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epic fail……..
More like you just wanted to be the first commenter. That fail is hardly epic.
Verb tense fail.
Where?
Arg! This is why I don’t bother with comments on the internet. People constantly abusing each other over truly small and insignificant things. Vann says literally two words and it’s worth starting a flame war over. Why can’t you just let it go? Is it really worth it?
yes definitely….
thomsedavi=failtard
“This is why I don’t bother with comments on the internet.”
FAIL
immense!
AHAHAHAHAHA NICE ONE =D
nice fail..
this is why we cant have nice things!!1
poor parents best excuse
Not bothering to comment fail.
Comment wars are fun! just dont take them personaly and its totally worth it. not taking it personally fail on ur part, sorry.
No kidding, I like to read comments on the subject at hand, but it’s difficult when there is one legitimate comments followed by a fifty-post flame war over two words in said first comment before reaching legitimate comment #2.
I love it! Someone is first, doesn’t claim to be first, and still get’s picked on for being first!
“get’s”?
Apostrophe usage fail.
b3nd over and i’ll show you hardly epic
“You’re right. I would hardly call that epic,” she laughed.
Retort FTW!
Lol!
Denied. The fail is truly epic.
More like you just wanted to be the first commenter. This is hardly a fail at epic fail
Copy paster fail
A typical question for an american..
Your point?
Yo soy numero uno!
dos*
Basic spanish fail trifecta:
- In spanish you don’t have to say “Yo” because it’s implicit in the form “soy”.
- If you are “number one”, then you must be “The” number one (El numero uno).
- And, we use the opening exclamation too: ¡Soy …!
As a bonus, numero has a tilde: número.
Correct: ¡Soy el número uno!
See you!
You can you use Yo if you want to emphasize “I”, which, in this case, seems like a reasonable thing to do.
soiyo soiyo
Fail! As long as we’re dealing with multiple choice questions, choose your favorite:
1. Spanish tutorial fail
2. tilde fail
3. acute fail
4. diacritical fail
This is a tilde: ~
There is no tilde in either “numero” or “número”.
This is a “u” with an acute accent (diacritic mark): ú
btw, I prefer “diacritical fail”. It has such a nice ring to it!
Guess how we call that acute accent or diacritical mark in spanish?
We call it “tilde”.
Therefore, you fail.
Kind of.
I never heard of calling an acute accent a tilde, it was always just acute accent.
Believe me, we do.
Or Believe Wikipedia if you prefer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde
{
The tilde (~) (pronounced /ˈtɪldə/) is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus meaning a title or superscription, though the term “tilde” has a different meaning in Spanish
}
Sorry but Wikipedia is hardly a trusted source… Just saying
Just open Wikipedia and search “tilde”.
You’ll see what I mean when I say it is a different thing in spanish.
o.k., according to this website, Alchemist is correct:
http://www.elearnspanishlanguage.com/pronunciation/acuteaccent.html
and at the bottom it says:
Note: The tilde over the letter n (ñ) is something else entirely
so, Alchemist Win, plus Ambiguous Term Fail?
(or, High School Spanish Teacher Fail?)
o.k., according to the “e Learn Spanish Language” website, Alchemist is correct.
and at the bottom of the “La Tilde – Acute Accent – Spanish Pronunciation” page, it says:
Note: The tilde over the letter n (ñ) is something else entirely
so, Alchemist Win, plus Ambiguous Term Fail?
(or, High School Spanish Teacher Fail?)
posting once fail!
yeah, based on Server Response Fail and Policy Awareness Fail.
when my post didn’t show up after 10 minutes, i thought maybe messages that included URLs were blocked, so i posted again without the link.
so many ways to fail, such little time.
WAY TOO LONG OF AN ARGUMENT FAIL
In spanish it’s Tilde d:
I know a tilde( ~) and that ain’t no tilde. That’s a ‘
I don’t really care… I only took two years of Spanish in classes with terribly counterproductive students. It’s amazing enough that I didn’t kill myself surrounded by those idiots.
Can’t see a tilde, did you mean “accent”?
The word “número” does not have a “tilde.” It has an “accent.” The tilde (~) only appears above one letter (ñ), in the Spanish language.
Condescending correction fail!
haha tilde = squigly line over the n
thats an accent over the u buddy!!!
*epic phail*
Pole Position
We don’t need to know about your love life.
Yeah, great fail (btw second)
f***
It’s Herpar Le, everybody knows this…
I think even Captain Obvious shook his head with pity.
Herpar Le was one of the incorrect choices on the question.
Check the facts before you insult.
um…its called SARCASM…kthx o.O
Captain Obvious saves the day again…
PLEASE HELP ME,
my dad hits me all the time!!!
You must have done something to deserve it… FAIL
Kill that bastard, KILL!!! That teach the bitch.
hit me baby one more time
Stop suckin him off then!
i’ll help you, if you give me your address. note, however, that living with me, conditions will be relatively unchanged.
First Call For Help Fail.
Shut up and get back in the basement!
I think it’s Hemingway
What scares me is that Hemingway is who I’d have said if I’d been asked blind (no prompting, no multiple choice, etc). Whoops.
You’re not alone. Hemingway would have been my guess.
Lawl
I don’t get it… where’s the fail in this one?
Seriously
Well, then you fail as hard as the person who put this question up. The authors name is displayed on the cover, so in no way would any intelligent being chose the wrong answer. The alternative answers, by the way, are so stupid that they would be a fail for themselves alone.
In addition to the fairly obvious (to most US HS grads, at least) correct spelling surrounded by various misspellings, the name of the author is on the cover of the book used in the image. The fail may be in the assumption that there would still be people who picked the wrong answer.
Pretty sure this is one of those ad links, “click the correct answer and you could win a prize!!” things where they want to make it painfully obvious so more people will click, so it’s not nearly as failish as it’d have been if it were a test or legit game-show type question.
Oh… NOW I get it ;D Thanks.
Incidently, two fellow students of mine did research on exactly this topic for their bachelor thesis (in this case, for call-in quiz programmes on TV).
Result: People are more likely to call if the answer is NOT that obvious, because when it’s too simple, they assume their chances of getting through are less high because everyone else is calling at the same time..
Well anyway: FAIL, I agree.
There isn’t. Except the person who posted it.
i really don’t understand why this is a fail
Answer in the question.
Maybe it’s not a fait but just a stupid question to eliminate the most stupids candidates.
It’s an extremely reliable filter.
If you don’t get THIS one right…
I think the hardest fails of all are all the people commenting about how they don’t understand this particular fail.
lol, agreed.
And there’s a lot of them too.
But could we possibly hope that this “Fail” may prompt someone to actually read this book or rent the movie? Either of those actions would constitute a most-definate WIN! (I initially couldn’t understand how the book was a fail since it’s wonderful, but then realized it was a trivia question about the author’s name.)
To read the book would be an epic fail when the film is available!!!
Yes, because the movie is ALWAYS better than the book.
Im glad you agree!
Literacy FAIL!
i respect literacy and all, i am all aBOUT literacy, but to kill a mockingbird was a boring, preachy waste of my time.
Maybe just not your type of movie/book (whichever). I loved both.
not really, those of us who spend all our lives on teh interwebs see pop-up ads like this all the time, so it’s nothing unusual
Even without the writer’s name on the image of the book
Its really easy because in the answers is the name harper and lee twice
then its always the combination
at school this trick always worked too
You know, this wouldn’t be a bad CAPTCHA, in which case it’s hardly fail. So, anyone know where this actually came from?
Multiple choice is hardly a good CAPTCHA.
It came from goodreads.com, they have a “never ending book quiz” and this was a user submitted question on it.
It’s a fucking facebook quiz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a fail, but so not noteworthy for this site. The quiz in particular was put together by one person in their free time. Not a business, like the dental sign, not a product ad, but just a bored kid. There’s no reason this is appropraite to be on here. The suggested answers say it all. This is completely idiotic for the Fail Blog.
Harper Lee wrote To kill a mockingbird. I was so confused at my inability to see the fail I even googled it to make sure. So the fail is the person who posted the fail.
the fail was the cover of the book showing you failbird
I must say…I saw the fail from the beginning…but I failed to find it funny, so I tried to find something funnier in it.
But there is not.
I know. I’ve sent it way funnier fails than this that don’t make it on the page, but this did. Rediculous.
ya i don’t get it either… why ius this a fail??? anyone???
Massive Fail to those who tried to click the right multiple choice answer.
I suppose one of them was you?
I did, i guess i fail . . . oh well, SSDD.
Im gonna go for the herpes fail option…
This isn’t fail, it’s an eyesight test.
Not sure but I think this person is saying that this was a question he was posed, and the fail is that the answer to the question was presented right in front of him along with the question itself, ie this is an excerpt from a trivia test, so therefore it is a trivia fail.
can i go 50/50?
hmmm Harper Lee or Haper Lee
can i phone a friend?
Not an eyesight test. Says TRIVIA QUESTION at the top. You fail.
Reading win
Can anyone help me? Can’t find the mistake…
just read the comments above..
I think this is a format fail. I can actually see why some people are confused here…it doesn’t look like a trivia question taken from an actual quiz. It looks like someone posted a picture of the book, claiming it’s a fail, then below it they inserted the “multiple choice” option to be funny.
Meh…would have been funnier if it had been copied off of a paper test instead of a screen capture. IMHO.
oh well.
Definitely a format fail. I was among the fail-impaired until I read someone’s comment explaining the WHOLE THING was a trivia question, then the answer to the trivia question is right there in the picture.
yeah, i missed it because I thought the poster ’shopped in the quiz, impling the cover itself was incorrect.
Me too. I thought the fail was that the publisher spelled the author’s name wrong, then looked at it and kept thinking, “But… that’s RIGHT, isn’t it?” And it definitely wasn’t any of the other choices. So on one hand I fail for not recognizing a stupid facebook quiz, but on the other hand I win for avoiding stupid facebook quizzes to the point that I don’t recognize one when I see it.
Bonus FAIL: Truman Capote isn’t on the list.
Nicely played.
ekclusive!
Why is this a fail? The book was authored by Harper Lee.
Is it a fail because a CROW is on the cover, and not a mockingbird? That’s the fail if anything – not the name of the author.
Ah. I get it now.
I thought Failblog was asking the trivia question.
Observation fail…
Secondary Literary Fail for the book cover itself.
Illustrating “To Kill a Mockingbird” with… mockingbirds?
The Spanish version: Tequila Mockingbird
In Soviet Russia mockingbird kills you. Is good, no?
Maybe the answer choices are teh fail and teh cover is an awkwardly placed red herring.
OH wait, I get it! This FAIL has a context FAIL.
It’s the entire picture.
They give you the cover of the book for reference then ask you who wrote it without even thinking that they just gave you the answer.
Therein lies FAIL.
(would love to know how many got this quiz question wrong.)
not as many as who get this question wrong
whats heavier a ton of bricks or 2 tons of feathers?
aha. NEXT.
i work at goodreads, it looks like the question featured in the screenshot has been deleted
Bought I thought it was written by Harper Lee. Can someone explain this one to me?
I reckon it’s written by Harper Lee…
California. Has to be a California school. Perhaps college level.
Has to be California.
hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
This has been a complete and utter fail critique fail. But an entertainment WIN, so thanks. I nearly squeed by the time I got to the bottom.
Herpar Le???
MacFAIL !
Ah, now I got it.
I first thought that there is a mistake on the book cover.
I didn’t get that this is a question out of a test or something.
I thought of two different pictures…
Not sure if this was already mentioned-my AADHD prevents me from reading this many comments-but I would also like to point out the title FAIL in To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s been a while since high school English, but I’m pretty sure the beginning letters are suppposed to be capitalized in titles…
Erin, AADHD and all, you are correct. All words in a title are normally capitalized.
One notes the book cover is correct – the title is in Roman Block letters – but the title of the thread entry is all lower case. That’s a grammatical failure.
This seems to be the result of the trend in electronic communication to ignore basic rules of grammar; capitalization, punctuation and often spelling. For that matter, I see a growing upsurge in incorrect word usage: using ‘there’ for ‘their’ and ‘your’ for ‘you’re’.
I find such inability depressing.
The whole thing is an utter failure in that I had to come look at the comments to understand the weak joke and WTF was going on here…the fail is epic in several dimensions.
I tried so hard, and read so far, but in the end it didn’t even matter
Second trivia question:
What is the title of “How to kill a mockingbird”?
Mmm. This one was confusing at first. My first thought was, “…Harper Lee WAS the author.” The way it was posted made me think someone was trying to say it had the incorrect author on it. I understand now, though – I didn’t realize the entire post, answer boxes included, was the failure.
Q) Who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
A) Truman Capote… (-;
first, next is gay!
Meh. Not really impressed by this fail. You see painfully obvious “trivia” questions on advertisement banners all the time. Not to say this is one of those, but it has kinda desensitized me.
Oh, and I see I’m gay too. Learning is fun.
No Child Left Behind at its finest.
The problem is that it’s not apparent that this entire thing was a trivia question, ie that the question and the image of the book cover were shown together.
The arrow seems to be pointing SOLELY to the name and not the entire pic. I kept looking at the image, which isn’t that clear here, to see what they messed up with the spelling, the title or some other thing that was lost in the pixels.
And what colour was Napoleon’s white steed?
I’m so glad SOMEbody thought to post what the hell the actual fail was. i think this one is a bit of a fail fail….
What is fail about this? His name is spelled correctly and I can not find any other possible fails…I would have to say this post is a fail in itsself.
i agree theres nothing wrong with the book cover
just the person that posted it that i guess was under the impression that harper lee is asian?
Fake! Who includes only misspellings of the author’s name as possible answers?
all these people are the same person arguing with themselves
im confused…whats the fail?
it says the name of the author in easily readable letters right on the cover
OMGs!!! ITS FROM GOODREADS!!!! I actually had to answer that question. It was pretty easy…
cyworld fails.
cyworld.com
see the failure
ACORNS ARE THEIR CURRENCY.
Was it Harper Li?
For the first time in the history of this blog, someone doesn’t say “FIRST!” in the first comment and yet you still bash him.