I love love love Wrongcards. Furthermore, I intend to shamelessly steal "A Pasture of Woolly Prospects" and use it as the title of my next poem. If only I wrote poems.
I LOVE Wrongcards!!!!! You have the most perfect obnoxious cards for my frenemies and funny cards for my besties. I stumbled across your website a few years ago and have bookmarked it and used it ever since. You have done humanity a service. You are a real human being.
I nearly said 'oh no' then I realized I was in complete agreement with you, and that I HAVE done humanity a service and the fact this is not widely recognized might be a sign we're all collectively lurching into cultural dark age. Probably. I don't know. Anyway, thank you for appreciating me.
You'll be pleased to know that journalists are not at all offended by Wrongcards. I routinely send them to many of my ex-students for their birthdays, anniversaries, etc., and they generally find them to be very funny or altogether too true.
I've received a few fun complaints over the years. I came very close to starting a Muslim category, but was persuaded not to do it by concerned friends. Still a pity. Another true story: there was actually a Scientology category for a while, but I removed them after a few years when I was trimming the site down. I just didn't think they were all that good. The first card was the Lenin birthday card. The most popular one that people sent the most for the longest time was 'I like you most than toast', which was a real head-scratcher for me. I made it for my friend Byron. Frankly, I think I think I was exaggerating in that card, to be kind. I'm too good a friend sometimes.
Hi (again for slightly different reasons) Kris! I also am grateful for Wrongcards. I found Wrongcards some time ago because without any training (except proofreading & editing) or credentials or IT specifics I am usually better at successfully searching the internet than most English speaking humans, except for things relying on mathematics / numeric formulae & Hard Science. I wanted something as far way from Hallmark as possible. I drop in to Wrongcards when I don't even need cards; Wrongcards is an excellent antidote to MOST commercial 'card' communications and general annoyance with civilization. Wrongcards is the only place I've found that provides You Can't Say That! without being,er, assholery of the sort favored by 14yr old male thug wannabes.. Unfortunately it will be a decade before I can send Wrongcards to my grandchildren. ..., RevW
I always appreciate your support. What I happen to like about wrongcards is that it's mostly difficult to weaponize against people. They're not mean-spirited really. People tell me they're snarky; I don't really agree, or else it doesn't fit within my sense of snark. The site isn't really even sarcastic, it's ironic, which is a difference in tone. But whenever I've tried to explain this, people have disagreed with me and I shrug and give up. The difference with Wrongcards is that you can send them to someone on the same wavelength as you. But Hallmark - that's just kitsch. Definition being: "Excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste." They're overstated and insincere. And they're expensive, as well, which is horrible (in my opinion). To spend that much money to have a corporation express your feelings to another person is just an awful and insincere thing to do, and one might as well not bother; the action contradicts its intention. But Wrongcards somewhat brings people together, in my view. Well, certain kinds of people - people like ourselves.
I love love love Wrongcards. Furthermore, I intend to shamelessly steal "A Pasture of Woolly Prospects" and use it as the title of my next poem. If only I wrote poems.
I LOVE Wrongcards!!!!! You have the most perfect obnoxious cards for my frenemies and funny cards for my besties. I stumbled across your website a few years ago and have bookmarked it and used it ever since. You have done humanity a service. You are a real human being.
I nearly said 'oh no' then I realized I was in complete agreement with you, and that I HAVE done humanity a service and the fact this is not widely recognized might be a sign we're all collectively lurching into cultural dark age. Probably. I don't know. Anyway, thank you for appreciating me.
You'll be pleased to know that journalists are not at all offended by Wrongcards. I routinely send them to many of my ex-students for their birthdays, anniversaries, etc., and they generally find them to be very funny or altogether too true.
I've received a few fun complaints over the years. I came very close to starting a Muslim category, but was persuaded not to do it by concerned friends. Still a pity. Another true story: there was actually a Scientology category for a while, but I removed them after a few years when I was trimming the site down. I just didn't think they were all that good. The first card was the Lenin birthday card. The most popular one that people sent the most for the longest time was 'I like you most than toast', which was a real head-scratcher for me. I made it for my friend Byron. Frankly, I think I think I was exaggerating in that card, to be kind. I'm too good a friend sometimes.
Hi (again for slightly different reasons) Kris! I also am grateful for Wrongcards. I found Wrongcards some time ago because without any training (except proofreading & editing) or credentials or IT specifics I am usually better at successfully searching the internet than most English speaking humans, except for things relying on mathematics / numeric formulae & Hard Science. I wanted something as far way from Hallmark as possible. I drop in to Wrongcards when I don't even need cards; Wrongcards is an excellent antidote to MOST commercial 'card' communications and general annoyance with civilization. Wrongcards is the only place I've found that provides You Can't Say That! without being,er, assholery of the sort favored by 14yr old male thug wannabes.. Unfortunately it will be a decade before I can send Wrongcards to my grandchildren. ..., RevW
I always appreciate your support. What I happen to like about wrongcards is that it's mostly difficult to weaponize against people. They're not mean-spirited really. People tell me they're snarky; I don't really agree, or else it doesn't fit within my sense of snark. The site isn't really even sarcastic, it's ironic, which is a difference in tone. But whenever I've tried to explain this, people have disagreed with me and I shrug and give up. The difference with Wrongcards is that you can send them to someone on the same wavelength as you. But Hallmark - that's just kitsch. Definition being: "Excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste." They're overstated and insincere. And they're expensive, as well, which is horrible (in my opinion). To spend that much money to have a corporation express your feelings to another person is just an awful and insincere thing to do, and one might as well not bother; the action contradicts its intention. But Wrongcards somewhat brings people together, in my view. Well, certain kinds of people - people like ourselves.