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  1. Anonymous says:

    Heh. Yeah…

  2. Admiral Adama says:

    That’s discrimination against blonds!

  3. Admiral Adama says:

    Or Blondes (however you spell blond/blonde), it’s still dicrimination!

    • e says:

      A male with yellow hair = blond
      A female with yellow hair = blonde

      Male with brown hair = brunet
      Female with brown hair = brunette

      Blonde/blond and brunette/brunet are, IIRC, the only words in English to have gender, although you almost never see “brunet” any more.

      • Raikana says:

        I think there’s at least one more word pair that’s still gendered in english. Kind of. I always thought it was less to do with gender than with role.

        Fiance as the one doing the proposing and Fiancee as the one being proposed to (I can’t do the marked e).

        But that’s interesting about the Blond/Blonde. I’ll have to bug my friends with that trivia now. And I’d never even heard of Brunet.

        • Niho654 says:

          French Fail.

          Fiance would be for the male, fiancee would be for the female.

          Blond/Blonde and Fiance/Fiancee are French words. As a rule in their grammar, if an object is feminine it gets an extra e on the end to differentiate between the two genders.

        • e says:

          Oh, fiance/e, yeah – for some reason I always consider that a French word that we use in English, instead of an English word in and of itself. Don’t know why I think of it like that; it’s no different than blond/e or brunet/te. My brain just likes to complicate things, I guess.

          But as the commentor below mentioned, it’s not role but the sex of the persons involved – for instance, two men who plan to take advantage of California’s lifting the gay marriage ban are both each other’s fiances, and two women are each other’s fiancees.

          • e says:

            Tsk. I wish this thing had an edit feature. By “French word used in English,” I mean something like “laissez-faire” or “tete-a-tete” or “menage a trois.” Not sure how to explain that adequately… somehow “fiancee” doesn’t seem as “English” as “blonde” does to me, sort of like “etagere” doesn’t seem as English as “croissant”… despite the fact that there’s really no difference. All of the words retain their French spelling, pronunciation, and meaning, but some of them just seem to stay more French than others.

            And I meant to say the commentor *above*, not below.

            Okay, time to go take my OCD medicine…

        • e says:

          So I answered the person’s question on how to spell blond/e.

          Now, if you want a TRUE “so?” moment, see my musings on how some words seem to retain their “foreignness” more than others after being adopted into English – THAT’S a post to say “so?” to.

      • Chris CII says:

        Fox | Vixen also and there are quite a lot more…

        • e says:

          No, “fox” and “vixen” are two entirely different words – they don’t change spelling based whether you’re referring to a male or female.

          I understand what you’re getting at, but having different words for the male or female of a given animal is not the same as the words themselves having different gender. It’s a completely different concept.

          (Aside: Something that’s always amused me is that several of the slang words for “penis” in Spanish are actually feminine in gender.)

      • Anonymous says:

        “e” fails.

        From Merriam-Webster:

        “spelled blond when used of a boy or man and often blonde when used of a girl or woman…”

        often, not always, therefore “blond” is a legitimate spelling for females.

        If you don’t like it, take it up with Julie Brown.

      • ? says:

        HOLY SHIT THAT IS INTERESTING(btw im actually not kidding)

      • PsychoDad says:

        No, ‘actress’ is still a proper English word, as is ‘aviatrix’, although that’s nearly obsolete. Likewise ‘stewardess’, ‘huntress’, ‘authoress’, etc.

      • Nick-I-Think says:

        Prince/Princess.

        Actor/Actress (but this is starting to fade away, as females are calling themselves actors).

    • chez says:

      is it really? i mean, if this person could read the plate wouldn’t be upside down and if she can’t how did she get a licence? discrimination to laugh at this person? not so much.

      • Anonymous says:

        Why do you say “she”? If you go by the spelling it is a “he”. That’s okay, we like our guys dumb, blond and driving a beamer.

        • david says:

          yes but, you shouldnt go by the spelling because the owner of the plate is blond. so obviously they would have no idea if it was blonde/blond. but it was probably a woman.

        • philip. says:

          when was the last time someone said a dumb blond guy joke?

          def a chick fail.

  4. Admiral Adama says:

    Then again this site is discrimination against failures… Alas! I have been foiled again, um what do I do….

    A joke would be good… Ok here it goes:

    Q. What did the pirate get on his test?
    A. Arrrr… A “high sea”!

  5. jamesspratt says:

    Erm, this isn’t a fail. It’s a gag. Like people do on TV, it’s a joke, there’s sarcasm in there.

  6. Dr Proctor says:

    YES!!

  7. minishaw says:

    top notch fail

  8. Admiral Adama says:

    Ok more pirate jokes:

    Q. What do you call a black pirate?
    A. A pirate ye racist scurvy scum!

    Q. What’s the difference between a pirate and a gangster?
    A. Nothing! They both say YO HO!

    Q. What has 8 arms, 8 legs and 8 eyes?
    A. 8 pirates!

  9. Derbomber says:

    Isnt this technically a Blond/e win? Obviously succeeding in being blond/e

  10. Ryan says:

    “jamesspratt” got it. The rest of you – joke FAIL

  11. Ottscay says:

    Thanks for the arrow in the image. I would have never figured that out.

  12. Ross says:

    Stereoptype win?

  13. anon says:

    Photoshop!

  14. spawnfree says:

    this is a joke plate, theres no fail here.
    it is win.

  15. Red Anne Vane says:

    Agree with spawnfree and jamespratt – it’s a deliberate joke.

  16. anon says:

    “Q. What has 8 arms, 8 legs and 8 eyes?
    A. 8 pirates!:

    you mean 4 pirates? math fail.

  17. Crash says:

    Intentional. !=fail

  18. Tiffany says:

    one can look at it as a win. What if they meant to put the license plate on wrong? you know cause its funny? *gasp*

  19. nintendogs says:

    obviously a joke done on purpose

  20. maryland belle says:

    My bet is that car car belongs to someone who went to Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville, seeing as how it’s a Maryland tag.

  21. Not you says:

    At first I thought it was a backwards D, N078, and the fail was the person who prints license plates. Clearly I was having a thinking fail.

  22. mike says:

    you people read too much into it. who cares if it’s deliberate? the point of the joke, made deliberately, is a FAIL–just without the macro, since it’s there in a parking space somewhere.

    it’s sort of like the never-ending photoshop debate. the picture, in its final form, is an artifact for our amusement. if you look at it as a two dimensional snapshot of reality (like, say, a photograph!) then it simply is what it is. you get into people’s intentions, what sort of processors it’s been through, and what was intended by the photographer/macro-writer, you get into a bunch of unwinnable debates, and what’s more, you become a New Historian or something like that. and believe me. you don’t want to be that.

    • Dark says:

      Much applause for that. maybe, possibly, if you’re lucky…
      Actually, nope. None of the idiots will pay attention to anybody.

  23. Wow Mike. Well put. And deep.

  24. Anonymous says:

    I still don’t get what the wrong is with that car?! Any hints?!

  25. Clara says:

    I think owning that BMW is a bigger fail.

  26. suzywang says:

    how is this a fail? stop submitting garbage like this… lolcats is funnier these days.

  27. DragonMakr says:

    Y’all can keep debating the spelling or how sexist the pic might be, but that’s a real MD plate, I’ve seen that car on the road. Driven by a proud blonde, too!

  28. i would ask for a mirror in case this gets dugg enough, but i think she already covered me on that one.

  29. Kathy235 says:

    Huh? I don’t get it. Someone please explain…?

  30. Brandi says:

    I’m sure that she was just cleverly expanding on her joke license plate.

  31. limitedrapture says:

    Both “blonde” and “blond” are accepted and correct for use in English.

  32. Anonymous says:

    rite noa im blond but n 2 yirs mai herll b brown XD

  33. rtfa says:

    FAIL fail. (didn’t upside down)

  34. Yo momma says:

    Anyone here realize that it’s just 0 N 0 7 8 (zero N zero seven eight) and it’s SUPPOSED to look like that? If you look at the rest of the plate everything is in the right spot, it’s actually a rather witty idea, not exactly a fail.

    • Obvious says:

      Thank you, yo momma – I was thinking all the commenters were clearly Epic Failz because it was obvious to me that the license plate was on correctly. All this bullshit about the correct spelling of “blond” and whether it was a girl or a guy just showed me how lame the readership of this blog is. I mean, hello?? Haven’t any of you people ever played with calculators in math class before?

      FWIW I think it’s O N zero seven eight, myself.

    • anonymous says:

      While the picture quality isn’t spectacular, it’s still more than good enough to show the ‘B’ and the ‘D’ with curves on one side and a vertical on the other- and if that weren’t enough of a provable statement (because I can see how that would vary depending on the viewer), I’ve never ever seen a license plate seven that shape. No, while the ‘calculator’ concept would still be clever, she’s accomplished something similar by physically rotating the plate.

    • titaniumspork19 says:

      I live in Maryland and see these license plates all the time. The state’s name is on the bottom in this picture instead of the top, and the plate expiration date is in the wrong place. It’s definitely upside down.

  35. Mike says:

    She did manage to get it on the car, so WIN?

  36. Derek says:

    That is pretty smart. All the traffic cameras would pick it up as 0N078. And they’d get away

  37. Azn guy says:

    this at a blond fail… if it were a fail it would be a right way up

  38. James says:

    i think this is actually an irony win :D

  39. lolocaster says:

    hs nobody noticed that it’s a blond stereotype win?

  40. MrDChE! says:

    and they say the blond aren’t stupid hahahaha

  41. chelsey says:

    lol im sure they did it on purpose..or someone did it as a prank

  42. McKay says:

    For those who say discrimination, how is it discrimination? It is just an upside-down license plate that says “BLOND.” It just suggests the stereotype that blonds are stupid.

  43. MaiLinh says:

    too bad it’s not an upside down license plate.

    it’s 0N078 but it block letters

  44. that’s not a fail. that’s a win.

  45. Laurrraa says:

    BLONDE NOT BLOND. HIGHLY DOUBT ITS FRENCH YO.

  46. :D DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD muhahahahahaaaa

  47. NigNig says:

    OMG! And they let her drive?

  48. Brandyn says:

    that just proves my theory

  49. Connors says:

    Also irony win.

  50. Connors says:

    Also an irony win.

  51. vārti says:

    thats ironic…


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