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ZooLeaN

just in case you need one XD

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I am unfamiliar with the language you’re speaking here…

Maggot666

the point is that valve and cock (the animal xD) are the same word in german^^ very professionally done :)

Not A Rapist

Those are two very strange words to combine.

 
Kamikaze14

I got need “rooster”.

Kamikaze14

Sorry “need rooster”

 
 
 
 
 
Haijin

Very close, but not quite right.
A proper haiku should begin with a line of five syllables, then seven and five again.
I took the liberty to correct it for you.

I’m unfamiliar
with the language you’re speaking
in the prior post.

Hopefully you won’t need my help next time.

 
 
 
 
 
College_Dave

No this is normal I’ve got one just in front of my gouche (perineum) exactly like it, also with the foreign translation sticker in case I meet a european.

Xtibet

it’s german

Emergency valve
Use in case of emergency only
Open it by hand

 
 
Tdogg

they misspelled “activate” too.

 
Max

I happen to speak German and im here right now actually. Nothahn translates into emergency hen, which translates to cock, so im wondering which translation got fucked up first. Nur bei Gefahr Betatigen should be Bestatigen so both translations are hella skewed

SaoPaolo90

Nothahn is the correct word in German, as stated in other replies.
And betaetigen is the correct verb, meaning to employ or activate, etc.
Bestaetigen is to confirm something.
German grammar fail.

 
 
Max

it should be Nothalt meaning emergency brake or stop

 
 
 
jonny vagina

Is Beevis and Butthead doing this? Every time the words cock, nut, balls, butt comes up it is supposed to be funny? There are about a thousand definitions for all these words. Get our head out of the potty.

Danometer

Emergency STOPCOCK. It’s a VALVE.

DOUBLE FAIL on the idiot that thought it was a LOCK.

Anon

It’s translated from German to English, not the other way around.

‘Hahn’ can be both ‘cock’ and ‘valve’ as already mentioned above.

Someone did a dictionary translation there.

 
 
First!

I’ve got an idea… if you don’t think it’s funny, don’t visit the site!

coyote

If you don’t visit the site how will you know if it is funny or not. Put down fail.

Winter

You would come to the site, find it to be distasteful, NOT feel the need to complain about it, and not come back. Put down put down fail.

 
 
 
raelalt

‘Get our head out of the potty.’

So says someone who calls theirself JONNY VAGINA.

Me

LOL BURN OF THE WEEK CONFIRMED!!!

 
 
Grammar Nazi

Theirself? Grammar fail.

LouZha

Ya, u tellem! Dam bad grammers ppls!

 
 
 
Bananaphone

huh-huh huh, huh-huh-huh-huh…….
vagina

 
RogueEleven

Sarcasm win for Jonny Vagina?

 
jensalik

well a faucet is a wasserhahn in german
what would be a water-cock if you translate it word by word

it would be equally funny if it were a water-chick

btw - for kids in school it’s allways fun that the male chicken is called the same in english as the penis - think about that.

nonetheless it IS a translation failure - so it deserves to be here!!!

 
Kurisu

Says the guy with “Vagina” in his username.

 
 
the Ring-Ring-Man ^^

The left part I understand, because it’s German, but the English part is quite complicated for me due to my lack of English language….just too bad!!

hai

Your comment is an idiot filter.

 
Toris

They translated “Nothahn” to “Emergency Cock”. Cock is both the direct translation for “Hahn” (= male Chicken), but also a slang term for penis. That’s what’s funny about it :)

 
 
Kaiser Steve

Its an emergency valve for something….

You've Got Fail

Either urine or semen, by the looks of it…

Trainwreck Chaser

¿But how exactly would you activate it to get those responses?

JessItIs

Manually, silly! aka hand job.

eigenstates

Hand job/MAN-ually! Win.

 
 
 
 
rk9

…to override the locking mechanism of the door of a vehicle.
Gah, imagine you’re in an accident, everything’s full of smoke, burning people run around behind you…. you grasp that valve and turn it and… SPROINNGGG! Emergency cock. Cause you’re gonna die anyway.

MyMalady

haha thats awesome! I am sure it is somewhat of a relief for everyone on the train to know that if something were to happen, there is an emergency cock supplied by the transit company. “everyone remain calm, there is plenty of cock to go around”

 
 
 
Malvolio

Not really a fail. That is a cock. I know what you’re thinking: “Hmmm, doesn’t look like the cocks I’m used to.” In plumbing, a cock is a faucet or valve.

Note to you non-native speakers: “cock”, as with about 1% of all English words, can mean “penis”.

Heh-heh, he said “penis”.

gary yo

Heh-heh, he said “penis”.

TreeFace

Heh-heh, he said “penis”.

 
 
Muffles

1%? You need to improve your vocabulary.

 
RogueEleven

It’s not funny solely because of the use of the word cock, fool, but because of the situation it dually implies.

 
 
K

Reminds me of the “jerk to inflate” life vests on airplanes…

 
KT

Cock is a perfectly legitimate if hilarious translation.

 
breiti

looks like an emergency brake on a german train.

 
Hey-nonny-nonny-mous

Funny, but not really a fail. There’s nothing wrong with what the sticker says, it’s just childish humour here.

Childish humour is hilarious and everything, but this site isn’t called cocksandfanniesblog.org, for good reason.

BAD FAILBLOG. BAD. No biscuit for failblog. Stand out in the rain until you’ve learned not to shit on the carpet.

Bananaphone

maybe we should get a spanking?

 
yerp

There is a problem with what the sticker says, putting the “cock haha” aside, I would have no idea what I am supposed to do.

 
 
Anon

That’s not a translation fail, nor any fail at all. It’s actually an emergency door cock, usually located on the exterior of public buses. It’s just a little switch to open doors. And yes, that’s what they call it. Really.

RogueEleven

Did you not read the 50 post above that said the exact same thing??? WE DON’T CARE!!!

Redundancy FAIL.

RogueEleven

Before anyone else says it…. Redundant FAIL. (Redundancy Win).

 
 
 
Kiran

Little help for all the non german speakers.
On the left side it says “Nothahn” witch equals emergency valve. But the word “Hahn” has slao another meaning -> “Cock” ( The Birdy thing with the feathers not the dicklike thing ^^)

So some drunken idiot couldn’t even translate his own language… i’m really ashamed to be german. ( And it’s not the first time )

PS.: These emergency valves are used in buses or trams where, in case of emergency, you should be able to open the doors manually. With this valve you can override/deactivate the hydraulics and force the door open by hand.

So much for your semen theory ;)

 
Nwabby

This is not a fail. There is a frozen penis behind the hatch, in case you have a penis-cutting accident. Everyone knows the penis (or as they call it “bratwurst”) is the most valued piece of meat in Germany.

Nwabby

¿How did that wink get in there?

Lol

Finished a line of code?

 
Me

I’d have to guess that you transposed the semi-colon and the close parenthesis when you were typing. That would turn ); into ;) .

 
mihi

It’s a HTML entity failure. Your curly quotation marks got converted to HTML entities & #8220; and & #8221; The ; at the end of the entity combined with the ) gave that wink. The failure is that the smily detector did not check whether the semicolon was part of the HTML entity.

<)

 
 
 
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