Ok, I was going to blog all about the Christmas Cheer and the Merriness and the Good Will, blah, etc., blah, but THEN. That girl who is stealing my life HAS NOT STOPPED. She has, in fact, stolen part of the post that is two below this one, concerning my musical tastes. MY musical tastes! The word to take notice of in this case being 'MY.'
So I am going to post the link. And if you would like to take a look, gasp indignantly and go about your business, then that will be fine. If you would like to comment there and recommend she go and find her own life, that will be fine also. If you would like to comment here, or privately e-mail me, saying 'As IF anyone would copy you, you boring gasbag,' then that will be... well, not very pleasant, but I think I can bear it.
If you don't give a shit, then hey. Hey! That's ok.
Naughty!
And your Christmas, was it merry?
So I am going to post the link. And if you would like to take a look, gasp indignantly and go about your business, then that will be fine. If you would like to comment there and recommend she go and find her own life, that will be fine also. If you would like to comment here, or privately e-mail me, saying 'As IF anyone would copy you, you boring gasbag,' then that will be... well, not very pleasant, but I think I can bear it.
If you don't give a shit, then hey. Hey! That's ok.
Naughty!
And your Christmas, was it merry?
posted by GBE at 5:50 pm
23 Comments:
Good heavens!
I've heard about all this stealing business, but I'd never read any of the stealers stuff so I didn't know if it was just like blatant cut and pasting, or re-working the original.
She really is just plain, old ripping you off, hey? It would be so much more fun if she made a mash up of a couple of bloggers materials.
It's a bit bizarre, why blog if you don't even write it yourself, doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose?
My Christmas was sufficently merry, how was yours?
First, long time reader first time commenter, etc etc, love your work, blah blah, you know the drill
Second, she really is stealing you. Or he. Couldn't be bothered reading on and working out if he's a she or vice versa. Perhaps you should send them an invoice for writing services. How much do freelance writers charge these days?? Enough to give you and the boy a few nice dinners out, I reckon.
Third, well, I have no third but a list of two looks dumb.
Oh errr! How fucking RUDE! I say we shame them into crediting you.......Or somethin.
Merry Christmas anyway. Cheers. xx
That's SO bizaare!
Have you contacted them at all? How did you find them?! It's like they're using you as filler... tho it's a bit sad that they seem lonely - like they're using your awesomeness to make some friends - though that doesn't make it okay AT ALL!
DUH!!! All I can think of is totally demented stalker type. Who would even think about this type of thing.
I could see a "Best of..." blog where by you put hiliights of blogs that are outstanding, but with that proviso, not just a "cut and paste".
I suppose you could consider it flattery, but then again (to quote a 1940's old radio serial called "the Shadow", "Who knows what evil lurks in the world,...the Shadow knows."
Mr. Guinness
Terribly bad form. But thanks for the name and shame!
I am going to go there anon and see what this little strumpet has been up to...
Hope you had wonderful fun feasting over the festive season!
That is very bad blogging behaviour, however she (?) does seem to be in high school and they are amazing at copying and pasting nowdays. They just want to be as funny as you are....
Whoa! What if youths only learn how to copy and paste? Nothing new will ever be invented. Whoa! This could be the start of the end peeps! The start of the end... I'm excited.
how did you find her, is the question on my...uhh...fingertips...?
Her version certainly makes for fascinating, though schizophrenic, reading. Imagine being simultaneously a teenager in the throes of school and a twenty-something office worker - enough to make anyone want to kill themselves...
Given that she nicks from you verbatim who does she steal the rest from? I'm all for some kind of internet treasure hunt where we hunt down the other authors and, um, do something. Or maybe you guys do I and I just read about it, yeah?
Er, maybe you guys do 'it'...
It gets worse. She is ripping off your earlier blog too.
Aureya's most recent post WARNING: Too Much Info (Dec 26, 2006) is a direct rip-off from Warning: Too Much Info. (Nov 25, 2005) by "Diary of an (ex-)Office Wench".
This is in addition to Miscellany (Dec 22, 2006) being a rip-off of your post of June 2, 2006. And there are probably others. Here's her profile page. Apparently she lives in NZ.
People are asking "Why?" Aureya's LiveJournal blog contains money-making "Ads by Google". Good content begets traffic, traffic begets clicks on ads, clicks on ads begets money?
OOOOw! a new thought for you,
ready?
are you sure?
positive?
Perhaps you are part of a government conspiricy (now that you are one of "them"!) and part of your "training" is that they are going to "clone you" so they can get twice as much work!
:) Just a thought GBE.
Why would anyone copy your post on *sexual deprivation*? At least you could write about how great your life is and how much sex you're having, then she might steal it and get a self-esteem boost.
The cheeky little so-and-so! I can't believe that someone would do that! Really really bad form I say.
How did you find here by the way?
See you in the New Year :)
How did you find her?
And I wonder if she's doing it with anybody else's blogs too? How suckful would that be?
That is some seriously fucked up shit. The same thing, only worse, has happened to a fellow blogger names MrLefty AKA AnonymousLefty.
http://www.hackedlefty.blogspot.com/
Both of his blogs were hacked. That's his temporary site. I can't believe people would do stupid shit like that.
Okay, so I'm a total lurker. But I had to come out of the woodwork to say that I went and checked out "Naughty"'s site. And Dear Lord... that's really immature, rude, and completely pathetic. Sure, imitation is the highest form of flattery... but damn, draw a line somewhere!!
Sorry you have a psychotic stalker that steals your stuff! And by stuff, I mean entries.
Ok, back to the woodwork now... haha.
Jen, I think it definitely does defeat the purpose. I guess she doesn't have faith in her own ability and wants, I don't know, popularity, or a self-esteem boost or something. And my Christmas was mucho merry, thank ye for asking :-)
Mel, I've been sneakily lurking on your blog for a while now - I would've said hello, except I'm absolutely rubbish at commenting. I am quite excellent at stalking, though. Beware! Muahaha. And so on.
Steph, Merry Chrimbo to you too! I don't think I really need her to credit me - I just want her to stop doing it. Hopefully she has now.
Enny, yep, it's dead-set weird. Hopefully she has learnt her lesson now and if she's not too frightened, the next blog she starts will be made up of her own words.
Mr. Guinness, I suppose it is a bit flattering in a way, but I think my annoyance overshadows it, big time. She's seems like she's quite young. Hopefully she won't do it again. Kids these days.
Oh, Audrey, I knew I could count on you to defend my honour, my lovely. And the feasting has been too wonderfully fun, if my rapidly expanding stomach is anything to go by.
Killerrabbit, thank you lovey, but she really must come up with her own crap jokes, or steal them from Blackadder, like I do. This is the secret to Blogger (cough) Megastardom. Cough.
Ninja, woah! You totally sound like Adam, good sir! What if youths only learn how to copy and paste? Nothing new will ever be invented. (Irony. Etc.)
Lulu, I guess there's no real way to police the internet. If I did contact LJ, I doubt I would hear back - who's to say that I haven't been nicking her content and posting it with an older date attached? Oh shit, my secret is OUT!
Ah, Mars, I have posted my evil, sneaky methods in the new post above. Muahaha!
Nails, yep, her boyfriend also seems to change his name from Logan to John and back again every now and again. How confusing! She also simultaneously goes to school, works in a coffee shop, and works in an insurance call centre. Crazy! And pretty much everything is nicked from me, though this one and this one appear to have been nicked from somewhere else. Well, I'm guessing.
Mike, yep, it's nearly all me, both past and present. Apart from the two posts I linked to above (I've been trying to find the author of those, but can't) and there's a couple I think she's written herself. I guess the google ads could be the reason. I think she honestly saw that I get a few comments every now and again and wanted the same thing, but didn't think she'd manage it on her own. Sigh.
Mr. Guinness! I should have known! But the government don't actually expect their employees to work much, so I don't think that is the reason. They must have some sort of evil plan up their sleeve.
Mark, now there's an idea. If she's going to live my life, I may as well make it decent for her, right? Could I start charging people for my uplifting content? "Boring life? Take mine - it's fantastic! Only $9.95 per Exciting Incident."
Ellie, very bad form indeed. I hope your Bowen Christmas was marvellous and full of mangoes. Hurrah!
Phishez, maybe she's got a chain of blogs, entirely made up of other peoples posts? That would be very naughty indeed. Another author seems to be involuntarily contributed to the blog that I found - I've linked to the posts in the reply to Nails comment. I'd like to find whoever wrote those - they're damn good!
MHE, AnonymousLefty copped it bad! I feel quite fortunate now. I hope I have an uncrackable password. Not that anyone could be bothered going to the trouble. And yes, there's far too many silly folk out there.
Princess, commenting is loads better than lurking! Though I can't really talk - I am the biggest lurker ever. I always type up comments and then realise that they're rubbish and decide not to bother. Thanks for your support!
Naughty, yes... but also pretty pointless. I bet all her posts are copies from other blogs.
I would have left her a nasty comment, but you have to sign up and create an account, and to be honest, I just didn't feel like it.
But I support your side wholly.
As Father Ted (a BBC comedy series) put it, "Down with that sort of thing!"
- M
Marcheline, ah, John would love you for the Father Ted quote. And it's ok - before she disabled her comments she was well and truly shamed, I do believe.
Wow. This is crazy! I followed the link to her blog and then selected random phrases from some of her entries, Googled them, and every single one came from your blog! My favorite was her 22 Dec 06 entry, which she copied from your 02 June 06 entry... except that instead of "John! He is coming to visit me for my birthday..." she changed it to "Logan! He is coming to visit me for my birthday..." I think this girl is really clinically insane.
She also plagiarized your (ex-)Office Wench blog.
If I were you, I'd stay away from New Zealand. You clearly have a stalker.
(Besides me, I mean.)
Hi Saru-San! Yep, I've read her archives from start to finish. It's all me, except for a couple. And I was planning on going to NZ later this year! How am I going to see Frodo's house NOW? Bugger.
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