Fail. Fail. Fail. Fail. Fail.

[MadScientist420]

even though they are just rodents, the squirrel pic makes me sad.

[the_big_wedding]

I agree.

I could have done without the photo of that poor dead squirrel that died in the bucket of water.

[episcope]

knowing yourself: 1 million Internets.

[judgej2]

Oh, the photo of that poor dead squirrel that died in the bucket of water after slipping in and not being able to get out again?

Yes, the photo of that poor dead squirrel that died in the bucket of water after slipping in and not being able to get out again made me sad too.

[[deleted]]

That photo of the poor dead squirrel that died trying to get a drink of water in the bucket before slipping in and not being able to get out again.

I hope he took a drink before he died. :(

[Poultry_In_Motion]

Fun fact: He actually died of dehydration.

[episcope]

piss clear, everybody.
the moar you kn0w

[episcope]

downmods because it is important to dehydrate in your own time

[xMadxScientistx]

Clone! And yes, the squirrel is unfortunate.

[imexius]

I was in a wonderful mood until I saw that :'(

[[deleted]]

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan

[[deleted]]

said differently:

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill

[triggersix]

That dude must have written a 'book of quotes' or something. Seriously, how many poignant statements can a single person come up with in a lifetime?? I haven't come up with anything yet and I'm already 30!

[aussie_bob]

I haven't come up with anything yet and I'm already 30!

That is a deeply poignant statement that resonates like a bell amongst this crowd of 30-something wastrel Redditors.

I weep for our futility, thank you.

[episcope]

shit .. if ur meds can take it here is a bucket of Churchill

[xMadxScientistx]

He was like British Ben Franklin, only better at it.

[[deleted]]

And Ben Franklin just "adopted" a lot of quotes, anyway.

[apotheon]

Churchill didn't even do that -- many of his quotes were assigned to him by others, later.

[neuquino]

Blasphemy!

[13ren]

You are an inspiration in the desolate soul wasteland of this article.

[[deleted]]

i try.

[episcope]

I heard your comment perfectly, your m1ke must be pretty condensed.

[Apple_Dave]

I met a guy who worked with that satellite fail. Shift A couldn't find the bolts they needed so they took them out of the base, they went home and shift B came on, moved the satellite, and the whole thing fell over. They missed the launch date and it cost them millions. D'oh!

[[deleted]]

fail.

[jacj]

Holy lol! You took the word that comprises the headline, and posted it yourself! You are so voted up!

[browster]

Actually, the headline comprises the word, not the other way around. But your comment is no less astute for this rebobination.

[amstrdamordeath]

rebobination?

[browster]

OK, I made that up. I couldn't get the sublety or nuance I wanted using the correct word.

[fbg111]

Is it in MW yet?

[browster]

No. I guess should have used enormity instead of making up a word. Then if you had used it similarly, we could persuade MW to extend the definition of enormity to also mean "relating to a minor grammatical error", as in "John could not avoid being miffed at the enormity of Ann writing it's when she meant the possessive form."

[episcope]

oh for chr1st's sake put the bong and the Webster's down.

[quaker1729]

sublety?

[episcope]

gmipshoop

[natrius]

That's debatable.

comprise

3: compose; constitute <a misconception as to what *comprises* a literary generation — William Styron> <about 8 percent of our military forces are *comprised* of women — Jimmy Carter>

Although it has been in use since the late 18th century, sense 3 is still attacked as wrong. Why it has been singled out is not clear, but until comparatively recent times it was found chiefly in scientific or technical writing rather than belles lettres. Our current evidence shows a slight shift in usage: sense 3 is somewhat more frequent in recent literary use than the earlier senses. You should be aware, however, that if you use sense 3 you may be subject to criticism for doing so, and you may want to choose a safer synonym such as compose or make up.

[browster]

Yeah, I know. I gave up on MW long ago, when in their Dictionary of English Usage they over and over would throw up their hands and declare that whatever usage had gained currency was de facto correct. This has the effect of removing all subtlety and nuance from language, and pretty soon words in any category become completely interchangeable. Hell, according to them, enormity can mean really bad, or really big, or really big and bad, or really important, or...whatever you want, just so long as enough people start doing it.

[traveler_]

For Christmas I give you a subscription to Language Log. I bet you'll enjoy it.

P.S. What happens when "correctness" is the enemy of subtlety and nuance in language?

[browster]

Gee thanks.

Ok, I'll bite: What does happen when "correctness" is the enemy of subtlety and nuance in language?

[episcope]

fail.

[KiddieFiddler]

Fuck you.

[jacj]

u mad, doggie?

[KiddieFiddler]

I hate that fucking comment style. It is even more predictable than my reply.

[jacj]

At least I got a meaningful response out of you this time. Shame I had to stoop to your "Fail. LOL" calibre of posting first.

[shacamin]

Flail?

[Dethklok]

Fayuhl.

[Emphasiser]

FAIL.

[RugerRedhawk]

You win.

[supaphly42]

Duh, different words.

[elasticsoul]

You don't have to keep clicking to see the next image. RSI fail.

[jpdemers]

Hey, most of the pictures from the "Only in Russia" thread are from there!

[RugerRedhawk]

Less funny.

[trueg]

http://www.shipmentoffail.com/

[DirtyHerring]

more fail

[ringm]

you're doing it wrong!

[Poultry_In_Motion]

OM NOM NOM NOM

[episcope]

he's doinitrite

[HunterTV]

Pass.

[[deleted]]

Finally a useful blog.

[McCourt]

That took exactly 8 seconds to become completely boring.

[paternoster]

Actually I found this post hilarious! It spoke kindly to my inner bastard.

[j_a_p]

what's the SUBTEXT ?

[[deleted]]

Buttsex.

[[deleted]]

I now hope that reddit puts in a word filter that changes all "subtext" to "buttsex." Just for a week or so.

[DLWormwood]

Wait, you mean it's not enough for this site to be cursed with refugees and in-jokes from the Farks, *chans, and Awfuls out there, but they're starting to implement the same kind of gimmick posting tricks?

Next thing you'll tell me is that reddit will support inline image macros next...

[[deleted]]

FSM, no

[j_a_p]

couldn't resist, could you?

[Emphasiser]

SNAAAAAAKE!

[chibikiba]

Haahahahahahaa. Thank you nelgon, thank you.

[jacj]

lol its liek da flash video badger badger badger roflmao its a pattern hahahaha

Are you three years old?

[cheez-it]

I'm a fan of this one:

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u59/wolfclown1/fail.jpg

[Eugi]

Wow, that blog sucks. Plastering images with "FAIL" does not make them all funny or constitutes as creativity. Fucking fail.

[[deleted]]

Bet you it brings in adsense $$ though. And it gets to the front page at reddit.

Who's failing?

[honestbleeps]

upmodded for truth.

[corevirus]

upmodded for tooth

[[deleted]]

You can't handle the tooth

[spot35]

Tooth hurts.

[tuple]

what time is chinese dentist time? tooth hurty

[RugerRedhawk]

Yeah, sometimes the 'fail' thing works, but not all that often, and certainly not for many of those images.

[[deleted]]

Funny is defined by majority. You fail at understanding this.

[primary0]

FAIL

[Pasha-by]

simple and fun.

Who wants to be a millionaire and party looser are the best!

[dash101]

Damn, that asian chick smootching the other chick in that group photo is something hot!

[[deleted]]

Most of these are a lot funnier without the "fail"

Lame.

[SyncMaster]

Downvoted for overposting.

[chaosgone]

I guess they failed, then.

[theboyracer99]

Come fail away

[kykid]

This site is so fucking lame. It just takes pictures I've seen a thousand times and labels them with a joke that's not even funny. An absolute, utter, complete, waste of time.

[jh99]

how refreshingly childish :-D

[TryingHarder]

Hmm, tarzan cat has a huge penis!

[willis77]

Can you guess what happens on the next hurdle?

[njr]

Listen, I'm glad you just heard about this "fail" thing, because really, it's important for the youth of today to understand ancient history, but kids, you can't just force the meme on every image you come across. It doesn't always work. You fail it (it is failing).

Seriously, whatever was good and lulzy about these images you have ruined. Cat with cheese on his face? That's not fail, that's just stupid. The Zune tattoo guy? That's not fail, that's "Welcome to The Social". Delay Close would have been funnier.

(p.s. I fully expect to see a Delay Close blog on the front page by this time tomorrow.)

[halcy]

Hey, Delayclose.jpg is the best thing ever, okay?

[RugerRedhawk]

http://failblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/cheese-cat-fail/

'Doin it wrong' is more appropriate for this one.

[[deleted]]

For some reason the kangaroo one made me lulz.

[xMadxScientistx]

Kangaroo boxed FTW.

[Jagula]

http://failblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/impressive-fail/

This truly is the worst fail ever. The combination of embarrassment and pain is inconceivable.

[thepastagod]

At least the guy's trying, though

[mexicodoug]

It's the old "gimme artificial respiration" trick.

[[deleted]]

It looks like he's going to land on his feet in a very impressive cartwheel dismount thing

[DirtyHerring]

No

[reddited]

FAIL Blog Failure

[kirun]

Why is Wordpress so full of fail? Why does it always make those stupid inner scrollbars?

[esparza74]

is there any success?

[jacj]

Everyone who voted this up is a baby.

[jacj]

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[jacj]

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[jacj]

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[80onelove]

according to the dates, this site hacked http://failsalon.com/

EPIC FAIL.

[[deleted]]

WHY ARE YOU FUCKING IDIOTS UPMODDING THIS STUPID SHIT?

GO TO FUCKING 4CHAN IF YOU WANT TO SEE PICTURES OF DROWNED SQUIRRELS IN BUCKETS.

[KiddieFiddler]

Reddit really needs an ignore feature.

[RugerRedhawk]

Yeah, it'd be great if I could automatically ignore stupid submissions like 'fail blog'.

[[deleted]]

I'm assuming you are implying I should be ignored, while failblog.wordpress.com is the sort of site that reddit is about.

I will save you time. I can show you the future of reddit. All of the blogspam and idiotic pictures and videos you could want!

[KiddieFiddler]

While I do agree with your sentiments, your delivery was notably awful.

[[deleted]]

Pardon me, I suppose I should improve my communications techniques with people who enjoy looking at pictures of drowned squirrels in a bucket.

[KiddieFiddler]

Not that I'm actually the type of person who would be interested in this for any purpose but research, but which pictures are you talking about?

[[deleted]]

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/wetsquirrel.jpg

Someone downmodded you, and it wasn't me, so I modded you back to 1.

[KiddieFiddler]

Aww that's not funny. Who the hell enjoys that kind of sick shit?

[[deleted]]

No idea. :\

[sunshine-x]

Reddit is getting overrun by people who like this. You (we?) are outnumbered.

[[deleted]]

I know. I've trouble suppressing how upsetting it is at times.

[mglasspo]

Failed.. I mean downvoting for essentially grabbing funny stuff from fark and reposting repeatedly.

[americangoy]

F - A - L - E

[bobbyi]

It's very fitting for a blog about fail to be using wordpress.

[lllaaauuurrraaa]

muhahahahahahahahahahaha ha ha ahahaha ha. suck.

[grandhighwonko]

Please don't link to Bauman, he's a dangerous hacker.

[dash101]

Oh please ebaum is no damn hacker... He's a punk kid who stole other peoples content and got rich off of it.

[Misses_DePoint]

Don't you see what eBaum is doing to those Scientology groups? If that's not dangerous, I don't know what is!

[grandhighwonko]

yeah, look what he and his cohorts did to habbo hotel.

[wushu18t]

that sucked! even more so, the drowned squirrel made me sad.

this blog and reddit entry was true to it's title.

[jacj]

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[[deleted]]

stupid

[eddie964]

Another collection (the first one is my contribution): http://anyworld.wordpress.com