Yeah, seems a bit tasteless to make fun of the Burmese hurricane victims.
We could all put up pictures of Katrina victims, but then the CIA would come and get us…
If it’s not ok to make fun of boats sunk by hurricanes, fair enough. But then why is it ok to make fun of oil tankers sinking or people with javelins through their feet or their heads on fire, or being bitten in the face by something? It’s all a sliding scale of tastelessness and you’re drawing a fairly arbitrary line there, Zeros and Anonymous.
Hey, it’s part of human nature to laugh at other people’s problems.
Most people laugh when you hear a joke when somebody gets hurt/screwed over (eg “a man runs into a bar. He wakes up in hospital a day later”). Some people have more of this fault than others, such as peopel whio laugh when other peopel have serious problems, such as a destroyed house. Others have even more of this fault, commonly known as torturers.
Classify it, analyze it, call it what you will……..
The Failboat has always been my love…
and it always will.
The Failboat….keeping humanity in check , now, and forever.
Zeros, considering that so many boats are not sunk, and one looks like it ran into another, I don’t think it was Burma. Quick making assumptions that just because they are not white, and there was a disaster in a non-white country, that must be a picture of the disaster, you racist bastard.
fair comment AussieBird #9, i have no argument it is a grey line that i am drawing. But just one thing, most failboats picture have no direct connection to people (big oil tanker… abandoned shipwrecks), as opposed to this one showing people livelihood destroyed.
Plato you low life, get your facts right. Call me biased, out-of-place in failblog or whatever you like. I just happened to be a Burmese living in australia, so i really do think i at least have the right to show some sympathy to my countryman.
Boats looks like being ran into each is becoz they were blown off their mooring and into each other. FOOL
I’m just pointing out that it might not be something that teh people in the pic would laugh about, but only because they are in it. Others laugh at it because of teh “fault” (yes, I used the word sarcastically) that I mentioned.
Nate, I only used Wiki to get teh correct spelling for Schadenfreude cause I don’t speak German.
Okay, people. Unclench.
Be empathetic, be callous, in the end it doesn’t matter. Nothing does as nobody will ever get out of this world alive. If you are wholly unable to find humor in the world then you will drown in its sorrows. Smiling in the face of adversity is what makes us human, chastising each other for smiling at the adversity is what makes us religious zealots.
Yeah, but #53… lots of people died in Burma during this last disaster. LOTS. More than 9/11… so is it okay to laugh at one and not the other? I’m no religious zealot and I am a constant “laugher” — hence this page being bookmarked, but there’s a difference between stupid fails and making fun of someone’s lifestyle that (a) can’t be helped, or (b) has just gotten a whole hell of a lot worse after a cyclone. Tell those victims to smile (#55)… I mean, it’s only a minor setback, right?
#38. Or “Dark” as some call you. You Went to Wiki to look up the spelling of a german word, but you repeatedly mispell “The” with teh? Think you’re pretty cool don’t ya? Your hip with the new internet lingo? or you just fucked up 3 times. Either way, your a monstrocity of a failure. Also, #53, your a shithead. The point of this blog is to be tasteless. If we follow your logic, then really we shouldn’t be laughing at any of these pictures. The pics are all of people suffering from terrible happenstance.
If you take the picture out of context (which is the only way you can find it humorous, really) then it looks like Failboat sank itself because the locals were jealous they didn’t have as cool of a boat. That’s funny.
And for all the people bitching about how awful people are for laughing at this (out of context, of course), what have you done to ease the pain of those in need, in Asia and elsewhere?
Goddamnit, I’m not going to have a freaking flamewar with you. And I spell “teh” because it’s just something i do a lot by accident. Seriously, the amount of times i’ve typed “teh” instead of “the” is just uncanny. If you go to any of teh forums I use, it happpens quite a lot.
Fake dark, your right. I am stinkypoop. Very, very, stinky and poopy. Not enough green beens, i think, is the cause. I am sorry for any emotional stress i have put you and your family through with my putrid stench, and fece filled posts. I shall end my useless comments and remove my self from posting, anything, anywhere, ever again. ever.
too many boat images
your wright its fake and thanks for not mentioning your place
Total comment fail, wow “What a grate education your showing”
good thing you have observation skills beacuse your grammer is shitty.
grammar*
What the hell has English education come to!?
Owned.
Hahaha oh man…Failboat is always the best. I love these recurring ones.
Failboat, gettin’ down to buisness.
Those boats are homes for those Burmese people, a bit harsh in calling it a fail.
Yeah, seems a bit tasteless to make fun of the Burmese hurricane victims.
We could all put up pictures of Katrina victims, but then the CIA would come and get us…
Looks like the puerto in San Juan, Guatemala.
They hold a lot of drug smuggling ships there; many of them rot out and sink before they can be destroyed. Very strange sight, if you care to go see.
If it’s not ok to make fun of boats sunk by hurricanes, fair enough. But then why is it ok to make fun of oil tankers sinking or people with javelins through their feet or their heads on fire, or being bitten in the face by something? It’s all a sliding scale of tastelessness and you’re drawing a fairly arbitrary line there, Zeros and Anonymous.
jesus people, theyre not making fun of the crisis in burma, theyre making fun of the failboat. How do you even know that this is burma? You fail.
righthandgenius.wordpress.com
righthandgenius, everytime anyone makes fun of another person’s home wreckage is a fail
Hey, it’s part of human nature to laugh at other people’s problems.
Most people laugh when you hear a joke when somebody gets hurt/screwed over (eg “a man runs into a bar. He wakes up in hospital a day later”). Some people have more of this fault than others, such as peopel whio laugh when other peopel have serious problems, such as a destroyed house. Others have even more of this fault, commonly known as torturers.
It’s quite similar to sado-masochism.
PS: The germans actually have a word for this: Schadenfreude, enjoyment taken from the misfortune of someone else.
PPS: Wikipedia says we have a word for this too: Epicaricacy.
Comments 5-13: Fail.
Classify it, analyze it, call it what you will……..
The Failboat has always been my love…
and it always will.
The Failboat….keeping humanity in check , now, and forever.
Photo in news piece about Myanmar cyclone:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/05/04/2008-05-04_cyclone_kills_more_than_350_in_myanmar.html
That’s sanitary.
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Zeros, considering that so many boats are not sunk, and one looks like it ran into another, I don’t think it was Burma. Quick making assumptions that just because they are not white, and there was a disaster in a non-white country, that must be a picture of the disaster, you racist bastard.
Failboat Shmailboat.
This was from Burma the major news sites have had this pic up off and on.
#12 fail for even considering wikipedia
#12 fail for even considering wikipedia.
Failboat lives for ever!!!!!!!!!!
FAIL-BOAT!!! FAIL-BOAT!!
(read that like the d-fence chant at football games)
#27 You are a flawless failure.
Failboat rust in peace. You are in my heart buddy.
Failboat knows not of bad taste.
Failboat knows only fail.
stop fail boats, its booooooring
failboat always comes through. oh how i love thee failboat on how you can always make me smile.
i suggest making a failboat tee. if you want some help with it, i wouldn’t mind helping design it. haha
just imagining someone walking around with a failboat shirt is hilarious
I find this very Offensive and demand it be taken down.
Just kidding it’s hilarious
fair comment AussieBird #9, i have no argument it is a grey line that i am drawing. But just one thing, most failboats picture have no direct connection to people (big oil tanker… abandoned shipwrecks), as opposed to this one showing people livelihood destroyed.
Plato you low life, get your facts right. Call me biased, out-of-place in failblog or whatever you like. I just happened to be a Burmese living in australia, so i really do think i at least have the right to show some sympathy to my countryman.
Boats looks like being ran into each is becoz they were blown off their mooring and into each other. FOOL
Everyone arguing about the morality of this picture is a fail.
I’m not arguing. #35 is on a Failling Spree.
When I saw the post title, I read “Failboat: Pandering to the Lolcats”.
I’m just pointing out that it might not be something that teh people in the pic would laugh about, but only because they are in it. Others laugh at it because of teh “fault” (yes, I used the word sarcastically) that I mentioned.
Nate, I only used Wiki to get teh correct spelling for Schadenfreude cause I don’t speak German.
And Fake Dark, stop calling yourself Dark…
dark, i dont like your style
you fail
*Mayanmar
I pander to lolcats……but I’m seeking help.
i can haz therapy?????
Lolzcats you mean?
Hmmm….I count four failboats…..
Whole lot of fail in one photo.
There’s totally a second boat prow sticking out of the water to the right.
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*sigh* too many polotics ruining failboat….
The point is, its a boat, its a failboat. Therfore it deserves a place on the fail blog.
Anybody ever seen a failplane?
9-11 was pretty much Failplane-tastic
Wow……That was kinda brutal.
Awesome site. A great complement to mine (SMISLT – so many idiots, so little time).
@ #44 Epic failure as a human being
ausador is right, theres totally 4 separate failboats in this picture..fleet o’ fail
A whole fleet of fail… wow. Sounds like a description of our ( the UK) Navy.
And #49, that is hardly appropriate. Seriously, dude, people died in that. LOTS of people. It’s not something you joke about.
the world stopped failing again probrably
Okay, people. Unclench.
Be empathetic, be callous, in the end it doesn’t matter. Nothing does as nobody will ever get out of this world alive. If you are wholly unable to find humor in the world then you will drown in its sorrows. Smiling in the face of adversity is what makes us human, chastising each other for smiling at the adversity is what makes us religious zealots.
Nicely said. Nihilism ftw!
You Satan Lovers.
That’s Satan’s Boat.
No wait.
CHUCK NORRIS’ PRIVATE FAILBOAT! SCANDAL! :O
#54 equals spelling fail Lolz
Yeah, but #53… lots of people died in Burma during this last disaster. LOTS. More than 9/11… so is it okay to laugh at one and not the other? I’m no religious zealot and I am a constant “laugher” — hence this page being bookmarked, but there’s a difference between stupid fails and making fun of someone’s lifestyle that (a) can’t be helped, or (b) has just gotten a whole hell of a lot worse after a cyclone. Tell those victims to smile (#55)… I mean, it’s only a minor setback, right?
a nice one.
you better start another one blog called failbotwin and post all these boring sinking boats pics there
Everything is relative……….need moar fail……new fail!!!
#38. Or “Dark” as some call you. You Went to Wiki to look up the spelling of a german word, but you repeatedly mispell “The” with teh? Think you’re pretty cool don’t ya? Your hip with the new internet lingo? or you just fucked up 3 times. Either way, your a monstrocity of a failure. Also, #53, your a shithead. The point of this blog is to be tasteless. If we follow your logic, then really we shouldn’t be laughing at any of these pictures. The pics are all of people suffering from terrible happenstance.
Meant #59 btw. So, KNM, YOU SUCK, 53, your off the shit list.
We need more failblog pics!
If you take the picture out of context (which is the only way you can find it humorous, really) then it looks like Failboat sank itself because the locals were jealous they didn’t have as cool of a boat. That’s funny.
And for all the people bitching about how awful people are for laughing at this (out of context, of course), what have you done to ease the pain of those in need, in Asia and elsewhere?
I thought “pandering to the locals” meant that the big boat sunk itself because it was too uppity. From this perspective, it’s funny.
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Good call, swiftest.
Someone should do something with the whole ‘fleet of fail’ thing.
Goddamnit, I’m not going to have a freaking flamewar with you. And I spell “teh” because it’s just something i do a lot by accident. Seriously, the amount of times i’ve typed “teh” instead of “the” is just uncanny. If you go to any of teh forums I use, it happpens quite a lot.
im deleting this shit from my bookmarks! its getting a bit too boring now.
fly me
wow people, come on we dont need to fight about a bloody picture, cant we all just agree to disagree and move the f%k on?
http://www.righthandgenius.wordpress.com
its time for some new pics, i’d say
More failpics coming up this evening… sit tight!
We demand more failures
Fake dark, your right. I am stinkypoop. Very, very, stinky and poopy. Not enough green beens, i think, is the cause. I am sorry for any emotional stress i have put you and your family through with my putrid stench, and fece filled posts. I shall end my useless comments and remove my self from posting, anything, anywhere, ever again. ever.
Ooooooh…this one is too soon.
@#31NOT BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THis was actually during the cyclone in Myanmar. not so funny…
way too many boat pics
those that don’t get the failboat, need to get on the failboat.
Fail boat!!!!