She’s probably one of the Fail-people who order a super sized value meal… with a diet soda “Because I’m trying to lose weight”. And if not her… then that poor baby is next do to so. I see a family of Fail here.
Actually, there are some people who prefer the taste of diet coke to regular coke. I’ve got friends who do and actually yell at people for assuming the same thing you just did.
But let’s be honest, did Coca Cola come out with Diet Coke because it was a new taste or because it keeps the revenue up while convincing people they’re drinking healthier? Perceptiveness Fail.
Yes there are, I prefer the taste of diet coke but what he said is
“She’s probably one of the Fail-people who order a super sized value meal… with a diet soda “BECAUSE I’M TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT”.”
Reading fail…
that child will sense that its mother is a complete fungus fart and probably string itself up in the womb with its own fallopin tube rope … oh thats sick hhhaaa ha . when oh when will they begin shooting single mothers in the face with a bazooka just to curb the growth of scum monkeys.
probably never, coz then rich folk might have to do some work.
plenty of single mothers do a fantastic job of raising their children on their own, and what makes you assume just because this doucher is a total fail that she’s a single parent? I’m sure no two people have ever been married and screwed up some kids life.
Also, by drinking d-coke vs coke you are saving on calories. Yes this person is retarded for smoking while pregnant. Yes ordering a super sized meal while trying to lose weight is stupid, but making fun of someone for ordering a dcoke and a super size meal is a fail on your part.
BWT i hate coke/pepsi – i prefer d-pepsi, or gingerale.
But the point of the matter is that she would be ordering a super-sized value meal along with a diet soda to try to lose weight. If she’s trying to lose weight at all, why would there be a super-sized value meal involved at all? That’s the point.
Looks like some of the morons I know.
But replying to your FAIL-ing comment, and to everyone else that thinks the same, Here’s a shocker for you. Some people order a diet soda with an super sized meal, because they are diabetic!!
ahahahaaa….eh yeah >_O! they’re probably diabetic because they ordered the super sized meal in the first place!! gawd. can anyone say type 2??? commonly caused by being chronically overweight and overall unhealthy.
plus, many studies have shown that diet soda can actually cause weight GAIN because the decrease in calorie intake and the substituted sugars can stimulate appetite.
Yup, that would be why traicee referenced type 2 (acquired), the form that is caused by developing an insensitivity to insulin later in life. And yes, the risk for this increases proportionally with the amount of adipose tissue that you carry. Type 1 would be genetic lottery fail and a pretty common misunderstanding – the likelihood of inheriting this is less than 10% even if your parent has it. Most likely due to early childhood viral infections.
So, trying to be smart – fail on your part Laurel. Best of luck to you next time.
No matter were racist or not u can find fail-people everywhere!!!
rly its ust amazing… they never stop surprising u with every stupidity
that they r able to make.
Why Lichtenstien? I have nothing against it, but is it because of the small amount of people living there? If thats true, then there are no stupid people in Monaco, Singapore, Holy See, San Marino. I don’t think that naming tons of small countries will be interesting.
Like the Expected care a pregnant woman would have for her baby when she is already complaining about the effect of a jackhammer on her unborn baby
and
the Reality that she is smoking a cigarette.
Next time before you get on your high horse and correct someone, just remember that you are a FAIL.
Some village has lost their idiot and here she is! Wow I call that real concern about her unborn child. That child will be born with a cigarette in its hand.
May God forgive her.
Nah, its still a fail. Sure it was corrected, but doesn’t take back the original fail. Take this scenerio: Your kid fails 2nd grade, repeats it and passes, then moves on to third grade. Just cause everything was fixed, he still failed 2nd grade.
Yet again, after seeing a typ-o, you fail to misspell disease. Is this a “fail-blog” or is
it an FA meeting? Because I am not a member of “Failures Anonymous.”
I’m from Roanoke and can attest to the fact that that photo did actually run in the local paper. Sad point of fact, that’s not an uncommon thing to see in the rural south.
Happens in big cities up north, too. Had a coworker in Chicago who would get upset, for fear of second hand smoke harming her babies, about walking through the pack of smokers huddled around the front door of our building … but would step out onto the fire escape for a puff every chance she got. Would also come into work almost every Monday with stories about the drunken festivities she and her husband had participated in over the weekend. Both kids are now in special ed. Big surprise.
This is why I think there should be a licence/test to become a parent. You need: A modicum of intelligence (which this woman fails at), and the ability to care for the child emotionally and physically.
Simple enough, no? This would cut down on child neglect, child abuse and the number of people who fail at life in the world.
Of course…that might spell the doom of this site!
BTW: Tom Cruise Celebratory Website=Sanity Fail. Hard.
It’s the winning combo of her wistful look while slowly dragging on her ciggy, philosophically pondering the effect of the deafening sound of jackhammers which even now surround her. “It’s a bit like a womb of sound” she thinks, “and my womb is being invaded”
A bit of an odd metaphor, but it does work… It’s not the first thing that comes to mind though…
The first thing that comes to mind is “OMFG I wish those stupid f***ing b******s would shut the hell up!
This picture has been out there for a while. Does anyone know what sort of problems this kid has? I assume the mom can’t afford a computer and probably does not know this picture is famous. Someone must be in her neighborhood. Check in, let us know how many arms this kid has now.
why do you assume she cant afford a computer? why does bad decision = poor? and the kid is probably relatively fine. classism is just as bad as racism.
Except that this was how she was described in that same paper days later.
“Williamson is a small woman with long brown hair. She didn’t finish high school. She hasn’t seen her father since she was 13. She has worked in fast food, but doesn’t have a job.
“I’ve heard of the Internet,” she said, “but I’ve never used it. I have no knowledge of computers whatsoever.”
A simple google search would give y’all so many answers…
She knows, and she’s been interviewed about the discrepancy between her concern over the noise and her lack of concern about the cigarette effects. Her response was, essentially, that everyone’s got a bad habit, smoking is hers, and her doctor told her that trying to quit completely would cause more stress to the fetus than simply cutting back, which she says she did.
People ALWAYS claim that. I do not buy it at all. No doctor in his/her right
mind would OK smoking during pregnancy. Would they tall an alcoholic “you
can just cut back….it’s all good.” Doubtful.
Some people just want to be selfish and don’t give a damn what they do to
their kids.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
You don’t even know what it is do you? “developed country” is the opposite of a “development country”, or “developing country” (which is the word I guess is more commonly used in america).
Indeed indeed! =)
Sweden is a very good example of a “developed country”. There are no poor people on the level of poverty you find in like Africa or America. And the industries are really clean and do not pollute as much as like Chernobyl or America. No child prostitution like in Thailand or America (sorry Thailand…..I know Americas rate of child prostitution is higher even with population taken into account). They don’t have illeagal concentration camps like former nazi German and America. People don’t get shot in the streets like in Irak and America. Its a democracy where you get to choose which (out of many options) party to lead the country…and then that party works for the people, unlike dictatorships like North Korea and America.
Having said that I have absolutely nothing against Americans, actually many of my absolutely most loved friends are Americans. It’s not the fault of the North Korean people what Kim Jong Ill is doing. The same goes for America.
Anatomy fail. Hold up your forearm in front of you, so you can see the back of your hand facing you. Your forearm has a given visible thickness. Now rotate your forearm 90 degrees so that you’re looking at your hand sideways with your thumb towards you. Your forearm now appears thinner. Unless you’re just really obese, in which case it probably would be about the same thickness all around… So now, use this newfound knowledge, look at the pitcure again, and notice the rotation of each wrist. See?
i’d like to know if the child even made it out of the womb alive….even if she “cut back”, there would still be a big chance the baby wouldn’t survive, either in the womb or out, succumbing to sids…
and if the noise worried her, why would she be walking outside over towards it?
i mean, we got some dumbasses downhere in south ga, but damn!
seriously? now, don’t get me wrong, i don’t condone smoking at all, and i certainly don’t like to see a pregnant woman smoking, but i’m pretty sure that plenty of babies of smokers have been born just fine – yes, low birth weight is highly likely, and yes other problems certainly can develop and are more likely to do so with a heavy smoker, but overreact much?
i can’t be outraged? i thought that’s what these forum-like comment strings were for…..commenting how you feel about it. i just wanted to know if the kid is ok. because not only does smoking increase the chances of low birth weight, but also the chances of miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth, underdevelopment, and later on sids, allergies, and intellectual impairment. i’m not saying there’s no chance the kid can’t be healthy, but when talking about a child i think any increase in the chance any of that crap could happen is too big an increase, too much of a risk. i’m sorry if my apparent over-reaction has offended you, obviously smoking is a sore subject for me. especially since the kid has no choice but to be taking it in.
well, it seems i have a little bit of my answer as to how the kid doing, although it was about 3 & 1/2 years ago, the news article linked below by the cranky customer says the child was “doing well” at the time. which is great.
I support your concern. My mom’s a smoker, and I was born 6 weeks early, weighing 2 lbs, 15 oz. I was in an incubator for 2 months and suffered from severe athsma for 12 years, and allergies to this day. I’m pretty much okay now but my chance for a normal life was low enough that my mom was given the option to not have me. (She had 2 miscarriages before me, as well).
The worst is that the date for this is only 2004, instead of 1985. There’s even less of an excuse for this kind of irresponsibility.
You guys do realize that, if your grandmothers ever smoked, they probably kept smoking while pregnant in the bad old days before the war on tobacco, right? And you’re still here.
Yes, smoking is bad for a fetus, but behaving as if she’s smoking a mixture of crack and radioactive spiders is no less ignorant.
“The habit is estimated to account for 20 percent to 30 percent of low birth-weight babies, up to 14 percent of preterm deliveries and 10 percent of all infant deaths.”
Thanks, Miss Twitch. Smoking is pretty gross, and yeah, don’t smoke while you’re pregnant, but two posts wishing she would have a miscarriage? Good God, people. You’d think she was mainlining ground glass.
Agreed Joolz! I once saw a pic of my mum with a packet of cigarettes while holding a me as a baby and she conceeded then that the ‘B’ I got in Science was probably her fault not mine. He he he…
why do i feel like if i took a picture of antarctica and posted it up here like 5 people would be like, OHH OHH! I HAVE A FRIEND’S UNCLE’S BROTHERS’S AUNT LIVE UP THERE!! or something involving them, and being right next door of the picture..
Exactly. And the Roanoke Times is one of two daily papers in the area, and it’s coverage is very, very large.
They were my local paper growing up, and I was an hour from Roanoke itself, and I know they stretched further than that. Roanoke is the only big city in that area, though Blacksburg is growing now.
Geography fail! Roanoke Island is in North Carlina … this is Roanoke Virginia. The picture sadly is real and unaltered. I remember seeing it in the local paper and about peeing myself because I was laughing so hard. Not only was this an intelligence fail but I’d like to nominate her for honorable mention in the Darwin Awards.
i’d rather see a woman smoking when she’s pregnant than submitting her body to some doctor who destroys and kills her baby with a salt solution or goes inside her and sucks off the babies limbs until it’s dead.
I’m not sure if I’d go so far as to call it a parasite, and my definition of “baby” is a little different (it’s a baby when it’s able to sustain life outside the womb, not
necessarily when it’s actually *doing* so).
There’s a book called “Freakonomics”, where (among other things) the authors
point out the drop in American crime rates approximately thirteen (or fourteen?) years after Roe vs. Wade, the age at which many criminal careers begin. They
go into much more detail, and it’s more complex than I’ve managed here…but
it’s pretty interesting, and makes a lot of sense.
urgh! eww. eww! is that what they really do? oh my….. thats so horrible. now i understand why some people are so against it, it seems cruel. And what sorta person would have thought up the idea of doin it that way?!! aw it makes me sad
No that is not what they really do. Most of the time abortions are done through a series of pills which induce a miscarriage. The rest of the time (later in the pregnancy during the 2nd trimester) they go in and physically remove the fetus as a whole. Most places (even planned parenthood) will not remove a fetus after a woman has entered the 3rd trimester (6-9 months). The whole partial-birth abortion thing that gets everyone so hyped up only happened once or twice under very odd circumstances a long time ago and is already universally banned in the US.
The wording of the caption is nearly as painful as the message. It would have been much easier (and clearer) to say that she “worries what effect the noise from the jackhammers will have on her unborn child.” This comes from a professional reporter? No wonder people think the caption is Photoshopped. I’ve seen 7th graders construct more coherent sentences! Basic grammar fail.
are you kidding me? to all the folks that said there needs to be a test for child bearing….I AGREE WHOLE HEARTEDLY!!! a big part of me wonders…what exactly was she smoking when she agreed to this article and photo? i mean really…
Uhhh…Hey y’all…You cain’t not oughta be laughin’ at my Momma….She dun said I’s the bestest child what was borned with one eyeball and extry toeses on mah forehead….She gone off and hepped me build mah meth lab.
Baby’s daddy in a follow-up interview, jumping to the defense of his pregnant partner of 2 years: “We don’t allow no smoking in the house at all. Cigarettes are a habit my son will never pick up.”
My grandparents are from Roanoke, and I can tell you, you are absolutely correct. The most white-trashiest place I’ve ever been to in my life, and that includes the rest of Virginia.
*sigh* … this whole “one-person-one-vote” thing will be the end of us all. It’s quite the irony that the more educated and capable a population is, the less likely they are to reproduce, propagate, or otherwise diminish the influence of the idiot.
I doubt anyone will read this since it’s on the 2nd page of comments but I have to tell it for the few who do.
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Within the last couple years AZ enacted a no public smoking law. The call center I worked at then, in order to comply with the law, had to move smoking areas X ft away from the entrance. They went a little overboard and put two smoking areas almost as far from the building as possible on opposite sides. All the smokers were bitching about it. I thought I had heard every complaint then one day I overhear in the break room: “I can’t beleave they moved the smoking areas so far. I can’t be walking that far, I’m pregnant.” I almost choked and just had to walk away.
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I’ve also heard smokers that got knocked up say things like “My doctor says just quitting smoking is actually bad for the baby” Must be the same doctor the tobacco industry gets to say that smoking doesn’t give people cancer.
wow. what a retard. if ur smoking while pregnant, ur stupid. if u think a really loud sound is going to hurt ur kid more than u smoking, then ur a freaking dumb@$$
After reading all of these enlightened comments I think the only reasonable approach to dealing with this individual is building a bona fide concentration camp (such as those found in the Hitler regime) and making ‘it’ live there. Those camps had excellent and highly refined methods of handling superfluous humans, some of the same methods mentioned here.
And, then, of course, ‘it’ could be exterminated if extreme levels of torture, abuse, torment, depravity, persecution, and debasement failed to achieve the proper rehabilitative outcome.
She reminds me of that one Jugglette who’s baby died & blamed it on the hospital, despite the factors that she was morbidly obese. drunk, & did quite a few drugs during the pregnancy.
Dumb shits.
Wow not only is it sad that the baby might be born with physical health issues but with a mother like that, what hope does that child have of not being just as dumb as its mom
I’ve read the entire page of comments from lots of people who have apparently never done anything wrong and are perfect. They all deserve to hold judgement over everyone up to the point of suggesting they be killed. Bravo, Internet contributors of the world. Your tolerance is commendable.
really the 1st
There are really such dumb people in the world…
She’s probably one of the Fail-people who order a super sized value meal… with a diet soda “Because I’m trying to lose weight”. And if not her… then that poor baby is next do to so. I see a family of Fail here.
Amen!
Actually, there are some people who prefer the taste of diet coke to regular coke. I’ve got friends who do and actually yell at people for assuming the same thing you just did.
Open Mindedness Fail.
But let’s be honest, did Coca Cola come out with Diet Coke because it was a new taste or because it keeps the revenue up while convincing people they’re drinking healthier? Perceptiveness Fail.
Yes there are, I prefer the taste of diet coke but what he said is
“She’s probably one of the Fail-people who order a super sized value meal… with a diet soda “BECAUSE I’M TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT”.”
Reading fail…
diet anything taste like poop
well ,what does diet poop taste like?????????????????????????
uhmmm…probably pepsi
that child will sense that its mother is a complete fungus fart and probably string itself up in the womb with its own fallopin tube rope … oh thats sick hhhaaa ha . when oh when will they begin shooting single mothers in the face with a bazooka just to curb the growth of scum monkeys.
probably never, coz then rich folk might have to do some work.
“rich folk might have to do some work”
how do you think they got rich in the first place ass-clown
wow you are a close minded dickhole…
plenty of single mothers do a fantastic job of raising their children on their own, and what makes you assume just because this doucher is a total fail that she’s a single parent? I’m sure no two people have ever been married and screwed up some kids life.
Also, by drinking d-coke vs coke you are saving on calories. Yes this person is retarded for smoking while pregnant. Yes ordering a super sized meal while trying to lose weight is stupid, but making fun of someone for ordering a dcoke and a super size meal is a fail on your part.
BWT i hate coke/pepsi – i prefer d-pepsi, or gingerale.
But the point of the matter is that she would be ordering a super-sized value meal along with a diet soda to try to lose weight. If she’s trying to lose weight at all, why would there be a super-sized value meal involved at all? That’s the point.
Looks like some of the morons I know.
But replying to your FAIL-ing comment, and to everyone else that thinks the same, Here’s a shocker for you. Some people order a diet soda with an super sized meal, because they are diabetic!!
ahahahaaa….eh yeah >_O! they’re probably diabetic because they ordered the super sized meal in the first place!! gawd. can anyone say type 2??? commonly caused by being chronically overweight and overall unhealthy.
plus, many studies have shown that diet soda can actually cause weight GAIN because the decrease in calorie intake and the substituted sugars can stimulate appetite.
doy. RESEARCH FAIL!!
There are types of Diabetes you get from simply losing the genetic lottery. RESEARCH FAIL!! to you too, my friend.
Yup, that would be why traicee referenced type 2 (acquired), the form that is caused by developing an insensitivity to insulin later in life. And yes, the risk for this increases proportionally with the amount of adipose tissue that you carry. Type 1 would be genetic lottery fail and a pretty common misunderstanding – the likelihood of inheriting this is less than 10% even if your parent has it. Most likely due to early childhood viral infections.
So, trying to be smart – fail on your part Laurel. Best of luck to you next time.
No. There are some really dumb americans in the world. :p
Yeah, and there are stupid Italians, Russians, Asians. There are stupid people everywhere, except Lichtenstein.
yeah and those tribespeople that live in the jungle. theyve got it going im sure.
I know, can you believe them? Losers.
HAHAHA
No matter were racist or not u can find fail-people everywhere!!!
rly its ust amazing… they never stop surprising u with every stupidity
that they r able to make.
haha a big chain of comments
and it is getting even bigger!
will it ever end???
grammar-fail
typing-fail
leaning-fail
irony-win!!
And Sweden.
Amen to that ceistdein, Im from sweden self xD
Why Lichtenstein? Is it the size?
The size really does matter a lot in that kind of stuff… (that’s what she said)
Why Lichtenstien? I have nothing against it, but is it because of the small amount of people living there? If thats true, then there are no stupid people in Monaco, Singapore, Holy See, San Marino. I don’t think that naming tons of small countries will be interesting.
There are also dumb people in Liechtenstein, believe me!
Not just americans, mind you. But being a free country, our government has a lot more power. And sometimes, our government is really dumb.
“…being a free country, our government has a lot more power.”
Logic fail?
Yeah.. Americans tend to fail from morning till night so..
EPIC FAIL
Epic win!!
Really? no one had noticed that (in US)
Now whenever someone asks what exactly irony is, I have the perfect answer.
that not irony. Irony is the disparity between the expected and reality
Like the Expected care a pregnant woman would have for her baby when she is already complaining about the effect of a jackhammer on her unborn baby
and
the Reality that she is smoking a cigarette.
Next time before you get on your high horse and correct someone, just remember that you are a FAIL.
Incorrect use of the ‘Enter’ key – Check
Incorrect use of capital letters – Check
Unintentionally ironic mounting of metaphorical high horse – Check
Result – FAIL
^ – This!
Just like Alanis Morrisette, you two obviously have no idea of what irony means.
“Just like Alanis Morrisette, you two obviously have no idea of what irony means.”
win.
“Just like Alanis Morrisette, you two obviously have no idea of what irony means.”
win.
WIN!!
Some village has lost their idiot and here she is! Wow I call that real concern about her unborn child. That child will be born with a cigarette in its hand.
May God forgive her.
Love this one……is this bitch NOT famous???
… seriously … i mean SERIOUSLY ?! WTF … she smokes cigarette over cigarette for sure and complains about jackhammer sounds .. wtf dumb bitch
she probaly /is just fat not pregnent
Did you READ the caption??
she got hammered by Jack.. thats why she’s pregnent.
What’s the joke? That she’s smoking and blaming the jackhammers or that it looks like she’s not pregnant at all?
Unfortunately, there was no life guard in that gene pool.
stupidity killed the woman
No, sadly stupidity isn’t lethal…
Wanna bet? I’ve read all those Darwin awards…
I wish it was.
then this site would never exist.
WIN!
Oh what I love those hypocrites!
she’s smoking and yet she’s worrying about the noise?!?
people like her shouldn’t have kids and spread the Stupid decease!
correction: disease
no edit button here
Ha ha, comment spelling fail!
He/She corrected his mistake so… I thinks it’s not a fail.
Nah, its still a fail. Sure it was corrected, but doesn’t take back the original fail. Take this scenerio: Your kid fails 2nd grade, repeats it and passes, then moves on to third grade. Just cause everything was fixed, he still failed 2nd grade.
I guess we know how AwesomeMan’s second grade went.
And you failed spelling “scenario”.
Maybe he only just got to third grade, then.
fail at trying to point out a corrected fail
I think demanding that stupid decease is not unreasonable.
Win!!! That’s why I support the Darwin Awards.
FTW!
Yet again, after seeing a typ-o, you fail to misspell disease. Is this a “fail-blog” or is
it an FA meeting? Because I am not a member of “Failures Anonymous.”
No…”Anonymous” was making a joke, you moron. I thought about explaining it to you, but I prefer to feel superior in that I get it and you don’t.
Use of Enter = Fail.
I’m getting more laughs from these comments than what I got from the Picture.
“Stupid decease” is what the Darwin awards are all about.
it’s a shame that people like that do often exist, however i guess this is one reason why this blog exists!
@katz – almost fail! excellent……
Tom Cruise 25Years Visit teh official site
25 years of what? Crazy?
25 years of fail, of course.
Is this photoshopped? It almost looks like the words under the picture might not have been put there by the newspaper. Either way, still FAIL.
Another this-is-photoshoped paranoic fail… (very common in this blog’s comments)
Spelling fail.
Paranoiac
Its real:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/pregnant.asp
It’s real. I used to live in that area and I saw the story. I promise it’s real.
I’m from Roanoke and can attest to the fact that that photo did actually run in the local paper. Sad point of fact, that’s not an uncommon thing to see in the rural south.
Happens in big cities up north, too. Had a coworker in Chicago who would get upset, for fear of second hand smoke harming her babies, about walking through the pack of smokers huddled around the front door of our building … but would step out onto the fire escape for a puff every chance she got. Would also come into work almost every Monday with stories about the drunken festivities she and her husband had participated in over the weekend. Both kids are now in special ed. Big surprise.
Who is ed and why is he so special?
Win ^.^
and why are the kids in him?
lol im from roanoke too i remamber this lol big fail
the picture was not photoshopped. i’m from roanoke. that’s exactly how it was in the paper.
Definitely real, my parents clipped it out of the paper when it ran to show it to me, long before it made it to the internet and Jay Leno.
no this is not photoshopped, the font-family looks like the same… i think it’s original….
If you go look up snopes.com or a few other locations, this is the original. No joke. MEGA FAIL!
The link to the verification on snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/pregnant.asp
Nah, can’t be shopped.
I actually feel bad for that child…
This is why I think there should be a licence/test to become a parent. You need: A modicum of intelligence (which this woman fails at), and the ability to care for the child emotionally and physically.
Simple enough, no? This would cut down on child neglect, child abuse and the number of people who fail at life in the world.
Of course…that might spell the doom of this site!
BTW: Tom Cruise Celebratory Website=Sanity Fail. Hard.
Parent License FTW
indeed.
It’s the winning combo of her wistful look while slowly dragging on her ciggy, philosophically pondering the effect of the deafening sound of jackhammers which even now surround her. “It’s a bit like a womb of sound” she thinks, “and my womb is being invaded”
A winning combo. WINNING.
Humour fail. Comment fail.
No it was funny…Comment fail….Comment comment fail
Really? ‘Womb of sound’? I vote comment comment comment fail.
A bit of an odd metaphor, but it does work… It’s not the first thing that comes to mind though…
The first thing that comes to mind is “OMFG I wish those stupid f***ing b******s would shut the hell up!
… no words…
Sorry, I should’ve clarified what I meant. I meant is the caption photoshopped not the picture? Ya, I feel for the child, too.
The caption and the photo are as they ran in the paper. There’s been nothing altered here, which is the really depressing part.
My ex used to live on that street! I wonder if he ever met her…
i am fond of the random hardee’s/carl’s in the middle of the neighborhood. (look right above the van)
there’s a better (photoshopped) version that also has her holding a bottle of booze.
This is real. I remember the article originally.
You mean that one where she’s holding the bottle of booze?
The hypocrisy of some ppl really astounds me sometime… I mean, look at yourself before bitching about others, lady!
This is real I also saw the article when it came out in 2004. Stupid white trash just making more NASCAR fans.
they have to breed ‘em cos they can’t recruit!
HEY!!!! didn’t your mother teach you it’s not nice to be so……
…truthful
very true FTW!
This picture has been out there for a while. Does anyone know what sort of problems this kid has? I assume the mom can’t afford a computer and probably does not know this picture is famous. Someone must be in her neighborhood. Check in, let us know how many arms this kid has now.
why do you assume she cant afford a computer? why does bad decision = poor? and the kid is probably relatively fine. classism is just as bad as racism.
Thanks. I wasn’t going to say it, but I wanted to.
Except that this was how she was described in that same paper days later.
“Williamson is a small woman with long brown hair. She didn’t finish high school. She hasn’t seen her father since she was 13. She has worked in fast food, but doesn’t have a job.
“I’ve heard of the Internet,” she said, “but I’ve never used it. I have no knowledge of computers whatsoever.”
I kinda feel sorry for her now…
A simple google search would give y’all so many answers…
She knows, and she’s been interviewed about the discrepancy between her concern over the noise and her lack of concern about the cigarette effects. Her response was, essentially, that everyone’s got a bad habit, smoking is hers, and her doctor told her that trying to quit completely would cause more stress to the fetus than simply cutting back, which she says she did.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/pregnant.asp
Her laissez-faire response to the outcry:
http://www.roanoke.com/columnists/kennedy/wb/xp-11293
DOCTOR FAIL
People ALWAYS claim that. I do not buy it at all. No doctor in his/her right
mind would OK smoking during pregnancy. Would they tall an alcoholic “you
can just cut back….it’s all good.” Doubtful.
Some people just want to be selfish and don’t give a damn what they do to
their kids.
There are people without computors in America?! what a freaking development country.
The phrase is developed country, idiot.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
You don’t even know what it is do you? “developed country” is the opposite of a “development country”, or “developing country” (which is the word I guess is more commonly used in america).
Thanks for proving my point =)
Wow, you’re a retard.
indeed.
Indeed indeed! =)
Sweden is a very good example of a “developed country”. There are no poor people on the level of poverty you find in like Africa or America. And the industries are really clean and do not pollute as much as like Chernobyl or America. No child prostitution like in Thailand or America (sorry Thailand…..I know Americas rate of child prostitution is higher even with population taken into account). They don’t have illeagal concentration camps like former nazi German and America. People don’t get shot in the streets like in Irak and America. Its a democracy where you get to choose which (out of many options) party to lead the country…and then that party works for the people, unlike dictatorships like North Korea and America.
Having said that I have absolutely nothing against Americans, actually many of my absolutely most loved friends are Americans. It’s not the fault of the North Korean people what Kim Jong Ill is doing. The same goes for America.
Word.
America Fail
America fail, world fail. Fail fail
Yeah people like this shouldn’t have been allowed to procreate in the 1st place.
which is why they don’t trust me with the time machine…
has anyone else noticed that theres always someone who says they know someone or live near were the fail pictures are taken >.>
Sitting about 7 miles away!
i think shes just fat…………….not pregnant
FAIL AT READING COMPREHENSION.
FAIL AT GRASPING WHY THIS IS A FAIL.
The “worries about the effect on her unborn child from the sound of jackhammers”, yet is still smoking, is the whole point of why this is a FAIL.
look at the size of her arms. The left arm appears much stronger than the right arm holding the cigarette. In my opinion it’s definitely photshopped.
I live in Roanoke, and I saw this in the paper. This is not photoshopped.
Dude, STFU. You are NOT COOL for shouting “photoshop” all the time, especially at real pics.
it’s called perspective
Anatomy fail. Hold up your forearm in front of you, so you can see the back of your hand facing you. Your forearm has a given visible thickness. Now rotate your forearm 90 degrees so that you’re looking at your hand sideways with your thumb towards you. Your forearm now appears thinner. Unless you’re just really obese, in which case it probably would be about the same thickness all around… So now, use this newfound knowledge, look at the pitcure again, and notice the rotation of each wrist. See?
Not Photoshopped: http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/pregnant.asp
I thought this was gonna be a pic of an aborted fetus before i opened it
that woman should be prosecuted for child abuse, seriously
i’d like to know if the child even made it out of the womb alive….even if she “cut back”, there would still be a big chance the baby wouldn’t survive, either in the womb or out, succumbing to sids…
and if the noise worried her, why would she be walking outside over towards it?
i mean, we got some dumbasses downhere in south ga, but damn!
seriously? now, don’t get me wrong, i don’t condone smoking at all, and i certainly don’t like to see a pregnant woman smoking, but i’m pretty sure that plenty of babies of smokers have been born just fine – yes, low birth weight is highly likely, and yes other problems certainly can develop and are more likely to do so with a heavy smoker, but overreact much?
i can’t be outraged? i thought that’s what these forum-like comment strings were for…..commenting how you feel about it. i just wanted to know if the kid is ok. because not only does smoking increase the chances of low birth weight, but also the chances of miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth, underdevelopment, and later on sids, allergies, and intellectual impairment. i’m not saying there’s no chance the kid can’t be healthy, but when talking about a child i think any increase in the chance any of that crap could happen is too big an increase, too much of a risk. i’m sorry if my apparent over-reaction has offended you, obviously smoking is a sore subject for me. especially since the kid has no choice but to be taking it in.
well, it seems i have a little bit of my answer as to how the kid doing, although it was about 3 & 1/2 years ago, the news article linked below by the cranky customer says the child was “doing well” at the time. which is great.
Wow, even homeless has access to the internet and she doesn’t!
I support your concern. My mom’s a smoker, and I was born 6 weeks early, weighing 2 lbs, 15 oz. I was in an incubator for 2 months and suffered from severe athsma for 12 years, and allergies to this day. I’m pretty much okay now but my chance for a normal life was low enough that my mom was given the option to not have me. (She had 2 miscarriages before me, as well).
The worst is that the date for this is only 2004, instead of 1985. There’s even less of an excuse for this kind of irresponsibility.
The government tell you that?
Smokin’ foetus win…
35, smoker, dumb: these aren’t giving any good prognosis. That kid can’t be healthy.
I hope the baby at least will be healthy enough…at least for breathing without dying in the way…
based on the conditions it will probably be living in, i’m going to go ahead and hope that the child doesn’t survive. be an act of mercy.
She made the camera lens all fuzzy with her baby-killing smoke exhalations!
It’s sooooo not fake.
You can read the follow-up interview right here:
http://www.roanoke.com/columnists/kennedy/wb/15601
You guys do realize that, if your grandmothers ever smoked, they probably kept smoking while pregnant in the bad old days before the war on tobacco, right? And you’re still here.
Yes, smoking is bad for a fetus, but behaving as if she’s smoking a mixture of crack and radioactive spiders is no less ignorant.
haha funny and good point Miss Twitch!
“The habit is estimated to account for 20 percent to 30 percent of low birth-weight babies, up to 14 percent of preterm deliveries and 10 percent of all infant deaths.”
which gets you higher? crack or radioactive spiders?
that is a case study I want in on.
we’d get funding for sure
I can actually imagine someone paying for some radioactive spiders… damned america.
Radioactive spiders give you super powers. Haven’t you read Spiderman?
5 for $20…..meet me behind the carwash……Got fresh ground glass too…$50 a gram.
Thanks, Miss Twitch. Smoking is pretty gross, and yeah, don’t smoke while you’re pregnant, but two posts wishing she would have a miscarriage? Good God, people. You’d think she was mainlining ground glass.
Agreed Joolz! I once saw a pic of my mum with a packet of cigarettes while holding a me as a baby and she conceeded then that the ‘B’ I got in Science was probably her fault not mine. He he he…
probably why 98% of Americans are dumb :X
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/pregnant.asp
why do i keep hearing “ignorance is bliss” in my head ?
She lives near my grandma. :S
Roanoke Virginia.
It’s so easy to throw stones.
I like to throw rocks at stupid people. They make funny pinging sounds when the bounce of moron’s heads.
Well, jackhammers are noisy and all. And that was 2004. Way before they learned smoking was bad for you and your unborn baby.
why do i feel like if i took a picture of antarctica and posted it up here like 5 people would be like, OHH OHH! I HAVE A FRIEND’S UNCLE’S BROTHERS’S AUNT LIVE UP THERE!! or something involving them, and being right next door of the picture..
Roanoke is bigger than you’d think…
Exactly. And the Roanoke Times is one of two daily papers in the area, and it’s coverage is very, very large.
They were my local paper growing up, and I was an hour from Roanoke itself, and I know they stretched further than that. Roanoke is the only big city in that area, though Blacksburg is growing now.
Up there? Antarctica is at the south pole.
but yet she continues to smoke. drink i bet, too. she’s like from the dirty suburbs of detriot, like madison heights or something
I wonder if her baby’s father/uncle was upset about his sister/girlfriend being in the paper like this.
my fail. detroit*
roanoke times? isn’t that the lost colony?
Geography fail! Roanoke Island is in North Carlina … this is Roanoke Virginia. The picture sadly is real and unaltered. I remember seeing it in the local paper and about peeing myself because I was laughing so hard. Not only was this an intelligence fail but I’d like to nominate her for honorable mention in the Darwin Awards.
‘I’d like to nominate her for honorable mention in the Darwin Awards.’
.
hopefuly
shame that she would be taking that unborn kid with her though :S
Hmm.. I wonder where her bottle of Jack Daniels is?
i’d rather see a woman smoking when she’s pregnant than submitting her body to some doctor who destroys and kills her baby with a salt solution or goes inside her and sucks off the babies limbs until it’s dead.
Its not a baby until its breathing its own air and digesting its own food.
Until then its just a parasite.
A kid is better off being aborted than being born to parents who don’t want it and won’t love it, anyway.
I know its scary, but choices are good things to have.
seconded
Thirded.
and again
Fifthed!
I’m not sure if I’d go so far as to call it a parasite, and my definition of “baby” is a little different (it’s a baby when it’s able to sustain life outside the womb, not
necessarily when it’s actually *doing* so).
There’s a book called “Freakonomics”, where (among other things) the authors
point out the drop in American crime rates approximately thirteen (or fourteen?) years after Roe vs. Wade, the age at which many criminal careers begin. They
go into much more detail, and it’s more complex than I’ve managed here…but
it’s pretty interesting, and makes a lot of sense.
urgh! eww. eww! is that what they really do? oh my….. thats so horrible. now i understand why some people are so against it, it seems cruel. And what sorta person would have thought up the idea of doin it that way?!! aw it makes me sad
obviously its not as gory as the other guy is making it out to be.
No that is not what they really do. Most of the time abortions are done through a series of pills which induce a miscarriage. The rest of the time (later in the pregnancy during the 2nd trimester) they go in and physically remove the fetus as a whole. Most places (even planned parenthood) will not remove a fetus after a woman has entered the 3rd trimester (6-9 months). The whole partial-birth abortion thing that gets everyone so hyped up only happened once or twice under very odd circumstances a long time ago and is already universally banned in the US.
irony alert!
baby being born without serious problems fail.
Failmom can’t even spell her own frickn name! “Mellisa”? Does she call that thing with long ears a “rabitt”?
Yeah, ’cause it’s her fault how her mother chose to spell her name. Fail on your part.
However, I do agree. This mom’s full of fail.
well it looks like her mom had a couple drinks when she was pregnant with her so I’m not surprised at her stupidity
Makes me SO proud to have lived in Roanoke for four years.
You have my deepest sympathies and I hope I have yours …. I am STILL STUCK IN THIS HELL HOLE WITH THESE IDIOTS!!!!!
BTW – I also worked for the Roanoke Times and World News (who printed this exact article) it’s sadly completely real.
I’ve seen this before, and it’s one of my favorite pictures *ever*.
Last
I have nothing but hate for this one!
The wording of the caption is nearly as painful as the message. It would have been much easier (and clearer) to say that she “worries what effect the noise from the jackhammers will have on her unborn child.” This comes from a professional reporter? No wonder people think the caption is Photoshopped. I’ve seen 7th graders construct more coherent sentences! Basic grammar fail.
are you kidding me? to all the folks that said there needs to be a test for child bearing….I AGREE WHOLE HEARTEDLY!!! a big part of me wonders…what exactly was she smoking when she agreed to this article and photo? i mean really…
p.s. EPIC FAIL!!
you suck
Sad but true.
Uhhh…Hey y’all…You cain’t not oughta be laughin’ at my Momma….She dun said I’s the bestest child what was borned with one eyeball and extry toeses on mah forehead….She gone off and hepped me build mah meth lab.
Lulz!!!
OMG…I took one look at this and said that woman is from Roanoke, VA. How sad that I am right!
138th!!
Baby’s daddy in a follow-up interview, jumping to the defense of his pregnant partner of 2 years: “We don’t allow no smoking in the house at all. Cigarettes are a habit my son will never pick up.”
But, if you DON’T allow NO SMOKING…. never mind.
http://www.roanoke.com/columnists/kennedy/wb/15601
American?
Roanoke. Its the same city that Sasha Cohen went to in one of his Borat skits. They don’t have a very good track record so far…
actually borat was filmed in salem not roanoke. nice try tho.
My grandparents are from Roanoke, and I can tell you, you are absolutely correct. The most white-trashiest place I’ve ever been to in my life, and that includes the rest of Virginia.
I guess the noise must drive her to smoke…
wow, the news must of been REALLY boring in that local newspaper
The sad part is that I was living in Roanoke when this was printed. The people in that city really are that dumb.
lol most people have missed the ciggy
lol im from roanoke lots of people from roanoke are here lolol
That is a cutline WIN–the copy editor who wrote that caption was having A LOT of fun with understatement.
I think the comments are funnier than the pic
EPIC FAIL! OMG
*sigh* … this whole “one-person-one-vote” thing will be the end of us all. It’s quite the irony that the more educated and capable a population is, the less likely they are to reproduce, propagate, or otherwise diminish the influence of the idiot.
What an idiot. This lady needs to be shot.
woah. that’s a little extreme don’t you think?
that’s from my city. i remember that article in the paper.
my dad circled the cigarette and i wrote, “FAIL” beside it.
goooooood times.
i hate the people here. T__T;
Nice to see my local newspaper on the fail blog.
Does this remind anyone else of “Grapes of Wrath”?
Anyone?
I’ll shut up now.
Wow!!! Women like her need to be shot!
She’s probably from Texas, LOL
While the woman is obviously an idiot, what on earth was the photographer thinking?!? That is an even bigger FAIL.
What!? That’s a photography WIN! She’s captured this woman’s complete lack of intelligence in a single shot. Brilliant.
Im guessing that the photographer was too stupid to realize what he just did.
I doubt anyone will read this since it’s on the 2nd page of comments but I have to tell it for the few who do.
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Within the last couple years AZ enacted a no public smoking law. The call center I worked at then, in order to comply with the law, had to move smoking areas X ft away from the entrance. They went a little overboard and put two smoking areas almost as far from the building as possible on opposite sides. All the smokers were bitching about it. I thought I had heard every complaint then one day I overhear in the break room: “I can’t beleave they moved the smoking areas so far. I can’t be walking that far, I’m pregnant.” I almost choked and just had to walk away.
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I’ve also heard smokers that got knocked up say things like “My doctor says just quitting smoking is actually bad for the baby” Must be the same doctor the tobacco industry gets to say that smoking doesn’t give people cancer.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
does the darwin awards have a site? and y do people care more on other people comments then the pic itself
Hah! Jackhammers? And she dosen`t think about the nasty tobacco crap in her mouth and lungs gonig to the baby? Sorry for pointing out the obvious.
hahahahahahahahahaha she so stupid
Who’s she birthing? Smokey the Bear?
i live in that town roanoke va
people like that should never be allowed to have kids.
her mind bobble: ’smoking isnt bad for the child, it only goes in MY lungs, not his’
*sigh*
that is a sad excuse for a human being
poor baby when it grows up
Hey, Randy Pausch (The Carnegie Mellon Professor who died of pancreatic cancer) wrote about this in his book, The Last LEcture!
wow. what a retard. if ur smoking while pregnant, ur stupid. if u think a really loud sound is going to hurt ur kid more than u smoking, then ur a freaking dumb@$$
After reading all of these enlightened comments I think the only reasonable approach to dealing with this individual is building a bona fide concentration camp (such as those found in the Hitler regime) and making ‘it’ live there. Those camps had excellent and highly refined methods of handling superfluous humans, some of the same methods mentioned here.
And, then, of course, ‘it’ could be exterminated if extreme levels of torture, abuse, torment, depravity, persecution, and debasement failed to achieve the proper rehabilitative outcome.
That’s freaking hilarious! xD
wat a stupid bitch. seriously.
OMG. i live in that area when it came out in the newspaper my friends and i had this posted everywhere in school ahahhahah
She reminds me of that one Jugglette who’s baby died & blamed it on the hospital, despite the factors that she was morbidly obese. drunk, & did quite a few drugs during the pregnancy.
Dumb shits.
Gee, I think the baby is in danger from something more hazardous than loud noises.
Perhaps she should stop smoking?
Melissa Williamson should worry about being a parent, surely she’d make a lousy one…
I worry about the effect of allow her to reproduce on the GENEPOOL.
FAIL!
I have this
Woman, PUT OUT THAT F#$KING CIGARETTE!
i wonder if it is the same lady as in this video
I suspect this person might be a schizophrenic of a paranoid kind.
Wow not only is it sad that the baby might be born with physical health issues but with a mother like that, what hope does that child have of not being just as dumb as its mom
She should not add to the gene pool. Please somebody stop her from having more kids
worried about jackhamers??!! she has better things to worry about in her own behavior, absolut FAIL!!!!!!!
Its because your smoking a cigarette your supposed to smoke Cigars duuuhhhhhh
I’ve read the entire page of comments from lots of people who have apparently never done anything wrong and are perfect. They all deserve to hold judgement over everyone up to the point of suggesting they be killed. Bravo, Internet contributors of the world. Your tolerance is commendable.
thats not a cigarette.. thats a joint!!
When will this comment chain end?