Meh Selection of Products Suffering?
5As part of my morning routine, I always look forward to seeing what’s on Meh. It’s been part of my routine for five years. However, it feels like Meh’s selection of products recently has gone down hill. Haven’t been motivated to order anything since December. I think it may be time to cancel my shipping subscription. Bummer.
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Excuse me, CANDY?
/giphy candy
(Yesterday I might have agreed with you.)
@sammydog01 I find his excess of candy disturbing.
/showme a speakerdock knife
/showme suffering products
/showme products suffering
/showme suffering
I give up.
And: Why are things “going downhill” when they are getting worse, but we never say they are “going uphill” when they improve?
@rockblossom Because continuous improvement is expected, and anything less is a disgraceful failure.
@werehatrack The Red Queen’s Race
@rockblossom And actually “going uphill” has a connotation of things getting difficult…
@Kyeh It’s an uphill battle, but if you stop, things start going downhill. Apparently, we just don’t like hills. That’s why things that are clear and honest are “on the level”.
@rockblossom
@Kyeh @rockblossom …and can someone please explain to me why the British expression for things going wrong or downhill is that things went pear-shaped?
How does that make sense?
@PhysAssist I’m not sure, but when I was in a glass factory in Venice, they said that a vase’s “perfect” shape was round. If a glass blower worked with glass that was still too hot, the round bulb would slump and become “pear-shaped.” I think the same is true of clay, so it might come from pottery. Or maybe the round glass “floats” for fishing net. I imagine a pear-shaped float would be a bit less floaty.
@PhysAssist @rockblossom
That makes sense!
@Kyeh @rockblossom I agree as well, of course.
Thank you @RB
@Kyeh @PhysAssist If it makes sense, then it probably means that I am completely wrong. Americans usually say that “things went sideways” - for reasons I can’t really explain either.
@PhysAssist @rockblossom Alternately:
The OED cites its origin as within the Royal Air Force; as of 2003 the earliest citation there is a quote in the 1983 book Air War South Atlantic. Others date it to the RAF in the 1940s, from pilots attempting to perform aerial manoeuvres such as loops. These are difficult to form perfectly, and are usually noticeably distorted—i.e., pear-shaped.
@blaineg @rockblossom That also sounds plausible.
Thank you @BN
Discussion lost on tangent. Trajectory still down hill. Not looking up. No one addressed issue.
@tomthumb47 Why would one expect a deal site named meh to do anything else?
@tomthumb47 Aside from repeating things we have been saying for several months at least, all of which are in agreement with you, there wasn’t much to discuss. Yes, the selection of stuff here recently has neither been interesting nor has it been interestingly sucky. It has truly lived down to the name Meh
@tomthumb47 @werehatrack
Lies!! I have placed 4 orders this year already. It would have been 5 but I got super busy at work on a day where the item I wanted sold out. Stoopid work!