Goat Day 2: No socks... Must be my fault.
6Welcome to day two of my journey as Meh's official scapegoat for the month of March. Every day, I will do a little write up about what it means to be a Meh Scapegoat and try to answer your questions in as poor of a manner as possible.
THE BLAMES
Surprising light amount of blames today. It must be because spring is almost near. And I mean, really, can you blame us for having a bit of spring fever? Even though I specifically said I didn't buy any of the cedar planks on March 1st, I still got blamed for the sellout by user @readnj. I also got blamed for Mediocre Sock lack of delivery by @bluedog.... Speaking of which.
I was supposed to receive my Mediocre Branded socks today, but unfortunately due to Mother Nature not agreeing with my stance of Spring Fever, they've been delayed until Wednesday. Nothing like delayed disappointment.
TODAY'S DEAL
JBL Pebbles.... They're a USB Speaker thing from the company that brings us Speaker Dock Friday. The brand name reminds me of the PEBL from Motorola. Remember those phones? What shit. Kids, this is what we had to go with before iPhones!!!! Look at these things...
Hey @JasonToon, you could've lamented about phones before the preponderance of Smart Phones.
Today, their best use is to skip across a lake like an actual pebble. Useless.
THE FEED BAG
Today's feed bag question(s) come to us from user @dis_member:
"1. If you could have a goatly superpower, what would it be?
- If you could choose the next item to sell on Meh, what would you choose?"
One goatly superpower? Eyes like the fucking hypnotoad!
If you look closely, they resemble a goat.
Therefore, goats have mental powers! Half Life 3 confirmed!!!
And as for the next item to sell on Meh.... How about a nice smart watch? I mean, we're due for a liquidation with the Apple Watch coming like a freight train. Also, I'd love a really cool flux capacitor. Those are available right? It's 2015. Where's Doc Brown when you need him?
TODAY'S QUESTION
Now, my friends, I have a question for you: What was your favorite Cell Phone before the iPhone/Android wars. And if you show me that old man with the humongous Zack Morris Phone I will cut you.
Until tomorrow, BLEAT!
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This is already getting old.
Motorola Razr
@RedHot Just think, 29 more of these! I never give up a bit, even to the detriment of my health.
@BillLehecka or mine apparently
and I thought @joelmw talked a l... ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.
@Thumperchick Verbosity is a lovely quality in a goat, doncha think?
Screw what @RedHot says, I like the Goat Day updates. Don't have a favorite vintage cell phone, but I did highly covet one of these when I was youngster. Sad to say, I never got one.
When do we sacrifice the goat again?
@BillLehecka Hynotoad eyes definitely would be a crazy great superpower. Probably too much power for a goat though...
As far as favorite "dumb" phone, I really thought the Alias 2 was pretty sweet with e-ink 'technology'
@dis_member THE KEYBOARD REPRINTS, THIS IS THE FUTURE
@dis_member The Samsung Alias 2 was the hottest thing in 2009 when hubby and I each got one. We still have and use them.
Regarding socks: check with other addresses on your account. Mine appear to have gone to a family member who I've sent stuff to in the past.
Also, the goat thing will become way less fun if it gets pushed too hard. TIA.
@brandon No, I know where they are. They got delayed because of weather. And they're going to the right place. And no one is forcing anyone to read these things. This is how I show my thanks for being the goat. Love it, hate it, it don't matter just don't bite it.
@BillLehecka Uh. So is this what the meh forum has become while I've been away?
@brandon Not just this, theres also a lot of questions about canceling VMP
@RedHot That reminds me. How do I cancel my VMP? Can we make this a sticky or obvious question to answer?
@brandon https://meh.com/forum/topics/how-to-cancel-vmp-current-as-of-22515
@RedHot You knew I was joking right?
@brandon yup just making (trying to make) a point about everyone running into each other over VMP cancelation. There are so many different people asking the same question and too many people answering it. I guess it wasn't as clear here as it was in my mind. You're question accomplished it, I thought I had a gif that did as well...oh well, can't be clever every time I guess :-)
@RedHot I was only clarifying to avoid being perceived as one of Those Guys
@JonT thats it, thats it!
@JonT This is my son's favorite "Phone that was in the drawer that I get to play with now because I am only 3"
@JonT I loved that damn phone! My husband loved getting drunk and dipping it in candles.
@JonT God that was a good Phone... I quickly Jumped Ship when my Contract was up for the latest and Greatest POS, but a year later, gave it to my brother-in-law, he used it for another 4 years, part way through which he Dropped it off his tractor, into the freshly plowed field, took him a couple days to find it, rained in the meantime, let it dry for a few days, used it for 2 more years.
@JonT I splurged at the time and bought the Moto Razr V3i! That's the one that was Apple blessed to allow me to load up to fifty (50) ! of my iTunes DRMed tunes and I could use this really awkward USB to Headphone Jack Dongle to plug my headphones in so I could be the coolest kid around with the hip beats playin' on his iTunes Phone!
Heck, at least it was better than the Moto Rokr.
ps. the song limit was completely artificial - didn't matter how much storage I added to the phone, the contract between Moto and Apple said 50 so that's what it did. Certain countries had a 100 song limit, but not here.
pps. check out the awesome iTunes key that replaced the V3(not i)'s Message key!
I blame you for not giving the ball to Lynch!!!!!
@Teripie Whew!
@Barney @Teripie nope nope nope still your fault https://meh.com/forum/topics/whos-going-to-win-the-super-bowl#54ceefd05f4f46480173c0d2
@Lotsofgoats Oops! (purple blush)
Samsung Redhawk (SGH-A727). Thin, tough, wonderful candybar of a phone.
I got the email saying I would get socks, but not an email telling me the socks would ship. Is this also your fault?
Verbose goats. Whooda thunk?
@lisaviolet https://meh.com/forum/topics/goat-day-2-no-socks-----must-be-my-fault#54f5e1d21a0139e408a6d820
@joelmw I do blame you on this. Completely and totally.
@lisaviolet I'd take that blame, but I think @BillLehecka always had it in him. @Barney too. But mwahhahaha. That's @joelmwahhahaha.
@joelmw No, it's your fault. You started the daily goat message. If you hadn't set precedent, it most likely still wouldn't be set. Me, I liked posting GIFs. Still do.
(I'm really looking forward to our dead goat badge.)
@lisaviolet Have I missed confirmation that the dead goat badge is imminent or do we need to tag @JonT? Well there, I did it anyway.
@joelmw He said during your reign it was on the list, but there are more important things to be done. Like lunch or sumfin. Dunno. Hopefully before I'm eligible for Medicare.
@lisaviolet I was remembering that one. I hoped that my apathetic perusal had caused me to overlook a more substantial promise.
I may be in the minority on this but The Goat is way funnier as something the community finds ways to blame. A vocal Goat is the guy at the party explaining the punchline to every joke.
@BillLehecka Please blame yourself for not including my question in the question bag (it was in yesterday's thread).
@dashcloud I only answer one question per day.... Which is probably a good thing since some people here are forced to read this thread and are complaining that it exists. Way to hate fun, guys!
@BillLehecka fun? Never been a fan of it.
@BillLehecka So, do I need to repost it or will you answer existing questions before new questions?
@dashcloud @BillLehecka I like the idea of "Ask the Goat" like "Ask Irk." Maybe he'll answer. Probably not.
LG Chocolate 3 (Black)
Only damn flip phone with a built in FM transmitter.
This was my in-car entertainment for 3 years (until I walked into a door on a windy day and smooshed it to bits, even though it was in my front pocket...)
@Headly Oh man! I remember seeing these things when I was a tadpole and being amazed, because at the time every other phone weighed like 14lbs.
An LG-VX5500.
I could Kirk-to-Enterprise with this all day long. Still have it.
@gracion starTAC!
@gracion I loved my StarTAC!
This was the perfect pocket phone. Opened like a switch blade. Samsung Juke. I had the red one. Loved it!
I used an LG Envy2 for 5 years. I found out by accident that it could read my texts and I thought that was the best thing ever. I did NOT want to give it up, but alas, the battery just couldn't take it anymore.
Maybe this will let the manufacturers see there's still interest in bagged phones and inspire the next generation of iPhones. I've been saying for years we need more cloth* in our technology. (ETA: *Pleather?)
Well done, @BillLehecka. I meant to do this, but, alas, it proved too much for me. For which, now, I finally have someone to blame.
Oh, and in answer to your question: the Palm Treo 700p, which was pretty damn cool for its time, but especially for nor being a Treo 700w, which was the flakiest piece of shit phone I ever owned and convinced me I didn't ever want a Windows phone again.
Samsung Trace back in 2006 just before the iphone landed. I think it was supposed to be chick's phone, but it performed nicely and was super thin and light.
This is gonna be an awesome goat month.
And this is the phone I always wanted