I love anonymous bitching

I just received this delightful, anonymous piece of vitriol in my inbox.


Re: Your Bloggy Thing
From: Anonymous Sender [anonymous@remailer.metacolo.com]

Your Interests:
Should have read: Just a past it, burned-out, tedious old queen who can't write for shit.


Don't you love the way anonymity allows cowards to say whatever they like? I wonder if it's from someone I know? Assuming I do, it's clearly also from someone whose opinion I don't give a fuck about. LOL!

Comments

Adam said…
Whoa! I wish I was popular enough to get anonymous vitirol. Think you've made the big time Watts.
27/11/06 17:36
Anonymous said…
You old queen you.
27/11/06 18:41
Anonymous said…
We are all jealous of the infamy that generates such vitriol!!

Congratulations!!!

Keep up the great work/blog
27/11/06 20:01
Desci said…
You know that such attacks only highlight the attacker's jealousy of your life/aspects thereof. Trite but true!

But seriously, why hate you? You're brill.
27/11/06 20:49
richardwatts said…
That's Mr Old Queen to you, Bonnie. ;-)

Adam - I figure I'll only have made the big time when I start receiving death threats. Oh wait, I've already had those, back in the mid-1990's from neo-Nazi boneheads...

Thanks Paul, Desci. Somehow I shall manage to survive this attack, and stagger on... *poses theatrically with trembling hand to forehead*
27/11/06 21:17
Anonymous said…
richard watts is sooo hot right now
27/11/06 21:45
richardwatts said…
Flattery will get you almost everywhere, Dave. Hmm, in your case, maybe everywhere. ;-)
27/11/06 21:52
Adam said…
Rowrrrr.
28/11/06 12:26
elaine said…
this is a tedious old queen. YOU are not.
28/11/06 14:36
Anonymous said…
I dunno. It makes you soud cool more than anything. Get it put on a t-shirt. Or at least put it on your Gaydar profile.
29/11/06 23:17
sublime-ation said…
As my boyfriend keeps telling me, 'Fuck Them'.
(not literally, obvs.)

It works for everything.
30/11/06 12:16
Anonymous said…
People should own up to their comments - negative or positive. It's more of a reflection on them than it is on their comment on you.

Bloody cowards.
2/12/06 18:06
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