Not My Kind Of Protest

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AAAAARRRGHHHHHH!!?!??!? Noooooooooooooooooo!?!?

I stood in the doorway of what had once been my pleasant home and stared aghast at the nightmare before me.

The bag that had been in my hand fell through numb fingers to land with a clump at my feet. A big fat salty tear rolled sadly down my left cheek and plopped forlornly down on the carpet to join it.

Fucking fuck McFuckity BASTARD!?

Shaking my head and scowling like an old man who hasn't shit for a week, I clenched my fists and advanced into the horror within.


It had been a long day.

My Mother's funeral was tomorrow and as is the nature of these things there seemed to be lots of last-minute arrangements to be made.

As my brother and I zoomed from appointment to appointment the day raced by.

Finally, the only task left was the one that we had both been dreading the most.

Fortunately, the many many tales he told me as we drove about of his ever troubling arse-grapes had numbed me to the last visit we had to make.

That last visit being the viewing of our dear old Mother in the funeral parlour before the Funeral.

It was a sad affair and the pair of us attempted not to cry in various manful ways. Grunts. Snorts. Waving at imaginary wasps and much going to of the toilet seemed to be the order of the day for such manly men as ourselves.

After it we sat in the car, both of us lost in our own ever swirling thoughts.

You alright?

He asked gruffly as if the answer had better be aye, I'm fine.

Aye. I'm fine.

I replied as if I was actually fine.

I dropped him off at his house and we exchanged manly hugs and fist bumps whilst avoiding each others eye.

I drove the car a short distance and then pulled over for a good old fashioned cry.

My phone pinged. It was the Good Lady asking if I wanted her to take the kids out to give me a bit of space when I returned.

That would be magic.

I gratefully replied.

I put some beers in the freezer for you. Take a bit of time for yourself and sit in the garden with a beer or two.

I wiped my tears away. What a woman. I could think nothing better than going home and staring into space with a nice cold beer.

And so I had arrived home...


What the fuck have you little bastards done?!

My cats had had a party.

A dirty party.

For cat-reasons best known to themselves, they had shat all over the place. There were smears of shit absolutely everywhere.

The hall?

About 12 shits.

The lounge?

I gave up counting after 18 or so shits.

Everywhere I looked there were various piles and smears of shit that had been deposited like the brush strokes of a mad painter.

Some hour or so later the Good Lady arrived home into a freshly cleaned house and walked through into the garden where I sat, clutching a beer.

Hey, you. Have you managed to relax and chill a bit?

She asked softly.

I looked at her and raised my can of beer in salute.

Nah, lass. It's been a bit shit. Literally.



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I am so confused here. What the fuck did they eat?

Also, sorry about all the other stuff. Sounds shit (pun intended).

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I don't know!! There has been nothing out of the ordinary! I think they have either killed something and taken turns at chomping on it or they are just wee bastards determined to strike at a man when he is weak!!

Cats are cunts :0D

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Yep, this is why I'm a dog person.

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Remember your reply about the cancelled vacation in one of your previous posts.
So this touching (and "shitty") story happened a bit earlier than today.
Still, sorry for the loss man. Wish you strength.
The fact you took a beer to chill afterwards makes me say ... Cheers!

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My vacation was cancelled upon the passing of my mum two weeks ago to the day. It's just taken a while to get to the funeral part.

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The cats were trying to get your mind off of the funeral.

Mission accomplished.

It was there way to say "Sorry for your loss". In a way that you will always remember.


Just inform them that if it happens again ... there will be another loss.

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Haha, that is a good positive spin to it. The good lady suggested that perhaps they felt some tension in the house and were acting out. I said, what a lot of shit lol!

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Some days are diamonds, some days are shit. I had a similar animal excrement day and was planning to write about it as well, if I ever have time to write again. Mine was dog shit though, which in my snobbish dog-owner vs cat-owner sort of way I think is much worse.

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I am in two minds, certainly size wise it world be far worse but do dogs smear it about in odd little smudges??

I hope to read your tale. I will just be reading tomorrow I suspect!

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Size, yes; smudge, no. Hmm, interesting debate. They are both beastly poopers I suppose.

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@meesterboom Hello dear friend,
Stop by to send you a huge hug. I'm so sorry for your loss.
see you tomorrow I wish you a good rest

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You two should have just had a rugged manly cry together and been done with it. Honestly.

The body viewing is the hardest I think 😔

Bloody cats probably picked up in your stress and they sometimes have the stupidest ways of showing it like yours evidently did 😱 hope you managed to get at least a little bit of staring into space drinking beer time 🙃

Take it easy and have some virtual hugs if you want them.

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I wish we were that kind of brothers. Unfortunately with our upbringing in one of the more insalubrious bits of Glasgow we are off the old school. Which I hate because I have largely managed to escape all the jazz of the past. But when we are together it all comes back. Sigh

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It probably was not cat shit Boom-man...I had my kitchen smeared with possum shit, after my cat caught it eating his food and decided to do battle with the varmint...

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If we had possums it could be. I suspect a fecking bird!

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Eish - something must be wrong with those cats or there is a stranger coming in and scaring them. Good luck for the funeral. Never easy but has to be done.

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Many strangers lately, you know it could be that

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I always wonder how the whole world can go on like nothing in the world happened. When my mother passes, not too long back, I wanted to scream at the world because the roads were clogged with traffic, people were shopping and there was laughter in the air.

Didn't they freaking know my mother died?? :(

I am sorry for the loss and no matter what kind of relationship we have with out family, when you lose your mom, it is a profound moment in time. Be good to yourself and give you some time.

Oh, the cat thing totally grossed me out. I don't want to know what it was. It's been a bit of a *hit. Oh, yes. That is was.

!tip .20

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Wait, your mom passed?? Didn't your dad just pass? Oh God my friend, this is a right shite fee months for you! I'm so sorry! For life's balance to maintain you oughta have one singularly blessed 2020.

Cats... self absorbed creatures.

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Yeah, it has been a rough old year. Dad went barely eleven weeks ago and then my mum not even three months after. It can be a tough old world. Was her funeral today. I hope things start getting a tad better

And yeah, cats, bastards

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It worked that way with my dad +getting better after the funeral) but I know if mom would have gone shortly after I would have struggled with it a bit longer. In her case it would've been a shock though, she's always been so healthy. I was prepared for dad's passing. Was your mom ill, or was this abrupt?

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She was quite well. It was a sudden and completely unexpected thing. Quite the blow. Thought we would have had years of adjusting and healing but no. All gone

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Ach, that completely sucks. My heart aches for you. I could offer a million platitudes, but I know only time helps. I wish I could hug you.

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Cheers lass. I know time helps. It helped with my Dad, it's worse this time obvs but I know that onda day it will be better. Brutal stuff though. Like your Dad is so important but I think Mothers have a special place in all their childrens hearts

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Shitty. Those car journeys are rather tough. Fucking cats as well man, standing between you, a beer, and space. Shitheads!

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Took valuable time away from my sky gazing/can drinking!

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I hope you've had chance to do that, or get the chance to do this over the weekend.

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So what is the reason that you downvoted my post ? @meesterboom

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Hello. It was nothing personal. It was bidbotting of the post rewards which goes against the spirit of the EIP

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It's not bidbotting i am supporting EIP too and I used promotion service which is non-profitable . I didn't get any profit for buying upvote and I did to do that for promote my contest and get more visibilty & participators.

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It doesn't matter if it doesn't make you a profit. What matters is the drain on the reward pool for everyone else by you purchasing votes. It goes against all that the EIP stands for. If it is promotion then you shouldn't profit from it so there shouldn't be an issue?

Also you used BDVOTER

I quote - UPVOTE & Post Age [ 5 minutes to 3 days ] ! UPVOTE ROI ~ 200%

ROI implies return on investment. So no profit, you say??

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So you mean promoting a contest to get more visibility is wrong ?? thats zero profit and if you buy under 20 steem curve post you will get even lower . I spend 28 steem to promote that and got 24.5 steem worth upvote.(after curation cut)

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It's not promotion. It's buying votes for ROI

Buying votes harms the Steem Ecosystem in general, please don't do it.

Also that's 24.5 steem that could have gone to non vote buying content creators

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Post Age [ 5 minutes to 3 days ] ! UPVOTE ROI ~ 0% It's not buying votes for ROI. I did that for get more visibility & if you look at the participation on my previous one you will see the participators number and even i did talk with ocdb team about it, they said it's ok to use non-profitable bot for promote your post.

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Also you got a ten dollar vote so you are being disingenuous if you are claiming that you dont make ROI on that for sending 20 odd steem

If you truly know what the EIP is about perhaps decline payout on your botted posts or burn the rewards like others.

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I don't really believe that OCDB said that either. OCDB do not agree with buying votes. Not buying votes for profit just buying votes. Look at this quote from them...

The downvote you received is to discourage the buying of votes from bidbots. We kindly invite you to join us on the #NewSteem attitude, where good content receives votes and the organic content get the most attention. Buying votes hurts you, other authors and the Steem Ecosystem in general, please don't do it.

It doesn't say. Hey but buying votes for promotion is ok.

And again. TEN DOLLAR VOTE?! for 28 steem, no ROI?

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So do you know the calculation of post rewards ? After curation gone thats become 24 steem which is 4 steem loss and where you see ROI inside that ??

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No it doesnt, that would be 24 steem liquid and 24 steem as SP so that would be 48 steem?

Naughty naughty

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lol really ? 50% will goes to curators so thats 24 steem

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Sigh

Your post payout will be about 10 dollars half of which will be curators and half the author. So that would be about 5 dollars, yes?

It is split between liquid steem and SP but that doesnt matter. Its still Steem.

Is five dollars more than 28 steem? I think so

You are wilfully lying now. I have nothing more to say to you

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use eye glass

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Whether there was ROI or not it goes against the EIP and using bidbots to boost posts.

Also, if you own it, isn't it a little imoral to use your own bot?

But anyway, I am off to watch a movie. As I said it was nothing personal. You can take it that way if you like but it really isnt

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What immoral did you see? I did use that for promotion purpose, I can even take upvote for free because i am doing plenty manual curation from my voting bot too, but for transparency i did transaction & also added the purpose of using the bot.

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So to wind this up.

I am quite sure you know how Steem works. YOu also know of the EIP but assumed it didn't mean you.

You were quite disingenuous over the ROI

I have nothing more to say

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So i think your post also not belongs those reward if you act like this shit !! I don't care about your downvote but i just came here to defend the things and you goes to my blog to downvote my post again which not bidbotted. So you took it personally

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It was bidbotted by upmewhale

As I said, there is nothing personal here

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show me proof that bidbotted by upmewhale. he did manual curation.

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I had a look and I can't see a transfer so I will happily remove my vote

There, happy days

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Now what about this ?? If you don't know use your dv wisely then why did you created dv trail ?

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Yeah, thats a pisser. I should maybe update my trail to say that sometimes I make mistakes. WOuld you like me to send you 1 steem. So that you don't ache with all of the lost ROI?

More than happy to

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As i said i don't care about the downvote value, i do care about the downvotes. You can keep your 1 steem to you & make yourself more happy.

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Ok, well, despite the way I think you are taking it. I do wish you a pleasant evening.

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Who is the good lady? Is it the wife or some kind of nun? Oh, cats have parties? Do they drink more than dogs? What kind of parties do dogs have?

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The Good Lady is indeed the monicker for my wife and dogs have the absolute best parties do I have been told! :0)

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Mercy :'( I am heavy hearted for you and your family. I came to find out if you were on vacation or some such and find out the terrible news. I am so sorry for the loss, again. I have no words..... :'(

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Cheers lass, it was a bit of a blow I must say. What can we do though but keep on movin :o/

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Wow, I didn't know cats did that, is that normal? You guys are such manly men!

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It's not normal. It's disgusting! I half thought of killing them!!

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Well I had never heard of that but I didn't want to accuse your little darlings of being slightly off! lol.

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Yeah, thankfully at least, it seems to have been a one off!

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I hope so, man that's hideous!

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I just used steemauto.com flagtrail option and it seems to have flagged randomly.
I just noticed today.

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