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  1. what?! and teh X says:

    dude

  2. sewob says:

    Dude, you’re getting a Durrrrr

  3. Pr0fesser says:

    totally not a fail

  4. Pr0fesser says:

    Like my 24rd comment

  5. anonymous1234567890 says:

    third

  6. Oripapa says:

    The true ninth!

  7. the b.p. says:

    PepTutor gave helped you to ger a degree in FAILNESS

  8. RogueThree says:

    Hopefully his major wasn’t in matnematics…

  9. fepic ail says:

    lack of comma after “Thanks” fail.

  10. Karen says:

    He should have held out for $1,30,000. Or PepTutor should make sure their copywriters also have at least graduated from literacy classes.

  11. cAPS lOCK fAIL says:

    I think it’s a translation fail. Some Asian countries express numbers over six digits in the form 1,00,000 (I think it’s called a Lakh or a Lahk or something – research fail I know). The salary should be $120,000 (one hundred & twenty thousand), but they express it as $1,20,000 (one point two lahk dollars). So it’s either a translation fail or an outsourcing-your-advertising-budget-to-Bangalore fail. Thank spe ptu tor.

    • twilight faery says:

      Or, perhaps, it is simply a stoopidity fail.

    • TMI service says:

      The Japanese have a single kanji character for 10,000, and they often count large numbers using that for their units (sometimes translated as “myriads”). But even they often use roman numerals, and they do they punctuate them in sets of three like we do.

      • TMI service says:

        cAPS is right. Wikipedia’s entry for lakh includes:

        ____
        In India, one lakh [= one hundred thousand] is written as 1,00,000. In most other parts of the world, the comma appears every three positions, so a lakh would usually be written as 100,000 outside India.

        In India, the first comma appears after three places, but after every two places thereafter. Examples of the Indian comma system:
        12,12,12,123
        5,05,000

        The same examples in the Western system:
        121,212,123
        505,000
        ____
        And it appears some southeast Asian countries employ that Indian system.

        • TMI service says:

          Also, a day in the life of the Hindu god Brahma is considered approximately equivalent to the time it would take a cubic kilometer of granite to be worn down to nothing by the process of a bird dragging a silk scarf across its length once per century; it is otherwise calculated at 4.32 billion human years.
          (This is FYI, only; it will be not be on your PepTutor exam.)

        • TMI service says:

          cAPS iS a wINNER!!!

          I went poking around on the Peptutor website a moment ago, and I notice that all the instructors listed for its courses have Indian names.
          So that’s got to be it — a service to teach online courses set up in India, targeting Western and English-speaking clientele … but unaware of, or just not following, the Western style for writing a number higher than 100,000.

        • Lord_Farin says:

          In that context, it would be a graphic arts company selection fail

  12. Nwabby says:

    $120,000 per year?
    That’s about, what, €150/y?
    FAIL indeed.

  13. Brucker says:

    Actually, depending on the location of this ad’s origin, it may be correct. In India, that’s how they write large numbers. Weird, but culturally correct.

  14. Matt M says:

    is that one point 20 grand a year? yikes. Should have stuck around and waited for that assistant part time weekend manager position at Chuck E. Cheese’s.

  15. Martin says:

    :) one dollar and 20 cts :P

  16. cg says:

    1,20,00 It looks like Math Fail, maybe he should have focused on math instead. Should it be 1, 200,00 or 120,000? Whatever

  17. Lolcattus says:

    Its like hooked on phonics, but with numbers. Still a fail!

  18. fuzz on the concept says:

    No need to show me the money — you had me at, “I finished college last”.

  19. Captain Canuck says:

    u guys are all fail
    commas following double digits than a final set of three digits is how things are done in Europe

  20. lolhere says:

    His pay is in Zimbabwean dollars (1.2 trillion Z$ = 1 US$). Failure to specify currency.

  21. tim says:

    True. And we eat american babies for breakfast, too.

  22. Don says:

    These aren’t failures, they’re just typos. failblog FAIL.

    • Karen says:

      Typos are one thing, but when they are printed on ad pages, they become FAIL. It’s called proofreading your copy.

  23. brandon says:

    ummm, isnt the typical semester 15 weeks long???

    so in a 15 week period he made a annual amount? thats not right eaither!

  24. Mrs. Sara says:

    There I was, caught in a lie…

  25. fuzz on the concept says:

    The person above is obviously some kind of douche.

  26. Mr Stunner says:

    Actually it’s a marketing WIN!

  27. Failure McFailstein says:

    120,000 shining points of fail.

  28. Muffles says:

    No one’s commenting on the picture’s other fail? That guy fails at existing, with his mini-fro, and his tiny ears, and his too-far-apart eyes, and his tiny grin. You disgust me!

  29. Your fail. LOL, WHOSE THE IDIOT WHO DID THAT?

  30. Anna says:

    It might be 1.200.000!!!
    In that case I should really get a tutor

  31. YouDumbAmericans says:

    If you actually *go* to peptutor.com, you’ll realize it’s run by Indians and 1,20,000 is (the more popular) notation of describing numbers in India.
    It will be pronounced as One Lakh Twenty Thousand

    120,000 is just another way of writing it — not the only one!

  32. aaaaanon says:

    meaning it’s not even an english site?

  33. jim says:

    haha what a looser. im sure he has a short penis.

  34. Vernunft says:

    Liberal arts major WIN

    (make sure my fries are piping hot, sir – thanks, PepTutor!)

  35. kaya says:

    In some countries, comma is seen as fullstops.
    That’s where the fail is.

  36. Andy says:

    This seems more like sarcasm. You know it says, “Thanks Prep Tutor! Because of you I don’t make a real number salary!”

  37. person says:

    the coma is the fail. his pay is $120.00 A YEAR lol

  38. Arrok says:

    I think they learned that in 2 grade (yes I know there isn’t a nd after 2 its there for a reason)…..

  39. 90% of these comments are total, epic, lifetime fail–spelling, math, nomenclature, satire, history, poli-sci and logic fail, phail, ghail.

    You all went to publik skool and support Obama, don’t you?

    • Muffles says:

      You should see the AOL news site’s comments about Obama. It seems black people believe Obama is going to bring them to glory and stop Whitey’s evil regime. Funny stuff, there.

    • the English language says:

      Please refer Mr. Williamson to the comment below referencing a lifetime fail analogous to his own.

  40. papa bear says:

    Ugh! Reading through the comments on this one is a ‘life wasting fail’ for me. Congrats, dunces. You’ve all just killed the English language.

  41. Eric says:

    This is not a fail, because that is actually the proper format in some areas of the world.

  42. Dave says:

    In India that is how that write large numbers due to their system of lakhs and crores. It follows a pattern of 3,2,2 such as 1,00,00,000,00,00,000.

    The reason it is in dollars instead of rupees is because many students aim at getting an American job after college, they pay much more than local jobs.

  43. Alex says:

    more like peptard, lol

  44. piercen says:

    hey im lost how is this fail

  45. totalb says:

    all these comments are a US knowledge of outside world fail . do you guys know how many ways a number is formatted throughout the world ? check the options for number formatting in excel. im waiting for one more american moron posting a picture of a london street saying “Traffic fail. look how everyone is driving on the wrong side of the road”

  46. Jbot says:

    Lol, he cant even spell right, so how can we trust he graduated, hm?

  47. Gyro says:

    I thought to myself, “One million twenty-thousand a year? Not bad.”
    Then I had a “Wait, what?” moment?
    That promptly became a “Oh, crap. I’m such a doofus sometimes,” moment.
    Well, at least I’m failing on failblog.

  48. Eleriel says:

    have to wonder… which is it?
    $120,000
    $1,200.00 ($1200)
    $1,020,000
    $!20,000 (he’s really exited it’s in dollars, and not yen)

  49. hannah l says:

    i dont get the fail…???


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