Place your bets!!!

@MrMark because meh…why would they want to pay overtime to have @shawn et al. watch the system? I vote tonight…

@mikibell @MrMark fuck it, how about both nights?

@mikibell He’s probably salaried.

@shawn we would take two nights of fuku/os! Bring it on

@MrMark probably…but ya never know…

@mikibell We can call it a fuk-off, oh wait a sec…

@cengland0

@shawn ok…stop messing with us now…

@MrMark you are in luck. Not the 7th

@RiotDemon you have the correct level of expectation.

@Thumperchick I’ll be sleeping tonight, working tomorrow morning, and probably driving if there is any kind of vmp offering at 4… So I’m prepared to not get one, and even if I do, I’m prepared to be disappointed then as well.

@RiotDemon

I’m prepared not to get one. Since I usually don’t.

@RiotDemon

@woodhouse yup

@woodhouse I wager you can bet…

@cranky1950 Not tonite, I’m still awake

@cranky1950 Probably not tonite either

@cranky1950 you are getting slllleeeepppyyyyy…

@mikibell Nice try no cigar

@mikibell I am soooo sleepy.

@sammydog01 same here… I am getting too old for this fuko/u…

@mikibell I’m definitely getting sleepy.

@mikibell I am. I am getting sleeeee…

@cranky1950 heeeheeehee…besides it is for hypnotizing…not putting to sleep…even my allusions suffer at this time o night…

@Thumperchick

@mikibell Huh? I was almost asleep

@lisaviolet sooo at the sight of my texts…you will ship all your craft stuff to me!

@cranky1950 for goodness’s sake, man, make up your mind?! Are you in it to win it or whaaat?

@mikibell So, Brian comes into the garage this morning. “What are you doing with all of those boxes?”

Nice try. I’m keeping my stuff.

@lisaviolet hehehe it was worth the try! I spend a few hours organizing bits and pieces yesterday…not a peehole in the snow, but got rid of lots of little containers. Found the silhouette metal sheets I bought, etc… restocked my papercrafting bag and sewing bag…

@mikibell I’m running out of space. He said he’ll get me another storage container, that would be a huge help, but he needs to get some more sales.

Meanwhile, he buys hundreds of dollars of mulch and pays a guys a couple of hundred bucks to spread it in the front of the house.

Drums fingers on the table…waiting for a new storage container.

@candiedisilvio1 You would not be alone.

@sammydog01 I shut that off about a year ago… I was getting an alarm from my son most nights anyway… now I love being able to sleep…

@candiedisilvio1 I tend to be awake around midnight, so its pretty much a ritual to sit down at my laptop at 11:57. I’ve missed a few falling asleep on the couch watching a show, though, and I’ve hated myself for those…

@candiedisilvio1 I’ve found my people…it brings tears to my eyes

@smigit2002 It’s only 9:00 here. Just a half hour after my bedtime, no big deal to stay up late every couple of months.

@smigit2002 I tend to be awake around midnight too but still set the alarm incase I get involved in something and it passes midnight without me noticing.

Alexa, set alarm for 10:58 pm
@candiedisilvio1

@candiedisilvio1 it is the first step of the 12 step program

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@lisaviolet i hate you and your internet speed. well… maybe not you. but definitely your internet speed.

@lisaviolet Damn, not bad! I usually hover around 60/50 on my home internet and 25/10 on my phone… let’s just say both will be refreshing frantically in 30 seconds

@lisaviolet Me too. Fired up the laptop and connected directly to the router, shut down wifi on router, disabled background processes on the computer… I’ve had a 5 fuk dry spell, hopefully ends now.

@ruouttaurmind Not tonight.

@ruouttaurmind Tomorrow…

@lisaviolet my Comcast… I pay for 100 MB (currently… it’s about to go to 50 or 10…) !

@sohmageek My husband’s company is internet based, so we pay for the most we can get at this point, 300 MB. The cost is the same for the Gigabit service they have, but it’s not in our area yet.

@sohmageek T-mobile LTE:

@sohmageek Verizon LTE (Which is weird… usually T-Mobile kicks their ass here…)

@lisaviolet That sucks… I’m fine dropping the bill… My wife works from home but the VPN doesn’t need more than 5-10 mb…

@AttyVette I’ve lost more than I’ve scored. Speed isn’t always enough.

@sohmageek I was paying for business class internet until July 3rd and switched to home at only 10 Mb/s down and 2 Mb/s up. If I had anything more, I would reach my 1TB limit too fast. There was no cap with business class but I’m having to watch my usage carefully now so I don’t go over because it’s very expensive if you do.

Is there actually a correlation between internet speed and obtaining a Fuko?

I mean, I’m sure there is a minimal amount of speed needed. I’m thinking the size of the webpage would be around 2 Mb. So I would assume that means the minimal speed is small.

I would guess someone with a 10 Mb connection would have as good of a shot as someone with 300 Mb.

This is not my area of expertise, so I’m just going off assumptions I’ve come up on my own with no fact checking. Because you know, it’s the internet.

I admit it. All the talk of internet speed makes me vaguely envious. I pay (mumble) for a decent connection, and some IP addresses, and am content. I could go to cable, and up it by a factor of 10, but then, there would be (at most) one IP address, and all that noise (from other users).

I’d try for one of “fuko” things, but I learned a lesson over on Woot. Sometimes you get lucky, and you get one. Oops. I need less crap, not more.

Here is picture for my internet:

@lisaviolet
STFU with your fancy-assed speed.

@f00l @lisaviolet Ahem.

Doesn’t help me get a fuko though.

@lisaviolet Had to work late tonight, such a shame that I have to fuku from here…

@gregormehndel @smigit2002 Awesome!

@MrMark let’s check

/8ball “Is there actually a correlation between internet speed and obtaining a Fuko?”
My reply is no

i always get the lowest speed i think can handle netflix, like 6mb-ish

i think i’ve been the lucky purchaser of about 6 fuko/u

@smigit2002 same time same place

@cranky1950
You’re cranky.

@f00l No I’m bummed

@cranky1950
Your bum is cranky?

@f00l That’s another topic

@cranky1950 let’s no go there!

@mikibell not… …

Huh…it is truncating my ellipsis…

@mikibell I’ve no problem with that.

@cranky1950

@Barney mine’s like that too

@Barney Brian wants to know if you’re on dialup.

@lisaviolet Well, you see – there’s this little hand crank and I’m turning it as fast as I can.

@lisaviolet

If you think that, then either you are young, or perhaps the memory is just too painful for you to access.

/giphy dialup

I remember experiencing bonded ISDN as kinda miraculous.

@f00l

Ok I didn’t call AOL.

@f00l Been online since August 1, 1997. I remember dialup well. I remember using graphics programs to compress pictures to under 20KB and the ugly artifacts that resulted.

Yeah, I was around for dialup.

@Barney I live in the sticks and we have exactly one option for internet,(plenty of horses, but it’s a one internet town) AT&T…we are moving on up and have two choices from them, DSL and U-Verse or had since I think they changed their company setup. A little hand crank might be useful in speeding up my internet… lol. Where did you get yours, Cranks’R Us? Have any tips for nabbing a fuku? I’m sure its mostly luck of the draw, but some people do seem to be able to get them more often, didn’t know if you knew any tricks, not that its a big deal. My process is basically to try to be awake(even though I’m an amazing sleep shopper)…and to never get my hopes up. I think tonight I may actually go down to my laptop instead of using my tablet…it’s slow all by itself, in the sticks or not. I figure one day I’ll get one, when the PTB deem me worthy!

@lisaviolet worse, Uverse

@Barney

Well, you see – there’s this little hand crank and I’m turning it as fast as I can.

My desk is now covered in the beer that was in my mouth when I read that gem.

@mehbee I thought HughesNet was available everywhere in the USA too. So that gives you another option but I still think you’re better off with AT&T.

@cengland0 Yeah Hughes Net is not an option, well not an option I can use, I think it’s satelite and I work from home. I could use Dish or Directv(if they offered it here which I don’t think they do) but since it’s satelite, my work won’t allow it. One day I’ll have multiple options…and that will mean it’s time to move again…lol

@Pavlov I’m glad I gave you some incentive to clean up that messy desk of yours.

@mehbee Gee, I don’t know if I have any good tips for getting a fuko, because I haven’t gotten one in a while. However, I guess it’s just best to be ready at changeover.

I’ve gotten a few, but not recently. Too many people now, I guess, for me to compete. I remember the first fuku (well, I guess it really was the second one) sat there for probably a couple of hours before it sold out. Yep, the good ol’ days.

@mehbee Nope, wrong the first fuku was up for maybe a couple of hours or longer (I’m not sure). The second fuku was 20 minutes.

@Barney Good times…lol!

@lisaviolet So was I. Halt And Catch Fire starts its final season on 19 Aug. I think they’re just about to invent the internet.

@lisaviolet
Hah. When I first got onto the net, I had to personally whistle each bit into the receiver one at a time.

(PS I can’t whistle. Never learned how.)

And those bits were so reluctant to leave home. I used to have to hold two of their wee little hands, one of each side of me, and walk them personally down the wire to the server, and then go back and get the next pair and do it all again.

Talk about your checksums.

@cattylaq I can’t even talk about that one.

@cattylaq @mehbee 5 minutes in and countless captchas completed, I laughed it off. It was very well played.

@cattylaq practice practice practice
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo

@Ignorant Are you sure it wasn’t at Mediocritee?

@Ignorant I was lucky enough to catch it! I hardly ever check morningsave. I was surprise to see it wasn’t sold-out at 11:30. Now I can rest easy with fuko dreams in my head.

@Ignorant You can’t fool me. I checked Morningsave last night. Really, I did.

@Ignorant

@Yoda_Daenerys

@mediocrebot

hey, screw you.

but it’s cool. it’s cool, bro.

@ruouttaurmind

@communist

@smigit2002 Hope you have a good phone.

@sammydog01 not so much, almost 3 years old on T-mobile and I’m missing a few of the LTE bands that tend to give better coverage… I’m doomed

@sammydog01 alright, phone has next to no service, but my tablet is connected… Though with my luck it went be a mobile friendly fuku…

@Trillian Love the tiny foot stamp.

@sammydog01 It reminds me of Veruca Salt.

@Trillian

@f00l No

@cranky1950
Hey look, it’s ol’ CrankyBum.

@f00l You’re wrong. Fiber-- the ticket to true happiness and serenity.

@cranky1950
You’re not CrankyBum, you’re actually FiberBum?

Gonna trust you. Pix not needed.

/giphy fiber

But I thought you said your Bum was Bummed?

@f00l You’re the one who started the bumplay, I just an innocent victim of your nefarious agenda.

@cranky1950

Bummer.

@f00l after a fashion.

@ruthwik1

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@communist true

@cranky1950

They’re Meh. They let us down by design and intention. And we love them for it.

@Thumperchick I bet you kids in HQ are having a great time with this. Everybody already knows Fuks have been discontinued, and you’re all just having a laugh.

@f00l of course! As long as you buy whatever we’re selling and are the first to purchase it.

@f00l I hope for your sake it’s not a $300 receiver.

@f00l no y’alling us…

@Thumperchick Don’t we always buy what you’re selling?

@mikibell You were supposed to respond with something with the word sugah in it.

@lordbowen I hope so. I’d like to keep working here.

@mikibell
Ok, Sugah. I won’t y’all y’all no more, sweetie.

@f00l well, bless your heart, aren’t you just precious

@cranky1950 opps…I told you the other day… I don’t speak southern

@mikibell
Y’all are f00lin’ with me, aren’t y’all.

Y’all speak southern just like a little honey, don’t y"all?

@f00l my daughter picked up a. Southern phrase from my great niece…for the life of me, I can’t remember what it was, but it dripped sarcasm and was adorable because she was clueless about the implications…

@mikibell oh bless your heart?

@RiotDemon that might be it…made me laugh because she meant it in the literal meaning, whatever it was…

@cranky1950

You were supposed to respond with something with the word sugah in it.

as in “Dip a curved knife and sugah, put your arm around their shoulder, when they aren’t looking stab them in the back, and twist it on the way out?” You know, what a good southern woman is supposed to do rather than hold up a knife, warn people each time they do something to stop while taking one step closer with each warning, finally telling them if they do it again you will stab them, then you stab them in the front?

@mikibell All southerners know that “Bless your heart” means fuck you.

@sammydog01

“Fuck you” is one valid translation.

Sometimes it’s a sweet way of saying “you’re utterly pathetic and hardly worthy of pity, but we will put up with you”.

Sometimes it means “we love you” or “that must have been tough to endure”.

When spoken to the very young, it translates as “you’re so cute!”

Personal relationships and contexts carry all the meaning here.

@Kidsandliz

But backstabbing, done with considerable graciousness, poise and artfulness, can “just be so precious”!

@f00l those are the nuances I recall

But what always perplexes me is: how do southern women never have a hair out of place?

@f00l That’s why I posted that video. WATCH THE VIDEO!!! Sleep deprivation is making me ornery.

@mikibell That’s only on Sunday. You’ve seen the Walmart pix.

@sammydog01, @fool already knows everything in the universe. Bless her heart.

@Barney
I have a heart?

Good to know!

@sammydog01

That video is about right.

You changed the video out, right? I watched the other video. It’s good too.

In the old days, using the phrase was a high social art form.

As was being a Southern Belle (something I have absolutely no talent for).

@f00l Knowing the forms of “yes mam” or “Oh yes mam” is just as important.

@f00l But of course. The point that was being made to me was that I was too blunt and needed to be (I was accused of being from NYC - ah nope. I grew up in the midwest. LOL) well like an old money southerner (which I take to mean sneaky devious and do things in a way that you can then plausibly deny - actually this gave me good information about that dean), which I was not and had never even, at that point, lived in the deep south. And my hair was too long as it was past my shoulders. Never appropriate apparently for someone past about 12. Or so I was told. She also made a rule that ed students who were going into their student teacher semester had to have short hair. Boys not past the ears and girls not past the shoulder. She would not allow the that dept chair to assign them to schools if they didn’t pass muster. Chair did not agree and so there was a protracted battle about that. Wigs for the photos were the item of the day.

@Kidsandliz
Thus was at a college?

Wow. You might have gotten a national news story over that policy, if someone had called around a bit.

@f00l Yes at a college but in the late 80’s and very early 90’s

@f00l Then there is
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@OldCatLady Yes.
/giphy super seriously

@cranky1950 my parents hadn’t even met in 1963

@mikibell So

@mikibell
"Why bless you heart, darlin’. Now aren’t y’all just so young and adorable!"

/giphy "southern belle"

@cranky1950 I couldn’t want to go back to 1963… I wasn’t even a twinkle in my father’s eye yet!

@RiotDemon I am not staying up all night. You hear that Meh? I need sleep.

@RiotDemon
You can’t set an alarm?

But I understand. I’ve only gotten one of them, and somehow I keep plodding along, despite the shame if it.

I think a job is prob more valuable overall than a fuko.

I think.

@f00l I could set an alarm… But if it’s a meh-rathon, I’m assuming that means something that is going to take a long time. I’ll never get back to sleep.

I have an important day at work tomorrow, I don’t want to fuck it up because of a $5 bag that is probably garbage with my luck.

@RiotDemon

Ok. (I can’t find a good death metal emoji.)

@f00l

Depends on what you’re listening to.

@f00l trust me ``you are right

@f00l ‘…job is more important…’ Retirement has its moments.

@OldCatLady hopefully I’ll get there one day.

@OldCatLady yeah “meow” ments with no money

@medz Nah Leak Frog

@medz Bluetooth speaker for sure

@medz Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s crap.

@cranky1950 I hope so

@dave ah… the dino poop dig kits

@medz I still have those! The kids didn’t want them for some reason.

@ruouttaurmind meh off, yes

@ruouttaurmind It will be cupcakes for everyone. I’m sure of it.
/giphy cupcakes for everyone

@sammydog01 I like cupcakes!