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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
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2:05a - Hypersensitive Americans or Boorish Brits? You decide!
For those of you not "in the know," Lush is to bath and beauty products what BPAL is to fragrances. In fact, there is a lot of crossover appeal and you'll often see Lush products up for swap on the BPAL forums, and vice versa. Despite this, it's important to note that Lush is a much more vast enterprise... they've got stores in a bazillion countries and offer a far more professional level of customer service. Despite this, the founders and owners of Lush (Mark Constantine and Hilary, primarily) like to keep relationships with customers cozy, and are regular and outspoken participants in their own company's forums.
This current wank apparently has a ton of backstory, but as I'm relatively new to Lush I can only comment on what is currently going down. Some time ago, Constantine (heretofor referred to as BIG, according to his preferred internet handle) had an image in his sig line of an Native American indian in stereotypical guise, and this offended some of the participants in the North American forum. That issue was apparently never resolved to the satisfaction of all, because on page 26 of a meet-and-greet Q&A style exchange between BIG and the North American (NA) forumites, as the conversation was winding down and BIG was saying his goodbyes, her replied to a question about his looks with the following:
I do look like my sig. No one asked about the one that got me into trouble.
(forgive me: I will not be reproducing smilies in this report, but there was an emo :( at the end of that one)
Well, if BIG thought he had dodged a bullet, he was sorely mistaken (scroll down about 1/3 for post by Lushalicious; forum links are unfortunately a bit imprecise):
Are you f'ing kidding me?
Do you really want to go there?
I'm still pissed 8 months later and still waiting for an apology - and I emailed you several times. It is only because of Hilary that I still buy lush at all
( Cue wank. (lj-cut for sheer tl;dr factor) )
(note: even though I did this writeup with Lush as a "fandom," I really think this belongs more in otf_wank and thus the posting here)
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2:44p - Fuck you! No, fuck YOU!
First post, be gentle :D
Fuckyoulist is a ranting community where you can go and vent over whatever it is that just ruined your day. May it be your mom, your printer, your cat, the traffic, your classmates or ... God.
Apparently shiranami had posted a rant about her hard life, blaming God for putting this hard burden on her shoulder. I say "apparently" because at the time I stumbled over this wank, s/h/it has already bahleeted the post after a shitstorm of comments.
But this wouldn't be a rant community if the members would just leave it at that, would it? No, fuckyoulist goes mad:
gothique: Fuck everyone who blame other things for their problems!
Or, to phrase it a bit more subtly like deviancy: Fuck all spineless whelps of the world.!
rachelthedemon: Well, why not name it: Fuck you shiranami!
My personal favourite, listentothis42: Fuck missing all the good stuff before it got bahleeted!
(Word. Reading all this wank makes me so curious about the original post!)
And the biggest post so far: Fuck you for calling fuck you over the fuck you of shiranami! Enter elgaladangel, calling herself "Avenging Death Killer of Doom" because she thinks shiranami is treated so badly. Woe!
" The fact that she disabled comments means she didn't intend this as incendiary or a direct attack or an opening to a fight. So why don't you actual behave like civilized humans, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, Atheists, Agnostics, monkeys, aliens, fruit products, breakfast cereals, WHATEVER!!! and LET IT GO. "
Like following her shining example!
110 comments so far, featuring a cameo by a prominent wanker, the_faery_queen. And lo and behold: shiranami herself pipes up and one finally gets the picture about what the hell was going on anyway. gothique and elgaladangel wank along, one in defense of rachelthedemon, the other in defense of shiranami!
Watch the splooge flying and elgaladangel playing it tough:
"Golden Rule, sugar. You can tell other people what to do, so I can damn well tell you too. And I'm telling you now: Piss off."
"And now people are going to be snarky to me for OH NOES NOT UNDERSTANDING THEIR REASONS WHY THEY HAVE TO POST!!!! Go ahead. It'll entertain me. I shall sit back and feel the flames of your roasting and laugh. And toast marshmallows. Mmmmm."
current mood: Righteous (35 comments |comment on this)
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