Current mood:

annoyed

Yet another knitting wank.
What is it about the knitting community that causes so much wank?

coflower posts to the community asking a question about how to fix the yarn in her current project. Despite her long-winded, swear-word filled ramble, she manages to get a few helpful responses. tashabear even draws her a diagram to explain how to fix her stitches. When coflower bitches about how tight the yarn is, tashabear makes a a throwaway comment about not using acrylic (e.g. cheap) yarn for your projects.

And then the bitch-gloves come off. Some highlights:

"I've been using acrylic yarn for longer than most of you have been alive."

"Fiber snobs make baby Jesus cry."

"Next time I have a problem I won't consult here because yarn snobs really make me want to punch kittens."

"I'm not a snob!" "Are too!" "Am not! No tagbacks!"

The wank continues in various threads as people pop up to defend both coflower and tashabear, along with the usual why can't we all just get along? comments.

tashabear finally decides to leave the sandbox after all the abuse. But literally two hours later, she comes back to the community, linking to a whiny post from coflower's journal and proclaiming that the bitch is back.

Post-wank community entries:

"And I thought Usenet knitters were bad!"

And my favorite:

"Please stop wanking before we get put on LJDrama again!"

Seriously, I thought knitting was supposed to relieve tension, not cause it.