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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLFIRST!
What a great success!
What a grest suckass!
Nice fail. Reminds me of the time I had b33Ts@cH11!11!1lolololsuckmelasoldsaololol
I thought I read “I suck” in there somewhere. I was about to say you were right about that. Damn you for ruining my potential burn with your thoroughly unnecessary 1337speak.
Y I 1327!?
SEEP!?
Y|_|() G|_|YS K|\|()\/\/ |\|()”|”||\|G /-\B()|_|”|” |33″|” SPE/-\K!
sorry.
Leetspeak fail
It would be more like ¥0µ 6µ¥5 ƙИ0VV И07Ң1И6 4Ƀ0µ7 13Ѯ75pæƙ.
Just saying.
“What a grest suckass!”
Proofreading fail.
Suck ass is two words.
did you seriously just correct the word suckass?
you should all your free time on ebay, then you could buy a life.
Grammar, spelling, capitalization, missing word fail. Before you accuse good Failblog users of not having a life, perhaps it would help to revise your posts to ensure that you aren’t failing as well.
“Did you seriously just correct the word suck ass? You should spend all of your free time on ebay, then you could buy a life.”
Edit: “Free time” is not a known currency on ebay.
eBay
Damn! I lose.
They call themselves eBay, but their website shows it as ebaY.
|)()|\||\||E \/\/||\|S! EP|C!
Agreed!
“Before you accuse good Failblog users of not ***having a life***, perhaps it would help to revise your posts to ensure that you aren’t failing as well.”
And HOW long did you spend devising that post?
haha agreed. and nobody’s noticed that matt didn’t even correct the word ‘grest’ lol.
Captain Obvious strikes again.
P()()R |\/|/-\”|”"|”.
actually i didn’t say spend, nor did i mean to say spend.
but i am sure if people sold all the time they waste nitpicking crap on here i am sure they could buy all the cool-on-the-internet points it warrants them.
let me tell you how much i care about correcting pointlessness
hypocrisy win!
touché
although i don’t know if it really counts since i wasn’t so much nitpicking and correcting as being sarcastic.
i mean if the internet wasn’t invented so i could be a sarcastic jerk, then i’m handing in my keyboard.
I thought Al Gore invented the internet so people could use the
word “jerk” for it’s other meaning.
nah that was robert lopez and jeff marx
talonsofpeace
August 16th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
All of you. All of you people, they’re so much more to the world than busting people on there grammar fails. Seriously, your out of line. I quit.
“THEIR” grammar fails.
And if you are worried about what WE do with OUR time, why on earth
are you on THIS site???
LKOLOLOLOLOLOL Y U FEIL?
Not understanding the general rights of sarcasm afforded internet users FAIL
Is that to me, or to Epic? My eyes have a hard time figuring out who is
responding to whom around here.
orjan “they’re” FAIL – but forgiven for making a point
matt “THEIR” FAIL – unforgivable when correcting someone.
“All of you people, they’re so much more to the world than busting people on there grammar fails.”
I think he was referring to THERE IS / THERE’S in that sentence.
Plus, if you’re gonna bust someones nut over grammar while that person explicitly posted to indicate his feelings on the subject of grammar correction; please be thorough- “your out of line” would have to be “you’re”.
Now, what was that about ‘get a life’… i keep forgetting, i’ll be searchin!
So it was just me that apreeshiated Talon’s carsasm?
I believe searchin has a ‘g’ at the end.
Confusing Talon and Orjan’s posts fail
So very close…
IT’S “YOU’RE,” GOD DAMN IT!
Moist cake for you, Chancroid, Orjan and Matt for finding ALL of those fails. This has been a drill. Thank you for your continued diligence in finding and correcting grammar fails wherever they arise.
Its not THEIR and its not THEY’RE the word to make the sentence make sense is THERE’S as in there is…
go figure
you are on the internet. Grammar, spelling, capitalization, or any of the sort, do not become us.
What a great suckass!
i preferred ‘grest’ tbh
So are you saying that he’s great at sucking ass? If so, then that means it has to feel good since it’s “great”. I’d say that would probably have to be a win if done correctly.
nobody says that.
The car is hiding the trailer.
wheres the little flag?
in england we dont have flags, we just have the sense to check the mail everyday
you have mailboxes in england? hardly anyone has them here (n. ireland).
Who the hell would waste their time sending mail out there, anyway?
err, the same people who send mail anywhere?
Don’t we have letterboxes in the door in England?
*nods*
-nods-
-masturbates-
winkins
The flag is to notify the mail carrier that there is mail for him/her to pick up…not for you to check the mail. You fail my fine fickle crooked toothed British friend.
Having the sense to know what the flag is for FAIL!!!! You FAIL!!!! LOL
ooh getting fired up my friend!
british stereotype fail
get something new, failface
But we like the old stereotype.
Seriously, with socialized medicine why do so many Brits have bad teefus? Is dental not socialized? Ur women iz hotness, btw. Luvs me some cankled toofed british mommy poonany-nany. Take that with a side of bangers and mash. Nummy nummy…good and plenny! ::masturbates::
*steps slowly away and calls a mental institution*
i agree with roofus i probably speeling that wrong but im too lazy to do it again
americans just make fun of british teeth to distract attention from their own major health problem, which i doubt needs naming.
*enjoys basking in immunity*
We is better at English, yous ppl suffer from fatness, bad skin, drinking 2 much booze-ahol. Americams, we is #1!1!!11!
Sure, I might have to pay a couple of hundred smackers if I need dental work, but at least my teeth look pretty!
*enjoys basking in masticating*
I wish there was a way to delete my comment.
I like “basking in masticating”. Enjoy the chew.
I’m in USA and I have no flag on mine. It’s a box attached to my house. Superiority fail, the flag is just a type used in areas that want that kind of box.
I guarantee you that you don’t put your outgoing mail in the same box as your incoming mail unless you’ve got a flag on it. American apologist fail, you pussy
Actually, we do put outgoing mail in our flag-less mailbox. FAIL.
In Australia we have the logical system of having the ingoing and the outgoing SEPARATE. There are outgoing mail boxes placed every block or so. It’s a little bit further to send mail but then, who uses snail mail much anymore these days? I sure as hell don’t.
agreed. it’s the same here. much more sensible system.
Please remove your lips from my arse. This is the second time…
in england we have a letter box in the middle of the village for outgoing post and a letterbox outside our house/on our door for incoming.
Its a very simple and effective system.:)
We definitely put outgoing mail in our flagless mailboxes everywhere I’ve ever lived in the U.S.A. We’re just taking our chances with the mailman not checking our mailbox that day if we don’t have a flag.
Your incoming mail is separate from your outgoing mail though, E. American apologist fail, PUSSY
Buying mailbox that doesn’t suck FAIL!
The flag is used on boxes like the picture depicts. Inferiority success.
I think the point is that they english dude said that he doesn’t need a flag to see when he has mail. The point of the flag isn’t a notification to the resident. The point of the flag is to tell the oposite…when there is outbound mail. It notifies the mail person to not skip the box if they have nothing to put in it. I think you’re failing even more now than the english dude. So you fail too!
subjective
The whole point of the flag is to let the mailman know you have mail to be sent so he’ll stop even if he doesn’t have any mail for you. Cause in a time before junk mail, the mailman didn’t always have to deliver to every single house every single day.
Try explaining that to crooked tooth up above! :-<
Making nice with our neighbo(u)rs across the pond FAIL!
Making our favo(u)rite ally feel speshul win.
almost spelling favourite wrong fail
That’s not what they’re for, genius!
Holy shit this is EPIC.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Oooooh! Pretentious white girl! ::masturbates::
In the US , the flag is to let the mailperson know there is outgoing mail, so as not to shove new mail in over the sent mail.
Actually the red flag is there to signify to the postman that there is outgoing mail. Y’know, in case that house doesn’t get any mail that day, the postman might not bother opening the box, thus overlooking any outgoing mail.
The little flag is to tell the postman that there is outgoing mail in the box.
FAIL. The flag is to signal the postman that you have outgoing mail.
Well said. I never understood that myself. Chances are you’ve got post, so just have a look.
In Soviet Russia mail checks you
In America the flag is for OUTGOING mail so the mailman knows that you’ve got mail to be picked up and mailed to someone else, just in case they don’t have any mail to deliver TO you that day, they still know they need to GET mail from your mailbox.
I can’t believe this thread has gone on this long and everyone has failed to mention this… Jeez.
Bend over and I’ll show you where the little flag is.
Did you just call you own member little? lolz
did you just call it a ‘member’? lolz
Now if only the delivery man took the hint and started delivering beer as opposed to bills. =D
One could only hope …….
that’s it. making my mailbox out of a Smirnoff bottle.
That would be win. You’d get your beer and mail at the same time. It’d be like a milk man, … it’d be the Miller Man! Or ‘Drink of Choice’ Man.
The Captain will be delivering my Margaritas
The Captain serves rum, not tequila, dumbass!
Fine daquiri’s, twat waffle
The point of the flag is to let your mailman know that you are gay.
retards
That’s only if it’s a rainbow flag…
Though there will also be supportive displays from loving members of PFLAG.
roffle!
The best waffles there are.
haha Andrea said twat waffle!! thats the funniest combination of words I have heard in quite a while.. lololololol!!!11!!one1one!one!!1
I’ll have 3 helpings of those fine waffles you’re offering
I see no fail in this picture, but I do see some win in this comment.
Possibly the least funny fail ever!
Hello, just dragging Boner’s comment down. Bye.
hahaha
more more farther farther
If I had a nickel for every time I heard that….
I feel so honored to be so high in the list of comments. Thank you.
don’t worry, you’ll get kicked down eventually.
i don’t really understand the point of mail boxes, just get a door with a letterbox?
this one seems more of a Resourcefulness Win than a fail lol.
some people don’t want to be bothered to bend over to get their mail.
but they’ll walk all the way to the road? weird.
true. but two different types of physical exertion.
Weird, indeed.
Well, I guess the letter carrier *could* just drop the mail on the ground at the end of the driveway… But then, he’d have to get out of his car when you left something there for him to pick up….
hmm, our postmen don’t pick up mail, they only deliver.
same. we have to go to the post office or a public mail box to send our mail. mailboxes are for receiving.
American Postal superiority WIN!!!
american public laziness win!
We’re not afraid to go outside and let the rest of the world see our teeth.
your stereotype fails, i’m not british.
Didn’t say you were.
You usually go by the post box on your way in in the afternoon anyways so it’s not an extra trip. Besides, kitty can’t shred the mail if it’s safe in a mailbox. In the floor it’s fair game.
don’t forget dog drool. my dog picks up anything that lays on the floor and just sleeps with it in her mouth.
For some reason I’m picturing your dog is one of the big joweled variety. like a bloodhound or something.
Bend over to get their mail?
GASMAN. Come here.
Because when you live out in the middle of nowhere, the mail personnel has to actually drive from house to house, and they don’t want to spend all day doing it. That’s why there are mailboxes out at the edge of the road–so they don’t have to drive all the way down the driveways, which can sometimes be obscenely long.
Sometimes, they even lump all the mailboxes for all the houses on a little back road together at the end so that the mailman doesn’t even have to go down that road at all. Now THAT is a resourcefulness win!
If all the mailboxes were lumped together in this guys neighborhood would it be a keg?
Overkill, but thanks for the explanation anyway in case there was anyone here without any common sense… Now that I think about it… there tends to be a lot of those.
Carry on.
Hence the reason I felt as though I needed to FULLY explain the concept. Sometimes the short version just doesn’t cut it.
I didn’t think that the “short version” ever cut it. O.O
It depends… ask your mom.
It’s because the mailman doesn’t want to and shouldn’t have to constantly get out of his car to carry the mail to the door. This way is quicker.
again, we do it differently
i live in one of the smallest villages possible and the postman gets out of his van at every house
In Democratic Poland postwomen use bikes instead of vans.
and on the isle of Lesbos in Greece they use dykes.
…and rainbow Pflags…
Apartment complexes tend to have a bundle of boxes in one place. Look up the words “fast” and “convenient” for more information.
well it’s more convenient for me to have my mail put through my door
I can only imagine what my dogs would do to the mail if it was delivered directly to them! I’d have loldog posts for sure
ah but you can get a box on the inside for the mail to fall into.
sweet image, darlin’, but you misspelled “male”
mail-order male? hahah. poor you.
my regrets if i’ve misunderstood —
i thought we we’re discussing the convenience of getting some male into your slot.
(at any rate, don’t worry about me being poor — the ladies tip quite well when it’s me they’ve ordered to be their post)
*tipples*
*tips*
*topples*
what’s that about you being topless?
*snork*
Oh, you wish. :p
What’s that about you giving me three wishes?
My comment seems to have been lost. In case of it going in one side of the Failbox and out the other, I will post it again:
Bend over and I’ll show you “fast” and “convenient”.
The Failbox Comment Service sent my comment to the wrong place. I will try one last time. Here it is: “Bend over and I’ll show you “fast” and “convenient”.
For goodness sake, I’ve tried to comment here 3 times now and the Failbox Comment Service lost every one of them. They must have been put in one side of the Failbox and were blown out the other.
Holy hell. Patience fail on my end of the Failbox.
Indeed. You’ve showed us ‘fast’ and ‘convenient’ far too many times.
However, my first comment still hasn’t showed up.
That’s true.
But what I SHOULD be saying is, “ORLY?”
I had one at my old house, the mailman would shove too much through it and all the mail would be ripped up. So mailbox is good. Also out where i live now the mailman drives from house to house, so going to someones door is not logical. (I’m in the country btw)
Sounds painful!
Not all mailmen walk their entire routes. In Texas everything is crazy-far apart, so the mailmen drive by the mailboxes and drop the letters off as they pass.
Hells yea, my house
And you’ve clearly developed quite an eye for color-coordination.
Your taste in beers, though, needs more work.
let’s educate this redneck!
Now put down the Bud Light…
Good. Now we’re gonna take baby steps, so we’re not going to the German beers yet. Here’s a Guiness. Sir, SIR! Please stop crying. We’re not going to “turn you foreign.” We’re just trying to show you that drinking human urine is unhealthy.
teh lolz, u givz me dem.
eh, ahem, sorry. i don’t know what came over me.
nice start with the guinness! *feels proud to be irish*
just one thing… your quotation mark… although i don’t feel in a position to judge, having just had a spasm of lolspeak.
Aw, c’mon, you’re talking to an American, so why confuse him with an un-American use of quotation marks? Our punctuation marks go *inside* the quotes on this side of the pond.
For all other questions of quotation marks and punctuation please reference conversations #350 (BS number I just made up) between Loz and myself that really gets to the bottom of the quotation mark punctuation mystery. thanks!
yeah, what ‘ok’ said. sometimes the punctuation goes inside, sometimes outside (sometimes it shakes it all about). even in america. go back to school to learn the proper rules.
One word:
SH*T!
*borrows a moment from Monty Python*
American beer is very much like making love in a canoe.
It’s fucking close to water.
Pass the Guinness, plz!
::the sound of dueling banjos::
It’s a redneck, totally. The new car behind the failbox is from one of those car places that advertises “Bad credit? No credit? Come on down and see us!” It’s a $13000 car with a 72-month note on it at $297.86 per month.
“But maw, we gots it fer unner three-hunnert a month!”
i wonder what redneck did this? or perhaps not, perhaps a person with no money, either way, still made me lol
Don’t you wanna save the earth by recycling things? That guy had it!
I bet he uses recycled condoms as well.
What use might someone who drinks Bud Light have for condoms? Is he using them for balloons?
Bud Light. should’a left the beer in it.
cheers.
Feels like there’s a “you might be a redneck” joke in there somewhere, but I dare not reach in to find out.
Possibly a ‘here’s your sign’ joke, too.
You might be a redneck if not even CheekyC is willing to reach in to find you’re “male.”
And there it is. Thanks a bunch, Fuzz. I don’t know whether to feel pride or shame at having been included in a “you might be a redneck” joke, though.
Tell you what, if you think it would feel good to you, I’ll let you feel my, ah, pride.
Oh but I don’t make it a point to go around stroking peoples’ egos.
Lego my ego! xD
You want me to use small plastic construction blocks on your ego? I’ll get right on that.
Hmm, kind of a conundrum then, cuz I’m sure just getting be around you would swell any fella’s pride.
So just know, if ever you’re so inclined, I’ll be proud to explore being shameless with ya.
Oh how that made me giggle…
With a car like that, this is a priority fail.
‘US Mail approved by the Postmaster General’ FAIL
lol, and?
nice mailbox 
Duct tape win!
Now if he used a ty-rap for a flag it would the DIY WIN of the year
what is ty-rap? the offspring of a tyrannosaurus and a raptor? cos that would be a win!
Maybe you know them as cable ties or zip ties.
pic:
http://www.germes-online.com/direct/dbimage/50240113/Cable_Ties.jpg
maybe you know them as cable ties or zip ties. Google cable ties for a pic; easier than explaining
ahh those things. thanks, i feel enlightened!
Yes, it would. A feathered, flying tyrannosaurus with a beak and sharp talons would be a huge feat. Too bad it’s not possible.
err i was referring to the dinosaur velociraptor. but yes, your interpretation is somewhat more terrifying.
I know what you were referring to. I was just showing that raptor was actually a bit broad of a word.
Or it could be a stealth fighter.
Which is why I said it was a broad word…duh!
or a basketball player.
a shitty basketball player.
“a bit broad of a word”
You mean it is broader than a word? Which word? Apple?
I don’t know what you’re getting at here. In the way that I used it, broad means that the word has extensive meaning.
not duct tape
Electrical tape.
They sell colored duct tape, it looks too wide for electrical tape.
They sell black http://www.duct-tape.com/#DUCT_TAPE
May also be http://www.duct-tape.com/#GAFFERS_TAPE
my penis is the DIY fail of the decade!
you made it yourself? is it papier maché?
i tried
but it collapsed
ah, the trick is to leave it overnight to set properly.
TO SET!?!
but then it would be hard and erect, and that would scare away people even more than my face!
what a dilema!
people love a nice hard phallus! especially if you decorate it with brightly coloured acrylic paint. and while you’re using the papier maché, you could make yourself a mask for your face
:O:O
i never thought of such a clever thing to do!
do women really love a decorated phallus?
and if so, what colours and patterns should i use?!?
oh definitely, the usual skin-colour gets a bit boring and we all like something interesting to look at in bed.
take it from the Japanese, they have a fertility festival where they worship the penis and make decorative phalluses.
i can’t really recommend any designs, you should go with your own instincts
after all, you’re the one who has to live with it!
so, a floral pattern?
or would that intrude on my masculinity
afterall i wouldnt want the woman to think i was insecure so should it be bigger or i try and go for the average
I JUST DONT KNOW! :’(
yes! floral would look fantastic! and make it as big as you can, although you’ll want to be sure it’s not too heavy to carry around in your pants.
big flowery cock, *masturbates*
damn my comment didn’t post and i forget what i said.
anyway, go huge and floral! that’d be perfect, but be careful you don’t make it so big that it’s too heavy in your pants.
oh it did post. i fail.
get a room you two
hey i’m only trying to help out a fellow human being!
DIY as in you don’t get action, you have to masturbate?
sorry, i dont know why i just admitted that…
I’d say it’s Kenny’s house, but the car’s too new!
Kenny’s house would be bourbon.
They got the car in the settlement when Kenny died.
Omg…they killed Kenny?? YOU BASTARDS!!!
The best thing you can do with a pack of Bud Light. Forget the “beer”.
or any form of budweiser for that matter.
Budweiser is ok now. It’s no long an American beer.
well that’s a bonus, but does it taste any better?
probably not.. the eurotrash don’t understand the concept of COLD beer
hmm, i think you’ll find they do. but i’ll assume you’re an american which almost invariably means you’ve never left your country.
Well it was bought out by a belgium company and anyone who knows anything about belgium knows they know beer. Cold or Warm. And the only reason Europeans are able to serve their beer warm is because it won’t get confused with piss.
I don’t get the mailbox thing. Don’t people nick your post?
hahaha true, you could suffer some serious identity theft.
oo, yeah, someone can steal my bills!
It’s possible. Usually in places where stuff like that would happen often they have locked mail boxes instead.
English and I are not friends.
perhaps try a different language. i recommend french, it’s always looking for new friends.
I actually thought he did pretty good with his English.
Replacement mailbox: Redneck Style!!
WilliamCA
d00d, I wanna let you in on a secret, but don’t tell anyone else: Your name? It TOTALLY shows up above what you post. So, like, you TOTALLY don’t have to sign it upon completing your thought, however late and already noted by eleventy-hundred OTHER people it is.
There. I hope I helped.
I know but i write as i choose and i like signing my name to everything i write!
WilliamCA
d00d, I wanna let you in on a secret, but don’t tell anyone else: Saying the word TOTALLY that many times in one comment makes you sound like a valley girl. Oh, and typing in CAPS like this just makes you look like a TOTAL douche.
I think the fail lies in how the real mailbox went missing in the first place.
Somewhere out there, some guy’s bringing a mailbox full of beer to a party.
Lol. Probably disappeared through some mail box baseball.
Somewhere out there, some partiers full of beer are playing post office.
mailbox baseball.
this wouldn’t stand a chance.
america, what can u say….
just shake your head despairingly, that should do it
I can say “capitalize.” Can you capitalize? Can you spell “you?” Get back to me on that, would you kindly?
I capitalise
oh and grammar fail :p
“capitalize”. and “you”?
“Capitalize” is the U.S. spelling, and, believe it or not, it is proper grammar to put the end punctuation inside quotes as opposed to outside.
The grammar fail is on your part.
i know capitalize is the american spelling, i was simply stating that i capitalise as i am not american :p
and i beg to differ – in some cases the punctuation goes inside the inverted commas but in your examples, it should’ve gone outside. you fail, i’m afraid.
You’re right, I’m wrong. My fault. I now owe you a cup of coffee, or tea, if you prefer.
hmm, i’ll have some water thanks, i’m currently coming down from a caffeine high so i should take it easy…
you’re a true gentle(wo)man
Suit yourself.
Gentleman, by the way.
Shall his suit be hearts, spades, clubs, or diamonds?
her*
and spades please.
Sorry about the gender fail. I apologize sincerely to you, madam.
and yes, i realise i don’t actually capitalise. lol.
In the case of your previous comment, the period should have been put outside of the quotation marks.
I now realize that, but I am too stupid to admit it because I’m an annoying American prickface.
your honesty is admirable
Or so shoobey would have me think…
Shouldn’t it be “shooby-dooby”? Or since it’s nonsense anyway, it’s anything goes?
Here is were I am not saying you are wrong, but I always thought periods go inside the quotation marks, regardless. And Question marks and Exclamation marks varied based on whether or not the question or exclamation is about the quote ie Did you say, “the period should have been put outside of the qutation marks”? or the quote is the question ie and he asked, “Shouldn’t the period go inside the quotation marks regardless?”
your examples were correct. but periods generally go outside unless the source you’re quoting included a period.
if nothing else, it looks better.
this might actually be a difference in grammar between america and europe, because I have never been told periods should go outside the quotes EVER. hell spell and grammar check yells at me for doing it.
That was a bit of a fail, wrong language for that emphasis post should have gone like this:
“this might actually be a difference in grammar between america and europe, because I have been told periods should not go outside the quotes EVER. hell spell and grammar check yells at me for doing it.”
it’s possible you do things different in the states, you do seem to have a habit of changing the english language to suit your whims lol.
*hunts for Eats, Shoots and Leaves for some guidance…*
Not only is it possbile but it is the case, My head was hurting with all this period inside and outside the quote thing so I looked it up.
“In the United Kingdom, Canada, and islands under the influence of British education, punctuation around quotation marks is more apt to follow logic. In American style, then, you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost’s “Design.” But in England you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost’s “Design”. The placement of marks other than periods and commas follows the logic that quotation marks should accompany (be right next to) the text being quoted or set apart as a title”
Though I do take some offense to seeing that this reference states american punctuation when it comes to quotes is illogical…
Put a dash, question mark, or exclamation point within closing quotation marks when the punctuation applies to the quotation itself and outside when it applies to the whole sentence.
Philip asked, “Do you need this book?”
Does Dr. Lim always say to her students, “You must work harder”?
Sharon shouted enthusiastically, “We won! We won!”
I can’t believe you actually like that song, “If You Wanna Be My Lover”!
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_quote.html
Put a dash, question mark, or exclamation point within closing quotation marks when the punctuation applies to the quotation itself and outside when it applies to the whole sentence.
Philip asked, “Do you need this book?”
Does Dr. Lim always say to her students, “You must work harder”?
Sharon shouted enthusiastically, “We won! We won!”
I can’t believe you actually like that song, “If You Wanna Be My Lover”!
From the Online Writing Lab of Purdue University.
Good job paying attention to the conversation, the question wasn’t about dashes quotation marks or Exclamation points, we already agreed on how those work, it was periods, periods was the answer we were looking for, thanks for playing though, you do get the consolation prize which is, oh look confirmation that your name actually does describe who you are as a person! Lets give him a hand everyone.
Apparently you didn’t read it all. There are, in fact, periods involved.
My faux pas–that part of the article didn’t paste for some reason. But yes, it does apply to periods, too. I’ll repost.
This is quite strange. I live in the United States and was taught that they go outside the quotes. O.O
I learned some things from this thread.
I believe I’ve become a better person for it.
Or I want to kill myself because I sucked at grammar in high school and this is a bad flashback..
Not sure which.
Oh how I wish I had known to tell my High School English teacher that I was writing “proper” English when I put the period outside the quotation marks! I would have enjoyed the CBF!
i feel odd calling it a ‘period’. it’s a full-stop!
get over yourself dude. u get the point i was making. i probably speak and spell better english than 70% of the american population. i’ve been there and the stupidity and extremism is just overwhelming. you guys focus on all the wrong things. please don’t try and argue cause i KNOW i am right.
Stalin KNEW he was right, too, when he was paranoid and made 6 million people disappear. You’re generalizing. And you’re not taking a good joke at your expense. So stop being all “I’m right, I’m always right” and take a minute to laugh at your own grammar.
*descends from her soapbox*
I love you. ::masturbates::
Stalin?
*masturbates*
better than 70% of america? not to lower the tone but… that wouldn’t be difficult.
As an American, I am offended, but secretly in a bit of agreement. The actual figure would probably be about 45%, though.
ooh i smell a burn
I think that you need to get over yourself. Quit trying to act like you’re all high and mighty just because you’re not from the United States. If you can’t take the time to type the two other letters required to spell “you” or “because”, then you don’t deserve to call yourself better than 70% of the American population. Hell, you can’t even press the shift button? If you’re going to say you’re superior at spelling English words, then you should be able to prove it in the comment that you say it in. Learn to accept a fail; everyone fails at times. If you aren’t mature enough to handle the burn, then you should go back to playing Pokemon games and leave something like Failblog alone. If you post on this site, you’re bound to get burned multiple times. I’ve probably failed in here somewhere, but I’m too lazy to double check it.
You didn’t fail. In fact, I think you won a couple times.
I could have seen this comming… it was way too easy for u to start criticising the criticizer and you just couldn’t resist it.
We don’t criticize “criticizers”. We criticize people who always think they are right.
P.S. The word you were searching for is “critic”.
P.P.S. Is this better, loz?
CRITTERS!
You were going for coming or cumming.
I can’t decide. Phooey.
He did get back to me on that. Saying “would you kindly” really works! Thanks, Bioshock!
89th!
you’re trying a bit too hard to be interesting man
) bored? learn an instrument or something:P
like flute?
So it never rains there? Think of how gross that box will be after a good storm. It would just be less trouble to get a real mailbox.
yeah but that would cost them a whole week’s benefit pay.
Someone call Jeff Foxworthy.
This is very much a Win.
Ah, an evening on Failblog arguing about mailboxes. What fun!
Shut up and argue about mailboxes!
Your face is a mailbox.
How did you know?
I have a picture in my crapbook.
now now, it’s rude to insinuate that someone’s face resembles a crap.
it’s quite lonely all the way down here at the bottom, isn’t it? very quiet and eerie…
Too quiet…
Look out behind you! It’s a forum troll!
OH SHIT! *runs back up to the top*
Unfortunately, those aren’t the stairs you chose to run up. Have fun running “up” the high speed down escalator. The forum troll will be waiting for you at the bottom.
Imagine a mailbox made of someone’s face. A head mailbox.
Leatherface mailbox.
Failbox?
you read the caption, well done!
You read his comment, well done!
This could go on forever, well done!
…No, it appears it can’t, actually.
because you stopped it. thanks a lot, n00bsauce.
Mailbox fail? More like recycling WIN.
David Suzuki win.
Plus you get a new mailbox every weekend!
It could be my eyesight, but is this magical box being held on by a strap? I would have expected duct tape if I heard about this.
This should have been called “Mail Fail”
BWAHAHA. I want one now!
I don’t find this funny…
Firstly, how is it a fail?
Secondly, someone made a mailbox out of a cardboard box…
So..?
hey dad, can i have my condom back if you’re done with it?
That made me share my real laugh with the rest of the office. Git.
this is the first fail i’ve really liked in a long time. good work.
I must say, I love Failblog. I enjoy reading the comments for the fails more than I do actually look at the fails. You guys must be doing something right
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And Jay… Somebody made a mailbox out of a cardbox box, soooo… they’re obviously not thinking ahead to the next time it rains.
Seeing the obvious FAIL.
more like sense of humour fail.
i don’t understant:(
what do you not understand?
Instead of a mailbox, there is a case of beer (sans beer) in it’s place.
Put the mail in the case.
Voila.
Instant red-neck failbox.
Could you people stop taking pictures of my mailbox?
Well we had to make rude comments about your taste in beer. So…
Istant redneck fail-box…
Shake-and-fail?
two things:
one i have seen a mailbox like that except it was made out of a McCains fry box.
two i noticed its empty… that may have something to do with the over all reason its there…….
Yooooooooooooooooooou might be a redneck.
Was that mailbox approved by the postmaster general?
wow how getto fabulous lol
LAST
lol fucking red necks
thats not a fail….thats a fucking win!
Redneck mailbox win
that is win maan!
FAIL budlight sucks
bud light win