Meh. Steel Cage Match QTR1
8@baqui63, @carl669, @compunaut, @jbartus, @narfcake, you are OFFICAILLY entered into the contest/torture.
Let the games begin and start your engines and all of that other stuff.
I’ll go find the rules and repost them, and make up some more, or perhaps we’ll call these ‘clarifications’
/giphy air quotes
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hey all.
So, just to make sure I understand what I signed up for…
I have to post in this topic at least once every 20 minutes until I either give up or @DMlivezey creates the next QTR topic (after which the posts go in that thread)?
Do I need to do anything else?
@baqui63 Oh… just read you entire post and see that you’re off in search of rules and all… ok.
The first annual, or Meh.be last, Meh. Steel Cage Match is on.
d) All posts must contain a minimum of one full line (72-ish characters), only and selected GIFs count, not
/giphy cheater ones
The winner will receive 1) some of my left over Meh. junk, and other stuff my spouse wants to throw out, valued at somewhere between $10 and $1,000 (think $10.50), 2) bragging rights and 3) will get to pick the Goat for December 2016 (yea, I have no authority to make that offer, so just call me a big fat liar)
¯\\\(ツ)/¯
(⌐■_■)
Score Sheet v0.1
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Sincerely,
JBartus’ Cat
In case there was any doubt, I don’t have a cat.
@jbartus they tend to do more repeated characters, i was just trying to decipher your acronym
@DMlivezey just a button mash.
@jbartus well that’s good cause i was kinda getting stuck after the first 11 characters
@DMlivezey I will give you a cookie if you manage to come up with a coherent acronym translation for that button mash. You can skip the special characters as necessary.
@jbartus looking inward, mother finds that night goggles do stay black because having night goggles from ebay kinda like, hmmm, kicksit; / .
kicksit means just no sucky dumbo farts going back behind fun dog gunk, huh?
kicksit, umbrella? yellow lightning!, 6 udderly terrific mangoe joes guzzled behind halls, just kicksit
for in kicksit, ur just kicking yourself inward.
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looking inward, mother finds that night goggles do stay black because having night goggles from ebay kinda like, hmmm, kicksit; / . kicksit means just sucky dumbo farts going behind fun gunk, huh? kicksit, ? yellow lightning!, 6 udderly terrific mangoe joes guzzled behind halls, just kicksit for in kicksit, ur just kicking yourself inward.
I’m against cheating as much as the next guy, but if you can train your cat to type and submit something every 20 minutes, you earned it guy.
@Chops
@Chops Are you going to play?
@Chops you didn’t register, but you are certainly welcome to join the torture, i mean fun
@DMivezey Do I recall correctly that there was a rule that we could suspend the posting requirement for an agreed upon period of time with majority consent?
@jbartus you mean synchronized napping?
@baqui63 yeah I believe that was one of the rules proferred in the other threads by @DMivezey
wait. shit. when did this start? i was making pizza. did i already lose?
/giphy fuck me running.
@carl669 naw, you’re good.
@carl669 nope, you had until 2030 EDT, now you have until 2100 EDT
@carl669 you’re safe by twelve minutes.
@DMlivezey wait… you said we must post once every thirty minutes, not once within every thirty minute block. He’s obliged to post again by 20:48!
@jbartus yea, that’s how i meant it “every 30 minute block”, and i can track it easier, and you can catch a longer break that way to do whatever
however anyone offering to be co-moderator can make up their own stupid interpretations of the rules, terms and conditions apply
/giphy the small print
@DMlivezey I interpret the rules as they are written. >.>
@jbartus True.
@baqui63 @DMivezey FYI my parents always said I was born to be a lawyer… or a politician.
that one got deleted - the intent of it was to come to some agreement other than 30 minutes, not suspend, but i guess you could drag it out to 24 hours between posts, wait…
that’s called clicking the Meh.
/giphy button
so… this whole giphy thing…
I type / giphy dog eat dog (except without the space)
and it goes out and finds an animated gif that somehow matches dog eat dog and puts it in the post?
/giphy dog eat dog
@baqui63 ok… yep, it appears I figured that one out on my own…
/giphy smarter than the average bear
@baqui63 pretty much, the /giphy needs to be the first text of a new line for it to do anything…but otherwise yep.
@baqui63
@Ignorant are you attempting to get in on this action, our numbers are
/giphy few
@DMlivezey I’d be out in the first 30 minutes. I’ll watch from the sidelines.
I submit a formal proposal to my fellow competitors that we initiate a 6 hour posting requirement as of 03:00 and then reinstate the 30 minute requirement as of 09:30.
NAP TIME!
@jbartus which time zone? or in your time zone of choice?
so far i don’t see @compunaut or @narfcake, 3 minutes to go and this game just got significantly smaller.
@DMlivezey beat me to it.
Should it be in EDT (what meh.com uses)? Or DMlivezey’s time zone (which I believe is also EDT)? Or something like PHT (where DU2 is atm)? Or maybe one of those cool/stupid time zones that is 45 minutes out of sync?
@DMlivezey every other timestamp here has related to EST so I went ahead and assumed that was the official time zone for this shindig. Either way… it’s 6 hours of napping we weren’t gonna get otherwise so…
@jbartus @baqui63 pacific time zone of course. it’s the only true time zone. the rest are all posers.
@carl669 get with the times, we’re now discussing a freeform nap chit version of the same proposal to be consumed whenever desired.
@jbartus ugh. you people and your fancy rules. can’t we just make this a death match. we could have it in the thunderdome!
i’m kinda into making the rules a little more complicated, if we want to go and start negotiating them, like so:
with 90 minutes advance notice, player may use their one 6 hour nap chit, e.g. at 2200 i register my nap chit for 2330-0530, this means i have to post at 2330 and 0530 to stay alive
@DMlivezey we have nap chits now? Woo hoo!
is actually on a 36 hour no-sleep streak right now so the next 24 would be… impossibru
@jbartus that was a spinoff proposal to yours, not agreed to as of yet, but it won’t take much to reach a
/giphy consensus
@DMlivezey especially as we just lost two of our clan.
@DMlivezey @jbartus I’m open to it… been averaging less than 4 hours a night for the last week (getting caught up on some reading and tv) and I only had one cup of coffee today
@baqui63 @jbartus, even without @carl669 we have a simple majority, shit it might even be a super majority, so reply with your agreement with a HEARTY meh, and it is a new rule:
With 90 minutes advance notice, a player may use their one 6 hour nap chit, e.g. at 2200 you may register your nap chit for 2330-0530 - this means you have to post at 2330 and 0530 to stay alive
/giphy kapeesh?
@DMlivezey MEH!
Hearty enough?
and since i posted in the 2030 block, i am good to the end of the 2100-2130 block
@DMlivezey we also just lost @compunaut and @narfcake
@jbartus yup, updated the score shit as suck, or such
@DMlivezey unless we establish the nap chit policy and add a contingency that failure to post within a given block causes immediate consumption of your nap chit with your 6 hour window beginning at the time of your last post and your required return time being no more than 6 hours after your last post. In this case @narfcake and @compunaut would have to return by 02:00
@jbartus hmmm… not really complicated enough tho…
@jbartus well that’s a perfectly good reason for the 90 minute advance registration of nap chit rule, so you have to plan when you will crash and burn, and so i don’t have to open it up to more because tracking
@DMlivezey it was just an idea to keep @narfcake and @compunaut as qualified entities for another 5 hours.
oh!
diva jumped into my lap for some affection.
if I remember, when she decides to leave, I’ll try to grab her and get her to type something.
(fyi… diva is one of my two cats.)
@baqui63 eh… she got away without being forced to type…
So… we’re approaching the one hour mark, anyone not accounted for?
@jbartus i’m here. and eating the aforementioned pizza. (so i guess this counts for my 2100-2130 block?)
@jbartus check the score sheet, 3 plus me remain - Meh.
@carl669 what kind of pizza did you make?
Fuck time zones! Also, it’s fucking hot today and my truck doesn’t have A/C.
@narfcake I say it’s fucking rainy today. My SUV needed the oil changed and they fell behind
hotel echo lima lima oscar. india juliet uniform sierra tango delta echo charlie india delta echo delta tango oscar papa oscar sierra tango foxtrot oscar romeo november oscar romeo echo alpha sierra oscar november.
@carl669
yankee oscar uniform hotel alpha victor echo golf oscar tango bravo echo kilo india delta delta india november golf uniform sierra whiskey india tango hotel tango hotel india sierra sierra hotel india tango
I feel like I used maybe six or seven letters out of the whole alphabet just now
@carl669 and here i thought you were speaking spanish, whiskey tango foxtrot?
@DMlivezey
Echo sierra tango alpha mike oscar sierra hotel alpha bravo lima alpha november delta oscar echo sierra papa alpha november oscar lima echo november foxtrot oscar november echo tango india charlie alpha alpha hotel oscar romeo alpha?
@jbartus my head hurts
so… do replies to posts count? or only fresh posts?
@baqui63 ask @narfake, he seems to be the rule guru :wink, a.k.a. replies count
@DMlivezey @narfake is a fake. And probably not awake.
@narfcake stop rhyming i mean it
I formally propose we give @narfcake a pass on missing the first two periods with the qualification that if we agree and implement a 6 hour nap chit system @narfcake’s chit is only good for five hours.
@jbartus seconded.
@carl669 thirded, if he agrees to say spank you with a GIF
@carl669 thirded
@DMlivezey Please, @carl669? Also, a few fucks for upping the fucking fuck count.
@DMlivezey Wait, you ninja edited that!
/giphy raspberry
@narfcake yea, i’ve agreed to being a greedy editor in past
/giphy posts
@DMlivezey I’m going to regret this, aren’t I?
/giphy spanks
ah! she came back:
(She really, really does not like the keyboard)
any guesses why i have trouble logging into Meh. on Android? As in, I can’t do it. Check that post or time sheet
@DMlivezey works fine for me, what’s happening (or not) for you?
@DMlivezey hmmm
works fo rme… at least it did last time I tried, I think
@DMlivezey what device? what version of android? and which method of logging in are you using?
@carl669 galaxy S6, Andoid 6.0.1, it says i entered the incorrect password, ALWAYS
i use LASTPASS on my computer, which use to give me issues with multiple Meh. accounts
do you generally use you email or username? and is the username case sensitive?
@DMlivezey Username, no signs of case sensitivity.
@DMlivezey i don’t think the username is case sensitive. i usually log in with my google account. but, since i’m going to be in china and google is blocked, i tried to login with my username. i’m not sure i ever even set a password. so, i had to do the ‘forgot password’ thing.
@DMlivezey My firefox is messed up on Meh.
if you can read this, it would appear that I can post from my ancient android phone (using WiFi).
@baqui63 how ancient?
@carl669 HTC Amaze… I got it in … hmmm, I wanna say April of 2012, but not sure… checking…
March 13, 2012.
So is @narfcake officially back in now or what?
@jbartus yea, as long the posts continue
ok, we’re into the 2130 time slot, it would be much easier ON ME to only check on new comments, not replies
can i get a HELL YEA on that rule change?
@DMlivezey Hell … maybe!
@DMlivezey bah humbug. Point of order. We can’t vote on this rule change til we vote on the nap chit issue. What kind of parliamentary procedure are you trying to enforce here?!
@jbartus
@jbartus well actually we already ‘voted’ that nap thingy in - see my BOLD text above
so how about the next rule update re: only new posts count, since search through every post and reply for the latest reply is maddening now, and it’s only going to get worse
this is not a democracy, it is a
/giphy traveshamockery
@baqui63 Here’s the link you wanted from the other thread for FoodSaver bags:
http://www.foodsaver.com/bags-and-rolls/choose-by-size/11-inch-bags-and-rolls/foodsaver-11-x-20-expandable-heat-seal-rolls-2-pack/FSFSBFEX624-027.html#sz=12&start=13
@jbartus thanks.
either the rool that comes with the sealer from the other day will be a lifetime supply or else I’ll use it a lot and need these bags sooner than later. There is no middle ground.
@baqui63 that sale is only good through Sunday IIRC.
Y’all are weirder than I thought. Maybe it’s a good thing I missed out on the beginning of this ‘challenge’
@compunaut Us … weird? Why I’m as normal as any other mehmber here!
@compunaut If @narfcake gets a pass, so should @compunaut. Fair is fair.
so, we’ve got nap chits and rule change for replies don’t count. all in favor, say aye. all opposed, fuck off.
@carl669 Apparently we’re voting the nap chit thing here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/meh–steel-cage-match-qtr1#57522830025b0f040666c494
As for the rule change for replies… I guess that’s okay
@carl669 Since I was late, cast my vote for whatever the majority is.
@carl669 Aye!
and that makes 3 of 5 without @baquis or @narfcake voting
@narfcake rule for nap chit is for 5 hours in nappyville given a 90 minute advance notice of nap chit registration
@DMlivezey six hours, @narfcake’s is five. >.>
@DMlivezey I’m fine with either or both rule changes
@jbartus yea, that’s what i said - maybe i should have used some punctuation for clarity
I’m pondering of going to the market for some Bundy A/C. And maybe figure out what’s for dinner.
@narfcake well if post at the start of a 30 minute block you can buy yourself almost an hour of freedom
Once we conclude voting on the other pressing issues I would like to open the floor for a similar proposal for @compunaut as the one we passed for @narfcake with the alteration that the nap chit be deducted to 4 hours.
@jbartus What the fuck (still counting, @carl669?) is a ‘nap chit’?
/giphy nap chit
@compunaut a potential rule change allowing each player a single 6 hour grace period in which to take a nap. @narfcake’s was reduced and hour for being an hour late so yours would be reduced two correspondingly.
@compunaut @jbartus, but @compunaut needs to say ‘spank you’ with a GIF and ‘surly’ with another GIF to get back in the mix
@jbartus Shoot, that means it’ll probably take me longer to tap out
@compunaut current fuck count is 2540
And here is a post from my android phone using 4G…
@baqui63 yay! Did you get the FoodSaver link?
@baqui63 glad that works… as I’ll be able to post from my bike if it doesn’t rain much tomorrow.
@jbartus I did. thanks. see my reply above ^
/giphy spank you very much
/giphy surly
Like this?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@compunaut is in, 4 hour nap chit with 90 minute advance notice granted, unless a majority of then current participants says otherwise, with a resounding:
/giphy November Foxtrot Whiskey
Captain’s Log, Earth Date 060320162154. It is now nearly two hours into the contest and I find myself not only required to post constructively but to do so outside of the context of another conversation to simplify things for the scorekeeper. One must worry as to the potential effects of using the nap chit, what might happen to the rules while one is away?
@jbartus lol
Damn guys, he figured it out. So now we can’t just wait for him to take a nap and then have a vote that the contest ended early and everyone present won.
@jbartus
@jbartus I guess that’s the risk taken when the nap chit is used
Rule Change Proposal, @carl669 is to be required to include a West Side Story reference / GIF in every post he makes for the remainder of the contest.
Why? To spice things up.
@jbartus but i’ve never seen west side story.
/giphy west side story
@carl669 better check Netflix? xD
ok, it’s the 2200 block and i still haven’t gotten much help on logging in from android, but thanks for the idears
@DMlivezey if you have multiple meh accounts make sure lastpass isn’t fighting native browser’s filler
@DMlivezey i’ll try running it in genymotion. what browser you using on the phone?
@jbartus yea, that was an issue on windows, but i don’t think i have it autofilling on the phone
@DMlivezey My phone had jelly bean and I’m using chrome on it.
@carl669 i use chrome on the phone
@DMlivezey just tried logging in on an S6, 6.0.0, stock browser. used username/pass and it worked fine. i forgot how to get play store on a virtual device so i couldn’t try chrome.
i propose a rule change where someone has to go and get me some ice cream.
@carl669 Don’t look at me!
@carl669 only if they get me some first. Then I can make a frappe with my new Blendtec and sprinkle jimmies on top.
@narfcake I jsut had a popsicle (really, a frozen fruit bar)
FYI. Had a brief ‘Something went terribly wrong’ moment @ Meh.com/forum, but it’s gone now
@compunaut yeah I had one about half an hour ago.
It’s been five days and I haven’t placed an order at catshirtswoot or TeeTurtle. Hooray for procrastination!
@narfcake yay!?
@narfcake Or maybe you’ve just broken the addiction
/giphy break the addiction
@compunaut I’ll still be buying; it’s just that it’s been a low priority. Besides, if I go too long without a catshirt, I’d get withdrawal symptoms.
@baqui63 i don’t see a post from you this current time block, only a reply, and i think that’s a rule now, although if i do see a reply i’ll credit those, if there are no objections, i just don’t have the ability to thoroughly scan the entire thread, so i’ll be focusing on new replies
watching 2001: a space odyssey
When this movie came out, my father took then five-year-old me to see it. It scared me so badly he had to take me out of the theater.
@baqui63 I shall now be careful to make new posts (as well as replies).
OK. New thought. Do all words that end with ‘tion’ sound count as rhyming? Are there even rules about such things? @jbartus seems to know a lot about everything
/giphy rhyming
@compunaut what about cation?
@carl669 Malathion?
@compunaut technically speaking, yes they do, save for exceptions like cation, however it is a bit of a cop out. Rhyming with passion or ocean would be more impressive to be certain and worth more brownie points.
@jbartus But who bestows the brownie points?
/giphy brownie points
Eww; that first GIF was gruesome
OK; last chance
@compunaut brownie point bestowers, naturally.
@jbartus How about brownie consumers? Much easier to identify
/giphy identify brownie consumer
@compunaut it is debatable.
It’s cool enough outside now. 20 minutes of yard work, here I come!
@narfcake Are you in Cali? It’s pitch dark here
@compunaut Yep. SoCal, where it hit 100 degrees today in Ontario.
i stole the boy’s last peanut butter cup. because i’m an adult and i do what i want dammit!
@carl669 you got peanut butter on my chocolate!
@jbartus and you got chocolate on my peanut butter. now i must retaliate.
/giphy kill
@jbartus Awww; a ‘meet cute’
/giphy meet cute
@carl669 And I don’t see a ref to WSS, either
@compunaut
/giphy west side story
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Best Regards,
JBartus’ Dog
I forgotten how slow this movie is. I should take some Valium to speed it up.
So just to be clear, we have fully implemented both of the proposed rules so far as well as reinstating the two absentee attendees with nap chit penalties corresponding to their absence, correct?
@jbartus well, we had some discussion of a clarification, what are the rule changes again?
@DMlivezey sigh
Rule Changes:
A. @narfcake’s napping period is reduced by one hour for tardiness for a total length of five hours.
B. @compunaut’s napping period is reduced by two hours for tardiness for a total length of four hours.
@jbartus you left out the 90 minute advance notice bit on the registering of the nap chit, but agreed on the other bits
i hereby nominate @jbartus as co-moderator while moderator A (@dmlivezey) takes his nap
all in favor, say Aye!
should said co-moderator and moderator A have overlapping naps (not like sleeping together overlapping, but just at the same time overlapping, just to be clear) then another co-co-moderator must take the torch.
should all such participants as may still be engaged in the frivolity belaid upon us be napping together, metaphorically, then first said napper who awakes within their allowed nap, from the slumber of sleep, shall immediately become co-co-co-moderator locum tenens.
/giphy amen
@DMlivezey I think there should be special prizes for sleeping together overlapping or napping together non-metaphorically
/giphy sleeping together overlapping
MAN that was too creepy
righteous
i get all my news from one source
Ya know, I think I’m a lot better at replying to others’ posts than creating my own
@compunaut same here
@compunaut @baqui63 Me three.
i know what you mean, but you can just reply in a new post, that’s cool, just a little harder to follow
i’m just posting to satisfy @compunaut’s WSS reference request. (and to meet the 2300-2330 time block)
@carl669 I am not @compunaut, and it was a joke but thanks for playing along.
@carl669 There’s even a bit of purple goin’ on. Maybe that should be @Barney 's GIF
@jbartus
@carl669
@compunaut I don’t see anything on the gif. Never mind, I see it now. That’s MY gif? Hmph. But I do like West Side Story.
@Barney No ‘I Feel Pretty’ above?
Maybe @carl669 can fix that for you
Let’s try this:
/giphy I feel pretty
so, what states are/is everyone participating from (states of mind and location)?
/giphy it’s all in your mind
@DMlivezey the only state that matters, Massachusetts.
@DMlivezey I think @narfcake is in his dark garden or something; (s)he might not be answering for a bit.
I’m in N TX; had a beer w/ dinner & probably should have another so y’all don’t drive me nuts
/giphy narfcake dark garden
@jbartus Love Mass(achusetts), but not a fan of your whiney QB
@compunaut when a successful quarterback complains about a bad call he’s whiny, when a player who’s having tough luck complains about a bad call he’s fighting injustice. Weird how that double standard works, don’t you think @mfladd?
@DMlivezey i’m on the left coast in WA.
@DMlivezey I’m in Flushing NY (about 11-12 miles east of Manhattan Island)
@DMlivezey I’m in SoCal.
@jbartus Some quarterbacks complain on nearly every call; those get labelled whiney. TB is not the only one
/giphy whining quarterback
@compunaut when the league is biased against you in an effort to promote parity to drive revenues there’s a lot to complain about.
@DMlivezey i’m in MI (state of location) and working on getting a little loaded (state of mind)
@baqui63 is pushing the limits by not making posts, but replies, 2.5 hours to go until QTR2
(new background shading to track that, REALLY?)
/giphy i’m an idiot
@jbartus Ppshaw
I think there’s a Psychosis defined for your condition: paranoia
/giphy paranoid new england patriot
@compunaut The Internet of giphy doesn’t lie
@compunaut http://bleacherreport.com/articles/199345-the-truth-about-spygate-punishing-success-and-promoting-parity
Read it if you are willing to have your beliefs on this matter challenged.
@jbartus I’ve read that before; just don’t buy it.
Hey, not a fan of the way the League runs their business. In fact, I’m so fed up that I’m pretty much boycotting. Since our TV watching has whittled down to nothing, it’s easier than getting aggravated
@compunaut I think the first best step to fixing the league is to fire Goodell. Have you seen this one?
http://yourteamcheats.com/
@jbartus Goodell should be gone, but he’s the owners’ boy
I certainly liked it better when commissioners were more independent
Meh. Still warm enough to end up being drenched in sweat. It’s still 78 degrees. Still better than the 100 it was earlier, though.
@narfcake About 73F here and still feels like it wants to rain
/giphy humid
@narfcake is a nice 67degF here atm. Not sure what today’s high was, but the predicted low is 63 and tomorrow’s high is 81 with a chance of rain.
@baqui63 Comfy! And California could really use that rain.
@narfcake Wish TX could send some your way. Might be a few isolated places that are still dry but there are WAY more that are washing away or flooded
31 minutes until the new product, what do you guys think it might be? I’m hoping for a crazy sale like Maui Jim Peahi Sunglasses for $30/pair.
@jbartus What an oddly specific request
/giphy Maui Jim Peahi sunglasses
@jbartus i want ziploc bags. or some sort of ridiculously large water guns.
@jbartus maybe some DOA tablets, they seem to have a good stock of them, but i’d really like to see a repeat of those outdoor rock speakers
@DMlivezey noo no speakers, I just got my banana boat ones!
@jbartus eh… does it matter? it will either be something you want or not. at least none of us will be whining about the time it rolls over.
@baqui63 who whines about the time?
Off to take a shower now. I I’ll think about dinner afterwards, especially since there are supermarkets open 24/7.
@narfcake Sheesh. I’m already thinking about bed. The rest of the family is sleeping already
/giphy rest of the family is sleeping already
this feels too much like work, i knew it was a bad idea, let’s shake it up a bit
/giphy shake it up
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DMlivezey
/giphy earthquake
@narfcake
/giphy underwhelming
@jbartus oh sure, that generates something far more exciting…
/giphy facepalm
@jbartus I’m blaming @dashcloud for the lackluster gifs selected by giphy.
@narfcake blame him for the spectacular one my post generated too while you’re at it. That helicopter disintegrated!
Perpetuating
Unconventionality
Appreciated
#3wordhaiku
@carl669 Impressive!
/giphy impressive haiku
is it time for me to make a new post yet?
@baqui63 lol, you had about 12 mins to spare
Do You Hear The People Sing
Lyrics by JBartus
Adapted from Do You Hear The People Sing (1980) - Les Misérables (1980) - Alain Boublil
Sung to the tune of the arrangement of the song from Les Misérables (2012)
Do you hear the players sing?
Singing the song of outraged men?
It is the music of a franchise
Who will not be blamed again!
When the standards of the league
Change on the commissioner’s whim
There is a fight about to start
When Tom’s appeal comes.
Will you join in our crusade?
Will you be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the CBA
Is there a league you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give the league integrity!
Do you hear the players sing?
Singing the song of outraged men?
It is the music of a franchise
Who will not be blamed again!
When the standards of the league
Change on the commissioner’s whim
There is a fight about to start
When Tom’s appeal comes.
Will you stand against the league
So that fair treatment may advance
Some will boo and some will hiss
Will you stand up and take a chance?
The commissioner should
be dismissed with great prejudice!
Do you hear the players sing?
Singing the song of outraged men?
It is the music of a franchise
Who will not be blamed again!
When the standards of the league
Change on the commissioner’s whim
There is a fight about to start
When Tom’s appeal comes.
This is what comes of doing these all-nighter things.
@jbartus bravo!
@DMlivezey Jesus, don’t encourage him! He’s bad enough on his own
YES THIS IS ALL CAPS
I AM OFFICIALLY REGISTERING MY NAP CHIT FOR 01:30-07:30 EDT
PLEASE USE ALL CAPS WHEN REGISTERING YOURS
/giphy nap chit
@DMlivezey If you go at 01:30 how will you start the QTR 2 thread at 02:00?
@jbartus well i guess that will be up to the co-moderator, but wait… that’s you
/giphy congratulations
@DMlivezey how did I get saddled with this lousy gig and how do I get out of it?
@DMlivezey but you make a fair point - i’d be willing to adjust my request 30 minutes out, unless anyone objects in the next 23 minutes,
LET IT BE SO
@jbartus Cuz you talk (type) a lot. Get out of it by going to sleep. That’s how I plan to do it
/giphy going to sleep
@jbartus getting saddled is optional, it can just be anarchy instead, but i don’t think you are ok with that from what i am observing
I HEREBY, AND WITHOUT RESERVATION, OFFICIALLY REVISE MY NAP TIME TO BE 0200-0800 EDT, ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF MEH AND THE STATE OF MY BUTT
woo! socks!
is it weird there’s no thread image?
@carl669 for what?
@jbartus for this thread.
@carl669 that sounds like a job for @shawn
Because I suspect it probably got buried, have you seen this site @compunaut?
http://yourteamcheats.com/
I’m a pretty big proponent of the immediate dismissal of Roger Goodell.
@compunaut is walking on thin ice with replies needed to be counted to stay in the game
is anyone even looking at the stupid score sheet? it’s bringing me down
@DMlivezey you have the link for it again?
@DMlivezey link?
@DMlivezey apparently, i don’t have access. request sent.
score sheet
@carl669 I was actually trolling.
@jbartus i thought this was publicly shared for comment (not edit)
score sheet v0.1
OK, ok here’s my new post/comment. Satisfied?
@compunaut i can’t express how satisfied i am
@DMivezey gimme edit access for a minute to tweak a couple of things!
@jbartus why? (me says timidly)
@DMlivezey so I can tweak a couple of things that are making my OCD hurt. Besides if I’m supposed to be co-moderator how do I log scores for you?
I’m having decent conversations w/ fellow Mehmbers (usually via replies, I guess). Remind me again why replies are lower-class entries vis-a-vis this challenge?
/giphy vis-a-vis
@compunaut cuz replies can happen at the beginning/middle/end of the thread, hence i have to scour the entire thread every thirty minutes for all you fools
TL;DR it’s easier for me
@DMlivezey Got it. Maybe one of these whiz-bang software doobers ( @jbartus ) can make it easier next time you run this game
Hey, did y’all check out
all the
Ziploc
bag
threads?
@2many2no hey, i bet you’re super sad you’re missing out on the torture, i mean fun
btw, does anyone know how to do strikethru font here?
@2many2no we’re doing our best to ignore them all.
@DMlivezey You can wrap your text with double tilde characters to strikethrough
strikethroughhttps://meh.com/forum/topics/meh-style-guide-learn-how-to-post-good
I have the meh penguin fan from this sale …
… in front of the window. It’s working out nicely.
@narfcake there’s a penguin fan?
@jbartus Relevant link edited in now. Yeah, it was kind of stupid buying it, but it’s stupid in a fun way too.
@jbartus
/giphy penguin fan
@compunaut @jbartus @narfcake I guess it was a sloppy game out there today, eh boys?
Ok I still don’t know what this is all about (so much reading) but quick question… who’s winning?
@thismyusername anyone not playing.
@Thumperchick very true
this isnt’ about winning. it is all about losing
@Thumperchick No, no, no. The losers are the ones who are watching BUT NOT PARTICIPATING
@thismyusername in a steel cage match, if i recall correctly, you start to realize who is winning by less limbs about to fall off, and apparently more blood on the inside than outside of the body, so in our thread it’s kinda hard to judge
time yet?
@baqui63 i think you missed and i marked you out, but @jbartus might have found i am slacking, hold please
@jbartus found a reply for you @ 00:09 i missed, new posts please
oh yea, and your character count may be an issue when the lawyers get involved “time yet”
@thismyusername there is no winning. we do this for the love of the game. oh, who the fuck am i kidding. i’m pretty sure i’m winnning.
@carl669 not yet
I’ve had kids. The six hour nap that we now get without losing our place is two or three night’s sleep for me.
Maybe I should just skip the market and make pancakes for dinner. This may or may not be to blame for that thought:
http://www.teeturtle.com/products/breakfast-at-midnight
@narfcake breakfast for dinner is always a winner.
@narfcake Just tell us: Got out of the shower & that shirt was on top of the pile, right? Destiny!
/giphy destiny
@compunaut i initially read that as:
“go save the world summer roberts”
“you’re my destiny colon.”
/giphy destiny colon
@compunaut Nope. I don’t have that shirt … yet.
must… get… sleep…
but for now i’ll just post some random crap
was everyone able to access the score sheet based on the link provided? i know at least jbartus was
@DMlivezey yep.
@carl669 there’s a little IM thing there if you would like to partake
ok, 2001: a space odyssey watched
@baqui63 time for 2010 now?
@baqui63 Bucket list entry?
/giphy space odyssey
@narfcake CURSE YOU AND YOUR IRRITATINGLY CUTE POSTS DEPICTING ADORABLE ANIMALS CONSUMING DELICIOUS FOODS!
@jbartus Whoa, buddy. Who’s the one cursing in all caps, now?
@compunaut it’s cursing, it’s supposed to be loud and obnoxious!
@jbartus Blame RamyB for that - he’s the one who keeps drawing all the cutesy stuff. That was his market at shirt.woot and that’s his market still at TeeTurtle, extending over to LookCuter and CuteOfTheMonth.
@narfcake No, NO! You’re doing it wrong. Blame @dashcloud. Ramy is sweet & innocent (you can always tell from his shirt designs, right?)
/giphy sweet & innocent
@compunaut If you go back to the old shirt.woot derbies, “innocent” may not be the proper term. None of the accusations were proven, but unlike the reckoning sales, they weren’t disproven either.
Edit: I just realized this is pointless because I can post at 02:31 and just go to bed and be covered until the 09:00-09-30 period…
I AM OFFICIALLY REGISTERING MY NAP CHIT FOR 03:00-09:00 EDT
@jbartus according to the rules this means you have to post at 0300 and 0900, there’s no wiggle room
/giphy wiggle
@DMlivezey >.> that’s lame. I find a perfectly legitimate way to get an extra 20 winks and you take it away. :’(
@jbartus always pushing the
/giphy envelope
REGISTERING MY CHIT FOR 0400-1000 EDT.
So I’m thinking maybe we could all play a game while we play this… ‘game’. Has anyone here ever heard of Town of Salem?
@jbartus i love games, obvs, but i’ve not heard of that one
@jbartus a game within a game? what is this? inception?
@carl669 do you have better ideas for how we can keep awake?
@jbartus speed?
@carl669 Mountain Dew and a Snickers always worked for me
/giphy Mountain Dew and a Snickers
DU2 and her bf are finally posting pix from the phillipines
@baqui63 Who?
@carl669 legal ones?
@jbartus Aww, I thought you were going to show us how to cheat while the moderator was asleep
@jbartus actually, i’ve been watching ‘John Dies at the End’. good flick so far. kind of like donnie darko meets evil dead.
is DU2 an aMeh.rican?
and to get my requisite key stroke count up, i wanted to let you know that i am listening to a Jackson Brown song, but he’s a wife beater they say
/giphy beater
@DMlivezey are you listening to Stay?
@jbartus nah, it was running low, whatever that one’s called
@DMlivezey Running on Empty?
@jbartus yea, that’s the ticket
@DMlivezey not very good subliminal messaging for someone struggling to make it to 2 AM
It’s the other midnight, so time to check what I mostly won’t be buying at Woot. Today’s shirt is cool, though.
@narfcake find anything worth buying?
@narfcake Shirt made me laugh, but it doesn’t really fit my lifestyle.
I liked the Dream Chair, though
@compunaut $$$
I’m going to go look for a snack. Didn’t @narfcake disappear someplace to eat?
/giphy disappear
@compunaut Still not yet! I did however finish a second cup of lemonade.
@narfcake what’s in your lemonade?
@DMlivezey Water and organic lemon juice.
@narfcake yummy, as long as the water is inorganic
@DMlivezey I dunno. Is dihydrogen monoxide organic or inorganic?
@narfcake inorganic. needs carbon to be organic.
thus, using selzter (dilute carbonic acid, H2C03 + H20) would make it fully organic.
I find adding whisk(e)y to my lemonade makes it much better (aka whiskey sour, tho I prefer them unsweetened)
@baqui63 you silly chemist, you
/giphy science
DU2 is a mehrican and has purchased some stuffs. not sure what her username is, tho I can take some guesses…
Found her (I think): https://meh.com/@miranda
@baqui63 you’re a bit short on length
@baqui63 lol, postage becomes ‘DU2 is a mehrican and has purchased some stuffs. not sure what her username is, tho I can take some guesses’
i get those two confused all the time too
@DMlivezey and it got even longer… wasn’t sure how close I was to the time cutoff… (as I said, the problem isn’t staying awake: that is trivial until I’ve been up for more than about 72 hours… the problem is not remembering to post. I’ve decided that setting an alarm constitutes cheating).
“postage” was merely a placeholder for the post that I was about to make (the “postage” from my keyboard)
@baqui63
@carl669 yep.
Tho she was actually named for Miranda Richardson
@baqui63 i have no idea who that is. so, i looked her up. and i still have no idea who that is.
@carl669 hint: firefly
and now for something completely different
this country does not have enough bidets
on a related note, how many of the current participants identify as a female?
/giphy horse of a different color
@DMlivezey oddly, i was just talking about bidets to a co-worker yesterday. mainly, i was bitching about the cost of toilet paper and wondered why everyone just didn’t get a bidet. but then the question came up, how do you dry yourself after using a bidet? she said “toilet paper?”. ugh. back to square one (of toilet paper).
@DMlivezey I’m male and I have one of them add-on bidets from woot. Clean ass cracks shouldn’t be limited to one gender.
@carl669 You need much less TP.
@narfcake good point. i’ve wondered if those add-on bidets actually work well. i might have to get one. because i REALLY hate paying for toilet paper.
@carl669 Personally, I use diaper wipes.
I’ve considered a bidet add-on, but somehow see it as trouble… I’ll come home and the cats will have turned it on and filled the bathroom with water.
@carl669 They work well enough. I went with a cold water version; it was under $30, as I recall. A used bidet was NOT an option.
@baqui63 You cats know how to turn knobs?
@baqui63 i should get one then, put it in the master bath and have teach the boy to turn it on. 24 hours later, BAM!, brand new master bath!
@narfcake how would you get a warm water version? Most toilets are plumbed for cold.
In fact, I once stayed at a place where they plumbed the toilet with hot water for a week. I literally took shits in public restrooms to avoid that agony. It doesn’t seem like a bad idea for winter I suppose but in the middle of summer getting that radiant heat from the water temperature wafting up at you from within the toilet bowl as you sit there trying to do you business is pure agony.
@narfcake wouldn’t surprise me. they are, after all, cats (and not dogs).
@jbartus Some have dual inlets. Seemed stupid to me, as unless the water heater was 2’ away, the water will be cold when turning on anyway.
@baqui63 Another reason why I just stick to catshirts instead of cats.
@carl669 my son, who enlightened me of the bene’s of the bidet says it’s like an oreo: wipe, spray, wipe
much less paper than wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe
@jbartus so there are units that heat the water and even heat the seat, but they range from hundreds into the thousand range
for under a hundred you can get one with a warm water line - if you’re close to the bathroom sink there is a T that let’s you tap into the sink feed
it’s what i have in the current temp housing situation i’m in, enjoying it
@DMlivezey I thought the warm water ones had a built in heater. There isn’t that much water actually being used, right?
so, i found out that meh is not blocked in China so i’ll be able to keep my meh button click streak. is it weird that i was very relieved when i found this out?
@carl669 very weird. Weirdo!
@carl669 i saw somewhere that this site is super popular in Korea, but I’ve not seen much Engrish in the forums.
I wander, do Meh. ship to Korea?
@DMlivezey the out of country people use freight forwarding companies.
@carl669 Don’t they cost a relative fortune? How would that make sense for a bargain website?
@compunaut apparently, even with the forwarding, certain items are apparently still cheaper than buying them in their home country.
@carl669 Like high-end blenders perhaps (but not banana speakers)
@DMivezey I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I’m fucking retarded but I don’t care, I’m beautiful. I’m having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me “Apache” and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can’t accept me you’re a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.
@jbartus
@jbartus i feel a username change coming soon for someone with dreams of
/giphy sticky loads
@carl669 I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
@DMlivezey nice loading animation
@jbartus I think you and FroodyFrog need to talk. You might be made for each other!
@compunaut @carl669 @DMivezey are you guys all really not familiar with that meme?
@jbartus uh, what meme?
QTR2 starts in 24 minutes
Ok. Having a sandwich and a beer. That should put me to sleep easy enough
/giphy a sandwich and a beer
@compunaut I’m drinking rum
@baqui63 Straight? Or in a fruity drink?
/giphy fruity drink
@compunaut Or that might be @narfcake 's lemonade
@compunaut about 4oz dark rum over a couple of small ice cubes… takes the warmth off a bit but not enough to kill the flavor.
oh. muhammad ali died. (extra crap added to exteend this out to the required minimum post size… er… is this enough? I actually am not sure… so let us just keep on typing for a while because it doesn’t hurt to do so.)
@baqui63 RIP 2016 Edition already updated (nicely done @mfladd)
I’ve yet to take pictures of the Fuko and the BOC. Am I bad? And when I get around to it, should I post them on the wrong site?
@narfcake depending on the quality of your fuko I bet the post vanishes from one site…
@thismyusername Quality? Ha!
@narfcake it’s so easy to snap and post now, c’mon and show us that DOA tablet
@narfcake I want to see them both
@DMlivezey @jbartus I have to get up first. And that takes energy.
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/sloth-5k
@narfcake it’ll help keep your blood pumping to keep you awake!
@narfcake What, are you in your meh hammock or something?
/giphy hammock
@compunaut ooo, not bad for random giphy…
don’t forget to register your ‘time outs’ @baqui63 (6 hr), @narfcake (5 hr), @compunaut (4 hr)
/giphy nap chit
@DMlivezey Oh, I’m sure I’ll be out before I use it. I’m not in this match to win it. That’s why I was so disappointed other Mehmbers didn’t follow my lead
@DMlivezey eh… we need to do this how much in advance? It is only 2AM here, so early still. Last night I was up until ~5AM.
I guess I could register it and then just not use it.
@baqui63 you register it a minimum of 90 minutes in advance, As long as you pick a time after 3:33 AM EDT you’re golden.
This one’s done, time to mosey on over here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/meh–steel-cage-match-qtr2
don’t recall - where did we go from here?
/youtube where do we go from here