But that’s the thing. This website IS giving me what I want and the media for the topic equates to approximately 30% of the fun, the rest is down to the comments
I saw talons’ strike out and attempt to link into the chain of horrible baseball puns — it was a horror. His tiny little bat and balls should be the designated targets of a team of Texas Chainsaw Rangers. He’ll never swing and score a miss like that again.
You know…I really tried to come up with a witty repartee for this, but it ape-ars I’m coming up short. I’m just going to go eat my Pongo-lian barbecue and ponder my fail.
You could learn what ‘repartee’ means too. For one thing, it’s a mass noun, so speaking of ‘a’ repartee makes no sense. For another, ‘witty repartee’ is redundant. How could repartee not be witty?
Words often have more than just one meaning, you know. So, according to the OED:
rep·ar·tee
1. With article: A ready, witty, or smart reply; a quick and clever retort.
2. Without article: Sharpness or wit in sudden reply; such replies collectively; the practice or faculty of uttering them.
And if you think that all repartee is witty…you DO realize that you’re on the Failblog, right?
It would be more accurate if the sign said “Decommissioned And Formerly Secret Nuclear Bunker”, being as it’s now in private ownership and run as a tourist attraction; has been for some time. A bit longer than the sign has been around, strangely enough.
The bunker is in Kelvedon Hatch in the U.K, but I think that sign is the one in Chipping Ongar where my boyfriend lives. We always laugh about it when we drive past it!
Please can noone post whether they are the first, second, third or other person to comment on this picture.
That is really the most stupid thing imaginable.
You are showing off you can count and… that’s about it.
Failblog is supposed to be where we laugh at OTHER PEOPLE’s stupidity, not act stupid ourselves.
Grow up, children.
Taken out of context it seems like it is fail. It’s really just an old military bunker used during WW2 during which time it was deemed “secret” I guess they kept the name despite it’s lack of relevance nowadays. I’ve been in there once it sucks just a lot of tunnels, pipes, and a gift shop with a insanely large tub of soup.
In the UK they declassify these after like 50 years and open them up as tourist attractions. They are advertised as ’secret’ nuclear bunkers. They USED to be secret, but not any more. Not really a fail.
Whoever RE POSTED this for the god knows how manyth time was made of FAIL
and i live in Brentwood, so i know how common it is to see this sign.
The secret nuclear bunker is a tourist sight, where people can visit a disused nuke bunker.
See, only people in the know realize the secret nuclear bunker is actually to the right, not the left. The sign is just there to mislead you…
Shhh…don’t tell anyone else or we’ll have to turn the sign the other way again so it points towards the bunker assuming everyone would think it’s pointing away from the bunker.
But wait…did we already have it pointing at the bunker or away from the bunker?
Now, a clever man would put the sign towards the bunker, because he would know that only a great fool would head to where he was directed. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not head to the left. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not head to the right…
Haha.. you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Only slightly less well know is this: don’t put up signs if you want something to stay secret.
My fav was the time I was trying to find “Woolsery” in Devon. I could NOT find the turnoff, so I finally pulled over to ask for directions. The exit was actually for
“Woolfardisworthy”.
My friend COULD have told me it was “Woolsery” with a silent “fardiworth”.
The fact that the sign is brown indicates, in the UK at least (which is where this is), that the subject is a tourist attraction. National parks etc are all signwritten in brown. This bunker is clearly an old folly intended purely for tourism interest.
Its actually a tourist attraction in Scotland.
What is fail though is the cafe inside it; don’t expect getting what you ordered anytime soon, thats if they remembered you ordered something….
ROFL I’ve passed that sign way too many times. It’s in a town called Ongar near me. The guy who commented last was right… it fucking smells in there… quite fun though
This is not fake – it really does say Secret Nuclear Bunker in real life. I’ve never even see the sign in real life as I live nowhere near those places, but I know it’s real because in Britain, tourist attractions, or places of historical interest, have a brown background on our road signs, and I’ve heard of this place before; a memory of the cold war.
right clear it up. i live in brentwood (in england) and it was a secret nuclear bunker. but in the 1970s or so the government sold it. (it was meant for the important people if we had a nuclear war. its now a tourist attraction. its very impressive. the enterance to it is a little hut in the woods. cant be seen. * see fallout 3* looks exactly like it
Its pretty cool down there. The entrance is a rather long tunnel with a pillbox at one end, so if anybody did get in that wasn’t meant to they could be shot
OMG we’re not reduced to this kind of material now are we? This is old!
Do what somebody with a God damn brain would, then. If a website isn’t giving you what you want, go somewhere else. Nobody will miss you.
*sobs*
Win!
Nobody, that can’t be you.
♬ I…ain’t got noboooooooooody! ♪
Noooobody dooooes it better…
LJ Hooker, you’re the best! o_O
Thanks mate.
BotW, callin’ it right now.
Well done friend, well done.
I reply to Nobody.
But that’s the thing. This website IS giving me what I want and the media for the topic equates to approximately 30% of the fun, the rest is down to the comments
Nobody bats one thousand, buddy. And yes, I am passively encouraging another chain of horrible baseball puns.
I think Winfail is a little off base. I mean, this is FAILBLOG. The content may be old, but if it fails, it fails.
I saw talons’ strike out and attempt to link into the chain of horrible baseball puns — it was a horror. His tiny little bat and balls should be the designated targets of a team of Texas Chainsaw Rangers. He’ll never swing and score a miss like that again.
Oooh, you’ve left the bush league (…!) and joined the big leagues now and can STILL hit them out of the park.
your off your ball…..1
balls! you have two, dont you?
My tiny bat and balls await your lavish apology
tiny, truly tiny, nigh invisible
Bend over and I’ll show you a bat!
Sounds like Oripapa wants to hit a line drive straight up talonsofpeace. C’mon guys, I know you can be cheesier than this, lets pick it up a little.
talons bats a thousand! …fly’s! teeny teeny flies
Maybe not one thousand, but nobody’s average is way up there. He’s a killer in my stats book.
I think we should create our own fail blog.
… great idea! we could have a big party, make a big gold statue of a calf, and forget about that Moses guy. blasphemy win!!
Ooh, hang on. Winfail isn’t satisfied with the site any more. Can we get someone on it please.
it looks fake, but i’ve seen this sign for real, its near where i live
I’ve actually been there.
It’s near Crewe.
What a load of rubbish – they just show videos of how paranoid the UK was during the cold war.
Extortionate prices as well.
*facepalm*
You know dragon, everytime you *facepalm* an orangutan bursts into flames.
Your Orangutan just evolved into…. Monferno!
Monferno used flamming poop attack!
Ahaha, nerd win!
Lucky for me there was a fire monkey pokemon on google lol
You know…I really tried to come up with a witty repartee for this, but it ape-ars I’m coming up short. I’m just going to go eat my Pongo-lian barbecue and ponder my fail.
Try harder
Oooh, I don’t think you really want that. It will only get worse, trust me.
You could learn what ‘repartee’ means too. For one thing, it’s a mass noun, so speaking of ‘a’ repartee makes no sense. For another, ‘witty repartee’ is redundant. How could repartee not be witty?
Are you sure you’re a writer?
*sigh* Here we go again.
Words often have more than just one meaning, you know. So, according to the OED:
rep·ar·tee
1. With article: A ready, witty, or smart reply; a quick and clever retort.
2. Without article: Sharpness or wit in sudden reply; such replies collectively; the practice or faculty of uttering them.
And if you think that all repartee is witty…you DO realize that you’re on the Failblog, right?
LAME!
Cabbage wins.
Nice try Dragon.
ur “First!” word says it all — u r really really lame
wowowowowowow (to see epic fail, scroll up)
Try Hard 2?
Live Free or Try Hard was the worst, in my opinion.
-High-fives an orangutan- OW! @#$! It burns!
(she’ll be in her secret bunker)
is that in the states?
It is in the states of secret fail and facepalmdom yes
No, judging from the signs it’s the UK
It is in the UK. It was featured on the latest series of the motoring show Top Gear in a segment about pointless or stupid road signs.
The comment from one of the presenters was:
‘On the other hand, what if the bunker is actually in the other direction?’
Yes it is i live there *cries*
Oh, the University of Kentucky?
It’s up the road from where I live.
It would be more accurate if the sign said “Decommissioned And Formerly Secret Nuclear Bunker”, being as it’s now in private ownership and run as a tourist attraction; has been for some time. A bit longer than the sign has been around, strangely enough.
The bunker is in Kelvedon Hatch in the U.K, but I think that sign is the one in Chipping Ongar where my boyfriend lives. We always laugh about it when we drive past it!
If we showed you where it was, we’d have to kill you. That’s no secret. Everybody knows it.
Strong enough for a man, but made to protect women.
I LOL’d!
I BO’d.
Body odored?
Shhh! … Art doesn’t know the Secret.
I poked and paid.
Pap’d?
Lol’d.
Indebted.
Trojan should use that slogan.
Please can noone post whether they are the first, second, third or other person to comment on this picture.
That is really the most stupid thing imaginable.
You are showing off you can count and… that’s about it.
Failblog is supposed to be where we laugh at OTHER PEOPLE’s stupidity, not act stupid ourselves.
Grow up, children.
lol.. you’re stupid.
Yeah!
I SECOND that!
Me three! And I restate it: YOU’RE STUPID!
Unfortunately, people will always do it. It doesn’t matter how many people complain; it’s going to happen.
Just ignore it, because if you don’t care, it doesn’t affect you.
way to fail at spelling my name dick wad
Mr Dobilina? Mr BOB Dobilina?
Did you know that you can rearrange the letters in his name to spell Anal Bi Dorm? Just thought it might give us all a little more insight.
Burn of the week …… FAIL
Uh-oh… hidden things FAIL
So… Is this a fail?
No, it’s an massive advertising WIN for the cold-war secret nuclear bunker museum, who put the sign up to get publicity.
Taken out of context it seems like it is fail. It’s really just an old military bunker used during WW2 during which time it was deemed “secret” I guess they kept the name despite it’s lack of relevance nowadays. I’ve been in there once it sucks just a lot of tunnels, pipes, and a gift shop with a insanely large tub of soup.
In the UK they declassify these after like 50 years and open them up as tourist attractions. They are advertised as ’secret’ nuclear bunkers. They USED to be secret, but not any more. Not really a fail.
havent we already had this?
I think failblog is re-posting old FAILS cause the managers for the site want to take a break or something…THE BASTARDS!!!
Yes, but people can’t come up with anything original. So they recycle like good citizens.
Or they recycle good citizens: SOYLENT FAIL IS MADE OF PEOPLE!
Soylent fail is made of green people!
Damn Martians.
FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!
first fail, you mean…
ooohh… so close.
Time telling fail, you are late by 18 minutes
Better late to fail than no fail at all.
recycling WIN
Whoever RE POSTED this for the god knows how manyth time was made of FAIL
and i live in Brentwood, so i know how common it is to see this sign.
The secret nuclear bunker is a tourist sight, where people can visit a disused nuke bunker.
Here comes the FUn Killing Squad (FUKS) again.
Falling on my head like a memory…
oh ba-by…..
HavUTheen the wind break gentle to the rear of MaWeena …
Falling on my head like a new emotion…
There’s lots of grammar and spelling fail in here, but I’m too busy being in my secret base to bother correction.
You can’t stay there…
All your secret base are belong to us.
You are on the secret way to destruction.
What you secret?
You have no secret chance to survive make your time.
Ha ha secret ha.
Move secret. For great secret!
You know what you secret.
AD 2008 Secret was beginning
Somebody set us up the secret.
We get secret.
What?
Main secret turn on.
It’s you!
How are you secrets?
-and then it starts all over.
Wow, cause you know, everyone else in the world is from Brentwood too…
REPEAT FAIL!!!
This one is definitely a repeat.
And the sign is for a decommissioned public attraction, anyway.
Your mom’s a decommissioned public attraction.
Word to the wise: “your mom” doesn’t work on me, because I hate the woman and actively agree with all insults directed at her.
you’ll grow up to be just like her then
…..
…..
..i have no idea why i just said that.
Family values fail.
same here rosie, i just love it when my friends say
“you’re mom is a ______”
and i just say something like
“great work captain obvious”
Just smashed up, huh?
… soon followed by the Magic Erasing Team.
THE EASTER BUNNY IS DEAD.
eggzactly
I see what I did there.
Now that I’m sober I don’t find it funny anymore. -_-”
Isn’t this sign already on the failblog somewhere?
See, only people in the know realize the secret nuclear bunker is actually to the right, not the left. The sign is just there to mislead you…
Shhh…don’t tell anyone else or we’ll have to turn the sign the other way again so it points towards the bunker assuming everyone would think it’s pointing away from the bunker.
But wait…did we already have it pointing at the bunker or away from the bunker?
Now, a clever man would put the sign towards the bunker, because he would know that only a great fool would head to where he was directed. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not head to the left. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not head to the right…
I’ve developed an immunity to any sense of direction in my life.
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Wait ’til he gets going!
Now where was he?
In Wellesley, MA.
Princess Bride win!
A secret Bunker that isn’t secret?!?! INCONCEIVABLE! (or in-concealable)
….
Haha.. you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Only slightly less well know is this: don’t put up signs if you want something to stay secret.
Ahahahahahahah -dies-
It’s only a FAIL for people who don’t understand roadsigns. Brown = park, in the US and the UK. Have fun storming the bunker.
…yeah good luck, they might have some defenses in the form of boiling hot vat of Soup to repel the giftshop invaders
SHH. Don’t make it obvious!
Don’t make what obvious? Ah, darn, you spoiled the surprise for me.
Ah, English signs. My favourite is still one that my husband told me about. It was somewhere near Scarborough and Ravenscar, and it read:
Cilffs, one mile
Old Folks’ Home, mile and a half
Haha, I’ve been there a few times but never seen that. That’s fantastic.
My fav was the time I was trying to find “Woolsery” in Devon. I could NOT find the turnoff, so I finally pulled over to ask for directions. The exit was actually for
“Woolfardisworthy”.
My friend COULD have told me it was “Woolsery” with a silent “fardiworth”.
should’ve gotten direction from Wellesley
Hrm…This somehow reminds me of the George Bush center for intelligence.
FAIL!
The George Bush center for intelligence is a myth!
The fact that the sign is brown indicates, in the UK at least (which is where this is), that the subject is a tourist attraction. National parks etc are all signwritten in brown. This bunker is clearly an old folly intended purely for tourism interest.
Remember when Batman fired Alfred for giving away the Bat Cave’s location? He was later hired by a secret nuclear bunker.
I wonder how is he doing.
Hired by a bunker? An oversized, underground shed hired him? Are you sure he wasn’t hired by perhaps the owner(s) of a bunker?
No, it’s actually Archie Bunker. He just happens to be living in hiding since he somehow absorbed Ted’s ability from Heroes.
Wrong. They’re both hiding togetherbecause Niki is after them.
And it would be useless to hide under the bunk, her powers are unstoppable.
(I really hope no comment will nest below this level)
But isn’t Ted already dead from when Sylar stole his ability?
Yeah, Niki is damn crazy…she’d probably try to kill him a second time…
(Comments will not nest above this level)
y’all are heroes
(comments will not nest beside this level)
(comments will not nest inside this level)
(comments will continue to nest no matter what you say)
*Hmm well here looks like a nice place to build my nest*
… Repost WIN
…Repost WIN
And again!
Hmmm. Mmmhmm.
DAMMIT! ALMOST 3RD!
Yet you still managed to Fail…
WELL GEE GOLLY. THANKS. I DIDN’T NOTICE!
You see that button next to the “A” key? The caps lock? You may want to go ahead and hit that button quick before you type anything else.
Caps lock is cruise control for sucking.
AGAIN, GEE GOLLY. I DIDN’T NOTICE THAT EITHER.
I think that your “noticer” may be broken. You should take it in to a shop to get fixed.
Thank you for noticing this notice.
Your notice of it has been noted.
The appropriate authorities have been notified.
I have saw this sign in real life, I should put a “Fail” sign next to it.
Yes you should, next time you have see it.
No saw ! The sign would fall to the ground, prolly rotating in the process and ending indicating the wrong direction to the secret bunker.
Not really a fail…
Its actually a tourist attraction in Scotland.
What is fail though is the cafe inside it; don’t expect getting what you ordered anytime soon, thats if they remembered you ordered something….
Geography fail. It’s in Essex, about 300 miles south of Scotland.
Getting-your-facts-right-FAIL
There is one in Scotland, need proof?
http://www.secretbunker.co.uk/explore_the_bunker.asp
There you go.
it is indeed. infact, i live RIGHT near it.
Well it seems like there is more than one then
recycling old crap win?
or fail.
faiwin
winail
I live in Kelvedon Hatch.
FAIL
We don’t care.
Win!
So – the dude making the sign had to have been cracking on this job order.
Honesty Win.
Omigosh! I would have never guessed! :O
It must be a supervillan’s hideout… they’d be the only ones to actually ADVERTISE the bunker, so they could lure the hero in and then trap him.
Old. Very old.
Old… i had seen it before =) but nice try
I only recently found this site and even I’ve seen this posted before…
http://failblog.org/2008/02/27/secrecy-fail/
Last…
DUPLICATE FAIL.
capslock fail
Bleaaaargh! Hell Yeah! Nice Pix!
For anyone that cares this is about 0.8 Miles from my house, and yes every day, every single day i drive past it i /facepalm.
and yet another orangutan bursts into flames… they’re slightly endangered you know!
This is a tourist attraction near chelmsford in essex, England!
This one’s from top gear.
Is that tourist attraction still there?
Seen it, been there. The best part was leaving. You can’t fucking breathe in there and it smells.
And fucking hard to find.
ROFL I’ve passed that sign way too many times. It’s in a town called Ongar near me. The guy who commented last was right… it fucking smells in there… quite fun though
lol the bunker’s probably in the OTHER direction. They are teh sneaky……
Oh fuck, THAT IS REALLY CLOSE TO ME!
the nucler bunker could be in the other direction
This is not fake – it really does say Secret Nuclear Bunker in real life. I’ve never even see the sign in real life as I live nowhere near those places, but I know it’s real because in Britain, tourist attractions, or places of historical interest, have a brown background on our road signs, and I’ve heard of this place before; a memory of the cold war.
Omg, thats near where I live!
right clear it up. i live in brentwood (in england) and it was a secret nuclear bunker. but in the 1970s or so the government sold it. (it was meant for the important people if we had a nuclear war. its now a tourist attraction. its very impressive. the enterance to it is a little hut in the woods. cant be seen. * see fallout 3* looks exactly like it
Its pretty cool down there. The entrance is a rather long tunnel with a pillbox at one end, so if anybody did get in that wasn’t meant to they could be shot
FIRST COMMENT FAIL
PS: I spell fail phail. SPELLING PHAIL!