Comments on: Trivia Fail

By: stuff n stuff

stuff n stuff — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:09:33 +0000

Bob is clearly upset because he didn’t refresh in time and couldn’t be the first poster himself

By: phoenix mattress

phoenix mattress — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:40:18 +0000

fail?

By: jordi

jordi — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:14:00 +0000

it says the name of the author in easily readable letters right on the cover

By: oblivious

oblivious — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:21:50 +0000

Was it Harper Li?

By: Amarantamin

Amarantamin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:24:51 +0000

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.

By: Mikeorelse

Mikeorelse — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:21:30 +0000

cyworld fails.
cyworld.com
see the failure
ACORNS ARE THEIR CURRENCY.

By: Frogg

Frogg — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:28:22 +0000

OMGs!!! ITS FROM GOODREADS!!!! I actually had to answer that question. It was pretty easy…

By: smegaman

smegaman — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:55:11 +0000

thomsedavi=failtard

By: rainbowie28

rainbowie28 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:38:05 +0000

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?

By: rainbowie28

rainbowie28 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:36:38 +0000

im confused…whats the fail?

By: Ponky

Ponky — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:20:30 +0000

nice fail..

By: the others

the others — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:02:25 +0000

all these people are the same person arguing with themselves

By: sam?

sam? — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:02:56 +0000

haha tilde = squigly line over the n

thats an accent over the u buddy!!!

*epic phail*

By: Sterling Dragon

Sterling Dragon — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:50:25 +0000

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!

By: Univision

Univision — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:13:50 +0000

WAY TOO LONG OF AN ARGUMENT FAIL

By: anon

anon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:55:30 +0000

Can’t see a tilde, did you mean “accent”?

By: Me

Me — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:36:56 +0000

Sorry but Wikipedia is hardly a trusted source… Just saying

By: oros

oros — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:19:47 +0000

Copy paster fail

By: k

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:26:40 +0000

Fake! Who includes only misspellings of the author’s name as possible answers?

By: k

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:55:08 +0000

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.

By: Tjololo

Tjololo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:25:32 +0000

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….

By: Piawr

Piawr — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:57:39 +0000

And what colour was Napoleon’s white steed?

By: Swampfox

Swampfox — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:13:25 +0000

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.

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:04:12 +0000

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

By: Kaia

Kaia — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:59:09 +0000

Lol!

By: pepsibookcat

pepsibookcat — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:20:33 +0000

No Child Left Behind at its finest.

By: Danometer

Danometer — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:02:38 +0000

The Spanish version: Tequila Mockingbird

By: Danometer

Danometer — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:58:59 +0000

We don’t need to know about your love life.

By: Anomnomnomymous

Anomnomnomymous — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:18:24 +0000

Oh, and I see I’m gay too. Learning is fun.

By: Anomnomnomymous

Anomnomnomymous — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:17:54 +0000

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.

By: anonyman

anonyman — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:07:34 +0000

first, next is gay!

By: jd

jd — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:40:40 +0000

Q) Who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”?

A) Truman Capote… (-;

By: lubu

lubu — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:15:27 +0000

ya i don’t get it either… why ius this a fail??? anyone???

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:35:54 +0000

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.

By: madcow

madcow — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:18:35 +0000

Second trivia question:
What is the title of “How to kill a mockingbird”?

By: nafnosseb

nafnosseb — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:27:23 +0000

I tried so hard, and read so far, but in the end it didn’t even matter

By: Autumn

Autumn — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:21:59 +0000

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.

By: OldManMontgomery

OldManMontgomery — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:43:26 +0000

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.

By: drb

drb — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:52:45 +0000

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.

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:07:35 +0000

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…

By: pew pew

pew pew — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:15:47 +0000

um…its called SARCASM…kthx o.O

Captain Obvious saves the day again…

By: ds10000

ds10000 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:37:43 +0000

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…

By: dolt

dolt — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:55:54 +0000

not as many as who get this question wrong

whats heavier a ton of bricks or 2 tons of feathers?

By: Frog

Frog — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:31:58 +0000

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.

By: Usoki

Usoki — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:51:41 +0000

“get’s”?

Apostrophe usage fail.

By: MontFail

MontFail — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:37:14 +0000

MacFAIL !

By: Agnus

Agnus — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:50:30 +0000

Herpar Le???

By: Bubblegoose

Bubblegoose — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:55:29 +0000

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.

By: liljoeyster

liljoeyster — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:53:35 +0000

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

By: chloe

chloe — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:03:28 +0000

AHAHAHAHAHA NICE ONE =D