You win this round Meh. Well played.
153I got home from work today and had an unexpected package from Meh waiting for me. "Seriously, you ordered MORE meh crap?" says my wife. "No, I promise. I don't know what this is, I swear."
So I open it, and then immediately recall an email exchange I had with customer service a while back. It went something like this:
I ordered black speakers, you sent me white.
Sorry, we are out of black, color them with a Sharpie.
Fine, send me a Sharpie.
The contents of the package:
Now my only question for Meh is, when are you going to be selling 8 1/2" x 11" frames?
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I have no words for the awesomeness Displayed here
That is amazing.
@Bingo I can read most of what's on the other side of your notepad!
@YahSah15 Wow I never noticed that. I found the pic on google images and didn't pay attention to the background. That's weird too cause it looks totally like digital handwriting so someone must have deliberately done that?
@Bingo You are far from realizing the Zen state of mediocrity.
. * golfclap *
I wonder how mediocre staff would react if someone didn't have the right sense of humor?
@Kevin Well, if they are anything like me--in the online forum I run, if someone complains and demands changes, I simply reply by linking them to a few competing online forums.
@Kevin see the foul mouth thread for your answer
Love it. Too funny. That's a future Meh collectible right there.
In the future maybe Meh can just save time and bundle a pack of colored Sharpies with any random white or neutral colored product purchase.
@donnameh YES ! But only PURPLE !
@Zebra yes that's even better, Purple ONLY!
@Zebra O.K. Getting a little wild there, please maintain mediocrity...then again, meh.
To put it simply...
This Made My Morning. And The Highjinx Continue.... You Crazy kids.
I would like to point out that Steps 1 and 2 have checkboxes to indicate completion. However, steps 3 and 4 do not.
Quality control is seriously lacking in your instruction manual. You should really address that issue.
@Bingo Steps 1 and 2 are the required steps. Steps 3 and 4 are the artistic side. Art is never done.
@Bingo I came here to post the same thing.
@Bingo sharp eye
@carlmurray That’s sharp eye eee.
As in Sharp-i-e.
@mike808 I “starred” this post even though it evidently took you over 3 years to come up with that line…
@chienfou Quality over speed, my friend.
@mike808 ok… I’ll give you that!
Hahahahaha! Yay!
Just realized - the drawing is a paper bag puppet. Excellent.
Meh.
@phatmass You missed a spot.
@phatmass just like from the factory.
@phatmass keep working on it when you're bored/thinking... eventually it'll be perfect!
@phatmass I am truly more in awe that you actually did it than the fact that they supplied you the materials to do so.
@phatmass That's about what I had in mind.
@phatmass words can't describe how great that is
@phatmass That's awesome. Looks better then just a normal black.
@phatmass .. That's strange.. Seems all I can see is the white.. Maybe I'm not looking in the right direction. Was it your intention to create an optical illusion?
I like purple.
@phatmass refurb?
awww meh.
I'm now content with the color of everything I have ever bought, or will buy from Meh. Yay.
I once colored an entire pair of white shoes with black sharpie. Some tips. 1. do it in a well ventilated area. My room was closed and my sis came in and I was a bit loopy I guess. 2. It wears off quicker than expected and then looks purplish. 3. Use sharpies from the same pack, there can be slight color variations if you use an older one and a newer one. 4. Don't color an entire pair of shoes. SERIOUSLY just buy some black shoes. What was I thinking?!
@chellemonkey Loopy because you don't actually have a sister?
@KannedFarU whoa that would be loopy! I mean she commented on my being weird. To be honest she complains about that usually so it is possible I was completely the same as I always am and she just thought it was weird that I was coloring my shoes.
@chellemonkey Marks-A-Lots work better according to this anyway.
@editorkid So not sure why I watched this whole thing (and never did hear the lyrics about Marks A Lot), but I couldnt get over dude in red shorts at the 0:50 second mark. He's about as meh as they come.
@kykazaa My collection of crappy YouTube concert videos is almost as spectacular as JonT's animated gif directory.
@kykazaa 0:16 "Lookin' for a marksalot to polish my boots." Yeah, and thanks for making me look at that dude in the red shorts. Not cool. ;-p
@joelmw ... Just a regular type roady, the vision will wear off shortly.. trust me.
An oddly refreshing way to start the day. B ut FarmAid was more than thirty freaking years ago??? Sheesh. From XKCD:
@rpstrong want to feel old? This thread was more than 3 years ago.
@Ignorant @rpstrong And this reply is now almost 4!
@Ignorant @PooltoyWolf @rpstrong
Y’all all older than Google.
@Ignorant @mike808 @PooltoyWolf I do, in fact, remember the birth of Google - I was the first in my office to use it.
Not to mention both the dawn and setting sun of desktop PCs.
@Ignorant @mike808 @rpstrong Yep!
@Ignorant @mike808 @PooltoyWolf @rpstrong Not bragging here, but I had email before Tim Berners-Lee released HTML into the wild. My first browser was Lynx running in a shell account on a Unix box. I was getting my BS in CompSci while Linus Torvalds was ramrodding the original Linux project back in the early '90s, and I already had one career behind me at that point. When I was your age, we had nine planets, and they all orbited uphill, in the dark.
@Ignorant @PooltoyWolf @rpstrong @werehatrack
Sit down, neckbeard. My first browser was gopher-by-email through DECnet on a DEC PDP-34 running RSTS/E. Linus was still reading Tannenbaum’s book on Minix.
You kids are so fancy with your terabytes now. We had to make do with with what we had. Just ones and zeros on punch cards. I remember writing an entire DBMS using only zeros. And gas was 75¢ a gallon. That’s 6 bits for 4/25 cubic feet for the Imperialists.
@mike808 Hah! When the mower needed a fill-up, I used to get sent to the gas station on the corner with a one-gallon can and a quarter, and came home with a full can and a few cents in change. And only fancy people had color TV.
@Ignorant @mike808 @PooltoyWolf @werehatrack Yes, the days before the www. I worked for a mini-mainframe computer company, we had locations on both coasts and were early adapters to that internet thing.
When PC clones came along, I ended up with a Hyundai with a 300 baud modem - back when bauds were bauds. My morning routine was to run a program which would start auto-dialing The Grinder (a small bulletin board). Once it got through, it would download any new mail and upload any replies from yesterday.
Meanwhile, I took a shower and brewed a pot of coffee.
I’m happy to say that another guy on The Grinder took pity on me and gave me his 1200 when he upgraded to a sizzling 4800. Much better for when I got involved with Usenet groups.
Outstanding.
I come here and read this post over and over again when I feel my life isnt so fun. Bravo.
Ill comeback and right the same comment again when the time comes again.
How did I miss this? I'm not wasting nearly enough time here. I love this place. I hope that's not too un-meh a thing to say. I said it anyway, damnit.
@joelmw <3
I remember this. I tried to give these to my daughter because her laptop's speaker jack doesn't work (these use a USB connection instead).
She wouldn't use them because she said they looked "ratchet"... I was all like, whatevs, don't be jelly.
Keep this up & you'll have to change your name, Meh.
Alternate use for Sharpie -
Best when applied at your local elementary school.
Has anybody else noticed the 'When he/she said' date stamps? Has Meh been screwing with our brain pans all this time? Don't know about you but I'm reeling from this abusiveness.. Next thing you know they'll be naming us at random. I could handle the item identity number.. uh, I mean words but trying to make me lose the little identity I'm hanging onto now, well that's.... VERY Mediocre of 'em. I have to give this scheme a bodacious MEH!!
@unkabob wot
@givemeyoursoul lol wut
@phatmass ... Look at your last post up a bit then check out joelmw then ethan p.. then from there keep checking.. Seems someone changed lanes once I pointed it out.. Seems to be playing with us or are they re-runs from another space and time..? Whatever the case it grabbed my attention.
I did this to a pair of shoes once.
Hmmm......i'm thinking a random color sharpie, included in random fuku's, where the recipient picks a random item from the bag, and decorates it in a random way with the sharpie, posts the picture of the random decorated item in the forums,and we all vote for our favorite, and the winner, ( if there is one) wins absolutely nothing...!! (except bragging rights...and they get to keep the sharpie....)
Back in the daze of converse allstars, I worked with a guy who painted his chucks red with a can of penetrating dye. His feet were red for a month. Had to dispose of his sox. What happens when you give a communications major tech.
Does anybody know the best way to clean suede Puma tennis shoes?
@phatmass let’s see if this is any good.
/google how to clean suede shoes
How To Clean Suede Shoes At Home - YouTube
@phatmass personally I use a lint roller on my shoes… But when I first bought them, I sprayed them liberally with a coating of never wet.
/image rustoleum never wet boot & shoe spray
@phatmass I used this stuff with good results: https://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Suede-Nubuck-8-Oz/dp/B0064LS2B8
That’s perfect.
you all.
This is the second thread this week that started in at least 2015 that’s popped back up on the main page for me.
The other was the baby stuff for @studerc. I couldn’t even find any current activity for that one, unlike the random shoe cleaning here…
@thejackalope that was probably bumped up by spam that was deleted.
@thejackalope oppps the baby thread was my fault…was trying to deflect @ELUNO’s bid to goat me…
Be careful- black sharpie turns purple after awhile.
@PantHeist
How could that possibly be cause for regret?
@f00l If he wanted black speakers it could be an issue when they turn purple.
@f00l
Everyone who thinks they want black will prob find that their lives improve after they get purple instead.
@f00l too true
@PantHeist I love purple.
i should not have read this b4 bed- im snickering and have no one to share the humor with!
haha Cute !