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I’m cool guess I’m Second
Wrong.
Dark are you on 24/7 commenting on everything? O_o
this is not helping stop blond jokes. but what do i care, i think there hilarious. :p
That’s discrimination against blonds!
…nope.
are you kidding, my (a blond) would do that on purpose
No we ust give thanks that blonds like these ones r so considered to take their times for they can make fails and entertain us a little bit.
Or Blondes (however you spell blond/blonde), it’s still dicrimination!
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.
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.
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.
jesus christ! who cares?
Just because you don’t, doesn’t mean nobody does.
werd
gangsterness fail.
did you mean word?
maybe he meant weird. spelling FAIL
caring fail
Why are you all making such a stress?
Lolcats spell wrong too.
By the way, ‘girl with brown hairs’ is close enough for me
usual the male (fiance in this case) does the propsosing so…
understanding fail
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.
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…
u on something?
oh ya. ur on e. i guess i should have picked that up
so?
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.
Fox | Vixen also and there are quite a lot more…
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.)
penis is french is feminine
“bite”
“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.
HOLY SHIT THAT IS INTERESTING(btw im actually not kidding)
No, ‘actress’ is still a proper English word, as is ‘aviatrix’, although that’s nearly obsolete. Likewise ‘stewardess’, ‘huntress’, ‘authoress’, etc.
Prince/Princess.
Actor/Actress (but this is starting to fade away, as females are calling themselves actors).
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.
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.
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.
when was the last time someone said a dumb blond guy joke?
def a chick fail.
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”!
XD
lol
oh, and the fail was also funny, with its various levels of FAIL
Erm, this isn’t a fail. It’s a gag. Like people do on TV, it’s a joke, there’s sarcasm in there.
Joke appreciation fail?
That’s exactly right. Irony.
Why do these Neanderthals not know what irony is?
Becasue iron was only invented in the iron-age xD
omg, is that a Gorg?? WIN!!
srsly. why did nobody get it? im a brunette (yeah, im pretty sure thats the way its spelled) and i probably would have done the same thing just to get a joke out of something. lol i thought it was pretty funny.
YES!!
top notch fail
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!
boring
funny xD
Captain: It’ll be a rough passage tonight lad.
Cabin boy: Why Cap’n?
Captain: Arr, there be sand in the vaseline.
uh…4 pirates?
Why are there no Ninja Pirates?
Because ALLLL sounds wired… T-T
Isnt this technically a Blond/e win? Obviously succeeding in being blond/e
agreed.
“jamesspratt” got it. The rest of you – joke FAIL
Thanks for the arrow in the image. I would have never figured that out.
Stereoptype win?
>.<
Photoshop!
this is a joke plate, theres no fail here.
it is win.
Agree with spawnfree and jamespratt – it’s a deliberate joke.
“Q. What has 8 arms, 8 legs and 8 eyes?
A. 8 pirates!:
you mean 4 pirates? math fail.
No, it’s a you don’t get jokes or pirates fail.
Hint for fail persons: eye patches, hooks and peg legs.
Joke understanding fail…
Pirates have peg legs/arms/eyepatches for a reason.
peg arms? a hook would count as a missing hand, not an arm. semantic fail.
http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF165-Yarteries.jpg
PBF disagrees.
A hand is part of an arm. Plus, Pirates won’t necessarily lose just the hand.
No, he means 8 pirates. They’ve each lost an arm, a leg, and an eye.
Criticism fail.
A “good” pirate has only one eye, one leg and one arm cause they’re his battle scars!
Joke understanding FAIL!
all i’m saying is that if I was making an army of pirates, I’d want guys with full use of their original limbs
Oh god. save us from the pedants. Sometimes you have to a) work with the people you have or 2) get a sense of humor and STFU.
Speak ye all kindly o’ pirates fer they be trollin’ these waters as we speak…And I warn ye, they not be kind. They take yer dignity with steely tounges and leave yer soul fer Jesus.All ye lubbers been warned. >0<
Intentional. !=fail
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*
obviously a joke done on purpose
Yah. XD still, as a joke it’s funny.
oh yeah, i still agree.
like some one should write dyslexic on the plate, but have it typed backwards.
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.
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.
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.
Much applause for that. maybe, possibly, if you’re lucky…
Actually, nope. None of the idiots will pay attention to anybody.
Wow Mike. Well put. And deep.
I still don’t get what the wrong is with that car?! Any hints?!
look at the license plate. If you can read it, go get your eyes checked.
and if i can’t read it, are my eyes OK?
sarcasm, fail.
I think owning that BMW is a bigger fail.
how is this a fail? stop submitting garbage like this… lolcats is funnier these days.
it was a fail the moment you started to type
haha! brilliant! Think I’ll use that one in the future…
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!
A male or female blonde? (just kidding)
*grins* a pretty lady, but I didn’t ask if she was natural
i would ask for a mirror in case this gets dugg enough, but i think she already covered me on that one.
Huh? I don’t get it. Someone please explain…?
I’m sure that she was just cleverly expanding on her joke license plate.
Both “blonde” and “blond” are accepted and correct for use in English.
rite noa im blond but n 2 yirs mai herll b brown XD
FAIL fail. (didn’t upside down)
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.
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.
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.
I have to agree that the license plate is clearly upside down.
Zeros and eights don’t have one flat side. :/
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.
She did manage to get it on the car, so WIN?
That is pretty smart. All the traffic cameras would pick it up as 0N078. And they’d get away
this at a blond fail… if it were a fail it would be a right way up
i think this is actually an irony win
hs nobody noticed that it’s a blond stereotype win?
and they say the blond aren’t stupid hahahaha
Win!
lol im sure they did it on purpose..or someone did it as a prank
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.
too bad it’s not an upside down license plate.
it’s 0N078 but it block letters
but in***
that’s not a fail. that’s a win.
BLONDE NOT BLOND. HIGHLY DOUBT ITS FRENCH YO.
OMG! And they let her drive?
that just proves my theory
agree.
that’s why they’re blond
Also irony win.
Also an irony win.
thats ironic…