Yesterday afternoon, while working very hard and not in the least bit conducting idle displacement activities as a substitute for actually getting words down on the page, Mumsnet circumstances beyond my control required me to click onto the following webpage:
Reasonable site structure, pretty dresses, models who look both beautiful and plus-sized, five minutes looking at potential wedding dresses for fellow Mumsnetters duly frittered, okay.
And then I read the lead-in copy:
“You must have been bothered by failing to get a plus size wedding dress to match with your fat body shape. Persun.co.uk will solve your problem and help you greet the arrival of the wedding. Plus size wedding dress on Persun.co.uk, you will never be regretful to get one. Welcome to our online store!”
That’s a direct transcription, by the way.
I don’t know an awful lot about selling wedding dresses, but I’m pretty sure the phrase “your fat body shape” doesn’t usually play a central role.
Cassandra Parkin 
I cannot stand poorly translated signage! Why would anyone spend so much money to have a website without having a NATIVE English speaker proof read it? (A trust worthy and drug-free native speaker that is: a)not an in-law, and b) one to whom you don’t owe vast amounts of cash. Oh, and NOT on April 1st.)
That being said, I often wonder when I see these atrocities (after sighing and shaking my head, of course) if it’s laziness or the old “bat in the cave” issue. Has someone actually TOLD them and they just don’t CARE? Or are people too afraid to tell them their website has a huge booger hanging out?
Kyla, I did consider emailing them and saying, “Erm, look, this isn’t doing you any favours, want to talk about rewrite fees?” but I couldn’t think of a tactful way of saying it, so I didn’t.
However, I have linked to their page, so if their webmaster is on the ball they may drop by to talk. Or maybe just to berate me for mocking them. 😉
Ooooo…fingers crossed you get the always appreciated response email, or as the wonderful Ms. April Winchell* calls it, “butt-hurt email.” Lol…
*on the off chance you haven’t been introduced to the awesomeness that IS Regretsy, I HIGHLY recommend you swing by the site. Fair warning though, it’s addictively hilarious.
Oh, I love Regretsy so so much. It makes me very happy!
For anyone else who hasn’t been by to visit it yet – here’s the link – http://www.regretsy.com/
Ouch! I mean how romantic.
I’m pretty sure my enemy in high school wrote this specifically for me…