Here's a really bad idea...

@mfladd you gonna stay up for 48 hours straight posting on meh?

@jbartus I doubt it, but it looks like he’s outdone everyone else already with a single post.

@narfcake he’s quite good at that, isn’t he?

Disregard everything below this line, I’m testing something.

Potato Pancakes

Maple Syrup

Apple Fritters
Western Omelets
Sausage Links

@jbartus @narfcake I’m winning? - Yay!
(p.s. not my intention )

@jbartus Now I want breakfast for dinner, damn you!

@mfladd all part of my master plan. Sorry I’m not sorry.

@f00l what’s the differential diagnosis for someone who runs around compulsorily liking every post they come across? I think you should participate

@jbartus
I’m sure i have every possible known personality disorder plus a large number that are as yet un-DSM’d.

If i participate, i’ll fail quickly. My life is so disjointed that at nearly 9pm i’ve yet to do several “without fail, morning, before breakfast” tasks.

However, i’m a fully cerified
"Extreme Fail MotherFucker".

Happy to give it a try.

@f00l I like when you like my posts.

@conandlibrarian is that why it’s so quiet. I was begining to wonder…

@conandlibrarian @jbartus how many meh-click consecutive sequences will end this weekend…

@conandlibrarian oh, not this weekend, prolly take a week or so to work out the final rules with the attorneys, refer to 6a. above

@DMlivezey
Please make a buncha rules we can break/disavow/dismiss/ignore/lie-about.

Am practicing for the presidency.

@DMlivezey You are right. I need to learn to read good.

@conandlibrarian

Edit: I thought they fixed the timestamp embeds…

@Thumperchick what are you thinking, like every hour, or every two hours? would need to be over a weekend i suppose for most working stiffs like me…

@DMlivezey

Then I can’t participate.
(Phew.)

@FroodyFrog
No get outta jail card for you.

Please read up the thread. All individuals with possible psychiatric diagnoses in this or any other possible universe are compelled to mandatory participation.

You can fail quickly if needed.

Till then, just stay thirsty, friend.

@DMlivezey your game, your rules. Jist make it up as you go.

@FroodyFrog weekends no good for the frog man?

@f00l

Technically everyone alive has a mental diagnosis, whether for positive or negative.

@DMlivezey

1. Frog. Period.

2. Depends how you define weekend.

@Thumperchick it could be a collaborative deal (but of course i can remain the tiebreaker ) but gaining consensus with a crowd this large and diverse (and add your own adjective) could certainly be like herding cats

@DMlivezey

@FroodyFrog
"Technically" can be so very sweet.

Indeed. And some if us have possible disagnoses, more than “technically”. And some of us are “interesting.”

You’re in. Stop resisting.

If you refuse, that simply make you the first cage match loser. We can race on that one.

@f00l

I don’t like losing though. I’d rather sit out of something than go in knowing I’m going to be out right away.
It’s why I never liked sports.

@FroodyFrog
You don’t like losing…even when losing and disrupting and generally demonstrating madness are winning?

Think of the opportunities!
Come out and play.

@f00l

That aside, I still would need to know what is classified as “weekend” here on Meh, according to @DMlivezey

@FroodyFrog

@FroodyFrog I’m guessing a holiday weekend starting on a Saturday night through a Monday night (DMlivezey’s 48 hours) would work for you. However, we don’t have another one of those coming up for a while.

@Barney

@jbartus
It’s not whether you win or lose,
But how you play the game…
Or successfully redefine the game…

For a fair game, ok. Can be way fun. “Winning” is about being there and doing one’s best and bonding and progressing and participating and all that, as well as trying really hard to “win”.

But think of how many rigged games we’re tossed into. Are you buying into and playing by those rules?

Here: Nope.

@f00l you don’t trust @DMlivezey not to rig the game?

@jbartus
I trust @DMlivezey not to rig the game, unless that is the secret desired config.

Remember, this is intended to be a:
bad idea.
Ergo, i trust many of us to redefine/disrupt it.

@jbartus well i kinda tipped my hat to say i would rig it for east coasters, just cuz vengence and other stuff

@DMlivezey

and other stuff

Well that sounds pleasant.

@FroodyFrog i’m thinking 4am EDT Saturday to 4am EDT Sunday - yea I know that’s 24 hours - 48 hours of stupid crap like this is just not sounding like a bad idea anymore, but like a really bad idea

@DMlivezey

I’m out.
Unless there are no objections to my starting at roughly 10Pm and going until 4Pm (this would give me some time to go through the thread and fill myself in with what has been said until then).

@FroodyFrog or

@DMlivezey

That depends on my frame of mind, and also on whom you ask.

@DMlivezey

Ugh. I meant until 4Am.

@FroodyFrog well if you started at 10pm, the contest would not yet be underway, if you are talking about EDT

i think i am unclear on your proposal, honestly

@DMlivezey

I’ll only participate if I could come in at 10 Pm Saturday night, and go until 4 Am on Sunday.

@FroodyFrog if i understand your proposal, it doesn’t cover 24 hours, but only 6 hours - am i understanding correctly?

since i changed the timeframe below, prolly for no good reason, does that work any better for you?

i’m not stuck on any specific 24 hour period since i have a fairly flexible schedule, but i am looking to inflict the pain of many hours of lost sleep staying up to 00:00 EDT for so many clicks…

@barney is a fountain of good ideas though, on this stupidity - perhaps (s)he would like to co-moderate, if even after the fact?

@DMlivezey

Weekends don’t work for me at all, yet they seem to be the only time you’d do it.

I’m out.

@f00l which role are you playing?

@DMlivezey
Pooh-Bah

@Ignorant
@Kidsandliz
I believe we have here two winners of “that game that didn’t start yet”!

Congrats!

Soon: Phase 2.

@f00l Thanks!

@DMlivezey My thoughts:

I keep thinking of the movie They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Since you’ve cut this down to 24 hours, I think you should up the ante on the posts and require a comment every 15 minutes. Yowza, Yowza.

Nope, I won’t be entering.

Depending upon the number of people participating, your thread could get very long. Why don’t you start a new official topic thread, say, every four hours, that everyone must jump to and post on. If they miss the jump (post on the old thread), they’re out. Yowza.

Me sits, me thinks.

@Barney

@FroodyFrog I misplaced my thinking cap a looong time ago.

@Barney

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Totally unrelated, and this has been posted before, but totally worth sharing again.

@FroodyFrog Is anything here ever “unrelated”? The topics seem to be nothing more than suggestions, and even that’s debatable.

@narfcake

Can’t remember which thread it’s in, but one of them has proof that I love debates (mostly because I’m stubborn when it comes to them).

Maybe @oldcatlady remembers.

@FroodyFrog I’ll look, but I would have to debate the issue of ‘stubborn’, because that is MY claim to fame.

@OldCatLady

I think it was you.
Then again, I’m barely on Meh, so I have trouble remembering who said what.
It was in the context of it being pointless to argue with me.
I posted a clip of a guy arguing in vain with a mule.

@all (@shawn, the @all should work for @mentioning everyone who has replied to a post (as a reply to a specific post) or for everyone who has replied to a topic (for a top-level reply). Hmmm… there aparently is a user named all https://meh.com/@all tho they are mostly a zero.

It strikes me that doing this on a weekend allows all sorts of posers and other weaksauce entrants to participate. Anyone who cannot drop all aspects of life to participate is likely unworthy.

@DMlivezey Yes a jib is the forsail on most boats.

@OldCatLady @narfcake

Found what I was looking for.

It started with @sohmageek stating that I’m scary in a sense here,
which resulted in my sharing the video I mentioned here to be posted over here.

As it turns out, @oldcatlady is innocent.
It was actually @Kidsandliz who made comments here and here.

Although @mfladd and @jbartus weren’t so innocent then either. (Yet innocent compared to how they usually are.) Although I’m sticking by my use of a portmanteau.

Which brings me to mentioning an irony I noticed.

My official delurking here was Nov 19, 2015.
The next day was a poll about portmanteaus as seen here.

Not sure who writes the polls, so I’ll just blame @medz and @moose

@FroodyFrog Definition of barely on meh: posts in nearly every thread multiple times. Yup. Barely here.

@Kidsandliz

So it’s agreed. I’m barely here.

Well that was easy.

@Barney yea, like a new thread every 6 hours, so the sports metaphor is 1st qtr, 2nd period, (that makes up the first half) and then 3rd qtr, 4th period - new original posts/threads for every period or qtr

but i am wondering, if you don’t want to play, why the rules and such matter to you?

maybe you want to volunteer to be the backup moderator if i fall asleep or black out?

@FroodyFrog

(I have that button, or one very much like it, on my desk at work.)

@narfcake it might make it hard (or super easy) to pick a winner with that pattern

@FroodyFrog you’re barely on Meh.? who was it that said earlier they could not pick up on sarcasm?

@CaptAmehrican are a forsail and a foreskin in the same genealogy?

@DMlivezey The rules really don’t matter to me; I just thought you had an interesting idea.

I’m not entering because I’m thinking that to stay in the contest, one would probably need a mobile phone, at least part of the time. I don’t have one. It’s as simple as that.

@baqui63 are you a poser? since i am the ALL POWERFUL OZ, i won’t pick any posers, only those that have insulted me recently, or liked my comments, or told me to, ah, whatever

oh yea - i’ve never seen your name before, test poser?

@Barney here, i was thinking people will just have to tough it out and sit by their computer all 24 hours, i rarely hit Meh. via mobile (but i’m old)

anywho, thanks for the input

@baqui63 you beat me to it. I was just going to post this one

@DMlivezey

I was being serious.

@DMlivezey @FroodyFrog

(smirk)

@Barney and, you can join and just lose early, right?

so far, not many intentional entries anyway - maybe i’ll have to set a deadline for entries so i can later extend it

hmm?

@FroodyFrog yup, and since you have your user profile disabled, i can’t call you out based on the 1,389 comments you’ve had this month

barely here

@DMlivezey It’s a holiday weekend, I’m not sure you are going to get much response until maybe tomorrow night. And are you joking about @baqui63? Geez, they’ve been around here and Woot, like forever.

Are you calling me a loser?

@DMlivezey

1. That would mean that most of my posts in 636 days were this month.

2. If you average my total amount of posts/comments/replies to how long I’ve been here, that’s less than a handful of comments a day, or 1 comment every 6.7 hours

@Barney i’m not calling you a loser at all, just saying since you have an interest in this nonsense, but stated you may not win since you don’t have a mobile device, you can make the choice to join and lose early, no harm no foul, and you will always be a winner in my eyes, cuz…

i love you, you love me, we’re a…

@DMlivezey

Did you call @Barney a loser or not? I need to figure out the proper course of action.

@FroodyFrog i guess i’ll just have to trust you on those stats, but still doesn’t sound like ‘not here’ to me

i bet you click meh meh.niacally, yeh?

@FroodyFrog see above

@DMlivezey

Negative on my clicking meh.

@FroodyFrog Don’t worry about it. He’s already called me a big fat purple liar this weekend. I’m kinda getting used to his insults.

@FroodyFrog none of us can tell because you hid your profile.

@jbartus

Just because there’s nothing to see there doesn’t mean I don’t like my privacy.
It’s why I take certain precautions when doing certain stuff.
(It helps prevent identification at a later time.)

@FroodyFrog I’m not attacking, was simply making an observation. O__O

@jbartus

I know you’re not attacking. That’s wise on your part.

@Barney
Pls pls enter.
Then fail if need be - quickly if need be, no probs…
then come back in and comment/derail/distract/disrupt/cheer
/critique/joke/analyze/commiserate
All in a most purple manner.

Why? Because we like you!

@baqui63 it’s @meh to do that. Or maybe @replytoall… (sorry @meh. I had to)

@f00l Aww, (purple blush), but I’m afraid that I cannot participate. Heck, most of the time I can barely stay awake for the Meh changeover. However, I will be around to boo and hiss and make snarky comments.

Look how excited I am.

(In honor of @FroodyFrog, who will not be able to compete.)

Aww, my gif is not giffing…

@Barney

The gesture is greatly appreciated.

(Although I know exactly which part of the cartoon that image is from, and now it’s playing in my head. )

@FroodyFrog I love that cartoon

@Barney @froodyfrog, my comments are never insults but love pats, and i get in trouble in real life too because my sarcasm or dry humor are misinterpreted as mean, and my spouse and daughter are still trying to train me to understand that just because it wasn’t intended to be mean, if it is received that way, then it is mean

their training hasn’t worked so far, obviously

@Barney good point on the whole holiday weekend thing, i suppose i should propose an entry deadline a bit later, but just think of the disappointment of those who might miss out :sarcasm:

@DMlivezey Here’s another suggestion. (I know you don’t have to follow it.) Start a whole new thread for this contest. List the days, times, rules, how to enter, etc. It will be easier for people to understand what is going on than trying to sort through this old thread. Good luck, I hope you get lots of entries.

@DMlivezey Your spouse and daughter must be saints.

@Barney I plan on entering and failing in the first hour!

@narfcake Looks like you have high expectations for yourself.

@Barney

Well @narfcake *DID use an hour as a reference point. But then again, I have issues defining hour

@FroodyFrog I think you have lots of issues.

@Barney

You have no idea.

@Barney It’s good to have goals, right?

@FroodyFrog

http://m.macys.com/shop/product/mighty-fine-deadpool-people-tell-me-i-have-issues-short-sleeve-t-shirt

@narfcake

Ugh, site is showing item as unavailable.

@narfcake Yep.

Go get 'em tiger!

@narfcake

Correction: the page is unavailable.

@FroodyFrog I’ll take the blame for stripping out too much of the tracking URL - so try this:
http://m.macys.com/shop/product/mighty-fine-deadpool-people-tell-me-i-have-issues-short-sleeve-t-shirt?ID=2596368

@narfcake for people on real computers:
http://www1.macys.com/shop/product/mighty-fine-deadpool-people-tell-me-i-have-issues-short-sleeve-t-shirt?ID=2596368

@jbartus also, lol @ the reviews and responses. Someone rated a one star but had only positive things to say and Macy’s is all “just a quick update on how our rating system works…” xD

@Barney maybe my daughter sainthood, yes

@Barney you are my hero, thanks for all the suggestions, and did i mention a co-moderator position for you ?

@baqui63, sorry to have suggested you were a poser, i must have been asleep at the wheel, or maybe some other explanation is in order…

@narfcake
I independently arrived at the same strategy, only adding in a “Wicked Witch of the West” laugh after my “failure” gambit completes.

@Barney regarding ‘he’s already called…’ and ‘his insults…’, who says I am a ‘he/his’?

my intention is to be gender neutral in my posts, so that people don’t make assumptions, have i slipped up on the double/triple cross, throw them off track dealio, to lead you to this conclusion?

or do you think only the male species can be insulting, as i am exhibiting?

@DMlivezey

When it comes to genders, unless they are explicitly shared or heavily implied, assumptions run sort of wild on Meh.

@FroodyFrog
I think we are all “gender hoarders” here.
Or perhaps “gender herders”.
Or something.

@f00l

Depends on the definition you are trying to convey.

@FroodyFrog
I am not sophisticated or strong enuf to convey any definitions.
I’m sure i have a Handicapped Sticker somewhere or other.

@f00l

Who did you have in mind when you said “we”.
It may help me figure out what your were going for.

@FroodyFrog
"We" means thread posters.
What i was going for was “just a silly remark” that might have s little cultural or logical “zing” if i hit it just right. I’m sure i didn’t hit it just right, but no biggie.

Was also attempting to be a little cute or funny or lively or or amusing or whatever.

Ok now i going to dissect a little of the background ruminations that led to that remark above, and it will get longwinded and horrid and ugly. Sorry…

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Remark had something to do with:
For some people here, i know, or think i know, the gender, unless it was misrepresented (unlikely, i believe) or i misunderstood or misremembered (both my listed errors happen a lot and are quite likely).

Some people i’m pretty sure about, but not completely so, based on poor memory, confusion, etc.

Others i have little clue. And not care too much. Stereotypical assumptions matter a huge amount less than they once did…i simply refuse to be either too bothered or too limited, or to worry much over it. I hope others feel free to take similar attitudes, if they wish.

As for me, some folks hereabouts know, or may know, if they remember whatever i said or leaked or can read it out of what i go on about; and, of course, if they care, no reason they should, not exactly a huge deal online for the most part; and if somone wants to remember or can just tell, fine, and if they dont, also just fine.

And we all have varying personalities and can handle different stuff with different personal skills. So none of us are static or totally bounded by stereotypes in real life, except by habit, emotional coloration, custom, choice, social pressure and conditioning, and the like. So, except where it matters greatly, no fuss.

I’m not making some big philosophical or scientific statement about gender here. This is the internet.

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And now, having laid all that out, and knowing my dissection of my earlier remark is likely full of shit, i feel like a moderate asshole, but only for a few seconds.

Ok, over it. Better.

@f00l

To be honest, I started reading that, got distracted by something I thought I saw, went to chase it, turns out it wasn’t what I thought it was, came back to continue reading what you wrote, took another drink (most likely nonalcoholic), got distracted again, left you a star, then decided to explain what happened when I tried reading what you wrote.

( Yay, now I part of my diary entry for Wednesday )

@FroodyFrog
"It’s Chinatown".

@f00l

That is the longest post you have ever channeled from @joelmw.

@mfladd
I’m known to pull shit like that out of my ass, to the point where my family and friends have “STFU already” loaded and ready to fire whenever they come near me.

So i dearly hope i was channelling @joelmw and can keep doing it, it’s so damned much work thinking like that compulsively, and the results so often are miniscule, as you can see.

I try to do “added entertainment value”.

Ah, failure, my old friend!

And thanks, @joelmw. Keep up the good work.

@f00l I loved your explanation. @joelmw will be proud of you.

@DMlivezey Co-moderator? No, thank you.

Male or female mehniacs – I don’t care and I don’t think much about who is what.

When I first arrived here, there was a lot of discussion as to whether I was male or female or a bot.

I am purple loving, “I love purple” Barney.

@DMlivezey

Ironically, the one piece of information which is usually the most obvious when seen in public, is the one which most meh-mbers aren’t revealing.

Like @Barney said, it doesn’t matter who is what.
If you (not you specifically) can’t take me for me, then you’re not invited to have (strange) conversations with me.

@Barney
So come -pop in - and be disruptive or funny if you cant play.

@f00l If I’m around, I’ll stop in and snicker.

@f00l i think that post will be analyzed by the next inhabitants of our planets for decades, or whatever time parameters those other beings live by.

my meaning is, thanks for that, it might be kinda deep, or maybe more like depp, like johnny.

the ‘religion’ post i fired up might be enlightened by these comments if we allow ourselves to get allegorical.

i started out making a point, but i think i’ve forgotten it, time for another…

@FroodyFrog i can take you for you, but i don’t know you and you don’t know me (just the opposite of the @barney song, kinda at least)

that’s not good or bad, it just is

i like some of your posts and some of your posts make me feel Meh.

i’m curious why we aMeh.ricans sometime try to hide our gender - i don’t even know why i try to, but prolly not too consistently

i enjoy the (strange) conversations here - it’s a throw back to the first internet chats on AOL, i was joining anonymously back in about 1996, where it’s without bounds to a certain extent…

so there you go, Meh. is vintage, retro, vinyl, AM/FM…

@DMlivezey I call dibs on being a laser disc!

@Thumperchick @narfcake

I learnt A LOT from this segment of Animaniacs

Btw, enjoy:

@FroodyFrog The vocabulary lesson in the Pinky and the Brain end credits was also educational.

@narfcake

Sigh
Now I’m reminiscing. Significantly entertaining, yet highly educational.

@FroodyFrog

@narfcake

@jbartus @narfcake @FroodyFrog I also miss the educational values of Pinky and the Brain. (I don’t understand why my kids keep telling me it is wrong)

@mfladd @jbartus @narfcake

I learned more from Animaniacs than Pinky and the Brain to be honest.

Although even in that video, there’s the underlying concept of survival of the fittest in the sense that since Pinky is useless, he’s useless.

@FroodyFrog @mfladd @jbartus: In That Smarts (episode 3), “In order to successfully take over the world, one of us must be a nincompoop.”

@mfladd Is it just me, or does Glen look at bit like Pinky.

@FroodyFrog but he is a necessity to the success of the show. Just like Ed Norton was to the Honeymooners (more and more, my age comes apparent)

@mfladd

Of course he was a necessity. Cant have Pinky and the Brain without Pinky. Just like you couldn’t have Gilligan’s Island without Gilligan.

But yeah, I know what you’re saying.

@FroodyFrog
@mfladd
@narfcake
@Thumperchick
@conanlibrarian
@jbartus
I am just too effing old.

@f00l Nah, you are just more well balanced then us - like a fine wine.

Or, your cork leaked, and you are just old. Hard to say.

Older cartoons are the Fountain of Youth - give it a try.

@mfladd
I meant that my only exposure ever to those two cartoons is here. But i’ve gone a few decades w/out tv, so am seriously Out Of It. Just watch some streaming/rips, and not much of that.

@mfladd was pinky and the brain on the simpsons, or was that something else?

@DMlivezey Steven Spielberg Production - history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_and_the_Brain

@f00l I give you credit for that. I am too addicted. I am always chasing the TV dragon.

@DMlivezey
Saw a little Simpsons. When i heard a celebrity was guesting. Like 1 a year.

@mfladd did you just accuse @f00l of being corked?

@DMlivezey they were part of Animaniacs

@jbartus hahaha…had to look at Urban Dictionary too see exactly what you meant. (I am old).
@fool - THAT is not what I meant!

@mfladd I don’t know what you think I said you said @f00l was so I’ll just go ahead and leave this topic alone here…

@jbartus
That’s fucking awesome.

@mfladd
I would imagine my cork is always leaking. I refuse to check.