Unfortunately, a few weeks ago my sister introduced me to "fail blog".

It has taken me literally half of today to track down the example photo 
she showed me. Both of us spent about 8 minutes laughing about it.

http://failblog.org/2011/06/17/epic-fail-photos-whale-of-a-fail/

I mean, seriously, WTF? XD



I found various other things while searching for this. For example, if 
this is anything to go by, typing almost any random phrase into Google 
causes it to auto-complete with some seriously weird-ass query 
suggestions! o_O Either that or somebody spends a lot of time faking 
these things...



Also:

http://failblog.org/2011/06/22/epic-fail-photos-after-12-nothing-says-party-like-one-of-these/

They appear to have mis-spelt "WIN". :-D



While many of these are quite funny, a large number of them leave me 
wondering what kind of escaped lunatic would have done something so 
utterly retarded. For example:

http://failblog.org/2011/06/24/epic-fail-photos-stall-height-fail/

http://failblog.org/2011/06/22/epic-fail-photos-probably-bad-news-how-to-piss-off-an-englishman-101l/

http://failblog.org/2011/06/20/epic-fail-photos-fire-safety-fail-2/

Seriously, how did you NOT NOTICE how horribly wrong you just did that?

And then there's a few such as these:

http://failblog.org/2011/06/23/epic-fail-photos-school-pride-fail/

http://failblog.org/2011/06/19/epic-fail-photos-holiday-wtf-athers-day-gift-ad/

Wow. Just... wow.

(Also several signs where "HERE" has become "HER" to comic effect. E.g., 
"Please enter here." "It's always friday in here." etc.)

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Unfortunately, a few weeks ago my sister introduced me to "fail blog".

  I'm puzzled. Long time ago I posted a list of such websites I follow
regularly, and failblog.org was the first one of them. I could swear that
you responded to my post then. (Of course my memory might fail me.)

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, a few weeks ago my sister introduced me to "fail blog".
>
>   I'm puzzled. Long time ago I posted a list of such websites I follow
> regularly, and failblog.org was the first one of them. I could swear that
> you responded to my post then. (Of course my memory might fail me.)

I liked faildogs. :)

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On 7/7/2011 12:20, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Unfortunately, a few weeks ago my sister introduced me to "fail blog".

A great deal of what's on fail blog isn't fail at all. But they have to keep 
up now, so ...

> It has taken me literally half of today to track down the example photo she
> showed me. Both of us spent about 8 minutes laughing about it.
>
> http://failblog.org/2011/06/17/epic-fail-photos-whale-of-a-fail/
>
> I mean, seriously, WTF? XD

They're teaching a class showing how belugha whales don't have sharp teeth 
and don't eat meat or something.  Clearly the trainer is entertaining the 
guests, which is exactly what's supposed to happen.

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    driving without turn signals."

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On 07/07/2011 08:52 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> Unfortunately, a few weeks ago my sister introduced me to "fail blog".
>
>    I'm puzzled. Long time ago I posted a list of such websites I follow
> regularly, and failblog.org was the first one of them. I could swear that
> you responded to my post then. (Of course my memory might fail me.)

Or perhaps it is *my* memory that fails, of course. ;-)

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On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:03:01 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> A great deal of what's on fail blog isn't fail at all. But they have to
> keep up now, so ...

More and more of it seems to be repeats lately, too.

Jim

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>> A great deal of what's on fail blog isn't fail at all. But they have to
>> keep up now, so ...
>
> More and more of it seems to be repeats lately, too.

I eventually stopped following one of the lolcat sites due to the 
extreme level of advertising, and the generally diminishing amusement value.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I eventually stopped following one of the lolcat sites due to the 
> extreme level of advertising, and the generally diminishing amusement value.

  Just use AdBlock Plus. It's surprisingly effective (it can remove ads even
from flash videos).

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On 08/07/2011 08:55 AM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> I eventually stopped following one of the lolcat sites due to the
>> extreme level of advertising, and the generally diminishing amusement value.
>
>    Just use AdBlock Plus. It's surprisingly effective (it can remove ads even
> from flash videos).

By "extreme level of advertising", I mean "each page takes 45 seconds to 
load, and a further 30 seconds to finish layout".

Still, perhaps AdBlock can fix it. I don't know, I've never used it. 
(Come to think of it, I don't even know where to obtain it. But that can 
be fixed...)

The other reason was that the pictures steadily increased in volume, but 
the actually amusing ones became rarer and rarer...

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> By "extreme level of advertising", I mean "each page takes 45 seconds to 
> load, and a further 30 seconds to finish layout".

  If the loading time is due to ads, then it will obviously speed up because
ads will not be loaded at all.

> Still, perhaps AdBlock can fix it. I don't know, I've never used it. 
> (Come to think of it, I don't even know where to obtain it. But that can 
> be fixed...)

  Go to firefox's official add-ons page and search for "adblock plus".
https://addons.mozilla.org/

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