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  1. Varfter says:

    Thats hot xD

  2. Slaxx says:

    lol is that russian?

  3. dai says:

    kettle fail!

  4. ButhedaBunzai says:

    Very interesting.

    • ButhedaBunzai says:

      Though.. taking the time to put it onto a hose would have been easier.

      • daweefolkX says:

        Who does things the easy way nowadays?

      • Kurt says:

        You mean running a hose from the faucet to the coffe pot I assume? Yes that would have worked better, but does it look like whoever did this had a long list of options on how to make this work?

  5. ButhedaBunzai says:

    It’s not fun failing at communication alone.-

  6. Siberias says:

    You think if that they could afford a kettle, then they could afford some hot water in the long run but noooooo.

  7. ButhedaBunzai says:

    *sigh* This might bring em out.

    I was first, and second.

  8. john says:

    brilliant..

  9. Knight who say niii says:

    if it works, its a win… The Incredible Machine style.

  10. melak says:

    WTF is this??? :)

  11. sam says:

    WIN for the macgyver solution!

  12. Anon says:

    Gosh, that’s clever!

  13. CryGirl says:

    this picture comes from polish students hostel ;) Saw it before ;]

  14. Lol says:

    Not Hot Water Fail. Ingenuity win ;)

    • Nwabby says:

      Using a coffee maker as a hot water tap is not a win.
      Having a hot water tap and a coffee maker, that’s win. Or, at least, not a fail.

      • Mr Dino says:

        object recognition fail!! its an electric kettle ~ water boiling machine dat will boil water to 100 degree Celcius!! ^___^

        • Nimmirraj says:

          Water boils at 100C. Basic chemistry fail.

          • Mr Dino says:

            dats wat i said.. really.. but if u add some salt… it will go even higher… ^___^

            • BeAnonymous says:

              I’m just saying…. but seriously, you didn’t say that, at all. You said “water boiling machine dat will boil water to 100 degree Celcius”. I seriously doubt that that means what Nimmirraj said. Water boils at 100 degrees Celcius. You can’t boil water below that temperature; like he said, it’s basic chemistry. So yeah. You fail right there for trying to cover up your mistake.

              Oh, and since I love to be the Grammar Police, really, do you need to say “dat” instead of “that”? I mean, seriously, it’s only an extra letter, and it makes you sound smarter. It’s only like, I don’t know – both ‘t’ and ‘h’ are two keys away from ‘d’. Because “that” is better than “dat” in the long run. What if you had like, an essay? Would you be typing down “dat”? I doubt it – you’d fail. Utterly.

              ….Okay, I’m typing a wall of text. I’ll stop now.

              Oh, yeah. Hot water system Fail, Ingenuity Win!

              • Malfeasant says:

                physics fail- in Fraser, Colorado, water boils at 195˚F or for you metric nazis, 90.5 C

                labor under the pretense that you are lecturing this guy on physics, but all you’re really doing is nitpicking his grammar, he says boil to 100C, you think it doesn’t boil _until_ it reaches 100C, but i heard what he meant

            • kannadzuki says:

              I’m not sure why I’m breaking my silence to ask, but why (and how) would they add salt to the water???
              btw I agree w/ a lot of people here. NO FAIL. Ingenuity WIN. Hot water fail would be some kind of claim of hot water when there isn’t any or it doesn’t work (come to think of it, like many of the public restroom faucets I see here in Japan).
              Laughing at people just because they don’t have money to buy things we take for granted is stupid.

              • Malfeasant says:

                i nominate kannadzuki for burn of the week

              • g dubya says:

                “I’m just saying…. but seriously, you didn’t say that, at all. You said “water boiling machine dat will boil water to 100 degree Celcius”. I seriously doubt that that means what Nimmirraj said. Water boils at 100 degrees Celcius. You can’t boil water below that temperature; like he said, it’s basic chemistry. So yeah. You fail right there for trying to cover up your mistake.

                Oh, and since I love to be the Grammar Police, really, do you need to say “dat” instead of “that”? I mean, seriously, it’s only an extra letter, and it makes you sound smarter. It’s only like, I don’t know – both ‘t’ and ‘h’ are two keys away from ‘d’. Because “that” is better than “dat” in the long run. What if you had like, an essay? Would you be typing down “dat”? I doubt it – you’d fail. Utterly.

                ….Okay, I’m typing a wall of text. I’ll stop now.

                Oh, yeah. Hot water system Fail, Ingenuity Win!”

                If you must speak, I have a few minor “quibbles” with your grammar. You can’t put ……. and then a comma. “So yeah” is not a correct sentence. And it should be “I doubt it, you’d fail utterly.” Grammar fail!

                • T says:

                  CHEMISTRY FAIL

                  Water boils in relation to pressure, not temperature. Water boils at 100 degrees celcius AT SEA LEVEL. The higher you are, the lower the air pressure, and the lower the boiling point.

                  • Malfeasant says:

                    logic fail, water boils in relation to pressure AND temperature- if it was pressure NOT temperature, then heat wouldn’t work at all, you’d need a vacuum pump to boil water

                    • :-/ says:

                      PV=nRT FTW

                      If I increase the pressure without increasing the temperature, water will still boil. Not exactly a fail, more of a botch on both of your parts.

                • jinx says:

                  well at least (s)he believes his/her time to be valuable enough to skip one mere keystroke. and that caused you to type… how many keystrokes, in response to the one keystroke?

                  humility fail

                  seriously? “so yeah” is not a correct sentence? wow teach us more!

    • teh_n1gz says:

      stole my words

  15. anonym(jew)an says:

    totaly an invention and creativity win

  16. Anon says:

    Redneck engineering win!

  17. Mike says:

    Ghetto engineering win!

  18. Deadclown says:

    Hey! Who stole my setup!?

  19. weaseljem says:

    that is brilliant. not a fail at all, except maybe on the part of the landlord…

  20. Al says:

    It looks a little dangerous.
    Darwin Award win?

  21. nignog says:

    I wonder what the set up is for the shower @_@

    • Carleylyn says:

      XDDDDDDDD
      well you see they obviously duct-taped an element from an electric stove to the shower head, leaving a bunch of wires exposed for good measure.

  22. epicfailguy says:

    LOLZ, this is older than teh internetz :p

  23. Buttnuggets Galore says:

    Look at the rest of that dump.
    LIFE FAIL.

  24. xenu says:

    MacGyver WIN

    • Smalls says:

      Yes, and he’s going to use the hot water, the sponge, and the chemicals from those two bottles to build a nuclear reactor.

      • Karen says:

        …to escape from that basement!

        • johnnyboy says:

          Then, he’ll take two aspirin and a paperclip and build a time machine, go back into the past and prevent the whole mess, thereby creating a time paradox! Aughlabljaglughbluauaghl!!!!!!11!!!one

  25. miketysonsgoldtooth says:

    Rube Goldberg win.

  26. flingthecow says:

    AWEsome hot water tap.

  27. Dropt says:

    Failosaurus FAIL
    Human survival system WIN

  28. Bad Luck Guy says:

    Won’t you get shocked if you try to use it?
    The heating element is usually not isolated you know.

    • Malfeasant says:

      understanding of electricity fail- the path of least resistance is still the heating element- water will conduct, but metal conducts even better

      • FC says:

        1st Grade Physics fail…

        • jinx says:

          wow i knew our education system was bad, but i sure didn’t study physics in 1st grade!

          • Malfeasant says:

            funny thing is, I did- they didn’t call it physics, they called it batteries & bulbs, we wired up simple circuits, learned about parallel vs series circuits, we played with wiring up multiple switches too, so in a way a beginning of boolean logic…

      • Cloral says:

        Let me guess – you apply the same logic when you take the hair dryer into the bath with you. “But the electricity will just go back up the other wire and won’t shock me!”

        • Malfeasant says:

          the difference is the kettle is made to contain water while the power is on, a hair dryer is not- in the hair dryer, the nichrome wires are exposed, you can see how fine they are when they glow red hot. kettles, like an electric stove, use calrod- nichrome wire encased in ceramic, further encased in metal, which is grounded, or at least connected to neutral.

          ok, so i had to look it up to explain the gut feeling i had beforehand, but i’m still right :P

          anywho, the reason you can electrocute yourself in bath or shower is not solely because of the electrical device, but because of the plumbing providing an additional path to ground. if you had all pvc plumbing (which you can do for drain of course, but i’m not sure for supply (dammit jim, i’m a doctor not a plumber), but even so, in a bath your supply is not submerged in the water, but i digress) you could sit in your tub with a toaster with no ill effects… at least not to you, the toaster wouldn’t ever be the same again…

        • Biji says:

          It’s the salt from your body that makes the water such a great conductor.
          Don’t you watch Mythbusters? =S

          • Malfeasant says:

            while true that pure water is a rather poor conductor, i doubt the water from that tap is anything approaching pure

  29. Gabriel says:

    He could just boil water on the stove…

  30. Mao says:

    I think that’s a hot water win o _o

  31. Elvin says:

    Now…how does he get cold water? :P

  32. KRIS says:

    it is a flow-through hot water system, btw welcome to Poland! Chemicals are from the left: Ludwik (eng. Louis) – dishwashing liquid you can buy everywhere in Poland, and Dosia – cheap dishwashing powder. And the whole system is a WIN!

  33. mlm says:

    totally a win. think of the time and braincells it took to come up with a setup like that as opposed to calling the landlord and getting screwed out of a hundred bucks or more.

    altho i have to wonder. . . how do they shower or bathe??

  34. dorado says:

    clever ;)

  35. Don says:

    Thats actually pretty clever.

  36. Fegli says:

    Inventive win.

  37. Mephiles says:

    It’s actually quite clever if you can’t afford a hot water tank.

  38. Avis says:

    Neccessity is the mother of invention they say. I’d say this person did pretty well all things considered. There is no way you could get ME to use it, but still, pretty ingenious.

  39. Sharl says:

    MacGuyver win.

  40. amy says:

    Electrocution hazard WIN!

  41. Muhammad The Camel Guy says:

    Meth lab fail.

    Not really, but thinking that make me laugh, so I thought I’d share.

  42. Colinski says:

    I’m failing to see the fail here. If this setup produces hot water, how could it be a “hot water fail”? That’s a win!

  43. anonymous says:

    An imaginative solution to a problem, I’d have thought.

  44. LightDisciple says:

    Hot water McGyver style.

    • RogueThree says:

      Imagine what he could do with a paper clip and a rubber band.
      That’s right, shoot you in the eye with the rubber band for making such a ridiculous comment.

  45. kitkat says:

    Hm… if you let it boil, FAIL! But if you turn on the kettle, wait for it to be warm, WIN!

  46. Kris says:

    It’s been on the “Vote” page for quite some time, now. Apparently someone just sent it in before you did. It happens!

  47. Clara says:

    Ingenious win!

  48. Emily says:

    well, if it works, then it’s actually really smart!

  49. Green-Is-Good says:

    Hope the rent is cheap…

  50. kwaping says:

    Timing fail.

  51. ButhedaBunzai says:

    Its funny I posted earlier this morning when only that knight guy was here and my posts get moved?

    Very interesting..

  52. asynadak says:

    WOW!!! This is a win (of creativity, as mentioned in the post) not a fail :)

  53. FC says:

    Crying About It Fail

  54. Pokey says:

    You say “hot water fail” I say “Ingenuity Win”

  55. Daniel says:

    Hot water win! Hot TAP water fail.

  56. Carleylyn says:

    I HAVE THAT KETTLE! (without he tube…)
    and….why is the tap so high above the sink?
    maybe us Canadians have ours ridiculously low? :S

  57. flingthecow says:

    Isn’t that a frame from Honda’s next ad?

  58. pepsibookcat says:

    That is such a WIN! That’s like MacGyver, A-Team, and Mythbusters all rolled into one WIN!!!

  59. acromegliac says:

    just soes everyones is awares, dis is the shower/bath. sink is in toilet

  60. Zarram says:

    Great!! just amazing xDDD You need it?? you made it

  61. Lev says:

    That seems more like a cleaning fail.

  62. Maggi says:

    How will the water be left long enough to boil if there is a hole on the side of the kettle?

    • Malfeasant says:

      the hole in the bottom is rather small, it will pour in faster than it flows out- and with a small volume of water, it will heat up quickly enough… if not you can always plug the tube with your finger for a minute

  63. FhnuZoag says:

    Well, it’s not supposed to boil. Boiling water would be tough to wash one’s hands with.

  64. Dakker says:

    what do they do if they want COLD water?

  65. Gasman says:

    Bend over and I’ll show you hot water.

  66. Ether3al says:

    How inventive. Recycling win?

  67. Agnus says:

    that’s win not fail

  68. caroline says:

    Poor students made this !

  69. Josh says:

    that looks just like my clandestine meth lab!

  70. Amanda says:

    Can we say clean bathroom fail??

  71. Ivan says:

    That’s not very well POLISHed.

  72. Moe says:

    Wow…this is pretty ingenious if you ask me.

  73. AngryScorpio says:

    That doesn’t look very clean…

  74. luke says:

    POLISH STUFF!!!

    POLAND RULES!!

  75. Moose says:

    EPIC CREATIVITY WIN

  76. Raiden1312 says:

    I think it’s less “Hot Water Fail” and more like “Bong Fail.”

    • Jesus says:

      Goddamn stoner.. you’re just jealous because even white trailer trash hicks are smarter and more creative than you… go smoke some weed out of an apple.

      P.S. That doesn’t even closely resemble anything like a bong.

  77. liteswitch says:

    Rube Goldberg WIN!

  78. lolz says:

    that is a really nice idea…

  79. joerevs300 says:

    That’s one of the craziest contraptions I have ever seen! Ever heard of electrical applicances and running water doesn’t mix? LOL :)

  80. moheb says:

    what a cheap house.. its got mould and shit plus the sinq is in the living room what a filthy way to live.. id kill myself if my house was like that and 100s of ppl would see it.. i mean come on is he proud of not having warm water in his house..?

  81. Sharon says:

    Standard of living FAIL.

  82. hobo joe says:

    redneck sink!

  83. hannah says:

    that is so stupid!

  84. craxman says:

    Hot water WIN…

  85. Polish says:

    jak zwykle WSTYD … no i co oni maja o nas myslec…?

  86. munchy365 says:

    Woah, it’s just like The Incredible Machine!

  87. Ebben says:

    What makes it a fail? I say it’s a win

  88. alex says:

    innovation win?

  89. Alex says:

    for me it’s a kind of win..

  90. anna says:

    Epic WIN! XD

  91. Robert says:

    Awesome! I want one! But wouldn’t the water go through the kettle too quick for it to be heated?

  92. Maneir says:

    Hot Water FAIL; Resourcefulness WIN

  93. craptastic says:

    My landlady calls it a “No need to hire a plumber” win, but I call it a “rent control” fail

  94. Busz says:

    Poland WIN …. or fail…what-evah


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