It's summertime! (July 2025 goat nominations)

narfcake thought this was worth mentioning said Friday at 12:08am ET

It’s officially summertime now … with the weather to match. Whether that should or should not be blamed on the current goat @Rowsdower is up to you, but in any case, the month is almost over and it’s time for a new goat of the month.

So nominate away!

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unksol said Friday at 3:40am ET:

So the goat page may be back… Even though the side one just had it tagged. But now a dumb AI icon?

Is there even anyone left to nominate? The last few months killed it.

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- @unksol There’s never been a rule in which former goats aren’t eligible; it’s just that such shouldn’t be the default choice. Nominating no one at all is also an option too.
  
  narfcake said Friday at 9:55am ET
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user94988313 said Friday at 8:04am ET:

I just became a meh customer and then this goat thing keeps flying around. WTHIH?
Some nut even used my name.

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- @user94988313 You asked a similar question on June 20th. Here’s the TL;DR I posted in response back then. HTH.
  
  Once upon a time, in the ages before the IRK, it was decided by the merry mob on these forums that an Official Scapegoat Whose Duty Is To Receive The Blame For Everything should be designated on a periodic basis. (This was before my time; I merely recount the Lore as received.) In the beginning was the Fukubukuro, and it was Meh. Then it became the Fukobukuro, and it was still Meh. And then the Fuko also was no more, and became the IRK. But the tradition of the Goat endured regardless. Part of the Goat’s job is to take the blame for the IRKs that stink (and they can be many!) but they may also be given the Unblame for things that go right, such as when an IRK contains precisely the Ninja Foodie multicooker that the recipient had been trying to justify splurging on. Some Goats have livened things up by posting bits of information about a subject they love, some have snarked their way through the month, ISTR that one made haiku, but at no time has a Goat actually been required to do anything at all. The office of Goat is purely faux-ceremonious, as befits occasions that are seldom grand and never formal. It’s appreciated when the goat can respond amusingly. During my tenure, I tried, but others were much better at it; I consider my performance to have barely rated a “meh”. Some have ghosted their way through, posting nothing at all. Everything was still The Goat’s Fault, but the Goat simply ignored it. It is in support of not having that as a frequent result that I have posted this thread.
  
  Those who are elected Goat will have a live, upright Goat icon next to their username instead of whatever icon would otherwise have been present. Emeritus Goats have an upside-down Goat (a “dead goat”) in honor of their service, unless they request restoration of a special icon like a moderator’s kit bag (rare) or the blood-droplet of those eligible for the Ink for IRK deal.
  
  I’m sure that I’ve omitted vitally important points for whose absence I will be summarily berated in the responses (along with a raucous TL;DR chorus), but those are the bits that came to mind.
  
  werehatrack said Yesterday at 1:02am ET
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werehatrack said Saturday at 1:38am ET:

Okay, I’ll do it. @Pony for July Goat. There. Now somebody will need to make a different nomination. (@Pony, you’re allowed to post noms in opposition to your own, ya know.)

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Pony said Saturday at 2:10am ET:

I nominate @user94988313

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werehatrack said Yesterday at 12:55am ET:

Bump to encourage voting. Or nomming. Or vote-nomming. Do votes taste better with aoli sauce?

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- @werehatrack
  
  heartny said a day ago
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ItalianScallion said 12 hours ago:

I have to nominate @Roadie, not because he should accept blame, but because he deserves the honor of being The Goat in other meaning. Here’s why… Roadie received a truck wheel hub with the tracking number of his IRK. It might have gone down in Mehistory as one of the strangest IRKs, until @Thumperchick discovered it accidentally got a shipping relabel with Roadie’s info. Roadie, being a honorable Mehtizen peeled off the redirect label, contacted Fedex to have them pick up the package and deliver it to its intended receiver. Fedex dragged their feet on picking it up, so Roadie called the person who was expecting it and hand-delivered to him!

Since Roadie deserves honor, but not blame, I am willing to stand in as his proxy for receiving blame.

P.S. I don’t know if Roadie has been the goat in the past because his icon is the VMP one.

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- @ItalianScallion If I could vote, this would be my
  
  Thumperchick said 12 hours ago
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- @ItalianScallion @Thumperchick Thanks so much!
  
  Roadie said 11 hours ago
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