Stress pucks, aprons and mouse pads oh my!
9Disclaimer:
This is by no means a promise that we will do any of these at all. So please do not give your hopes up on something, but I’d love to have a conversation with everyone.
Figured I’d ask the experts on the topic and gauge interest. If you were to have an item with the Meh logo or a Meh face on it…what item would that be? I know we’ve done some funky things in the past like aprons, beanies, and mouse pads. I also know that some of you have brought up having other items printed so I wanted to check in with y’all in one place.
All hypothetical of course.
We would be printing it in-house, so nothing that we can’t do that with, like pens. Unless you have a super cool idea, then share and we can put that in a “we will see” folder.
And please, within reason. 
If I see folks suggesting broomsticks and steering wheel covers, I’m going to make sure your future coupons add money to your orders.
Slightly related -
My suggestion was shorts (or pants) like this in the past, but just so it says “meh.” Ran into a problem with the seam, so I don’t think we could do it quite like this.
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Earlier today, I suggested imprinting fake bananas with the logo and a scale in useless increments as a gag item. I don’t know if that’s actually a reasonably seriously considerable suggestion or not, since I have no idea where to get those bananas. But since you asked, I’ll toss it into the mix. I don’t know if there’s a stress banana version available for that, maybe there is. That would give it dual usage.
@werehatrack …Oh my god. I love that.
We wouldn’t be able to do that in house but…I wonder if I could sweet-talk some teams into sourcing that sometime…
@riskybryzness As I mentioned in a reply to @werehatrack in the other thread, I only know about Fingertech Robotics because of their scale banana, so don’t underestimate the promo value.
@riskybryzness @werehatrack RTX4090 for scale.
@blaineg @riskybryzness @werehatrack ooh do you have a 4090? I’m jealous.
@blaineg Is that your 4090?
@ExtraMedium @Targaryen Oh no, just a stolen picture. I wouldn’t spend $1600 on a video card.
There’s several other good size comparisons in this article.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/ars-is-full-steam-ahead-on-an-nvidia-rtx-4090-gpu-review-so-were-unboxing-it/
Maybe you should consider Meh printed Xboxes?
@werehatrack A quick browse turned up multiple promo merch suppliers that have stress bananas as an imprintable item. Attention would need to be paid to whether the actual item is really banana-sized, of course.
@blaineg @riskybryzness The RTX5090 is supposedly a bit larger.
@blaineg @riskybryzness @werehatrack
Umm - they come in a variety of sizes, you know.
@blaineg @riskybryzness @werehatrack BANANAS!
I’m talking about bananas.
@blaineg @Kyeh @riskybryzness Hence the need for calibration marks on them…
I’d suggest a pair of scales, in decicubits and centimeters, but inches and centimeters would be less confusing for the obscure-increment-impaired.
So you’re not ruling out broomstick covers?
@blaineg
@blaineg Not even racing broomsticks for use in Quidditch matches? (I regret to say that these are actually a real thing. Video as evidence.)
Sweats - but available in plus size, too.
@Thumperchick I second this. I would love meh sweats. Extra points for a meh face on each ass cheek.
@Thumperchick this. I would rock silver booty shorts too, ngl.
Coffee mugs. Or if it has to be something that can be printed flat, koozies. (That word always sounds dirty to me.)
I’d get that scale banana, though.
Mini flashlights
Garden flags
Throw blanket
Umbrella
Coaster
Earrings
@j2 They did fleece blankets a few years ago.
Dye-sub-coated vacuum tumblers exist, and can be done in small batches in-house with relatively minimal equipment expense; the same transfer press that’s used for dye-sub mugs will also do the tumblers. I have had decent durability results with the mugs, but I have no experience with the image persistence of the tumblers in typical usage. Single-color-imprint tumblers can also be pad-printed, or screen printed if you want to build the jig. And there’s always the possibility of Mehnamel pins…
@werehatrack If you do Mehnamel pins I know a guy.
Cotton canvas Meh-ssenger bags could probably be screen printed in-house without melting the zipper…
@werehatrack I was looking into that actually. Like laptop style messenger bag almost–something with multipurpose.
IRK PLUSHIES!!!
@Kyeh Glen is possible too.
@yakkoTDI Not interested in Glen.
@Kyeh Way to sock a guy in the gut.
@yakkoTDI Darn it.
@Kyeh
I second, third and fourth that!!
@Lynnerizer
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Sombreros
Bandana with “meh”, Glen, IRK, and the flat line smiley in each corner
@lehigh Bandanas would be fun.
I somehow missed the aprons, I’d like one of those. Some sort of cross body bag…like a half or third size messenger bag (military “map bag” size) could probably have something printed on the flap fairly easily.
Would the bandanas be better than the previous one?
@FreePasta I think you misread what @werehatrack was suggesting up above… Bananas, not bandanas!
Whatever you do decide on, you should send them to your VMPs to test out and report back on quality and fit.
pair is quite attractive though the fabric is not holding up to repeated wearing. They fit my 10.5 sized feet well, and stay up on my calves without cutting off circulation. Unfortunately the threadbare nature of the fabric, particularly at the toe, has meant that I rarely wear them anymore. I would recommend redoing the Mediocre Sock
, but with stronger fabric.
For instance, my Mediocre Sock
Send them to us and we will do this with your upcoming branded items.
@curtise Brilliant! Magnificent!
/giphy genius
@curtise AND they need to do women’s size in socks too. I finally gave away my meh socks as they were just too big. I had a sads over that.
Here’s some “vintage” Mehrchandise for inspiration: apron, towel, 2 koozies and 2 stress pucks. Artificial banana for scale.
Microfiber glasses cleaning cloths. I guess those are dye sub, though.
Gift wrap. Probably not doable in house, but what a fine way to showcase the gifts given that came from here.
Garden flag (the ubiquitous hang-down banner that goes on the horizontal rod). Nothing like welcoming the neighbors with a nice “Meh.”
Koozies are good.
Meh notepads, with sections for things to maybe not forget, things you might get at the store, and a list of tasks to procrastinate on or blow off entirely.
@djslack mehnotes would be nice. “From the desk of Meh”
How about Buff-style neck gaiters?
So not a steering wheel cover but a car windshield sun block (you’d need it in several sizes though)
Also meh did do a shirt at the end of year 1 with all the year’s meh faces on the front. You could do a repeat only put some of them (make them small so you have to look closely) spelling out meh
Condoms
‘You’re pregnant? But we used a condom’
‘Meh!’
Candles, kind of like this one but better.
@heartny Huh, and they even have one especially for @carl669!!
@carl669 @heartny @Kyeh My preference.
@blaineg I’m eagerly awaiting my Texas Roadhouse Honey Cinnamon Butter Candle.
@blaineg @heartny if we made a candle it would somehow smell like candy corn, mint toothpaste, and pasta.
@riskybryzness Not that there’s anything with with that. As long as it doesn’t smell like mint toothpaste with orange juice we should be good.
@heartny @riskybryzness And speaker docks, knives, and battery packs.
@blaineg @heartny That was my first thought but not entirely sure how to encapsulate the smell of a speaker dock and battery pack. That could be the name of it though. Thoroughly confuse people even more for shits and giggles.
@blaineg @riskybryzness There’s nothing quite like the sweet smell of electronics.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-11/this-scented-candle-smells-like-a-brand-new-computer
@blaineg @heartny @riskybryzness
So they need to get a Mehcandle that’s shaped like a candy-corn-colored speaker dock with a knife laying on top…
I don’t even want to think about what kind of awful scents would get embedded in that.
@blaineg @heartny @werehatrack This is getting dangerously close to meh bath bombs with electronics in it. “One-time use only.”
@heartny @riskybryzness @werehatrack One per user, per lifetime.
I like the meh sunglasses.
Some comfy meh pj’s or a meh robe would be nice.
I was swippering the bathroom floor and remembered this was a topic. I guess you can get all kinds of weird stuff personalized.
This seems like it would be a good product for Meh to offer. A Bluetooth water bottle with lights that change color. I won one of these at work and kept looking for the Meh logo on it. I was sure it had to be there somewhere.
@heartny Eep. The inexplicable “hand wash only” markings on the all-stainless ones are annoying enough (and mostly bull), but this is probably “Never even think about immersing it, don’t put it in the sink, and in fact just never get any part of it wet at all, okay?”