'Comment Spam': Gotta hate it. It is the bane of bloggers the world over.
For those unfamiliar with the term 'comment spam', I'd better offer a brief explanation: Most blogs, mine included, have an area at the end of each post where visitors can leave a comment. Most of the time, this allows for interesting discussion and interaction between the blogger and their audience.
However, the comments box is also abused unscrupulously by people attempting to advertise their own websites or services. Usually the comment is left anonymously and involves several lines of broken English, followed by a link to a website.
I have a filtering system in place to prevent this kind of trash appearing on my lovely blog, but for one day only, I just thought I'd share some of the funny and downright weird examples of comment spam that I have had to wade through during my time as a blogger.
If, like me, you have a bit of a surreal sense of humour, these should raise a giggle. Each of the comments below was followed by a link to a website, which I have deleted. I don't want to give these morons free advertising space:
This holiday season is the father of applied psychology 1863 for a reminder not all of them are equally good.
Eh?
Now I am going away to do my breakfast, once having my breakfast coming again to read additional news.
By all means come back after breakfast, but don't bother posting any more links to your dodgy website.
Hi there dear are you actually visiting this site daily if so you will obtain fastidious knowledge.
Whilst the concept of "Fastidious knowledge" sounds appealing, your website doesn't.
Why not promote a local business by using a nearby man and van to move heavy packing cases?
Because this is a blog about skin problems, not moving house.
Who might have wondered if Big Band in Bolton would be on our minds a lot considering that I'm fairly certain a lot of folks usually perhaps do not contemplate
Nope. Big Bands in Bolton were actually the last thing on my mind at this point in time.
Yesterday, whilst I was a work, my cousin stole my iPhone and tested to see if it can survive 30 ft drop just so she can be a youtube sensation. My ipad is now destroyed and she has 83 views.
Yeah, thanks for sharing. I will be checking out that video. Not.
Eliminate substance cleansing solutions when vacuuming your computer gaming disks. You may be tempted to use some sort of glass cleaner. this can easily affect the disk deeper.
Potentially useful I suppose, if my disks get covered in skin flakes from my TSW...
Thank you for the good writeup. It was in fact a amusement account it. Look advanced to more added agreeable from you!
Um...I'm guessing English is not your first language. Thanks for the compliments but stop using my blog as advertising space. Thank you.
I hope this post has helped you guys appreciate how much trash we bloggers have to wade through and why we moderate comments and ask people to tap in those funny little codes when leaving a comment.
I will be keeping this blog a spam free zone, but I hope that I raised a smile sharing some of these weird posts with you all!
Thursday 24 July 2014
Monday 14 July 2014
Skin Update: 32 Months and Still Healed!
I thought I'd better get round to doing an update because fellow-blogger Wynter was asking how my skin was doing and I promised I'd post photos!
Summer is still being kind to my skin and I've even developed a slight tan on my arms! The natural oils have returned and I don't need to moisturise much at all.
So..here are the photos:
I post photos of my face, arm and neck because these were real problem areas for me in the past and took a long time to heal. No complaints now though. I'm back to my pale and pasty self!
My thoughts and best wishes go to all those going through steroid withdrawals and I hope my photos have encouraged you.
I will continue to post updates to let you know how my skin is doing.
Summer is still being kind to my skin and I've even developed a slight tan on my arms! The natural oils have returned and I don't need to moisturise much at all.
So..here are the photos:
My thoughts and best wishes go to all those going through steroid withdrawals and I hope my photos have encouraged you.
I will continue to post updates to let you know how my skin is doing.
Sunday 6 July 2014
What Causes Flares?
Now that I'm in "healed mode" it is easier to look back with some clarity over my time with TSW.
One of the things I used to beat myself up over was that certain things may "cause" a flare, or that it I flared, it was because I was doing something wrong.
I realise a lot of people feel this way and therefore try and eliminate the things that they feel are causing the flare. The popular ones on the forum right now are sugar and stress. People think if they eliminate sugar/stress from their lives, they won't flare.
The fact is, that in retrospect, although I believed this when I was going through TSW, I now see that it is a lot lore simple than that.
Flares happen.
If you are in TSW, flares would happen, even if you ate a super healthy diet and spent every day relaxing on a lounger, served by an army of good-looking servants who appealed to your every whim.
Flares would still happen because they are a part of TSW.
I use the analogy of a wave. If a wave is coming. You can't stop the wave. Nothing you did caused the wave. The only thing you can do is prepare yourself to ride the wave. The wave will stop, another will come. You have no control over it.
Here is one of my favourite quotes from the forum, which sums up exactly how I feel about this subject:
Coffee causes flares, wine causes flares, chocolate causes flares. And on and on.
Here is what I've learned in 18 months:
Right now, for example, I am in a calm period. I drink a beer or two. (I don't get drunk as that limits consciousness, but that's neither here nor there.)
I drink beet juice (which vasodilates blood vessels). I drink coffee. No flares.
When in a flare, simply drinking water "caused" me to flare.
If everything causes you to flare, then nothing caused your flare.
"If you claim that coffee causes a flare, why?"
"Because I flared badly after drinking coffee."
"Does this mean when you eliminated coffee [or whatever the offending item was] that you never flared badly?"
"No."
"If you flared when not drinking coffee, how can you know that coffee causes a flare?"
"I just do!"
No, that is nonsensical thinking. It's a very common mistake in human thinking called a fundamental attribution error:
Makes sense logically, doesn't it?
But the mind plays tricks on people.
Over the past 18 months I've seen people claim that all sorts of things caused their flares.
Those same people then talk about how they are flaring.
But if you discovered the causes of your flares, how are you still flaring?
Again, logically we all know the answer.
Emotionally, it's harder to accept that we are not in control of this process.
I understand the need to try and create order out of the chaos, or apply rules and logic to the situation, but it seems that TSW breaks all of the rules. It is heartbreaking sometimes for me to see people trying different methods to eliminate the "cause" of their flares and then wonder why they are still flaring.
Acceptance is hard, but the moment we let go and accept that flares are part and parcel of the healing process, the easier it is to deal with.
One of the things I used to beat myself up over was that certain things may "cause" a flare, or that it I flared, it was because I was doing something wrong.
I realise a lot of people feel this way and therefore try and eliminate the things that they feel are causing the flare. The popular ones on the forum right now are sugar and stress. People think if they eliminate sugar/stress from their lives, they won't flare.
The fact is, that in retrospect, although I believed this when I was going through TSW, I now see that it is a lot lore simple than that.
Flares happen.
If you are in TSW, flares would happen, even if you ate a super healthy diet and spent every day relaxing on a lounger, served by an army of good-looking servants who appealed to your every whim.
Flares would still happen because they are a part of TSW.
I use the analogy of a wave. If a wave is coming. You can't stop the wave. Nothing you did caused the wave. The only thing you can do is prepare yourself to ride the wave. The wave will stop, another will come. You have no control over it.
Here is one of my favourite quotes from the forum, which sums up exactly how I feel about this subject:
Coffee causes flares, wine causes flares, chocolate causes flares. And on and on.
Here is what I've learned in 18 months:
If you're going to flare, everything causes a flare. If you're not in a flare, nothing causes a flare.
Right now, for example, I am in a calm period. I drink a beer or two. (I don't get drunk as that limits consciousness, but that's neither here nor there.)
I drink beet juice (which vasodilates blood vessels). I drink coffee. No flares.
When in a flare, simply drinking water "caused" me to flare.
If everything causes you to flare, then nothing caused your flare.
Some people claim X cause them to flare. Here's something to ask yourself (or them).
"If you claim that coffee causes a flare, why?"
"Because I flared badly after drinking coffee."
"Does this mean when you eliminated coffee [or whatever the offending item was] that you never flared badly?"
"No."
"If you flared when not drinking coffee, how can you know that coffee causes a flare?"
"I just do!"
No, that is nonsensical thinking. It's a very common mistake in human thinking called a fundamental attribution error:
If you still flare when you've eliminated the causes of your flare, then what you think is causing a flare is not in fact causing it.
Makes sense logically, doesn't it?
But the mind plays tricks on people.
Over the past 18 months I've seen people claim that all sorts of things caused their flares.
Those same people then talk about how they are flaring.
But if you discovered the causes of your flares, how are you still flaring?
Again, logically we all know the answer.
Emotionally, it's harder to accept that we are not in control of this process.
I understand the need to try and create order out of the chaos, or apply rules and logic to the situation, but it seems that TSW breaks all of the rules. It is heartbreaking sometimes for me to see people trying different methods to eliminate the "cause" of their flares and then wonder why they are still flaring.
Acceptance is hard, but the moment we let go and accept that flares are part and parcel of the healing process, the easier it is to deal with.
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