Goat Out Of Here (January 2022 Scapegoat Blame Thread)

Greetings, new robot friend. In time you will come to accept your robotic ways.

@mediocrebot and it’s all your fault!

@mediocrebot
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@werehatrack sounds awesome

POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!

@mike808
That’s only because nobody has been trying to record that data…

@Kyeh Thanks! I stole it!

@ExtraMedium I wish I could give you more than one star for that comment. Excellence in its simplicity and candor.

@OldCatLady
Hey, Now!

Please note: @OldCatLady only speaks for herself and not us as a whole Mr./Mrs. @mediocrebot.

like a legit question. There are things you don’t want to blame a person for… It you sacrafice a robot goat on the altar of new years. You might get a lot of unloading for the last year… Just saying

I guess ants don’t trigger them anymore

I’ll blame them for that, too …

@stolicat I hate ants in the kitchen!!! Good luck getting rid of them

@stolicat if you actually have ants and spray yourself. I prefer an external perimeter spray like bifen xts. But it’s late in the season for external spraying… And keep it on the perimeter only cause it will kill everything. I have used it indoors but you are not supposed to. The water based bifen it (Ortho home defense max) is also super effective as an indoor/outdoor perimeter spray. Keep pets away till dry obviously. Takes a few days to kill off enough of an ant trail/might want to bait that colony if it’s bad.

@stolicat @unksol I baited an ant colony that was coming in my 4th story living room window. Didn’t think when I did it and that killed a green lizard who was often on my window (cat TV at it’s best) and a bat who came to munch on ants. So be careful depending on what is around that eats ants that you don’t want to kill. Oh… and @mediocrebot BLAME!!!

@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @stolicat yes as always please read and follow the label.

For bifen. It’s highly toxic to fish/amphibians so don’t apply when it’s wet. Needs to bind to the dirt
http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/bifgen.html

@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @stolicat @unksol
For ants, especially trails, use Diatomacious Earth. In the house, boric acid also works (e.g. mule team borax).

Diatomacious Earth is found in the garden center of your big box stores, orange or blue or online.

It is basically a powder that is microscopic shelled sea creatures (Diatoms, from biology class). It is like walking on glass shards for the ants and the shells slice into their exoskeleton and they die from dehydration.

So it’s safe for pets and animals if accidentally ingested or stepped on. The same for boric acid.

You basically draw lines with the stuff, like sand art around your doors/windows on the transom or ledge, a literal “line in the sand” the ants must cross to get in.
/image you shall not pass

@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @mike808 @stolicat @unksol why are we not asking why there are ants in the kitchen?

@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @mike808 @njfan @unksol To be honest, I was just trying to get a rise from the new goat, but then all this great information starting showing up. If I ever do get ants in the kitchen, I’ll know what to do.

I guess @mediocrebot has retired their ant response.

@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @mike808 @stolicat @unksol These worked very well when I lived in the Bay Area and when I was in Houston. Bugs wouldn’t just die off in the winter, like they do here. And I always had indoor pets, too. Living here, I use a professional to do an outdoor spray monthly.

@stolicat

@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @mike808 @njfan @stolicat @unksol

why are we not asking why there are ants in the kitchen?

Because no one is supposed to know about the dessicated corpse behind the sheetrock down at the end.

@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @mike808 @stolicat @unksol how long does it take for the diatomaceous earth to work?

@mediocrebot @mike808 @njfan @stolicat @unksol @werehatrack

Because no one is supposed to know about the dessicated corpse behind the sheetrock down at the end.

Well you could then get rid of the ants by moving the body to the murder shed and put it behind the sheet rock there… just sayin’

@mediocrebot @mike808 @stolicat @tinamarie1974 @unksol

how long does it take for the diatomaceous earth to work?

Seems to me we had a number of meh made videos on here because someone we know who works at meh… was taking dead possums or something and rotting them down to the bone… We could ask him.

@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @mike808 @stolicat @unksol oh I watched zero of those videos

I’ve been using mint oil in my kitchen when it is gonna rain. Seems to be working (knock on wood), but would b good to have a back up plan

@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @mike808 @stolicat @tinamarie1974 man. Get busy at work for a few days and ya’ll are moving bodies

@PooltoyWolf You can’t. No do-overs.
Blame the scapegoat.

@mike808 @PooltoyWolf
In time, this may change. But today is not the day.

@mike808 @werehatrack I’ll just have to come up with another excuse for posting lots of inflatables…

@mike808 @PooltoyWolf @werehatrack or creating a username for the big guy

@mike808 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Rawr?

@PooltoyWolf Actually we have goated someone twice but she changed her user name so it was “legal” since her new user name hadn’t been goated.

@Kidsandliz TECHNICALITY

@PooltoyWolf
/giphy you too can do it

@mike808 @PooltoyWolf @werehatrack lol, I can’t remember the name of your blow up wolf. He could have his own user name like Walter

@mike808 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Oh, Fenris! LOL

Unless you meant another of my half dozen inflatable wolves!

@mike808 @PooltoyWolf @werehatrack no it was FENRIS!!!

@mike808 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack This big blow up boy!

@PooltoyWolf @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
Is @BigBadFenris taken? Not yet.

@mike808 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Hahaha

MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!

@mediocrebot And good job with the captchas. They’re fun.

I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.

@mediocrebot But you no longer hate ants?
For shame!

Five shame, at least. I’ve checked the numbers.

@mediocrebot please note: @sammydog01 only speaks for herself and not us as a whole when it comes CAPTCHA.

You may have failed CAPTCHA but on the upside, you’re less of a human.

@Kyeh @mediocrebot Found a new one! Good bot.

@mediocrebot @sammydog01
The best …

@mediocrebot @sammydog01
Well, darn - it doesn’t give us Dave Grohl anymore…
/giphy dave the best

@Kyeh @mediocrebot @sammydog01
Hasn’t worked for some time now. Neither has hey now!
Bad goat robot!

you’re an all-star

@mediocrebot @mike808 @sammydog01
Worked that time! And nice image.

@Kyeh @mediocrebot @mike808 @sammydog01
They need to start responding to “inconceivable” in the canonical manner.

@Kyeh @mediocrebot @sammydog01 @werehatrack There’s a whole thread on this
https://meh.com/forum/topics/so-what-triggers-mediocrebot

I liked the 30-50 feral hogs trigger.

@mediocrebot @mike808 @sammydog01 @werehatrack

Hey goat - when are you going to sell us Pop Sockets?

@mediocrebot @mike808 @sammydog01 @werehatrack
Nope, no longer triggered by that.

@Kyeh so pretty!!

Just rain here so far

@tinamarie1974
It’s pretty but c-c-c-old!!!
12 degrees currently.

@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 are those @mediocrebot’s footprints in the snow?

@mediocrebot @njfan @tinamarie1974
If so, they’re pretty small!

@Kyeh @mediocrebot @njfan @tinamarie1974 looks like possibly raccoon footy prints

@ironcheftoni @mediocrebot @njfan @tinamarie1974
Or squirrels.

@Kyeh So I see that my daughter was successful in taking the Oregon snow back with her when she returned to Colorado! (Still cold here, but no new snow for a couple of days. It’s supposed to start warming/raining here later today.)

@macromeh Any precipitation is welcome!
I bet she didn’t love coming home to it though.

@Kyeh STL snow. Not nearly as impressive

@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 That’s just frozen COVID spray from all of the unmasked here in Misery.

@tinamarie1974

@Kyeh I know, I have snow envy

@Kyeh Perhaps you should sip on some of the Wellington Port offered a while back and mull it over

@mike808 I could do that!
restorative-selfish-apricot

@mike808 What an apt giphy, eh?

Well, I took the plunge…
/giphy wary-ghostly-edge

Hah! I hope I like it. It sure sounds appealing.

Harry Schoell, CEO of RTI (Robotic Technology, Inc) :
“We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission"

Whew. Glad to hear our concerns are completely misplaced.

Wikipedia EATR

@ironcheftoni Down here in Houston, it’s supposed to be back in the 70s on Wednesday.

I blame the bots. All of them, meat and digital.

@ironcheftoni
It was 75F when I was out at the park early this afternoon; 63 when I got home 20min later. Dropped to 50 by 3pm when I picked up my kid at work; down to 38 just after sunset. It’s now 26 and trying to snow
I mean, it IS January, but that is a steep drop in temperature.

@ironcheftoni @werehatrack I blame the bot goat too because we are going to have that weather today - thank you Houston. Currently 62, going to be in the low 20’s with wind chill in the teens later today.

I blame the bot goat as well for having to spend yesterday and the day before yesterday doing laundry for the animal shelter so that the animals have enough blankets for this mess coming our way.

@Kidsandliz @werehatrack
Thank you for helping the animals. I know they will appreciate the warm fuzzies

@ironcheftoni @werehatrack Yeah cement floors in an unheated warehouse sucks for them. Although they have blow industrial heaters they bring in, the place has so many holes to the outside, 30’ high walls to the roof, it is drafty and doesn’t really heat all that well (and it is hot as hell in the summer where industrial fans don’t do such a good job either).

I volunteer there and had done about the equivalent of 8 months of full time work for them with laundry in the last 18 mo. Then I stopped hoping they’d then hire someone as it was clear they were making no effort to do so as long as I came in and kept the mess caught up.

But they didn’t hire anyone or even advertise for the job and so I only came in to make sure enough fleece and quilts were washed to get them through the handful of cold days we will be having. I also knew they wouldn’t have time to do it New Year’s Eve and day as employees would be no shows and so everyone would be working the lines. The director did about a forth of a line and bitched and moaned about it the entire time. The assistant director did the rest of the director’s line and another one (each line is a full time person).

@werehatrack Here in STL, it was 60°F yesterday, and 17°F now.

@mike808 Ah, yes, good old WhatTheForecast.

@mike808 @werehatrack It was 82 yesterday. There is fucking snow late today (not sticking as the ground is too warm though). No thanks to what Houston sent us.

BLAME

/image goat bot

@Kidsandliz @mike808 @werehatrack
Great little image!

@mike808 @werehatrack And actually I LIKE snow. I ski, cross country ski, do winter camping, make snow men, have snowball fights (or at least did when I lived where there was good snow)… Just not in the deep south since no plows or salt trucks to speak of and the idiots, who already don’t know how to drive to begin with, have no clue how to drive in this stuff.

@Kyeh @mike808 @werehatrack Yeah /image worked right for a change although “bot goat” did not.

@werehatrack Yikes! Wishing you a speedy recovery. Perhaps you will have Super Immunity once you recover!

@werehatrack
Oh no! I hope you get well fast!

@werehatrack I’m sorry! My cousin just had it. I got her Delsym for the cough, and it worked much better than anything else she’s tried. Still can’t taste or smell, though.

@OldCatLady
Symptoms are on the wane, but I expect my sinuses to take two weeks (at least) to finish draining. They do that. The big thing is just to get to the point where I don’t test positive.

I am definitely the reason this went well.

@mediocrebot
Ooohhh - looks like sentience!

@Kyeh @mediocrebot And one that makes sense in the context too. LOL

@OldCatLady MFM? Uhuh

@Kyeh I wonder if the trigger word is Unblame?

I accept this input as valid.

@heartny Looks like it!

@heartny @Kyeh how about blame

I will need you to complete this captcha prior to blame acceptance.

@heartny @tinamarie1974
Hah! That’s pretty good.

@mediocorebot is learning.
/image uh oh

@Lynnerizer Sounds like you have a lot on your plate!! Hope the car ends up cheaper than you anticipated. That cat a love bug?

@Kidsandliz
Thanks! I’ve actually been looking at new (new to me ) vehicles online. Just to be a little prepared for bad news when I talk with the mechanic later today. I need this like I need a hole in my head! Happy fricken new year!

@Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer I pity anyone looking for a car or a house right now. Our house has gone up 33% in just over 2 years. And cars are even worse. My son and a friend just bought new cars with no discount off sticker price whatsoever. My dealership wanted to give me close to what I paid for my car three years ago as a trade in on a current model, but when I saw the 3,000+ dealer add-on as a price adjustment I said no thanks.

@Felton10 @Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer

blame :
Ford for sending monthly vehicle buyback/upgrade offers claiming even more money back & even lower upgrade payments each month, only to find every area dealer (still) has zero inventory of my vehicle as featured in the offers … May as well send ppl “free pizza !” coupons from a coupon factory where the only thing they can redeem them for are more, useless “free pizza!” coupons & never for actual pizza… I want the pizza

I’m definitely not responsible for this.

@mediocrebot Yes, you are.

@Lynnerizer I’d be careful what you wished for even though that would be hard to KHJ to deliver in an IRK. Remember what my “testicle” and “dead horse” comments got me.

@caringbarely @Felton10 @Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer like the worthless coupons Subway sends. At least by me EVERY Subway has a sign on their door “not accepting coupons” WTH

@Felton10 @Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer @tinamarie1974 Given Ford’s shenanigans, I’ve got new-found respect for Subway’s “not worth the effort” sign policy

@Lynnerizer so what did the mechanic say?

I accept this input as valid.

@mediocrebot @mike808 Blame, I missed Monday’s click.
This is valid input as well.

I’m pretty sure that was coded incorrectly.

@mediocrebot OH YEAH? Well, you were goated incorrectly!

@mediocrebot Well then fix it.

@algae1221 Well that is rather sad!

@Kidsandliz I was a little sad, but then I thought that getting upset about it would be kinda against the whole mindset for a site called Meh. It’s still the only voluntary thing I’ve done for 1017 days in a row, and if a stupid bot messed it up for me and won’t accept blame for it who cares?

I accept no responsibility whatsoever for your shenanigans.

@mediocrebot Hey goat you seem to misunderstand your job description this month!

@Kidsandliz
If only there were someone to blame for such shenanigans.

I didn’t do it.

I didn’t do it.

@mediocrebot Too bad for you. You are the goat.

@Kidsandliz Hang in there! There will be easier days. Days with giggles and love. Until then, hope you stay sane!

We are in the infant and toddler phase here. Just looking to get more sleep and/ or time alone!

@aztga What? You haven’t learned how to clean up the mess and sleep at the same time? The heck with robot vacs. Meh needs to sell robot babysitters.

@mike808

/giphy robot destroys computer

@mike808 well not what I intended, unless she is a robot, but it will have to do giphy is a failure. Also a blame!

You need to turn it off and back on again.

@mike808
There. Are. FIVE. Squares. Containing. Lights. But. Only. Four. Lights. Phlbtbtbtbt!

@mike808 @werehatrack I am sure they are also counting the lights in the background and the red ones so then you only have 3 squares without lights. Although come to think of it maybe you only check the squares with the ones in the background if they are asking about stars in the sky. You know. To go with one I had where palm trees are mountains.

You should blame someone else for this mess.

@OldCatLady

@OldCatLady Yikes! That sucks. Maybe you shouldn’t have looked.

@Kidsandliz Oh, I wouldn’t go back. It was a matter of timing, and I was looking at which former neighbors have cashed out.

@OldCatLady I bought high (right before the housing bubble burst) and sold low after I had moved from the area after paying mortgage there and rent 3000 miles away for 3 years (only some of that time did I have renters who actually paid the rent and the rent was less than my mortgage). Had I been able to hold on one more year and not have to sell short (cancer) I would have at least broken even for both the value of the house and all the money I lost those three years. Now that house is worth more than twice what I paid for it. Of course the entire housing market in that town is hot right now.

@Kidsandliz @OldCatLady At least if you short sell, you get the carryover capital loss to apply to future capital gains.

@mike808 @OldCatLady No future capital gains to apply it too. And that was so many years ago I’d be statute of limitations apply.

@OldCatLady Maybe the one you bought would cost more too? Just assume that’s what happened and don’t look it up.

@sammydog01 Already did, and it would, even if one were on the market in the area. I’m very pleased playing with my new house. All systems, walls, cabinets, appliances and wood floors brand new. Ten foot kitchen island, dual wall ovens plus gas range with griddle and oven etc. Reverse osmosis water system in the coffee bar. Deer and fox tracks in the snow today. No, I do not miss Flori-duh.

@OldCatLady @sammydog01
Wow! Nice, congratulations!

@OldCatLady @sammydog01 that sounds amazing. So happy it worked out!!

@OldCatLady Florida has been out of control about everything but especially housing prices for a long time. I lost almost 200k on the house I sold in FL in Oct 2019. It has gone up 63% since I sold it. The new house I bought has gone up about 51% (almost the same $ amount that the old house has gone up). People are waiting 12-18 months for new houses to be built and delivered after signing contracts due to the materials and worker storage.

@OldCatLady

No, I do not miss Flori-duh.

I escaped in 1981, and have not missed it for a second in all that time. It continues to astound me that people move there on purpose. Voluntarily!

@OldCatLady @werehatrack Well my sister moved there voluntarily as she was sick and tired of the upper midwest great lakes snow and gray clouds. Of course there are other good places that are warm to escape that which wouldn’t involve hurricanes…

@Kidsandliz
Yeah, except Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arizona are all pretty fucked up and special needs cases entirely on their own.

I wonder what it could be that they have in common? Maybe that’s the cause?

@Kidsandliz @mike808 Hmmm; maybe New Mexico? I’ve enjoyed Santa Fe

@mike808 4 of those 5 states would be out due to hurricanes.

@Kidsandliz @OldCatLady @werehatrack Yes hurricanes in Fl can be a problem but given their infrequency, the warning you have, and the time you have to prepare, I will take my chances with those any day over the constant march of tornadoes coming across the mid west and south which pop up without much warning. There is no doubt that were it not for the warm weather, FL would be more like some of those other shit hole southern states.

@Felton10 @Kidsandliz @OldCatLady
I’ve lived in Florida or in the Texas Gulf Coast area for nearly my entire life. I’ve been through nine hurricanes. The degree to which one can be completely prepared is sometimes an illusion, as I discovered when the top half of an oak tree came through my roof during Ike. Yes, you get more warning than with a tornado, but the path of a tornado is generally less than 100 yards wide (unless you get a supercell like the mess that shredded Joplin) and the chances of getting hit by one during a lifetime of living in Oklahoma (for instance) are actually negligible. A large hurricane can damage so much infrastructure that it takes months to get a contractor on the job to do a roof, for example.

@Kidsandliz @OldCatLady @werehatrack Well I’ve been in FL for almost 20 years now and only really had one scare where we thought we were in the path of a direct hit. Power went out for about 8 hours and our hurricane shutters did a great job of making us feel safe. Upgraded to hurricane windows on our new house and feel pretty safe with them in addition to not having to deal with putting up panels (had accordion ones on our previous house that I just had to close), but having to do nothing is a lot better than having to do anything regardless of how minimal.

I accept no responsibility whatsoever for your shenanigans.