I’ll always regret missing out on the Seligman experiment. I think I discovered too late an email I’d overlooked. It was a personal failure. We had insider information on the formation of mediocre and meh (nothing illegal or anything; we certainly haven’t made money from it). I created an account pre-Kickstarter, but I wasn’t nearly cool enough to vibe with the original forum. Or I was busy. Either way, I suck. But apparently I’m just mediocre enough to have been totally turned on by the Kickstarter. That’s right, turned on. You get your kicks, I’ll get mine (ha, my kicks . . . tarter). Not really sexual, but it was fun to say. I have friends who do the Kickstarter. I like to think of myself as a Kickstarter evangelist. So when I found out about the Kickstarter with the original fuckyou bag, I was all in. Even so, I wasn’t as fanatical at first as some of these mad fuckers. And I could only sustain my mania for a relatively few months (maybe a couple of years). Now my love for meh is on slow but steady simmer. I still tell everyone about you. I brag about you, meh. And I do love you. Maybe I don’t sing you love songs anymore, but, yaknow, I don’t sing for shit, so that’s better for everyone. I laud you in simple prose and with all of my meh paraphernalia. And, really, it’s mostly because I know that I have an addiction and if I gave in to you like part of me wants to, my marriage would fail, I’d lose my job, I’d be flat broke, I’d stop having conversations irl, etc. I’m only partly joking, maybe mostly not joking. But I’m still there for you, usually right at midnight. And I’m sure to drop in when I need a good round of “fucks”. The oldtimers know what I mean. The rest of you can get with the fucking program or fucking fuck the bloody fucking hell off.
So, it’s been a good run so far. I love you, meh. I like to think I’ll be around as long as you are (and, yaknow, I’m alive, nominally sane and shit like that), and I sincerely hope you’ll be around as long as I am.
@therealjrn I actually can sum things up, especially if I absolutely have to. I even tweet–and none of that multi-part weak-ass bullshit. You might not have guessed, but I like the words. I like everything about the words. I like the way they tumble of my tongue or cascade cacophonous from my keyboard. Words make me happy. Most of the time, I have a few things to say. Perhaps rather, I have a thing to say, but I want to say it with some fullness. Not all of its fullness (that’s just silly, an impossibility), but some. In any case, whatever comes to me in the moment is like a child of my thoughts. I do, if you must know the truth, kill some of them, or at least demand that they stay in their rooms while the other kids play. That sounds cruel, doesn’t it. It is. What were we talking about?
I’ve been here since the very beginning. I don’t know if anyone remembers this but my daughter was sent a free kindle by Meh after I posted in the thread about how I was so happy about the kindle price because it meant I could give her one.
She had just had brain surgery and really, really wanted a kindle. I was thrilled by the price and that alone made me a forever customer for Meh. When the whole Meh team reached out to us to say they wanted to send her the kindle for free as a get well soon gift I was in tears.
We pay it forward every chance we get. I will never forget this act of kindness. My entire family will never forget.
I’m interested in the true distribution of Meh user account creation dates vs. the results of this poll. How does the real data compare to mehtizens involved enough to keep refreshing the site today and who respond to this poll?
That’s a tricky question. Even though my profile says : “2127 days ago on September 11th, 2013”
I didn’t actually join Meh until 8 July 2014, because there was no Meh before then for us non-flaskish customers. That’s kinda why today is Meh’s fifth birthday.
Day 1. Had no idea about the Kickstarter campaign. But, by pure luck I saw an ad on FB (of all places) telling me about it. I signed up and clicked my first Meh button that day.
My first purchase was Fukubukuro 3, on Nov 14, 2014. I joined the day before. It’s all been downhill, but since it started at a meh level, it’s hard to tell the difference.
brandon joined us 2099 days ago on October 9th, 2013.
brandon is a hardcore meh fiend having placed 232 orders and voted in 42 polls. brandon clicked the meh button 1706 times, 55 days in a row, with a longest streak of 88 days in a row.
Collin1000 joined us 1827 days ago on July 8th, 2014.
Collin1000 is a hardcore meh fiend having placed 183 orders and voted in 449 polls. Collin1000 clicked the meh button 1918 times, 1827 days in a row, with a longest streak of 1827 days in a row.
transplant joined us 1703 days ago on November 9th, 2014.
My account shows the first thing I bought was the Capresso Coffee Maker (still works! How un-meh like!), but pretty sure I bought some Speck iPad cases before that.
First Fuko was #4. One of the little kids is tearing the hell out of it now…
@kdemo I wonder how many meh-ers don’t have something still in the box…somewhere. I think I may still have some of those old leaky batteries out in the garage.
callow joined us 1764 days ago on September 9th, 2014. I remember checking daily or at least often for a bit before signing up.
First purchase: Three comforters on October 26th 2014
nine876 joined us 1657 days ago on December 25th, 2014.
nine876 is a casual meh acquaintance having placed 56 orders and voted in 3 polls. nine876 clicked the meh button 49 times, 0 days in a row, with a longest streak of 11 days in a row.
In the forum, nine876 is rarely spotted in the wild with 0 topics created, 1 comment, and 1 reply. nine876 is a reliable source of handing out likes to other people’s posts, having doled out 28 (for an altruism score of 14.0). nine876’s posts have received 2 likes.
1771 days ago.
And this is my first comment.
@bhummel Would you shut up already? Sheesh, endless jabber jaw.
Pre-meh
@Thumperchick lol metoo
1960 days ago on February 25th, 2014
I’ll always regret missing out on the Seligman experiment.
I think I discovered too late an email I’d overlooked. It was a personal failure. We had insider information on the formation of mediocre and meh (nothing illegal or anything; we certainly haven’t made money from it). I created an account pre-Kickstarter, but I wasn’t nearly cool enough to vibe with the original forum. Or I was busy. Either way, I suck. But apparently I’m just mediocre enough to have been totally turned on by the Kickstarter. That’s right, turned on. You get your kicks, I’ll get mine (ha, my kicks . . . tarter). Not really sexual, but it was fun to say. I have friends who do the Kickstarter. I like to think of myself as a Kickstarter evangelist. So when I found out about the Kickstarter with the original fuckyou bag, I was all in. Even so, I wasn’t as fanatical at first as some of these mad fuckers. And I could only sustain my mania for a relatively few months (maybe a couple of years). Now my love for meh is on slow but steady simmer. I still tell everyone about you. I brag about you, meh. And I do love you. Maybe I don’t sing you love songs anymore, but, yaknow, I don’t sing for shit, so that’s better for everyone. I laud you in simple prose and with all of my meh paraphernalia. And, really, it’s mostly because I know that I have an addiction and if I gave in to you like part of me wants to, my marriage would fail, I’d lose my job, I’d be flat broke, I’d stop having conversations irl, etc. I’m only partly joking, maybe mostly not joking. But I’m still there for you, usually right at midnight. And I’m sure to drop in when I need a good round of “fucks”. The oldtimers know what I mean. The rest of you can get with the fucking program or fucking fuck the bloody fucking hell off.
So, it’s been a good run so far. I love you, meh. I like to think I’ll be around as long as you are (and, yaknow, I’m alive, nominally sane and shit like that), and I sincerely hope you’ll be around as long as I am.
@joelmw TL;DR Can you sum things up?
@therealjrn I actually can sum things up, especially if I absolutely have to. I even tweet–and none of that multi-part weak-ass bullshit. You might not have guessed, but I like the words. I like everything about the words. I like the way they tumble of my tongue or cascade cacophonous from my keyboard. Words make me happy. Most of the time, I have a few things to say. Perhaps rather, I have a thing to say, but I want to say it with some fullness. Not all of its fullness (that’s just silly, an impossibility), but some. In any case, whatever comes to me in the moment is like a child of my thoughts. I do, if you must know the truth, kill some of them, or at least demand that they stay in their rooms while the other kids play. That sounds cruel, doesn’t it. It is. What were we talking about?
@therealjrn I
meh long time.
@joelmw THX! lol
@joelmw I’ve missed your stories.
I’ve been here since the very beginning. I don’t know if anyone remembers this but my daughter was sent a free kindle by Meh after I posted in the thread about how I was so happy about the kindle price because it meant I could give her one.
She had just had brain surgery and really, really wanted a kindle. I was thrilled by the price and that alone made me a forever customer for Meh. When the whole Meh team reached out to us to say they wanted to send her the kindle for free as a get well soon gift I was in tears.
We pay it forward every chance we get. I will never forget this act of kindness. My entire family will never forget.
P.S. We still owe you a thank you card.
@Ruffinette How is your daughter doing?
@Kidsandliz She is very well, thank you for asking. She is five years post-op without any (more) complications.
I’m interested in the true distribution of Meh user account creation dates vs. the results of this poll. How does the real data compare to mehtizens involved enough to keep refreshing the site today and who respond to this poll?
Release the data! We need to know!
From the start. Pretty sure I got Fuku bag #1 … Correction: I did get Fuku bag #2.
narfcake joined us 2127 days ago on September 11th, 2013.
So I was on meh before meh existed?
/giphy confused
@narfcake
/giphy dayum
Here I thought I was special.
July 22, 2014. That makes it 14 days after launch. Meh, I need a life.
@hchavers - July 13, 2014. That makes it 5 days after launch. Meh, it beats Woot anyway!
I bet I would know if I had a calendar…just sayin…
@amehzinggrace
Some people’s kids.
@joelmw I don’t acknowledge this number business…i want faces…i demand faces…clicky’d faces…make it so…
That’s a tricky question. Even though my profile says :
“2127 days ago on September 11th, 2013”
I didn’t actually join Meh until 8 July 2014, because there was no Meh before then for us non-flaskish customers. That’s kinda why today is Meh’s fifth birthday.
This poll’s results chart
Is appealing to my eye.
Nice distribution.
/giphy nice distribution
@eonfifty Is it a Meh-Off?
I guess we can’t call it that
Still want Bag of Crap
@pmarin
Meh-rathon.
/giphy meh rat hon
But my very soul has always been Mediocre.
/giphy always
I helped Kickstart you freaks so since Day 0
Day 1. Had no idea about the Kickstarter campaign. But, by pure luck I saw an ad on FB (of all places) telling me about it. I signed up and clicked my first Meh button that day.
July 9th, 2014. I didn’t realize I had gotten in so early.
a while ago
@riceatusc 1370 days ago
When I realized “Oh hey look at that they started a new site.”
5 years ago tomorrow.
You gonna have a party for me?
mattschuette joined us 2128 days ago on September 10th, 2013.
But I knew some people. Also, that’s not my staff account.
carl669 joined us 2127 days ago on September 11th, 2013.
10/7/14. It’s more than 4 years but not at inception, so I am without a true poll choice.
Well my Meh profile says it was:
I was Backer #58 on the Kickstarter.
1393 days ago
Oct 2017
1320 days ago. which is a cool number and sounds much more impressive than something shy of 4 years.
@mehcuda67 Feet in the 1/4 mile, and the frequency of the best radio station when I was growing up.
July 11, 2014 - JBL speaker dock, $15
July 29th, 2014. 1806 days ago.
One of the OG dons here.
1748 days ago on September 25th, 2014.
Had to look it up. “debraae joined us 1756 days ago on September 17th, 2014.”
I would’ve kickstarted it if I knew about it, but instead I joined as they were getting started.
1801 days ago on August 3rd, 2014
Only posting because it was 1818 days ago, on my birthday in 2014.
mediocre count?
My first purchase was Fukubukuro 3, on Nov 14, 2014. I joined the day before. It’s all been downhill, but since it started at a meh level, it’s hard to tell the difference.
brandon joined us 2099 days ago on October 9th, 2013.
brandon is a hardcore meh fiend having placed 232 orders and voted in 42 polls. brandon clicked the meh button 1706 times, 55 days in a row, with a longest streak of 88 days in a row.
/giphy so extra
Collin1000 joined us 1827 days ago on July 8th, 2014.
Collin1000 is a hardcore meh fiend having placed 183 orders and voted in 449 polls. Collin1000 clicked the meh button 1918 times, 1827 days in a row, with a longest streak of 1827 days in a row.
Being a woot! charter member, I like to think I joined meh before meh joined meh.
Or not.
meh.
1792 days ago, as soon as I heard of this place.
But not quite at the beginning.
@2many2no - Same. I was 3 days late (and a dollar short).
Many moons ago.
1657 days ago on December 25th, 2014.
@Euniceandrich was your first order expired Christmas candy?
1792 days ago on August 12, 2014.
Vmp since August 2014
transplant joined us 1703 days ago on November 9th, 2014.
My account shows the first thing I bought was the Capresso Coffee Maker (still works! How un-meh like!), but pretty sure I bought some Speck iPad cases before that.
First Fuko was #4. One of the little kids is tearing the hell out of it now…
Kenbo joined us 1826 days ago on July 9th, 2014.
So, maybe the day after launch?
/giphy late_launch
A little late to the party.
kdemo joined us 1824 days ago on July 11th, 2014.
First purchase on July 15th 2014 -
2-FOR-TUESDAY: EWAVE AUTOMATIC SOAP & SANITIZER DISPENSER.
I still have one of them in a box somewhere.
@kdemo I wonder how many meh-ers don’t have something still in the box…somewhere. I think I may still have some of those old leaky batteries out in the garage.
@Snarf - SO TRUE! I don’t know why, but I’m still attached to my Built NY cases.
awk joined us 1704 days ago on November 8th, 2014.
first purchase: Accu Force 3.5 Channel Helicopter
1820 days ago on July 15th, 2014 although I visited 3 or 4 times prior to that before I joined.
Ok, found it: cfg83 joined us 1822 days ago on July 13th, 2014.
1728 days ago.
First purchase was a 48 pack of batteries.
Sohmageek joined us 1826 days ago on July 9th, 2014.
@sohmageek He has purchased roughly 26 speaker docks in that time for a SD Score of .014.
callow joined us 1764 days ago on September 9th, 2014. I remember checking daily or at least often for a bit before signing up.
First purchase: Three comforters on October 26th 2014
Stumpy91 joined us 2100 days ago on October 8th, 2013. Kickstarter.
WeisseGuy joined us 1826 days ago on July 9th, 2014
nine876 joined us 1657 days ago on December 25th, 2014.
nine876 is a casual meh acquaintance having placed 56 orders and voted in 3 polls. nine876 clicked the meh button 49 times, 0 days in a row, with a longest streak of 11 days in a row.
In the forum, nine876 is rarely spotted in the wild with 0 topics created, 1 comment, and 1 reply. nine876 is a reliable source of handing out likes to other people’s posts, having doled out 28 (for an altruism score of 14.0). nine876’s posts have received 2 likes.
i just did a search and my ‘day zero’ email is still in the ol’ inbox. still have an unworn kickstarter t-shirt as well.
1771 days ago on September 2nd, 2014.
November 8, 2014
cinoclav joined us 1832 days ago on July 3rd, 2014.
If you really want to know, look at my profile. You have as much access to it as I do!
Snarf joined us 1702 days ago on November 10th, 2014.
2125 days ago pre-meh. Who received the Amazon gift cards and ordered items for the office??
chewytie joined us 1826 days ago on July 9th, 2014.
I guess that puts me just shy of since inception. Eh.
1821 days ago. And only 2 fukubuccaroos.
I did not add to that second count in the last 24 hours.
I missed the Kickstarter but clicked on the first public day so I am going to say at inception, because rounding.
backer #29. apparently i also made a note to myself.
@carl669 Yeah, but you don’t know your Fearless Leader Rat number.
(I like the note.)
@Barney even though i never found the email, apparently i did announce my lab rat#:
https://mediocre.com/forum/topics/whats-your-number#529e9c28949cc3c40b00010d
@carl669 Well, fuck.
(peeks over a crate in the corner) 4 days ago? To be fair I lurked a bit but @Seeds finally convinced me. Meow.
@valkyriered meh people are good people
whistlingwilly joined us 1829 days ago on July 8th, 2014.
21 Fuko, Fuku, Irk. I think i’ve only missed 1.