Uh? Answers on a post card, please… 23, May 2008

Do any of you get those weird autistic kind of comments on posts that are months old? It seems to happen here frequently and I just wanted to share one I got on this post today…

It’s March 2008 and BC’s blog has been spammed relentlessly for weeks by US garden furniture companies (bizarre, in itself). They are all – it would appear – selling exclusively to and in their home market. All comments are either nonsensical strings of words or random single word comments, like this.

2. gnome – 15, March 2008[Edit]

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As a blogger in Britain BC starts to get a bit peed off, especially with the above mentioned “gnome” who is leaving several worthless pieces of drivvel (which keep getting through WordPress’s usually smashing spam filter) on pretty much every post she sticks on her blog so… finally she leaves one of the spam comments up and posts a reply telling them, somewhat rudely I have to admit, to go away, like so…

3. babychaos – 15, March 2008[Edit]

Gnome.Go away. You’ve obviously thoroughly read the manual on how to turn off potential customers, lose friends and alienate people.

I don’t want to buy your stupid garden gnomes and neither does anyone else on here. I’ve reported you to Amazon for spamming my blog doubtless you have hundreds of user accounts but with any luck it will cause you some inconvenience.

What is it with Americans selling garden furnishings?

Anyone else too, you spam I report.

Now sod off! The lot of you.

BC

Well I know but I wouldn’t go advertising my artistic skills on a special site for blind people so why would all these garden people suddenly start advertising to a market in which they don’t actually operate? Yeh, it’s dim. Well, today, “Jim, in Atlanta,” but we shall call him “gnome” leaves me this completely bizarre non-sequitur.

4. Jim in Atlanta – 23, May 2008[Edit]

I don’t know of a single American to use theterm “Oh sod!” – and the word “sod” is only EVER used with respect to strips of grass and dirt removed from the earth, measuring approximately 14cm thick (from bottom to tips of grass) by .5m x 1m, for the purpose of transplanting a “ready to use lawn… just install and add water.”

So, your reference to this person for garden retailing need not include any reference/inference to this individual being located in the USA.

As for the manual to “turn off potential customers, lose friends and alienate people” – please direct us to this guide. I, personally, would find it a useful reference.

I’ve read it a couple of times and I don’t think it’s a joke. I think he believes I’m dissing the USA through my semantically incorrect, in his language, use of the word “sod”. He’s clearly piqued isn’t he?

Mwah ha ha haargh! So what d’you reckon? D’you think he’s gnome, somebody making a joke I’ve failed to get or a special needs guy..?

I’ve left him a rather acerbic, but polite I hope, explanation.  You should see the one I got about dinosaur pooh… it was hilarious… not sure where it’s gone now though.