Your Favorite Fails
 

I figure if we can have lolcats and YouTube threads, why not have a Fail thread.

Here's one to start the ball rolling. Check out this guy's name.

I work with one of Verizon's B2B telemarking units and we sometimes monitor calls. This Verizon fail really doesn't surprise me.

I could actually feel pain for this guy. My neck was getting all tense just listening to the stupidity on the other end of the line.

Awesome

Here's a Disney-themed fail for ya:

Beautiful!

Oh dear, that failblog is too much! I'm laughing my butt off here.

Denial FAIL

There are no words...

Preparations A through G were horrid failures.

I'm surprised no one mentioned this one:

I'll argue that GWB is not a failed human being.


/shoots self
//shoots self again


(Also, listen to Leo. He knows from Preperation H.)

Okay, not technically a Fail, but it is a Microsoft inanity.

In typing an email (in Outlook using Word as my editor), I typed the sentence, "Attached are the [item 1], [item 2], and [item 3] for the..."

Since I leave the spelling and grammar check mode on, it put a green squiggly line under "are" (the second word in the sentence). The suggested fix was to change "are" to "is." I accepted the change.

Now the word "is" had a green squiggly line under it. The suggested fix?

"are"

:rolleyes:

"Are" is correct.

Is they really?

(sham)Wow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXnx...eature=channel

that's just wrong

Ouch! :eek:

^Go Kings!

Yes, no they are.

Darn ! Now I want a Wunder Boner of my own !!

No, seriously, I hate bones in fish.

ewww

Ow, harsh! If she had half a heart, she could have pretended to accept and broke the news to him privately, jeez!

I like to think she was saying "Really, this is how you do it? In such a public place where I'll look like the harpy if I don't immediately break down in tearful acceptance. **** you little man!"

There's no way that was real. They both looked fake to me.

There is a lot of online chat about the proposal being staged, with the intent that the footage will go viral and provide the team or broadcasters with some free publicity. It could be.

Some of my friends who wear rubber heads for a living have presided over proposals in the parks that ended up with a refusal. D'oh! That would suck. (And if it happens, Mickey still has a great big happy smile plastered on his face.)

It was staged apparently, but I still like to think that is what she is saying.

I root for that outcome every time I see one of these at a real public event.

A public marriage proposal falls under the same rule as dealing with kids: Never ask a question if you don't already know the answer.

I recall seeing a refusal in a football stadium that looked real. The girl said no and quickly ran up the aisle to the exit.

I'm just amused that you have friends who wear rubber heads for a living.

Other than porn and Disney, I didn't know one could get paid for that.

And Ron Perlman.

That was some BAD acting!

He meant Disney.

I have read this thread title as "Your Favorite Falls" every time I open LoT. Maybe I should just start a thread by that title and be done with it. Give in to the insanity!

Ooh, I'll start - Top of the Standard, right next to the edge and a >10 story drop.

LOL! I really should've seen that one coming.

Does the Standard top the Edison?

I don't know what would be more embarrassing to me, the refusal or being consoled by a giant team mascot in front of everyone.

I have some favorites, but not enough time between now and a conference call I need to be on to get it up.

FAIL.

Oooh, that's a tough call. Edison had sex appeal, but the Standard involved actual mortal peril. We'll need to create separate categories.

I haven't fallen THAT many times?

I'm trying not to make a "that's what she said" joke, but it's so hard.

Please, baby, let me tell you one little joke. Just one little joke.

That's what she said.

Jump through basketball hoop fail. Ow!

.

Awwwwwww. :rolleyes:

Oops

But it lead me to not so much failure as sheer stupidity.

For anyone who has not previously seen Snow Driving Fail

Nothing like trying to act sexy and failing


ETA: One more, only because Pat Sajak's reaction is worth it.

I'm sure some of it is the pressure of being on stage/on camera, but they also seem to screen for people with poor vocabularies on that show.

I'm pretty convinced that's staged.

Exit Fail
I can't stop laughing over this one.
:D

I have had personal interactions with Distressed American on political forums- he's a lunatic nutcase so steeped in hate that it's sad sad sad.

Hatred like that is FAIL-

That's hilarious. Maybe they need to put up some of those stickers that prevent birds from flying into the windows. :D

I feel for the "Exit Fail' guy, because I've done the exact same thing (with much lighter impact, thankfully) at CompCity.

I hope that's CGI :eek:

well, sign up and get a profile - lots of boobies there ! :D

I agree, totally set-up.

I don't want to be a part of a vast government conspiracy where The Man will be watching my every move.

Too late.

But ya are, Blanche, ya are !!

...didn't you know, LoT is the Govt's facade portal and GD IS "The Man"?...

[quote=Kevy Baby;268479]For anyone who has not previously seen Snow Driving Fail

This does not reflect well on Portland, but I know this hill. Frankly, it's pretty scary eevn without the snow.

[quote=ozron;268695]What seems strange to me is all of the people standing around watching it all. They seem unaware or uncaring. I'm sure there's not much they can do, but, well, wierd......

As for a personal fail that I had, I was running for homeroom president in grade school and I tripped and ate it onstage on my way to the mic to make a campaign speech. It was embarrassing but I won the election.

All this time I never knew that 1) this was in Portland or 2) there was a hill involved.

Ron, are you sure it's Portland and not Seattle? The TV Station logo is King5 - I KNOW that's not Portland, but thought it was Seattle.

And it's mis-titled - it's ICE driving fail, not snow driving fail!

Yeah, KING5 is a Seattle station, but the footage is SW 20th & Salmon, just above the MAC Club, and when the car backs down the hill you can see PGE Park on the right.

I remember when the footage was first shown and they had said Oregon, but I couldn't remember if it was Portland.

Not those stats, you moron!

I can't wait to watch that one with sound - looks interesting.

Man she's a bad actress. I call staged.

I don't know. I kinda give the guy props for creativity.

News Graphic Fail
work safe

Oh, those crazy New Zealanders !

Does my own life count?

I can't tell you how many people have paid exorbitant fines on books about "organizing your life"...and this is after admitting they've lost their card as well. They pull their ID out of the bottom of their large, overstuffed purses....it goes on and on. :D

Ok, that's just sad. But funny. :D

Wow!! I love that one. And, he's in broadcasting. He should know better. :D

Actually, that would be something I would do on purpose...

Slam Dunk Fail

Maybe it's blue-screen-blue?

Window Washing Fail: I kinda feel sad for him

Child Safety Fail: downright scary

wow. I need to stay off that site. its discouraging to see how hard some folks work to achieve stupid

For many, many people, it takes no effort at all.

"What now bitches?" Heh heh

In the comments section below the "Child Safety Fail" posted by Szerbiac, I found this gem:

"I did some work for Disney, in the offices at the fabled Disneyland (behind the scenes, so to speak). I think the company motto is “The beatings shall continue until moral improves.” Ah, Disneyland. 1 security guy for every 5 tourists.
And DisneyWorld! My sister goes there a lot. They have 4 kids and one time she was there a security type told her to keep a close eye on her kids because at any one time there would be 3 child abduction rings working the park. If your kid comes up missing they usher you into a room with like 50 security monitors so you can try to spot your kid being whisked away.
I went to the Disney store in W. L.A. one time, and asked the girl behind the counter, “What’s it like working for the rat?” She looked around furtively and asked, “Which one?” True."

Wow. Three child abduction rings working the park!? I'm astounded at how this manages to elude the Mainstream Media.

Oh, me too. Poor thing. I think he is worthy of our sorrow.

The automatic-door-washing guy is certainly silly and making his own life harder than it needs to be, but, that video is severely hurt by the loud, dickish laughter of the guys who took the footage.

You're assuming that everything you read on the internet is true.

Not for a moment.

I can't decide if this is a fail or a win -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASExtxqQD20

White Men Can't Dunk
:D
Or, okay, they can but they just don't know what to do immediately afterward.

But they look hot in compression shorts! :evil:

Yeah, tough call

The site must be getting hit a lot - it is taking FOREVER to open.



ETA: It finally opened for me. For those who just want to see the picture (there is also a bit of blogging about it):

i can. FAIL. Let go of the basket, doofus.

Awww. Doggie fail.

I disagree. Doggy cute!

Yeah, but GC's post lead me to Pants as Shirt Fail

This was just painful (from a logical perspective) to watch.
Parking Fail

Good lord, you could have parked a Hummer in that spot.

I think this qualifies as a "Fail":

Mamma mia! Goof cost Domino’s 11,000 pizzas
Stumbled-upon online ‘bailout’ promotion turns into pizza-palooza
Linky

Playing with Baby Fail
Work safe, but really, really gross!

Actually, that happened to me with my daughter. I'm just glad no one got it on film for it to end up here. Oh, and the volume was much less......

Yum, regurgitated baby formula! To this day the smell makes me sick. I think this fail would have been much funnier had mom got sick from it and returned the favor on baby! :D :eek: :evil:

Discount Fail...

Attachment 1096

Wow that's quite a savings! (and quite a large picture you've got going on there as well!)

The skeptic in me wonders if that was staged, but holy crap, if that happened to me I'd be so frelling pissed (or suicidally embarrassed if I was the reporter)!

Staged.

Beauty pageant FAIL.

Your judge is Perez effing Hilton. And he asks you a question about gay marriage. How do you respond?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYV1aBDH7cA

(Warning, probably should be in a prop h8 thread, but this is so totally a FAIL that I couldn't resist. This almost certainly cost her the pageant from what I hear.)

Parenting Fail 1 (Mother)
Parenting Fail 2 (Father)

Maybe Matt can tell us which ride this artwork is on...

Failblog fail?

Anyone else having trouble reaching failblog over the last couple days?

It's working for me.

But yesterday a redirecting advertisement for some get rich quick scam got in their RSS feed. FAIL.

lo and behold it finally loaded. Huzzah!

I've seen this before, but it's still funny:

Wrong clip

Made me laugh heartily!

That is just too funny!

If its crunchy, seek medical help immediately! :eek:

But is extra chunky okay?

Can we change the subject?

I'm gonna say "no"....we can....

Somewhere, someone has the blue letters CUBERS on their bedroom wall.

And I thought we were changing the subject.....

No, I merely indicated it was possible to do so. :evil:

How about we change subjects without really changing subjects -

BRUCES

SCRUBE?

BCERSU!

HAIL SKROOB

I like GD's (Space) Balls!

The funny thing is, I looked up how to spell it correctly...and only now after seeing the spelling do I get why that's his name.

Ouch!
 

Rocker's Tony Performance Fail
That's gotta hurt!

Oops. Someones getting into trouble for that.

And Poison played at the Tony's?!? That's an odd mix

I wonder if someone will get into trouble for it. The whole beginning was a quick flurry of song after song after song from different shows. In my opinion, Michaels was not supposed to stand there and take bows after his portion was done. The rest of the band members hauled ass outta there. Michaels looked like he was trying to soak up some applause for his lip synced efforts.
lol

Poison was there because their music is featured in the musical "Rock of Ages".

But shouldn't the stage personnel be watching for a situation such as this so that when this kind of situation happens, the artist doesn't get bonked on the head even though he/she missed his/her que?

Based on what I saw, I don't have any sympathy for Michaels. But I suspect that the ego of Michaels will supersede the fact that he missed his mark

I'm not sure how this high tech Broadway-type show worked but it is possible that the flat was being flow in and out mechanically. By the way the other two band members fled, it looked like they were given the note to clear double-quick.

Unbelievable.....do people have any concept at all on how the Internet works?

OMG... if they wanna threaten lawyers... they've just provided the other person's lawyer with proof that they were violating copyright.

Haha, wow... some people require training to use the internet, LOL.

:rolleyes: Please tell me what his business is named so that I can avoid it...

Just think of all the fun you could have by randomly assigning the photos to different images. Like say ones suggested by Kevy.....

It's a series of tubes, right?

uh...Ive encountered that...

linked to some sort of goat...thingy...something or other. I forget exactly what it was called. :blush:

people seemed quite upset over it. not real clear why....it was always blocked where I worked.

;)

I get the feeling the email was fake. If not, the writer is amazingly dumb.

Wow

This one?

I take it this person (who has a limited use of the english language) did not have permission (or paid for) the use of your pictures, right.

So then all I can say is:

WTF?

And so there it is, you may now move this to the WTF stories of the week thread.....

And possible even in a "Internet business fail" in the fail thread...

you have no idea how fearful I was to click on that. and yet....I did :blush:

and yeah, Im betting it was sorta kinda almost like that

Here was the other one I was thinking of:

I didn't know where to post the following, so I'll call it a "knowledge fail."

Buzz Lightyear 'first man on moon' some believe

Some people believe that Buzz Lightyear, the fictional cartoon character from the film "Toy Story," was the first man on the moon.

In a survey, which reveals "deeply worrying" levels of ignorance about the Apollo space programme, which sent three men to the moon forty years ago this month, 11 out of 1009 people surveyed thought Buzz Lightyear was the first person to step onto the moon.

A further 8 people thought it was Louis Armstrong, with less than three-quarters correctly answering that it was Neil Armstrong.

The survey, undertaken on behalf of E&T magazine, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, also revealed that over a quarter of all people do not believe the astronauts actually landed on the moon.

You can read the entire article HERE.

BWAHAHAHA!!!! FAIL!!!!

Always remember when reading stories like this that people like Coaster Matt and I respond to surveys like these.

Ridiculous!

I don't know if this is the right place to post this but here goes:

Teen Girl Falls in Open Manhole While Texting

I heard about this story, so I haven't clicked the link ... but I feel safe in saying it's ok to text and walk because you would only expect to fall into an open manhole cover if you were texting to Acme, Inc. in a Roadrunner cartoon.

Last week a teenager walked right off the curb into traffic, right in front of my car, while texting. She actually flipped me the bird and started yelling at me. Umm, my light was green honey. Maybe I should have just hit her huh?! ;)

Visa Fail
 

Today's pedestrians seem to feel entitled to cross the street whenever and wherever they choose, with no obligation to wait their turn.

Sounds like they think they've won the lawsuit lotto:
I'm pretty sure that a wide open hole is a pretty good warning in and of itself.

The fact that she was a dip does not imply the city is not a fault. (nor that it is).

I would certainly expect any open man holes to be clearly marked.


(And yes, I did have to submit your comment to quotes.)

Haha, I didn't see that coming (sorta like dip and her manhole, right?)

Yes, I'd expect it to be marked. However, marking it is a stop-gap measure to increase visibility. Essential on obstacles which are less visible (soap spill on a tile floor, for example), and helpful on obvious but more dangerous obstacles such as an open hole in the ground. And it still requires the person to notice it. Had it been coned and she walked into it anyway, you'd be hearing her angry it wasn't taped off.

Yet, surprisingly, the human race managed to survive prior to the invention of the orange cone.

And insurance.

I think there's an element of truth to that. The safer we make "things" the more dangerous our behavior, the greater need to make things safe.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Yeah, we used to play in the ditch and not wash our hands before handling a shopping cart.

The horror!!

I still do that.

We had Lawn Darts and a Slip-N-Slide. Obviously, my parents should have been put away.

I played lawn darts with my Grandpa every summer. Loved them.

Slip and slides they still sell - but for how long???

Oh, and I had one of those Jr Chemistry Sets.

Yes yes - me too me too. And I went all willy-nilly and mixed things that shoudln't be mixed and was very disappointed when nothing spectacular happened. But we got my set from a second hand store so maybe it was just too old.

My kids have an electronic snap kit that's pretty cool.

Don't forget the Mattel creepy crawly "Thing Maker" that actually got hot enough to burn you!

Oh, and Click-Clacks - dangerous ball of fun!

The funny thing is, the things that I actually hurt myself with are still around - bicycles, roller skates and skate boards being top contenders in my book.

I loved my Thing Maker! I made some nifty-looking bugs with that.

Click-Clacks! I had forgotten about those!

I also had a GI-Joe missle launcher that would have been quite capable of serious maiming. Ahhh.... the Good Ol Days....

Bill O'Reilly - statistical analysis fail

Ugh. That hurts my brain.

Man, that chandelier proves that there is a market for EVERYTHING (NSFW!!!!)

If my husband would have seen that photo before getting his MRI he wouldn't have been able to do it. As it was it was very difficult and he was on valium. That photo would have done him in. Probably would now just looking at it actually. What MRI person does that though?

OMNOMNOM!

It's all about context. I think that would make a perfect hanging light in a swanky gay home if it was hanging in the stairwell that led down to the sex dungeon. It's illuminating (light), suggestive (sex dungeon), and helpful (it's pointing the way).

If it was designed that way, then it's not a fail.

Geography FAIL. Egypt is where?

http://failblog.org/2009/08/12/geography-fail-2/

BTW, don't miss the pun fest in the comments

Facebook FAIL. NSFW if someone's reading over your shoulder.

Awful nice of the person posting the picture to block out the name of the poster and the commenters, but leaving the full name of the friends.

Oh my! That IS unfortunate.

Her status says "engaged" so maybe her pussy did the dog.

:)

Is that really Disneyland? I can't figure out where that is at the park.

It actually looks like Epcot...not Disneyland at all.

Meta-fail!

But honestly, that seems like ordinary play by costumed characters, though usually done by "villains."

Definitely Florida... we don't have an awning like that one in the background.

EPCOT - France pavilion

Dont look at me. I just used the title that the original poster used.

Her account was hacked. Linky

Password security fail.

THe more I thought about it, the more I suspected it was a prank.

Hee hee. I thought her friend's name read Debbie Kirkwood Action. Which, if true, would make me think the whole thing was legit.
:D

The handwritten note reads:

Reason # 4,257 why I wouldn't have the patience for retail

Is this Kevy's new car?

It isn't a good story unless it has baby carrots at the front. Maybe a childrens author has made the mistake of putting that baby carrots at the end or, even worse, in the middle. Maurice Sendak finally achieved success when he put the baby carrot on the cover.

Nobody puts baby carrots in the corner

For SczerbiakManiac: News on the fail of Westboro wingnuts.

Source

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Yeah, it's nice to see the guano-brained were "encouraged" to leave early, but 15 minutes... meh.
Mega Visual Mojo GD!

F'n hilarious!!

WIN.

<confused>
I don't Facebook, is that a requirement to get the joke?

Essentially she got caught lying about her grandmother dying.

It took me a second to follow it (the redacted names make it a little hard to read), but to clarify, the first paragraph of Bill's 2nd comment is him apparently quoting something Amanda had posted previously. So to summarize the transaction:

Amanda: I got screwed at school because I missed the first week
Bill: Then don't miss the first week
Amanda: I was at my grandma's funeral you insensitive asshole!!
Bill: Bitch, you publicly posted that you were on vacation, mentioning specifically the first week of school.

merci

Sort of not safe for work.

Methinks that is someone knowing exactly what the item is and is having fun with a Craigslist ad.

It's supposed to be made with black beans and rice and it's a very traditional Cuban dish.

Oh I know, I just found the name terribly amusing. Obviously they can't change a traditional recipe name or they would have.

Apparently they can seeing as they're using red beans instead of black.

Indeed this is the Indians and Christians version

WTF?! WTF?!?!?

That has got to be photoshopped. But it's terribly funny :)

Perhaps not so extreme but this was my 12th birthday cake

^^ That sure explains something. I'm still trying to decide what that something is. :p

WIN

You know, there were two empty seat behind you...
j/k
:D

ETA: And just where is that armrest, Missy?

Clearly, that armrest broke off.

Seriously, they're not that strong.

They flip up.

Look at the picture again. It's not flipped up.

And isn't it only the middle armrests that flip up? I suppose it could vary by airline, but I don't recall ever being on a plane where the aisle armrest was movable.

Snopes Message Board has a discussion going on this picture.

Parenting Fail!


gawd I hope either the picture or the baby is a fake... :eek:

Not safe for work (though no nudity)

Christmas Decoration Fail

A zealous Christmas decorator caused a storm of trouble with his decorations after police and passersby thought a dummy that was left clinging to his roof with a ladder on the ground below, was a real man struggling for help.


Source

I thought it was funny

It is funny Kevy!
________________________________

They’re basically the same, right?

Yeah, it's funny until somebody hangs themselves outdoors around Halloween and the body is ignored for a few days while everybody assumes it is a decoration.

(Well, ok, that is still funny, but not the kind you laugh about on the evening news.)

The word "TREK" looks photoshopped.

...and I think the dummy display is hilarious. Are people dumb enough not to realise that it's not moving, kicking or screaming for help ? "Oh, maybe he passed out and he's locked there by the amazing power of his finger-muscles". :rolleyes:

That's just how you count using Roman numerals in Spanish.

One, two, three, four, five, trek.

I'm sure most people were not fooled by it. But I can easily see it causing someone driving by to come to a rapid halt and getting out of the car to help before figuring it out. Perhaps calling 911 on the way.

And there have been several prominent stories here in the last few years of bodies being ignored because people assumed they were dummies (in a recent one an old woman had a heart attack sitting out on her balcony. Died leaning against her railing. She was there a couple days.)

In order to comply with USA safety rules ;) :

I think the dummy hanging off the roof is hilarious. I would love to do that!

It's easy. Just climb up a ladder, grab the edge of the roof, and kick the ladder away.

Though I think your arms would tire quickly.

Ha ha. Hey, that looks like Disneyland's monorail. Ha ha...

Hey, wait a minute. I just rode that!

:D

From what I've heard most of the trains are held together with tape.

Funny every time. But I will still always be more amused by the Pavillions "Yom Kippur Challah" promotion.

It is delicious for Hannukah! Especially since almost all of the Jews I know don't keep kosher.

I imagine it is also yummy for Ramadan. And as an ice cream topping.

And a floor cleaner!

Help this goy boy out, why is that funny? Is challa not normally served at Yom Kippur?

Yom Kippur=day of fasting.

SM, you ain't no Challah back girl!

:D

Failbooking.com

ROFLMAO

VGDM

Ewwww MOM!

Love it!

Someone called the store tonight and seriously thought he was calling a phone sex line.

And you started talking about dogs. That is one KINKY dude!

One of our clients (whose clients are 65+) accidentally put the wrong phone number in one of their print pieces. It was a phone sex line.

Heheh... OH MY (Might be NSFW... though it's out of a popular children's book...)

Rafiki, nooo!. Never trust the clergy

That is hilariously inappropriate!


the toy, not GD's post

For those who didn't figure it out, the actual link from GD brought you in the middle of the video. Use this link to see the video from the beginning.

Though I am still trying to figure the "Never trust the Clergy." line.

Rafiki being the jungle-equivalent of clergy, clergy being in the news of late for...things.

VGDM!
:D

In that case: VGDM :D

The 12 yo in me giggled.

Oops

It was only a matter of time, I'm surprised it's taken this long.

Had my own personal FAIL appear on Netflix tonight...

Volleyball Fail
Soccer Fail

Warning, this is pretty gross.
This isn't a urinal, is it?

Hmmm, real?

I don't think so: Tiger was much older than that when ToT opened.

Oh... you weren't talking about the guy in the red shirt in the front row?



No, I don't think it is real because you aren't dropping when the picture is taken: you are (relatively) still (maybe some shaking, but nothing that would cause what is in the picture.

Also, someone would have had to seriously plan a serious visual hoodwink of the load operator on the ride (having a fake seatbelt with yellow strap that the rider would "tug" on). Not that it couldn't be done - it would just require prior planning.

It's been a long time but isn't the ride photo for ToT before the first drop? Easy enough to avoid the seatbelt if the CM isn't paying attention but if the photo is real and my memory of where the photo is taken is correct then he must be hanging from something above.

Right, good point on it being pre-drop, but Alex is also right that he could be hanging from something. As for the seatbelt, all you have to do is pull the seatbelt all the way out, connect it, then hold the slack in your hand or tuck it under your leg so that the belt looks like it's across your lap. Tug the yellow tag, then once the ride is moving, slip out.

Errr, I mean keep your hands arms feet and legs and all that.

I giggled for several minutes, because I'm 12.

Also, the only ones who look like they are actually experiencing any kind of falling are the three dorks in the back. The Jaws older guy looks too calm and the people in the front look like they're having a conversation. The kid's holding his ears because of the screaming. I never have seen anyone put their hands over their ears during the fall. They're usually hands up, posing or grasping their armrests... I can't see a kid that age doing a pose during the pic... (But I could be wrong.) This picture was possibly taken by a CM because it looks like all of the seats are taken, well, one could be vacant... Also, a lady is holding her handbag. Don't they have Star Tours rules at ToT to store everything first under your seats? (Not sure, I've never carried something on ToT,) The guy in "the air" is most likely hanging from one of the overhead beams, caging etc.

Also, the guy next to the bearded guy is out of his seat. If he was not buckled in as well wouldn't he be flying up in the air like the other guy?

Also (you can tell that I'm obsessed with this pic) the injuries you would sustain by not being buckled would most likely be epic, no? Also, if this did happen, wouldn't it have been all over MC or the news back in September (when this supposedly occurred)? Clearly there would be questions about the safety of ToT. If this did happen, I can't see any sane DCA exec not closing the ride down until they could investigate what happened.

There are no storage bins a la Star Tours. 2 cents. :)

Again, they could be hamming it up for the camera

That is a VERY common thing kids who are uncomfortable do. When Theo's in his crib and upset, that's exactly what he does with his hands.

That's what I said.

Actually, that's what I said and you're all just trying to steal my credit!

Me. :)

Well, yes.

But I THOUGHT about it before you did, so you are trying to steal MY credit.

Win Win Win Win Win!!!!

Does it come with a supersized flux capacitor?

A whole site worth of failing. Some funny, some not so much. This is broken.

Stuff like this:

Did they open the door and check? Maybe both are ways for fire to leave the building?

Disneyland Hotel koi fish move announcement FAIL!

LOL! I posted this in the Vent thread because that's where the koi convo was. I've been laughing about this all afternoon/evening.

Oh man I didn't see the Vent thread post until you mentioned it... This was such a great FAIL though, totally worth the double post!

That needs to go to Failblog

Keith and I were talking/laughing about this we couldn't get over how HUGE the sushi roll in the middle is. That's not a normal size sushi roll. It's Koi-sized.

It's been submitted to Failblog, who knows what'll happen next?

The old link to the image expired... If you need to get to the image, the easiest way would be on my TwitPic account.

Or you could go here, and vote for it - http://cheezburger.com/View/3669917952

The headline needs a circle around it, otherwise, awesome. :)

I voted. I agree with CP about the circle - it may not be as apparent to others as it is to us.

And it led me to this:

not sure which I find funnier...the pic or where I actually found out what they were

http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3995967&CAWELAID=488429962

That's weird - when I clicked on your link, it just took me to the main Dick's Sporting Goods page. Let's see if this link works better for others.

gracias

I don't get it, it's a dart set... :confused:

I believe the humor is in the shape of the packaging + the "soft tip" - followed by the secondary joke of the name of the store Capt Jack found the product at.

I am ashamed to admit how long I looked at that stupid picture when I first saw before I "got it"

I got it right away.

That's what she said...

Ok, see, when I was here before the image didn't load and all I saw was the link.

That is just WRONG (the plate in the link - definitely NSFBTD)

Really? I'd have thought there's nothing purer than the anal love a thumbless clown has for little girls. She certainly seems touched.

And even funnier is the fact that Chick's Sporting Goods was bought by Dick's Sporting Goods. That kind of stuff cannot be made up. It's real life irony!

And at 50% off to boot!

This made me laugh out loud. Mildly NSFW

VKM since I have to spread more to give it to you.

Hilarious!

Why, dear gawd, why did the orchestra leader allow this to continue?

From the comments:

Bwahahahah

Aww, all I can think is that this is probably from some Jr. High recital. I remember my violin recital in 8th grade...yeech.

That's what she said. :D

This is audio only?

I actually like this one better. The look on the timpanist's face was truly an "uh oh" moment.

Ah hahahahahahahaha !!!

Towards the end it really does sound like a bunch of elephants having an orgy

"At TouchMe Ministry Jesus will work with you until you learn to swallow completely..."

wwwwwow!!

Now THAT's a t-shirt waiting to happen...

:eek:

From the Should Have Cut Their Losses File, this is one spectacular hit and run fail

:eek:

Did you create that after Disneyphile's earlier post of the same image (pre-Failblog), or was it just coincidence?

I hadn't seen her post. I didn't create it for fail blog, just saw it there. But I'm guessing the image must be make the interweb rounds today.

I'm not sure I see the failure. Especially if the two visible are actually the 3rd and 4th on the string.

That actually happened with one of our Medicare Advantage clients: they listed a particular number as an 800 number when it should have been an 866 number. Naturally, the 800 number was a phone sex line like the one in the article.

At first I thought you were responding SM's post and was thoroughly confused.

It is a rule that any incorrectly listed phone number will end up being a sex line of some sort. Happened to us with a phone number listed on a couple pages back at WaMu.

Which makes one wonder, exactly how many sex lines are out there?

Are they like domain squatters? Do they purchase large blocks of toll-free numbers and make money from wrong numbers and/or companies willing to purchase the number from them for one reason or another?

They may be. We have an 888 number that if you dial 800 instead, you get to hear naughty things.

I had never seen Failblog before, rather amusing!

Don't know how to set the code to show the picture.

http://failblog.org/2010/10/13/epic-fail-photos-billboard-placement-fail/

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I ran across this one at Toys-R-Us today. I think it qualifies for this thread.

Heh, which reminds me of this, seen over a hospital bed:

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On that one I envision it originally saying "Psychological needs" and someone later thinking that sounded to clinical and changing it without paying attention.

Doing content reviews right now for a couple projects and I'm freshly reminded at how many people think you can just go through changing individual words without ever looking at the entirety again.

I guess the person who changed #3 from "Pee" to "Personal Needs" just got lucky.

You could just cross out 1 to 4 and replace with "Because blood in your P is a bad thing."

I gave it five thumbs down over at http://failblog.org/vote/

Thanks for the disapproval.

Book format FAIL: http://cheezburger.com/View/4308893952

Oh My (mildly NSFW)

:eek: Oh my!

I wish I could forget I saw that and go back and read it again. my spit-take actually missed the monitor and Id like to correct that. :p

Why? Dear zombie Jesus, why?!?!??!



Why is Madame the fourth Dwarf from the left?

And where is the seventh Dwarf? In the mine? Oh god nooooooo

Susan and I are huge fans of signs with missing/burnt out letters. Over the holidays, we captured (using a camera phone while driving past at 55 MPH - she took the pic while I was driving) a Self Storage place off the Hollywood Freeway. The caption was "So that's where Santa keeps them for the rest of the year!"

The missing dwarf, in that nasty mine, is Grumpy. Now we know why he is....

I hear that place is pretty crappy. But only at night.

Rather tame, but it amused me none-the-less.

For those who haven't heard the news, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down this morning. I heard it on KNX 1070 (local news radio station) on my way into work at around 8:30 ish. Later, on the same station, they played an obviously taped report from Charles Osgood at around 8:50ish talking about "since Mobarack didn't step down, what will today be like in Egypt?"

Somebody at the station needs to be listening what is going out on the airwaves!

I almost hate to post this as the poor girl just couldn't get the words out.

CBS Reporter Serene Branson Gets Tongue Tied After Grammys




ETA: Rumors are out that she may have suffered a stroke on air.

An update:

Brainfart par excellence!

It may be a medical problem, though I suspect that is just an effort to cover up her blunder.

Social worker fail

Got a call from the nursing home social worker:

SW: I'm following up your call last week about long-term care for your mother. I know she went back to the hospital before coming back to us but she doesn't seem to be here right now, did she go back to the Hospital?

Me: No, she passed away in your facility last week

SW: oh, I'm sorry to [lengthy appogy]. So we have some of your mother s things, there's a tennis shoe but I can't find the mate.

Me: that's because her leg was amputated.

I bet she was mortified.

Why Tangled ads were so popular? Hmmm

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/advertisi...d-tangled.html

Oh Euro, I'm so sorry you have to deal with crap like that at such a time. Makes you wonder why they're given the power to decide things so important when they obviously don't look at the files.

Today at Disneyland:

Space Mountain!!! YAY!!!! Oh, it just broke down.
Matterhorn!!!! YAY!!!! Oh, it just broke down too.
Big Thunder!!! YAY!!!! Only 20 minutes!!!! Row 10!!! Train is pulling into the station for us to board!!!! What the hell you mean it just broke down?

All the mountains, within an hour. Absolutely bewildering.

Seen in the parking lot at work, submitted to There I Fixed It

You missed Splash.

When I had to replace my bumper cover I should have just done something like that. Damn thing cost $1100.

In response to your "Fiberglass/Drywall; what's the difference?"

Drywall screws are frequently used in woodworking projects - with their smaller and non-tapered shafts (than wood screws), it helps prevent splitting the wood (especially if you pre-drill the hole).

But funny picture

Okay. But it seems like now you need some explanation on the difference between fiberglass and wood.

And the difference between humor and serious inquiry.

I just meant it as a passing FYI on my part - I appreciated the silliness of the repair.

Oh it was hilarious, the more the guy tried to dig himself out the deeper he got, I skipped the part where he tried to make conversation about my mother and asked about her high school and I had to explain she grew up in Nazi Germany and her schooling was interrupted by war.

I really would have liked to have been there when he got off the phone :D

Well, unless it is a common occurrence he probably felt about as bad as I did the time at work I made a joke about the (unknown to me) recently deceased infant of a coworker.

I'm sure he was miserable, though that will become his go-to story after a few glasses of wine at a friend's house.

This is either brilliantly done or some designer has no clue whatsoever

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I hate to put this in this thread since it was an accident, but A) no one was injured, and B) it is the prettiest accident scene ever!



You can read the story here if you like

I love how the article says no evidence that yellow ink was released when it's visible in the picture

The quote probably meant released into the storm drains but I also wonder how many look at that and wonder why the story doesn't mention the green ink.

that's all kinds of awesome

Blue and yellow make green.

Upon seeing the picture on another computer, I am curious about what might have been done to the colors of the image (the color is a little wack on my monitor here at the office). I would be highly unusual if ink colors other than cyan, magenta, yellow and black would be provided in such large totes, but the "blue" and "red" shown do not look even close to cyan (which is a much paler blue) or magenta (which is a pinker/bluer red).

(Courtesy of Wikipedia)

Not necessarily a fail, but it amused me.

A couple of ad placement fails courtesy of the Casey trial verdict

No comment

Oh, how I wish I had been able to capture a picture of this.

You know how you will sometimes see people walking the streets/mall/etc. wearing a painter's mask? I believe it started after the SARS scare. Sample:



Well today, I saw a woman (not the one in the picture above) wearing one of these masks.

Except she had it pulled down to her chin...

I believe the practice is to wear the mask when one is sick to prevent the spread of the disease one has rather than to prevent catching something.

Yes, that is the norm. Though also frequently an attempt to forestall airborne allergens.

Government employees have been invited to submit ideas for reducing government spending. Only government employees can submit through this system. To enforce this restriction, one must register by using a government email address on an outside system. Upon registering, the system sends you a confirmation email, which you must use to validate your account, which you must do before one you are allowed to submit ideas.

Sadly, these confirmation emails cannot get through our firewall. There is no solution anticipated.

Fail.

Maybe this was by design ;)

I blame the Republicans for that. ;)

I blame the Democrats for that. ;)

So all of these government employees are spending all of this time, which costs taxpayer's hard earned money, on something that doesn't even work?

How odd.....

I blame Kevy for that.

I blame Canada

I blaime Berney Madoff...he made off with all the money....

I Blame it on Rio

I put the blame on Mame.

The HUSSY!! She took off her glove in public !!!

BTW: for some reason, I could see NA doing this number...

I would if I looked like Rita! I adore that film! The first shot of her when she flips her hair makes me swoon.

Really, Cal State Fullerton dean of students? You couldn't think to put that second 't' in the abbreviation of "students" for your email address?

deanofstds@fullerton.edu

He's clearly the Dean of Studs.

let's all give him a Clap.

Corporate sent out a post hurricane email, that states in it a reminder how to log into remote email. Um you'd have to be logged in to get the email in the first place right?

Possible less than stupid reason.

Here, whenever something happens that causes a sudden uptick in remote access, our local support guy gets slammed by people who don't remember how to do it. Too late to help them that time, but he still sends it all out to everybody again to hopefully prevent it the next time.

This one is fairly run of the mill as fails go, but the location caught my eye.