It Ain't a 21 Gun Salute - June 2018 Scapegoat Blame Thread

@Thumperchick 2016 was a very good year! I was just trying to help.

@Seeds ok! (This being blamed for things is pretty easy, it turns out,)

@Seeds Hahaha, I was just thinking of that earlier tonight! That’s a lot of points!

@Seeds two words - excel spreadsheet

@Kidsandliz can’t merge threads. We just get to keep 2.

@RiotDemon Too bad it somehow didn’t get mowed in real life while you dreamed.

@Kidsandliz they’re currently mowing the lawn. Only a week and a half late.

@aetris As long as you get you TPR reports in on time you’re ok.

@aetris omg, I had no idea there were so many things in the world to be blamed for. Still and all… blame accepted, as is my lot in life (this month).

@mfladd - Total Physical Response? Temperature, Pulse, Respiration? Tiny Purple Rabbi? Toilet Paper Roll?

@aetris @mfladd IF they have the proper cover sheet. Submissions with improper TPS Report cover sheets will be duly rejected and blamed.

@mfladd @mike808

So, settlement went off with only a couple hitches, and it turned out the floor issue was because I ordered the wrong coating, so I’m granting four UNblames. But instead of celebrating that night I had to do an extra 6 because the regional HQ reassigned the guy they ‘gave’ me to cover 2nd, and forgot to rearrange coverage for the shift - and I’m blaming @UncleVinny for THAT!

RRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Hmmm, again, I feel kinda better now.

@aetris I live to serve!

@mfladd this is exceptional news! I hereby add the unblame to my blame account, and appreciate you lightening the load.

@narfcake since they didn’t show what happened at the beginning or end, I’m gonna say that my favorite part was watching the tree shadows cast by the helicopter spotlights.

@narfcake do those cops not know how to box someone in? That was an unsatisfying video.

@narfcake @RiotDemon It’s typical Cali. I imagine the cops try to entice their suspects with lattes and sushi.

@narfcake
Courtesy channel 7:

One of the civilian drivers who tried to block the car was ticketed.

Can you get a ticket for being a dumbass?

@sammydog01 They really need to hand more of those types of tickets out.

@msklzannie ugggggh that’s awful. Hang in there!

@f00l Could be worse. I had to entertain 4 children with a sleepover weekend.

@f00l @mfladd My mom and I had Toddler Room duty at church, but we only had 6 today. The biggest entertainment was when I showed pictures from the aquarium at the Bass Pro in Springfield.

@f00l Not lazy. Energy efficient.
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/highly-efficient

Highly Efficient
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New

@narfcake

Damn. I would be rather tempted to buy that shirt … if … the prices were where they used to be.

: (

@UncleVinny, I blame you for that.

@f00l @narfcake @UncleVinny Hard to believe they’ve basically doubled. The only other thing going up that fast is cigarettes, and they’re the worst.

@f00l @Seeds One thing to keep in mind is that the old price excluded shipping. Nonetheless, the “sticker shock” aspect is undeniable and has given me second thoughts on many occasions too.

I will say that catshirtswoot should be thankful that @snapster has yet to sell any catshirts here. Otherwise they’d probably lose out on what’s left in that market also … or so says some guy who’s NOT wearing a catshirt right now. That’s a blame, @UncleVinny.

@narfcake @Seeds @snapster @UncleVinny

Is there any info on shirt.woot daily sales before and after the recent price change?

@f00l @narfcake @snapster @UncleVinny Didn’t they used to be 10 bucks with free shipping?

@f00l @Seeds @snapster @UncleVinny It was $10 up until January 2012. The first shirt at $12 sold out, so price wasn’t actually a huge factor.

After the switch to Anvil in February 2012, no shirts sold out. When the cart was introduced, the pricing went to a $7 + $5 – which led some wooters to complain that “I’m not paying almost as much in shipping as the shirt itself!”

The $12 remained until the switch to Port and Company in February 2018. Sales have been all over the place for a while already (but ever trending lower, no thanks to mutant Anvils), so I do not have any real comparisons on the recent price change. No complaints have been added to the mega Anvil thread, though, so that’s a huge plus!

@narfcake Are you disappointed it wasn’t bigger?

@msklzannie @narfcake TWSS!

@therealjrn I had a feeling someone would go there.

@narfcake I’m shakin in mah boots!

@msklzannie And I’m so NOT surprised it was @therealjrn.

My only expectation is that I rather not have one, but this is SoCal, so it’s what we deal with, just as the other parts of the country have their own incidents to deal with.

I will say that at least our earthquakes are all natural, not man-made!

@msklzannie @narfcake Here in Oklahoma, we make our own earthquakes, unlike those lazy Cali’s, who wait on mother nature.

@therealjrn We prefer our earthquakes to be natural, organic, free range, and not processed with tons of chemicals, TYVM!

(For those who don’t know, the disposal of wastewater byproducts from oil fracking is a cause of man-made earthquakes.)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/62410-oklahoma-earthquakes-wastewater-injection.html

@narfcake @therealjrn

Yeah. We get OK’s leftover earthquakes here now.

Last year around Cleburne, TX (30 or so miles S of FW) they had 20-30 smallish earthquakes.

During the century pre-fracking, Cleburne, TX had ZERO earthquakes.

I’m sure there is no connection to fracking industry wastewater disposal practices at all. That’s obviously just a myth.

@UncleVinny!

I’m calling you out on this!

/giphy guilty guilty guilty

@sammydog01 lamp cord comes in different gauges. For a simple lamp the smaller wiring is fine. You can buy it by the foot at Lowe’s or Depot.

Let’s see this lamp?

@RiotDemon I’ll show it to you later- it’s in pieces all over the table. I think it’s pretty old- the socket was made in the US.

@RiotDemon I wnet to Home Depot and got some lighter wire with a plug on it. Thanks!

The bucket says Spaulding and Frost on it which is a copperage in New Hampshire.

@RiotDemon @sammydog01 Cool! and it must have a magnetic bottom!

I lovelovelove magnetic bottoms!

@sammydog01 success!

@therealjrn what is a magnetic bottom?

@therealjrn @RiotDemon Pic is sideways, hence magnetic.

Since it’s so amazing, the pic stays. The magnetic task lights I have suck; they only stick to steel surfaces.

@narfcake fancy!

@narfcake @RiotDemon Shiney!!

@Kidsandliz you tell ‘em, boss!

OK so blame and unblame. Blame that there is new small spot of follicular non-hodgkin’s lymphoma now in my liver (presumption it is from that rather than from the 2 breast cancers, not biopsying it so have to trust the radiologist when he wrote consistent with fnhl) but unblame that the other (small) nodes we are watching are more or less stable. Unblame in that no chemo for now, just going to continue to watch and wait (which is OK to do as chemo doesn’t actually affect long term survival, just gets rid of symptoms and shrinks nodes). Blame in that I find this shit stressful at times.

@msklzannie yyyyyeah, sorry about that. I told the gods that your day was supposed to be “swell”, but there was a little mixup.

@UncleVinny Got in to the clinic. PA-C believes that my submandibular gland is infected. Got a prescription for generic Augmentin. Hope this takes care of it.

@msklzannie Me too.

@msklzannie Better that than a cracked filling I guess? Hope this works.

@Kidsandliz May still have a cracked filling but I’ll probably call the dentist and ask to hold off on that theory until we see if this works.

@msklzannie
/image fingers crossed for luck

@lisaviolet Well that sucks big time. They talking about a hip replacement with you?

@lisaviolet uggggh

@Kidsandliz Yeah. Probably towards the end of the year.

I really thought it was just a pulled muscle.

@lisaviolet Hopefully the surgery won’t be too awful. Any of my relatives who have had that have been happy with their improved mobility and significantly decreased pain afterwards… although I am sure the process of getting to that point is less than fun. Good luck.

@Kidsandliz Thank you. It’s nothing near what’s going on with you, I know, so I appreciate your words.

@lisaviolet Life is not a contest of relative bad stuff - whatever is going on in someone’s lie that makes it worse counts. It’s not a “relative to someone else” thing.

@RiotDemon, replied.

@Seeds boo for brokenness, yay for fucking awesomeness!

@mfladd
/giphy noice!

@mfladd, it’s actually pretty sweet. Came out nice. I like the canvas texture.

@mfladd I blame the goat that you keep forgetting to take out the s.

@mfladd hooray for unblame!

@RiotDemon Crap! I thought I did. I blame the GoaT because we shouldn’t have to take out the “S”!

@mfladd Agreed. mehdown should parse URL’s to exclude the S in the prefix.

Get that goat back in here!

@mfladd looks greaT!!

@mfladd Is that a tatoo you got or just something pretty?

@sammydog01 That is my tattoo. But that is a canvas print of the picture I used for it.

@mfladd so how big were you finally able to make this?

@Kidsandliz 2’ x 3’

@Ozzie2191Dude, omg. Was your son hurt by the tree? That is messed up.

@UncleVinny Nope, but thanks for asking. He was actually in class, taking a final. His phone started ringing/vibrating and he ignored it because, you know, final. Eventually he finished and walked out to his car surrounded by police tape, police, and people taking pictures.

Was a 30 minute storm - fast and hit like a truck. 65mph winds and damaging rain. Wind knocked over about half a tree onto the car, not onto the roof but one set of branches on each big window. Despite the back looking worse, the damage to the front was the more costly part - instrument panel apparently suffered massive internal damage and that alone (labor and parts) was half of the minimum $10k repair costs. There was impact to every single panel of the car and the frame.

He now has the SUV he always wanted so it worked out for him in the end. He really loved that car. I felt bad and drained most of my emergency fund to put the down payment on the new car so he could get it.

@ruouttaurmind sorrrrrrryyyyy, I blinked, sneezed and farted at the same time, so I didn’t notice while proof-reading.

@UncleVinny It’s best to check your underwear when that happens
/image dirty underwear

@UncleVinny No worries, we’ll arrange to have the $6,000 printing bill deducted in small, painless increments from your goat earnings.

@ruouttaurmind @UncleVinny

Owwwww!

@f00l Ya, this one is tough to suck up. We operate on a relatively modest budget, and tossing $6k into the recycling bin hurts.

Fortunately nobody bothered me for the first part of the day yesterday. I was pretty disappointed and maybe a little grumpy, so it might have been a challenge to stay professional. A good nights sleep and leisurely, late arrival into the office this morning, and my attitude is properly adjusted. Now, the challenge of addressing this with the folks responsible while maintaining my measure.

@UncleVinny Unblamed.

@compunaut My oldest just got her first summer job doing food service at a theme park. And she can drive already so I don’t have to take her. I hope the customers don’t suck.

@sammydog01 Yeah, tomorrow I have to get up at 6am in order to drop him off before local swim team practice starts. Ugh!
I blame the goat

@compunaut Did you negotiate your driving fee? I’m thinking 25%.

@sammydog01 It’s worth it just to have him out of the house part of the day

@narfcake That no-good low-down rasslefratzle! I’ll get 'em for this! They’re gonna wish they’d never been boooooorn!

@UncleVinny Easy now, goat.

@f00l
/image sort of bald

@f00l So long as it wasn’t like this …

@narfcake That one is a mile or two beyond it’s “best by” date, innit. Wow.

@f00l Sorrrryyyyy! To make it up to you, here’s 2-hours of David Bowie DJ-ing back in 1979: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/02/21/david-bowie-two-hour-dj-set-bbc-radio-one-may-20-1979/

@ruouttaurmind The amount of WTF-ery that’s in /r/justrolledintotheshop is a sad testament to what we share the road with.

@narfcake @ruouttaurmind I especially liked this one when I thought they were bobbers the guy was keeping there for some reason.

@Seeds what are they?

@UncleVinny

Bowie is pretty nice compensation.

Thx.

@RiotDemon Paintballs- apparently the plastic is soy-based, so a squirrel was collecting them.

@Seeds glad it isn’t broken

@Seeds Collapsing ladder = bad! What kind is it? Wood? Aluminum? Fiberglass?

@Kidsandliz Thanks, me too.

@narfcake Aluminum.

@Seeds

Bob Belcher voice: “Oh my God!”

@UncleVinny No idea what that meant, so I looked it up. Which one?

@Seeds hahhaha, and that was probably just clips from a few seasons. He says it a LOT.

@Kidsandliz

@Kidsandliz

The cosmic legal services don’t let you see and re-negotiate all the terms and conditions before you get born, do they?

Sympathies.

Hang in there. What else is there to do?

@f00l Personally I want a life transplant.

@Kidsandliz I also want a life transplant, but I specifically want to trade with Irk.

My ~16 year old kitty is hanging in there, but she’s definitely slowing down. No huge ailments for the moment, and the nice thing is she’s becoming more of a lap cat with every passing year. She was scarcely a snuggler back in 2003, and she’s still definitely not. But she’ll at least hang out on my lap for 10-15 minutes these days…”so I got that goin for me, which is nice.”

Anyway… hang in there!

/giphy dan rather courage

@Kidsandliz How did you find out they had thyroid probs? I mean… what were the symptoms. My cat suddenly lost all the fur on the back of her rear legs. Shes an indoor cat… no fleas, no itching, no rash, no biting or pulling the fur… and it was sudden. We have an appt next week. All my searching basically turns up, bad thyroid.

@lseeber Weight loss despite eating well. One was caught because I started having all 3 tested once the second one had the same issue. So one was caught before weight loss. They also throw up more…If they are high long enough they also start to lose muscle mass (especially visible in the rear legs).

A bottle of 100 5mg pills (they typically start them out at half a pill twice a day and then recheck in a month to see if they need to change the dose - sometimes you have to cut in 1/4 - a good pill cutter with a sharp blade works better for that) is about $23ish maybe at Walgreens if you buy the family pharmacy plan. You can put your animals on it. So I put all the humans and all the animals in the house ($35/year) on it. Gives you a cheaper price on a bunch of meds. I always check health insurance against family plan prices too. Sometimes family plan is cheaper, sometimes not. I save well more than the $35/year this program costs. But check. At this point I will always save money as one cat is asthmatic and flovent 220mg is $396 (saves a bit over $100 - but unless I find a job soon I am not going to be able to continue to treat her for that, I just don’t have the money, have to buy another one in about 2 weeks) and it only lasts 60 days. One is in remission from diabetes but may not be any longer (stress can raise their glucose, 170 is the top of normal and he was 278) and Lantin (sp?) is expensive as well.

Good luck.

@Kidsandliz Wow. How odd for all cats to have thyroid issues. I had lots of cats and this is the first one that ‘may’ have it. Although she is the first cat I’ve ever had that was solely an indoor cat too.
You can have your cats rx’s on your health insurance?
I know that asthma medicine is expensive! My husband (recently passed) was on advair and some other and with the bcbs it was high. I actually still have an unopened box.
Hopefully you will be gainfully employed soon and all will be well. My dogs all passed about 3 yrs ago and one of them was really large and anytime he had issues, it was expensive. Couldn’t get another dog at the time because of dealing with hubby’s health but after I move I may get another. Although this cat is so darn spoiled and anti social (except with me) that I don’t think she could deal with another pet around here.
Thanks for the info.

@lseeber No not on my heath insurance, they are on the Walgreen’s family plan which saves money on some human meds that pets also take and Walgreens will fill Rx’s from vets.

It is fairly common for elderly cats to have hyperthyroid and kidney issues. One cat was diagnosed with hyperthyroid at 14, one at 15 and one at 16 (the later two are litter mates). With the kidney issues, one at 16 and one at 17 (and they are litter mates).

@Kidsandliz huh… didn’t realize Walgreens would allow pets on that.
I’m hoping it’s something minor… she just turned 3 and she seems fine except that her back end is suddenly looking scrawny and a lot of fur is missing from the back of the back legs.
I was going to ask if they were litter mates actually.

@lseeber I hope it is something minor too. With that Walgreens plan you, if you buy it, you need to put everyone on at once as you can’t add anyone part way through your “year”.

@narfcake @narfcake You must be in CA or something. 21 minutes ago would have been 5:51am here in central savings. Just pretend you live here then it won’t be as early. Problem solved. You are welcome.

@Kidsandliz Something like that …

Also:

@narfcake Hmm well I am awake due to a cat puking up a hairball and my sick one getting up to go into the dirt box and then the closet rather than cuddle by me any longer.

Edit - I saw that ninja add a giphy after I had responded to you. So based on the cartoon, you can just pretend you are in China and it will be dinner time. Tomorrow. Even better.

@Kidsandliz

I think it’s why I just have catshirts and cat plushies instead of actual cats.

Side note: my neighbor’s cat left me a “present” a few days ago too. At least it’s one less mouse in the wild?

Also, not just a Giphy but a full video.

@narfcake I listened to the entire thing. : )

@f00l Congratulations on your success. I lost a belt one time due to locked-up steering pump, and tried to get home by driving a mile or two at a time and waiting to cool down. (Costco to Walmart to Post Office to Park and Ride, etc.) Eventually gave in and towed it.

@f00l Sorry about all those problems - especially in the summer @walarney I once went from south Kansas to Billings, Montana with the radiator cap loose and adding fluid like crazy. Montana was the nearest replacement radiator along my route. I had to get there because I had to beat the moving van and I was told it would take a week to ship to where I broke down. Although I dodged most of the mountains, it was a nail gripper at times. I was also pulling a small uhaul trailer. At that point the ghetto van was 16 which was why it was hard to find a radiator (it died at 25y 3m).

Oh, even better…

@mfladd
/giphy evil

@mfladd Wait, when did this happen?
/giphy snarky

@sammydog01 I’m not sure. I have filed a missing persons report.

@sammydog01

When was @mfladd ever eVil or snarky?

@PlacidPenguin @sammydog01 Evil? Snarky?
/8ball Is @mfladd a cat?
Cannot predict now

@mfladd @sammydog01 it’s cuz @kittysprinkles isn’t around enough.

@mfladd @RiotDemon @sammydog01

@mfladd

Blame! I blame you that I am apparently not eViL anymore. Hell, I am not even snarky Blame!

It’s just sad.

But you’re adorable!!!

/giphy adorable

/image flathead

@mfladd
Oh, those images came out nicely, didn’t they?

/giphy cute!

@narfcake

I commend you for having the patience and energy to keep trying.

Kinda wow.

@narfcake why are they so racist about a t-shirt?

@f00l I handed out 1000+ year probations before too. I really hope that they didn’t mark it down on their calendar for their heir to remember to spam again in the 31st century.

@RiotDemon
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They were labeling the representation on yesterday’s shirt:
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/we-are-america

We Are America
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New

@narfcake I’m confused about it. Were they mad because it showed too many races or not enough?

@RiotDemon Too many.

@narfcake @RiotDemon I’m betting the answer was ‘any’ races. I’d like to see the faces replaced by tiny mirrors, so everyone would only see people who looked like them. Probably need a different caption, and contest.

@narfcake
/giphy facepalm

I just saw a complaint in another thread that the shirt doesn’t have Hawaii or Alaska, so at least that’s something different.

@RiotDemon It’s a complaint with such shirts at common retail stores too. That said, it’s not like Woot or meh ships there either.

/image logistics

@narfcake I’m sure. This is my favorite “50 states” shirt I’ve found so far.

Oops.

@RiotDemon 50th state: Confusion.

@UncleVinny!!!

Wake up now!

I totally blame you that @shrdlu and others might be concerned!

Your fault!

/image goat worry"

@f00l @Shrdlu Muh?! Whazzat… zzzzzz

@narfcake Your used store is WAY better than the one around here. The other day it was $5 for a paper bag full. I couldn’t even find enough decent stuff to fill up the bag. The little kids got a number of shirts, but that is about it.

@Kidsandliz That particular store starts discounting after a week already, so it’s pretty high turnover.

@Kidsandliz @narfcake geez, I dunno if my local stores even do rag bags. Though lately I have been donating way more junky fabric than I have interest in absorbing. My little apartment feels a lot more spark-joy lately, now that I’ve ditched some dead weight.

Anyhoo, I’m glad you broke even on the rag-collecting.

@narfcake OMG, I love the Monkey King one. I just got finished watching the series and movie on netflix.

@narfcake Hmmm…sounds perilous. Good thing you checked it! It’d be terrible if the state of Colorado snuck up on you while you were unawares.

@UncleVinny

If Colorado snuck up on the state of denial California, there’d be other issues.

@PlacidPenguin @UncleVinny

/giphy Colorado detector

@f00l I wish I could make it stop. A little November would be reeeeeel nice rightabout now.

@ruouttaurmind
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/books-no-electricity-required

Books - No Electricity Required
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New

@ruouttaurmind the Goat has been lobbying for universal free bandwidth, but has had limited success winning converts among the Moneyed Classes. Think of it this way, though: for the rest of the month you can just go into Airplane Mode and read your ebooks. What would you wanna look at the internet for, anyway?!? It’s stinky and a drama-mama and full of poisonous attention-seeking.

There! Problem solved.

@narfcake @ruouttaurmind
Might be my fave shirt.

@RiotDemon That’s what the 10 am on Saturday showings are for.

@sammydog01 my biggest question was, Adrift, really? Bring them to show dogs or whatever instead.

@RiotDemon They wanted an adult night out without paying a baby sitter. I took my kid to The Ring when she was a couple of months old. But it was Sunday morning, there were only a few other people there, and I was ready to leave if necessary.

@RiotDemon So how much of a chick flick is Adrift? Parts of the preview looked good and parts looked awful.

@sammydog01 yeah, they didn’t even sound like they were trying to calm the kid.

Hmm, what makes something a chick flick? It had romantic stuff in it… I guess half and half.

Dear Lord, did I cry.

@sammydog01 Also, if you don’t like reading movies, you might not like it. Significant portions of the movie are in Spanish with English subtitles. I didn’t have a problem with it but some might.

@msklzannie @sammydog01 it did? I don’t even remember any.

Thought about it. The small part in the market in Tahiti?

@msklzannie @RiotDemon I don’t mind reading but crying at movies is not my thing.

@RiotDemon @sammydog01 Whoops, wrong movie. I was thinking of Overboard.

Darnit, @UncleVinny, why did you make me confuse the 2 movies?

@msklzannie @RiotDemon @sammydog01 @UncleVinny Overboard made me cry too:

@msklzannie @RiotDemon @therealjrn @UncleVinny He was such a meanie.

@msklzannie I was starting to doubt my memory, haha.

Aww, just bring some tissues. It was really good. @sammydog01

@msklzannie @RiotDemon @sammydog01

I can’t understand how the parents could enjoy the film that way.

I know it’s tough being a parent of a really young child. But … If it were me I’d rather be at home with some video that take a screaming child to a film.

And that’s just for my own pace of mind. Not to mention that I couldn’t do that to other patrons.

@f00l I don’t know either. I’m thinking they just learn how to tune out their own kid.

I was at a Thai restaurant a few weeks ago, a group came in maybe ten minutes after me. At the beginning of their meal, this lady in the table of 8 was chastising everyone for being on their phones. Towards the middle of the meal, they are letting the 4 year old watch Thomas the train videos at a ridiculously loud volume. When I was getting ready to leave, half of them are on the phones passing photos around and telling the kid to eat. He’s still watching some annoying videos. He’s not gonna eat because tv is more important.

Just, ugh.

@narfcake Sgt. Stephen Wheeles huh?

@narfcake

No can see. : (

@f00l
Link to tweet.

@narfcake

Ah. Thx. Had seen the news story.

On my mobile browser I can’t see the pic nor click, or can i right click through to the linked item.

@Kidsandliz Oooohhhh, sorry. It’s this rain dance class I’ve been taking. For homework we gotta ruin garage sales in 10 states.

@UncleVinny Well pick different states. You have picked mine 2 weekends in a row. You do know that there are 50 states. Right?

@Kidsandliz @UncleVinny

What about denial and confusion?

Oh, and I still don’t believe that there is such a place called Kansas.

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@Barney @ruouttaurmind @narfcake @f00l

This was still never fully settled in my mind.

@Barney @f00l @Kidsandliz @narfcake @PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind I mean… sure, you could be right. But if people are going to manage a gigantic conspiracy wherein Kansas doesn’t really exist…they have weird hobbies.

@Barney @f00l @Kidsandliz @narfcake @ruouttaurmind @UncleVinny

Alternatively, maintaining and spreading the belief that a place called Kansas exists, is an older hobby.

@Barney @f00l @Kidsandliz @PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind @UncleVinny
The pengiunshirtwoot rejectionator said the US is fictional.
https://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry/57446/not-in-kansas-anymore
https://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry/57495/not-in-kansas-anymore

@Barney @Kidsandliz @narfcake @PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind @UncleVinny

@pengiunshirtwootrejectionator

Can TPTB arrange for a greatly increased maximum character count limit for Meh usernames, please?

@Barney @f00l @narfcake @PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind @UncleVinny
My niece swears Kansas exists. She went to school there. She plans to move back there when she gets out of grad school. If it really doesn’t exist then how will family figure out how to get there to go visit? In what dimension was she when she was there before and will be in when she goes back?

@Barney @Kidsandliz @narfcake @PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind @UncleVinny

I hear there are Deadly Deserts involved. And wiards who exaggerate their own credentials. And real witches.

/giphy “follow the yellow brick road”

@Barney @f00l @Kidsandliz @narfcake @ruouttaurmind @UncleVinny

I prefer desserts to deserts.

PS now it says ping pong sized hail (1.5") and 25 more minutes to go until the worst of this storm has passed. Unblame for the fact that I still have power and interent (but that is the only unblame you are getting so far). Radar for what is yet to come doesn’t look very pretty.

Well sirens are off but there is more nasty crap due in about 50 minutes. It rained hard enough maybe the bugs are off my windshield. That would be an unblame and also an unblame since there are some branches on the ground in the parkinglot but none on my car (which is not under the trees for exactly that reason).

@Kidsandliz

I’m a tad jealous. I enjoy stormy weather.

@PlacidPenguin I like it too under certain circumstances. Part of this storm does/did not include those circumstance. And I don’t have a porch to sit on (preferably in a porch swing) to watch the storm. Although schooners and storms can be fun too (presuming a few things/conditions exist related to safety that is).

OK goat you are off the hook. Back to our regular programming with just ordinary, garden variety rain now. I must say though you took long enough. At your next class ask them what dance you have to do to make it stop!!!

@Kidsandliz When the weather was too wet/too dry, there were 2 particular hymns we would sing at church. If it was too wet: Heavenly Sunshine. Too dry?: Showers of Blessing. They always seemed to work. My dad used to type up the bulletin and often chose the hymns.

@Kidsandliz good point. In driver’s ed they teach you about the brake before they teach you about the accelerator…

@f00l

@f00l @mfladd

@f00l @mfladd

@f00l mini-thunderstorms are my specialty! It’s gonna be on a quiz next week I think.

@Kidsandliz Sorry! My rain dance teacher emailed us and said we could get, like, 20 bonus points and a shiny gold star if we did some extra practice this weekend. I’m a sucker for shiny gold stars.

@UncleVinny I have it on good authority this is the star you will be getting if you do it again

@mfladd

@mfladd

If it is in good shape, and if you or your family actually use it, you will owe some very serious UNBLAME.

Congrats! Hope it doesn’t just wind up in the garage for the next few years!

@f00l It was in amazing shape (2016). Well taken care of. Even had keel tape. 12’ - total weight 41 pds! I hope it is an unblame! I have the canoe for the kids, but that is way to heavy for my use most of the time.
But I couldn’t even negotiate - ugh. What is wrong with me?

@mfladd

I usually don’t try to get a greater “deal” if something is already an amazing deal, and it’s clearly a private sale from someone not in the biz.

I suppose I have some serious limits in my practice of being a “full-on, full-time asshole”.

I’m clearly not a pro.

Perhaps your aren’t, either.

I’d blame the Goat for that shortcoming, if I were you.

@mfladd

But I couldn’t even negotiate - ugh. What is wrong with me?

How much time do you have?

@PlacidPenguin Tell it to the hand.

@f00l I do! I did! Blame!!!

thanks to everyone who had a good reason to tag me in this thread, but didn’t, thus letting me enjoy catching up on a few episodes of The Expanse with some friends without being molested by email alerts! You’re the real heroes here, and I salute you.

@UncleVinny I purposefully didn’t tag you because you’re suppose to check it regularly.
Hope you liked to Expanse. A little late to the party aren’t you?

@mfladd see? I’ve been checking now and then, but wasn’t sure that was the drill. There’s no “goat duties”checklist, or if there is nobody gave me a copy. Anyhoo, I’m a bad goat! This much is certain.

We started watching back in season one, and we have been kind of clumpy is keeping up. Lately we’ve been watching two episodes of season three at a time. We just finished episode 6. I was pretty worried there for a sec that Bobbie was gonna die. I can’t even tell you what a huge crush I have on her.

So yeah, we are behind. But I watch one “modern” show per year, more or less, so it’s kind of amazing that I’m watching anything at all. A few years ago it was Boardwalk Empire, “my only show”. If I watch more than one, my life quickly fills up with TV and then I’m angry all the time at what a cultural sewer modern life is, etc etc

Ok wellllllll now I’m just ranting, but anyway I’m glad Bobbie didn’t get eaten by the protomolecule.

@mfladd Yeah, yeah, but you can still face yourself in the mirror.

@sammydog01 haha. Was the last time you used it around Christmas?

@RiotDemon Probably.

@f00l imma butt-er

@mfladd the goat urges everyone to move to Seattle, where it’s a civilized 65 degrees today.

@mfladd @UncleVinny Brrr

@mfladd Agree.
/giphy The temperature is too damn high!

@msklzannie
/giphy screwdriver

@msklzannie @sammydog01 turns out, all that’s in there is gloves. Sorry!

@mfladd terribly wrong, terribly schmong! It’s a wonder anything ever goes right in this, the befuddledest of all possible worlds. Just be glad you haven’t spontaneously burst into flames!

@UncleVinny I don’t need your philosophical jibber jabber. Come fix my fucking hole!

It’s an old car I only use for certain things. I am considering doing it the half-ass way. By using bondo mesh and going under and around the roof rack and then sealing it. Last asshole tried tar and duct tape. Fucking people from Virginia!

@mfladd @UncleVinny Hey, Virginia is for lovers, not auto repair specialists.

@mfladd
It’s @UncleVinny 's fault that you didn’t think of just using Clear and/or Black Gorilla tape. There’s also ‘self-adhesive membrane’ like Henry Blueskin (usually for sealing insulation around ducts/pipes or other applications).
If you can get a piece of sheet metal under the roof rack support (to spread the load), I’m sure the tape or membrane can hold it in place.

@mfladd I’ll fix that dadblasted hole, your little red wagon, and your little dog, too!

/image hushabye now

@compunaut This is my thought. If I can spread Bondo on a piece of metal mesh, I’ll fit it up and against the roof rack - and then continue Bondo’ing the hole on either side. Then I will just seal the groove of the roofs racks against the roof. It’s not a perfect fix, but it doesn’t have to be with this beast. It just has to stop leaking and rusting. I’ll will not even go into fixing a couple of the wheels wells yet. I am pretty handy, but this type of work is new to me
I might post a pic and ask for help here.

@compunaut @mfladd I had a rusting roof on the ghetto van (had it until it permanently died at 25 years and 3 months old). I’d sand the roof on a regular basis, tape newspaper over the windows, wait until a windless day and spray gray rustoleum on it. Van was light blue, then really faded, and unless you really looked it blended right in. Also when I was teaching in Idaho a student with a vendetta went down a row of faculty cars and used who knows what to stab holes in the sides of the cars. Ghetto van was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got stabbed too. I filled that hole with silicone sealant (overlapping the body a bit and sticking a bent hairpin in the hole to kind of smear the stuff around the edges on the inside and then backfilled the pinhole and 9 years later, when the ghetto van when to the junk yard in the sky, there still wasn’t any rust around the stab wound. As long as you don’t care about pretty, this is practical.

@aetris My pleasure! I was a spotty goat…but I’m glad to have provided some distraction.

@duodec nest of vipers, more like!

@Kidsandliz I’ll allow it! The goat lives on! Long may he bleat! Hot toddies for all the regulars, barkeep!

@Kidsandliz @UncleVinny i blame you goat for picking a hot drink it is like 100 degree here. I want something cold.

@CaptAmehrican @Kidsandliz barkeep! My fussy friend over here demands a cold hot toddie. Or…a hot cold toddie? Maybe just serve up a pint of A/C runoff? Heyyyyyy, sounds like an idea for an episode of Drinking Terrible with Meh!

@CaptAmehrican @UncleVinny As long as it isn’t bilge water. Serve it hot then immediately put ice in it. Voila! Problem solved. You are welcome.

@Kidsandliz @UncleVinny A rum runner or maybe a dark and stormy would be nice

@CaptAmehrican On a totally different topic, I finally unearthed the stuff to send you for winning the my goat contest prize - about umm, 10 months ago. Likely not to be send though until later this month. Still @UncleVinny’s fault as I still see the goat icon by his name.

@CaptAmehrican @Kidsandliz on a totally different different topic, I’ve had enough coffee today that I don’t mind being unfairly blamed for another goat’s misdeeds. (Because, no matter what The Man says, my goathood is now a thing of the past.)

@Kidsandliz @UncleVinny you are still the goat. Until you get turned upside down and we get @pooltoywolf turned into @pooltoygoat.

@CaptAmehrican @Kidsandliz @UncleVinny But I like being a pooltoy wolf!

@PooltoyWolf
/image goat wolf

@Kidsandliz OwO

@Kidsandliz @PooltoyWolf looks like you are a pooltoygoat

@CaptAmehrican @Kidsandliz @PooltoyWolf Finally! This means that I still hold the longest-suffering goat trophy. I blame the new goat for the drama.

@CaptAmehrican @Kidsandliz Oh no, would you look at that! It finally happened. I guess I should prepare my daily post regimen :B

@Kidsandliz Actually, I just last week watched a CGI animated film from 2016 called ‘Sheep & Wolves’, and the protagonist was pretty much this.

@OldCatLady

If one of the things you need to do, involves painting a shed, I know a penguin who’d do it.

What makes this offer better is that you’d have a choice of lilac, mauve, lavender, and amethyst.

Though additional options may become available in the near future.

@OldCatLady haha, I’m reading this at 9:29pm pacific time, so I’m shifting the blame to @pooltoywolf, our glorious new goat!

@OldCatLady @UncleVinny Let the blame game begin!

@OldCatLady @PooltoyWolf

@OldCatLady @UncleVinny Not gonna lie, one of my favorite songs!

@OldCatLady @PooltoyWolf thanks for not lying!!!

@OldCatLady @PooltoyWolf @UncleVinny

@llangley @OldCatLady @UncleVinny Aaaaa that’s adorable, where’d you find it?