The day I brought the Trolboro and Glen clock and got the tour was a good day for me. But I wasn’t around for Day Zero, it would be cool to go back to the very beginning.
Also the days in general of more community. JonT and Hollboll and livestreams and Matthew and fresh Irk videos (fresh videos period) and… Alas, the world changes and moves on. And I kind of have too, I’m not here every day anymore either.
@djslack Yes the community back then was really something special. JonT, and the others who contributed, were really skilled at community building and then maintaining what they built. It was also really interesting when snapster would post and mull about things out loud and asking for our input/opinion.
I also wouldn’t mind being there to witness the great heist where Irk and Glen broke into Quip’s warehouse and broke into their giant safe where all the toothbrushes were stored.
Day 1 since I was late to the Meh party. my second choice the opportunity get ink to get irks for ink. Third choice would be pasta drop because, pasta!
@sillyheathen i haven’t. I’ve been kinda taking a break from buying stuff. Dealing with my mom’s hoader house makes you want to buy less stuff. But that i might have to check out.
@hchavers@PooltoyWolf Yeah, fidget spinners, stroop wafels; there were a bunch of cool things for our trick-or-treaters; If I have them each a track-r, they’d probably put me on a watch list.
There was one day when meh sold neoprene cases. The options were: a few, a lot, a shit ton. In the ensuing years; every time I’m looking for a case for one of my children’s electronic devices, I wish I had bought the shit ton from meh.
I’m not actually sure what I was expecting, but this is probably close enough. (I’d assumed spaghetti would’ve been the default pasta, but I’m glad for the variety.)
Now someone needs to get some sauce for those noodles.
@Jasongb A $5 Wii would be killer, even now! There was a time, not all that long ago, when I could find them at thrift stores, clean them up real good, and flip them for a nice side profit. Now, even really crummy ones cost so much that I’d have to put more into them than I’d get back. Same thing with all models of Game Boys.
@cinoclav@Kyeh@PooltoyWolf yep, that was me. I saw a familiar TV in a goodwill not too long ago and wondered if it had come through my old garage and one of my friends houses to get there. My mom still watches the one I gave her and refuses to let me upgrade her.
@cinoclav@djslack@Kyeh@PooltoyWolf Originally I was called to get that pallet but as I was living in someone’s basement and they weren’t home to ask about dumping a pallet in their yard I had to turn it down. I was told it was because I had posted about making one working mac laptop out of two broken ones with only 2 screws left over and they figured I’d be able to cobble together at least one or two working ones from the pallet of broken ones.
In the timeline that happened, Nelson Mandela wrote the Berenstein Bears books in prison.
I’m sorry. I have let this go on for nine years now, thinking it’s harmless even though it’s inaccurate. But I am having a MIBMMTIS moment here. I’m going to say this once and then not mention it again. Because it shouldn’t affect me. What does it harm, every time this legend comes up this little bit gets tagged on that isn’t how it happened. But @kidsandliz I actually think it might unburden you to know that I don’t believe you missed out on the pallet of TVs, and being linked to the thread here puts the history out for us.
@djslack I was told, in the course of our conversation, when they called that it was a pallet of TV’s and why I was chosen to get it; they figured I’d likely be able to make some working ones out of it. They said the truck was leaving in a couple of hours and they needed an answer on the spot. I think, but no longer remember for sure, that it was jonT who called me. It sounds like you were a good choice too since you managed to make some working ones too.
@Kidsandliz Fair enough. I’ve never said my side of that. I don’t know that it did me or you any good that I did, and no one else that was a party to it is still around. It’s all a part of the Meh lore, and I’m not planning on mentioning it again.
@djslack When the people came home who I needed to ask they told me I should have accepted but, of course, by then it was too late. You don’t just have a pallet of anything put in someone else’s covered parking area.
@djslack PS the context of my comment in that thread, since we, by then, knew that someone had gotten the trip glasses, was what I would have done had I got them instead of the TV’s. But I had turned down the pallet and THEN I asked what it was I would have gotten had I not turned it down and told TV’s and why. I was given another opportunity to accept, but I couldn’t because I didn’t have (and couldn’t get on the spot as they weren’t home) permission of the people where I was living to have a pallet of anything delivered. So that is how I knew it was TV’s. But my comment on that thread still stands in that I would have had no good way to get rid of that much trash - trip glasses or TV’s I couldn’t get to work. Trash pick up in the boondocks there was charged by the trashcan which would have made it very expensive.
@cinoclav@djslack@Kidsandliz@Kyeh I guess broken TVs would be a mixed bag for me. Unlike a lot of other “broken” consumer electronics, an LCD TV with a cracked panel is, by conventional means, irreparable. Replacement panels are unobtainum, so the only ones I’d be able to repair would be sets with non-panel issues (power supply, T-Con, mainboard, etc.) On older LCD TVs, backlight inverter failure was rather common and could usually be diagnosed as sound without picture, and could be fixed with a few dollars’ worth of capacitors.
I’d go back to the Meh 4th birthday party. The games/contests were so much fun, and the staff were flinging IRKs (they might have still been fukos then) at people all over the place. I wound up with thirteen, if I remember correctly. That was a highlight in a very difficult time for me, so I will always remember it fondly.
@Pony So many contests and fun things once upon a time. I was just looking back at the Look Smart Trivia that @JasonToon did. Forgot all about it until I ran across it in another search.
The day you sold the wine refrigerator for $80 … I didn’t drink wine then… but it would look cool in my place now and I’d stock it with wine with cool looking labels… just sayin.
The og purple woot! So many random gadgets that I had no need and no budget for, but were still so cool (like actually cool, not sharper image “cool”). Also would have stocked up on Sansas.
And all the photoshop contests… which now in the age of one-click AI image generation just wouldn’t be the same as some of the poorly 'shopped monstrosities we came up with back then
Day 2906 of when I would have continued my click streak. That day absolutely killed me. Almost 8 years of continuous clicking down the drain. It also kept me more involved with the site as I’ve drifted away from it since then.
@cinoclav@jouest Well it was proposed that we could sell/donate our clicks to those who screwed up their run and needed them except meh ignored that suggestion.
Day One
Day -1 – to warn of the impending
doomissues on the day 0 launch.The day I brought the Trolboro and Glen clock and got the tour was a good day for me. But I wasn’t around for Day Zero, it would be cool to go back to the very beginning.
Also the days in general of more community. JonT and Hollboll and livestreams and Matthew and fresh Irk videos (fresh videos period) and… Alas, the world changes and moves on. And I kind of have too, I’m not here every day anymore either.
@djslack Yes the community back then was really something special. JonT, and the others who contributed, were really skilled at community building and then maintaining what they built. It was also really interesting when snapster would post and mull about things out loud and asking for our input/opinion.
@djslack Remember the trip to the zoo?
@sammydog01 though that’s right there in the time I’m reminiscing about, I didn’t actually remember it. Thanks for reminding me!
I would go to tomorrow, the day you signed me up for free IRKs for life.
@OnionSoup IRK paradox unlocked. we’re all doomed.
@OnionSoup Are you sure that’s something you want?
I also wouldn’t mind being there to witness the great heist where Irk and Glen broke into Quip’s warehouse and broke into their giant safe where all the toothbrushes were stored.
@OnionSoup we just like that this sentence exists now.
I’d go watch the Mehrning Talk Show.
Day 1 since I was late to the Meh party. my second choice the opportunity get ink to get irks for ink. Third choice would be pasta drop because, pasta!
@ironcheftoni Yeah, I’d def have gone back to pasta drop and dropped some more-- they really should do a spinoff ramendrop.com
@caffeineguy @ironcheftoni
@ironcheftoni
Have you seen this on SD?
I mean maybe there’s pasta hidden in it. Probably not a pallet’s worth but who knows??!?? I’m possibly tempted just to see what it is….
/giphy what’s in the box?
@sillyheathen i haven’t. I’ve been kinda taking a break from buying stuff. Dealing with my mom’s hoader house makes you want to buy less stuff. But that i might have to check out.
@caffeineguy @jouest uh oh… that comment coming from a staffer is suspicious!
To relive the Candy Corn and Fidget Spinner sagas; sales that will live in infamy (and jocularity from the outside).
@hchavers Good choice. I actually kinda miss the fidget spinner fad. (The trick-or-treaters loved them!)
@hchavers @PooltoyWolf Yeah, fidget spinners, stroop wafels; there were a bunch of cool things for our trick-or-treaters; If I have them each a track-r, they’d probably put me on a watch list.
Bath!
There was one day when meh sold neoprene cases. The options were: a few, a lot, a shit ton. In the ensuing years; every time I’m looking for a case for one of my children’s electronic devices, I wish I had bought the shit ton from meh.
@Nate311 you and @curtise want the same day!
The era of the $5 Fukubukuro would be nice. Or a $5 Fukobukuro. Or even a $5 IRK…
RastaDrop
/showme reggae musicians enjoying 20 pounds of pasta meal during a break
/showme reggae musicians enjoying 20 pounds of pasta meal during a break
There ya go, @pmarin.
I’m not actually sure what I was expecting, but this is probably close enough. (I’d assumed spaghetti would’ve been the default pasta, but I’m glad for the variety.)
Now someone needs to get some sauce for those noodles.
@pmarin @xobzoo
Reggaetoni seems appropriate.
@pmarin @xobzoo Mac and cheese is actually a Caribbean staple. Very traditional in Trinidad.
I remember someone getting a pallet of car wax. That happened, right?
@Jasongb It did
Also, when folks ask about my tattoo, I recount how someone got a Wii for $5 back in the day.
@Jasongb A $5 Wii would be killer, even now! There was a time, not all that long ago, when I could find them at thrift stores, clean them up real good, and flip them for a nice side profit. Now, even really crummy ones cost so much that I’d have to put more into them than I’d get back. Same thing with all models of Game Boys.
The WOOT days before being sold
I’d personally love to get a TV in an IRK, like some users here did, as I seem to recall.
@PooltoyWolf Didn’t someone get a whole pallet?
@Kyeh @PooltoyWolf That was @djslack
https://meh.com/forum/topics/the--offical-fukobukuro-palleted-shipping-thread#551f33f6e914b04808bc6d1f
@cinoclav @Kyeh @PooltoyWolf yep, that was me. I saw a familiar TV in a goodwill not too long ago and wondered if it had come through my old garage and one of my friends houses to get there. My mom still watches the one I gave her and refuses to let me upgrade her.
@cinoclav @djslack @Kyeh That’s neat!
@cinoclav @djslack @Kyeh @PooltoyWolf Originally I was called to get that pallet but as I was living in someone’s basement and they weren’t home to ask about dumping a pallet in their yard I had to turn it down. I was told it was because I had posted about making one working mac laptop out of two broken ones with only 2 screws left over and they figured I’d be able to cobble together at least one or two working ones from the pallet of broken ones.
@cinoclav @djslack @Kidsandliz @PooltoyWolf Yeah, I know.
In the timeline that happened, Nelson Mandela wrote the Berenstein Bears books in prison.
I’m sorry. I have let this go on for nine years now, thinking it’s harmless even though it’s inaccurate. But I am having a MIBMMTIS moment here. I’m going to say this once and then not mention it again. Because it shouldn’t affect me. What does it harm, every time this legend comes up this little bit gets tagged on that isn’t how it happened. But @kidsandliz I actually think it might unburden you to know that I don’t believe you missed out on the pallet of TVs, and being linked to the thread here puts the history out for us.
After I had received and revealed the pallet, you didn’t know what you would have gotten:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/the--offical-fukobukuro-palleted-shipping-thread#551f6449e914b04808bc72b5
I got the same announcement the others did, and just kept quiet on the forum because I didn’t want to jinx it. So it’s not likely that this was a backup selection:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/the--offical-fukobukuro-palleted-shipping-thread#551fe665b0558e8407464d5b
So yes, you got a call and had to decline a pallet. But I do not believe it was the pallet of TVs.
If you want to believe otherwise, that is your privilege and I will respect it after I click Say It here.
@djslack I was told, in the course of our conversation, when they called that it was a pallet of TV’s and why I was chosen to get it; they figured I’d likely be able to make some working ones out of it. They said the truck was leaving in a couple of hours and they needed an answer on the spot. I think, but no longer remember for sure, that it was jonT who called me. It sounds like you were a good choice too since you managed to make some working ones too.
@Kidsandliz Fair enough. I’ve never said my side of that. I don’t know that it did me or you any good that I did, and no one else that was a party to it is still around. It’s all a part of the Meh lore, and I’m not planning on mentioning it again.
@djslack When the people came home who I needed to ask they told me I should have accepted but, of course, by then it was too late. You don’t just have a pallet of anything put in someone else’s covered parking area.
@djslack PS the context of my comment in that thread, since we, by then, knew that someone had gotten the trip glasses, was what I would have done had I got them instead of the TV’s. But I had turned down the pallet and THEN I asked what it was I would have gotten had I not turned it down and told TV’s and why. I was given another opportunity to accept, but I couldn’t because I didn’t have (and couldn’t get on the spot as they weren’t home) permission of the people where I was living to have a pallet of anything delivered. So that is how I knew it was TV’s. But my comment on that thread still stands in that I would have had no good way to get rid of that much trash - trip glasses or TV’s I couldn’t get to work. Trash pick up in the boondocks there was charged by the trashcan which would have made it very expensive.
@cinoclav @djslack @Kidsandliz @Kyeh I guess broken TVs would be a mixed bag for me. Unlike a lot of other “broken” consumer electronics, an LCD TV with a cracked panel is, by conventional means, irreparable. Replacement panels are unobtainum, so the only ones I’d be able to repair would be sets with non-panel issues (power supply, T-Con, mainboard, etc.) On older LCD TVs, backlight inverter failure was rather common and could usually be diagnosed as sound without picture, and could be fixed with a few dollars’ worth of capacitors.
I’d go back to the Meh 4th birthday party. The games/contests were so much fun, and the staff were flinging IRKs (they might have still been fukos then) at people all over the place. I wound up with thirteen, if I remember correctly. That was a highlight in a very difficult time for me, so I will always remember it fondly.
@Pony So many contests and fun things once upon a time. I was just looking back at the Look Smart Trivia that @JasonToon did. Forgot all about it until I ran across it in another search.
The day you sold the wine refrigerator for $80 … I didn’t drink wine then… but it would look cool in my place now and I’d stock it with wine with cool looking labels… just sayin.
The og purple woot! So many random gadgets that I had no need and no budget for, but were still so cool (like actually cool, not sharper image “cool”). Also would have stocked up on Sansas.
And all the photoshop contests… which now in the age of one-click AI image generation just wouldn’t be the same as some of the poorly 'shopped monstrosities we came up with back then
Day 2906 of when I would have continued my click streak. That day absolutely killed me. Almost 8 years of continuous clicking down the drain. It also kept me more involved with the site as I’ve drifted away from it since then.
@cinoclav It’s not impossible for an IRK to contain a replacement 2906th click.
@jouest Alas, I’ve missed a few more since that day. I just stopped caring as much.
@cinoclav I no longer care as much about my continuous clicks. Instead I focus on my total.
@cinoclav @jouest Well it was proposed that we could sell/donate our clicks to those who screwed up their run and needed them except meh ignored that suggestion.
When Mathew was making videos
@squishybrain This
Was there a time you could buy lifetime memberships?
@Salanth VMP is sort of like that as the monthly rate is fixed for live, but it still costs you $5/mo
Final Speakerdock day. What a weird and fun day that was.
@Moose And there was the “how many pieces did we smash this speaker dock into?” contest; the winner gets a non-smashed one.