Texas today!

@woodhouse Didn’t you know Texas doesn’t count.

Fuck Texas!

@mfladd Shh, it’s okay to be envious.

@woodhouse

I don’t think envious is what @mfladd had in mind when complaining about the weather.

@PlacidPenguin @mfladd

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@PlacidPenguin @woodhouse
Storm envy?

@mfladd @woodhouse

On the topic of weather…

The Twilight Zone - S03E10 - The Midnight Sun

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ee3q9_science-fiction-treasures-the-midnight-sun-1961-twilight-zone-series-by-rod-serling-epsat_shortfilms

@mfladd First, that’s the best Galactic Goat pic yet.

Second, warm up? I’m already wondering how long 'til winter returns.

@mfladd
I would trash you for the “Fuck Texas” giphy.

Except that the “OMG Becky” giphy is so awesome. Esp with all the pink tint and weird hair.

Forgiven, just this once.

@f00l It is counterintuitive to Galactic Goat’s sense of logic and reason that he reminds @f00l, uh, well, that 4am kinda IS morning. Not to put too fine a point on it I mean.

@ruouttaurmind
Nope. If I haven’t yet gone to bed, 3-11am is last night. If I have gone to bed, after about 3am it’s morning.

This is the Venerable Law of Manhattan Mornings.

Your life will go better if you honor it.

@Kidsandliz

Ha ha you get to be all sore.

So do I.

@f00l Yeah but I didn’t close a car door on myself @clutz LOL. I will be skipping the bruises. PS hope your little mishap has spectacular bruises you can show off for sympathy doesn’t hurt all that much or for that long.

@Kidsandliz First few days are always the worst, aren’t they?

Gotta start slow and work into it!

@ruouttaurmind I think today I will work at taking a nap LOL Actually the summer before last when I did manual labor in Walmart’s parking lot for the plant vendor it took me about 3 weeks to adjust to both working in the heat and being bent over moving things around much of the time… so I figure it will be about 3 weeks with this too. Bleh.

@Kidsandliz
The huge fat wind slammed the car door.

My wee tootsies got out of the way just in time.

No bruis-ied tootsies.

@ruouttaurmind ok dragged my sorry ass there today…

/giphy suffering

@Kidsandliz

@ruouttaurmind I want my imaginary twin to do this and then I’ll get a body transplant thank you very much. I rewarded myself for going with the ears off my chocolate bunny.

@PlacidPenguin
/giphy balancing nature out

@PlacidPenguin well not what I was looking for but I think I’ll leave it

@Kidsandliz, @PlacidPenguin

@ruouttaurmind that’s pretty cool

@Kidsandliz
Galactic Goat appreciates nature in balance.

@ruouttaurmind How do you suppose they make these? Drill a hole and run a rod up?

@Kidsandliz I suppose it’s possible these two are photoshopped, they are quite intricate. But in the many many miles I’ve hiked in the wilderness, I’ve seen some cairns that nearly rival these. Among my favorites are the tiny little stacks hiding on tree branches along the trail. Simple, small, but fun.

@f00l Did you push your “Help, I’ve fallen and can’t get up” button?

@f00l Ouch. Infected fer sure.

I take the blame for this since I am stupid, clueless, and lazy, and you probably caught it from reading my topics.

@mfladd
I’ll punch that button shortly after I cross the bridge to the Eastern Shore.

Maybe I’ll punch that button more than once.

Thanks for the reminder.

@f00l Well you could take a different approach. Bandaid and then a giant ace bandage - for, you know, sympathy. : ) Hope it heals without getting infected.

@Kidsandliz

Re infected. Too late.
But it’s not big deal. Except for “unpretty”.

Ace bandage unneeded for knee. No functionality issues, no pain.

Ace bandages needed at cerebral cortex level.

@f00l Ace bandages needed for sympathy from others, not as medical device.

Very red, harder than surrounding skin and hot often = cellulitis so if that is how it is “infected” that takes antibiotics to get rid of it.

@Kidsandliz
Tender. Not harder than surrounding tissue. Just a bit yucky in s few spots, instead of drying out, like the rest of the scraped up area.

As a kid I had extensive experience with this sort of thing, as did my siblings and our long-suffering parents

Brainz still infected and dislocated tho. Old injury of long failure to fully heal, that one.

@f00l no wonder your brains leaks so many words lol

@mfladd I blame @ruouttaurmind that @carl669 didn’t post photos.

@mfladd
/8ball what are the chances @carl669 is posting under the influence?
Most likely

@sammydog01 @ruouttaurmind Furgeet piks. Itz nevr pretrty.

@sammydog01

@PlacidPenguin

@f00l

I blame @ruouttaurmind that you’re not looking at the right places online for goat pics & gifs.

@PlacidPenguin I fear imma have to dust off the Mac, fire up Photoshop and start making mashups.

Original work is hard. Harvesting the creativity of others is easy.

(Even when it’s not all that creative)

@ruouttaurmind

@ruouttaurmind
It’s the internet. All you encounter is recycled from something else.
Just make it good.

@f00l
/giphy sloth

@f00l

http://shirt.woot.com/offers/not-today

@f00l I was also still awake when you posted that. Curious how when my ISP has technical difficulties and I’m stuck without access and nothing else to do, insomnia strikes with a vengeance. I fired up the hotspot on my phone and wound up using about 80% of my data allotment in only a few hours. I think Windows was downloading crap in the background again.

@ruouttaurmind
Chromebook

@thismyusername That’s how I try to make it through most days. Just sliiiiiiddddeee right through.

@narfcake

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00B7DPPTA/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all

@PlacidPenguin But then I couldn’t blame the goat …

/image dutch oven goat

@narfcake AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! Cousin Nigel? How could you?!

@Kidsandliz If not for kids, we’d all age more gracefully, innit.

@ruouttaurmind and if no kids we’d have more money and time too - not to mention instead of being stuck at a soccer tournament for 2 days maybe 30 miles south of Glacier National Park I would have actually been able to GO to Glacier National Park (unfortunately they made it to the finals - many parents, me included, had been rooting for them to lose day 1 so we could run up to the park before going home). LOL

@PlacidPenguin
Pix of the stamps and coins?

@f00l

@PlacidPenguin PM a shipping address on that other site. I have at least a dozen micro to SD adapters. I can easily spare one. Maybe a couple. (Leftovers from the drone cameras that were stolen).

@ruouttaurmind

I’m still waiting for a shipping quote for a drawstring bag.

@f00l

Which coins? The foreign ones?

@PlacidPenguin I’ll send the bag, and SD adapters via flat rate Priority Mail in exchange for a $7 donation to a charity of your choice. Yes? Yes!

@PlacidPenguin
The vintage ones. With the foreign ones, I’d have no idea what I would be looking at.

@ruouttaurmind

I first have to wait for the mail to come on the 21st to see if Transcend included one with my “fixed” card.

@PlacidPenguin Fair enough.

Update:

Got the package today.

New card (as well as another SD adapter).

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Found a different SD adapter sitting in compartment of drawer organizer reserved for OTGs, flash drives, and adapters.

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I need a new adapter due to the fact that the SD adapter slot on my laptop gives issues, and I’m out of micro sd to usb adapters.

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Worst of all, my multi-adapter adapter which I’ve had for about 8 years has decided to pretty much stop working.

@ruouttaurmind

So… Last night I discovered why the SD card port wasn’t picking up the card;
No drive letter was associated with it.

After doing that, I was able to set up the card and get my Pi up and running.

@f00l I don’t know if it’s my fault, or my parents, but I’m stupid pretty much every day.

@ruouttaurmind
Communicable, perhaps? Should the CDC quarantine you? If so, they should prob quarantine all of us. I especially need quarantine, and a bunch of robot slaves to go with.

@f00l @ruouttaurmind

http://shirt.woot.com/offers/i-haz-the-dumb

@narfcake Wha… unblames? Whaaaaa?

One of the two of us isn’t exactly clear on how this whole “goat” thing works!

@ruouttaurmind Well then I blame you for that. The positivity originated in @pavlov’s month of goatdom.

Speaking of unblames, while my recent issue is resolved, my last three orders from catshirtswoot each had problems. Wrong print, bad print, and wrong size. Ugh.

@narfcake
Given quality issues, are you thinking of giving up the quest, or backing off from it?

@f00l
/8ball Should I cut back on catshirtswoot?
It is decidedly so

@narfcake

/8ball Will the cake of narf cut back on catshirtwoot?
Outlook not so good

@f00l Y not. The more blame, the merrier!

/giphy psychedelic thread

@f00l

@mfladd
Happy for you.

Self-knowledge is a good thing.

@f00l ummm…nevermind.

@PlacidPenguin Well I can cure your boredom problem. I have a lot of things to do, most of which I don’t want to do. I can pass the buck to you.

@Kidsandliz

What do you need done?

@PlacidPenguin Work crap they won’t pay me to do and gave me the weekend to do (I don’t have another contract until June so I won’t be paid however if I don’t do it I am reasonably sure they will not give me my promised contract for that 6 weeks of work- too bad I checked that email), my taxes, clean up this place (rather hard since it is a bit over 400sf and almost no storage place). Clean (as in wash) the cat dirtbox with no bathtub or big sink, laundry (or if I don’t do it tonight then at least hand wash something to wear in the morning), run to the store because I ate one of the chocolate bunnies I was going to give to the kids tomorrow afternoon, haul crap to the dumpster, write a thank you note… and the list goes on and on like that because I played hooky for the last two days. Oh and my lazy butt didn’t work out today or yesterday so I need to march my lazy ass up and down the hallway (up and back = 0.1 of a mile) for a decent amount of time. That free fitness club membership I get because I live in this dump is nice, but it would be even nicer if I dragged myself there to actually use it so I can get back in shape again (chemo last time nearly killed my bone marrow and it took a bit over 2 years to recover, meanwhile I got seriously out of shape). Oh yeah, need to cut up a week’s worth of pills for my 3 cats with hyperthyroid, do dishes and apply for 5 jobs. That probably isn’t the total list. Meanwhile I am not doing any of it. Instead watching the 10 commandments on TV and playing on the computer.

@PlacidPenguin THIS! I’ve got 67 shows on cue in the DVR, including full seasons of Black Sails, Big Little Lies, Bates Motel, Humans, The Colony and half a season of The Americans and TWD along with a few movies. I had a couple more in there, but I wound up just purging them.

Worse… instead of catching up, I spent the last hour mindlessly flipping through the program guide looking for something that would captivate my interest.

Maybe I’ll fuss with the Pi a bit and see if I can make it do anything interesting.

@Kidsandliz

Didn’t realize the 10 Commandments was on right now. (Though since I went to http://www.tvguide.com/listings/ a couple of times tonight, I probably should have noticed that.)

I watch it yearly, so I’m not watching it this time.

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Any good junk which you don’t need?

@PlacidPenguin if it was any good I’d sell it or put it in the meh exchange… this is crap junk like a hamburger flipper where the handle has a huge, deep burn in it (thank you my kid - every single kitchen utensil I have that is not metal has burn marks or melt marks on it thank you my kid), way too many used, washed and saved, single use pie tins - that kind of crap.

10 commandments is on broadcast TV - my choices are limited. It is near the end I think. The pillar of fire just happened and now the parting of the sea.

@Kidsandliz

Dare I ask the obvious question of why you still have those pie tins?

@PlacidPenguin Because then I wouldn’t have to buy any when I made Christmas kuchen (recipe is the “enough flour until the spoon stands up on its own” kind from my grandmother). Except for the last two years I haven’t made any.

@Kidsandliz

Uh…

Do not click.

Ok, got it.

@PlacidPenguin None of those look right. Yeast double rise sort of bread with either raisins mixed in and a sugar cinnamon sprinkled on melted butter on topping or with stuff I hate and an icing topping.

@PlacidPenguin OK now the 10 commandments are being burned into rock and the gold calf has just been raised. Since you have seen this a million times, turn on the TV and entertain yourself.

@Kidsandliz

Get me a tub of icing and I’d be content. (Despite icing being unhealthy, having baked stuff underneath it doesn’t help it become healthy.)

@PlacidPenguin Heat milk, butter and pour in powdered sugar until the right consistency, then add some vanilla. If you require a tub then pour it in before it has cooled. Problem solved. You are welcome.

@Kidsandliz

My mouth and stomach say yum, my laziness says ugh, and my health is just glaring at you.

@Kidsandliz

I’m assuming you took care of some of this list?

@PlacidPenguin Slow forum day. Actually last couple days. Attributable to the holiday maybe? Duno.

@ruouttaurmind Well hopefully that has saved you from blame.

@ruouttaurmind

The slowest forum day in my opinion is Dec 25th.
Nothing exciting really happens here.

/image blame jesus

@medz

I’d rather blame the goat.

@mfladd congrats on passing the national portion and good luck with the other part.

@Kidsandliz Thanks!

@PlacidPenguin Copyright violation? Seriously? SMH. eBay’s policies and “community policing” scheme leaves much to be desired, doesn’t it.

@ruouttaurmind

Yeah. That’s the first of 2 things which has me giggling like mad right now.

@ruouttaurmind

Emailed the company as well as the eBay VeRO Team.

eBay told me to speak to the company who had one of their people file a complaint.

(I take it I can’t earn that $10 gift card now.)

@thismyusername I wonder where that little guy thought he was jumping to. Cute!

@PlacidPenguin

Life sux. Life w chocolate sux less.

Get a proxy human to speak on the phone if needed.

@f00l

That’s the hard part.

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Edit - Because I would want someone who knows what they’re doing, but at the same time knows where to have the order sent.

Finding people who meet one of those criteria is easy. Meeting both though is another story.

@PlacidPenguin

/giphy choice

@PlacidPenguin

You could stand by the proxy caller, listening in on a speakerphone, and offering written instructions.

Calling means you have to give payment info over the phone. Just so you know.

PS

Calling them puts the calling party into danger of being called “Hon” and being niced into submission.

@jbartus
Sorry to hear. Sounds like genuine fresh pure suckage.

@jbartus

@OldCatLady Sorry about the prep shit.

Fuck me - I just accepted blame! Fuck you OCL!

@mfladd

I’m very impressed that you, @mfladd, have bravely chosen to “step into it” and accept Perpetual Blame for all Colonoscopies.

Such a - uh - “burden” you have shouldered!

A grateful League Of All Goats Past, Present, And Future commends you!

We must fashion a Colonoscopy Medal for you forthwith.

Hail @Mfladd The Great, Master Of Colonoscopies!

(Possibly in the case you would want to go the “shit” instead of “fuck” as the swear word du jour for this special occasion? It’s up to your - uh - taste in this matter!)

@f00l Just adding to the “fuck” count to help out @carl669.

@mfladd

Hail @Mfladd The Great, Fuck Count Booster And Master Of Colonoscopies!

@f00l @mfladd @carl669

@mfladd

I’ll give you ᵃ ᵖᶦᶜᵗᵘʳᵉ ᵒᶠ 32 cents and a way to annoy @f00l in exchange for a picture of the Ollie when it gets to you.

@PlacidPenguin Deal!

@mfladd

Sure beats this. (Or does it???)

@PlacidPenguin
You are not allowed to do certain things.

Stay within bounds, please.

@f00l

It’s all fair game.

@f00l

Either you are telling me not to engage in blood rituals with @mfladd, or you are hinting to me that I shouldn’t do certain things.

Either way, what I have in mind is not what you’re thinking of.

The line.

@PlacidPenguin

Are you going to help me to torment @mfladd? Because he really needs more torment.

After all, this is part of his therapy, and I’m performing a significant public service.

I hope the Meh Community appreciates my many personal sacrifices and my dedication to this just and noble cause.

@f00l

I don’t torment people without just cause.

Besides, one of the reasons I’m helping @mfladd is because I’m getting something in return.

@PlacidPenguin
Torment is @mfladd’s treatment. So it’s my preference.

But I will settle for your assistance is gaining knowledge of new ways to annoy him, in case I ever start to run low on those.

Of course there is an “understanding of exchanged value” assigned to this arrangement.

@f00l “exchange value” hmmm is that a request to be paired with a certain someone (@PlacidPenguin) for the meh exchange?

@Kidsandliz

I now have 3 boxes of junk fun stuff nah, they’re junk, to ship out.

I have a pile of boxes in a closet, so getting rid of junk isn’t a problem.

@Kidsandliz

There’s only one fair solution.

Nobody “gets” me, but in return, you move all of the junk you don’t want/need to a temporary location, and I get to take whatever I want.

@mfladd

I’ll throw in my feeding the f00l false info free of charge. Of course, it would have to be mixed with real info just to f00l her.

@PlacidPenguin said:

I’ll give you ᵃ ᵖᶦᶜᵗᵘʳᵉ ᵒᶠ 32 cents and a way to annoy @f00l …

It’s more than possible that a way in which normal persons might annoy @f00l are geo-fenced and ego-fenced, and so won’t work when @mfladd attempts to use them.

/giphy geofencing