šµJingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Blamešµ (Dec 2019 Blame Thread)
11Ho, Ho, Ho Mehrry Mehmas.
Have yourself a Mehrry little Christmas, may all your blames be shared.
Just in time to round out the end of the year. Hanukkah blame? You got it. Kwanzaa blame? You got it. Winter blame? You got it. New yearās Eve blame? You got it.
Sorry @bleedmichigan
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Unblame.
Ordered pizza online with a 50% off coupon. When I show up to pay, it was running behind so they gave me another 50% off. Plus he said he liked my shirt.
So I got a pizza and some wings for $9. It was one minute late.
Score.
@RiotDemon but was it good pizza?
@bleedmichigan pizza was good. Wings were lacking so I was extra glad that I basically got them for free and then some.
Blame!
Iāve been busy.
I would apologize, but ā¦
@therealjrn is handling my apologies for me while I am dealing with off-forum PITA issues.
I apologize, in case @therealjrn let the forums down in this regard.
Well mine blame thread was way more eloquent @riotdemon
@bleedmichigan oops. I beat you by one minute.
@bleedmichigan @RiotDemon But not official- this has the volmod seal of approval.
Blame :I and friends of mine do stuff for lots of nonprofits. Every single one has their hand out for giving Tuesday. It is making me feel like such a scrooge
@CaptAmehrican
I suspect you do quite a bit of teeth-gritting, also, as mentioned elsewhere: a āgiftā to certain persons who are permanently part of your life.
Hey. Charity is charity. It counts!
/giphy charity

@f00l Often, maybe even mostly, when you talk using giphy it makes little sense.
@f00l But uh, my apologies for not understanding.
@therealjrn
Yes
Targeted and possibly amusing irrelevant or off-the-wall non-sense is a fav of mine.
/giphy nonsense

I apologize for failing to pre-announce your apology.
/giphy pre-

@f00l Iām sorry, I failed to anticipate your apology for not pre-apologizing. I do apologize for the oversight.
@therealjrn
Since I did not create a preview trailer for your latest apology, I owe you for that.
/giphy apology trailer

Unblame I laughed when this showed up as an Amazon suggested game
Goat Lords Game for Family, Adults, and Kids. Hilarious, Addictive, and Competitive Fun for Game Nights! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HQZ99US/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_mgR8DbWGC91JN
OK so your fault I had to move my blame and unblames from the day one thread over to hereā¦
Blame!! Someone left 7 puppies with their eyes still closed taped up in a box and left outside (it is in the low 40ās).
UNblame: A utility company person found them and brought them to the no kill shelter. I pulled in right after him to donate a bunch of blankets, one fleece one was pulled to cover them up. Was send to go get puppy milk. UNblame: Petsmart matched chewyās price so 11 bucks off a can of powered. UNblame: got back with the milk and helped bottle feed some extremely hungry puppies. Unblame: the no kill shelter found someone willing to take care of them until they are old enough to be in the shelter.
Goat Iād say you won that round if only counting unblames EXCEPT abandoning little babies trumps all the unblames.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy puppies

@Kidsandliz aaawww. Rhat sounds like an Amazon experience for you. Poor puppies.
@Kidsandliz oh Liz lucky you! That sounds wonderful to feed them! Also thank you for all you do for the animals!!
@Kidsandliz damn spell check. That was suppose to say amazing experience.
I guess I will blame @bleedingmichigan for my fat fingers and my phones inability to read my mind!
@tinamarie1974 No worries. While the goat canāt, apparently, read your mind. I did. (so watch out!! LOL).
@moonhat @tinamarie1974 I bottle fed my 18.5 year old cat from about 10 days old. Hadnāt done that since with any animal. Puppies, especially ones who hadnāt eaten in way too long, were easy to feed. They practically inhaled the milk. Glad I am not the one who is doing it until they are ready to be weaned though as they need fed every couple of hours and I like my sleep at night (grin). But yes they were snuggly little things who looked so blissfully happy once they were about 1/2 way though the bottle.
@Kidsandliz @moonhat I have had the opportunity to feed both a baby pig and baby tiger by bottle. Both pretty cool!! But never a puppy!!
Oh, actually the odd baby goat as well! There are a few attractions locally that have baby goats and for $1-$2 you can bottle feed them. But the goats are crazy. They all gang up on you, jumping, chewing your clothes, etc trying to get that bottle! Oh the competition, it can be a little overwhelming.
/giphy bottle feeding goat

@Kidsandliz oh in that case I should apologize. Who knows what you heard when you were reading my mind lol!!
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 that sounds heavenly!
@tinamarie1974 Donāt worry - Iāll only use what I heard for blackmail purposes. Otherwise Iāll never tell (smirk).
@moonhat @tinamarie1974 Now a baby tiger would be really cool. I once got to hold one - about the size of a full grown cat only with a really huge head. He fell asleep in my lap so the owner told me to go ahead and keep holding him while the little kids were in there petting him. That lasted about 45 min and then he woke up hungry so off to his mother (in a cage nearby). That was so cool!!
Then when I went home (this was a previous set of cats) my cats went so nuts over the smell of that baby that I had to take my clothes off and put them on the floor. They sniffed those clothes for close to 4 hours. Never knew cats had an attention span that long. I do wonder what really old reflexive part of their little brains that odor woke up.
@Kidsandliz Sorry, but I beg to differ, as rescuing and feeding abandonated puppies completely trumps said abandination.
@Kidsandliz ā¦I know because my S-I-L and niece both foster rescues and our two pups are rescues.

My S-I-L is the rescueās go-to for pregnant female rescues, as well as special needs puppies, and puppies in general, so while we do see a lot of sadness, it is greatly outweighed by the joy we all experience from contributing to caring for these rescues.
/giphy rescue dogs
@PhysAssist
??? What do you mean abandination?
@Kidsandliz If the puppies were abandonated, then the process was abandonation⦠[just me being a goofā¦]

/giphy abandonated
@Kidsandliz Whoops, timed out on the /giphy editingā¦

/giphy abandonated puppies
@Kidsandliz ā¦and:

/giphy rescue the puppies
@PhysAssist Thanks for the explanation
@PhysAssist @Kidsandliz

So, as a compadre goof, does one use āorientedā or āorientationā?
/image one does not simply
Wouldnāt āabandonatedā be a past tense gerund (or āgerundedā) form of the verb āto abandonā? Or some weird declension (or ādeclensionated formā) that is a legacy from Latin?
@Kidsandliz @mike808 Firstly: as a well-raised true American, I use the only proper term- oriented.
I was taught that only total boors, and some of those speaking some other nonsense language [alleged to be āthe Queenās Englishā] use that orientated bushwah.
Secundus: As a 3rd [and in some cases 4th or 5th] generation son of several families which immigrated from Deutschland who took exactly 1 semester of college German, Iām going to have to go with the first choice.
Sadly, despite my medical education and way too many years of on-the-job training/exposure to various amounts of Latin, my understanding of, and ability to parse it out are simply shitty.
Iām glad though that you consider me a comradeā¦
Iām watching Bad Santa 2 on cable TV. Weirdly, they are killing all the f-words, but leaving in all the shits, damns and dumbassās. Itās very weird. And who knew the Bad Santa 2 movie had so many f-words? Fuck. Thereās a lot of them.
Blame because @therealjrn used f-word instead of saying FUCK. Thus fucking up @carl669 fuck count
@bleedmichigan tells children that Santa isnāt real.
@carl669 @tinamarie1974 Well f-word me.
I guess I fucking did. Dammit.
@tinamarie1974 well fuckity fucking balls @therealjrn⦠way to fuck up the Christmas fuck count!
@mediocrebot neither is @ChadP
Blame because I was JUST in a car accident. I am OK, the Beast will need a new bumper
@tinamarie1974 glad you are ok.
@tinamarie1974 glad it was just the bumper and not anything worse for you or the car. But what a PITA to have to deal with it.
@Kidsandliz huge PITA. The guy was trying to beat traffic so he could order McDonalds
At this point, my back and neck are both really sore, wondering if I pulled something. Giving it until at least this afternoon before checking it out.
@Kidsandliz and now I am at the hospital because the pain is getting worse. Well fuck
@tinamarie1974 Hope it is just whiplash. That can be really painful though.
@RiotDemon @tinamarie1974 Glad youāre basically OK. Smart to get yourself checked out!
@RiotDemon @therealjrn yeah my parents insisted after I told them.
@tinamarie1974 glad it isnāt worse.
I want to know why you would name your faithful steed, Beast? I thought you had an invisible jet?
@JnKL the beast is my everyday vehicle (sounds imposing) and she and I have been on many a crazy adventure. The āinvisible jetā is my secret weekend car
@JnKL @tinamarie1974 well that sucks! I assume everything checked out ok?
/giphy invisible jet

@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 perhaps the worst thing to ever be in an accident for.
My Amazon order they somehow manager to lose the order after they showed it as 4 stops away and before they made it to my door. I was home and this is something i really wanted so i was watching the map and they were 3 blocks away when suddenly opps lost it
@CaptAmehrican I have had a lot of similar issues as of late with amazon logistics
@CaptAmehrican My Chewy order has been out for delivery since last Friday. Itās changed toādelivery date unknownā.
@CaptAmehrican @OldCatLady The ghosts next door are eating your dog biscuits.
Unblame because someone created THIS!!!
@tinamarie1974 But BLAME because you canāt own one. Right?
@bleedmichigan spiked the eggnog.
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 why not?
@Kidsandliz own what? The jersey? I have several including that particular design. The baby? He can be pre ordered on Amazon. The cup? I get my replica Monday!!! Giddy with joy over here.
@tinamarie1974 I had thought this was a āminiatureā (eg small toy sized) set of things that someone made by hand to display on a shelf or something; something that couldnāt be bought in that size.
@Kidsandliz oh I wish. That would be super cute and I am so obsessed with Baby Yoda right now.
@tinamarie1974 So does the replica you bought have all the names engraved on it?
@Kidsandliz I will find out Monday, but I doubt it. It is a giveaway at Mondays game
BLAME: Shoveled a spot for yekoP to do his business, and he wades nethers-deep into the snow anyway. And with the snow weāve had, it takes 5 min or so to get it out of his coat!

@ybmuG poor baby!
@ybmuG and wait till spring when you step in it. Mine has decided that business is done in the driveway. It was all good till the wife slipped in a pee spot.
Unblame. Science humor

@Kidsandliz
/giphy mind blown

ITāS A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
@therealjrn Its a Festivus Miracle.

/giphy Festivus Miracle
Is it time now for the airing of grievances?
@ybmuG Ooo, youāre good.
@therealjrn No, Iāve just watched too much TV over the yearsā¦
@therealjrn @ybmuG feats of strength
@bleedmichigan @therealjrn Until you pin me, Festivus is not over!
@bleedmichigan @therealjrn @ybmuG
/image festivus pole

@therealjrn @ybmuG
/giphy pinned

@therealjrn itās for the rest of us
Unblame the Starbucks holiday contest started today and i entered the free to play way and have already won a holiday drink and some stars
@CaptAmehrican blame because Starbucks is nasty so Iām sorry for you.
@CaptAmehrican You seem to win tons of things between this, all that stuff from Amazon (speaking of which I havenāt seen those emails in ages, I wonder if that program stopped - canāt even remember where the list was located that listed all the open give aways to check) - where you click on the box to see if you won⦠Whereād you buy your luck from?
. Congrats!
@Kidsandliz i enter contests all the time . Fyi those Amazon giveaways ended.
It is free to enter daily
https://www.starbucksforlife.com
@bleedmichigan @CaptAmehrican
Starbucks is simply well-marketed, slightly above the usual fast food quality, fast food.
As fast food, itās fine.
If you make excellent quality coffee at home, or if you habituate an area with excellent trad espresso places, congrats!
@CaptAmehrican @f00l Actually Starbucks is the purveyors of that nasty black liquid. I donāt drink coffee so I dislike Starbucks.
/giphy coffee yuck

@bleedmichigan Iām with you!
Thatās why I mainline Diet Mountain Dewā¦
The only dark brown to black liquids I ever drink are beersā¦
FWIW, my 2 current favorites are Spider Bite Breweryās āBoris the Spiderā- a Russian Imperial Stout, and Single Cut Breweryās āHeavy Boots Made of Leadā, an American Imperial Stout.
So I just ran to Sonic to grab a soda and decided to ātreat myaelfā to cinnasnacks. For those of you that donāt know they are little fluffy puff pastry like pillows of cinnamon goodness with white powdered sugar frosting. Delicious and oh so bad for you.
So the waitress comes out with my order (after I paid) and says oh by the way, we are out of icing. That is not an issue, right?
Really? Why would I want my dessert with me icing.
/giphy son of a bitch

@tinamarie1974 Sounds like tarted up hipster beignets.

/image beignets
@mike808 I have had both and can say nope, very different. Both delicious in their own way
/image cinnasnack

@tinamarie1974 LAME!
@tinamarie1974 Oh. I see. More like a failed croissant trying its best to be a churro.

/image chocolate croissant
@mike808 I guess but still delicious. If it is a mistake, it was a serendipitous one
@tinamarie1974 Iāll still take Parisian patisserie croissants over Sonic cinnasnacks any day.


@mike808 well duh, who wouldnāt!

Blame! My neighbor who works at a āfitness centerā changed to a different one. Now she canāt get me the special friends and family rate. Iām going to have to go to the nearby spa and yoga center.
I live in Virginia. My daughter is in college in Virginia. The care package I sent her for finals week is in Iowa. Do you even own a map, USPS?
@sammydog01 USPS just announced that the package would be late. No shit Sherlock. I paid $20 for priority mail. I donāt suppose I get a refund if it takes over 3 days, do I?
@sammydog01 priority mail is a non-guaranteed service. Sorry Charlie
/image sad face

@tinamarie1974 So I paid extra for them to deliver it whenever the fuck they felt like it? IS THIS WHERE MY TAX DOLLARS GO?
@sammydog01 uuuummmm yes and no. The post office is no longer ran by the Govāt. Management was outsourced years ago.
@tinamarie1974 Fine, THIS IS WHERE MY STAMP DOLLARS GO?
@sammydog01
ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
My daughterās care package that I shipped from Virginia to a couple of hundred miles away in Virginia on Monday left Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday. The USPS says:
I paid twenty bucks to ship it priority.
I pick her up Tuesday afternoon. What are the chances she gets it before then? Or ever?
Looks like Iām shipping cookies UPS this year.
@sammydog01 Itās a very bad USPS!
@ybmuG I just hope this is a cornfield it will return from.
@sammydog01 They never doā¦
If I have correctly read last months blame thread, I am allowed to make my own rules. Correct @ybmuG ? If so to place any blame on me you must use the more apply titled blame thread titled Santaās Bag of Coal. If I am incorrect you can blame me
@bleedmichigan

/image rotflmao
no idea why that wonāt come up except in another tab. Hereās the image

@bleedmichigan nah, that doesnāt work. We can place blame in any thread.
@bleedmichigan @RiotDemon Hells ya. KaL has posted at least 3 different places about her puppy blame. Didnāt you notice? Maybe she needs to make it itās own thread.
@bleedmichigan @RiotDemon @therealjrn Nope just 2 threads hunting for the right one. Thank you though for spending your valuable time making sure you read all my posts. Glad to entertain you.
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@bleedmichigan @Kidsandliz @RiotDemon @therealjrn
Now if only the fucking scapegoat mediocrebot worked so that we actually could give blame in any other topic.
ants fucking works, but no scapegoat.
/blame blame
@bleedmichigan hey, my only rule break was in giving myself an unblame. I exercised no restrictions on blames received (like that would be effective anyway)!
@ybmuG no I was saying you set a precedent I was just expanding the power. Itās how a dictator gets his power.
@bleedmichigan @ybmuG canāt argue with the Goatās logic. If someone set a precedent, next Goat can make Blame Rules.
Sounds reasonable to me!
@bleedmichigan @JnKL @ybmuG There is one flaw in this logic though⦠that the scapegoat has the power to even be a dictator. In this case I think the inmates have over run the asylum.
@JnKL @Kidsandliz @ybmuG if the kids have over run the university then it is logical for the goat to over run meh.
@bleedmichigan @JnKL letās just be clear on who the precedent setter wasā¦right @JnKL?
@JnKL @ybmuG
/giphy double precedent

I blame the Goat for my order of Xmas tree ornaments that I donāt need but had to purchase anyway.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/2-pack-meh-face-christmas-ornaments#5de5efa469aac70e50bf1825
In case anyone wondered, the universe is laughing at me right now.
@f00l hey, you should know that same kid is laughing at you over on the ornament thread ā¦
@stolicat
That kid follows me around laughing at me.
@f00l @stolicat Ahh but the key question - is that kid starring your posts? (snicker). One person who follows me around and comments never stars my posts. /I am so deprived
He who has the most 
toysstarred posts when they die wins. Right?@thismyusername Ahh, old GƤvvy! Distant cousin, I think.
Blame because I ordered that robot vacuum/mop a few weeks ago from Morningsave. Just arrived in the mail and they sent me the wrong modelā¦vacuum only. BBAAHHHH
Yeah I already reached out to CS and am waiting for their reply. I was just all excited to play with it tonight
@tinamarie1974
That sucks.
Even more because youāre blaming in the wrong thread.
BLAME HERE.
@mike808 so we are not suppose to use the broadcast thread? I am blaming the scapegoat and sending @bleedmichigan 30 to 50 feral hogs
@bleedmichigan is a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
@bleedmichigan @tinamarie1974
Send hugs, not hogs.
Also, ants be sometimes broke, sometimes not.
Scapegoats gotta scape goats.
@bleedmichigan @tinamarie1974
Sending 30 to 50 feral hogs.
@bleedmichigan @mike808 blame the scapegoat because the hogs are broke!!
@bleedmichigan doesnāt drink during Robanukah, like a heathen.
@bleedmichigan @mike808 unblame because @chadp is amazing and has already addressed my issue⦠after 11 pm no less!!
/giphy applause

@bleedmichigan @ChadP @mike808 @tinamarie1974 After 11 pm can sometimes be the best time to address issues.
@bleedmichigan @ChadP @therealjrn @tinamarie1974
And after 3am is usually when the issues return.
@bleedmichigan @ChadP @mike808 @therealjrn that sounds like a personal problem???
/giphy giggle

Nutz
@cranky1950 t-minus 7 days and those are getting fixed
Unblame. @tinamarie1974
#ww1984 trailer is out.
@mike808 Swinging from lightning bolts - I want one ā¦
Not so sure I could take 2 hours of that music, though ā¦
@mike808 That looks bad ass!! I think I should change my user name or TM74 lol
/giphy So excited

@mike808
/giphy gal gadot

Blame! BLAME! Most fowl!
Two days of hunting deer and not a single good shot to be had.
All your fault, Goat!
@JnKL You can have all of these. Fine wagyu well-marbled deer. Every fucking day they pillage the landscaping. These 8 are part of the āsmallā herd.

@JnKL @mike808 Are they grade W?
@JnKL @mike808 is that in front of your house?
@mike808 on my way!
@JnKL @mike808 chances the deer are missed and the house is hitā¦100%
BLAME: Took my car to get an oil change and got it back with a $346 repair bill!!! UUBLAME in the sense that I got it fixed before it broke in the middle of a 1000 mile one way) drive but BLAME as it was expense!!! Good thing for credit cards but when the piper needs paid next month thereās likely to be more blame.
My Morningsave beard trimmer came in an hand-ripped-opened white bag taped up clumsily with twisted clear packing tape. What the hell? Whoās opening my mail for me?
@therealjrn so it was packaged to meet āmehā standards
/define meh
No exact matches found for the specified word.
ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
@tinamarie1974 āMediocreā fur shure
In substitution for @riotdemon ās Poorly worded blame thread opening ( I know it my fault he did not have a class where I could teach him eloquent intros) I submit my own copies from the unofficial blame thread, it was a perfect thread.
A month of celebration, the end of one year and the beginnings of another, I time to reflect and a time to wipe the slate clean. Welcome to the December blame thread. I @bleedmichigan soon to be supreme Meh overlord look forward to your adulation, your blame, your unblame and anything else you throw my way. I voluntold for this job or so I hear. So let the blaming begin for I am the Wizard of Winter Blame.
/giphy wizard in winter

@bleedmichigan No the title of the other one was better⦠Short, to the point, with out all those extra words you used here. I blame the ABD in you for that.
By the way, do the stunt I did with my dissertation to save money on all those bound, cotton paper copies you have to make⦠Shave 1 point off the double space and move the margins out just a tiny, tiny bit. I made mine 25 pages longer that way. I turned it copies to my committee for all the drafts and defense that didnāt have those āchangesā as sometimes committees are influenced by length. It was just when I turned it in for the official bull crap I had to do that cost a fortune that I shaved off pages. 125 pages, 150 pages who cared. It still had the same number of words.
@bleedmichigan Lost my edit time. Meant to say made mine 25 pages shorter that way not longer - your fault goat. And also meant to say I turned in the long copies to my committee and short copies where I was charged by the page. By the way - the best dissertation is a done dissertation. Just make the changes they want, get it over with and signed off on. I made one short change after my defense when they signed off on it, I then changed that change back on the copies I turned in because they were wrong on that particular fact and I didnāt want something wrong in there. They never knew.
Also you can change what you want if you ever publish it or parts of it. Just get it done. I also found it easier to write the entire first 3 chapters in full for the proposal defense. That way I wasnāt faced with a ton of writing when I was done with the research. Just had to screw with chapters 4 and 5. Easier to finish when not faced with expanding the lit review. Good luck getting finished.
@bleedmichigan I am a college dropout. Iām also not a he.
@bleedmichigan

I suggest you apologize now.
@RiotDemon my apologies I did not see a spot on your Meh profile for your preferred pronoun.
@bleedmichigan @RiotDemon I meant apologize for the other part.
@bleedmichigan My preferred pronoun is āHis Honourā
@bleedmichigan
I donāt think @RiotDemonās intro is all that poorly worded.
I think she just wrote intending a diff tone and mood and intention than yours. Not all writing has to be up for formal publication.
That said, you do seem to write rather well.
(Well, maybe, except, when we wanna judge you harshly for no particular reason except that we enjoy being āhonorable Goat-baiting assholesā.)
Good thing you can write, what with the Edu intentions and all that.
/giphy good handwriting

@therealjrn your majesty
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 what part? Other part you say? I could have taught high school. May god have mercy on my soul. I have no qualms with anyone who decides college is not for them. I dropped out once from college and decided to go back. Nothing wrong with @riotdwmon deciding that if that is what you were speaking about. Now I am sorry about the incorrect pronoun but live and learn.
@bleedmichigan @f00l I really donāt care about the pronoun being wrong. I was just informing you because a lot of people assume Iām male.
As for my grammar in the OP, I donāt really care either. I was singing Christmas jingles and then decided that December isnāt just about Christmas blame.
@bleedmichigan @therealjrn Didnāt you mean to say: āYour hineyā¦ā?
Blame because Poison (Motlsy Crue, Def Leppard and Joan Jett) their stadium tour schedule and STL is NOT listed. Phuf Bret Michael WTF
@tinamarie1974 But maroon5 is coming in August.

/giphy adam levine
@mike808 oh I do love me some AL, but for different reasons
/giphy eye candy

@tinamarie1974 Iām not even a concert person but that one does sound really fun! I saw itāll be in seattle, maybe Iāll go. Or maybe not.
@moonhat yeah I am trying to talk my friends into a Chicago road trip, but sadly the do not seem to be taking the bait. Clearly they are not as adventurous as me haha
BLAME: So in prep for TROS next week, weāre watching the Stars Wars movies in the chronological order of the galaxy far away - started with episodes I-III (ew - I forget how badly written and produced they are), did not do the animated series (only have so much time), moved onto Solo and Rogue One (still one of the best in the series), then Epsiodes IV-VI: yay - Empire is still the best, even with the Lucas-izing.
Then this weekend it was to be The Mandalorian so weād be in on all the baby yoda stuff, and holy shit, that was the worse streaming experience Iāve had since, well, ever. And I thought Amazon was flaky ā¦
First, I thought Iād be clever and avoid any problems with our sometimes-not-too-swift rural internet service by downloading the episodes ahead of time, something I usually do with other services for convenience. Not a one of the six episodes would play, giving an annoying and unhelpful āOh No, somethingās wrong with [program title]ā message. So I deleted the downloads and we tried streaming, and I think the longest we got it to run was about 5 minutes before it would either crash out with the above āOh Noā message, or just go black, or else freeze on one frame although the audio would continue on and then it would crash. I would have to restart the app, sometimes restart the device to regain control. When it did run it was full of compression artifacts and skipping sound and changing volume levels.
Weāre using a new iPad Pro with gobs of memory, directly connected to the TV with the HDMI adaptor, a very solid connection with no sticks or pucks or WiFi airspace to confuse any issues. I had an internet connection monitor running on the desktop and didnāt see any problems with our service. I looked at DownDetector and some other monitoring sites and Disney has had and has a whole lot of problems, living up to (or down to) the reporting Iād seen since it started. Does everyone have these problems?
Next weekend, back to DVDs for Episodes VII & VIII - but last night, worse viewing party EVER! Do something, Goat!
@stolicat Try downloading from an alternate source?
@mike808 Iām not a big fan of sketchy websites with unlicensed material, Iāve had my system toasted a couple times from them. Besides, I pay money for this, it should work.
I did do more futzing today on it seems to be related to the Apple HDMI adaptor. The downloads play fine on the iThing by itself, but when the adaptor is connected it gets the Oh No message immediately. This setup works fine with other services (iTunes, Amazon, HBO) so itās something wonky in the Disney app. Streaming works better without the adaptor also. I double-checked the adaptor connection with other services (to ensure it wasnāt damaged) and they still work fine.
If there are others out there using Disney and iThings, Iād like to know how youāre connected up. I contacted Disney CS and theyāve āescalatedā it for expert examination.
I blame Rare.