I got home after the Perth Kilt Run to find I had two pending comments on my blog. One from a fellow runner saying nice things about what I write, the other from somebody telling me my blog was ‘sadly’ on Serbian news. I had pretty much dismissed the comment as spam until I clicked through to check my stats for the day. I was confronted with this:
Wtf?!
To put things into perspective, in the nearly 6 months in which I have been writing this blog, my busiest day barely had 200 hits, and that was mainly people looking for results and photos for the Balmoral 10k earlier this year. I guess the random commenter was right!
This led to an investigation with my trusty friend Detective Google. While I found the website (in Croatian) that linked to my blog, and got the gist of what was being said thanks to various online translation bots (it was about the unfortunate design of the emf finishers’ medal), that was not the weirdest moment of the evening. For during my online searching, I came across an article on the Daily Mail website. It appears they have used several quotes from my post in their article:
So while I’m glad ‘Daily Mail Reporter’ found my article amusing/useful, I am also kind of annoyed that all they had to do was cruise Twitter and liase with Detective Google to mash together an article. For a paycheck.
Considering I did the legwork (literally and figuratively) for my original post, I feel a bit cheated. Since what I wrote comprises nearly 20% of the Daily Mail article, I am surely entitled to nearly 20% of Daily Mail Reporter’s paycheck. Am I right?
Oh, and because I could help looking at the comments, here is the utterly charming ‘highest rated’ comment from the article:
No problemo, classy commenter. Knock yourself out:
Shlong medal and Rachel’s rack.
PS: To any magazines, newspapers, etc. out there, if you’re looking for a columnist, I’m cheap.
The Daily Mail is one classy paper, not.
I can’t really stand up as being an embodiment of class, so I’ll just ‘approve’ you comment and keep my big mouth shut! 🙂
lol, don’t give those reporters any more free content!
I thought they at least had to ask for permission to use content. That’s a nice rack by the way, hoping to get an impressive rack like that myself.
I think they’re allowed to use a certain amount, but this seemed a bit excessive! Good luck on your rack building! 🙂
The most jaw-droppingly hysterical post ever!! Serbian fame and the Daily Mail?! You’re amazing! Love it! xx
I know, I have advised my parents that only 100% pure Egyptian cotton sheets (white, obviously) will do when I visit in October. No idea why my mum laughed when I mentioned they would need to beef up security at the house to avoid being shot by the Houston paparazzi!
My goodness! It was in the Metro on Friday – I took a picture of it (thinking of your post) on my instagram (Tinyholder). That is so cheeky though. Why didn’t they just email you for a few quotes?
Ha ha, had a look at your photo – cheeky little snippet of an article!
Best blog post I’ve read in a long time, loved the twist at the end! 😉
Aw shucks! Glad I could amuse. 🙂
I really do love your medal rack, that is amazing. I want one!
As for the daily mail, well we all know they are crap….but that really does take the biscuit
Ha ha, thanks. All it took was a nice long walk along a (freezing) beach and dragging a piece of soggy driftwood back to the car – rack sorted!
Awesome, awesome post. And hey, there’s no such thing as bad PR, right?
Thanks! And hopefully, though I think I’m happy for it to die down! I wouldn’t want any of the kids I teach mulling over my thoughts of vagina chaffing and such. I guess I should have given that more consideration before over-sharing though.
By the way, I’m hoping to get my first US state half marathon in October. Watch your back, I’m catching up!
No way! Glad to see your medal promiscuity is making its way stateside. I look forward to that recap and hope that we don’t give you a phallic finisher’s keepsake.
LOL. This is hilarious. You should comment on the Daily Mail article and demand a paycheck! Or you could use your fame to get into races for free? 🙂
Ha ha, I doubt that would work. It seems my fame was short-lived: blog traffic is back to normal. 🙂
That is until your next unfortunate shaped medal, right? 😉 Now you know how to get traffic… LOL.
This post is amazing ! hilarious. Gotta love people and the power of the internet.
The world is full of some very special people. 🙂