Did any of you pricks know that you don’t have the right to judge what other people make with their hands? True story.
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May 17, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Actually, I do sit around and cuss out small metal rings for hours and consider it fun…however, I’m living 4 blocks from a hording relative…so I could go glue used qu-tips to something else if requested…
May 17, 2011 at 10:53 pm
OK made with own hands, our bad, no judging. Do we have the right to judge what people make with their penises, though? What about stuff they make with their vaginas? And what about ass-prints? Things made with excrement?
And can we make fun of things sellers did NOT make with their own hands, like the gazillion etsy resellers?
I’m so confused… Someone please help me understand.
May 17, 2011 at 11:14 pm
It bothers me how so many people assume you cannot make fun of something because *gasp* it could’ve been made by a child ! Or a grandma ! Or a German shepherd ! (I would never make fun of the latter, though, cause they’re so cool); my point is, there’s no way of knowing this for sure on the internet, and in any case, why should it matter ? If you put your crap on a website, and are asking money for it, you should be able to handle someone telling you it’s crap. And frankly, no eight year old should be selling shit on Etsy, what happened to selling lemonade ? Kids these days and their SuperNintendo, their talkies and their Etsy…
May 18, 2011 at 11:40 pm
Can we just go ahead and make a rule that the Internet is for grownups? Unless the site is one of those nice little restricted spaces just for children? Because I’m so tired of being told to think of them.
May 19, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Oh man. You just gave me a great idea. I’m going to train my Corgi to make crafts and then sell those crafts on Etsy. By “great” I mean embarrassing.
May 26, 2011 at 7:39 am
If making fun of things that might have been made by children is wrong, then fashion critics must be the absolute scum of the earth.
September 21, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Does this mean you will buy a painting my German Shepherd makes? She will use her own two paws…well, one paw as I don’t want to get them both covered in paint.
May 17, 2011 at 11:24 pm
I knit while watching TV, so… I’m confused as to whether or not this person thinks I’m evil.
May 19, 2011 at 12:40 pm
me too! It’s important to keep a balance between evil and busy hands.
May 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Busy hands are evil hands, and evil hands are always busy. Really now, was that so hard? Busy, evil grin!
Mwuuhhhhh haaaaa haaaaa haaa *cough* excuse me, HA!
May 19, 2011 at 4:24 pm
busy hands, happy heart is what i learned. mom said it with a wry smile.
May 19, 2011 at 8:03 pm
I think it makes you neutral. So you’re like going to purgatory or something.
July 14, 2011 at 5:36 am
Yay! A knitting circle in purgatory! Can I join?
May 17, 2011 at 11:40 pm
I’m sure that 8 year olds aren’t allowed to have an etsy account. If their mothers are posting it for them, then it’s the mom’s fault. Just like my cousin’s half brother that was named Andrew Seth Smith (names changed to protect the unfortunate). Yes, his initials are A.S.S.
May 18, 2011 at 3:52 am
If I decided to kick back and watch [insert any show where the people are real people making things with their real hands] on Hulu, does that make me double-pathetic?
What happens when I’ve got my sketchbook in my lap while I watch and I sketch during commercials/the boring parts? I would ask what happens if I had a word processor open to a novel or something I’m working on, but clearly that doesn’t count as I’m not making it with my hands so much as my fingers.
May 18, 2011 at 7:07 am
Please tell me she liked her own post…
May 18, 2011 at 9:32 am
Sooo, because I am a seller on etsy AND I make crafts, that means that I have to like everything everyone makes and/or sells on etsy?
If you are going to post it on the world wide web and SELL it, then ys, Vriginia there are critics.
I think posting and trying to sell stupid shit on etsy hurts those sellers who do make quality products. The buyers stay away if most of the items are crap.
If you make crap and need to sell it, go to ebay.
/ rant over
May 18, 2011 at 9:49 am
Wait, so we’re now banned from mocking hand made things? So, good news is we still have a “Not Remotely Handmade”. Otherwise our non creative, judgemental, hoarding-selves would be so fucked. At least she set us straight.
May 19, 2011 at 6:30 am
I make things WHILE watching TV, so that way I can be a fat, ugly, jealous loser AND judge all of you for judging me. How DARE you?!?!
May 19, 2011 at 7:23 am
I dont do anything with my life because I know that anything I try to make won’t amount to anything. it’s for everyone else’s protection, thank you very much.
May 19, 2011 at 12:22 pm
If there’s an 80-year-old sitting at home alone with a bunch of trash lying around, I think they have bigger problems than what people are saying about them on the internet. Like, you know, maybe the fact that they’re 80-years-old and living in a pile of trash.
May 19, 2011 at 12:32 pm
that made me LOL
May 19, 2011 at 12:32 pm
this is the kind of mindset that has teachers handing out “participation” awards to all the kids in their class and not awarding an actual winner. my son was bringing home “art awards” about twice a year, and I was proud at first until I realized that they give this “art award” to every child in the class, just in rotation.
as an actual artist who was given REAL BLUE RIBBONS for best in show, this is insulting. not everyone is a winner. just because you make something doesn’t mean you deserve a pat on the back. some people should just stick to watching tv.
August 8, 2011 at 11:04 pm
yes, a thousand times. thank you, this is a huge pet peeve of mine (and part of the marginalization of achievement in this country.)
also, if you make crafts with poop, you’re begging to be made fun of. true story.
May 19, 2011 at 12:54 pm
It’s okay, she clearly doesn’t really that most things on Regretsy were obviously footmade, not handmade. Carry on.
May 19, 2011 at 12:59 pm
So, we are expected to take mispelled vulvas made of dryer lint seriously, because some person may have actually made one?? Please. LOL
May 20, 2011 at 8:36 am
I make lots of things, what’s your point? If I make things then I like all made things? I’m sure I’m perfectly capable of making things that look dumb; the difference is I don’t try to sell them online with some mangled word salad written from the point of view of a piece of barn wood.
May 20, 2011 at 7:59 pm
I like pretending things about people I’ve never met or even seen too
June 7, 2011 at 2:58 pm
I make plenty of things. I just don’t make garbage and try to sell it at ridiculous prices because it radiates the moonlight of the weeping angels.
October 1, 2011 at 1:27 pm
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH WEEPING ANGELS!!!!!!!!!
*cough* Sorry– Doctor Who flashback, there. Carry on.
June 25, 2012 at 3:41 am
Don’t blink.
June 29, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Jennifer, oh Jennifer… Like an eight-year old could use a computer! You’re so silly!
July 20, 2011 at 4:00 pm
I guess all you can do to people that are hipocritical and refuse to use logic is get out the big “BUTT HURT” rubber stamp so others can avoid them. It’s a public service, you should be in the running for some sort of federal grant.
November 22, 2012 at 12:27 pm
I just wish I could remind these folks that the standard they set — that you can only criticize something if you can do it better yourself (or even do it at all yourself) — means that they can no longer have negative opinions about any popular culture. Or anything they can’t do. No more saying Lindsey Lohan’s newer films are awful, or complaining about storylines in their soaps, or telling someone not to read a book because it was paced poorly and the characters are flat and boring. Your stylist gives you a bad haircut? Too bad, you go to her because you can’t do it, so shut up and revel in her glory.
Obviously this might lead to some problems for heterosexuals when it comes to sex. Don’t even THINK of complaining about how he touches you until you’ve learned to please a woman, too, girls!