Come on man!

Don't get me wrong, I love the online shopping community.
I love that we can shop, laugh, share, and make a dozen new friends per online purchase.

But I am so annoyed with review blogs that copy my ideas!!!!!!

Look, there's nothing original in the idea of reviewing - film critics, literary critics, fashion critics, everything's been done before. It's just a matter of breathing new life into it, adapting it to your own goddamn personal style.

First there was the reviewer that practically cut-and-paste my meticulously written advertisement details (right down to Terms & Conditions and FAQ, including the format and phrasing I used). Ok, that's not so bad. Maybe she needed a template and she liked mine. I can still understand.

Then the idea of themed reviews caught on like wildfire. Random, arbitrary reviews were a fad of the past, and themes were making things more interesting. So an average of three new review blogs would get set up each week, and 1 out of 3 would center on themed reviews. No biggie, fashion magazines do it all the time. I just incorporated that same idea into my blog. Feel free to do the same, right?

But now, this new review blog ripped off my HOUSE RULES and just translated it into another sodding language?? Are you yanking my chain? You can't even come up with your own rules for your own review website? Even if you wanted to capture the gist of the rules, there's no reason to directly translate it into the language that is the medium of your blog! Come on, have some respect for intellectual property already!

How do I know it's copied? Because it has the same expressions and peculiar phrasing that is MY sodding style. Of course I know my own writing style, could recognise it from a mile off! Every word I wrote on that site has been mulled over and edited, everything carefully planned and designed to reflect a bigger picture - and you *****ng come along and RIP IT OFF?

Down to the expression, people! If I said "Oh, do link me back!" so do they. In exactly the same order, after the exact same sentence. Just in a different language.

Am I annoyed?
HELL YEAH!

Is there anything I can do?
Yes. Keep coming up with better ideas!

My dad always told me that people with ideas will always have ideas, whereas people without ideas will always be waiting for other people's ideas.

Father Knows Best.