I spent the day digging roots of some horrible vine from around my abelia bushes. I’m trying to save the bushes because the bees love them. So why did you sting me, you stupid bee? It really hurt. Maybe I’ll just cut them down. That would show you. Or I could blame @trillian instead.
@f00l Thanks! I’m rooting for me too! I need to finish addressing a couple of minor health issues and then hopefully I am outta here. If not, we’ve already had an offer on the place worth taking. It’ll work out either way!
Wait, what? Hey@Woodhouse, how did you let this happen? You said you loved me! Traitor!
Anyway, I’ll give it my best shot, though I’ll warn you that my best is definitely mediocre. I’m not sure I’m the goat you want, but I’ll definitely be the goat you deserve. Blames will be acknowledged late, if at all. I work on a government computer, so I’ll have to be a ghost goat during the day.
@f00l I think VMP now means very muckety-muck poop-head who refuses to let go so they can retire the program…thus I think we are making amends for nothing… also… define “everything”… I will have likely gone to bed (so there better not be a fuko tonight) so I guess I’ll see it in the morning. I still need an address from someone else as well who isn’t on these forums as much as you are so I hope that person sees that tag sooner rather than later.
Ok @trillian , I know you are the July goat but will blame you for the June 15th occurrence at State Park in Florida anyways. ![Photo of our beach equipment placed at Destin beach state park camping area Thursday, June 15.] Put out three umbrellas with two chairs and left our cart down on the campers beach area at 7:09 a.m. Storm came up with thunder and lightening so we left the beach. Waited until storm passed and when we went back to the beach, all our things were gone.Reported it stolen at Ranger office and long story short…after Rangers called beach camp volunteers, they discovered they had picked our stuff up from campers beach area and threw most of our things in public dumpster when you first entered the park. Ranger found our cart and two chairs but beach volunteers put our new umbrellas ( with sand grabbers attached to umbrella poles) besides the dumpster and they were gone. Rangers said the beach volunteers did not follow protocol, as only suppose to bring things left overnight on the beach in and not pick up anything until sunset anyways…our things weren’t left out overnight and they picked them up during daylight hours! Rangers said they would “talk to” the new volunteers and make sure others don’t lose their things like we did
While I am at it @trillian, I’ll blame you for our travel trailers air conditioner having to be replaced while on vacation and the tire blow out on jet ski trailer on the way home.!
@AttyVette I had to dump my phone photos through iphoto and then export them to get them right side up rather than sideways. Didn’t do anything than import then export. No modifications otherwise.
@AttyVette A pox on those over-exuberant beach volunteers!
No need to fix your a/c – you could have cruised back to Texas with a cool breeze in your face:
It might be fun to make a list of the ways in which you don’t have independence but it would definitely be more work than listing one area in which you have it.
All of your employees. All of your management decisions. All of your losses and profits. Your ability to question Amazon or their management. Jeff Bezos. Your ability to pay any executive a full wage without using Amazon stock. Your ability to give anyone a raise outside of Amazon HR approval. Your ability to hire any new headcount over Amazon approval. Your ability to enter into any new category or exit any existing category. Your quarterly goals. Your annual goals. Ok maybe it’s not fun.
Quite simply you have zero independence. It’s not even a good illusion.
Another blame unblame for @Trillian, BTW. Plus a blame for @Trillian@snapster for the lack of catshirts sold here at meh.
Soooo sitting next to me is a young gentleman who has some affliction relating to his bones and his grandmother is pestering him to find a job…she also got stuck in the bathroom because the seat was too low…she is the shortest person here!
@Barney seriously and honestly…it was a good thing we did leave…he was out of oxygen and until he was out in the heat for the short ride home, he did not know it!
@Barney baffles me…how does he not know…why wasn’t anyone monitoring how long he was there…why didn’t they have a backup tank…oy…poor guy… Can’t ask or they will make me responsible for the.old geezer!
@Barney I cant get too judgy…my mil is 82 and rapidly losing her grasp on reality…and it is new to everyone…this o2 stuff… I just over think EVERYTHING! …and they are so used to my fil being the doer…it is hard for them to readjust their thinking…he makes me giggle because he thinks I am the calm one…
OK, kids, I’m off to view fireworks, so try not to burn anything down while I’m gone. Remember, don’t shoot any guns in the air, don’t stick any roman candles down your pants, and try not to shoot your eye out, kid.
@mfladd Lots of staff changes- you may have noticed @thumperchick’s new badge. Check out the current broadcast thread for info on the new staffers, and a chance to ask them questions.
Many of the old Woot staffers are hanging around here now, especially with the layoffs that happened recently- check the Woot and stuff thread for that.
VMP has been stopped for new people for some months now- once it’s cancelled, that’s it.
@mfladd Hmm well… lets see. The sky is falling. This is an alternative reality universe you have found. There is peace on earth since you and @kittysprinkles haven’t been entertaining us with knives and poisoned darts (grin). The goat is to blame. Oh and @OldCatLady hasn’t had “photos of a certain style” posted for her entertainment in a while. That ought to cover it.
@Kidsandliz Peace on earth? @OldCatLady not posting soft porn? Cats and dogs living together?
Ack - the sky is falling. I am surprised the goat is still to blame here.
Dammit, goat! My microwave just quit for the fifth time in three years, and the service warranty people can’t get here until next Friday. I blame you, @Trillian! The least you could do is tell me what compact countertop model to buy so I could get it Saturday.
@OldCatLady So sorry! I think Sharp microwaves are one of the few that don’t require you to hit a “time cook” button before entering the time. It annoys the hell out of me to hit that extra button. Maybe it bothers me more than it should, but I doubt it.
@Trillian Frigidaire and GE have models with the ‘30 second’ option. I use that a lot. I’ll interview some in person tomorrow. I can live 24 hours without a microwave. Barely.
@OldCatLady My Panasonic is a bit annoying in that I have to set the power first before entering the time, but it was a sub-$8 microwave; I’m willing to put up with some quirks. I suppose someone else wasn’t, hence buying the same model as a spare a few months later on a 75% off week, making it sub-$7.
Your fault goat (@Trillian) that I am exhausted, didn’t make it through my mom’s entire list of things that needed done (am leaving in the morning to go home - 2 day drive - postponed leaving because of that list), my cat with newly diagnosed asthma had some problems and 2 vet visits and some meds later cost me nearly $600 (she is much improved though), stupid child… well don’t even get me started on stupid child… sigh. I need a life transplant.
@sohmageek Aw, thanks, I did have a pretty good day, even without a fuko!
P.S. I have a speaker dock here with your name on it if you want it. @Woodhouse sent it to me by mistake.
I did manage to go out. I can’t claim to have been useful to anyone or anything, but I did manage to harass some people or some institutions, so there’s that.
And I bought some floating eyewear retainers. Those loopy things that go round your neck. Eyeball stabbing colors! Woo Hoo!
Mission accomplished. Fear me!
Big day here, as you can see. But what the hell, it’s hot out
I think the English have good reasons to call summer “the silly season”.
I’m at Countryfest and some asshole in front of me is chewing tobacco and keeps spitting on the ground, like every couple of minutes. It’s lawn seating, dude, people are sitting there. Actual goats have better manners. Why are country music fans such douchebags?
@Trillian I blame you that on wOOt they had a Orca 26 Qt cooler for 49.99. I had to check amazon and they do sell for $259! I put it in my cart and then realized I had to change the shipping address. By the time I was finished it was GONE! They only had one! Gaaaaaah! That would have been perfect for camping with the kids. No way I could pay full price for one of those things. Too bad, sooooooooo sad.
Blame: I seem to have mostly ignored the mehrathon so far.
Unblame: Replaced the fan clutch on my truck so the cooling fan actually cools now.
Unblame: Repaired the leaky a/c compressor.
Unblame: Replaced the leaky a/c hose.
Unblame: Replaced the a/c orifice tube + some o-rings.
Unblame: My truck’s a/c actually holds pressure now!
Neutral: It’s late. I work later. I’m going to bed now. I’ll do a full charge tomorrow night and hopefully I’ll be able to have some semblance of comfort this week.
@Trillian I blame you that have way too many things to do, but do not have enough time and hands to complete them in a timely manner. And I have to leave for a work meeting in Phoenix on Sunday. Why would a company send their people to Phoenix in July?!
I would’ve blamed @Trillian that my lucky-decisive-aardvark order from last Caturday still hasn’t shipped yet, except it’s a MorningSave order – so you get a pass. For now. Maybe.
/8ball Is @Trillian excused from blame this time?
Reply hazy try again
@f00l I had it 7 years ago for a few days with no known cause. Had it again 5 years ago after being knocked to the ground during an attempted purse snatching in Lima. No idea what set me off this time, but am heading to the doctor soon.
@CaptAmehrican I once had a 1974 flying junior that had been capsized in an oil spill, the red was now chalky brown, patches didn’t match… it was great! It was so trashed that hitting the dock didn’t matter. Very little care needed - spray off the salt water from the trailer and be done with it. Sold that to someone who worked on the Jamestown foundation boats (I was a volunteer they were paid) and he bitched about me not keeping up the wreck until he realized just how much more time that left him to sail and not maintain. Then he suddenly was happy (um not like you could hide the condition of what was once voted the ugliest boat on the water LOL).
Then I had a Barnett 1400 (14’) that, again, was old, but this one was in flawless condition. That one was really nice to sail. That I took care of like it deserved and was forced to sell it in the ‘lose my job over 2 cancers in one year and am now too expensive for their insurance’ fiasco to pay for health insurance, cancer bills, etc. (my kayak, canoe, 12’ hilo mojo trailer, and 18 foot '88 Nissan Sunrader were also all casualties to that aftermath).
Due to my blowing off needed sleep (even tho I knew it was a bad idea), had a headache yesterday. Today, sneezing all day, prob got myself a summer cold or sinus thing.
@trillian, is your vertigo any better? I’m holding onto the blame until you are able to handle it.
What the FUCK?! @Trillian I blame you because the owners prior to me had broken the dryer latch completely because no one would take it apart, tighten things, and add new latch pieces. I was starting to do laundry, a million things to do before I leave - and 1:26 at night I have the dryer door completely adding parts and cleaning the whole nasty mess! Why now? What possesses me to do these things? Was it the Monster drink? I just know I blame you…
i blame you that i spent Thursday deep night watching Freddy Mercury, Sat deep night reach various random xkcd comics, and most of this morning reading about tardigrades, and now I want a knitted one.
And because I did this, I now have a headache, and probably a sinus infection, and I need more coffee than exists in this universe.
I will reduce the level of blame somewhat if you will assure me that this universe is safe from coffee shortages in the near future. If you cannot do this, I will be forced to journey to Inner Hadronsville and order up an alt coffee universe.
@f00l An evening with Freddie Mercury sounds like time well spent. Since I don’t drink coffee, you can have my share, though it sounds like that may still not be enough.
Every so often I have to watch some Freddie Mercury videos. And of course, you can’t watch just one.
It’s kinda odd. When Queen was at their peak, I was mostly listening to the Clash and the Talking Heads and the Ramones. I so wish I had seem him perform live.
It’s interesting to watch Queen+Paul Rodgers and Queen+Adam Lambert perform. Both Rodgers and Lambert can really sing it. Perhaps their voices are close to rivalling his.
But…
You know. It ain’t the same.
Watching Freddie, you can see him throw his intensity, his desire to connect, his surface toughness and inner vulnerability, his artistic unpredictability at the audience or the camera. All that theatricality as artistic clothing for extreme creativity and raw and genuine emotion channeled into something incredible.
There’s no other. I still remember being riveted, watching him at Live Aid. He and Queen owned that show, there were some fine performances, but what other Live Aid band does anyone go back to Youtube to watch now?
And I’m still po’ed that he’s gone.
(In Montreux, Switzerland, where Queen had a recording studio)
@Kidsandliz oh lots of smaller things
Contacted 4 places looking for prizes for our weird tri all 4 gave me prizes, office max owed me a rebate it came, i lost 1 lb, a stranger assumed i was 15 years younger then i am, silly things that make a great day
@Trillian Blame. 7am-9pm straight participating in company meeting activities - ugh - tired.
The one great thing was the motivational speaker they brought in to speak with us. Brad Snyder - Naval Academy graduate. Led EOD team attached to a Navy Seal team in Afghanistan. Lost his vision from and EOD saving two Afghan soldiers also hit by EOD’s. 20 hours of surgery. Went on to win Olympic Gold for the US in swimming at the Para Olympics, and is a current world record holder. His book is Fire in my Eyes. Great life story of resilience.
I blame @narfcake for not putting even one unstealthiest ninja shirt on his sale list. You should have checked with me. Oh yeah, @trillian made him do it.
@trillian I blame you that the antibiotic for lyme is making me really nauseated even when I take it with food and I still have 11 or 12 days left!!! Lost almost 10 pounds so far.
@mfladd Yeah that is what they have me on. Apparently it is really corrosive to your innards. I have been taking it with food to try to cut down on that but the nausea is getting worse and worse anyway. Seeing the doctor Monday morning. I can’t stop taking it yet because I have missed two so far (including yesterday evening - fell asleep) and each time the Lyme headache gets worse. Bleh.
@OldCatLady Too much nausea to really eat much. Vomiting when I do. The nausea is chemo level. I keep telling myself I survived months of that (was damaging my liver so nausea from that that never went away) so I can survive this since it will be much shorter. Probably PTSD or something. Or at least that is my excuse for being a whining wimp instead of toughing it out without complaining. LOL
@Kidsandliz I’m sorry I don’t live nearby. I’d be holding a cool cloth to your forehead, and giving you tea with wildflower honey and lemon (helps sometimes with nausea). I’m genuinely sad to see you suffer. It just seems so unfair.
My cake melted…now I know why there is a recipe for high humidity buttercream frosting…ignore the white fluffy things…those were to keep the plastic wrap off the frosting!
@CaptAmehrican The kicker was, when I logged into Facebook that afternoon, this was one of the first posts I saw! And I had the cornstarch out because I was working with Fondant… sigh…
Unblaming @Trillian, just to start the week low-key. Biopsy of a Thing on my leg came back- medium pre-melanoma, they got it all, no worries. They check you scalp to toes with a magnifying glass every visit; I didn’t even know the Thing was there. It’s healing nicely under a Curad bandage I got in my last Fuko. Good Goat!
Blame: catshirtswoot sent the wrong shirts.
Unblame: catshirtswoot is sending the right shirts.
Unblame: catshirtswoot sent the right mugs.
Unblame: catshirtswoot sent the right mugs. Again.
“ewe”? - ewww that goes with a lamb and not a goat! (grin). Better blame @trillian already for that!
I blame @Trillian for everything that has gone wrong today. EVERYTHING!
@Barney Sorry you’re having a baaaad day. I’ll share some of the treats I bought today from 85C Bakery.
Except for the cheesecake, that one uh, fell on the floor.
@Trillian Just my luck, I had a craving for cheesecake.
I spent the day digging roots of some horrible vine from around my abelia bushes. I’m trying to save the bushes because the bees love them. So why did you sting me, you stupid bee? It really hurt. Maybe I’ll just cut them down. That would show you. Or I could blame @trillian instead.
@sammydog01 I really hope those weren’t poison ivy vines. I am sorry about the bee sting - those fuckers hurt!
@sammydog01 You’re so sweet even the bees can’t resist.
@Trillian If it was poison ivy I would have gone slash and burn. It’s some type of trumpet vine from hell.
/giphy trumpet vine
@cranky1950 Awww! My family members would disagree.
@sammydog01 Hey, the bees know.
@cranky1950
/giphy "bees knees"
@cranky1950
@trillian Welcome to the club, fucker.
@Pavlov Thanks, ya old goat! Hope all is well in your corner of the world, wherever that may be. Write an S.A. sometime about how things are going.
@Trillian Thanks for the LOL.
I think.
@Pavlov
Still on USA turf? Or did you manage an escape?
@f00l Still in the US - hope to be down south full time soon - we’ll see!
@Pavlov
If you do escape (rooting for you!), by the time you return (say, in a day or a week), it might be a very different USA you return to.
Sigh.
Happy traveling.
@f00l Thanks! I’m rooting for me too! I need to finish addressing a couple of minor health issues and then hopefully I am outta here. If not, we’ve already had an offer on the place worth taking. It’ll work out either way!
Wait, what? Hey@Woodhouse, how did you let this happen? You said you loved me! Traitor!
Anyway, I’ll give it my best shot, though I’ll warn you that my best is definitely mediocre. I’m not sure I’m the goat you want, but I’ll definitely be the goat you deserve. Blames will be acknowledged late, if at all. I work on a government computer, so I’ll have to be a ghost goat during the day.
@Trillian Suck it up soldier on.
@Trillian
I blame you for your modesty about your Goat capacities.
@cranky1950
@Trillian Thanks for letting us know what hours to blame you with impunity.
absurdly large GIF version
The weather is excellent and usually cool and we are getting far more rain than we are accustomed to this summer.
It’s wonderful.
I blame you, @trillian, because this wonderful weather may not last the entire summer.
@f00l I blame @trillan because @f00l has not yet emailed me her bracelet choice and address!!! and I need to get this off to the Nigerian Prince.
@Kidsandliz
Oops sorry. I will get that to you this evening. Ok?
Not at home at the moment but will hurry.
Please forgive.
And remember, I have VMP, so I have already made amends for everything in advance.
@f00l I think VMP now means very muckety-muck poop-head who refuses to let go so they can retire the program…thus I think we are making amends for nothing… also… define “everything”… I will have likely gone to bed (so there better not be a fuko tonight) so I guess I’ll see it in the morning. I still need an address from someone else as well who isn’t on these forums as much as you are so I hope that person sees that tag sooner rather than later.
@f00l I’m enjoying all the rain too!
@Kidsandliz
All my excuses are belong to BASE.
Proof:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/ive-been-a-bad-boy#5959395976507e0ed05f5fdb
Ok @trillian , I know you are the July goat but will blame you for the June 15th occurrence at State Park in Florida anyways. ![Photo of our beach equipment placed at Destin beach state park camping area Thursday, June 15.] Put out three umbrellas with two chairs and left our cart down on the campers beach area at 7:09 a.m. Storm came up with thunder and lightening so we left the beach. Waited until storm passed and when we went back to the beach, all our things were gone.Reported it stolen at Ranger office and long story short…after Rangers called beach camp volunteers, they discovered they had picked our stuff up from campers beach area and threw most of our things in public dumpster when you first entered the park. Ranger found our cart and two chairs but beach volunteers put our new umbrellas ( with sand grabbers attached to umbrella poles) besides the dumpster and they were gone. Rangers said the beach volunteers did not follow protocol, as only suppose to bring things left overnight on the beach in and not pick up anything until sunset anyways…our things weren’t left out overnight and they picked them up during daylight hours! Rangers said they would “talk to” the new volunteers and make sure others don’t lose their things like we did
#nothappycampers
[1]:
While I am at it @trillian, I’ll blame you for our travel trailers air conditioner having to be replaced while on vacation and the tire blow out on jet ski trailer on the way home.!
[2]: https://res.cloudinary.com/mediocre/image/upload/v1499060707/tobunppnycjfaa0j8elz.jpg![Tire blow out on jet ski trailer ][2]
#needvacationfromvacation
@AttyVette were you in the southern hemisphere when this happened? that is really the only explanation for this upside down picture.
@carl669 At the very least, it’s grounds for extra blaming.
@carl669 the picture doesn’t show upside down for me
@AttyVette we’d need to blame @trillian for that.
@AttyVette
Are you using an iPhone to take pix and upload them?
If so, the pix may displace correctly on your iPhone browser, but may show sideways or upside down on android or Windows or Chromebook.
No idea how to fix this or why it happens.
I’d say Blake @trillian tho.
@f00l makes sense to me…it shows correctly when I view it so your explanation makes sense
@AttyVette I had to dump my phone photos through iphoto and then export them to get them right side up rather than sideways. Didn’t do anything than import then export. No modifications otherwise.
Yes blame game continues-- ![tire blow out on jet ski trailer on way home][1]
Not a fun way to end vacation
[1]:
@AttyVette A pox on those over-exuberant beach volunteers!
No need to fix your a/c – you could have cruised back to Texas with a cool breeze in your face:
Dat tire though. Glad you’re safe!
I’m
blamingunblaming @Trillian for @snapster’s post over at Woot.(They never did understand your dartboard pricing strategy, did they?)
@narfcake I’m glad to see TT sparring with snapster- it’s entertaining.
@sammydog01 His ‘fun’ list is enlightening.
@narfcake @sammydog01 link to sparing match?
@Kidsandliz http://www.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=7186438
@narfcake wow…thanks for posting that for us to read
@narfcake thanks
@OldCatLady Glad you saw it because it’s gone now.
@sammydog01 It’s still quoted in a follow-up.
Another
blameunblame for @Trillian, BTW. Plus a blame for@Trillian@snapster for the lack of catshirts sold here at meh.@narfcake I was wondering if snapster edited it himself, but that would have changed the quote, right?
@sammydog01 Nope. Each post is individualized, and editing your own doesn’t affect any following posts.
Legitimate blame for @Trillian: @Thumperchick posted a non-cat gif.
@narfcake some of us have range.
@narfcake
Found all of that so interesting that i stole copies of it for here.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/woot-and-stuff
Apologies to everyone whose brilliance I ran off with.
Pix start here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/woot-and-stuff#595bef1af2671a099cb30ea6
@narfcake Blame rejected, since @Thumperchick posted a bunny gif. Need moar bunny gifs!
@Trillian
/giphy bunny gifs
apologies to @Trillian that i have failed to properly blame you.
/giphy apologies
Please save me from boredom at my inlaws…
@mikibell Ha!
@mikibell
Can you pretend psychoanalyze them for grins?
@f00l omg…I can write longggg books!
@Barney they are soooo loud… I want the peace and quiet of my own home…
@mikibell Sit down, plaster a big smile on your face and driftaway by thinking pleasant thoughts. The visit won’t last forever.
@Barney I am safely sitting with my father-in-law…he loves me…
@mikibell I love you, too. Remember, you are earning a place in Heaven.
@Barney awwwwww…thank you… right back at you…
Soooo sitting next to me is a young gentleman who has some affliction relating to his bones and his grandmother is pestering him to find a job…she also got stuck in the bathroom because the seat was too low…she is the shortest person here!
@mikibell said woman just told me my son has changed for the better…ignoring the dig…letting it goooo…letting it gooooooo…
@mikibell At least she didn’t say he was getting worse like my mom would have.
It hasnt gotten too crazy…alcohol is just starting to hit people…
@mikibell Alcohol always helps my family get along.
Free…free at last…used father inlaw as an excuse…bringing him home to change out his oxygen tank!
@mikibell I’m not sure your motive is pure enough. You might lose your place in Heaven.
@Barney seriously and honestly…it was a good thing we did leave…he was out of oxygen and until he was out in the heat for the short ride home, he did not know it!
@mikibell It was good that you left.
@Barney baffles me…how does he not know…why wasn’t anyone monitoring how long he was there…why didn’t they have a backup tank…oy…poor guy… Can’t ask or they will make me responsible for the.old geezer!
@mikibell How old is he?
@Barney 84…and I find him adorable…but not everyone else does…but I am also his favorite…I named my only son after him!
Oh and he is blind so that is why others have to check the gauges…
@mikibell Shame on those who should be helping him. You are a good person, @mikibell.
@mikibell You really are a good person.
@Barney I cant get too judgy…my mil is 82 and rapidly losing her grasp on reality…and it is new to everyone…this o2 stuff… I just over think EVERYTHING! …and they are so used to my fil being the doer…it is hard for them to readjust their thinking…he makes me giggle because he thinks I am the calm one…
@mikibell Calm? That makes me giggle, too.
@Barney exactly!! Tells you how insane the rest are!
I blame you, @trillian, that @mfladd was gone, and not a word from him, and now he’s back.
And it’s time for him to be HAPPY* whether he wants to be or not.
@f00l
@Trillian
Time to play!
/giphy "playful kittens"
@Trillian @f00l
@mfladd
You can be the cat-toy.
/giphy "cat toy"
OK, kids, I’m off to view fireworks, so try not to burn anything down while I’m gone. Remember, don’t shoot any guns in the air, don’t stick any roman candles down your pants, and try not to shoot your eye out, kid.
@Trillian Congratulations on goatdom. May it it be entertaining and exhausting.
@dashcloud ok, I am here. Give me the scoop of what’s been going on.
@mfladd Lots of staff changes- you may have noticed @thumperchick’s new badge. Check out the current broadcast thread for info on the new staffers, and a chance to ask them questions.
Many of the old Woot staffers are hanging around here now, especially with the layoffs that happened recently- check the Woot and stuff thread for that.
VMP has been stopped for new people for some months now- once it’s cancelled, that’s it.
@mfladd Hmm well… lets see. The sky is falling. This is an alternative reality universe you have found. There is peace on earth since you and @kittysprinkles haven’t been entertaining us with knives and poisoned darts (grin). The goat is to blame. Oh and @OldCatLady hasn’t had “photos of a certain style” posted for her entertainment in a while. That ought to cover it.
@Kidsandliz Peace on earth? @OldCatLady not posting soft porn? Cats and dogs living together?
Ack - the sky is falling. I am surprised the goat is still to blame here.
@mfladd
@dashcloud How many wOOt staffers were let go? And they are playing here now?
@mfladd A bunch of them showed up here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/woot-and-stuff
Slydon, ADQ, titsmcgee
All but one writer was let go.
@mfladd Go look at the July 4th thread to see my latest offering.
rather large animated GIF
Dammit, goat! My microwave just quit for the fifth time in three years, and the service warranty people can’t get here until next Friday. I blame you, @Trillian! The least you could do is tell me what compact countertop model to buy so I could get it Saturday.
@OldCatLady So sorry! I think Sharp microwaves are one of the few that don’t require you to hit a “time cook” button before entering the time. It annoys the hell out of me to hit that extra button. Maybe it bothers me more than it should, but I doubt it.
@Trillian Frigidaire and GE have models with the ‘30 second’ option. I use that a lot. I’ll interview some in person tomorrow. I can live 24 hours without a microwave. Barely.
@OldCatLady I suggest you order pizza until you get a new microwave.
@Trillian you might be best goat ever!
(But wow them be some warm parts and careful about the hot grease!)
@OldCatLady My Panasonic is a bit annoying in that I have to set the power first before entering the time, but it was a sub-$8 microwave; I’m willing to put up with some quirks. I suppose someone else wasn’t, hence buying the same model as a spare a few months later on a 75% off week, making it sub-$7.
@narfcake Wow. I am in serious awe.
@Trillian Give me the number of that pizza place!
@OldCatLady Who the hell ordered sausage?!
@mfladd
What, summer sun fried your brain?
You have to ask?
@Trillian I am so jealous of that teddy bear.
Your fault goat (@Trillian) that I am exhausted, didn’t make it through my mom’s entire list of things that needed done (am leaving in the morning to go home - 2 day drive - postponed leaving because of that list), my cat with newly diagnosed asthma had some problems and 2 vet visits and some meds later cost me nearly $600 (she is much improved though), stupid child… well don’t even get me started on stupid child… sigh. I need a life transplant.
@Kidsandliz
@trillian … I hope you have a great day! . That’s all… This blame shit gets out of hand some days…
@sohmageek Aw, thanks, I did have a pretty good day, even without a fuko!
P.S. I have a speaker dock here with your name on it if you want it. @Woodhouse sent it to me by mistake.
@Trillian hey, that was a gift!
@woodhouse I’m gonna keep mine forever and forever, or until I give it away.
@trillian
I blame you because you are an excellent goat.
@f00l Not so fast, it hasn’t even been a week yet. Plenty of time for me to still suck. I plan to set the bar very low for my successor.
@Trillian
/giphy "low bar"
Blame: I can’t sleep.
@narfcake You are getting very sleepy.
Forgot to set my lineup for the Fantasy Movie League, so thanks @Trillian!
@dashcloud Sorry, I was going to remind you, but I thought that Movie League contest was over. Maybe next week you should set an alarm to remind you?
@dashcloud I told her to not remind you. I need all the help I can get.
Sat. Not morning anymore. Early afternoon.
I have done exactly ZERO useful things.
I am not yet marginally presentable to go out and harass the world.
@trillian, your fault.
@f00l There must be something in the Texas air or water, as I am suffering from the same symptoms.
@Trillian
I’m not bored. Just unproductive.
I did manage to go out. I can’t claim to have been useful to anyone or anything, but I did manage to harass some people or some institutions, so there’s that.
And I bought some floating eyewear retainers. Those loopy things that go round your neck. Eyeball stabbing colors! Woo Hoo!
Mission accomplished. Fear me!
Big day here, as you can see. But what the hell, it’s hot out
I think the English have good reasons to call summer “the silly season”.
@f00l It just started raining here!
@Trillian
We got some so far almost every day this past week. I can’t remember a summer with so much rain. It’s awesome.
I keep reading about fire warnings in various places.
This summer, so far, not here.
@Trillian
From The Weather Channel:
Yeah! Any minute!
I might have to just go outside and stand in it.
I’m at Countryfest and some asshole in front of me is chewing tobacco and keeps spitting on the ground, like every couple of minutes. It’s lawn seating, dude, people are sitting there. Actual goats have better manners. Why are country music fans such douchebags?
@sammydog01 heeeeyyy… I am not a douchebag…
@mikibell Hey, too bad you don’t live here- Dustin Lynch was last night and Brett Eldridge is tonight.
@sammydog01
@Trillian I blame you that on wOOt they had a Orca 26 Qt cooler for 49.99. I had to check amazon and they do sell for $259! I put it in my cart and then realized I had to change the shipping address. By the time I was finished it was GONE! They only had one! Gaaaaaah! That would have been perfect for camping with the kids. No way I could pay full price for one of those things. Too bad, sooooooooo sad.
@mfladd If it was that cheap, there was probably something wrong with it. Like, maybe it smelt of gym socks and limburger.
@narfcake
I just opened my last bag of Cadbury mini eggs. So sad. Easter is such a long time away.
@sammydog01 Having Easter candy last until July? I, with my poor impulse control, cannot even conceive of this.
Blame - too sick earlier to remember to blame @Trillian earlier for missing a tick and now I have lyme disease and feel like shit.
@Kidsandliz Oh, my, I am so sorry! That sounds horrific, and now I feel bad for whining about my minor case of vertigo. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
I blame you, @trillian, because life isn’t perfect.
I mean, I think I was promised …
And now I gotta deal with imperfection?
Fuck that.
@f00l
@Trillian
Will at least I never had to wear that dress with those sleeves.
That video gets points for the least enthusiastic young people pretending to enjoy dancing, ever.
I blame @trillian because Gollum reading tweets derails me every time I watch it. And I can’t stop watching it.
@OldCatLady I don’t know from Gollum, but that was great!
@OldCatLady
@TrillIan
Mark Hamill does the voice of The Joker in audioplays for the DC universe.
Hamill also reads Trump’s tweets in the same voice, playing a new character, The Trumpster.
Here is Hamill, as The Trumpster, doing the Mika Brzezinski tweet.
There are lots more on YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/results?q=hamill joker trump &sm=3
I left the table for a minute at breakfast and the dog ate my bagel. Maybe I’ll trade him in on a goat.
@sammydog01
@Trillian I blame you that have way too many things to do, but do not have enough time and hands to complete them in a timely manner. And I have to leave for a work meeting in Phoenix on Sunday. Why would a company send their people to Phoenix in July?!
@mfladd
@mfladd That sounds like cruel and unusual punishment, even for you. Are you sure your company is mad at you?
@mfladd It is sooo cold here, I have turned of the air conditioner, and put on a sweatshirt… IN JULY!!!
I would’ve blamed @Trillian that my lucky-decisive-aardvark order from last Caturday still hasn’t shipped yet, except it’s a MorningSave order – so you get a pass. For now. Maybe.
/8ball Is @Trillian excused from blame this time?
Reply hazy try again
@narfcake it shipped, impatientshirts. I mean, it shipped this morning, but still…
/8ball Is @Thumperchick totally awesome?
As I see it, yes
/8ball Does @Trilliian escape the blame now?
You may rely on it
@narfcake how many times did you have to consult the 8 ball to get that outcome?
@mikibell As many times as I can refresh it in the 5 minute edit window.
@narfcake you didn’t need the 8 ball for that.
@Thumperchick Heh! True.
And arrived in the afternoon! Thanks, @Thumperchick! Thanks, @Trillian!
Headache, @trillian. Headache.
@f00l
ಠ_ಠ
@f00l I’ll trade my vertigo for your headache.
@Trillian
Is this frequent? What are the factors that appear to set this off? How bad is it?
/giphy owl
@f00l I had it 7 years ago for a few days with no known cause. Had it again 5 years ago after being knocked to the ground during an attempted purse snatching in Lima. No idea what set me off this time, but am heading to the doctor soon.
@Trillian are they going to drop you (seriously, they lower you quickly from a seated position)?? that is always a fun fix!!
I had been having bouts of it earlier this year, took care of it by falling really hard and knocking myself backwards (not intentionally)
@Trillian Vertigo is the worst. Hope they fix it.
large gif version
@routtaurmind broke the Woot thread. That’s why we can’t have nice things. Or it’s all a giant conspiracy.
/giphy conspiracy
@sammydog01 And because of that, we have to blame @Trillian. Poor goat.
Blame due to crew issues not racing today on one of the nicest race days. 8 to 12 knots 85 degree.
@CaptAmehrican Well that truly sucks!!! Was the race for tall ships or bathtub toys (aka all boats smaller than tall ships LOL)? If tall ship, where?
@Kidsandliz sorry not tall ships more like race boats you know playing with pretty spinnakers.
Like the classic toast i like all types of boats.
Toast for reference
I like the Tall ships and the small ships
But the best ships are the friendships
Here’s to you and me!
@CaptAmehrican I once had a 1974 flying junior that had been capsized in an oil spill, the red was now chalky brown, patches didn’t match… it was great! It was so trashed that hitting the dock didn’t matter. Very little care needed - spray off the salt water from the trailer and be done with it. Sold that to someone who worked on the Jamestown foundation boats (I was a volunteer they were paid) and he bitched about me not keeping up the wreck until he realized just how much more time that left him to sail and not maintain. Then he suddenly was happy (um not like you could hide the condition of what was once voted the ugliest boat on the water LOL).
Then I had a Barnett 1400 (14’) that, again, was old, but this one was in flawless condition. That one was really nice to sail. That I took care of like it deserved and was forced to sell it in the ‘lose my job over 2 cancers in one year and am now too expensive for their insurance’ fiasco to pay for health insurance, cancer bills, etc. (my kayak, canoe, 12’ hilo mojo trailer, and 18 foot '88 Nissan Sunrader were also all casualties to that aftermath).
Due to my blowing off needed sleep (even tho I knew it was a bad idea), had a headache yesterday. Today, sneezing all day, prob got myself a summer cold or sinus thing.
@trillian, is your vertigo any better? I’m holding onto the blame until you are able to handle it.
@f00l Or maybe fall pollen kicked in early. You’ve had a lot of rain, could be mold.
@OldCatLady
My misery has a certain familiar quality after I blow off sleep. But perhaps. We got your pollen here, if you want some.
What the FUCK?! @Trillian I blame you because the owners prior to me had broken the dryer latch completely because no one would take it apart, tighten things, and add new latch pieces. I was starting to do laundry, a million things to do before I leave - and 1:26 at night I have the dryer door completely adding parts and cleaning the whole nasty mess! Why now? What possesses me to do these things? Was it the Monster drink? I just know I blame you…
@mfladd
Now I didn’t know you were TV-Famous.
You’re not completely “uncute” there, ya know.
@mfladd
@mfladd That sounds like something I would do, so sorry about that! Enjoy your trip to Phoenix, and try not to spontaneously combust.
@Trillian That Spike Jonze video you link to above is a one shot. No cuts, all one shot. Very cool.
@trillian
i blame you that i spent Thursday deep night watching Freddy Mercury, Sat deep night reach various random xkcd comics, and most of this morning reading about tardigrades, and now I want a knitted one.
And because I did this, I now have a headache, and probably a sinus infection, and I need more coffee than exists in this universe.
I will reduce the level of blame somewhat if you will assure me that this universe is safe from coffee shortages in the near future. If you cannot do this, I will be forced to journey to Inner Hadronsville and order up an alt coffee universe.
@f00l An evening with Freddie Mercury sounds like time well spent. Since I don’t drink coffee, you can have my share, though it sounds like that may still not be enough.
@Trillian
Every so often I have to watch some Freddie Mercury videos. And of course, you can’t watch just one.
It’s kinda odd. When Queen was at their peak, I was mostly listening to the Clash and the Talking Heads and the Ramones. I so wish I had seem him perform live.
It’s interesting to watch Queen+Paul Rodgers and Queen+Adam Lambert perform. Both Rodgers and Lambert can really sing it. Perhaps their voices are close to rivalling his.
But…
You know. It ain’t the same.
Watching Freddie, you can see him throw his intensity, his desire to connect, his surface toughness and inner vulnerability, his artistic unpredictability at the audience or the camera. All that theatricality as artistic clothing for extreme creativity and raw and genuine emotion channeled into something incredible.
There’s no other. I still remember being riveted, watching him at Live Aid. He and Queen owned that show, there were some fine performances, but what other Live Aid band does anyone go back to Youtube to watch now?
And I’m still po’ed that he’s gone.
(In Montreux, Switzerland, where Queen had a recording studio)
Blaming
@Trillianthe shirtgoat because one of my shirts didn’t show up and another was printed crookedly.Unblaming
@Trillianthe shirtgoat since shirt.woot will be sending replacements for both.@narfcake shirtgoat sold woot he is no longer responsible for the chaos over there just the chaos here
@CaptAmehrican CEO isn’t the shirtgoat.
Unblame. I am having a great day and good news today
@CaptAmehrican Good news? Do tell!
@Kidsandliz oh lots of smaller things
Contacted 4 places looking for prizes for our weird tri all 4 gave me prizes, office max owed me a rebate it came, i lost 1 lb, a stranger assumed i was 15 years younger then i am, silly things that make a great day
@Trillian
Blame for the goat. Because I missed a buncha sleep again.
Deliberately, because trying to finish some damned something or other.
Blake for the goat also. Because that’s what my keyboard wants to say.
/image William blake
/image blake Drawing
@Trillian Blame. 7am-9pm straight participating in company meeting activities - ugh - tired.
The one great thing was the motivational speaker they brought in to speak with us. Brad Snyder - Naval Academy graduate. Led EOD team attached to a Navy Seal team in Afghanistan. Lost his vision from and EOD saving two Afghan soldiers also hit by EOD’s. 20 hours of surgery. Went on to win Olympic Gold for the US in swimming at the Para Olympics, and is a current world record holder. His book is Fire in my Eyes. Great life story of resilience.
@mfladd Yep, that was worth 14 hours of activities. What an incredible person.
I blame @narfcake for not putting even one unstealthiest ninja shirt on his sale list. You should have checked with me. Oh yeah, @trillian made him do it.
@sammydog01
My original list was a lot longer. Like waaaaay too many shirts long. I also ended up with a separate catshirts only list too.
@trillian
It’s hot and I blame you.
@f00l
@trillian I blame you that the antibiotic for lyme is making me really nauseated even when I take it with food and I still have 11 or 12 days left!!! Lost almost 10 pounds so far.
@Kidsandliz
@Kidsandliz Protein and fruit shakes?
@Kidsandliz Are you taking Doxycycline? I had to stop taking it. It may be the go to antibiotic for Lyme’s but it causes horrible nausea. Hated it.
@mfladd Yeah that is what they have me on. Apparently it is really corrosive to your innards. I have been taking it with food to try to cut down on that but the nausea is getting worse and worse anyway. Seeing the doctor Monday morning. I can’t stop taking it yet because I have missed two so far (including yesterday evening - fell asleep) and each time the Lyme headache gets worse. Bleh.
@OldCatLady Too much nausea to really eat much. Vomiting when I do. The nausea is chemo level. I keep telling myself I survived months of that (was damaging my liver so nausea from that that never went away) so I can survive this since it will be much shorter. Probably PTSD or something. Or at least that is my excuse for being a whining wimp instead of toughing it out without complaining. LOL
@Kidsandliz I’m sorry I don’t live nearby. I’d be holding a cool cloth to your forehead, and giving you tea with wildflower honey and lemon (helps sometimes with nausea). I’m genuinely sad to see you suffer. It just seems so unfair.
:-{
@Kidsandliz It seems mentions of Lyme are everywhere. I did not know this:
Our Dogs Can Get Lyme Vaccines And We (Still) Can’t. When Might We?
http://wbur.fm/2uiDKId via @commonhealth
@Kidsandliz
Really sorry it’s so bad.
I didn’t realize the antibiotics made every hour awake a pita or worse also.
My cake melted…now I know why there is a recipe for high humidity buttercream frosting…ignore the white fluffy things…those were to keep the plastic wrap off the frosting!
@mikibell Too bad all that work and it didn’t cooperate. I hope it at least tasted good.
@mikibell all 1 teaspoon corn starch for every stick of butter and you will get heat resist icing
@CaptAmehrican The kicker was, when I logged into Facebook that afternoon, this was one of the first posts I saw! And I had the cornstarch out because I was working with Fondant… sigh…
I’m blaming @Trillian because I’ll cross 10k posts at Woot pretty soon.
And because I’m not selfish, I’m placing some blame onto @PlacidPenguin too.
@narfcake
@Trillian
Unblaming @Trillian, just to start the week low-key. Biopsy of a Thing on my leg came back- medium pre-melanoma, they got it all, no worries. They check you scalp to toes with a magnifying glass every visit; I didn’t even know the Thing was there. It’s healing nicely under a Curad bandage I got in my last Fuko. Good Goat!
@OldCatLady Well that was seriously lucky!!!
@OldCatLady Good to hear!
@OldCatLady Glad they got it and you’re healing well.
@OldCatLady
Congrats. Very happy to hear.
I have belatedly learned to wear a hat.
@f00l people laugh at my gigantic hats, but I burn faster than marshmallows over a flame!!!
big ol’ gif version
Blame: catshirtswoot sent the wrong shirts.
Unblame: catshirtswoot is sending the right shirts.
Unblame: catshirtswoot sent the right mugs.
Unblame: catshirtswoot sent the right mugs. Again.