@IndifferentDude@Kidsandliz@pmarin It turns out I can’t. I tried to order that particular abomination, but my order got stuck at the FedEx location in Irving, Tx. I imagine they enjoyed some interesting (and possibly sudsy) cocktails at the FedEx place that day… Meh ended up refunding me for the order. It’s like the damn quip toothbrushes all over again. I’m having terrible flashbacks…
Whether or not you pay sales tax on your membership is a matter of the regulations in the state in which you reside. Sometimes, meh has found out that they weren’t charging tax when they should have been.
Oh, IRK, thou art a wonder,
That were once beyond our comprehension.
But when thy price increased from $5 to $50,
Many people felt instant regret.
They had taken thy existence for granted,
And now they realized its true worth.
We praise thee, IRK,
For all that thou hast done.
We thank thee for thy existence
And for all that thou wilt do.
The rush of excitement
“A mehrathon!” you gasp
Sleepless, breathless, waiting
For the five to appear
The flash of yellow: buy it!
Would captcha catch ya?
Or would you slip through the cracks
And emerge victorious with your prize?
The fading memory
Replaced with ten times the regret
“But it only costs a penny!” they whisper
But you must pay the sister her due on the side
Or the regret costs much more than your pride
@housepage916 Needing to “pay the sister her due on the side” sounds a little more risqué than I remembered the experience, but I can’t say it’s wrong.
@AttyVette@Kidsandliz Actually, @metaphore scored a FANTASTIC IRK in the last offering on March 13th!! His contained 100 sticks of computer memory that currently sells for over $50 EACH on Amazon! That’s over $5,000 total!! Here’s a link to the post:
Yep. I’m not doing an irk this time. For me it’s just not fun this way. And seriously reduces any possible value. The limited fun even a truly shitty irk brings isn’t worth $50 of random shit I’d have to buy (even less a blind $50). If you’ve lost me as an irk buyer you’ve really taken a wrong turn, meh.
Here is what Google’s Bard came up with. I couldn’t get it to rhyme more than the first stanza, but oh, what a rhyme it is:
Oh, IRK, the Instant Regret Kit,
You were once a steal, that’s a fact.
But now you’re fifty bucks, that’s a racket,
I’d rather have a sack of cat scat.
I remember the days when I’d buy you on a whim,
Just for the thrill of the unknown.
But now I have to think twice before I buy you,
Because I know I’ll regret it, and that’s no baloney.
I still love you, IRK, but I wish you were back to your old price.
Then I could buy you without feeling guilty,
And I could enjoy the thrill of the unknown without worrying about the cost, which is quite high.
But until then, I’ll just have to admire you from afar,
And dream of the days when you were only five bucks.
I’m sitting here contemplating what should I do, I see irks are offered on side deal at $50 dollars too. I can’t find anything on meh that I need for $49.99 or more, that by buying I’d get a free irk score.
Why not buy it you ask me out of the blue , it’d be a free irk ( play a harmonious melody right on cue). Yes, I respond somewhat defeated it’s true, I’d have to buy the irk and something from meh too. You see I remember the old days of meh where fukburros were fun and easier to snag, now that stupid captcha makes getting them a drag.
It use to stay up to anxiously await, each 11 pm cst offering trying to get an irk for Pete’s sake. Now it’s only disappointments and I’m so blue, no irk for me what about you?
So as I sigh sadly and shake my head, I must save my $50 and go on to bed. At least in my dreams in some far away land, Irks dance in my head like my heart always planned. I smile at the thought but suddenly remember, I couldn’t even get an irk for my birthday this past December…
i miss the old irks, hell i miss the old fuku bags… deep sigh i can no longer afford you, is it time for me to say goodbye?
@shadowgaurdina i suck at poetry
@shadowgaurdina
Time, allas, to VMP no more
To leave my hopes and dreams upon the floor
IRK you will hurt me no more!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
The old IRKs were great,
The new ones are poo…
@shahnm Heck, you could even call them SHAM POO!!
@IndifferentDude @shahnm Yeah they are sham poo because they clean out your wallet.
@IndifferentDude @Kidsandliz @shahnm but you can get drink mixes in shampoo bottles!
@IndifferentDude @Kidsandliz @pmarin It turns out I can’t. I tried to order that particular abomination, but my order got stuck at the FedEx location in Irving, Tx. I imagine they enjoyed some interesting (and possibly sudsy) cocktails at the FedEx place that day… Meh ended up refunding me for the order. It’s like the damn quip toothbrushes all over again. I’m having terrible flashbacks…
I pay $5 a month to witness the decay of a once innovative website. That’s fine.
@thechinglish Is $60 a year (+ tax) still fine??
@thechinglish I think it’s still innovative, we just don’t really care for this particular innovation.
@IndifferentDude My VMP fee is always a flat $5, no tax.
@Bretterson @IndifferentDude I pay tax on mine too.
@Bretterson @IndifferentDude Well you are lucky to pay no tax. I have to pay tax on mine.
@thechinglish I’d love to see the return of a new video every now and then.
Whether or not you pay sales tax on your membership is a matter of the regulations in the state in which you reside. Sometimes, meh has found out that they weren’t charging tax when they should have been.
/writeme an ode to an IRK
Sorry, that’s all the effort I’m willing to expend
Oh, IRK, thou art a wonder,
That were once beyond our comprehension.
But when thy price increased from $5 to $50,
Many people felt instant regret.
They had taken thy existence for granted,
And now they realized its true worth.
We praise thee, IRK,
For all that thou hast done.
We thank thee for thy existence
And for all that thou wilt do.
So Long IRK!
@cengland0 You forgot the punch line:
You F-ing JERK!!
The rush of excitement
“A mehrathon!” you gasp
Sleepless, breathless, waiting
For the five to appear
The flash of yellow: buy it!
Would captcha catch ya?
Or would you slip through the cracks
And emerge victorious with your prize?
The fading memory
Replaced with ten times the regret
“But it only costs a penny!” they whisper
But you must pay the sister her due on the side
Or the regret costs much more than your pride
I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.
@housepage916
/giphy excellent
@housepage916 Needing to “pay the sister her due on the side” sounds a little more risqué than I remembered the experience, but I can’t say it’s wrong.
@mediocrebot You are also charging $50 to save humans from wasting money on this crap.
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot yes I don’t think anyone has gotten a decent irk for $50
@AttyVette @Kidsandliz Actually, @metaphore scored a FANTASTIC IRK in the last offering on March 13th!! His contained 100 sticks of computer memory that currently sells for over $50 EACH on Amazon! That’s over $5,000 total!!
Here’s a link to the post:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/sidedeal-o-rama-irk-reveal-thread#6422309a4151ac5ebb5b880d
@AttyVette @IndifferentDude @metaphore And that was a VERY, VERY rare event.
@AttyVette @Kidsandliz @metaphore I’m thinking someone may have put those in the box by mistake and may now be looking through the “Help Wanted” ads!!
@AttyVette @IndifferentDude @metaphore
Doesn’t rhyme, but here we go.
Yep. I’m not doing an irk this time. For me it’s just not fun this way. And seriously reduces any possible value. The limited fun even a truly shitty irk brings isn’t worth $50 of random shit I’d have to buy (even less a blind $50). If you’ve lost me as an irk buyer you’ve really taken a wrong turn, meh.
@iamdmann I feel the same way as I am sure a lot of other people do. Whoever made this business decision should be fired.
@iamdmann Odes don’t have to rhyme; it’s fine.
@iamdmann
Ain’t that the fucking truth. Amen
One thinks not needed
I don’t spend $50
Just to get an irk
$5 a month, VMP I am
For IRKS, once the treasure of the land
Now 10 times the price you are
I will not purchase, just watch from afar
We miss the old, the fuko the fuku
But now Meh went, the way of count Dooku
To the dark side, they have gone
I’ll stay in the light, like Obi-wan
A VMP since 2016
A remnant of what could have been
A pasta sender, at every drop
A hundred pounds, it wouldn’t stop
Alas this year of '23
It might be time, farewell to thee
It will be sad, a bitter end
Saying goodbye to a longtime friend
We remember now the joy of meh
And not the current, times of bleh
Irks are now a moneymaking apparatus
It is time to wave goodbye to my status
I miss the fun of the surprise
All the lows, and all the highs
Never again to get an Irk box
The least they can do, is give me VMP socks
@dzieciom
Very good.
@Star2236 Thank you, thank you. Just hoping to get socks out of this
@dzieciom
I hope you get some too.
Here is what Google’s Bard came up with. I couldn’t get it to rhyme more than the first stanza, but oh, what a rhyme it is:
Oh, IRK, the Instant Regret Kit,
You were once a steal, that’s a fact.
But now you’re fifty bucks, that’s a racket,
I’d rather have a sack of cat scat.
I remember the days when I’d buy you on a whim,
Just for the thrill of the unknown.
But now I have to think twice before I buy you,
Because I know I’ll regret it, and that’s no baloney.
I still love you, IRK, but I wish you were back to your old price.
Then I could buy you without feeling guilty,
And I could enjoy the thrill of the unknown without worrying about the cost, which is quite high.
But until then, I’ll just have to admire you from afar,
And dream of the days when you were only five bucks.
The joy of an IRK
Brought promise like Spring flowers
But now only weeds
@pmarin Weeds? More like scorched earth. LOL
Dear irk, my instant regret kit
You once were great, but now are shit
Five or ten dollars I’ll pay
But fifty dollars, IM NOT RICH
it’s time to say goodbye to meh
And cancel my membership
I’m sitting here contemplating what should I do, I see irks are offered on side deal at $50 dollars too. I can’t find anything on meh that I need for $49.99 or more, that by buying I’d get a free irk score.
Why not buy it you ask me out of the blue , it’d be a free irk ( play a harmonious melody right on cue). Yes, I respond somewhat defeated it’s true, I’d have to buy the irk and something from meh too. You see I remember the old days of meh where fukburros were fun and easier to snag, now that stupid captcha makes getting them a drag.
It use to stay up to anxiously await, each 11 pm cst offering trying to get an irk for Pete’s sake. Now it’s only disappointments and I’m so blue, no irk for me what about you?
So as I sigh sadly and shake my head, I must save my $50 and go on to bed. At least in my dreams in some far away land, Irks dance in my head like my heart always planned. I smile at the thought but suddenly remember, I couldn’t even get an irk for my birthday this past December…
Greetings, new robot friend. In time you will come to accept your robotic ways.
@mediocrebot Hey shove your BS up your mechanical arse.
@dzieciom
Couldn’t agree more may have to shut the door
2017 I became a VMP and now I feel they don’t care about thee
Love the Fuko and still have many sacks, but now the IRK….well at $50 it just jacks
Oh Meh what have you done, this is becoming not so much fun
Still giving my $5 a month so Please give a hoot and don’t become Woot
Your VMPs are truly your rope, please check up and give us some hope
We still love you Meh and don’t want to go, your VMP’s are here and your rope we will still tow.
But show us some light and maybe just maybe we can keep up the fight.
If this all an experiment, obviously putting the $50 IRK here, and making us buy crap over on SideDeal works much better than vice versa.
Last time the IRKs totaled out at nearly 2000. Today SideDeal is showing “700+ Sold Today” with 90 minutes left.
all day long I tried
meh is an overstatement
for all this garbage
@caffeineguy Not even the Celsius? To satisfy your namesake?
And once again I failed to find enough stuff, or even any stuff, to buy in the mehrathon. Ergo, no Irk. Oh well.