This Just In: Knitwear Designer Acts Like 13-year-old Fanfic Writer
My apologies for the slight staleness of this wank. A little Febreeze should take care of that.

You Knit What? is a blog devoted to knitted designs that have excelled in the areas of impracticality, ugliness, and/or excessive use of Fun Fur^TM. Snarky fun is had by all, but, predictably, some are not amused.

Among the unamused is a knitwear designer who wrote a post expressing his displeasure at You Knit What?. A designer who also happens to have designed a particularly impractical pair of knitted shorts with "K. 1" stitched across the ass. (I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.)

I think you can guess what happens next.

(Sorry, I can't link directly to the Java-hell of the comments, nor is there any link from the actual post [WTF?]. To get to the comments link, go to the main You Knit What? page and scroll down one post. ETA: Or, you can use this direct link to the comments provided by smut_queen. Thanks!)

All is well and fun in comment-land until the aformentioned designer of said shorts appears. At first, he merely posts anon with this little statement:

Just curious...where'd you get the picture? Cuz it's not the one in the magazine. And usually only people on the photo shoot or people DIRECTLY involved with the magazine are allowed access to these images. Hm......looks like I have to do some digging. I'll let ya know what I found out. Since it's illegal and all. Just sayin'

Robin points out that "If you're going to call yourself "anon," you probably shouldn't bother linking to your homepage." Others give links to where the picture came from.

Jon (Not the designer, just a "friend") fires back with this gem:

Contrary to what you "women" think, those shorts are rather utilitarian and I'm going to knit some.

They are certainly better than the travesties women try to pawn off on each other like shrugs, legwarmers and wristlets.

And yes, I'll put my blog addy on here. I don't give a flying flock about what any of you say about me.

Ninabeena chimes in with these words, which could easily have been lifted from any Suethor complaining on deleterius:

What is wrong with you people? Does it not feel horrible to be jerks EVERYDAY? Please tell me that for the other 23 hrs you actually do something positive and constructive that builds people up instead of tears them down. I just couldn't imagine being this way...

Then, The Designer returns just to break TSC's Law:

And I love criticism. And I also love all the traffic my usually boring blog has been getting lately. Keep up the good work, ladies!

Which is why I personally have the bad ass balls to put my real website, my real email, and all that jazz. I know how to hit delete, I know how to smile, I know how to say, "yeah, I think that sucks, too, but that's what I got PAID A LOT OF MONEY to do", and most importantly, I love fucking with people. Even if they can't spell.

In closing, I give you The Irony Award comment for the thread, from another defender:

I'll probably check back to see if there were any more responses to this (for some horribly sick reason) but beyond that, I can't waste my energy on this place. I've actually been doing well at cutting drama OUT of my life.

Disclaimer: Could it be grudge-snark from You Knit What? Possibly, in which case it's wank all around! But, damn, those are some ugly shorts....

ETA 09/06: You Knit What? is no longer being updated. They are leaving the snark in situ for the edification of future generations of knitters, so hopefully the links above will continue to work.