@Lynnerizer@OnionSoup@whomeyesu Mine’s purple-ish. Sort of lavendery. And no lips. I mean, seriously, between the overstuffing and the lack of lips, I can see why he’s stuck in an endless silent scream.
@Lynnerizer@werehatrack@whomeyesu that’s still the color of death. meh killed him. These were probably alive and well, running happily around the mediocre factory warehouse stuffing boxes as unpaid labor… and mediocre just harvested them and stuffed them in bags suffocating and killing them for our consumerist needs. This is what we humans are doing to our native fauna.
@Lynnerizer@OnionSoup@whomeyesu It’s a Tradition, though. I remember the overall cavalier public attitudes about the Nauga genocide, and the warnings that they’d be extinct before long if it wasn’t stopped, but did anyone listen? No, of course not. And now the Nauga is gone, lost to us forever, memorialized only in lifeless dolls. So sad.
@heartny looking at their client list and boy, this typeface on squeezamals is pretty unfortunate, at least on a phone. Thankfully they used a better one on surprizamals
I should take my Squeezamals to the FALL FLICKS FEST next year.
@f00l Funny you should ask that question…
My cat is fine with IRK even though he never made it out of the plastic bag, and THAT is only because my guy/significant other is SCARED OF HIM! Or thinks he’s creepy looking! Gnomes are also banned from our house! Lol
If you don’t want to call yourself a jerk, and/or like the idea of possibly being seen as crass in other cultures, the shoulder Irk could be “Irk on the berk.”
If you imagine yours having an affair with his secretary (like Business Cat) — Irk with his clerk.
If you give him the right kind of knife, he can be the punisher of naughty children: Irk with a dirk.
If he just hires out the punishment, then maybe Irk with a merc.
If he doesn’t punish violently, then maybe he’s just the troll with the coal.
If he’s a druggie, Irk with a Perc[ocet].
I can imagine Irk with a quirk, but I don’t know how to represent it visually. Or maybe Irk was already known to be weird, so saying he has a quirk is not informative?
When he hangs out with that neighbor kid who skips school: Irk with a shirk.
If he can’t/won’t keep a job, he might also be a troll on the dole.
Based on his mouth shape, it would take some effort to make an Irk with a smirk.
Those who work in an office could find out that their Irk screams at work.
(kirk and stirk didn’t seem like they’d be easily understood by an American audience)
In a garden, troll in the cole. (think coleslaw)
Possibly also with a mole or other vole.
(Is Irk actually the first garden troll?)
In the stables, troll on the foal.
Golf: troll at the hole.
Certain other sports: troll at the goal.
At the gym: troll that’s so swole.
If you have a small hill, the troll on the knoll.
If you have to cross a bridge, the troll demands a toll.
I have no idea if Irk likes to twerk.
If yours is an exotic dancer, troll on a pole.
(but that also works if he was executed by Vlad the Impaler)
If he’s always successful, or just likes bread, troll on a roll.
If you think he’s actually alive, maybe troll with a soul.
Or if you wear him like bunny slippers, troll on your sole.
If you skin him to make a scarf, troll as your stole.
So now that introductions are complete and Charliedoggo has settled down (floofy in the house!!!), Irk is sitting on the corner of my desk watching me work.
Is it me or does it appear as though he is engaged, leaning forward and yelling at me!
Apparently Irk was delayed in getting to me because he was hanging out by the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in the Big Apple with his friends.
#bananaforscale
@Kyeh@OnionSoup She has a deep seated grudge against Meh after we got an Instant Regret Kit that was three or four boxes FILLED with underwear. Shes planning something to make IRK an “art piece” to share here. Will photograph it when it is done!
She doesnt know I have a spare plushie in waiting for when she finishes and a spare spare to randomly put on the foot of the bed while she sleeps.
@mikesmells@OnionSoup OOHHH, right - you were the lucky winner of the underwear avalanche! I would think she’d like having that crazy story to tell forever.
@Kyeh@mikesmells@OnionSoup You do want to live. Right? Hmm instead of the foot of the bed, since you will die anyway, what about snuggling it up to her while she is sleeping and take a photo of that?
At Ikea (Houston) there was a stuffed octopus toy. I told a certain someone (you know who you are - kindly post it ) she needed to take a photo of the octopus and Irk together. I had not yet gotten my Irk yet so couldn’t have done it - not to mention not likely to have brought it to Houston with me.
@Kidsandliz It’s on the ToDo list. I’ve just had a couple of things on my mind and schedule that have made it impractical to get back over there. Things like trying to compress six weeks’ worth of surgery prep paperwork and consultations into six working days. (Success was achieved at 3PM today, and I will be at the hospital at 7AM on Wednesday.)
The cardiologist has sternly admonished me not to plan on being so abrupt with the prep for the really major work that is likely to happen in March. (It’s not cardiologic work, but getting him to sign off that I’m okay for the procedure is a critical step.)
Meanwhile, I also have a new PCP whose office staff is directly accessible, and she responds to communications swiftly. (My prior PCP was utterly unreachable by virtue of a clinic bureaucracy that was 100% impenetrable. We’re talking metaphoric ablative armor to deflect incoming messages. I wish I was kidding about that.)
I got mine today!
@ironcheftoni Larger somehow than I was expecting. Awesome. Plushy flushy tushy awesome.
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
@OnionSoup I think the description did say 12 inches tall.
@ironcheftoni How’s the squish factor?
@sammydog01 about a medium squish. Not too soft
@ironcheftoni yes, but I’m a man, so 12" is usually only 9".
@ironcheftoni @OnionSoup if that
I believe people who bought and IRK yesterday will get one. It was in the “What’s in the IRK” section. We’ll see.
@sunnysideup22 correct
This could turn into a “Where’s Irk” thread.
Here’s Irk:
@werehatrack If you add a little more clutter, it would look just like my desk.
@cengland0 That’s just the surface layer.
@cengland0 @werehatrack no desk is complete without a cat on there though.
@cengland0 @Kidsandliz @werehatrack True, my cat would agree
Plushie IRK is either damned happy or damned talkative.
Furthermore, by South Park standards, I think he might be a Canadian.
/giphy “South Park” canada
It is more like where is IRK not at after seeing the Mehathon.
@whomeyesu
OMG!!
SAVE IRK, GIVE HIM SOME AIR!!
@Lynnerizer @whomeyesu My Teeturtle plushies come vacuum packed, so a plain poly bag is giving it air already.
@Lynnerizer @whomeyesu too late, already turned grey and died.
True story, Irks have same color skin as humans before they are suffocated in plastic bags. What Meh is really selling us is Irk corpses.
@Lynnerizer @OnionSoup @whomeyesu Mine’s purple-ish. Sort of lavendery. And no lips. I mean, seriously, between the overstuffing and the lack of lips, I can see why he’s stuck in an endless silent scream.
@Lynnerizer @werehatrack @whomeyesu that’s still the color of death. meh killed him. These were probably alive and well, running happily around the mediocre factory warehouse stuffing boxes as unpaid labor… and mediocre just harvested them and stuffed them in bags suffocating and killing them for our consumerist needs. This is what we humans are doing to our native fauna.
@Lynnerizer @OnionSoup @whomeyesu It’s a Tradition, though. I remember the overall cavalier public attitudes about the Nauga genocide, and the warnings that they’d be extinct before long if it wasn’t stopped, but did anyone listen? No, of course not. And now the Nauga is gone, lost to us forever, memorialized only in lifeless dolls. So sad.
He’s a real mouth breather
@medz
Apparently these are from the “Slack Jawed Yokel” Irk series.
I wonder if Irk and the Meh logo will will be featured on the customplush.com website?
@heartny looking at their client list and boy, this typeface on squeezamals is pretty unfortunate, at least on a phone. Thankfully they used a better one on surprizamals
I should take my Squeezamals to the FALL FLICKS FEST next year.
@djslack @heartny Ah. It’s the letters ‘L’ and ‘I’. That’s a relief…
@shahnm this probably also led to complaints against multiple marquee maintainers during Clint Eastwood’s heyday.
Does Irk have TMJ?
@ybmuG Totally Missing Junk?
@macromeh that, too
Waiting for mine to arrive. Have a ‘screaming monkey’ sound module ready to stuff in it.
@Quantumcat It’ll fit with the expression!
@shells looks shifty, might want to be careful
@shells @tinamarie1974 That sure looks like a “Hey there, sailor, new in town?” pose if I ever saw one.
Irk has made friends with some new housemates.
I had him next to me while I was eating last night and he reminded me of a baby bird.
@Kyeh some of my favorite characters
@Kyeh FELIX, YOU’VE GOT A FELIX THE CAT? YOU LUCKY GIRL YOU!!
@Lynnerizer Yes - I love Felix!!!
Are you a Felix fan too?
@Kyeh Yes I am, I love Felix! I wasn’t a huge cartoon kid but I sure did love Felix the cat!
I would love to know how various pets, especially cats are getting along with the stuffie IRK.
@f00l my cats have been ignoring him. What does the resident spokes dog, @CharlieDoggo say?
@f00l @ironcheftoni The cats have ignored him here, as well.
@f00l Funny you should ask that question…
Gnomes are also banned from our house! Lol 
My cat is fine with IRK even though he never made it out of the plastic bag, and THAT is only because my guy/significant other is SCARED OF HIM! Or thinks he’s creepy looking!
Re stuffie IRK
/youtube South Park “bomb Canadá”
Mine came early
@shawn That can happen to anyone…
Totally worth that Jefferson, Lincoln & 2 Washingtons!
@AdmiralDave curiosity box cameo! i just got mine in the mail!
@eagonwild Love the pose-able hand that came with it; I can better express my emotions indirectly.
Irk has arrived at the local post office!!!
@Rstoker
@Rstoker Oh nooooooooo…
@Rstoker THE HORROR!!!
@Rstoker @tinamarie1974
Wat iz dis ting you brot in my houz?
I chomp him make sure he noz who boss
He mine now you not get him bac
@Rstoker SO CUTE!!! Such a pretty doggie!!!
@Kyeh @Rstoker Flashbacks to Mr. Bill!
@Kyeh @macromeh @Rstoker aaww your doggo pools just like Charlie’s Uncle Buddy
Is anybody posing their Irk around the house, like a glorious version of elf on the shelf?
If so, what do you call it?
Maybe this is the poll they should’ve done when Irk went on sale.
If you don’t want to call yourself a jerk, and/or like the idea of possibly being seen as crass in other cultures, the shoulder Irk could be “Irk on the berk.”
If you imagine yours having an affair with his secretary (like Business Cat) — Irk with his clerk.
If you give him the right kind of knife, he can be the punisher of naughty children: Irk with a dirk.
If he just hires out the punishment, then maybe Irk with a merc.
If he doesn’t punish violently, then maybe he’s just the troll with the coal.
If he’s a druggie, Irk with a Perc[ocet].
I can imagine Irk with a quirk, but I don’t know how to represent it visually. Or maybe Irk was already known to be weird, so saying he has a quirk is not informative?
When he hangs out with that neighbor kid who skips school: Irk with a shirk.
If he can’t/won’t keep a job, he might also be a troll on the dole.
Based on his mouth shape, it would take some effort to make an Irk with a smirk.
Those who work in an office could find out that their Irk screams at work.
(kirk and stirk didn’t seem like they’d be easily understood by an American audience)
In a garden, troll in the cole. (think coleslaw)
Possibly also with a mole or other vole.
(Is Irk actually the first garden troll?)
In the stables, troll on the foal.
Golf: troll at the hole.
Certain other sports: troll at the goal.
At the gym: troll that’s so swole.
If you have a small hill, the troll on the knoll.
If you have to cross a bridge, the troll demands a toll.
I have no idea if Irk likes to twerk.
If yours is an exotic dancer, troll on a pole.
(but that also works if he was executed by Vlad the Impaler)
If he’s always successful, or just likes bread, troll on a roll.
If you think he’s actually alive, maybe troll with a soul.
Or if you wear him like bunny slippers, troll on your sole.
If you skin him to make a scarf, troll as your stole.
If he walks the dog for you, troll on a stroll.
Wow. I wasted too much of my life on that.
But at least I didn’t waste my money on an IRK, I guess?
@xobzoo troll on parole?
@xobzoo i guess that means somewhere there’s a gnome with no home
@xobzoo @ybmuG it was stolen by Glen, to Sock with the Glock.
@OnionSoup @xobzoo @ybmuG OH MY GOD THEY TURNED GLEN INTO A CRIMINAL AS PART OF THEIR CRAPPY RHYME CRIME SYNDICATE!!!
@OnionSoup @shahnm @xobzoo @ybmuG
It’s a mock Glock,
for Glen to use
on TikTok.
Kisses have been exchanged
@tinamarie1974 Toby says “meh.”
Doing his best Han Solo impression.
@medz omg, he is suffocating!!!
@medz I love it.
@medz at least he was finally able to close his mouth… sort-of.
/showme Han Solo as a troll frozen in carbonite
So now that introductions are complete and Charliedoggo has settled down (floofy in the house!!!), Irk is sitting on the corner of my desk watching me work.
Is it me or does it appear as though he is engaged, leaning forward and yelling at me!
@tinamarie1974
Politely telling.
Since, by South Park standards, he’s clearly Canadian.
/youtube blame canada
@f00l @tinamarie1974
Maybe he’s singing?
@tinamarie1974 To me it’s more like an endless silent scream driven by existential dread. But then, I always wanted to be Wednesday.
My husband is squeezing Irk like he is a pack of charmin!!!
@mikibell
Is IRK getting irk’d?
/giphy irk’d
Come play with ussss…
@Pony my guy looks like a baby bird tryna get fed in the nest
there are air holes don’t panic.
IRK is in my tree.
@cbilyak Very cool image - it looks like he’s in some sort of cartoon universe exploding star or a raging sea …
Definitely Instant Regret… lol -
I wanted to love mine but feel irked
Apparently Irk was delayed in getting to me because he was hanging out by the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in the Big Apple with his friends.
#bananaforscale
@heartny He looks like he’s having a wonderful time!
IRK has arrived and been welcomed into the family. He’s still a bit shell shocked from his journey, but doing well.
@lordbowen
What a great family for him!
@lordbowen The bunchie!
Posted this elsewhere but will cross post here too…
It’s great!
Mine finally showed up. Irk in an IRK almost beat him, supposed to get here tomorrow. Freya is unsure about sharing her perch.
For now he will join Josef and Berta. Until they all decide they are too top heavy and jump from the shelf.
My wife got ahold of IRK and… IRK isn’t looking too good.
@mikesmells ummm… What has your wife been doing to Irk?
@OnionSoup so fae she has cut off an ear, torn off an eye and stated “i wonder whats inside”
@mikesmells @OnionSoup Why the heck has she done that?
@mikesmells don’t adopt a cat together.
@Kyeh @OnionSoup She has a deep seated grudge against Meh after we got an Instant Regret Kit that was three or four boxes FILLED with underwear. Shes planning something to make IRK an “art piece” to share here. Will photograph it when it is done!
She doesnt know I have a spare plushie in waiting for when she finishes and a spare spare to randomly put on the foot of the bed while she sleeps.
@Kyeh @OnionSoup also she loves animals and would never harm one, just HATES Meh.
@mikesmells @OnionSoup OOHHH, right - you were the lucky winner of the underwear avalanche!
I would think she’d like having that crazy story to tell forever.
@Kyeh @mikesmells @OnionSoup You do want to live. Right? Hmm instead of the foot of the bed, since you will die anyway, what about snuggling it up to her while she is sleeping and take a photo of that?
I’m super late to the game, but I thought I would share anyway.
@ExtraMedium That’s so great! It’s like it was made for him!
At Ikea (Houston) there was a stuffed octopus toy. I told a certain someone (you know who you are - kindly post it
) she needed to take a photo of the octopus and Irk together. I had not yet gotten my Irk yet so couldn’t have done it - not to mention not likely to have brought it to Houston with me.
@Kidsandliz It’s on the ToDo list. I’ve just had a couple of things on my mind and schedule that have made it impractical to get back over there. Things like trying to compress six weeks’ worth of surgery prep paperwork and consultations into six working days. (Success was achieved at 3PM today, and I will be at the hospital at 7AM on Wednesday.)
The cardiologist has sternly admonished me not to plan on being so abrupt with the prep for the really major work that is likely to happen in March. (It’s not cardiologic work, but getting him to sign off that I’m okay for the procedure is a critical step.)
Meanwhile, I also have a new PCP whose office staff is directly accessible, and she responds to communications swiftly. (My prior PCP was utterly unreachable by virtue of a clinic bureaucracy that was 100% impenetrable. We’re talking metaphoric ablative armor to deflect incoming messages. I wish I was kidding about that.)
Hey there!
Everyone who still might want an IRK stuffie:
The Xmas day t-shirt and IRK deal is still open for sale today (Boxing Day, 12/26/23)
@f00l
Ok deal is dead.