Hi, my name is Marklog, and I have a problem.
20I got the sweats yesterday. Not the 'I ate too much meat and now my colon is working overtime' sweats. Those, I can take. Those are my fault. These sweats are YOUR fault, meh.
This past Saturday was a particularly busy day for me. I had been on six planes in three days during the week and my internal clock was all messed up. Then housework, child birthday parties, dinner with friends, then drinks. It was a packed day! I finally hit the sack around 11pm (eastern). The pillow felt great.
Then, I woke up screaming I DIDN'T CLICK THE MEH FACE! My wife thought that I wasn't awake, as people who are awake don't yell ridiculous things like that. I still must have been dreaming! I wasn't. It was 11:37pm and I nearly broke my streak.
Nearly.
Now, I wake up sweating. Please, meh. make something 'go terribly wrong' for a full day and put me out of my misery. Lock out my login, or something. I can't take it. I need to break my 133 day chip. Be my higher power.
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TL:DR @marklog is stressing out about the meh streak, a lot.
@Thumperchick Well that’s a relief. At first I though somehow his dog had something to do with it.
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@Kidsandliz @Thumperchick man. He’s been stressing for 4.5 years. Wonder if he broke his streak yet.
Put in a daily alarm on your phone, call it MEH.
The last couple days, the server has been horrible. I attribute that to the new song in the logo probably loading every time the page is refreshed even if you don't click on the logo. Not sure about that but it's very coincidental that the server is running slow around the same time and all the forum pages load faster than the home page.
Anyway, since it sometimes takes 45 minutes to load the page and then when you click the Meh button, it just sits there rotating for another 15+ minutes, I just want to go to sleep and hope it completes by the time I wake up. If I miss one, it will be due to the crappy bottleneck going on right at midnight eastern and me needing some sleep before I wake up at 4:00 am every morning.
@cengland0 According to @shawn, this code:
<audio id="theme-song" preload="none">means the theme song doesn't load until you click "meh" on the main page. I think the server is running more slowly because there's been a spike in the number of users. That's what it looks like in the site statistics thread, anyway.@SSteve You mean that is how it's supposed to work but unless you observe the underlying code or look at the server logs to verify, I am not so confident. I can load the forum page -- even the large one about the FUKU #3 and it loads a whole lot faster than the home page. To me, that means it is not a server or bandwidth issue.
@cengland0 actually you can see the code for the audio... the code gets sent to your browser so you can view source
@cengland0 of course, more importantly, we don't even serve the audio from our servers
@katylava It is good that the audio comes from a different server. What I meant about the underlying code, I meant the ones that are linked into the webpage and you cannot see the code directly without downloading the files and looking through the entire library. I found 4 of those on the home page. js-agent.newrelic.com/nr-476.min.js ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js d3306cnzm6n89c.cloudfront.net/data/us-1cb7bc4b4eeb02a204f02c845e8ee48a.json www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
@cengland0 @katylava when I use Chrome's network tab in the dev tools, it tells me when I try to load "meh.com" it is waiting 5 seconds before loading it, not clue why it would be doing that...
Dude, you're stressing about something that counts for shit. Just let it go.
Also, most of the rest of us don't have your problem to worry about, so your whole comment comes across as an arrogant, annoying, "most trivial of first world problems" humble-brag. So for that, fuck you, buddy.
But that's just some innocent trash talk which I mean in the spirit of camehraderie (and, if anything, from my own sense of misplaced bitterness at a horridly inadequate meh streak, so who am I to judge?), so, yaknow, don't take it any more personally than you have to.
@Marklog If I've offended you, it's cengland0's fault.
@joelmw Ha, you forgot the @ symbol so I didn't get the email. That's one less to worry about. woo hoo.
@cengland0 My apologies. You should get a notice on this one. Why did you make me leave it off in the first place? Bad goat.
@joelmw Now you have to think if that's a capital letter O or the number 0. Hmm.... 50/50 chance? Can you spot the difference: O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0
@cengland0 Ha. It's a zero. Which is skinnier. Silly goat. Though it is oddly hypnotic to see them one after the other like that. And maybe you just said something to me subliminally that we'll never know until the trigger word pops up. And who knows what meh-hem will ensue.
@joelmw FWPs are still problems. If someone is feeling stress and/or anxiety, telling them that they don't deserve to feel those things is just useless.
@Thumperchick This is me basically.
@Thumperchick The road noise in my vintage Ferrari is horrible and my girlfriend has to travel a lot for her frequent modeling gigs. All I'm saying is that some of us have bigger problems to worry about then a smiley face!
@neuromancer I hate to be the bearer of (additional) bad news, but I think your yacht has sprung a leak.
@neuromancer Saying that doesn't make someone else not worry about the stupid smiley face. I'm not saying that everyone should stop and stress out about it. I am saying that telling someone their stress or anxiety isn't worthy of feeling stressed or anxious is an exercise in futility.
@joelmw I bet you feel that way a lot.
@Thumperchick For people with actual anxiety problems it serves to add more anxiety because they are now worrying more about how they are worrying too much
@chellemonkey But maybe a meh face isn't an actual anxiety problem.
@editorkid Maybe this is how it is manifesting ;)
@Thumperchick It's true, I do. In all seriousness, I don't mean to trivialize anyone's mental health or emotional issues. Most of the important people in my life struggle with some kind of serious issue (though some of them have impressive coping skills and others are well-medicated); I like to hope that that's not my fault. ;-) But, um, seriously. I realize that my tone, like @Marklog's (he says, somewhat defensively) was variously (I mean in several categories) mixed. And I do think FWPs are fair game for mockery. I just do. I hope we can still be friends. Are we friends? Don't answer that question unless you say "yes."
@joelmw TL;DR Big girl panties, you're on the internet!
@joelmw Not even close to mad. Never was. [Insert cute emoji here to show I'm non-threatening] Really, I was just throwing out a counter point. Not starting a support group for overly stressed meh face clickers.
We can set you up in the button mehnonymous 12-step program to cure your flop-sweats.
You can even get the mediocre discount; of course, it only has 10 steps and they're all refurbed.
Cheat. 1. Get a programmer to write you something that will automatically click the meh face. 2. Get your wife to click it. (somehow that sounds naughty) 3. Pay some child in an Indian sweatshop to click it for you. They are 12 hours off from us so that would make it 11am for them.
@moondrake perhaps over Christmas break I will add this to my chrome extension, I already started looking into it but work + grad school + video games makes me do less random side projects
@TaRDy Didn't you have an extension that would jump to the next unread comment? I cannot find that extension now, or was it just my imagination?
@cengland0 @jsh139 did it. Just look for meh in the Chrome store. If you're not on Chrome, well, I got nothin' for ya.
@cengland0 You are thinking of @jsh139's extension found here: https://meh.com/forum/topics/hey-you-wanna-click-a-button-to-scroll-through-unread-replies
@cengland0 I originally had done the one where you can make the goat your icon and add the blame button and the ever favorite "self-star" your posts automatically, I never got around to putting it into the chrome store but you can find it here: https://meh.com/forum/topics/meh-tools-meh-unofficial-chrome-extension
@joelmw @TaRDy Thanks for the plug. There's a Firefox version, too: https://github.com/jsh139/Extensions/releases
@jsh139 Thanks for the extension. :-)
tl;dr @marklog fingered his mouse.
I read the topic title as "Hi, my name is problem, and I have a marklog"
@katylava
@katylava That's what I typed. Wait, that's not what I typed?
Color your Meh button purple and have @Barney click it for you.
I love purple.
Dear @Marklog,
So, uh, this got way too serious. I should probably step in.
Nothing I wrote above was truthful or accurate, except the part about the meat sweats. I just had a thought and found it funny, so I wrote it in the first person. Sorry to be a bother.
Now, please leave me alone, I have to decide whether I'm going to stay at an all-inclusive resort or pay for every restaurant that I go to while on vacation in Cabo San Lucas and it's causing an ulcer.
@marklog I think if things don't get at least a little awkward, we're getting lazy. But that's just me.
tl;dr tl;dr
Before they got rid of the last three months images of meh button clicks, I was going to spend time writing dot matrix upwards scrolling messages in it with my meh button.
Fortunately they got rid of the little months and the desire is gone.
I think you're stuck, Marklog, I don't think the button is going away anytime soon.
@stienman I had the same thought as well. It was harder than I thought because your letter choices are greatly reduced with the space and shape available.
Might as well face it,
You’re addicted to Meh.
The button is the nexus of all realities, both known and unknown. To click the button is to commune with the infinite.
/youtube the streak