IDIOTS AT WORK
We’re making some changes today, so everything may look strange for a while. It’s only temporary, so just continue drinking and everything will be fine by Monday.
In the meantime, please try out the new commenting features. You should now be able to reply to each other and use html in your comments!
JUST ONE MORE WAY WE’RE BETTER THAN GEOCITIES™
Update: You can now leave images in the comments (including gifs), and there is a preview function so you can see what you’re posting before you post it. Comments are also nested now, so you can reply directly to the person who’s pissing you off.
February 26, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Sweet fuck, I want that octopus, in a hard hat, on my desk.
February 26, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Second that! You could quit your day job no problem if you put these hard working octopi in an etsy shop!
February 27, 2011 at 10:47 am
It’d be so UNIQUE
February 27, 2011 at 6:52 pm
You can reply to the replies? Now THAT is unique
And I third the hard hat desk thing.
February 28, 2011 at 9:49 am
That was my thought too, Craftykittie!
February 26, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Changes, what changes? I just thought my head was on a strange angle. Pass the vodka, please.
BTW, does anyone know what HTML is and can you put a vulva and an octopus on it?
February 27, 2011 at 1:39 pm
I’m pretty sure you can put a mustache on it. Add some watch parts and it’s Steampunk!
February 26, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
February 28, 2011 at 9:38 pm
I’m relieved to see “Hidden due to low comment rating” is still with us. Some days, those are all I read.
February 26, 2011 at 3:13 pm
The bad news is I forgot my hard hat. The good news is I just said “hard.”
February 27, 2011 at 12:37 am
(cue Bevis and Butthead) HEE HEE HARD!!
February 26, 2011 at 3:15 pm
For shame #2 has Regretsy taught you nothing?! You can put a vulva or octopus on ANYTHING.
February 26, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Abby, Abby.
For shame.
You can reply directly to Madam Morgana.
Am I doin’ it right?
February 26, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Looks sweet to me, Ms oestrogen.
Or may I call you waning?
February 26, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Sadly, though, you can’t reply to a reply. I guess she doesn’t want any conversational fuckery. =D
February 26, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Let’s not get too !
February 26, 2011 at 4:41 pm
woo! and hoo!
looks like you can reply to replies now!
February 26, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Testing reply to replies. Now someone reply to my reply reply.
February 26, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Consider it done.
February 27, 2011 at 7:59 pm
I can’t reply to your reply Mooserepellant. There’s no reply option.
February 26, 2011 at 8:37 pm
I’m now so conditioned to seeing octopi everywhere, I read your tag name as ‘Cephalopod.’
Sigh…
February 26, 2011 at 6:22 pm
oo neato i totally didn’t see that! i was busy thinking about vaginas and octopi glued to plaques and covered in glitter!
February 26, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Oh God, I haven’t done anything with HTML in forever. D:
Someone get me a beer, I gotta look this up again.
February 26, 2011 at 3:19 pm
put this hardworking puss on a vejazzled fascinator & I’ll pay $10 for it.
February 26, 2011 at 3:24 pm
ooo – so we can be mean and snarky to each other as well as with each other about whimiscal fuckery – gosh, it’s going to be dog fights with fabulous souvenirs
February 26, 2011 at 4:25 pm
We seriously need a test-flouncer to reveal the true power of this reply function!
February 26, 2011 at 5:00 pm
You mean-spirited, jealous, untalented hacks! All of you should just get a life instead of hanging around jacking off in mom’s basement making fun of other people’s hard work. I used to like this blog, back when it was funny and just had rainbows and bunnies on it. May God have mercy on your souls, bless your little hearts lol! [/testflounce]
February 26, 2011 at 5:33 pm
The preceding comment was a test of the Regretsy Flounce System… If this had been an actual flounce… blah, blah, blah…
February 26, 2011 at 7:14 pm
If this had been an actual flounce, we’d be passing around the popcorn and booze and rating the flounce. (hope this lands in the right place)
February 26, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Excellent test flounce. I give it an A+
February 26, 2011 at 3:29 pm
I kind of what that octopus on a chain for a necklace… it would be hard core
February 26, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Oh man, and with some watch parts glued on it’d be really awesome! I wonder where we could find such a unique necklace?
February 27, 2011 at 2:11 pm
“what the octopus?!” remember NO TYPOS :-p
February 26, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Whoever thought that up, god bless their mamma for gettin’ herself knocked up.
February 26, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Well, isn’t this fancy?!
I remember my HTML quite well, thank you very much. I am really disappointed that I don’t see a tag in the approved HTML, however.
February 26, 2011 at 3:39 pm
OK… so the parser is hiding everything between the > and < symbols. Damn. that should have been
February 26, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Yeah, but now we can totally post
February 26, 2011 at 4:56 pm
February 26, 2011 at 6:28 pm
oooh, how the hell did you do that?
this is going to bring on a whole new level of fuckery!
February 27, 2011 at 12:11 am
Ahh yeah, it’s Blingee time up in here!
February 27, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Holy shit.
February 26, 2011 at 4:19 pm
I think with the HTML added in, we need a “preview” button so people aren’t just submitting broken images all the time.
February 26, 2011 at 9:03 pm
There is now a “preview” button on the top right-hand corner of the box.
February 26, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Preview function enabled! I don’t want to see any more typos.
February 26, 2011 at 9:06 pm
OK… the one drawback with threaded comments is that you have to read the entire thread multiple times so you don’t miss any of the fuckery.
February 26, 2011 at 4:21 pm
(For added whimsicle fuckery, of course)
February 26, 2011 at 4:25 pm
We don’t appear to be able to nest comments more than one level deep though. SAD. Thus couldn’t nest my comment under the one about blink.
Oh blink, remember when psychopaths used to do ENTIRE webpages in it? I feel old.
February 26, 2011 at 5:08 pm
WHAT?! No Level 5 comment nesting?
February 26, 2011 at 5:16 pm
I think it stops at 4
February 26, 2011 at 4:29 pm
I’m looking into the nesting and previewing. We’re enabling the blink tag too.
February 26, 2011 at 4:43 pm
This is why I less than three you, Helen/April.
February 26, 2011 at 7:53 pm
February 26, 2011 at 10:17 pm
What about the marquee tag? =D
February 27, 2011 at 2:14 pm
NOT THE BLINK TAG – AHHHHHHHHHH (Stretch breaks into an epileptic seizure)
February 26, 2011 at 3:42 pm
But I really like the ability to add an image in the comment. That should really spice things up around here.
February 26, 2011 at 3:43 pm
YES!!
February 26, 2011 at 6:30 pm
good lord. the awesomeness. it burns.
also, this is great b/c now i don’t have to upload a damn pic to flickr, and then put the link in my comment…much easier!
these threads are going to get interesting very quickly…
February 27, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Oh, steampunk octomum!
February 28, 2011 at 8:18 am
If Elizabeth Swan and Davy Jones had a baby, this would be it…
February 26, 2011 at 3:51 pm
I liked regretsy before it sold out and became easier to use. Now it’s too mainstream.
February 26, 2011 at 3:56 pm
February 26, 2011 at 3:57 pm
hipster douchebags . . .
February 26, 2011 at 4:16 pm
=D Winning that totally made my week.
February 26, 2011 at 4:44 pm
It would totally make my week as well as make me weak.
February 26, 2011 at 8:41 pm
#regretsysgonehipster
February 28, 2011 at 6:59 am
Fucking hipsters…
February 26, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Oh hoorah, login now actually returns you to the entry you were going to comment on!
Now we can comment with pictures! I have wanted to use this on many things featured on Regretsy…
I also expect many hilarious crafting related animated GIFS as responses to future posts. Meanwhile, to see how animated Gifs will look in new layout…
February 27, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Fen, the gif is hilair, but the Twilight dis is truly excrement- oops! I mean “truly excellent”!
February 26, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Newbie here and I just wanted to say that I am happy this place exists.
February 26, 2011 at 4:44 pm
February 26, 2011 at 6:31 pm
omfg. dawson?
i love you, killer.
February 27, 2011 at 4:18 pm
…OMG that’s Dawson’s “O” face!!!
February 27, 2011 at 10:22 am
Nice name Mr. Phuckwad!!!
February 28, 2011 at 11:33 am
I just wanted to say that I love your username.
February 26, 2011 at 4:50 pm
February 26, 2011 at 4:58 pm
I am failing on so many levels here.
February 26, 2011 at 4:54 pm
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February 26, 2011 at 7:56 pm
Helen, If you are still debuggint the site the “click here to see” for low comment ratings isn’t opening the comment. (FF 3.6.13)
February 26, 2011 at 8:01 pm
I just noticed that, thank you.
Thanks to all of you for trying this out and giving me feedback. It’s very helpful!
February 26, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Hey, what else do we have to do on a Saturday night?
February 26, 2011 at 5:00 pm
The only thing left I’d like to change is the silly little squiggly dude next to my name above the comment. Can you do that, or is it only for really special regretsians?
February 26, 2011 at 5:09 pm
That’s just a default avatar. If you want to upload one of your own, you have to get a Gravatar account. It’s a free program that lets you change your avatar on all WordPress blogs.
February 26, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Thank you!
February 26, 2011 at 7:19 pm
I wonder if there should be something about how to change your avatar on the FAQ page. In my newbie days, I just waited for someone else to ask.
February 26, 2011 at 7:27 pm
That Gravatar is kind of addictive–I just made, like, 12 of them…
February 27, 2011 at 12:45 am
“Oh look Squirrel!!” (ever see “UP” Easily distracted?
February 27, 2011 at 9:35 am
@Stretch65 (since we’ve reached the limits of comment nesting) My husband wouldn’t let me go see UP because it portrays the Doberman as the bad guy.
February 27, 2011 at 9:55 am
Now, if only it would just retain the gravatar you had when you make a particular comment, then when you change it every 15 minutes like I’m doing, you’d be twice as annoying by having a bunch of different avatars show up under your name!
Alas, I’ll settle for confusing the heck out of everyone…
February 27, 2011 at 10:04 am
“One Avatar, two avatar, THREE AVATAR ah ah ah”
February 27, 2011 at 8:04 pm
I haven’t changed mine because it looks like the flying spaghetti monster
February 27, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Okay well a zombie flying spaghetti monster LOL
February 28, 2011 at 5:24 pm
I haven’t changed mine because it looks all screamy and angst-ridden, which is just about right for me.
February 26, 2011 at 5:03 pm
I didn’t think Geocities still existed! Oh, the carefree web paging days of my youth…
February 26, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Alas it does not anymore… R.I.P. my lame original homepage dedicated to my pets.
February 26, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Y- you mean, we can post…gifs now?
February 26, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Doctor related fuckery. Brilliant!
February 26, 2011 at 8:28 pm
I need to watch the new Doctor Who… Between my unfamiliarity and the tiny picture on my iPhone I thought that was Kathy Griffin locked in a commercial freezer.
Thanks for spoiling my fantasy.
February 26, 2011 at 10:23 pm
February 27, 2011 at 12:45 am
What?!
February 27, 2011 at 10:07 am
not what- WHO!!!
February 26, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Helen! Is it true, your dad was the voice of Gargamel on the Smurfs or is Wiki yankin’ my chain?
If so, that’s, like, the coolest thing EVER.
February 26, 2011 at 5:16 pm
It’s true. He was Dick Dastardly too, and Tigger. And the Scrubbing Bubble.
February 26, 2011 at 5:21 pm
I LURVED Dick Dastardly. He was way mo’ sexier than Dudley.
February 26, 2011 at 5:22 pm
This just made my day.
February 26, 2011 at 7:07 pm
He was Tigger? That’s my flavor of awesome!
February 28, 2011 at 11:37 am
He was TIGGER?! Wow! *bounces with delight*
February 26, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Just like the Scrubbing Bubble, you work hard, so we don’t have to.
Except Dow never made a product that would let us see Mike Huckabee in a room full of buttplugs.
Maybe I was using the stuff wrong…
February 26, 2011 at 8:46 pm
I’m thinking if you ingested it, it might have made it possible, but it wouldn’t have been as high quality as HK’s version. And it might have been Mitt Romney…
February 27, 2011 at 12:47 am
“Whooo hooo hooo WHOOO Helen works hard – SO YOU DON’T HAVE TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
February 27, 2011 at 4:32 am
I didn’t know that!!
You know, the whole “Winchell” thing should’ve given it away for me…. DERP.
February 27, 2011 at 11:36 am
Wait, he was Tigger? That means he worked with Peter Cullen! (Optimus Prime/Eeyore)
February 26, 2011 at 5:11 pm
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February 26, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Yeah! The additional functionality in the comments ALWAYS RUINS IT
February 26, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Yep, that’s it. Regretsy just jumped the octopus. Next she’ll make it so that we can sort posts by most popular, and the whole thing will be over.
February 26, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Thanks for “jumped the octopus”. Comedy gold!
February 26, 2011 at 8:47 pm
When jumping the octopus, it’s important to specify which tentacles stay above the waist.
February 26, 2011 at 5:44 pm
But I do love the uniqueness of the Pardon our Fuckery image.
February 26, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Nice use of watch parts on the sign. Though it would be more Etsian if they were hot-glued on.
February 26, 2011 at 6:22 pm
o.m.g. *the* Helen Killer replied to my dumbass post. My heart be still. Where is the bajingo wash? I need some Level 5 fuckery.
February 26, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Oh, you fancy, huh?
February 26, 2011 at 6:32 pm
I was all ready to start posting all my comments in Comic Sans, but those commands aren’t available. I bet I could have been the most thumbed down commenter in Regretsy history.
February 26, 2011 at 7:11 pm
You just aren’t trying hard enough. Use Comic Sans in glitter text, then post your entire (hopefully very long) comment in said glitter text. For added thumbs down, tYpE lIKe tHIS.
February 27, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Done! See post #50 tho’ I didn’t tYpE LikE ThAt
February 28, 2011 at 8:08 am
Thanks,Snargasm!
February 28, 2011 at 8:09 am
Hmm, that doctor’s ratings link hitched a ride like a bedbug on a Brooklyn hipster’s murse. Sorry about that.
February 28, 2011 at 9:17 am
That was a thumbs-down of love I just left you. Pure Regretsy love.
February 26, 2011 at 7:02 pm
I wonder when I’ll get to see my contribution to the hotest Etsy trends of 2011? I sent the pics and story in a week or so ago…
*looks at her life, looks at her choices* Wait, why am I so excited to show the internet that I actually made socks that are just individual toes?
February 26, 2011 at 7:04 pm
I think I love you, I really love you! I love that we can reply to eachother without using our numbers.
February 26, 2011 at 7:23 pm
You’ve worked so hard for our benefit; thank you. These new functionalities are giving me a headache, though. Who has the time and smarts to learn new things? *stomps foot* That’s like WORK! I take it all back! I hate you now!
Oh, and ? I’m totally stealing that.
February 26, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Learn new things? this is remembering OLD things. I’m trying to learn …
I’m also wondering how long it will be before Helen disables the blink tags again.
February 26, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Older posts are in this format as well. “Namaste, bitches!”
February 26, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Just checking that gravatar thing to see if it really changed. Thanks!
February 26, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Aw, crap… I’m going to lose even more time here now.
Not that its a bad thing. Just statin’ the obvious.
February 26, 2011 at 8:04 pm
The more I see the octopus, the more I am becoming attached to it. Is there any cure for this, besides more cowbell?
February 26, 2011 at 8:59 pm
February 26, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Well now I know this was the right thing to do.
February 27, 2011 at 9:31 pm
everything can use more cowbell!
February 27, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Would that be more, more, more, more, and more cowbell?
February 28, 2011 at 5:14 pm
I’m still waiting for Octoglingers.
February 26, 2011 at 8:06 pm
testing this animated gif…
February 26, 2011 at 8:07 pm
I can see that I’ll be spending my time vajazzling gif files instead of doing anything at all useful this weekend.
February 26, 2011 at 8:23 pm
February 27, 2011 at 12:28 am
February 26, 2011 at 8:07 pm
I AM DYING to know who is fucking up the handmade community today!!! I CANNOT live without this website!!
February 26, 2011 at 8:08 pm
Oh nows – it’s about to get all MySpace up in here XD
February 26, 2011 at 8:44 pm
Regretsy has been officially upcycled.
February 27, 2011 at 9:45 am
Correction: Regretsy has been officially UPCRAFTED!!
February 26, 2011 at 9:22 pm
I have no idea if this is possible to change, but the “Rate this comment:” text is a bit redundant and with everything lookin all streamlined and nice it looks even more out of place.
February 26, 2011 at 9:50 pm
I think it would look better on the right hand side of the post…Yahoo does it that way and it’s convenient to have them aligned down the side for quick glancing…
February 26, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Since we’re all posting our wish lists, I already miss the previous and next links at the bottom of the comments page.
February 26, 2011 at 9:29 pm
The “Previous” and “Next” buttons are under the post, not at the bottom of the page.
And the “Rate this comment” text is gone now.
Good suggestions!
February 26, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Maybe put them at the bottom and the top?
February 26, 2011 at 10:25 pm
MY LOVE
It burns for you.
February 26, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Like the streamlined new page, though I will miss my little blue monster.
February 26, 2011 at 11:46 pm
Um…HK, I just wanted to say that you are incredibly awesome.
I am amazed by all of the things you’ve done, and I’m even more amazed that you still take the time to spend time with us little people.
I love your site!
Sorry about that.
February 26, 2011 at 11:47 pm
My tags didn’t work…
February 27, 2011 at 12:30 am
Regretsy is getting all upfuckered on our asses.
February 27, 2011 at 2:55 am
Ooooh, this is new!
(and here I thought I hadn’t drank enough…)
February 27, 2011 at 7:20 am
This calls for a celebration. Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
February 27, 2011 at 10:18 am
I gotta new drug (REGRETSY)
One that won’t make sick
Inspired by Etsy
and some Crafters who are just too thick
February 27, 2011 at 3:09 pm
American Psycho is so totally appropriate for this site.
February 27, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Sussudio is a great way to inspire fuckery.
February 27, 2011 at 7:05 pm
YESSS I wish I could “like” this 15 times.
February 27, 2011 at 9:06 am
Testing Gravatar, and .
February 27, 2011 at 9:07 am
It works! Bless your whimsicle little heart, Helen!
February 27, 2011 at 9:18 am
1. despite the fact that this comment isn’t nested under any other comment … I LOVE NESTING! makes life so much easier
2. I love that the HTML tags are right there where I can see them and be reminded how to use them even when I am blind drunk!
February 27, 2011 at 9:59 am
“JUST ONE MORE WAY WE’RE BETTER THAN GEOCITIES™”
The first being that you still exist?
RIP GeoCities
February 27, 2011 at 10:40 am
In Comic Sans – Let the thumbs down begin!
February 27, 2011 at 10:52 am
February 27, 2011 at 11:45 am
My opinion of Comic Sans with glitter isn’t fit for polite company….but my adoration of your username certainly is! Genius
February 27, 2011 at 2:50 pm
FYI Snargasm, your name’s one of my favourites
February 28, 2011 at 9:19 am
*happy smooshy feelings*
February 27, 2011 at 10:53 am
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February 27, 2011 at 11:14 am
Oh man this is great.
February 27, 2011 at 11:53 am
I have a suggestion. Can we put signature banners at the bottom of our posts, like on message boards, like with all of our kids’ pictures and weight-loss tickers, too? With no size limit, so that the banners and tickers can take up more room than the actual post?
Because I’d hate to copy and paste mine every time.
February 27, 2011 at 2:51 pm
grrrrrr
February 27, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Cool… can we get a tutorial for those of us that have no fricking clue how to html?
February 27, 2011 at 3:42 pm
http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
February 27, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Merci bien! That is really helpful for the tech-impaired, like myself.
February 27, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Admittedly, everything goes better with glitter. . .but no flying toasters yet? Or better yet, flying octopi!
February 27, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Between the glitter and the blink tags, I am pretty sure that all of this is either going to give me a migraine or a stroke. Be prepared to be sued, Regretsians.
Right after I “accidentally” slip and fall at my Trader Joe’s.
February 27, 2011 at 2:56 pm
I think I’ll be speaking up more often now, after lurking in silence for a year! I’m excited that we can reply to each other.I also love that once you input the comment -YAY!- you go back where you WERE, not back to the beginning of the post! I think the new system is the bee’s knees!
February 27, 2011 at 2:57 pm
so when is alchemy going to be up and running on regretsy?
peanut the cat can’t wait!
February 27, 2011 at 10:36 pm
February 27, 2011 at 11:06 pm
February 27, 2011 at 10:53 pm
February 28, 2011 at 4:02 am
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February 28, 2011 at 7:15 am
Glitter text in the comments section?
February 28, 2011 at 8:08 am
(Testing new avatar and html:)
February 28, 2011 at 11:56 am
Y’know, with a handle like MzStilletto, I would’ve thought you’d use Joy Behar from a couple posts ago as your avatar. Honestly, I’m a little disappointed.
February 28, 2011 at 3:53 pm
HA! You’re right. I guess that hadn’t occurred to me yet because I am still way below my daily booze quota. See what sobriety gets you? Disappointment.
Fixed! Thanks for the suggestion!
February 28, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Oh hell I guess it didn’t stick… I DID try to change my avatar, but apparently I failed. Hardcore.
February 28, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Well shit, there it is.
Is there any way we can edit/delete our comments? You know, for those of us who are clearly impaired in many ways…
February 28, 2011 at 8:11 am
I. WANT. THAT. OCTOPUS IN A HARDHAT!
Also, I predict a hardhat octopus alchemy request soon
February 28, 2011 at 9:48 am
Did you know that not only is that fucking octopus “unique”, but it is also “exclusive” and has made an appearance on American Idol? And of course it was worn by some hippy chick.
http://www.amazon.com/Exclusive-ZAD-Octopus-Necklace-AMERICAN/dp/B003BXFMLA
February 28, 2011 at 1:21 pm
We can even strike out words now
to make our snarky comments even more passive aggressive.March 1, 2011 at 2:34 pm
March 2, 2011 at 10:46 am
wow – no shit – and to think i was initially annoyed because i felt like i was falling off my chair to the left trying to look at the pictures … now – i want an avatar and i dont know how to do me one – where do i click? do i have t go off to some typewad place to do it ?
love you april
cat xxxx
March 6, 2011 at 9:01 am
So, I don’t know if this is the place to post this … buuuuut if you are still tweaking the site … some means of seeing what posts are new within the nested format might be nice. Doesn’t have to be a big thing, but it would be nice to be able to see the 20 most recent comments or something so you don’t have to wade back through the whole thread to find the new snark …
June 11, 2011 at 3:11 am
TESTING