How to Respond to Being Called Out
Pretty with Ink Invites sells handmade wedding invitations on Etsy.
Callin’ Out on Etsy thinks this Pretty With Ink design is awfully close to Vistaprint’s.
So they put up a post about it.
Then this happened.
Yes, Dances With Vistaprint didn’t care for this feature, and she’s going to do something about it.
LET ME HELP YOU WITH THOSE SIGNATURES
Personally, I don’t think this really fits the definition of handmade. But sadly, the fact that she types your name and address into Vistaprint’s website for you is probably enough for Esty. Have a cup of Earl Grey Area.
If you’re a lying, thieving, lazy ass reseller and you get busted by the internet, there really are only two things you can do:
1. Take down the listings
2. Leave them up because – like Etsy – you don’t give a shit
But the absolute worst course of action would be to involve yourself in the comments. And whatever you do, don’t allow your friends to come to the rescue.
It’s just embarrassing, and it impacts the way customers and potential customers perceive you.
But more importantly, some jackass on another blog is going to see this as content. Then their readers will join in, and it will turn into the worst PR you ever had.
AT LEAST I HOPE SO
- Click here for the whole clusterfuck
UPDATE: Oops.
May 30, 2012 at 2:33 pm
so her etsy store and her kids mean the same thing to her? got it.
May 30, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Well, that depends – are they actually her kids, or, like her art, is she just ‘borrowing’ from someone else?
May 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
perhaps she’s one of those people that classify her artwork as her children?
May 30, 2012 at 2:47 pm
I bet the children of that creature are real pieces of work.
May 30, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Are her kids handmade?
May 30, 2012 at 3:22 pm
no, but I’m guessing that’s probably where they should have ended up.
May 30, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Sure. As handmade as her art – mass produced without a thought and unleashed upon society.
May 30, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Mmmmm, golems! Too bad dybbuks are the fashion rage nowadays.
May 30, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Depends if her well off husband can afford the fleecy pony.
May 30, 2012 at 9:00 pm
Maybe the kids are part of her collective.
May 31, 2012 at 3:06 am
You may never know, maybe they are mass-produced in Chinese sweatshops, or maybe hotglued together (which is even creepier).
May 31, 2012 at 11:03 am
Hell no, she gets them from Chinese resellers.
May 30, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Silly, you didn’t expect her to make them herself did you?
May 30, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Well, as far as I can tell, they are both something to brag on that makes her special and different from the losers she imagines populating the rest of the Internet. So yes.
May 31, 2012 at 3:29 pm
It’s really common for people who know they are doing something unethical for money, to justify it by claiming they do it for their kids.
I once called someone out on doing something illegal, and she told me, “It’s either food on their table, or on mine.” But I don’t think she ever had to worry about being hungry in her life.
It’s one technique for lying to ones self.
May 30, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Hey…I make $25,000 a year, and it’s not that bad, really…
May 30, 2012 at 2:37 pm
but you don’t have a well off husband and a perfect body now do you? didn’t think so.
May 30, 2012 at 2:42 pm
I have no husband, but a shit ton of beautiful tattoo work, I feel I win.
May 30, 2012 at 2:48 pm
I have a boyfriend who works at an organic market and brings me pears?
And he likes my ass.
And I have cats.
Life is pretty good, I’d say.
If you have to detail all the things you have that make you and your life wonderful in order to defend an accusation that you have blatantly stolen someone else’s design…Art. You’re doing it wrong.
May 30, 2012 at 6:52 pm
“The defendant stands accused of bank robbery. We have surveillance footage of him with a gun in his hand pointing it at a bank teller, we found $50,000 in marked bills in his house, and the gun in his dumpster matches the serial number visible on the tape.”
“Your honor, my client has a great-looking family and makes $100,000 a year.”
“Case dismissed. You’re free to go.”
May 30, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Makes sense to me.
<<has been on etsy too long.
May 31, 2012 at 9:58 am
I have spectacular bosoms–your arguments are irrelevant.
May 30, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Pairs of what? (wiggles eyebrows)
May 31, 2012 at 9:59 am
I’m unemployed, but I have a hubby who’s a chef and he cooks & cleans at home. plus he’s got nice ass… did I win?
May 30, 2012 at 2:41 pm
$25,493!
My guess is, this over compensating “person”, actually makes less than that a year, and relies on her significant other to make the real money because she does not in fact have the talent, as we have seen, to make even 5k a year. At least I work hard for my 25k a year and take pride in my work and don’t have to resort to petty, childish gibberish when attacked, more than can be said for this wank stain, a what? I mean, she goes on about immature people… what the bloody hell is she?
May 30, 2012 at 2:52 pm
I WISH I made $25,000!
May 30, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Oh gawd I pay way more than that in just taxes.
I’m not sure I’m allowed to be here – that said, though I am not a loser, I can probably still qualify as fat and jealous.
May 30, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Being a fat jealous loser is a state of mind! Anyone can qualify!
May 30, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Do you like alcohol? Do you like sugary things? Do you like alcohol IN sugary things?
May 30, 2012 at 10:21 pm
sugary except the snark, that needs to be bitter and harsh.
May 31, 2012 at 2:13 am
And sour when it comes back up again.
May 30, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Are you interested in funding the regretsy commune?
May 31, 2012 at 7:04 am
I’ll grow the kale!
May 31, 2012 at 9:32 am
I’ll wipe my ass with it!
May 31, 2012 at 7:37 pm
And I’ll sell it for $700!
KALE ART OOAK ORGANIC NATURAL UPCYCLED RUSTIC VINTAGE GODDESS FAE STEAMPUNK YONI
“This yummy 100% organic upcycled evocation of the Circle of Life will give your home a multi-sensory artistic experience with its rustic design and creamy fragrance. Namaste.”
May 31, 2012 at 10:26 pm
In my experience, kale wipes your ass on the way out.
May 30, 2012 at 10:18 pm
She could make it too – just stand back and let her at photoshop or Vistparint & the color printer.
May 30, 2012 at 2:34 pm
I watched this developing and it was beautiful. I especially enjoy those who seem to have hours a day to sit and chastise others for having ‘no life’ because they give a sweet goddamn about integrity.
May 30, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Also, someone needs to slip that Loosey charmer a medicated cocktail, STAT. She’s gone from amusing to starting to become cringeworthily unhinged.
May 30, 2012 at 2:43 pm
She’s certainly got a screw loosey.
May 30, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Her loosey caboosey is virtual verbal diarrhea coming from her keyboard.
May 30, 2012 at 3:34 pm
right after she declares that she is full of peace and love for everyone, she puts Yosemite Sam to shame. i’ve never been so proud to be a fat, lazy, unmarried, childless slut.
May 30, 2012 at 4:29 pm
She doesn’t follow any of her ‘words of wisdom’–all of them (most notably, “live and let live…no wait, “be humble”). At any rate, for someone spouting off about what a great life she leads, she truly is one of the most negative, bitter, horrible people I’ve ever experienced.
May 30, 2012 at 4:51 pm
werd.
May 31, 2012 at 9:14 am
I feel sorry for her kids. Can you imagine living with someone who goes form sweet to psycho in the blink of an eye who-knows-how-many times a day? And not being old enough to leave or protest. Brrrr.
May 30, 2012 at 9:23 pm
I’m a fat, lazy, divorced slut with two children. We can be friends.
May 30, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Is this where we can deploy the phrase “intractably mentally ill”?
May 30, 2012 at 5:29 pm
No. As an intractably mentally ill person, I can tell you that neither I nor my friends at the clinic behave like this. Not even the lady with the eyebrows penciled in the middle of her forehead. As a manifesto, it’s lacking in illustrations and just too mean. Not to mention way too short.
Sadly, this appears to be a case of cuntus entitlus horribulus , a condition for which there is no treatment or cure.
May 31, 2012 at 6:33 am
You underestimate the powers of a good cleansing fire.
May 31, 2012 at 7:49 am
Too many good, law-abiding pagans get caught up on those. Let’s hold off…for now.
May 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
But it ruins the game the rule-breakers are playing when some fat jealous loser with no life takes a few minutes to report them to Etsy and then call them out a month later, after Etsy had done its usual nothing about it.
May 30, 2012 at 6:28 pm
All the lawyer threats made me wonder if she thinks we are Nac Macfeegles. My dad’s a litigation attourney. The first thing he tells the fruitcakes is his hourly rate. Keeps the flaming assholes at bay.
May 30, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Ach! Crivens! We cannae be havin’ with all these reseller scuggans!
May 31, 2012 at 12:38 pm
I love the new definitions of “slander” and “liable” that have popped up. At this point, I can sue my boyfriend and anyone else that ever called me a female for no other reason than that I happen to be one.
May 30, 2012 at 2:35 pm
I HOPE YOU’RE CLICKING ON THE PETITION
May 30, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Name: Divorcee on Welfare
Email: StiflersMom@MILF.com
Comments: I only make $20,000 a year. Anyone more successful than me MUST PAY!
May 30, 2012 at 2:48 pm
I heart you for making the petition. Now lets all have some cupcakes and discuss the latest handmade hipster steampunk stuff on etsy.
May 30, 2012 at 8:58 pm
It’s all those cupcakes & cocktails that are making us big, fat, jealous losers.
Only the rainbow owl bolus is calorie-free.
May 30, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Ignore the rules, do what I want, AND claim someone else’s creativity as my own? Fuck yeah, sign me up!
May 30, 2012 at 3:53 pm
“Dear Basil,
Thank you for signing the “MAKE THE INTERNET ADOPT ETSY’S FORUM GUIDELINES!” petition at iPetitions.com.
Your signature is valuable and makes a real difference. Please encourage others to sign the petition as well. Forward the text below to everyone who might be interested:
——- FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS ——-
Hi,
I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:
“MAKE THE INTERNET ADOPT ETSY’S FORUM GUIDELINES!”
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/be_nice_you_guys/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=system&utm_campaign=Send%2Bto%2BFriend
I really think this is an important cause, and I’d like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It’s free and takes just a few seconds of your time.
Thanks!”
SO IMPORTANT <3
May 30, 2012 at 3:54 pm
As anyone who might conceivably be interested is likely already here, consider that shit forwarded.
May 30, 2012 at 4:11 pm
They want me to donate money to them now so they can make more petitions like this one. But they probably used the wrong button from paypal, so I’ll get it back.
May 30, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Reece Eller
DefinitelyNotInChina@hotmail.com
EVERYTHING SHOULD BE CUPCAKES AND NOTHING WOULD HURT!
Also buy my bizarrely uniform handmade owl pendants, I have over 9000.
_________
Then they asked me to donate and HA! if you think Reece Eller would ever give to others.
May 30, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Yeah, but I made sure to use a fake name and false email addy so she can’t trace my IP address and make the FBI take back my glitter eagles… Oh, wait – this is a completely different nutjob? We’re SO mean!
May 30, 2012 at 10:06 pm
oh, don’t worry. i clicked with a cat’s reflexes. but, i may have fucked up and not gotten the joke. i definitely used my real email address. or, at least, one i don’t mind getting spammed.
May 31, 2012 at 6:39 am
Dodgy McScruples at totallylegit@iswearit.com demands the right to be inspired by anything he damn well pleases! Who cares in inspiration is synonymous with five finger discounts! It’s inspiration, dammit!
May 31, 2012 at 6:46 am
i have all your IP numbers and am calling my nerds to send you images of Cillian Murphy kissing Zachary Quinto. that is all.
May 30, 2012 at 2:36 pm
That makes me NEVER want to buy from this woman. Ever. And I don’t even know what she sells.
May 30, 2012 at 2:38 pm
…neither does she!
May 30, 2012 at 2:57 pm
She sells a lifestyle! which includes:
-An over-financed McMansion
-Leashes on the kids when they go with her jogging
-Constantly comparing herself to others due to her deep self-loathing
-Bitchy fights with her “friends” on the PTA bake sale committee
-Being condescending to the dry cleaner
-A constant gnawing sense that her husband is fucking his secretary
-Pouring box wine into left over “good” bottles for dinner parties
-Having her kids’ birthday parties catered
-Always trying to find a new caterer because they keep refusing to come back again
-Always calling her recalcitrant caterers “assholes who are lucky to be in this country”
In other words – the perfect lifestyle of the suburban cunt, or scunt.
May 30, 2012 at 6:00 pm
So… she’s my sister?
May 30, 2012 at 7:52 pm
If she were my sister, I’d want to purge my genetic line about now…
May 31, 2012 at 12:55 am
Your sister is married to my cousin?
May 30, 2012 at 2:37 pm
I’ve seen this before with someone I know. It fizzled out pretty quickly. Lotta bark, no bite. And what the fuck? She has no problem making fun of overweight people? What the hell has that to do with her lame ass attempt at claiming this is her property to pass off as hand made?
May 30, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Formally, it’s called an ad hominem attack, informally, it boils down to, “I have no actual answer to your superior argument, so I’ll make fun of you.”
I wish the XKCD comic would publish a book called “How To Be Wrong On The Internet” with pictorial illustrations of all the usual fallacies (ie. arguments people make instead of proper refutation, because they got nothin’)
May 30, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Oh yes! Let’s start an online campaign for Randall to do just that!!!
May 30, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Logic high five!
May 30, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Not done by Randall / XKCD, but it’s exactly what you’re after.
May 30, 2012 at 7:27 pm
this, this is beautiful. It should be a card game. awesome drawings. alternatively, it could be a regretsy game where you do butthurt bingo.
May 30, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Dood, this. is. REGRETSY!
It totally has to be a drinking game.
May 31, 2012 at 7:03 am
“Blissful Ninny” is a perfect card for the cupcake sniffing-moderators at Etsy (but substitute ‘coleslaw’ for ‘cat’, or combine them for increased Longevity).
May 31, 2012 at 7:04 am
I know what I am doing the next time I am feeling particularly jealous &/or fat!
May 31, 2012 at 10:32 pm
I see what you did there.
May 31, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Because my husband is up right now whacking his online friends with his virtual pool noodle.
May 31, 2012 at 8:18 am
The list is cool, but it’s almost all white dudes. This is why I can’t completely enjoy nerdy things.
May 30, 2012 at 7:06 pm
in the meantime, there is this:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/
May 31, 2012 at 6:00 am
Oh, thank god. I though I was the only one sitting in front of my computer calling fallacy… literally… out loud.
She covers almost all of the major ad hominem food groups, but my favorite is her liberal use of tu toque:
“…Stifflersmothers work is all copied from other artists…”
“…she makes things from already made items and RESells them. ”
I also enjoy her red herring “argument”:
“Hey how about all these lovely shops that sell their “own” designs using disney characters, hello kitty, and such. Don’t you have a bone to pick with them and their ‘designs’”
I am not an English major by any stretch of the imagination. But I think it would be awesome for someone well versed in rhetoric to do a critique of her “arguments” broken down into categories of fallacy.
Please?
May 30, 2012 at 5:24 pm
I’m getting awfully tired of reading “Oh yeah? Well, you’re FAT!” from people who haven’t the wit or rationality to logically defend themselves. Somehow in their tiny brains, fatness is the absolute worst, most withering accusation they can come up with. Next comes “you’re not creative,” and “you have no life,” but they always seem to go for “fat” first. Fascinating. But what do I know, I’m a card-carrying FJL.
May 30, 2012 at 7:06 pm
What are these cards and where do I get mine?
May 30, 2012 at 7:07 pm
From my wepay store…
May 30, 2012 at 10:10 pm
i know. when i read that, i figured she must be a regretsy regular. then, i realized she wasn’t joking.
May 31, 2012 at 12:02 am
Yes. I am a fat person. Not just in the FJL sense, but really fat. And believe it or not, it’s not so bad. I have a husband, kids, friends… sometimes (like every day) I even leave my home. Mobs of people with torches do not follow me, screaming for my death. I’m allowed to vote and otherwise participate in public life.
Are there tough days? Sure. Why the fashion industry thinks plus size women want nothing but horizontal ruffles and nautical themes is a perpetual question. But, all in all, fat people find their lives worth living.
It’s not like, say, being SHALLOW.
May 31, 2012 at 8:32 am
Yes. This. I really hate it when people go on and on about being fat as if it’s the worst thing that could ever happen to a person. That a fat person’s life must just be misery. Yeah, there’s some irritating things, like it can be hard to find clothes that aren’t awful. And other people’s attitudes can be dreadful. But my life? Actually pretty darn good.
Also, calling someone fat.least imaginative insult ever. Really, is that the best she’s got?
May 31, 2012 at 8:47 am
Brilliantly put. I agree with all of it, especially the bit about the fashion industry.
May 31, 2012 at 12:57 pm
What really bugs me, as a zaftig woman, is catalogs that use skinny women to model “plus-sized” clothes. Show me what it looks like on a fat girl, bitches!
May 31, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Grrr….I remember years ago going into Lane Bryant (large lady store for those who don’t know) and being so angry that none of the manequins were plus-sized – most likely size 7. I wrote to corporate and no response. I haven’t set foot in one of their stores for over 20 years.
May 31, 2012 at 11:25 pm
I love you all!!
May 31, 2012 at 11:36 am
I’m fat too, but you know what? at least we can lose weight, but there’s no cure for bitch-itis that woman suffers from.
June 2, 2012 at 9:38 pm
And then there’s “Southerner”. Why is this considered such an insult? I am a Texan and we brook no nonsense of this sort. Southerners should stand up for themselves.
May 31, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Yes, I find the “fat” argument is where people go when they’ve got nothin’.
May 31, 2012 at 12:59 pm
One of my main quibbles with Bill Maher is his constant harping on fat people. Just had to vent.
May 30, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Oh no, not the nerds! I was fine until they sent in the NERDS!
May 30, 2012 at 2:41 pm
May 30, 2012 at 2:44 pm
my fat ass thought the exact same thing.
May 30, 2012 at 2:52 pm
My fat ass wants some…. to get fatter of course…
May 30, 2012 at 3:14 pm
I love those things.
May 30, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Christ I remember the CEREAL! >_<
May 30, 2012 at 4:33 pm
They’re not bad but I still like Bottle Caps better.
May 30, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Please.
You cannot put tiny capes on bottlecaps.
May 30, 2012 at 8:48 pm
EyeHeartSpiders, you totally cracked me up!
Month-end at work is INSANE – I really needed it.
May 31, 2012 at 12:19 pm
mine too. I hope it gets better for you. This whole month has been shitface for various reasons but I think it will get better in June.
May 31, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Glad I was able to provide gits and shiggles where needed.
May 30, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Calling out someone reselling another companies work is a slandering witch hunt, but calling someone a “typical overweight stupid American”, and stating that she “never obviously mentally matured beyond elementary thinking” isn’t slander? Really?
May 30, 2012 at 2:43 pm
All that talk of fatties and her jogging makes me think she’s never even seen over a bag of donuts.
May 31, 2012 at 3:01 pm
A bag of donuts? Is that what her husband calls his goatse?
May 31, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Nope. But is what I call my boyfriend’s.
Nom nom nom.
May 30, 2012 at 3:35 pm
I am offended by her mistaken belief that if you have a mental illness you’re an idiot! I have a friend (severely mentally ill), very intelligent. More so than most “normal” people. Seems like she has never matured beyond temper tantrums. Just sayin’
May 30, 2012 at 4:23 pm
There’s a link between mental illness and creativity, and intelligence. Many of my clients are devastatingly intelligent people who just happen to have devastating cases of schizophrenia… I’ve had clients who had Master’s degrees, and many have bachelor’s and associate’s degrees, worked for years, and then WHAM, psychotic break.
May 30, 2012 at 7:18 pm
The most intelligent person I know personally is my boyfriend (not exaggerating – he really does have a genius-level IQ). Developed schizophrenia in his late teens. Thankfully, he’s very high functioning . . . not able to work, but at least he doesn’t need to be hospitalized or anything.
May 30, 2012 at 11:42 pm
For some reason, schizophrenics are often extremely bright. (Thank God, most extremely bright people or not schizophrenics, or then we’d have a lot them.)
Glad he’s hanging in there. It is a bitch of an illness.
May 30, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Please. half the people up here are mentally ill. And most of us are creative, wonderful, intelligent and fascinating people.
Then there’s the rest of us.
May 30, 2012 at 11:19 pm
If it wasn’t for the psych meds, I don’t think many of us would be here…
May 31, 2012 at 12:26 am
And the booze. Don’t forget the booze. Or the pot. Definitely do NOT forget the pot.
June 1, 2012 at 6:17 am
Dammit, I forgot the pot. I always forget the pot.
Might be all the pot…
May 31, 2012 at 8:25 am
She’ll be hearing from my lawyer.
May 30, 2012 at 2:40 pm
This is how the fat jealou losers thing started. Unlike some others we know how to embrace insults. Besides when did being skinny, having a big house and a well off husband equate to talent and/or ethics?
May 30, 2012 at 2:43 pm
I know that being the latter can result in having a lot of ‘handmade’ furniture you import from Bali.
May 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
But she did all the right things! You’re supposed to bow down to her obvious social and moral superiority because she’s an anorexic suburban bitch like on all those teevee shows!
May 30, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Real Housewives of Etsy. I hear it’s in Development.
May 30, 2012 at 3:18 pm
I would watch that show. I would watch the hell out of that show. They only drink “locally made” Absinthe (Ie, Czech La Fey with a locally printed out relabel) and go on bargain hunts at thrift stores to find the “cutest” vintage skants to wear to the eco-local-all-vegan-kale fest. It’s like, going to be the social event of the year, but you’ve probably never heard of it.
Later, Tamara and Janxie fight over who get to wear the bigger glasses (even though neither of them actually need a prescription)
May 30, 2012 at 4:25 pm
I would not just watch the hell out of that show, I would watch the fuck out of it!
Someone, make this happen!
…Or at least, make a sampler!
May 30, 2012 at 6:21 pm
I want to go to there.
May 30, 2012 at 8:55 pm
I have a friend who jokes about it being just that. No one in the real world would believe there are virtual shivs pulled over whose crafts are more crafty, but there ya go, the intractably mentally ill coming soon to a TV near you.
May 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
If you feel the need to present a detailed list of why you are a winner, then you have already lost.
May 30, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Exactly.
May 31, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Paging Charlie Sheen!
May 30, 2012 at 3:30 pm
That’s the good old Puritan work ethic in operation! I’m more well off than you, therefore I am more Godly and a better person. You are poor because you sin. It seems Loosey has been listening to Mitt Romney a bit too much because he’s trying to sell America the same bill of goods.
May 30, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Because, you know, you aren’t really successful as a person on this planet unless you are also considered conventionally attractive.
Fuck this bitch. Seriously.
I’d be so fucking red-faced and embarrassed there would be not one word from my drunk ass if I got caught doing some shit like this on Etsy or anywhere.
Go take your jog, you shrew-faced cunt that side eyes me when I pick my kid up in my shitty (but paid for) car. While you’re at it, pontificate on ethics and what you’re going to tell those kids of yours when they come across their mother’s abhorrent behavior all over the internet.
May 30, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Bravo!
May 31, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Unless you’re Mrs. Romney.
May 31, 2012 at 1:04 pm
I don’t know why this turned up here! I was replying to Jeannette up there at 9…. I’m out of context!
May 30, 2012 at 2:41 pm
I live on $10 grand less than that per year. And I still manage.
Oh, and all the talk about fatties and jogging?
Methinksthou doth protest to much.May 30, 2012 at 3:54 pm
“The lady doth protest too much, me(redacted)s.”
Upthumbed for attempting proper old-fashioned conjugation to go with your old-fashioned word choice, and as apology for compulsively correcting it. However, “she doth” and “thou dost.” The third person, “doth,” is kind of like “does” with a lisp, a good mnemonic for when to use it; “dost” is the verb form to go with the discarded second-person pronoun “thou.”
My personal loserdom:
fighting the good fightbeing an annoying grammar nerd since 1974…May 30, 2012 at 7:37 pm
No problem. It’ll teach me to drink so early in the afternoon when reading Regretsy. It impinges on my ability to speak with a keyboard.
May 30, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Well, that’s a real benefit, then. You should definitely be taught to drink early in the afternoon before posting, or even reading, here. Everything makes so much more sense if you do! *passes you the coconut rum*
May 30, 2012 at 8:48 pm
We had coconut rum? And no one told me? Dammit.
May 30, 2012 at 9:01 pm
*hands both Evan Williams cherry and Dr. P.
May 31, 2012 at 12:09 pm
I like basketball.
I’m not Maya fucking Moore just because I like sports and want to improve at them. She’s not Usain Bolt by going jogging although exercise is good for everyone. Please don’t brag about moving your legs as if it’s a religion that makes you closer to the god of tendonitus and everyone who is not part of it should be cast into purgatory/is a loser.
May 31, 2012 at 10:13 pm
You know, that’s about the same grammar as German- which makes it so much easier to remember. Ich gehe (I go), du gehst (you go), sie geht (she goes), etc. It’s funny how learning German made Old English so much easier to comprehend.
June 1, 2012 at 4:21 am
Geek alert “German and English are both germanic languages after all, just nowadays English has changed more, thus in older versions of English you will find many similarities with German ( same applies for Dutch and Norse (which is North germanic))”Geek alert finished
May 30, 2012 at 2:41 pm
I’m loving that complete shift of personality during that longer post by Looseycaboosy. Starts out all reasonable and peaceful and crunchy granola and then RAWR BAD CABOOSY OUT TO PLAY.
Also, LC? If your “caboosy” is loosey, your body ain’t that fit. You should probably check out the vaginal reconstruction HK posted a few days back…
May 30, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Man, that dialogue drove right past loony and straight into crazy town. The brakes don’t work on that car.
May 30, 2012 at 3:23 pm
I agree. A few mustaches short of a creamy upcycled cardboard owl statue.
May 30, 2012 at 4:14 pm
See!? This is why I wish I could upvote you. =P
May 30, 2012 at 2:42 pm
*cue chorus of “that word does not mean what you think it means” re: cyberbullying*
May 30, 2012 at 2:44 pm
I guess the Whiner’s Dictionary defines it as ‘people requiring that you take responsibility for your shit’ and we all know how unfair THAT is, right?
June 1, 2012 at 6:51 am
Ahh, I missed that edition of Strunk and Whine.
May 30, 2012 at 2:43 pm
I need a bumper sticker that says “My welfare husband just beat the shit out of your well off husband with a crowbar” because fat, loser welfare assholes know how to use a crowbar, which we will break into your house with later. Thanks for letting us know you’re rich. Titties!
May 30, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Oh perfect! Perfect! Mess with us and you mess with the whole trailer park!
May 30, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Or “Bitch, don’t make me sit on you”
May 30, 2012 at 7:39 pm
Just be sure when you make them you sell them on Etsy. I hear Vistaprint does bumper stickers….(seriously, make the sticker so I do not have to)
May 31, 2012 at 11:10 am
i love this….all of this…
yay! my first post
May 30, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Is “fat” really the only insult these kindergarten nutballs can come up with? It just makes me want to pat them on the head.
May 30, 2012 at 2:45 pm
IKR? Didn’t even bother with ‘jealous’ or ‘losers’. What is WRONG with some people?
May 30, 2012 at 7:10 pm
It’s laziness. Which is ironic, since that’s what we’re accused of constantly.
May 30, 2012 at 3:41 pm
She’s pissed at the fat (I am fat) because we get to eat whatever we want! People who don’t eat are GROUCHY!
May 30, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Yeah really, where’s ugly and smelly? You’ve gotta complete the trifecta once you’ve started it! I mean c’mon put a little effort into it!
May 30, 2012 at 4:15 pm
I can hardly wait to see the Facebook group that this skinny contented winner starts up.
May 30, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Well Loosey did say, “I do not talk to fat people, they are stupid and dirty.”
See? She is a talented, creative person! She makes unique, OOAK ad hominem attacks!
May 30, 2012 at 5:11 pm
it’s her unfastened & half missing screws that are making her caboose loose. i have no time for this, or anything else really, just endless work but boy, that one is so awful i cant even upchuck appropriate words.
she needs a visit from charlotte cooper & friends. while i seem to have lost my ability to articulate much anything, they surely would know what to say:
http://www.chubstergang.com/
May 30, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Yeah. In case my sarcasm wasn’t apparent, I’m equally disgusted by these lazy, quotidian, stereotyped attempts at fat-shaming.* My ex-husband was actively discriminated against at his workplace and repeatedly passed over for promotion because, to paraphrase the evaluator, nobody that fat could possibly have anything like a brain or a work ethic. Other evaluations made reference ot he amount of time he was assumed to spend on lunch breaks or sleeping on the job. Because, you know… overweight means 24/7 sleeping and eating. Not genetics influenced by sitting in a chair 10 hours a day monitoring systems and writing code for work.
Dude changed his tune when my husband saved them $50,000 with half an hour’s work that nobody else knew how to do. Holy Hyperbole of Extreme Amazement, Batman! *kicks ex’s workplace in effigy*
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* Not that I’m in favor of fresh, avant-garde attempts at shaming, either. The laziness just adds insult to insult.
May 31, 2012 at 11:03 am
And, has his idiot ever heard of a thyroid condition? I have one, but just because you’re big doesn’t magically create sweat or mean you are lazy!
May 31, 2012 at 12:30 pm
“And if I see a photo and a person is 300 lbs, I am not going to call them fit.I am going to tell them they are mentally and physically unhealthy…”
Obesity = mental illness?
Mental illness is a handy go-to insult?
Okay, now I’m angry.
May 30, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Lol. The best petition ever.
May 30, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Let’s be clear about one thing:
Children need to be protected from bullying.
Grown people do NOT.
May 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
I would say that honestly depends on the grown person, but not giving an adult a free pass on being a liar and faker is absolutely not bullying in any sense of the word. I think all ‘being responsible for your shit’ and ‘bullying’ have in common are a few letters.
May 30, 2012 at 2:54 pm
I’m just tired of hearing adults act like they need the same protections that children need. Children are small and helpless. They can’t fend for themselves. They need our help.
If you’re a grownup, act like it. Kick someone’s ass. Verbally, of course.
May 30, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Having spent many years working with mentally and physically disabled adults, I’ll just repeat that I think that it depends on the adult.
May 30, 2012 at 3:22 pm
I’m talking about people who are of sound mind and body. Those who can fend for themselves in every way.
If you can drive, write your own checks, make your own phone calls, take care of pets, feed yourself, and are OK to babysit children, you do not need protection from people on the internet.
May 30, 2012 at 5:34 pm
….even if you cant do any of that, but CAN live with cheating to make money by “handmaking” vistaprint’s work….you may need some sort of protection, but not from cyberbullies.
May 31, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Bullying at work is a whole other deal. If management doesn’t want to see the bullying then the person responding to it usually gets in trouble or fired.
May 30, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Well, the specials ones do. They just can’t protect themselves.
May 30, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Things like this are why I love you.
May 30, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Somebody has a crush!
*ducks*
May 30, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Yeah, like, all of us, duh!
May 30, 2012 at 9:40 pm
Seriously. Bronc, you are the best.
May 31, 2012 at 3:44 am
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May 31, 2012 at 6:38 am
Discrimination and hate crimes are a FAR CRY from “cyberbullying.”
May 31, 2012 at 9:24 am
You should be ashamed of yourself for using such a ridiculous, laughable straw man argument.
May 31, 2012 at 9:55 am
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May 31, 2012 at 10:08 am
Maybe I should have been clearer.
Specious accusations of bullying are detrimental to the very idea of protection from hate speech. Calling someone a “bully” because they (rightly) point out that you misrepresented yourself in your online store? That defeats the purpose.
Of course you can show examples of extreme, hateful, dangerous bullying behavior that truly does harm someone.
I am obviously not talking about that, and you know it.
This post is about a fraud who was exposed for it, and her absurd response is to accuse others of bullying. False accusations don’t help anyone. Insane levels of hyperbole don’t help anyone.
May 31, 2012 at 10:20 am
Actually, I did not know that. Your comment seemed like a very general statement, not just confined to this particular situation. I can’t read your mind, and there are plenty of people on the internet who say exactly what you said and mean it exactly in the way I’ve read it. Alright, let’s drop this topic.
May 31, 2012 at 10:24 am
Fair enough. I reacted with emotion to a very silly accusation of bullying. It’s a real button for me, having seen so many examples of real harm and real abuse in my life.
June 1, 2012 at 8:03 am
because people always hop into threads all about one thing with big general unrelated statements.
hey, everyone seems to be talking about this etsy reseller. you know what? this is a good time to mention that i hate fish.
June 2, 2012 at 3:32 pm
I would like to see adults stop using this word in such cases as well. It’s diluting the word to complete meaninglessness and we kind of need it to mean what it says. It reminds me of all those adults walking out of Dan Savage’s lecture and saying he “bullied” them because he said the bible was bullshit. They paid to go see Dan Savage give a lecture. Dan Savage is pretty well known for being critical of the bible and Christianity and they willingly signed up for it then claimed he was “bullying them.” The fucked up part is that Dan Savage started the It Gets Better Project to help curb the high rate of teen suicides- yeah, teenagers and children killing themselves because of REAL BULLYING. For these adults to use that word so casually is pretty horrendous.
May 31, 2012 at 10:00 am
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May 30, 2012 at 2:45 pm
I think someone needs to send a dictionary to the offended reseller. And a law book. Because it seems to me she was the one doing all of the hate and the threats and the bullshit. When I see shit like this I have to crawl out of my hole and post here and ask “What the fucking fuck?” Karma: I don’t think it means what you think it means!
May 30, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Right? It’s amazing how she’s the one that’s wrong, but instead of backing down like anyone with even a whiff of a conscience would do, she’s throwing a hissy fit. The GALL of these people is amazing.
May 30, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Why do people go after “fat”? Is fat seriously the worst thing you could be? Cause I would think that being a lying, thieving, rule breaker would be a little more provocative than fat.
I get really incensed when people call me fat. Not because my feelings are hurt, but because they were lazy. Am I overweight? sure. Do I know I’m overweight? Yes. Then why bother pointing it out? I just wish for ONCE someone would insult my intelligence or my political views or maybe my supposed lack of “character” for participating in Regretsy shenanigans.
I’m with Jeanette above me that being skinny and rich doesn’t make you a good person. It just makes you skinny and rich enough to pay your way out of bad situations like this one.
I may be fat, but at least I have artistic integrity.
And another thing. “Fedex/Kinkos” is not a local printer. They’re a chain in your area. Copy Pilot of Portland is a local printer (where I do all of my business).
Artistic Integrity – It works!
May 30, 2012 at 2:54 pm
I’m fat and rich. Oh god. My universe just shifted. Oh wait, never mind. My end of the couch just sagged a little more. If people have to resort to insulting my body size instead of appealing to my intelligence, it just means they’re lazy. Too lazy to walk to the fridge for a sandwich.
May 31, 2012 at 10:13 am
I see what you did there.
May 30, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Imagine how the presidential primaries would go if the candidates resorted to this.
“My opponent had a poor track record as governor. He raised taxes and reduced health care.”
“Oh yeah? Well…you’re fat!”
May 30, 2012 at 2:59 pm
To be fair…I kinda thought this year that’s exactly what they WERE doing.
May 30, 2012 at 4:50 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI
May 30, 2012 at 3:24 pm
“I may be fat, but at least I have artistic integrity”
Fantastic, this is my new motto for when people start slinging mud around like that. As though my BMR has anything to do with my strength of character.
May 30, 2012 at 7:14 pm
That’s a good t-shirt slogan.
Oh, wait, I don’t have artistic integrity, either. I let a printer censor me. Damn.
May 30, 2012 at 5:13 pm
it’s only three letters, it’s the first & often the only thing they can find to say.
doesnt take a lot of creativity, say, talent, brains, anything to come up w/ that particular word–a word which, of course, should just be a neutral descriptor. it needs to go through the same re-owning process as once did black, faggot, punk, etc & ect. bitch. you know what i mean. it’s starting now, which is a good thing.
May 30, 2012 at 8:45 pm
Now now, don’t undervalue screwLoosey’s ability to insult people. You seem to be forgetting that according to that delightful little cuntwaffle, the second-worst thing you can be (besides fat) is a “southerner”.
Apparently everyone south of her exalted, skinny, Etsy-successful, joggingly happy position is the lowest, most disgusting, uncreative, ugly scum to crawl the earth.
Seriously though, how she immediately assumes everyone who doesn’t agree with her is from the southern US states is what had my mind most boggled.
May 30, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Being a lying, theiving rule breaker is totally encouraged by society these days. It’s just that it’s called “creativity” or “out of the box thinking” instead.
May 30, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Helen Killer you are so hidden… allowing people to meet with you in secretive places like New York.
May 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
To be fair, not a lot of people knew about that. Only the 200 people who were there, and the 120,000 on Facebook, and however many other thousands read the site every day.
Highly classified.
May 30, 2012 at 3:08 pm
That’s practically MI5-level shit right there.
May 30, 2012 at 3:30 pm
That, and it was held in a secret bunker built for FDR under the Waldorf-Astoria hotel…or some drag bar on the Lower East Side, I was too drunk to remember.
May 30, 2012 at 3:57 pm
Was that you? I think I have your pants, but I don’t remember why.
May 30, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Well, if you still have my pants, did you happen to find my vintage handmade crocheted pasties in the shape of cupcakes…I seem to have misplaced those as well.
May 31, 2012 at 10:23 am
Got ‘em right here! They’re SO comfy that I’ll have to crochet a pair for myself.
May 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
So many things wrong with this, but the major one is this:
IT’S NOT SLANDER IF IT’S TRUE!!!
May 30, 2012 at 3:48 pm
I want to print this on the side of one of those toy squeaky hammers or a wiffle ball bat and smack morons like this in the head with it.
May 30, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Put it on a chair leg.
May 30, 2012 at 8:46 pm
I am in Internet love with you for the Spider Jerusalem.
However, what that thread needs is a bowel disruptor.
May 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Wow…grace under fire people…this is it!
May 30, 2012 at 2:47 pm
“Are you sick of minions and meaniebots complaining about your thievery on call out blogs?
CONVINCE THE INTERNET TO ADOPT ETSY’S FORUM GUIDELINES!”
Fuck, HK, I wish you had written my wedding announcements.
May 30, 2012 at 2:55 pm
I can still do them at Vistaprint.
May 30, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Hk, that’s it. That’s your thing for the next AA. April will write your wedding, graduation or Bah Mitzvah invitation and print them at Vista Print. Money in the bank.
May 30, 2012 at 5:37 pm
I’m already married, what can I get you to write for me…OH MY GOD, I HAVE IT….HK, will you write my obituary? Please? I’ll put you in my will to receive all my left over medications, drugs and liquor.
May 30, 2012 at 2:47 pm
She lost me at acai. Must be the colorblindness or the fact that PURPLE is fucking PURPLE. And I say that with all the rage I can find in my cold, old, immature heart. Good day! Funny, I don’t even remember registering and it took this card selling ho to make me want to log in. Awesomesauce, pass the acai.
May 30, 2012 at 2:50 pm
My color theory professor used to insist we call it “violet.” Like, if you said purple she’d stop the conversation and make you start over again with violet.
Yeah, that’s a lesson that really stuck with us.
May 30, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Well, Roy G. Bip just doesn’t sounds as cool.
May 30, 2012 at 2:56 pm
THANK YOU. I had an ex who, on our first date, referred to something as “plum.” I said, “do you mean purple?” “No, I mean plum.” I should have known from the start it wouldn’t work.
May 30, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Hey now, don’t hate on Plum.
May 30, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Are you related to Stephanie?
May 30, 2012 at 6:04 pm
No, I just like plums
May 31, 2012 at 3:45 am
Well, it finally happened. I was happy lurking in the shadows, laughing my ass off at the fuckery and then I saw this. You people are snarky and well read? I actually had to register. I made it through Bali-Gate without commenting but that little Evanovich comment did it. I am home here. You are my people.
May 31, 2012 at 10:27 am
Welcome to the fuckery, Mamaswat!
*sniffs Mamaswat…licks Mamaswat*
Hey, guys, c’mon over and meet the newbie. She still has that great newbie scent and taste!!!!
(Honestly I’m not an Evanovich fan, but if you like her style, I very highly recommend Jennifer Crusie’s solo novels and Darynda Jones. Very good stories, told well, and with a lot of wit.)
May 30, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Every time you get a color wrong the Communists win!
May 30, 2012 at 6:12 pm
But only the fat communists. The skinny ones are still trying to figure out the difference between ‘eggplant’ and ‘acai’.
May 30, 2012 at 7:17 pm
I thought acai was something you ate, not a crayon.
May 30, 2012 at 9:07 pm
When BBC America became a channel they showed “Changing Rooms” all the time. It was forever before I realized that ‘aubergine’ is British for ‘eggplant.’
May 30, 2012 at 9:41 pm
I love aubergine. I’ve always loved aubergine. Sometimes I close my eyes and think of aubergine.
May 31, 2012 at 10:28 am
When you think of aubergine, do you imagine that you’re back at Manderlay?
May 31, 2012 at 11:00 pm
I do.
June 2, 2012 at 9:52 pm
Acai has less blue than eggplant.
May 30, 2012 at 8:29 pm
People are dying of Communism!!!!!
May 30, 2012 at 2:50 pm
She should add one more thing to her words of wisdom… Shut ya mouth…
Fat people are taking over the world one skinny person at a time…. LOL
June 1, 2012 at 1:41 am
Sometimes two at a time, if we’re especially hungry.
May 30, 2012 at 2:51 pm
not enough liquor, didn’t read
June 1, 2012 at 6:57 am
tl;drnel;drMINE.
May 30, 2012 at 2:52 pm
I wish armchair attorneys would get a fucking legal dictionary before they start spoouting off. “Defamation: (1)The act of harming the reputation of another by making a false statement to a third person. (2) A false written or oral statement that damages another’s reputation.” (Black’s Law Dictionary, 7th. ed., 1999, p. 427.)
Stating in writing or orally that you think one seller’s goods look like another’s is NOT a “false statement,” and neither is saying, “This artwork on Etsy is fucking ugly.” Defamation pertains to false statements.
DISCLAIMER: I am not an attorney nor do I profess to be one. But I know better than to start dicussing legal issues online without doing my research.
May 30, 2012 at 2:52 pm
She even used the old “any woman who doesn’t agree with me is obviously just jealous because I’m skinny and have a rich husband” argument, a retro favorite!
Really, can you imagine a worse fate than not being skinny and not marry rich? Because I sure can’t, that’s would be almost as bad as having to wear gloves that don’t match your purse! XD
It’s also SO obvious that she’s the more mature party here! Because acting like the other person being over weight means that you automatically win any dispute you could be having with them is totally not what an elementary school kid would do!
And only a mature person like her would be able to point out that Stifflersmom is both poor AND has no money, a less perceptive person might have thought that those were both the same thing! I think I have a new hero!
May 30, 2012 at 3:34 pm
I kind of hope she actually looks like those super scary Anorexic Twins that were on all the inside edition/ talk shows a while back. Just cuz you skinny don’t mean you look good!
May 30, 2012 at 7:20 pm
I also thought posting an address and phone number she found online was a real class act. Because nobody has the same name as another person, nor are internet servers of your ISP ever located in another city than the one you are at typing from your keyboard.
May 30, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Personally, I’ve learned a lot from Looseycaboosy. Look how brilliantly she’s applied her three rules to live by in this very comment. Such willingness to live and let live! Humbleness the likes of which would make Sarah Palin proud! And her decided focus on making herself better from within, rather than looking outside herself and acting like a complete shithead!
I wonder if she has to wear cute maternity dresses, what with the bulge her head must surely make on her petite frame due to being jammed that far up her own ass.
May 30, 2012 at 2:57 pm
LooseyCaboosey is my new inspiration. I strive to be as humble as she is one day!
May 30, 2012 at 3:06 pm
she sprinkles ♥♥♥♥♥♥ for all to enjoi!
May 30, 2012 at 2:55 pm
I was wondering what happened to Hyacynth Bucket.
May 30, 2012 at 3:10 pm
I just cloned my hands so I could give you a few more thumbs. I just wish I could do more.
May 30, 2012 at 4:51 pm
It’s pronounced “bouquet”! (stern gaze)
May 30, 2012 at 6:26 pm
It’s not Hyacinth, it’s purple!
May 30, 2012 at 7:44 pm
I thought it was acai.
May 30, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Well, I live on $60,400 dollars a year and don’t need a fucking man to take care of me. I CAN HOLD MY OWN.
I also don’t need to have kids to feel unconditional love because no one else can stand my bitchy attitude.
Oh right. Silly me. I’m fat. Wanna fight about it? …because this fat ass works out 5 days a week and could bench press your ‘well off’ pussy of a husband.
The icing on the cake – I have Lupus as well as a serotonin deficiency and still do it all. Do I prance around telling everyone? No. This is my fucking life, and I live for me, not for pseudofriends that I had to find on the internet because no one can stand me in person.
Ugh. Pretentious much?
May 30, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Working out to combat invisible illness, re-pre-SENT! <3
May 30, 2012 at 9:45 pm
*Applies to be pseudofriend*
May 31, 2012 at 4:37 am
Oh, trust me. The fat isn’t invisible. There is a athletic girl inside me, trying to find her way back out.
The best part is that people don’t expect me to be ‘in shape’ at all. When I go to the gym and leave the pins in the weight machines, all of the Lululemon clad, skinny bitches assume that because the ugly fattie could do 3 sets, hey can lift it too. 99% of the time they can’t. That kind of presumptuous people watching makes my day. …you really can’t judge a book mt its cover.
/end cattiness
May 31, 2012 at 9:44 am
I can relate, but with me its RA & thyroid disorder. Throwing a few more plates on the stack when the gym-bunny gets done gives the unspoken message “you may be skinny, but I am strong”. And don’t even get me started on doctors who accuse me of lying about what I eat, because all fat women must be stupid lazy lying pigs.
May 31, 2012 at 10:50 am
Pickle, I sympathize with that athletic girl inside. Mine’s in here somewhere, and pretty pissed at me.
When I was diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome and fibromyalgia and told to exercise, I’d lost most of my strength and had zero endurance. All that advice to lift low weight 50 times was utterly pointless; I couldn’t get past 10. Worse, I was so weak in full-on fibro flare that I literally could not lift a full mug of coffee with one hand. Getting anything done was completely impossible.
Recently, someone got me to try lifting something actually heavy five or ten times, instead. I could tell the difference the next day. Working out to be stronger, instead of trying to be skinnier or more toned or whatever’s considered “feminine” exercise this week, has been amazing. My energy is still limited but being stronger means although I still might only be able to do five things a day, the menu of which things I can do is ten times longer.
May 31, 2012 at 1:17 pm
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. good god. Please those magazine articles with tiny weights and workouts. Women can prevent osteoporosis or whatever the shit is called if they lift heavy weights and accustom their bodies to taking shock from jumps and running. Bones get stronger to prevent injury in later life. Woman can fucking lift and SHOULD fucking lift and we are not weak and I wish I had friends with your mindset to do parkour with!!11 please continue doing what you do and being tough. Tough is the only way on this planet earth.
May 31, 2012 at 1:13 pm
weeeeeeeeeeeee
May 31, 2012 at 1:20 pm
translation: i was stupidly excited by this awesome comment and did my happy noise sorry everyone
May 30, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Man, I remember babysitting a kid who freaked out when I busted him with his hand stuck in the cookie jar. He was still insisting he just wanted to check they were still there when I was using Crisco to get the hand out.
Similar caliber of explanation.
May 30, 2012 at 5:33 pm
He couldn’t remove a cookie without shoving his whole hand in the jar? What an idiot. You’d think he’d be a pro. I’d have left his hand in the jar until his parents came home, and let him try that BS with them. Then again, I was babysitter from hell – Underpaid, unimpressed, and uninterested in lying excuses.
There are only a few things more fun than lying to the babysitter and getting away with it. My job was to spoil that fun.
May 30, 2012 at 6:05 pm
He couldn’t remove a cookie without shoving his whole hand in the jar?
Probably more like monkey-trap syndrome. (Ignore glurgy last paragraph.)
May 30, 2012 at 2:57 pm
What is up with crazy moms randomly sneaking “Hurt my kids and I’ll cut you!” into their conversations, despite violence and children NEVER being mentioned in the conversation? Is this something I’ll understand when I pop one out? Do moms just assume everyone is out to hurt their adorable ickle wiggumsies?
May 30, 2012 at 3:17 pm
I was the mom who, when people said “Oh, how cute! Can I hold her?” said “Sure, here ya go – I’ll be back in an hour or so” and skipped to the mall.
She’s now 8 and can totally kick my ass. I think I am possibly a defective mom.
May 30, 2012 at 9:14 pm
If your kid has the wherewithal to kick your ass instead of cry and whine then your doing something awesome.
May 30, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Only the ones who see their children as fashionable accessories, who are typically the same ones who should have been spayed/neutered in the first place.
May 30, 2012 at 3:54 pm
It’s because every time someone criticizes her “art” she runs into the bedroom and beats her kids with wire hangers.
May 30, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Color-coordinated hand-painted wooden hangers from Bloomingdale’s, of course.
May 30, 2012 at 6:29 pm
No wire hangers EVER!
May 30, 2012 at 9:49 pm
The wooden hangers are from Bali and leave lead paint splinters.
May 30, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Want to threaten me by threatening my boys? Go ahead. They’re both about 6’5″ and in the neighborhood of 225#. Hockey defensemen. With all their teeth, so you know they’re good at it. And they usually like me. Go right ahead.
May 31, 2012 at 10:29 am
Are they legal or would I be risking jail time with them? Just asking…
May 30, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Only the insecure ones.
May 30, 2012 at 2:57 pm
I wonder what Vista Print would say about this? They might be more helpful than these idiots at etsy. This is sooo obviously NOT handmade or even vintage (and don’t get me started on the crap people think is ‘vintage’). It makes me not want to shop on etsy…even though the things I’ve bought are unique and actually handmade and wonderful.
People like these asshats is why we can’t have nice things!!
May 30, 2012 at 3:08 pm
They probably don’t take too kindly to it, considering they commission those designs from actual artists. They both reach out to and accept incoming designs from artists that get paid for what they do. I’m sure the person who actually *did* create this design would not be pleased.
May 30, 2012 at 2:58 pm
I’m just blinking at the utter contradiction between her little miss etiquette “words of wisdom” and the content of the rest of her post. I guess she learned “be humble” so that she could remind lesser (fat) life forms of how humble they must be in her almighty (skinny) presence. I also wonder if her rich husband bought HER online…
May 30, 2012 at 3:45 pm
I think her rant about being thin is as imaginary as her being a graphic designer.
May 30, 2012 at 5:42 pm
I thought the same.
May 30, 2012 at 8:46 pm
I kind of came away from it thinking the whole thing might be a put-up to make the original “artist” look bad-by-association. I mean, if someone *wanted* to shame the Vista-print artist and didn’t mind attracting a lot of misdirected fury in the process, they could hardly have written a more convincing imitation of a stupid git to “defend” her. And make her looks even worse.
As Bugs Bunny would say, “shut up shuttin’ up”, already!
May 30, 2012 at 2:58 pm
I’m actually kind of sad because I’m scrawny and make over $25,000 a year. I don’t want to be in their club though…they seem crazy. I think I’ll quit my job and eat more bacon because my job sucks and bacon is awesome and I want to be in the fat people under $25K group – so much more fun!
May 30, 2012 at 3:06 pm
I confess to also being not fat, and making more than 25K…but…now I am craving bacon.
May 30, 2012 at 6:17 pm
I’m the same. I’m very thin, and I make over 25k. But I won’t apologize for who I am and what I have because I work hard for everything – money and shape.
And I’d never, ever insult someone because of their size or economic situation.
I’d insult them based on their actions and/or words. .
May 31, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Don’t hate me for how I look. There are so many more interesting reasons to hate me.
June 5, 2012 at 12:04 pm
You’re not in their club. You’re with us in the “decent human being” club. We have *chocolate covered* bacon here.
The “beautiful whether you’re fat or skinny because you’re comfortable in your skin club” is pretty cool too. And if anyone reacts to fat shaming by shaming skinny people they get their membership revoked until they write a series of handcrafted yummy haiku about double standards.
May 30, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Ok, I am going to confess this here. I am so confused. A lotta whoolaalaa over so little. Don’t these people have lives? And maybe some art to produce, orders to fill? No?
May 30, 2012 at 3:12 pm
I did sign the petition, with a helpful suggestion, of course.
May 30, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Loosey claims she has so many sales she doesn’t even have time to take a shower. And she’s the one calling others fat, dirty and stupid!
May 31, 2012 at 9:02 am
It’s usually the people who are guilty that immediately jump Regretsy’s ass with their cry of libel, internet bullying, and a handful of misspelt legal terms that don’t even remotely apply to them.
Personally, it irks me when resellers on etsy ride the “cyber bullying” train. If pointing out that a seller is using Vistaprint to fulfill orders and pretending she’s doing them herself is considered cyber bullying, then this lady has obviously never truly been bullied before.
May 30, 2012 at 3:00 pm
All that complaining and insulting but no CEASE AND DESIST? How disappointing… we need an excuse to chat up the lovely Kenneth again
May 30, 2012 at 3:49 pm
I think HK should work her majick (sic) and get him on board as a regular contributor of butthurt defense tips.
May 30, 2012 at 4:07 pm
He probably has a direct feed from Regretsy for everything containing legaloid gibberish. I hope so, anyway. What lawyers read over breakfast instead of the comics.
May 30, 2012 at 3:01 pm
And this is why I love Regretsy.
May 30, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Before I even read the entire thing, I misread the title and thought the seller’s name was, “Petty With Ink.”
Funny.
May 30, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I am a little bit in love with your profile pic by the way.
May 30, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I hope Ms. Skinny is reading all of this now. Maybe she’ll learn a few things.
May 30, 2012 at 7:24 pm
You really think she can read all this and NOT post a billion retorts?
May 31, 2012 at 9:08 am
Like saying “be humble and nice!” and then going on about how fat and gross we all are and how rich she is in the same conversation is a little bit psycho?
Unfortunately, while I can’t definitively diagnose her over the internet, she does display some severe narcissistic tendencies, so any sort of critique, no matter how slight or polite, will be seen as a huge threat to her (and no matter how low she stoops, she’ll still believe herself to be higher and mightier than all the rest)
May 30, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I watched this whole thing unfold and couldn’t help but comment once. This loosey person expects to start a lawsuit? based on what? her bad mouthing everybody and their mom? She seems a little too eager to run to a strangers defense… who called her out?
May 30, 2012 at 3:14 pm
And I loved you for commenting!
Ditto that she was way too eager…its like she personally knows Stephanie or something….
May 30, 2012 at 8:35 pm
*cough*cough*SOCKPUPPETT*cough*
Oh, sorry. Had a frog in my throat.
May 30, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Yeah, I don’t get that. On another blog right now where I hang someone is threatening to take screen shots of all the posts and give them to the police. The problem is that everyone who posts is posting anon. Do they really think that threatening people with the law is going to work? But then again, most of them have no clue as to what slander, defamation and bullying is and then rely on Wiki to substantiate their claims.
May 31, 2012 at 4:00 am
I have to admit I laughed my ass off when I saw that link to Wikipedia. I said to my husband, “oh shit, it’s on now–someone posted a link to Wikipedia!” Then I saw a comment from someone named HK saying it was ON LIKE DONKEY KONG now that the Wiki link was out…awesome.
May 30, 2012 at 3:04 pm
this is a fairy sprinkling ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for all
May 30, 2012 at 3:34 pm
I totally just read that as “a fairy spanking”
May 30, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Women like looseycabitchy make me ashamed and embarrassed for the human race.
Thank fuck I’m a Regretsian from the planet Awesome.
May 30, 2012 at 9:19 pm
“I’m a Regretsian from the planet Awesome”
T-shirts please!
May 30, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Quote of the day:
“Since I am a lady, I will warn you. This is Defamation of a small business. I have to correct myself, this is called Libel, since Slander is oral.”
-LooseyCaboosy
Who knew?
May 30, 2012 at 3:17 pm
WoodysMom, look closely, she typed “deFORmation”! I guess that’s when something gets you bent out of shape?
May 31, 2012 at 6:29 am
Hee, yeah. That was from 8:43a.m. yesterday. Appears the poor thing continues to degenerate further. Many thumbs up for the defornition!
This leads me to two public service announcements:
1) Parents, don’t let your children grow up to sniff glue guns.
4) A moment of silence, please, and two fat glitter tears for Strunk & for White.
May 30, 2012 at 7:48 pm
“since Slander is oral.”
Not according to the Clinton administration.
May 30, 2012 at 11:40 pm
That was a low blow…
May 31, 2012 at 12:27 am
Giggity.
May 31, 2012 at 9:11 am
Defamation and libel, tehe! I’d love to see Loosey’s BFF take this to court. Love love LOVE.
She’d show up in court and say, “Well, yeah, I did steal this from Vistaprint, but the Regretsians were super mean to me about it!”
May 30, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Okay this if my first post ever here, so be nice. Or not. It’s cool.
HELEN POSTED THIS! This is pure awesome. I put the link on the regretsy fb page today and was thrilled when HK responded. Ecstatic when she commented ON THE BLOG itself and now…now it is on regretsy.
All you fat jealous losers are fantastic. Whoever was the Lawyer at Koppian and Paystin and the most recent commenter–Jason Kustra with the football team comment. Wow guys, I have been laughing out loud.
May 30, 2012 at 3:14 pm
O-M-G And people call THIS site “hateful”? That was the craziest, nastiest, mess I’ve ever seen! Over who printed a few cards? What about the Chinese reseller’s that are selling THOUSANDS of items a year, undercutting the prices of handmade sellers. (I am NOT about to bump my shop, I’m pissed)!!! I got a convo last week in my etsy shop. A lady inquiring about my Sapphire bib necklace. It’s in clearance for $50.00, started at 75 & I created the pendant & clasp specifically for this necklace, that I CREATED. There are no others. The lady said she “wanted to buy it FOR HER DAUGHTER’S WEDDING PRESENT, but didn’t want to spend that much” After my apt renovation is over & I move back, I’m moving to “Big Cartel”. I’ve had quite enough of etsy & the damn cupcakes,and moustachioed staff staring off into space. Maybe they do that because they can’t stand to look anyone in their faces. Well, now I’M a pain in the ass, sorry
May 30, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Yes, a bold pain in the ass indeed.
Markup fix pls?
May 30, 2012 at 3:37 pm
actually if you look at her sold stuff, it wasn’t “just a few cards”. Most of her items that sold were Vistaprint. And the $20 fee? Not even the final cost…that’s just the deposit.
Ditto the etsy staff staring into space.
May 30, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Yeah, so she’s violating the TOU *all over the place* because that practice is against the TOU (last time I looked anyway), and she posts links to her off-etsy website.
It pisses me off that she’s scraping buyers with her storefront, but I’m not even trying to compete in that niche market.
May 30, 2012 at 3:38 pm
Sometimes I hate when people pull shit like that. On the one hand, I can understand strict budgets (that sapphire necklace would be MINE if I didn’t just get out of the hospital and am staring down a horrifying number of bills. yaaayyyy. Anyway.) But on the other it’sl such an insult to have someone ask you to cut your already reduced price for something as important as a wedding gift. Arg.
May 30, 2012 at 3:55 pm
TY!
May 30, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Not to mention that $50? Which works out about £35 of my British monies? For a necklace THAT gorgeous? (tracked it down in your shop linked in your username) That is a bargain price to begin with! And that’s without even taking into account that it’s OOAK. If I wasn’t a complete peasant I’d have bought it myself.
May 30, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Are you serious? She didn’t want to spend $50 on her daughter’s wedding present?
May 30, 2012 at 3:14 pm
this is the stuff that annoys me the most.
JUST MAKE YOUR OWN DESIGN.
what? what’s that you say? You can’t draw or come up with original creative content that will sell? THEN MAYBE SELLING DESIGN WORK IS NOT WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING FOR A LIVING!!!!
Every single day I get up at 6am and start designing and painting and creating and researching and scanning and posting and promoting till well into the evening. Then I see this knob-end who can’t come up with an original idea or execute a creative thought to save her life… AND DEFENDS IT AS IF IT WERE ACCEPTABLE… grumble grumble…
They have businesses for stay at home types who can’t work outside the home or create anything, Avon, that kitchen supply thing, whatever else, I don’t know…
Leave the art and design work to the artists and designers and go sell cologne and face creams.
/end rant
May 30, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Wait, what? Make my OWN designs? But that’s like, work and junk. That’s too hard. Don’t you realize that I’m skinny and my husband is rich? I can’t be expected to do that kind of hard work, my brain is too fried from the peroxide and spray tan for that!
May 30, 2012 at 4:18 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 5:24 pm
I don’t think she stole anything. But coming into a thread like that an identifying yourself as an “authorized reseller” is a very bad idea.
May 30, 2012 at 8:28 pm
I think she stole the lovely kissing birdies, the owl in the tree and deer designs. I’ve seen them all over etsy… someone stole them!
May 30, 2012 at 5:33 pm
She doesn’t mention anywhere on the listing that it’s a VP print. In fact, she makes it sound like she did actually design it herself.
“About this Design
…………………………………………
The White Carved Fantasy Tree is one of my best sellers. These are great for Wedding invites to shower invites, any kind of party. Looks great in any and all colors. This one is also so versatile, use elegant text and linen stock to dress it up, I can add birdies or owls, I can remove the heart carving, change the colors of the leaves, anything is possible, just ask!”
May 30, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Okay, so it’s not theft. Just FRAUD.
Misrepresenting an item as your own work by listing it on Etsy as handmade is pretty inexcusable. She can try and claim ignorance, but it isn’t possible to list an item like that accidentally. For it to show up in “handmade,” you have to answer the question “Who made it?” by selecting either yourself or a member of your shop from the drop-down list.
No defense for that. To list it there, she had to LIE. And she made money on that lie.
Like I said, fraud.
May 30, 2012 at 6:38 pm
I love that you said ‘knob end’.
Don’t get me started on people who work in a design industry and don’t design anything.
May 30, 2012 at 3:15 pm
I like how “Stephanie” slips up and bascially admits “looseycaboosy” is her. What a fat, jealous loser!
May 30, 2012 at 4:03 pm
You know, I find myself wondering if Stephanie fancies herself another Helen Killer, thinking her blog will go big? One huge problem……Regretsy is funny & filled with camaraderie! I also find it interesting that she accuses others as being immature & unstable, yet she feels the need to cloak herself under another username/account using the handle “looseycaboosy”? Like Helen sometimes says “this stuff writes itself”!
May 30, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Skinny bitches can be so annoying. My personal favorite is her very first reactionary comment to being called out, “I am a liscenced Vista Print reseller”. Really, well why don’t you openly state that in your etsy listing, rather than claiming to design and handmake your invitations? I bet she does business cards too…and anything else vista print has a ready made template for!
May 30, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Wonder if Vista Prints knows how this drags THEIR name in the mud?
May 30, 2012 at 7:47 pm
VistaPrint doesn’t need Stephanie to drag its name through the mud. The company is doing quite a good job of it itself. Seriously, google VistaPrint and you’ll come up with some impressive lists of complaints from disgruntled customers.
May 30, 2012 at 3:17 pm
And That was before her crazy, and that of her “friends” really started to show!
May 30, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Oh I can’t TELL you how I wish that cunning stunt would grace us with her presence like she did that other blog! She and her nerd minions!
May 30, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Dammit people, this is too juicy to miss and I have work to do! I’m trying to claw may way up from $25k a year and it’s hard when there is stuff this rich just lying around the internet. Plus, I can out-nerd her nerds exponentially.
May 30, 2012 at 3:18 pm
“But more importantly, some jackass on another blog is going to see this as content. Then their readers will join in, and it will turn into the worst PR you ever had.”
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That is my favorite couple of sentences EVER!
May 30, 2012 at 3:19 pm
In order to prove libel there has to be an INTENT to defame. That’s Lawyering 101-I’m not a lawyer but I play one on tv. You can’t sue someone for libel because they asked a question (handmade or Vistaprint?)
And for FUCK’S SAKE, it’s the internet not fucking preschool, so grow a pair and admit that you got caught with your hand in the proverbial cookie jar.
May 30, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Oh, she also links to another site where she sells the same thing–that is against Etsy TOU also (well, it used to be). We could all report her for that, even if we can’t for the ‘handmade’ aspect of her invites.
May 30, 2012 at 3:23 pm
At least she didn’t call us fat jealous losers. Because that would have really upset me. My feelings are already hurt because my vibrator ran out of batteries while I was living in my tiny house alone.
May 30, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Hey my house is WAY tinier than yours is! And I want to invent a vibrator that plugs into the wall so you never have to worry about running out of happiness!
May 30, 2012 at 8:13 pm
…you do know about the Hitachi Magic Wand, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Magic_Wand There are some nice aftermarket attachments for g-spot stimulation as well.
May 30, 2012 at 10:17 pm
It’s pretty much the best thing invented. This fat jealous loser has one because her hot boyfriend decided to buy it for her!
May 30, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hide personas are so common when it comes to playing both fields of the Internet business. I’ll guess I talk to my friend “Harvey” instead.
May 30, 2012 at 3:24 pm
May 31, 2012 at 4:06 am
I swear every time I see these guys I giggle like a six year old.
May 31, 2012 at 4:54 am
DAMMIT, I DID IT AGAIN
May 30, 2012 at 3:25 pm
“Is that what you call a get-away?
Well, tell me what you got away with
I’ve seen more spine in jellyfish
I’ve seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids”
Thanks Brand New. I had no idea you were subtly screaming about butthurt re-sellers all those years ago. Just another reason for me to put you on repeat. <3
May 30, 2012 at 3:27 pm
I’m surprised it didn’t reach the level of calling people nazi’s or hitler once the fat insults were done!
June 2, 2012 at 10:10 pm
She did call everyone “republicans who hate corporate greed”
May 30, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Personally, I like the threat that she has given the ip addresses to nerds. Stuff one can do with that:
Find the location of the poster. (But usually just the general area since it will go thru an ISP. Unless there’s more proxies involved.)
DOS attacks on the IP.
Other cyber stuff, if it does get hunted down. Now that will get lawyers involved.
May 30, 2012 at 3:27 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Are you flouncing? ‘Cuz that’s pretty un-epic.
May 30, 2012 at 3:54 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 4:45 pm
So, Cloak, please explain to us “logically and rationally” based on your evaluation how the person selling Vista Print’s wares on etsy ISN’T a reseller.
May 30, 2012 at 4:08 pm
You do know that the Loosey Caboosey person was defending the seller, not attacking her, right? Because that’s the only person I saw bullying or behaving inappropriately.
May 30, 2012 at 3:57 pm
May 30, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Ugh, this was meant as a reply to GreySkye
Hit the wrong button! I’m sorry, I accept your thumbs willingly (take that as you will).
May 30, 2012 at 4:02 pm
The last time someone willingly accepted my thumbs, I got breakfast the next morning.
May 30, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Was it a good breakfast?
May 31, 2012 at 9:46 am
Fuck the breakfast, tell us more about the thumbs!
May 30, 2012 at 4:01 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Hopefully this will actually post as a reply and not a separate comment – but I didn’t think anyone would go out of there way to state their disagreement without doing so intentionally to stir up an argument. Also, I didn’t think anyone would seriously (and not as a troll)refer to a grown person getting caught in a lie (or mistake, whichever it is) as “bullying”. I didn’t think you were a troll because you disagreed; I’ve disagreed with a few posts myself. I figured you were a troll because of how bafflingly odd your post was.
May 30, 2012 at 4:26 pm
I think it’s ok to disagree with a post… but it’s not ok to flounce on a less than epic scale. I’ve also learned that unless you’re full of snark, you get thumbs downed here. I bite my tongue (fingers?) sometimes too.
May 30, 2012 at 4:34 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Do you bite your thumb at us sir?
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
bite my thumb, sir.
(I couldn’t resist…the devil made me post it)
May 30, 2012 at 4:47 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 6:19 pm
First of all, getting thumbs down on a comment is meaningless. It’s about the least important thing that can happen on the internet.
Secondly, stop being surprised that saying you feel bad about a post is meeting with disapproval. Saying anything that makes people feel bad for laughing on a humor blog is never going to be well received.
May 30, 2012 at 8:26 pm
It’s not the end of the world. Don’t take it personally.
May 31, 2012 at 9:03 am
Getting thumbs-downed is practically a rite of passage here.
May 31, 2012 at 9:48 am
Oh shit, this is a humor blog? Fuck, I’ve been doing it wrong.
May 30, 2012 at 4:38 pm
:/ I have been there. You were there for me when it happened. Since this is not the forums, all I can do is give you a thumbs up.
May 30, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Problem is, she wasn’t bullied. It was pointed out that she was a reseller. Ok, so at first she was very polite about it, and tried to smooth things over. Thing is, you can’t continually poke a dog and cry “bullying” when it turns around to bite you. And then continue poking it and start crying and calling it a bad, stupid dog when you should have learned your lesson and stayed out of it.
May 30, 2012 at 4:11 pm
(Ok, the reply button seems to be on the fritz. My previous post was supposed to be in response to GreySkye’s post, #73)
May 30, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Same here. My post down there was a reply to Greys.
May 30, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Again? My previous post was supposed to be in reply to Dysfuntioning Unit’s post. Wonder where this will end up. I am posting it as a reply on the post …not as a new post…fuck I give up.
Well. Anyways. Was I the only one who wondered why Helen was up at 8:56 am?
May 30, 2012 at 5:09 pm
I wondered too……
Scary
May 30, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Hey look. The post order problem has been fixed. So now anyone who stops by here a few hours after the intial problem had occured, wont see why the posts appear odd or disjointed.
Thanks for the thumbs down.
May 30, 2012 at 4:12 pm
You know, I was somewhat neutral on this (except for the DramaQueen pettiness on all parts) until her alt got really ugly and extremely personal with me, and I hadn’t even posted there.
Welfare Divorcee indeed.
May 30, 2012 at 7:33 pm
are we sure that LooseyGoosey is Stephanie’s sock puppet? because… damn, that’s really frightening.
May 30, 2012 at 7:52 pm
On the internet, we’re sure of nothing.
which is why we so need to sign that petition.
June 2, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Same here, plus chubby, disabled and has had to wrestle with mental illness (my own as well as that of loved ones).
My DD will need invitations soon, we won’t be getting them from this Etsy seller, or Vista Print… other Etsy sellers only after some deep research on any design we might like.
Cause I’m seriously disturbed by presenting the work of others (the actual design of the card) as one’s own.
However, ETSY has redefined Cooperative and Reseller so much that it really boils down to if it’s someone admin wants they can’t be closed no matter what they do… and if they want your shop gone, they’ll find a reason and close your shop with little to no warning & no help to solve whatever the problem is.
May 30, 2012 at 5:19 pm
I did see a lot of overly-mean things being directed at her also… at the start. At first she seemed pretty measured in her responses, and it did seem like she got piled on a bit.
Had she continued making her case rationally, my sympathies would have lay with Stephanie.
But then she lost her mind and created the “looseycaboosy” account. That’s where all my sympathy flies out the window.
May 30, 2012 at 5:21 pm
I do think it was a pretty hostile thread. People are angry at resellers, and she identified herself as “an authorized Vistaprint reseller.” She can’t expect to jump into a thread like that — on a site like that — admit to being a reseller, and expect anything but flaming.
So in that sense, I disagree that she was not to blame. Her involvement is exactly what escalated it.
June 2, 2012 at 12:19 pm
the thread would have quickly died out, and people would NOT have been sending links to all their friends if she’d left it alone.
By posting to the thread and starting out with a comment about being “authorized dealer” threw gasoline on a cooling ember.
May 30, 2012 at 3:36 pm
And then another jackass might just use this for content on his blog, and another, and another, and another…
May 31, 2012 at 4:10 am
…and they told two fat jealous loser friends, and they told two fat jealous loser friends, and so on, and so on…
May 30, 2012 at 3:39 pm
I live in a really big 1959 trailer and only make $16,00O a year. I shop at the finest dollar stores and dented canned goods places. Can I be a whinning ass victim here too and threaten people I don’t know? Sure sounds like fun! Drag out them imaginary lawyers!!!
May 31, 2012 at 2:17 pm
“I shop at the finest dollar stores and dented canned goods places.”
This has to be one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while. I rarely LOL for real!
May 30, 2012 at 3:44 pm
You meanies are like, totes barbaric! You have no idea how hard it is to log into stuff on the Internet and type information about someone! The name on those invitations could be like 12 keystrokes long! My fingers are cramping just thinking about it. Spread the cupcake love and stop calling out. I’m wrapping this up now.
May 30, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Crap like this really bust my leather chaps, I actually do make handmade items on etsy, I spend atleast 10 hours a day everyday sewing new items and this loon resells vistaprint. Screw her, her kids and her “handmade” wedding cards.
May 30, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Wait, you’re going to leave a comment like that and NOT have your screen name link to your shop?
May 30, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Seconded, although with the atmosphere of the other post, I should note that I want your shop name so I can favorite and peruse, not to check your bona fides.
May 30, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Me too! Sorry, I should have clarified. I’m a creepy stalker and love to see what mt fellow fat, jealous losers do.
May 31, 2012 at 7:48 am
So late to the party, but I agree with posting your shop (if you have one). I went to look at DysfunctioningUnit’s shop and made the wonderful discovery of a freaking awesome trilobite bracelet/necklace that I now need to own This. Very. Second.
Now to figure out which bills I can wait to pay.
May 31, 2012 at 9:53 am
Hee, thanks. I love mr. trilobite, I use him all over the place. He makes great jacket buttons.
I love seeing what other people do, whether they make stuff or supply stuff, or sell vintage stuff, I’m always curious.
May 31, 2012 at 2:14 pm
You are MINE now, Mr. Trilobite! I can buy booze another day!
Looking forward to him!
May 30, 2012 at 3:48 pm
May 30, 2012 at 4:00 pm
“Do not look outside of yourself, look within and make yourself better”
The last time someone tried to look within themselves, we got goatse.
May 30, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Oh where are my extra thumbs when I need them?!?!?
May 30, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Have you looked within yourself?
May 30, 2012 at 7:35 pm
I’m too busy governing myself accordingly to look within myself.
June 1, 2012 at 12:06 am
It’s way too dark in there.
May 30, 2012 at 4:01 pm
What drives me crazy is she says Stifflersmom (and everyone else) is jealous because we don’t have money and aren’t skinny or live in a good neighborhood, like she does. But how does she know that? Maybe we are all affluent size 0 housewives who live in the Hamptons. And maybe we’re not. Either way, It really grinds my gears that that’s the thing people decide to pick at, as though that’s the only thing that could possibly matter and send us into a blind rage because a stranger on the internet pointed it out.
Now, if she had said that I was an idiot because I like Sherlock or Batman or Star Trek I might turn into a spitting, fiery rage beast that will destroy all humanity.
May 30, 2012 at 4:30 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 5:44 pm
I can. A shop owner needs to know when to just cut their losses and leave to save their reputation. Stay above it, don’t get involved and save face. You either ignore it completely or do what she did at the beginning, apologize, remove the offending items and leave. The best way to deal with people on the internet when you don’t like what their saying is to close the window. You don’t get involved, and you absolutely do not devolve into a poo-slinging monkey
May 31, 2012 at 4:29 am
^^THANK YOU.
May 30, 2012 at 6:49 pm
She should have walked away. She should have got up from her computer, poured a glass of wine or made a cup of tea or coffee, put her feet up, found a blankie and a nice cushion and had a good cry.
May 30, 2012 at 8:04 pm
I think that even when one “snaps”, most people do so in a manner that does not involve becoming a raging, hateful, prejudiced asshole unless they were already an asshole, and just hiding it. Even at my worst moments, I would never EVER say the things she said and make such outlandish vitriolic posts regarding vast swatches of people. In my opinion, for someone to say such things, they have to believe them on some level, and that is where I have a problem. I do not care how angry or fed-up you are; you still have responsibility for your actions and words, and should be accountable for what you post. Plus, the whole thing basically shows that her initial politeness was a facade for hiding her true beliefs about the poor, mentally ill, and overweight. I see her as a raging, hateful twunt, regardless of the context of her replies.
May 30, 2012 at 8:05 pm
In other words, it is not the fact that she snapped that I find incomprehensible – it is HOW she snapped.
May 30, 2012 at 5:46 pm
I used to love driving through the Hamptons in my ’79 Monte 350 with open headers. With stop signs every 50 feet, it was a beautiful thing to come off a stop and set off the car alarms around me.
May 31, 2012 at 12:27 am
It’s the female version of “I make a million bucks a year, and am retired at the age of thirty-two, I was a Navy Seal, and my wife used to be a model, and my life is SWEEEET.”
On the Internet, no one can call you out.
The question does come up of why these particular things are so important to the person in question that they have to keep telling everyone on the Internet they have them, but my lip curled so much when Looseycaboosey announced she was going to get the DSM (I do hope that’s the DSM IV-TR, honey) and diagnose someone over there that this health care profession in training is just going to shrug.
May 31, 2012 at 9:21 am
As someone with two psychiatrist parents (no, really. It’s not as bad as it sounds, honest) I get ridiculously excited when someone busts out their armchair psychiatry.
Bonus points if I’m visiting my parents and get to call them over to read it.
May 31, 2012 at 9:58 am
That’s when I wish I was a hacker. Because then you CAN call them out. But I’m too lazy and unlike certain psychopaths, I don’t get involved, I just close the window and go watch bunny videos to calm myself down lol
May 30, 2012 at 4:01 pm
I have a closet full of gorgeous clothes, dance every day, get “love”
from a hot military man when I want, AND I eat whatever I want. Being a fat feminist is awesome!
I would recommend the above woman try it sometime. Maybe then she wouldn’t be so full of anger and hatred and so focused on her appearance. It’s really sad that a grown woman can’t think of anything worse to be than “overweight”. I think ripping off customers and taking away business from legitimate craftspeople is pretty bad, but maybe that’s just me…
May 30, 2012 at 4:02 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 4:04 pm
Hopefully after the comment I left on that feed posts, there will be more fuckery most foul. I called myself a fat divorced slut. Ball’s in their court now.
May 30, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Can Stephanie, Loosey, and Kayle come over and play? Can they? Can they? Pleeeeeeaaaaaassseeeee. I swear we’ll be nice to them.
May 30, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Play, like my cat does with a mouse?
May 30, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Stephanie has a degree in Fine Art. Oh dear, somebody wasted a whole lot of money.
May 30, 2012 at 4:14 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 6:44 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 9:50 pm
You got thumbs-downed for your hilariously wrongheaded use of the term “lynch mob.”
That, and your condescending implication that you’re the only one here doing any critical thinking.
May 31, 2012 at 12:20 pm
I love when people don’t realize that they aren’t as brilliant as they think they are. Extra points for calling other people dumb when their own argument is just… wrong for lack of a better word.
June 1, 2012 at 12:14 am
NO NO…that’s just not right!
The correct term to use when your argument is wrong is FAT. “Dumb and fat” would be ok; but the fat has to be in there right at the outset or the argument is not appropriate.
May 30, 2012 at 6:59 pm
VistaPrint is not in the position to license the use of other people’s work. Go and read their terms. And theft is theft, doesn’t matter if it’s 5% or 100%, it’s still theft.
May 30, 2012 at 7:39 pm
My problem is she’s not disclosing what she does. Maybe there are harried brides out there who don’t have time to go to vistaprint and order their invitations themselves and would like to hire someone else to do it. But these brides are thinking they are getting something special and unique, and they’re not.
Sort of like when I bought a cool hippie t-shirt in the Haight-Ashbury on a vacation to San Francisco and saw the same goddam shirt at the mall in Woodbrige NJ when I got home.
May 30, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Even if she didn’t steal anything from Vistaprint, she certainly defrauded customers by misrepresenting her items as being made by her. And that’s not far off from theft, when you get someone to pay you money based on a lie.
May 30, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Did anyone else catch the part where she says, what she’s doing is the same thing as an artist making prints of their work?
So, setting up an Etsy store with copyrighted vistaprint designs, and claiming them to be your own, except no, wait: only 5 to 10 of them are vistaprint, the rest of the 100-some are mine, except actually I work for vistaprint as an authorized reseller, except… OK OK, I got my story straight: I used to work for vistaprint, and now I make my own designs, and I use vistaprint to print them, and that is the same as an artist getting prints made.
Right, got it.
May 30, 2012 at 4:22 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 4:34 pm
If they are, in fact, her work. Then, no, it doesn’t matter who prints them.
Gosh, the only way this could be worse is if this were Etsy’s featured seller for the week,
May 30, 2012 at 6:52 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Thumbs down is not that passive. It’s also not that important.
May 30, 2012 at 7:13 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Which means they’re the first posts people click to read.
May 30, 2012 at 8:30 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 9:43 pm
If what is false?
May 30, 2012 at 9:57 pm
That they’re the first posts people click to read.
May 30, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Either way, it’s not as if we can control what comments people like or dislike. They’re just expressing a preference.
May 30, 2012 at 10:19 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Significant? It’s just people’s opinions about whether or not they like a given comment on a humor blog. It’s hard to consider such things very important.
May 30, 2012 at 10:31 pm
I read ALL the posts. Including the hidden ones. I also rate all the posts, but it’s mostly so I know which ones I’ve already read.
May 31, 2012 at 3:06 pm
I read them all, until I get bored with a topic anyway. But I don’t rate them unless they really strike me one way or the other.
May 30, 2012 at 7:51 pm
*shamefully admits to searching the term “hidden” to find the juicy bits of a long comment thread*
May 30, 2012 at 8:13 pm
I ctrl+F every post with over 200 comments for “hidden”
May 30, 2012 at 7:36 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 8:13 pm
It’s just democracy in action. We leave it up to the readers to vote which comments they like. We don’t sift through and delete negative comments. That would be completely arbitrary and way too much work. So we have this little WordPress plugin that lets readers vote. Pick your poison.
I’ve gotten thumbdowns before. Seriously, who cares?
May 30, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Cloak, we understand it just fine. What you don’t seem to understand is that her listing it on Etsy as handmade by her IS the problem we have with it.
Were you this defensive of Ecologica Malibu? Because this is EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
May 30, 2012 at 8:47 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Even her earliest posts are full of justifications, excuses and non-apologies, plus the complaining about being bullied started very early on before there were more than just a few comments aside from her own, and none of them were anything close to “bullying” at that point.
She’s playing the victim, and you’re buying into it. This isn’t someone who made an honest mistake. She lied. Flat-out lied. Like I said, you can’t make a “handmade” listing on Etsy without verifying in the drop-down menu that you made it (not even the default selection), so it’s impossible to claim ignorance and brush it off as a “mistake” as if it were just some simple “oops” moment.
I’m almost always willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, often when no one else will. But in this case, nope, she’s not fooling me.
May 31, 2012 at 10:08 am
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May 31, 2012 at 10:31 am
So it’s ok to pass off designs on vistaprint as her own, as long as at least 90% of the other designs in her shop are hers (and who knows if they really are)? How is that logical? She was selling those as handmade wedding invitations, which they absolutely are not. Any asshole could go on Vistaprint and “make” them.
I thought her first few posts were kind of ok, she said she was sorry and wasn’t resorting to name calling. However, that doesn’t change the fact that she is a liar (some of the comments over there before she went crazy were cruel, but people are pissed at resellers. I give them the benefit of the doubt for being angry at an admitted reseller. I would NOT call them bullies.)
The worst part for me was comparing what she did with real artists selling prints, like Mystik Spiral said. I put a ton of time and thought into my paintings, and for her to compare someone like me making prints of my hardwork to her punching in names and dates is insulting.
May 30, 2012 at 8:07 pm
And, by changing the relevant information (names, dates, places, whatever) she’s “customizing” each card for her customers. She works so hard!
May 31, 2012 at 6:48 am
I totally read your comment as having a *glitter tear* at the end. It wasn’t stated but I just felt like it was there.
June 2, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Aw, I should have put one…
May 30, 2012 at 4:19 pm
And everything is out of order as well. Cloak mentioned my username up there and I was baffled because it was prior to me posting a comment, I was all, “HOW DOES (S)HE KNOW I’M ABOUT TO POST A COMMENT?” And what ‘factions’ do I belong to? But refreshing, the comment order keeps rearranging so let’s all just have a group hug.
If she’s a “Liscensed Vistaprint reseller”, does that mean people who sell Avon and Partylite could sell on Etsy so long as they altered something on the product – sticking a label over it or something? Etsy is terribly confusing to me.
May 30, 2012 at 4:25 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 7:56 pm
Seller is a licensed dealer of a product. Seller puts the products on Etsy claiming that they are handmade by her. Seller gets caught, gets defensive, and threatens legal action against the people who called her out.
Am I describing Ecologica, or the card seller?
June 2, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Etsy has said that just relabeling something (ie: soaps) was not allowed, but generally, when they decide they want to, they allow it.
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May 30, 2012 at 5:02 pm
You MUST be shrooming. No one made fun of anything. No one provoked her. She WAS being civil until a) she lied about removing the listings and therefore deserved the second round of calling-out, resulting in b) where she started using fake accounts to spew such hateful shit at the people who pointed out her mistakes.
Was there snark present in the initial calling-out? Yeah, but nowhere will you read any of those first commenters calling her fat, ugly, a slut, poor, etc. Someone called her a liar, which is pretty accurate, but that’s about it.
She obviously ISN’T interested in keeping her integrity since she thinks that relieving her frustrations behind such transparent troll accounts is the way to learn from her mistakes. She had credibility until she lied about taking down the listings and then went nuts with imaginary friends. How anyone can defend this person is way beyond me and even into some kind of fifth dimension, which I suppose is what the Internet really is.
May 30, 2012 at 5:06 pm
I don’t know; she started out okay, but if you read through the comments she starts to get pretty nasty pretty quick. And to be fair, about 99% of the comments here have been about the lunatic who came to her “assistance.”
May 30, 2012 at 5:12 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 8:24 pm
People feel bad for people that deserve it. When you suddenly start attacking and calling people fat broke welfare trash, well, we tend to lose sympathy pretty fast. Especially when it’s from a seller whose items are mass-produced from a major company with its own crappy reputation while the rest of us bust our ass listing handmade, vintage, and supplies. You know, kinda like Etsy claims we are supposed to do.
May 30, 2012 at 5:46 pm
I’m sorry, but I will never get tired of laughing at people who dissolve into a frothing rage over some bullshit thread. It’s just always going to be amusing to me.
People who lose their shit and start calling people fat because “they’re mean” will always be content around here.
May 30, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Agreed! If you are going to play on the internet there are a few trolling basics everyone needs. What are they teaching kids these days?!
May 31, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Here’s a free tip-
If you know you handmake your items, you don’t feel the need to go to a blog and fervantly defend yourself. Nor do you feel the need to threaten legal action.
May 30, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Yeah, don’t be mean you guys! Unless she’s fat, obvs.
May 30, 2012 at 6:08 pm
and jealous and a loser. These are all very important aspects.
May 30, 2012 at 4:28 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Nooooooo don’t say it Cloak!
May 30, 2012 at 6:34 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Just don’t break the page this time to cause further chaos.
May 30, 2012 at 4:28 pm
@RevW- it was all you can eat waffles!
May 30, 2012 at 4:30 pm
And to think I stopped reading Etsy Call Out ‘cuz it was getting too boring!
LooseyCaboosey is a hypocritical idiot who yaps on about others not declaring their shop(s), but hey, where’s the link to her shop???? Unless she really is Stephanie?? No, that can’t be…
May 30, 2012 at 4:32 pm
You have to love the person who is so humble she has to tell you that she has a big house in a desirable neighborhood with a well off husband and a petite body.
The person who believes in live and let live and tells us fatties to have a good life.
The person who talks about looking within herself and then threatens us with nerds, lawyers and karma.
She is indeed a beautiful person, we should all live by her rules. They seem to be doing well for her.
She certainly is loosey, just not in the caboosy (remember that petite body!)
May 30, 2012 at 8:24 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever seen/heard anyone say the words “petite body” outside of crappy internet porn stories.
May 31, 2012 at 4:38 am
Or match.com.
May 31, 2012 at 8:14 am
^^^THIS^^^
May 30, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Pickle,
Or if you’re elderly. You don’t need as much snark here if you’re a fat, ugly OLD loser. Oh, yes, I’ve been down-thumbed but not nearly as much as I deserve.
(I swear, since finding you all, growing old isn’t half so bad as it used to be.)
May 30, 2012 at 4:35 pm
( boy are things out of joint here… #79 of mine was supposed to be a reply to #91 of Pickles.
No doubt that will change if Bronc fixes it up, but right now.. wayyyy out of place.
May 31, 2012 at 12:47 pm
I don’t know, NanaB, I liked coming across that one word in the midst of all this:
Pickle.
see?
Pickle…
It suits this whole disjointed page! Yay for Pickle!
May 30, 2012 at 4:34 pm
This is my first post … I’m a little skerred.
I’ve asked Etsy about this directly, but regarding name jewelry. These folks are not producing their jewelry … they are simply submitting the name to the mass production factory. Have you seen how many “Carrie” necklaces there are?
Etsy said they will look into it.
May 30, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Which is etsy-speak for “go fuck yourself, we’re still making money on these idiots.”
May 31, 2012 at 12:59 am
I think they are starting to do more about it. I got a content-team inquisition letter recently, and had to prove to them that my stuff was handmade. I’m assuming some contented skinny winner flagged me and they investigated. I was cleared, BTW.
May 31, 2012 at 2:09 pm
They only “do” something about it when it’s a small seller (who is probably actually following the rules).
There are several big resellers on Etsy – who can be definitively proven to be selling cheap, mass-produced stuff – who are still there after months of flagging. How can that be explained, except by them intentionally overlooking it because of the fees they earn?
June 2, 2012 at 10:30 pm
I’m going to go look right now. It would be great to have my name written around my neck in case I have a fibro flare and get lost!
May 30, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Woah. Woah. Woah. Helen was up at 8:56 AM! ??!!
What the hell is going on today?
May 30, 2012 at 4:39 pm
All this hate is smudging up my rose-tinted glasses. Etsy is just like a cupcake: a layer of sugary-sweet bullshit frosting covering a disappointingly dry and lacking in integrity resold muffin.
Nobody wants your old muffin, okay? Put it away.
May 31, 2012 at 1:32 am
No no, don’t put it away. Put it up for sale as vintage upcycled baked goods. Be sure to include a photo of it on barnwood.
May 31, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Noboday wants your old muffin because nobody wants your old muffin!
May 31, 2012 at 3:04 pm
*nobody
June 2, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Fuck – I actually had a date tonite – the first real date since my husband died – and I totally missed it because I spent 3 hours wading through this magnificent; idiot-savant genius level 70 butthurt fuckery. This is art! Internet verite at its most amazing. Please let the game continue. We have sampler tshirts samplers bumper stickers coffee mugs – hell this is a Phd thesis waiting to happen. I love you FJL’s
May 30, 2012 at 4:41 pm
I love that the reseller unintentionally called Callin’ Out on Etsy a fat, jealous loser.
Even her attempt at insult is intellectual property theft.
May 30, 2012 at 4:44 pm
I’m a kind of fat fortysomething woman who lives with her dog. I’m happier now than I’ve ever been. I have great friends, a nice little garden, a job I love, and I paint cars, walls, and furniture for shits and giggles. One of my bosses runs 5 miles a day (she’s in her 50s and her legs look better than mine did in my 20s) has a handsome husband 2.0, drives a jag, wears fabulous clothes, lives in a fabulous house…and all she worries about is her body size and her image.
Fuck
that
shit
May 30, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Well, some of us who are thin and in good shape are happy
And happy for anyone else who’s having a good time in life, no matter their size or income
May 30, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Yeah, bur for a lot of people it becomes one of the only 3 things that they think about. Obviously not for everyone, but I’d rather be fat an happy than thin and miserable lol
May 30, 2012 at 4:49 pm
I am going to start offering photo printing. Using Walgreens. And charging 5x’s as much for your prints.
Who wants to order first?!
May 30, 2012 at 6:24 pm
I think I’ll become a “personal etsy shopper”. People tell me what they want to buy, I’ll get it from online catalogs & sell them the stuff at a 200% mark up. CHA-CHING!
May 30, 2012 at 4:50 pm
What I learned from all this:
Looseycaboosey=wrecked rectum=butthurt
That is all.
May 30, 2012 at 4:52 pm
LOOSEYSCREW is back and posting to all you FJLs. hahahahhaa.
May 30, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Who’s going to make the “Have a nice life, fatties” cross stitch?
May 30, 2012 at 5:00 pm
I don’t know, on the fence about wanting one. Can I see it in a room first?
May 30, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Whoever does it, I’ll buy one! Right after I buy about 12 of the Kanye West tweet ones.
May 30, 2012 at 7:01 pm
You beat me to it bunch of pants. But it needs to be done!
May 31, 2012 at 10:28 am
Will it have cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles stitched in the corners?
May 31, 2012 at 8:32 pm
I registered solely to say I could turn a (simple, mind you) sampler of that around over the weekend.
You FJL’s have given me so much fat, jealous amusement I figured I might as well delurk and offer to repay the favor.
May 31, 2012 at 8:36 pm
Oh lord, my icon looks like it’s tweaking out.
…Okay, so, not entirely inaccurate, ahem.
May 30, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Wow, that loosey’s brain is a bag of cats, eh?
May 30, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Okay dammitt! From now on, I will be referred to as
“Cockamamie Jamie”
May 30, 2012 at 5:05 pm
I had to laugh b/c two of my friends got married last fall and both used this very same tree invitation from vistaprint! Maybe they should have glued crystals or stones to them to make them handmade.
May 30, 2012 at 5:05 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 5:20 pm
There’s a question about them being the same person. Because if I were in that situation and someone started spewing vitriol like that I would have done everything I could to a) distance myself and b) told her to shut her disgusting, hate-spewing mouth and done everything I could to try and get her to shut the hell up, not just quietly let it slip by like I enjoyed having her on my side. Because with friends like that, who needs anemones?
May 30, 2012 at 7:07 pm
I need anemones, so I can have more thumbs to thumb up your post.
May 30, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Looseycaboosey’s avatar clicks to the etsy main page. No one knows who she is!
May 30, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I think it is Chad.
May 30, 2012 at 5:20 pm
They are the same.
May 30, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Stephanie is the one who started in with the nonsense about petitions and lawsuits, and we have to make fun of that.
June 1, 2012 at 10:30 pm
LOL Stephanie level-headed? The blog’s admin revealed Stephanie created a sockpuppet named “Kayley” to come in her defense.
May 30, 2012 at 5:07 pm
1) Bitches are crazy
2) Gelato is good
3) Hurt my kid and I will tear your fucking throat out
4) Bitches are crazy
May 30, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Helen is in terrible pain! I know the feeling, I have knee shots & herniated disks in my back…you can’t sleep with all the pain!!!!
May 30, 2012 at 5:12 pm
This was beautiful, How could she be sooo in denial about copyright law with a BFA? And why create a Hulk-out account? When she morphed into loooseycaboosey (who mysteriously peaced-out the same time she did), it was some good fiction for a while there. Good fiction…
May 30, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Everything Loosey says is a sampler waiting to happen.
May 30, 2012 at 5:23 pm
So I thought that her designs looked familiar, even though I’m not familiar with Vistaprint. And then I read the part where she says she prints at Kinkos and it hit me! There’s this kiosk at Kinko’s where you can print invitations. Here’s some of their selection online:
http://businessprinting.van.fedex.com/gallery.aspx?pg=39&preid=57&xnav=TsrButton_01
They must have licensed the designs with Vistaprint. So essentially when she says she “prints locally at Kinko’s,” she walks into her local Kinko’s, feeds your information into a kiosk just like you could do, and then charges you double. Great business model! No overhead, almost no labor, maximum profit.
May 30, 2012 at 5:29 pm
Bingo!! She doesn’t even have to pay shipping.
May 30, 2012 at 6:34 pm
And it wouldn’t be so bad if it were an original design printed at Kinkos – everyone would understand her trying to keep costs down to stay competitive.
May 30, 2012 at 6:14 pm
I just got married a few months ago so a lot of the wedding invites I looked at (from numerous places) are still fresh in my memory. A lot of items in that woman’s shop look very familiar. I think that she may be copying pieces of designs and adding elements of her own as well as using entire designs. I seriously doubt any item in that shop is 100% her design.
May 30, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Kinko’s doesn’t have the equipment on site to do those kinds of cards… they probably send it to — Vistaprint!
May 30, 2012 at 9:15 pm
And she still has a bunch of these in her store!
So much for her taking down her reseller shit…
May 30, 2012 at 5:24 pm
I love how that commenter is all ‘live and let live and be nice and mature’ and then she goes off on a catty, immature, antagonistic spiel.
May 30, 2012 at 5:43 pm
If they aren’t the same person, then I’m a cat’s anus. That or this beez is so drunk on her h8erade that she started trolling in first-person.
May 30, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Whoops, I mean third-person. I am not nearly drunk enough to have made that mistake. /hangs head
May 30, 2012 at 5:45 pm
Just read that part. My head asploded.
May 30, 2012 at 6:17 pm
I would have to ask “why can’t we link to/see loosey’s etsy shop”?
May 30, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Whoops.
May 30, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Yeah, I’m sure Looseycaboosey has a “super trim body” like she says repeatedly. Because that’s what thin people do, y’know. They brag about it on the Internet to strangers arguing on a blog. Being secure in your self-image can make you do curious things.
By the by, I’m thin as a rail and eat like a horse, and it has nothing to do with who I am as a person. It’s just genetics. And I think this is actually the first time I’ve ever mentioned my weight out of context in a forum before, so I must have really low self-esteem compared to Madame Loose in the Caboose over there. I SHOULD TAKE NOTES
May 30, 2012 at 5:47 pm
I know I’m hot because this other crazy bitch in my head tells me so.
May 31, 2012 at 8:52 am
The moment someone says, “It’s not about the money,” it’s about the money. When someone says, “I’ll be honest with you,” they’re fixing to tell you a lie. And when someone says, “I’m petite and rich”…well, if you’re not too fat to finger the keyboard, you can connect those dots yourself.
May 30, 2012 at 5:46 pm
My takeaway from this is that it’s downright dangerous to look inward whilst jogging in one’s desirable neighborhood. You’re bound to run into a few trees, which will probably make you stupid enough to either buy those Vistaprint invitations for double the price, or defend someone who resells Vistaprint invitations.
May 30, 2012 at 5:59 pm
I posted it there, and I’ll post it here: My god, the crazy just keeps on coming.
Please, don’t be too hard on Loosey about her physical appearance — I doubt she has a reflection. Five will get you ten she will NEVER stop posting on that thread, typing furiously with dubious English, never sleeping, oblivious to her own hypocrisy, a Catch-22 case-in-point, a lone crusader without a clue.
Bitch is barking mad.
May 30, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Typing furiously with dubious English
never sleeping
oblivious to her own hypocrisy
a Catch-22 case-in-point
a lone crusader
without a clue.
That is fricking prose when formatted in ummm poetry style.
May 30, 2012 at 6:00 pm
question:
how is the crazy one finding out who the other ones are IRL, or at least what they look like & getting some idea, correct or in-, about how many kids & how much money they have? i dont know how to see any of them. none of the links seem to lead to any photographs & all i get is jennifer coolidge when i look up stifflersmom.
May 30, 2012 at 6:14 pm
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May 30, 2012 at 6:35 pm
thank you for letting me know.
very confusing.
how did the vistaprint reseller even know she was being called out on the call out blog?
why did she bother to go there & defend herself? & create sock puppet accounts? really? is that all real? if so: what a moroon.
are the people on the other side of the fence a bunch of different people? stifflersmom only ever had a few things up on etsy [thank you for pointing out that there was a link]–some of them, however, were good [i wouldnt turn down picking up a mess of ephemera from between 1935-1975 myself]. but she had so few items it’s hard to understand why she’s so etsy invested. or maybe i just remember her name cos the other ones in the battle, other than screwloosecaboose are so hard to tell apart it’s almost like theyre one big gelatinous blob.
anyway…..
May 31, 2012 at 11:22 am
See, I get down thumbed pretty often. I’m not upset, I consider it grading me on snark, of which I’m a beginner. It is helpful to me! No one is judging me, just giving me a little heads-up.
May 31, 2012 at 3:05 pm
There you go.
May 30, 2012 at 6:26 pm
She’s not. stifflersmom is Stiffler’s mom, from American Pie, aka non-existent. It’s about as telling as my own username, which, well, isn’t very telling at all. I’m actually surprised only two people in the comments on that blog got the reference to American Pie.
Just because someone uses the last name Stiffler in their username doesn’t mean they are the first real-world result that pops up when you do a Google search. Stephanie really needs to learn to Internet because she’s failing just about as hard as she’s failing at trolling under multiple identities.
May 30, 2012 at 6:38 pm
i know. i remember jennifer coolidge. i didnt think jennifer coolidge=stifflersmom. it’s not even spelled right. i was just curious as to why so many people were so very invested in this battle–to the point of seeking it out, even, to scream about. very strange.
May 30, 2012 at 7:03 pm
No, I know you didn’t think that. But that’s pretty much all that comes up when you search “stifflersmom”.
The person Stephanie thinks she ousted as stifflersmom probably doesn’t even reside on this side of the Internet, if at all. I was just saying, Stephanie thinks she’s Google sleuth extraordinaire when it’s plain as day she’s just a moron.
May 30, 2012 at 7:16 pm
The scary thing is she found someone with the last name Stiffler via a Google search and proceeded to post all their personal info; name, address, telephone number. The whole nine.
Something in that thread is gonna make her snap. Soon. Keep your eye on the headlines in the Daily News tomorrow. She’s gonna go postal on her handsome, well-off husband and perfect cherub of a child!
May 30, 2012 at 7:41 pm
that‘s what she did?
that person–the one who went through all that mad, mad mischegas to out some stranger for very little reason–she is the one thats nuts. okay, no matter what the battle was, we do have a winner.
well-oiled child?