2013? My profile says I joined in 2014… which is odd because I thought Meh was only a four or five months old when I found it.
So now I don’t know if meh was older than I thought when I arrived, or if I have an old account that I forgot about. (I used to have about a dozen email accounts instead of the two main ones I maintain now, so used to accidentally end up with multiple accounts on places all over the web)
My earliest meh mehmories are of speaker docks and knives just about every day. Was Meh already a year old when going through it’s speaker dock and knives fetish?
@OnionSoup Mediocre was up and running for a number of months before Meh opened up.
Yeah, those were good times. We’d sit around the campfire and talk about pretty much nothing and wonder if there really was going to be a website that was going to sell something. Or were we being played for fools? I still ask myself that.
That’ll be December 2025 for me…it all started with a crockpot (that I still own, use all the time and still works GREAT!) and the no-brainer $5 mehembership fee Vs. shipping as I figured I’d for sure end up ordering something else that month.
Had no idea it’d turn into what it has and I still absolutely adore this place.
Someone at Meh should fix my VMP initiation date though, because I was VMP from the start. VMP was closed to new memberships in 2019 so it was impossible to join at that time.
I should probably cancel my VMP because most years I probably spend more on that membership than I spend on actual products. Meh.
I guess our profiles should say “Constantly-maintained-without-lapse-VMP since 20XX” But that’s a bit wordy. That tag detail is pulled from the billing system, which gets its info from the last time the VMP/membership was “created.” A lapse of service for even a day (hell, even a matter of minutes) will cause the next membership charge to be listed as a new “membership creation.” So I guess at some point your card was declined or some other calamity took place that caused a gap in payment and thus a gap service, and the date listed is a marker of that happening. All this is just to say, “sorry, can’t be helped.”
Wow, we’re a bunch of OG old farts in this thread.
I’ve been here since 10/2014, but I let my VMP lapse long ago… (sniff )
I kind of miss the knives/speakerdock days though. I still have all the knives I bought here, but a large JBL speakerdock I had forever crapped out at some point. It saw many years of service though.
One of my favorite knives was the (in)famous Ken Onion turd knife, the wrinkle!
@robson speaking of turd knives there is an old Inuit story of a man getting lost in the Arctic with no provisions and only sled dogs for company.
How the legend goes, the man had a bowel movement and shaped his feces into the shape of a knife, as the cold arctic air froze it, it became a solid knife… a real life turd knife, and used it to slaughter his dog for food.
A danish explorer is also said to have escaped an icy tomb using a frozen poop knife.
Unfortunately, sounds like both stories are lies. Several scientists have tried to replicate the fables poop knives and failed. Apparently if you deep freeze feces and try to use it as a knife, it only leaves a brown stain on whatever you try to cut. So sad…
Sorry, thats a major tangent, but fun story so I thought I’d share… lol.
@Kyeh@robson yeah… what amuses me, is not the stories but that multiple scientific teams over the years have studied the feasibility of frozen poop knives.
Oh jeez. I just went and looked at my profile and realized I’ve been a member 9 years. While I’d love to say I regretted all my meh purchases, some of them have actually been worth it.
My meh-related CSB was that when I went to the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, my friend and I ran into one of the fellows from the pre-Amazon woot! wearing a Wine.woot! tshirt. We chatted him up a little, and apparently, that was when they were kicking off the wine sales side of the house.
Well, Amazon later bought woot!, and as I understand it, some of the woot! originals started meh. I suppose that wine.woot! is the precursor to casemates.
The more you know…
Nine years since I joined Tue, Sep 9th 2014. I wasn’t here from the start, no one told me, but I didn’t sign up when I started checking daily either. In the beginning I clicked the button when I thought the item being sold was Meh.
Yesterday I forgot to click and lost my streak
Yesterday (9/12) was also my 10 year mediocre.com-versary.
Oh wow I actually accomplished something maybe I guess.
/giphy accomplished
@f00l But you’re not a Kickstarter?
You’ve created considerably more topics in your 10 years!
@Kyeh
I received the kickstarter email
I hate email. Esp Corp email.
Hate hate hate.
I didn’t read the email.
Meeee stooopid
/giphy stupid
@f00l Awww.
Congrats on your ten years! I think…
2013? My profile says I joined in 2014… which is odd because I thought Meh was only a four or five months old when I found it.
So now I don’t know if meh was older than I thought when I arrived, or if I have an old account that I forgot about. (I used to have about a dozen email accounts instead of the two main ones I maintain now, so used to accidentally end up with multiple accounts on places all over the web)
My earliest meh mehmories are of speaker docks and knives just about every day. Was Meh already a year old when going through it’s speaker dock and knives fetish?
@OnionSoup Mediocre was up and running for a number of months before Meh opened up.
Yeah, those were good times. We’d sit around the campfire and talk about pretty much nothing and wonder if there really was going to be a website that was going to sell something. Or were we being played for fools? I still ask myself that.
Congrats!!
I have no doubts I’ll make mine.
That’ll be December 2025 for me…it all started with a crockpot (that I still own, use all the time and still works GREAT!) and the no-brainer $5 mehembership fee Vs. shipping as I figured I’d for sure end up ordering something else that month.
Had no idea it’d turn into what it has and I still absolutely adore this place.
/giphy condolences
Someone at Meh should fix my VMP initiation date though, because I was VMP from the start. VMP was closed to new memberships in 2019 so it was impossible to join at that time.
I should probably cancel my VMP because most years I probably spend more on that membership than I spend on actual products. Meh.
@uscpsycho Congrats on the milestone!
I guess our profiles should say “Constantly-maintained-without-lapse-VMP since 20XX” But that’s a bit wordy. That tag detail is pulled from the billing system, which gets its info from the last time the VMP/membership was “created.” A lapse of service for even a day (hell, even a matter of minutes) will cause the next membership charge to be listed as a new “membership creation.” So I guess at some point your card was declined or some other calamity took place that caused a gap in payment and thus a gap service, and the date listed is a marker of that happening. All this is just to say, “sorry, can’t be helped.”
@ExtraMedium @uscpsycho
Still too wordy.
TL;DR Meh.
@ExtraMedium @phendrick @uscpsycho I like using all the words.
@ExtraMedium @uscpsycho
Yup, what happened to mine. Forgot the old card expired (or was replaced due to it being stolen). So lost the longer date.
Now if I could just remember to click the ‘Meh’ button daily! I can’t get past 76 days in a row!
Wow, we’re a bunch of OG old farts in this thread.
I’ve been here since 10/2014, but I let my VMP lapse long ago… (sniff
)
I kind of miss the knives/speakerdock days though. I still have all the knives I bought here, but a large JBL speakerdock I had forever crapped out at some point. It saw many years of service though.
One of my favorite knives was the (in)famous Ken Onion turd knife, the wrinkle!
@robson That really is ugly.
@Kyeh True, but it’s actually a really high quality knife with superior steel that sharpens razor sharp and holds its edge well.
It compares well with some much fancier (and expensive) Spyderco knives I have.
I blame Meh for sending me down a knife rabbit hole…
@robson My brother used to collect knives; I wonder if he has one of those …
@robson speaking of turd knives there is an old Inuit story of a man getting lost in the Arctic with no provisions and only sled dogs for company.
How the legend goes, the man had a bowel movement and shaped his feces into the shape of a knife, as the cold arctic air froze it, it became a solid knife… a real life turd knife, and used it to slaughter his dog for food.
A danish explorer is also said to have escaped an icy tomb using a frozen poop knife.
Unfortunately, sounds like both stories are lies. Several scientists have tried to replicate the fables poop knives and failed. Apparently if you deep freeze feces and try to use it as a knife, it only leaves a brown stain on whatever you try to cut. So sad…
Sorry, thats a major tangent, but fun story so I thought I’d share… lol.
@OnionSoup @robson
Ew. I’m just as glad they’re not true because I got snagged on him killing his dog …
@Kyeh @robson yeah… what amuses me, is not the stories but that multiple scientific teams over the years have studied the feasibility of frozen poop knives.
@Kyeh @OnionSoup @robson
Federally funded no doubt!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Kyeh @OnionSoup @robson Some of those studies may have resulted from the need to defeat boredom in a polar-region research station.
Oh wow, I forgot about that. Looks like I’ve also been around for a decade. (When did I get old?!?)
I was a Kickstarter from 9/11/2013, so I also just “celebrated” my 10 year meh-anniversary. VMP since July 2014.
Oh jeez. I just went and looked at my profile and realized I’ve been a member 9 years. While I’d love to say I regretted all my meh purchases, some of them have actually been worth it.
uscpsycho are you a Trojan or a General?
@poids Trojan
@uscpsycho Me too.
My meh-related CSB was that when I went to the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, my friend and I ran into one of the fellows from the pre-Amazon woot! wearing a Wine.woot! tshirt. We chatted him up a little, and apparently, that was when they were kicking off the wine sales side of the house.
Well, Amazon later bought woot!, and as I understand it, some of the woot! originals started meh. I suppose that wine.woot! is the precursor to casemates.
The more you know…
/CSB
Got two more years to hit the decade mark. Congrats on your longevity!
Nine years since I joined Tue, Sep 9th 2014. I wasn’t here from the start, no one told me, but I didn’t sign up when I started checking daily either. In the beginning I clicked the button when I thought the item being sold was Meh.
Yesterday I forgot to click and lost my streak
@callow Oh, bummer!