Aug 21, 2008 09:30 AM
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(Updated Aug 21, 2008 09:34 AM)
No, I do not intend to proclaim my proficiency in cooking what appears to be quite a horrid and sticky thing; the title is given only to highlight the breathtaking variety of categories on which a newcomer may attempt to write a wholesome review and earn points honestly. For the gory details of actually making banana jam, psyxx’s review suffices. I am writing this under the 'Reading Reviews on Mouthshut' category as it is my desire to read novel reviews on some of the topics I have chosen to highlight below.
Newcomers on MS nowadays seem to be a bit petrified with the kind of atmosphere they are finding themselves in. Spamming, chatting, rhyming, five pointing, and various other innovative methods of collecting valid points have suddenly attracted the ire of Jasmine, who has threatened to clamp strict censorship to deal with an impending inflation like situation. Now, as an old and toothless member of Mouthshut.com, it is my sacred duty to guide the juveniles and make them understand the value of hard toil. You may call it ‘toil(et) training’ but my aims are sacrosanct and above petty considerations. All I wish to emphasize is that when there are thousands of wonderful and innovative topics to write upon, there is hardly any need to resort to unscrupulous methods.
Say like ‘Papadopoulos Caprice’. The name may sound like a nice looking Greek bikini(or a nice looking Greek in a bikini or whatever), but actually, it’s a variety of a rather stout kind of chocolate stick that you could shove down your throat without any fear of choking! Now, since it’s a stick(even if it’s made up of chocolate), you could write an elaborate review on how the Caprice sticks have been useful to you also in retrieving your socks from under the bed, restarting your jammed ceiling fan, shooing away the neighbour’s cat from your goldfish, scratching your dog behind the ear(or in other inaccessible places), picking up and throwing away the odd cockroach from the kitchen sink and repelling a potential thief in the mid of the night etc. etc. Once you write the review, other readers may come up with even more innovative uses of Papadopoulos Caprice in the comments section. The whole exercise would definitely leave you richer by a good 500 points!
Or for example, take the case of ‘Revive Liquid Stiffener’. No one has come up with a review on this path breaking product yet. Unfortunately, no pics are available. So, we do not know precisely what this unique ‘stiffener’ professes to achieve in real life. But three things can be safely assumed.
That the name has something to do with ‘Revive’.
It’s got to be some kind of a solution, and
In all likelihood it is used for stiffening something that has gone flaccid, ostensibly from overuse. However, I must admit that I may not know the exact scientific method of using this exceptional product. I do not know if, to stiffen something, I should pour the liquid liberally on it or immerse it in the solution until it… well…. stiffens! Anyhow, it goes beyond saying that a well written review on Revive Stiffener would be exceptionally useful for all.
Why, even the ‘Lancome Gel Eclat Revitalizing Exfoliating Gel’ sounds fairly promising. And the‘Body Shop Honey Oatmeal Scrub Mask’? Fascinating products! Though I am not quite sure if the latter has to be eaten or smeared on the face for best results, but that’s because I am a bit inexperienced when it comes to matters of advanced cosmetics. In other categories, Plochman’s Premium Mustard, Nixxo Pagers, Double Horse Rice Palada Payasam Mix, Lambretta 150 Scooters andBurt’s Bees Royal Jelly Eye Cream etc are a few of the most distinguished topics on Mouthshut on which greatly useful reviews can be written.
Those who love milk may be a little disappointed though. It’s a slight pain to search for the various milk powders and packaged milk brands; they don’t have a separate category! Amulya doesn’t exist, and neither does Lactogen, the leading brand of spray dried milk powder for infants. No, but that’s because like every other responsible organisation, and in line with WHO guidelines, Mouthshut too believes in encouraging breast feeding of infants by all means. However, the connoisseurs of booze and smoke may happily choose their topic of interest from the 45 varieties of cigarettes and 126 varieties of spirits listed in the products category.
Some of the automobiles have great nostalgic value if not anything else. The Lambretta is long gone, but the category remains. I fondly remember the days when I used to sit on the rusted springs of our Lambretta and tried to throw a few kicks. What I don’t remember fondly are the nasty bruises I recorded on my hind quarters. The Lambretta was eventually given away for free to a scrap dealer who charged quite a few bucks to have it transported to his shack in a rickshaw! I surely would write a review on our lambretta and tell you how useful it turned out to be for the scrap dealer.
Only a few days back I had to replace the worn out tyres of my faithful Santro. Naturally I turned to MS for showing me the light. But I was a little hurt when searches for Goodyear andCeat yielded results likeGaddar and Cheat (or maybe Chat)! I resigned to fate and ended up buying Bridgestone radials for quite a fortune. But again, it really doesn’t matter if tyres don’t exist as a product category here. Lets be positive and look at it like this - **For Mouthshut, Life is a Tyreless Journey!
Nevertheless, new members must take up their pens and start writing reviews. Now, don’t make the mistake of looking at the pen while writing the review. There’s no product category for the Reynolds and Parkers of the world. The pen may otherwise be mightier than the sword but here, the category for pens appears to have been axed! Talking of swords and axes, you must remember to play it safe, for there’s no category for Dettol or Savlon in case you ever happen to hurt yourself accidentally!
Happy review writing, reading and honest point gaining to all!
