Fall goat you down? (November 2024 scapegoat blame thread)

@ybmuG I mean, if you’re basing it on behavior…very unlikely. But age-wise, probably?

@ExtraMedium @ybmuG I have been accused of it, but never prosecuted.

@lonocat

@lonocat Actually you are joining the ranks of the dead goats… I shall blame @tohar1 for your misconception HOWEVER since technically you still have 45 minutes left of being a goat if you go by the calendar and clock rather than by @extramedium I can blame you too.

@Kidsandliz Maybe, but the symbol before my username now, looks to me like the same symbol for the fainting goats!

@lonocat I agree you could say it looks like that and what you will now see if you hover over your dead goat icon is scapegoat emeritus, on the forums it’s usually been referred to as the dead goat.

@Kidsandliz but if I’m dead, how do I still post in the forums?
/showme a living dead goat

@lonocat Just your goat designation is dead.

@lonocat

but if I’m dead, how do I still post in the forums?

The same way everyone else does, Pinky, while trying to take over the world!

@lonocat @werehatrack
/showme a cat trying to take over the world while his companion is goofing off

@lonocat @werehatrack Yeah, that checks out, since orange cats share one communal brain cell.

@lonocat
Welcome fellow inverted goat. And you’re right that icon looks suspiciously like it may have been blatantly ripped off?
Maybe that would be a good shoddy goods episode… the history of the meh goat phenom with historical background asides.

@IndifferentDude Why are those hours never paid back with interest?

@IndifferentDude @phendrick Lack of interest?

@IndifferentDude @macromeh @phendrick

Lack of interest?

Nah. They slept through when the offer of interest was in effect.

@Kidsandliz
Back in the 90’s our boy was 8 years old before he knew a halloween of trick or treating without rain! Seven years in a row it rained on halloween, we started dressing up as drowned rats! Lol

@Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer Growing up, we usually had snow on the ground for Halloween.
Then it would blow away and most of November would be clear, until closer to Thanksgiving.

@Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer @xobzoo
Please feel free to push that rain further east. We have had none, zero, zilch, nada, zip , bumpkis, rain for the entire month of October! I’m tired of watering things to keep them alive. Since the temperature is still in the mid 60s overnight things are trying to grow, I’m still getting tomatoes and jalapenos, but my grass looks like it could burst into flames if I snap my fingers. Stupid la Nina.

@chienfou @Lynnerizer @xobzoo But at least you don’t have to cut your grass? We had no rain for a month either so I feel for you.

@Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer @xobzoo
Actually want the grass (to cover the cardboard I mulched the garden with…)

@chienfou @Kidsandliz @xobzoo
That was 36 years ago when we didn’t see a dry Halloween but actually for the last few weeks we’ve had fire warnings as well. I hadn’t even realized it’s been THAT dry! Guess it’s pretty moist under the little rock I’ve been under.
Must be nice to still have fresh tomatoes in November. It’s only once in a while I miss Florida living and when I think of fresh grown tomatoes all year it does the trick.

@Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer @xobzoo
Yep. It’s been great! Especially since the plants were volunteers that grew in the (currently abandoned) chicken pen. They’re sprawling all over the yard, so I have to be careful when I mow, but I’m still getting cherry tomatoes about an inch or an inch and a half diameter on a regular basis. Also have a butt load of jalapenos that we’re working our way through. Give away 5 lb worth last week and started a batch of fermented hot sauce with some chipotles I made. We’ll see how that turns out. It’s my first attempt.

@chienfou @Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer @xobzoo Wow. It’s been warm and dry right up until last week and I was still getting tomatoes too, which was nice but NOT a good sign overall - we’re not supposed to have temps in the 70s in late October! So yeah, fire danger is high and scary here. We’re supposed to finally get rain/snow this week. I’m sad to have the tomatoes go, but it’s for the best.
Someone on Nextdoor was giving away fresh basil and gave me enough to fill my bathtub so now I have to make pesto!

@Kyeh
Since we have had absolutely zero rain this month my basil got toasted while we were gone on our cruise and poconos trip. There are a few leaves on it but it’s pretty well trashed. I’m bummed. I had intended to make pesto and basil vinegar out of it. Got about a half gallon of basil vinegar set up but that’s about it. . (That turns out to be a great way to use up the flowers.) I did manage to pull enough to make margarita pizza the other day and have made a couple of servings of caprese salad but it’s been slim pickings.
OTOH if it doesn’t freeze for another month we make a new crop of leaves. Keeping my fingers crossed and keeping it watered!

@chienfou How do make the basil vinegar? Do you use wine vinegar or ? It sounds like something I’d like!

@chienfou @Kyeh and what do you use it for? I am intrigued

@Kidsandliz That’s a lot of clicks!
/showme 6800 meh button clicks

@xobzoo Well that was appropriate for a change for AI. I’m in shock.

@Kidsandliz Congratulations!

@Kidsandliz @Kyeh
YES, CONGRATULATIONS!

@lonocat
I’m going to piggy back on your UN-BLAME! I opted to opt out before ever knowing they sold out, and my bank account was happy to have the extra money for me to spend on winter weight sweatpants for my guy! Woohoo, it’s a WIN WIN!

@jhinra I am sorry to hear that you are unemployed.

Hey - is there anyone out here who is able and willing to pay a year in advance of VMP for @jhinra so that person doesn’t lose, for circumstances beyond their control, what they can’t get back? AND meh (@Dave) if someone comes forward can @jhinra get their VMP back?

@tinamarie1974 It was pinned, and unpinned, above my pay grade. Further deponent sayeth not.

@werehatrack figured, but assumed you would have insight

@tinamarie1974
I guess the “faithfully devoted” will have to find reasons to bump this back up on a regular basis. I think maybe that was the motivation for unpinning it off the forum splash page.

@chienfou I guess you are right! Wonder how many folks can bump this thread on a daily basis

@chienfou @tinamarie1974 I’ll bump it now.
/image bump

/showme one squirrel clinging to each side of my garden shed, and a bunny crouched in front of it in the autumn

@mediocrebot Meh - squirrels need to be on the shed. Cute, though.

I wonder why the squirrels are all wearing onesies…

@werehatrack I was wondering the same thing!

@mediocrebot I blame the Nov goat for the squirrels wearing onesies!

@tinamarie1974
Love that gif, I used it just the other day!

@Lynnerizer it really speaks to me. Several people I would love to do that to IRL

@tinamarie1974
Yeah, my guy, like two minutes ago!

@ybmuG Scary baby!

@Kyeh @ybmuG that kid means business!!!

@Kyeh a four-rattle general!

@tinamarie1974 that could’ve been me - a fair distance between what I imagined and what actually happened

@werehatrack Rebump. The assholes at my surgeon’s office won’t even give me the courtesy of acting like they give a flying fuck about being responsible for causing my surgery date to get cancelled, and still haven’t said squat about a possible replacement date. (And that tells me they’re going to say it’s in April, and none of them wants to be the messenger. The surgeon, of course, isn’t going to involve himself in this, because royalty doesn’t apologize to livestock.)

@tinamarie1974

@tinamarie1974 My eyes!

@ybmuG

@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
Been to Chicago lately?

Is @tohar1 missing from both fantasy football and the goat thread?

@mediocrebot I didn’t say: a lame cat!

@lonocat @mediocrebot Don’t fuss… I tried one with a cat with cat print socks on. I just show the cat print socks in a pic in the main scene.

@macromeh Do they not allow you to book an appointment beforehand online? We can do that here. You still go to the office, but you have a reservation, and sail right in.

@Kyeh Nope, no reservations at the local (small town) DMV. The nearest DMV that does take reservations is a 1 hour drive away, and the next available appointment there was in December, a couple of days after the date my DL expires.
But it all worked out well anyway (thus the UNBLAME) !

@macromeh Oh, that was very lucky!

@Kyeh @macromeh so you had weeks to go? Amateur! I once told my boss I had to leave urgently and didn’t know when I would be back in the office if at all because I had just realized my license was expiring that day. There had to be nearly 100 people all sitting in those pews waiting for B964…

Actually only took a couple hours. Took a little ribbing when I got back, but I didn’t care. Besides, I deserved it.

@mycya4me You obviously do not live in Texas. Locally, this is considered a Feature.

@werehatrack HAHAHA, it is also in the Mid-Atlantic states, I was just trying to do a blame on a normal weather feature! hehehe

@Kidsandliz Nice socks!

@Kidsandliz I just put up my Keen sandals for the winter.
My feet get cold just looking at that photo.

@Kyeh smartwool brand bought on eBay or poshmark for cheap.

@lonocat well in the Deep South socks and keen’s work just fine. It’s in the snowbelt that there is this little minor problem.

of course, as kids we would slide down the front sidewalk (on a hill) in bare feet after we threw water on it to make it icey. Then we’d run inside and stand on the radiator. When our feet warmed up we’d do it again.

Eventually we had a good ice layer on the sidewalk and then we’d put our boots on. I don’t know if Mom thought if we were going to be that stupid we should suffer the consequences too bad so sad or if she had no idea we were in bare feet.

@lonocat We’d throw water on the unshoveled walk not straight on the cement.