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FIRST!!!
Fake First!
DON’T TAZE ME BRO!!
He shoulda’ bought that thing dinner first
wtf
First fail.
Im not gona taze you im gona SMITE YOU BRO!
think ill make a pyramid :O
yup
i think im doing it right now
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its awesome isnt it?
but uploading a comment takes so long
oh
well
no
but i might taze you
May I ask a question, seriously?
What in the world does PWN mean? Or to be Pwned? Is it pronounced “Pawn?” Or “Poon?” (Like your mother).
Serious replies, please. Others, please save your breath for your inflatable dates.
Dude, seriously, if you haven’t figured out Google yet you are too young even for an inflatable date.
pwned=owned. It originated from at typo I believe. Anyway for more info google pwned. ^_^
Back in the day during a Counterstrike (I think) tournament the guy went to type “You got Owned/I own you” or something to that degree and because O and P are next to each other he hit the wrong button. It quickly spread like a wild fire, and a new word was formed.
It was a mistake by Blizzard in one of their Warcraft games, I’m pretty sure.
I’ve also heard of it referred to as meaning “Perfectly Owned,” condensing it down to just P for “perfectly” before the “owned,” creating “powned,” and further shortened to “pwned.” Just another option.
TL;DR ahead.
The original word is Own, as in, you are the ownage, you own people, you own a game. Then someone came up with the term Power Ownage for someone who gets owned so badly that the ownage seems super powerful, or some shit. People got lazy and it was shortened to pwnage.
Explanation Overkill.
Still one missing!
From Counterstrike days (beta.1) Pawned was the originalterm, like the chess move to bait an oponent with a pawn and take him out.
That’s what I’ve heard it was.
Lots of conflicting stories, but in the end who cares where it
comes from. No one answered the other question though, and
one I’m curious about too: how the hell do you pronounce it?
I hear most people pronounce the P… but it sounds retarded.
I usually just pronounce it “owned” and go with the theory that
it was a typo.
explanation – FAIL :=]
“The only reason for giving multiple explanations is,
searching for the one they want to hear” (House MD, I think)
holy schrap! we are being distracted from the fact that hes like ” ok… load… close*STOMACH THRU MOUF*” and then his buddies are like
oh
that probably hurt
sucks fer u
my friend created a club called team pwnage, wth?(that’s why i have limited his hanging out time) and he refers to it as power ownage, while i still say, as it is more commonly found in games just ownage with p(ee).
ok first of all… “pwned” is not pronounced “poned” it is pronounced ” owned”
if u think other wise u are a complete noob adn need to gtfo my internets kthxbai. learn to watch purepwnage before u all embarass urselves
It’s pronounced “powned”, if you call it owned it is a completely different word… if it was supposed to be pronounced as “owned”, the word would have never ben created.
You don’t need an IQ of 9.9repeated X 10eInfinity
to figure that out.
you know ur cool when…
In general I do not visit chat rooms but I was following up on the soldier (Korean?) being flattened by the recoil of the small howetzer. From my perspective the “dude” who dissed you lives in a very small world for small minds. here is the information I found on pwnd. It just goes to show you how simple minded people can get caught up in a misspelled word and make a great deal of use and ingnorant fuss over it; thus goes the English Language. You think, or not, therefore you are
pwnd 627 up, 136 down
A variation of the word “owned”. The only reason that this word came about was because of a typo, and given that P and O are right next to each other. It has nothing to do with combining words or anything of the sort. It is rumored to have come about from an early Warcraft3 map, in which the creator meant to have a trigger say “Player X got ownd”, trying to use the “1337speak” variation of “owned”, but hit P instead of O, thus giving birth to “pwnd”.
You have been pwnd. Etc…
by Viper2026 Nov 18, 2004 email it 0 comments
3. pwnd 228 up, 69 down
A word which gamers use to indicate that someone was brutally beaten in a video game, and thus humiliated. Also known as owned, but misspelled and mass-spread. Basically the next level of “owned”
I’m sorry, but it seems you were just royally pwnd. Would you like another glass of pwnage, sir? Or would you rather hand someone else the controller…
seems a bit silly to speak with such authority about a word’s origins in rumor…
Congratulations, you are the absolute authority on something no one really cares about. I’ve heard people ask what pwned is in passing, but they didn’t really give a damn and they usually settle for a simple answer “It’s slang”
Seriously, why would you spend so much effort on such a trivial matter? If you often behave this way then you might need to think about seeking professional help for obsessive compulsive disorder, because that *points to Tom’s post above* seriously screams “I can’t stop being an anal douche bag!”
Maybe some people care about the origins of things.
Who knows, with that kind of attitude, maybe your “father” isn’t really your father, and you’ll never know about it.
Except this is not the forum for the discussion of the origins of “pwned.”
Please keep the internet organized.
Yes, please keep the internet organized.
It’s confusing enough as it is…
PWNED!
it’s pronounced POON or POWN, and its the same meaning of OWNED but more intense.
by saying ‘may i ask a question, seiously’… that is a question by it’s self and there for that should be your only question because these are comments not a conversation but even in a conversation you don’t ask to ask a question.
First. Fail to these OOO IM FIRST PEOPLE! they prolly go to bars and are like..
hahahahah
“HEaaaayyyyyyyy babbbbby….. Blow me i was first to comment”
Second. HIGHLARIOUS.
Does it Honestly matter to be first?
Everyone else is ghey from now on
ORLY? Hmm, you seem to have commented after this comment so does that mean you are too?
Well, he did say everyone >else< was gay.
Oh snap
ROFL LMAO LOL
Why so sex?
If you magically turned everyone else “ghey from now on” you would never get laid again, except, of course, by the same sex as yourself (assuming male).
Your statement is overreaching and encompasses the entire population of earth from July 28th, 2008 at 10:05 am until the end of time. I hope you enjoyed wiping out the human race.
Best burn ever…. pwned
Awesome! Comment WIN by Burn
…but there’s always artificial insemination.
Actually.. There’s nothing I’d like more than to wipe out the entire human race. So, by being stupid, I would accomplish what I actually set out to accomplish. Funny how THAT works out.
last i checked people’s genitals didn’t spontaneously combust and melt off if they had sex with someone outside of their preference.
at least according to prison and HBO.
but there may be a boom in children fathered by Clay Aiken and David Crosby and really isn’t that worse.
Wait, Clay Aiken has a child fathered by David Crosby? How did Best Week Ever miss THAT one?
Good lord.
thats the burn of the week right there.
Holy shit.
That had to hurt like hell.
No, he probably meant for that to happen.
So apparently this is your way of coming out to the FailBlog community since you now appear after your lovely “ghey” message. Consider us all allies.
LOLz ….
It’s touching to see such supportive sentiments.
tadderdemalion outed himself a few fails before^^
Tadderdemalion is a fail.
i doubt it, if the shell exploded while his hand was still up there as it appears then he would have 1st degree burns on his hand, if he still even had a hand
You don’t have sarcasm on your planet do you?
Thank you…
yeah, i was there. it’s an advanced move.
I LOLz {-}
OW! OW! OWEE!!!
Really? Think about the guys IN FRONT of the cannon!
Wow, the other soldiers seem awful blase’ that their companion there probably has internal injuries and broken ribs.
I mean jeez, the guy basically flew backwards folded partly in half.
yeah, i don’t get it
you don’t even hear the fellow behind the camera make any reaction
probably had all the wind knocked out of him.
lo, that’s what I get for reading to fast.
Reading comprehension fail on me.
Maybe they don’t react bacause they knew what will happen to this guy XD
Tense fail.
Maybe they had it planned.
“Dood, we are totally gonna haze the new guy. Make sure you stay on the sideline.”
Welcome to Communism.
Well, due to the noise he may not have noticed at the start, and he may well have walked away because someone told him to get a medic. Although granted, he does seem to be going about it pretty slowly, if that is what he is doing.
FAKE! No one reacted!
No one reacted because they know the soldier was loading the cannon wrong, and they expected that to happen.
What’s even worse is that if they did know an epic fail was about to happen…they let it happen.
They even filmed it… It’s a newbie ritual I think
they probably knew he was loading it wrong, but since it’s the army, it’s their duty to let him face the consequences, so he will “learn”.. pretty harsh but that’s the way they do it
If that’s the case, then that’s stupid. Whatever happened to teamwork?
it may happen often enough that they know that, while painful, it’s not likely to cause permanent injury, and experience is the best teacher… just a guess, any experts on the subject? (experts on the subject of getting knocked off your feet by artillery, not in learning by painful experience, I know plenty about that myself)
but who can deny, it made an impression on him
n/m, see Red Leg’s comment below
Not fake. When weapons this size go off you get a second or two of very minor “shell shock” if you will. The air pressure changes in an instant and you get a rush of air up the nose, a sound wave blast that jolts you all over a bit, and even with ear plugs, they are loud as… well, as a bad word I won’t type. I was never able to not blink myself.
My theory is they have been firing for a while with no problems, then suddenly after a shot someone was missing. It took them a few seconds to even realize the loader went for a ride.
I used to fire howitzers and never experienced this “shell shock” you speak of.
My theory for this is it’s a ceremony which is why they are at attention after it goes off. Any experienced gun bunny knows after you fire your swabbing the bore and ensuring there are no obstructions in said bore. Or I could be
completely wrong. I’m not sure since that’s not a howitzer currently in service by the us army. maybe they’re just stupid.
Let me let you in on something about the military, sparky. If you hurt yourself loading a weapon, they let you suffer. If you Get injured, they’re trained not to give a shit. This kind of crap happens ALL THE TIME in the army. Get your facts straight before you say that something is fake. Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t mean that ITS NOT REAL. That would be like you saying that someone who had a hair color you didn’t like wasn’t a real person.
Strange. None of the other soldiers really cares about him. Poor guy.
maybe he’s an ass hat.
It’s the new way to frag!
Favourite insult win
Probably broke a rib…that must have hurt.
What a shame… He left the helmet fall!
Revolution against FIRSTness FAIL
I dun think it hurt that much QQ
OH…C’MON….IT WAS OW! OW! OWEE!!! FOR SURE!!
Ummm, none of them moved because they were At Attention. and no, that wasn’t meant to happen.
Cannon: GREAT SUCCESS
Loader: FAIL
Sure they moved! (a) It was in slow motion (b) When the camera turns back to the gun there’s no-one around it.
Maybe a few broken ribs, and internal damage?
PWNED!
That had to hurt… But seriously, who is stupid enough to stand directly behind a loaded cannon. Ever heard of recoil?
From what I can tell, the shell got lodged, and when he tried to shove it all the way in, it ended up firing.
Fake, he literally flew. That cannot happen in real life.
Have you ever been hit with something like that…? It can happen in real life. I flew 3 feet when I got hit by a runner coming into home during a friendly softball game. I ended up at the fence. And you’re saying a shell that size, with that much force behind it, couldn’t make him fly backwards? Okay.
Baris, you are a moron. Your comprehension of physics is nil.
duh, people can’t fly. ner.
I wouldn’t say Baris is a moron, he just hasn’t served in the Field Artillery.
The 155mm howitzers can and absolutely have killed the soldiers operating them, both in training and in combat. The most common scenario is the soldier in the #1 position tripping while pulling the lanyard.
It’s been a few years, but I believe the 155mm’s barrel alone is over a ton. It’s tossing a 97.5 Lb round at a muzzle velocity of 1,100 meters per second. When I first fired one I was amazed at how fast the entire mechanism pops back. In a fraction of a second, a lot of steel has moved about a yard. Anything in its way has had a very bad day.
Fortunately for this guy, it appears (at my best guess) that he’s in the German Army operating a much smaller 88mm howitzer. It doesn’t appear that anyone did anything wrong. I’m guessing the firing mechanism failed, or they had a sensitive primer that wasn’t properly seated in the casing in manufacturing. Hopefully he’ll get out of this one with only a few broken ribs.
As far as the debate, nothing in my 4 years of Field Artillery service suggest that this is fake. What I’m seeing is in accordance with everything I’ve seen and heard of with respect to what happens if you end up too close to the breach when one of these goes off.
What Red Leg said, guys!
Red Leg has a explanation WIN. He also has a service to his country WIN.
^_^
WilliamCA
Redleg, thank you for saving me the time of explaining this. I was stationed in Ft Stewart, GA in 3/41 FA when it was still the 24th ID. Although I was in SVC Btty, as an NBC NCO, I learned quite a bit from my 13B brothers. Definitely explanation WIN!!!
*applauds*
I so want to pick your brain now.
totally ^__^
You can pick his brain, and you can pick his nose, but you can’t pick his brain’s nose.
mature post (for a change, around here) win
I can tell you they’re not bundephere (German soldiers) I agree it’s not fake and that guy probably had one heck of a black and blue stomach. I only did 2 years FA before relassing to an MP. But Redleg is hitting all the right answers.
Not the German army. My guess is Taiwan.
Great explanation! I don’t think they’re German, though. Notice that they all have black hair and have thin, lanky builds. I’m thinking they’re probably from somewhere in Asia–probably one of the Koreas. Definitely not US because of the inconsistencies in the camouflage.
WIN, This is in total comprehension with the momentum law.
Yes, it can happen in real life. Did you know that if you put rock salt in a shot gun, and hit someone at point blank range, they will go flying back a few feet or so? Now, that cannon is HUNDREDS of times stronger than a shot gun. It can send people flying backwards with just the RECOIL. Learn your facts about weapon physics.
He’s wearing a bullet proof vest, which would have provided some protection. Lots of bruises, sure, probably nothing broken, though. And he did load it wrong. I can just imagine the chewing out he got….
It appears to be a flack vest, which are hardly bullet proof, but would help to disperse the energy of the blow some.
I didn’t see anything wrong with the loading, what are you seeing? On the 105s we were taught to use a closed fist (with no rings on fingers) to load the rounds so as minimize any risk of hitting the primer. He uses his fingers, but other than that, what are you seeing wrong with the loading?
I don’t know where they put the firing lever on 88s, but they sure as hell wouldn’t put them on the breach. His hands never left the breach, so he didn’t fire it. No one else was close enough to fire it. Maybe they failed to maintain the howitzer properly the last time it was cleaned. Looks like a tragic accident to me.
What am I missing here? Any fellow gun bunnies out there?
You’re not supposed to stand directly behind the gun while loading it. If you load it while standing there and there’s a misfire, you’re in for a lot of pain.
I understand your civilian reasoning, but I have to correct you.
Maybe on something as small as an 88 you could load from the side, but I seriously doubt it. On a 105mm, not that much larger than this one, you absolutely load it from directly behind the breach. It’s called “separate loading.”
The casing is filled with powder charges connected by a small rope. The round is completely separate from the casing, hence the name. You walk up to the already open breach holding the round in your left hand, and press it against the casing in your right hand. You shove the two in, close the breach (specifically, a block breach just like the one in this film).
You then back up to the left, put your hands over your ears because the shit is louder than it is fast, and repeat the process until the fire order is complete.
If you can consistently load a 35Lb round, separate from its casing filled with powder charges, without being behind the breach during a “Battalion—3, time-on-target mission” (only seconds between firings), I need you post your email so I can get the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Field Artillery School in Ft. Sill, OK in touch with you. You possess knowledge of a loading procedure they need to become aware of and implement in their training.
“I understand your civilian reasoning”
Haha.
You suck.
Sorry Nwabby. You’ll have to repeat that. I was having phone sex with your mother and missed what you were saying.
Red Leg, quit using my square purple exploding grenade symbol, or I’ll have Nwabby’s mother make a house call. She’s got a sexy voice, but that’s where it ends.
I heart you for your ‘civilian reasoning’ phrase.
I held that civilian reasoning as well, but I’m not about to argue with someone who has empirical knowledge of field artillery. And thank you for serving our country.
The gun is a 57mm/6pdr Anti-Tank gun used by both the US and UK in World War II. It’s been out of service with pretty much everyone for 20+ years, except for parades and ceremonial duties apparently. We (the US Army) use a lot of 75mm Pack Howitzers for that purpose, because we have a butt-load of them around and they are pretty easy to maintain. (Nobody, even the Germans, has used 88mm cannons since 1945.)
The whole deal looks ceremonial, and the way the loader fumbles the cartridge I’m guessing he doesn’t do it very often. The rest of the crew is locked at “attention” and were probably wondering if they should stay that way or help him (voice-of-experience).
The soldiers look Asian (someone mentioned Taiwan and another Korea…which could only be SOUTH Korea, since the Norks don’t use surplus US equipment). The gun malfunctioned, since they aren’t supposed to do that. The fact that the loader is standing behind it means he really doesn’t know what he’s doing, since we were always taught not to put your body behind the gun in case…well, in case THAT happens!
I doesn’t look to me like he was seriously injured, but his buddies will make sure the pain lasts and lasts.
I have a feeling someone learned a big lesson!
His FAIL is a WIN for all future loaders.
What caught my eye was how slowly he gets thrown back by the much quicker action of the recoil. I downloaded the video and did a frame-by-frame advance in QuickTime. He’s actually just getting chipped by the tail end of the recoil action, and then stumbling backwards (you can see him putting his left foot back) from a hard punch to the stomach. There wouldn’t be any life ending injuries from that. It probably would have been life-ending if he had been 6 inches closer…
i stopped reading at frame-by-frame. you fail.
I stopped reading at, “i stopped reading….[sic]”
You fail at fail.
you fail at being nice.
This is not a ‘cannon fail’.
Cannon seems to work fine.
I lol’d
hello!
oh! god damn…that really must’ve hurt like hell!
i feel bad 4 that guy…
Jebus, was the dude OK?
Yes – he is ok.
Shouldn’t your name be “Jebubs”?
Not a fail, those aren’t ants, they’re highly venomous spiders. He was right to run away.
Cannon says: no children for you!
Chest cavity fail!
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
..friend of our family died this way.
eenf. awkward…
still a painful video nonetheless.
How long until artillery becomes auto-loading?
I HAVE FLEAS!
my cat slept on my head last night!
I couldnt imagine that people could fail so hard at sleep
Best. Response. Ever.
I think we need to save this for future generations. You totally win at life now, your enemies will fear your flea-transferring abilities.
Ouch. Pet care fail. Poor kitty.
No marks against the cat sleeping on your head, btw. I’ve woken up with a face full of fluff more times than I can count. Human ownership win!
flea prevention fail.
U can bet, that if they are on ur cat, and ur head, they are all over ur house too.
easy problem to fix. fix it.
A friend of mine has that as his signature.
Ouch! Loader FAIL, but at least a WIN for Physics!
Physics always wins. Precise reason why there is so much fail.
I knew a guy who was a cannon crewman at Ford Ord years ago… he pretends now that he was a Green Beret (good thing he never ran into anyone who asked for a coin check). I can see him doing something like this. Hell, he blew off his own eyebrows with a homemade mortar by looking down the barrel when it didn’t go off right away. bahahahahaha
Bob, have you forgot to put on the handbrake AGAIN?
Fail at Failing. Video deleted.
Whats the bigger fail, the guy nearly killing himself or his squad mates who stand around going DURRRR…
what was i supposed to do, i’m not batman!
then what are you, bateman?
Not fake. High-powered rifle rounds can make grass ripple just from the shockwave, and if you’re not careful or you’re stupid about it, even low-powered rifles can give you a nasty bruise from the recoil. There is certainly enough force present to send somebody off their feet. I can’t imagine how much it would stun a person to fire shells that big, so I’m not surprised nobody reacted right away. I don’t think the other people even really realized exactly what happened when the loader must have looked like he vanished.
Yep, definitively an artillery shell fail. My bro worked alongside an artillery unit for a while and showed me a lot of stuff.
The loader should have stood off to the side. My guess is that the round cooked off somehow as he did not have time to insert the primer.
very fail…fail soldier
zzzzzzzzzz
I was there. The guy stood too close to the canon when it fired. He got hurt.
I was there too. And he did get hurt by standing to close to the canon when it fired!
I was there too, and I remember both of you guys! Wasn’t that crazy when the guy got hurt by standing close to the canon?
Yes, those Canons are dangerous. That’s why I buy Kodak.
NICE BURN!
Cannon:
v.
Canon:
Yes, canons are dangerous. They inspire people to all sorts of crazy things. Like Biblical Literalism, for example.
You’re spelling is dangerous. Learn how to spell cannon please or get out, or at least go to school.
Wow. I hope this wasn’t serious. It’s one thing to mix up more complex rules in grammar and spelling, but to fault on a simple rule while you’re lecturing someone? Tsk-tsk.
They were referring to cameras and religious canons. Canon. It’s not spelled incorrectly. I know it seems impossible, but some words may be spelled in different ways. When they’re spelled differently, sometimes they even mean different things.
For instance, “you’re” is a contraction of “you are.” “Your” is a possessive pronoun referring to another person’s ownership of something. For example:
“YOU’RE obviously not thinking before making corrections.”
“Maybe you should check YOUR own sentences.”
In soviet Russia, Cannon fires you
Finally…
This comment is made of win… soviet WIN!
Serious question.
How do you add a icon to your post?
Sucks to be him.
…..owned…….
Which idiot army is this? It’s like they just got this gun on the black market and forgot to get the manual that comes with it so they are just sort of figuring it out on their own… wow.
I imagine there is supposed to be some sort of long stick you are to use in place of your arm to avoid getting a battering ram effect in your torso.
Recoil win!
Someone forgot to give this guy the memo that cannons were firing backwards.
Was that a crotch shot or did he break a rib?
shouldnt there be a trigger on that cannon. repititious load and immediate fire is a definate fail. an activating trigger saves so many lives compared to these types of cannons.
obviously the nervousness of the loader was desperate in attempt to load quickly in the event of a slip.
and what about fail safes and delays. at least these cannons should have a 1 second to 3 seconds delay when loaded.
the cannon fails, but so does the loader.
Not a cannon, a rifle, though often called a gun.
TRAINING anyone?
Really, someone should told this guy.
Did he live?
BE ALL THAT YOU CAN BE!
do you have ADD?
9 out of ten people with ADD … oh look, a butterfly
The way he practically left the ground and his helmet at the same time… Tom and Jerry couldn’t do comical violence that good…
This is a small piece, I’m guessing a (surplus) 75mm anti-tank gun. The shell seems to be all one piece, which means a brass casing containing the primer, firing charge and round. My guess is that the n00b didn’t shove the shell as far into the piece as he should have, and when he closed the breech, the firing pin hit the back of the shell and set it off. Major league ouchie. I’m no gun-bunny (great term, btw)(and thanks guys, for serving!) but this is my guess.
I like how the guy just walks casually over to help his friend who has been shot back into the stone wall. Doo dee doo do… >:3
Bullshit, that was all photoshopped.
Umm, yeah. Photoshopped at 60 pictures per second perfectly. I think you need more than a camera on a phone to do that.
remember, sarcasm on the Internet is always FAIL.
When cannons attack.
That’s how they do it in the Polish army anyway.
You have to be older then 12 to remember when pwn’d became a word, just like pron.
Parents were complaining that games were too violent and that people were not doing enough to filter language and violence in games. Companies listened and filters were created. People found ways around them, but it wasn’t just in games, it was also in chat programs, etcetera.
Pwn’d, however, came from games. Parents didn’t like their kids getting owned, thus the filter was created. You could not say owned. To get around this restriction, we typed pwn’d. The rest of the world started using it because it was fun at the time. Now it’s a remnant of days long ago.
I don’t care where other people got their use of it, but I remember where it got started (or I should say when, because I am sure I was not alone and definitely not the first).
surprise armament secks
lol
helmet fail
Groinshot!
as the other guys are just like “lol. W/e”
Those crazy Asians!
that artillery cannon really blew him away!
Think that is fail? How about the GI who found a Japanese “Knee mortar” and tried to fire it…from his knee? Ouch ouch ouch DAMMIT!
EDW Cardinals Thbodaux LA
CANNON WIN
CANNONEER FAIL!
cannons always beat the humans.
That probably shattered his pelvis like glass
They can bury that guy in the tomb of the unskilled soldier
and thats hoy you get rock hard abs!