Back to School (September 2020 scapegoat blame thread)

And now, rumor has it that the superintendent has tested positive.

@msklzannie My high school has started in a hybrid, but even then, we have nearly 1,000 people in the building a day. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

@SargassoC Since I last posted, the other elementaries closed for 2 days until after Labor Day and will also be going hybrid. Hybrid learning is scheduled through Oct 2. Also most of the 8th grade is now in quarantine. All extra-curricular activities were cancelled from Thursday until after Labor Day. Facial coverings are now required.

@msklzannie @SargassoC

@msklzannie @SargassoC Certainly opening of K-12 schools was/is a disaster waiting to happen. And making kids keep their masks all the way on their faces the entire time is going to be tough too. Especially with the little kids and the defiant ones. Schools around here - some opened and then shut, some delayed opening until this last Monday, and local colleges have a growing number of cases. Big mess.

I really think they just need to test all the kids at the end of this school year and hold back any who don’t know what they need to know so they actually get their education rather than just socially promote them. Where my daughter lives they can’t even get internet. Not to mention where would she come up with 3 computers and be able to make 3 little kids 7 and under to sit there all day for zoom school. All they get is worksheets. Not even the books. They learned little last school year after the school closed mid March and never re-opened. This is an educational train wreck in slow motion for so many kids for so many different reasons (not to mention the families who need the kids in school so they can work).

@Kidsandliz There are parts of our district that don’t have internet access as well, but that only affects the jr/sr high in regards to hybrid learning. The school provides laptops for the jr/sr high and tablets for the older elementary students. As far as the elementaries go, their hybrid model involves receiving packets for their at-home days.

Facial coverings (in my district) also include face shields as an option and I believe the district has enough for all of the elementary students (not sure about the jr/sr high). I know they’re not the best option (and students can wear facemasks instead/additionally), but they are better than nothing.

Part of the problem in my area is that many parents and other adults aren’t modeling proper (if any) facemask wearing, social distancing, and attitudes toward both. How do we expect the kids to comply if most people they see won’t?

@msklzannie Hey, hey hey. This isn’t my fault! By my account, this is @kuoh’s fault. He’s the one that started this whole pandemic! Or maybe it started with @amehzinggrace. Or maybe it’s the fault of @DrWorm for the botched reopening in the first place. It was the previous administration in any case, and I accept no responsibility. If you must blame someone in my cabinet for this, blame @ed. Thank you. I’m not accepting questions at this time. Good night.

@DrWorm @Ed @kuoh @msklzannie @Weboh this was soooooo not my fault… I’m just a victim here… maybe it’s yours for not goating sooner and sharing the fruit trees with us… perhaps this wouldn’t have happened if ppl had only eaten more fruits and decreased their vitamin deficiency… so tell us about cherry trees and stop shirking your blame…

@tinamarie1974 Sorry about that. I installed a virus which hacks people’s smart homes, and I guess it got into your dryer. Just forget I have the capability. I’m waiting until 2020 is over to start my world domination, because I don’t want you all to have to put up with one more thing in 2020.

@CaptAmehrican Just as long as you don’t think of a weeb. I didn’t even know what that was when I got my username. At least Mr. Boh looks sporty and manly, where weebs are thin and lanky.

@f00l I’m sorry. I sent all the cold weather to you guys so our summer would last until January, instead of December like it usually does.

@Weboh

There ya go!

I understand!

/giphy endless summer

@f00l
/image florida endless summer license plate

@f00l @Weboh The month of January gets COLD in Jacksonville. Maybe you can sort of balance the cold so it’s chilly for three months, but the northern weather never sets new records. Good goat!

@tinamarie1974 Bummer! Did the vet say how it would affect him, if at all?

@tinamarie1974 I’m sorry. Collecting puppy toes is my fetish. I didn’t think you would miss it. You can have it back if you want.

@ThunderChicken it won’t affect him at all. It just makes him a unique puppy!

@Weboh nice! You can keep it. I kinda like calling him “Three Toe!”

@msklzannie In that case, I’m sure if I’m sorry or not. I may or may not have hacked your OnStar system.

@msklzannie oh my God, I love it!

@RiotDemon I knew you would.

@f00l
Click to the story to see the brief vid. It won’t embed here. : (

@f00l Sorry. I knew that guy used to be a tree-removal expert, so I had to send one of my minions there to teach him a lesson.

@Weboh

I love trees (about which I know next to nothing), think we need way more of them, and worship your tree knowledge.

It always saddens me to see a bulldozed area intended for home construction, when I know those eventual home owners will have to re-plant trees in order to have nice residences. The property developers know where the streets and houses are going. They could leave a lot of trees on place if they cared at all

And, apart from that, what public official at any level couldn’t benefit morally from a good goat headbutt once in a while?

@Kidsandliz I’m not sorry about this one. Now that you can’t have junk food for your sweets, you’ll have to eat fruit to satisfy your sweet tooth. Eventually you’ll like fruit so much you’ll plant your own tree and my work will be done.

@Weboh Your fault I can’t plant a tree. Not allowed to even go in the back yard of the apt building right now (foundation repairs), can’t plant anything there even if I could. Can’t plant one in the apt. Cats. Need I say more. BLAME AGAIN!!!

EDIT - it is JUNK FOOD. Fruit is not junk food so is not substituteable. It was to satisfy my chocolate craving and not sweet tooth. They do not make chocolate fruit trees. So blame for that as well.

@Kidsandliz @Weboh

…they do not make chocolate fruit trees…

I mean, actually there is : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma_cacao

@tinamarie1974 @Weboh That is a defective chocolate tree. There is just cacao pods hanging from it which is not yet chocolate. Apple trees don’t just have apple pods hanging that you then have to process to get apples (hmm but if they had ipods hanging now that would be cool LOL). I’ll grant credit that it is a fruit tree though.

BUT to be a chocolate tree it needs chocolate items hanging from it. No Trader Joe’s belgium chocolate bars hanging from it. Or oreo cookies. Or brownies… Yes I realize there might not be a crumb of real chocolate in oroes but I refuse to read the ingredients to find out… not to mention I wanted my oreo crack to last all week and it didn’t!

PS so more blame that they don’t make a $2.50 bag of oreos big enough to last all week.

@Kidsandliz @Weboh well, we know who to blame.

But U will tell you what my mom always told me …

/giphy you can’t always get what you want

Lol

@Kidsandliz @Weboh *I will tell you

@tinamarie1974 @Weboh NO NO NO NO NO!!!
/image I NEED my weekly chocolate fruit fix

@tinamarie1974 @Weboh ^^^^ see? It is even in fruit shapes. So where is that chocolate tree? That would be the chocolate tree I’d want. I don’t like to cook so spending the time to turn pods into chocolate… well. Just nope. LOL
/giphy I TOLD you so!

@Kidsandliz @Weboh Hhuummmm…

But you would appreciate it more if you had to process the beans into milk/dark chocolate. Also think about how much cheaper it would be. You could have MORE!

@tinamarie1974 @Weboh Yes I could have more but no I would not appreciate it more (grin). I hate to cook and reading through all the steps you have to take to make chocolate and all that you would have to buy, this is not a fast or cheap process. Nice try though.

PS and if I got my chocolate in M&M form, you do know that is vitamin M. Right? When I used to take adjudicated youth canoeing across the state of FL we’d each (the staff) fill a 1 liter water bottle full of M&M’s. I perfected eating them while paddling in the stern (back end) of a canoe with the JD in the bow (front end) not even noticing. At night we’d ask each other if we had our Vit. M yet. Kids would ask us about that. We’d tell them eating the food they had 28 days (which they complained about all the time as a lot of it was vegetarian) just about all the time meant we might be deficient in Vit. M; they didn’t need to worry about that as they’d be going back to ‘regular’ food in however many days it was from their question.
/image gullible kids

@Kidsandliz @Weboh well, I tried

@tinamarie1974 @Weboh Yup you tried and I appreciate it. Grin.

Actually UNBLAME. Before I threw out the empty package I checked the corners and found 1 and 3/4 of an oreo tucked into a corner hidden by the packaging!!! I am back in business. Now the big debate. When to eat them. Divide by 5 since counting today there are 5 days until I can buy my next junk food, eat them all at once to end the torture of looking at them in a small zip lock… Decisions decisions decisions.

@Kidsandliz @Weboh oh, you eat broken cookies

@tinamarie1974 @Weboh As a matter of fact growing up when mom made cookies, especially christmas cookies we only got to eat the broken ones or the burnt ones as she gave away most of the rest of the others or was saving them for a specific purpose at home. Of course when we were old enough to help bake them… umm… well let’s not discuss what happened to her “good cookie” yield then. LOL

@Kidsandliz @Weboh I vet I know what happened! I have a weird tick, I don’t eat broken cookies. Never have. I know it is odd

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@tinamarie1974 I’ll take all your broken cookies - except if they are those other kind of cookies (smirk)

/giphy she’s lost her cookies

@tinamarie1974 repeated giphy fail. I give up.

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 @Weboh Tinamarie - what do you do with the broken ones??

@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @Weboh uummmmm…Well first I don’t eat that many cookies, not a sweets person. However, if I have a craving and buy/make some and there is “cookie carnage”, I save them for my sister. She is happy to have them, broken or whole!

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 @Weboh Oh, okay!

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 @Weboh broken cookies & cookie parts must be eaten immediately. I consider it an act of mercy so To alleviate their obvious suffering. It might be considered very selfish to leave them to suffer longer, broken and battered (see what I did there?), so that you wouldn’t have a long off a wait. Please do the humane and consume them immediately! (Unless you’ve no milk or coffee to wash them down with, in which case they’ll just have to cookie up!)

@Kidsandliz @lomerson2 @Weboh oh no, no, no. There is just no way I can bring myself to eat a broken one, and never with milk or coffee Maybe a hot cup of tea.

@lomerson2 @tinamarie1974 @Weboh Maybe if you just shut your eyes so you don’t see they are broken you can eat them while drinking your cuppa then. If necessary scoop them up with a spoon.

@Kidsandliz @lomerson2 @Weboh you are hilarious.

But at least it will help with this!

@Kyeh Before I saw the 53 I thought someone had reversed the numbers on the 38 and that was what the blame was for LOL. Hope it helps with the fires. They look horrible this year.

@Kyeh that is crazy!!

@Kyeh What the heck?! I am so sorry. I need to scold the scientist building my weather machine. It wasn’t supposed be tested for another 6 months!

@Kyeh
The Rockies?

@Kidsandliz I think it is helping although they said it won’t completely put them out. We’re better off than California, certainly.

@Weboh Hah - it’s just 2020 being 2020, I guess!

@tinamarie1974 Isn’t it!? I was just out knocking snow off some of the shrubs and smaller trees.

@f00l Yes.

@Kyeh how much did you get?

@tinamarie1974 So far 3", big fluffy flakes. It started out with rain, and of course the ground was so warm that when it turned to snow it melted for a while. It’s supposed to keep snowing till tomorrow.

@Kyeh oh I am so jealous. You must post pics at some point. Pretty please!!

@tinamarie1974 I posted one further down (although it came out sideways). It’s my Rose of Sharon bush still in bloom under the snow.

@CaptAmehrican You’re a little late. @f00l posted the same thing. The guy deserved it though–he cut down a fruit tree! What did he expect the goat would do to him?!

@f00l @Weboh well it is your fault I mossed fools post and thus was late posting

@CaptAmehrican @Weboh

Watch out! You might get headbutted!

/giphy goat headbutt

@Kyeh Need snow. Mail me about 5 tons of it please.

@Kidsandliz I think California called first dibs!

@Kyeh AAAAAND I just had a power outage! But it came back on … hope it stays on because it’s cold in here! Heavy snow on the power lines will do this sometimes.

@Kyeh hopefully you have a fireplace!?!?!?!?

@Kyeh @tinamarie1974
/giphy it’s snowman time!!!

@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 Not what I was looking for but this is so weird I needed to keep it.

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 Haha - no fireplace, and no fire-breathing snowman either. There’ve been multiple short power outages last night and today, but nothing too long.

https://vocaroo.com

You’re welcome.

@therealjrn thanks. I’ll have to see if when I play the recording I made on the phone it picks it up in a decent way since there appears to be no way to upload what I have already recorded. Can’t do it now as I am trapped in a zoom meeting that goes on for 1:45 min more.

@Kidsandliz It has an upload button. It’s right there with the little up arrow.

It’s the one that says “Upload” right next to it, underneath the robot.

@therealjrn Thanks. Had to open in it in a different browser for that to come up. It must hate an older version of safari (haven’t upgraded my system since mac’s changeover to 64 bit as my computer is 7+ years old and not really enough memory anymore to deal with that, not to mention much of my software would then need upgraded to 64 bit too so am just ignoring that until things become totally unworkable).

@Kidsandliz Maybe somebody can buy you a new computer.

@therealjrn Oh, dear, I almost forgot my cue – I’m rich, I can write a check!

@Kidsandliz I’m sorry. It’s actually part of a project I’m working on at the moment: Put portals in other people’s basements so I can dump my extra stuff in them all. We can’t have basements in Florida, so I need all the extra space I can get. I’ll be done installing the portal soon, don’t you worry.

@Weboh Good thing I don’t have a basement then as I am working on downsizing my stuff left over then I lived in a house (now live in a 2 room apt). No need for more stuff Oh wait. You are using their basements for stuff you don’t want to get rid of? I presume then that this portal also makes your stuff invisible to them in case it is ‘good’ stuff? (grin).

Actually make sure you patent that portal. You’d put the trucking industry out of business being able to move stuff like that. Would have loved to have one of those when I moved 2500+ miles more than once. 4 day drive each time with a kid in the car. And cats that didn’t seem to get laryngitis.
/image beam me up Scottie

@Kyeh thanks, that is very pretty!!

@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 I miss having snow - not snow belt level (used to live in that), but enough to have 4 seasons and enjoy it. Not sure I’d want snow in Sept or April or something though. Had it in mid August in NW Ontario while canoeing. Leaves came out on the trees in mid June so not entirely surprising to have intermittent snow then warmer in Aug.

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 I like the way it melts quickly around here; I wouldn’t like that stuff that stays all winter in dirty piles in places like Minnesota.

@Kidsandliz @Kyeh it melts quickly here as well, but we do not get it very often.

@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 I spent a century in Minnesota, one winter. When I left in July, there were still dirty pockets of snow under trees.

@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 As kids we dug an igloo in one of the huge church parking lot snow plow piles next door and then slept in it that night. So those piles of snow are good for something. Oh we’d also make the sides of those slick and slide down them on plastic LOL

@Kidsandliz @OldCatLady @tinamarie1974 Ugh!

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 Oh, now THAT is cool - it sounds like you had a fun childhood for sure!

@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 I am amazed, looking back, what our parents let us do. We were more or less free range kids. But then again so were a number of kids in the neighborhood.

@lisaviolet
/image trash pandas

@lisaviolet A bit pricy but I had the same problem and this fixed the problem.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GAZZIMY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

@franksmeh Thanks. We have 11 cats, most of them in their teens, none are chipped. If we had just youngsters, we’d consider it.

Partial unnlame. Vet thinks he is ok. Got an anti-nausea shot and he gets to eat (thank god) Just gotta keep an eye on him for the next few days. I remove one of my four blames

@tinamarie1974 Hope he gets over whatever he has sooner rather than later.

@Kidsandliz thanks.

@mike808 No, definitely lawful good. The deal threads aren’t usually full of vitriol like the political threads are. Now everyone gets a little saner. Win/win.

@j2 Sorry. It was for your own good. Now you’ll have to think long and hard about if you really want to keep your VMP.

@ybmuG yeah seriously! (grin)

@ybmuG I’m not sorry. I was under the impression everyone hates the sales on Meh and only buy things out of impulse. I just saved you half a day of impulse buys. You should be thanking me!

@Weboh yeah, you’re probably right…

Or more like you saved me from half a day of thinking “the next one…THAT will be something I want!”

@OldCatLady ahhhhhhh, uhmmmm…

Is it working now?

@RiotDemon No! ‘Something went terribly wrong.’

@OldCatLady weird. It worked for me. Deal of the day was a cuisinart stainless steel pan set.

Probably going to have to write in to support since I can’t replicate it.

@RiotDemon Oh, NOW it works perfectly. It’s still the goat’s fault. Thanks, I’ll tell support next time, if it allows me to.

@stolicat I’m here to put out fires and take blame… and I just ran out of fires!

@stolicat @Weboh Move west young goat… I hear there is a wealth of fires out there for you to test your skills against.

@stolicat @Weboh I would bet that’s some sort of stress relief. When everything is burning down I bet you take each small victory.

@stolicat
/youtube inmate firefighter

@unksol California is moving legislatively to remove the barriers for inmates to be employed as firefighters after their release. I think some other states already do this.

@stolicat that would be nice they could sure use them

@tinamarie1974 Furnace? What is this thing you call furnace? Here we still need this thing called an A/C. Besides who needs a furnace when you have your pup cuddled up against you?

Edit - I sure miss 4 seasons and the lovely autumns we had in the midwest - sunny and warm but not hot during the days, cool but not cold at night.

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 You mean you miss three of the seasons. I don’t know many people who actually like winter; they just like the idea of it. December: “Oh neat, everything’s covered with snow and it’s all transformed into a winter wonderland!” January 2nd: “I’m cold, freezing, dying, and miss light and green. Kill me now.”

@Kidsandliz @Weboh I winter!!! Not just the idea of it. Much prefer it over a hot, humid summer.

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 @Weboh lol it hit 36 last night. I tested the fireplace and furnace for what’s coming. Annual fall ritual.

Still be a bit till they are actually needed.

@tinamarie1974 @Weboh Nah I actually like winter. Grew up in the snow belt/lake effect snow. Skiing, X-C skiing, ice skating, sledding, snowmen, snow angels, and snow ball fights… I do NOT like 5 months of it however, nor scraping off the car, white outs if I have to drive (was in a 25+ car pile up once that way on the highway), shoveling snow… And in the midwest I miss the sunlight in the winter. I could do without 5 months of hot and humid. And the midwest has these wonderful autumns - warm but not hot during the day and cool at night, blue skies, sun, white puffy clouds…

@tinamarie1974 @unksol @Weboh

<>lol it hit 36 last night.

That would be celsius. Right?

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 @Weboh nope I think meh is still US only? We had a frost warning last night. It is going to bounce back to nice fall temps the rest of the week it looks like. But down south might still be running the AC.

But as I’m sure you know its good to test your equipment ahead of putting it into full time service

@tinamarie1974 This morning it is 66 here. YEA!! Finally not a high in the 90’s today. From how the weather woman is talking about it you’d think we were all going to freeze to death. Don’t think that woman has ever lived in northern MN or any other place that hits sub zero temps on a regular basis. Heck probably not even any place that hits any temperatures below freezing on a regular basis. LOL.

@Kidsandliz nice! I was a bit smarter this time. Left the furnace on overnight set at 65. Work up this morning and it felt good!

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 @unksol @Weboh How does @unksol make this advice sound so… dirty? Is it just me?

@Kidsandliz @OldCatLady @unksol @Weboh

/giphy brown chicken brown cow

@Kidsandliz @OldCatLady @tinamarie1974 @Weboh lmao. I was waiting for that. I saw it after I saved it but was just like… Eh let’s see what happens.

@tinamarie1974
I assume you were going for
/youtube brown chicken brown cow

Had never actually seen the music video lol. It’s a little strange

@unksol well I didn’t know there was a music video!! I don’t follow the country and western music

@tinamarie1974 lol I just listen to the radio. That is definitely one of the stranger ones.

@tinamarie1974 So he’s all better? Did you do his dna yet?

@sammydog01 seems to be ok, thanks. Vet thinks the time between dinner and breakfast was too long. She thinks he just has a sensitive stomach, so she suggested a late night (830/900) kibble snack ~ a 1/4 cup. Seems to be working and he appreciates the “extra” meal!

DNA swab was conducted yesterday and I mailed it off today. Results in 3-5 weeks. Should we take bets on his actual breed? Might be fun. Maybe I will post something when I get the results.

@tinamarie1974 YES! Link that photo here? I want to guess! OR START A NEW TOPIC!

@sammydog01 I will start a new topic, but for now remember he is a weirdo. He likes to do forward rolls in the grass and blow bubbles with his nose. Such a strange boy!!

@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 I mean aren’t all boys strange?

@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 He’s got a lot of personality!

@Kyeh @sammydog01 you have no idea. His personality is exhausting

Did I mention he has a serious gambling problem

@Kyeh @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 Hopefully after that game he will bring you home a lot of money and you can hire a nanny (grin).

@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @sammydog01 eh, he plays for kibble!

/giphy giggle

@sammydog01 @unksol and yes, most boys are strange! I didn’t think guys knew though.

@tinamarie1974 @unksol My girl can hold 3 extra large dog bones in her mouth at the same time. how’s that for talent?

I’m thinking of signing her up for the sexier than a squirrel class. Walking her is terrible.

@sammydog01 @unksol omg!!! That is quite a talent. Pup is still trying to figure out how to grab two toys at once. He has not yet been successful.

@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 self awareness is a thing. not that everyone has it

@sammydog01 @unksol it is a daily struggle

@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 OH, he’s so cute with glasses on!!!

@sammydog01 that sucks - you gonna cancel til it’s safe?

@lisaviolet I can’t, still have several months left on my contract. Gonna go watch minions tomorrow.

@sammydog01 That’s just wrong.

@lisaviolet Honestly if my monthly dues help keep them afloat it’s worth it. But maybe some nice classic movies or something?

@sammydog01 That’s really thoughtful of you. I bailed on MoviePass. lol

@lisaviolet MoviePass bailed on me. It was sad.

@sammydog01 I’m sorry. I really like Minions, so I pay all the theaters to make sure they keep on showing it. My subsidy is what’s really keeping them afloat.

@lisaviolet Oh, that was your package? Sorry. The delivery guy was holding a package when I headbutted him, and I guess he dropped it in the wrong bin.

@Kidsandliz Eh, I’m not sure mandating masks did much anyway, because people who don’t want to wear them won’t wear them correctly.

I work in a retail store, and a quarter of the people don’t wear masks over their noses, and another quarter actually pulls them down to talk. They’ll mumble something over the counter and I’ll ask them to speak up. Instead, they lean closer and pull off the mask and keep mumbling.

These obviously aren’t the people who know how the virus spreads and are concerned about protecting other people–they’re only wearing the mask because they have to, following the “dumb gubermint regulation.” But they only follow it halfheartedly, so it does no good. I’d rather them not wear masks at all so it’s easier to tell from a distance the people you need to keep a distance from.

@Weboh That may be true but it is still dumb ass stupid to not require them anymore because now even fewer people will wear them.