I think her goal with that was to say she wouldn’t send you used earrings because she wouldn’t wear used earrings herself, but it seriously took me a minute to figure that out and then see how the Golden Rule actually does apply.
Anyone want to start a business for proofreading Etsy descriptions? We’d get rich as soon as they figure out they’re doing it wrong.
Um … yeah … I do that. My other Etsy account is Scribblegoat. With the 67% of my customers who just need a nudge and someone to explain the rule about “whom,” it’s really satisfying. Then there’s the 33% like those above who make me weep for humanity. Guess which sector always wants to argue with me about who’s doing it right?
There are people to whom using the correct word is important, and then there are people who would rather their language not stand out further than their message. I suspect advertising usually falls in the latter category.
Am thinking is very strange and maybe is a reply to seller who complained being about sent used earring (which is making wonder me how would know this but then makes me sick a little thinking what on earring might have been … ear wax? )…
also, when you click on the picture, it takes you to a totally different product. I know you copy and edit a product – the whole thing is strange and a creepy. I’m going to go clean my ears now.
I agree that it was a weird statement to add to her sales pitch. If this is the Golden Rule in Etsyland I wish the underwear & sex toy people would include it in their product blurbs.
Maybe she just re-used the listing for another item. I know that’s against the rules, but if she was tight for money, I could see why she would do that.
The “rough crowd in here” comment had to do with the negative points I was getting – it had nothing to do with anything anyone else has said. I think you all are hilarious. I spend much too much of my spare time reading stuff in here and laughing til I cry.
(would have said laughing my ass off, but I’m afraid of the consequences.
Where in the Golden Rule does it say it’s ok to sell a pair of earrings that are not in the same color order? One of them starts with purple (then blue), the other with blue (then purple).
Ah, a good use for all the fucking pom poms I never used for crafting projects with the kid – guaranteed to be never used cause it’s the golden something.
Now if I only had a clue what the seller was really trying to say!
You know, the first time ’round, I didn’t notice the title. “Earrings of Pompom.” I’d like to custom-order a pair in colors to go with my Bag of Holding and Boots of Walking, please. Also, are there +2 Earrings of Pompom available?
Where did you get your Bag of Holding? I’ve been looking for one forever, you know, just to keep a compact, cigarettes, and my TARDIS key in when I’m out on the town.
YES!
It’s impossible to find a rainbow item with the correct colours, in the correct order, on Etsy. I spent a day stalking through listings, muttering Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain, is it so hard to remember?. It was so bad that I had to bite the epoxy tube and try to make my own rainbow earrings in my own artistic ability. Yeah, they’re crap, but at least thay have indigo!
I agree. I’m sure I sound at least that bad in Russian. I don’t like if say something language of in foreign, I do not like to get judged…(The Golden Rule)
Would have I wanted to sell object to Germans, would have I my sister read of proof. Or my college friend if should I want to Koreans sell to. Also friends have who could competant write Spanish, Arabic, etc. Much effective.
I don’t get this making fun of another person’s poor English skill when it’s apparent it isn’t their mother language. I’m QUITE sure her English is better than your ANY other language skills.
However, I’d have a native speaker check my writing before trying to sell something to native speakers. It is just common sense as I see it- if they can understand it, they are more likely to buy it.
It’s people like you that seek to keep the poor English speaking people, poor English speaking people. Much is learned with laughter. Get off your high horse and STFU!
I am looking at the fascinators in her shop. To think, a week ago I would have thought “How unusual, a hat made of massive zippers!” And today, I think “If only Beatrice would have chosen the zippers over the mantle clock…”
Ain’t that the truth, AntB. I was thinking those fascinators would be a vast improvement over some of the creations we saw in that cathedral. Eugenie would look a lot better with the zippers than with the blue vagina exploding with flowers and feathers, too!
Whawhawhatsis, a coworker got up to watch with a British friend. He learned the word “fascinator” and when he came in he urged me (who is lacking a TV at the moment) to Google “Royal Wedding Fascinators.” Eugenie wasn’t the only woman sporting a vulva hat, I’m afraid, but hers was the fanciest. Considering the fascinators (he spent the whole day calling out that word when he went past my office!) that she and Beatrice wore, I have to think that their mother found the hats for them, to show up the Royals for (correctly) not inviting Fergie.
Beatrice’s had a purpose that wasn’t shown on TV or the Internet–during the reception, someone handed her a quick-print off someone’s laptop and she paraded around with the wedding photo in her “frame” hat.
It was an eye killer at the wedding (wonder if it was an F-you to the Queen on mum’s behalf?) However, it would be perfect as an illustration for a Dr. Seuss book. Perhaps “Cindy Lou Hoo Goes to the Prom?” I bet that teh Earrings of Pom would work too!
Going through her shop I found a rabbit called Vomit and she has listed pompom as a material. She’s really into pompoms…
I also like her buy 2 get 1 TOTALLY free. Totally.
There is a lot of good photoshop on this site…most of it not really noticed. Excellent matching of font and texture and color, mostly with text, and I really appreciate that. I think it’s harder to do well than it seems at first glance..
I got no funny or snark, because who can top what’s there already!?
I agree. I like that she has both sides hanging point-down (instead of looking as if they’re crawling up and around her neck and then down the body). Her rainbow-cupcake-donut-coffee cowl is a bit too sweet for me, but I’m in love with the bunny scarf.
THAT’S WHERE THE POMPOMS WENT! We couldn’t find the pompom earrings in her store or as sold. The ones on her earrings didn’t sell, so she freed them and they did what pompoms are wont to do when left to their own devices. It’s a pompom orgy, disguised as “flavor sparkles.”
When I read this the first time it was posted I laughed until I cried. It was pretty much right then that I knew this site was the shit. And the post is still damned funny.
May 1, 2011 at 4:36 pm
The writing reminds me of “How Is Babby Formed?”
May 1, 2011 at 5:54 pm
They need to do way instain seller who have thier own earrings. becuse these earrings cant frigth back?
May 1, 2011 at 4:38 pm
“Let he who is without sin cast the first pompom”
May 1, 2011 at 4:39 pm
I think her goal with that was to say she wouldn’t send you used earrings because she wouldn’t wear used earrings herself, but it seriously took me a minute to figure that out and then see how the Golden Rule actually does apply.
Anyone want to start a business for proofreading Etsy descriptions? We’d get rich as soon as they figure out they’re doing it wrong.
May 1, 2011 at 5:16 pm
No thanks, I have too much self esteem
May 1, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Yea.. if you make it through the nonsensical sentences, the golden rule does actually seem to work.
May 1, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Um … yeah … I do that. My other Etsy account is Scribblegoat. With the 67% of my customers who just need a nudge and someone to explain the rule about “whom,” it’s really satisfying. Then there’s the 33% like those above who make me weep for humanity. Guess which sector always wants to argue with me about who’s doing it right?
May 1, 2011 at 7:03 pm
I appreciate the lack of an erroneous “whom” to make yourself sound more — OH I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!
May 1, 2011 at 10:39 pm
It never pays to be pedantic about grammar, do it?
May 2, 2011 at 7:50 am
Admittedly my explanation is generally “unless you’re writing an ultra-formal prospectus for a research paper, don’t use it, it just sounds pedantic.”
May 2, 2011 at 5:35 pm
There are people to whom using the correct word is important, and then there are people who would rather their language not stand out further than their message. I suspect advertising usually falls in the latter category.
May 1, 2011 at 9:19 pm
Grammar: You’re doing it wrong.
May 2, 2011 at 12:26 am
I don’t think etsy would allow you to correct a seller even if they said the sky was yellow and glitter didn’t cause herpes.
May 2, 2011 at 8:12 am
Helloooo! Regretsy is herpes. Catch up, will ya’?
May 2, 2011 at 9:49 am
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May 1, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Wow, time really flies when you’re not like if you buy something, you get it used. I remember this like it was yesterday.
May 1, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Mr. Brad Delp. Je suis une âme solitaire
May 2, 2011 at 9:39 am
Well, what a small world! Hello Mr. Delp. How could a man with TWO barbecue grills ever be lonely?
May 1, 2011 at 4:46 pm
I don’t know about the “Rule” but those things look suspiciously like the bowling ball caterpillar, to me.
May 1, 2011 at 9:29 pm
I thought they were gay pride earrings at first.
May 1, 2011 at 4:53 pm
I do like if purchased something, I like to get something are so differents, but so similarity.
May 1, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Within romantic honeymoon can make surprise these ear rings your husband?
May 2, 2011 at 11:02 am
We are to hold up WALLAH!
May 1, 2011 at 4:56 pm
I remember these earrings. They reminded me of my bear/elephant with pompom balloon pins I had as a kid.
May 1, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Am thinking is very strange and maybe is a reply to seller who complained being about sent used earring (which is making wonder me how would know this but then makes me sick a little thinking what on earring might have been … ear wax? )…
also, when you click on the picture, it takes you to a totally different product. I know you copy and edit a product – the whole thing is strange and a creepy. I’m going to go clean my ears now.
May 1, 2011 at 5:07 pm
The link was from a year ago.. usually those old links don’t work at all, it’s surprising to see something actually posted in its place.
May 1, 2011 at 5:13 pm
What’s odd is that if it’s the same seller, I don’t see that she sold the earrings–and they’re not in her shop.
May 1, 2011 at 5:26 pm
I agree that it was a weird statement to add to her sales pitch. If this is the Golden Rule in Etsyland I wish the underwear & sex toy people would include it in their product blurbs.
May 1, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Maybe she just re-used the listing for another item. I know that’s against the rules, but if she was tight for money, I could see why she would do that.
May 1, 2011 at 5:58 pm
If you get ear wax on your earrings you’re either wearing them wrong or you have serious ear wax issues.
May 1, 2011 at 8:46 pm
You mean I’m not supposed to stab them directly into my ear canal? No wonder the posts seem too short!
May 1, 2011 at 9:38 pm
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May 2, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Lord, I’m new in here… so go easy. I’m getting afraid to even read something for fear of getting a negative vote.
May 2, 2011 at 1:51 pm
The “rough crowd in here” comment had to do with the negative points I was getting – it had nothing to do with anything anyone else has said. I think you all are hilarious. I spend much too much of my spare time reading stuff in here and laughing til I cry.
(would have said laughing my ass off, but I’m afraid of the consequences.
May 1, 2011 at 5:05 pm
No talent + fifty cents of supplies + incoherent ramblings? That’ll be $10.20, please.
It’s pretty sad when ten bucks is WAAAYY overprices for your handcrafted item.
May 1, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Where in the Golden Rule does it say it’s ok to sell a pair of earrings that are not in the same color order? One of them starts with purple (then blue), the other with blue (then purple).
May 1, 2011 at 5:17 pm
That’s in her artistic ability.
May 1, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Ah, because they are so differents, yet so similarity.
May 1, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Golden Rule I’m not certain about.
It does break Snell’s Law (refraction).
May 1, 2011 at 5:17 pm
I imagined Yoda at some work bench crafting pom poms.
May 1, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Ah, a good use for all the fucking pom poms I never used for crafting projects with the kid – guaranteed to be never used cause it’s the golden something.
Now if I only had a clue what the seller was really trying to say!
May 1, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Sell only unused items unto others as you would have them only unused items unto you?
May 1, 2011 at 9:37 pm
derp. Sell only unused items unto others as you would have them *sell* only unused items unto you.
May 1, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Thats fucking classic.
I can’t belive those pom pom earrings sold.
Please, somebody put the golden rule on a regretsy
zazzle tote.
May 1, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Evidenshually (my creative spelling) they didn’t sell… they aren’t anywhere to be found. I think they were returned because they had ear wax on them.
May 1, 2011 at 9:41 pm
really rough crowd. I looked back through her stuff and those pom poms were no where to be found, is all I was saying. Looks like they didn’t sell.
May 2, 2011 at 1:52 pm
how does one delete one’s own comments? Or should I just shoot myself?
May 1, 2011 at 5:23 pm
The price for these is my favourite bit. The 20 cents tacked on to the end to cover the listing fee is priceless.
May 1, 2011 at 5:37 pm
This is classic April humor that makes me laugh even though I’ve read it over 100 times and I am sober.
May 1, 2011 at 5:39 pm
here is a toast to esty without you we would have no WTF whimsical fuckery to mock !
May 1, 2011 at 5:39 pm
I thought the golden rule was that you could change the size of the smell…no?
May 3, 2011 at 4:14 am
I thought the Golden Rule was:
“Have faith in you and the things you do, you won’t go wrong.”
May 1, 2011 at 5:52 pm
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May 1, 2011 at 5:55 pm
You know, the first time ’round, I didn’t notice the title. “Earrings of Pompom.” I’d like to custom-order a pair in colors to go with my Bag of Holding and Boots of Walking, please. Also, are there +2 Earrings of Pompom available?
May 1, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Where did you get your Bag of Holding? I’ve been looking for one forever, you know, just to keep a compact, cigarettes, and my TARDIS key in when I’m out on the town.
May 1, 2011 at 9:03 pm
In the spirit of true craftards I made my own ‘bag of holding’ out of the scrotum of a cave troll.
It’s a bit raspy but surprisingly spacious.
May 2, 2011 at 12:15 am
when in doubt, check thinkgeek!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/bags/aaa5/
May 2, 2011 at 7:55 am
Broake & Thumb used to have them. http://www.etsy.com/shop/sparrowhawk9
May 1, 2011 at 6:24 pm
I think I’ve made this comment before… but that’s the joy of Alzheimer’s.
A rainbow is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. In that order.
Etsy is so stacked with illcolourant illiterates that Roy G Biv is kept turning in his grave faster than roadkill on a spit at the wedding of cousins.
May 1, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Long live Roy G. Biv – one of the few things recalled from high school science.
May 2, 2011 at 3:07 am
YES!
It’s impossible to find a rainbow item with the correct colours, in the correct order, on Etsy. I spent a day stalking through listings, muttering Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain, is it so hard to remember?. It was so bad that I had to bite the epoxy tube and try to make my own rainbow earrings in my own artistic ability. Yeah, they’re crap, but at least thay have indigo!
May 2, 2011 at 7:56 am
I am going to chant that all day long. All. Day. Long.
May 1, 2011 at 6:29 pm
She still has a poor grasp of English. I wonder if that actually helps sales, though? I find it really endearing.
May 1, 2011 at 7:09 pm
I agree. I’m sure I sound at least that bad in Russian. I don’t like if say something language of in foreign, I do not like to get judged…(The Golden Rule)
May 1, 2011 at 8:48 pm
I fully expect my Spanish to provoke laughter in native speakers. It doesn’t bother me.
May 1, 2011 at 10:32 pm
On the other hand:
Would have I wanted to sell object to Germans, would have I my sister read of proof. Or my college friend if should I want to Koreans sell to. Also friends have who could competant write Spanish, Arabic, etc. Much effective.
May 1, 2011 at 6:31 pm
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May 2, 2011 at 3:15 am
How well do they write in Spanish? Because she’s from Mexico.
May 1, 2011 at 7:06 pm
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May 1, 2011 at 7:14 pm
If I had to write about the golden rule of pompoms in Spanish it would be far worse than her effort.
(Though my pompoms would kick her pompoms arse.)
May 1, 2011 at 7:45 pm
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May 1, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I agree with your point. But not the (QUITE) preachy way you put it.
May 2, 2011 at 2:22 am
However, I’d have a native speaker check my writing before trying to sell something to native speakers. It is just common sense as I see it- if they can understand it, they are more likely to buy it.
May 2, 2011 at 3:16 am
Really? You’re absolutely sure that no one here is fluent in a second language?
May 2, 2011 at 8:11 am
Actualmente, mi español es impreciso, pero es más bueno que su inglés. ¡Gracias por el sermón!
May 2, 2011 at 6:41 pm
It’s people like you that seek to keep the poor English speaking people, poor English speaking people. Much is learned with laughter. Get off your high horse and STFU!
May 1, 2011 at 7:48 pm
I am looking at the fascinators in her shop. To think, a week ago I would have thought “How unusual, a hat made of massive zippers!” And today, I think “If only Beatrice would have chosen the zippers over the mantle clock…”
May 1, 2011 at 9:07 pm
Ain’t that the truth, AntB. I was thinking those fascinators would be a vast improvement over some of the creations we saw in that cathedral. Eugenie would look a lot better with the zippers than with the blue vagina exploding with flowers and feathers, too!
May 1, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Heck, I would have forgiven the Earrings of Pompom over the Hat of the Flying Spaghetti Monster any day!
May 2, 2011 at 9:28 am
Whawhawhatsis, a coworker got up to watch with a British friend. He learned the word “fascinator” and when he came in he urged me (who is lacking a TV at the moment) to Google “Royal Wedding Fascinators.” Eugenie wasn’t the only woman sporting a vulva hat, I’m afraid, but hers was the fanciest. Considering the fascinators (he spent the whole day calling out that word when he went past my office!) that she and Beatrice wore, I have to think that their mother found the hats for them, to show up the Royals for (correctly) not inviting Fergie.
Beatrice’s had a purpose that wasn’t shown on TV or the Internet–during the reception, someone handed her a quick-print off someone’s laptop and she paraded around with the wedding photo in her “frame” hat.
May 2, 2011 at 9:40 am
It was an eye killer at the wedding (wonder if it was an F-you to the Queen on mum’s behalf?) However, it would be perfect as an illustration for a Dr. Seuss book. Perhaps “Cindy Lou Hoo Goes to the Prom?” I bet that teh Earrings of Pom would work too!
May 1, 2011 at 8:15 pm
I thought The Golden Rule was ‘Whoever has the gold makes the rules.” Or does that only work in MMORPG’s?
May 1, 2011 at 9:35 pm
No, it also works in politics. And pretty much everywhere else, too, apparently.
May 1, 2011 at 10:54 pm
They don’t even match!!
May 1, 2011 at 11:47 pm
Going through her shop I found a rabbit called Vomit and she has listed pompom as a material. She’s really into pompoms…
I also like her buy 2 get 1 TOTALLY free. Totally.
May 2, 2011 at 6:55 am
There is a lot of good photoshop on this site…most of it not really noticed. Excellent matching of font and texture and color, mostly with text, and I really appreciate that. I think it’s harder to do well than it seems at first glance..
I got no funny or snark, because who can top what’s there already!?
May 2, 2011 at 8:35 am
I actually think the ice cream cone and cupcake scarves are a pretty nifty idea. Cute.
May 2, 2011 at 9:22 am
I agree. I like that she has both sides hanging point-down (instead of looking as if they’re crawling up and around her neck and then down the body). Her rainbow-cupcake-donut-coffee cowl is a bit too sweet for me, but I’m in love with the bunny scarf.
OH MY GOD. I just look at her “Scarf Cupcake Peach with Flavor Sparkles.”: http://www.etsy.com/listing/33262011/buy-2-and-get-1-totally-free-crochet?ref=v1_other_2
THAT’S WHERE THE POMPOMS WENT! We couldn’t find the pompom earrings in her store or as sold. The ones on her earrings didn’t sell, so she freed them and they did what pompoms are wont to do when left to their own devices. It’s a pompom orgy, disguised as “flavor sparkles.”
May 2, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Bronc, Golden Rule graphics…HYSTERICAL! No wonder HK loves you oh so much!!
May 2, 2011 at 10:28 pm
When I read this the first time it was posted I laughed until I cried. It was pretty much right then that I knew this site was the shit. And the post is still damned funny.