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  1. Ben says:

    Sorry – I “fail” to find the failure in this one. A kid playing a triangle is NOT a fail — any kid playing a triangle in a school band also means that the kid plays all the other percussion instruments in the arsenal. And anyone who has ever tried to play some of the complex orchestral rhythms written for triangle will confirm – it’s NOT an easy instrument to master. FAIL blog has a rare FAIL on this one…

  2. sharon says:

    i agree with ben. i was confused that perhaps i was missing the funny!

    • Bandgeek says:

      They thought the “funny” was the fact that the triangle is missing a corner, I think. Typical ignorant people thinking kids with trianlges are funny because it’s just that: a triangle, and they’re not used to seeing them without the corner. Kid looks funny though, gotta give him that.

  3. Anonymous says:

    A kid playing triangle is not a rockstar. Therefore: FAIL.
    Society is simple, really.

    • nucking futs says:

      So a kid wearing a collared buttoned shirt tucked in to pleated pants and a belt is a rockstar?

    • asdf says:

      you are not a rockstar, you fail too

    • KEVON says:

      It’s a school band! Not a rockband you petty imbecile!!!

    • kyle says:

      well duh but the triangle requires the same rythm to play as a base drum or crash symbols hell everything in percussion needs rythm

    • theotherbandgeek says:

      first, its not actually that easy to play. second, that wouldn’t be funny anyway

    • Flute playing bandgeek says:

      I fon’t see why you think this has something to do with rock- it’s concert band. I’m in the concert band at school and my band teacher has admitted before that triangle is NOT as easy as it looks. And besides- do you think they’re in concert band to BE a rockstar? No. They’re in concert band for, hopefully, the fun of it. (In some cases, for the inter-school competition.)

  4. Ben says:

    Anonymous nails it. How could I have been so blind? Me = FAIL.

  5. Liam the lemming says:

    Isn’t the triangle touching his shirt sleeve?

    So when he hits it:

    *clunk*

    FAIL.

  6. Anonymouse says:

    You fools. You’re over-thinking it. LOOK AT HIS FACE. FAIL. THE END.

  7. Anonymous says:

    Well the other kid hasn’t an FAIL arrow poiting to him, has he? HAS HE?

  8. Anonymous says:

    For the triangle: in the context of an orchestra, well that would be a whole different thing.

  9. dannyg77 says:

    I played percussion from 7th through college on a music scholarship. It’s just an old addage, or saying, that the triangle player is the ‘worst’ musician in the percussion section. That’s not to say that he is a bad player, can’t tell just from the pic. I see what they did here.

  10. Snare says:

    Ever hear of ‘Triangle Hero’? oh .. wait, never mind.

  11. Lindstrom says:

    the reson this is a fail is because the kid on the right whanted the drums but the other kid got them, so the one on the right gets stuck with the triangle (got nothing against the triangle thou, I loved to bang away on one when I was 6)

  12. Zarkov says:

    This image: FAIL.

  13. Pigeon says:

    WOW that was the funniest picture of the website… hahaha FAIL

  14. ST says:

    Russian flag on the wall is not correct. Stripes need to be changed. FAIL

  15. Anonymous says:

    why russian? could be dutch.

  16. gillian says:

    Louis Armstrong’s first instrument was the triangle. NOT FAIL

  17. michael says:

    haha so much feedback.

    triangle is AWESOME.

  18. ben says:

    are you seriously about louis? because i’m thinking that is not true.

  19. John says:

    This is seriously the best FAIL on the whole site. If you don’t understand it, you fail.

    • Abyss Fire says:

      Or you could just be saying that to make yourself feel that you know something everyone else doesn’t.

      Attempting to inflate your ego fail.

    • KEVON says:

      ‘Tis not at all. explain to me the AMAZING fail then. I’ll be notified via e mail if you respond. you have 48 days. If you don’t answer, you’re nominated for the biggest douche of the universe award (South park thing).

  20. Lissycat says:

    Clearly the triangle (as a shape) is not complete. You ALL fail.

  21. pentacle says:

    i think that it is not a failed. I have played triangle and this is one of the two technique to play triangle. I think that it is you who have failed (sorry for the spelling, i’m french)

  22. pentacle says:

    to Lissycat, this is the real form of a triangle.

  23. Meanie says:

    I was most definitely the worst musician in our primary school “orchestra” and I was indeed stuck with the triangle. When not “triangling” I was the conductor (equally given to the lamest musician). I found this to be a hilarious nostalgic FAIL.

    • bored says:

      Im feeling you there! In primary school my teacher told my parents that i could only be in the school choir if i mimed! FAIL!

  24. Nom says:

    Is it Fail because the metal of the triangle is twisted somehow? Otherwise I don’t understand what this pic is doing here.

  25. Joel Odom says:

    I don’t get it.

  26. Sean says:

    He fails because the triangle sucks. He could have at least played the drums like the other kid

    • KEVON says:

      All the percussion members rotate instruments for different songs. That kid doesn’t play triangle ALL the time. just some of the time, like everyone else…

  27. Anonymous says:

    “I play triangle in a band!” is good pick-up line, IMHO.

  28. Homer says:

    “(sorry for the spelling, i’m french)”

    Being French = fail

  29. Ed says:

    Being French = fail

    You fail.

  30. Frankie says:

    This FAIL entry = FAIL

  31. Daraven says:

    FAIL = FAIL

  32. bitguru says:

    He does have an odd expression on his face but, as others have pointed out here, triangle technique is harder than it looks. Striking it is the easy part. Dampening it (properly) is the hard part.

  33. Belazaire says:

    The “Fail” assumption of this one is ignorant and adolescent. The “real drummer” is assumed to be “cool”; the triangle player is “not cool”. But they’re in an orchestra of some sort. Percussionists rotate, and there is a technique to triangle playing, and this kid is holding it correctly.

    In Cajun music, the triangle cannot be played by just anyone; there is a right way to do it, and that person sets the rhythm just so.

    This “FAIL” fails.

    • crunchy says:

      “holding it correctly”

      how the hell could he manage to hold it incorrectly?
      there are too many triangle enthusiasts here
      it’s creepy

      • az says:

        I guess anyone who was a percussionist in band counts as a triangle enthusiast…

        you’d be surprised how many people suck at playing the triangle. there is definitely a wrong way to do it.

      • Lucii says:

        you hold a triangle incorrectly by holding the metal part instead of holding it by the string.

  34. Kevin says:

    Damn….all of you that are arguing why it could not be a fail…wow you FAIL just because you are breathing …dumb $#%^s.

  35. Kayla says:

    Kevin, you’re an idiot.

    I agree with Belazaire. I was in band all through high school and all percussionists rotated. I played triangle on a couple songs, so did my bandmates.
    I also played marimba, timpani, snare, crash cymbals, chimes, bell tree, vibraslap, tom-toms, vibraphone, tambourine, gong, finger cymbals, temple blocks, castanets, claves, and all manner of other instruments.

    And we had a drum set in our band room.
    We played it for pep band and jazz band. So the kid has a triangle. There are probably other kids off screen with other instruments. Big whoop.

    This fail fails horribly. Maybe you think it’s funny, but it isn’t. It’s ignorant. Congrats on being a juvenile.

  36. Jon says:

    I am a professional musician, and the triangle player (from my experiences is usually a better musician than the “drummer”). A drummer who is not a percussionist is nothing more than a monkey with sticks. Plus if you play triangle all you have to carry is… a triangle, not a whole drumset. I think he is the smarter one, the “drummer” fails.

  37. loulou says:

    I think the creator of this was trying to say the triangle has a piece missing out of it so fails. However they of course fail, along with lissycat above, because if the triangle didn’t have a piece missing it couldn’t make a sound.

    FAIL = FAIL

  38. info1 says:

    lissycat: FAIL
    loooooooool
    and thx dannyg77 and lindtrom for the 2 most plausible explanations!

  39. info1 says:

    lissycat: FAIL
    loooooooool
    and thx dannyg77 and lindtrom for the 2 most plausible explanations!

  40. masterdrummer says:

    No fail. It is astonishing what incredible and hypnotic sounds you can take out of a triangle! If you master it, of course, its not just bling. On the other side, feeling big because your drumset is big – that is dumb. I’ve seen it too much. Who has got enough nuts to master unspectacular instruments?
    This one: No Fail! Just greedy ignorance.

  41. Full of Fail says:

    Am I the only one that remembers Ed Grimley character from SCTV?

    Fail.

  42. failyer says:

    does this triangle look photoshopped to anyone else but me?

  43. Emily Kane says:

    I am a middle school band director and this made me LOL. Sorry.

  44. Robert says:

    The triangle is NOT “missing a piece”. ALL orchestral triangles are that shape, because a joined triangle wouldn’t sound like much of anything; it has to have an open end to be able to vibrate and produce a chiming sound, just like a tuning fork has a gap between the two tines.

    OTOH, I fail for noticing this thread so long after it was posted.

  45. Anonymous says:

    perhaphs the guys and gals at “fail” thinks that the Fail in this pic is the one corner of the riangle. if so, they’re dumbasses

  46. Thorben says:

    I say: It needs more cowbell!

  47. Jeff says:

    Oh, I see what you did there. The submitter was the fail. A MS-Paint and Humor fail.

  48. fali says:

    Its the only way to play it …simple physics

  49. phla says:

    fail debate fail

  50. Kyle says:

    Could have been worse. He could be playing the electric triangle.

  51. your mom says:

    discussion thread FAIL

  52. Anonymous says:

    fail of not letting the triangle kid not fail. i think the real fail is the kid playing the drums i mean look at his face, major fail on the parents side. but then again they both fail for the clothing they wear and the fact that they are in a school band equals major fail, oh yea un-popped collar fail

  53. Anonymous says:

    i like it

  54. gruhn says:

    ’shopped.

  55. soddinnutter says:

    Ah yes, the humble triangle. The only other instrament playable by a brick headed drool dispencer.

  56. TWX says:

    We tended to rotate around what we played which instrument on what tunes in middle school band, and that usually meant that the worst percussionist was put on a more demanding instrument like Xylophone, Snare, or Tympani only when the part was simple, and so the better players would end up on triangle, bass drum, crash cymbals, or the like in that kind of tune. This leaves the lesser player on Triangle in more demanding songs so that the better players could be on those instruments requiring skill.

    And just because the other kid is carrying drum sticks doesn’t mean that he’s going to be playing trap either. He might well just play snare on that song, and they happen to be standing near the drum set, or, as all learning drummers are required to have sticks (including the kid who pays triangle) he might have just picked them up for the pose. I don’t remember any tunes where both triangle and the drum set were both used, and I can’t even really remember any tunes other than jazz band where the drum set was used.

    And yes, it is possible to hold the triangle wrong, and it’s possible to play it wrong. You’re supposed to strike it very close to the center of the side you strike, and you’re supposed to hold the string that it’s suspended from such that you can dampen the thing as needed. You also need to be able to read music too, as some tunes don’t have obvious parts and the player has to actually be able to read through the tune for measures and measures of silence for his strikes.

  57. gary says:

    triangles are no fail…
    tell me wat other music instruments makes similarly crisp and soft yet distinct sound?
    well, maybe it takes an audiophile to realize this…
    contributor of this pic = fail

  58. jools says:

    This is a POST FAIL. The triangle is supposed to have a gap. Maybe the poster thinks it shouldn’t have.

  59. anonymous says:

    There is no fail in this picture. Someone has to play the triangle, and nobody plays JUST the triangle. Most bands have all the percussionists switch off. It’s just an instrument, exactly the same as all the other percussion instrument.

    Whoever posted this picture fails.

  60. WickedFrost says:

    Wow.
    So many comments over the simple fact of intelligence.
    Yes, the triangle is hard to play.
    Yes, the kid appears to be FAILing because the triangle has been ridiculed because of its petite proportions.
    Yes, we realize there are two different opinions on this picture, and yes, you are both right.
    kthxbai.

  61. YoYoYoBchoBcho says:

    Triangle=Failure in Life

  62. Uh, no... says:

    lol @ Zozo

  63. blaaarrrgghh says:

    In a lot of orchestral music, the percussionists have to sit out for hundreds of measures before they get up to play their two or three notes on triangle/tambourine/etc… But in professional orchestras, they still get paid the same 6-figure salary as the violinists who play non-stop. So, if you total up dollars earned per notes played, triangle = WIN

  64. Mette says:

    NON FAIL.

  65. landro says:

    Keep Rocking!!

  66. OH U says:

    Needs more cowb–triangle

  67. Mack says:

    This picture can be taken in two ways:
    1: Triangle fails
    2: Triangle is hard to play and no just one person play just the triangle

    This is just an immature failure of a fail picture.

  68. blahfail says:

    I say you all fail… this pic has no fail… it’s the fail that is the fail!

  69. Sherry says:

    I can’t believe I had to read through all this crap to discover what I thought I knew from the start, that this is a failed fail. Sigh.

  70. DSJD says:

    I don’t see the failure in this one. If the triangle is hard to play then that is hardly fail and if it is easy then he has a lot more time to not play in a school band which isn’t really fail either.

  71. globoMojo says:

    Fail 1 – the kid on the right is jamming the stick into his neck like the first chick in The Happening.
    Fail 2 – the kid on the left has peed his pants a little.
    Fail + Fail = Ffaaiill!!

  72. KaGe says:

    Well, that’s not the correct way to hold a triangle so while I agree playing it is not a fail, his grip does fail.

  73. Anon says:

    I have a fever. The only cure for this fever is MORE Triangle!

  74. Triange enthusiast says:

    Ignorance=FAIL
    The triangle actually requires complex technique. The drummer apparently has no part…playing the triangle with a good sound is far more difficult than holding drumsticks with a trapset in front of you. Go triangle players!!!!!!

  75. Andrew says:

    stupid post by an obviously ignorant person who is desperate to jump on the fail wagon.

  76. Acaria says:

    ummmmm…. what fail?

  77. Gert says:

    the boy on the drum kit is FAIL because drumkits don’t belong in an orchestra. The triangle player probably also gets to play bass drum, cymbals, tambourine, wind machine and whip

  78. Jonb says:

    IMO, this fail has nothing to do with music. While the musical triangle is supposed to be that way, a triangle as far as geometry goes has 3 sides and 3 closed corners. So imo this is a fail triangle as far as geometry goes, but a the poster is fail for choosing that triangle.

  79. who.am. says:

    im pretty sure
    that this is a fail
    because he’s playin a triangle
    accompanied by drums…
    you couldn’t hear the triangle???
    i mean, triangles r pussy instruments anyway and theyr not very loud.
    and idk bout anyone else but i play drums pretty damn loud…
    or the guy who posted this is just a dumbass and thought triangles weren’t spose to have breaks in them

  80. jeff says:

    how is this a fail?

  81. Kayla says:

    Yeah, i had to read all the comments in order to understand what the heck this fail was… did someone really think the triangle needed all sides closed? if not, then i don’t understnad what the fail is here…

  82. ZeroX says:

    Defending the triangle is a bit like that common lie “size doesn’t matter” – it is done only by those who got stuck with it and the kind-hearted who doesn’t have the heart to let them know…

  83. amygo says:

    FAILBlog fail…

    who moderates this shit?

  84. MUSIC says:

    I FOUND THE FAIL!

    When playing the triangle you MUST hit it at a 45 degree angle! I learn-ed stuf in moozik class.

  85. Steve-o says:

    More cowbell!!

  86. Anthony says:

    If i was playing at a school performance i would just ring that shit and screw it up for the band just for assigning me to triangle XD

  87. Hannah says:

    I think the fact that he’s even playing the triangle is failure enough.

  88. CluelessOne says:

    When I was in 6th grade I was a percussionist and had to play triangle, because the 8th grader playing it could’nt get it right.

  89. mehughesc says:

    FAIL BY FAILBLOG! If instrumental triangles were closed, they wouldn’t ring because the vibrations would have no where to go!

  90. JosephMAA says:

    the person who submitted the fail failed at submitting good fails. how many fails is that? 1? lost count…

  91. Maria says:

    I think I knew that kid.
    He used to be in my class, if it’s who I think it is.
    Lolll.

  92. Omega7 says:

    Actually a triangle is supposed to be played like that! (I am a trumpet player and I even know this!)

  93. Drummer says:

    HAHA I played the drumset in the band because nobody else knew how. Never got stuck playing the triangle.

  94. pfloyd says:

    That’s not a triangle. It’s a sock hanger

  95. Slerte says:

    I think the fail is that both kids wore the same outfit. How embarrasing!

  96. David says:

    That’s not a fail. I don’t even know what that one’s even about. If it’s about the fact that part of the triangle is missing, let it be known that some triangles are SUPPOSED to look like that. I think the only FAIL here is the FAIL itself.

  97. . says:

    if you’re showing that the triangle is the fail, that isnt true. because triangle instruments are made without the third corner complete. so it’s not funny at all

  98. Omnomnom says:

    Ohh, is it b/c he’s got his fingers on it? Or is it just b/c he’s a dumbshit?

  99. dj says:

    thats what she said

  100. percussionist says:

    so i didn’t take the time to read all of the comments because that would have taken me forever, but does anyone see that he has the triangle BEATER upside down? that’s the fail. unless it just looks that way because the picture isn’t the best quality. in which case, there really isn’t a fail. and triangle CAN be difficult but it usually is not. most written triangle parts are pretty simple, my friends.

  101. scoopitydoo says:

    maybe they r about to play a ghetto version of “YYZ” at their talent show or something

  102. Fail=Fake says:

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  103. baconman says:

    anyone else notice that Ben was the person that submitted the picture and made the first comment?

    double fail.

  104. baconman says:

    and his comment was made within about 13 hours of the photo submission.

  105. Hellboy says:

    This is the crappiest fail ever… Someone should remove it. Or at least have someone explain to me, what’s so funny about it…

  106. IQ: 0 says:

    Whats so funny about his hand? Because the arrow is pointing at his hand and the triangle, don’t get the fail…

  107. sophia says:

    sorry, but i still don’t quite get it… i know its not a very good instrument, but that’s an opinion that is not accepted by enough people to fully constitute a fail in my book… and there are still some people who dont play any instrument at all, and people don’t make fun of them…

  108. urbestfriend says:

    ahhhhhahahaaha i understand this fail its just like my school (me percussion and drumset section leader for my grade and the grade ahead of me and my friend triangle). Also i have to say triangle CAN be difficult, but not in middle school and drumset has the ability to be atleast 10x more difficult considering all the different styles and instruments

  109. MIZZYPIE says:

    *imitating failbloggers*

    OMG OMG its PHOTOSHOPPED

    if you just LOOK at the picture you can CLEARLY see that what the kid is holding used to be an OCTAGON not a triangle! see the white space on the wall, that’s how you know its FAKE! ! ! OMG OMG OMG! ! !

  110. Flameright says:

    one word for the poster of this picture…….FAIL! in case your too stupid to get it, which i dont think you are but just in case that’s F-A-I-L! ok. flame on!

  111. notfailness says:

    that betetr not be my school… cause the uniforms look like my shcool’s

  112. nada says:

    Bad fail photo. I think the poster actually believed the triangle was broken or something. So the poster and that moron Lissycat are the only ones who think so.

    Otherwise, it’s some subtle thing about the happy kid got the drumbs and this schmuck got the triangle. Clearly, that was a bad fail, since it’s far from obvious, and once you understand it you don’t say “hahaveryfunny”, you say “well that was dumb”.

    Next.

  113. Massamaahinen says:

    Well. As a percussionist I know that triangle (PIMPPARAUTA as we call it here in Finland) has a really sharp and shrill sound. That makes the playing very challenging. You damp it with your hand if neccessary. Just in the case if you think that the fail is in his hand touching the instrument.

  114. chris says:

    did the triangle die?

  115. Me says:

    WTF? Wheres the fail here???

  116. Sesquipedaliac says:

    Just because the kid’s playing the triangle doesn’t make it a fail. For example: Normally, in my school’s marching band, I play the Xylophone, Vibraphone, or Marimba, all of which are quite difficult to play. However, for one marching show we did, they didn’t want any mallet instruments, so they put everybody that played one on a drum (Snare drum, bass drum, or tenor drum). However, they ran out of drums by the time I was ready to get one, so they put me on cowbell instead. Yes, I get to play the cowbell in marching band.

  117. Bob says:

    I am under the impression that the person who called this a “Fail” was referring to the fact that the Triangle is not complete; that there is a break in it. That is in fact the design of the triangle. It is not supposed to be whole.

  118. FriesB says:

    So, I must assume that the one who fails on this picture is the kid on the left, since he’s only got to play the stupid drums, while the kid in the right has the power to master the mighty triangle :o XD

  119. Peteca says:

    I dont get the fail on this one…

  120. Coretella says:

    I think he’s holding it wrong…o.o

  121. devilboi69x says:

    The fail is that the kid is touching the triangle with his fingers, which stops the vibration that makes the sound.

  122. Caluch says:

    Actually, folks, there is nothing wrong with that Triangle. They are never closed. This is how they make their sound. I give this poster a big FAIL!


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