This house is in our neighbourhood. It was the guys living there that had the exit taken off for security reasons. It was only good for single robbers to enter, it wouldn’t have survived an evacuation.
You can be impaled by your own vital organs whilst loitering on tree branches? That’s go to be… difficult.
I’m assuming you meant to put a “been” or something like that in there.
*ladderpalm*
this building is obviously in China
(when they have a fire drill, the residents all run around the building balancing ladders on their hands)
Imfail is now a word. A person physically transfixed on a spike, lance, bayonet, tree branch, or any other kind of puncturing due to a previous fail is imfailed. Impaled is no longer a relevant word, methinks.
We had the longest conversatio about that in heakth class. I was mentioning when I tried to call my cousin and she wouldn’t answer her cell, and she was like “I was in the bathroom with my pants down and it was vibrating!” OUr teacher gave her this look…. the inside jokes went on for weeks.
Looks like standard view from Poland (I know, because I’m Polish).
Here’s the story:
They spent too much money on improvements of this neighborhood like painting the houses and planting trees, so they ran out of it to install necessary protection facilities (i.e. fire escape).
Couple of years later (judging by the size of trees and dirtiness of the building) the money is still not there to be used for the fire stairs.
Sad? Yup, I know. So – I guess you can call it long-run economic fail
I agree, he is and has a large fail on his account. On the whole, all Polish politicians and their activities are very much likely to be considered a fail.
Nonetheless, besides the politics we also have a big spectrum of fails in other fields and industries.
PM – Niestety nie można bÄ™dzie tutaj podać żadnego, bo te typy nic nie zrozumiejÄ… i znowu siÄ™ zacznÄ… rzucać o to, że strona jest tylko angielska i niech wszyscy siÄ™ uczÄ… tego jÄ™zyka. – PM end.
It is a safety feature for the windowcleaners! When they dangle on the front of the building an a hurrican hits their platform will be swept around the corner where they can use the stairs to get into the building and into safety… I’m surprised you didn’t see the logic… !
I think its a safety first win… a bit like overdoing it with 50 a day!
It’s very simple to learn:
1. Grab back of own head.
2. Induce concussion by slamming head repeatedly against the closest stable object.
3. Swallow excessive amounts of painkillers.
4. Punch own face thrice or until drawing blood (whichever comes first).
5. Type.
6. Seek immediate medical attention lest you make it a permanent condition (case in point – F3nNec).
Call me old school, but dying because of apartment design fail seems like a waste. But then again, those charred corpses on the ground are tasty. Trade off win.
I don’t get the fail, I see a perfectly viable escape route here. Once you get to the bottom platform, you obviously unleash the magic faster-than-light pony next to the railing and fly off into the sunset.
If they spent enough money to build a little staircase for the sole purpose of saying “f*** you” to salesmen and potential robbers, don’t you think the joke would be on them? After all, you could get the same effect by installing door locks and a keypad…
Don’t make fun of Ted Stevens. He’ll find out you did by having his staff scour the series of tubes that comprise the internet, and no matter how much the private industries clog the tubes, they’ll find you. And you’ll pay…
I couldn’t see anything amusing in the background of the photo, so I decided to make a comment that would make people scroll up, look at the cloud, hate me, and hopefully respond. I feed off comment responses.
All of you are missing the point completely! The top floor has a balcony which is obviously where the owner of the building lives. He’s just quit smoking and has the lower level of that stairway as the designated smoking area for his guests. It’s not currently being used because he just realized that the smoke will still float up to the balcony and cause his cravings to return.
This is actually not a fail. The lower platform on this (peculiar looking) construction can be reached by the fire brigade’s ladders, the upper platform can’t. So you can get all people out of the upmost floor via this stair.
this made me think… why are fire escapes never retractable slides? it would be faster for people to get down, putting them in less danger, and you wouldn’t have to worry about burglars like you would with stairs
FAIL!
*cough. . first. .
You have no time on you’re hands do you?
Your making half the comments posted.
Their’s nothing I can do. I can’t help it.
You could work on your grammar instead
Do you mean spelling?
MrDan could work on his vocabulary
Or, you could work on you’re sarcasm detector.
Or, you could work on learning when to use “you’re”.
your not getting it, are you?
You could learn when to say “your.”
Perhaps you’re the one not ‘getting it.’
intelligence fail…
This house is in our neighbourhood. It was the guys living there that had the exit taken off for security reasons. It was only good for single robbers to enter, it wouldn’t have survived an evacuation.
Dude, this guy is stealing my thunder.
K’s right, I was totally there when that occurred.
Dammit.
No, really, I was with K when he was there when this happened.
I was there when K first thought it was funny to write at each entry that he was there, so I have all the right.
Apparently apostrophies won’t nest here either….:-)….or I could be wrong…..
i wanna be part of the convo.
isnt it just a funky balcony?
Fail, isn’t that why they have ladders where the bottom half folds up when it’s not in use?
BURN
Yes, that is what people would do if there were a fire.
And he speaks from personal experience!
Oh yeah..that’s a real useful idea… BOOM!!
You failed!
His posting half the comments made.
No, you’re hands! Bitches.
Yore hands.
wow fail correction fail in the form of spelling fail…
Wow, joke understanding fail in the form of… well, you not understanding the joke.
Their will be hell to pay for you’re comment, you know.
*hands rockon a TV Guide with all the PBS listings circled*
double your vs you’re fail
first fail
It doesn’t fail. You obviously jump from a shorter height, thus increasing the chances you’ll survive the fall. Try aiming for the trees.
Yay! Not only am I on fire, but I’ve impaled by vital organs on tree branches!
You can be impaled by your own vital organs whilst loitering on tree branches? That’s go to be… difficult.
I’m assuming you meant to put a “been” or something like that in there.
Or… Maybe he’s impaled branches by their vital organs on something called Tree.
maybe he put by instead of my…only one letter off…
It’s funnier the way I read it.
N ?!?
I see what you did there!
Or maybe he misspelled “bi” and he’s a flaming hermaphrodite.
Or maybe you have no idea what bi means in any context. Bother with some research please.
I believe this makes you, The Flaming Organ Impaler.
that isnt meant to be a fire escape, its in case you dont make the roof when going off sweet ramps on your bike…
Stunt-fail-safety WIN!
Stunt-fail-safety WIN!
I think your keyboard is missing the apostrophe.
what’s an apostrophe
Your brain clearly misses the apostrophe
The thing between the t and s
i think i am just apathetic to proper grammar.
jump fail reference WIN
*ladderpalm*
this building is obviously in China
(when they have a fire drill, the residents all run around the building balancing ladders on their hands)
Yet another duplicate on failblog.
Time to find a new site! Failblog isn’t failing us as much as it is letting us down.
Agreed! Go find another site… We’ll be right behind you, I swear…
And if K says K will be there …
I’m reliable like Windows Vista! And I stand by that.
*snicker*
yeah, just go and find another site dedicated solely to pictures of fails. good luck with that.
(yeah i know, i’m just asking to be pwnd)
What’s your MySpace address again? (Happy now?)
i definitely lol’d
stop whining. there hasn’t been a single repeat in the whole of failblog. and yes, i would know.
I think he thinks the voting page counts as posted fails.
I read that as ‘thus increasing the chances you’ll survive the fail’, which really, is just as good.
Why did they even bother building the stairs ?
Funny for suicide candidate though :
Someone diving from the roof could first hit the railing and then get impaled in a tree.
F
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Imfail is now a word. A person physically transfixed on a spike, lance, bayonet, tree branch, or any other kind of puncturing due to a previous fail is imfailed. Impaled is no longer a relevant word, methinks.
Is it a sfelling pail ?
Think Vlad the Imfailer.
I love you.
If you REALLY loved me, you’d take a drink from this straw.
I always do.
hey, stop stealing my letter swapping. i copyrighted that.
…but not until the year 3004.
One day you are going to die, and at your funeral all the people are going to talk about is how every idea you ever had failed.
third
I have fail….
4th
Well, at least you are first answering your own comment.
Comment based self pleasuring win.
It’s like masturbating your ego. And both uses hands.
masturbating your ego doesnt really need hands. a woman does it too.
Yeah. Like, women masturbate with their kidneys or something.
Anatomy Epic Fail.
*SNORT!!!*
Hey, now. Save it for the straw kid.
anatomy candy
What? Do you have CANDY in your truck??
It’s actually a van, sweetheart, but hop on on and we’ll soon come in a near river.
Or he’ll launch you and your bike into a building…one or the other.
There’s something just so terribly wrong about your comment.
like… all of it?
Yes, handsfree.
with all this new technology, who needs hands to masturbate?
Yeah, I do it with bluetooth.
Never underestimate the power of the vibration setting on your cell phone.
We had the longest conversatio about that in heakth class. I was mentioning when I tried to call my cousin and she wouldn’t answer her cell, and she was like “I was in the bathroom with my pants down and it was vibrating!” OUr teacher gave her this look…. the inside jokes went on for weeks.
Hee hee…you said “inside joke”….
You did that too, in fact
I use the Roomba.
I use a rhombus.
i prefer a dodecahedron
lol’d at work
masturbated at work
you work in the phone sex business?!
No, he’s an intern. He didn’t say WHO he masturbated.
i’m really curious and at the same time i don’t want to know…
contradiction fail
Cognitive dissonance WIN
Venus di Milo-style?
zing
And of course, photoshop fail.
Looks like standard view from Poland (I know, because I’m Polish).
Here’s the story:
They spent too much money on improvements of this neighborhood like painting the houses and planting trees, so they ran out of it to install necessary protection facilities (i.e. fire escape).
Couple of years later (judging by the size of trees and dirtiness of the building) the money is still not there to be used for the fire stairs.
Sad? Yup, I know. So – I guess you can call it long-run economic fail
How much does it cost to build a slide?
or a long piece of rope even? and then just pray it doesnt burn in the fire…
I agree, I’m Polish too…
Poland is full of great fails… For instance president Kaczynski
I agree, he is and has a large fail on his account. On the whole, all Polish politicians and their activities are very much likely to be considered a fail.
Nonetheless, besides the politics we also have a big spectrum of fails in other fields and industries.
PM – Niestety nie można bÄ™dzie tutaj podać żadnego, bo te typy nic nie zrozumiejÄ… i znowu siÄ™ zacznÄ… rzucać o to, że strona jest tylko angielska i niech wszyscy siÄ™ uczÄ… tego jÄ™zyka. – PM end.
…. why would they build from the top down?
it was prefab’d down under
Or they were trying to implement top down theory on a very teeny scale.
It is a safety feature for the windowcleaners! When they dangle on the front of the building an a hurrican hits their platform will be swept around the corner where they can use the stairs to get into the building and into safety… I’m surprised you didn’t see the logic… !
I think its a safety first win… a bit like overdoing it with 50 a day!
Yes! They clean the…the…um…
…no windows.
just like how you drink the no tea, and how you don’t smoke the not a pipe
I luv thiz FAIL! DX
(if mai com repitz, FAIL)
emergency exit FAIL
dsign WIN!
F3nNec you have solved nothing.
Let him alone, he’s happy… :/
Please teach me how to speak your language. It intrigues me with its stupidity.
It’s very simple to learn:
1. Grab back of own head.
2. Induce concussion by slamming head repeatedly against the closest stable object.
3. Swallow excessive amounts of painkillers.
4. Punch own face thrice or until drawing blood (whichever comes first).
5. Type.
6. Seek immediate medical attention lest you make it a permanent condition (case in point – F3nNec).
Art, can I be your groupie?
Yes, the fan group is called “Vandalay Industries.” Also, we make latex.
So you can cut me a discount then? With me in your group, we’ll need lots of that.
sexual activity discreetness fail
btw, i’m a groupie as well. and i’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I can already see the first article… “Do you prefer to import or export?”
Closest stable object, eh? Ooookay…
*bangs head on horse*
*staggers*
ooOOooo! Lookie! Butterflies!
In Soviet Russia, horse bangs YOU!
in america too, in russia its just free
In Colonial America, IT’S NOT FUNNY ANYMORE
I could call you a sadistic, bestial necrophiliac….but that’s beating a dead horse.
Risk of getting an STD = masochistic turn-on
hey me 2!
Is this really a fail? At least your burning corpse will be slightly more identifiable once it splatters all over the pavement.
Call me old school, but dying because of apartment design fail seems like a waste. But then again, those charred corpses on the ground are tasty. Trade off win.
Cannibalism fail.
more like cannibalism win.
Well, the human heart is delicious. Especially when char-broiled.
theres probably some soft-ass grass below
Yeah. Like, it would have to baby-ass soft.
For serious.
Or just a carpet of babies.
All right, that made me laugh.
You’d know that, wouldn’t you?
and what if atomsk is a mother?
Or some soft serve ice cream
Or those bushes.
Or some soft concrete…
Or some soft water
Or a group of firemen holding a stretched sheet. Preferably clown-firemen a la Dumbo.
Well, it looks like a fire escape fail…but it could be a split level balcony win. Or something.
Fake. Look better, the staircase was erased with Photoshop.
FIRST!!!
Your originality has me in stitches!
They just didn’t complete it. That’s all!
Budget cuts – WIN!
Extreme Free Running win!
I don’t get the fail, I see a perfectly viable escape route here. Once you get to the bottom platform, you obviously unleash the magic faster-than-light pony next to the railing and fly off into the sunset.
Oh, come on! How did they get their hands on our top secret faster-than-light flying pony technology, hun? Riddle me that!
Fire escape FAIL
Secret passage to cute neighbor’s apartment WIN
sounds like a good idea!
maybe it’s a security thing, it won’t allow access to people who want to sell stuff or rob the place.
Solicitor prevention WIN!
Can I get one of these for my office?
If they spent enough money to build a little staircase for the sole purpose of saying “f*** you” to salesmen and potential robbers, don’t you think the joke would be on them? After all, you could get the same effect by installing door locks and a keypad…
Bridge to nowhere!
Bonus points for the movie reference in your nick.
Movie reference? I thought that was a political reference to Ted Stevens….
Don’t make fun of Ted Stevens. He’ll find out you did by having his staff scour the series of tubes that comprise the internet, and no matter how much the private industries clog the tubes, they’ll find you. And you’ll pay…
Stop making sense, ‘pop.
What makes you think this isn’t Ted Stevens?
I said his nick, not his comment.
It’s totally photoshopped.
ZOMG! the cloud on the upper right!!!! FAILCLOUD!!!!!
Wow, DIAF…
uhh.. fail?
I couldn’t see anything amusing in the background of the photo, so I decided to make a comment that would make people scroll up, look at the cloud, hate me, and hopefully respond. I feed off comment responses.
and yes, i did actually scroll up to see the lack of cloud fail after reading this comment.. i fail
All of you are missing the point completely! The top floor has a balcony which is obviously where the owner of the building lives. He’s just quit smoking and has the lower level of that stairway as the designated smoking area for his guests. It’s not currently being used because he just realized that the smoke will still float up to the balcony and cause his cravings to return.
Ummm… Post-accusational non-humorous non-sensical almost completely random explanation from a smoking cessation case study FAIL?
no, well thought out explanation WIN
Burn attempt Fail.
You got smoked.
and she’s buying a stairway to Heaven…. on the installment plan.
Comment win!
comment reply win!
oh yeah, and sorry to nitpick, but isn’t it spelled “Vandelay”? yeah i know, pedantic fail.
I know of a developmentally delayed van down by the river.
I used to live in a near bench down there.
i can’t even remember who said they were in a near bench anymore
I so envy you.
Andy, don’t you be talkin’ up to me.
I’m just glad I don’t live there.
well isnt that HELPFUL!!
BIG PRIVATE BALCONY WIN!!!
There’s probably one of those metal drop ladders that unroll in case of a fire, otherwise it would be easy for robbers to get in through there.
What, did the building GROW unexpectedly? I’d say it’s time to stop watering that Foundation
What, did the building GROW unexpectedly? Seriously, I think it’s time to stop watering that foundation
what are you drinking?
my guess is salty ball juice
This is actually not a fail. The lower platform on this (peculiar looking) construction can be reached by the fire brigade’s ladders, the upper platform can’t. So you can get all people out of the upmost floor via this stair.
You killed it.
Oh boy. 175 comments and exactly _one_ person Gets It.
The real FAIL is that I had expected that number to be lower.
get used to the level of stupidity around here
it’s not going away
u iz r right!!
First!
umm, sure, just keep thinkin that…
Yes, congratulations. You truly are first in line for the braindead olympics.
Lol. I Actually know an exit like this too..
IT WILL BE OK! JUST JUMP! OH, AND TRY NOT TO DIE!!
this made me think… why are fire escapes never retractable slides? it would be faster for people to get down, putting them in less danger, and you wouldn’t have to worry about burglars like you would with stairs
because the people who make fire escapes have forgotten how to have fun.
Dont Get it? is it unstable or is it coz it leads to a wall?
i think i see the mothman
It’s so obvious… the average person can survive a 3-story fall, but not 4. I must get back to studying for my building-safety inspector license.
i kno a clown named skittles and he gave me a picsa of dis place… hes a scary cloo
In my country emergency exits only have to go as far down, as the ladder from the firefighters car can get up, so it’s a common look…
YAY!!!!!!!! This is going to be fun!!!!!
No really I think i’d rather burn
FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why does it remind me of Tetris?
It’s a leap-of-faith emergency exit, LOL.