Putting the "ink" in "I think this qualifies, probably?"

@cbilyak I checked the 2023 last call and it does appear to be purely “is there an IRK”, not “is it a Mehrathon”.

Honestly, this last one was suuuuper meh. But a lot of people got Murad lotion, so I’m optimistic.

2023 Ink for IRK

Also thank you @extramediun

@kittykat9180 there were a few small windows where they offered, for funsies, that if you got a Meh-related branding tattoo, you got IRKs for free, for life.

The windows were very short, like 24 to 48 hours to get it. I’m not keen on the exact count…but, I think there’s between 20 to 30 of us that were crazy (dumb?) enough to do it, lol!

@PHRoG Wow, I never noticed it was such a low number.

@kittykat9180 @PHRoG I believe it was originally just a joke made in passing but @raptorgorawr went and did the thing and then that made it a thing

Of course I could be remembering it wrong. I got mine during the pandemic when I just thought the world was crazy. It feels like that was many, many years ago now.

@djslack @kittykat9180 @PHRoG Yes. Years and years and years ago at the first offering, they said if anybody gets a tattoo they’ll get a surprise but they didn’t say what it was and so because I live my whole life YOLO, I went and got the tattoo. That first window was only for 24 hours.

I was the only person to get the tattoo that year and so they ended up paying for my tattoo cost and guaranteeing me an Irk every single time for Infinity.

The next few years they continue to offer the deal and more and more people slowly got added to the group. Then a few years ago they did a final offering. They also gave the offer of getting another tattoo that had to be related to a television show. I was the only person that did that that year as well, I got a pie with the words “Nobody likes a soggy bottom” underneath it for the Great British bake off. For that one, they did not pay my tattoo fees but I did get a really cool old license plate that said Meh on it, blanket, and a personalized coupon code that I could use a set number of times. I have definitely used all the uses on that code at least a year ago at this point.

To this day every time an Irk comes around, if I can remember to to check that day in post, I still get a free IRK. Honestly, the tattoo has been a thing that has gotten a ton of people I know on this site because people always ask and there’s the story and I tell them. I am happily a walking advertisement for this site.

@raptorgorawr Definitely had no clue about the TV one! Nice.

@Bretterson @PHRoG I think it’s 31 (but I’m not positive.)

@Kyeh Correct. 31 is the exact count, and we have still never had all 31 show up in the same event. Today I only sent 21, which is the lowest we’ve had.

@PHRoG you make it Excedrin and I’d be super stoked.

@Pony

@f00l IRK daily - and on Meh, not Sidedeal, so probably not a real one.

@kalma

@ExtraMedium replied above that IRK shipments were on their way.

So I guess I missed this one due to too much futbol, a game about which I have zero clue.

Although after watching a number of matches I can kinda sometimes see the constantly fluid adapting tactics etc. But I’m still happily clueless about it.

Dunno why I am even mildly interested. I think it might be because the fans are so much fun.

And because they mostly seem to like being here.
And tasting ranch dressing.
And going to Waffle House and Buc-ee’s.
And getting 10 years world of free refills in one fast-food visit.
And buying bars out of their beer stockpiles
And buying Walmart and Costco out of ranch dressing.

So if the fans are that much fun maybe the game is also.

Even tho FIFA (the organization) seems to be about as corrupt as a drug cartel, if not more so.

Oh well.

John Oliver’s show has a hilarious ongoing media battle with the bribe takers and bribe solicitors and other criminals at FIFA HQ.

/youtube Norway rowing Times Square

@f00l I have spent an embarrassing amount of time watching the Visitors take in America. I even have a futbol favorite player in Erling Haaland… Apparently his hobby is to bounce soccer balls off opponent’s faces to score goals. Also, the Row is cool, but the Netherland’s dance is a dutch cupid shuffle, so that’s kind of neat. My mother picked a heck of a year to buy six flag passes for me and the kids. Fun explaining to them why we can’t go on certain days because of a soccer game.

@kalma

Haaland looks like a cross between a gymnast and Thor and Mount Everest.

Add in a Cat 5 hurricane.

And then he is beating the war drums and going to war. In Norwegian colors.

He is a blast to watch.

If he were an NFL player, he would be a media sensation that way also.

@kalma

Three weeks ago I had never seen a soccer game. Just bits of them.

And then, “so what”?

Two weeks ago I didn’t know how many players were on a side. I still don’t know much more than that.

Haven’t yet figured out the neon day-glo goalkeeper outfits.

Ok I get that they are supposed to be visible and to stand out as goalkeepers since they have diff roles and diff rules.

But I would have expected the goalkeeper uniforms to have some visible extra-bright relationship to the national flags colors or the national jersey colors from the home country.

Instead they all look they the are attending a Barbie-at-the-beach/be-visible-from-space party.

No relationship to any other color or national theme.
Just the fashion themes of “visible from space” and “Barbie would wear this color”.

Huh? Whut?

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OK. It’s fun to watch.

/showme a neon futbol goalkeeper who is visible from space

@kalma

Just found these on the webs.

@ExtraMedium
/giphy thank you as always

@ExtraMedium thank you! You’re the best!

@ExtraMedium Yes, thanks for my
“limping-clairvoyant-holiday”!
Not sure how it got me this giphy, but I had to keep it because it looks so much like my beloved Toby (RIP.)

@ExtraMedium you da best!
/giphy scarce-wistful-degree