Goats of Christmas Future (December 2023 scapegoat blame thread)
8I don’t know about you, but I’m happy to say this is it for 2023. It’s been a whole year of this crap. But before we step into another year and start messing up every time someone asks us to put a date on something, we have’ll to get through December. With November officially wrapped up, @mehgrl can get some much-needed rest and stop taking all of your calls. With any luck, our new goat will pick up the phone and answer the call to duty.
Hehe…I said duty.
Looks like @IndifferentDude will be taken to task for our 2023 wrap-up month. I guess that happens when you try to throw others under the bus as the votes start rolling in.
Even if you’re apathetic, just don’t care, or can’t be bothered, you probably aren’t as indifferent as this goat.
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I demand a recount!!
I’m pretty sure you’ll find some hanging chads that’ll change the final tally!! 
/giphy I won??
You’re a weiner!!!
Uh, I mean … a WINNER!!!
@Kyeh Lol
That was a good one Kyeh! And then It was hilarious to see the weiner dressed like a dick. I mean eggplant! 
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer I get they are dressed like dicks? But what up with the dog/cute aubergine?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Lynnerizer @unksol
I really didn’t expect that - I thought it would be something like hotdogs- but it was so cute I had to keep it.
@IndifferentDude
Sing us the chorus of:
The Christmas Goat
(tune Jingle Bells)
Jingle Bells Santa Smells
I’m gonna eat your trees
Oh what fun it is to drive
A present laden sleigh hey
Jingle Bells Santa Smells
I am so hungry
This is great, presents for lunch
Thanks a big huge bunch.
Dootie… Mehheh… Snicker
What is that…thing in the background, next to the cute little house? Perhaps a reindeer that AI just couldn’t quite render. LOL
@PooltoyWolf A bantha!
That’s a pretty cool landscape with the high cliffs.
@Kyeh Ha! Needs a tauntaun or two.
Seems rather quiet here
; guess I should post a Christmas song by Boney M to liven things up!! 
Tip: Crank your speakers to get an extra jolt from the music!! 
Guess they still have more Trackers to get rid of?
Mehrry Krampus, @IndifferentDude!
And I will add Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Happy Festivus
/giphy Festivus
@tinamarie1974 Well, the airing of grievances has already started…
@ybmuG now for the feats of strength!!
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG Feets of strength? I’ll be about a dozen yards upwind.
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
/image Feets of Strength
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG
/image feets
Of strength
@unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG for all that is holy, please no feet
Ill stick to feats
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG
/image foots?
@tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack is that the flavor?
“The foot that refreshes”
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG I could believe that’s a translation. Not sure where it’s from/what language/I was just expecting more feets.
I can parse it knowing feet are involved. Planter. Fisdrank meh planten… I wonder what the flavor is. Probably gets you on your feet. Although red bull is pretty awful
@tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack Google Translate says it’s Dutch:
soft drink with plant and fruit extracts, contains caffeine
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG sounds nice. I didn’t think that random set of feet was that bad as feet go. I was tempted to add mine with the big toe I dropped something on but I’m not that mean. Still. Feet are… Just feet. Most have two. So??
@tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG
She’d probably be okay with these:
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG lol well I was going to say she can’t mind Charlie’s TOO much.
I play with the cats paws. Whatever is is about feet I think it’s a different thing but no one ever explained it
@tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG Some cultures are very offended by feet! In the Middle East and Asia showing the sole of your foot to someone is an insult. (I don’t know about the tops, though.)
A former coworker told me her husband was on a business trip in Saudi Arabia and made friends worth a very rich man who invited him over for dinner. They had a great time, ate a lot, drank a lot - and then the husband made the mistake of crossing his feet so that one sole was pointed at his host. The man got enraged and the servants has to spirit the guy out of the house and drive him away because they’d been ordered to shoot him!
@Kyeh @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG TOE BEANS!!! I love toe beans!!!
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG I have to wonder what happens when you encounter people with sandals? Or as my dad insisted on calling them to annoy my sisters, “thongs”. Or open toed shoes. Or the pool?
The weirdest foot comment I’ve ever had was from a pastors wife when I was a teenager, you know just standing there talking to them. And shes like. “Eew you have hair on your toes? Gross”
Um? Yep there’s a few blonde hairs there you can barely see. Most people have hair. I’ve seen your husband, he’s an actually hairy dude, what… Uh… What are you even doing? Also why are you looking down there?
The occasional toe nail loss etc. ok. Yea. You know. Not going to gross someone out intentionally.
@Kyeh @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG I just dont like feet. Dont want to be touched w others feet, dont really want to look at them. They are gross and if you dont get/do pedi’s they may be rough. Not a fan of hairy toes. So now you know. Its one of my oddities
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack I’m a fan of having two that work, but beyond that…
@Kyeh @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG agree and I like my feet, just weird about ones attached to other people
@tinamarie1974
@Kyeh @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG
You must have really enjoyed the Hobbits in the LOTR films.
Look at your own risk:
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/image Bilbo’s Hobbit feet
@Kyeh @phendrick @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG well… Those WERE quiet some feet lol. They also are not normally in focus/full screen and pretty dirty.
Then there’s always the fungus amount us angle lol.
Some people are on only fans for feet which I don’t understand either. So. Meh. Not trying to pick on anybody/it is the lowest body part/gets some wear and tear.
Id prefer eyes up, but I do find them very useful. I’m quiet a bit more fond of mine than anyone else’s for that reason alone.
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG
@unksol That seems like a weirdly rude and inappropriate comment from a pastor’s wife! As you said, why was she studying your toes so closely?
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG lol I found it very strange at the time cause as I’m sure you know teenagers are famously super confident in their bodies? But wasn’t really focused on my normal toes at the time or that some people shave them? Do they? Meh. was a curve ball though lol. Sounded like a reaction so maybe she just had a foot thing too
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Never mind what some of you ladies choose/put up with/are assumed to shave. Makes me wonder what she might have said to some of them. Was just… Very weird lol
@tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG I’ve never heard of anyone shaving their toes!
Even back when I read all those girl mags like Seventeen to learn what I was supposed to do.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG
Just on a Google. And IDK why it’s flagged as mature. Just generic shaving comments.
Granted this was 20 years ago so she didn’t have reddit. And it was 20 years ago so she probably still doesn’t. Lol.
I mean if it was a couple weird hairs I’d weed wack them. I’m starting to get the old man ear hairs. They annoy me lol
@tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG Yeah, I don’t have the app so I can’t view it.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG weird… Just pulls up in my browser fine. Might ask you to install reddit but you should just be able to hit use browser. I never install their crap.
Regardless just an example that it’s a thing apparently. at least now.
As far as what the woman/girl mags were telling teenagers to think at the time… Well I’ve never read one but I get the impression they were way worse than an offhand comment about toes. So. Meh. My toes will live on in defiance
@Kyeh @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG I wax mine, but I only need to do it a few times a year. Years of waxing thinned it out and I think the hair grows slower these days.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG age slows it down in women as sometimes circulation is somewhat less in feet and the hair on the toes tends to vanish, also friction from shoes/socks can rub them off.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG
To go a little different direction with this, a former SO and l took a community ed massage class together. l was getting a foot massage, and it totally put me under while lying on the hardwood floor. l was so relaxed l had to be awakened.
After that, l found that people either loved foot massages [me!], or couldn’t stand their feet being touched by others. Some of the latter still liked hand massages and would ask me for them.
lt got me interested in reflexology. From my logical/rational/scientific side, l found the idea of reflexology zones to be not too believable. But OTOH, there does seem to be evidence it works.
l didn’t have time or opportunity to explore that any further.
Married, and with my wife in Alzheimer’s care, l’m not now in a good social situation to actively recruit massages, but would still love exchanging them. Also, a Licensed Massage Therapist is out of my retiree’s budget (about 5 times by the hour of the highest l made teaching college).
lf l tried to start a senior citizen’s massage club, it would probably get me ostracized at my church. LOL. (l already have to sometimes fight the image of being a “dirty old man”, AKA “over-sexed senior citizen”).
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG
Related:
https://www.google.com/search?q=skin+hunger
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @phendrick @tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack @ybmuG When I busted up my left foot in a fall, after months of hobbling around on crutches while it healed, I had to go to physical therapy a couple times a week for 6 weeks. The cute young rehab tech would torture me on the various machines for a while, then she would ice my foot and finish with a glorious foot massage.
That last part kept me coming back.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @macromeh @phendrick @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG
When I snapped my ankle it blooned quiet a bit but I haven’t dug it up cause people don’t want to see it.
I got the most asshole of an asshole ever. Every exercise I did for him he just asked if I was stupid and why I was doing it wrong. I think I went twice out of the like 8 appointments and just did it on my own. I bet the asshole billed them anyway
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @macromeh @phendrick @tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack Was his name Nick Burns, by any chance? Maybe he had a career change…
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @macromeh @phendrick @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG well no. Although I often fix things on larger scale
Had not seen that before. I much prefer the IT crowd. “have you tried turning it off and on again?”
Seriously his issue seemed to be he wanted to tell me, not show me, tell me I was an idiot, Not get me to do it correctly.l, say do it at home, And get rid of me in the minimum amount of time. Even though he had plenty of time in out whole 15 minutes.
And I’ve never been the most cordinated of people but it’s his job to show me and get me to do it. And my ankle had 5 screws in it, my fibula was shattered and some ligaments were relocated. It doesn’t exactly work that’s the point/his job.
But I’d much rather walk on it and take six months than deal with that asshole.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @macromeh @phendrick @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG and just for the the record anyone else… You shouldn’t do what I did. You should tell him he’s being a fucking asshole and get up and show you, and if he’s worthless you should report him/find someone else.
But this was workmans comp over a decade ago when they were paying whatever little for compensation, but they were 100% paying the medical and I didn’t want to rock the boat in any way shape or from.
The hospital had some anesthesiologist come in and ask me if I wanted a pain pump literally right before surgery with no explanation of what it was. Who was paying. Nada. Really glad I just said no. Hurt like fuck waking up. I think they hit me with morphine twice plus Percocet. Then just a limited supply of Percocet for when it was going to be bad and Vicodin the rest of the time.
That at least turned out fine for me taking the minimum. But they definitely offered me more if I needed it. Which. Pain is about impossible to measure correctly. But take the minimum you need. We have enough heroin addicts
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @macromeh @phendrick @tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack
Best advice for a LOT of things!
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @macromeh @phendrick @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack @ybmuG
depends. Doctor’s prescribe a full course of antibiotics. You should definitely do those and only when prescribed cause you need to kill it dead. Not halfway dead. And not breed survivors.
Vaccines yes, let your immune system murder.
Most stuff. Yes.
But because everyone is used to that and you can’t quantify pain. If they prescribe you x pills every 6 hours, or as needed. That’s a slippery problem. If you just take them at the dose prescribed… could be too little. Often too much. Especially if they were careless. Or intentionally over prescribing cause they profit…
I was breaking them in half cause it should hurt. It’s supposed to. But if I knew I needed to be on my feet for a while and I knew it was going to hurt to much to function. id take a Percocet or a full Vicodin more often. Than dial it back when I was back home or wherever.
But no one actually told me to do that directly when they prescribed them… They really should have someone available to help dial it in and explain pain management. Not just a WAG from a doctor
I like these variegated paw pads (okay, yeah - sneaking in another cat pic.
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@Kyeh Our tuxedo cat also has mixed black and pink toes - I always accuse him of walking through the ashes in the fire pit. (His calico sister’s toes are uniformly pink.)
@macromeh They make me think of these:
Although I find the idea of “pink camo” annoyingly stupid.
@Kyeh @macromeh even Barbie knows better…
@macromeh @ybmuG Much better.
(Oh, you switched it! Still better.)
@Kyeh @macromeh KitKat had all pink on one front paw and two inner/two outer on the other. But they seemed to actually line up with his coat so I just thought it was pigmentation. Didn’t really realize they could be separate… And as I’m typing this thinking about all the 5 cats on me where there paws have nothing to do with their coats… Yup. Having a blonde moment
@Kyeh @macromeh well cocos are all black. The boys on me are all pink. There’s not a gray kitty in grabbing range at the moment
@macromeh @unksol
You? Or the lighter colored cats?
@Kyeh @macromeh technically both maybe lol
@Kyeh @macromeh Google also says melanin which just… makes sense… Except I think all the ones but the black cats are pink. Will check Troy/Darty/Teal’c. Teal’c will be… Unamused
Just cause
I took the scary step of letting the dental school do some dental work for me. Luck of the draw gave me a 3rd year student. There have been some issues and likely will need a redo, but over all I think this kid will end up a decent dentist. Anyway they gave them kindergarten star charts for when they got out of there on time. (Personally I am glad my student dentist isn’t in a hurry). So anyway I made him a star to put on his chart.
This is what I made him. (Had to finish making it in the waiting room as I ran out of time to finish it at home.). I wish I could be a fly on the wall to hear whatever faculty who is doing the kindergarten star charts says when he/she sees this thing (the original is around 3/4" tall).
@Kidsandliz
@Kyeh HAHA on the emoji. I enlarged that and sent it to him telling him to print that and put it on his start chart too. Then to blame the patient for doing it behind his back if someone is upset. I just can’t believe they are using public star charts with dental students. Hello. These students are adults. Post undergrad college adults. Sheesh.
@Kidsandliz That IS peculiar!
Time for ALL the GOATs to blame the current goat for the slow response to this situation:
https://weather.com/science/nature/video/goats-rescued-after-days-trapped-on-ledge
I mean, if we’re not sticking together, what hope is there for goatdom?
@phendrick We used to do that on occasion in Scotland (normal job working as an instructor at Outward Bound but sometimes did stuff like this). The minute their legs don’t touch the ledge fortunately they stop struggling.
I do believe the stress from being GOTM (Goat Of he Month) is giving me the vapors!!
/giphy fainting goat
@IndifferentDude I don’t see much blame getting cast your way - people need to step it up here! Blame away!
)
(I love how dramatic those fainting goats are!
@IndifferentDude @Kyeh Here you go:
BLAME!!! I have to drive to Houston today (around 8 hours and the map says I-10 is closed in areas so how the hell they will detour is through the swamps of Louisiana I do not know and maybe it looks like near Beaumont, TX too, so who knows how long it will really take. At least it’s Sunday for traffic although I’ll be driving home on a work day). I had to get up early as I have so much left to do before I can leave (right so I am checking email and clicking the meh button so I don’t forget having lost a streak pushing 200 not so long ago) and I am taking someone else to drop off at her family’s house to see the new baby so I don’t have the option of sleeping in and arriving at 1am. It means I’ll be really tired tonight and tomorrow I have to be there damn early for a 6:15am MRI. Double blame as I have to pay $17 for parking as the shuttle doesn’t run that early and I don’t feel like walking 1.6 miles in the dark in an area that I don’t know how safe, or not, it is and I’d have to get up even earlier.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh Whoa!
That’s quite a long drive! 
Sure hope you took advantage of meh’s recent offerings of caffeinated items to help keep you awake. A quick look shows you could have procured a 64-Pack of VERB Caffeinated Snack Bars along with a 90-Pack of Zenevo Driving Energy Chocolates with Caffeine!! Hope you’ll have a safe trip and your MRI results are what you hope for. 
@IndifferentDude @Kyeh Well it’s not a long drive compared to driving the 1084 miles to visit my mom. And the longest drive I ever did was the 2300 or 2400 or whatever it was from the NW to the deep south. That was 4.5 days in a car. Or Norfolk, Va to Minneapolis MN and back with only 3 hours in Minneapolis.
Blame-if it wasn’t for @kyeh, never would have known about this or got this for my birthday.
@Felton10 omg its a Felton!!!
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974 Awww! Lucky you! Did you get an Irk plushie as well? They can keep each other company!
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 No didn’t order it when it was on sale nor get it during last mehrathons IRK with it in there. I will put it next to my ALF doll to keep it company which is as old as my children are.
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974
You’re hoping that Alf eats him?!?
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 ALF only eats cats if you remember.
@Felton10
(@tinamarie1974 - we won’t tell him that that Squishmallow Felton is a Siamese cat.)
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 OMG-I think you are right.
Unblame-Costco just declared an extra dividend of $ 15 a share-almost like money from heaven that you didn’t expect.
@Felton10 Ah, capital gains. That should make the IRS happy. (Not to be confused with the IRK.)
Know any good tax people?
(Is “money from heaven” taxable?)
@Felton10 @phendrick
Fortunately no, given all the “pennies from heaven” that land here in the PNW.
@phendrick Money received or earned from any source is taxable. There have been many stories about people who embezzled, robbed banks or got money from other crimes who got away scott free for those crimes, but were convicted for not reporting their ill gotten gains on their taxes.
@Felton10 @phendrick If they got convicted of tax fraud I am not sure how they then also didn’t get convicted of the crime that got them the money to begin with. To know they didn’t report their illegally gotten gains to even know they didn’t report it makes no sense to me.
@Kidsandliz @phendrick I know it seems crazy, but it happens more often than one would think-mostly with low level crimes like prostitution. Although there was one really famous mafia person to which this happened (whom I can’t think of now).
@Felton10 @Kidsandliz @phendrick
AL CAPONE!
@Felton10 @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @phendrick
AL CAPON!
Blame.
My pen stopped writing, but when I pull the cartridge, it’s still half full.
Wasteful! Shameful!
Blame. I am sick! Headache, fever, dry cough, nausea… I’m vaccinated against all the junk and wear a mask again around people now that this state is having more cases of all the creeping crud that is out there. I have to drive 1084 miles on Friday/Saturday. I better be better by then or that will be no fun.
@Kidsandliz Ick! I sure hope it clears up fast!
@Kidsandliz These should get you through (or their generics):
Or, just hack off the wrappers of a couple of those ginger chews Meh sold a while back that you stuck into your freezer. (They clean out my sinuses and lower.)
Hope you recover in time to have the “fun” of the drive.
I want to thank people for their suggestions and comments. Fortunately I am starting to feel better, and while am still really tired no longer have a fever, nose isn’t dripping nearly as much… So while I am not looking forward to the drive I’ll survive. And that gives me until Sunday morning anyway until I see anyone.
@phendrick
Fun? hahaha Personally I would prefer the fun of a telatransporter on this trip. I have done it so so many times. Missed the fall tree colors. Will see a few christmas decorations (there is one every year I can see from the highway where they put a lot of time into it)… but mostly it’s highway through the flattest areas they can find, mostly rural farmland…
@Kidsandliz
Elon is probably working on one.
Stay safe. Most people aren’t concentrating on their driving this time of year.
Blame. I set my remote down and it’s proving hard to find it.
Also they DO get heavy…
@unksol I bet they’re warm, though!
@Kyeh yes but it’s relative. At the moment ok. It’s down to 60. Turned the heat down because if this continues I will definitely overheat.
@unksol I can’t accept the blame if you failed to attach a much-coveted TrackR pixel (with a new battery inserted) to the remote and failed to utilize the highly touted substitute SwiftFinder app to locate your remote. I’m not Santa
; I can’t be everywhere at once at the same time!! 
@IndifferentDude not sure why you need to track meh cats. I did not ask to relocate them.
I mean if you were actually Santa and could… Mehbe. But Santa would have their hands full. And then angry. Notes from parents
@unksol Mehbe 1 of the cats knocked the remote into your shoes on the side of the couch?? They’ve been known to be notorious “knockers-offers” of anything and everything!!
/youtube cat knocks item off
@IndifferentDude @unksol I think he meant you should put the TrackR on your remote - which is exactly where I had mine until the damn things quit working with my iPhone! Bums me out, because I missplace it all the time.
@IndifferentDude @Kyeh ah. No. The remote cannot travel further than the length of my arm. They can’t… I think? Physically relocate it. Other than knocking it over.
The issue was by the end of the show I did not remember where in that arms radius it was. Under one of them. And I didn’t want to disturb crushy at all because she been spending all her time on top of the fireplace mantel or just now doing shit like this… Which considering the rod she had to walk to get there is impressive. I had to hear her crying and go get her to sit with me
I’m not sure what to do about them picking on her… Was just. Gently probing bellies for it
@IndifferentDude @Kyeh @unksol Just put a wall cat bed in there for her so she is at least comfortable.
There is one you can attach to windows or put screws through the holes there for the window suction cup and attach it to the wall that way. While hanging out in the closet isn’t ideal for your kitty since she is the bottom of the pecking order she doesn’t have many choices. My cats love this thing.
@IndifferentDude @Kidsandliz @Kyeh most of the time she’s on top of the mantle where I can see her and just pick her up to come to work or the couch where she’s fine. Just didn’t realize she could still get up there/heard someone crying last night and had to go hunting. Sigh
@IndifferentDude @Kyeh @unksol well at least make it comfortable for her if she is hanging out there. And she still may cry if she can’t get down but a small shelf partway down on the side wall would help that. And the mantle: while safer for her as she can see where other cats are and thwart their attempts to get at her, isn’t a soft and cuddly place. Maybe there is a cat bed you can screw to a piece of wood you can screw to the mantle so she has a comfy perch? I mean the cats own our houses anyways so might as well make it comfy for them. You can always fill the holes and wax over them to hide them when you sell your house down the line.
@IndifferentDude @Kidsandliz @Kyeh
She can 100% get down from the mantel back to the cat tree. I watch her do it, look around carefully, go get some food, then run or often get chased back up. The issue is she stays up there all day which can’t be good. Not always getting to the litter box either.
If I go get her she spends a few hours on the couch with the rest or in the bed with a bunch at work at least. Some shelves could go up in the closet so she has another spot. But. She can’t just be up there alone all the time afraid to come down.
@IndifferentDude @Kyeh @unksol In this case, as much as I hate to suggest it, perhaps she needs a new home where she is an only cat where she doesn’t have to deal with the bullying that isn’t going to go away? She’d likely be a whole lot happier.
@IndifferentDude @Kidsandliz @Kyeh right. Trying to figure that out. Although they were picking on Janet and she figured out she was safe with me. So I think they refocused. And she’s being sleeping with a pile of them when I get her down. The bullies might be better off in an only cat situation.
May just be too many cats here which. You know if someone just walked up and said I’d like to adopt xyz for the most part I’d be good with that. You know it they weren’t assholes lol. It is a lot of cats
@IndifferentDude @Kyeh @unksol True the bullies would be best in a one cat home with lots of attention. Glad she does hang out in a cat pile once she is down.
@IndifferentDude @Kidsandliz @Kyeh yea… Not entirely sure what their deal is. Maybe if we got some mice in they’d have a better target lol. It’s not territory or wanting to be on me. Just seem to have decided to bother the smallest ones.
@unksol you have what - about 80 pounds of cat there? Referring to they do get heavy comment.
@Kidsandliz well only 5 of the 7 were directly on me and in general none are fat. And then the distribution of weight… Cause they lay across. Maybe at best .5…
I think id lean toward mehbe 20 lbs of direct distributed weight. But the other half of them that’s not directly on you restricts you moving side to side.
Also think 80lbs would restrict blood flow which is not usually how the whole cat predicts death thing goes.
This went sideways for a goat post
@unksol
It sure did. Blame the goat
@ybmuG well I realized some behavior things/connected some dots I missed. So you know.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sorry for the distraction
@unksol @ybmuG Hmmph!!
https://www.wordsense.eu/hmmph/
/giphy no respect
@IndifferentDude @ybmuG meh. Wasn’t much else your last blame was Monday. It is Christmas though
@IndifferentDude @unksol @ybmuG
“Now that’s what I call marine biology”
… Am I missing something there? I don’t see any marines. (Unless they are still submerged.)
OTOH, if the ladies are marines, I might still try to join.
@phendrick From Google: “Simply put, marine biology is the study of life in the oceans and other saltwater environments such as estuaries and wetlands”. So Rodney was examining some very lovely lifeforms!!
@IndifferentDude @phendrick this assumes it’s a salt water hotub?
The joke is obvious. Considering he’s being jerked out of the water undesired behavior.
It’s Rodney Dangerfield and the 1980s so…
@IndifferentDude @phendrick @unksol
I once made some complimentary remarks about Rodney Dangerfield in an obscure Usenet newsgroup back in the early 90’s. A few days later I received a lovely email from his wife thanking me for my kind words and expressing his appreciation of his fans.
I know emails can be forged, but I did some basic investigation and as far as I could tell it was legit. (And why would someone send a nice “Thank You” message as a prank, anyway?)
@IndifferentDude @macromeh @phendrick
Usenet is technically not before my time but before we had AOL/NetZero in the house/id have been a kid. But if it was just an email. Not sure what they’re get out of it especially without a follow up “I gotcha”?
And anything in the early 90s is so far before the concepts of likes/viral/attention seeking crap people do today.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was treated like fanmail if they saw it. Just way faster/easier. I could see it being legit.
@IndifferentDude @phendrick @unksol
I guess what struck me as weird was that Mr. Dangerfield or his wife would be checking out (and responding to!) a mention in misc.consumers.frugal-living. (Of course I guess it could have been a lackey, but still.)
@IndifferentDude @macromeh @phendrick @unksol Given that even the original DejaNews interface could quickly pop up search results for Usenet (which Google almost entirely ignores), it’s not all that surprising. The smarter agents and talent had staffers watching out for counterfeit ticket sales issues early on, as well as other actionable content. Not all did, and sometimes they had the necessity for vigilance driven home to them.
@IndifferentDude @phendrick @unksol @werehatrack
Yeah, that makes sense - probably right.
@IndifferentDude @macromeh @phendrick @werehatrack early days of the Internet. Dangerfield was also a unique word to search on.
If you Google now you get the below which appears to be legit physical stores
https://dangerfield.com.au/
Which… Interesting Australia is… A dangerous field but number two is still
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Dangerfield
@IndifferentDude
Not every date is evenly divisible by 1001.
OTOH, 12312023 Is prIme.
And the next day will be 1124, which apparently was a fairly meh year: https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1124
But some people find the number itself significant:
https://leadbystars.com/angel-number-1124
I’m not particularly into numerology. But the numbers I find the most significant are the ones on my bank account summary, my credit card statements, and my tax forms.
Personally, I’m just pleased to be about to survive 2023 (fingers crossed).
@IndifferentDude you mean 231231 right?
@unksol Um … I guess if you’re from 1 of them backwards countries that also uses the metric system you could write it that way.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@IndifferentDude pretty standard to use number 8 as YYYYMMDD, (or CCYYMMDD if you insist) in databases/code. Has nothing to do with metric, I use MM/DD/YY for you know. Clocks. Calendars. Checks. talking to people. Etc.
I believe Europe mostly does DD/MM/YYYY in common usage which… At least is in order but contrary to the international standard as well/throws me off
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
If anything more specific YYYYMMDDH24MISS
The fact that YYMMDD and MMDDYY both happen to be palindromes of sort can fuel your conspiracy till new years
@IndifferentDude damn it. Just repeating not palindromes
Need a forehead slap/dunce emoji for myself.
There are too many in there/i never want to speak in hieroglyphics
Blame. The drains don’t come out until Tuesday.
@werehatrack Oh my!!
What happened?? 
I see incisions everywhere! 
@IndifferentDude This was the second half of my facial feminization surgery. The first half was in July; that was the bone work that changed some of the underlying structure. This was the soft tissue work. The procedure ran long. I was wheeled into the OR at 7AM on Wednesday, and I didn’t wake up until around 11PM. I can already tell that the results are nothing short of amazing.
@IndifferentDude @werehatrack awesome!
POPSOCKETS! ROAD ROCKETS! SONNY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@werehatrack , having known you before this journey in your life, all I can say is wow! Just amazing. Here’s to speedy healing.
@werehatrack they needed to give you red ribbon bandages.
Seriously though I hope this continues to turn out like you hoped as you heal!
@Kidsandliz My hair remains a disaster area for the moment, but enough of the swelling has gone down that I can now see the very fine incision lines where certain of the work was done. I’m pretty sure that I will want the revised passport and D/L photos sometime in January. There’s also a fair chance that I will finally give myself permission to do something that’s been very firmly in the “don’t bother” category for decades, well buried under deep layers of denial for most of that time.
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack
I totally blanked on this from July since I didn’t notice an update outside of normal forum stuff… Sorry… If it took 6 months to get cleared… That obviously sucks. I’ve known other people who had serious sinus infection/issues and… They are not good.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/somethings-goat-to-give-july-2023-scapegoat-blame-thread#64b29f36ad6263cf412a9d1a
It’s hopefully going the correct direction now/that may be the drainage?
Blame! My sister is a elementary school teacher, doesn’t take care of herself and picks up every virus and crud those germ monkey kids bring to school. Now she is sick and still planning to go to my folks today. My folks are in their late 80s and my dad just started his second round of chemo for stage 2 prostate cancer. Yes, she is that selfish.
@ironcheftoni OMG!!! When you work in a germ factory with underage employees you know how easy it is to get shit. To expose, especially your dad who is immunocompromised, is beyond inconsiderate. It’s downright dangerous. She should take that into consideration. What a fuck. If nothing else get there before her and give your dad a really good mask (well and your mom too). Make sure she sits as far away from them at the dinner table or anywhere else.
Tell her when I had my blood cancer treatment, after round 2 of chemo I was exposed, for about an hour in a meeting, to another employee who had a cold and I ended up sick for nearly 6 weeks and wasn’t even remotely close to 90!!! I was working full time as I had a kid in high school and had no choice but I was a lot younger than your parents and fundamentally healthier if one didn’t count the cancer and treatment effects than your parents. Maybe your parents will forbid her to come? Do you have other relatives who can pressure her not to come too?
I hope she comes to her senses.
@Kidsandliz thank you for understanding my frustration. My mom has dementia and even before that she had the attitude of everyone has to be together at holidays; now even more so. Unfortunately we are a very small family, just me, sister, niece and folks. So no other voice of reason besides me. She did say she would wear a mask and sit away from dad.
@ironcheftoni hopefully wear it tight and right. If it is a rectangular one she can staple the sides and under the chin to make it fit tighter. The other problem is at the meal time. I hope no one gets sick from her (and that includes you).
@ironcheftoni personally I’d at least stand in the middle of the drive/walkway with a covid test for them.
Also hard to not go when it could potentially be the last Christmas but. I’m sure it’s worse if you CAUSE it too be the last Christmas. If you had enough from the free UPS rounds I’d just say we’re testing everyone
@ironcheftoni sounds like we have the same sister!
So sorry, I understand there is not much you can do so Ill just hope it turns out ok. 
@tinamarie1974 I think everyone with bad family members should get together and switch. All the bad siblings deserve each other and keep the drama concentrated to one area of the world. Leaving us sane ones to ourselves.
@ironcheftoni I agree completely. You have no idea the drama…
Couple of weeks ago. Sniffling at the table (she is imuno comp, mom is imuno comp) she tells us about this kiddo in her class that was super sick a few days ago…fever, throwing up, etc. Parents were not great about coming to get the kid, goes on to tell us the next day they get a call that the kid tested positive for covid. I was like WTF, what are you even doing here? You want to get mom sick??? Oh its fine, I wasnt exposed. Kid didnt test positive until the next day!!
I may have told her if I catch it again she is getting a throat punch 
@tinamarie1974 I told my sister if she gets me or my dad sick, I’ll never forgive her. I’m leaving for a birthday vacation in three weeks and i do not want to risk it.
@ironcheftoni @tinamarie1974 Considering you are contagious several days before you have symptoms yes she was exposed. I hope this turns out ok with both your families.
@ironcheftoni @Kidsandliz yup. We all know that, she just didnt want to admit it
Merry CHRISTmas One and All!!
Our granddaughter and Princess meeting each other for the first time and sizing each other up.
@Felton10
clever girl
Blame-People my age or near my age are dropping like flies-scary. Tom Smothers passed away today.
Interesting story-Was at a party at my bosses farm about 15 years ago here in Sarasota, FL. A car pulls up and a couple of people got out including one in a bike riders outfit. A number of people went over and talk to him and the people who got out of the car. Didn’t think too much of it. Anyway was sitting down eating and the guy in the bike riding outfit sat down in a chair next to me and since I was thinking about buying a recumbent bike asked him if he knew anything about them given his outfit. We chatted for about 10 minutes but never introduced ourselves. Anyway about 30 minutes later was talking to someone else and he pointed over to the guy in the bike attire and asked me if I knew who that was. Said I didn’t-he said that was Tom Smothers. Looked at him closely and OMG-could see it was him. Felt weird going over to him now that I knew who he was, but now think I should have.
@Felton10 How cool. He probably liked having a normal conversation with someone who wasn’t treating him like a celebrity!
@Kyeh When I first saw him wondered what type of goof ball would come to a cookout on a farm dressing in his bike riding garb-well I found out.
Well, my monumental, earth-shattering & well deserved tenure as (scape) GOAT
of the month is sadly(?) drawing to a close. 
Shakespeare once said that “parting is such sweet sorrow” but he didn’t know about mehtizens in his day so in that case I’ll say he was wrong about parting this time. 
It’s actually quite a refreshing feeling being freed from forced servitude!! 
But, to ease the sorrow 
that most of you are feeling today, I’ve asked my good friend Ray Price to sing you a farewell song 
to bid adieu and hope you’ll fondly remember me “For The Good Times”. 
See ya’ll next year!! 
@IndifferentDude trying to figure out how this is a rickroll…
@IndifferentDude your goathood may be rolling to a close but I have a last minute BIG TIME BLAME!!! A MAJOR CRISIS. AN ALMOST THE END OF THE WORLD VERY BAD DEAL!!!
I travel 1084 miles only to find that, my most favorite bread in the whole wide universe, Orlando Italian Twist bread, is NO LONGER BEING MADE!!! I went to 4 stores and all of them said they hadn’t seen it in ages. It is a Cleveland, OH company (which is where I was) that has been in business a bit more than 150 years so I call them. And that is what they told me. The only sort of unblame is that the reason is that they are no longer making is is that they have been short employees for several years and apparently this bread is harder to make than others they make.
ALSO blame for having to drive two days in the rain there and one of the two days in the rain back. A BIG BLAME for no tele-transporter. I mean seriously. It’s all your fault they are not being made.
PS happy new year.
@Kidsandliz Guess it’s time for that company to invest in robots! I’ve been binge-watching “How’s It’s Made” since I splurged on a new Smart TV. It’s hard to conceive how the folks come up with their machinery! Who knew Fig Newtons were made with 2 injection molds going at the same time?? One for the outer cookie shell that’s filled with the fig jam all at once them sliced and baked! I’ve seen pretzel machines doing the twist so I’m sure they could twist bread too. Hope the Universe shines on you and you find a good substitute soon!
@IndifferentDude @Kidsandliz how it’s made is Awesome.
The loss of that bread has been going on for a while on their social media
https://www.facebook.com/orlandobaking/posts/to-our-loyal-customers-we-hope-that-you-and-your-loved-ones-are-continuing-to-st/3186386534726514/
Customer campaigns sometimes work but only at a scale where the shareholders make money… Niche goods drop.
Or it is privately held by people who believe in it. So they can later sell it off. I don’t like it but. Here we are
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
@IndifferentDude @unksol That facebook also explains why I couldn’t find it last May either (but then I didn’t have time to look all that hard and it was a Sunday when I looked so I just figured weekend inventory issues. Sigh.
And on their social media they claim a different reason for no bread than what they told me over the phone. Double sigh.
@IndifferentDude Though somewhat reluctant (?), you did an admirable job this month. Can no longer blame you for that.
@phendrick Thanks! I enjoyed my time a lot!