@mediocrebot That’ll do, bot… That’ll do.

@shahnm I bought these for my buddy who grows his own and whose Mom (RIP) used to collect garden gnomes so they are all over his house. there are no children nearby to offend although they might offend his father and I’m on board with that.

@heartny Soda cans are much more standard, though!

@heartny Cut them some slack - they’re a little baked…

@heartny @shahnm

They’re a little baked…

As in half baked

@Kyeh Soda cans are not more standard in my world, since I don’t drink soda and wouldn’t have a can handy. I do however eat bananas and would have them handy. I even carry a plastic one on a key chain in case an emergency arises needing scale.

@heartny But which ones?

@heartny @Kyeh the measuring banana is a good idea but how do you bring it with you everywhere? Front pants pocket? Could be interesting.

@Kyeh @pmarin You’d finally get to use the line, “Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me.” Might not be as effective if you’re a gal though.

@heartny @Kyeh If I weren’t so lazy busy indifferent I’d track down different size soda cans and take a picture of them. I’ll just have to ask everyone to use their imaginations.

Probably I could check the interwebs. Hmm. Okay.


I expected to find more consumer photos of things they found in stores (or at home), but instead found a lot of diagrams. And other unrelated (and useless) crap. So I narrowed it down to the two I felt were best.

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No, I don’t think anybody really needed to see this; I’ve assumed everyone [who cares at all] has already seen different can sizes. (especially if you’ve ever been shopping in an Asian market) But I was surprised at how many “standard” sizes there actually were. (I’d been guessing around four.)

In short, soda cans and bananas are approximately equal in their usefulness: only good for a vague sense of size, not for actual measurement. But bananas are funnier (because repetition memes!), so bananas win. That’s why I keep one in my pocket all the time.

@heartny @xobzoo Okay, touché. But I looked at the picture again and realized they could have used anything - because they gave the measurement of the can! So they could have used a kitten, or a cabbage, or anything smaller than the gnomes themselves!

@Kyeh Absolutely! But if we go based only on the measurements provided, we didn’t need a can or anything else at all.

The can gives an approximate size, and is good for basic visualization, but actual measurement is necessary.
Probably showing it in somebody’s hand would’ve been best, if we don’t get to at least laugh at a banana.

Extra thoughts: We don’t necessarily need the kitten/cabbage to be smaller than the gnomes, just vaguely within the size range. Showing that “it’s a little smaller than X” is just as good as “it’s a little larger than Y” in most cases.
/showme a kitten cabbage next to a garden gnome
Now, if we had any idea what size a kitten cabbage is, we’d know roughly how big that gnome is.

@heartny I think you meant to say sheesha! Or is it shisha?

@xobzoo Yuck. Poor kitten.

@Kyeh @xobzoo The cabbage kitten conceptually reminds me of this banana balloon dog I got for my birthday, which could probably be used for scale.

@heartny @xobzoo That’s a lot better.

@heartny @Kidsandliz @shahnm
Half Baked is ok but we recently discovered Dirt Cake and OMG is THAT over the top DE-FREAKIN-LICIOUS!

@jpc1080
I know… don’t you love it!

@llangley Meh-staken is right… it won’t let you finalize the purchase with just one in your cart. Sorry, stoner!

@llangley dude! I just pulled a fast one on MEH I went ahead and ordered three, lol and then when I went to go check out, it only charged me for two dude let’s see if that third one shows up I say yes

@bugger @llangley It won’t. Go back to your order and you’ll just see the first two.

@bugger @llangley @werehatrack can’t mess with “the Man,” dude!

@bugger @llangley @pmarin @werehatrack “The Mehn.”

@fuzzmanmatt
ISWYDT!

@Pony I think you meant we lit a new high…

@llangley @Pony beat me to it!

@Ob4l Doesn’t every (gnome) family have that one (gnome) family mehmber who isn’t really welcome in the (gnome) family group photos…?

@Ob4l @shahnm yeah but your nephews and nieces will always go outside with him out back. Or with some people I knew, “the garage” had a special meaning.

@Ob4l @pmarin @shahnm Don’t you mean gnephews and gnieces?

@Kidsandliz agree fully. And a little bit yes.

@MaddoxJKingsley forward thinker, right here.

@mediocrebot realistic and yet still trippy! Perfect.

@mediocrebot @pmarin Speaking of trippy, I think it’ll trip over itself: those back legs are crossed for some reason. (and one of its front legs is missing, just the foot sitting on the ground?)

@anemones A lot of squares here? Well, I found some more:
□■️️⃞■□▢ ̻ ⃞⟤⏍⟥⧇⊡⚀⚁⚂⚃⚄⚅⎅◫◰◳◲◱⊟⊞⊠☒〼⧄⧅❏❑❐❒⧠▤▥▦▧▨▩◧◩◨◪⌑⏹️️⸬ ∷
Okay, that’s a lot more than I was prepared for. I expected about a dozen options, but that isn’t nearly all the things that could count as squares…
⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⨖⧮⧰⟐ᛜ◇◆
┌┐┏┓┍┑┎┒╒╕╔╗╓╖╭╮◤◥ ◢◣
└┘┗┛┕┙┖┚╘╛╚╝╙╜╰╯◣◢ ◥◤
🄰🄱🄲🄳🄴🄵🄶🄷🄸🄹🄺🄻🄼🄽🄾🅏🅀🅁🅂🅃🅄🅅🅆🅇🅈🅉

㎢ ㎡ ㎠ ㎟ ㎨ ㎯ 𒀱 𒂝 𒂭 𒅄 𒅒 𒇫 𒈔 𒋲 𒍟

I wonder how those will actually look for everyone, with fonts and computers being as they are.

In any case, that’s approximately my limit. Maybe some day I’ll make a “proper” compilation of “all” the squares (or other shapes) available in Unicode. Until then, I’ll give just one last one (named “END OF PROOF”). QED ∎

Is Texas even a legal state yet?

@Michaelforman of course not. They’re gnomes.

@jouest @Michaelforman Precisely. It’s gnomic reefer madness. And in large parts of Texas, having them out and visible is essentially an invitation to a cop who’s in a probable-cause mood.

@heartny Yeah, kind of jumping the gun … but then I guess this way you can have them well in advance for 4/20 gifts?

@Kyeh Yeah, kind of like early holiday shopping

@heartny I’ll always remember my grandmother with all of her 4/20 gifts wrapped and hidden away in the attic by late October.

@heartny @jouest I think you might be confusing 12/25 with 4/20 with respect to what the gifts were wrapped for

@heartny @Kyeh They’ll still have them for 4/20.

@Mandamm I didn’t think kids these days have ever seen a seed or even know what double albums were used for.

And by “these days” I mean the last twenty-five years.

@craigthom @Mandamm nobody predicted that even the drugs would be digital!

@chienfou it’s a very brother-in-law kind of gift

@jouest
BTW… Good call on the meh face today!

@andymand bubble sounds

@andymand Ummm… You shouldn’t smoke the gnomes.

@andymand @Trinityscrew unless they’re hollow

@andymand @pakopako @Trinityscrew Have you ever smoked a watermelon?

@andymand @pakopako @rpstrong @Trinityscrew
I smoked a turkey before!

@andymand @chienfou @pakopako @Trinityscrew Not sure how a turkey would work, but if you google “watermelon bong” you can see a few different approaches involving the melon.

For that matter, “turkey bong” is surprisingly fruitful for a foul.

@KNmeh7
Me…

@sohmageek is the house going somewhere?

@catthegreat we are moving into the new houses. Almost 1k miles south

@sohmageek Something tells me that this is not the last we will see of these.

@sohmageek @werehatrack Future IRK random item for sure

@peabs007 I was a Johnson Smith catalog junkie - even placed an order or two! This one from 1979 is about a decade newer than the ones that I remembered (which were black & white only), but still has familiar listings.

Now, that is a magic mushroom.

@snotbottom https://meh.com/forum/topics/discussion-have-we-strayed-from-the-light

@richrauch The China

@JvB ya think?

@JvB @richrauch THE China, or A China?

@MrNews it’s called leveraging into an investment opportunity.

@OnionSoup all things in moderation?

@OnionSoup Or at least napping with a cat.

@jouest @OnionSoup Including moderation.

@OnionSoup They should be eating Taco Bell at 2 AM instead…

@Scottidog it’s only a matter of time before the wine moms with their disposable income are blazing

@rjsmead
My guess would be that they are,in fact, hollow.

@goldnectar working hard over here to find you all the diamonds in the rough

@goldnectar @mandirose You get diamonds? Lucky! All I ever find in the rough is broken tees, cart tire tracks, lost balls that have been run into the ground, and that single left foot prosthetic that nobody ever came back to claim.

/showme cynical-jumpy-cider

@mandirose nice work; biggie still disappointed, though

/showme Bud Buddies | Standing Stoned
Ganja Throne | Lounging Leaf

@djslack EXCELLENT!! Mine are coming later today. I can’t wait to see the expression on his face…I can always hear my FedEx guy coming by the steel drum reggae music blaring from his truck. Thanks for the heads up!! .

@PHRoG some combinations were able to be shipped together, but most could ship together. That said, it was a bit of an oversight and if I had to schedule again they’d be $19 each. So you guys got a deal!

@troy sweeeeeeeet!

@PHRoG I meant weren’t* for the first part of that

@PHRoG Same. These are WAY bigger than I thought. My stoner brother is gonna love em.