A well-deserved bad rap

This writer for Yahoo! Shine may get a bad rap for her writing skills, and it’s well-deserved. She’s unfamiliar with basic rules of punctuation: There’s no need for a hyphen between an adverb ending in -LY and that word it modifies. She doesn’t know a real buzzword from her made-up “buzz” words. And her ability to match a pronoun to its antecedent is sketchy at best (even implying that “buzz” words have hefty price tags):

Her random commas strewn about like thumbtacks on a highway stop readers in their tracks:

Her “bad wrap” just contributes to her bad rap:

as does her arbitrary hyphenation of antioxidants and her failure to realize that supermarkets have aisles and not isles, which are land masses surrounded by water:

Can you blame me if I don’t trust anything this writer says about anything?

I think your headband is a little too tight

What happens if your headband is too tight? Does it affect your ability to write? I think so. The headband-wearing writer for “The Thread” on Yahoo! Shine seems to be suffering from an intellectual impairment. She can’t quite spell ponytail:

Nor can she spell Kristen Stewart’s name:

Rapping your head could also lead to brain damage:

I’m really leery of trying a Monalda4 headband after reading this:

Who knows what a too-tight head wrap could lead to? I might neglect to capitalize the name of my favorite store:

Or confuse grosgrain ribbon with velvet:

(I kinda liked that headband, but not its velvet fabric. I wish it really was wrapped in grosgrain ribbon.)

Oy. Headbands can give you a headache. And so can reading about them. I think I’ll go lie down now.