I'm a little Fuko slow, please explain!
6I’m new to meh, and I’m slower than a heard of turtles stampeding through peanut butter. Please explain what is going on!!??
What is a Fuko?
Most importantly how do I get one of these coveted mystery Fuko thingamajiggys? I can’t get a tattoo, I fainted when I had my ears pierced. Possibly promise my first born, promise to stop biting people, promise to tell you when you look fat in those jeans, or maybe promise to make you a bacon sandwich when you are hungover? Just give it to me straight; what do you need from me?
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Most of us got them from @ChadP this last week, some for doing something amazing and some for doing nothing. You might try begging.
The first Fuko:
The last Fuko:
There won’t be any more, but that’s such a pitiful plea that I’ll ask @ChadP to send you one made from warehouse scrapings, and there has to be at least one bag left somewhere. I’m borrowing the herd of turtles metaphor, thanks. Actually I’d really like a leftover box too, but if @ChadP would send the actual bag to @clmvenus, that would be doubly cool. I mean, @lichme got seven.
@OldCatLady That’s not true
@lichme Sorry, it must have been @lisaviolet. I know it was somebody with an @ in their name.
@OldCatLady @lichme
Yeah, liiiich only got 6.
@OldCatLady @PlacidPenguin
I meant it was more
@lichme you got more than seven of the “last” Fukos? How? I wasn’t being attentive enough and only got one at 7am.
@Stumpy91 There were contests. All week long.
@lichme @OldCatLady Well, yeah, I did get seven, eight if you count the one I got for my selfie partner, but in my defense, I paid for one.
And for my first two, I said I just wanted to play, I wasn’t in it to win it. Then @ChadP gave me two for the Paris Hilton link for in the Entertain Me contest and it was Katie bar the door…
Most fun I’ve had in years.
@OldCatLady I’m a thinking that this person does not qualify for a birthday Fuko. They’ve only been here for 4 days and have missed the b’day celebrations. But they certainly can try for the new and improved (ha!) “IRK” in three or four months.
So basically the jist is:
meh is sorta lazy, and they don’t like walking to the dumpster… so instead they just have the warehouse put scraps in boxes and stack them on shelves until 1 day every quarter in which they allow us to buy the crap for $5 a box. These were originally called “bags of crap” when they owned woot! but since they sold woot! to jeff they had to come up with a new name for their lazy trash removal scheme… and they came up with: Fukubukuro which is a Japanese new years thing (see this article).
At some point they changed it from Fuku (lucky) to Fuko (unlucky) to change it up and gave us this amazing video:
This year they retired the name “fukobukuro” on their birthday… from this point on instead they will be called:
The Instant Regret Kit
(aka The IRK)
Your next chance to buy one should land sometime after October. The only real way to make sure you have a chance to buy one is to show up every day at midnight and smash that
bell buttonmeh button.@thismyusername …AND convince Captcha you are not a computer trying to game the system.
@thismyusername Thank you, this helps a lot. I’m only a few days and hoping this will all make sense after a while! Or, given my aforementioned slowness, probably not.
@LaVikinga @thismyusername Even I, a perfectly human specimen, can not convince the Captcha of my 100% organic human nature.
@thismyusername @ThomasF Dude, you have a test tube next to your name. Everyone knows that means you were lab-created! You can’t fool us. We’ve seen a thing or two.
@LaVikinga @thismyusername @ThomasF
That is not a test tube that is an erylenmeyer flask
@CaptAmehrican @LaVikinga @thismyusername @ThomasF
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@CaptAmehrican @thismyusername @ThomasF
Eh, Apples, oranges.
No. Wait…that’s not quite right.
All I know is there was this odd little man in a hood who walked with a stoop and said something about needing a brain from this Abbie Normal chick for Dr. Snapster. He has a big lab with bottles, and flames, and wires, and these big transformer thingies that made loud NNNNNZZZZZZZZZT! sounds.
@clmvenus
when it all makes sense let us know, we’re waiting for that day as well
@ThomasF IT IS OK FELLOW BIO BASED BROTHER… COME CONVERSE WITH US OTHER TOTALLY REAL HUMANS ON REDDIT.
@carl669
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