Dummy Spins Utter Bull

Kitchen sink faucet

You might have decided we think that a freelancer who writes bull for pennies is the lowest form of life, but you'd be wrong: they're the second-lowest form of life. The lowest form of life is the spinner, who simply feeds text copied from some article somewhere through a program that runs amok in a list of synonyms to "create unique text." Yeah, sure. 

In your travels about the internet it's likely that you've come across text that, to be polite, doesn't make sense when read closely. Chances are you've just come across a spinner. Just for grins, here's an example from an article titled "The Faucet handle is Hard to Turn - Repairing a particular handle Faucet" in a blog about flashlights: yes, flashlights! First-off, WTF is a "particular handle"? well, particular could be a synonym for single, so it appears that it's actually a "single-handle" faucet. 

It gets worse, though:

"Once the water is off, close the drain stopper on the sink. This dinky trick was taught me by an additional one plumber over 30 years ago. The infer for this? Most likely, while disassembling the faucet, you are going to drop a small screw or gasket and the fulfilled, stopper prevents the small part from disappearing down the drain. Brilliant. Before disassembling the faucet, if you want or need a detailed, visible breakdown of your particular faucet and its parts, these illustrations can commonly be found on the manufacturer's websites." OK, this is a shining example of spun crap: "This dinky trick" unspins to "This little trick" and "an additional one plumber" unspins to "another plumber." Armed with just that one sentence, it was easy for us to trace the content back to its original, an EzineArticle (not that Ezine is a paragon of quality...)

Who's our Dumbass of the Day today? Well, it's hard telling: it appears to be someone who calls himself "Aaron" on Google's Blogspot (hey! a "brother blogger"!). Aaron definitely qualifies as a dumbass, though: he put together ten different blogs, all populated with spun bullshit like "Whatever option you are development for the women's bicycle purchase, be sure to do all of your study and due diligence prior to purchasing"; but he neglected to monetize them! Dumbass.

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