Birthday Churl
Today is my birthday.
I’ve been celebrating for the last week. My friends and I have been holed up in a lovely rented house in the mountains, making snowmen with large french bread penises and drinking anything we can get our hands on. I’ve also been eating ice cream and candy, and am now too fat to type without getting winded.
So this morning, on the anniversary of my birth, I’d like to give you a few presents.
Oh it’s not much. Just a little token, because I’m still pretty drunk.
First, reader Jonathan sent this ridiculously late entry into our one hour Photoshopping contest. He seems to have resigned himself to the fact that he’s not going to win, but he might have if he’d entered it in time.
Also in the mailbag, previously featured seller Raven (creator of the roadkill painting featured in December’s Advent Calendar) sent this photo of some homemade fetus cookies she wanted to share with me. Next year, we’re all having Christmas at her house.
Next up, a little something I wanted to share with you a few days ago but didn’t get around to – my favorite Etsy Forum comment of 2009. This is a screen cap sent to me by a reader who enjoyed the delicious irony of a bitchy remark made by a bitchy woman who doesn’t like my bitchy remarks.
it’s priceless. In fact, we might be looking at our next T-shirt.
By the way, this particular thread also had some harsh words for those of you who leave comments here. Apparently you’re not just making fun of the craft, you’re making fun of the crafter, and that’s “bordering on abusive.” So please try to keep your comments limited to hair styles, and we should all be on the same page.
Where’s my drink?
January 4, 2010 at 5:06 am
I dunno if she was trying to insult you or what, weedwhacker hair is totally now.
January 4, 2010 at 5:09 am
Happy Birthday to you! Please post a few pics of those snowmen! I’ll pass on the fetus cookies, thank you very much.
January 4, 2010 at 5:14 am
good morning and happy birthday!
love the mittens/kittens pix! can do without the fetus cookies, um…ever.
as for your bitchy lady friend….i can say this:
a weedwhacker may be a poor substitute for a haircut, but a bushwhacker is a remarkable cocktail. she should have one and get a little zen.
part of the risk of putting your “craft” out there is potential criticism…it’s called suffering for your “art” and if your art makes me suffer, i guess the yucks just keep on…
January 4, 2010 at 5:30 am
Happy Birthday April!
And for all the cry baby crafters…Regretsy didn’t invent art criticism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_criticism
Good grief. Get over it.
January 4, 2010 at 5:46 am
I may have just woken up the neighbors with my insane laughing at the “ridiculously late entry”. It sounds like a bad porn title too. Ridiculously Late Entry.
Happy Birthday!
January 4, 2010 at 5:47 am
Awww, Happy Birthday!
A world in which we can’t make fun of handcrafted vaginas is a world I just don’t want to live in.
January 4, 2010 at 6:07 am
#5 – I totally read that as “handicapped vaginas” instead of “handcrafted vaginas”. Then I started thinking of what a handicapped vagina placard would look like. And then I thought “I should make handicapped vagina placards and sell them on Etsy!”
January 4, 2010 at 6:13 am
#5, it’s not the handcrafted vaginas that are being offended–it’s the handcraftING vaginas that are getting upset.
January 4, 2010 at 6:14 am
say WHAT!?
happy birthday!
and as far as the weedwhacker comment goes, i think that chick perhaps implys that you should use a scissors instead of a weedwhacker to cut your hair, instead of, say, a weedwhacker becoming your hair so she can’t even get the analogy correct. a weedwhacker for hair would be pretty bitchin’, it’d be like a modern day medusa.
January 4, 2010 at 6:30 am
Happy, happy Birthday.
I do must admit that I sometimes will assign human-like characteristics to the Artists (ex: must be smoking crack, clearing missing vital chromosomes, diet as an infant must have consisted mainly of lead paint chips and Newport butts), but I defend the intention of my action. It is done in an attempt to find some reasoning behind their creation and display, aside from the Artist actually being a brain-probing Alein or Imp from the NetherWorld.
January 4, 2010 at 6:35 am
Definitely need pictures of the snowmen.
Hope your birthday is full of Say What’s?, vagina crafts, and pedo bears. Or something. Have a happy :c)
January 4, 2010 at 6:50 am
Happy birthday! And to the whiners on etsy who say we’re “bordering on abuse” I say, if you can’t take the heat, get out of the damn kitchen. You want to sell your (usually) handmade stuff for money, not everyone is going to like it. You’d best either laugh it off or sift through the comments and learn what people really think of your items and how to make them better. Put on your big girl over priced hat and deal with it.
January 4, 2010 at 6:53 am
Fucking happy birthday. We should have a fetus cookie toast or some shit.
January 4, 2010 at 6:54 am
HAPPY BIRTHDAY APRIL!!
I have to admit, I’ve taken some crap for not posting comments under an assumed name. I may be on some sort of blacklist now. If so, I feel I am in good company.
I just wish people would know we weren’t really laughing AT them, we’re laughing….ok. we are laughing at them.
OMG- I’m going to hell, aren’t I?
January 4, 2010 at 6:58 am
Happy Birthday!
Say…do you own a Flowbee yet? (I think that’s how it’s spelled…) Maybe that would work better than a weedwhacker…I bet if we all pitch in 25 cents we could buy you one.
January 4, 2010 at 7:15 am
Happy Birthday, April! I got worried about you out in the snow in your condition, so here are some nice mittens/legwarmers for you…
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31289706
January 4, 2010 at 7:31 am
Happy Birthday!
As for Etsy forum complaints, I always find it amusing that the people that complain are only the ones that disagree with your opinion and are not strong enough to simply disagree and allow others their own opinion. Since when do we all have to think the same to get along?
January 4, 2010 at 7:48 am
Happy birthday.
I kind of get a sense that the whining crafters might be a bit jealous. Look at what happens to most sellers featured here: their shit SELLS. Some become minor Regretsy legends (hello, Denny of “Say what!” fame and Soapyho).
To the “serious” (aka loud and bitchy) etsy crafters, GET OVER YOURSELVES! You all give the silent majority of etsians a bad name
January 4, 2010 at 8:20 am
“This is a screen cap sent to me by a reader who enjoyed the delicious irony of a bitchy remark made by a bitchy woman who doesn’t like my bitchy remarks.”
This, I say, is the perfect description for so many of the people who think they are the elite of etsy forums. They are so quick to jump on anyone, ANYONE, who doesn’t follow their specific stream of ideas and reasoning, and attack them for all they are worth! Bitchy is as bitchy does.
January 4, 2010 at 8:23 am
Oops…almost forgot….
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
January 4, 2010 at 8:34 am
Happy birthday, you craft hater you!
May I just say how totally awesome it is that the blurring of the forum poster’s name and avatar is so half-assed. I’d know that cranky bunny anywhere.
January 4, 2010 at 8:49 am
Happy Birthday!
Back in the day when I fancied myself a real writer, I had to put up with many a criticism, not only of my work, but of myself for various forms of work I submitted. If you’re going to put your work (and yourself) out there to be judged, you have to take it all, including the bad.
So neener-neener-neener!
January 4, 2010 at 9:02 am
Mmmmm, fetus cookies! Pass the butter for my snowman penis, please.
Happy birthday, and when you’re less drunk, more updates!!!! I want even more whimsicle fuckery in 2010!
January 4, 2010 at 9:08 am
I totally want to know which forum. I actually sell stuff on etsy, too, and would love to be features. Especially because I know that my piece of crap whatever would sell. I’ve seen some of the whining a moaning on there, but then people end up selling the insulted item and the sellers are all “oh I guess regretsy isn’t that bad….” and remove the tchotchkes from their ass.
January 4, 2010 at 9:09 am
Oh effin hell. I forgot…
Happy Birthday!
January 4, 2010 at 9:32 am
Happy Birthday! I hope you get something very special that can compare to the wonderful gift of whimsicle fuckery that you give to me daily. Every day’s my birthday on Regretsy!
January 4, 2010 at 9:38 am
Happy Birthday! (It’s mine, too!)
January 4, 2010 at 9:42 am
Happy birthday!
I saw a particular brand of sweater in a thrift store this weekend and thought of this place: http://picasaweb.google.com/jules.noctambule/20100103January01?authkey=Gv1sRgCOv7koyProTmvQE#5422940852744054754
Alas, it was too big for me!
January 4, 2010 at 9:47 am
Happy Birthday!
And now I’m annoyed with myself for NOT buying that foetus cookie cutter (no, really, it’s a real product!) Guess I know what I’ll be doing with my break time today.
January 4, 2010 at 10:09 am
Happy birthday! Tell Woody and Jann The Foley Artist that they missed Bob Eubanks giving the Lucky’s Stores lady the reacharound and then getting slapped during the second hour. Okay, maybe that’s a lie, but I dare to dream the dream. And tell Samwich that I also gained a fuckton of fat. Enough to think about starting my own soap company.
January 4, 2010 at 10:10 am
Happy Birthday!!! Glad to hear you are having fun!!!! I’d buy a round if I could!!!!
January 4, 2010 at 10:13 am
Happy Birthday, Helen!
Actually, I think a lot of the sellers have pretty good senses of humor- at least from what I’ve seen.
January 4, 2010 at 10:16 am
Thanks for all the laughs you so generously share with us!
*CHEERS*
Happy Birthday!
January 4, 2010 at 10:18 am
Happy days…Happy days. I agree, everyone should celebrate for a week. Next year you can stay at our cabin and party til the cows come home- see Avatar. Don’t bring the Fetus cookie lady though, we’ll tell her the cabin burned down while baking a batch.
January 4, 2010 at 10:18 am
Why do the Regretsy detractors always seem to come off as whiners?
January 4, 2010 at 10:19 am
Happy belated birthday April!
I’m glad this site exists–I appreciate the laughs.
January 4, 2010 at 10:30 am
Happy Birthday April.
January 4, 2010 at 11:10 am
Put another candle on your birthday cake,
We’re eating cake and getting baked.
Put another candle on your birthday cake,
And then pass me the Gran Patron.
We’ll have some Coke and Jack Daniels
and chocolate ice cream, too.
We’ll eat and drink the day away,
Oh shit! I think I’m gonna puke!
January 4, 2010 at 11:11 am
I’ll throw up all over your damn birthday cake,
and when I do, a mess I’ll make.
That’ll put out the candles on your birthday cake,
Then I’ll pass out for the day.
Happy birthday to you,
You’re another year old today, Oy Vey!
January 4, 2010 at 11:14 am
April/Helen,
This is definitely Level 1 Photoshopping, but WTF:
http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/grinreaper1965/Regretsy/hbhk.gif
January 4, 2010 at 11:45 am
Happy Birthday!
I found my dad’s Flowbee while at their home for Christmas. He keeps it in the spare bedroom with his deer meat/beer fridge.
I learned that a vacuum cleaner is not an acceptable substitute for a good haircut.
By comparison, a weed whacker seems perfectly reasonable.
January 4, 2010 at 11:45 am
Happy Birthday April / Helen Killer! Since you have an alter ego, does this mean you get to drink twice as much?
I’ll assume that means we can look forward to double the laughs…
January 4, 2010 at 12:35 pm
I totally third the request for snowmen-with-french-bread-penises!!!
And oops, forgot the first time I commented, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Helen Killer!!
XOXO!
January 4, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Happy Birthday. Some rabbit stew is looking pretty good right about now, along with some fava beans and a nice chianti (makes stupid lip sucking sounds like that Silence of the Lambs dude).
PussDaddy
January 4, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Happy Birthday!
I hope you get the best haircut ever, plus weed.
I tell you, this site brings paying customers to my yard, my little square of Etsy, so you go right on ahead, sweetie. Laugh and point, laugh and point, even if it’s me next time.
January 4, 2010 at 1:31 pm
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January 4, 2010 at 1:45 pm
For fuck’s sake, they profiled me on here too using my real username and avatar. She made the comment so she shouldn’t be afraid to own it. If she didn’t want it out there for public perusal then the fricking rabbit should have just shut the hell up for once. Like me she has opinion about every damn thing and expresses it, so it is then out there for the public to chop all to hell as they see fit. God how I hate you over-protective-of-each-other clique-y bitches. Get over yourselves…
January 4, 2010 at 1:49 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY APRIL!!
As for it being “uncalled for” to only partially blur the bitch’s username–Are you serious? The remark is still out there on the Etsy forums, plain as day and unblurred, for anyone who actually wanted to see it. If bunny woman had no problem opening her yap in public for all the world to see, she should have absolutely no problem with April REPEATING what she said.
Unless, of course, she’s a whiny cunt.
January 4, 2010 at 1:51 pm
And I beg 2 differ also dangerousmezzo with your assesment that only the classy Etsians who can handle being picked apart are here on Regrestsy posting away, because you and I both damn well know that most of the ones posting here are only using Regretsy and the owner of this blog’s popularity and celebrity and ability 2 get things done as another promotional tool that they can utilize for free, and they figure being picked on is a pretty good trade off as long as they sell something.
January 4, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Let’s just cut the bullshit and tell it like it really is, dangerousmezzo, because I am no fricking genius myself and none of you are fooling me for a fricking instant so I highly doubt there are that many others out there bamboozled on this angle as well.
PussDaddy
January 4, 2010 at 2:16 pm
OMG! You have hurt my feelings! I am so painting a vagina at you.
January 4, 2010 at 2:17 pm
If you really want to give April a birthday present, try giving her a gift of truth and thank her ass for letting you use her blog as a platform to promote & peddle your stuff for free and saving you all the time, effort, and money of setting up your own place to do it yourself. Give her a gift of appreciatiin instead of castigating her for reposting what someone said on a PUBLIC FORUM somewhere else. Give her the gift of not making cats angry on her fricking birthday thread for instance.
January 4, 2010 at 2:26 pm
I love Regretsy and I think it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. In fact when I first stumbled on it I was so tickled I had to share this jewel of a find with the Etsy community via the forums and, well, I guess they are a prissy, humorless bunch over there, you can imagine the backlash….. geeez! I know I took a finger wagging comment or two from the bunny, herself. Of course admin has to publicly denounce it by closing threads, but you know they love it too.
January 4, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I don’t think the blurring was passive aggressive…I think it was part of the whole joke about the comment. I think barely blurring out the av/name made it funnier. Like an old SNL skit where the people who thought they were disguised really weren’t.
January 4, 2010 at 2:30 pm
In fact, I got another poking today from someone who didn’t like a half sentence I wrote somewhere….judgment, judgment, ladies. They judge Regretsy for profiling people, judge anyone who finds it amusing, but don’t seem to get that they’re doing the same thing, though apparently that’s OK. Yeah, I’m done with the Etsy forums, what a waste of time. Any new business I get from being seen there is not worth the nausea. My number one new year’s resolution.
January 4, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Happy fuckin’ Birthday Helen… Cheers!
January 4, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Some crafts are abusive. Seriously. It pains me to have to be polite about something that is simply awful. I start to sweat, and get knots in my back and stammer and trip over trying to find something…ANYTHING…nice to say. And then I’m consumed by guilt because I lied. Bad crafts give me ulcers and make me sin. How’s that for abuse?
January 4, 2010 at 2:50 pm
And happy birthday…I cut my hair with a pair of scissors that my dog chewed on.
January 4, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Some dude once said, “Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.”
Happy Birthday Helen-hope that ‘hare’ of the dog that bit you keeps your buzz going!
January 4, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Happy Birthday Helen!
January 4, 2010 at 3:32 pm
In honor of your birthday, here’s a little ditty I learned in grade school:
This is April’s birthday
Happy, happy birthday
We sing happy birthday to you today!
May Our Lady bless you
On your happy birthday
May Our Lady bless you on every day!
What? It was a parochial school, for fuck’s sake.
January 4, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Happy birthday, April, shizly, Mel Gibson, and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. I’m sure there’s six degrees of regretsy in there somewhere.
January 4, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Happy Birthday April!
@Sculptor69: There a fetus cookie cutter? Now you know I’m seriously going looking for that, I’ve got to have one.
@Pussdaddy: Of course, I’d never lie and say the free publicity isn’t one reason I liked being featured here. However I think there are people that can never laugh at themselves no matter the potential benefit. Those of us who can get to benefit.
January 4, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Hey! Roadkill Raven here…you can buy the fetus cookie cutter somewhere. My mother got it for me for Xmas so it cannot be that hard to find!
January 4, 2010 at 4:03 pm
To the tune of Happy Birthday Lisa (from The Simpsons Episode # 36):
Helen, it’s your birthday
God bless you this day
You gave us the gift of a bitchin’ website
Where we snark out every day.
Helen, it’s your birthday
Happy birthday, Helen
Let’s all bag on Etsy.
What the fuck they sellin’?
January 4, 2010 at 4:03 pm
We wish you cake and bourbon,
We toast you with Cristal.
We love your hairdo done with a weedwacker,
And your boyfriend Bronc Drywall.
Helen, it’s your birthday,
Happy birthday, Helen.
We all love Regretsy,
Etsy’s shit be smellin’.
January 4, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Happy Birthday Helen, you have made me piss my pants on many an occasion. For this, I thank you.
Must have missed this one, who’s the bunny?
January 4, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Skully I love your poems!
January 4, 2010 at 4:51 pm
#48 PussDaddy :
For fuck’s sake, they profiled me on here too using my real username and avatar. She made the comment so she shouldn’t be afraid to own it. If she didn’t want it out there for public perusal then the fricking rabbit should have just shut the hell up for once. Like me she has opinion about every damn thing and expresses it, so it is then out there for the public to chop all to hell as they see fit. God how I hate you over-protective-of-each-other clique-y bitches.
…
January 4, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Darn, not enough space.
I second Puss. That damn rabbit never shuts her trap.
Happy Birthday, April!!!!!
January 4, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Happy birthday, April!
And, those chicks need to take a page from Denny & proudly let their freak flags fly.
Except when they’re selling some piece of “upcycled” garbage – then they should bury their heads in the sand like so many ostriches.
January 4, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Happy Birthday!
January 4, 2010 at 5:16 pm
#49 HermesGoddess :
HAPPY BIRTHDAY APRIL!!
As for it being “uncalled for” to only partially blur the bitch’s username–Are you serious? The remark is still out there on the Etsy forums, plain as day and unblurred, for anyone who actually wanted to see it. If bunny woman had no problem opening her yap in public for all the world to see, she should have absolutely no problem with April REPEATING what she said.
Unless, of course, she’s a whiny cunt.
…
Thank you…
January 4, 2010 at 5:16 pm
happy birthday april!
being lampooned here is an honor. like american idol or something.
oh.
never mind.
January 4, 2010 at 5:17 pm
It was going to be “Thank you HermesGoddess! I agree with you 100%.”
January 4, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Happy birthday!
January 4, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Happy birthday, April! As for people on Etsy not liking other Etsians who comment here, well that’s why I post here with my secret identity…that links back to my “secret identity” Etsy shop…that in turn links back to my “real” shop…aw, shit.
Our blurry rabbit friend there is usually cool, but ironically it seems that the snarkiest Etsians with the most biting senses of humor are all the ones who hate Regretsy the most. I don’t get that.
January 4, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Happy Beerday, Helen Killer! Mine’s coming up way too soon! Thanks for all the crazy!
January 4, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Happy Birthday! What??? people’s feelings are hurt? Oh no…I’m offending crafters…Etsy crafters…boo fucking hoo!
January 4, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Yeah, I read the whole thread, well up to page 20 or something and all I can say is – how embarrassing. I’d love to bask in a little of the regretsy glow, but nothing I make sucks bad enough in any of the right ways. People who get featured here should be proud. Seriously. I’d be glad to bring people as much joy as the shit I’ve seen here brings me. At least people are looking at their crap. And – it’s clear that most readers actually visit the shops, which is more than most ad $s can…
January 4, 2010 at 7:22 pm
buy. Damn, I thought I got the character # right on. Oh well. (-:
January 4, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Happy Birthday HK/April!
I am an Etsy seller (no secret)…I was bashed recently by a seller that I initally poked fun of in a past forum. She had the nerve to send me a personal convo to my Etsy email. Hello, if you don’t like it here, don’t be a part of the fuckery-nobody is forcing anyone to read any of this. If anything, these featured artists for the most part should be grateful they are featured. Any publicity is good publicity, I always say.
Hope you’re having fun on your bday! ♥
January 4, 2010 at 8:04 pm
If I’m ever in a street brawl I’m taking PussDaddy & polaroidart with me.
Happy Birthday Helen!!! Would in be in the vein of Regretsy to hope that you’re passed out in a pool of your own vomit on your birthday? Whatever it is you’re doing I hope you’re enjoying it!
As for making fun of things on Etsy, I just saw the “Murcler is Born of Love” purse…. I’ve got nothing to say.
January 4, 2010 at 8:05 pm
“Would IT be in…” not “Would in”. Maybe I’m drunk too.
January 4, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Happy Belated Birthday, Helen!
oh, fuck those fucking hypocritical bitches at etsy. They are the biggest bunch of sour grapes ever.
I sort of have no idea what the hell the thread & screen cap are about… and yet it doesn’t surprise me. The forum marms are so pathetic.
January 4, 2010 at 8:13 pm
What the — 50-plus pages of comments on that Etsy thread?
Really?
REALLY?
Jesus.
Oh, yeah, and happy belated birthday.
But … 50-plus pages?
January 4, 2010 at 8:18 pm
And thanks for the laughs. Good for both mental and physical health, and besides it’s just gratifying, so THANK YOU.
Plus I now comprehend the depths of low quality produced by the talentless. I had no idea before finding Regretsy the abysmal type of stuff they’re trying to pawn off on the public. It’s been an education and it’s worth a read way more than once a day!
January 4, 2010 at 9:51 pm
@ #77 sudabaki :
If I’m ever in a street brawl I’m taking PussDaddy & polaroidart with me.
….
LOL, and you’d make a right decision. I’m small,
but vicious!
January 5, 2010 at 3:36 am
Ok, I’ve seen what all the fuss is about. Well, if they make up shit then it’s gonna have to be shot down, right??
But then, if they didn’t make the shit, we wouldn’t have anything to laugh at now, would we??
Jeez, they are really taking things to heart. Some twat will buy it, so what’s the big fat hairy deal?
January 5, 2010 at 4:59 am
seriously. look how the views shoot up every time we “review” something…and how many times has somebody come back and said “omg it SOLD!”
i bought something cool from one of the sellers we lambasted, and i love it.
if i was the kid who made the spider matchbox or mercler purse i would be bragging to my friends big time, hell i would probably put it on my resume.
January 5, 2010 at 6:57 am
Fuck them all. Seriously, they are probably all posting here under fake names joining in the hilarity, and then acting all pious over on the etsy boards, & who the fuck is Moonstr who thinks they were featured on regretsy? Fuck her and her fucked up shit art, what a bunch of garbage no talent work. Seriously what kind of fucked up mind thinks this is art http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20488239
January 5, 2010 at 8:26 am
Wow, April/Helen, check out who shares your birthday:
1643 – Sir Isaac Newton
1809 – Louis Braille
1960 – Michael Stipe
1965 – Cait O’Riordan (The Pogues)
1980 – Bobbi Eden (Dutch Porn Star)
January 5, 2010 at 8:40 am
I think someone should define “abusive” and then describe to me how the items people are selling are not abusive to me.
January 5, 2010 at 8:40 am
BTW, I meant with my above comment to be about the items featured here on regretsy!
January 5, 2010 at 9:52 am
#92 FuckADuckk : Hey, let’s just leave moonstr alone already. She was featured on here months ago, and is obviously still unhappy about it. I think a lot of her stuff is cute, and I love her titles, they make me laugh.
January 5, 2010 at 10:24 am
I agree, while I think some of her comments in that thread were hypocritical, if she requested her item to be pulled, then there is no reason to post another one here. Feel free to respond to her comments, but respect her wish to have her items left off of here (even though, by pointing out that she had been featured she was inviting people to wonder what/why/how). I supposed if she truly wanted to be left out of it, she wouldn’t have brought it up, but still.
January 5, 2010 at 10:46 am
Etsies need to sack up a little and expect some brutally honest criticism of their work. I seriously doubt some of these sensitive artistes could handle an undergrad or even a high school critique course. For fuck’s sake, the Impressionist movement takes its name from one of the snarkiest comments in art history! Grow a pair!
January 5, 2010 at 10:58 am
Yeah, seen her in the forum a lot. That bunny needs to weedwhack her nipples (then maybe photoshop the ones in her avatar too… unless those are mittens…)
January 5, 2010 at 11:43 am
I thought it was funny that my art ended up on Regretsy. I read the nasty comments but did not let them get me down. I tried to have fun with it as much as possible. I have a sense of humor and think most artists need to have one in order to survive in general. Not everyone is going to love your art or creations…if everyone loved the same thing it would be a boring world indeed!
January 5, 2010 at 3:12 pm
LOL so funny how we all know who posted that, that was level one pixelating April
January 5, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Actually, it came to me like that. A reader mailed me that screen cap in November. I think she thought she was legally obligated to blur it for some reason, but she wasn’t. I wouldn’t have.
January 5, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Can someone familiar with etsy explain why they don’t use the word “regretsy” on that thread? They just refer to it as “r” or “the big R.“
Just wondering if there is a Commandment I missed?
January 5, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Because any mention of Regretsy gets the thread closed (“Please do not refer to sites that call out members of Etsy”)
January 5, 2010 at 6:40 pm
OK, thanks, moi. It really adds to the regretsy mystique to have to have it referred to that way. Fascinating reading.
January 5, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Happy B-day! http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30871944
Weedwhacker hairdos, unite! I’ve sported a weedwhacker do since the early ’90s, & it has served me well. In fact, Mariska Hargitay had a very similar weedwhacker style to mine a few years ago on L&O: SVU. The frequent comparisons to her really did not bother me one little bit
January 5, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Happy Belated Birthday, you crazy fun Queen of Craft Critiquers, you! Thank you. If we’re all going to Hell, you make it one helluva ride
January 6, 2010 at 3:51 pm
OMG! Tomorrow is my birthday too! I don’t need a birthday thread though, I will just celebrate vicariously through April’s.
January 6, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Happy Birthday Killer!
I’m glad I’m not one of the sellers with one of these…”tchotchkes” up my ass. I have no idea what that is. *L*
Hmmm…I have an ass mold…what would one of these “tchotchkes” look like in soap up the ass I wonder??
So others get hate mail too huh? At least I’m not alone! *lol* I delete them but should start saving them so I can post them for ya. *lol*
Hope you had a great birthday Killer!
January 6, 2010 at 10:24 pm
omg he totally should have won.
January 7, 2010 at 9:30 am
You’re birthday is the same as my late mother’s was. Happy belated! (I’ve been traveling.)
January 7, 2010 at 2:55 pm
OMG! 2 of my comments on another post(the pearl earring)were hidden. It’s a damn conspiracy I tell ya! I wasn’t witty, funny, charming, agreeable, condescending, ass-kissy, or whatever the fuck enough according 2 the forum whiner thread. Or maybe it is because I said splooge, & my other comment wasn’t pertinent enough 2 the conversation 2 lend anything worthwhile 2 it. I really prefer 2 think it is a conspiracy though & that my right to be an idiot is being trampled on.
January 7, 2010 at 2:57 pm
I would go make a forum thread about my mistreatment here and threaten to leave in a huff and stuff, BUT I CAN’T! hahahaha. Because I was already mistreated somewhere else & kicked the hell off their forum! So I guess I have no recourse but to write my congressman. Or somethin’.
January 7, 2010 at 4:20 pm
what the hell is a wheedwhacker haircut anyway??
January 7, 2010 at 8:54 pm
My vote for a tee shirt is strawberrylumps comment..
“A world in which we can’t make fun of handcrafted vaginas is a world I just don’t want to live in.”
January 15, 2010 at 2:54 am
The hypocritical bitches on that thread just made me resolve 2 things:
1. To buy the Regretsy book
2. Not buy any of their shit