You know how I show that my family is important to me?
By hanging photos of my kids and my parents and such around my house instead of vinyl sticky letters that will probably end up doing more damage to my drywall and plaster than a simple nail hole will.
Picture is not to scale, it says. So, how big is this piece of familyolatry really?
How much family is included? Deceased great-grandparents? That gives a bit of a Chinese feel to the thing. Second cousins once removed? Nephews? Natural children? Ex-wives? Ex-mothers-in-law?
I don’t doubt that it’s done by a 13 y/o. Any kid with a computer and Mommy’s Cri-cut can make that crap. Further proof it’s a kid? Proper grammar and spelling – real life hasn’t dumbed them down yet.
Just FYI, I own a vinyl cutter (thankfully I use it for far less trite output) and I promise you a 13 year old could do this. It doesn’t strike me as what most 13 year olds would want to make, but technically they’d be capable.
I might just have to make myself the one #10 suggests though…that’d look so sweet on my wall
HK, don’t worry I didn’t report it, anyhoo I still haven’t had time to gawk at all the items. I only report when something really irks me.
Here is my photoshop interpretation… http://www.flickr.com/photos/27900808@N06/4340784373/
Oh, I just want to add that I don’t think the images they show are actually the decals stuck on the walls. I would assume that they photoshop them in to show what it “could” look like.
So, I was reading up on vinyl cutters, and I guess I see what all the snark is about… Sort of …
I can see how it’s not handmade, since all you do is load up the text or pic, and it does all the work, but isn’t this the same idea as an embroidery machine? You have the idea and it does all the work?
I was looking through her shop, and don’t really get the pricing… It seems pretty random, since some large ones cost less than small, or less characters cost more than many characters… Say What?!
okay though, snarkery aside- at least they put some of the money towards charity…
“A portion of all sales will be donated to Serenity Equine Rescue and Rehabilitation. A Non-profit 501 c3 charity”
Those cricut machines cost like 500 bucks, so I can totally see mom putting her kids to work selling vinyl wall crap. And if it’s a cricut, you can’t input your own art – you have to use the stencil packs they sell (at a pretty steep price as well). So the “handmade” part is the kid typing in the text, selecting the size and putting the paper in.
Kinda like pouring boiling water on ramen noodles is “home cooking”
Re: the second great product – there’s a joke somewhere in there involving road apples… don’t have time, but you could move the decal to the left side and elevate it a bit, so the logo becomes a deposit.
Recovering Crack Baby
February 8, 2010 at 12:41 pm
It’s a horses life for me
Eat,shit right where you are,carry around people on your back,kick who ever the fuck you feel like, shit all down the parade route.
Maybe having a horse’s life is not so bad
As far as the fake profile issue, I don’t doubt some kid could operate the machine or have an etsy business, that’s not the issue. The profile just sounds phony. I can’t put my finger on it but the tone sounds more like “adult trying to come across as a kid to elicit purchases and sympathy when it comes to dealing with customer service, etc.” (it happens, as recently posted in the calling out etsy blog) rather than “actual 13 year old.”
I know there’s a society for the comma out there somewhere in internet land, I just can’t find it now. This is quite interesting also. Seems good punctuation is going extinct!
#60- omg that’s one of the worst on the Callin Out page! “First of all, I think this was handled TOTALLY wrong.” By who? The internet? Once you’re out in the public, you have to deal with it. Anyway, this is the proper sort of revenge: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=39407616
You know what really bugs me is the way it appears to list to the right because the flourish of the N doesn’t have any weight to it. Seriously, it’s driving me nuts.
Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina
February 8, 2010 at 6:08 pm
This is their shop profile:
Bio
Hi, I’m 13 years old beginning business person and with the help from my parents I was able to start my own business. I love horses and thats why I named my shop “aluckyhorseshoe”. I own a 21 year old Morgan mare. I also own 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 birds and a tank full of fish. My parents have been in business since before I was born and think that now is a good time to start my own business. etc etc
#10 Grodelated – that was my first mental image – the backs of 3 little kids’ heads parked right in front of it. (Cause mommy needs a cigarette break and a shot.)
At first glance I thought it was sarcasm, sticking that syrupy sentiment right over a big flat screen TV.
This kid is selling Print on Demand merchandise as handmade. http://sticviews.com/ most of these designs probably came from the parents, too.
Look at the product shots in her shop, then look at the room views on the sticviews site.
#72 What you really need to do is have one of us wizzes create it in Illustrator so you can take the file to your local sign shop and have them cut it out on their vinyl cutter for you
Oh, and it could be cut far smaller, like laptop sized – it doesn’t have to be wall sized unless you want it to be
February 8, 2010 at 9:36 am
13 year old with family business cutting vinyl ? Yeah… right… I have a few castles to sell in Porvoo…
February 8, 2010 at 9:43 am
C’mon kids. Grab your Cheesy Blasters and gather around the boob tube for some “family time”.
February 8, 2010 at 9:44 am
We have a similar sticker over our TV: Nothing is more important than Family Guy.
February 8, 2010 at 9:44 am
I had to do a double take as I thought I clicked on “View it in a Room”.
Lost rocks.
February 8, 2010 at 9:46 am
I like that it’s removable for when they piss you off.
February 8, 2010 at 9:46 am
Nothing is more important that Family Feud.
February 8, 2010 at 9:48 am
Yes, #5 photorelativity:
Just rip off the Fa and then the ly and it will read “Nothing is more important than mi”.
Poor spelling is the norm for etsy.
February 8, 2010 at 9:48 am
and spelling.
February 8, 2010 at 9:52 am
You know how I show that my family is important to me?
By hanging photos of my kids and my parents and such around my house instead of vinyl sticky letters that will probably end up doing more damage to my drywall and plaster than a simple nail hole will.
Hehe, I said “nail” and “hole”… hehehehe!
February 8, 2010 at 9:54 am
i think this is what they meant:
i’d buy one of those.
February 8, 2010 at 9:59 am
I wish etsy had a “report this shop” button because there’s no way any of this was handmade by a 13 yr old.
February 8, 2010 at 10:03 am
biggles5, you can report the item-lemme know if you need help lol
February 8, 2010 at 10:04 am
WAIT!!! I got another one from that store coming up and I don’t want them to pull it.
February 8, 2010 at 10:06 am
#10, that is hysterical.
February 8, 2010 at 10:08 am
Picture is not to scale, it says. So, how big is this piece of familyolatry really?
How much family is included? Deceased great-grandparents? That gives a bit of a Chinese feel to the thing. Second cousins once removed? Nephews? Natural children? Ex-wives? Ex-mothers-in-law?
February 8, 2010 at 10:08 am
Nothing is more important than ignoring each other.
February 8, 2010 at 10:12 am
Such anagram potential! Nothing is more important than MILF, ay!
February 8, 2010 at 10:13 am
#10 grodelated
I would so buy one of those.
February 8, 2010 at 10:17 am
They should make one that says “The family that preys together, stays together!”
(that’s not a typo)
February 8, 2010 at 10:29 am
I call total bullshit on the profile. So fake.
February 8, 2010 at 10:30 am
There are exceptions to this slogan, too.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4340720355_e93e4b81fc_o.jpg
February 8, 2010 at 10:30 am
With a TV like that, who needs a family?
Perhaps that would go better over, I don’t know, a dining table? Do people eat at tables any more?
February 8, 2010 at 10:33 am
@ #21, I swear, I’ve seen all those outfits on Etsy.
February 8, 2010 at 10:33 am
I don’t doubt that it’s done by a 13 y/o. Any kid with a computer and Mommy’s Cri-cut can make that crap. Further proof it’s a kid? Proper grammar and spelling – real life hasn’t dumbed them down yet.
February 8, 2010 at 10:54 am
Just FYI, I own a vinyl cutter (thankfully I use it for far less trite output) and I promise you a 13 year old could do this. It doesn’t strike me as what most 13 year olds would want to make, but technically they’d be capable.
I might just have to make myself the one #10 suggests though…that’d look so sweet on my wall
February 8, 2010 at 10:57 am
Maybe they meant the Family Channel
That laptop thing might have been a Freudian slip based on their internet search and surf preferences…
February 8, 2010 at 10:58 am
HK, don’t worry I didn’t report it, anyhoo I still haven’t had time to gawk at all the items. I only report when something really irks me.
Here is my photoshop interpretation…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27900808@N06/4340784373/
February 8, 2010 at 10:58 am
Oh! I want the horse to me taking the bite out of the apple and for it to say “BYTE ME” underneath.
February 8, 2010 at 10:58 am
HK, LOL at Hores Life decal, reminds me of my favorite Craigslist ad: Young man looking for farm/ranch hand job.
February 8, 2010 at 11:01 am
Well, at least she didn’t misspell “horse” in her shop name.
February 8, 2010 at 11:02 am
why are my posts always riddled with typos…
February 8, 2010 at 11:02 am
I guess this can’t be filed under holistic horseshit
but handmade? Horseshit!
February 8, 2010 at 11:03 am
Thank Jebus I don’t have a MacBook Pro.
February 8, 2010 at 11:06 am
Oh, I just want to add that I don’t think the images they show are actually the decals stuck on the walls. I would assume that they photoshop them in to show what it “could” look like.
February 8, 2010 at 11:18 am
I’m a purist. I prefer a pirate’s life, thank you.
Now someone pass the rum.
February 8, 2010 at 11:18 am
Hey maybe they made it with ther Cricut cutting machine. Does that count as handmade?
February 8, 2010 at 11:21 am
So, I was reading up on vinyl cutters, and I guess I see what all the snark is about… Sort of …
I can see how it’s not handmade, since all you do is load up the text or pic, and it does all the work, but isn’t this the same idea as an embroidery machine? You have the idea and it does all the work?
February 8, 2010 at 11:24 am
I gotta’ admit, it is kinda’ cool though. I’d love to have a giant logo for my business on my laptop…
February 8, 2010 at 11:24 am
that update was awesome sauce…lmfao
“hores life” love it
February 8, 2010 at 11:33 am
#31 grumdrumbly: Happens to me a lot too. It’s the excitement of participating in the fuckery.
February 8, 2010 at 11:35 am
I was looking through her shop, and don’t really get the pricing… It seems pretty random, since some large ones cost less than small, or less characters cost more than many characters… Say What?!
February 8, 2010 at 11:40 am
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February 8, 2010 at 11:43 am
Nothing is more important than hores.
February 8, 2010 at 11:44 am
okay though, snarkery aside- at least they put some of the money towards charity…
“A portion of all sales will be donated to Serenity Equine Rescue and Rehabilitation. A Non-profit 501 c3 charity”
February 8, 2010 at 11:45 am
is it just me or does the photo say “horses”? did it used to say hores?
February 8, 2010 at 11:52 am
Urban legend, lyontamer:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/superbowl.asp
February 8, 2010 at 11:53 am
The title of the listing says “hores life”. The stencil itself says “horses life”.
Which is also incorrect.
February 8, 2010 at 11:56 am
“There are exceptions to this slogan, too.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4340720355_e93e4b81fc_o.jpg ”
HAHA! I would totally buy that and put that up on one of my walls!
I would probably be put on the FBI watch list by doing that though *looks around all paranoid*
February 8, 2010 at 11:58 am
Nothing is more important than the proper use of apostrophes.
February 8, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Those cricut machines cost like 500 bucks, so I can totally see mom putting her kids to work selling vinyl wall crap. And if it’s a cricut, you can’t input your own art – you have to use the stencil packs they sell (at a pretty steep price as well). So the “handmade” part is the kid typing in the text, selecting the size and putting the paper in.
Kinda like pouring boiling water on ramen noodles is “home cooking”
February 8, 2010 at 12:28 pm
#42- that is an urban myth.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/superbowl.asp
February 8, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Re: the second great product – there’s a joke somewhere in there involving road apples… don’t have time, but you could move the decal to the left side and elevate it a bit, so the logo becomes a deposit.
February 8, 2010 at 12:40 pm
“Run Horsy Run”
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=37066789
I sure hope “Horsy” is his name, not a regretsy worthy spelling error… Seems this shop is full of ‘em!
February 8, 2010 at 12:41 pm
It’s a horses life for me
Eat,shit right where you are,carry around people on your back,kick who ever the fuck you feel like, shit all down the parade route.
Maybe having a horse’s life is not so bad
February 8, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Just piling on the meta-horseshit:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4341050055_58e55fc769_o.jpg
February 8, 2010 at 12:46 pm
As far as the fake profile issue, I don’t doubt some kid could operate the machine or have an etsy business, that’s not the issue. The profile just sounds phony. I can’t put my finger on it but the tone sounds more like “adult trying to come across as a kid to elicit purchases and sympathy when it comes to dealing with customer service, etc.” (it happens, as recently posted in the calling out etsy blog) rather than “actual 13 year old.”
February 8, 2010 at 12:47 pm
“The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar”
http://grammatically.blogspot.com/2008/02/pity-extinct-buckle.html
I know there’s a society for the comma out there somewhere in internet land, I just can’t find it now. This is quite interesting also. Seems good punctuation is going extinct!
February 8, 2010 at 12:48 pm
I could be totally wrong. I just smell bullshit.
Or horseshit, as it were (nice one #55)
February 8, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Also I love that you can choose from an assortment of the worst fonts ever. All that’s missing is Comic Sans.
February 8, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Holy crap, I got lost on Callin’ Out on Etsy… Someone is a nutty nut bar! I’ve never gotten in to reading the comments there, but damn that shit is funny! Not to mention how pathetically childish some of the ones who were called out seem to get! Whoa!
http://etsycallout.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/pettiskirts-and-plagarized-pixels/#comments
February 8, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I think this is what the kid meant:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20760471@N04/4341891136/?eOrig=4341886744
“Snap Snap”
February 8, 2010 at 2:12 pm
@ #2 rodgertheshrubber: Thanks, Meat Cat!
February 8, 2010 at 2:23 pm
What a coincidence! It’s a whore’s life for me!
February 8, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Family? Well to me nothing is more important than not ever speaking to my evil poisonous alcoholic sister again.
So yeah with a few tweaks i’ll have that decal, sure.
February 8, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Depends on the family…word.
February 8, 2010 at 3:26 pm
#60- omg that’s one of the worst on the Callin Out page! “First of all, I think this was handled TOTALLY wrong.” By who? The internet? Once you’re out in the public, you have to deal with it. Anyway, this is the proper sort of revenge:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=39407616
February 8, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I am most thankful for Regretsy today.
It has provided me a much-needed break from Facebook. I’m about one “Who Dat!” away from tossing my laptop in front of an oncoming train.
February 8, 2010 at 4:45 pm
You know what really bugs me is the way it appears to list to the right because the flourish of the N doesn’t have any weight to it. Seriously, it’s driving me nuts.
February 8, 2010 at 4:51 pm
“You can choose the color of the horse, color of the lettering and font. Please specify which you would like on checkout.”
Can I also specify that I’d also like an apostrophe in horse’s?
February 8, 2010 at 5:21 pm
ah yes…..the smell of fresh popped popcorn as the family gathers around the tv….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47248808@N02/4342440584/
February 8, 2010 at 5:38 pm
and by the way the decals crooked, it leans down one side (the right side)
February 8, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Can one of you level 6 whizzes photoshop me one that says :
“Nothing is more important than
Getting away from my evil poisonous alcoholic sister”
Seriously i will print it out and it will make my day.
February 8, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Nothing is more important than not ever speaking to my evil poisonous alcoholic sister again.
There that one^^^
February 8, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Whoever sits in that chair will be unable to see the television and subsequently unable to enjoy family time. It’s so sad.
February 8, 2010 at 6:08 pm
This is their shop profile:
Bio
Hi, I’m 13 years old beginning business person and with the help from my parents I was able to start my own business. I love horses and thats why I named my shop “aluckyhorseshoe”. I own a 21 year old Morgan mare. I also own 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 birds and a tank full of fish. My parents have been in business since before I was born and think that now is a good time to start my own business. etc etc
THIS IS AGAINST TOU. You have to be over 18
FLAG…
February 8, 2010 at 6:15 pm
@#75 Maybe her horse could take over the shop, because, as we know, the horse is 21.
February 8, 2010 at 6:36 pm
#52 TheOldGuy, this one’s for you. Haw ’bout them (hores)apples? http://twitpic.com/125ouv
February 8, 2010 at 6:37 pm
For the grammar mavens: http://www.apostropheabuse.com
And for you fans of quotation marks: http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com
February 8, 2010 at 7:17 pm
And #73 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina, this one’s for you. I added the designer clipart at no charge.
http://twitpic.com/125waw
February 8, 2010 at 7:20 pm
#10 Grodelated – that was my first mental image – the backs of 3 little kids’ heads parked right in front of it. (Cause mommy needs a cigarette break and a shot.)
At first glance I thought it was sarcasm, sticking that syrupy sentiment right over a big flat screen TV.
February 8, 2010 at 7:38 pm
My body is sometimes so tired from riding hores bareback.
February 8, 2010 at 7:38 pm
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4786342&l=00b2f70d7d&id=562289679
February 8, 2010 at 7:54 pm
#77 Debbie Downer Its a Level 10
LOL thanks!!!!
February 8, 2010 at 7:55 pm
the skull gives it a very special touch
February 8, 2010 at 8:18 pm
“Nothing is More Important than Lost”
I would buy it.
February 8, 2010 at 8:52 pm
“Nothing is more important than
Regretsy”
lol
February 8, 2010 at 11:37 pm
This kid is selling Print on Demand merchandise as handmade. http://sticviews.com/ most of these designs probably came from the parents, too.
Look at the product shots in her shop, then look at the room views on the sticviews site.
February 9, 2010 at 12:55 am
Saints’ be praised!
http://www.wholenotherthing.com/data/horses_life_paul.jpg
February 9, 2010 at 12:56 am
Scratch that apostrophe. Not sure how that got in there.
February 9, 2010 at 9:59 am
#72 What you really need to do is have one of us wizzes create it in Illustrator so you can take the file to your local sign shop and have them cut it out on their vinyl cutter for you
Oh, and it could be cut far smaller, like laptop sized – it doesn’t have to be wall sized unless you want it to be