Spammers are relentless and weird

Lately I’ve been getting a bunch of attempted spam comments on random blog entries. Okay, nothing unusual about that, right?

Well, it’s a little unusual in that I use isso, an obscure comment system that requires Javascript to work, so at the very least there’s some sort of browser-based automation, if not outright sweatshop laboring happening.

But today I just got the weirdest fucking spam comment ever. Not weird because of the content (it was for a list of dental clinics in India, which I guess is pretty weird), but because of where it was posted:

On an entry that requires login.

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Current situation

So, the bathroom remodel keeps on hitting some pretty bad roadblocks. And I’m not entirely sure what to do next.

Basically, the plumber started a week ago, and has been trying to get the house plumbing working again. But something keeps going wrong, but I have no idea what, because the plumber only speaks Vietnamese. But the short version is that even after over a week and multiple complete re-dos of the plumbing, I still have no running water, and all that the plumber can tell me is that it doesn’t work, but can’t specify what he means by “it” or “work.”

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