In spite of @f00l’s poor example starting out, please don’t post too many vid links. We’ll have to kill the thread much sooner if it has s lot of vid links, so save the vids for only perfect moments when:
Nothing Proves We’re Stupid Like An Embedded Video.
Well, I’m awake at night & I have a 100.7 fever & I can’t breathe & my head hurts looking at the laptop screen & this is the last damn post on this thread.
The person who posts after me has completely lost their marbles, secretly roots for a sports team who never wins, and is resigned to living to old age with only their cats.
By posting after this you agree to donate at least $10 to a legitimate charitable cause, proof a payment must be included within your posting or your posting shall be void.
If you do not agree with these terms please do not post.
@f00l and neither did you on this thread. My record of 18 days consecutive days of winning with my post on the 10th of January with no other post by anyone until the 28th will be hard to beat on an active thread.
@f00l fortunately my name is not Nanette. And you were going to send me chocolate and haven’t even sent an email to get the address of where to send it!
@f00l Hey I was only giving you a hard time on that thread. If you were actually kidding when you said you’d send some that is OK. : ) Hope your headache is better. To avoid southern allergies I hear you won’t have to worry about that in the NE right now… might want to consider moving there for a cure.
I was supposed to come back here and post last Saturday, since I said I’d be back in a year. Set a calendar reminder and everything. But then I was busy, so I didn’t.
I’m guessing this won’t be the last post here for more than two minutes.
I’ve never opened this thread before and I hope to never open it again but I just wanted to go back and bring attention to this gem for a quick second
Anyway thanks y’all goodbye and namaste to this weird thread
@ypwulby Wait, do replies count as posts? What are the rules here??? What if I post on my own post??? Do I win twice or does it cancel out??? What if I post in a reply and a new post??? I can’t handle it!!!
Wait, do replies count as posts? What are the rules here??? What if I post on my own post??? Do I win twice or does it cancel out??? What if I post in a reply and a new post??? I can’t handle it!!!
@PlacidPenguin Do not need a video of a faucet dripping… Have that in my bathroom only it is the shower and to fix it they have to turn off the water for the entire building and said it likely won’t happen until next summer. So have a walmart bag hanging from it with a wash cloth in it (that I have to change out every 12 hours because it gets soaked and would prefer not to have mold) to stop the water torture of hearing the dripping all night.
@f00l Nope didn’t forget. I didn’t need to post as I was last for 18 days. A record. You already won once anyway when the thread was locked so you are disqualified.
@f00l Nope you are banned as you were winning when the last thread was blocked. You can only win once. If you can win twice then you can be goat twice.
{edit of edit - finally done with the fucking grading. Was supposed to be done Friday but they totally screwed up the shell - gradebook actually is still messed up but at least I can use it as long as I don’t forget I can only enter grades using one entry way and not the, to me, more convenient way to do it. Tomorrow I get to start again with last week’s work that was due at midnight]
@Kidsandliz
I think what you are saying is that the university grade recording netwoked SW is fucked up?
They work you to death, they don’t pay you, and then they work you even harder because they won’t maintain their network and servers.
Perhaps adjunct professors should unionize. Would it do any good? At least you might get some PR out of it. And if you got PR, it might mess with institutional reputations and US News ratings and all that over time.
And universities do care about reputations. They don’t like being seen as being total slave driving assholes.
Remember when years back - was it Yale? Where the groundskeepers and cafeteria workers started organizing and getting PR about how bad it was. And Yale’s students turned sour on the place and boycotted/demonstrated, and Yale got horrible headlines for a long time, and had to cave? Or something, memory is hazy.
I know most universities are podunk in terms of visibility compared to Yale. But still, they’d care a little. They’d be embarrassed a little. It might matter if you all could get a national debate going on the class system in academia. Why your prob equally competent work is worth perhaps 1/30th the value of someone else’s work that is no better.
I don’t wanna see academic hiring turned into a free for all - that xfers power to the institutions, away from labor. But I would love to see the current masters/servants paradigm dragged thru the mud.
@f00l No the actual shell was fucked up. Whomever set it up didn’t know what they were doing. Problem for me was I had never set up a shell from scratch, am not all that familiar with this LMS so I didn’t know how to fix it - and tech support helped fuck it up even more as they weren’t all that familiar with this aspect of things as they were hired mostly to help students who can’t find X or can’t figure out how to use X feature and end up googling answers at times.
You can only unionize when it is not, essentially, a seller’s market. Zillions of adjuncts, most willing to work under any conditions. And schools in the bottom tiers of schools generally care more about other issues than the kind of reputation that schools in the top tier have and care about. The currency for why students go to each is different.
@Kidsandliz
In that case, is there any reasonably way to recover a “real” academic career?
If not, then why not start up a biz consulting thing.
Or cover your resume gaps with a “half-true” explanation and try to get a good MBA job w decent pay and great bennies? Like in some sophisticated area of banking, investing, insurance, or whatever is your particular area of expertise?
Since it appears to be just me and you her, we can just talk about whatever we want.
Ok I sorta admit that perhaps I ought not to win since I won last time, for reasons having nothing to do with me or my virtues.
Except that I can’t concede that.
You see, if I concede, that makes my posts less annoying and irritating to the cosmos. And we can’t have that.
So i formally unconcede any previous concessions. Or anything that might have appeared possibly be a concession.
@f00l Starting a consulting business is too hard. I struggle with fatigue as part of the cancer issues. Age discrimination makes getting a full time “regular” academic job harder. As far as getting an MBA job… well again that depends on the company’s approach to hiring the overqualified who are “older”. Not so many willing to do that, legalities aside.
@Kidsandliz
Re those MBA jobs. Not easy to get without the “right” resume, I agree.
I was thinking you could craft the resume if you took some time - a year, say, to do it.
Re resume crafting: that’s the real point of independent consulting. I do not know how you’d get this off the ground. I have no expertise or industry knowledge. But you do.
So: pick an area that’s your target. Get in the door somehow. Do you have any connections where you might be able to publish magazine articles? Not academic pubs. Soft articles that cover something of interest in the industries you know about. Trade pubs and biz journal of the type you find in corporate break areas. You can use the “working on an article” angle to get interviews and connections. And those, plus the connections that come from actually writing an article, are the point of the whole thing.
Plus perhaps some low key consulting if you can get it. Nothing huge, unless you gave the energy for it. - in the beginning, for almost no $ or no $ at all.
Two points here: 1st, you are making contacts. Southerners are friendly and if they think you like private enterprise they’ll like you. Just meet people. Network - v low key unless something stellar drops in your lap - and then network some more. Figure out what you could write or you could offer to a biz that wouldn’t take everything out of you.
Then do it. I guess you are able to keep afloat for a while, sort of? So the immediate $ you bring in matters less that the new contacts who I presume will like you a lot.
You have a PhD and an MBA right? They ought to be impressed. Let them think you are a republican but never say so, and never say anything very specific re politics. Just carry the right vibe.
Instead, just make soft “pro-free-enterprise” and “pro-good-biz-environment” remarks that have a “sounds in sync with the biz community” vibe without ever actually being specific. Just say general things that make them think you might well be conservative, but don’t actually commit you or contradict your values.
Pick an industry that’s your target. Banking is good because they also do wills investments insurance trusts and whatall.
Or an investment house. Or insurance co. Or whatever. That’s the long term goal.
Then do enuf soft research or soft writing and soft networking and soft consulting that you’re getting known by some people. By then you should have a vibe for what and where the jobs are.
The idea is to build up the writing-magazine-networking-consulting-research capital (emphasis on networking) into near local biz knowledge of opportunities and people and attitudes.
Then start targeting specific positions and companies. By then you stand out because of competence and education and drive, but they think you’re one of them.
Someone could actually take this nationwide. I suppose.
Fam member got an MBA at UTA. Undergrad at UT, don’t know what major except not science.
Then he (pure charm) talked his way into a tech startup. The product was never great but it got him tons of connections. He sought connections. It was kinda obvious the startup wasn’t gonna be there long term after a while. But he did everything he could for about 3-4 years? Then when it was going down he managed to parlay all his connections into a jump to the insurance dept of a large Texas based bank. Where he’s happy and I presume well paid.
I know all this takes energy. And I assumed you had fatigue due to illness, but are not currently crippled by it.
I also assume you may have fatigue just because if the mental stress oh having a shit job and a difficult stressed out life, what w the kid and her kids, money, treatments, trying to stay cheerful, all that shit. Must take its toll.
Anyway the point is to just do what you can to open up the opportunities. Suppose you tried writing about local startups (soft mag article) and used that to meet a bunch of startup types? Those people would possibly be more open and willing to experiment than some place that’s established. Meet some, meet more, consult or mag articles or research or survey or whatever. And eventually you will start seeing possibilities to aim at. Does that make sense?
I kinda assume that you have huge stress because of that horrible job. And you try not to drag yourself down or drag others down. But it’s gotta be tough doing that grading for nothing.
If I were in that state, I would have the edges of depression hovering around. Trying to keep it at bay. Cause the basic facts, taken without the personality and personal gifts, are just such fucking downers. How you manage your positive mood I dunno but it must cost you some discipline sometimes.
So if you need a therapist or ssris or whatever, I hope you have them. Makes it a little easier. If you don’t need/want them, great.
It just seems like the more people connections and opportunity, the better the natural mood. The better and more positive the mood, the more people connections and opportunities. Feedback cycle. You know all that better than I.
If I am telling you things you know 10k times better than me already (which is likely), apologies. I just hate seeing you stuck and I also know how hard it is under stress to get your mind into the right frame. And getting the mind into the right frame and mood and then using that - deploying mood as a survival weapon - to gain contacts which might become alliances in time.
I dunno. Perhaps it’s all crazy. I think I’d try some crazy but not-too-crazy “might work” things in your shoes.
Another thing. You are in the south.
I don’t have formal structured religious beliefs. Perhaps you don’t either. Well, in the south, the great biz networking tools other than work connections are families friends college and church.
If you could find a church you kinda liked and could stand going to (didn’t say anything about believing) and just think if it as a spiritual quest - you might be astonished at the connections you made. You’d have to pick the church carefully. Middle class to upper class. Connected members. Belief systems open enough that no one asks you questions and you can stand to attend. Not places for old $ families - they will have too much social reserve. Rather something more modern and young.
Professionals and biz people as members. When you talk a to them don’t go into illness unless carefully and you are sure. Just stay bright and positive. Let them know your interests but don’t press. Self-confidence. Careful not to sound “better than”. Rather “one of”. If you handle this just right those people will do the work of networking you around the church for you. And those people can be extraordinary.
And since you will genuinely like them and they you, it’s real.
I dunno. There ought to be some other possibilities.
I dunno what you have the energy and reserves to tackle. I know it must be really tough. Just trying to cheer you on.
I do admire how you don’t, at least here, appear to fall prey to depression or whatever. You’re always up for things. Take that attitude into the biz world and it ought to be a winner even if you get there slowly.
@f00l I don’t have expertise in finance, accounting, etc. (the high demand areas), my area is management. I also don’t have the kind of work (non-academic) experience that adds credibility. I switched fields from outdoor stuff to business, and while I started and run (do not get paid though) an NGO, that is not a high demand skill. I do not have the energy, money, etc. to do what would need to be done to start up a consulting company and then drum up business.
How about a few soft articles to make connections? Try to meet startup people and biz people. Then meet more of them.
Make connections when you interview people for an article? Then make more when you publish it. Try the see if you can get invited to a few meetings or groups? See if anyone wants you to give a talk? Local is fine. Just see if any opportunities start to appear?
Also: talk openly if problems in the biz horizen you are aware of. Of industry SPR labor probs. Bit in spite of that - even if the sky is literally falling - be resilient, positive, upbeat. Local groups and biz people like upbeat.
Talk about probs all you want but always with a “we can overcome” attitude. Pretend to be a bit one of them. Discuss law and regulation if you need to but never should w your political colors.
Are there any decent Gulf Coast or MS mags you could write for?
The writing won’t pay much. The points of the writing are visibility and networking.
Don’t be rigid. Allow opportunities to flow. What matters is not “is my resume right” or whatever. What matters is attitude. “I can make this work”. Then do it.
Give away some freebie insights, always. Give away inspiration and make them think there’s lots more where that came from. Don’t be “academic” just use that for cred and visibility. Unless someone means hires you specifically for that. Appear to be hung-ho on biz even if you’re not.
They will like that, esp combined with the degrees. Someone may just offer you something. And all you have to do is be super friendly, positive interested, intelligent, talk to people, perhaps a tiny bit of journalism.
Much/most of your work will be straight informal conversation.
Try to join the kind of groups where you can meet and talk to owners or ceos. Esp older ones who will be intrigued. And then give them a huge smile and be interested and brilliant and charm their brains out. Make yourself seem as normal as possible, kinda “adventurous-normal”. Make them think they could have had a younger family member just like you. I swear someone will offer you something.
That shouldn’t take totally enormous energy. And every single piece of it is legit. And way easier than serious academic work or consulting or grading papers for $.02/hour.
I.E. be an entrepreneur. Be the entrepreneur of your own industry: yourself. Self-marketing, covert style. But don’t say that. Make them think their businesses are the most fascinating businesses ever created.
You are not seducing them here. You are seducing their minds with the possibilities you can help them and their managers envision.
I think you have - or are close to having and can easily polish - an excellent personality for making this project work.
@AiliaBlue Anyone can join. There was a previous thread and thumpechick closed it because it was getting long that f00l “won” that one as she was the last one who posted before it shut. We did go 18 days here with no posts and then 10, so it has started up again.
@InnocuousFarmer no you will have thumperchick shut the thread down and ask the current person in the winner position to start a new thread… this is the otherwise endless thread. No actual mailed to you prize for winning this thread. Just honor and glory? And meh has sucked you in to posting every day/multiple times a day in a fruitless attempt to win? AKA just like click face bait.
I never win anything so I know I won’t be last -btw -is this thread the Groundhog day ( like the movie) of all threads and keeps going on and on and on?
@LordSalem@F00L is the one that broke the camel’s back on the previous thread. Likely that counts as winning breaking the internet, if not breaking meh’s servers.
@hems79 And what club would that be? Not the goat club as I am about ready to rotate out of that…not to mention I don’t think you have been goat. Maybe you should be nominated in November since @riotdemon is slated to be railroaded in for October. The I could welcome you to that club. (grin)
@daveinwarsh Of course when @thumperchick shuts this one down, her timing of that will determine who temporarily wins until a new thread is opened. You may or may not be in the 49% space at that point in time.
@daveinwarsh crashed twice when I have clicked on say it with just an image. We might be close to having this one shut down… Of course it also might be happening because it is 11:04pm and too many people on the servers…
You do realize I hold the record for being last for the longest amount of time (around 5 months maybe) until someone resurrected this thread so that even if @thumperchick locks it after someone else I still have that record hehehe
/giphy I still win that LOL
@oldcatlady (nsfw) since this is on facebook and the link becomes invisible when I post it here you need to add the https stuff then facebook dot com and then /gaygdloficial/videos/1803606482992035/ to get at this. Was posted on a forum I was on and thought you’d enjoy it.
@OldCatLady Thought you’d like it but I didn’t want to start a thread that likely would get out of hand…so that is why I posted it here. Kill 2 birds with one, um, well you know (smirk).
@f00l Better than what? An open, full dumpster aging in the heat? Yesterday’s leftovers barfed up by the dog? Jello thrown at the wall, still stuck there 6 months later and as hard as a rock? Better than those, probably yes…
/8ball is @f00l’s post worse than…? Yes
You need to be specific here… and no it is not better than what the grinch was going to give to you.
@f00l I am reading that thread since I was nominated and still have zero votes (yea) and still am missing the joke for the nomination to begin with… Seems to me, all joking aside, that if someone is that dead set against being a goat a certain month we need to honor that and pick someone who will have fun with it…
@f00l Mom moves slowly in the morning. Chores left need her input - you know - micromanager sits in chair and directs slave to do work to her specifications.
So go wait with an attitude and posture of expectant readiness like a good slave. Don’t use your laptop, phone, or tablet while you wait. Be a good slave.
@f00l or sledding or ice skating or dog sledding or having a snowball fight or building a snow fort or snow man, or doing bumper skiing behind a car, or making a snow angel, or making snow ice cream, or eating an icicle or being a demented male and drawing a picture in the snow with pee or giving someone a snow face wash (my daughter did that to herself the first time she saw snow and said in outrage, “Mom you no tell me snow cold!!” - umm dear you have been eating it and should have figured that out) or have a cat and gently throw a snowball over their head and they jump to bat it and land flat on their back in the snow or the snowball falls apart (america’s funniest home videos)… just sayin’
So apparently, I have never loaded this thread before, because none of it was condensed. Chrome did not like this. My page-capture app also said the page was too large to grab. /shrug
@UncleVinny don’t blame me. Each time I chose edit the same photo came up. Didn’t used to be like that. I had something else in mind but was too lazy to look…
@UncleVinny image didn’t used to have only one option… And as I discovered, more than once, if the phrase is too long you break meh and get the something went terribly wrong video
@daveinwarsh You mean like telling your kid that she might try looking for a job; I hear a rumor that jobs give you money? (said this mother multiple times to her young adult kid who would like to be supported in the manner in which she would like to become accustom).
@Kidsandliz LOL… I dunno… Giphy chose the GIF for me. I got rid of 2 and kept this one because I gave up.
Our kids had to do chores, and later then they were teenagers, had to work around the property for any money (except Birthdays).
Laughing at jokes produced no money for them…
@UncleVinny Not my contest. I just closed the last thread and told them to start a new one. Now they’re ~tormenting me for it~ um… posting here. (Which everyone seems to enjoy.)
Though we are starting to see the slow load here, too.
Title: Quantum state-resolved molecular scattering of NO (2Π1/2) at the gas-[Cnmim][Tf2N] room temperature ionic liquid interface: Dependence on alkyl chain length, collision energy, and temperature
@shawn well it wasn’t working for me as you could tell in the message I posted (and in another post in another thread yesterday too).
/image testing temporarily broken
Edit: guess it works now so must have been a temporary glitch It is @therealjrn’s fault then.
Bad bad goaT.
@UncleVinny Surprisingly I had 49. Do you know the max number possible? I haven’t counted it up. I know for SURE it is a bunch over 49 simple because I didn’t stay up all night and taught 2 classes yesterday, there was a fuko while I was driving to work…
@UncleVinny Umm well there were times I wondered what the heck I was thinking that I had adopted an almost 10 year old. And as a teen said child would put the dirty pots and pans back in the cupboard dirty if I didn’t keep an eye on what she was doing.
@Kidsandliz based on my admittedly spotty activity in this thread over the past two months, I gotta say that you hafta be the front runner for “most active”, and thus most deserving of the Nothing Prize that we’re all haphazardly bickering over.
Now that is seriously weird how that turned out. Discovered first that extra spaces at the beginning of the line vanish. So went to fill them. Opps. Wonder how I got THAT ^
cool the thread is crashing when I am trying to post an image. Twice now!
Edit - and I just tried again and it crashed again. @thumperchick does that mean I win?
@Thumperchick OK well it just loaded this “test” image for me this time. I was trying to reply to someone else when it failed (something went terribly wrong video) 3 times in a row. We must be getting close…Did you close the other one due to flames coming out of the server with the thread, or just because it was really, really L.O.N.G…?
@Thumperchick Ahh ok. Looking below this post, the one Eluno posted certainly helped send this thread in this direction. Wonder why he was successful and I go the something went terribly wrong video… guess it doesn’t matter : )
@ELUNO You are helping it along though… You do realize if you win then you are supposed to start the new thread to carry on with this just as @f00l did
@ELUNO
/giphy keep thread open
remember I was the one who was the winner for, what, about 5 months until someone posted again.
OMG that first try (using just the word open) was NSFW!!! And neither was the second! Nor another one… guess I gotta change it.
@ELUNO I am not naughtly (grin). Someone posted that on a forum I am on. I only did @oldcatlady a favor and reposted it here due to her, ummm, art and music related “interests”.
@Kidsandliz And I do appreciate your thoughtfulness. I’ve been too busy since the hurricane hit to do much in the way of research. That was just like a trip to exotic places.
here
@LastOne
/giphy slow clap
/youtube slow clap
Ok I’ll try since it’s my officially it’s I am old birthday today —last one to post HERE–so Here do you Hear me now??
@AttyVette Happy Birthday!
@AttyVette
You don’t win this prize on your birthday this year. Perhaps next year?
Happy birthday!
@AttyVette So you are 30 today?? Congratulations!
I have just received $37 This Month working online. I am making a really meh home based income with just my Refurbished Toshiba ChromeBook and only work for 13 to 15 hours a day.
Everybody can Make this part Time income from home.
That’s how I Started -> KniveSandsPeaKerDocks.Com
1st post
Always intended to do a “1st post” lame post at least once. Now I have.
/giphy last post
/giphy EFF YES!
@ypwulby but i don’t have cats and the cubs finally won.
i’ll give you the losing my marbles part.
@heartny lol
In spite of @f00l’s poor example starting out, please don’t post too many vid links. We’ll have to kill the thread much sooner if it has s lot of vid links, so save the vids for only perfect moments when:
Nothing Proves We’re Stupid Like An Embedded Video.
@f00l What about /giphys?
@compunaut
Go for the giphys.
/giphy I’m an idiot.
@f00l
/youtube Nothing Proves We’re Stupid Like An Embedded Video.
@PlacidPenguin
Warning to all: this is a two hour video.
Hey Neil!
/giphy "planet Pluto"
So posting video links kills a thread, eh? Hmmm…
Last post.
Not first and not last either I am sure except for this very second.
So just to recap, we have to post as many videos as possible.
Got it.
/youtube aye aye captain
/giphy aye aye captain
@Panegyric Hurray a turtle!
/giphy fuck all y’all
I don’t think so, @Kidsandliz
/giphy Taking back what’s rightfully mine.
@hems79 Hey I lasted over 5 months here before anyone posted again.
/giphy This is the thread that never ends.
/giphy winner winner chicken dinner
Every time this thread bumps to the top, I see my name and panic for a moment, thinking I asked for something and forgot to follow up on it.
@Thumperchick Hey you just won! …oops…wait…
@therealjrn She tried.
@sligett chortle
@Thumperchick Lol @Thumperchick - I can see why that could happen as that’s how I would feel too!
Well, I’m awake at night & I have a 100.7 fever & I can’t breathe & my head hurts looking at the laptop screen & this is the last damn post on this thread.
@daveinwarsh Hope you feel better
@daveinwarsh Really?
@Stumpy91 Yeah. I’m not any better. Still around 100 fever. This sucks.
@daveinwarsh Hope you’re feeling better. Fevers suck but they happen for a reason.
@Stumpy91 I know. It’s day 4 & it’s still 102 this morning. I’m gonna see a dr.
@daveinwarsh Hope you are starting to get well.
@Kidsandliz Yeah, better. At least my fever broke. Thanks.
@daveinwarsh You are not going to win this thread this way (evil grin). Glad you are finally starting to feel better.
@daveinwarsh
/image nah nah nah
@Kidsandliz
/giphy No Way
@daveinwarsh
/image sigh
@Kidsandliz
/image shhhh
@daveinwarsh
@Kidsandliz
/image be vewy quiet
@daveinwarsh
/image I thought I saw a puddy cat I did I did I did
@Kidsandliz
/image silencio Mulholland Drive
@UncleVinny
/giphy very loud crashing
/giphy Lock up this thread
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@f00l !
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@f00l lame
@DrunkCat
Oh dear. Lame.
Funny thing. I coulda sworn that was - in a certain light - a serious form of currency.
@f00l
@arielleslie @f00l
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wait. can i just post pictures of my balls?
@Pantheist
No please.
/youtube Don’t Bogart That Joint
@Pantheist
@f00l I am guessing they win honor, glory if very lucky an oh shit thread dedicated just to them. I think you also won way more posts in your inbox.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy Lucky Idiot
What’d I win?
@LastOneToPostHe apparently a new screen name.
@Thumperchick apparantly you would be correct
@Cranky1950 sneaky sneaky
@Cranky1950 You’re cranky.
It goes without saying
@Cranky1950
/giphy "You said it!"
Well that was fun
@Cranky1950 You’re cranky.
i just want to know how long this thread will run…
@kykazaa Until all the browsers crash.
@sligett
I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
Ogden Nash
@f00l Vermont was the first state to ban billboards.
@sligett
Then Vermont knows a thing or two.
ummm…
/giphy nervous
The person who posts after me has completely lost their marbles, secretly roots for a sports team who never wins, and is resigned to living to old age with only their cats.
@ypwulby
Hi there. Nice day, huh?
Ok, I give up. No more trying to win. (they’ll never see through that clever strategy)
/image happy new year
/giphy tic toc
What did you win?
By posting after this you agree to donate at least $10 to a legitimate charitable cause, proof a payment must be included within your posting or your posting shall be void.
If you do not agree with these terms please do not post.
@MrMark
/giphy TL;DR
@Kidsandliz
@f00l
@hems79
@Kidsandliz
@hems79
/giphy losers
@f00l May I recommend running, hiding, and turning off your internet?
@Kidsandliz
You may recommend anything you like.
Great idea! Let’s do it!
/giphy loser
@daveinwarsh
/giphy lame
/giphy Did I Win?
@Stumpy91
/image No!
@f00l and neither did you on this thread. My record of 18 days consecutive days of winning with my post on the 10th of January with no other post by anyone until the 28th will be hard to beat on an active thread.
@Kidsandliz
/image No!
@f00l that is a repeat. Disqualified.
@Kidsandliz
/image no
@f00l Boring…
/image no no no
@Kidsandliz
/image “no no Nanette”
@f00l fortunately my name is not Nanette. And you were going to send me chocolate and haven’t even sent an email to get the address of where to send it!
@Kidsandliz
Was lazy last night. Had allergy headache. Excuses excuses. You know the drill.
You’ll get your “ask for addr” email sometime today.
@f00l Hey I was only giving you a hard time on that thread. If you were actually kidding when you said you’d send some that is OK. : ) Hope your headache is better. To avoid southern allergies I hear you won’t have to worry about that in the NE right now… might want to consider moving there for a cure.
Posting ‘here’.
@OldCatLady
/giphy Nope.
I was supposed to come back here and post last Saturday, since I said I’d be back in a year. Set a calendar reminder and everything. But then I was busy, so I didn’t.
I’m guessing this won’t be the last post here for more than two minutes.
@djslack 12 minutes…
/giphy zoidberg
/image are we happy?
@daveinwarsh that you were the last poster?
/image no
/giphy are we there yet?
@sligett
/giphy How much further?
@daveinwarsh Maybe a Youtube video will kill the thread??
mairzy doats
@daveinwarsh
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (On The Bedpost Over Night)
@daveinwarsh Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh
@daveinwarsh BEEP BEEP
@daveinwarsh My Boomerang Won’t Come Back
/giphy will
/giphy this
/giphy post
/giphy help
/giphy the
/giphy fool’s
/giphy phone
/giphy lock
/giphy up?
@ELUNO
That’s the idea.
Not quite yet. But getting there.
/giphy almost
/giphy HOORAY!
@ELUNO Impressive balloons there…
@daveinwarsh I am reasonably certain that this one is over the edge. Definitely NSFW Good thing the moderators aren’t, apparently, on this thread.
I’ve never opened this thread before and I hope to never open it again but I just wanted to go back and bring attention to this gem for a quick second
Anyway thanks y’all goodbye and namaste to this weird thread
@Moose lol, I loved it and have been sending it around.
Winner winner, chicken dinner.
/youtube Get This Party Started
/giphy I’m stupid
/giphy "not the last post"
@f00l Nope.
/giphy miss me yet
So much for reverse psychology. But hey, I’m winning again!
@ypwulby
Short-lived.
uh, I lost.
@ypwulby Wait, do replies count as posts? What are the rules here??? What if I post on my own post??? Do I win twice or does it cancel out??? What if I post in a reply and a new post??? I can’t handle it!!!
@kykazaa
Everything counts.
Wait, do replies count as posts? What are the rules here??? What if I post on my own post??? Do I win twice or does it cancel out??? What if I post in a reply and a new post??? I can’t handle it!!!
@kykazaa PS I hate to lose
#Winning!
@sohmageek
Sure you are.
@f00l not so much now.
/youtube longest YouTube video
@PlacidPenguin
Watching …
@f00l
/youtube Dullest YouTube video
@PlacidPenguin
Wow the camerawork!
Still watching the 1st one.
@PlacidPenguin
Ok I could not watch the ending of the 1st one. Hope they’re not planning a sequel.
Warning to anyone considering fast forwarding thru the first ones. At the end this guy eats live worms. So spare yourself.
What do you want to bet that the winner gets to be the goat for next month??? Did I win???
@kykazaa @f00l
Someone is seriously missing the point
@compunaut @f00l It was reverse pyschology…or then again…was it???
@kykazaa
You are making a case for yourself as a future Goat. This is to be commended.
@f00l
/giphy Am guessing that the Winner Wins nothing
@f00l
/youtube second longest YouTube video
/youtube second dullest YouTube video
/youtube long video of ice melting
/youtube long video of faucet dripping
@PlacidPenguin
/giphy nothing
@f00l
To be honest, I’m not even watching any of the videos which I get.
Although the leaky faucet video sounds exciting.
/giphy As excited as a snail
/youtube As excited as a snail
@PlacidPenguin Do not need a video of a faucet dripping… Have that in my bathroom only it is the shower and to fix it they have to turn off the water for the entire building and said it likely won’t happen until next summer. So have a walmart bag hanging from it with a wash cloth in it (that I have to change out every 12 hours because it gets soaked and would prefer not to have mold) to stop the water torture of hearing the dripping all night.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy dripping icicle
Wins what?
@securitysix
Nothing.
Whoever posts in this thread is a
/giphy Loser
@f00l Guess you are a loser then… LOL
Do I win?
/giphy sad trombone
@Stumpy91
Perhaps someone might win later
Don’t be so sure.
/close thread
I have just received $3.07 This Month working online. I am making a really meh home-based income with just my Refurbished Toshiba ChromeBook and only work for 13 to 15 hours a day.
Everybody can Make this part Time income from home.
That’s how I Started -> KniveSandsPeaKerDocks.Com
@sligett Nah. It may put me in a higher tax bracket.
/giphy FAIL
/giphy hungry penguin
What is this and why am i just now finding it? Don’t answer that.
@jaybird
There are 2 things which ‘that’ could be referring to.
@jaybird
Could be considered an existential question.
@f00l Realistically we’re talking meh here and there is not a carafe of wine or a fondue in sight.
@cranky1950
For which @f00l is to blame.
@PlacidPenguin
Lack of cheese fondue
And wine are @f00l’s fault. Very
Existential.
@f00l Still first things first. No one has any right to get all philosophical and shit without wine and fondue. It’s just wrong.
/giphy National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
@f00l You are going to be early
Well, technically speaking, a steaming pile of
isn’t nothing…
@haydesigner technically anyway…
Delivering the later morning post… delayed by snow.
Am I too late to post?
Are we having fun yet?
@daveinwarsh no
@smigit2002 Liberate your inner child and play : )
NYE post
/giphy NYE
Ha ha.
Me me me me me.
@f00l me?
@daveinwarsh
Not you. Me. ME!!!
Well…
@Stumpy91 Well what?
@Kidsandliz You know…
I’m waiting
@jml326
I’m not.
Feel free to lock this thread, because I just won.
/giphy too bad so sad.
It’s that the last that can be made at this exact picosecond.
Last! I win suckers!
/image goats-r-us
la la la la la la I can’t see you being last…
/giphy You are all losers!
@hems79 - yes and we are going to “lose” you with all the posts that will follow you LOL
Ha ha you forgot this thread didn’t you?
WINNING!
/giphy "Charlie Sheen"
@f00l Nope didn’t forget. I didn’t need to post as I was last for 18 days. A record. You already won once anyway when the thread was locked so you are disqualified.
@Kidsandliz
Ha ha
WINNING!
/giphy "Charlie Sheen"
@f00l Nope you are banned as you were winning when the last thread was blocked. You can only win once. If you can win twice then you can be goat twice.
@Kidsandliz
I didn’t hear that rule from @Thumperchick The Great.
Sounds unofficial.
@f00l What? You are saying that is an alternative fact?
@Kidsandliz
Alternative fact
@f00l even rules from me are unofficial.
@Thumperchick
Unofficial Winning
/giphy Charlie Sheen
@f00l now that is disgusting
@Kidsandliz
Have to kinda agree there.
May have to lay off Charlie for a bit.
@f00l I am still grading. Grade some for me. Also did you notice the goat changed names to adios?
@Kidsandliz
Yes. Dunno if it’s a final decision yet.
Hope not.
Took something to apologize to @OldCatLady like that, whether it fixes things between them or not.
Sent him a note on the movie League early bird contest stating that I hope he sticks around.
Can’t read his head tho. Just hope he changes his damn mind, if he currently intends to leave.
Btw you weren’t annoyed when I accused you of having zero altruism, right? You know that’s the opposite of my impression of you right?
That’s why i recounted all those completely “selfish” actions of yours.
Your situation makes me despise institutionalized academia. In some ways it’s almost as bad as Bernie Madoff.
@f00l I knew you were kidding.
[edit - LAST!]
{edit of edit - finally done with the fucking grading. Was supposed to be done Friday but they totally screwed up the shell - gradebook actually is still messed up but at least I can use it as long as I don’t forget I can only enter grades using one entry way and not the, to me, more convenient way to do it. Tomorrow I get to start again with last week’s work that was due at midnight]
@Kidsandliz
I think what you are saying is that the university grade recording netwoked SW is fucked up?
They work you to death, they don’t pay you, and then they work you even harder because they won’t maintain their network and servers.
Perhaps adjunct professors should unionize. Would it do any good? At least you might get some PR out of it. And if you got PR, it might mess with institutional reputations and US News ratings and all that over time.
And universities do care about reputations. They don’t like being seen as being total slave driving assholes.
Remember when years back - was it Yale? Where the groundskeepers and cafeteria workers started organizing and getting PR about how bad it was. And Yale’s students turned sour on the place and boycotted/demonstrated, and Yale got horrible headlines for a long time, and had to cave? Or something, memory is hazy.
I know most universities are podunk in terms of visibility compared to Yale. But still, they’d care a little. They’d be embarrassed a little. It might matter if you all could get a national debate going on the class system in academia. Why your prob equally competent work is worth perhaps 1/30th the value of someone else’s work that is no better.
I don’t wanna see academic hiring turned into a free for all - that xfers power to the institutions, away from labor. But I would love to see the current masters/servants paradigm dragged thru the mud.
@f00l No the actual shell was fucked up. Whomever set it up didn’t know what they were doing. Problem for me was I had never set up a shell from scratch, am not all that familiar with this LMS so I didn’t know how to fix it - and tech support helped fuck it up even more as they weren’t all that familiar with this aspect of things as they were hired mostly to help students who can’t find X or can’t figure out how to use X feature and end up googling answers at times.
You can only unionize when it is not, essentially, a seller’s market. Zillions of adjuncts, most willing to work under any conditions. And schools in the bottom tiers of schools generally care more about other issues than the kind of reputation that schools in the top tier have and care about. The currency for why students go to each is different.
@Kidsandliz
In that case, is there any reasonably way to recover a “real” academic career?
If not, then why not start up a biz consulting thing.
Or cover your resume gaps with a “half-true” explanation and try to get a good MBA job w decent pay and great bennies? Like in some sophisticated area of banking, investing, insurance, or whatever is your particular area of expertise?
Since it appears to be just me and you her, we can just talk about whatever we want.
Ok I sorta admit that perhaps I ought not to win since I won last time, for reasons having nothing to do with me or my virtues.
Except that I can’t concede that.
You see, if I concede, that makes my posts less annoying and irritating to the cosmos. And we can’t have that.
So i formally unconcede any previous concessions. Or anything that might have appeared possibly be a concession.
@f00l Starting a consulting business is too hard. I struggle with fatigue as part of the cancer issues. Age discrimination makes getting a full time “regular” academic job harder. As far as getting an MBA job… well again that depends on the company’s approach to hiring the overqualified who are “older”. Not so many willing to do that, legalities aside.
@Kidsandliz
Re those MBA jobs. Not easy to get without the “right” resume, I agree.
I was thinking you could craft the resume if you took some time - a year, say, to do it.
Re resume crafting: that’s the real point of independent consulting. I do not know how you’d get this off the ground. I have no expertise or industry knowledge. But you do.
So: pick an area that’s your target. Get in the door somehow. Do you have any connections where you might be able to publish magazine articles? Not academic pubs. Soft articles that cover something of interest in the industries you know about. Trade pubs and biz journal of the type you find in corporate break areas. You can use the “working on an article” angle to get interviews and connections. And those, plus the connections that come from actually writing an article, are the point of the whole thing.
Plus perhaps some low key consulting if you can get it. Nothing huge, unless you gave the energy for it. - in the beginning, for almost no $ or no $ at all.
Two points here: 1st, you are making contacts. Southerners are friendly and if they think you like private enterprise they’ll like you. Just meet people. Network - v low key unless something stellar drops in your lap - and then network some more. Figure out what you could write or you could offer to a biz that wouldn’t take everything out of you.
Then do it. I guess you are able to keep afloat for a while, sort of? So the immediate $ you bring in matters less that the new contacts who I presume will like you a lot.
You have a PhD and an MBA right? They ought to be impressed. Let them think you are a republican but never say so, and never say anything very specific re politics. Just carry the right vibe.
Instead, just make soft “pro-free-enterprise” and “pro-good-biz-environment” remarks that have a “sounds in sync with the biz community” vibe without ever actually being specific. Just say general things that make them think you might well be conservative, but don’t actually commit you or contradict your values.
Pick an industry that’s your target. Banking is good because they also do wills investments insurance trusts and whatall.
Or an investment house. Or insurance co. Or whatever. That’s the long term goal.
Then do enuf soft research or soft writing and soft networking and soft consulting that you’re getting known by some people. By then you should have a vibe for what and where the jobs are.
The idea is to build up the writing-magazine-networking-consulting-research capital (emphasis on networking) into near local biz knowledge of opportunities and people and attitudes.
Then start targeting specific positions and companies. By then you stand out because of competence and education and drive, but they think you’re one of them.
Someone could actually take this nationwide. I suppose.
Fam member got an MBA at UTA. Undergrad at UT, don’t know what major except not science.
Then he (pure charm) talked his way into a tech startup. The product was never great but it got him tons of connections. He sought connections. It was kinda obvious the startup wasn’t gonna be there long term after a while. But he did everything he could for about 3-4 years? Then when it was going down he managed to parlay all his connections into a jump to the insurance dept of a large Texas based bank. Where he’s happy and I presume well paid.
I know all this takes energy. And I assumed you had fatigue due to illness, but are not currently crippled by it.
I also assume you may have fatigue just because if the mental stress oh having a shit job and a difficult stressed out life, what w the kid and her kids, money, treatments, trying to stay cheerful, all that shit. Must take its toll.
Anyway the point is to just do what you can to open up the opportunities. Suppose you tried writing about local startups (soft mag article) and used that to meet a bunch of startup types? Those people would possibly be more open and willing to experiment than some place that’s established. Meet some, meet more, consult or mag articles or research or survey or whatever. And eventually you will start seeing possibilities to aim at. Does that make sense?
I kinda assume that you have huge stress because of that horrible job. And you try not to drag yourself down or drag others down. But it’s gotta be tough doing that grading for nothing.
If I were in that state, I would have the edges of depression hovering around. Trying to keep it at bay. Cause the basic facts, taken without the personality and personal gifts, are just such fucking downers. How you manage your positive mood I dunno but it must cost you some discipline sometimes.
So if you need a therapist or ssris or whatever, I hope you have them. Makes it a little easier. If you don’t need/want them, great.
It just seems like the more people connections and opportunity, the better the natural mood. The better and more positive the mood, the more people connections and opportunities. Feedback cycle. You know all that better than I.
If I am telling you things you know 10k times better than me already (which is likely), apologies. I just hate seeing you stuck and I also know how hard it is under stress to get your mind into the right frame. And getting the mind into the right frame and mood and then using that - deploying mood as a survival weapon - to gain contacts which might become alliances in time.
I dunno. Perhaps it’s all crazy. I think I’d try some crazy but not-too-crazy “might work” things in your shoes.
Another thing. You are in the south.
I don’t have formal structured religious beliefs. Perhaps you don’t either. Well, in the south, the great biz networking tools other than work connections are families friends college and church.
If you could find a church you kinda liked and could stand going to (didn’t say anything about believing) and just think if it as a spiritual quest - you might be astonished at the connections you made. You’d have to pick the church carefully. Middle class to upper class. Connected members. Belief systems open enough that no one asks you questions and you can stand to attend. Not places for old $ families - they will have too much social reserve. Rather something more modern and young.
Professionals and biz people as members. When you talk a to them don’t go into illness unless carefully and you are sure. Just stay bright and positive. Let them know your interests but don’t press. Self-confidence. Careful not to sound “better than”. Rather “one of”. If you handle this just right those people will do the work of networking you around the church for you. And those people can be extraordinary.
And since you will genuinely like them and they you, it’s real.
I dunno. There ought to be some other possibilities.
I dunno what you have the energy and reserves to tackle. I know it must be really tough. Just trying to cheer you on.
I do admire how you don’t, at least here, appear to fall prey to depression or whatever. You’re always up for things. Take that attitude into the biz world and it ought to be a winner even if you get there slowly.
Is any of this realistic?
Oh yeah. Forgot.
Ha ha. Winning!
@f00l I don’t have expertise in finance, accounting, etc. (the high demand areas), my area is management. I also don’t have the kind of work (non-academic) experience that adds credibility. I switched fields from outdoor stuff to business, and while I started and run (do not get paid though) an NGO, that is not a high demand skill. I do not have the energy, money, etc. to do what would need to be done to start up a consulting company and then drum up business.
Oh yeah. Forgot.
Ha ha. Winning!
@Kidsandliz
How about a few soft articles to make connections? Try to meet startup people and biz people. Then meet more of them.
Make connections when you interview people for an article? Then make more when you publish it. Try the see if you can get invited to a few meetings or groups? See if anyone wants you to give a talk? Local is fine. Just see if any opportunities start to appear?
Also: talk openly if problems in the biz horizen you are aware of. Of industry SPR labor probs. Bit in spite of that - even if the sky is literally falling - be resilient, positive, upbeat. Local groups and biz people like upbeat.
Talk about probs all you want but always with a “we can overcome” attitude. Pretend to be a bit one of them. Discuss law and regulation if you need to but never should w your political colors.
Are there any decent Gulf Coast or MS mags you could write for?
The writing won’t pay much. The points of the writing are visibility and networking.
Don’t be rigid. Allow opportunities to flow. What matters is not “is my resume right” or whatever. What matters is attitude. “I can make this work”. Then do it.
Give away some freebie insights, always. Give away inspiration and make them think there’s lots more where that came from. Don’t be “academic” just use that for cred and visibility. Unless someone means hires you specifically for that. Appear to be hung-ho on biz even if you’re not.
They will like that, esp combined with the degrees. Someone may just offer you something. And all you have to do is be super friendly, positive interested, intelligent, talk to people, perhaps a tiny bit of journalism.
Much/most of your work will be straight informal conversation.
Try to join the kind of groups where you can meet and talk to owners or ceos. Esp older ones who will be intrigued. And then give them a huge smile and be interested and brilliant and charm their brains out. Make yourself seem as normal as possible, kinda “adventurous-normal”. Make them think they could have had a younger family member just like you. I swear someone will offer you something.
That shouldn’t take totally enormous energy. And every single piece of it is legit. And way easier than serious academic work or consulting or grading papers for $.02/hour.
I.E. be an entrepreneur. Be the entrepreneur of your own industry: yourself. Self-marketing, covert style. But don’t say that. Make them think their businesses are the most fascinating businesses ever created.
You are not seducing them here. You are seducing their minds with the possibilities you can help them and their managers envision.
I think you have - or are close to having and can easily polish - an excellent personality for making this project work.
Hi. This is the tamest thing I’ve typed all day by a ridiculously wide margin.
@PantHeist
/giphy tame
No stopping me winning now either…
Without going into detail:
@PlacidPenguin
Sad. So very sad. Makes me want to cry.
Meesa gonna win!
@mike808
/giphy stop it!
woof
/giphy "cat yawn"
@f00l took you long enough. 10 days. last time it was what - 18 or something.
Is this a private party, or can anyone join?
@AiliaBlue Anyone can join. There was a previous thread and thumpechick closed it because it was getting long that f00l “won” that one as she was the last one who posted before it shut. We did go 18 days here with no posts and then 10, so it has started up again.
@Kidsandliz It was on my front page, and I was curious.
/giphy seizure glasses
@DaveInSoCal I wonder if anyone has any of those left that are still working…
How are things?
bedtime
Well last time we nearly broke the server with this thread… maybe we will do it again.
here
I’m the only one here, eh?
You win!
@aetris You don’t!
So when the server crashes, somebody wins… like the opposite of a Fuku. Fuko. Japanbag.
@InnocuousFarmer no you will have thumperchick shut the thread down and ask the current person in the winner position to start a new thread… this is the otherwise endless thread. No actual mailed to you prize for winning this thread. Just honor and glory? And meh has sucked you in to posting every day/multiple times a day in a fruitless attempt to win? AKA just like click
facebait.@Kidsandliz I am not sure that I understand.
… works for me.
I never win anything
so I know I won’t be last -btw -is this thread the Groundhog day ( like the movie) of all threads and keeps going on and on and on?
@AttyVette —sorry correcting my own previous statement as I received a beautiful prince " x " bracelet so guess I technically have won one thing !!!
Winner winner chicken dinner
@woodhouse I’ll ax that
@OldCatLady
Can you do me a favor and kidnap this person for me?
@darkzrobe I keep getting lost in his eyes. I can see his soul, and it’s noble. And the chest…
@OldCatLady I know right? How dare people like this exist. Soooo pretty.
@ELUNO
/giphy Yum Yum in my Tum Tum
@hems79 no longer
/image churro gigante
@medz …
womp womp
/youtube too bad, sew sad
@Yoda_Daenerys womp womp yourself LOL
/giphy womp womp
/giphy all the wins
I don’t know about this thread, but this gif is my new favorite.
@DaveInSoCal Don’t think this is what we win though. LOL
@Kidsandliz Everyone who has the good fortune to enjoy this gif is a winner.
@DaveInSoCal
/giphy Slimy Money
@daveinwarsh that is a pretty cool gif
@Kidsandliz I… can’t… stop… watching… it…
@daveinwarsh Not. Letting. You. Win.
@Kidsandliz whoa …_cool gif
@AttyVette Yes, it is.
Ummm - all I see is a small gray dot. What is it SUPPOSED to be?
@aetris It is SUPPOSED to be the most amazing GIF in the world.
Thanks @daveinwarsh , that is definitely, uh, definitely something. Yeah.
@aetris Well the solution is don’t implant a wireless chip into your brain then LOL
Spoiler:
Everyone except @f00l wins
@LordSalem @F00L is the one that broke the camel’s back on the previous thread. Likely that counts as winning breaking the internet, if not breaking meh’s servers.
@LordSalem
@kidsandliz
/giphy winning
@trlenoir
/giphy No you ain’t.
@hems79 neither are you
@Kidsandliz
/image Welcome to the club!
@hems79 And what club would that be? Not the goat club as I am about ready to rotate out of that…not to mention I don’t think you have been goat. Maybe you should be nominated in November since @riotdemon is slated to be railroaded in for October. The I could welcome you to that club. (grin)
@Kidsandliz
/giphy crickets
@hems79
/image cooked crickets
@hems79 and…
/giphy your goose is cooked
@hems79 well that goose one isn’t what I had had in mind but I think I’ll keep it based on the message it is sending to you.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy Can’t touch this.
@hems79
/image touch this
@Kidsandliz
/giphy Not touching you! Not touching you!
@hems79 Pffffft
@daveinwarsh now that is really!!! gross and disgusting
@Kidsandliz Yes. It was supposed to scare off everyone, so I could be last.
@daveinwarsh
/giphy Fish Chicken Butt
@daveinwarsh so how is that working for you?
@Kidsandliz I’d say my plan is working at 51% of expectations.
@daveinwarsh Of course when @thumperchick shuts this one down, her timing of that will determine who temporarily wins until a new thread is opened. You may or may not be in the 49% space at that point in time.
@Kidsandliz
@daveinwarsh
/giphy in your dreams
@Kidsandliz
@daveinwarsh It probably pays out in monopoly money. This IS meh after all.
/image monopoly money winnings
@daveinwarsh You won!
/giphy chicken dinner
/giphy Funky chicken
/giphy Monster Chicken
/giphy insane cat
@Kidsandliz
/giphy insane post
/giphy My turn next
@daveinwarsh
/image not your turn MY turn
@daveinwarsh ninja edit. I saw the hugging couple you had up there before.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy No Way!
@Kidsandliz Yeah, I tried again…
@daveinwarsh the one you have up there now is actually sort.
/giphy Ultimate winner
/image ultimate loser
/giphy trophy
TAKE THE FUCKING SHOT
/giphy Should be locked
/image nope
@Kidsandliz
/giphy huh?
@daveinwarsh
/image give it up
@Kidsandliz
/giphy Who, me?
@daveinwarsh
/image yup
@Kidsandliz
/giphy never surrender.
@daveinwarsh
/giphy I’m not surrendering
@Kidsandliz
@daveinwarsh crashed twice when I have clicked on say it with just an image. We might be close to having this one shut down… Of course it also might be happening because it is 11:04pm and too many people on the servers…
@daveinwarsh
/giphy persistent little bugger
@Kidsandliz Yeah. It’s loading very slow.
/giphy very slow
You do realize I hold the record for being last for the longest amount of time (around 5 months maybe) until someone resurrected this thread so that even if @thumperchick locks it after someone else I still have that record hehehe
/giphy I still win that LOL
now that giphy is pretty cool
@Kidsandliz We all know this thread is fake and the real one was closed! BURN THE TYRANTS!
@ELUNO @f00l “won” that one…
/giphy burn the tyrants!
@Kidsandliz
/giphy Burn the toast
@daveinwarsh
/giphy You can’t handle the burn!
@ELUNO @daveinwarsh
/giphy fire extinguisher
A trophy for me!
/giphy winners trophy
@daveinwarsh A trophy for you!
/giphy losers trophy
/giphy more fun
/giphy than
/giphy a box of hammers
/giphy keep trying
/giphy cats and snow
/giphy neener neener
@daveinwarsh like that gif
/giphy What’s cooler than being cool?
@hems79
/image being hot?
@hems79 ha! That’s pretty awesome, possum.
Are you children still fighting over this?
/giphy He knows if you’ve been bad or good
@sligett of course
@Kidsandliz
/giphy bad santa
@daveinwarsh
/image stocking full of coal
/giphy pots and pans can break my bones
@ELUNO but names will never hurt you? in that case
/image loser
@Kidsandliz I was wrong…
/giphy cry
/giphy nope I am the champion
Hi!!
/giphy She’s been banned
@ELUNO
/giphy snuck in behind your back
/giphy this means I won
@ELUNO Congratulations!
/giphy is this thing still on?
@mike808 It’s on until it’s not and whomever was last when it was locked gets to start the next thread
/giphy I dunno what’s going on here
@oldcatlady (nsfw) since this is on facebook and the link becomes invisible when I post it here you need to add the https stuff then facebook dot com and then /gaygdloficial/videos/1803606482992035/ to get at this. Was posted on a forum I was on and thought you’d enjoy it.
@Kidsandliz I followed the instructions. Hey- it worked! Very beautiful, lively - and NSFW is the word, all right. Educational, even.
@OldCatLady Thought you’d like it but I didn’t want to start a thread that likely would get out of hand…so that is why I posted it here. Kill 2 birds with one, um, well you know (smirk).
/giphy me
/giphy me
/giphy me
/giphy me
/giphy me
/giphy me
/giphy me
/giphy me
And yet, still a loser.
No it’s not.
/giphy "post something already"
/giphy STOP
/giphy "stop posting now"
In honor of the holiday season, everyone just let me win, ok?
@f00l You are a grinch goat. You already won once.
@Kidsandliz
What a nice lovely Scrooge you are today, my dear!
Happy Xmas!
/image Scrooge
@f00l My present to you…
PS Merry Christmas
My post is better
/giphy better
@f00l Better than what? An open, full dumpster aging in the heat? Yesterday’s leftovers barfed up by the dog? Jello thrown at the wall, still stuck there 6 months later and as hard as a rock? Better than those, probably yes…
Yes
/8ball is @f00l’s post worse than…?
You need to be specific here… and no it is not better than what the grinch was going to give to you.
/giphy "my post is best"
@f00l
Very doubtful
/8ball your post is not best?
/giphy me me me me me me me
@f00l You volunteering to be January’s goat too?
@Kidsandliz
Am not. Am about to shed GoatSkin I think.
PS me me me me me.
@f00l OK so then you can be January’s snake goat…
@Kidsandliz
Something else is going on in that thread. Go take a look.
Oh yeah
/giphy last post
@f00l Huh??? What thread? What something else? (by the way - for the moment I am last - at least that is something).
@Kidsandliz
The jbartus-as-goat voting. There is resistance and turmoil. Jan Goat thread
@f00l I am reading that thread since I was nominated and still have zero votes (yea) and still am missing the joke for the nomination to begin with… Seems to me, all joking aside, that if someone is that dead set against being a goat a certain month we need to honor that and pick someone who will have fun with it…
@Kidsandliz
If you are campaigning to be Goat, the campaigning works better in that thread.
Go for it.
@f00l nope am not -responding to your comment (and then being temporarily last)
If you post in this thread, your entire existence is fucked up, man.
/giphy fucked up
@f00l POST POST POST POST POST POST POST
@f00l POST POST POST POST POST POST POST
@f00l POST POST POST POST POST POST POST
@f00l POST POST POST POST POST POST POST
@f00l POST POST POST POST POST POST POST
@f00l POST POST POST POST POST POST POST
@f00l POST POST POST POST POST POST POST not fucked up POST POST POST POST POST POST POST
@Kidsandliz
I think you proved my point.
@f00l Nope…just imitating children LOL
@Kidsandliz
Proved the point. Again.
@f00l But at least I am momentarily last. LOL
@Kidsandliz
Momentarily.
@f00l or not
@f00l
/giphy Pot calling the kettle black.
@hems79
How, hypocritical?
I was clearly referring to self all along.
Oh, and @kidsandliz too.
@ELUNO, come over here and join in the Great Losership Contest.
Delivering The Morning Post.
@kidsandliz is too busy to post in this thread.
Just sayin’.
/giphy busy
@f00l …
@Kidsandliz
Do your chores.
/giphy chores
@f00l Mom moves slowly in the morning. Chores left need her input - you know - micromanager sits in chair and directs slave to do work to her specifications.
@Kidsandliz
So go wait with an attitude and posture of expectant readiness like a good slave. Don’t use your laptop, phone, or tablet while you wait. Be a good slave.
Last for a picosecond.
New Year’s Post
Post
Only stupid people post in this thread.
@f00l
@f00l
/giphy stupidest
Thursday morning. Cold sux. Unless you’re skiing.
@f00l or sledding or ice skating or dog sledding or having a snowball fight or building a snow fort or snow man, or doing bumper skiing behind a car, or making a snow angel, or making snow ice cream, or eating an icicle or being a demented male and drawing a picture in the snow with pee or giving someone a snow face wash (my daughter did that to herself the first time she saw snow and said in outrage, “Mom you no tell me snow cold!!” - umm dear you have been eating it and should have figured that out) or have a cat and gently throw a snowball over their head and they jump to bat it and land flat on their back in the snow or the snowball falls apart (america’s funniest home videos)… just sayin’
@Kidsandliz
It’s also really fun if you have a dog who likes snow and loves to fetch.
@f00l NO no no no no - you are not supposed to be posting. You claimed you were half frozen to death. Right?
It’s too cool to post in this thread today.
@f00l That belongs in the bad joke thread of puns
@f00l Warm up with some goat-surfing.
@daveinwarsh but but but @f00l is no longer the goat…
@Kidsandliz you won! (from Friday at 7:04 till now…)
@sohmageek ha ha ha
Ha ha ha
@f00l copycat
Monday sux.
Everyone who posts after me is beyond lame.
@f00l Good thing we are beyond lame… we’ve let lame in the dust…
Middle of the night.
@f00l you already won one thread of this… you should be banned from this one…
@Kidsandliz
I have to stick around in order to be annoying.
@f00l We will make one of your alter egos goat again.
/giphy "way lame"
/giphy bored
@f00l be bored in another thread. Remember I we unofficially banned you from this one : )
@Kidsandliz
Stop boring me.
@f00l bore bore bore bore bore
I’m worthy
/giphy worthy
/giphy "dog yawn"
/giphy yawn
/image “taco tuesday”
@f00l Nope not what I am having lunch…
nite
@f00l mornin’
@Kidsandliz
It’s afternoon, actually.
@f00l maybe now it is…
too lazy to post
@f00l really? might want to check the words you used in your post in the dictionary…
I am superior to this topic. I will not participate.
/giphy superior
I’m so much better than all you idiots who participate in this.
@f00l Right. Define not participate.
/image The very end
/giphy The very end part 2
/giphy THIS is the end.
@hems79 naw
@Kidsandliz You’re just mad because you thought everyone had forgotten about this thread.
/giphy Nope Nope Nope
@hems79 …
@Thumperchick
Yo, big target here. Gimme the ball.
(see what I did there?)
I am the Omega
.
@Kidsandliz
¯_(ツ)_/¯
So this thread is eclipsing the eclipse
Mehday mehday in Htown
sigh
/giphy call me mehby
@hems79 mehby
@hems79 mehby
@daveinwarsh @Kidsandliz
/giphy I see what you did there.
@hems79 Good. You are not asleep at the wheel then…
@Kidsandliz
@hems79 Yup cute.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy Lost Goat
@hems79 king of the hill goat
/giphy me too
nope nope nope
@Kidsandliz
/giphy yis yis yis
@hems79
/giphy nope nope nope
@Kidsandliz
/giphy Don’t lose your nose.
@hems79
@hems79 Ah yes, Japanese Non-Sequitur Slideshow Town. Good movie, one of my favorites.
/giphy HYPE!
@hems79 pfft
/giphy I’m here to win.
@hems79 Win??? In what lifetime?
Thread lives forever.
@InnocuousFarmer Not if @thumperchick locks them (like the earlier version of this one when it nearly killed the servers and the internet) they don’t.
@Kidsandliz maybe for a year then. That’s a long time.
Well the nightmare after TS Harvey is never ending , why shouldn’t this thread be likewise?
hi
Hello?
Yes
/giphy "a winrar is you"
/giphy #401
As a contestant on Wheel Of Fish, I’d like to go for what’s in the Box!
@sinless Are you hoping for a meh box with a fuko in it?
@Kidsandliz while that would be awesome, I was thinking of UHF and the box with nothing in it that a contestant won.
Going faster than a speeding bullet so I can Post Last!
Me!
@SargassoC nope
/giphy rocket man
#winning!
/giphy Hi
I’m sorry, @Kidsandliz for being the last to post.
/giphy SIKE!
LAST
@daveinwarsh no, last would be
/image pile of dust
/giphy Sniped!
@hems79
you are out of luck…time hasn’t run out yet…
@Kidsandliz
/giphy Three person race.
@hems79
/image race to infinity and beyond
@Kidsandliz
/giphy infinite thread
@hems79 - the only trouble is that it will become finite at some point in the future when it becomes hard to load…
@Kidsandliz Afraid to giphy this, but:
/giphy too hard to load.
@hems79 now that is a bit into soft porn…
@daveinwarsh
/image bye bye
/giphy Party crashing.
/image candy corn for the winner
@Kidsandliz
/image tis me
@hems79 Pffffffhhhhhh
It’s like Aunt Lottie said in Jim Jarmusch’s classic film Stranger Than Paradise: “I am the winner!”
/image stranger than paradise
@UncleVinny and Pffffffhhhhhh to you too.
Ouch.
@daveinwarsh
here you go
@Kidsandliz Thank you.
@daveinwarsh you are welcome
/image I think we’re alone now
@UncleVinny
@daveinwarsh
oh
, company!
@UncleVinny @daveinwarsh am I invited too? I was getting very lonely being here alone from Feb 27 until Aug 8th when someone showed up again.
@Kidsandliz
/image the boar the hairier
@UncleVinny groan
huh, wut?
@rtjhnstn huh, who?
@daveinwarsh huh, me!
I’m kinda getting in the habit of posting here every night.
/youtube you’re a hard habit to break
@UncleVinny you are forcing me to have the same habit since I was the winner of this thread for about 7 months or so…while it sat dormant.
Everybody needs a hobby! I’m kinda shocked you didn’t comment on Peter Cetera, though.
@UncleVinny ?
/image peter cetera
@UncleVinny And so where was I supposed to comment? What thread? I don’t read them all…
/image No time for that
@Kidsandliz my YouTube link is a Chicago song, and ol Peter Cetera was their lead singer. 80s nostalgia at its best!
@Kidsandliz You thought you were the winner…
/giphy But you ain’t.
@hems79 pffffhhhhhh
So apparently, I have never loaded this thread before, because none of it was condensed. Chrome did not like this. My page-capture app also said the page was too large to grab. /shrug
@Collin1000 sounds traumatic!
/giphy is the word ‘traumatic’ related to the German ‘traume’?
.
@Kidsandliz ?
@therealjrn *
@Kidsandliz &?
@therealjrn &+?=$
Blimfark
@rtjhnstn quizbark!
@UncleVinny are you testing the dog?
@Kidsandliz I could tell you, but that would be telling!
/giphy perfunctory daily post
/giphy After the last post
@daveinwarsh
/giphy post party party
/giphy Nothing to say
nope nope nope
/giphy Scary Halloween
Change the leaves into water and ride the wave!
https%3A%2F%2Fcdn-s3.si.com%2Fs3fs-public%2Fimages%2Freef-mcintosh-big-wave-surfing-960.jpg&w=700&q=85
@rtjhnstn Obviously the link didn’t work. I was just trying to find a wave that matched the line of the trees, and I was distracted by family BS.
/image winner winner winner
here
This topic has not locked up the browser yet.
Hey Lamers!!!
Dump the images. Go for /giphy.
Or this topic will never end.
@f00l Hey! You won!
…oh…sorry
@therealjrn
I.won the last one, thx to an unanticipated and undeserved assist from @thumperchick.
Not playing in this one. Just egging you all on.
/giphy agreed?
@f00l Really, that thread was killing screens, you just happened to be last when I made it stop.
@f00l OK so now you aren’t last. Yet.
@Thumperchick … yeah sure. We believe that. @f00l is
/image favorite child
@Kidsandliz
/giphy "I’m so pretty"
/giphy I win!
/giphy Fried chicken
/image my turn
/image last post
@hems79
/image taps
/image yes way
@Kidsandliz
/image nuh uh
/giphy I said no
@ELUNO
/image I said yes
/giphy You can all leave now.
/giphy See ya later
/image this is later. Right?
@Kidsandliz Uh…no.
@Stumpy91
/image uh…yes
/giphy cornball
@ELUNO
/giphy ball corn
/giphy winning post haste
@sligett
/giphy losing hasty post
I feel that this should be locked on Dec 31 and create (another) thread for 2018. That is, if I haven’t…
/giphy already won
I would love to get the shit kicked out of me by her.
/giphy thread closed
/giphy No more posting allowed.
Did everyone get a chance to enjoy this zany pickle surprise video? Ok, then:
/youtube pickle surprise
@UncleVinny You’re in a pickle that your not last
/image last pickle
/image your’re in a pickle
@Kidsandliz pickleback! Tag, you’re it!
/image pickle back
@UncleVinny
/image pickled brain
which is what you will eventually get drinking those LOL
/giphy post below and be BANNED!
@ELUNO
/giphy I am banned
@daveinwarsh
/giphy son I am disappoint
/giphy banned be damned
/giphy ruler of them all
/giphy Ultimate supreme overlord
@daveinwarsh Why thank you. I didn’t know you were calling me that.
/giphy blushes
/image supreme too
well not the image I was looking for but I’m running out of edit time… Will have to do.
/giphy do you want fries with that?
@daveinwarsh
/image no thank you
@daveinwarsh
/giphy maeby marry me
/giphy pasta with ketchup
@ELUNO
/giphy funky pizza
/giphy etc…
@Kidsandliz
/giphy whatchamacallit
Nothing to see here, shoo!
/youtube static
/giphy move along
/giphy locked
/giphy double locked
@therealjrn
/giphy TRIPLE locked!
@daveinwarsh
/giphy QUADRUPLE locked
/giphy not locked
/giphy should not be locked
@kidsandliz
/giphy is it over?
/image did I win?
/giphy Thread has been cancelled. Move along. Nothing to see here.
@ELUNO
/giphy not seeing you here bye
Keep going, losers! Thread still hasn’t locked my mobile browser.
You can do better!
/giphy loser
/giphy blow up
@daveinwarsh
/giphy implosion
@daveinwarsh
/giphy detonation
/youtube bus blocks implosion
@ELUNO
/giphy bad timing
I won’t give up! I won’t!
/youtube chariots of fire
@UncleVinny
/giphy chariot on fire
@daveinwarsh
/giphy fire the chariots
/giphy Step away from the thread.
/giphy Wearable Unicorn
/giphy hello from Mom’s house
/giphy Thanksgiving Feast
/giphy turkey day
/giphy ate too much turkey
/giphy madeline Kahn I’m tired
loads too slowly with 20mbps and streaming Mozart’s Requiem at the same time… so no giphy from me right now.
/giphy that’s ok
/giphy I can wait
/giphy waiting
/giphy Still here
@daveinwarsh your number is prior to mine. And mine, according to that giphy was
9,998,383,750,000.
/image you go bye bye first
@Kidsandliz
/giphy see ya later
Just a picture of some sleeping puppies…
/image sleeping cats
@Kidsandliz
/giphy kawaiiiiii!
/giphy Howdy y’all
@daveinwarsh
/image bed time
@Kidsandliz
/giphy wave nighty-night
@UncleVinny
/giphy Don’t let the bed bugs bite.
@daveinwarsh Shit! Those are some mean-ass bedbugs!
@daveinwarsh
Whoa, Nelly!
/giphy I’ll never sleep again
@daveinwarsh BTW, thanks to Reddit we now know the source of that spiders-in-the-bed clip:
@UncleVinny WOW. That’s one brave actress to do that…
/giphy I am now last
@daveinwarsh the YouTube clip shows that they got more than just the one actress to snuggle with octopeds. Impressive dedication!
In other news, I’m now in first place for Last.
/giphy neener neener
@UncleVinny
/image you are in last place for first
@Kidsandliz
The long-awaited champion emerges…
/giphy a champion emerges
…and it is ME!
/giphy big ego
@UncleVinny your reward
/image cement shoes
@Kidsandliz whoa! That looks a lot lousier than the prize of “nothing” I was expecting…
/youtube unwelcome surprise
@UncleVinny don’t blame me. Each time I chose edit the same photo came up. Didn’t used to be like that. I had something else in mind but was too lazy to look…
@Kidsandliz My (limited) understanding is that “giphy” will give you a new gif if you edit, but that “image” only has the one option.
/image fingers crossed please don’t suck
@UncleVinny
/giphy a wonderful GIF please
@UncleVinny image didn’t used to have only one option… And as I discovered, more than once, if the phrase is too long you break meh and get the something went terribly wrong video
https://meh.com/terriblywrong
@Kidsandliz
/giphy something is terribly wrong
@daveinwarsh You mean like telling your kid that she might try looking for a job; I hear a rumor that jobs give you money? (said this mother multiple times to her young adult kid who would like to be supported in the manner in which she would like to become accustom).
@Kidsandliz LOL… I dunno… Giphy chose the GIF for me. I got rid of 2 and kept this one because I gave up.
Our kids had to do chores, and later then they were teenagers, had to work around the property for any money (except Birthdays).
Laughing at jokes produced no money for them…
/giphy I would appreciate it if I would get a really groovy GIF here, please.
@daveinwarsh how did you like that giphy?
/giphy this one will win me @thumperchick’s contest
hmm…new info on how the giphy tag works!
@UncleVinny
/giphy feeling meh
@UncleVinny Not my contest. I just closed the last thread and told them to start a new one. Now they’re ~tormenting me for it~ um… posting here. (Which everyone seems to enjoy.)
Though we are starting to see the slow load here, too.
/giphy hey server burn baby burn
@Kidsandliz
/giphy bring down the servers!
/giphy Winning post.
@hems79
/giphy close but no banana
@UncleVinny
/image smashed banana
Pretty great stuff here: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4966045
Title: Quantum state-resolved molecular scattering of NO (2Π1/2) at the gas-[Cnmim][Tf2N] room temperature ionic liquid interface: Dependence on alkyl chain length, collision energy, and temperature
Open-source journals rule.
/image tired
Thanks to my neighbor yelling all night about being locked out of the house, I’m still up.
i’m not “still” up but up because I have to get up
Look at me all awake and stuff like an adult.
My eyes hurt
The meh-raton marked the end of this thread.
The End.
/giphy Encore.
/image fuko
well /image is broken - didn’t work in another thread either @shawn
/image something google can find
@shawn I just image searched “fuko” at work and almost died.
/image no fuko please
@shawn well it wasn’t working for me as you could tell in the message I posted (and in another post in another thread yesterday too).
/image testing temporarily broken
Edit: guess it works now so must have been a temporary glitch It is @therealjrn’s fault then.
Bad bad goaT.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy glitch
How’d you kids do during the Mehrathon? I hit the Meh button 42 times, and scored my very first fukukajuku!
/giphy off-topic
@UncleVinny Surprisingly I had 49. Do you know the max number possible? I haven’t counted it up. I know for SURE it is a bunch over 49 simple because I didn’t stay up all night and taught 2 classes yesterday, there was a fuko while I was driving to work…
@UncleVinny
/image 23 clicks, zero fukos
We took the Grandkids out shopping yesterday.
/giphy potential
@ELUNO that giphy is disgusting. You should have hit edit!!
@Kidsandliz It’s too late! I guess you should never come to this thread and post ever again! No one should!
@ELUNO
/image not too late
@Kidsandliz
/giphy potential
/image I’m the winner
@Kidsandliz
Congratulations, but…
/image check your math
@UncleVinny 1+1=kidsandliz. Simple.
/image einstein
/giphy Am I too late to the party?
@daveinwarsh
/image party’s over
/image kidsandliz lies and she lost
?
@H3xtor666 No.
@ELUNO
!
@daveinwarsh
O:
/image Phfffff
/image ignore her
@ELUNO please do. then I will be last
@Kidsandliz
/giphy never!
@daveinwarsh
/giphy chicken litte the sky is falling
/giphy Time is winding down.
/giphy I think I just won!
@ELUNO
/giphy go back to bed
@Kidsandliz
/giphy respect my authoritah!
@ELUNO
/image I can’t hear you
@Kidsandliz
/giphy blowhorn
/giphy this is only a test
/image hehehehehe
/image she’s evil
@ELUNO
/image evil spell on eluon
@Kidsandliz
/giphy wicked witch of the northwest
@ELUNO
/giphy sad little sack
@Kidsandliz
/giphy I’m dying due to all your hate
@ELUNO Good then you will drop out of this race.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy how dare you!
@ELUNO persistent little bugger aren’t you?
/giphy better a bugger than a booger! (like you!)
/giphy STOP NOW
/giphy ok everyone has stopped
@ELUNO
/image except you
@Kidsandliz
/giphy I’ll never stop!
Maybe a Youtube video will end this?
@daveinwarsh
/giphy Perhaps not.
/image I win!
/giphy I win!
/youtube I win!
I win!
¡uıʍ I
/image nope nope nope
/giphy yup yup yup
/image yup yup yup
/youtube yup yup yup
dnʎ dnʎ dnʎ
@ELUNO
/giphy what was the question?
@daveinwarsh The question was
/giphy why are you still posting here?
/giphy lots of snow and no power!
/giphy don’t eat yellow snow
/youtube I’d like to thank the academy
/giphy no
@ELUNO
/giphy yes
/giphy I SAID NO!
@ELUNO
/giphy we heard you the first time
/image zzzzzzz
/giphy you snooze you lose
@ELUNO
/giphy gonna lose anyway
/giphy Everybody is a winner!
what do you win?
/giphy I win everything.
what is included in “everything”?
/giphy I won!
Did I win?
/close thread
@Stumpy91 No
Ssshhh…
/giphy christmas tree
/giphy Winning is my Christmas present for myself
/giphy steal present
/giphy how dare you!
/giphy I dare you
/giphy dare accepted!
/giphy you can just quit
/giphy you guys
/giphy never quit
@daveinwarsh OK
/giphy I won’t
/giphy I already won
@ELUNO
/image HA!
/giphy closed
/giphy last one to post here WINS
@daveinwarsh
/well then it isn’t you
dishes, dish is the song that never ends,
yes it goes on, because dishes (and repeat)
@Yoda_Daenerys that is what you have kids for - doing dishes.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy dishwasher
@daveinwarsh umm well actually my
kidcats would put the dirty pots and pans in the cupboard if I wasn’t paying attention.@Kidsandliz oh my fucking god, I’d rather do dishes 10 hours a day than put up with children. But…your mileage may vary!
@UncleVinny Umm well there were times I wondered what the heck I was thinking that I had adopted an almost 10 year old. And as a teen said child would put the dirty pots and pans back in the cupboard dirty if I didn’t keep an eye on what she was doing.
/giphy i am the champion
/giphy of course not!
Hi
Sigh… and I had such a long run (months - like 5 or so of them) of being last until someone revived this thread.
@Kidsandliz based on my admittedly spotty activity in this thread over the past two months, I gotta say that you hafta be the front runner for “most active”, and thus most deserving of the Nothing Prize that we’re all haphazardly bickering over.
But still…
Fuck fairness. I WANT TO WIN.
/giphy me me me
@UncleVinny
/giphy pfffff
/giphy living in the past is sad
T’was me, @Kidsandliz that spoiled it for ya.
/giphy I’m sawree.
@hems79 Yeah are so not sorry… die sucker die
/giphy closed
/image not closed
Hi.
/giphy bye
@ELUNO you’re a persistent little bugger
/giphy I am not
@ELUNO
/giphy are too
Did someone win yet?
/giphy yes. I won.
@ELUNO
wrecked that for you
/giphy She doesn’t need a mask to scare me!
@ELUNO
hehehe
/giphy noooooooooooo
@ELUNO
/giphy yesssss
@daveinwarsh hey butt out of our spat!
/giphy she has a new rival
/giphy First to be last
@daveinwarsh
/giphy last to be last
A propos of nothing, and with super NSFW and NSFK language throughout:
/youtube fuck shit stack
…
@Kidsandliz
.
.
.
.
.
@daveinwarsh
’’’…
Now that is seriously weird how that turned out. Discovered first that extra spaces at the beginning of the line vanish. So went to fill them. Opps. Wonder how I got THAT ^
/giphy Stop now!
@daveinwarsh
/image full stop
/giphy total winner
HERE
to be fair I am pretty sure I WON in the first thread when I posted here… but you people don’t get it.
@LastOne
"Last One" is not the same as "LastOne."
Sorry!
/giphy I am the true winner!
@ELUNO
/image so very true
but I’ll say it now: you lose (grin)
/giphy she crazy. Don’t listen to her.
@ELUNO
/image who me?
/giphy Yes, you.
Reread VIP site and you’re right. Thanks, I order from both, guess I got mixed up ☺
@Bobbie81 ?!?!?!
@ELUNO I think you’ll find @Bobbie81 is posting in the wrong thread (this is the right thread - one that s/he started no less: https://meh.com/forum/topics/hey-meh-what-gives ), no doubt just to have something to say here and momentarily be last…
@Kidsandliz REVOLT!
@Bobbie81 Revolutions have started with less! Come back and lead us!
/giphy revolution
/image sigh
/giphy she’s tired
@ELUNO No she is in pain as she just broke her foot this evening by something falling off the wall and landing on it.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy Go to the doctor
@Kidsandliz That sucks
Sorry to hear that. I hope you at least blamed the goat!
/giphy blame
@ELUNO Yeah I blamed her on the blame thread.
@daveinwarsh Yeah I did. Why can’t these things happen during normal working hours so that ER’s and urgent care extra charges, etc. can be avoided?
@Kidsandliz
/giphy it’s always something…
@daveinwarsh
/image yup something
I win
/giphy win
No winner yet…
/giphy still no winner?
/giphy Yes. I am the winner.
@ELUNO
/giphy LOL
Still on about this? I won like a year ago!
/giphy You never won
@ELUNO And you won’t either if some of us have any say over it.
Did I miss something?
@jml326 About a zillion posts
/giphy What prize do I win?
/giphy I always won
@ELUNO Nope you didn’t. @f00l won the last round.
/giphy that was an unofficial win!
@ELUNO There’s going to be no official win. This thread, and it’s children, grandchildren, great grandchildren… will go on forever.
/giphy I officially won NOW!
@ELUNO
/image pfff
No
@joedel263
/image nope
/giphy keep going
@daveinwarsh
/giphy and going and going and going
It’s not over already, is it?
/giphy it is over
@ELUNO
/giphy it is under
/giphy closed
/giphy it’s through
/giphy no it isn’t
For fucks sake this is old…
@sohmageek
/giphy This is old
/giphy I am the old and only winner
@ELUNO
/giphy wins nothing
/giphy I win the world!
@ELUNO
/giphy win infinity
Still no
/giphy always yes
just give it up
/giphy no
@ELUNO
/giphy blow him up
/giphy piggy
cool the thread is crashing when I am trying to post an image. Twice now!
Edit - and I just tried again and it crashed again. @thumperchick does that mean I win?
@Kidsandliz Thread loads for me…
@Thumperchick It loads for me too I just couldn’t post a /image in reply to someone it would crash. All I could do was post a text comment.
/image fail?
@Thumperchick OK well it just loaded this “test” image for me this time. I was trying to reply to someone else when it failed (something went terribly wrong video) 3 times in a row. We must be getting close…Did you close the other one due to flames coming out of the server with the thread, or just because it was really, really L.O.N.G…?
@Kidsandliz the first one would crash or take several minutes to load.
@Thumperchick Ahh ok. Looking below this post, the one Eluno posted certainly helped send this thread in this direction. Wonder why he was successful and I go the something went terribly wrong video… guess it doesn’t matter : )
/giphy still
/giphy not
/giphy dead
/giphy enough
/giphy for
/giphy me
/giphy to
/giphy win
@ELUNO You are helping it along though… You do realize if you win then you are supposed to start the new thread to carry on with this just as @f00l did
/giphy Last
/giphy one
/giphy was
/giphy a
/giphy fluke.
/youtube I
/youtube will
/youtube win
/youtube this
/youtube one
/youtube forever.
/image nope
/giphy don’t
/youtube listen
/giphy to
/youtube her.
/giphy she
/youtube is
/giphy crazy
/youtube af
/giphy nah nah nah I’m not listening
/giphy she
/giphy is
/giphy going
/youtube senile
/giphy FOR
/giphy THE
/giphy WIN
/image not win
/giphy Only
/youtube I
/giphy can
/youtube win!
/giphy fake winner’s trophy
/giphy she
/giphy gave
/giphy herself
/youtube a
/youtube fake
/giphy winner’s
/youtube trophy
/giphy never going to end
/image lah lah lah not listening
/image she drives me crazy
AND ETC. …
@Kidsandliz NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
What?
CLOSED!
/giphy closed
@ELUNO
/giphy keep thread open
remember I was the one who was the winner for, what, about 5 months until someone posted again.
OMG that first try (using just the word open) was NSFW!!! And neither was the second! Nor another one… guess I gotta change it.
@Kidsandliz nsfw is good so people stop coming here and commenting
/giphy ducks
@ELUNO I presume you mean after you think you are making the last comment?
/giphy shut the door on your way out
/giphy I’m staying in
@ELUNO
/giphy pfff
/giphy she’s leaking air
@ELUNO
/giphy full of it
@ELUNO well not was I was looking for but clever so I am leaving it
@Kidsandliz Story of my life
@ELUNO Then for the sake of consistency stop posting
/giphy I am consistently awesome
@ELUNO Umm yeah - in just that way too ROTFLMAO (grin)
/giphy how dare she!
@ELUNO
/image just give it up
/youtube never gonna give you up
wheres my prize?
/giphy prize only for me
@ELUNO
/giphy greedy
/giphy best person ever
@ELUNO Hey you are supposed to keep this crap SFW
@Kidsandliz If it keeps you away… maybe not…
@ELUNO
/giphy kid stick out tongue
Gotta be in it to win it!
@mike808 Of course you do know the winner gets nothing…
/giphy I get everything
/giphy no no no no no
/giphy yes yes yes yes yes
/giphy sigh
/giphy she bored cause she lost
@ELUNO
/image sad sad puppy
/giphy I am cute like a puppy
@ELUNO like an
/giphy obnoxious puppy (wink)
@shahnm so wants
/giphy goat me
@mike808 Whatever you’re talking about, I think probably I don’t want…
You want?
/giphy confused
/giphy I’m the cutest!
/giphy still last
nope
/giphy yes
@ELUNO
/giphy whatever
/giphy yes yesever
@ELUNO I’m trying to get work done grading shit. Stop posting!
/giphy no
https://giphy.com/gifs/eye-roll-anderson-cooper-cnn-3oKIPxRuQQtVbQz35S
I’m not getting the hang of this…am I?
I got this
/giphy naughty ladies!
@ELUNO I am not naughtly (grin). Someone posted that on a forum I am on. I only did @oldcatlady a favor and reposted it here due to her, ummm, art and music related “interests”.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy sure, jan
@ELUNO
/giphy rolls eyes
@Kidsandliz And I do appreciate your thoughtfulness. I’ve been too busy since the hurricane hit to do much in the way of research. That was just like a trip to exotic places.
@OldCatLady I was skimming your response and first thought “exotic” was a different, but relevant, word LOL
How’s the hurricane clean up coming? Any target date for being done?
@Kidsandliz All finished, except for putting things back into place. Hurricane season starts anew on June 1, in case anyone forgot. Fuck.
@OldCatLady Well I hope they miss you this year.
/giphy ladies still being naughty
@ELUNO that cat reminds me of a cockroach sliding under a small crack.
/image catroach
@ELUNO image fail. Had to right click and open in a new tab
/giphy no, you are fail
@ELUNO
/image sad sack
here
here too
You lüzerz.
This thread still loads on mobile.
Nothing to see here but the 1000+ loser posts above.
@mike808 That would include yours too? Right?
/giphy you
/youtube guys
/giphy are
/youtube not
/giphy going
/youtube to
/giphy win
/youtube ever
/giphy because
/youtube I
/giphy am
/youtube the
/giphy only
/youtube winner
@ELUNO only right now you aren’t
/giphy yes
/giphy I
/giphy am
/giphy pardon me please
/giphy move along nothing to see here
/giphy how do I play?
/giphy am I doing it right?
/giphy did I win?
Oooohhhhhhh new people at the party.
/giphy new neighbors at the party
/giphy last
Nope. Not last.
/giphy Yes last.
oh no you aren’t
Way too slow to load.
@shawn, maybe collapse posts or replies with more than 2 images/videos embedded?
/giphy the
/giphy whole
/giphy point
/giphy is
/giphy to
/giphy break
/giphy this
/giphy seriously pitiful
/giphy no
/giphy you
/giphy are
/giphy pitiful
/giphy out with the eluno
/giphy sliding in for the win
/giphy hacker attack
I win! Hacks in and locks the thread.
/giphy bright-original-witch
/giphy pffff
What did I win?
nope you have to be the last comment like this.
here
/image still present
/giphy in with me!
@ELUNO
.
sit in the corner until this thread is locked
/giphy LAST!
/giphy at last
/giphy unoriginal
@ELUNO don’t blame me - blame the image search engine. And just give me (instead of the puppy) the win!
/giphy give me the win
huh
/image please bury this thread
/giphy are we having fun?
/image having fun
I was worried about what would have come up. Whew. Safe.
/giphy I
/giphy am
/giphy the
/giphy last
/giphy one
/giphy to
/giphy post
/giphy here
/image nope
Curiously, this thread now crashes Chrome on my iPad every time. Works (for now) on chrome on my Moto 4X, though.
@UncleVinny Likely then we are close to crashing the thread enough that it will be closed. Perhaps. Still works on a elderly mac air.
Last? Winner
nope
/giphy crash
/giphy and
/youtube burn
/youtube because
/youtube I
/giphy win
winwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwin
Who won?
@caffeine_dude No one as the thread is still open and not locked.
/giphy me winner
@compunaut
/image you are not a winner
/image winning ticket
@compunaut
/image phffff
/giphy slow tiger
/giphy suckers!!!
/giphy not last
/image sigh
/giphy last breath
@compunaut if this is your last breath then you are out… as the dead can’t post to win.
/giphy last zombie
/image dead zombie
@Kidsandliz Is that an oxymoron?
@compunaut
/image stupid ox
/image undead
/youtube seriously?
/giphy srsly?
/image srslee?
/8ball are you being serious right now?
Most likely
Post
/image after post
/image let sleeping dogs lie
/image lie vs. lay
/image give it up dude
Well this comment section now takes forever to load.
/image last to load
@compunaut dudes are not gender limited. At least not by the people I know who use the word.
@Kidsandliz
I agree, but I wasn’t sure if everyone would be cool/comfortable with the specific /image that was generated. Seemed kinda sexist to me. <shrug>
For the eventual winner - a celebration (swiped from the photos I took this evening and then posted in another thread):
/giphy last fireworks
@compunaut Yeah but you will blow up with it so
/giphy you’re out
@compunaut Hmm yeah you are out of order too. Three tries on the gif and they all
/giphy struck out
/giphy last out
/giphy last to quit
/image quit it!
@compunaut
/giphy no way
/giphy what did I click into
@SkyyPunk foolishness
/giphy last fool
Looks like this thread is way shorter than the rename the fuko thread which has 1500+ responses. Bet it will be a long time before we break this one.
Someone has posted above me, someone will likely post below me, but I am the first, the only, and THE LAST person to post HERE.
I get to be below!
nope
/giphy below below
/giphy I just won!
/giphy nope
/image give it up
/giphy yup
/image seriously?
/giphy maybe
/giphy NEVER!!!
@Kidsandliz What is this ‘ad’ of which you speak?
/wrong thread
/giphy last
Not even going to try.
@jst1ofknd oh but you just did…
@Kidsandliz
No I didn’t!
@jst1ofknd fake news (smirk)
@Kidsandliz
Exactly!
@jst1ofknd don’t worry… I will get you later so that you don’t look like you were lying.
/giphy what’s going on here
@tnhillbillygal Foolishness. What else?
/giphy back to last
nope
/giphy yup
In for the loss.
@mike808 well then here is your loss. You are welcome.
@Kidsandliz Thanks. My condolences to you as well.
@mike808
/snort
/giphy not last
@eonfifty you are right
@Kidsandliz
.
Is it Friday yet?
/giphy Friday
.
!
Really.
yes
/giphy oh well
Wins what? A quip toothbrush?
@moose3425 Those will never ever be delivered!
Sigh
/giphy no sigh!
@ELUNO don’t you mean:
/image no end in sight
/giphy it ends here
@ELUNO nope
/giphy end
/giphy fun
/giphy it’s only fun when I win
@ELUNO spoil sport
Meh
/giphy Not meh
Welcome back to
/giphy more door
This thread is slow in loading. I bet it gets locked soon.
Oh my gravy, are we still doing this?! I guess we’re still doing this.
/giphy so stupid it’s impressive
/giphy magnificent really
should have just left it with me having the last word
/image last word
Hmm something wrong with /image… so maybe this is a threat?
/giphy last
even laster
/giphy Nothing is laster than this
Yes you are nothing
/giphy I am everything. I am last.
/image fail
/giphy win
No I win
/giphy stamp feet in tantrum for losing
oh my not what I intended /giphy fail
/giphy not last
/giphy I
/giphy do
/giphy win
/image Off with his head.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy snark
/giphy I
/giphy don’t
/giphy think
/giphy so
@ELUNO
/giphy you are correct, sir
/image nope you are losing
/giphy I
/giphy will
/giphy never
/giphy lose
/giphy this is the last post in the last post thread.
/giphy locked
/giphy who won?
No one won yet
/giphy did anyone win yet?
/image nope
