IDK. All the Goth people I know are freakishly perky. I’ve only met one depressed Goth. (I didn’t think they existed until then. My only samples were ~50 perky people who wore lots of black and giggled while listening to angry sounding music.)
Without the LIGHT white buttons. I mean, if it were a dark white coloring on the buttons, I think we could all agree it would look like a ridiculously large comb with cheap looking buttons glued to it.
Hope is completely gone that anything other than absolute bullshit void of any semblance of actually putting effort and thought into creating something of true artistic talent exists on etsy. Watch this “too lazy to craft anything” POS end up on the front page! (I feel better now & there ARE many true Artisans on etsy. Although wading through the dismal, lackadaisical, failures is exhasting).
I thought Hope was supposed to be the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. She wasted a perfectly good Dickinson reference! And she calls herself a goth.
I was thinking the same thing! Unless the girl used E6000, or whatever the number glue is… those buttons are probably log-jammed down some animal’s (maybe a house duck?) throat… It waits for hope, but then ……
No hope for you!
Finally, something to do with the 500 buttons I’ve collected from every shirt I’ve bought since I was 12! I was starting to think I would need to will them to my heirs….
Think of all the combs you can make dede… if you have 500 and this model only requires 6… that’s 83.333333 combs of somber satisfaction for you!!! (I’m cheering in my Goth-tone ferver… yeh.)
and at $5.00 each…. that’s $416.65 of craptastic joy. You may have to spend $2.50 on 83 plastic combs (at .03 each), but the rest is pure miserable profit….
All i can surmise is that she likes it because it is used to comb heavy hearted, sad-sack, bullshit out her heavy handed, black eyeliner wearing, Goth/Craft soul when she realized that being Goth was so 80′s and she missed it.
Shame on those of you who can’t appreciate the beauty and poetry in this exquisite piece of art. I look at it and feel nothing but…aesthetic pleasure. My brain is grateful to encounter master pieces like these out there in the world. Sorry if God didn’t gift you with a deep soul and a sensitive eye. True art can only be appreciated by special souls like for example, me and the person who created this piece. Now I will stop writing so I can keep staring at this magnificent sculpture. Thanks a lot for reading this thoughtful comment. I hope that you find some poetry in it. Truly yours,
A unique soul from planet ETSY.com
Hope’s not leaving here until she’s put all the game pieces back in their correct compartments in the boxes and gotten all the underwear down from the chandeliers given the cat a bath!
I was going to mention it was pretty close to Halloween so the market for fuckery is urgent but then I remembered this was a REPEAT from THREE YEARS AGO since Helen is too “BUSY” to do a job she’s not getting paid for while she tries to do a job she is getting paid for, yet it was close to Halloween at that time, too therefore my point is VALID and that’s why they should bring back “My Name is Earl”.
Thanks so much for posting this. I am always going on Etsy to find the perfect button-decorated accessories to wear to funerals. It’s hard because sometimes people forget to glue white buttons to the accessories, which makes them not look quite right. And then everyone at the funeral looks at you like, “what are you THINKING?” You have no idea how many times that has happened to me!
October 17, 2012 at 4:04 pm
Anne of Green Fables.
October 17, 2012 at 4:06 pm
It’s a frikking comb with buttons glued on it! Goth wedding? Your friends will laugh at you and then drily quote Edgar Allan Poe lines in mockery.
Or whatever it is Goths do these days.
October 17, 2012 at 4:41 pm
And not even a decent comb or vintage buttons. Looks like stuff fished out of her sofa cushions.
October 17, 2012 at 7:22 pm
IDK. All the Goth people I know are freakishly perky. I’ve only met one depressed Goth. (I didn’t think they existed until then. My only samples were ~50 perky people who wore lots of black and giggled while listening to angry sounding music.)
October 17, 2012 at 7:26 pm
The perkiness is not the point.
October 18, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Perkiness is generally either the point or the problem in my experience.
October 19, 2012 at 9:42 am
Looking at the post.. someone actually bought it! WHY oh WHY would one buy such crap?
October 17, 2012 at 4:08 pm
She’s right. It could NEVER look just right without the white buttons.
October 17, 2012 at 4:10 pm
on the other hand, it would never look right with any buttons, especially not odd ones found on the floor of a thrift store…..
October 17, 2012 at 7:42 pm
“So much depends on the Goth hipster hobos, glazed with Merlot buttons, beside the white chickens.”
At least that’s how I think it goes.
October 18, 2012 at 7:10 am
I died for buttons, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for goth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
“For buttons,” I replied.
“And I for goth – the two are one;
We brethren are,” he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a-night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the hot glue had reached our lips,
And covered our hipster names.
October 18, 2012 at 7:56 am
Without the LIGHT white buttons. I mean, if it were a dark white coloring on the buttons, I think we could all agree it would look like a ridiculously large comb with cheap looking buttons glued to it.
October 17, 2012 at 4:11 pm
All right, which one of you bought it? I’d like to see pics, preferably of it being used as a back-scratcher.
October 17, 2012 at 4:13 pm
almost a backscratcher?
October 17, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Hope is almost gone when you try to reach your back and you can’t.
October 17, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Hope is completely gone that anything other than absolute bullshit void of any semblance of actually putting effort and thought into creating something of true artistic talent exists on etsy. Watch this “too lazy to craft anything” POS end up on the front page! (I feel better now & there ARE many true Artisans on etsy. Although wading through the dismal, lackadaisical, failures is exhasting).
October 19, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Hope is the thing with feathers. Not buttons.
[Hey, if chinesereseller can quote Emily Dickinson, so can I ...
]
October 17, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Pair it with this daring rake cape!
October 17, 2012 at 4:12 pm
“Almost gives off… mysterious vibe…almost merlot…hope almost gone…”
DAMMIT! For $5.00 I want absolutes!
October 17, 2012 at 4:12 pm
At least the price is fair for what is pretty much a bunch of crap you can get at the dollar store.
It is so craptastic I won’t even make my own at home.
October 17, 2012 at 4:47 pm
That’s a 2009 price though. God knows what she’d want for it now.
October 17, 2012 at 4:13 pm
‘Hope never leaves. Just like the white in this comb.’
So in other words, it’s just like Pandora’s box?
October 17, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Hope never leaves. She’s still sleeping on my couch.
October 17, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Hope floats. Shit sinks. Healthy shit, anyway.
October 17, 2012 at 4:51 pm
I think that white stuff left in the comb is dandruff.
October 20, 2012 at 12:42 pm
I thought Hope was supposed to be the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. She wasted a perfectly good Dickinson reference! And she calls herself a goth.
October 17, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Apparently she ran out of buttons to make it completely to the end of the comb.
October 17, 2012 at 4:33 pm
It’s almost finished.
October 17, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Probably used generic glue and the buttons are already falling off.
October 17, 2012 at 4:49 pm
I was thinking the same thing! Unless the girl used E6000, or whatever the number glue is… those buttons are probably log-jammed down some animal’s (maybe a house duck?) throat… It waits for hope, but then ……
No hope for you!
October 17, 2012 at 5:04 pm
They can be recovered from the duck’s diaper eventually. Reduce, reuse, upcycle!
October 17, 2012 at 5:59 pm
you can use the comb to pick through the goose-poo.
October 17, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Maybe, instead of laboring to produce overwrought prose to distract buyers, the seller could devote all that energy to creating a better product?
Oh, wait, it’s Etsy.
October 17, 2012 at 4:21 pm
This!
October 17, 2012 at 4:35 pm
It looks like some kind of creature that’s about to gallop away on its plastic legs into the almost hopeless goth wedding night.
October 17, 2012 at 4:46 pm
“I think you can tell why I like this one”.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but her words will never hurt me, or get me to buy that shit.
October 17, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Finally, something to do with the 500 buttons I’ve collected from every shirt I’ve bought since I was 12! I was starting to think I would need to will them to my heirs….
October 17, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Think of all the combs you can make dede… if you have 500 and this model only requires 6… that’s 83.333333 combs of somber satisfaction for you!!! (I’m cheering in my Goth-tone ferver… yeh.)
October 18, 2012 at 3:44 am
and at $5.00 each…. that’s $416.65 of craptastic joy. You may have to spend $2.50 on 83 plastic combs (at .03 each), but the rest is pure miserable profit….
October 17, 2012 at 4:55 pm
I keep thinking about why I should know why you like this one, but I’m not combing up with anything.
October 17, 2012 at 4:57 pm
All i can surmise is that she likes it because it is used to comb heavy hearted, sad-sack, bullshit out her heavy handed, black eyeliner wearing, Goth/Craft soul when she realized that being Goth was so 80′s and she missed it.
October 17, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Dis tresses me to no end.
October 17, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Keep your heron!
October 17, 2012 at 5:05 pm
I thought about it for a while too, and now I’m brushed.
October 17, 2012 at 5:19 pm
I wish I could comb up with a witty comb back!
October 17, 2012 at 5:22 pm
or a witty backcomb?
October 17, 2012 at 5:19 pm
It’s one big chign-yawn
October 17, 2012 at 5:23 pm
It’s a hairy situation
October 17, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Stop teasing, you guys!
October 17, 2012 at 6:33 pm
…Glasgow said with a snarl.
October 17, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Afro got what we were talking about. I’ll just wing it.
October 17, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Now you’re on the right page, boy.
October 17, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Weave finally arrived at an understanding.
October 17, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Whew! Because our split ends this thread.
October 17, 2012 at 9:20 pm
And it must never dye.
October 17, 2012 at 9:59 pm
What a bald statement!
October 17, 2012 at 11:10 pm
It’s a typical male pattern.
October 18, 2012 at 2:43 am
. . . and there will be hell toupée.
October 18, 2012 at 3:45 am
I can’t stop hearing the “bud-dum-cha” of cymbols… over and over and over and over and over.
October 18, 2012 at 3:46 am
I can’t stop hearing the “bud-dum-cha” of cymbals… over and over and over and over and over.
October 18, 2012 at 7:32 am
We must never part, or I would surely flip.
October 17, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Goths might be more mystified by Velcro instead. If they truly were Goths.
October 17, 2012 at 5:34 pm
I am always looking for things that go perfect for both weddings AND funerals!
October 17, 2012 at 7:13 pm
It’s so wasteful to shop for just the one!
October 17, 2012 at 9:25 pm
A good stiff one goes with both!
October 17, 2012 at 9:57 pm
It’s hard to find anything better!
October 17, 2012 at 6:08 pm
We made better craft projects in Girl Scouts.
October 17, 2012 at 6:08 pm
The more I look at those white buttons, the more I keep picturing some poor kid going to school with their blouse held together with safety pins.
October 17, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Who wears white buttons in their hair to a funeral?
October 17, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Who wears buttons in their hair?
October 17, 2012 at 11:13 pm
One of those shirts?
October 17, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Step 1 Put superglue on a thing
Step 2 Throw it into a box of smaller things
Step 3 There is no Step 3
Step 4 PROFIT!
October 17, 2012 at 11:09 pm
Step 3 is to double check that hope didn’t leave while you were distracted by the thought of Step 4.
October 17, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Shame on those of you who can’t appreciate the beauty and poetry in this exquisite piece of art. I look at it and feel nothing but…aesthetic pleasure. My brain is grateful to encounter master pieces like these out there in the world. Sorry if God didn’t gift you with a deep soul and a sensitive eye. True art can only be appreciated by special souls like for example, me and the person who created this piece. Now I will stop writing so I can keep staring at this magnificent sculpture. Thanks a lot for reading this thoughtful comment. I hope that you find some poetry in it. Truly yours,
A unique soul from planet ETSY.com
October 17, 2012 at 11:21 pm
That is so beautiful… *cries glitter tear*
October 18, 2012 at 9:19 am
I’m glad that you’re one of us.
October 17, 2012 at 10:47 pm
My heart is broken!!!!!
The comb has been sold!!
Why, why?
Why was I so slow!
October 18, 2012 at 2:54 am
“Hope never quite leaves.”
Jerry Colonna says to go home, Hope.
October 18, 2012 at 6:21 am
Hey, Hope is a nice person! Stop bashing her!!! Or I *WILL* use up all the exclamation marks. See if I don’t!!!!!!!!!!
October 18, 2012 at 11:17 am
Hope’s not leaving here until she’s put all the game pieces back in their correct compartments in the boxes and gotten all the underwear down from the chandeliers given the cat a bath!
October 18, 2012 at 6:49 am
As an not-unproud member of the Amish community, that comb is too fancy. It is why you English are going to go to hell. That and toasters.
October 18, 2012 at 9:44 am
Are you allowed to use the Internet?
October 18, 2012 at 11:18 am
Toasters are worth it, ever since Pop Tarts got invented.
October 18, 2012 at 7:43 am
How can something be the end of the middle? “Midwinter’s end” makes about as much sense as … as glueing no button on the end. Almost.
October 18, 2012 at 7:45 am
Apparently she’s “on vacation”: ‘If you “desperately need” me while I’m gone, send me a convo and I’ll see what I can do.’
Good grief. I know people in the theatre community that are less dramatic.
It’s a comb with buttons on it. NOBODY NEEDS THAT. How about you make something people might actually use? Can you do that?
I’m cranky this morning.
October 18, 2012 at 11:27 am
I was going to mention it was pretty close to Halloween so the market for fuckery is urgent but then I remembered this was a REPEAT from THREE YEARS AGO since Helen is too “BUSY” to do a job she’s not getting paid for while she tries to do a job she is getting paid for, yet it was close to Halloween at that time, too therefore my point is VALID and that’s why they should bring back “My Name is Earl”.
October 18, 2012 at 3:24 pm
I wish they would bring back “Cavemen”. But apparently I’m the only one.
October 18, 2012 at 10:04 am
Thanks so much for posting this. I am always going on Etsy to find the perfect button-decorated accessories to wear to funerals. It’s hard because sometimes people forget to glue white buttons to the accessories, which makes them not look quite right. And then everyone at the funeral looks at you like, “what are you THINKING?” You have no idea how many times that has happened to me!
October 18, 2012 at 11:29 am
Stop going to all those funerals, trolling for teenagers to corrupt, Ruth Gordon!
October 19, 2012 at 5:38 am
Why would you need a comb for your chest? If anything at all, should this not be a hair ornament?