You know how you go to your favorite bar, your local bartender isn’t there.

You ask, “Where’s Stamets?”

“Stamet’s no longer works here. I’m ummthatguy.”

And you’re thinking “Hey who’s this idiot? I like Stamets.”

But you still want your drink. And even though ummthatguy doesn’t mix your drink the same way you’re used to, like Stamets, you still like the bar. You don’t have to go to a different bar. And even ummthatguy might feel kinda bad because Stamets trained him. Stamets showed him how to work the cash register, where the tonic was on the soda gun, who tips, who doesn’t.

Stamets is the SNL Weekend Update Norm Macdonald to my Colin Quinn.

Meme from Short Trek: The Trouble with Edward

  • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    30·
    8 months ago

    What little I’ve picked up is that the combination of life stress and social media induced stress came to a head. So they cut themselves loose and left. It’s a bummer, but I hope doing so will help them be well.

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
      13·
      8 months ago

      Aw man, that is too bad.

      I hope wherever he is he finds some peace and feels better. It is a rough time out there, I hope my sending positive vibes finds him, even if it isn’t much.

      For whatever it’s worth, this place has been a massive place of comfort for me and that is in a large part because of them. I went through the shit for most of last year and had some breakdowns and this community really helped.

      And you too ummthatguy, you’re awesome and you’ve made me laugh so many times. I couldn’t think of a better member of the community to help mod it, thanks for all you do.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Thank you for thinking of us - you rock dude!

          I am both sad to see you take time away, combined with very happy that you are doing precisely that, bc it will help provide what you need and it’s great to see you be proactive like that. Be well my dude!:-) 😎 💪 And then enjoy coming to Lemmy again (naw, fuck Lemmy, I mean Ten Forward!) instead of dreading it :-).

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      • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        They will be missed.

        And don’t diminish your own contribution to our little hub.

        How far we’ve all come. Hell, you even stopped calling me Kevin.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Wait… is it “they” or “he”? I thought Stamets self identified as a gay man? Have I been doing it wrong by saying “he”? It’s fine if you are just aiming for generic, I’m just focused here on if my usage was wrong, but if both are acceptable then that’s cool too, I just wanted to confirm.:-)

          • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            I was being generic. My policy is to abide by Bill & Ted’s Law: Be excellent to each other.

            This extends to include minding chosen pronouns. That aside, I find it acceptable to use they/them/dude/guys as terms that cover whoever, per context.

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Good for them. Sounds like me with Facebook in like 2016. And then Twitter when Musky bought it. And Reddit mostly when they killed 3rd party apps. Come to think of it, social media mostly sucks.