My cousin and her four kids are here for a couple months, until the school year starts. Yesterday, I mowed my quarter-acre, took the dog for a hike, got back and somehow ended up driving them all to a splash pad across town in my car, which has no air conditioning. I get home, help get the brats in bed, and then my mom wants to talk to me. Finally get off the phone, barely make the turnover here, and see a Fuko, which is a crap cherry on the day. All I can say is, at least it wasn’t the friggin’ pseudo-slap bracelet fitness bands.
Added bit, somehow, I ended up babysitting today, so I threw in Black Panther, since they hadn’t seen it. All the got was that “Killmonger said s word while choking an old woman,” which is what two of them said when their mom came back. Thanks, kiddos. Keep this up and I won’t have to watch you again.
@brainmist It’s a solid reason. CenturyLink sucks pretty badly. My parents are stuck at 896Kbps/384Kbps service with them and every time they call and complain, they keep pointing out that they have a waiting list as their DSLAM is full and if they want to cancel they’ll never get back in…
Meanwhile, I’ve shown them that T-Mobile can pull down 18Mbps at their house and do it for about the same money.
I guess I’m feeling a little let down. No new shirt and I really missed the meh-rathon. Giving away the extra Fukos was pretty nice. I don’t know… There’s just something missing from the birthday celebration.
Exhausted because I’m an idiot who can’t seem to go to bed at a reasonable time. I think it’s because four years ago I was conditioned to always be up at midnight to check meh.
Tired, grouchy, irritable. I am supposed to be on vacation. That did not work as planned. I stayed up to watch turnover time to see the fuko. As I am a robot, I could not purchase one.
Robots do not do well with original ideas for naming things so another fail there. I thought of a couple answers that were decent and possibly clever only to find someone else posted while I was brainstorming.
Cosplay is probably beyond a robot’s capability. I am not seeing anything worth taking a picture and posting so far.
A cake! Now that I can do. Husband will get over heating up the house when he gets to eat cake. Oh, you are looking for fun and creativity. Still working on that.
Art design. Back to the fun and creativity. Robots are not good at that sort of thing.
So it’s a new day. I stayed up late again. I need to get moving and go to work. I have several problems waiting for me to fix leftover from yesterday.
I want to be on vacation. I want to sleep in. I want to be human. As my father told me when I was young, how does it feel to want.
@speediedelivery Don’t feel too bad - you have plenty of company in the “loser” group. I can’t even make a cake because I am at mom’s and there is no cake pan nor anything else to bake a cake here. I suggested 4 or 5 names and none got chosen either… Of course the odds were against us - only about 3% of the people were picked in the name game - on the other hand those odds were better than getting a fuko…
About “odds” - A retired plumber, spending $400/week on tickets told me (after I spent some time trying to put the odds into something into a more understandable context - and that was back when the VA lottery odds were “good” at 1 in 7.1M - making an assumption you couldn’t make so the math could be done which is that a different set of numbers won each time he could either live to something like 62,000+ years old at $2/week - one ticket each drawing - to be sure he won or spend $7000+/week - forgotten the exact numbers but it was, I think closer to 8000 than 7000 - on tickets to be sure he won in 20 years… of course if you had that to spend you didn’t “need” to play the lottery) - that it doesn’t matter how bad the odds were; when he felt lucky that changed the odds. So feel lucky and go buy $5 worth of tickets, maybe your odds of getting a winning ticket will be better then than winning a fuko or something on meh.
@speediedelivery Pancakes are cake. Have you thought of decorating a cake of soap? I had all these glorious ideas around 2:30 this morning when I couldn’t sleep…ways to decorate a cake that didn’t involve the oven.
@dave@Kidsandliz Ah, but it did say that if two fukos were destined for the same address, there was a possiblity that what would arrive would be garbage.
“Over the course of the next few days, we will be giving away more Fukos (again, see write-up) which means you could buy one and also win one in the forums. We may, however, send literal trash if we notice more than one going to the same place. You’ve been warned.”
@lisaviolet That is amazing! Totally not happening here. Not a pancake fan and wow on the talent to create those.
When I was growing up, Mom would have pancakes for dinner every once in awhile. I woyld volunteer to cook them so she would not notice I was not eating. (If you didn’t eat dinner you were not allowed snacks later.) She likely knew but didn’t say anything. I should ask her.
@dave@Kidsandliz@lisaviolet my ass-umption was they meant if you bought more than one, you risked getting garbage. so after I got lucky at 8am, I did not try again at 4pm.
I think buyers still can “win” a fuko through the various contests w/o repercussions.
“Over the course of the next few days, we will be giving away more Fukos (again, see write-up) which means you could buy one and also win one in the forums. We may, however, send literal trash if we notice more than one going to the same place. You’ve been warned.”
My take is it includes all chances. If you buy one and get one in the forums, that’s going to the same place. Do not need more trash. Huh uh. Not me.
@lisaviolet I see what you’re saying. I guess I was reading how I thought it should work and not how it was written.
but it seems “unfair” that being singled out for a prize(s) for making an exceptional contribution(s) to a contest thread(s) could end up costing you.
of course, when the “prize” tends toward “junk” that you may throw away, is getting junk someone else already threw away that big of a step down?
no matter.
paying $5 for garbage is not significantly different (to me) than paying $4 for a stone dead MINI COMPACT “TRAVEL MASSAGER”.
in fact, it’s better.
garbage I can throw out instead of trying to repair, lol.
@ekw I got the last fuko and disappointing didn’t begin to describe my feelings. I’ve gotten spoiled over the years, got some pretty cool stuff.
There were four or five pairs of Meh socks, which I kept and the entire rest of the box I took over to my vet’s office for the kids there to have. They liked what was in it, so that was good. At least it’s not gathering dust in the other room.
One fuko had a talking doll, some comedian (do not recall who) that I didn’t consider funny at all. That went directly into the trash. And from the forum comments, I wasn’t the only one who felt like that.
The only reason I got one this time, I hadn’t planned on trying, but my husband needed me to take a payment from a customer and my computer was on while I waited for his call. It was close to 1:00 (pacific) and I figured what the hell, I’ll try.
If I hadn’t been forced to do my job, I wouldn’t have gotten one.
@lisaviolet the first one I won (July 2016 11 - birthday version) was amusing. nothing great, but some entertaining stuff.the 2nd one (September 2016 12, morning addition) was a pretty big step down. A Miller Lite baseball cap is the only thing I can recall for certain. maybe a shower curtain and a Halloween costume for a (small) dog?
but it’s not like I wasn’t warned.
Remember, “fukobukuro” means “unlucky bag”, and we take that translation very seriously
Heed our warning: you’ll bitterly regret spending a dime on this
If this garbage were worth anything, we’d sell it the normal way
and
An unlucky bag of discards whose value, if any, is all in your head
Difficult to get but it’s really kind of a “survivors envy the dead” situation
If your house was a small suburban municipality and you wasted any of your budget on this, that guy from the local news would be chasing you from the city council meeting to your car
so, expecting anything decent or worthwhile seems kind of foolish.
Another had a Neato Botvac, pet version. Brand new.
One time I got “the letter” in my box. The letter that warns you that more is coming. And it did. Leather biker jacket, vest, knives, a hundred little American flags, it was pretty fun.
So, that first couple of years I was pretty spoiled and I admit it. Duplicate Star Wars figures just don’t rock my boat. I don’t even know who they are.
@lisaviolet right, the old ones were “better”
sounds so hipster/cranky old fart.
the two I won were 2 years after the kickstarter.
and now this one will be 2 years after that.
@PlacidPenguin I was always happy to “win” one, disappointed when I failed to “win”.
when it arrives, it’s sort of like a $5 scratch-off lottery ticket.
you hope you hit the jackpot, but there is a high likelihood you’ve thrown away $5.
@PlacidPenguin I have wondered on occasion:
if Meh/Mediocre Labs really wants to build a community, which is the preferred customer/user
someone like me, who buys a fair amount of stuff, but rarely posts or participates (last 2 days are pretty “out of character” for me)
or
someone (or some penguin) who buys much less stuff, but is a solid community member/forum participant?
@PlacidPenguin well, I get the impression that they are more interested in community, and the sales are just gravy.
or perhaps that’s just a clever ploy.
maybe the whole thing is just a delivery system for a meth lab trying to go global. like Madrigal Electromotive, only smaller.
all I really know is that I buy way too much crap here that I don’t need, but seem to think that I want when I wake up at 2:30am (eastern), pee, and check to see what’s for sale.
@Siemionko I’m also excited to be a lucky 50. I’ve never managed a fuko or any other previous incarnation of any bag on this or other sites. I’m not expecting much but getting mail is nice
I did get one Fuko, so I don’t feel totally left out, and there’s still the chance to get its successor; that being said, I actually felt some relief at not getting one this time. wth?
You know…I forgot that yesterday happened in Meh-land…I managed to get a last fuko on my own at 11pm Sunday…went to bed…had a full day that included travel w/ a toddler yesterday…and now back at work I realized that I had completely forgotten to check back in for the “fun and games”…meh…
Why do I feel like the fourth option is in fact what happened to one of the Mediocre employees?
My cousin and her four kids are here for a couple months, until the school year starts. Yesterday, I mowed my quarter-acre, took the dog for a hike, got back and somehow ended up driving them all to a splash pad across town in my car, which has no air conditioning. I get home, help get the brats in bed, and then my mom wants to talk to me. Finally get off the phone, barely make the turnover here, and see a Fuko, which is a crap cherry on the day. All I can say is, at least it wasn’t the friggin’ pseudo-slap bracelet fitness bands.
Added bit, somehow, I ended up babysitting today, so I threw in Black Panther, since they hadn’t seen it. All the got was that “Killmonger said s word while choking an old woman,” which is what two of them said when their mom came back. Thanks, kiddos. Keep this up and I won’t have to watch you again.
Wait…there was a party? WTF! I am never invited to anything.
Livin’ the dream
I’m feeling tired, stressed over our upcoming move, and a little queasy, because all I’ve had to eat today is a piece of birthday cake.
I have yet to get a fuko. I blame CenturyLink.
@brainmist It’s a solid reason. CenturyLink sucks pretty badly. My parents are stuck at 896Kbps/384Kbps service with them and every time they call and complain, they keep pointing out that they have a waiting list as their DSLAM is full and if they want to cancel they’ll never get back in…
Meanwhile, I’ve shown them that T-Mobile can pull down 18Mbps at their house and do it for about the same money.
A tiny bit bummed I don’t have any new shirts on the way that I got to choose a size for.
@sammydog01 I’m really sorry I missed the Fuko shirt last Mehrathon.
@lisaviolet You here? Go buy one!
@lisaviolet @sammydog01
I was trying to remember who made that post.
I almost tagged the wrong mehmber.
@PlacidPenguin @sammydog01
Got it last night! Yay! Didn’t even hesitate. It’s mine!
I guess I’m feeling a little let down. No new shirt and I really missed the meh-rathon. Giving away the extra Fukos was pretty nice. I don’t know… There’s just something missing from the birthday celebration.
@Barney I miss the periscopes. And zoo trips. And lunch at Sonic.
@Barney @sammydog01 @JonT
Good times.
It’s been a slice of heaven.
Exhausted because I’m an idiot who can’t seem to go to bed at a reasonable time. I think it’s because four years ago I was conditioned to always be up at midnight to check meh.
Tired, grouchy, irritable. I am supposed to be on vacation. That did not work as planned. I stayed up to watch turnover time to see the fuko. As I am a robot, I could not purchase one.
Robots do not do well with original ideas for naming things so another fail there. I thought of a couple answers that were decent and possibly clever only to find someone else posted while I was brainstorming.
Cosplay is probably beyond a robot’s capability. I am not seeing anything worth taking a picture and posting so far.
A cake! Now that I can do. Husband will get over heating up the house when he gets to eat cake. Oh, you are looking for fun and creativity. Still working on that.
Art design. Back to the fun and creativity. Robots are not good at that sort of thing.
So it’s a new day. I stayed up late again. I need to get moving and go to work. I have several problems waiting for me to fix leftover from yesterday.
I want to be on vacation. I want to sleep in. I want to be human. As my father told me when I was young, how does it feel to want.
@speediedelivery Don’t feel too bad - you have plenty of company in the “loser” group. I can’t even make a cake because I am at mom’s and there is no cake pan nor anything else to bake a cake here. I suggested 4 or 5 names and none got chosen either… Of course the odds were against us - only about 3% of the people were picked in the name game - on the other hand those odds were better than getting a fuko…
About “odds” - A retired plumber, spending $400/week on tickets told me (after I spent some time trying to put the odds into something into a more understandable context - and that was back when the VA lottery odds were “good” at 1 in 7.1M - making an assumption you couldn’t make so the math could be done which is that a different set of numbers won each time he could either live to something like 62,000+ years old at $2/week - one ticket each drawing - to be sure he won or spend $7000+/week - forgotten the exact numbers but it was, I think closer to 8000 than 7000 - on tickets to be sure he won in 20 years… of course if you had that to spend you didn’t “need” to play the lottery) - that it doesn’t matter how bad the odds were; when he felt lucky that changed the odds. So feel lucky and go buy $5 worth of tickets, maybe your odds of getting a winning ticket will be better then than winning a fuko or something on meh.
@speediedelivery Pancakes are cake. Have you thought of decorating a cake of soap? I had all these glorious ideas around 2:30 this morning when I couldn’t sleep…ways to decorate a cake that didn’t involve the oven.
I can’t play, I got a fuko.
@Kidsandliz I don’t feel bad. The question asked so I answered. It is all in fun or why bother peeking in.
@lisaviolet there was nothing in the rules that said you couldn’t get a second one… @dave (or whomever at meh) - rule clarification here?
@lisaviolet Play anyway! No, I had not thought outside the box. I have always been bad at creative stuff. I am ok with it, I can do other things.
@dave @Kidsandliz Ah, but it did say that if two fukos were destined for the same address, there was a possiblity that what would arrive would be garbage.
“Over the course of the next few days, we will be giving away more Fukos (again, see write-up) which means you could buy one and also win one in the forums. We may, however, send literal trash if we notice more than one going to the same place. You’ve been warned.”
I’m not taking a chance.
@dave @Kidsandliz @lisaviolet You could do something crafty and say you don’t want a prize. You’re too talented to just skip the contests.
@speediedelivery Being in a heat wave right now, the box I’m thinking outside of is that hot box in the kitchen.
The mind traveled to this (not ever gonna happen in this house)…
I think you need to see this. @cythwulf
@lisaviolet That is amazing! Totally not happening here. Not a pancake fan and wow on the talent to create those.
When I was growing up, Mom would have pancakes for dinner every once in awhile. I woyld volunteer to cook them so she would not notice I was not eating. (If you didn’t eat dinner you were not allowed snacks later.) She likely knew but didn’t say anything. I should ask her.
@dave @Kidsandliz @lisaviolet my ass-umption was they meant if you bought more than one, you risked getting garbage. so after I got lucky at 8am, I did not try again at 4pm.
I think buyers still can “win” a fuko through the various contests w/o repercussions.
@dave @ekw @Kidsandliz
“Over the course of the next few days, we will be giving away more Fukos (again, see write-up) which means you could buy one and also win one in the forums. We may, however, send literal trash if we notice more than one going to the same place. You’ve been warned.”
My take is it includes all chances. If you buy one and get one in the forums, that’s going to the same place. Do not need more trash. Huh uh. Not me.
@lisaviolet I see what you’re saying. I guess I was reading how I thought it should work and not how it was written.
but it seems “unfair” that being singled out for a prize(s) for making an exceptional contribution(s) to a contest thread(s) could end up costing you.
of course, when the “prize” tends toward “junk” that you may throw away, is getting junk someone else already threw away that big of a step down?
no matter.
paying $5 for garbage is not significantly different (to me) than paying $4 for a stone dead MINI COMPACT “TRAVEL MASSAGER”.
in fact, it’s better.
garbage I can throw out instead of trying to repair, lol.
@ekw I got the last fuko and disappointing didn’t begin to describe my feelings. I’ve gotten spoiled over the years, got some pretty cool stuff.
There were four or five pairs of Meh socks, which I kept and the entire rest of the box I took over to my vet’s office for the kids there to have. They liked what was in it, so that was good. At least it’s not gathering dust in the other room.
One fuko had a talking doll, some comedian (do not recall who) that I didn’t consider funny at all. That went directly into the trash. And from the forum comments, I wasn’t the only one who felt like that.
The only reason I got one this time, I hadn’t planned on trying, but my husband needed me to take a payment from a customer and my computer was on while I waited for his call. It was close to 1:00 (pacific) and I figured what the hell, I’ll try.
If I hadn’t been forced to do my job, I wouldn’t have gotten one.
@lisaviolet the first one I won (July 2016 11 - birthday version) was amusing. nothing great, but some entertaining stuff.the 2nd one (September 2016 12, morning addition) was a pretty big step down. A Miller Lite baseball cap is the only thing I can recall for certain. maybe a shower curtain and a Halloween costume for a (small) dog?
but it’s not like I wasn’t warned.
and
so, expecting anything decent or worthwhile seems kind of foolish.
@ekw True, but.
My kickstarter fuku had a brand new iPad mini.
Another had a Neato Botvac, pet version. Brand new.
One time I got “the letter” in my box. The letter that warns you that more is coming. And it did. Leather biker jacket, vest, knives, a hundred little American flags, it was pretty fun.
So, that first couple of years I was pretty spoiled and I admit it. Duplicate Star Wars figures just don’t rock my boat. I don’t even know who they are.
@ekw @lisaviolet I got a bunch of fukus and fukos and got mostly the basic stuff. So my standards are low. (I did get a cool fingerprinting kit once.)
@lisaviolet
That’s because those were from Fukus.
@ekw @lisaviolet @sammydog01
Isn’t being pessimistic about fukos actually being realistic?
This approach, I have found, is/was the healthiest way to buy them.
@ekw @lisaviolet @PlacidPenguin My first fuku was a birthday one and I got put in the oversold group. I cried a little. Now I’m better.
@lisaviolet right, the old ones were “better”
sounds so hipster/cranky old fart.
the two I won were 2 years after the kickstarter.
and now this one will be 2 years after that.
@PlacidPenguin I was always happy to “win” one, disappointed when I failed to “win”.
when it arrives, it’s sort of like a $5 scratch-off lottery ticket.
you hope you hit the jackpot, but there is a high likelihood you’ve thrown away $5.
@ekw @PlacidPenguin @sammydog01
/giphy Tell that to my heart
@ekw @lisaviolet @sammydog01
How about this: Next time any of you are tempted to buy junk, just send 50% of the value instead to my PayPal account.
Or in lieu of that, you could send me 45% of the original value in cash.
@ekw @PlacidPenguin @sammydog01
/giphy thumbs up
@ekw @lisaviolet @PlacidPenguin I should just put a dollar in a jar and buy a robot when it gets full.
@sammydog01
I like my idea better.
@PlacidPenguin @sammydog01 what do penguins do with money, besides buy stuff here?
@ekw @sammydog01
Wait. We’re supposed to BUY stuff here? Why didn’t anybody tell me?!?
@PlacidPenguin I have wondered on occasion:
if Meh/Mediocre Labs really wants to build a community, which is the preferred customer/user
someone like me, who buys a fair amount of stuff, but rarely posts or participates (last 2 days are pretty “out of character” for me)
or
someone (or some penguin) who buys much less stuff, but is a solid community member/forum participant?
it is a fascinating experiment, in any case.
@ekw
Just wait till you hear what I’ve bought…
@PlacidPenguin how will I hear? will there be a thread?
@ekw
Figure of speech.
@PlacidPenguin well, I get the impression that they are more interested in community, and the sales are just gravy.
or perhaps that’s just a clever ploy.
maybe the whole thing is just a delivery system for a meth lab trying to go global. like Madrigal Electromotive, only smaller.
all I really know is that I buy way too much crap here that I don’t need, but seem to think that I want when I wake up at 2:30am (eastern), pee, and check to see what’s for sale.
“Disappointed. I didn’t get a Fuko.”
Both halves are true, but they aren’t related.
Like it’s another day at work…
/giphy work a day
Feeling a little bit sleepy, but mostly just hungry.
I am pumped because I was one of the lucky 50 and I cannot WAIT for my bag of Meh-Suko/Fuko/FooGooMagoo
@Siemionko I’m also excited to be a lucky 50. I’ve never managed a fuko or any other previous incarnation of any bag on this or other sites. I’m not expecting much but getting mail is nice
feeling pretty mehsirable because i noticed that the days are getting shorter, the winter bear is coming…
I did get one Fuko, so I don’t feel totally left out, and there’s still the chance to get its successor; that being said, I actually felt some relief at not getting one this time. wth?
I am still a bit tired despite getting a decent night sleep.
as a Don, i’m Don. open up.
You know…I forgot that yesterday happened in Meh-land…I managed to get a last fuko on my own at 11pm Sunday…went to bed…had a full day that included travel w/ a toddler yesterday…and now back at work I realized that I had completely forgotten to check back in for the “fun and games”…meh…
@amehzinggrace There is supposed to be fun and games all week if I recall correctly…
@Kidsandliz oh good…I didn’t miss all the fun…yet…lol
Pumped! I didn’t get a Fuko