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FIFTH!!
4 comments too early win?
My comment was a win.. and a parody of those who post FIRST!
LOL – Yeah Fifth is a win… we are even in a column of sorts
Fifth is a win? Maybe if you’re a French swimmer
Hum.
Of course you have Phelps’ amazing roxx1ness.
But we got some nice swimming medals.
And you won the 4×100 by only 0.08” …
.08 or not, a gold medal is a gold medel
Actually, no. A gold medal is a gold MEDAL.
don’t meddle in his medal mishaps or he will test your mettle
Win!
iu!M = upsidedown Win!
being french fail!
Very funny, Mr.Smith, very funny….
You think I’m funny, Mister Anderson?
Thanks for clearing that up
Yeah, but this one caused a fail by proxy. Sorry, sir!
FIRST!
some people r WAY to easily entertained
i perfer porn
now how about someone make fun of how i spelled prefer wrong
perfer porn = polymorphous perfersion
Perfessional perferations?
it’s a styrofoam fetish
you spelled *a* wrong
This made me LOL.
oh this is wrong but scary funny
or ‘are’. or ‘too’.
Perfert.
lol ……. thats hawt yo @_@
Or “to.” Or “r.”
I can’t make fun of these things all by myself. Perhaps if you made one mistake per post?
i am actually entertained by the fact that so many people think that this symbol is the symbol on the nazi flag. the nazi symbol is spinning right which means war. while if it looks like it is pinning left, it is the sign for speace
Fail.
http://www.klisia.net/blog/swastika.png
Direction fail.
pinning left it is the sign for speace?
poonerism fail
this is what the nazis used to kill the jews from Hamburg, and turn them into…
yeah that terrible joke does not deserve finishing.
reminds me of John F. Kennedy saying “ich bin ein Berliner” lmao.
which is actually correct German, and has nothing whatsoever to do with pastries.
The German name for a jelly filled donut is “Berliner”. Don’t know how that relates to a Nazi Barbecue, but there it is.
That’s not entirely correct:
In Berlin the jelly-filled donut is called “Pfannkuchen”, in Bavaria
they call it “Krapfen” and so on.
The “Berliner” is mostly used in the western regions of Germany
and origins from the “Berliner Ballen” (Berlin bale).
In that case the “Berliner” is just an abbreviation to the bale.
So, JFKs speech in Berlin wasn’t wrong.
Anyway, I don’t see a relation to the swastika-grill, too..
btt: The design of this grill is effective (four grill-places), but very very
unfortunate.
Where do you see barbecue? I see is a cooker. Barbecue refers to pork
that has been chopped, seasoned, and cooked over a fire for several
hours.
Actually, the correct form would have been “Ich bin Berliner.” He actually said he was a jelly donut.
Still believes in urban legend fail?
still believing wikipedia fail?
Eddie Izzard copy fail
German FAIL.
The phrase “Ich bin ein Berliner” is the correct form. The word “ein” (a, an) in this case denotes the speaker proclaiming to be a citizen/resident of Berlin. This can also include people who feel spiritually/emotionally/ethnically connected to the place they’re speaking of even though they do not or have not lived there.
True, but it can also mean jelly donut. There really just isn’t a distinction.
Not at all… in Berlin we don’t say “Berliner” for a jelly donut. Those are called “Pfannkuchen” here (which would be translated to pan cake, what is something different… confusing, i know).
Anyway… if you ask for a “Berliner” in Berlin you will get a beer.
I laughed when I realized what that meant when I took German….Everyone in the crowd starts salivating and he doesn’t know why….
It’s correct German but it doesn’t make sense. In German when you refer to your profession or citizenship, you just say “Ich bin Berliner” or “Ich bin Bauer”, no “ein”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner
You can say “Ich bin EIN Berliner”
You can say “Ich bin EIN Berliner” and that make sense too, i’m german…
Kennedy’s actual quote said “I am a jelly donut” when he meant to say “I am from Berlin” (I am a Berliner) this is where the joke comes from.
no, he said “I am a jelly doughnut” when he meant to say “I am a maple bar”.
Win!
I know this was posted months ago, but “Ich bin ein Berliner” = I’m a jelly doughnut. “Ich bin Berliner” = I’m a citizen of Berlin. =P.
It’s slang, he’s an American… You know, he’s a “donut”.
lmao, oh yes, that is a valid point.
Eddie Izzard Reference!
f’kin donut!
do you want a cup of coffee?
i’d like fries with that
Je suis le Président de Burundi.
cake or death?
Death….No! Cake! I meant to say cake!!
Oh man, that’s good stuff.
Well, they certainly know their hats in Burundi.
The souris est sur la table, et le singe…
…le singe est disparu.
I lol’d just the same
LAST!
u wish!
In Soviet Russia BBQ HEILS YOU!!!!!
More like THIRD. As in THIRD REICH.
this burger tastes like jew..
HEIL the cook!
Wir mussen die bratwurst VERBRENNEN!!~!
well that wouldn’t be very tasty now would it.
Du werdest eine Krankenschwester brauchen!
hahaha.
(einen*)
Correction Fail
“eine” is correct, smartass. The mistake is somewhere else. Try again!
ok, yes, i realise i was wrong.
’smartass’ though? sounds like i’ve personally offended you, for that i apologise…
Well, “einen” would be correct if you wanted to masculinify
the Krankenschwester for Ben (or Nwabby?). That’s what I
assumed. That’s how lowered my expectations are.
epic grammar nazi to end all grammar nazis
How appropriate for the picture.
“Well, “einen” would be correct if you wanted to masculinify
the Krankenschwester for Ben (or Nwabby?). That’s what I
assumed.”
“Schwester” means “sister”; kinda hard to “masculinify” that. The correct term for a male nurse is “Pfleger”.
Take that, ya hippie treehugger!!!
German fail. “Du wirst eine Krankenschwester brauchen”
yes, but it’s referencing an episode of family guy where they (wrongly) say ‘werdest’. so, you fail in that :p
Watching english (undubbed) TV series where they feature German people speaking “German” is really funny.
The first “Die Hard” is a classic. Half of the time I have
no idea what those Austrian terrorists are trying to convey.
Sheesh, remember the times when terrorists where blond?
That’s what it’s like now with the “Arab” terrorists. Half the time it’s just gibberish
must be
“du wirst eine krankenschwester brauchen”
:-p
eine Krankenschwester mit Schlagobers, bitte!
die Krankenschwester > eine
> means “is greater than”
Not necessarily.
Your 8> is smaller than mine.
Kanns du meine Augen RAUSPOPPEN?!!!1!!!1!!!111!!!1eins!
DU wirst einen psychiater brauchen
Einen Ophthalmologen. Und zwar nen guten.
Du wirst eine Krankenschwester brauchen!
You will need a nurse?
Ja, bitte. Ich bin Dokter !
Doktor…
*Arzt
Heil to the Chef!
And with an iron cross shape, could we say, ‘Banzai, Iron Chef!’?
all your barbecue are belong to hitler
although if this was designed by neo-nazis, i guess it would have to be a win on their part.
You mean, on their party?
Commet WIN.
Spelling FAIL. “Comment”.
or on their patty:P
Or on their patty?
Or on their patty ?
Or on their patty ?
I see no point in this comment or most of the others. The swastika dates back to the Neolithic era.
Yes, but its become an offensive symbol in modern times due to its use by a fascist group that committed genocide, a group that has become synonymous with “evil”. If you’ve never heard a political party, an mmo player, a highschool student or a radio commentator declare someone else they disagree with to be a “nazi” because of the apposing viewpoints, you would understand how charged this symbol is *now*.
Much like the color red signifying, at one point, the Communist nations. The color red has been around long before the Neolithic era, I’m sure, but for a period in human history it was a symbol of something distasteful (at least to some in non-communist nations).
Well, somebody needs to tell the easily offended to steer clear of Asia. Those things are all over the place. Just because the symbol was hijacked doesn’t mean it should be associated only with the negative connotations. Richard Dean Anderson went on to Stargate SG-1, but it doesn’t mean I should never watch MacGyver again.
Good Luck BBQ WIN!
No, you should ever watch MacGyver again because it was a really bad show.
are you saying you hate stargate?
No, I’m just saying its a symbol that some people get really offended by in the wrong context. In the context of Asian symbolism, it means many different things, but I know for myself, when I see the swastika, the first thing that comes to mind is the shocking. That’s mostly why this is so fail, because I’m sure that’s many people’s first response.
‘those things are all over the place’
where exactly? ’cause i still haven’t seen them anywhere in asia!
I find it’s easier to hate the Nazi’s because everyone hated them, because they were the pinnacle of evil… and because Germany is a toilet…
I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here when good was good and evil was evil… Before things got so fuzzy….
But I love the fact how you everyone can unanimously support the hero, if the villian is a Nazi…
What Communist nations? There’s never been a Communist nation.
In Soviet Russia, Communism denies you!
lawl
family guy.
jew burger for the win
This thread is gonna cross Godwin’s point more than once.
You know who liked Godwin’s point? HITLER!
You know who liked this post? ME!
… lol’d till i lollygagged …
you forgot to add, “you Nazi!”
You know what was intended to add Nazis?!!
HITLER’S 1933 LAW FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MARRIAGE!
You ‘you Nazi’ Nazi!!
You know who added “you Nazi” to the end of comments?
HITLER.
You Nazi!
Don’t poke fun at the war, my grandfather died in that damn thing. Some jew threw a rock and made him fall off his guard tower!
if thers one thing i am doin, its pokin fun at the war
Eh, I jest, Just don’t poke my pie, and don’t laugh at my post.
ha! I laugh at the word “at!” :p
owwwww
how many jews did your grandfather kill?
my great great grand father was killed by americans during WW1 and do i look like I give a fuck?
From what you great great grand mother said, he had it coming…
ROFLMAO!
Well, if he were a nazi, he deserved to die. No offence.
Um, yeah. Because no other country has brainwashed its soldiers into believing something horrible and making them kill people. Never happened before, never happened since.
…Seriously, many of the soldiers, especially at the grunt level might not have quite known what was going on or felt it was totally justified because their leader told them so. That’s like insinuating that all American soldiers are involved with torture when only some have been. The higher level war criminals deserved harsh punishment, there’s no question, but just following along in your culture doesn’t necessarily make you worthy of death.
History fail.
Dumbass, nazi = WW2.
Also, spelling fail: offense.
Maybe not spelling fail on “offense” if he’s British….
i mean “offence”
lol, idiot. ‘Monk’ was referring to the original comment by ‘just4internetfame’, regarding WWII.
thread-following FAIL.
jew-b-q ha
No, no, no…it’s BAR-B-JEW!!!
that’s what i was thinking, but i didn’t have the heart to correct him. i mean, look at that adorable face, he’s so happy with his joke…
d’jew wanna eat?
jew jewbs…
^Best comment I’ve read today. I lol’d
multiple people cooking at once win? design fail
I don’t think it has enough room to cook multiple people at once on it, well maybe a couple of small ones…. baby-b-jewque?
just4internetfame: Too bad they didn’t get him before he managed to breed.
It is the way of the world.
reply fail
If if wasn’t shaped like a Swastika it would be epic design win! If you want 4 people to be able to cook at once and make the most efficient use of space in a BBQ area, I can’t imagine a better way of doing it. Hell, the only reason I haven’t got one like that is because people are stupid and would jump to conclusions
EXACTLY. Just like the government building shaped the same way. It wasn’t designed to be like a Swastika, they just saw that it was a good building design.
This is BBQ Design win. If not for people associating the Swastika with Hitler (when he actually didn’t create it) it wouldn’t be seen as bad at all.
You could always get a backwards swastika… perhaps that wouldn’t be so bad?
Actually this swastika shape seems really convenients for big BBQ’s. It’s a design win, and a history fail.
Seconded: it’s a history fail.
Thirded: it’s a history fail.
fourth-ed total history fail – unless this pit is in some un-named compound in Iowa I would say the brick-layer had no idea what it looked like and was only concerned with excellent bbq design.
The swastika is a peaceful symbol taken by Hitler and his roving gang of genocidal hipsters. I’d say bbq design win, Hitler fails for being an ass. His lasting legacy? Fail.
agreed.
iti s a peaceful symbol, but being awhite guy, for me to sport on of those sings of “peace” would be as bad as the jackasses that fly the rebel flag and say it has nothing to do with slavery or racism. regardless of original meaning, social stigma can change all.
Yeah, I don’t think he was suggesting we go around flying swazis. . .
and praise be to God he failed epically and killed himself! About the only thing he ever did for the rest of the world that was a WIN.
oh WilliamCA, you forgot to sign off at the end of your comment!
Right, Hitler was maybe the biggest yet one of the most untragic fails in
human history. What’s even a bigger fail though, is that the German people
not only trotted along, but hailed and cheered that machinery of hate.
I wouldn’t want to live through that sort of shite myself. On neither side.
“machinery of hate”… like /b/?
Your “neither” should be an “either”.
On Behalf of Germans everywhere: Eat shit and die, Hippie. You know what happened to people who disagreed with Hitler? Um, yeah, he killed them too. Duh, history knowledge FAIL.
…Genocidal Hipsters?
Oh man, I don’t even know what to say to that one. Except that maybe it’d be a good band name?
You know, they were a pretty damned exclusive club, those Nazis.
Tibetan-good-luck barbecue?
more like epic win, you know, there was a meaning to the swastica before Hitler defiled it, dont let him ruin it.
Yeah I’ve seen it on buddahist statues before.
Those Buddhists are enthusiastic Nazis.
But they do self-barbecue, not regular barbecue…
Comment WIN. So ripe for Burn of the Week.
it wasn’t a burn, it was just funny
I think self-immolation counts as a “burn.”
epic win.
Buddhism is Chinese. Besides, since it came first, it should be more appropriate to say that Hitler was an enthusiastic Buddhist.
Just to clarify, the Buddhist symbol is always ‘upright’ (as in looks like a right square) and points counterclockwise, whereas the Swastika can be oriented like a square or a diamond, and it points clockwise…
Those go left-sided instead of right sided
he already has, sorry to break it to you. the swastika will always be seen as a nazi symbol to the majority of people.
Yeah and the Stars and Bars isn’t southern pride either blah blah blah.
pardon? if that’s some reference to the american flag then i don’t get it.
Actually it’s another name for the Confederate Flag. But that’s probably why you don’t get it.
I live in California, but I’ve been to South/North Carolina, and, despite being a little northward, that flag was everywhere!
The ‘Stars and Bars’ flag was actually the first design for the national flag of the Confederacy, which ended up being dropped because many Southerners felt it too closely resembled the Union flag.
The flag that you see everywhere now-a-days is probably the ‘flag of the South’, which is really a historically innaccurate combination of the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate Naval Jack.
i live in n. carolina. i haven’t seen it at all.
Try leaving Chapel Hill sometime.
Not wanting to see something will do that to you. Here you go:
http://www.ncscv.net/
(for the record, I’m a northerner, just wanting to show these jackasses are still around.)
maybe that’s just is. i don’t want to see it, nor am i looking for it; therefor, i don;t. and i’m actually mooresville, nc.
alcohol may have been a factor in writing this…
oh unless you mean that other redneck southern flag. in which case i didn’t know it ever meant anything else.
So are you saying that you don’t tie the Confederate Flag to racisim, but you do tie the swastica to it? *gives a free flag with beer mailbox*
i do associate the swastika with nazis yes, as in, when i see a swastika it would be the first thing to come into my head.
as for the confederate flag, i can’t say i know much about the american civil war so i don’t really associate it with anything.
Ok, I can understand your problem then, the American Civil War wasn’t really a “world wide” thing. My apologies, I did not know. I just assumed you were one of the American people who claimed current symbolism should still be attached to past problems. Yes the Nazis were bad looking at it from the outside, but not all of them thought so. I see it as history myself not hatred in the present form.
just as not all the soldiers really believed nazism, not all Americans are idiots. we need to get that one out of people minds also.
The stars and bars is a different flag (one no one would recognize because it’s old, so I can see why people incorrectly refer to the rebel flag as “the stars and bars”).
The rebel flag was never used in any official capacity by the Confederacy, but is actually an amalgamation of earlier Confederate flags, which is part of the argument for the rebel flag being a symbol of states right and not the Confederacy itself.
Of course, that’s all bullshit and the rebel flag is still racially charged as all get-out.
There’s no way to revere that flag and not look like a white-supremacist prick, but boy do people try.
Had the South won, it would be the American flag that would now be labeled as evil ! Remember, history is written by the winners…
Except in the case of the Pelopponesian Wars, in which case Sparta kicked Athens’ ass, but Athens wrote the history.
They wrote with their own blood though.
Or the state of Palestine, which had been wiped out, then was put back on the map because the Romans of the time didn’t want recognize Israel. Speaking of genocide, there’s a war that’s been going on for thousands of years that most of us turn a blind eye to. But then, there will always be hate in the world.
There will always be people who think they’re better or more deserving than the next guy. Hitler was the same way but he was far from the last. The main reason he hasn’t been relegated to a foot note in history and that everyone still hates the guy (and I hate him, too) is that the allies had a really good PR compaign. What he did was wrong, but there are leaders today and the recent past that make Hitler look like a complete noob in the genocide department.
And in the spirit of the olympics, lest we not forget Mao. Yeah, this guy took dictatorship to a whole NEW level of death and oppresion.
Because history is really written by LOSERS!
there are two sorts of swastika…one which is clockwise an one which is counter-clockwise…one of them was buddhism symbol an one is nazi symbol…but the problem is, that the majority of people don’t know this fact…so you’re right
but whatever is: thats a really cool BBQ…with buddha quad-b-q technology…but there should be a “buddha inside” Label
in thailand, buddha barbecues you!
As Emankcin says below, the hooked cross or “swastika” shape has been employed in a number of different traditions. And there are two kinds, but Nomad’s comment is a little imprecise about that part.
“Swastika” is a Sanskrit word and means something like “good fortune.” The symbolic shape can be found in the major Indian spiritual currents — Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism — generally in the clockwise orientation. (Speculation is that that shape may originally have been associated with the circular movement of the sun.)
When Buddhism came from India into Tibet, the pre-existent Tibetan Shamanic practitioners — called Bon — were prompted to get organized in order to compete with their new Buddhist religious “rivals.” So Bon adopted the swastika image, too, but they turned it around into the counter-clockwise position to distinguish themselves from the Buddhists.
explanation win.
actually, both the clockwise and anti-clockwise swastikas are used in buddhist and daoist temples today. The Nazi swastika was only clockwise, though.
You’re mostly right on that one, Nomad. The Swastika has been in use for centuries, as early as the Neolithic period. It has been used by many religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Abrahamic religions, Asian traditions, Native American traditions, and yes, Buddhism. It is also still used in many Pagan practices, which is why Hitler probably chose the symbol. The two versions, one with the arms pointing right, and the other left. Hitler chose the right facing swastika. It’s too bad, really, because some religion practices still use the symbol, like the Buddhists.
wikipedia win!
oh and why would hitler have chosen the swastika because of its pagan usage?
wasn’t he a christian?
he would have shunned christian religion as well as any other if he hadn’t needed it for his propaganda. if he had been a man of any religion he might have been a better ruler, but as ist was he just wanted power… as much as he could get.
ps: if you look at his ceremonies closley you will find many references to pagan religions there… so he was closer to paganism than to catholicism.
siobhan … does your family happen to place a decorated tree in your house at Christmas time … or play with colored eggs at Easter …?
Those of course are “pagan references,” too.
(In truth, there really aren’t many cultural traditions/ “religions” which are not influenced by a number of different sources. I personally don’t think that’s a problem … it just comes down to how we do what we do, how and whether we live in open-minded awareness and heart-opened love. )
most of christian ceremonies are, because the church needed to get the people on its side and knew it could not do so without taking some / most of the stuff they already were used to, that’s why the birthday of jesus is so wrong placed (and so on)… i know all that
please don’t get me wrong… i am not the person to say any religion is better than the other. in fact i rather am a person who tries to respect any religion. i wont say i am free of prejudice, that would be a lie. and i dont know all the truth about any religion… who could? i myselfe don’t belong to any religion but my own which is a mixture of the things i can believe in. i dont need a church to pray in, i dont need a priest to tell me what to do. i just try to do my best. i believe, truly believe there is somthing, someone, somewhat out there that you could refer to as god… and i dont think it matters which way you name it.
and yes, you are right… in its deepest core all religions are of the same root… and let me add to it… most (if not all) religions have been misused at some point of history for powerhungry purposes. and that is – i think – the only problem with religions. that they are so well suited to be missused, to send people to war be it with weapons or in the heart. because everybody needs something to believe in… even the selfproclaimed atheist believes in something, even if it is that there is nothing.
to come to an end… all i wanted was to point out, that hitler was not realy into christianity, he just used it as far as it helped him and used what suited him from paganism or whatever you want to call it too. that does not make paganism or christianty bad… it just shows what i stated above. the sad truth that religion on it self would be – like marxism – a really great thing, but will never work out like it was planned with peolple. because there always will be someone who wants more than the other has.
You’ve said some fine things here.
One additional perspective that many Westerners don’t realize –
religion and religious experience can also be about DOUBTING all your beliefs, and through that doubt coming to rest in an experience that’s more simple and more fundamental than any made-up concepts.
A classic example of that is Zen Buddhism, but if you really look into it, you can find contemplatives and meditators in virtually every spiritual tradition who do practice that form of spiritual honesty.
What ever you do, don’t say that to members of my family!! They would lambaste you just for thinking it! Who was it that said something like ‘faith with out doubt is either insanity or fanaticism’? I can never remember who it was, or the exact quote for that matter.
I’m not too familiar with her work, but I see the Catholic author, Mary Gordon, said something similar:
That sounds right. But for some reason I thought it might have been someone like Oscar Wilde. Don’t know why. Either way, it’s one of those that I like to throw out there at family gatherings when they get a little too… too.
(Btw, Avis, for Lutherans to be opposed to doubting the authority of religious statements is the same sad paradox that you see all over the dogmatic religious world — Lutheranism of course was FOUNDED on doubting the authority of religious statements.)
I know, that is why I fell away from the whole thing. Well, one reason anyway.
Well said. I thought about this after I posted and realized that my thinking was rather reductive in my own post. I still believe those things that I said, but…I know it’s not the whole story.
i think maybe you guys take failblog a bit too seriously.
which i think constitutes as a fail.
um, hitler wasn’t a catholic. After he exterminated the jews, his next target was supposed to be the catholics. So every catholic(and jew and gypsie and pretty much everyone who doesn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes) in the world had better be thankful that hitler is dead.
having a religion or not has no bearing on how good a ruler you can be.
indeed many would argue it can be disadvantageous to have a religious leader and there should be a strong separation of church and state.
depends on how you see “having a religion”
if all christians lived exactly by the ways of their religion (which i know is never to be seen), there wouldn’t be a need for laws, police, weapons and so on.
so when i wrote about having a religion or being a man of any religion, i wrote about something like living up to the commandments (or trying to). which would have made it “really hard” for him doing what he has done or allowing what was done in his name.
religion is empty and dead. i don’t have any religion. i have life.
by ” i don’t have any religion” are you saying that you belong to no church and dont believe all the preachings you hear while you see that many preachers and heads of churches dont give a damn about what the preach – which i totally agree to, als you see in my writing
– or do you really believe in nothing? just interested, no offence meant.
none taken, but you may not like my answer. I have a personal relationship with God, and everything I do is between the two of us. I try not to judge, I try to be kind, I try to live the best I can. I don’t practice any religion, because religion is a series of rituals and ceremony. I just try to do my best each day. I fail and i succeed, but I keep trying. All humans have personal agendas, and I try to avoind them as much as possible, but then again, that may be mine…I believe tha teach person will answer for their actions to God, and it’s not up to anyone to enforce their own views on another.
you can not have a religion all you want, but saying it is “empty” and “dead” is a very ignorant thing to say.
In most cases, religion is a way for people to celebrate life. It gives their lives meaning. The very opposite of what you were saying.
Of course, you may be influenced by the fact that yes, some religions are extreme and bad things can happen. But in day to day life, religion is a rich, important part of people’s lives.
Think what you might, but think before you tell everyone else what you’re thinking.
I think.
It’s complicated, but here’s a simplification that I think is helpful.
Religions can be seen as LANGUAGES. In their healthy heart they come from our deepest and most sincere connection with the wonder of being alive [re-ligion = re-connection]. And, in their wholesome application, they can guide others to that kind of connection with before-any-words meaning.
But, like any language, people can and do also get into very stupid and vicious garbage, using the same symbols that were originally are founded in experiences of awe and joy.
hey laura, i have a view of “religion” as being a bunch of stupid rules inspired by God and foolishly imposed by men. I believe in God, The Bible, and Jesus as his son who died and rose again on the third day. I stick to the basics and ask the Holy Spirit to guide me each day. I’m sure this sounds preachy or wahtnot, but I am tired of hypocritical idealists that hide behind rules, but don’t practice what they preach. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs and practices, and I respect that. What I also respect is the ability to say what ever is on my mind on the internet.
yeah, but, remember the crusades?the inquisition?the witch burnings?the holocaust? all those happened because of differing religions and people not wanting to accept said differences.
It’s more like different cultures, peoples, and ideologies, not just different religions, per se. Stalin’s massacres, the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge, and the genocide in Rwanda — “religion” had nothing to do with that. It’s just our species’ general capacity for ignorant cruelty and insensitive barbarity.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but religion and what y’all’re talking about are two different things. You have religion, sorta, because you do things religiously. You eat religiously, as in often and regularly. What people often reffer to as “religion” is faith. And this could start an annoyingly long debate so I’ll stop now.
problem is… we’re already discussing exactly what you pointed out so nice
and seems as if you’re not alone with this point of view.
Agreed. Religion is a business, and is in the business of making
money and consolidating and keeping power. I think that organized religions are corrupt and dangerous. The laws preach hatred of other religions and intolerance of folks who are different. When good folks get fed up with that, they splinter off and make their OWN religions, and so the cycle goes.
Faith is, in my mind something completely different. It is something that humans have demonstrated they desire or need for many millennia, making it a perfect vehicle with which to exploit and control them.
I have neither a religion nor a (religious) faith. I keep trying to have faith in humankind, but they keep making it awfully difficult for me.
Just try a tall frosty glass of misanthropy and wash it down with some pessimism, then chase it was some down-right negativity! (Beats church).
To my knowledge, Hitler prescribed to Marxism which says “God is dead”
he agreed with some concepts of marxism but wasn’t an actual marxist.
he very much believed in a god, it’s a myth that he was an atheist.
Way, way wrong.
Hitler was Fascist. While in historical practice, both Fascists and supposed Marxists (e.g., USSR) have similarly committed gargantuan atrocities, they are effectively opposite to one another ideologically.
Hitler was kind of Christian, and got support from many German churches, etc., but he was also into the occult to a degree.
At least there aren’t any “orangutan” atrocities.
i see you haven’t heard about the atrocity in Borneo where an orangutan was used as a sex slave.
*masturbates*
It is believed that Hitler’s grandmother became pregnant with Hitler’s illegitimate father by a member of the Jewish family she was working as a servant for. This would make Adolph Hitler one quarter Jewish. Hitler later passed laws that German women were not allowed to work within Jewish homes.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_Adolf_Hitler_half_Jewish
One version I heard was that Hitler’s swastika was actually a cross made out of hatchets.
Not sure if we’re talking about the same thing — but the “fasces” symbol used by the Fascists is a bunch of sticks bound together holding a hatchet. (Mussolini used it; so did the Romans. )
… and so did the U.S. on the back of the so-called Mercury Head dimes, minted 1916-1945.
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an illustration is here:
http://www.coinfacts.com/Dimes/mercury_head_dimes.html
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_Adolf_Hitler_half_Jewish
It’s still used in Japan as well to mark where different places of worship are. On maps, on signs… a LOT of people don’t realize that this symbol originally represented something good…
The Swastika is a hindu symbol. Swast or Swastik in Sanskrit means healthy/clean/pure.
Religious knowledge fail.
Reading the looooong replies Fail.
except to millions and millions and millions of Asians who still see it employed for religious use every day?
asian is a religion?
don’t be an idiot. asians have a couple different religions that all use it.
SO!! maybe this is one of those ASIAN B-B-Q’s??
Perhaps, but to the millions of Hindus worldwide, it is a sacred symbol that has nothing to do with the distortion Hitler put on it.
But hindus probably aren’t BBQing up some beef now are they?
You CAN grill chicken you know. Nowhere near as good as a steak, but still.
The Jains use the swasitika design more than the Hindus — and it’s going to have to be grilled veggies for them.
The swastika that was used Pre-Hitler was actually going counter-clockwise. If I’m not mistaken it was a celtic thing.
many different groups used it worldwide, it wasn’t just a celtic thing.
You’re right. You should wear rainbows on all your clothes.
I think it was a symbol of peace. That’s why the Nazis chose it, despite the fact that they’re racist homicidal maniacs.
WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN! I don’t see no fail… They wanted to make a swastika shaped bbq and they did it. Where’s the fail here?
“I don’t see no fail” – double negative so you do
I wonder if it’s a gas barbeque?
SNAP!
now that would be bad
This only calls for one comment and i’m surprised it hasn’t been posted yet
OMGWTFBBQ
WIN
there are flamethrowers that burn your face off if you try and light it.
You know that before hitler’s time the swastika used to be a symbol of good luck? its true!(or the book i read that from was lying)
yeah, it’s been used by many different groups and religions for hundreds of centuries with different meanings.
although this has already been mentioned above :p
Touché.
your avatar is also a swastika FAIL
i’d been thinking alot of the avatars on here look like swastikas.
actually, almost every single one of the ones made by gravatar look like swastikas. that’s just because they’re fashionable.
yeah, i was suspicious of my subconsious mind beeing brain-washed and that soon we’d all become jew-hating, amature Deutsch-speaking homophobics. Strange i see that happening to alot of you on here recently
gravatar nazis.
Just seems like a decorative way for a park to allow four families to cook at the same grill.
you know who liked cooking? HITLER. you Nazi.
LOL maybe they should be using this bbq sauce then:
http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/images/nazicue.jpg
except THAt swastika is the inverted one. it just fits so nicely with that wonderful W1N bbq.
Someone says that they have seen swastikas on Buddhist statues!
No no no.
Those symbols start at a center point like the swastikas, but they turn to the left. swastikas turn the other way.
Very similar looking, I used to think the same until a Buddhist set me straight!
You can find them going in each direction in Buddhism. I just glanced at Wikipedia for “swastika” and it has a fairly good survey of the different places and forms the hooked cross symbol has been used. Here’s a snippet re Japanese Buddhism:
reading this comments can be very educational
reading your comment can be grammatically angering.
it was obviously a mistake, ‘this’ instead of ‘these’. therefore not a grammar error, simply a spelling mistake.
extreme pedanticism fail.
Covering someone’s ass when they made a stupid and obvious mistake FAIL!
eh, i think you’ll find it was a ‘covering someone’s ass’ win.
having solved all the world’s other problems, thanks for coming to our forum and correcting people’s grammar, jfizz.
jfizz did nothing to correct the comment.
not to correct, actually, but to point out irrelevancies.
Reading these comments can be very educational. Very true!
More TMI Less Fuzz => WIN ^^
vieu moved me, man
EPIC WIN
FEIL!
HAIL!
…ok never mind, your one was better…
Well, to be honest (and no pun intended) I think that the BBQ is properly designed. Maximum use of space
what pun?
Yeah, seriously, I’ve read this three times and haven’t found the pun. Fail.
Put your nose close to the screen and move back slowly, letting your eyes cross a bit as you focus. You’ll see it.
this pun thing has me extremely angry for no reason…
good job, you found it.
oh my god, it’s…it’s JESUS’S FACE!
Better use of space would be to get rid of the wing thingies. Just make it a + or x (depending on how you look at it).
but then you’d have the risk of the hot coals falling on the ground.
And then you’d have mathematicians and/or pirates hassling you about your grill design.
and global warming would start rising as you killed them off.
by “space” to you mean “lebensraum”? ’cause that’s almost a pun. You know. Living space.
Why am I trying to defend you?
Because you’re a nice person and he just screams “Help me!”?
I don’t know…
B-B-Q-RANG!
OMGWTFBBQ!!!1
It’s a winner for me. Religion used it before Hitler. Religion still uses it. So in India this is a definate winner! Even for Veggie fans!
BBQ resembles swastika therefore fails therefore humorous.
what a great summary of this entire thread *pats on back*
um… well… there’s a lot about religion you seem to have missed
Of course, the design could avoid problems by reversing the direction of the arms. Though the submitter could just mirror the photo (which he might have done).
That’s what I did with my reverse swastika forehead tattoo, but you would believe how often I’m forced to explain it.
a swastika with any other orientation is still a swastika. and it’s still a peaceful symbol that was corrupted by hitler.
wonder if hitler ever had a bbq on this thing… eh, theres allways a chance hes still around pondering eevol things. =D
Actually, not so much of a chance — Hitler had himself bar-b-que’d in the end.
hmmm now we see if I am having a patience fail or if it is a comment post fail…
Actually huge chance, haven’t you heard Hitler didn’t die he just went to space, they are gonna return to earth in 2018..
They? As in Hitler and Elvis?
Hitler and Alf.
So, now I am wondering if the site is hating me because of the link I have put in my post, or if this is all going to end up a multiple post fail due to my impatience.
Anyway, Hitler did not BBQ himself, that was all a cover up, he went to the moon, they’re going to return in 2018. Don’t believe me? Google Iron Sky Trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KEueJnsu80
haha it worked that time!
ok…
dude, you’ve reached your quota of fail. please leave the premesis.
This is why I hate my impatience, I knew it was going to do this and someone was going to come along and try to get a burn of the week nomination by insulting my posts, though in my defence my first post still hasn’t shown up.
there, there. *pat on the back*
*cries on white girls shoulder* all I wanted to do was share a horrible joke based on a slightly strange looking movie.
aw crap, now i feel bad… it’s ok, ok.
Hitler, what a gas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
failed to fail
Sieg Feil!
That BBQ looks like the Burn of the Week.
i loled.
i farted.
Wonder if all of the ash from the BBQ is from the charcoal or did Hitler Kill em and use them as fuel to cook his food?
That’s not very funny and the fact that your fail blog name is Adolf really shows how ethnically and historically ignorant you are.
If his name really is Adolf, you just insulted his parent pretty badly.
He just insulted the every Jew in the world pretty badly – so that’s an unjustified argument.
If you can’t handle the comments that would obviously be expected to be posted under this image, don’t read them. And get over yourself.
whoa….baaaad.
nazism win
bbq fail
OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!11111111!!!
you’re the 3rd person to say that. get some originality.
Introducing the NEW outdoor swastica BBQ!
Roast your Jews with style!
Rickson by armbar, , sorry, wrong forum. .
??????????????
First visit to this site and may I say, the Fails should be in the comments and the comments should be on the main page, they are far more entertaining!
Hysterical reading!
stick around. there’s plenty where this came from.
they go on forever.
congratulations on your first obvious FAIL. refreshments are at the back…
SIEG BBQ
wir müssen die BBQ AUSROTTEN!!!!!1
I love how you people try to speak German XD
Ich frag mich, ob sie den Grill absichtlich so gebaut haben. Vielleicht sind sie erst später draufgekommen was er darstellt
(now translate
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ich glaube, das haben die bis heute nicht gecheckt!
you people? RACIST!
You asked if they did that on purpose or not.
My answer: Möglicherweise taten sie. Ich weiss nicht.
Perhaps, I dunno.
THIRD! (Reich)
what’s the difference between a jew and a hamburguer???
the hamburguer doesn’t scream when you cook it!
No. Just….just no.
let’s see now…
hamburguer, hamburger.
*weighs both words on each hand*
i think you’re an idiot.
D:
I have to comment at this.
Just too fucking funny.
Oh, and I’m not a racist, I just find pleasure on sadistic/sick/acid jokes.
Jewish Joke WIN
so are you saying jews are whimps unless they come from hamburg?
hold up sign *ich bin ein hamburger*
wow, who woulda thought a jewish joke would be told in a thread commenting on a barbeque in the shape of a swastika. I mean…what’s the connection???!!
Whoever posted this FAILS cause if you think the swatzika cross only means nazi then you are a dumb f***
we dont think the swastica cross only means nazi, but we do believe that nazis are more likely to build a barbque in the shape of a cross than buddhists.
Acting like you don’t think of Nazis makes you pretentious.
Or a complete idiot! Don’t forget the most plausible possibility!
Sad this is the swastika, it’s actually a really efficient barbecue design.
Was this pic taken at the BNP’s RWB festival
Steak heil… o.O
Lol! Sacrilege with a smile
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i’l take my cheeseburger and fries with some extra genocide. racist size that, please.
Ironic, since Hitler was a vegitarian…
Self fail. ._. Took me a minute to understand Nazi BBQ.
OMGFTWBBQ!!!
lol that is an awesome comment!!!! FAIL
Oh yeah, them Nazi’s loved their barbecue. Why, Hitler would hold an All-Nazi Weekly Jewish Hate Session and Barbecue. You think those 200k Nazi’s were just there for the hell of it? Hell no! They were hungry. Bring your own beer!
Lampshades provided.
BBQ win
It’s a Nazi-Q
I LOL’d.
thats no fail, thats a Sieg Fail
i wanna that bbq!!1 itsocute!11
It’s a swastika. How can anyone not see it? (no pun intended, late to the game, etc.)
Yes, this is actually the symbol for Buddhism, not for the Nazis. The Nazi symbol faces the clockwise.
“faces clockwise” My bad.
This BBQ is facing clockwise like a swastika. Although actually the Nazis borrowed it from Hinduism. I know someone is going to pounce on me for quoting Wikipedia, but…
In Hinduism, the two symbols represent the two forms of the creator god Brahma: facing right it represents the evolution of the universe (Pravritti), facing left it represents the involution of the universe (Nivritti). It is also seen as pointing in all four directions (north, east, south and west) and thus signifies stability and groundedness.
i know some people who would pounce on you, but not because you quoted wikipedia. *nothing more said*
Take that, Holocaust deniers!
O_o
Obvious WIN. SIEG FEIL!
ummmm.. Nuremburger rally? Sorry, tried to think of something funny and that’s all I could come up with.
is this why people say OMGWTFBBQ?
Wonder where they get the BBQ supplies? KKK Supermarket?
WIN
Oh man, I lol’ed till I omg’ed.
wow! so is that where they cook em?
LOL, I can understand why the people designed it the way they did, because of the four grills and everything, but… WOW.
They must be Hitler’s relatives.
I bet their neighbors are Jewish, there’s a big wall between the houses.
i have to ask how they built that thing. I hate to nit pick, but if they built it counterclockwise, there’s no WAY that thing is kosher.
hitler’s home cooked burgers.
SEIL FIEL!!!!
You’re all wrong. This is a ‘fail’ fail. That thing isn’t a BBQ. It’s clearly an oven.
u all fail miserably. have any of you tried to read the comments section? HOLY FUCK!
Might i find it a problem that my Jewish roommate cant stop laughing and might choke to death?
call 911 i cant stop laughing….
How is this fail? It’s fucking win!!
oh unless you happen to be Jewish
I stopped laughing on account of your comment fail, and the one you are about to make…
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It’s a Nazi-Q!!!
hahaha lol this is actually a danish radio station’s BBQ.
Everytime i post a thread somewhere people yell at me when everyone else does the same thing then they lock it
WOW!
OMG! Secret Natz33 BBQ Design!!! D:
(Plays Heute Ist Mein Tag)
This is not the nazi symbol…The nazi swastika is reverse of what you see. This symbol is actually a holy Hindu symbol…Don’t see a fail there…
and u obviously don’t see about a dozen other posts here that made the same point.
Actually the swastika means peace in many country’s and used to be on flags on our navy ships until Hitler gave the swastika a bad reputation! so nice try but you
Fail!
the same point was already made much more effectively by the others here
u didn’t read, u didn’t try, u weren’t nice — thrice the Fail!
HEIL BARBEEQUE FUZKAMUSCH FUZ