Blame for an impending sleepless night. As a reminder that I still live in an “up and coming” city, it’s not even midnight and (illegal) fireworks are already being fired off.
“J’Accuse…!” (French pronunciation: [ʒaˈkyz], “I Accuse…!”) was an open letter published on 13 January 1898 in the newspaper L’Aurore by the influential writer Émile Zola.
In the letter, Zola addressed President of France Félix Faure and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer who was sentenced to lifelong penal servitude for espionage. Zola pointed out judicial errors and lack of serious evidence. The letter was printed on the front page of the newspaper and caused a stir in France and abroad. Zola was prosecuted for libel and found guilty on 23 February 1898. To avoid imprisonment, he fled to England, returning home in June 1899.
Other pamphlets proclaiming Dreyfus’s innocence include Bernard Lazare’s A Miscarriage of Justice: The Truth about the Dreyfus Affair (November 1896). As a result of the popularity of the letter, even in the English-speaking world, J’accuse! has become a common generic expression of outrage and accusation against someone powerful.
Blame: I was reading something here and for no reason remembered that I had a check from the Power company for my thermostat delivered yesterday - but where is it? Then I remembered I threw out all the junk mail (or I thought was junk mail) for the trash tomorrow!!!
Unblame: I immediately got up and retrieved the trash bag and found the check in the bottom of an empty Walmart bag Free Wifi Thermostat Day!!!
Blame: my recently repaired car has a brake light out, and I already signed on the insurance paperwork. Unblame: I snared a 2-way dash cam on a lightning deal.
/giphy rear end crash
Blame: Since I didn’t win the lottery or find one of those burlap bags full of money over the holiday; I have to go back to work tomorrow Oh the horror!!
@TheFLP I believe it is those things that fall off the back of a brinks truck, oh, say, 20 minutes AFTER you have driven down that street (that happened to me once many years ago - the 20 minutes after thing). Oh wait, you are supposed to return that money so I guess it is off to work you go.
Blame that the Dawgs couldn’t find it in them to play like the championship was on the line.
Unblame that it wasn’t the fiasco that was LSU vs UCF in the Ejection Bowl. At least LSU won (go SEC) and maybe UCF will quit fucking whining about belonging in the BCS.
OK so technically some of this is @tnhillbillygal’s fault. First (already blamed) I drove 600+ miles in the driving rain. So now I go to come home and I drive all day on the 31st (@tnhillbillygal’s fault) in the driving rain, some of the time with winds up to 40-50 mph, with misaligned headlights (pointing down and to the left, did not have time at my mom’s to get that fixed).
THEN… I bag it at 10:30 at night (vans, heavy cross winds that high, driving rain, misaligned headlights… were enough to collectively have me bag driving any longer) and sleep in my car in a rest area. Too tired so don’t get into my sleeping bag, just pull two fleece blankets over me. Seriously @mike808 what the heck were you thinking having the temp go down to 34 degrees so I wake up freezing at 12:30am? I drag my frozen ass out from under the blankets to find the sleeping bag, and then another blanket to put over my head (yeah the hud staff thieves have been at it again, this time my lovely mountain hardware fleece hat and thick fleece gloves - they are older and so much thicker than the newer crap, oh and a nice, thicker sweatshirt “walked” too). So now I am sort of warm. At least the blanket over my head blocks most of the streetlight light (so unblame).
Anyway, for reasons unknown at about 3am a caravan of hard top jeeps pull in. 9 of them. Do they park like normal cars? Nope. They park at right angles to the parking spaces. I was too tired, and it was too cold, to get out and find out why earth there is a bunch of jeeps traveling in a caravan. They were having themselves some sort of nosy fest before settling for the remainder of the night in their respective vehicles.
Here is the unblame part. Still no snow, ice or sleet. And other than a drizzle on the first so light that you had to manually turn the wiper on and off (so that is a blame) the rain finally quit.
Um, I proactively gave all my blame this month to your goatdom last month. My responses this month are those of my own and not due to requests from prior goats. Dem’s da rulez.
Oh yeah. Forgot this blame. So I stopped at not one but two Gander Mountain stores on the way home (none in this state). Camping World bought that chain and then wrecked it. It was one of the better camping gear/clothing stores around and now all they carry is enough guns to kill the entire free world and fishing stuff to fish out the oceans of the world. They also carry a ton of no name junk to go with their billion dollar RV busses and trailers (go figure - well unless once you bought one of those you have no money left perhaps?). They told me they are discontinuing carrying north face too. That stuff is on serious sale. I did find a very nice north face sleeping bag for $44 so that is an unblame. I shouldn’t have bought it since I am broke, but I need it and likely can resell it if I need to for far more than I paid for it. Too bad I didn’t have that the night before. I am leaving this in my car for the apocalypse. Or when I drive to Houston and sleep in my car there too.
I was hoping this was an anomaly, but the first team I looked up was the Florida Gators. Big mistake.
The first live alligator, Albert, came to UF in 1957. Several different live alligators assumed the role of Albert over the years, and even a robotic, motorized reptile held the role. It wasn’t until 1970 that Albert became personified on the field as a full-body vinyl costume.
Reporting on scientific studies often scares us with rules (“Don’t eat raw flour”) and an exaggerated view of their consequences (“because you or your loved ones could get sick and die”).
That scare-into-submission tactic is problematic because it teaches all of us to be poor risk assessors.
Slate’s L.V. Anderson criticizes the “abstinence only” approach instituted by the FDA after the 2016 flour recall. Instead of blindly following that directive, Anderson advocates a calculated risk strategy: “You should educate yourself about the risks of raw flour and make your own decision about whether they’re acceptable, instead of letting the FDA’s doom-and-gloom warnings automatically scare you away from one of life’s most delicious treats.”
56 sick people.
45 million pounds of flour.
The indulgence of a snuck bite of raw chocolate chip cookie dough.
Each of these pieces of information deserves weight in our risk calculations about household dangers.
@lisaviolet@mfladd@mike808@OldCatLady Ah but it doesn’t say if the 45 million pounds of flour was all raw cookie dough people ate rather than the total market of flour used for everything flour is used for… That would change the statistics (risk assessment) a lot.
Mix the egg and cake mix together, then fold in the cake mix. The recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of pie filling, but I just used the entire can. And I fold it in, I don’t beat it in with the mix.
Use non stick spray on the inside of the pan, pour the mixture in, cover it with a piece of aluminum foil that has been coated on the underside as well. (So the stuff doesn’t stick to it.)
Pour 1 1/2 cups of water into the Instant Pot, place the container with the cake mix onto a trivet.
Close the lid, lock the lid, manually set the timer for 28 to 35 minutes (I just go with the 35 minutes), cook on high. When the timer goes off, let it natural release for ten minutes, then quick release.
It doesn’t make a lot and it’s really moist, spongy, almost, but it’s tasty. Especially with ice cream.
@mike808 If it would fit inside an Instant Pot, I don’t see why not. I have a six quart Instant Pot.
I use a small Corning Ware pan I’ve had forever (before marriage, so that’s been a while). I use the steam rack that came with the pot, it has handles and this little pan of mine fits perfectly inside of it and the handles of the steam rack fit perfectly over the handles on the Corning Ware.
BLAME - kitten woke me up trying to eat my foot through the blanket and then trying to dig a tunnel to get there via the blanket portion over my shoulder. Please explain to me again why I stole this feral kitten from the parking lot? I am having trouble remembering this at 2:33am.
Blame. I stopped weighing myself daily around Halloween. This was a mistake as I am up several pounds.
I now need to get back to working out and eating less ugh
@CaptAmehrican I did the same a couple years back for 6 months and gained 30 pounds. I have stopped the gain but can’t get myself to lose (then regain and repeat) more than 5.
But the goat is right, no fat shaming!!
@therealjrn Conversation I had in the grocery store with a lady with a cart full of pop and chips (we were both looking at cookies - me to have a snack for my 2 day drive home, I settled on oreos). I said, “Good. No nutritional value what so ever and tastes good. I’m in. /Buy”. She laughed and told me she now felt better about her 3 bags of chips and the bag of cookies she was about ready to put in her cart.
@TheFLPUNBLAME
Here is the fix for your inability to work the “orders” page at the top of every page of this website.
Click on the profile button (outline of a person’s head), then on “my orders”.
Or bookmark this: https://meh.com/orders
Blame: College peoples are still on vacation for the most part so there are not many surveys to be had for extra monies this week. Hopefully they are all back next week and surveys will be abundant! I need to make some fun monies for IRKs, BOC’s, and random cheap crap.
@Kidsandliz I use Amazon’s mturk site. There is a subreddit for mturk that is the best place to learn how it works. I have to run multiple scripts to use it well but I think it is kinda fun.
Blame: I actually spent more than $10 on a bike tire this morning.
Unblame: Provided it gets fulfilled, at $10.09, it’s still 70% less than what it’s selling for elsewhere.
Neutral: Amazon’s search results still sucks and their varying pricing is just as annoying – except when the variable pricing is in your favor. Warehouse deals have helped save a lot of money too, albeit with some bad luck experiences thrown in from time to time.
Blame-I have the month of January off from work and school and I am planning to spend the majority of my time from Jan 1-Jan 28 (the day school is back in session sitting on my ass getting paid for nothing) Ha, its all your fault that I have to sit and do nothing. Now don’t you feel like crap.
@bleedmichigan Unblame. At least you’re getting paid. A government funded (as in taxpayer-subsidized) university, yes?
Think of all the government workers that aren’t, and still have house mortgages, student loans, health insurance premiums, medicine, utility bills, and food to pay for.
@mike808 actually my funding is federal and state. So if the government isn’t open by the end of my current contract which is Jan 28th then I won’t be getting paid. Fortunately my funding is prepaid by the gov for the semester and doled our biweekly.
Blame: I was stolen from yet again out of this hud apartment. It was an inside job as a key was used to get in. I keep all valuables in my storage unit so what did they steal after going through all my stuff this time (this is not the first time this has happened)? My really nice mountain hardware fleece hat and gloves (both no longer made - yes now tagged search items on ebay) and a nice thick zipper up with hood sweatshirt (thick like they don’t make them anymore - can’t remember the brand but bought it in Walmart and Walmart now sells only paper thin ones). And this is supposed to be one of the better hud places. I really, really hope one of my full time applications pan out so I can get out of here again. All this online adjunct contract work just doesn’t cut the grade for steady enough employment to leave. I need a tiny spy camera that the cats won’t trigger!!
@Kidsandliz Why are your cats inside your storage unit? Put the surveillance camera inside the unit.
Why don’t you have pictures of every item you put in your storage unit? Did you file a police report for the theft? If you didnt, the landlords can continue to lie to new tenants and their government reviews and the public that they operate a safe housing facility instead of a crime-riddled den of theives or worse. Without the police report, the police can’t justify more patrols.
@mike808 In my apartment. Don’t have a surveillance camera and it would need to be hidden or they’d just take it too. The problem with reporting it is they would try to kick me out and never let me back in. There is no justice in situations like this. Hid housing seems to be a different animal than regular landlord stuff. This is privately owned, not government owned. I am positive this is an inside job as the person let themselves in my apt. with a key.
@f00l I know. I have a storage unit with a 1968 Mercury 65hp outboard engine in it (and a 58’ Johnson Seahorse). No need for it yet. Just wanted it because I love old outboards. I have been paying for it so long I might have bought a near new one. One day I will get it out of there. There is a longer story to this, but I’m not going to tell it.
Mine is full of “bargains”. IE stupid purchases altho bought because of a great price that day only.
Plus stuff I should get rid of … Old clothes I’ll never wear. Old furniture that’s perfectly good, but I’ll never need more furniture than I have.
Lots of Sherlock Holmes pastiches (100’s?) I purchased because I saw them at HPB and I tend to love these, and I never checked that they might be available in e-book format. I don’t have room for them all.
Lots of other books I’ve read, and they are fine; but they aren’t special enough for me to add bookcases for. So they need to be forwarded to others.
Various memorabilia. Rock concert tshirts and the like.
I’m not wearing them, so …
Clothes that seemed nice once, and they still are. But I’ll never wear them. Dunno why. Just know I won’t.
@f00l@mfladd Just keep repeating to yourself “I shouldn’t consider sunk costs when deciding what to do with the extension of my house and the stuff in it that I am renting”… Too bad you usually can’t have a garage sale at a storage unit.
Least you think I am not guilty too - I am hanging on to some stuff for when (I hope anyway) I can find another full time job and rent something bigger than a shoebox. I have more than that in there that I am selling, slowly and I finally got myself to accept that selling it all for less than it is worth would save me money in the long run (thus make more if one were to flip how I think about it) if I can downsize to a tiny storage unit that just holds my couch, kitchen table, a coffee table, a rocking chair (this apt am in is so small there isn’t room for any of that), and a few other odds and ends.
Yeah re sunk costs. I don’t have time for a garage sale.
And unless something is “really special” or someone know personally needs exactly that item, I don’t have time to sell it or give it away one-recipient-at-a-time.
Goodwill is good at all that. I am happy to make Goodwill happy at this time.
Also my many Longhorn relatives have gotten a lot of childhood memorabilia and classic TX Longhorns treasures. So everyone is happy. I hope.
Austin parking meters used to be orange, in honor of the Longhorns. Back around WWII. When Austin upgraded meters, the city cut the tops off the old ones and auctioned them off to fans.
I’ve handed our a few if these:
Mine were a slightly newer rectangular version. They weigh a lot and still have change in them.
Blame: I have to wake up extra early in the morning to take my cat to the vet to be fixed. The vet is an hour away and she has to be there by 7:30. I am going to miss her and worry about her.
/giphy pretty kitty
@tnhillbillygal Hope your kitty comes through it fine. The feral I stole from the parking lot is getting fixed next week. I waited a bit on her so she would be attached to me before I caused her a bunch of pain.
@therealjrn You copied what I had posted because? I can’t imagine that it wouldn’t hurt to get fixed since they cut through the abdominal muscles. As a human I have had mine cut and it hurts a good 3 weeks. I wanted the kitten to feel like she could come to me for comfort rather than be scared and thus hide.
@Kidsandliz I called to check on her and they said she came through fine. They texted me a picture of her after she woke up and she looks pitiful. I can’t pick her up until tomorrow as they keep them overnight for observation. I keep looking for her walking around or following me around the house.
Blame that I got outbidded on an auction, but unblame because in the closing minute, the winning bid was even higher than the exact same item in a buy-it-now listing. More $$ to the seller, I guess!
(It’s operated by the same parent company, but one does auctions only and the other does BIN only.)
Blame: exactly how behind is mediocre brand CS because of the holidays? I put in refund request because of a bricked Morningsave product, but I have yet to hear anything back (two weeks). It’s your fault they are probably swamped @mike808!
Unblame, then blame. Today I got a painkiller shot in my sacroiliac joint, which is good. Blame: I didn’t know it was possible to cauterize the nerves in the joint, which can end pain for months or years, and can be repeated.
Blame: I can’t attend the visitation and funeral of my cousin (technically my 2nd cousin) because nobody will cover my shift tomorrow night. I was willing to come in on Saturday (day of the funeral) after we got back so only needed to cover the 1 shift. Plus my manager who said she’d make calls never did.
It’s about a 2 1/2 hour drive each way so theoretically I could go on my own on Saturday but there’s a winter weather advisory so who knows how long it would actually take. (The plan was to go Friday afternoon, attend the visitation and wake, spend the night, and then attend the funeral and luncheon on Saturday.)
@msklzannie you could always Facetime or Duo with someone who is there at the wake or the luncheon and pay your respects livestream 21st century style. Telepresence. It is a real thing now.
Bonus points if you livestream from work and get to bitch that you’re at work while they’re at the funeral and brag at the same time that you’re getting paid to give a livestream eulogy at your 2nd cousins funeral.
And you save the carbon footprint and wasted time of 5 hours of travel.
@msklzannie I am sorry you have such an asshat as a boss. I hope karma is real and she gets her so that she learns just how important these things are to people; how necessary they are.
@mike808 The fuck it does. My arms hurt, and adding fifteen more books to my overloaded shelves is even more painful. I didn’t buy them, and I sure don’t plan to read them all. Blame! Stop crying!
@OldCatLady I just picked up a copy of Profiles in Courage: Special Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Memorial Edition (1964). The Foreword was written on December 18, 1964. The book was dedicated to his (JFK’s) wife. I paid one whole dollar for it. It’s a beautiful book.
I suppose they still have “featured theme” sales etc. But I think those prices are still a put-off to my “impulse purchase” tendencies.
At a base price for a shirt of around $19, I’m surprised they sell anything at that level.
I understand their sales volume is nothing compared to the levels they once had. Is that true?
How does the shirt business go from year to year in profitability now? Does the shirt business “work” financially on its own? Or does the Amazon connection somehow prop it up?
@narfcake At $8 for a purple version I would so totally have pinched pennies to buy one. I don’t suppose I can convince you to sell one you bought? Umm no I’d bet not based on what you just posted
Blame because I’ve been too busy working or sleeping to blame the damn goat.
Also, I’m slightly weirded out because my credit card limit just increased (first time since I’ve had that card), but I learned about it from Experian. Actual credit card company hasn’t said anything yet.
Oh, I think I see why — my card will be 10 years old in February. Will I get another increase when it’s old enough to drive?
@f00l@TheFLP Don’t fall for the “raise your limit so you’ll spend more” trick. You can call them and tell them to lower it if you didn’t ask for the increase. Too much unused credit lowers your FICO score, btw.
I must blame the goat for the other 3 members of my family getting violently sick this week.
The near-term future of my own health isn’t looking very promising
/giphy violently ill
Due to a calicvirus outbreak (started last October) in the cattery where I volunteer, around 120 cats were euthanized today. The only remaining cats are the 4 or 5 who are up front (a different building). It breaks my heart. I have spent, in some cases, years cuddling some of them, working with some of them to make them less shy and thus more adoptable… I have been crying on and off all day.
Unfortunately the 6 cattery employees lost their jobs as a result of this. They won’t be hired back any time soon because the shelter decided to build a new cattery when they can raise the money (the current one is falling down). These employees can’t get food stamps due to the shut down. Unemployment compensation in this state is hundreds of dollars a month below the poverty line even if you get the maximum. They won’t. They were all paid minimum wage or close to that.
As a result I have started a gofundme to try to give them each $500 to cover food for themselves and their pets (they all have animals they have adopted from the shelter). I will make a separate thread about this too. Please pass this on to whomever might help.
Blame because my garden tractor won’t start in the 8 degree weather and I need to plow my drive… shoveling isn’t an option because of the rotated cuff surgery (another blame).
@JnKL Money can solve your snow-covered driveway problem. Release your inner job creator, and offer to pay someone else to nobly trade their physical labor for your fair wage offer.
A California town threatened by the sort of wildfires that recently wiped out a neighbouring community is appealing for an unusual type of help: a crack team of goats.
Nevada City has launched a crowdfunding drive, dubbed “goat fund me”, to recruit a herd to munch through acres of wildfire-prone vegetation at the fringe of town.
In an effort to cut down a 450-acre greenbelt, town officials are appealing for $30,000 to acquire the goats. According to the goat fund me page, it can cost up to $1,000 an acre for such specialist grazing, as about 200 goats are able to finish off an acre a day.
Unblame - So I hauled a working wheel chair away from the dumpster at the hud place I live and put it in the back of my car to donate somewhere. Then later today when I was leaving the building Teen challenge was there picking up a bunch of donations (someone moved and the family was dumping almost everything), which included a toilet seat for the disabled. I asked the kids if they wanted the wheelchair. They told me, no, they throw up medical stuff but pick it up if it is part of what someone is getting rid of. So I asked them for the toilet seat which they gave me (the manager of the apt building came out in the middle of this and basically told me off - we are inmates here I think - that I needed not to talk to anyone and stay out of stuff not my business. Fuck her - this part is a BLAME). Anyway I donated both to Thrift City (a non-profit) who was thrilled (they said lots of people come in asking if they sell stuff like that and they hardly get that kind of donation).
I then called the Teen Challenge used store and the manager there is going to set up with Thrift City that they get all their medical supplies that are donated and all the stuff they haven’t sold that they want to get rid of (someone at Thrift City had also taken Teen Challenges name to call them to see if something could be worked out too).
I do dread running into the apt building manager tomorrow as she wasn’t done putting me down and telling me to fuck off when I told her I was on my way to a doctor apt and needed to leave. But other than that (which will cause me trouble here) this was a big win for two charities (which I will tell that asshat when she screams at me tomorrow) and for folks who need stuff like that.
@OldCatLady So much is going wrong in my life that if I can find a way to help others it make me feel a little better about my situation. And really, isn’t that what we all should be doing? I can’t donate money to anything, but I can certainly spend time trying to help.
She is a true asshole. In our lease it says we can’t talk to the postal worker when s/he comes to put our mail in your mailbox. So I waited until she was done and talked to her outside of the building (the previous day’s mail had not been delivered, I have USPS notification about what comes, and needed what hadn’t been delivered). I got screamed at for doing that. I told asshat that last I knew I still had freedom of speech not to mention just how, exactly, was I supposed to find this out from our postwoman if she (mgt) was forbidding us to talk to her? The lease only said while she was putting our mail in our mailbox which I didn’t do. Get me the fuck out of hud. I so need more work than what I have already found so I can get the hell out of here again!!! Don’t get me wrong, I am glad it exists as I am only paying $25/mo in rent due to how little money I have left once you subtract medical expenses from my income, but seriously does that then make me an inmate where I can be ordered around about who I can and can not talk to?
BLAME!! I was supposed to finish grading for last week by last night at 11:50pm. Nope, got everything else done (graded 2 other sets of crap) but still have 12 cases to go (did 2 of them and some didn’t turn theirs in yet so I am saved with respect to those late ones so unblame for that part). The micromanagers are going to ding me for this. I did the exchange crap first so folks had time to mail their box before the postage increase. Didn’t think the f’ing cases would take so long but they are bad (skimmed them first) and it takes longer to grade bad. Usually not so many crappy ones.
Blame for the lack of a shirt for Screenprint Sunday.
Double blame that my meh face streak is ruined. I almost went the whole month without hitting the button, but it got clicked on when I was trying to scroll through the page.
Combination of blame and unblame. So I have this roughly 4 mo old kitten who is a darling love bug - a big enough love bug that he is a PITA. And blame because he is a kitten so sleeping through the night is not on his agenda.
I snatched his boney, scraggly butt out of the apartment’s back yard where his dinner buffet came from visitors to the bird feeder. I decided to fatten him up a bit before taking him to the no kill shelter - so unblame for that because had I taken him he earlier he would have likely been put down with the other 120 or so cats a week ago Saturday. Blame though in that now I need to find him a home on my own before I am caught with him here because while they have 10 cats that missed the carnage they have no more room for cages where they are now keeping the cats.
Unblame in that 2 of my cats look nearly identical so people think they are only 1 cat, one is so old she no longer climbs up the cat tree so can’t be seen from outdoors and my feral kitten then (when people see what is in the window) visually counts as cat #2, my “legal” limit. Blame: This thing looks very different and so dramatically increases the odds I’ll be caught.
Unblame - I was handing out money yesterday to the now unemployed cattery workers (from the gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/help-cat-shelter-workers-who-lost-their-job ) and they were so grateful that folks they didn’t know would donate to them. One of them told me this made the difference between eating this week or not since she was nearly out of food and keeping her phone on or not since her phone card was up in 2 days. One of them even tried to give me gas money from the money I just gave her since I was driving all over town dropping off money and she knew I am living below the poverty line too. Even in their desperate situation they are still thinking of others. I refused it and told her this money was for them, not for me. THANKS to those of you have donated to these folks. While the amount may be small, it has made a huge difference and brought several of them to tears.
BLAME because of what happened at the shelter (they still have 10 cats there that weren’t in the back) they won’t take him so now I have to foster him until a home can be found. I’d keep him but I can’t afford to get caught with too many cats - who is sitting in the window at any given time will be the giveaway.
I had to use ALL CAPS to an Amazon CS rep earlier for not understanding that I cannot return an item for a refund that was never fulfilled in the first place.
Number of blames:
/roll 1d20
You rolled a total of 20
@narfcake You probably weren’t asking the right question on their scripts. If it wasn’t delivered, you want to CANCEL your order, and focus on “not delivered” part. Don’t get sucked into asking for a refund because that routes you to the circular file script.
@CaptAmehrican Yep, it was me.
I tried lighting my excessive flatulence on fire to keep the Midwest warm, but then disaster pants hit me. I think those medical trials I’m in didn’t do anything to eliminate the anal bleeding side effects they mentioned. At least I’m not getting the placebo. Yay, me, .
Blame!!! Numerous planes in Cali struck by lightening (including mine). Now I am stuck in Dallas!
Every time I have a work meeting I get travel fucked!
Blame!!!
@narfcake But alas, no new thread ate llast might. I blame @eonfifty for my blame coming during a time of GoaT transfer and the fact I am waking up in Texas!
@eonfifty@f00l@narfcake And after a full long day flying in a middle seat - I arrive in Baltimore to drive three hours hours home in a snowstorm - wtf!!!
People in MD can’t drive in snow - it drives me crazy!!!
Blame. I had one drink and my body feels like it’s ten degrees hotter in here.
@RiotDemon How hot is that?
@therealjrn 88. Too warm for inside.
Blame. @lichme is asking too many questions, again.
@therealjrn How mehny is too mehny?
@lichme so many! And that was another one!
@therealjrn That doesn’t count, does it?
Blame for an impending sleepless night. As a reminder that I still live in an “up and coming” city, it’s not even midnight and (illegal) fireworks are already being fired off.
@narfcake sorry about that.
@Ignorant Still awake, so have some additional blame, @mike808.
@Ignorant @mike808 Grumble grumble.
@Ignorant @mike808 @narfcake
@narfcake, did you get some sleep?
Enough sleep?
I think there is some unblamed blame yet to blame here.
@f00l @Ignorant @mike808 I got about 3 hours. Not enough to unblame, but at least enough not to blame any more.
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/coffee-doesnt-ask
Coffee Doesn’t Ask
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
J’Accuse…!
So …
Is the Goat powerful?
@aetris
Where is that damned sleepy Goat?
@aetris @f00l @Shrdlu @narfcake
@f00l And Dreyfus was still innocent. Fun letter though. Nothing like a good show trial.
Blame: Apparently I overpaid for that last slow cooker. At 0.82 after discounts and tax, the one I bought this morning was 18 cents cheaper.
Unblame: The block candles I could also use were much cheaper than at the 99-cents store. I DGAF that my bike chains might smell like vanilla.
@narfcake What else are you putting on the chain wax?
@mike808 Nothing else. The candles are scented, though it’s the wax part that matters. I’m cheap, so 58 cents beats 99 cents.
Goat Simulator is on sale on several platforms.
@blaineg Sure, that was all me.
@blaineg
Got that for Android. Kids and I have been playing it.
It seems the goat this month hath doth spaketh truthiness last month: Link
/youtube remember earth wind & fire
Blame: I was reading something here and for no reason remembered that I had a check from the Power company for my thermostat delivered yesterday - but where is it? Then I remembered I threw out all the junk mail (or I thought was junk mail) for the trash tomorrow!!!
Unblame: I immediately got up and retrieved the trash bag and found the check in the bottom of an empty Walmart bag Free Wifi Thermostat Day!!!
@mfladd It’s sort of recycling, so double credit to you.
Blame: my recently repaired car has a brake light out, and I already signed on the insurance paperwork. Unblame: I snared a 2-way dash cam on a lightning deal.
/giphy rear end crash
@OldCatLady brake lights are cheap. The bulbs. Not the whole lens part, though.
While you think about a solution, …
Blame: Since I didn’t win the lottery or find one of those burlap bags full of money over the holiday; I have to go back to work tomorrow Oh the horror!!
/giphy working 9 to 5
@tinamarie1974
I know how you feel. And here I am working today.
@tinamarie1974
Yes, I must return to work on Thursday. Le sigh.
Wait, what burlap bags of money?
@TheFLP
@TheFLP I believe it is those things that fall off the back of a brinks truck, oh, say, 20 minutes AFTER you have driven down that street (that happened to me once many years ago - the 20 minutes after thing). Oh wait, you are supposed to return that money so I guess it is off to work you go.
@tinamarie1974 @Kidsandliz
Oh yeah, that one. I think I saw a goat eating out of it. But it fell off the truck 20 minutes before I got there.
@Kidsandliz @TheFLP or this guy returned it. I hope he got a reward!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=undefined&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwj6_M7r68_fAhVByYMKHev-BsAQzPwBCAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2Fbusiness%2Fchi-bag-of-cash-returned-20150402-story.html&psig=AOvVaw07BAqQEoRfjmF4-SY8cLKs&ust=1546544093146728
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974
OK, definitely blame that it happened on March 31 instead of April 1. Imagine trying to explain this to the police on April Fool’s Day.
(He did get a reward: https://www.ksl.com/?sid=34134018&nid=148)
@Kidsandliz @TheFLP it is nice when good things happen to good people!
My team lost their bowl game. Fuck you @mike808, you culpable blame worthy scapegoat.
@shahnm If you got the flashlight deal yesterday, you can help them find it.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/4-for-tuesday-led-flashlightworklight-with-magnetic-base
No blame here:
Thx, Goat!
@f00l @mike808
Blame that the Dawgs couldn’t find it in them to play like the championship was on the line.
Unblame that it wasn’t the fiasco that was LSU vs UCF in the Ejection Bowl. At least LSU won (go SEC) and maybe UCF will quit fucking whining about belonging in the BCS.
But, seriously, congrats @f001!
OK so technically some of this is @tnhillbillygal’s fault. First (already blamed) I drove 600+ miles in the driving rain. So now I go to come home and I drive all day on the 31st (@tnhillbillygal’s fault) in the driving rain, some of the time with winds up to 40-50 mph, with misaligned headlights (pointing down and to the left, did not have time at my mom’s to get that fixed).
THEN… I bag it at 10:30 at night (vans, heavy cross winds that high, driving rain, misaligned headlights… were enough to collectively have me bag driving any longer) and sleep in my car in a rest area. Too tired so don’t get into my sleeping bag, just pull two fleece blankets over me. Seriously @mike808 what the heck were you thinking having the temp go down to 34 degrees so I wake up freezing at 12:30am? I drag my frozen ass out from under the blankets to find the sleeping bag, and then another blanket to put over my head (yeah the hud staff thieves have been at it again, this time my lovely mountain hardware fleece hat and thick fleece gloves - they are older and so much thicker than the newer crap, oh and a nice, thicker sweatshirt “walked” too). So now I am sort of warm. At least the blanket over my head blocks most of the streetlight light (so unblame).
Anyway, for reasons unknown at about 3am a caravan of hard top jeeps pull in. 9 of them. Do they park like normal cars? Nope. They park at right angles to the parking spaces. I was too tired, and it was too cold, to get out and find out why earth there is a bunch of jeeps traveling in a caravan. They were having themselves some sort of nosy fest before settling for the remainder of the night in their respective vehicles.
Here is the unblame part. Still no snow, ice or sleet. And other than a drizzle on the first so light that you had to manually turn the wiper on and off (so that is a blame) the rain finally quit.
That would be noisy fest not nosy fest.
@Kidsandliz I will let @mike808 enjoy ALL this blame!
@tnhillbillygal I think I tagged you in your thread since some of this was on your watch.
@Kidsandliz
Um, I proactively gave all my blame this month to your goatdom last month. My responses this month are those of my own and not due to requests from prior goats. Dem’s da rulez.
Oh yeah. Forgot this blame. So I stopped at not one but two Gander Mountain stores on the way home (none in this state). Camping World bought that chain and then wrecked it. It was one of the better camping gear/clothing stores around and now all they carry is enough guns to kill the entire free world and fishing stuff to fish out the oceans of the world. They also carry a ton of no name junk to go with their billion dollar RV busses and trailers (go figure - well unless once you bought one of those you have no money left perhaps?). They told me they are discontinuing carrying north face too. That stuff is on serious sale. I did find a very nice north face sleeping bag for $44 so that is an unblame. I shouldn’t have bought it since I am broke, but I need it and likely can resell it if I need to for far more than I paid for it. Too bad I didn’t have that the night before. I am leaving this in my car for the apocalypse. Or when I drive to Houston and sleep in my car there too.
Blame: I have to sit for 2 hours at a trampoline park while the kids play and it cost over $50 for this.
@tnhillbillygal You can’t jump too?
@tnhillbillygal Look at it this way. If your kids were dead, paying $50 to see them again, playing at a trampoline park would be a bargain.
@mike808 True. We also only ended up staying 1.5 hours because we all got hungry and went out to dinner. Wasn’t so bad after all.
Turns out that Bevo (UT Austin mascot, longhorn steer) and UGA (Georgia Bulldogs mascot) don’t get along that well.
On the one hand, Bevo is almost certainly a “Steer Of Very Little Brain”, like most steers.
Otoh, Bevo is prob smart enough to figure out that the very cute “Uga the Bulldog” is way smaller than a longhorn steer.
Or maybe Bevo just wasn’t in the mood for a joint photo op.
@f00l
WTF. They use a real live steer with freaking HORNS as a mascot?
Mascot costumes were invented for a reason, y’know.
@TheFLP
Since 1916
People in Texas - and Georgia - are reasonably familiar with handling steers.
This is, I think, the first time this iteration of Bevo has gotten upset on public.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevo_(mascot)
A Brief History of Bevo Behaving Badly
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/a-brief-history-of-bevo-behaving-badly/amp/
I think this Bevo was calm within a few seconds i of no longer being able to see Uga.
I have been at dozens of games with Bevo present and have petted some previous Bevos. Never a problem. Problems are rare.
However, with any live animal mascot, there will be some small risk.
UT Austin also uses a human-in-Bevo-outfit as a mascot, some stadiums that prohibit live animal mascots.
@f00l
I was hoping this was an anomaly, but the first team I looked up was the Florida Gators. Big mistake.
I’m gonna need a bigger flashlight.
@f00l Bulldogs were designed to control bulls. Don’t look at me like that, it took centuries of selective breeding to design them.
@f00l @OldCatLady What were wiener dogs designed for?
@therealjrn Hmm I can think of all sorts of, um, “jokes” on that one…
Blame: I live in Southern California and it’s so damned cold my nose is running. And it’s colder outside.
(Grabs a tissue…)
Oh, yeah, and my shipment of pie filling is lost. Damn it. I make a three ingredient dumpcake in my Instant Pot using pie filling. Now, I cannot.
@lisaviolet Blame that you didn’t tell us the three ingredient recipe!
@lisaviolet @mfladd
Would a 4 ingredient safe-to-eat-raw cookies that kids can participate in help? They’re delicious.
@lisaviolet @mike808 Not without the secret ingredient. And it better not be avocados!
@lisaviolet @mfladd @mike808 Sorry to buzzkill, but please don’t eat raw flour. I’d miss you.
@lisaviolet @mfladd @OldCatLady
Source
@lisaviolet @mfladd @mike808 @OldCatLady Ah but it doesn’t say if the 45 million pounds of flour was all raw cookie dough people ate rather than the total market of flour used for everything flour is used for… That would change the statistics (risk assessment) a lot.
@mfladd @mike808 @OldCatLady @Kidsandliz 1 egg, 1 cup of cake mix, 1 can of pie filling.
Mix the egg and cake mix together, then fold in the cake mix. The recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of pie filling, but I just used the entire can. And I fold it in, I don’t beat it in with the mix.
Use non stick spray on the inside of the pan, pour the mixture in, cover it with a piece of aluminum foil that has been coated on the underside as well. (So the stuff doesn’t stick to it.)
Pour 1 1/2 cups of water into the Instant Pot, place the container with the cake mix onto a trivet.
Close the lid, lock the lid, manually set the timer for 28 to 35 minutes (I just go with the 35 minutes), cook on high. When the timer goes off, let it natural release for ten minutes, then quick release.
It doesn’t make a lot and it’s really moist, spongy, almost, but it’s tasty. Especially with ice cream.
@lisaviolet
What size ‘pan’ do you use? This sounds like an IP version of Boston Brown Bread or bread-in-a-can.
Would a repurposed coffee can work for this recipe? How did it turn out?
@mike808 If it would fit inside an Instant Pot, I don’t see why not. I have a six quart Instant Pot.
I use a small Corning Ware pan I’ve had forever (before marriage, so that’s been a while). I use the steam rack that came with the pot, it has handles and this little pan of mine fits perfectly inside of it and the handles of the steam rack fit perfectly over the handles on the Corning Ware.
BLAME - kitten woke me up trying to eat my foot through the blanket and then trying to dig a tunnel to get there via the blanket portion over my shoulder. Please explain to me again why I stole this feral kitten from the parking lot? I am having trouble remembering this at 2:33am.
@Kidsandliz umm, …
Blame. I stopped weighing myself daily around Halloween. This was a mistake as I am up several pounds.
I now need to get back to working out and eating less ugh
@CaptAmehrican Stop fat-shaming yourself and embrace your gravitational endowment! You’re a successful self-starter!
@CaptAmehrican I did the same a couple years back for 6 months and gained 30 pounds. I have stopped the gain but can’t get myself to lose (then regain and repeat) more than 5.
But the goat is right, no fat shaming!!
Amazon sent me an email recommending I buy a Pooping Pooches 2019 calendar. WTF is wrong with those guys, and what exactly in my browsing history made them think I would want it?
https://www.amazon.com/Pooping-Pooches-White-Elephant-Calendar/dp/B0754Y9GNH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546563910&sr=8-1&keywords=pooping+pooches+dog+calendar+2019
@sammydog01
Maybe your keywords? They’re right in the URL you posted. “pooping pooches dog calendar 2019”
@mike808 You calling me a liar? I clicked the link and then brought it up in incognito mode by searching.
@mike808 @sammydog01 Everybody already knows that avocados lie. They sit there, trying to innocently look unripe, then one day, they are mush!
THE AVOCADO IS A LIE
@sammydog01 @therealjrn
Say hello to my little friend …
@mike808 @sammydog01 In before @narfcake posts this:
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/the-cake-is-a-liar
The Cake Is A Liar
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
@therealjrn Conversation I had in the grocery store with a lady with a cart full of pop and chips (we were both looking at cookies - me to have a snack for my 2 day drive home, I settled on oreos). I said, “Good. No nutritional value what so ever and tastes good. I’m in. /Buy”. She laughed and told me she now felt better about her 3 bags of chips and the bag of cookies she was about ready to put in her cart.
Blame because the Meh package sitting on my desk yesterday (first day back at work) was NOT beef jerky.
It was … nine pairs of socks.
Socks are good, but I was looking forward to a snack. Socks are not snacks. ಠ_ಠ
@TheFLP @TheFLP They are snacks if you are a goat… just sayin’
@TheFLP UNBLAME
Here is the fix for your inability to work the “orders” page at the top of every page of this website.
Click on the profile button (outline of a person’s head), then on “my orders”.
Or bookmark this: https://meh.com/orders
Because only you can fix stupid.
@mike808 @TheFLP
Can stupid fix stupid?
Is that possible?
Lifelong challenge here.
So far,
/giphy /fail
@mike808
Excuse me?
@mike808 @TheFLP A GoaT with some evil in him - I like that
@mfladd @mike808
I dunno. I thought @tnhillbillygal was too nice to be our blame piñata, but I already miss her.
I think my best use for @mike808 would be throwing him to the alligators while I make my escape. I’m sure they have a taste for goat, even evil ones.
Blame: College peoples are still on vacation for the most part so there are not many surveys to be had for extra monies this week. Hopefully they are all back next week and surveys will be abundant! I need to make some fun monies for IRKs, BOC’s, and random cheap crap.
@tnhillbillygal So that’s* who’s been dumping their trash and all over our national parks.
@mike808 @tnhillbillygal
@tnhillbillygal So where do you find these surveys that pay money?
@Kidsandliz I use Amazon’s mturk site. There is a subreddit for mturk that is the best place to learn how it works. I have to run multiple scripts to use it well but I think it is kinda fun.
Blame: I actually spent more than $10 on a bike tire this morning.
Unblame: Provided it gets fulfilled, at $10.09, it’s still 70% less than what it’s selling for elsewhere.
Neutral: Amazon’s search results still sucks and their varying pricing is just as annoying – except when the variable pricing is in your favor. Warehouse deals have helped save a lot of money too, albeit with some bad luck experiences thrown in from time to time.
@narfcake You spent exactly what you were willing to pay for it. Yay free market!
No blame necessary.
Blame-I have the month of January off from work and school and I am planning to spend the majority of my time from Jan 1-Jan 28 (the day school is back in session sitting on my ass getting paid for nothing) Ha, its all your fault that I have to sit and do nothing. Now don’t you feel like crap.
@bleedmichigan Unblame. At least you’re getting paid. A government funded (as in taxpayer-subsidized) university, yes?
Think of all the government workers that aren’t, and still have house mortgages, student loans, health insurance premiums, medicine, utility bills, and food to pay for.
But, hey, you’re sticking it to the man, right?
@mike808 actually my funding is federal and state. So if the government isn’t open by the end of my current contract which is Jan 28th then I won’t be getting paid. Fortunately my funding is prepaid by the gov for the semester and doled our biweekly.
Blame: I spent more on catshirts tonight than I did for a starter for my truck.
Unblame: I’m not complaining about getting a starter for under $20. Warehouse deals FTW.
@narfcake You will not need to worry about ever freezing to death. You can bury yourself in about 5 feet of cat shirts I think
@Kidsandliz A few t-shirts plus two layers of sweatshirts are usually good enough for me down to 40 degrees.
Blame: I was stolen from yet again out of this hud apartment. It was an inside job as a key was used to get in. I keep all valuables in my storage unit so what did they steal after going through all my stuff this time (this is not the first time this has happened)? My really nice mountain hardware fleece hat and gloves (both no longer made - yes now tagged search items on ebay) and a nice thick zipper up with hood sweatshirt (thick like they don’t make them anymore - can’t remember the brand but bought it in Walmart and Walmart now sells only paper thin ones). And this is supposed to be one of the better hud places. I really, really hope one of my full time applications pan out so I can get out of here again. All this online adjunct contract work just doesn’t cut the grade for steady enough employment to leave. I need a tiny spy camera that the cats won’t trigger!!
@Kidsandliz Why are your cats inside your storage unit? Put the surveillance camera inside the unit.
Why don’t you have pictures of every item you put in your storage unit? Did you file a police report for the theft? If you didnt, the landlords can continue to lie to new tenants and their government reviews and the public that they operate a safe housing facility instead of a crime-riddled den of theives or worse. Without the police report, the police can’t justify more patrols.
@mike808 In my apartment. Don’t have a surveillance camera and it would need to be hidden or they’d just take it too. The problem with reporting it is they would try to kick me out and never let me back in. There is no justice in situations like this. Hid housing seems to be a different animal than regular landlord stuff. This is privately owned, not government owned. I am positive this is an inside job as the person let themselves in my apt. with a key.
hud not hid
@mike808
Gave 4 cargo van loads to Goodwill this weekend. 3 last weekend.
Now I own less stuff I’m not using and had forgotten about anyway.
That’s good.
But now I’m tired and sore.
So … Have some fucking blame, already.
/image have some Blake tyger tyger
@f00l
@mfladd
/giphy “holy shift”
@mfladd
PS.
Storage lockers are evil. They allow you to store “useful stuff”, forget you own it, and pay in perpetuity.
Because “someday” you’ll sort it all out.
Someday.
/giphy storage locker.
@mfladd
PPS
Among the fabulous finds in my storage unit so far:
Several ISDN modems.
Several 56k modems
Several USR 14.4 modems
A Dell laptop that shipped with Win 98.
I sure can spot long-term value! No???
@mfladd
@mike808
More blame re storage unit clean-out.
I forgot. Apologies!
/giphy Dust storm.
@f00l @mfladd Perhaps a mask would have prepared you.
@f00l @mfladd … and NO, you cannot borrow mine.
@mike808
Woah! I never imagined that was your look!
@f00l I know. I have a storage unit with a 1968 Mercury 65hp outboard engine in it (and a 58’ Johnson Seahorse). No need for it yet. Just wanted it because I love old outboards. I have been paying for it so long I might have bought a near new one. One day I will get it out of there. There is a longer story to this, but I’m not going to tell it.
@mfladd
At least you know what’s in your storage unit.
Mine is full of “bargains”. IE stupid purchases altho bought because of a great price that day only.
Plus stuff I should get rid of … Old clothes I’ll never wear. Old furniture that’s perfectly good, but I’ll never need more furniture than I have.
Lots of Sherlock Holmes pastiches (100’s?) I purchased because I saw them at HPB and I tend to love these, and I never checked that they might be available in e-book format. I don’t have room for them all.
Lots of other books I’ve read, and they are fine; but they aren’t special enough for me to add bookcases for. So they need to be forwarded to others.
Various memorabilia. Rock concert tshirts and the like.
I’m not wearing them, so …
Clothes that seemed nice once, and they still are. But I’ll never wear them. Dunno why. Just know I won’t.
@f00l @mfladd Just keep repeating to yourself “I shouldn’t consider sunk costs when deciding what to do with the extension of my house and the stuff in it that I am renting”… Too bad you usually can’t have a garage sale at a storage unit.
Least you think I am not guilty too - I am hanging on to some stuff for when (I hope anyway) I can find another full time job and rent something bigger than a shoebox. I have more than that in there that I am selling, slowly and I finally got myself to accept that selling it all for less than it is worth would save me money in the long run (thus make more if one were to flip how I think about it) if I can downsize to a tiny storage unit that just holds my couch, kitchen table, a coffee table, a rocking chair (this apt am in is so small there isn’t room for any of that), and a few other odds and ends.
@Kidsandliz @mfladd
Yeah re sunk costs. I don’t have time for a garage sale.
And unless something is “really special” or someone know personally needs exactly that item, I don’t have time to sell it or give it away one-recipient-at-a-time.
Goodwill is good at all that. I am happy to make Goodwill happy at this time.
Also my many Longhorn relatives have gotten a lot of childhood memorabilia and classic TX Longhorns treasures. So everyone is happy. I hope.
Austin parking meters used to be orange, in honor of the Longhorns. Back around WWII. When Austin upgraded meters, the city cut the tops off the old ones and auctioned them off to fans.
I’ve handed our a few if these:
Mine were a slightly newer rectangular version. They weigh a lot and still have change in them.
Can’t sleep, and you’re directly responsible for making me hungry, too.
Also: I have no idea how to link to the guilty comment on my iPad. Bad goat. Baaaaaaad goat.
@TheFLP
@mike808
Oh sure, now that I’ve had a nap.
Blame: I have to wake up extra early in the morning to take my cat to the vet to be fixed. The vet is an hour away and she has to be there by 7:30. I am going to miss her and worry about her.
/giphy pretty kitty
@tnhillbillygal That’s one gigantic kitty!
I’ve been using one of my @jasneko kitty blankets here. Banana included for scale:
@narfcake @tnhillbillygal Hehe Awesome! And so weird to imagine it so big!
@tnhillbillygal Hope your kitty comes through it fine. The feral I stole from the parking lot is getting fixed next week. I waited a bit on her so she would be attached to me before I caused her a bunch of pain.
@therealjrn You copied what I had posted because? I can’t imagine that it wouldn’t hurt to get fixed since they cut through the abdominal muscles. As a human I have had mine cut and it hurts a good 3 weeks. I wanted the kitten to feel like she could come to me for comfort rather than be scared and thus hide.
@Kidsandliz I called to check on her and they said she came through fine. They texted me a picture of her after she woke up and she looks pitiful. I can’t pick her up until tomorrow as they keep them overnight for observation. I keep looking for her walking around or following me around the house.
@tnhillbillygal Glad she came through fine. They told me that they’d keep mine overnight too.
@Kidsandliz @therealjrn
Maybe it was something about a kitten being physically attached to you just before you cause her a bunch of pain? Probably not wise.
Blame that I got outbidded on an auction, but unblame because in the closing minute, the winning bid was even higher than the exact same item in a buy-it-now listing. More $$ to the seller, I guess!
(It’s operated by the same parent company, but one does auctions only and the other does BIN only.)
@narfcake *outbid
@therealjrn Blamededededed.
Blame: exactly how behind is mediocre brand CS because of the holidays? I put in refund request because of a bricked Morningsave product, but I have yet to hear anything back (two weeks). It’s your fault they are probably swamped @mike808!
@mfladd Uh, yeah. They’ve been a little busy. Give them a week to … uh … ‘freshen up’.
Partial unblame, because I have my beef jerky now.
Only partial, because I ordered beef jerky on 12/12 and socks on 12/24, and which one showed up first? Socks. Inedible socks.
But partial unblame all the same, because the stuff is damn good (the jerky, not the socks).
Potential reblame to come, because the jerky is probably not helping me with the acidy-stomach that kept me up Sunday night.
Unblame, then blame. Today I got a painkiller shot in my sacroiliac joint, which is good. Blame: I didn’t know it was possible to cauterize the nerves in the joint, which can end pain for months or years, and can be repeated.
Blame: I can’t attend the visitation and funeral of my cousin (technically my 2nd cousin) because nobody will cover my shift tomorrow night. I was willing to come in on Saturday (day of the funeral) after we got back so only needed to cover the 1 shift. Plus my manager who said she’d make calls never did.
It’s about a 2 1/2 hour drive each way so theoretically I could go on my own on Saturday but there’s a winter weather advisory so who knows how long it would actually take. (The plan was to go Friday afternoon, attend the visitation and wake, spend the night, and then attend the funeral and luncheon on Saturday.)
I’ve been crying I’m so pissed.
@msklzannie you could always Facetime or Duo with someone who is there at the wake or the luncheon and pay your respects livestream 21st century style. Telepresence. It is a real thing now.
Bonus points if you livestream from work and get to bitch that you’re at work while they’re at the funeral and brag at the same time that you’re getting paid to give a livestream eulogy at your 2nd cousins funeral.
And you save the carbon footprint and wasted time of 5 hours of travel.
Win-Win-Win.
You’re welcome.
@mike808 You made me laugh. Thanks.
@mike808 @msklzannie That’s how my brother in law and nieces attended my aunt’s funeral due to airline issues. We skyped.
@msklzannie I am sorry you have such an asshat as a boss. I hope karma is real and she gets her so that she learns just how important these things are to people; how necessary they are.
ENOUGH SAID
Blame: I don’t want to do anything today.
@tnhillbillygal
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/today-i-will-be-a-lazy-blob
@narfcake @tnhillbillygal well said!
@JnKL @narfcake @tnhillbillygal
It’s OK. I know you’re just saving up for a super-productive Monday.
@JnKL @mike808 @tnhillbillygal
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/purrductive
Purrductive
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
@JnKL @mike808 @narfcake
@mike808, no one has blamed you for anything for a few days now.
I blame you!
/giphy BLAME!
@f00l I know. Life is good. UNBLAME!
Major, major blame. My local thrift store is giving away all their books and records. Today’s haul included a $78. hardback Human Geography textbook,
@OldCatLady This goes over in the Jan reading or deals thread. Good news for book lovers!
UNBLAME!
@mike808 The fuck it does. My arms hurt, and adding fifteen more books to my overloaded shelves is even more painful. I didn’t buy them, and I sure don’t plan to read them all. Blame! Stop crying!
@OldCatLady I just picked up a copy of Profiles in Courage: Special Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Memorial Edition (1964). The Foreword was written on December 18, 1964. The book was dedicated to his (JFK’s) wife. I paid one whole dollar for it. It’s a beautiful book.
@OldCatLady On the other hand, I’m grateful that I was nowhere near your bookstore. I already have enough books that I’ll never get to; why add more?
…and yet, I just did. :-}
@Shrdlu Blame the goat anyway.
@MoonMoonDog @Shrdlu
Got you covered. Halfway to the big finish.
@mike808 @MoonMoonDog @Shrdlu @OldCatLady
My checking account has forbidden me to walk into Half Price Book or other used bookstores.
And yet I still do.
Everytime I leave, my checking account tends to be way lighter-weight. Sometimes by $100’s.
(Or more, but I didn’t abmit to that. Shhhh!)
Ouch!
So, @OldCatLady and @shrdlu:
I feel for you.
And also I’m envious.
or ?
How about ?
That’ll do.
/giphy books
@f00l @mike808 @Shrdlu Free atlases. How can I resist? Just some of the books so far. Unblame, b/c I love it.
@mike808 @OldCatLady @Shrdlu
Free atlases???
Gimme!!!
/giphy atlas
Blame: I can’t decide on what shirt to wear today.
@narfcake Wear the one with the cat on it Narf. Easy!
@narfcake Who says you have to wear just one?
@therealjrn @Kidsandliz Ended up wearing Schrodinger’s Equation. But just one catshirt.
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/schrdingers-equation
Schrodinger’s Equation
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
I believe this design has the honors of being the highest selling shirt that I have yet to find or purchase from a thrift store.
@narfcake now that is a cat shirt I’d love to own!!
@Kidsandliz @narfcake @therealjrn
Re quantum cat(shirt):
Alive?
Dead?
Overpriced?
@f00l
Yes
@f00l @Kidsandliz @therealjrn
Too bad catshirtswoot isn’t currently offering the purple version. I regret having only purchased a couple copies.
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/schrdingers-equation-remix
Schrodinger’s Equation Remix
Price: $8.00
Condition: Probably New
This deal is currently sold out
@Kidsandliz @narfcake @therealjrn
I would totally purchase one for $8.
At that sort of price,I would still likely have a serious catshirtwoot habit.
I suppose my various financial accounts are happy that the current catshirtwoot normal pricing levels are so far above my temptation thresholds.
@f00l @Kidsandliz @therealjrn Yeah, the current pricing is well above my “impulse buy” level like it was before.
Paradox of choice isn’t helping either; there’s like 40+ new designs each week.
@Kidsandliz @narfcake @therealjrn
I suppose they still have “featured theme” sales etc. But I think those prices are still a put-off to my “impulse purchase” tendencies.
At a base price for a shirt of around $19, I’m surprised they sell anything at that level.
I understand their sales volume is nothing compared to the levels they once had. Is that true?
How does the shirt business go from year to year in profitability now? Does the shirt business “work” financially on its own? Or does the Amazon connection somehow prop it up?
(If you aren’t free to comment, I understand.)
@narfcake At $8 for a purple version I would so totally have pinched pennies to buy one. I don’t suppose I can convince you to sell one you bought? Umm no I’d bet not based on what you just posted
@Kidsandliz Yeah, not happening. Because purple.
@f00l $15-$19 isn’t out of line for what shirts sell for in stores, but it means it’s not a standout deal anymore either.
I’m so sorry, @f00l, I’m not free to comment.
@therealjrn
You comment that you’re not free?
Well, you do live in OK, not TX.
So, sympathies!
: )
@narfcake
$19 (or $15) means no “fun impulse buying” by my wallet.
: (
@narfcake Hmm what if I trade you something purple and a cat?
@Kidsandliz Both catshirtswoot and TeeTurtle has mailed me a cat with my order of catshirts. I don’t need a cat.
@narfcake live, dead, stuffed or fake stuffed cat?
@Kidsandliz Live.
/image catshirtswoot
@narfcake There is no postage tag on that cat thus plausible deniability on the part of those two companies.
@Kidsandliz A Woot staffer at the time said oops.
@narfcake Your other problem though is that you posted this photo before with a different explanation (grin).
@Kidsandliz I’ve used the same photo for multiple reasons.
Blame the goat.
@mike808
I blame you for bad giphies.
/giphy Bad Giphy! Bad!
Blame. Where’s @Barney? Need more purple love in my life.
/giphy purple sparkles
@RiotDemon Not. Purple. Enough.
@mike808 @RiotDemon
/giphy purple
@f00l
/giphy moar purple
@mike808
It’s cold!
Even colder further north!
Blame!
/giphy so cold
Blame because I’ve been too busy working or sleeping to blame the damn goat.
Also, I’m slightly weirded out because my credit card limit just increased (first time since I’ve had that card), but I learned about it from Experian. Actual credit card company hasn’t said anything yet.
Oh, I think I see why — my card will be 10 years old in February. Will I get another increase when it’s old enough to drive?
@TheFLP
The CC will need its own personal set of wheels at age 16.
Something stylish, I would think.
So expect another CC limit increase at that time, yes.
@f00l
Given what I use it for most of the time, it’ll probably be getting a UPS truck.
@f00l @TheFLP Don’t fall for the “raise your limit so you’ll spend more” trick. You can call them and tell them to lower it if you didn’t ask for the increase. Too much unused credit lowers your FICO score, btw.
A helpful message from the .
@mike808 #fakenews librul goat.
https://creditcards.usnews.com/articles/how-to-increase-your-credit-limit-without-harming-your-score
@mike808 @therealjrn
Eh, I pay it off every month. My spending habits aren’t going to change if I’ve got more credit than I have money in the bank.
They were always pushing a credit increase if I gave them my income, which gave me two reasons to be wary.
Blame: I am cold and I have been too distracted to keep up with the antics here other than clicking the meh button.
@tnhillbillygal If you build a fire, a man will be warm for a day. If you set him on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life.
@mike808 @tnhillbillygal
Sounds more the like “the meh you know” to me.
Smart people keep warm by setting other people on fire.
Bad Goy @mike808 never responded to being appropriately blamed for bad auto-giphies.
Bad Goat! Bad!
/giphy Bad Goat Giphy! Bad!
@f00l Happy now?
/giphy avocado goat
@f00l
/giphy moar avocado goat
@mike808
You do look great in that outfit
I must blame the goat for the other 3 members of my family getting violently sick this week.
The near-term future of my own health isn’t looking very promising
/giphy violently ill
@compunaut
So you don’t feel all alone.
@mike808
Warmer today.
This means I might have to do something useful.
Sigh. Dammit.
Goat, you’re not giving me a break.
/giphy Mike 404
@f00l You rang?
This warm weather is just too exhausting.
@f00l Spring colors aren’t here yet, so this will have to tide you over.
Due to a calicvirus outbreak (started last October) in the cattery where I volunteer, around 120 cats were euthanized today. The only remaining cats are the 4 or 5 who are up front (a different building). It breaks my heart. I have spent, in some cases, years cuddling some of them, working with some of them to make them less shy and thus more adoptable… I have been crying on and off all day.
Unfortunately the 6 cattery employees lost their jobs as a result of this. They won’t be hired back any time soon because the shelter decided to build a new cattery when they can raise the money (the current one is falling down). These employees can’t get food stamps due to the shut down. Unemployment compensation in this state is hundreds of dollars a month below the poverty line even if you get the maximum. They won’t. They were all paid minimum wage or close to that.
As a result I have started a gofundme to try to give them each $500 to cover food for themselves and their pets (they all have animals they have adopted from the shelter). I will make a separate thread about this too. Please pass this on to whomever might help.
gofundme.com/help-cat-shelter-workers-who-lost-their-job
Blame because my garden tractor won’t start in the 8 degree weather and I need to plow my drive… shoveling isn’t an option because of the rotated cuff surgery (another blame).
@JnKL Money can solve your snow-covered driveway problem. Release your inner job creator, and offer to pay someone else to nobly trade their physical labor for your fair wage offer.
@mike808
No need for you to go hungry it seems.
Has this fine project been mentioned here yet?
California town sets up ‘goat fund me’ page to finance four-legged firefighters
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/20/california-town-goat-fund-me-page-wildfire
(Top of the article)
Blame blame blamedy blame BLAME BLAME BLAME
When I was walking out to my car an hour ago it was “4º, feels like you shouldn’t have left the @#$% house.”
Bad goat. Very bad goat…
@TheFLP Single digit temps, eh?
Well, I’ve got a single digit for you, too, Mr. Blamey McBlameypants.
Bad goat! Tomorrow is another wootoff, and I have things to do.
@OldCatLady Hire someone to be your personal wootstalker. Problem solved!
Or, as I see it, more bags-o-crap for the rest of us.
Win-Win.
Well, it looks like a week to go and smooth sailing with nary a blame in sight.
My plan is working.
Blaming the goat that I’m up early again.
Unblame - So I hauled a working wheel chair away from the dumpster at the hud place I live and put it in the back of my car to donate somewhere. Then later today when I was leaving the building Teen challenge was there picking up a bunch of donations (someone moved and the family was dumping almost everything), which included a toilet seat for the disabled. I asked the kids if they wanted the wheelchair. They told me, no, they throw up medical stuff but pick it up if it is part of what someone is getting rid of. So I asked them for the toilet seat which they gave me (the manager of the apt building came out in the middle of this and basically told me off - we are inmates here I think - that I needed not to talk to anyone and stay out of stuff not my business. Fuck her - this part is a BLAME). Anyway I donated both to Thrift City (a non-profit) who was thrilled (they said lots of people come in asking if they sell stuff like that and they hardly get that kind of donation).
I then called the Teen Challenge used store and the manager there is going to set up with Thrift City that they get all their medical supplies that are donated and all the stuff they haven’t sold that they want to get rid of (someone at Thrift City had also taken Teen Challenges name to call them to see if something could be worked out too).
I do dread running into the apt building manager tomorrow as she wasn’t done putting me down and telling me to fuck off when I told her I was on my way to a doctor apt and needed to leave. But other than that (which will cause me trouble here) this was a big win for two charities (which I will tell that asshat when she screams at me tomorrow) and for folks who need stuff like that.
@Kidsandliz Damned troublemaker. I’m proud to know you. Keep it up.
@OldCatLady So much is going wrong in my life that if I can find a way to help others it make me feel a little better about my situation. And really, isn’t that what we all should be doing? I can’t donate money to anything, but I can certainly spend time trying to help.
She is a true asshole. In our lease it says we can’t talk to the postal worker when s/he comes to put our mail in your mailbox. So I waited until she was done and talked to her outside of the building (the previous day’s mail had not been delivered, I have USPS notification about what comes, and needed what hadn’t been delivered). I got screamed at for doing that. I told asshat that last I knew I still had freedom of speech not to mention just how, exactly, was I supposed to find this out from our postwoman if she (mgt) was forbidding us to talk to her? The lease only said while she was putting our mail in our mailbox which I didn’t do. Get me the fuck out of hud. I so need more work than what I have already found so I can get the hell out of here again!!! Don’t get me wrong, I am glad it exists as I am only paying $25/mo in rent due to how little money I have left once you subtract medical expenses from my income, but seriously does that then make me an inmate where I can be ordered around about who I can and can not talk to?
I blame you for making me miss so much, and I blame you so much because we didn’t get a speech from @RiotDemon
@ELUNO
/giphy smirk
@RiotDemon Grr
@ELUNO
/giphy smile
Almost outta here, suckas!
@mike808 Then you’ll be an upside down goat!
@ELUNO But I’ll always be the .
And when I am goated again, …
… prepare for …
… wait for it …
Avocado Goat: The Ripening
@mike808 oh
@mike808 my
@mike808 god.
@mike808, I blame you for being such a tremendous source of blame that I can’t possibly read all of the blame comments. Unblame because I lived long enough to watch a Google bot kick some human butt at Starcraft 2 today: https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/deepmind-ai-starcraft-ii-demonstration-tlo-mana/
@UncleVinny You owe some extra unblame if you were getting paid to watch it.
@mike808 extra bonus unblame for you, friend! I was indeed “working from home”.
@UncleVinny said:
Approved.
Unblame: a vendor brought donuts today.
Double blame: a vendor brought donuts today.
@narfcake unblame. They were donuts.
They could have brought …
Dee’s Nuts.
@narfcake Have a second helping.
@mike808 I shop a number of ethnic markets. Seeing stuff like that doesn’t faze me any bit.
(Blame.)
@narfcake They look like pale glistening avocados, don’t they?
Your friendly .
BLAME!! I was supposed to finish grading for last week by last night at 11:50pm. Nope, got everything else done (graded 2 other sets of crap) but still have 12 cases to go (did 2 of them and some didn’t turn theirs in yet so I am saved with respect to those late ones so unblame for that part). The micromanagers are going to ding me for this. I did the exchange crap first so folks had time to mail their box before the postage increase. Didn’t think the f’ing cases would take so long but they are bad (skimmed them first) and it takes longer to grade bad. Usually not so many crappy ones.
Blame for the lack of a shirt for Screenprint Sunday.
Double blame that my meh face streak is ruined. I almost went the whole month without hitting the button, but it got clicked on when I was trying to scroll through the page.
@narfcake @deathbynoodlez @reclaimercube
You forgot the blame for not having Meh face pop sockets for 114 days and counting …
And last sold on April 10, 2018 here.
@mike808
Re popsockets
/giphy sad
@deathbynoodlez @reclaimercube @mike808 As requested:
/giphy 114 blames to the scapegoat
@deathbynoodlez @mike808 @narfcake there is no hope just blind narcissism
Combination of blame and unblame. So I have this roughly 4 mo old kitten who is a darling love bug - a big enough love bug that he is a PITA. And blame because he is a kitten so sleeping through the night is not on his agenda.
I snatched his boney, scraggly butt out of the apartment’s back yard where his dinner buffet came from visitors to the bird feeder. I decided to fatten him up a bit before taking him to the no kill shelter - so unblame for that because had I taken him he earlier he would have likely been put down with the other 120 or so cats a week ago Saturday. Blame though in that now I need to find him a home on my own before I am caught with him here because while they have 10 cats that missed the carnage they have no more room for cages where they are now keeping the cats.
Unblame in that 2 of my cats look nearly identical so people think they are only 1 cat, one is so old she no longer climbs up the cat tree so can’t be seen from outdoors and my feral kitten then (when people see what is in the window) visually counts as cat #2, my “legal” limit. Blame: This thing looks very different and so dramatically increases the odds I’ll be caught.
Unblame - I was handing out money yesterday to the now unemployed cattery workers (from the gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/help-cat-shelter-workers-who-lost-their-job ) and they were so grateful that folks they didn’t know would donate to them. One of them told me this made the difference between eating this week or not since she was nearly out of food and keeping her phone on or not since her phone card was up in 2 days. One of them even tried to give me gas money from the money I just gave her since I was driving all over town dropping off money and she knew I am living below the poverty line too. Even in their desperate situation they are still thinking of others. I refused it and told her this money was for them, not for me. THANKS to those of you have donated to these folks. While the amount may be small, it has made a huge difference and brought several of them to tears.
BLAME because of what happened at the shelter (they still have 10 cats there that weren’t in the back) they won’t take him so now I have to foster him until a home can be found. I’d keep him but I can’t afford to get caught with too many cats - who is sitting in the window at any given time will be the giveaway.
I had to use ALL CAPS to an Amazon CS rep earlier for not understanding that I cannot return an item for a refund that was never fulfilled in the first place.
Number of blames:
/roll 1d20
You rolled a total of 20
@narfcake You probably weren’t asking the right question on their scripts. If it wasn’t delivered, you want to CANCEL your order, and focus on “not delivered” part. Don’t get sucked into asking for a refund because that routes you to the circular file script.
Karma’s a bitch for nominating me, ain’t it.
@mike808
It was resolved with another CS, so you do get unblames for that.
/roll 1d20
You rolled a total of 1
This seems like it’s wasted on our current goat (AHEM), but unblame because I was in one place and the snow was in the other place.
Further unblame because Joe Jackson’s new album is better than it has any right to be, coming from someone of his vintage.
@TheFLP Happy to help out.
Okay, you get one more unblame.
I want to blame you for the cold you ice hearted goat
@CaptAmehrican This?
@CaptAmehrican Yep, it was me.
I tried lighting my excessive flatulence on fire to keep the Midwest warm, but then disaster pants hit me. I think those medical trials I’m in didn’t do anything to eliminate the anal bleeding side effects they mentioned. At least I’m not getting the placebo. Yay, me, .
As my first goatdom comes to a close, here are some avocado thoughts. Enjoy them before they turn into a hot brown mess.
The Hipster
The MFA
The ¡Dame mi aguacate!
The Ten Year Challenge
The Untz Untz Untz
Be Seeing You
@mike808 What the heck is that? Golden brown fried slugs on avocado toast?
You know those sign twirling mannequins?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/cash-for-gold-lady-language
Passed by one earlier advertising a battery shop.
Blame! – because I doubt that shop is fully refrigerated.
cc: @shahnm.
@narfcake Eff it.
Signing off with a big musical finish!
Who put the goat in there? (2:08)
Blame!!! Numerous planes in Cali struck by lightening (including mine). Now I am stuck in Dallas!
Every time I have a work meeting I get travel fucked!
Blame!!!
@mfladd There’s a February goat too.
@narfcake But alas, no new thread ate llast might. I blame @eonfifty for my blame coming during a time of GoaT transfer and the fact I am waking up in Texas!
@eonfifty @mfladd @narfcake
Well that must suck.
@mfladd @narfcake
I’ve never been to Texas, but it seems like a nice, big state.
/giphy Texas republic or state
@eonfifty @mfladd @narfcake
/giphy texas
@eonfifty @f00l @narfcake And after a full long day flying in a middle seat - I arrive in Baltimore to drive three hours hours home in a snowstorm - wtf!!!
People in MD can’t drive in snow - it drives me crazy!!!
@eonfifty @f00l @mfladd @narfcake
It’s ok. It will be 60 tomorrow.
@eonfifty @f00l @mike808 @narfcake That’s a lie. It will be 40, but I will take it.
@f00l @mfladd @narfcake
Why didn’t you take an airplane that landed less than three hours from where you wanted to go?
/giphy curious goat
@eonfifty @mfladd @narfcake
Airline hub and spoke system. Sometimes it’s better to just drive the final part.
Or he coulda stayed in horrible Dallas, then he might have been forced to eat ambrosial street tacos.
Poor thing. I’m sure @mfladd would prefer airline food. Right?
@f00l @mfladd @narfcake
/image ambrosial street tacos