Drum roll, please! June 2019 Blame Thread

@Barney Do I get points for being more than meh and starting before I was tagged?

@tinamarie1974 No, you don’t. But you’re working your way to being named Goat for July, too.

@Barney uummmm. NNNOOOOOO

/giphy goat stomp

Not a goat (or a sheep), but I’ll take it.

@zinimusprime you can try, but I suggest finding the nearest microwave and warming it up. Wait it has been hours. Just go to the nearest Starbucks, Panera or Tim Hortons and get a fresh cup!

/giphy hot coffee

@zinimusprime

@chienfou

/giphy Lets Go Blues

@chienfou @tinamarie1974 ummm…that’s a blue JACKETS gif.
Perhaps you unknowingly indicated where your team will be also.

@chienfou @mfladd oh yawn! Someone must be nervous, looking for opportunities to throw a dig. I just typed in the random giphy and moved on.

I am very tired from laying awake, in bed, frustrated and unable to sleep last night. The random pic was the least of my concerns sir

@ruouttaurmind Why don’t people follow the noise laws anymore?! In my township they’re not allowed to start annoying the crap out of us until 7 a.m.

@cinoclav 7AM in my city as well. Usually it’s the landscape maintenance guys running those 190db leaf blowers at 6AM. Calling the police on the landscapers nets a 2 hour wait for an officer to respond. By that time the landscapers are long gone. I could have called about the roofers… I’m sure they’ll be there all day. But by the time an officer responded I would be leaving for work anyway.

Hopefully they’ll be done with all the pounding today and I won’t have to listen to it again tomorrow morning. Typically they’ll knock out a shingle roof in one day. Well, two. One day to strip, one day to shingle.

@cinoclav @ruouttaurmind
Sheesh. Let your neighbor create jobs in peace.
Damned over-regulation!

Blame @tinamarie1974
My streets department fired up the pile-driver at 7am to break up the concrete to replace the street. Whoomp! Whoomp! Whoomp! Cats freaked out at the mini-earthquakes. Then the scraping of the bucket loader to load the chunks into big dump trucks. At least they didn’t start during the school year since what they’re replacing is on the bus route.

@mike808 Damn socialists…

@ruouttaurmind we should have chatted! I was up aaallllllll night too. My hotel neighbor had her tv so loud I could clearly hear the infomercials playing

I suggest going across the street and punching the foreman in the throat if he shows up early tomorrow. That will get their attention! Nnooo not really

/giphy throat punch

@Kidsandliz good luck on your scan, Liz!

@Kidsandliz hope it goes well!

@tinamarie1974 @moonhat Thanks. I get the results Thursday (having the usual anxiety reaction to waiting since sometimes the news is OK and sometimes not so much so). Have a splitting headache from the contrast fluid. I don’t know what was different this time but I felt like crap after the heat and tight throat feeling went away (that part is normal for this stuff, the continuing bit isn’t).

On the up side there is a Trader’s Joe and Ikea in town which I will visit before I drive home. Oh and a whole earth catalog store too. Except at Trader’s Joe not buying, but I like to look.

@Kidsandliz @moonhat @tinamarie1974

Hope it’s good news.

Re shopping, hope it’s way fun.

We’re a long way from 1969, I fear. And so is the WEC.

@f00l @moonhat @tinamarie1974 It’s called the Whole Earth Provisions. Camping stuff plus other stuff. Next to the container store near the Galleria in Houston. Didn’t mean to type catalog (especially since they don’t even sell stuff on line).

@moonhat @tinamarie1974 Well it was a mixed review. Follicular non-hodgkin’s in my liver and some abdominal nodes. Not big enough to do anything about at this point in time. With luck they might shrink/go away since this crap waxes and wanes all by itself (done that rodeo before). So overall the news wasn’t all that bad.

@f00l @moonhat @tinamarie1974 I take that back they now have an online presence although not even close to complete with respect to what they sell.

@f00l @Kidsandliz @moonhat @tinamarie1974 The Whole Earth Catalog! I was rummaging through some boxes and came across my copy. It was fun thumbing through the odd articles and items. Oddly enough… There were a couple of approximately 50 year old “leaves” that were carefully pressed between a few of the pages.
hmmm… I must have been a radical back then… lol

@f00l @Kidsandliz @moonhat i will have to look. Never heard of them

@daveinwarsh @f00l @Kidsandliz @moonhat @tinamarie1974 I knew I was right to be suspicious of your “garden”

@tinamarie1974

@therealjrn @tinamarie1974 Know what you mean… I came back from Daughter’s wedding and someone hacked mine. Got into an acct and charged stuff… fortunately, they suspected it was fraud and cancelled but had to wait a few days to get the grand back. But the really bad part was…their botty thing signed my email up for almost 1700 newsletters around the globe! ugh! I think I’ve got most of it taken care of but I’m still unsubscribing from many every. single. day. And, unfortunately, half are foreign and I have to paste part into the translator to find where the unsubscribe link is. So on your knees goat! The top mistress is casting blame!

@therealjrn @tinamarie1974

So on your knees goat! The top mistress is casting blame!

I believe this could be @lseeber seeking nomination for the July goat.
/giphy inner goat

@lseeber @therealjrn @mike808

So sorry you had to deal with that. People are assholes! Hopefully they are found and punished accordingly.

As far as being my high mistress, I am the Mistress Goat and I do not take commands. Now for your punishment.

@mike808, fully agree. This is a good July nomination.

@mike808 @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 We are at an impass. I am not a receiver of punishment. I only dole out.

@mike808 @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 lol… definitely not seeking. My presence here is sporadic at best.

@lseeber @mike808 @therealjrn yup. Sounds like a GoaT answer!

@lseeber @mike808 @tinamarie1974

Point of order–since this isn’t the real June 2019 blame thread–all nascent nominations are null and no good.

@lseeber @mike808 @therealjrn ooohhhh new word!

@lseeber @therealjrn @tinamarie1974
Blame! You can’t just evaginate a duly proffered suggested nomination with cunning lingual skills!

@mike808 @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 cunning lingual skills can be a good thing.

@lseeber @mike808 @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 most definitely

@msklzannie Being a lobster is ok until they throw you in the pot.

@lseeber I look and feel like that boiled lobster. I’m sure I will be peeling by this coming weekend… just in time for a cousin’s wedding.

@msklzannie That’s how it always goes.

@msklzannie might I suggest

/giphy umbrella

@tinamarie1974 I was in the shade of a tree the 1st 2 games. The sun inconsiderately moved. I don’t think an umbrella would have prevented all of the sunburn but it likely would have pissed some people off because it would have blocked the view of the field. Sunscreen would have worked best although part of my sunburn is in an area I can’t reach. Leaving after the 1st 2 games would have also worked but I wasn’t the driver.

@msklzannie

@sammydog01 Some of my shirts have Amazon as the origination instead of Woot. I don’t know why it bothers me, but it does.