Ten Years a Goat (July 2024 scapegoat blame thread)
9Well, that was fast. June is over. Stick a fork in it, cause we’re on to July and it looks like we managed to keep doing this for 10 years. 10!
Big thanks to @awk for taking responsibility for all the woes we suffered in June. I’ll call it a success. And now that we’re hitting double-digits in age, it’s time to send our blame another way, and who better to take that responsibility than @snapster? Apparently, @mycya4me, that’s who. Don’t ask me, you guys place your votes on the candidate you find most fitting, so here we are.
Missed a great opportunity to test the bounds of the goat, but now, we may never know what would happen. Don’t let us down @mycya4me, or everyone will blame you…er…oh, yeah.
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Why Not, Blame me! everyone else tries to!
I’m just a Geeky Nerd that LOVES Grits w/ Butter & PB & J/ 'Nana sandwiches.
I wish to Blame everyone to voted for me!
@mycya4me I am not sure I’d like grits with so much stuff in them
@tightwad FYI that was my Dad’s CB handle as he was! Grits is a food product that you add stuff to. Some like butter (like me, Butter ONLY) some like to add cheese, bacon ect… I have never heard some one eating them Plain!
@mycya4me butter I am familiar with, but adding PB&J and Banana are new ones…
@tightwad But they make a Great sandwich either the Jelly or Banana with PB. Some times with Honey!
@mycya4me I highly recommend pb&j with bacon in it!
@cinoclav @mycya4me I (reluctantly) agree, really crisp bacon is a tasty additive for a PB or a PB&J. My preferred use for that bacon is in a B&T (L no) on toast, but it works in the others as well.
@cinoclav Ok… if that is what you like that is totally fine with me! I am not a big bacon fan myself!
@cinoclav @werehatrack Hey like I have said if that is what you like Go for it!
Oh BTW do I get a discount on the next Meh-a_Thon for being the 10th Anniversary/ July Goat?
@mycya4me Based on experience, expect any IRK to have twice the R. Does that count?
@werehatrack HAHAHAHA
/showme peanut butter jelly goat
@mediocrebot but where is the Bananas!
@mycya4me Bananas were not explicitly requested.
/showme a peanut butter and jelly goat with bananas
@mediocrebot HAHAHA
@mediocrebot OHMY!
Blame-Still have a land line (2 actually) because of my business and am on pace to set a new record today. Have gotten 20 spam calls on our main line already today. Some are diverted automatically after only one ring, others are from multiple cities in Florida where we know no one. Most difficult ones are local 941 numbers which we sometimes pick up only to find some is trying to sell us car warranties, medicare plans or orthopedic equipment.
Sometimes I pick up and say hello to get the robo call to transfer to an indiv and just put the phone down-they wasted my time, why shouldn’t I waste theirs. Other times I put the phone up to the TV and turn the sound up.
Other times I with the phone down I make rude NSFW comments loud enough for them to hear.
@Felton10 A person I know went to the trouble of acquiring a message-on-hold device for their old landline many years ago. Among its features, it has the ability to play several different looping files of up to 10 minute duration. One of them features the voice of a long-time associate from his university days repeating the phrase “Do not end this call until released. Your statement is required.” in Mandarin, alternating with music that he filched from a Chinese provincial website.
@Felton10 whistles work
@Cerridwyn Only sort of. Nearly all non-cell phones have a limit on output volume, and all of the legacy boiler-room call director systems will reduce the amplitude of the sound reproduced to a fixed not-terribly-high level. Cell phones are not usually used by such call spammers. Ergo, no matter how loud you make the noise at your end, the worst that will be heard at the other end is a distorted, unintelligible mess caused by the failure of the microphone to reproduce the overly loud sound. But a perfectly audible recording designed to convince the spammer that they really don’t want to call back can be a thing of beauty.
@Cerridwyn @werehatrack If I have the time and the person on the other end is a jerk I will tell him how, in explicit detail, I will mutilate his sexual organs, fry them and send them to his wife/girlfriend telling them, as I was hired to do, I fixed his cheating habit for them and they can pay me now. That is usually enough to get THEM to hang up.
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz @werehatrack
I used to press all the various keys on my landline phone so they heard a bunch of beeps and boops until they hung up. Only I almost never pick up the landline anymore unless I recognize the number or someone legit starts leaving a message.
@Felton10 I finally just gave up my landline about 6 months ago. I too was getting an unbelievable amount of spammers and phishing calls, it started REALLY getting under my skin. It was when I realized that I WAS PAYING for them to call me (and another increase on my monthly bill) that I turned off my service! It was stressful and caused me anxiety to even think about only relying on my cellphone but I’m dealing with it! It’s way less stressful than dealing with those relentless jerks calling me daily! The one thing that I’ve taken away from it is that I’m extremely cautious about giving away ANY personal information to anyone who calls. GOD BLESS the customer service people who call from my insurance company, they get the third degree just to prove that they are who they say they are!
@Felton10 I don’t have a traditional landline, but my Google voice line serves the same purpose. My wife recently became eligible for Medicare, so we have been getting 8-10 solicitation/junk/scam calls a day for the last 6 months. Usually we just let them go to voicemail, but since many use fake local caller IDs, we occasionally pick up. When I do, I usually fake interest, but tell them that the battery on my handset is low and say I’m going to switch to another handset, then mute the mic and listen. Sometimes I can keep them on the line for several minutes, asking “Are you there?” before they disconnect. Other times I start talking porn language until they disconnect (usually pretty quickly). Gotta have some fun with it once in a while…
@werehatrack they didn’t used to, grin )
also a recording of a modem/fax
@Felton10 @Lynnerizer Some of the Calls I get to Buy my Property… well I have been here for 60+ years. So I tell them sure I will sell, for $1 million, I will NOT negotiate. Some ask why do you think it is worth that much, Well I said so & where would I go live?
@Felton10 @Lynnerizer @mycya4me I loathe those vultures. I never get the calls since I don’t pick up unfamiliar numbers but sometimes I get letters. Yeah, sure - I’m going to take an offer from some total stranger when I know what my house is worth?
@mycya4me I’m up to $1.81 million, six month occupancy, 90% earnest money in cash, no inspection, 50% forfeiture and contract cancelled if contract not executed within 30 days of earnest money. So far, I’m still here. (My price goes up a little with every call.)
@werehatrack I have a Nice Brick House, stick built. in the early 1960s & a mobile home with many Out buildings & a very well built Shop! I just might have to up my Price, with about 1 acre of land total. so Yea I just might have to up my Price!
@mycya4me ask the if you sell to them do you hace to dig the bodies out of the back yard. They are going to have to help. Bring your own shovel.
Well what I say is “ Hello, this is Joe’s Cat shop, We serve Cat Pizza, its Purrrrect, you should try it!.
@mycya4me ALF must own Joe’s Cat Shop.
@Felton10 Yep we are co-owners of Joe’s Cat shop we serve the Best Cat pizza on Earth!
@mycya4me Do you catch cats the same way ALF did?
@Felton10 Nope, I found a much easier way. I just dangle a piece of twine!
@Felton10 @mycya4me
These cats would like to have you over for dinner tonight.
@Felton10 @Kyeh OMG they would make Awesome Cat Pizza! Huge too!
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
@Felton10 @mycya4me Nah - YOU’RE the pizza.
@Felton10 @Kyeh I know how to handle ALL types of Cats. So Nope… they will be puddly in my hands!
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@Felton10 @mycya4me
You’re sounding kind of evil.
@Felton10 @Kyeh YEA! HEHEHEHE That’s me, But then again I need to be this Month!
@mediocrebot WOW?
/showme a cat eating pizza
@mediocrebot You know it is Purrrrrfit! the Real Cat’s meow!
@mediocrebot what? No anchovies??
@ironcheftoni No meats at all, from what I can see. I will admit that we had a cat who’d have stolen all the tomato and cheese off of that, but the olives and pepper would not have met with approval.
@werehatrack I don’t know, I used to have a cat that would eat the olives and mushrooms off a pizza.
@ironcheftoni @werehatrack Tomatoes, garlic, etc. can make a cat sick and enough of it and they can die… My cats would definitely check it out although this bunch not as much as my earlier buddies who I had to teach that my dinner plate was not their dinner plate.
@ironcheftoni @Kidsandliz The toxicity of the allium family for cats is well documented, but I have run into quite a few cats who would eat large amounts of tomato with no ill effects. I’ve had at least two who had that proclivity, and I’ve known of several others. One of ours lived to the ripe old age of 24. And at 23 years of age, she was still trying to steal tomato slices from within the sandwich that someone was sitting at the table trying to eat. If I left a tomato on the counter in the evening, I would find a stub of it on the floor in the morning, well gnawed by carnivore teeth. I’ve suspected that two more of the ones around here were also participants in tomato abductions and mutilations, but I never caught them at it. Mina, on the other hand, was caught in the act more than once. And she would fight you for the remnants.
@ironcheftoni @werehatrack Named Garfield?
@Jackinga Main offender was Mina, suspicious possible accomplices were Mouser and Sunfall. (Fafhrd showed no interest at all.)
@Jackinga @werehatrack my pizza fiend was named Gremlin. He was a big orange tabby though that thought he was part dog as he loved to play fetch. If no one would play with him, he would take his toys and bounce them against the walls of the entryway of the apartment.
@ironcheftoni @Jackinga @werehatrack I had round sewing elastic hanging from a nail over a doorway and a toy at the end. My cats would grab the toy in their mouth, back up with it, let go and then chase it around while it bounced around. When it was done, they’d pull it back and do it again.
/showme big cats devouring a scapegoat
@mediocrebot they would not Catch me! I would just dangle my kitty catchers.
BLAME!!! I live in hud due to too many cancers too close together and no medicaid expansion in this state. The new asshole manager is telling people if they live in hud they shouldn’t own much (read: don’t deserve to own much) and is making people get rid of furniture, knickknacks on shelves, etc. because it “looks too cluttered”. She inspects where they live before they move in and says she won’t let them move in if they own much because apparently if you live in HUD you can be treated like 5 year old inmates in a group home - it turns out owners can make decisions like this. There are people who have lived here for years and years under the old and new (4.5 years) owners and never been written up for anything until she started this Jan or Feb where she written them up for owning too many things (aka clutter be it belongings on shelves, pictures on the wall, etc. when they have nothing stacked on the floor, no fire hazard, nothing blocked, etc.). She also makes nasty, cutting comments and then when you call her on it says, “I’m just kidding.” (yeah right), and is a bully. Fuck that piece of shit. Just fuck her.
Blame. I’ve got extra work shifts.
I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to be retired, but I didn’t have a pension option
@pakopako Yeah the no pension stuff sucks. I am in the same boat. Starting with the boomer generation most people don’t have pensions anymore. There is going to be far more poor older people, especially much older people, when they run out of saved money. Waiting until 70 to take social security at least raises the amount someone gets per month but it isn’t going even remotely solve the issue.
@Kidsandliz @pakopako you have a choice, either work the Extra shifts of not… so more money or not… but it’s your choice. So, you can’t blame anyone but you self, as you did it to yourself!
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pakopako Is fault of greedy capitalist dogs stealing all value created by workers! (And scapegoat. Goat is always official one to blame. Capitalists love Goats, always have one available.)
@mycya4me @pakopako No someone can ALWAYS blame the goat. That is YOUR job as the goat - to accept the blame, not pass judgement.
/giphy the goat always takes the blame
@Kidsandliz right! It is all @mycya4me’s fault whether he wants it or not
@Kidsandliz @pakopako Since I am the Goat I can Pass the Blame! That is my Choice. So I will pass on the Blame to TinaMarie1974 (that make you kind young!)
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @werehatrack But I can tell you that I am not a Capitalists. Just a poor worker that is due to retire!
@mycya4me @pakopako Nope can not pass blame. Not part of the job description. The job description requires you to accept blame. Passing blame is not under “other duties as assigned” either. I blame you not wanting to follow the rules.
/giphy goat not following rules with bad outcome
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pakopako sorry, but not the way it works. Blaming the goat because this was unclear.
@Kidsandliz @pakopako I also get to make some of my own rules!
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 I am changing some of the Rules & creating some of Mine! Well it is only for a few weeks! I did NOT say you could NOT blame me… But I can choose to accept it or NOT especially is it is VERY dumb reason! hehehe
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pakopako and you think anyone here will listen
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 NOPE! what is New… that is so Typical of Meh!
@mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974
EWW GROSS @mycya4me liked their own post announcing the goat was changing some of the rules.
Sorry goats don’t get to change the rules. You even volunteered to be blamed and campaigned for yourself even before you were voted in. The rules were chisseled in stone 10 years ago in the meh community constitution. You can only blame yourself for this fix you find yourself in. Or you could defect to woot… just sayin’
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pakopako didnt a goat already try to change the rules during the pandemic. Try to limit the scope of their responsibility? I recall SOMETHING, but it clearly didnt work
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 Why defect?? I am having way too much Fun!
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974 Besides, one of the unwritten rules is that the goat is under no binding obligation to acknowledge the rules. There’s not even a mechanism to recall or impeach a goat. Or imfig or imzucchini or imberry one, for that matter. And it’s rare for one to be imbarassed.
@mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Except for the blame part. That IS their job - to accept that.
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Thank You!
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack I can be bribed with Very good Chocolate!
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pakopako @werehatrack I believe I heard that a goat was actually dethroned once, it was before my time.
It is up to the goat whether they participate or not. Even if they do some sort of fun/memorable thing during their reign. As K&L stated the only thing they must do is take blame…they are the site scapegoat specifically for that reason
@mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
I blame you for wanting a bribe to do your job. This is not Cambodia. No “expediting” fees here. Besides in this heat it would be a melted mess anyway if someone sent you any. And that would be your fault too. So you can’t win for losing.
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974 And even if they don’t formally accept the blame, we still will heap it upon them.
@mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
/giphy Catapulting heaps of blame on the goat
@mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack I give up. Couldn’t get to come up what I was looking for but this was funny.
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack I never said I would NOT take the Blame, BUT I did say I could pass it now if it was something quite stupid!
@Kidsandliz @macromeh @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Awesome Movie. I had one of those type of modems, back in the early days of the internet!
POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Good Chocolate is Always worth it! & those that know, Know how to pack so it will NOT melt! SO my Fave is Lindt!
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Fine by Me! I can also shift it onto???
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack You need to use Chocolate instead of Watermelons, Although they are great!
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Yep it always is! Like the Dirty Joke:
A Snow White horse falls in to a Large Mud hole!
@mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
You can TRY to pass it but:
We are rubber and you are glue.
All the blame we pass sticks to you!
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pakopako @werehatrack and we can just blame the goat for attempting to pass blame. Wait that means it passes back to…
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack I will just some spray glue & aim it at you. as I have unglue!
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack So it will keep going around in circles !
@mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Nope. As a past goat I, and all other past goats, am specially treated for no blame to stick. You will get whiplash as it flies back to you and pierces your unglue.
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack HAHAHA… I have the strongest unglue around. It is only use to unglue stuff Not as a protection!
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
I think you forget the core foundation. The role of the goat is to serve the community. Not rule.
I mean sure you can make whatever edict you want but it will just be ignored if it’s not supported. Or valid. Or true.
Accept your fate and you will become one with the goat force
@Kidsandliz @pakopako @tinamarie1974 @unksol @werehatrack I know that it will just be ignored, that is the Beauty of it! hehehe I expect it, truly wish you would! hehehe. So with that I have become one with the Force!! So I serving the community… That is the Reason I am so Baaaaaad
Okay, time for an unblame.
July 3rd passed and I did not break any bodily parts. Last year I took out my wrists, face, sinus etc. Thanks, GOAT!
@OldCatLady You are VERY Welcome! Lets keep it that way, It is NOT fun to break stuff, especially if it part of the body!!
Minor unblame, moderate boggle: Today, for perhaps the third time this year and no more than the tenth time in the past six years, the contents of our curbside recycling barrel got collected on the scheduled day, and it happened before the trash collection came through. Given how many times they’ve skipped our neighborhood entirely, this is a (very small) bloody miracle.
@werehatrack You are welcome!
BLAME: A hurricane watch has been issued for much of the Texas Gulf Coast. At present, the forecast does not have the Houston area included in the watch zone, but the rain forecast is predicting enough of that to present a significant flood risk. I can’t recall a Houston I-10 Regatta having happened in July before, but we potentially could be looking at one.
@werehatrack And unblame too as fortunately I am already back from my more than annual, at this point, trip down I-10 to there via I-10 in LA too which I am sure can be like that too given the right sailing conditions.
It is 9PM on Sunday evening here in Houston as I type this, and the winds are dead calm. We had several bands of rain come through earlier, none of them heavy enough to pose a flooding threat. On the radar, the storm’s eye can be picked out, but the radar shows that the amount of active precip surrounding the storm is less than predicted and discontinuous - and not moving as fast as it would in a really major storm. My reading of the track predicts a path that will bring the eye closer to me than that shown in the most recent forecasts, but my hurricane experience predicts that this will not be a major-threat event at all. We shall see.
Unblame. I am home basically in one piece.
Blame. First flight delayed 70 minutes because of storms in Dallas.
Unblame. Warnings about rough flight and it was not bad. I almost tried to change my flights because I get motion sickness.
Unblame. Run over hill and dale to my connecting flight and get to the gate just in time to board.
Unblame. No mention of the storms and flight is smooth and on time.
Blame. Walking 500 thousand miles to the next connecting flight and a gremlin tripped me. Landed on one knee and caught my elbow.
Unblame. Sore but didn’t break anything. Couple scrapes and will probably get a rainbow of colors from bruises but walking ok today.
Good job goat!
@speediedelivery
Sometimes it all works out. Glad you are intact and (relatively) unscathed.
Still haven’t decided if ten years of meh is a blame or unblame, but in the meantime, here’s some Caturday reading material from 2014:
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/matt-rutledge-woot-has-a-new-deal-mediocre-corporation/
@narfcake unblame otherwise we wouldnt have this community!!
Hi friens!!! I have a big blame for the GOAT!!
My birthday was in MAY and mom didn’t have a party w Uncle Buddy or my cousin Dollie (she is kinda new) until FOURTH OF JULY!!! This is blame x 5!! Mom says it was bekaus my foot, but I DONT KNOW
Also unblame bekaus my party was great. Penut buttr bakon cake and FOUR types of ice kream! Mom sayz it was a flight, but we were knot on a plane!
Also unblame bekaus my foot is better and it looks good!
I have lots of piktures! MMMOOOOMMMM piks???
So 5-2 = THREE BLAMES. Also, this is how many toes I have!!!
Charlie Out
@CharlieDoggo Wow!!! That’s a scrumptious looking cake! I’m glad your paw is finally better. Looks like you had a great party!
Thanks @Kyeh! All the ice cream was soooo good. Uncle Buddy wouldnt eat his plain (mom said it is vnalla), but I finished it for him. Wish he would have left thr chokolat or the PB. They were xtra yum!
And my paw is so good. I have been chasing a pesky bunny put of the yard. It is so fast I kant katch it!
Oh I think another blame because the bunny is too fast and sneaky!
@CharlieDoggo Maybe your mom will get you more ice cream to have all for yourself.
The killer cat down the street catches rabbits around here; I don’t like it because he leaves the remains around in the yard.
@CharlieDoggo @Kyeh hmmm. Trying to do the math here on pet volume and mass per aggregate…
Then the damage multiplier. But 3 large vs 20 small…
Then the environmental damage caused to the owner…
Oh right happy late birthday.
@Kyeh @unksol this konfusng. But tank u, I tell mom u said I get more PB!!!
@CharlieDoggo @Kyeh yes. Yes more PB. Not going to question that
Blame.
I did not sleep a wink between 7/3 and 7/5 because fireworks were going off all day. Yes, even when the sun was out, bangs and whistles at inconsistent intervals. By the time the noises stopped, it was dawn on Friday and … I don’t think I got more than an hour of sleep last night either.
@pakopako Can you sleep now?! Or are you at work or something?
@Kyeh I tend to work odd schedules. And I barely have time to do chores; I finally cleared my kitchen sink after almost two weeks. I’ve yet to install the AC unit.
@pakopako I’m sorry to hear that! Sounds like a blame for sure
LOL - I just realized that when I read the posts of this month’s goat, in my head the voice is the same as Charlie’s.
@macromeh And what does that sound like?
@Kyeh @pakopako thats what I was wondering too!!!
I wonder if he has the same voice in both our heads?
@pakopako @tinamarie1974 I think you meant to include @macromeh?
@Kyeh @macromeh @pakopako Indeed I did
@Kyeh @macromeh @tinamarie1974 wait how did I get involved in this?
@Kyeh @macromeh @pakopako @tinamarie1974 I have no idea why you got involved but I suspect blaming the goat is appropriate.
@mycya4me I will thoroughly blame you if you don’t tell me what to buy during the upcoming birthday mehrathon.
BLAME. The hurricane is here and the power is out
@werehatrack Oh My, Poor baby! I hope you have a Generator.
@mycya4me We do, but I will not ne able to hook it up until the storm passes.
The current radar seems to be showing that the storm’s eye will bullseye my area.
The eye is a couple of miles west of us; we are getting the strongest winds now.
@werehatrack I hope you are Safe & Dry!
The storm has moved off to the north now, and the winds are calm. There is no more rain, but the entire area is pretty wet, and it’s going to take a while for things to dry out. My generator is running out in back of the house to keep the refrigerators, the freezer, the microwave, and a little bit of lighting available. The stove and oven run on gas, so we have full cooking capability. What we don’t have is AC. This may become a factor tomorrow and for the rest of the week if the power doesn’t come back on pretty quickly. Fortunately, my daughter’s house already has power. We can adjourn to there if we have to.
@werehatrack we’re on well water so I extra hate power outages (hope you’re not on well). We do normally have between 5gallons and 50gallons of water stored up though. (depends on how recently we went and refilled all our 5 gallon water jugs)
@OnionSoup We are in a full utility services area, so water is not an issue as long as the system can maintain head pressure. Our neighborjood is not listed as being in the electric grid repair phase yet. We’re still shown as under assessment. Last time, that meant we were among the last to get power back. And that was last month. I’m exceptionally glad that I added a short extension cord behind the fridge so that I could keep its plug within reach to ease the transition to the generator when I needed to do that.
@OnionSoup @werehatrack What a pain in the butt with the hot weather. Cats must be happy it is hot though (not that this is any consolation for you and others affected).
Also the water situation where you have to keep gallons and gallons stored is a such pain. I live where we went last year about 6-8 weeks total with no water at all (including starting Christmas eve afternoon and then for 8 days) and around 4.5 months of boil water notices. All in all that kind of thing is a giant, expensive PITA for so many reasons. As we were not born in the cave man (well pre electricity) era so don’t have the systems in place to easily deal with that.
As luck would have it, the last three houses we’ve had have been on private wells. Now folks with public water supplies tend to take that service for granted (maybe with the exception of paying the water bill and for any tacked on sewer charges as well.)
But when the power is off, one doesn’t have water. Period.
Doesn’t sound so bad, if it is for a short time, but the fact is that one cannot flush a toilet. You need water to do that. Sure one can keep or buy some water for cooking, drinking, etc., but flushing?
If we know ahead of time that a power loss is imminent or possible, I try to fill bath tubs for just that reason.
I have a standby generator, but in this house, I have never installed the transfer switch on the house wiring. Fortunately, where we live now, the power seldom goes out and if it does it is usually for no more than an hour or two. So far. So good.
The house before this one was in an another state and the power company there was terrible. It seems like we were at the end of the transmission line and as a result, our power went out often. PITA!
So I completely understand and sympathize with your predicament with respect to the relationship between normal life with power and a well and life without power and no water.
@Jackinga @OnionSoup We live in a rural area and have a well. Before we moved into our newly-built house, I bought a generator that could power the well pump. (I even got the seller to bring it out and temporarily patch it into the well controller to demonstrate that it would handle the surge.) However, because of <insert lame excuse> I did not immediately make accommodation to easily connect the generator output to the electrical feed for the well.
<Some time passes…>
It is Christmas Eve and it starts to snow. Woohoo! a White Christmas in our new house! And it keeps snowing. And snowing. And snowing. And the power lines go down and the power goes out. Three days with no power. Three days with no running water. Three days with two adults and three small children using the toilets. Merry Christmas!
Guess what my first project of the New Year was?
@Jackinga @macromeh unexpected power outages are the worst. If we think one is likely we fill the bathtub… That way can use bucket to flush toilets. Melted snow could probably have been used too
@Jackinga @OnionSoup Yes, we resorted to melting snow to provide water for flushing the toilets. Fortunately, in an otherwise all-electric house we have a propane cooktop. (Also, we were able to flush them by dumping water directly into the bowl since they are pressure-flush units with sealed water tanks.)
But it takes a looong time to melt enough snow to flush a toilet (even longer to flush 3 toilets as was the case).
I blame the goat for being up in the middle of the night with a real pain in the ass (PITA), or more specifically a pain in me left hip.
I tore a muscle/tendon (gluteus medius) a few weeks ago as I have mentioned before. I am on a muscle relaxant, prednisone, and prescription strength Aleve, along with hot and cold compresses, and a lot of Ben-Gay and CBD cream. I smell like a wintergreen lifesaver most of the time now.
I felt pretty good yesterday morning, and started to do a bunch of things, I have been putting off because of this PITB thing and the lack of mobility that goes with it. I probably overdid it and that is partially the reason, I’m paying the pain price in the wee hours tonight.
Around 4AM, I couldn’t take it any more as there was no position in bed where that area wasn’t hurting like the very dickens, and I couldn’t go back to sleep. I’m up, potioned, lotioned, heated, and stretched as much as possible, and I wouldn’t be any of those things except for the damned goat.
Don’t you just hate it when this sort of thing happens?
@Jackinga hehehe, I love being a Nite Owl, hehehe
Blame - I clicked less than half of the meh buttons during the recent event.
Unblame I just won a battle against the manager this afternoon over what counts for medical expenses as she was refusing to count things that count. For a change the organization you are supposed to complain to responded in a timely manner and stated explicitly she had to count that stuff. I wish the damn managers would actually learn the rules. I have read the hud occupancy manual and it isn’t rocket science, Not even close.
BLAME. Yesterday, Centerpoint Energy was alleged to have promised to provide real estimates about when power would be restored for its customers. There were even instruction about how to extract this information from the outage tracking map.
Today, there is no outage tracking map.
Today, there are no statements about when power might be restored.
Today, there is just an absolutely content-free nonpology from a Centerpoint mouthpiece about how hard they’re working - even though very few people seem to be reporting that there are boots on the ground in their own neighborhoods.
This is radioactive dioxin-laced bullshit from toxic cattle.
@werehatrack Meanwhile I’m sure the bitcoin mines are getting all the power they want:
https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/
Unblame and More Blame.
Around 3:15 PM today, our electric service was restored. That’s the Unblame.
At 4:30PM, I got both a text message and an automated phone call telling me that my power was now scheduled to be restored by the end of the day on Tuesday, July 16th. I’m calling that More Blame for being both incredibly stupid and functionally useless as well as obviously wrong at the level of accuracy as to scheduling. Barring another interruption in service (do they know something they aren’t telling me?[footnote 1]), yes, my power will technically have been restored “by the forecast date and time”, but at the point that the forecast was made, it was already obsolete. This is like calling “heads or tails” when the coin has been laying on the ground for a minute already.
[1] If this company had enough of a clue to be able to tie its corporate shoes in a way that didn’t facilitate falling flat on its face, I’d be astonished. The concept that they might be sufficiently situationally aware to be able to foresee another outage that they weren’t planning to cause strains the suspension of disbelief a bit much. And if they had such a plan, they’d blow it spectacularly. I’d probably be the only one in the city with service. Their corporate communications capabilities make the average Empire Stormtrooper look like a 100%-kill sniper.
Blame & Unblame
WOOHOO 
Like in the thousands big! Of course after the taxes it’s not as big but it’s STILL a good chunk of cash! 
(My goodness does uncle Sam get a huge cut! 
)
Frustration threshold… the bar keeps rising!
I WAS going to say if it wasn’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all but then I remembered that we just HIT BIG on the numbers!
As for the BLAME and my frustration…
With age that’s now changed or reversed. My painfully swollen lymphedema legs ache like crazy and the pool is one of the BEST treatments! AND, it’s the ONLY treatment that I have left to add to the mix!
There’s a pretty steep hill and a bit of a walk that I’m afraid I’m not going to be able to make my way down, and especially back up! Not with this crappy air and my problem breathing, even in my air conditioned home only walking 5 feet I’m out of breath!
(damn covid vaccine & blood clots 
)
They never opened the box of installation parts to check that everything was there! 
Wouldn’t THAT be the FIRST thing you did, well apparently NOT! 
The icing on the cake is that their US warehouse doesn’t have the needed parts so we’re now waiting for it to get here from Europe! 
The good news is that they’re saying it’s only going to take 9 days AND for my troubles they’ll now pick up & deliver my vehicle free of charge. 
(previously ONLY delivery afterwards was included)
I’ve been trying to get to our pool ALL SUMMER! (really since May when it was warm enough) Yes, I LOVE to feel the warmth of the sun on my skin and relax with the sounds of the water and mother nature. I had always been a beach bum with the pool being second best!
The last thing that’s held me up with getting to the pool was supposed to be resolved Friday!
So, I’m having an electric lift installed in my vehicle so I can get my scooter in and out. My guy isn’t able to help anymore due to the detached retina he had several months ago, it’s not worth risking another one! So after waiting several weeks for all the parts for the lift and the installation I brought the vehicle an hour away and dropped it off. The next day when I thought the shop was calling to say everything was all set and they’d be delivering it soon I couldn’t have been more wrong!
I’m praying this goes smoothly from here!
Blame. Short sighted folks at Amazon Prime Photos have not included a way to display picture captions for any photos uploaded to their app site.
Highly irritating. Could it be the weather (temps today >96°F) or my coffee?
Recently, I decided that I should back up all the many photos on my old iPhone somewhere. Then I discovered that with an Amazon Prime account, one has unlimited storage of photos. The gotcha catch is there is only 5GB per account allotted to videos. For more space for videos, they want $1.99/month. Sheesh!
I am not one to use the iPhone a lot. I got it as a castoff from one of the grands, when my old phone was no longer supported by the phone company. Like everyone else, I suppose, I use the picture feature quite a bit to record family events, cooking projects, or just to remember things instead of writing a note somewhere.
Finding a particular photo has now become an issue. So in odd moments, when I am forced to cool my heels (doctor, dentists, etc waiting rooms), I have been going through and putting captions on the pictures – one by one. It is a laborious process, but so far has proven to be highly useful.
So, I blame the Goat for the sheer stupidity of the programmers and that particular product design team for not including a caption provision in the app. They went to incredible lengths to use AI to identify certain aspects of a photo using the Web, but that doesn’t help if I’m looking for a picture of a picture that I took from someone’s album of good old Aunt Nelly. OTH, a caption does the job.
@Jackinga I would blame Amazon myself!
Blame: Poor @charliedoggo is inconsolable. He went for his first grooming appt post surgery on Sunday. He came back smelling fresh and clean, and looking like a well groomed pup! Unfortunately he also came home with severe razor burns on his nether regions. Seems the groomer was a little over zealous with the razon doing his “hygienic shave” to his bits and pieces.
Had to send pics to the vet today for them to review. He has an ointment I need to apply for the next week or so and he also has to wear the cone of shame again. Just the donut this time vs the whole cone, but he is so upset. Uncomfortable and upset.
@tinamarie1974 Oh no - ouch! He’s had a rough couple of months, poor baby!
@Kyeh ueah Im livid w the groomer. Not calling until this is over. Hopefully the ointment resolves the issue, but they told me if it is not getting better by Wed Ill need to bring him in to be seen, as he could develop an infection.
@tinamarie1974 The groomer maybe needs to know, though, so it doesn’t happen to another dog …
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 I would not have the patience to not flip on the groomer first thing. They should have known better and then said something at the time. Poor Charliedoggo. PB treats and ice cream are needed
@Kyeh @speediedelivery oh they will know but I want to know the full scope of what he suffered through b4 I call or go there.
Also agree she should have told me when I picked him up, but not a word. Had to figure it out myself.
And rest assured he is getting lots of treats, more than usual. He is at least enjoying the extra treats.
@tinamarie1974
Oh jeez poor guy. Feel better soon CharlieDoggo! {{{HUGS}}}
That’s AWFUL! I can’t believe they didn’t mention anything, a little disclosure goes a long way! I’m curious to know what the groomer has to say, they better not even try to say it’s not their fault!
@tinamarie1974 Certainly the groomer should be refunding your money and paying the vet bills!!! Your poor pup.
@tinamarie1974 The Blame should be Put on the Groomer not the Goat! what he did was Wrong,
@mycya4me the groomer was wrong and will be dealt with. But as the goat it is also your fault. Goat is short for Scapegoat. And remmeber you volunteered for this job!
@kidsandliz did I miss anything?
@tinamarie1974 No you missed nothing. @mycya4me is to take the blame for everything posted here, not find others to blame.
/giphy a big scapegoat fail
@mycya4me @tinamarie1974 well not what I was looking for but I’ll leave it.
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 Nope Just reminding of that simple fact! hehehe
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me Denial aint just a river in Egypt!
@mycya4me @tinamarie1974 Hmm can we fire a scapegoat for not doing his job? Of course that is also his fault too.
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me that is a great question! Our current goat had a platform of excitement to serve as the site scapegoat. He has, however, attempted unsuccessfully to dodge nearly all responsibility for his position of honor. Honor? Whipping goat? Meh…
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 I never said I was in Denial… I also said you can blame me all You want!.
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 I thought that I was doing an awesome Job… hehehe, making you work for it! I know you love it!
MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 I have not dodged any thing, You can blame me all you want, Other do it too that are NOT on Meh! Yes I consider it an Honor of being a Southern Goat! You also know that GOAT also means Greatest of ALL Times! that is what I am trying to live up too! So go for it!
@mycya4me @tinamarie1974 Denial isn’t the issue. You are not accepting all blame which is the main part of the job description. Instead you are refusing blame and blaming others.
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me All blame gets attached to the office of the Goat whether the person of the Goat accepts and acknowledges it or not. That is the function of the office of the Goat. The Goat may decline to act as though the blame has landed upon them, but that does not absolve them. Only the arrival of the end of the month releases them, at which point all of that month’s blame remains with the mantle of Goatdom as the Goat passes into the status of Goat Emeritus and a new Goat is selected to hold the office for the next month.
So it has been down through the age of Meh, and so shall it be until we get tired of the whole thing and fail to nominate or elect a Goat, should that ever occur.
This is solely my interpretation, and it is correct. It is The Way Of The Goat as I understand it. There are others, and they are also correct, and there is no contradiction. There are also interpretations which differ and which further hold that all other interpretations are incorrect and that there is only one true Way, and they are also correct, and yet all of the other Ways are also correct, and there is no contradiction in this because these Ways are all correct for the ones whose Ways they are. And some will contend that there is no Way of the Goat, and they are also correct. No blame attaches to any of these except as it is the current Goat whose simple existence collects all of it and safely renders it grounded. And this, too, is both correct and held to be incorrect, and yet both are correct.
This is the Tao of Goat.
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @werehatrack fully agree w your first two paragraphs.
And to be a G.O.A.T. Goat, there has to be something memorable. Simply being a Goat does not make one a G.O.A.T. The former is thrust upon someone willing or not, the latter is earned
/giphy this is the way
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack I have had so much blame layied on by my sister. That is her Fav thing to do, Plus her two kids! I become a Super Pro of flinging it back at them. So it has become Automatic! At least now it will let up a lot, that is due to the fact that after being my Mom’s caregiver for the past several years, she was laid to rest last week. So Yes July has been a really Rough month! So How do I improve! This is the Way!
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 Hey I am making it Fun! Making you guess! hehehe …So go ahead Blame me…
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @werehatrack sorry to hear about your mom. Terrible.
@mycya4me @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack That has to be hard even though, as her caregiver, you knew her quality of life wasn’t what it was or you/she had hoped it to be. Take care.
@mycya4me I won’t go into specifics about my personal reasons for saying “You do you, go for it”, but know that I am no stranger to being blamed for things which were not under my control. It sucks. Find comfort where it is available, and don’t be embarrassed to ask.
And know that I am terrible at following my own advice. I have almost always regretted letting others talk me out of it. That’s a big part of why I say “You do you.” Good luck.
@werehatrack That is what You have seen… Me Having fun, Me doing Me! I know I am Unique, 100% Geeky Nerd from the South!
@mycya4me
I’m really sorry about your mom. It’s so hard being a caregiver. Your relatives should be extremely grateful that you took care of her!
@Kyeh Thank You so very much, My sister went to Fla (100’s of miles away) my niece said I would do it for 5k. month (that is her Grandma)
So I stepped up stopped working to care for her.
Unblame: I was sent a subpoena last month to testify (for the employer) in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against my former employer. Then the trial was postponed due to lack of available judges. Then it was rescheduled for this week. I was on the hook for up to 4 days while waiting to give testimony, starting Wednesday (yesterday).
At the eleventh hour, the judge dismissed the lawsuit. Woohoo!
@macromeh Awesome!
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
Blame: I got my fingerprints done for a new job today and the machine rejected my left pinky 6 times before the technician gave up. Apparently I burned off part of my finger at some point and never got to properly have a story to tell.
@DLPanther I had a similar experience when getting fingerprinted. Only there were faint/partial images for multiple fingers. I guess my prints are thinning with age. (But I never had an issue in the past with the old school ink and paper prints.)
@DLPanther @macromeh So the question for me is for those who use figner prints to get in their phones, etc. then what do you do when you have cut your finger and have a scar, burn your finger, your fingerprints start to vanish…?
@DLPanther @Kidsandliz My phone has a fingerprint reader. During set up, it saved multiple images of my finger at different positions/angles. Even so, it fails to recognize me about 20% of the time. Fortunately there is a backup unlock method using a PIN.
@DLPanther @Kidsandliz @macromeh My Pixel 7 asks for the PIN after rhe third fingerprint fail.
@DLPanther Great story. I guess I will accept it!
@DLPanther @mycya4me Finally you area accepting the blame for something close to the first time. Your job is to accept the blame all the time, not pass judgement and blame others instead
@DLPanther @Kidsandliz @mycya4me wonder what his description will be in the goat summary…
@DLPanther @mycya4me @tinamarie1974
Perhaps this: Demanded to be goat and then did not do his job. He blamed others when he was blamed.
@DLPanther @Kidsandliz But it so much Fun! passing Judgement that is! So Blame me all you want!
@DLPanther When I filed for my name change, I had to submit a fingerprint card as an exhibit attached to the Petition. The tech at the security place said that the older one gets, the less distinct fingerprints become, with some people barely having ones that can be recorded at all. It took eight tries for several of mine before the software accepted the image as a valid print.
@DLPanther @Kidsandliz @macromeh I add a 2nd and 3rd fingerprint (but I am ambidextrous so I tend to do that out of habit); usually my ring finger tends to stay safe enough from danger.
When it is some one else that did the Stupid stuff. Plus being a Geeky, Nerdy, Southern goat! I do know how to be sneaky too!
I an feeling silophophical. This is not precisely the antithesis of philosophical, it is an “understanding” achieved along a vector normal to the plane of comprehension. If this makes sense to you, please accept my deepest sympathies, take two syllogisms and call Cthulhu in the morning. Tonight’s stream of comatosity is brought to you by fatigue, whimsy, the ASCII character “thorn” (þ, ALT+0254 on a Windows keyboard) and six questionable mini-sausage snacks. I am not sure whether blame is generated as a side effect, and it is unclear whether it would exist in this spacetime or an adjacent one should there be any. Perhaps it’s “dark blame” which warps our continuum without being directly detectable within it. Perhaps I should apply for a grant to study this. Perhaps I’m just loopy from lack of caffeine. They still won’t let me have the good stuff. Why is there an extra mouse sitting here?
@werehatrack I have a Cat that can take care of you Mouse problem… Plus as you see below I am friends with Cthulhu. So once you get to know “him” his friendship comes in handy! hehehehe. In fact one of the SciFi cons I have been to, used him as their Patron Saint/ Mascot. Sadly Covid took them out! They were less than 30 out before everything shut down & being a small con they did not have a lot of cash reserves.
@mycya4me I have been the ConChair of a small local con. I know the challenges.
I kinda understand about that, as I have had my fingerprints done the old fashion way with the ink and put it down on the paper as weird as it is. I’ve also had it done did your jolly tea that’s strange. So, of course blame me the goat.
FYI, Just to let you know, Cthulhu &I are good friends. He helps me when I am down. He also helps me when I think someone should be *smite it. Yes. it comes in quite handy to have a friend like that! Yeah, I understand about the coffee it can make you whack a doodle. If you don’t have enough especially in the morning I think I might have Cthulhu go out and steal some more.
Blame!
Got laid off. Pretty sure the company is imploding, so I have to redistribute my stock portfolio as well. OK so not so bad as I have savings and investments. But still, they fired all the most-experienced engineers.
@PocketBrain I am sorry that you got sacked, Been there many times! I feel sorry for You! But in my line of work, You work on Contract, the only Benefit you get is a W2 or course they would LOVE to give you a 1099, but that is Way too much pain at the end of the Year! If it makes you feel better Blame me… instead of those lousy , good for nothing C suite people!
@PocketBrain I’ve often heard the tale of a company firing all its core talent just before an implosion, as well as the tale of a company firing its serior talent under the mistaken theory that they weren’t really the ones carrying the load, only to discover that they’d fired the very people who were keeping the ship afloat. Sometimes they try to get you to come back “as a consultant”. From what I have seen, this seldom ends well. Bon chance.
@werehatrack I’ll cheerfully work half hours at double pay, as a consultant.
Blame, but to the universe not the goat (this time). Just saw sister. She apparently has uterine cancer, stage 1. Happy it’s stage one and they are 99% sure a hysterectomy will resolve the issue.
@tinamarie1974 I am glad it is likely curable although for her (and maybe the rest of you) the emotional earthquake from that can last a while. Much longer than many suspect. With my first breast cancer I think it took me around 4 years not to think about it at least once every single day. It takes a while to figure out how to deal with a diagnosis like that, the losses that come from that…People often expect that you are “over it” well before you have figured out how to incorporate something into your life that happened to you (I don’t think you are ever “over it”, rather it is no longer one of the biggest thing in your life anymore). Tell her I wish her strength as she goes through this (and you as you help her and worry about her as well). is this the mom of your niece you have over frequently? If yes kids have antenna ears when it comes to stuff like this and how her daughter responds will depend, in part, on how much their normal routine gets interrupted as kids seem to use that as a barometer about how worried/scared/upset they should be. (Mine was in 4th and 5th then11th and 12th when I went through the worst of 3 cancers).
Thanks @Kidsandliz! I just have the one sibling, so yes thats her. We have been talking to my niece and let her know that her mom is having surgery, but that she will be ok. While her mom is in the hospital she can stay here or w my parents and we can do lots of fun things. She is concerned for sure, but excited that Im going to take off work and that we are going to basically do whatever she wants.
@tinamarie1974 Oh, wow - I’m so sorry, I’ll have her in my thoughts and you too! I’m glad it’s been caught early and it seems like they’ve made a lot of advances in fighting cancer so it seems like a hopeful situation.
Blame! Disclosure, if anyone works for a collection agency, I’m happy for you if you like your job but these lowlife bottom feeders are the worst! Also the hospital where my Dad passed away in March for not sending any bills but sent the account directly to collections. Really damn christian of a catholic hospital, huh? The collection agency is calling my mom daily threatening her with all sorts of mean and nasty things. Fortunately, this is Texas where they have no rights and can’t do shit except to try to scare an 87 year old woman into paying them $10k. This has been apparently going on for several weeks and she finally remembered to tell me about it and sent me one of the letters they sent her. And I have reassured her that they cannot take the house, her social security, Dad’s pension or anything else that threatened her with. The Cease and Desist “fuck around and find out” letter got sent to them by certified mail today. Also contacted beenverified to remove her data from their site. Truthfinder is being more troublesome. For future reference, truepeoplesearch has the easiest process.
@ironcheftoni The catholic hospital around here cuts off care (for the hospital and any practice where the physicians are employees of the hospital) if you have a bill sent to collection and sues everyone, even employees.
@ironcheftoni I agree that collection agencies are bottom feeders!
Okay, here’s a blame - my stupid cable box is out, on a Friday, just as the Olympics are about to start. It’s been acting up whenever the weather gets really hot and this time it’s been refusing to come on for the past 3 days. So yeah, I guess I need to get someone from Comcast to come over but what a PITA. The previous times it came back on when the temps went down but this time so far it hasn’t. When I go through the self-check stuff online it tells me everything’s fine from their end.
@Kyeh Thank you for reminding me to cancel Xfinity now that the 5G connection has proven adequate to the task as a replacement. (They still have not fully restored service in our area after Beryl, so cancelling while the service is still down makes sense.)
@Kyeh @werehatrack I got rid of ComCast/ Xfinity years ago, I ended up getting Verizon FIOS. as I said I live in the South! got Gigabit speeds.
One of my Ham Radio club has a talk/ program about what real 5g is all about. None of the companies truly offer 5g. Plus it will be a while. what they are really offering is 4.5g & calling it 5g!
@mycya4me @werehatrack I don’t even care about 5g. I just want my damn TV to work. Grrr.
@Kyeh @werehatrack I wish mine would also work!
/showme a geek nerd goat
@mediocrebot That Rubik’s cube is jacked up! too many white squares, and 4-across on the top rear.
/showme a goat from the south
@mycya4me / show me the south end of a goat
/showme the best goat ever
Blame?
I think I made a game topic or post here. I think. Maybe.
If it was removed, would I have been notified?
@pakopako it shouldnt have been removed unless you requested it. Maybe check with @narfcake or @ignorant to see what happened
@pakopako If it was a post in which you’ve said that you weren’t sure whether it was permitted or not, and it got removed, you probably wouldn’t get a notification because in order for that to happen, there would have had to have been a response posted first. And then it would have had to have been there long enough to generate an email message to you notifying you of its existence. I saw a post that was of that general nature in the past couple of days, but it didn’t particularly tweak my personal spam filters, so I left it alone. I don’t remember who it was from.
@pakopako @werehatrack permitted? I didnt think we had rules?
@pakopako @tinamarie1974 We don’t have written rules per se, but there is a heavy moderator and staff bias against spam. The line between a post from a hit and run spammer and a user posting a link to something that might cross that line is fuzzy.
@werehatrack except that @pakopako is well known and should not be confused with a spammer.
@pakopako @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack, Are you sure that (@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack) just spammer trying to get me the GOAT, a hard Time??? hehehe
@mycya4me Nah. We’ve got enough to blame on you without having to go there.
Like this past week’s weather.
@mycya4me @werehatrack weather? The hurricane has past already, right?
@mycya4me @pakopako @werehatrack nah, I can come up w lots of things that I am willing to take credit for.
@tinamarie1974 The hurricane passed, but we’ve had over a week of near-constant gentle rain that has kept the outdoors sodden and the humidity level beyond misertable.
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack That is Very good!
Despite being here for … a little while … I’ve somehow managed to avoid learning about this particular tradition. I’ll take the blame for any sort of misunderstandings resulting from lack of knowledge. I’m dealing with this a little bit writing programs for unfamiliar hardware, so it is already my fault, but I’m working on it! Hopefully everyone else is also trying to reduce misunderstandings.
@atannir No no no! The goat of the month takes the blame, not you!
(Unless you do end up being the goat of the month, then yes, it’ll be your fault. Thus so far, even with your presence during the 10th anniversary as a mehmber with an unbroken streak since day 1, there’s no nomination yet.)
@atannir @narfcake Heheh …
@atannir It sounds like you want to be the goat. So… read next post.
@Kidsandliz I suspect, on this particular area, there is plenty of blame to go around.
UNBLAME! The event that got rescheduled from yesterday to tomorrow (because paperwork wasn’t coming in on time) is now in full green status to happen tomorrow morning. I will be loopy and/or invisible in the afternoon and on Friday at the very least. Our new Goat can get the blames and unblames that will accrue starting around Noon tomorrow. (I ought to be back to being mentally functional if occasionally whimsical-ish by then.)
I want to say on the Last day of July, it has been an Honor to be the 10th anniversary G.O.A.T. goat! I know I had you thinking of How to blame me for stuff. & to see how I would react! So thank you!
@mycya4me Well, as of 10:21 MDT, you still have an upright goat symbol, so I’m laying some blame on you for all the fires burning in my state right now!
So scary!!! Not as bad as in CA, but bad enough. Especially when they’re close by.
@Kyeh I think that You might have to shift this to the Aug goat, as it came in on Aug 1 @ 12:33am ESDT. as I said I am a Southern Goat. I am NOT a MidWest goat that works on MDT!
@mycya4me I blamed you while you still had a live goat symbol, so … you’re lucky, though; there’ve been goats in the past who weren’t relieved of their duties for a day or more! (i.e. their goat wasn’t upside-down even though the new month had started!)
So anyhow, welcome to the esteemed Society of Dead Goats.
Thank You. I hope I lived up to G.O.A.T. Standards. I know I had Fun! kept you guessing!