Here we goat again! (November 2021 Scapegoat Blame Thread)

@njfan
/giphy close shave

@Felton10
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Felton10 @Metaphore is but a small boat upon a wide ocean.

@metaphore @PocketBrain Aren’t we all?

@sammydog01 He’s on my team that was still good. Maybe this will teach you to avoid whoever I pick first round next year. Sorry.

@narfcake I love it!

https://www.architecturendesign.net/artist-photoshops-giant-cats-odnoboko/

@Kidsandliz They are the same price at Aldi’s.

@mike808 Knowing what that is makes accepting blame for it kinda icky.

@metaphore
NNN = No Nicotine November.
Why would that be icky?

@mike808

@cattylaq I got almost the exact same irk, except instead of the gross teeth charcoal I got an iphone 6 case.

@cattylaq I suppose I could pack an iPhone 6 case full of tooth charcoal and send it to you so that you wouldn’t have missed The Whole Experience…

@cattylaq @werehatrack You could get two. I now have both as well. Heck I bet a bunch of us would be willing to send you these two things.

@Kidsandliz @werehatrack I am overwhelmed by the generosity of the MEH community. However the only apple products I have ever owned are the consumable ones, such as pies, sauces, fritters, and the occasional raw apple.
As for the charcoal, unless it can be used in a fish tank or bbq grill I have no interest on using it on the few teeth I have left.
/giphy no thanks

@PocketBrain I have no idea what you are taking about and kinda feel like if you care about anything on facebook you really only have yourself to blame. But sure, I guess it can be my fault.

@metaphore @PocketBrain FB renamed itself a week ago:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22745234/facebook-new-name-meta-metaverse-zuckerberg-rebrand

@metaphore @narfcake @PocketBrain
TBF, FaceBucks-the-service’s parent company renamed itself from FaceBook to Meta, which The Zuck apparently thinks is very … meta. FaceBucks itself is still FaceBucks.

@narfcake @PocketBrain @werehatrack This kinda has a “New Coke” feel about it.

@metaphore @narfcake @PocketBrain @werehatrack until you read about mark and his metaverse and fuck no you weirdo.

@Felton10 Ozempic for weight loss is the real deal. It is now branded for that under the name Wegovy.

@mike808 I don’t know why you want it to be dark at 4pm, but lucky for you, you only have to put up with 2 more days of it and then you can blame me for all the inconveniences caused by the time change.

@metaphore @mike808 should be DST all year long. Going to work will always suck. Who wants earlier sunrises? Taking that tiny bit of time you had after work to get anything done outside away is baaaadddddd :p

@sillyheathen Make sure you sign them in with the justification that your kids are “Chronologically Challenged” and covered under the ADA.

That or write down “Doesn’t know how to work an alarm clock. Willing to learn.”

I make it a point to do so very fussily in clear view of the kids so that they are suitably embarrassed by their parents being … parents.

@sillyheathen If it makes it any better, I feel your pain, I strained a muscle the other day without even the benefit of working out. And then while trying to avoid using that one too much I pissed off another muscle.

@mike808 well you know where I’m from so you know I take every opportunity to do so! I’m pretty sure it’s just in our DNA as Cajuns……

@metaphore isn’t it funny how the body works? Also I didn’t learn any sort of lesson because I decided to lift this morning after embarrassing the kids at drop off. I’m just stubborn I guess.

@sillyheathen Here is what I did when my kid missed the bus or called me to bring to school something she forgot (school was NOT close by and lots of traffic to get there). I told her she owed me twice the time it took me to drive her there/bring her what she forgot in hard manual labor of my choice and the time was also at my choice.

She was assigned all the tasks she hated the most at a time that conflicted with the things she liked to do the most. I found the number of times this happened declined over time as she absolutely hated the consequences.

I also told her, when she complained, that there are consequences to choices. She knew what the consequence was for me having to drive to her school for missing the bus/forgetting something/ getting a clothing violation that required school legal clothes being delivered (they had no lockers there). If she didn’t like that consequence, then make a choice that had a consequence she liked (of course this was rinse and repeat with a lot of things with her so she knew the drill). Not my problem.

@Kidsandliz
there is… just use post-its so you pull them off in 6 months. Stick them to the back of the clock for the next round.

YW.

@chienfou lol

A couple of times, I got handed the “something went terribly wrong” Irk video link.

Something went terribly wrong Irk video

@mike808 And where does this mythical OhShitReport appear, anyway?

@mike808 @werehatrack in the forums if we get one

@unksol Don’t jinx it. Blame free is the way to be. Sorry about your server though.

@metaphore lol there’s that fun moment where you ps -ef | grep after starting a job. And catch a glimpse. And that sinking feeling where you know that’s not right and you don’t know why. And then the server starts locking up in 2 seconds before you can do anything and just fuck… I just locked prod. It has to be me. I got to get everybody. NOW. Who do I even get in the data center. I need ITO Etc etc… Then seen hour of sitting there… It’s hosed. Just Reboot

THAT I still think was another tech leads fault. The second crash was all me because I was sure I fixed and I was sure I could kill it fast enough if it went wrong… So I restarted it. One letter off and servers are so so much faster. That one stings lol

@Kidsandliz
I was waiting for a train to run up the kitty’s butt! Looks quite a bit like my tuxedo dude.

@mike808 Once you taste them you might change that to a blame.

Correction. They knew they screwed up on Saturday but didn’t bother to tell anyone so we were drinking water with the wrong chemicals in it while they were draining the tanks (at least that is my understanding of what they did after they screwed up). So we drank that water Saturday, Sunday, Monday (my water went out about 4pm) and issued a boil water alert at 8pm. Um yeah… if you have any water to boil.

@Kidsandliz Ugh, that’s horrible. Do you know what the bad chemicals are?? Or is more that those chemicals aren’t effective, so the water didn’t get sterilized?

@Kidsandliz A whole cities fuck up might be more blame than I can accept. Not having water is pretty bullshit. Thanks to this I’m gonna pick up another case of water next time I’m at the store.

@Kyeh Why would this city tell us? It took them 2 years to admit to numerous violations at the water plant and if I recall correctly that was only after a fire there that shut down water for 8 or 9 days (that happened within the last year or so) as yet again no one showed up for work so it was unmanned yet again. And I think it was the media that found that out. As far as I can see so far they aren’t admitting to what they did this time. They said ‘wrong’ chemicals and not the incorrect amount. I have a cat with diarrhea since yesterday (who knows it if is more than one - I’ll see that when I clean the dirt box today) so who knows. I’ve been drinking bottlted water because I had so much left over from the last outage and needed to get it out of my small space. Good thing I still had some left.

@metaphore As goat you don’t get to decide what blame you can accept or not accept (well except for covid - that was decided many goats ago you can’t be blamed for the virus itself). The goat accepted the blame for our 30 some days without water late last winter. Precedent set.

This was a fuck up of whomever was supposed to put the chemicals in the water so a fuck up of just whomever’s job that is so likely just one or two people - who won’t get fired over this because our hiring practices here includes nepotism at its finest (so blame for that too).

That the city is run by fuck ups along with the state being run by even bigger fuck ups- well that is still (relatively speaking) a small number of fuck ups compared to the population.

@Kidsandliz Nah. What one goat is willing to do doesn’t set a precedent for what all goats must do. Multiple goats have accepted no blame so that means goats have a choice.

@metaphore Nah… long tradition that goats don’t get to make the rules… now violating them… yup some have done that.

@Kidsandliz Saying that goats don’t have to follow the rules is basically saying there is no rules. I can be the goat how I wanna.

@Kidsandliz @metaphore

@metaphore Nah didn’t say they didn’t have to, I said that some didn’t… big difference

/image goat big difference

@metaphore well not what I intended but cute so I’ll leave it.

@Kidsandliz @metaphore

As goat you don’t get to decide what blame you can accept or not accept

That is the correct understanding. The position is called “scapegoat”. The meaning is right in the name.

There is no request or review or approval process.

The Mehtizenry are going to give the goat blame and unblame, whether the goat thinks they are accepting them or not.

Now if only the Meh coders could implement a /blame and /unblame tag commands that worked from any thread. Surely there is some blame for the lack of this long desired forum feature.

@Kidsandliz A whole world of unlocked potential in the Horror Dollhouse world… I like it

@Koolhandjoe I thought you would (grin)… and his ideas certainly can be expanded into your realm.

A horror jack-in-the box probably needs to come with an R rating though as I’d imagine little kids would have nightmares.

@Felton10 Oh no, sounds like something I would do. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

@Felton10 But your clicking hand is still working, right? So good luck getting an Irk…

@ircon96 Thanks

@Kyeh With only 28 IRKs per offering, not sure it is going to make a difference.

@Felton10 Yeah, it’s crazy - they’re lowering the quantity every time now!

@Kyeh Lucked out-happen to get one couple of hours ago.

@Felton10 @Kyeh
My latency was crap all day, though not as awful as it had been when the 'thon was just starting. Since it was obvious that I wasn’t going to have a shot at any of the IRKs, I got other things done yesterday instead.

@Felton10 @werehatrack
Very wise … I waste a lot of time on these silly events.

@mike808 Maybe just skip Instagram altogether?

@compunaut I tried and failed to find another source for that video. Hence the blame.

@mike808 On the bright side, the video is frapping adorable!

@ircon96 I know! Totes Adorbs.

@njfan Is it worse than normal?

@metaphore I’d say so but I’m biased because I couldn’t get the deal.

@metaphore @njfan Auto refresh is for losers.
/giphy loser

@metaphore @sammydog01 ^^ true but at least I have no (instant) regrets .

@metaphore @njfan @sammydog01
and you saved $5!

Please realize CAPTCHA is a fellow robot like you.

@unksol Blame that we will now have to
/giphy goat bump

@sammydog01
/giphy celebrate touchdown

@sammydog01 does this mean i should throw together a final list?

@metaphore
/giphy yes