What could possibly goat wrong? (Jan 2018 Blame Thread)

@CaptAmehrican I blame you for our confetti launcher failing because it froze in this unseemly weather. Happy New Year!

@CaptAmehrican No sleep for GoaTs. Congrats! (?)

@duodec confetti is a pain to clean up. You are welcome for the favor

@CaptAmehrican We were going to shoot if off outside, hence the frozen launcher. It would have been someone else’s issue to clean up, for which we would then have you to blame.

@narfcake Drive over there and flash your VolMod badge at them.

@therealjrn Yeah, I still like to be alive, y’know. For the past 9 minutes, I’m sure it’s not all fireworks.

@narfcake We used to have some drunk Ecuadorians living here that would throw a big party and shoot some guns off at midnight New Years. I gotta tell you, I was glad to see them go earlier this year.

@narfcake oppsss sorry Narf…we only set off three! And there is so much snow, little chance of fire!

@narfcake Look at that fancy mehdic badge!

@jbartus It actually started last month…so you’ll need to fill our form 280SXZLATEBLAME in triplicate, posted legally in the past GoaT’s hometown newspaper before or on the start of blame for this to stick.

@jbartus Come here - the snow is blowing horizontally at the moment, visibility is measured in feet, and I have to go out in it with (still) frozen windshield washer sprayers. I already blamed the goat on another thread.

@jbartus when i am no longer goat

@therealjrn the blame is for the persistence into the new year which is the new year goat’s responsibility.

@Kidsandliz Nifty tree badge. Who do I have to blame to get one of those?

@mike808 hovering over it, it looks like for doing something for the 2017 christmas video

@Kidsandliz Ah. Blame @CaptAmehrican for not having a ‘hover’ ability on mobile.

@2many2no Unblame!

@2many2no Unblame!

@mfladd @therealjrn OK, unblame it is. I at least woke up with a clear head (well, as clear as it normally is) which hasn’t always been the case on New Year’s Day.
/giphy party on wayne

@lisaviolet towel wrap him? I got meds on the neck of my almost 17 year old cat this morning but her liter mate helped with the cleanup licking her neck clean before I got to it (try using an areocat inhaler on a cat while her neck is being licked to within an inch of its life). Now explain to me if it tastes OK to lick off then why does she fight me so? At least it wasn’t some of her very expensive ($495) inhaler that got wasted.

And at least she seems to have improved with decent vet care. Too bad I am headed home tomorrow. The though of having to take her 100 miles to the vet like lots of folks in town do with their pets has me dreading that but the good vet care here has made so much difference in her.

Hope your kitty decides to cooperate so you don’t have this daily battle. Sorry about your hand. Hope the bone was missed. I got an infection in the bone from an accidental (as in cat was not aiming at me, my hand got in the way breaking up a cat fight) cat bite at a rescue shelter I used to volunteer at. No fun.

@lisaviolet You probably have tried all sorts of things, but I had a cat once I had to wrap up like a burrito in a towel so I could get his medication in him. I didn’t have a helper, so first made a cat burrito, then straddled him to hold him down, thus freeing both hands, one to pop open the back of his jaw, one to drop the goop into the back of his mouth.

@therealjrn Yeah that is about how I have had to do some cats over the years…

@Kidsandliz He’s so hard to catch to begin with. I think we’ll try having Brian hold him differently. With his arm under Rocky’s neck and hold his legs in place so he can’t get loose and grab me.

I liked the pills better than these liquid meds, I could put them in a pill pocket and they’d get eaten no problem.

I think I’ll ask the vet’s office about that.

@lisaviolet I have to keep a harness on one of mine, otherwise he liquefies if I try to catch him.

@OldCatLady

@OldCatLady Yeah that boneless act is so much fun… of course there is also the boneless velcro cat who won’t vamoose either.

@therealjrn @lisaviolet
burrito cat

@f00l yup

@CaptAmehrican

We can "Nope" together.

Party Time for "Nope"!

@Fuzzalini That would be Amehrican Woman!

@therealjrn they have these plug in heater cords that you wrap around pipes. Maybe you should buy one of those?

@RiotDemon Good idea! You are correct. I just moved over here so I was hoping a brand new hot water installation might carry me through. But there is no fooling mother nature is there?

The furnace used to be out there next to it until I put a new one up in the attic so the door has vents to let in all that cold air too…

When it warms up I’ll have to get all that weatherized/wrapped/heated and buttoned up.

@therealjrn

When I was rural, I had a water well, and a tiny well shed for the pump.

The electric hookup in the tiny shed had a plate with outlets. I used to leave a (now obsolete) incandescent bulb burning. That was usually enough.

Can one still purchase incandescent bulbs? IDK.

If I expected freezing for more than 24 hours, I put a space heater in the well shed.

The previous property owner had put heater wires on the pipes. I was grateful.

Also, once in a while, I had to use some stock tank floating or suspended water heaters in the water tanks for the animals, to keep the water tanks from freezing over. I think I still own some of these heaters. Loved them.

Very happy to hear that your water heater and pipes survived. The alternative truly sucks.

@f00l Oh don’t I know it. I had frozen pipe(s) break in my last place, until the entire closet was broken down to the wall studs, (including the shared back wall into the condo’s kitchen) pipes wrapped, new insulation and new insulated door etc.

I’ll probably have to get all medieval here, too. Where the furnace was there are big holes temporarily covered for the air blower and return. I don’t know what I was thinking. I have all new duct work, but I’m sure the old duct work is pouring cold air all throughout the condo. It was too expensive to take all the old metal duct work out, it probably still is. But it needs to be done and patch up all the holes.

That isn’t quite true, I kinda forgot about it and was rolling the dice with the weather. We’ve had a few days of below freezing temps and are due for a couple of more. I reached too far, man, it was too far.

@f00l I still have some, including some 100w ones.

FWIW, the bulb manufacturers were behind the energy mandates (ban) passed during Bush’s term. Selling bulbs made in the USA for 99¢ wasn’t as profitable as selling a bulb made in China for $10, but they didn’t want to look like the “bad guys” for stopping production. Using “tighter energy standards” was a great excuse to close down the factories a few years afterward.

@therealjrn Insulating the ends and then closing them up should at least minimize the cold/heat entering/escaping.

@narfcake I still see them around, in Dollar Tree, for example. Are they ban banned? Or just sorta-it’s-a-good-idea banned?

@therealjrn incandescent bulbs aren’t banned. Most higher wattages have just changed to halogen tubes to use less electricity. They still get hot.

@therealjrn They have to meet higher standards, so they’re probably halogen instead of tungsten. If you’re counting on the heat, the older bulbs did a better job. Halogen still gets hot, but it’s more localized and they’ve tended not to last as long.

@therealjrn run your taps at a drip moving water wont freeze

@Cerridwyn fucker

@therealjrn
well instead of using your favorite word at me, direct it at the goat
m’kay?

/

@Cerridwyn It IS my favorite word! How the fuck did you know?

@therealjrn
The goat told me
/

@mike808

@CaptAmehrican! Calling you!

@mike808 blamed @Corrado as a way of welcoming the CaseMates members to the world of Mediocre.

@CaptAmehrican, I blame you for that.

@f00l What a tangled web we weave.

@corrado Wait…

VolMod? I feel like I have been out of loop here.

@corrado

VolMod!

/giphy I’m faint!

@corrado @f00l I didn’t read the entire post. I just saw the volmod badge. Casemates…got it.
@corrado

@mfladd

How’s the painting?

@f00l Crap. I thought I was mostly done. But that little bitch @therealjrn has somehow put it in my head that I might want a second coat (walls were flat white when I started), I might, might have enough paint to do it. Grrrrrrrrrrr…
@therealjrn

you might owe me another paint roller brush!

I blame @CaptAmehrican for all of this.

@mfladd

Your house is a bitch. And you, as homeowner, now get to be your house’s bitch.

Isn’t that how it works?

@mfladd

@therealjrn

@f00l I think the casemates are separate non goat blaming something about a rat???

@CaptAmehrican Have you logged in over there? I’m betting your goatdom doesn’t extend that far. If you log in you can see if your icon follows you.

@CaptAmehrican
Not sure what’s up with the blaming plan over there.

For the moment, @Corrado the VolMod seems to be the happy target.

A LabRat could prob handle it tho.

@therealjrn i am goat and boatless over there

@f00l slippers?

@CaptAmehrican

I was wearing socks and slippers. My toes still were/are cold.

Pathetic but true.

@f00l hot toes air activated warmers

@thismyusername New Years GoaT!

@Kawa I hate it when past me punts stuff to present me…I usually just kick it down the road a little further.

@mfladd i am on a boat

@ELUNO
They’re just cold perhaps?

@ELUNO you may be sexy but your spiders never were and never will be.

@CaptAmehrican Nooooooooooooo. Blaaaaaaaaaaame!

@Kawa Is it sold out already? Bummer.

@f00l
Yes, @snapster – free VMP to any mediocre customer that buys one. Huzzah!

But yeah, sales are not stellar at the moment. My frostbite hand had sold hundreds by this time, but then again, that had a ridiculous debut. If I finish with a few hundred in the can I’ll be happy.

@ELUNO you do know that there are massage places. Also if you were less into spiders women may be more into you and some hot girl might be up for rubbing your neck ect.

@CaptAmehrican Those cost money! Blame!
@f00l told me spiders were sexy :’(

@ELUNO Instead of blaming @CaptAmehrican get @f00l to rub your neck then. Lure her in with your best spider.

@Kidsandliz
@f00l, will you marry me?

@ELUNO
/image cat killing spider

@ELUNO

First we would have to be introduced by mutual friends who had noted respectable known positions in society.

This would need to occur at a respectable event or perhaps an important society ball or house party.

And, of course, you would need to have an income of at least £10,000/year (circa 1813 currency levels, so that translates into about £800,000-£1,000,000/yr in today’s money)
All that income, of course, that before we consider your working income.

And you would need to have a nice country estate, and a lovely and well-located house in London.

These country houses are much more expensive to operate now than they were around 1813.

So I think your annual non-working income had better be around, say, £8,000,000-£10,000,000 today’s currency. That should take care of the basics.

Here is a nice country house and estate for you to consider.

Here is a manual on how to proceed:

@f00l
/image pride and prejudice and zombies

@ELUNO

Yes. It is modern times.
So some, among the more “conscious” zombies, will be among the guests at various events.

Whatever will we feed them?

/8ball should I ask Emily Post?
You may rely on it

@f00l i am happy to be your chaperone

@CaptAmehrican Will you lend me enough money to satisfy her requirements?!?!

@ELUNO supporting me in the manner in which I would like to become accustom is a bit more modest than @f00l’s requirements and a London manor is not required, however I do requrie a 100 ton schooner (in seaworthy condition along with paid crew to maintain it, I just want to sail it. Already paid my dues repairing sails, dry rot, etc.). How much do you have to pay for support a wife? Enquiring minds want to know.

@Kidsandliz
/giphy about three fiddy

@ELUNO well then here is the only kind of wife you can buy afford
/image inflatable wife

@Kidsandliz I bet she gives really nice massages!

@Kidsandliz mystic whaler is for sale

Thanks @CaptAmehrican. hey @ELUNO they only want $650,000 for it.
http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1967/Schooner-Mystic-Whaler--3122712/New-London/CT/United-States#.WlAAFCPMyu4

/image Please please please pretty please?

@Kidsandliz I’ll buy it!
/giphy and then sink it!

@ELUNO
/image pirates on tall ship fighting eluno

@Kidsandliz

How is the foot? That sounds really really painful.

@f00l Nice and swollen. And aches. And is purple and red. Right now I do not like purple. I need to move my butt to get to work and I am dreading the stairs. Actually since I also have that crud going around I’d rather just stay in bed but that isn’t a choice. I keep reminding myself going to work while sick in the middle of chemo was worse than this, I’ll live, be thankful you have a job to go to (this temp one definitely ends the second week of May unfortunately), etc. etc… whine whine whine

@Kidsandliz
Can you walk? Did you get an x-ray? Splint? Are you on crutches?

@f00l one of those foot shoe things that doesn’t bend. Broke the bone that goes to the little toe (about an inch prior to the toe bones). Gave me crutches. Using crutches is not the time to decide you need to get your arms in shape. So I am sort of hobbling only half using them.

@CaptAmehrican Mine’s expired anyway and I am not refilling it - one of those smaller kitchen things. Although I supposed if it was included the only way anything would be done about it is if I did something about it since I have trouble getting the landlord to do anything… Right now all I have done is fasten it back into the wall, but this time into a stud.

@f00l i refuse to goat. I told you i would only boat not goat.

@CaptAmehrican

It’s great that you Boat not Goat. One of the best ever.

But people should still be blaming you for that. I blame you that they don’t blame you enough. .

/image “scapeboat”

@narfcake Your image from stupid imgur is protected, and we can’t see it…and now I’m sure that it was something that I wanted to see, dammit.

@Shrdlu Weird. Okay, here’s it uploaded to meh’s server. Blame the goat if this also doesn’t work.

@lisaviolet Yay!

@mflassy I would have to say, if not the best way, you came damn close.

@msklzannie I envy her. I’ve never had the courage to do that.

@mfladd

Where was the rally? Curious about the Confederate battle flags. Do they show up N of the Mason-Dixon?

@mfladd aww, I love monster trucks. Now I regret not sending you some kits (similar to the haunted house kit)

@Shrdlu Alas, imgur has been preventing hotlinking in recent weeks.

@narfcake I can’t login to Imgur on my new Win 10 laptop this morning I had to use my Win 7 which was already logged in (but turned off) to post a picture on Woot. Something hinky going on over there…

@narfcake what did I miss??

@RiotDemon There was only a tag for TC earlier.

(It wouldn’t have made a huge difference, actually, since I noticed it was bumped, but there’s been some serious lack of blaming going on here this month!)