I blame @lichme that I didn’t get a big mac coin today because when my husband went to get me one, they said they didn’t have them but 2 hours later my sister in law got one from from the same mcdonalds. I am working and won’t get another shot. Dadblameit.
Well, at the moment single coins have an asking price of $10 all the way up to $1000 on “Buy It Now” postings. Someone has a single coin up for auction with a starting price of $5000. But hey, you can redeem it for a Big Mac!
First for my having been forced to bring my phone to a store despite knowing in advance that there was nothing which they could do (as the setting to be able to unlock the bootloader was never toggled, so they couldn’t flash the latest system image, and for various reasons, I can’t flash a certain zip file to try fixing it).
And have more blame for coming home to find people driving around looking for a bear in my area.
This is a sad blame. There is a very small colony of feral cats around where I live, fed by various people in my complex (including me on occasion) and the church across the street.
The kittens are starting to be weaned and I put out some food by my car since they were hanging out under it. Momma stood guard while they ate. They then went back under my car for a while. I needed to go to make a quick trip to the store to pick up a bag of cheap cat food for them and looked looked under the car. I didn’t see any cats. So I got in and drove off. Unfortunately when I got back I saw I had backed over one of the kittens with the edge of a tire somehow. Her head was slightly crushed. She was still warm. Fortunately she likely died immediately.
Her mamma has been circling all around and calling for the last couple of hours. I should have left her in the parking lot for her mom to find I guess. Right now she is nursing her remaining two and it is clear she is alert for any signs of her missing baby. I wish there was a way I could comfort her. It makes me so sad for her momma and remaining siblings and I feel so guilty that I somehow missed she was there.
@Kidsandliz I’m so sorry
We have several ferals that live in a vacant lot behind us and I’m always afraid something like this will happen during kitten season.
More than once I’ve found my neighbor’s cat (aka the tabby that catshirtswoot mails to me) under my truck. It worries me that one day, I’ll be pulling out and he’s still there.
@narfcake@stardate820926 In the future I am going to slam the door more than once. Start the car and slam the door again so hopefully that will scare off the other two kittens if I missed seeing them. As it was I backed up really slowly. Maybe she had climbed up onto the frame or something and then fell off/jumped off and I killed her running over her that way. She was lying dead about 2’ further out from where my back wheel would have been.
Mamma is back to calling for her baby. I have seen her pass the back side of the apartment building twice now. My cats are upset with the calling and hanging at the windows. It must be a special distraught pitch that they recognize as mom calling for her baby.
@Kidsandliz@narfcake@stardate820926 Awe, I’m so sorry you having to go through this. I accidentally ran over a puppy once in my driveway. I felt like shit for days.
But squirrels? Those damn rodents will flat out veer to get under my tires. Once, one ran like 50 feet to get to the road to catch me. I had no chance to stop.
@therealjrn I know. I just feel so awful about it. I’ve been watching these sweet little things play, sleep… so innocent about the hard life they will have as feral cats. Their momma is a good momma, the babies are well fed although momma is a bit skinny.
I am hoping to eventually catch them and their momma and do a fix and release and catch the other momma (who is the mom of the one whose baby I ran over), the two daddies and the other momma’s babies which I have been told are across the street born under the church. I haven’t seen those yet.
I am so sorry this happened. It must be so very painful for you. And for the momma.
Around here I think the feral cat geoups and the city office that works with them will provide safe traps and other resources, and take care of the vet stuff.
Will your local feral cat assistance groups assist in this situation? Do you have such groups locally?
@f00l There is dog rescue here but not cat. A couple of people independently do their thing. The problem of a small town in an area of the state that is very rural and economically depressed.
@PlacidPenguin@stardate820926 Shall I see if I can still get them? I could overnight them to you… And no. Just no. I will not get one to give a review.
@PlacidPenguin@RiotDemon@speediedelivery@stardate820926 Cotton candy is so seriously gross although as kid I thought it was cool how it “melted” when you put it in your mouth. Adding meat and whatever is even grosser. Might as well just dump a pound of sugar and pink food coloring on whatever it is you are planning to eat. These people coming up with this stuff are seriously sick (either that or they will be after they eat this stuff)
@Kidsandliz@PlacidPenguin@RiotDemon@speediedelivery
I still like cotton candy but these are just disgusting. TGI Fridays used to have (and may still have) a Pink Punk Cosmo that they pour over cotton candy. It was super sweet but really good.
Bought another Pixel while my other one is broken, and since my Nexus 5 is sluggish.
Unfortunately, even though it is an unlocked phone, my carrier is not letting me activate it on their network, since they said the previous carrier locked it.
Spoke to the main carriers, and none of them reported it being locked on their network.
On the bright side, I bought it (a 128GB OG Pixel in great condition) for $95 (with a little over $7 in eBay Bucks).
On the other hand, I’ll lose those eBay Bucks if I return it.
On the other hand (I borrowed a hand), I don’t need to worry about getting eBay CS involved if I return it.
Reason for that: In one place, the seller wrote 30 day free returns, but in another place, they wrote no returns for this phone.
eBay CS told me that they would hold the seller to the 30 day return policy.
I start random whisper conversations on the most random threads and by starting them from comments made by people who aren’t even part of the conversation.
I should probably start being more logical about it so that I could easily find the conversations later.
My kid has started going to camp. When I went to camp my parents dropped me off, picked me up, and that was it. Now they all have awards ceremonies and stuff.
Last week I had to sit through awards, talks, counselor introductions, blah, blah, etc. Come on guys, I have a 4 hour drive, I just want to get through the bridge-tunnel before rush hour. Hit rush hour dead on. My kid won a medal for best 2-stage rocket. We’re pretty sure they gave it to him just to make him read the name in front of all the parents and the heads of both the Naval and NASA stations.
I don’t know that kid. Do you know that kid?
Today is bike camp and I have to hike out to a freaking island in 90 degree heat with a heat index approaching 100 to see him ride a bike. Because I don’t get to see that in front of my house.
@sammydog01 I am with you here. I don’t get it either. Camp is not supposed to be competitive with awards in front of an audience. At least in my opinion it isn’t supposed to be. Sure if they do sports and kids want to sign up for a tournament or sailing and they want to sign up for a regatta, maybe… BUT don’t drag the parents out there just because they do that. And if kids win, well when they do announcements in the morning or after dinner (or whenever) they make a small mention. End of story. Camp is supposed to be for kid independence and doing things because they are fun, not for the “awards”. My parents didn’t even drop me off at camp. I was put on the camp bus that drove 5 or 600 miles to camp, stopping in several gathering points along the way to pick up kids. We had a blast on that bus. One adult beside the driver on that bus and a bunch of tween kids who were incredibly wound up.
@Kidsandliz They took an hour long trip yesterday. The driver threatened to pull the bus over. The driver pulled the bus over. Apparently one kid at least won’t be back today. It sucks how one or two misbehaving kids can ruin it for the rest.
@sammydog01 That is so true. I think there is another difference too that makes for more incidents like you described. I don’t remember on that long bus trip that any of us defied the adults when asked to keep it down, stay in our seats, etc. Too many poorly behaved kids these days who refuse to listen to adults and see nothing wrong with that.
I feel you, but the overall site just isn't selling large quantities of a single design like it used to.
There are 27 ECs this week, tho.
There are a lot of things that are different about shirt.woot now. I've been scarce for half a decade, and even then people were bleeding out from the community. And the community was a big part of what sold shirts.
so was a $10 tee with free (if slow) shipping.
so was an industry standard blank for that low price, with solid, proper screenprinting.
so was a long tail theory where eventually everyone found something they wanted, because there was a separation between popular, voted work and curated, diverse work.
As those things started eroding, so too did buyers. Posting 27 Editor's Choice tees in a side sale for one week is not only deeply non curatorial, but it's spreading a shrinking viewership across too many options in too short a time.
Eventually that effects the folks who are submitting to woot. You may have some prolific creators stick around, but how often is their best work going to be what they submit? Fablefire isn't a threadless alum (unless that's changed recently). She's not a cult favorite designer that got a lot of vote love but rarely could convert sales. Her work, at best and worst alike, was popular as anything Woot has done.
And while I rarely cared for that work, she deserves to be paid for it if she is considered worthy of printing.
Going rate for freelance art? Start at $25/hr and realize depending on who you're chatting up, you might be offending them with so low an offer.
There's a reason places like Teefury and Teextile and RIPT didn't keep back catalogs (I have no clue what they do now... I doubt the latter two even still exist). To do so meant an exclusive contract, and an exclusive contract means you have to be able to guarantee a certain amount of money to continue to bring in artists. Woot gave $500 early on, moved up to a grand, and after day one gave residuals. It was a solid move, ESPECIALLY for an artist who wasn't printed elsewhere, or a novice who just wanted to have fun with art. There were LOTS of non-pros printed in derbies. There were lots of legitimately poorly done shirts printed in derbies (Fable herself got a pretty longstanding hit by parodying one that was legitimately just cheap clipart: Plan B was 100% a snarkfest, as I recall, on a clipart winner a few weeks prior).
It's one of the best and most infuriating parts of the derby: literally anyone could hypothetically win.
But back to non-exclusive contracts. Teefury (and Tilteed, I can honestly say) got to flex their muscles based on that non-exclusivity. Teefury has mostly used it to skirt copyright violation, of course, but lots of designers in the early days were willing to take the risk because they knew they could re-sell, or re-submit, their design elsewhere. A handful resurrected on other similar daily sites. Some printed on legit catalogued ones. Some folks took their designs and sold them on their print on demand sites, to who knows what kind of success.
And if they never sold them again, they made $50 or whatever on them.
It's the exclusive part that makes this ridiculous for woot. They don't need to do any legwork curating. They lose no money putting up 27 ECs (though the artists likely do given how thin that spreads the average wooter's budget). And then the tees get buried in over 10,000 available shirts, if they're even still available. They make no splash, being on a side sale, and they consequently make no money.
If a shirt site can't promise a flat prize that is justifiable for the time spent, it shouldn't option a shirt in an exclusive contract. If a shirt site can't promise sales enough to justify an exclusive contract, it shouldn't require one.
You can still make your $20 more than zero with a non-exclusive contract. Woot is definitely more exposure than a quiet printshop page on cafepress. But if you can't pay an artist the going rate, stop doing side sales of new product.
@Kidsandliz It probably is. It is only 4 feet above sea level. The fort that was the British base in the War of 1812, and was burned by the British, is now underwater (learned that today).
@mfladd That is a lovely island. I haven’t seen much of it other than sailing by it some years ago. Wish we could have anchored off and then gone ashore. Have fun.
@f00l@Kidsandliz@mfladd There’s a new book out on the Watermen of Tangier Island. NPR did an interview with the mayor of the island’s town on Science Friday. Like many deep red Republicans, he was a hardcore climate change denier, but felt that the rest of us taxpayers should bail out his sinking island and futilely fight nature, spending 10s of millions of dollars to “save” his town of a couple hundred people and tax base of nearly zero.
So much for “small government” and defunding “entitlement” programs (like subsidized flood insurance on his island to rebuild only to flood again). Or, maybe, just maybe, it’s God’s will to GTFO a sinking island, and saving it is the devil’s work?
Oh, and his reason why the rest of us should pay for saving the island and throw more good money after bad? His brother served and died in Vietnam, and so the country “owes” him. Like nobody else lost anyone in Vietnam or any of the other countless wars we’ve started or fought in. What does he offer to sacrifice for them, just as he asks all of us to sacrifice for him? Anyone in CA affected by those wildfires lose a loved one in the military?
I’m blaming you because last week our breeder told us our puppy wouldn’t be ready to go home until the 14th so I set up a time to drive two hours to pick him up on the 17th. She emailed me today (2:30 pm) to see if I was picking him up this weekend or next. Turns out, she wrote the wrong date and meant the 12th and now I’m getting ready to make the drive to pick him up. We already have everything we need for him, but I had mentally prepared for Friday and now it’s today! Eep!
@Kidsandliz
He’s a ten week old Irish Wolfhound puppy. His call name is Badger and his registered name will be Fergus Romo Everett Crowley (please, someone get this).
@PurplePawprints He looks like he isn’t too sure yet about what he thinks about having his life upended. Hope he doesn’t whimper all night. Will he get to sleep on someone’s bed? He is pretty big for a puppy. Just how big do these things get?
@Kidsandliz Yeah, last night he was exhausted and definitely unsure about all the changes. He’ll be crate trained at night until he’s old enough to be trusted not to have accidents or eat things at night, and then he’ll sleep with the other two on my bed. He did great in the crate last night. Didn’t make a peep after the first five minutes and no accidents. I expect that to be a fluke, though. By six months, he will probably be close to 100 lbs. Males are usually between 160 and 180 at full maturity.
Because I had things to do this weekend that involved garage and outdoor stuff, and the weather needed to be dry for that, and it rained here like it was kinda trying to be Niagara.
Fri-Mon rain continues.
So nothing of my planned tasks got done and freeways were a mess.
/unblame
Summer rain! Lots of it! And spring rain and late winter rain and early summer rain!
The highs these rainy days this week were in the 80’s! In August!
And no drought this year! And this rain will knock a lot of the final excess heat out of the summer, since already about time for school buses.
This week the local forecast only barely puts us over 90F.
@f00l We had a lot of rain this year. Too much actually, and there were a lot of homes that got flooded… now we haven’t had any rain in probably 1.5 months. I really want some rain.
All your fault I burned my fingers making cookies to thank the folks at the local witch doctor clinic for staying open past closing on Friday to give me an antibiotic for a fast spreading cellulitis due to a fire ant bite so I wouldn’t have to pay for a ER visit (the closest urgent care is 52 miles away). Now it hurts to type. Whine whine whine. Unblame in that the antibiotic has it under control.
Blame: I spent $85 for a 128GB OG Very Silver Pixel last week, while I wait for Google to decide what do do about my corrupted Pixel which corrupted during a bad factory reset.
Unblame: I got a 128GB OG Very Silver Pixel for $85.
Blame: There was a known issue with the proximity sensor, so I can’t use the screen during calls even if it’s not near my face, and while I can end a call with the power button, I need to press it again to be able to unlock it with a fingerprint.
Unblame: I found a workaround.
Blame: I couldn’t activate it at first, since the other carrier had to release the IMEI even though it is an unlocked phone.
Unblame: Google told me that it was locked to Fi, and while at first it couldn’t be released without the prior email address, it was eventually unlocked.
Blame: I decided to see what could be done about the proximity sensor, but since I can’t provide the information used to purchase the device, Fi can’t check if the device is under Device Protection.
And the postage will run close to $150 to send (it is in Richmond, UK)!!! And not only that it has one bid and closes today at 11:30am central savings time so it will never be relisted again while I try to come up with the money for the postage (I have major neck and upper back problems due to a deformed vertebrae and this is the first pillow I have ever found that has been perfect- I should have bought more but Ikea is 480 miles from me and I wasn’t back before they were discontinued). This is the first time ever since I started looking for another one (a bunch of years ago) I have seen it listed. Sigh.
@narfcake By being in the drive thru all that time, you stayed safe. If you had of left before that, who knows what might have happened. You’re welcome.
Blame! I was searching for a reply gif to something someone said in @lichme’s “butthole” thread and stumbled upon this gif that made me lol. The problem is I am 99% sure I will never find a place here to use it appropriately, and that makes me sad.
What’s even sadder is that for some strange reason I can’t just leave it here. It won’t post - gif blocked? I also can’t process it on imgur
Blame! This month the dermatologist sliced a bit off a Thing on my leg. I have learned a new term, lichenoid keratosis. I’d rather not have one, or know what they are. It will ‘resolve in 3 months to 1 year.’ FTS, I want CO2 and I want it now. Not everyone with freckles and blond hair gets them, which means it’s @lichme’s fault.
@narfcake The concrete mix ought to slow it down, or perhaps make it into a Monsterous Concrete Critter.
/8ball Does concrete create monsters? Most likely
Moviepass retroactively limited me to 3 movies a month while I was watching The Happytime Murders. I wouldn’t have been so upset if it hadn’t been such a crappy movie. (@narfcake sent me here.)
@PlacidPenguin I think the comment is more because @RiotDemon is under the impression that @sammydog01 said it was funny, but also called it a crappy movie. I don’t think it’s and indication that @RiotDemon watched the movie under the pretense that it was a funny movie, but thought it was bad, and calling out @sammydog01 for stating it was funny.
@lichme@PlacidPenguin@sammydog01 I haven’t seen it yet. In the MoviePass thread she said it was funny, or I thought she did. But now she said it was crappy. I am confused. I guess a movie can be crappy and funny?
@lichme@PlacidPenguin@RiotDemon There were parts that made me laugh but more parts that made me cringe. If you go make sure you stay through the end credits. And it turns out that this was my fifth movie of the month so it was an extra freebie. Except I paid for a ticket for my kid who was horrified. Oh well. She should have looked at the reviews.
Blame! wOOt had 4 Nest E Thermostats for sale (open box) for $65. An asshole in TX bought three of them. Next, look at the RayBan sunglasses for fun - the same asshole in Texas bought the only pair.
If wOOt only has 4 of something like Nest, should someone really be able to buy 3? Not when I might like it!
Fuck Texas!
Lots of medical apts. Waiting on biopsy results. Why the fuck will it take 1-2 weeks to tell me as the results were likely available yesterday??? Been through this already with 3 different major cancers so I know how long it takes (eg not long) to do this. Too fucking stressful to wait this long. Do these people not realize this? Just upload the fucking report already. You don’t need to call me first. I can read. I know the drill. The only upside (not sure if I am being sarcastic or not) is that without full time employment I am not risking being fired over what would have been missing a lot of work over this. Goat stop pissing on my life!!!
And don’t forget the digger wasp nests near my base of operations. Although, the males are fine, and the females, while wary, aren’t really a nuisance (according to the internet).
Blame. So, last night one of the cats, Monica, was acting off. As the night progressed, she got worse. She was having a tough time walking.
We took her to ER, the did some hands on testing, came back with an estimate of $3300 to $4500. Uh, no.
She had a swollen belly, very dehydrated and a temp of almost 106. Could they just stabilize her and we would take her to put youget tomorrow. The y came back with testing her abdomen, fluids and and an antibiotic shot. But first, test the abdomen for FIP.
Not FIP. Cancer. Huge mass in her tummy. We said goodbye.
Unblame - it was quick she didn’t show signs of distress until yesterday. She’ll be cremated and her remains will come back to us.
@lisaviolet 14 isn’t that old. Having no warning makes it so, so much harder. I am so sorry for your pain. Our kitties are so much a part of our lives and it is so hard when they are gone.
I know one of my 17 year olds, Max, on the way to dying sooner rather than later. He is suddenly acting like a very elderly cat. His behavior has changed, he wants to do far more cuddling (and he is already my best cuddle cat). He doesn’t act like he is in pain, he eats, he climbs up on the cat tree, he is still interested in life… so it isn’t time yet… But when he dies I will have known it was coming. Yes I am grieving in advance but at least I will be prepared.
My 3.5 year old that died - that was sudden. She cuddled with me one night, coughed once so I was going to take her to the vet in the morning, went to the closet to sleep on the blanket on the box in there, and I found her dead there in the morning (even though I washed the blanket, no other cat ever slept there again). That was really hard.
@PlacidPenguin and here I thought we signed our life away to only wear them or give them away to family and friends (or enemies depending on what it is) or in a mehrican exchange
Actually it looks like they stole the wording from other listings…of which there is this on t-shirts, mugs, posters… where the only change between them is the element number.
@PlacidPenguin If they can sell the bags for that much, they need to get a job with Mediocre corp. Plus, if they did sell a bag, would someone be assuming that the kanji means Meh? I see they have successfully sold meh stuffs in the past. Wonder if it is just Meh.com fans or random people who appreciate the sentiment of Meh. I have questions.
@PlacidPenguin I could see that. I would be tempted to buy a Meh shirt as I have yet to get one in my size. I just think it is funnier to think about non-mehmbers getting it.
I blame @lichme I gotta go back to town to pick up sour cream because I forgot it the first time in town. The fact that “Shiny Happy People” by REM was playing and I went completely blank while singing it through the store had nothing to do with it!
Each year we have funded a project on one of the poorer Indian Reservations. This one is in Alaska, no roads in or out. Nearly everyone in town is below the poverty line. This teacher has never asked for anything before. This is a STEM project for both the classroom and will also be used for a club (robotics). There have been 9 donors so far and as far as I can tell they are all meh folks who have funded this. $805 has been raised by 9 folks, there is $499 left to go. The project has to be fully funded by Sept 14th or the teacher loses all the donations. I would really appreciate it if we could top this one off. @TheFLP’s birthday is the day this closes and wants it funded as a birthday present. If you are undecided what to do, please help this teacher. (thanks!)
The washer I recently spent a month and a half fixing just started blowing smoke. It doesn’t smell like rubber. Instead of taking the kids to the amusement park for the last time I’m hauling buckets of water, hand washing clothes, and making sure the house doesn’t burn down.
Cross-over thread blame 'cause us townies caint seem to pick out da bandit’s over in Troll’s Butte.
:noose:
Hi there! I had a pretty good thing going. I managed to not get a single mention for like 4 years. Not sure if good at hiding, or just not memorable.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I will try to not suck as a goat. I won’t be the best goat, but I’ll be the best goat that I can be.
@lichme
I found a picture of you.
Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiich!
@carl669 Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarl!
Blame 2x4 are not 4 inches wide
@CaptAmehrican Dimensional lumber hasn’t been for many many many years now.
Rough lumber is still dimensioned as noted, though.
@narfcake
You know too much.
/giphy dangerous
@f00l I work in construction. I have to know this.
@narfcake
/giphy dangerous info
/giphy useful info
/giphy up late
I blame @lichme that I didn’t get a big mac coin today because when my husband went to get me one, they said they didn’t have them but 2 hours later my sister in law got one from from the same mcdonalds. I am working and won’t get another shot. Dadblameit.
@tnhillbillygal It’s going to be interesting to see what big mac coins go for on ebay.
Well, at the moment single coins have an asking price of $10 all the way up to $1000 on “Buy It Now” postings. Someone has a single coin up for auction with a starting price of $5000. But hey, you can redeem it for a Big Mac!
@lichme
Have some blames.
First for my having been forced to bring my phone to a store despite knowing in advance that there was nothing which they could do (as the setting to be able to unlock the bootloader was never toggled, so they couldn’t flash the latest system image, and for various reasons, I can’t flash a certain zip file to try fixing it).
And have more blame for coming home to find people driving around looking for a bear in my area.
/roll 6d6
You rolled a total of 27
Welcome to your month of fun and humiliation.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is a sad blame. There is a very small colony of feral cats around where I live, fed by various people in my complex (including me on occasion) and the church across the street.
The kittens are starting to be weaned and I put out some food by my car since they were hanging out under it. Momma stood guard while they ate. They then went back under my car for a while. I needed to go to make a quick trip to the store to pick up a bag of cheap cat food for them and looked looked under the car. I didn’t see any cats. So I got in and drove off. Unfortunately when I got back I saw I had backed over one of the kittens with the edge of a tire somehow. Her head was slightly crushed. She was still warm. Fortunately she likely died immediately.
Her mamma has been circling all around and calling for the last couple of hours. I should have left her in the parking lot for her mom to find I guess. Right now she is nursing her remaining two and it is clear she is alert for any signs of her missing baby. I wish there was a way I could comfort her. It makes me so sad for her momma and remaining siblings and I feel so guilty that I somehow missed she was there.
@Kidsandliz I’m so sorry
We have several ferals that live in a vacant lot behind us and I’m always afraid something like this will happen during kitten season.
@Kidsandliz
More than once I’ve found my neighbor’s cat (aka the tabby that catshirtswoot mails to me) under my truck. It worries me that one day, I’ll be pulling out and he’s still there.
I’m sorry.
@narfcake @stardate820926 In the future I am going to slam the door more than once. Start the car and slam the door again so hopefully that will scare off the other two kittens if I missed seeing them. As it was I backed up really slowly. Maybe she had climbed up onto the frame or something and then fell off/jumped off and I killed her running over her that way. She was lying dead about 2’ further out from where my back wheel would have been.
Mamma is back to calling for her baby. I have seen her pass the back side of the apartment building twice now. My cats are upset with the calling and hanging at the windows. It must be a special distraught pitch that they recognize as mom calling for her baby.
@Kidsandliz @narfcake @stardate820926 Awe, I’m so sorry you having to go through this. I accidentally ran over a puppy once in my driveway. I felt like shit for days.
But squirrels? Those damn rodents will flat out veer to get under my tires. Once, one ran like 50 feet to get to the road to catch me. I had no chance to stop.
@therealjrn I know. I just feel so awful about it. I’ve been watching these sweet little things play, sleep… so innocent about the hard life they will have as feral cats. Their momma is a good momma, the babies are well fed although momma is a bit skinny.
I am hoping to eventually catch them and their momma and do a fix and release and catch the other momma (who is the mom of the one whose baby I ran over), the two daddies and the other momma’s babies which I have been told are across the street born under the church. I haven’t seen those yet.
@Kidsandliz @therealjrn
I am so sorry this happened. It must be so very painful for you. And for the momma.
Around here I think the feral cat geoups and the city office that works with them will provide safe traps and other resources, and take care of the vet stuff.
Will your local feral cat assistance groups assist in this situation? Do you have such groups locally?
I know this is very painful for you.
@f00l There is dog rescue here but not cat. A couple of people independently do their thing. The problem of a small town in an area of the state that is very rural and economically depressed.
I’ll bet a pair of trip glasses that @lichme has coded/will code a goatstalker bot to deal with all of the blame this month…
@jaybird 100% the thought crossed my mind
@lichme
Interesting
/giphy Just Code It
@lichme
I blame you that both @narfcake and I are up late.
/giphy late
@f00l If it makes you better, I’m on-call and was up until 5AM and I’m back at work already.
@lichme
/giphy Misery Loves Company
@f00l I was asleep already when you posted this.
@narfcake
How do you know for sure that you were asleep though?
@PlacidPenguin
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/youve-been-warned
You’ve been warned
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
I blame you for this travesty which I just saw online.
https://www.insideedition.com/pennsylvania-baseball-team-sells-hot-dogs-cotton-candy-buns-horrifying-social-media-44581
@PlacidPenguin @stardate820926 Shall I see if I can still get them? I could overnight them to you… And no. Just no. I will not get one to give a review.
@PlacidPenguin That just looks so beyond disgusting.
@PlacidPenguin @speediedelivery @stardate820926 try these instead?
/youtube cotton candy burrito
@PlacidPenguin @RiotDemon @speediedelivery @stardate820926 Cotton candy is so seriously gross although as kid I thought it was cool how it “melted” when you put it in your mouth. Adding meat and whatever is even grosser. Might as well just dump a pound of sugar and pink food coloring on whatever it is you are planning to eat. These people coming up with this stuff are seriously sick (either that or they will be after they eat this stuff)
@Kidsandliz @PlacidPenguin @RiotDemon @speediedelivery
I still like cotton candy but these are just disgusting. TGI Fridays used to have (and may still have) a Pink Punk Cosmo that they pour over cotton candy. It was super sweet but really good.
After a quick summer rain, in a national forest.
Double rainbows.
Pure blame. : )
@f00l You’re welcome
I blame you for my Gmail labeling yesterday’s meh email as spam, so I missed out! But, unblame because it was a product I didn’t want or need.
@PooltoyWolf goat blame workaround - check the site (
). I take it you don’t care about clicks then?
@Kidsandliz Rawr? Is confused.
@PooltoyWolf what is Rawr?
@Kidsandliz Furry euphemism for ‘What?’ or ‘Huh?’ My bad
@Kidsandliz @PooltoyWolf We ask ‘Erf?’
@OldCatLady @PooltoyWolf Well it must be the goat’s fault then that I am a “fail” for acronyms.
@Kidsandliz @OldCatLady That works too :B
Goat eclipse.
Well, the goat wasn’t eclipsed, but, well, just check it out.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180807.html
@blaineg That is one cool photo. Took me a minute to find the goat. Amazing piece of luck for whomever took that photo.
Bought another Pixel while my other one is broken, and since my Nexus 5 is sluggish.
Unfortunately, even though it is an unlocked phone, my carrier is not letting me activate it on their network, since they said the previous carrier locked it.
Spoke to the main carriers, and none of them reported it being locked on their network.
On the bright side, I bought it (a 128GB OG Pixel in great condition) for $95 (with a little over $7 in eBay Bucks).
On the other hand, I’ll lose those eBay Bucks if I return it.
On the other hand (I borrowed a hand), I don’t need to worry about getting eBay CS involved if I return it.
Reason for that: In one place, the seller wrote 30 day free returns, but in another place, they wrote no returns for this phone.
eBay CS told me that they would hold the seller to the 30 day return policy.
After doing the math, you get some blame @lichme.
/roll 18d6
You rolled a total of 63
This space is reserved for a private conversation
@lichme This rest of the space on this thread is NOT reserved for private conversation
@Kidsandliz @lichme
I start random whisper conversations on the most random threads and by starting them from comments made by people who aren’t even part of the conversation.
I should probably start being more logical about it so that I could easily find the conversations later.
@PlacidPenguin If it makes you feel better, nobody in the conversation answered me.
Ninja Edit: I lied, literally as I typed this, I got a response.
@lichme AND…???
@Kidsandliz She said yes!
So you are going to have hybrid children?
It is your fault I have been sick since July 18th. Was told today (finally went to the doctor) and mild pneumonia and pharyngitis.
@Kidsandliz
Here, maybe this will distract you:
My kid has started going to camp. When I went to camp my parents dropped me off, picked me up, and that was it. Now they all have awards ceremonies and stuff.
Last week I had to sit through awards, talks, counselor introductions, blah, blah, etc. Come on guys, I have a 4 hour drive, I just want to get through the bridge-tunnel before rush hour. Hit rush hour dead on. My kid won a medal for best 2-stage rocket. We’re pretty sure they gave it to him just to make him read the name in front of all the parents and the heads of both the Naval and NASA stations.
I don’t know that kid. Do you know that kid?
Today is bike camp and I have to hike out to a freaking island in 90 degree heat with a heat index approaching 100 to see him ride a bike. Because I don’t get to see that in front of my house.
Do parents demand this? I don’t get it.
@sammydog01 I am with you here. I don’t get it either. Camp is not supposed to be competitive with awards in front of an audience. At least in my opinion it isn’t supposed to be. Sure if they do sports and kids want to sign up for a tournament or sailing and they want to sign up for a regatta, maybe… BUT don’t drag the parents out there just because they do that. And if kids win, well when they do announcements in the morning or after dinner (or whenever) they make a small mention. End of story. Camp is supposed to be for kid independence and doing things because they are fun, not for the “awards”. My parents didn’t even drop me off at camp. I was put on the camp bus that drove 5 or 600 miles to camp, stopping in several gathering points along the way to pick up kids. We had a blast on that bus. One adult beside the driver on that bus and a bunch of tween kids who were incredibly wound up.
@Kidsandliz They took an hour long trip yesterday. The driver threatened to pull the bus over. The driver pulled the bus over. Apparently one kid at least won’t be back today. It sucks how one or two misbehaving kids can ruin it for the rest.
@sammydog01 That is so true. I think there is another difference too that makes for more incidents like you described. I don’t remember on that long bus trip that any of us defied the adults when asked to keep it down, stay in our seats, etc. Too many poorly behaved kids these days who refuse to listen to adults and see nothing wrong with that.
I still haven’t decided whether to blame or unblame you that Mr. XYU is back as his normal self at shirt.woot.
AdderXYU
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There are 27 ECs this week, tho.
There are a lot of things that are different about shirt.woot now. I've been scarce for half a decade, and even then people were bleeding out from the community. And the community was a big part of what sold shirts.
so was a $10 tee with free (if slow) shipping.
so was an industry standard blank for that low price, with solid, proper screenprinting.
so was a long tail theory where eventually everyone found something they wanted, because there was a separation between popular, voted work and curated, diverse work.
As those things started eroding, so too did buyers. Posting 27 Editor's Choice tees in a side sale for one week is not only deeply non curatorial, but it's spreading a shrinking viewership across too many options in too short a time.
Eventually that effects the folks who are submitting to woot. You may have some prolific creators stick around, but how often is their best work going to be what they submit? Fablefire isn't a threadless alum (unless that's changed recently). She's not a cult favorite designer that got a lot of vote love but rarely could convert sales. Her work, at best and worst alike, was popular as anything Woot has done.
And while I rarely cared for that work, she deserves to be paid for it if she is considered worthy of printing.
Going rate for freelance art? Start at $25/hr and realize depending on who you're chatting up, you might be offending them with so low an offer.
There's a reason places like Teefury and Teextile and RIPT didn't keep back catalogs (I have no clue what they do now... I doubt the latter two even still exist). To do so meant an exclusive contract, and an exclusive contract means you have to be able to guarantee a certain amount of money to continue to bring in artists. Woot gave $500 early on, moved up to a grand, and after day one gave residuals. It was a solid move, ESPECIALLY for an artist who wasn't printed elsewhere, or a novice who just wanted to have fun with art. There were LOTS of non-pros printed in derbies. There were lots of legitimately poorly done shirts printed in derbies (Fable herself got a pretty longstanding hit by parodying one that was legitimately just cheap clipart: Plan B was 100% a snarkfest, as I recall, on a clipart winner a few weeks prior).
It's one of the best and most infuriating parts of the derby: literally anyone could hypothetically win.
But back to non-exclusive contracts. Teefury (and Tilteed, I can honestly say) got to flex their muscles based on that non-exclusivity. Teefury has mostly used it to skirt copyright violation, of course, but lots of designers in the early days were willing to take the risk because they knew they could re-sell, or re-submit, their design elsewhere. A handful resurrected on other similar daily sites. Some printed on legit catalogued ones. Some folks took their designs and sold them on their print on demand sites, to who knows what kind of success.
And if they never sold them again, they made $50 or whatever on them.
It's the exclusive part that makes this ridiculous for woot. They don't need to do any legwork curating. They lose no money putting up 27 ECs (though the artists likely do given how thin that spreads the average wooter's budget). And then the tees get buried in over 10,000 available shirts, if they're even still available. They make no splash, being on a side sale, and they consequently make no money.
If a shirt site can't promise a flat prize that is justifiable for the time spent, it shouldn't option a shirt in an exclusive contract. If a shirt site can't promise sales enough to justify an exclusive contract, it shouldn't require one.
You can still make your $20 more than zero with a non-exclusive contract. Woot is definitely more exposure than a quiet printshop page on cafepress. But if you can't pay an artist the going rate, stop doing side sales of new product.
Blame
@f00l
More
@f00l Sorry, I forgot the pot of gold
@lichme
I already found it. Turned out, the pot of gold was simply the visual treat. : )
Blame: broke the glass on my Galaxy S8+ (still not sure how)
Unblame: Good day with the kids on Tangier Island.
@mfladd
Wow. Nice.
@mfladd Beautiful. Isn’t that the island that is slowly sinking in the Chesapeake Bay?
@Kidsandliz It probably is. It is only 4 feet above sea level. The fort that was the British base in the War of 1812, and was burned by the British, is now underwater (learned that today).
@mfladd That is a lovely island. I haven’t seen much of it other than sailing by it some years ago. Wish we could have anchored off and then gone ashore. Have fun.
@f00l @Lichme Semi-Unblame: I had insurance on the phone. $99 deductible. If they send me a brand new one, and not a refurb - unblame.
@f00l @mfladd Probably same phone with fixed glass.
@f00l @lichme Nope. They are sending it to me first. Then I send mine back.
@Kidsandliz @f00l I thought you would like to see a photo from the island, I took. The place is very quaint.
@f00l @mfladd Nice!
@f00l @Kidsandliz @mfladd There’s a new book out on the Watermen of Tangier Island. NPR did an interview with the mayor of the island’s town on Science Friday. Like many deep red Republicans, he was a hardcore climate change denier, but felt that the rest of us taxpayers should bail out his sinking island and futilely fight nature, spending 10s of millions of dollars to “save” his town of a couple hundred people and tax base of nearly zero.
So much for “small government” and defunding “entitlement” programs (like subsidized flood insurance on his island to rebuild only to flood again). Or, maybe, just maybe, it’s God’s will to GTFO a sinking island, and saving it is the devil’s work?
Oh, and his reason why the rest of us should pay for saving the island and throw more good money after bad? His brother served and died in Vietnam, and so the country “owes” him. Like nobody else lost anyone in Vietnam or any of the other countless wars we’ve started or fought in. What does he offer to sacrifice for them, just as he asks all of us to sacrifice for him? Anyone in CA affected by those wildfires lose a loved one in the military?
What a selfish dbag Trumper.
@f00l @Kidsandliz @mike808 There was Trump stuff EVERYWHERE on the island. I was wondering why. I mean even the boats were flying Trump flags.
@mfladd I have, unfortunately, lived in places like that.
I’m blaming you because last week our breeder told us our puppy wouldn’t be ready to go home until the 14th so I set up a time to drive two hours to pick him up on the 17th. She emailed me today (2:30 pm) to see if I was picking him up this weekend or next. Turns out, she wrote the wrong date and meant the 12th and now I’m getting ready to make the drive to pick him up. We already have everything we need for him, but I had mentally prepared for Friday and now it’s today! Eep!
@PurplePawprints Post a pic of your new fur baby when you get back.
@Kidsandliz
He’s a ten week old Irish Wolfhound puppy. His call name is Badger and his registered name will be Fergus Romo Everett Crowley (please, someone get this).
@Kidsandliz @PurplePawprints
@Kidsandliz @PurplePawprints
/whatdog
Not a dog.
@PlacidPenguin @PurplePawprints LOL on not a dog.
@PurplePawprints He looks like he isn’t too sure yet about what he thinks about having his life upended. Hope he doesn’t whimper all night. Will he get to sleep on someone’s bed? He is pretty big for a puppy. Just how big do these things get?
@Kidsandliz Yeah, last night he was exhausted and definitely unsure about all the changes. He’ll be crate trained at night until he’s old enough to be trusted not to have accidents or eat things at night, and then he’ll sleep with the other two on my bed. He did great in the crate last night. Didn’t make a peep after the first five minutes and no accidents. I expect that to be a fluke, though. By six months, he will probably be close to 100 lbs. Males are usually between 160 and 180 at full maturity.
/image Tall Irish Wolfhound
@PurplePawprints Lap dog. Right?
@Kidsandliz If he’s anything like my IW cross, yes.
@PurplePawprints Good luck with that
/Blame
Because I had things to do this weekend that involved garage and outdoor stuff, and the weather needed to be dry for that, and it rained here like it was kinda trying to be Niagara.
Fri-Mon rain continues.
So nothing of my planned tasks got done and freeways were a mess.
/unblame
Summer rain! Lots of it! And spring rain and late winter rain and early summer rain!
The highs these rainy days this week were in the 80’s! In August!
And no drought this year! And this rain will knock a lot of the final excess heat out of the summer, since already about time for school buses.
This week the local forecast only barely puts us over 90F.
So … Thx, Goat!
@f00l Yeah it is supposed to rain all week here too.
@f00l We had a lot of rain this year. Too much actually, and there were a lot of homes that got flooded… now we haven’t had any rain in probably 1.5 months. I really want some rain.
@f00l @lichme
The weather for the last month has been pretty much the same repetitive cycle by me.
Rain most of the week, then 80s (or so) the other days.
This past weekend involved a flash flood warning from midnight on Saturday through 8AM on Sunday.
I live on a hill, so it’s not too bad for me. Other places had it significantly worse.
All your fault I burned my fingers making cookies to thank the folks at the local witch doctor clinic for staying open past closing on Friday to give me an antibiotic for a fast spreading cellulitis due to a fire ant bite so I wouldn’t have to pay for a ER visit (the closest urgent care is 52 miles away). Now it hurts to type. Whine whine whine. Unblame in that the antibiotic has it under control.
/image rain
Blame: I spent $85 for a 128GB OG Very Silver Pixel last week, while I wait for Google to decide what do do about my corrupted Pixel which corrupted during a bad factory reset.
Unblame: I got a 128GB OG Very Silver Pixel for $85.
Blame: There was a known issue with the proximity sensor, so I can’t use the screen during calls even if it’s not near my face, and while I can end a call with the power button, I need to press it again to be able to unlock it with a fingerprint.
Unblame: I found a workaround.
Blame: I couldn’t activate it at first, since the other carrier had to release the IMEI even though it is an unlocked phone.
Unblame: Google told me that it was locked to Fi, and while at first it couldn’t be released without the prior email address, it was eventually unlocked.
Blame: I decided to see what could be done about the proximity sensor, but since I can’t provide the information used to purchase the device, Fi can’t check if the device is under Device Protection.
Have some blame.
/roll 1d6
You rolled a total of 5
/blame
So I finally found the pillow I like so well (not sold since around 2013 from Ikea (Ikea Gosa Lilja Side Sleeper Pillow) here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ikea-Gosa-Lilja-Side-Sleeper-Pillow-Dvala-Pillow-Case-Set-Of-Two/223092635724#shpCntId
And the postage will run close to $150 to send (it is in Richmond, UK)!!! And not only that it has one bid and closes today at 11:30am central savings time so it will never be relisted again while I try to come up with the money for the postage (I have major neck and upper back problems due to a deformed vertebrae and this is the first pillow I have ever found that has been perfect- I should have bought more but Ikea is 480 miles from me and I wasn’t back before they were discontinued). This is the first time ever since I started looking for another one (a bunch of years ago) I have seen it listed. Sigh.
Unblame. I finally got here.
High, how are you?
Blame, because I think @mfladd is a cat.
@narfcake Umm I doubt that would be a pet kitty cat
@Kidsandliz Well not the pet part. Or the kitty part.
You know how some cats will catch something in the wild and then leave the remains for you to discover? That.
@narfcake Watch out. Now you are likely on @mfladd’s list that is topped by @kittysprinkles.
@Kidsandliz @narfcake
@narfcake
Don’t you know your fellow cats?
@PlacidPenguin
/giphy I’m not a cat.
Blame #1: This morning, I figured “I had a few extra minutes to hit the drive through.” Nearly 15 minutes later …
Blame #2: I’ve only had two cups of coffee so far.
Blame #3: My mug is empty.
Blame #4: I used up my almond milk already too.
Blame #5: I may as well. It’s Monday.
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/its-one-of-those-days-1
It’s One of Those Days
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
@narfcake By being in the drive thru all that time, you stayed safe. If you had of left before that, who knows what might have happened. You’re welcome.
Blame! I was searching for a reply gif to something someone said in @lichme’s “butthole” thread and stumbled upon this gif that made me lol. The problem is I am 99% sure I will never find a place here to use it appropriately, and that makes me sad.
What’s even sadder is that for some strange reason I can’t just leave it here. It won’t post - gif blocked? I also can’t process it on imgur
@mfladd Describe it, then we can play let’s find the gif.
@lichme ok, 3 clues: butt, scooby doo, something some here might find inappropriate - which is even better
Butt, @KittySprinkle likes it.
@lichme @mfladd butt, butt…
@KittySprinkles @lichme Hahaha…damn you, Kitty!
That gif is so well done.
@lichme @mfladd tis a thing of booty
@KittySprinkles @lichme @mfladd
Any room for one more in the van?
Do you know how hard it is to paint a 5 ft by 5 ft room with 9 ft ceilinges without getting butt prints on the walls? Pretty fucking hard.
@sammydog01 Why would you not want butt prints on the wall? Seems like a good time to me.
@sammydog01 Just set off a few spray cans and close the door.
Blame! This month the dermatologist sliced a bit off a Thing on my leg. I have learned a new term, lichenoid keratosis. I’d rather not have one, or know what they are. It will ‘resolve in 3 months to 1 year.’ FTS, I want CO2 and I want it now. Not everyone with freckles and blond hair gets them, which means it’s @lichme’s fault.
@OldCatLady Sorry. I put the lich in lichenoid.
@lichme Staaaahp. Really, make it stop.
Blame that there’s another critter in my garage. And it chewed up the sack of mulch. And the sack of concrete mix.
@narfcake
What kind of concrete mix?
What kind of mulch?
How big were the bags?
What kind of critter?
@narfcake The concrete mix ought to slow it down, or perhaps make it into a Monsterous Concrete Critter.
Most likely
/8ball Does concrete create monsters?
@PlacidPenguin You mean you didn’t set up spy cameras in my garage?
@OldCatLady Probably a rodent of some sort. I set some traps last night, but as of an hour ago, nothing.
@narfcake the raccoons are building a fort.
@narfcake @OldCatLady @PlacidPenguin
There’s Shawn Woods channel on youtube dedicated to testing and reviewing rodent elimination technologies.
Tune in for Moustrap Mondays!
Here’s “Walk the plank”:
@thismyusername Haven’t seen any trash pandas in my area. Squirrels, bunnies, skunks, and coyotes, yes. But no trash pandas.
@narfcake clearly these are fort building ninja trash pandas. leave some cinder blocks outside so they don’t have to break in.
@narfcake
Nah. That would be a waste of a camera.
@mike808 I realize that there are times you need to get rid of mice but this makes me sad they drown…
Unblame: My new Chromebook is everything I wanted and more. Except fucking huge! Worth the extra money.
@mfladd Happy to help!
Blame: Catshirtswoot didn’t rollover tonight. Nor did the main site.
/wootstalker woot
Samsung Phones - Your Choice
Price: $129.99 - $239.99
Condition: New
/wootstalker shirt
Thirteen
Price: $15.00
Condition: New
@narfcake Shirt is up now, although the API still shows the old one.
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/the-grumpy-tree
The Grumpy Tree
Price: $15.00
Condition: Probably New
Moviepass retroactively limited me to 3 movies a month while I was watching The Happytime Murders. I wouldn’t have been so upset if it hadn’t been such a crappy movie. (@narfcake sent me here.)
@sammydog01 I haven’t been to the movies in over 2 years, I almost forget what it’s like.
@sammydog01 I thought you said it was funny?
So it was “@sammydog01 funny”, but not “@RiotDemon funny”?
Hmmm…
@PlacidPenguin I think the comment is more because @RiotDemon is under the impression that @sammydog01 said it was funny, but also called it a crappy movie. I don’t think it’s and indication that @RiotDemon watched the movie under the pretense that it was a funny movie, but thought it was bad, and calling out @sammydog01 for stating it was funny.
@lichme @PlacidPenguin @sammydog01 I haven’t seen it yet. In the MoviePass thread she said it was funny, or I thought she did. But now she said it was crappy. I am confused. I guess a movie can be crappy and funny?
@lichme @PlacidPenguin @RiotDemon There were parts that made me laugh but more parts that made me cringe. If you go make sure you stay through the end credits. And it turns out that this was my fifth movie of the month so it was an extra freebie. Except I paid for a ticket for my kid who was horrified. Oh well. She should have looked at the reviews.
@lichme @RiotDemon @sammydog01
Blame! wOOt had 4 Nest E Thermostats for sale (open box) for $65. An asshole in TX bought three of them. Next, look at the RayBan sunglasses for fun - the same asshole in Texas bought the only pair.
If wOOt only has 4 of something like Nest, should someone really be able to buy 3? Not when I might like it!
Fuck Texas!
@mfladd
@compunaut @mfladd
/image “come and take it” flag
@f00l Have that person give me one of his 3 Nests (which will probably go on eBay) and I won’t have to come and take it!
Lots of medical apts. Waiting on biopsy results. Why the fuck will it take 1-2 weeks to tell me as the results were likely available yesterday??? Been through this already with 3 different major cancers so I know how long it takes (eg not long) to do this. Too fucking stressful to wait this long. Do these people not realize this? Just upload the fucking report already. You don’t need to call me first. I can read. I know the drill. The only upside (not sure if I am being sarcastic or not) is that without full time employment I am not risking being fired over what would have been missing a lot of work over this. Goat stop pissing on my life!!!
@Kidsandliz
This one wasn’t me, I promise!
@lichme Tough luck you are the goat and I get to blame you guilty or not!
@lichme SEE?!?!? That’s your job!
I was using my box cutter before.
All of a sudden, the blade slipped and made contact with a pinky of mine.
Used a tissue whole I went to get a Band-Aid.
Opened up the Band-Aid after leaving where they’re kept, and it ripped in two.
Used another tissue while I went to get a new Band-Aid.
Bleeding slowed down by that point.
Band-Aid has been successfully applied.
Take a heaping of blame.
/roll 7d6
You rolled a total of 21
@PlacidPenguin
/giphy penguin pinky
@narfcake
Now I’m dealing with a spider bite. Not sure when it happened though.
Thankfully, even though I was not at my base of operations, I still had access to a tube of Hydrocortisone, so that helped.
@PlacidPenguin today has not been your day for sure
@PlacidPenguin
/giphy spider penguin
@Kidsandliz
Could have been significantly worse.
Was near a couple of active bee hives…
And don’t forget the digger wasp nests near my base of operations. Although, the males are fine, and the females, while wary, aren’t really a nuisance (according to the internet).
@narfcake
Reminds me of a penguin plushie I got a couple of days ago.
@PlacidPenguin
and of course everything on the internet is true…
Blame. So, last night one of the cats, Monica, was acting off. As the night progressed, she got worse. She was having a tough time walking.
We took her to ER, the did some hands on testing, came back with an estimate of $3300 to $4500. Uh, no.
She had a swollen belly, very dehydrated and a temp of almost 106. Could they just stabilize her and we would take her to put youget tomorrow. The y came back with testing her abdomen, fluids and and an antibiotic shot. But first, test the abdomen for FIP.
Not FIP. Cancer. Huge mass in her tummy. We said goodbye.
Unblame - it was quick she didn’t show signs of distress until yesterday. She’ll be cremated and her remains will come back to us.
@lisaviolet so sorry.
@lisaviolet Condolences over the loss of your beloved pet
She passed loved. Pets don’t ask for more than that.
@lisaviolet That is incredibly sad. Good she wasn’t suffering but so hard to lose them so unexpectedly. Was she one of your elderly ones?
@lisaviolet
That’s so sad and painful.
I hope all persons and cats still in your family are all close to you and to each other tonite.
@lisaviolet hugs. I’m sorry.
@Kidsandliz Well, I guess at this point, they’re all elderly, but she was only fourteen. Her birthday was the third.
This one is hitting me pretty hard.
@lisaviolet 14 isn’t that old. Having no warning makes it so, so much harder. I am so sorry for your pain. Our kitties are so much a part of our lives and it is so hard when they are gone.
I know one of my 17 year olds, Max, on the way to dying sooner rather than later. He is suddenly acting like a very elderly cat. His behavior has changed, he wants to do far more cuddling (and he is already my best cuddle cat). He doesn’t act like he is in pain, he eats, he climbs up on the cat tree, he is still interested in life… so it isn’t time yet… But when he dies I will have known it was coming. Yes I am grieving in advance but at least I will be prepared.
My 3.5 year old that died - that was sudden. She cuddled with me one night, coughed once so I was going to take her to the vet in the morning, went to the closet to sleep on the blanket on the box in there, and I found her dead there in the morning (even though I washed the blanket, no other cat ever slept there again). That was really hard.
Not sure how to react to the title of this listing.
This is the same person who sold a Meh coozie.
They still have the cranberry t-shirt up for sale.
Now they’re also selling 4 Fuko bags. Oh, and a forest green Meh t-shirt.
@PlacidPenguin and here I thought we signed our life away to only wear them or give them away to family and friends (or enemies depending on what it is) or in a mehrican exchange
Actually it looks like they stole the wording from other listings…of which there is this on t-shirts, mugs, posters… where the only change between them is the element number.
@PlacidPenguin If they can sell the bags for that much, they need to get a job with Mediocre corp. Plus, if they did sell a bag, would someone be assuming that the kanji means Meh? I see they have successfully sold meh stuffs in the past. Wonder if it is just Meh.com fans or random people who appreciate the sentiment of Meh. I have questions.
@tnhillbillygal
Some of their recent Meh gear was bought by mehmbers did due to those mehmbers not having the gear.
@PlacidPenguin I could see that. I would be tempted to buy a Meh shirt as I have yet to get one in my size. I just think it is funnier to think about non-mehmbers getting it.
@tnhillbillygal
Mehmbers have found various Meh t-shirts in thrift stores.
I would assume that that means that more shirts were bought by non-mehmbers, even if mehmbers bought these (thrift store) shirts.
@PlacidPenguin There could be an army of unaware Mehmebers out there!
@tnhillbillygal
Now THAT would be funny.
Blame! My new Chromebook is a touchscreen. After an entire week of using it - do you think I remembered that it was and touched the screen once? No.
“DERP”
@mfladd
When I first got my Chromebook, I disabled the touch pad.
I now keep it enabled, though I used the touchscreen when navigating, and key shortcuts to switch between problems/apps/windows.
@PlacidPenguin Did you put a screen protector on yours? Or, does that cause problems with the TS?
@mfladd
The thought never crossed my mind.
@mfladd
You’re going to have to up your game if you want to keep your resident asshole badge all shiny.
/giphy tsk
@mfladd You should touch every screen you come across now, just to be sure.
Goats are becoming the new dog. What?
https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/goats-like-it-when-you-smile-at-them-science-says.html
I blame @lichme I gotta go back to town to pick up sour cream because I forgot it the first time in town. The fact that “Shiny Happy People” by REM was playing and I went completely blank while singing it through the store had nothing to do with it!
Your fault this school project isn’t funded yet. $805 raised, $499 to go.
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/ais-are-us/3245651/
Each year we have funded a project on one of the poorer Indian Reservations. This one is in Alaska, no roads in or out. Nearly everyone in town is below the poverty line. This teacher has never asked for anything before. This is a STEM project for both the classroom and will also be used for a club (robotics). There have been 9 donors so far and as far as I can tell they are all meh folks who have funded this. $805 has been raised by 9 folks, there is $499 left to go. The project has to be fully funded by Sept 14th or the teacher loses all the donations. I would really appreciate it if we could top this one off. @TheFLP’s birthday is the day this closes and wants it funded as a birthday present. If you are undecided what to do, please help this teacher. (thanks!)
@Kidsandliz Yup, totally @lichme’s fault.
Oh cool - sort of unblame $399 to go as someone just donated $100.
PS THANK YOU!!
Edit - than you to the donor not the goat
The washer I recently spent a month and a half fixing just started blowing smoke. It doesn’t smell like rubber. Instead of taking the kids to the amusement park for the last time I’m hauling buckets of water, hand washing clothes, and making sure the house doesn’t burn down.
@sammydog01
This is a pre-existing condition, blame belongs to last month’s goat.
@lichme but the smoke started THIS month so that’s your job (grin)