Comments on: Utility Fail

By: phoenix mattress

phoenix mattress — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:12:24 +0000

it doesn’t matter, they ride bikes to work…

By: Interneta pieslēgums

Interneta pieslēgums — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:44:41 +0000

LOLZ

By: bennas25

bennas25 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:31:05 +0000

$10 says the house was built after the pole was put there look at the shape of the driveway

By: blah

blah — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:33:33 +0000

so photoshoped

By: farrex

farrex — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:34:08 +0000

maybe they drive a motorcycle…

By: your mom

your mom — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:19:24 +0000

haha actually the home owners were pwned. she complained that she didn’t want the pole in front of her picture window and made such an annoyance of herself that they put it there.

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:35:56 +0000

I’ve seen that !

By: Joe Schmoe

Joe Schmoe — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:48:40 +0000

Flagpole is thinner.

Size fail, just like the rest of you.

By: RETfiRD

RETfiRD — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:33:36 +0000

Brown

oh shi..

actually saying indigo and violet instead of purple seems a little gay to me

By: Saul

Saul — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:57:24 +0000

My parent’s home town in Puerto rico had a telephone pole in the middle of the street. They just removed it this year. (3 years after a plaza was designed near it)

Yes, cities can be stupid. (Should have gotten a picture. Damn)

By: Searley

Searley — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:37:00 +0000

Google Maps street view was launched in Australia in the last week and you can see on here that it is clearly an electricity pole in the middle of the driveway. The address is 413 Farm St, Rockhampton, Queensland Australia.

By: asdf

asdf — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:25:02 +0000

It’s a flag pole, you can see the rope going down the side of the pole. and there is plenty room on either side of the driveway to drive a car. unobservant FAIL.

By: mike wratch

mike wratch — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:38:31 +0000

its two ‘lanes’ look at the car on the right for size

By: AA

AA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:34:45 +0000

Well, it’s been there for over a year now – although in the last couple of days the electricity company has been seen hanging around it, so there’s a chance they’re actually thinking of attempting to move the pole. Oh, I hope not

Hello all fellow Rockhampton people! Screw the cows, we have a famous pole!

By: jinx

jinx — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:13:27 +0000

wait, it’s STILL there? more than 24 hours after it was put there? hm… maybe one of the benefits of living in a litigious society? (i.e., i don’t see anyone in the u.s. putting up with that for very long)O

By: diggy

diggy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:44:20 +0000

Rockhampton, QLD, Australia. Farm Street.

By: slaps

slaps — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:41:01 +0000

It’s not fake. I live in that city, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia. It’s on Farm St.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:25:37 +0000

only the yanks

By: Dragonwriter

Dragonwriter — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:23:37 +0000

Woops…sorry, I didn’t mean for that to sound snarky. I was just trying to explain, not to say you were stupid for not knowing.

Mea culpa.

By: jonny

jonny — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:04:19 +0000

It does happen a lot, but not just trendy areas with new houses. I’ve lived in communities where they’ve had to upgrade the grid, move poles, etc. The houses are there already and be damned if you happen to have a driveway that falls within the spacing of the poles.

By: blo

blo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:05:59 +0000

This comment is so fail I don’t know where to begin.

By: First!

First! — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:28:30 +0000

This comment fails at life.

Fail win?

By: First!

First! — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:27:38 +0000

The fact that “cities” are this stupid is what makes this so funny and believable.

By: Phizzle

Phizzle — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:12:34 +0000

Your photoshop is a terrible photoshop, and on top of that you missed the even bigger point. You can go on Google Earth and see the shadow of the pole coming from the middle of the driveway. The coordinates have been provided, the address, and witnesses have seen this exact house. But hey, good job creating a bad picture to discredit my least important point, which actually wasn’t about whether it could be done, but how easy it would be to do it. Way to read my entire post. You could have at least picked on me for misspelling.

By: a person

a person — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:27:03 +0000

That’s photoshopped
no city would be that stupid

By: MYDIGITALEYES

MYDIGITALEYES — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:00:40 +0000

or in soviet russia poles utilize you?….uh….never mind…
я пробовать и недоставать (inter-tran works well too)

By: Grimbling

Grimbling — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:08:05 +0000

Is it *painted* that colour? I thought it was just those blue tarpaulins they sometimes put around buildings while they’re still under construction.

By: Anikan

Anikan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:27:32 +0000

I think the post is a blessing to the house owner. They will be save from accident..

By: Jeepersca

Jeepersca — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:52:38 +0000

I swear that this picture isn’t photoshopped.

Oh wait. hmmmm…..

http://picasaweb.google.com/Punkinhead2/PhizzleFail/photo#5227489049932437746

By: Dragonwriter

Dragonwriter — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:30:26 +0000

Ok…”non-straight F student” made me giggle like a 12-year-old. Mayhap and perchance you meant “straight non-F student”??

By: patches11

patches11 — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:32:10 +0000

Wanna know how you know you need help? When you say something like that. Even moreso when you say something like that and expect it to come across as amusing or cool.

Or is it really only when you know more powers of 2 than you have fingers and toes?

Is #FFFFFF a presence of all light, or a reflection of all light? Or perhaps it is the absence of no light? Don’t ask GLaDOS. (cake fail?)

By: Mystique Makepeace

Mystique Makepeace — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:30:52 +0000

Oh, shuddup ya homaphobe! Go back to West Virginia where inbred, gay-hating Bible-thumpers like you belong!!!

By: Mystique Makepeace

Mystique Makepeace — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:26:14 +0000

Dragonwriter,
well so-ree! I’ve never been to America before, so I don’t know about all the individual state cultures and stereotypes. I don’t really know what your comment really meant, but I’m throwing off anyway.

P.S. Which state are YOU from, exactly?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:10:06 +0000

Win.

By: MYDIGITALEYES

MYDIGITALEYES — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:35:39 +0000

stupid fool? wow….your witty reparte is wonderful AND creative!! thank you!! (no wonder you’re “anonymous”….)

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:15:04 +0000

so in actuality, you’re saying you’re first >_>

Fail.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:47:16 +0000

It is in Rockhampton Australia. Just down the road from me.
And at the risk of ruining a good joke, it’s not as bad as it looks. It’s a two car garage and there is room on either side of the pole for a car.

By: Muhammad The Camel Guy

Muhammad The Camel Guy — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:48:34 +0000

“non-uneducated?” The next time I fill out a form for something, and they ask about education, I’m going to put down “non-uneducated.”

I was a “non-straight F” student. I graduated at the “not bottom” of my class.
I was in the “non bottom” 90%. I graduated “not non cum laude”

…O.K. I’m done. Not really, but that’s all I can think of right now.

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:03:58 +0000

ok, so it wasn’t filtering, i was just _triple_ posting! i hang my head in shame

By: Phizzle

Phizzle — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:00:56 +0000

Picture is real, verified by the coordinates that several people here have listed. Someone photoshop me a picture like it, if you think it’s so easy. On top of that, I checked out the shadow on the google earth image and it is stertching Northwest, same as the shadow coming from everything else in the area. And the shadow starts (not stops) in the middle of the driveway. Even if it were the mailbox shadow defiantly going the opposite direction of every other shadow, it wouldn’t be long enough to stretch that far. Plus the mailbox is behind the sidewalk, the shadow goes in front of it. It took me all of 2 minutes to conclude that this picture is real, so for those of you who scream about too much time on my hands, stop masturbating, you hypocrites.

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:56:15 +0000

Ah your gay

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:55:40 +0000

Bend over and Ill show you a bend over comment

By: spike

spike — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:38:31 +0000

i referenced west virginia earlier in response to a long boring discussion of cousins and other relatives and how the all relate. i was going for the inbreeding thing.

By: spike

spike — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:31:11 +0000

or not being funny?

By: spike

spike — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0000

yes, they can only be emanated.

By: will

will — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:26:02 +0000

if i am correct that is NOT a flagpole, its a lamp post, and if you noticed there is enough space for two cars to go either side of said lamp post NOT FAIL

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:55:02 +0000

and since failblog seems to be filtering another overused joke, i will say it in russian:
Загиб сверх и я покажем вас неизбежные.
babelfish.yahoo.com is handy

By: bob

bob — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:54:42 +0000

next commenter is gay

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:45:22 +0000

almost as inevitable as “in soviet russia, utilities pole you!”

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:43:40 +0000

or “in soviet russia, utilities pole you!
bend over, i’ll show you inevitable