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Flattering Site Reviews Make Me All Tingly Inside.

March 26th, 2009 · 50 Comments

A site has decided to review my site.  Now I know what you are thinking.  You are thinking “Why the hell do I come to this site? Ooohh yeah, it is the enlightening information that Sy lays upon us”.  But on the off chance that you are thinking “Oh here we go.  It’s all about Sy.  Let him get his kicks by showing off some rave review”, well…read on my friends.

Here is the entire review:

This is the first blogs assignment we have been given in english writing.

We (korrina and lysh) have decided to review this blog : “Email conversations can be fun…especially with scammers”. (The url is http://www.wheelturninghamsterdead.com/)

The style and tone of the author’s language could be called comical… we prefer to think that, after looking at a few different blogs, a lot of bloggers make a big deal over small events in order to insert humour into their everyday lives. The language used is informal and sometimes vulgar. It is the language of miserable, lonely people.

Lysh believes that the author of the blog spoke about his situation in a satirical way and poked fun at the event in order to make it interesting. He failed. The bottom line was that he had recieved an email from somebody he didn’t know and replied just to take the piss out of whoever sent it. We do not find this interesting or enlightening.

There was no moral or underlying message in the blog. It was the simple retelling of events with a few buzzwords thrown in. The theme of the blog is

Yes, it really did end at the word “is”.  They were so in awe of the site, they couldn’t bring themselves to finish typing.  They were probably crying in laughter at the interesting and enlightening topics that I put on the site.  They also reviewed a site with 230 or so posts based on the content of 1 single post.  A review of extraordinary proportions!

That’s right people.  You read this stuff so you are in deed “miserable, lonely people.”  They seem to know us well.  But it’s all a lie.  I know this because I asked the one and only friend I have in the world (OK, so it is a voice in my head) and she said “Oh Sy.  You are sooooo dreamy.  Take no notice.  Here, let me give you a back rub” and I then squeezed my own shoulders…and it was gooooooooooood.

I took the time out of my busy schedule to comment on the site (read:  Was laughing so hard I couldn’t help myself) but as of 18 hours later, the comment still seems to be awaiting moderation.  I did try to explain the fact that they are completely missing the point of the site and a few others things, and honestly…I was polite.  For me.  If the comment is finally released, I will post the link to the review.  You can of course google some of the words and you might find it yourself, which will give you something to do in your miserable lonely life.  Hey, their words not mine.

Now.  I am off to read a book I just downloaded called ”Blog Buzzwords:  Way’s to impress your readers”.

Side note:  It is an exact copy and paste from their site, so I didn’t bother changing english to English or recieved to received.  Yes I know.  I am a devilishly handsome rogue. Stop it, I am getting misty.

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50 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Mrs TNo Gravatar // Mar 26, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    Well I don’t think you have to worry about that review Mr H – just some amateurs with poor understanding and knowledge of the English language. This site is hilarious! (The site is hilarious too of course – but in an entirely different way!)

    Mrs T’s last blog post..Voice Recognition Programmes II (Judgement Day)

  • 2 Mrs TNo Gravatar // Mar 26, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    Ps – My voice recognition system is affecting my normal speech and writing…. have you noticed all the mistakes I’m making now? Soon I will be talking complete gibberish…..

    Mrs T’s last blog post..Voice Recognition Programmes II (Judgement Day)

  • 3 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 26, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    It was a happy moment when the first “bad” review I got was from a site that cant actually post the entire thing!

    I think i n future I will use your voice recognition software. It will make my writing much more interesting and enlightening!

  • 4 G.No Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 12:15 am

    Congrats on the “site review”. It is truly remarkable how some people completely miss the mark when it comes to reviewing blogs.

    By the same token, I just garnered my first spam comment.

    I may make a post dedicated to getting that spam comment, so I might need some pointers from ya.

    G.’s last blog post..Dirty Knees

  • 5 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 12:19 am

    Yeah I am quietly confident that the “reviewers” are about 12 years old. Actually, I did ask in the review, but as I said…they wont post the comment! I tell you though…if I could write comedy like they did so easily…ah man…I would be rich!

    oohh!! Welcome to that world! According to my stats, I have over the period of this blog had 1374 MORE spams than real comments! Not bad huh! What was it? anything fun? Of course, as you can see, that stuff gives free material. I enjoyed this post WAY more than the post I was going to write tonight.

  • 6 StaticNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 12:41 am

    Ha ha. Laughable. Too much.

    OMG, you used profanity.

    I know these types, pseudo-intellectual fuckwits with the IQ’s of a box of rocks combined who decide they want to do something more original than the humor-blogger, mommy-blogger, litblogger, political blogger, PR blogger, seo-blogger TARDS..and create one based on reviewing other blogs in a trollish style so baseless and unoriginal it’s become the real source of humor because it shows how pathetic they are.

    They wouldn’t have a subject to write about otherwise. They type and type every thing they think they know on the subject of blogging and what makes one good or bad in their worthless opinions, of course it’s all on the back of a microscopic postage stamp and they still have room leftover for a shopping list.

    May they not forget to write down they need rat poison and promptly mix it in with their tea.

    Static’s last blog post..Thought For The Day No. Six

  • 7 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 12:46 am

    I know! Me…profanity. I dont know how i do it! I look forward to following their site and seeing the other reviews they do…and seeing if they ever publish comments from other people!

    Still the most fun thing I read in a long time. I keep reading it and laughing out loud. It’s like a car crash. You know you shouldnt look…but there is something fascinating about it!

  • 8 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 12:48 am

    Oh…and the google search you done to try find it…try just their names, and then you will find a site by someone else, and if you go there, you can then find the site with the review off of the blog role.

  • 9 TamiNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 3:52 am

    Yeah, but….

    Lonely’s not such a bad thing, is it?

    Tami’s last blog post..Confusing Needs

  • 10 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 3:53 am

    Compared to being turtured with electricity on my fun department? I guess not! :o )

  • 11 The Rest of the English ClassNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 4:06 am

    On behalf of the 80 or so other people partaking in the English Writing class of which those ‘bloggers’ are in, we sincerely apologise for their lack of taste regarding your exceedingly humorous and enjoyable site.

  • 12 TimNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 4:16 am

    I’m in this same English class and I would also like to apologise on behalf of these people. You have a wonderful site.

  • 13 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 5:02 am

    I dunno. I think you should all write a bad review. See who can make me laugh the most!

    Can I request you have to use the words:

    Inept
    Worthless
    Impressive
    Great guy
    and naturally…. There is no chance his team will regain the ashes this year

  • 14 TimNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 6:21 am

    Can it be in size 16 Comic Sans and full of emoticons?

  • 15 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 6:23 am

    Hmmm… Yeah OK. But you have to use that empticon of the smiley vomiting. And positioning is everything. No putting it next to the bit about me being a great guy or anything. OK fine, you can put it there..

  • 16 TinaNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 7:58 am

    What is the theme of the blog????

  • 17 Flying Saucer JonesNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 8:16 am

    Ah but this should make you feel better http://blackmetalbart.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/wd-40-not-all-it%e2%80%99s-cracked-up-to-be/

    And, no, you can’t have the Ashes back.

    Flying Saucer Jones’s last blog post..On the (Perth) Buses

  • 18 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 27, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    @Tina – It is Cutline 3 column split and I added a mod or two, but nothing major.

    @Mr Jones – Hahaha. Reviews all over the place! And sorry…they are staying in Blighty this time! Yeah…I know…

  • 19 Flying Saucer JonesNo Gravatar // Mar 28, 2009 at 12:01 am

    Looks like you have some glowing reviews from some of the kids in that English class.

    Now excuse me while I go lock up the Ashes.

    Flying Saucer Jones’s last blog post..Only Cricket Fogies Will Understand

  • 20 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 28, 2009 at 3:56 am

    You know you cant keep the ashes forever. Once in a while, you have to let us have them. Once say every 24 years.

  • 21 Phil T McNastyNo Gravatar // Mar 29, 2009 at 12:28 am

    Don’t listen to these ignorant fools. So far today, I’ve read the my life insurance policy, the ingredients on the label of a shampoo bottle and this blog. This blog was the most interesting of the three! Keep up the good work, Sy.

    Phil T McNasty’s last blog post..A cheerful personal walking tour of terrorism-scarred buildings

  • 22 KORRINANo Gravatar // Mar 30, 2009 at 1:12 am

    Myself and Lysh are actually 16 years of age. We’re gonna get mum pretty soon boy.

    Are you American? Because you dont seem to be able to take criticism very well. We know our blg was bad, and unfinished, we dont really care about blogging and our class finished before we had.
    Are you actually allowed to copy our words without premmisson?
    By the way, we were only answering questions the teacher gave us.

    Dispite all of this we have had a lot of fun reading all of your abusive comments and blogs. We are very flattered that people would actually give a shit.

    We’re filfy and we do whatever we want!

  • 23 MatthewNo Gravatar // Mar 30, 2009 at 1:36 am

    Look sir, I do not see why you are attacking these young girls. Your blog sucks. They told the truth. The Rest Of The English Class is an awful person who has no concept of humour nor that Tim guy. I rule

  • 24 JaneNo Gravatar // Mar 30, 2009 at 1:40 am

    This blog war is hilarious. If it were real, the knuckle-dusters would be out in force. As it is, I think you’re all going to get dumped with spam e-mails.

  • 25 Pine plantationNo Gravatar // Mar 30, 2009 at 1:43 am

    Right. cut the crap. Some students (i am one) had…HAD…(not be their own will) to form a blog review. They did not take pride in it. The fact that you had to bring it up makes me feel sad. You all write witty comments but are childish enough to take offense. Get over it.

    By the way i’m sure this comment will in time be replied to by another blogger who feels its their duty to defend this guys lines of words by criticizing my own.

    Pine plantation’s last blog post..

  • 26 TomNo Gravatar // Mar 30, 2009 at 1:49 am

    Admittedly their spelling is not the best, and they are a pair of trippers, but still your blog pretty much does suck.

    Matthew Rules.

    England will get thrashed in the Ashes.

  • 27 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 30, 2009 at 8:16 am

    @Korrina – When you say “were gonna get mum pretty soon”, do you mean you are planning on teenage pregnancy…coz you know, slang only works when the other person has a clue what the hell you are on about! But thanks for caring enough to come over…I mean that!

    @the rest…ummm… Hi? Are you all planning on getting pregnant too? Even Tom?

  • 28 TiggyNo Gravatar // Mar 30, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Why do I see the names ‘Korrina and Lysh’ and imagine them as sock puppets? It would explain their poor English skills and inability to understand the nuances of humour, but still…

    Tiggy’s last blog post..Taking ShamWow to the Next Level

  • 29 The Movie WhoreNo Gravatar // Mar 30, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    F*cking hilarious!

    They obviously don’t get it.

    The Movie Whore’s last blog post..Movies from the Corner 9

  • 30 KORRINANo Gravatar // Mar 30, 2009 at 11:10 pm

    I was not saying i was going to get pregnent fool.
    you called me a 12 year old so i was being childish and saying i was going to dob on you.

    Me and Lysh do have terrible English skills, we are studying top level english at college we just dont give a shit about ourselves.

    allthough, this is all getting pretty exciting.

    i love that fact that you have a wife and child and i hope one day i will find someone as cool as you.

    seriously, you are great!

    KORRINA’s last blog post..Opinions on blogging.

  • 31 FILFY!!!!!No Gravatar // Mar 31, 2009 at 3:15 am

    xx motley
    we do whatever we want which is working on our own sad inferiority complex since 1991!!!!!

  • 32 MotleyNo Gravatar // Mar 31, 2009 at 3:38 am

    I also think Sy is awesome.

  • 33 notlyshNo Gravatar // Mar 31, 2009 at 4:09 am

    I am a sock puppet!!
    Bahahaharagarahagharahahahgahrasghagahgahga harghrgra

  • 34 FilfNo Gravatar // Mar 31, 2009 at 4:12 am

    i am so sorry everyone. I cant help but comment. It is part of my nature of thinking i am special.

  • 35 korrinaNo Gravatar // Mar 31, 2009 at 8:35 am

    1992 actually.

    learn some math.

    korrina’s last blog post..I LOVE BEING ABUSED BY BLOGGERS

  • 36 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 31, 2009 at 8:50 am

    “Fluffy with no sharp edges and she gets to wear a nice tight top where the sleeves are tied up.”

    Oh, sorry. I was answering the question of “What is it like on Korrina’s planet” and completely ignoring your last little girl hissy fit comment.

    You realise this will go on forever. I mean, it is my site so I will reply, and as you said that people who blog are “miserable and lonely” and yet, you are posting new items on your own site…well…you need to learn some math.

    But do come back…please! Oh and I wrote a serious comment on your site. Have a read.

  • 37 TiggyNo Gravatar // Mar 31, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    Lol, Korinna dropped me a lovely note at my blog just letting me know she isn’t in fact a sock puppet. My bad. What a relief!

    Tiggy’s last blog post..Taking ShamWow to the Next Level

  • 38 SyNo Gravatar // Mar 31, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    At least that got cleared up. Imagine the mess should it not have been corrected. There could have been an invasion of odd socks.

  • 39 korrinaNo Gravatar // Mar 31, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    Why don’t you get it,
    i have to blog for my English class.
    No choice.

    korrina’s last blog post..I LOVE BEING ABUSED BY BLOGGERS

  • 40 Lol.No Gravatar // Mar 31, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Oh this is great, Keep it up, you’ve almost both pissed up the entire wall. Want to see who can hit the roof first? =D

  • 41 TiggyNo Gravatar // Apr 1, 2009 at 12:07 am

    Don’t worry everyone! I just read a message on Korrina-not-sock-puppet’s site. She’s just being ‘ghetto’. I believe in ‘ghettospeak’, to be referred to as a ‘bitch’ is a compliment.

    So this is a good thing.

    Tiggy’s last blog post..Taking ShamWow to the Next Level

  • 42 SyNo Gravatar // Apr 1, 2009 at 7:17 am

    Why is it when I try and be ghetto, I am more getout? I hate being 34. I was so hip as a kid…and then puberty struck at I dunno…23 years of age? And it has been downhill from there.

    I still wanna be a sock puppet. OK, by that, I dont mean I want someone’s hand inserted in my arse or anything, but you know…the whole sock puppet thing sounds like fun. Can I be a green sock with googly eyes? You can choose the voice….but I am thinking squeaky.

  • 43 korrinaNo Gravatar // Apr 2, 2009 at 3:46 am

    oh, i did mean to affend.

    korrina’s last blog post..I LOVE BEING ABUSED BY BLOGGERS

  • 44 SyNo Gravatar // Apr 2, 2009 at 7:00 am

    You meant to affend me? Now, last time I looked, the word affend doesnt actually exist as a “real” world word…soooo….

    Affend: [Duh-fend]
    -verb
    1. Used by people who cannot spell while trying to be clever
    2. Used by people trying to get the last word in a conversation but have trouble with the simplest of words

    There you go. You are famous. Or infamous…depending on how you look at it.

  • 45 TiggyNo Gravatar // Apr 2, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    Ding-ding! Round Two!

    Tiggy’s last blog post..Tiggyblog is One!

  • 46 KORRINANo Gravatar // Apr 3, 2009 at 3:45 am

    OH MY GOD, IM 16 AND YOU’RE LIKE, 34?
    GET OVER IT AND GET A LIFE.
    WHY DO YOU GIVE A SHIT WHAT A 16 YEAR OLD GIRL WROTE ABOUT YOUR BLOG?

    KORRINA’s last blog post..Ralphs Bay: As It Is

  • 47 SyNo Gravatar // Apr 3, 2009 at 7:16 am

    Now now Korrina. Why are you shouting?

    You have been keeping up here haven’t you? I said I found it funny. You have been going on and on and on and on feeling the need to put the last comment on here. You need to learn about humour and how things work on this site.

    I am pretty sure you realise that 1 + 1 = 3 and that the sky has purple fizzing lumps in it. Of course it doesn’t, but you know that because you are 16 and not 6. You are now reading every post I write, but say that blogging is for losers…but you cant stay away.

    In all honesty, I quite like you. You make me laugh, and I like that. OK, so you might be trying to be nasty, but I can’t see that because like you, I was 16 once and know how it works.

    I don’t care if you are 16 or 46, if you write an uninformed review of the site, I am well within my rights to reply to it just like it is your right to write it.

    It’s all good…stop getting so upset already woman!

  • 48 Mrs TNo Gravatar // Apr 3, 2009 at 8:15 am

    Oh it’s worrying Sy that Corrina makes you sound so ancient at 34! Where are your grandad slippers and tobacco? Just because you’re not drinking alcopops you must be on a one way ticket to the crematorium!

    Geez, now I feel really old – and I don’t even wear a hair net. Although..now I’ve thought about it…they do have a certain appeal……

    Mrs T’s last blog post..Open Mike Night (Never a good idea if you’ve got a big mouth.)

  • 49 korrinaNo Gravatar // Apr 6, 2009 at 1:47 am

    I wish you would realise that i don’t do blogging by choice.

    and i dont drink alcopops.

    korrina’s last blog post..Ralphs Bay: As It Is

  • 50 SyNo Gravatar // Apr 6, 2009 at 1:55 am

    I am glad to hear that. They taste like dishwater. And I dont mean that really tasty dishwater either.

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