Scapegoat nominations for January 2015
8Soon I shall be handing over the reins of scapegoat hood. My time as scapegoat has been, um, enjoyable and fun. But it's nearing time to say goodbye to my very most special goat badge.
If you have anyone you'd like to see as scapegoat (who takes the blame for all things that go wrong and the email that goes with it), please post your nominations here.
If you want to discuss @Unixrab as goat or not goat, there are currently two threads you can join in.
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I nominate @SIMBM since that person started 2 who is the next goat threads… with a vested interest like that gotta secretly want it LOL
@Kidsandliz I think I've started three threads. Well, two now, since the last one went terribly, terribly wrong.
@SIMBM Well then - even more reason to nominate you (been two months though you started the process even if you had to start two threads this month)
There are a lot of posters deserving of the badge, it's really hard to choose one from the many.
I nominate @joelmw because he's wanted it for so very, very long.
@lisaviolet I second @joelmw ... Again.
@Thumperchick thirded.
@jsh139 fourthed
@lisaviolet - Diminished fifth.
@lisaviolet hmmm he WANTS it?
@lisaviolet if I had a goat vote... ha just kidding
@lisaviolet I'm afraid that doesn't sit well with @jonT: "I think the goat should, ideally, begrudgingly accept the badge but not be entirely eager or horrified to have it bestowed upon them." (quoted from: https://meh.com/forum/topics/todays-the-28th---no-whose-the-next-goat-discussion-yet#547ca70c4c68803005f509f6 )
@unixrab One more reason for Unixrab for goat.
@neuromancer
@unixrab that's just what I think, but it's pretty clear the community wants this and who am I to deny them? :) It's mainly that I don't want a goat to be nominated that won't have fun with it and will probably just stop coming by, defeating the purpose of the goat.
@JonT ok
@lisaviolet I think I'm going to have to go with @joelmw too. Primarily because I actually enjoy his rants and I like the guy so I'd be pleased to see even more responses for a month.
@Cinoclav Don't forget to like the nomination post so your vote counts! Thanks.
@lisaviolet, @joelmw seems to be winning, though I'm wondering if there are 10 new accounts on the site 😊
@Foxborn I won with 34 votes...shrug...
@lisaviolet And don't forget that goat votes count for extra ;) (@JonT - Is that still a thing?)
@lisaviolet @JonT @unixrab For the record, I'm genuinely ambivalent--for all kinds of reasons. But I find others' loud refusals and denials ostentatious and suspicious, not to mention offputtingly obnoxious (ahem). And for all sorts of other reasons (including, but also in addition to, the reasons fueling my ambivalence) I'd rather not get into the whole conversation. If one day I'm ever cursed with goathood, I promise a lengthy rant or two (or three . . . or n) about all of it. As is fitting, that promise is as much as anything a vile threat. But I've already said too much. Anyway, my position is unequivocal ambivalence. Or, um, equivocal ambivalence? You might not know this, but I'm way into the equivocal, ambivalent, ambiguous, nebulous, etc. even as strongly as I desire clarity. It's ironic, really. Which is apropos of nothing, which is actually quite appropriate, if you think about it. Anyway, I prefer to be mostly distant from the entire proceeding and only drop in so as not to be altogether rude.
@joelmw
@joelmw STAHP... you've already won... gloating goaty
@unixrab <--- goaty goat poop scooper ( @pantheist)
@lisaviolet it's a funny one... hooooboy.
@unixrab
@lisaviolet
@unixrab aka goaty goat poop scooper
@lisaviolet
@unixrab
@unixrab Hey I walked across that field when I worked in Germany and Austria and took kids hiking on the mountains that surround the lake at the Captain's house (aka hotel), took the electric boat from the back of the lake to the dock there… that water is freezing and I bet they hoped there'd only be one take of tipping the boat over scene.
@Kidsandliz very cool. bonus points if you twirled and sang!
@Kidsandliz Ooh, I too have been to Salzburg! I didn't get to reenact TSoM, but at least I saw the area!
@Cinoclav I lived about 10km from there in Germany. Lots of fun.
@unixrab I forgot to mention, part way down one of the mountains on the lake side is a cave and we'd spend the night in the mouth of the cave. I'd love to go back and hike the area again when I am not responsible for 12 kids 12-17.
@Kidsandliz Bonus points and a Level 417 Dwarven Axe for the cave stuff.
I'm still nominating @narfcake shirt or no shirt
@Foxborn No shirts, no scapegoat.
@narfcake how do you know there's not a secret prize package inclding a shirt for the goat of the month and that the goats are sworn to secrecy about
@Foxborn Shirty secrets don't remain secrets forever. After all, someone did tell me how the reckoning formula works at shirt.woot too ...
@narfcake Was that a disappointment to find out, or actually pretty cool?
@dashcloud It was more an "ahhh" reaction and put the numbers I was keeping then into perspective. For those who don't know the back story, for a long while I was manually keeping track of the shirt.woot sales every night and keeping an eye on closing sales in an attempt to thwart Ramy's "shenanigans" ... only that the numbers actually disproved it and sales were really that close every week. I did catch several other artists buying up their own shirts before the noon reckoning trying to save their shirts, however.
@Foxborn for the name alone- seconded.
@Foxborn well, I like narfs and cakes although arguably nerfs are better than narfs, especially nerfs from Kashyyyk which make great steaks. And pie is obviously superior to cake. So there you have it. Even though nerfpie is better than narfcake I still nominate @narfcake. Make sense?
And I'm still nominating Barney. So expressive with a vocabulary of four (or five?) words.
@SIMBM I maintain that Barney is an Innocent and thus is ineligible for scapegoat-hood.
@SSteve concur
@SIMBM @Steve I'm purple sorry.
@Barney Nothing wrong with that. Tis the color of royalty.
@SIMBM @SSteve @unixrab I am reading "I'm purple sorry." as an extension of vocabulary, but also as a suitable response during @Barney reign...?
@mehjohnson It could also be an homage to "I am Groot"
@SIMBM Oh...ok. I haven't seen Guardians yet.
@mehjohnson
@lisaviolet I know! Just started on the franchise last year. Loved the movies and now trying to catch up on the Agents of Shield tie-ins... I think I'll have to see Groot soon now. Awesome gif btw.
@mehjohnson We do the free advanced screenings of movies, so we don't usually pay to see them, but we weren't invited to the GotG screening. We paid to see it in 3D. I got the blu-ray version on Amazon ($10 less than Walmart) which came with a digital copy. We watched that the other night via Googleplay on my Roku. I even bought the Awesome Mix Vol 1 soundtrack.
@lisaviolet Nice! If I had your e-dick (shoutout to @capguncowboy I think it was) I would do more, but I'm 3Mbps so hardcopy. Small edick hard copy heheh.
@mehjohnson I love having a big e-dick! I never even knew there was such a thing.
@lisaviolet @mehjohnson I'm glad this is catching on. E-dicks can be habit forming
I nominate @unixrab.
As a candidate who may be blamed for starting a fire in the other thread, I nominate @neuromancer for not reading the opening post.
@neuromancer dude - yer about to get flamed by every VMP in the mehverse
@unixrab I'm used to it. I turned off my email notification after siding with the underdog in the great TwistedLisa fiasco of November.
@neuromancer I assume you did not support @lisaviolet (for now-obvious shortcomings) ?
In no particular order: the following individuals have singled themselves out for the horrid goat badge:
Now I did those all from memory and that's saying something. Please distribute your votes among any or all of them. At least these individuals have proven that they are formidable forum apologists, VMP's to a fault, and willing to banter with yours truly (I mean that, I really am yours truly).
@unixrab you forgot @unixrab.
@neuromancer
@unixrab
Ok, i made this list in another thread but i suppose it's more relevant here. I think we are all missing out on the opportunity to really change up the game, who knows what meh shenanigans we will have in 2015! So in no particular order here are some things i think are better then just nominating some lame guy to be a goat.
1) Along side the goat nominate a llama, the llama changes every year and is blamed for any site problems while the goat is blamed for bad deals. (No one is exempt from being llama-ed)
2) Nominate 5 goats and make them compete bachelor style to win our hearts.
3) Get a real goat and give it the account '@therealgoat' develop a complicated system to convert bleets into typed words, possibly speaks korean
4) Vegan options for every deal, every time you purchase the daily deal in the drop down menu that you usually select colors from add the option "vegan" and the order will be replaced by celery totaling the same mass as the product you were selling. The first person to buy the celery each day gets special flair and they get to brag about how they were cool before everyone else. I was thinking gazelle because they are both fast and herbivores.
@axleman1011 TL:DR.
@neuromancer Thanks again for your input. i'll work on a condensed version and have it on your desk by midnight.
@axleman1011 I've gotta tell ya, there really wasn't that much blame put on me this month. Not enough to support two scapes, be it goat or llama, let alone a gazelle. I do appreciate the thought you've put into this, though.
@lisaviolet
Ill be up in arms as soon as we figure out who to blame for not puting enough blame on you this month. Perhaps we should appoint a sort of magpie or crow, and if a deal is too good their job is to remind everyone that there was no fuku this month and its your fault?
@axleman1011 Just three more days of blame. Just three more days!
@lisaviolet And then the end of your reign as goat will be celebrated with champagne and fireworks. How many goats can say that?
@rockblossom Yeah, that's right! How cool is that?
@lisaviolet Not cool, I'm not allowed to set off fireworks in the limits of the city, it's only fair to say it's your fault.
@axleman1011 Just make sure you get the blame complaint in before midnight, the 31st.
@lisaviolet I seem to remember you having a late start.
@Ignorant And with this thread, hopefully that won't happen this month. Poor @cengland0.
@lisaviolet Every month. The goat changover is late, every, month. I'm willing to be yours will have another day added to the later switch because of New Year's. In that time, though you will be blamed, you could opt to just not take it.
@Thumperchick wanna bet? What do I get if the goat is transferred on time this month?
@JonT My forever gratitude.
@JonT then you will have the satisfaction of a job well done, on time! Also, my surprised expression. :)
@JonT Abuse by the new goat who has to start "early"?
I'd just like to thank @lisaviolet for raising the bar for future goats- she really put in a good deal of effort, and is a great member of the forums.
@dashcloud Aw, thank you. I had some big shoes to fill, that's for sure.
@lisaviolet My feet aren't THAT big, and you didn't have to steal my shoes. :P (You've done a fantastic job and seriously upped the ante for great gifs and general shenanigans here. Nice goating!)
@Thumperchick
Thank you...but the shoes...they're so pretty!
@lisaviolet There's no place like goathood. There's no place like goathood. There's no place like goathood….
@lisaviolet
@lisaviolet I agree, I couldn't dedicate as much time as you did. You seem to have participated in every thread which is amazing.
@dashcloud @cengland0 I have to agree that @lisaviolet and @Thumperchick really raised the bar for good goatness. And those two and @cengland0 (who was a good goat too) were almost too likable. Which is a good thing--at least mostly. And they had their spunky moments too, which is goatworthy. Heh, heh. I said "spunky."
@cengland0 The year after we married, I quit work to do the paperwork for hubby's business. It was a lot more time consuming than his current company so I've got lots of free time. I could do something great, like volunteer someplace, but then I'd have to deal with people. Introverts don't do that well.....
@joelmw
Hahahahahahaha!
@lisaviolet You and @Thumperchick do have a sort of Poppins presence to you. Which is kind of unfair to @cengland0, if you think of it. I mean, damn, how does a guy live up to Mary Poppins? I guess there's always drag--a quite venerable tradition in some circles.
@lisaviolet and you are not dealing with people here?...
@Kidsandliz Here I can walk away and watch Forensic Files in the other room.
@unixrab is attempting to be like a little boy in the playground being mean to the little girls because it's his way of saying he likes them in some way, this I compare to the rabbler trying to hard to be the voice of reasoning(ie dont buy this junk, make sure you pick a goat soon, vmp is useless up until this point) its almost like he is being paid(maybe not in money maybe in stars, peanuts, or salt licks) by the powers that be, you see I can say that perhaps you are defending meh by projecting reverse psychology on the masses, I am on to you....
@sp3ar Exactly the thing a certain CEO around here is known to do.
@sp3ar
@sp3ar @hallmike
@unixrab
@unixrab OH YEAH!
I nominate @narfcake, because I like narfs and I like cake...
@Headly Scroll up and click on the star next to Foxborn's post where @narfcake is first nominated.
Folks need to stop pushing for @unixrab to be goat so he can recognize his full potential as goatse. Great, now I'm picturing that badge design. Where did I put that brain bleach?
@Shamburglar why would you say goatse? That thing is like a bad penny, you think you've gotten rid of it for good, then BAM, someone brings it back up.
@Shamburglar
@Shamburglar I'm learning so much here on the meh forums....e-dicks, goatse (ewwww).....
@lisaviolet I really hope you didn't look that up- if so, I'd support a nomination for that person to be scapegoat of the month.
@dashcloud I'll agree, DO NOT GOOGLE. I've avoided actually seeing goatse and 2G1C and count myself lucky. Though the Deadspin article tracking down the goatse guy was pretty interesting.
@dashcloud I saw the explanation of the meme, that was knowledge enough.....
@lisaviolet seriously!
@Shamburglar @lisaviolet @kidsandliz In my younger days I was more curious about seeing terrible things on the internet, so goatse is pretty tame to me. Luckily I'm well past that phase and no longer have any desire or need to see horrible things for no reason.
@JonT I remember watching the United States of Tara and one of the kids mentioned "dogs in the bathtub"...I looked it up online, the Urban Dictionary, I think. I will never be able to erase what I read. I had the worst case of giggles after reading that.
@JonT One day in a conversation with a buddy at work, trying to say something totally absurd and somewhat obscene (so as to facetiously accuse him of uncouth internet activities), I said "Asian insect porn." And, no, not all of the hits are "incest"; there's insect stuff out there. Oh the glorious wonders of the internet.
@JonT
Now you have a reason, you're paid to read the horrible things we write!@Thumperchick - Is a nudge in order? Didn't want to mess up the alignment in the Scapegoats of meh thread, but mehbe it's time to acknowledge our January victim?
(I know you have other, impending things keeping you occupied ;-).
@KDemo oh... I missed this month. Hanks for he head's up.
@Thumperchick - Thank you! And maybe you could use a cup of T?
(Don't mean to be giving you a hard time today, honest!)
@KDemo @Thumperchick covered January 2015 already.
@narfcake - Hard to believe there have been so many goats since then. ;-)
@narfcake - Oh, hah. Took a while.