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wtf
Bend over and I’ll show a you a wtf !
you better
This looks suspiciously fake 0.o
That’s what she said.
Actually, I think he’s referring to the sign, which asks soccer players to play in the archery range. However, this presents a problem due to the fact that you could die if you are struck by an arrow…. or a bow thrown really, really hard.
Um… Jaime, is that you?
WTF, why is it so small?
Funny, very fanny, like in Ukraine =)
Does Ukraine take pride in killing soccer players with bow and arrow?
Is that why Russia made Euro 2008 and Ukraine did not?
HAH, 24th…beat that…
SOCCER, I don’t even KNOW her!
hahaha…
What an idiot 1/5 of the planet plays the sport and you have never heard of it! Do you live in dungeon or just like making meaningless retorts?
It’s a pun playing off the word ’soccer’ sounding like ’sock her’ – that is, to hit her – with the classic punchline of not even knowing her.
Funny thing about those meaningless retorts…
that they aren’t funny?
radar FAIL
radar ftF
FAIL
Um, I think he’s doing a play on words here, as in “soccer” meaning “sock her” as in to hit someone. I think you’re the one who’s being something of an idiot.
extreme soccer… I like that
No wonder america has a soccer problem!
i thought the point of soccer was to shoot the guy kicking the ball around?
Real nice fail
Really nice fail
Double post fail.
First one who says “FIRST”
LOL All of America’s soccer players are killed in an archery incident. A sign told them to play on the archery range and they followed the advice, being the sheep they are…. LOL
imagination fail.
Review your history books dip-shit. America (and Americans) have been the Sheppard, not the sheep, on this planet since the late 1800s.
What are you saing? Clearly Europe ist the Cultural lead in every perspective.
If you just think about it; the life standard and length are much higher -you can check if you want- and the education level is also above the american. You just watched Eurotrip too much, to know the truth.
Yes, obviously, being that almost all the top ranked universities in the world are in the US (excluding 2 in there from the UK). American’s have a K-12 education problem, sure. Nationalist Hate FAIL.
And on Soccer, I’d like soccer more if the players didn’t fake it so much. Bunch of sissies.
GAAAHHHH!!!
If you’re going to talk up the American educational system…could you PLEASE learn how to use apostrophes correctly first??
zomg! A minor grammar error?!? You got him good with that comeback.
Um…that wasn’t a comeback. That was an real, heartfelt request. I actually agree with what he was saying, but it’s my job to make Americans at least LOOK less ignorant out in the world. Hard to turn that off, sometimes. But really–you aren’t going to convince anyone how great our educational system is if you can’t even use your own language correctly.
It is “a real” “Hard to turn that off, sometimes.” is a sentence fragment, though “it is” could be implied. Hyphens are used to make an inclusive phrase – such as this one – inside of another sentence; however, a comma would have been a better choice. And it’s “of how great that our education system is”.
For the record, I’m a technical writer. This is what I do for a living. It was a good try, however badly the attempt went.
can’t we all just agree that, no matter the status and achievements of any given country, it has nothing to do with anyone of us that post on failblog.
snaps! i should have ended that with a ‘?’
HAH! I TOTALLY fail!!
That’s what I get for trying to type when I first get up in the morning.
Aren’t there bigger grammatical “Fails” to discuss over the Internet? (I can has?? for one) Rather than wasting time correcting errors made by someone who actually has some idea of what he/she is doing?
PriorityFail!
Dragonwriter, it’s the internet. All you see is going to be a giant
conglomerate of grammar and spelling fails.
Really bad English translations fall in there somewhere as well.
Point is, you’re never going to sleep if you put it upon yourself to
correct every mistake that you see.
Oh, I know…and usually I don’t bother. This one struck a nerve because of the subject matter of the post!
*sticks a gold star on Mica’s post for perfect grammar/spelling*
For what it’s worth, typical of my usual lengthy socio-political posts, I was just being silly while being serious. Know that I don’t do burns with the intent of making anyone look ignorant, but it was rather weird to see a grammar fail after a grammar fail about a logic fail.
An entire satirical drama could be made on the lapses in our educational system, as tragic as that is. Fahrenheit 451, here we come.
I love that book.
A person who has technical writing, as a profession, should know that there should be a semi colin before and a comma after the however, in this statement.
“an real?”
Epic fail.
And they even have better wine, the bastards…..
I knooooooooooow!!!
*takes a sip of a rather lovely Sangiovese*
What? The Belgians think fine cuisine is rats, the French eat snails and the Germans burned many cultural items that they stole during WWII … The problem with Europe is that it has always thought of it self as the center of the planet and ignored the other 3/4 of the land masses. I’m American with an European background but I recognize the cultures all over this planet. Europe has the black plague and the North Star to be thankful for it’s economic growth among a few other factors. (too complicated of a discussion for this website – plus no one would be interested anyway) None of which makes it’s culture stand out higher. And back to the point of this fail – the South Americans with less training are better at soccer. Something that is missed in the general rosters of some of Europe’s countries FC’s. And yes, before anyone burns me on it – we Americans have yet to provide anything memorable in soccer…
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm….snaaaaaaaaaails……..
Meh, the rats sound better.
Lead the planet in pig-ignorance, maybe. Could you at least run spell check?
Guy, I think you should ’sheppard’ yourself to a better understanding of how other nations are shaping the world culturally and economically, and not just through an omnipresent military.
hmmm, just like the tipical stupid big guy from the college! He was respected (feared) only because he was not afraid to use strength against the other kids…
Typical spelling fail.
Europe spelling WIN
Ra-ther.
I love the colours of my flowers.
I agree, soccer players are complete idiot sheep. Thankfully, it’s not popular in this country.
Shaddup. Just because Beckham’s a wuss doesn’t mean we all are.
Not that I’m pro. Yet.
Yeah, all 11 of them.
Apparently someone hates Soccer enough to throw them into the archery range. My question is: should the archers aim for the ball, or the players?
The players.
But if you aim at the ball and pull up a little, that should give you sufficient lead to hit the player.
Comment win!
Quite lol indeed.
Humour Fail
Reply FAIL!
Name WIN!
quite.
This post was below average quality of failblog. Not okay.
This comment (the one above) was below the average quality of failblog. Not okay
Homour FAIL!
spelling fail
UK spelling…like colour…
(not american spelling: color)
and not even Tori Spelling!
Don’t dig your hole any deeper, xenu.
HOMOur?
or is it ur HOMO?
Who knows?
Im gonna have to remember that and use it on my friends.
homODOUR
People from the UK can afford more letters than Americans…like in colour
but in the case of homour, homor isn’t a word either.
You mean HUMOUR. If you’re going to criticise dialects at least get your own language right first.
Nais xD
First?
Or perhaps it is taking care of annoying soccer players win?
Pfft… soccer rules. Go back to America.
I rather like soccer. But apparently those people don’t.
soccer maybe, but he was talking about the players. new batch please!!
What, did an American steal your lunch money or something? Go cry, Emo Euro.
Ironic, seeing as emo is an American export.
Double ironic, as I am in fact Australian.
“Hey Bobby, i’m open!”
“K! AHHHHHHH!!!”
“What? AHHHHHH”
“Stop shooting the soccer players”
But I thought the numbers of their backs was the number of points you get for hitting them?
Lolz
And the keeper is 1 because he’s standing still most of that time
makes sense, no?
Lol, your comment wins.
Player number zero win!
no, it’s like pool. you have to call where you’re going to hit him and all that shit.
Football in the US? One player, out of how many?, actually kicks the ball (using his foot) The rest is based on throwing catching and hitting?
Plus, am I the only one actually considering the fact that America was colonized by Europeans? Meaning that American Culture has it’s origins in Europe?
(Yes I am aware of the fact that there are Native Americans, but i don’t see too many using that as an argument)
Actually, most Americans fail to realize that there are more people registered on soccer teams (meaning paying to play) than any other sport in the USA except for basketball. And that is a fact from 1995. It may have passed basketball at this point…
Please stop calling it soccer.
Ah, yes, a purist. “Football”, sorry. Those darned Americans have infiltrated my culture and made me say soccer… That and we also have something else called “Football” (or “Footy”), that is, Rugby.
you mean futbol?
No.
Welcome to America fail.
America is always welcome, cheap labor for our fake meat factories ty ty ty.
Thats awesome – moving target practice, make for better archers.
Not to mention better soccer players.
Or at least faster.
when you hear “twang”, change directions
We get two types of training done for the Olympics at once! Our soccer players are hella fast, and our archers definitely can hit a moving target! The health plan for Olympians… not so great though.
howls of laughter
Not for the soccer players at least. The archers should do quite well.
brings a new meaning to shielding the ball…
Of course, they COULD play in a full suit of armor. But that would get heavy. And loud. But think of the team uniforms!!
it just makes sense. thats where they learn to shoot
It’s called football, not soccer. You americans should stop making up your own words for things when they already have a word that’s fine.
Yeah…..
Another reason its a FAIL pic.
We got tired of getting Football and “American Football” confused. We already knew it was American. Just because we don’t need to keep our names on it (like, say French Fries), doesn’t make us bad.
BTW, whatever the real origin of the term “French Fries” is, I don’t give a rat’s patootie. Don’t bother telling me. I was making a point, not making a derogatory slam.
“Making a point” FAIL.
Only USeans call those French Fries everyone else calls them, fries, fried potatoes or chips, the French call them «Frites». So yet again you put your own name on it when it already had a name.
I’m from the US, and i call them chips. o and can we please stop this “peoplefrom the US are stupid and weird” bs please?
o, btw, same goes for US people doing the same thing in reverse.
Yeah…. lets just calm down and enjoy the FAIL…
the french call them pomme frites
Yes because they are in fact “Fried potatoes” which is what pomme frites means
I agree with 999, I’m an American and I have respect for cultures other than my own, and like to think I’m well educated.
And for those American’s that are claiming other cultures are weird you are just making us look worse. So shut your mouths and enjoy the fail.
You are a rare type good sir.
Agreed. And if we all used the same word for the same things, we’d all be speaking just one language. And what would be the fun in that?
Not so much really. Just that the vocal people around here tend to be the ignorant redneck types. There are a lot more people like xXJadeXx around here than people from other countries like to think.
Which is funny since “pomme” is apple and “pomme de terre” is potato…
curious, no?
Well I don’t know much about the French language, except that “de terre” means “of Earth/Ground” so… I would assume that’s the distinguishing feature, that apples come from trees, and potatoes come from the ground.
digging for apples?
Have you heard about my new band, Digging For Apples?
So then, wouldn’t “pomme frites” technicaly mean fried apples? I’m just sayin.
but its true
WIN?
(Not USA bashing) but thought French-Fries got changed to ‘Freedom-Fries’?
Renaming fail!
They tried that, but I believe the general consensus was “Why the hell do you care so much that you want to change the name?
So they remain “French Fries”.
yeah, i remember that. i loled the first time i saw it on a menu.
Americans aren’t very good at change apparently. That’s why they still use the Empirical System and haven’t moved up to the Metric System yet.
It is also why I’m surprised Obama stands a chance with his whole “That’s a change I can believe in” thing.
now now.. remember what I said about culture bashing? tsk tsk…
*sob!*
I SWEAR I’m a Brit in an American’s body…!
that had to be the stupid idea of the century… what do we have against the french anyway?
actually it would be futball
Wow. I wish my life was so perfect that something this lame was important enough to comment on.
ummm… you just did. hypocrisy win…
Hey Mephiloser,
Kish My Arsh… Hey look, another new word…..like FROG…..You’re just upset because you don’t live here.. Crawl back into your Euro-HOLE (new word again) and shut your PIE-HOLE (OMG another new word..)
thank you so much for making the rest of us look bad. our president would be proud of you.
Win
Better things to do than bitch about insignificant things FAIL.
Only thing is, the name ’soccer’ was originally invented by British schoolboys. There was ‘rugger’, which is Rugby football (named after the school) and ’soccer’, which is Association Football.
And as far as I know, Australians call it ’soccer’ too, because they also have Aussie Rules football.
So, you know, check your facts, yeah? You don’t need to blame everything on Americans. It gets boring after a while.
Thank you for a beautiful, educated opinion. You restore my faith in all things good.
We do call it Soccer, but I’m trying to convert. The only reason we do isn’t because of AFL (Aussie Rules Football), because we call that AFL, as in, A-F-L. The reason is because we call Rugby League and Rugby Union “Football” or “Footy”.
You don’t quite grasp the concept of linguistics, do you? Regional dialects? Accents? Language?
So let me get this straight – out there are grown men raping children, there’s racism and anti-Seminism running rampant, women and children being forced into brothels where they become sex slaves, people killing each other over things as stupid as what gender they prefer to date, and men beating their wives/girlfriends to death – and you whine about us using the word “Soccer”? Yep. Great priorities there, sport.
Very valid point, but come on guys. This fail thread is pissing me off. All this “Americans suck because I don’t live there”, “This is insignificant compared to the real problems of the world” and “zomgz how doth ye dare besmirch my favorite sport by renaming it” crap, take it elsewhere. It’s friggin failblog.org, it’s not supposed to be taken this seriously or spark any great debates. Thank you.
It seems that every time there is a fail that originated in the USA, my home, there is a world-wide cast of thousands poised and at the ready to slam us all. It makes me think of many things, like sour grapes- because others can’t enjoy the freedoms and opportunities which USAmericans live daily. We don’t have a millenia-long history on which to base our natonality or ethos, but we are truly a cultural melting pot, anyway. And is there a nation in the world that did not fuck things up once in a while?
Quit whining about football, and go eat some spotted dick, or faggots, or whatever.
You just got all upset that people were slamming the US and at the end you tried to do the same thing right back to them. It failed and still makes you seem hypocritical.
I am no better than the common man, anywhere. Language/dialect idiosyncrasies fail, not nationality fail.
I’m so envious of your special ‘freedoms and opportunities’. What are they again? Freedom to be put to death? Opportunity to be tortured?
Won’t you please come visit? It’s much nicer than the international media presents. People are mostly kind and friendly. We don’t all eat McDonald’s three times a day, nor do we all support current global policy. No one here will put you to death; no one here will torture you. Unless they take you to eat at McDonald’s.
Wow… just… wow… The reason we start these debates is not because we think you’re stupid, or weird, or anything like that. It’s because of the arrogance. I mean, “sour grapes- because others can’t enjoy the freedoms and opportunities which USAmericans live daily”. WTF? Do you seriously think that’s what our problem is? That we can’t be apart of the “land of the free and the home of the brave”? No, we could if we wanted to, we just choose not to. I live in Australia, and I’m not gonna say it’s the best country in the world, but it sure as hell is just as good as the USA, just as much freedom (in fact probably more), but that doesn’t mean the USA isn’t good either. And the UK, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, New Zealand, Italy, Greece, freaking China even I don’t care. It’s ALL good guys. Just, don’t go thinking you’re the best please, because it’ll just start all this hating…
Please show me where in this thread anybody claimed “we’re the best” without being provoked.
damn, you’re right! once i’m done with this comment, i’m going out to fix all those things before i continue fucking around on the internet.
Pompous Comment FAIL – ‘Soccer’ is a British derivation from ‘Association’ Football. See link above.
Yes, why use a word that is perfectly clear when an ambiguous one exists! Thanks, rest of the world, for being fucking stupid.
Strictly, it’s called Association Football. The name ’soccer’, which derives from ‘association’, originated in England.
thanks for the clarity
ITS SOCCER oh and FIRST
I don’t see why you are so upset for “the us” is making up words for things that already have words. Hmm lets see there are such things as different languages and dialects. Example french has the word Chat, I say Cat. Where I live most people say Pop, other areas say Soda etc. It is just the way the word is.
sorry, football was already being used…
HUMBLIGADIXT!
This is so photoshopped i’m ashamed to look at it…
This is actually a very old and very famous picture, and you are an idiot.
Nope, actually, this is in Adelphi, MD, adjacent to my old hometown.
And, just so all the Commonwealth folks complaining above are aware: this is posted at a cricket field.
:/ ?
pfffft!!!! —
“Message for you, sir.”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
YES!!
WIIIIIIN!
wow, it took me so long to get that one
i dont get it
i can’t remember what movie it was, might have been the holy grail, but i remember the scene. it’s pretty much how he said it.
actually, seeing as the post above is good sir robin, i am sure it’s MP & holy grail.
It is the Holy Grail, a dialog between Lancelot and his squire, when the latter takes an arrow with a message attached to it. I’ve tried to post links to the audio and the script of the scene, but they’ve not appeared here.
yeah, i’ve had trouble with links also. i think they screen out posts with links/ the word phoxtosxhopxed in them, and put the posts back in if they think the posts are fine. because i had one of my posts get put back up a couple of hours after it had failed.
I am from the U.S and I can not deny the overt stupidity and cattle like behavior of so many of it’s inhabitants. It’s as if they don’t know the rest of the world exists. This is especially obvious in the south. People seriously still drive around with Bush 2004 stickers on their cars, so i can’t deny what the non-U.S. folk think about the majority of the people here.
That said, I still call it soccer because I don’t want to have to explain which football I’m talking about.
You think Bush 2004 stickers are bad? Here in California, I’ve seen people still driving around with Gore 2000 stickers. I mean, really–he lost; get over it already and clean your god damned bumper once every few years.
Nah, I’m from the South – we still have “Vote for Ike” on most of jalopies!
first, next is gay
second, previous was retarded
lol that was awesome WEOPRIU
If WEOPRIU isn’t at least an honorable mention in the upcoming “Burn Of The Week” post, I don’t understand this site.
totally.
WIN!
to the previous 6….a BIG WIN to you…now we’re back to the failblog i know & love!! thanks….(i had to read that far to get back to the guts of the REAL failblog…comment lose to all who forgot what THIS is about!!-and THANKS to those who remember!!)
NOW GET BACK THERE AND HAVE FUN FOR CRIPES SAKES!!
Not a fail… The players need a field and the archers need targets…. totally works out.
Efficient use of facilities WIN. Just don’t go for the bowling at the rifle range trick. Or water polo in the shark tank.
water polo is fun, but why do so many horses have to drown?
i am so surprised that nobody has said what an obvious photoshop this is
that’s really odd
yeah, it did that to me too, i ended up triple posting a “bend over” joke- i had even left the site for a few minutes then came back, and my post still wasn’t there, so i figured it had been filtered…
i am so surprised that nobody has said what an obvious edited picture this is
and by the way, failblog eats all of my comments with the word
phxotoxshoxpped
It’s a start.
At least it’s fighting back.
yes, but when the picture is like this one? i mean, come on, no one makes signs with the words spaced out like that.
of course, you have traveled aalllll over the world
no, i haven’t, and i would accept it if it even looked anything like it was supposed to be like that, but the ends of the outside words don’t even touch the edges of the sign.
also, if that was all that would be on there, it would have been a smaller sign without the idiotic attempt at spacing.
Because everybody knows the best way to create a sign that gets people’s attention is to make it as small as possible.
anyways, the nature of that message would warrant a temporary sign made of cardboard or poster board, not one made of metal.
Who said the nature of the message on the sign was temporary?
the point is, it doesn’t have to be an edited photo, there are a number of possibilities-
)
it could be a small town, they don’t have a whole department of parks and recreation, and it’s one person’s job to do many things including having signs made, and that may be a low priority
the sign may have been done with stick on lettering, and maybe it said nothing like this in the beginning, but someone rearranged the letters for the humorous effect (i do that at work from time to time with our magnetic board that usually says “welcome to [the company]“- can get a few interesting words like enema, weasel, competence… I work nights, not much to do
Soccer players should be shot with arrows.
Soccer topic! back off nerds of the “CNN Fail” topic!
Wow. Just.. wow on SO many levels.
video lol
Well, that *would* help weed out the wanna-be’s from those that have real talent!
Photoshopfail.
Indeed.
The Cs are the worst in that they aren’t even slanted like the rest of the letters.
i really didn’t notice that. i wonder if that means they were left there by the editer…
“Soccer is a communist sport. They play it in Cuba.” Or some say.
So I can see why the anti-communism people would do that.
Actually, I believe the most popular sport in Cuba is baseball.
Well to fit the sign they’d space out the lettering. And it’s true, flying arrows do make better soccer players. And, moving targets make better archers. Combine the two and we’ll destroy China in the Olympics!!!
And MLS sucks. Soccer is really only good to watch when it’s like the world players. Now Hockey that’s a sport. Fuck Golf.
Hockey pwns all other sports, in fact, it is the only sport
The only sport I believe in is hunting.
Though not all players know their playing.
=D
Y’know, I would have loved to see a video version of this particular fail.
You know there’s trouble for soccer in America when we are encouraging archery practice.
…wow
Okay, here’s where we apply this whole Darwin Award thing.
If you’re stupid enough to be playing soccer out there, you deserve to have yourself (and your future offspring) removed from the gene pool.
… preferably by bow and arrow.
Extreme Soccer WIN!
FAIL
Where can I get this sign?
jpg artifacts= fake fail
so fail..
Not a fail… keep soccer players in the archery range
might pop your bloody ball
Moving target practice win?
Immigration policy…WIN?
Photoshop FAIL. Look at all the big spaces between the letters, and look at all the small “a’s” and “n’s” the all look thicker than the other letters.
not in traffic?
That would be a great way to get rid of all the illegal mexicans here in sc
That would be a great way to get rid of all the illegal mexicans here in sc they take up the entire road parking on the weekends
i call it a win
There must be a sign saying “Danger – Archery range – Follow the arrows”
Fail? More like humanity WIN. Soccer sucks!
An opposing team put up that sign to get rid of the opposition. Nice thinking ^_^.
Really? I thought it was photoshopped…
Opposing team WIN!
I don’t know… I still think it’s photoshopped… it’s still funny, though!
OmG! EvilFlyingPotato! Total name win!
Thanx!!!! XD
Whoops… 4got 2 press reply… oh well!
soccer is dangerous enough!