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Where is this?? It’s an oldy but a goody.
It’s in the middle of a road moron…
Obvious fail.
so is it in CANADA? where there is only one road?
retarded dork who knows nothing about the world, ’cause he never leaves the safety of his parents’ basement FAIL
you’re just angry cause you’re Canadian. It’s ok, wait, no it’s not
actually, I’m American, but when I travel, i do have a maple leaf pin
Roll that up and smoke it
hehe. nicely burnt.
kinda like when i travel, i use my irish passport rather than my british one. people tend to like you more…
Do you also reply to yourself when you travel?
stfu
Canadians are Americans too – perhaps you mean that you’re from the United States? More specifically the United States of America, as opposed to the United Mexican States? Ethnocentric FAIL
this argument is old and redundant. ‘american’ is generally accepted to mean someone from the US. pedantry fail.
Generally accepted in the US…
Fortunately that’s the only place that matters. Anti-American fail.
And it’s generally accepted here in Britannia too.
Why won’t the canadians and americans just shut up about
their pointless countries and come and worship their southern
superior, Australia?
Ode to the Aussie Big-Block V8, the only country with the sense to build big horsepower muscle cars AND family sedans throughout the ages, rather thansome of the crap we Americans had to put up with. Ozzies made the Ford that America
couldn’t – the FPV GT/Typhoon. And the fabulously cheap and powerful Holden Commodore (Pontiac G8).
I salute the funny foreign Detroit iron.
Canada is America’s hat.
I actually offended some Canadians in Vancouver because I referred to myself as “an American”. They pointed out that they were as well. Not pedantry fail, some people take issue with this.
Did a Canadian pick on you when you were a child or something?
Those people fail……..at being American.
Molested him….
“Want some candy, eh?”
Only pedantic people take issue with this. I try not to use “American” to mean a citizen of the US and A, but alas it is generally accepted that when we say “American” we mean seppos.
My apologies to Canadians, but the seppos have claimed North America like they are trying to with the rest of the world. They have a grossly skewed view of entitlement to everything.
It puzzles me to think how Canadians are so different (and often received very well) compared to those from the United States. They should have stayed with the British.
Is that you Ian? stfu.
The Seppos? This from a country that was formed by Brittan Dropping off they’re worst prisoners and trying to turn it into a penal colony. Think before you judge everyone based on an overview of everything. Although I do love how alot of the world hates the U.S.A. yet seems to have a knowledge of whats going on in it.
US of A*
I think Canadians are received so well because the rest of the world takes pity on them. They should’ve stayed with Britain… as should you!
“Seppos” – rhyming slang for septic tank. Britain sent all the criminals to Australia and all the religious nutters to the US. I know which ones I like better.
Sober observation win.
America got more criminals than AUS did, moron.
Why am I replying to a comments thread? This is the lowest form of communicaton in the world. FAIL
Hmm, a friend of mine in school thought that the word ‘heightened’ was ‘hytent’. Bizarre. She was really intelligent otherwise.
And my girlfriend thought ‘tit for tat’ was ‘tic for tac’… because of tic tacs. *despairs*
No, “Canadians” take issue with it. “People” don’t care. They got offended at the fact that you’re American; they’ll hide that behind any stupid PC excuse they can think of. That’s what that’s all aboot, eh?
they only say that in alberta, eh ;]
It’s not a pedantry fail because more than one person was being an ignorant pedant? fail fail
Yeah but some people take issues with toast. People need to quit whining I’ve said I was American to Germans and Iraqis and the Brit’s and they all knew what I was talking about. If you from Canada say Canada. We just say america because it’s in the name. United States of America is a lot to say everytime.
A møøse bit my sister once.
subtitled credits FTW!
That’s because they wish they were US citizens.
Monty Python WIN
So…I have to say I’m a United States of American or a US American now, so I don’t go pissing off the Canadians? Please.
i think im just a bit to lazy to care
although there are some very funny youtube videos where there are ridiculously stupid americans featured.
it annoys alot of people that the majrity is not like those portrayed in that film because that is what alot of people think the typical american is like when alot of americans are actually very intelligentand sophisticated
another streotype for americans is obese people when infact there is a higher percentage of obese people in the UK
(im british by the way)
and by the way, how did we manage to get from drainage, to peoples nationalities?
more like epic Monty Python win
No realli! She was karving her initials on it.
Moose bites can be very nasti.
I offended some Canadians in Vancouver a few years back when I was in a Burger King….
I saw that you could add cheese and gravy to your fries for only $.99.. I said (out loud), “Who would want cheese and gravy on their fries?”
With a few stares in my direction, I realized that I unintentionally announced my nationality…
You wouldn’t think that a few miles (or kilometers) would make such a difference…
.. You’ll have to forgive them.. the poor bastards think that ham is bacon… LOL
No Canadian outside of Toronto feels this way. In fact, it makes them sort of pissed off.
No Canadian IN Toronto feels that way either in my experience, and I’ve lived here (Toronto, that is) for over 30 years… I have yet to meet any Canadian anywhere who wants to be referred to as American in any context.
This is what has puzzled me about the issue. If “Americans” (U.S. citizens), are viewed as such filth abroad, why would a Canadian want the association? Strange, this.
‘Cause everybody knows Canada sucks anyway
aaaw witty remark fail.
From a European point of view (mine, that is)
it looks like two brothers sharing the same
house: Canada is the well-behaved smaller
brother who greets his neighbors and such.
USA is the older and larger bully brother,
provoking brawls at every corner and
generally not giving a shit about what those
other suckers might think.
Archetypical setup here.
Oh, and Mexico is that poor dusty kid from
across the street.
Haha. I like it. Although Canada is physically larger than the USA.
Egotistically smaller, perhaps.
while Canadian’s are North American, I have never heard any of them refer to themselves as American or nor do we want the title of American. kthnxbai
and don’t even joke about moose, they will f**k you up. then eat your family.
So I am really curious… what else would U.S. citizens be called? Unitedstatesians? U-Stanis?
Hm, U-Stanis got a ring to it…
USAliens anyone?
Some weirdos like to say US Americans, but they have an aura of assholery. I hear the common term to use in Mexico is Statesers.
Canadians are North Americans, as are United Mexican Statesians, dingbat.
If someone from the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is called a “Mexican”, then someone from the United States of America SHOULD be called an “American”. Or are these incessantly annoying Canadians claiming that if it were “United American States” then “American” would be OK?
Canadians aren’t American.
Canada is a totally different country.
it isn’t classed as in USA
FAIL!
Even in france,anyone from the US is called american(ne)
SO BY ethnocentric, you are referring to the the race, or ethnicity, unitedstatesians?
burn fail.
It’s kinda depressing having to do that, isn’t it? It’s depressing that our past actions have made us one of the most disliked countries in the world.
All we wanted to do was rule the world. -sniffles-
Past? What about the present actions? Those are still pissing a lot of people off.
After you talk about the present, it isn’t the present anymore. Therefore, in my view, there is no such thing as the present. Damn, these brownies that policeman made for me are so good. Is time moving slower now? Am I the One?
Well played!
Maybe you’re dead
Maybe it was the brownies.
What’s the score of the
Red Wings game right now?!
Quick!!!
I’ve never heard of a sport called Red Wings….how do you play it?
Actually, anti-Americanism has everything to do with the anti-Americans, who, for a variety of reasons, don’t like our culture. The Anglo-American concept of individual freedom and simple jealousy are the major causes. Ignorance of America (if I believe every stupid stereotype of Americans, I might hate us too!) doesn’t help. Europeans generally have no clue.
How about the Americans who have no idea about Europeans, don’t be so nieve
Naive, spelling fail
Americans generally careless about Europeans.
Except good comedy.
Oh yes, they can be very careless. Which doesn’t mix well with power.
The concept of individualism meshes really poorly with grouping entire nations of people together and speaking of them as having strong common chacteristics. (“We” are misrepresented, “they” are all jealous and have no clue).
The majority of Europeans do not hate Americans. Some do, certainly, and their reasons vary. There are raid fans as well (“everything is better in the US”), and both have as little real experience of the US.
What I would say, though, is that the foreign policies of the last eight years’ regime has won the US as a nation very few friends. But only a fraction of the populace is incapable of distinguishing between hating the poiticla actions and hating the people.
Wow, did you spell potilical that way to avoid
attention of the internet watchdogs?
Otherwise, total agreement from Germany here.
, but none of them deserved my hatred.
Very vernuenftig. I’ve met only few Americans
(there!
Reasonable people, all of them. The two Canadians too.
Still, if someone starts an Anti-American choir, I’m in,
I tell ya!
Correction fail.
“poiticla”>”potilical”>”political”
pol(y)=many, tics=blood-sucking disease-spreading external parastes
Parasites? But your statement is true.
poli-=city, tics=correct
Partial Fail
What makes you say Europeans have no clue about America?
Judging by the fact that roughly 90% of Americans don’t even own a passport, I’d guess that Europeans have more of a clue about America than the other way round.
If it is true as you say that 90% of Americans do not have a passport it is not an immediate association with a lack of geography understanding. Most of us do not have a passport because we don’t need one to cross state lines. In Europe if you want to go more than a few hundred miles you would need one, because you’d be out of your own country.
Yes but geography knowledge and actually visiting a country to experience it first-hand are very different things.
And you’re speaking as if America and Europe are the only two places in the world. Take Australia for example; they don’t need a passport to cross state lines but they still have them to travel to other countries and see the rest of the world.
With Americans it just seems like they’re not even interested in visiting other countries, whether it’s due to ignorance, laziness or… well I don’t know.
Well, just because I have a passport doesn’t mean I’m actually
able to afford to go anywhere in the world that I want to go to. It
takes a lot of time and money to go places and being that most
middle class and lower middle class people need to work and
pay rent and all that jazz, we can’t ever really get places.
And even though I’m American, that doesn’t mean I maintain an
ignorance of the rest of the world. Granted there are quite a lot
of those in my country who do, which is really sad and an
excellent example of our atrocious education system, but there
are still those here who actually know that Georgia (as an
example of current news) just so happens to be another country
(located north of Turkey and bordered by the Black Sea) and not
just a state in the union. Don’t fall prey to all the ridiculous
stereotypes about Americans, most aren’t true of some of us.
Well, in general I think Americans know less
about geography then Europeans.
But, ask a European about pointing African
countries on a map, and he/she will fail.
About the passports :
Even here, in the Netherlands you need an
ID ( like passport ) even if you don’t leave the
country. So for Europeans it’s very normal
to have a European ID or passport. And as pointed
out before. If I go 30 minutes to the south,
Im in another country, if I go 1 hour east,
Im in another country.
Agreed. International travel is extremely expensive, and most citizens of the U.S.A. don’t have the extra money to hop an international flight and Ritz our way across the Continent. That’s not to say we wouldn’t love to spend time abroad; it’s just not finacially feasible. It’s not as easy as it is in Europe.
Remember, most of us over here are doing exactly what most everyone else is doing. Working hard, watching the news, thinking “What in the hell has the world come to?” Then we go back to work, make a little money, take care of our families, and try not to die.
Why would an american want to travel? I mean, really? To visit you snotty little toads? No matter how bad it gets here at home, it still beats your little piss-ant country all around the block. Never mind that our current leaders have wreaked world travel for the rest of us, your food sucks, your roads suck and your languages suck. We are FIRST World, baby – don’t you forget it.
Also consider that the U.S. is roughly the size of Europe in its entirety, and we have 50 individual states that get taught before international political borders.
Visiting Australia and having met many people there, I can safely say that they have no better clue of where Oklahoma is in relation to Kentucky as I do where Tasmania is to New South Whales. I don’t know what province Sydney is in, and they didn’t know what state Washington, D.C. was in (trick question though).
And most of us can’t even place our own home states correctly on a map.
A good deal of people actually assumed the US was the largest country in the world and promptly pointed to Russia, our very opposition during the Cold War.
fuktard, you are the very epitome of a fuktard.
The U.S. of A. owes its existence to other cultures and other nations. Your arrogant and ignorant head-in-your-ass self-assurance is precisely the sort of thing that keeps U.S. citizens from a more enlightened and appreciative connection with the rest of humanity. I live in the U.S. and have my ancestry that is both European and Native; have been fortunate enough to receive more education than most U.S. professors. And it is eminently clear to me that our ugly American arrogance is absolute idiocy.
Get real, get humble, get a clue.
Thanks, fuzz. I already told one idiot off today; I didn’t really feel comfortable doing it again. But I’m really glad that you did.
*Announcer voice*
… and fuzz is just shooting through the court… failed block attempt by waffle, he runs, he jumps, he slams waffle into the ground…
classic play by fuzz there, bob, that’s one for the history books.
*nominates for Burn of the Week*
Oh, except you were talking about the fuktard. >.<
Kids, this is why you don’t post on failblog at 10 PM when you’re a retard.
My point exactly, FUZZ – we have the best of everything everyone else has to offer and we don’t even have to leave our homes for it. Why visit places with substandard everything to be shit on by the natives who think that the americans they see on the net or tv are what all americans are like?
Obviously I can get that here at home from over-educated toilet swabs like yourself, FUZZ.
My apologies to waffle.
Okay…I take it back. I feel perfectly comfortable saying
that it’s assholes like fuktard that make me utterly ashamed to be an American.
I will not apologize for you, however. You aren’t worth it, and it is quite clear that you in no way carry the respect or admiration here that fuzz has earned.
The best of everything? The best of EVERYTHING!? Are you a TOTAL nuttard?
Who has the highest life expectancy?
Who has the highest per capita income?
Who has the highest percentage population of spiritually engaged persons?
Who has the highest average education levels?
Who takes care of its population with the most comprehensive and universal health-care coverage?
Who has the most equitable distribution of wealth?
Who ranks highest in subjective well-being?*
NOT the United States of America for ANY of the above.
_____
*BHUTAN ranks higher than we do on that one.
I LOVE spinning twits up on the ‘net; almost too easy
Too sad, more like.
Practice more self-de-troll, my friend.
Hoisted with your own petard, fuktard.
It’s a thing of beauty. Poetic, even.
Fuktard, you prick, shut the hell up.
God, I don’t know how you guys can switch moods like that. I admire that…
I hate little self aggrandizing pricks. D-:<
Switching moods?? Clearly they’re all women. With penises.
I want such complements.
*checks self*
Erm…nope. Still no penis.
Try Raccoon, you may have more luck there.
Oooh. Thanks for the simul.
*complements fuzz*
That’s “penii”. I think.
Penis (pe·nis)
n. pl. pe·nis·es or pe·nes (-nēz)
So you were right.
*Walks away feeling as if he has solved a literary conundrum on failblog*
Penes? Hahahahaha.
Always goes back to penis envy.
Don’t need passport to travel round Europe cos of the SchvengAN AGREEMENT.
jealousy???
you have got to be kidding me. just how misguided are you, sick little yank?
Yes. It’s because of your individual freedom and simple
jealousy that they don’t like “Americans”!? It has nothing to
do with the fact that you are producing more bombs than you can
handle. Instead of concentrating on those weapons factories try
making soft cuddly things and drop them on non-suspecting people.
win!
Funny how there weren’t any complaints about all our bombs until recently. If it weren’t for us all you euros would be speaking German (or maybe Russian) and the aussies would be a Jap territory. You’ll wish you had our bombs when China and Russia get uppity and send their tanks across your borders.
World War II win!
And if it wasn’t for that one extra voice, you
Americans would speak German in the first
place. Look it up!
The world might actually be different, with
German religious nutters dominating instead
of their British variety…
Agreed. America may have saved Europe, but that doesn’t mean Europe is forever indebted to America. Look at what a bad influence we’ve been on Australia!
(Specifically the obesity rates and the several resulting broken public toilets which are now being replaced with larger, more durable variants)
The US did NOT “win the war” in WW2. Germany screwed up – they attacked Russia when it was a very bad idea to do so. The US just came in at an appropriate moment to look like heroes. It would have taken LONGER for them to lose had the US not intervened, but they still would have lost – there was not way they could hold off both Russia and England, and the resistance movements (especially in France and the Netherlands) were gaining quite a bit of traction by that time also.
And by the way, I do speak German on a day to day basis (although it’s not my mother tongue), so that argument hardly holds water.
I’m American….
And I think that’s a bunch of BS. I don’t even like this place, and I’ve lived here the last 22 years… and look forward to moving far away from it.
What are you waiting for?
poor boy….. what can I say?! I am german!!!!
btw. i call you americans and the mexicans are mexican. unfortunatly we german don´t talk to much bout canada. you are a bit like nothern europe: everyone know there is a lot of place in the north but who gives shit???
( for everyone who thinks thats a new plan to rule the world: i´ve been ironic)
DTB, you’re just an idiot cause you’re American! Ha, You voted for Bush TWICE. Stupid stupid stupid…
He stole the first and possibly the second. We’re only half stupid. Unfortunately, we’re seventy-five percent ignorant and ninety-percent apathetic.
Uh… XENOPHOBIA FAIL’d
overly sensitive commenter who doesn’t understand it’s a South Park reference and not an ethnocentric comment FAIL
Assumption Fail…
Not getting the joke Fail…
Use of “‘’s” Fail… (That was cool!)
well at least you were First!
thank thee
Actually, when making a plural possessive, the apostrophe really does go after the “s”.
but what if my parents are only one person. MY famiLY TREE IS A LINE!- WE LAY EGGS!
hows that now LEXLUTHOR! YOU CAN HAVE SUPERMAN IF YOU STILL WANT HIM
you family tree is straight up and down? wow, lots of incest/ inbreeding going on in there.
we. LAY. EGGS.
that’s not incestual.
its nature.
Unless your family is hermaphroditic you would still need both
sexes to propagate.
you’ve never heard of “asexual reproduction?”
biology class FAIL!
Yes and I’ve heard of Parthenogenesis. But neither
incorporate the production of eggs.
Reading class FAIL!
And even oviparous parthenogenesis has to have both sexes
getting together somewhere up the line.
Unless you’re a specific species of lizard which does happen to asexually reproduce through eggs. Can’t remember which one does that though.
…
and yet… in order for an egg to be fertilized by a chicken, it needs a roostrer
even in snails, which are hermaphrodidic, they still need two…
a certain lizard, which reproduces through cloning, still needs to at least
get with a male lizard,
wait… so you’re a freaky, cloning lizard?
That pretty much sums it up…
Better a freaky, cloning lizard than a roostrer.
Wasn’t there a hammerhead shark that reproduced asexually?
“…have constructed an absolute morphodite in the front yard…”
and the word is incestuous, not incestual… unless the incest goes back many generations.. then maybe ancestry + incest = incestual
I very much appreciate Dork’s attitude right now
why thank you you megabastard
yeah lol, correction fail.
Na… Not Canada, this was filmed down the street from you after you took a dump flushed your toilet.
Hey don’t diss it – most of our road is paved you know.
I thought s/he did a great job of being obvious.
har-de-har-har..
We’re devils and black sheep, really bad eggs!
You know, I think he was asking for a location, such as the NAME OF THE ROAD, the town it’s in or close to, so on and so forth. You’re the moron for snapping at a LOGICAL QUESTION, and presenting a rude, incompetent, and blunt response. You have a brain, so use it.
I will never take my city’s drainage system for granted ever again.
Old Faithful Fail? I coulda sworn that was in Yellowstone…
This is on Interstate I35-W in south Minneapolis. It is notorious for flooding because the freeway slopes downward towards the Minnehaha Creek basin.
Doesn’t appear to be much that’s “mini” about this haha — although I don’t know how funny it is for you guyses.
(Oh, I almost said geysers again.)
did you know that if Minnehaha married Don Ho…..she’d be Minnehahaho??
Did you know that “Minnehaha” means “Laughing water” in some Native American language (don’t recall which)? Looks like this creek really did get the last laugh.
So ‘haha’ means ‘water’?
I think “minne” means “water.” a lot of languages do that reverse grammar thing.
yes, actually “minne” means water, and “haha”. . well . . laughter. Durrr.
It would be be more amusing if ‘haha’ unexpectedly meant ‘water’ and not ‘laughter’, but by all means pour cold haha on it. I fail at approaching Failblog with due seriousness.
Minnehaha means “laughing water” in Lakota Sioux
Isn’t I35-W the bridge that collapsed?
No, that was the I-35E bridge in downtown Minneapolis.
I35-fail.
As someone who drove over the bridge the day it collapsed, I can assure you that it is I35-W that failed itself right in to the river.
As for the video, if it is Minneapolis that spot of the freeway is notorious for that kind of BS.
I35-W Bridge FAIL… completely unnecessary, but oh well.
You’re all epic failures. he asked where it was, it was obviously in the middle of a road. the question was, where is that road.
so right jesse… they are all having-life-failes x’D
sittin in a dark basement and surfin’ all the it’s-funny-because-someone-got-hurt-sites. poor.
Wheeeee! Look at the little guy run!
… like a little old geyser.
Oh, Fuzz, you cad!
etymological love note to my well-bred breeder friend:
“A cad used to be a jumped-up member of the lower classes who was guilty of behaving as if he didn’t know that his lowly origin made him unfit for having sexual relationships with well-bred women.”
“Where all the white women at?”
Win. XD
JESSEE JAMES !!!
KEN LEEEEEEEE
LEEROY JENKINS!!!
SPONGE BOB
HenRYYYYYYYY!
WILSOOOOOON!!!
Yo ADRIAN!!!!
ALVINNNNNN!!!!!
e wins.
tulibu dibu douchoooo!
You think I didn’t know what I was calling you? *scoffs* I do declare!
Speaking of well-bred women, where my hos at?
Ahh, there it is. Thank you, Madame Comment.
*nests*
You say you knew what you were saying, but really “card” would have been a little a more appropriate noun.
Oh great, that ungrammatical sentence is my karma for being critical.
shoulda kept your smart card’mum
and avoided spicing your karma dumb
Some call it karma, some call it the wrath of a vengeful pregnant woman. *tosses a few lightning bolts around*
Good Kali, Miss Molly!
Don’t MAKE me stand on your body, too…
ooohhh …. just the thought of it gives me Shiva’s.
!!! LET’S DANCE !!!!
Only one thing for it then…
*grabs red shoes and prepares to dance blues*
put on those red shoes and dance the blues.. let’s dance to the song they’re playin’ on the radio
Because my love for you
Would break my mind in two
If you should fall
Into my many arms –
And Shiva likes a lotus
If only every one of my comments ended in a David Bowie song.
Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, babe?
He took it all too far but boy could he play guitar.
He’s a mama-papa coming for you, Babe!
I love cardamoms
Alas, I hath done it again: commented under the wrong pseudonym. And now I must wait to see if my wittiness doth appear.
We’re waiting…..
Shall I consider myself pwned?
Nope, any male with any common sense knows better then to even try to pwn an angry pregnant woman! They’re frikkin’ vicious!
Just hand over the ice cream and nobody gets hurt…
ah … Mrs J … you’re looking a little flushed
are you perhaps not feeling yourself, hm?
Well, at least you’re being frank about it and not Frank.
Holy crap.
That’s intense.
I like how lighting (lightening?) struck right as the air started to clear and you could see the car (Truck? Can’t tell.). Very dramatic.
You tried twice, but still couldn’t spell lightning correctly. Fail.
Oh, give ‘em credit. The first attempt was merely a typo. At least they attempted to spell it right.
Isn’t lightning a form of lighting?
And isn’t watching this lightening up the mood?
you have a shadowy name …
but you’ve still put me in a mood for singin’ …
____
It’s like thunder, earthquake and lightning!
The way you love me is fright’ning!
____
(“Knock on Wood,” originally by Otis Redding, as sung by Toots Hibbert)
I appreciate that you’ve started explaining your references.
lighting struck the car? was it a wall fixture? a lamp? i must know!
Perhaps a rogue sconce…
*golf clap*
It was a rather tawdry sconce with a tiffany-esque shade. Impressive in its own right but not my cup of tea..
Hmmmmm, Bon Jovi everyone.
i’m assuming MyMalady prefers the rogue scones with tea.
maybe with a NICE PUNnet of strawberries?
She likes my scones?
Ha! I scone you.
I like buttered sconce for tea.
But that’s just how we lumberjacks roll…
They just keep driving! It’s nice to know that no matter the size of the disaster heading our way, we will throw ourselves and our metal steeds at it at great speeds.
and drive through the reeds, as our soul bleeds
I’m a farmer, I plant seeds.
sure you do but you will get arrested growing weed
lol, rhyme fail!
but someone should grow weeds to supply our needs
and to the law no grower heads.
Your rhyming sucks, go take your meds.
Man, I should have stayed in bed…
….
…s
*Starts beatboxing in the background*
…and reply in the other threads?
We need to start this whole thing over. The meter is simply dreadful.
Why is it that I get involved in so many rhyming threads? Is it simply my inherent pansy-ness? (p.s., I think you meant ‘heeds’ not ‘heads’, as no pronunciation of of ‘heads’ rhymes with ‘needs’, ‘weeds’, ’seeds’, or ‘bleeds’.)
Unless you’re Stuart MacKenzie.
“Head! Pants! Now!”
By the way, that was a “So I Married an Axe Murderer” reference.
He’ll be cryin’ himself to sleep tonight on ‘is YUGE pilla.
His head is like a planetoid!
.. it’s like sputnik
Who’s to say he’ll even succeed? Probably doesn’t have all the equipment he needs.
He’ll ship it in planes
And get away with his deeds
Growing the strongest strains
Supplying the finest breeds
i hate to offend but I hate the band Creed
I live in Leeds where I drink Mead(s?).
my penis, she bleeds!
if only I had weed, then maybe I could have peed
You have a penis? I’m sorry. You weer acting like such a pussy that I never would have guessed.
Okay, my vote for BOTW.
that’ doesn’t even rhyme!
you swine among swines!
It’s fail between the lines
so no-one even minds.
Ooh, nice.
The Lament of the Rhymes
We’ll continue making rhymes,
They’ll be of more complex design,
They’ll be ever more divine,
Until the end of time.
And, finally, when the time,
Inevitably arrives,
We must ask ourselves, “Why?
Why did they have to die?
Why did our rhymes crumble?
Why did they take a tumble?
They’re just a messy jumble,
Now that our rhymes have died.”
It’s really sort of sad.
Were they really all that bad?
Was it worth causing scads,
scads of rhymes to die?
Was it worth the little rhymlets,
who’ll grow up without fathers?
It’s really kind of a bother, because
I can’t think of another
Rhyme.
So inevitably this poem must end,
I hope I’ve stopped this stupid trend,
I hope I never see again,
another stupid rhyme.
– By Shadow
Thank you. *bows*
So… what do you think?
Took me all of 15 minutes to write that.
*takes a drink and tips her hat*
Thank you, m’lady, thank you
Anybody need a tissue?
Deluxe, or standard-issue?
Also (declaring myself official officiator of rhyming threads), ‘bleeds’ had already been used once, meaning either a rhyming fail or MC skillz fail.
I can’t use “bleeds” with “Bleeds”? BUT MORRISSEY DID IT!? WHY CANT I? =O
your penis is a “she”?
of course! her name is ANgelique!
yourn penis is a man?
how delightfully gay!
lemme get my unicorn
note: YOURN = old english for YOUR (only incases referring to Peni’)
penises*
Peni Lane the barber shaves another customer…
Evolution succeeds when humanity breeds.
AND I HEARD YOU LIEK TEH MUDKIPZ!11!!1!1!!!
oh Insanus!- did my mother give you some of my speed?
I hope his car doesn’t get keyed…
To this, I agreed.
my penis still bleeds!
Seek a Urologist for your penis needs.
Please stop rhyming before my patience cedes.
Anybody want a sunflower seed?
My forehead sweat beads,
why do I follow your leads
by copying your deeds?
If you’re stuck out there in that storm there’s no reason to stop, you’re just trying to GTFO and get home.
I would say a giant geyser in the middle of the road is plenty of reason to stop..
it appears the giant drainage cover would agree
I didn’t know they built a highway across Old Faithful.
DOT planning fail.
Funny Fail
nah, i lol’d. it was funny
Really? Do you also find Jay Leno hilarious? Just asking.
Yeah, take a shot at Jay Leno, real f*cking original.
not taking a shot at Jay, dummy. Jay is known for being generic obvious comedy, like the Old Faithful joke above. It’s made him rich because he does not offend.
That’s one hell of a storm drain.
Seriously though, I don’t understand why the water keeps coming in torrents like that. Is this downstream from a dam where they are letting off water to avoid overflow?
I think it’s Pluto who’s the one who keeps coming in torrents here
(… reminds me of a certain mythic adventure I had not long ago).
Dragon? Any comment?
Unless there’s virgins involved, we’re not interested.
Hrm. I do believe there was the exact opposite of virgins involved…
Dragon is being, ah, moved today.
Meanwhile, I’d refer your query to the idiom of Chinese mythology, where the Dragon is both a source of good luck and the force of great floodings and storms.
The lady is a tramp!
*ahem*
*raises one eyebrow*
Fuzz, a word is in question over on steakout fail. I think you or dragon woul be best suited to explain it.
Sorry, I can’t comment, someone pulled the woul over my eyes.
would, damnit! woulD!
Stake, damnit! stAKE!
Ah, well. It’s gonna happen one way or another.
Mmm… the weather’s right for a steakout, too… I’ll fire up the grill, you bake some potatoes.
Food? Now your talking my language! I LOVE to cook! I’m much better at it than spelling.
And grammar, my sweet Avis.
Whatcha makin’ for our steakout? I was thinking I’d work on the filets (medium rare, of course), and maybe some homemade salsa and guacamole to go with corn chips.
Dang, I’m hungry.
The rarer the better! I could whip up a strawberry/avocado salsa. If spicy is your thing. Or maybe some fries with pecorino romano and a truffled aoli.
Oh dear, our steakout just turned into a gourmet feast!
^ lucky woman
*drags self into thread*
Nine hours in a car…with a dog…and three cats…
Won’t someone have mercy on me and bring me some foooooooooood???
*pitiful look*
How ’bout some scones? Apparently, I make them.
Om nom nom nom nom!
Slides a serving of fries with truffled aoli Dragons way. It’s a happy coronary on a plate.
I love you. Have I mentioned that I love you?
Slips some tongue … oh wait, you’re not a vegetarian are you?
Why do people say that whenever I cook for them? Not that it’s a bad thing, mind
Oh no, I really really like…meat.
Just don’t hide the cups behind a sign.
Dang, I’m thirsty — could drink up a storm o’ pale lightening.
*tosses lightening belts around*
Ooooh…if I had one o’ them thar lightening belts yer talkin’ ’bout, I wooden need that thar gas-treek bypass surge-ree.
*Belts retardis right in the belt-drinkin’ mouth*
*laughs at Retardis and then takes a huge swig of his belt-drink.*
yum belt drinks all around!
Ms. ‘TARDIS, if’n you’d jus’ lay off the white lightening, I suspects your gas-treek condishun could be … (what’s hillbilly for “obviated”?)
“Kaputzed.”
“Wreck-tuh-fahd”.
i have no reflection on the current topic
(as for the little bird’s nut case, however, the chest in question has been opened and closed)
And I thank you very much for that. Puns and all.
yw … just don’t steak out my vamp’ic heart … i’m a vegetarian
Don’t tell ReTARDIS that!!!
Oh wait…she said….
Nemmind.
I think they all must have died or something.
Look at the recent comments. We’re all alone…
Well…can I have a scone, then?
I’m down to the broccoli scones. Trust me, you don’t want those.
No, it’s what happens when you have too much water trying to get into the drainage system.
Drainage systems basically take in water from lots of sources, and then pipe it downstream. When there’s too much water, the pressure builds up until it reaches a tipping point, and then it blows out somewhere. Basically, all the weight of the water behind pushed the water in front out explosively.
But, when this happens, that pressure is suddenly greatly released, and so the fountain subsides. But this release of pressure doesn’t solve the fundamental problem, which is that there’s still too much water upstream. So the pressure builds up again until it blows once more.
The end result is that the water bursts happen in waves. It doesn’t need any valves or anything, just a large set of open drainage tunnels and a massive amount of water coming in. It’s just a matter of fluid dynamics: pressure doesn’t have to be equal everywhere in an open system, it just moves from higher pressure to lower pressure areas.
Interesting info, Otto.
I’m curious what that “wipe” action across the camera was about mid-video. Almost looks like the camera had a windshield wiper.
Here in Atlanta we have an issue with that sort of thing, although I don’t know if it’s on that scale. What’s nasty about our is that it gets a good sewage mix into it. ATL is fined quite often for that, but apparently the fines are cheaper that actually repairing the infrastructure.
’cause, you know, after the politicians leave office, it’s not their problem, so why bother actually *fixing* a problem?
You mean the video effect? We can do that now. We have the technology.
We can make it better than it was before.
Better…
Stronger…
Faster…
Yeah, but how many millions is it gonna cost, million dollar baby?
*Hums the Six-Million-Dollar Man theme*
It’s just a video transition effect. They cut out 2.5 minutes of (presumably boring) footage. Watch the timestamp.
The wipe, was a time transition. Someone (or something) edited the video for the the time delay. However, Otto is right about the water pressure.
Now we know.
And knowing is half the battle.
Go Joe!
GI JOES!
(nytshad with the reference WIN)
YAY! My first WIN!
*blushes and curtsies*
a belladonna indeed
explanation win
Pedantry win!
Ah thank you. That makes sense, I guess.
I prefer Ted Steven’s explanation of a drainage system:
They want to deliver vast amounts of water over the drainage system. And again, the drainage system is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Political incompetence WIN!
A series of tubes!!! Just like the Internet, apparently.
and I just thought it was a case of “shit happens”.
Yeah, but, but, but, … it takes a lot of pressure to blow out that much water, some going 4-5 stories up! With no valve, why doesn’t it just dribble out constantly instead of waiting two minutes then blasting who knows how many thousand litres. We had something like this happen in my hometown, but the low altitude drains looked like fountains at a waterpark with even, constant pressure, not like this were they’ve got the devil AND a lot of C4 behind them! Is it because of sloshing at a resonant frequency or maybe it has to do with the distance between each active source and this point? Wish I knew more about fluid mechanics.
If I were watching this happen, I would find a large cork and a parachute and just camp on that opening waiting for my turn to fly!
Hmmm, And you think we can be ARSED to even read the first sentence?
I DON’T THINK SOOOO!
There’s something more going on here than just pressure rising. The sewer system uphill from this drain can be putting too much water in, which would lead to enough pressure to knock the lid off at the point we see. If it did that, however, it would just start leaking out; it wouldn’t happen explosively like it does in this video. The water is flowing in, then suddenly there is a “geyser”, which quickly dissipates but starts again. Look at how high the geyser goes, it’s probably three times the height of the nearby overpass. The pressure (relative to local atmospheric) goes from less than zero to maybe 1 atmosphere, then back again in a few seconds.
There has to be some way that the energy is getting stored. Since water is incompressible that can’t be the storage mechanism. I’d guess air gets trapped in some section, gets compressed by water moving in from a level higher than the point we see, then reaches a pressure sufficient to blow out this hole. As long as there is some air in the tunnel the static pressure at the surface of the water has to be more or less the pressure of the surrounding atmosphere. Once they get filled with water (i.e. they cease to be open channels like their designers intended and become pipes) they can compress the air in the section ahead of them. Pressure rises until the air and water find an outlet, which then reduces the amount of water in the tunnel until it becomes an open channel again and the process begins anew.
Storm surge, probably. I imagine there are larger-than-normal waves crashing against where the outlet is and the force is pushing water out through the drain in the roadway.
That could have been the midwest a week or two ago.
Ok, maybe more like three or four.
The date stamp is clearly marked on the video.
Reading comprehension fail.
Avis said it could have been the midwest, not “it was.”
Reading comprehension fail squared.
Avis was in a very subjunctive mood today…
How about a few months ago, even? The flooding was in June.
But my town was recently (three or four weeks ago) hit by some terrific storms. The streets filled with water really quickly. There were tornados. Storm watching while in a high-rise might SEEM like fun, but when the sirens go off, you start to worry about where to take cover.
And for the record, I am not in Iowa. The high-rise comment should give that away.
Erm, while we don’t have a ton of high-rise buildings in Iowa (most of them are in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids), we do have a few. Stereotyping fail!
God you’re not kidding… effin’ Iowa.
Yeah, a week or two ago…
…in 1999.
Steven Wright.
And then I … uh … no … that wasn’t me.
Actually the flooding here in Iowa was more constant than what is seen in the video. The cause of the waterworks in the video is from a man-made drainage system, that was poorly designed. The Iowa 2008 Flood, was mostly from a smaller flood that covered most of eastern Iowa. Which then started to become a compounded problem, as the flood water in the northern areas made its way south, to areas which were already flooded causing the worst flooding in eastern Iowa, in recorded history. Here in Waverly, IA it was at least 3 feet higher than it was in any previous year. To get from one side of the river to the other, required a detour of almost 30 miles, for a day or two.
At Peace Church, we debated on whether we should sandbag, we decided against it. Instead we decided to move everything upstairs. That was the right decision, if we had built the sandbags as high as was expected, the water would have been 2 foot above even that, causing the problem to be worse. Instead of a slow influx of water, we would have all that water coming in a very short window of time. Which would probably have destroyed the building, and everything inside. Some of the stuff we brought upstairs, was still destroyed, because the water got almost 2 feet above the floor. We have actually been having church services on Saturday nights, at Grace Baptist, until we can find some other accommodations. Everything we managed to salvage is in storage in peoples garages, and houses. The church’s office, has been relocated, to our family room, in our basement.
far, too many, superfluous, commas.
sorry to hear this act of god damaged your house of god.
Ironic, isn’t it? I guess this is where the “god works in mysterious ways”
rationalization kicks in.
Well, God said not to kill, but the Church is doing it anyway.
Really? I thought the bible says many various different types of people should be stoned to death for their actions. There are numerous passages which say ‘if someone does this, kill them’ and so on. Although I can’t claim to be much of an expert on the book itself.
Reminds me of me after a night of drinking cheap beer.
tenth
Eighth!!!
I love how he runs away.. but only after it starts to subside.
He probably was trying to run the whole time but the water was keeping him from moving at any sort of decent speed. It is hard to run in two feet of calm water, which I’m sure is a hell of a lot easier than running through a thirty foot column of rushing water.
He was probably curled up in the fetal position until it started to subside.
Holly Sh*t!
A hollies are plants, trees specifically, they tend not to shit, or sh*t even.
But thanks for failing.
Trees to not defacate
As you just said.
But they do aspirate
or so I read.
defecate*
Hey! You never heard of poetic license? (That’s my excuse
and I’m stickin to it)
nope, but i have heard of poetic licenCe!
And to think I used to like the Brits and their funny way of spelling.
hey we gave you this language, be nice about it!
lol (can we give it back now?)
if you’ve found a better alternative, by all means! we’d quite like that, i think.
The cop (who normally hides behind the sign) will need to see that and your poetic registration. The meter of your poem was too fast, so he’ll have to write you a poetic ticket. The fee for the poetic ticket? The figure’s sonnet.
epic tubgirl.
EW.
Dunno what that means, but from loz’s response it must be bad (or good).
bad, so very bad.
http://www.beefytreats.net/mt-archives/tubgirl.html
venture at your own risk, and don’t say i didn’t warn ya!
Oh GAWD, you didn’t warn me enough!
hahahahaha. god, i’d forgotten how bad it is.
so close to bedtime, i’m gonna have nightmares!
You think you have problems, it’s almost dinner time for me. Not now.
i hope you’re not having any sort of chocolate fondue for dessert…
For Pete’s sake, what is this? Don’t know if I want to laugh or puke. Who is Pete anyway?
I dunno who Pete is either but apparently he sure like to drink sake.
Beyond foul! Ick ick ick ick!!!
Anyone want to:
*Masterbates*?
Shit, someone has to do it. I will.
*Masterbates*
why? why would you link to that, and not just the wikipedia article on it or something?
Thank god they pixelized her holiest!
How does this kind of thing even happen?!
shut the f.ck up
We can but hope that eventually inbreeding will lead eventually to the ability not to correspond
that’s a lot of eventuality.
Eventually there shall be eventuality. Eventually.
Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy department?
Nobody has answer my question yet.
otto
did
– ! A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA ! –
ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA
wouldn’t it be cool if the word for palindrome WAS a palindrome?
twoowt
I am such an ignorant, I had to Google he word palindrome, I am such an ignorant.
And a proud employee of the Department of Redundancy Department.
Thanks raelalt for helping me learn a new word today, thanks.
My work here is done.
A Toyota.
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to a new era?
Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog?
BTW, Dragonwriter, that has one too many ‘a’s to be a palindrome.
“… to a new era” = “are we naot …”
Someone answered your question long before you posted it.
The answer is YES.
Looks like the sewer just came. That truck must have been a hell of a lay.
…twice. Win!
No
It carries its own bed around so it’s always down for a pounding.
I hear it can take quite a load as well…
Holy crap
That was just awesome. Own’d the crap out of that truck. Lucky for the guy that giant metal cap didn’t land on top of his truck.
double fail
Fake! Photoshop! After Effects!
emergency vehicle response fail
Agreed.
That is fooking insane. Yes, that IS all I have to contribute. Pointing out the obvious fail.
Honesty win.
Old Faithful decides to take a road trip…
Or make a road drip?
Better than having a toad rip
With your roach clip
Making the boat flip
in that storm on a ship
getting a cut on your lip
a plane missing the landing strip
breaking you coat so it don’t unzip
your cat goin crazy on catnip
(ok, my mouth, i will zip)
That made you look like a dip.
Oh, get a grip.
Want some Cool Whip?
*sings like a Pip*
*Throws up signs like a Crip*
Rhymes make me want to strip.
And roll around in guacamole dip.
But I think I’ll just stick with this tortilla chip.
I had a hearty guffaw for round two of the geyser. That poor bastard, thought he was through the worst of it. How this did not cause a major car pile-up is beyond me.
I was kind of hoping for one.
Drainage.
…
Now, if you have a milkshake, and I have a straw…
Ouch.
I drink your FAILshake…
I drink it up! Oh, and I’VE ABANDONED MY BOY!
Oh Daniel Day, how I love thee.
I will never backslide!
WTFAIL?!
This is obviously the result of someone cough-exhaling while still hitting the bong.
Also known as Bong fail.
speaking of bongs, WHERE IS THE WEED! (continued from rhyme fail up top)
I smoked it, I did the deed.
make yourself useful and smoke me
Continue the rhyme or take heed.
We all should live by Sara’s creed.
With Art by my side, another advocate I’ll never need…
InDEED! why not take Art’s Seed!?
wait..you smoked all the weed?!
you sure did INDEED!
now what will I smoke? for my mother last night used up all my speed.
I got high off marijuana and I peed
pardon me but I don’t mean to recede
but, when I get high of the chronic
my penis does such misdeeds!
deep in the shaft where my balls intercede,
I once freed a bead from the neck of my skinsleeve
This is getting disturbing but I’ll follow your lead.
If you follow that Dork,
You’ll only get keyed.
If I get keyed, they’re gonna get kneed.
I’ll watch it all,
while drinking my mead.
there is no need to get keyed or kneed,
but truly if we have heroin!-we can all get “KEY_ED”
Sorry to be such a kvetch
But that last was quite a stretch
simply because I tried to rhyme like a mench!
rhyming words the same makes your stomcah wrench
stomach wrench
(correction-the yiddish fooled me up)
Don’t you mean “fooled me” or perhaps “fouled me up”?
Drinking mead & stomach wrench get you puking in the trench
that has nothing on a Peter North shower.
Peter North. porn star. cum on now people.
ew
Synchronised toilet flush win.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=minneapolis,+mn&ie=UTF8&ll=44.939666,-93.274666&spn=0.003493,0.006545&t=h&z=18
That is not too far away from where the bridge collapsed. That is the highway from hell.
What is that thing the truck hit? The lid? A walrus? A rock?
This is a cool video, but I feel bad for that poor lil’ car.
As for the white car that drove past, I imagine he was shouting out the window if the truck needed assistance. Probably though he’d be okay.
wow…i feel real bad for the sob who’s car got hit by the drainage cover…and i like how no one helps him out…lol
At least the white car had the decency to try…
Lucky the guy was still able to walk around then run, he’s just driving along and all the sudden this hugh 8-9 foot across and apparently 8″ or more thick steel storm drain cover smashes the hell out of his vehicle and stops him on a dime.
You can see his vehicle enter the spray and then just jerk to a stop. The guy is lucky to be breathing, also that it hit his hood and not the cab.
The fail here is that the installers obviously believed that something that big and heavy did not need to be bolted down, bet it is now.
Oops that right, I should be straining my intellect to win burn of the week instead of commenting…..err…..uhh….YOUR MAMA WEARS POLYESTER PANTS!
There, you’ve been burned……
Or soaked, as it were…
Who, exactly, did you just burn? Burn fail.
Hmmm….you replied defensively so obviously I burned at least one son of a polyester wearing mother. Didn’t it embaress you as a child? There are support groups you could seek help from you know. MAPP is probably the best known (Mothers Against Polyester Pants) but they seem a bit deranged to me.
*pulls out fairy wand*
I award you the Bran of the Week!
.
PING!
.
*bowl of corn flakes appears*
The thought process involved in that acronym alone indicates flake fail
from that acronym it could possible he has his own “fairy” wand
hey, there is nothing wrong with polyester pants.. especially if they’re plaid!
Somewhere the Ninja Turtles are laughing their asses off.
hehehe… that’s friggin awesome!
cowabunga dude!
Thar she blows
!
Holy shit.
172nd!
seriously can I get my hands on some speed?
epic car-wash WIN!!
I would wash my car there! looks like fun! just drive really fast!
More like Rode Cloze Fail!
Time stamp shows fountain for a half-minute, with about three-minute wait in between. Normally rainwater from the freeway underpass collects in a big vault or pipe underground. When full it’s pumped up to drain away beyond the depression. The pump is in a round sump under the middle of the highway (FAIL basic safety). It seems the pump outlet pipe was plugged or something inside broke, since the pump disharge blew the sump lid off into traffic, and shoots up. After the pump shuts off, water just runs back down, fills the vault sump and repeats, all while the depression gathers more rain…
Can you imagine poor DOT maintenance guy – had to run through traffic, vault the truck , clear the clog, reset the lid, and run out again, all within 3 minutes. Gotta be a gold medalist to survive that event. Nom nom nom!
you gotta be a gold medalist to survive my “EVENT” if you know what i mean- you gotta be a “TRI-athalon” cause you gotta TRY anything once. EVEN THAT.
YES.
THAT too.
See, this is what happens when everybody flushes during the superbowl halftime show.
OMG. Safety fail. If I saw a huge gush of water like that in front of me, I wouldn’t drive through it at the speeds those drivers were.
Ahhh, so THATS what happens if we all flush the toilet at the same time…
maybe at the break of the superbowls in 1999 7-03-99 5:23 am?
hmmm … no
Singing in the drain! I’m singing in the drain!!
What a glorious failing…
Rogue, my man, you’re showing potential.
Keep it sharp, concise, wet and shiny.
(if the word “concise” conjures any untoward associations here, substitute “hard” )
Hmm…in MY lexicon, “hard” and “concise” are not two words that I necessarily want to put together.
I’m making substitution here and potential augmentation, thank you ma’am, not a wham-bam conjunction..
Oooooooh…well, that’s okay then. Especially when you’re talking about “conjoining”…
As is my wont and most regular topic of congress.
A worthy proposition, and one of…might I venture…mythical proportions.
This fella is now nodding and drowsy…might it be a worthy proposition to venture an avventura in offering to roc a dragon toward a mythic sleep?
Mmmm. I am kinda dragon my ass tonight. Feel free to pitch your tent in my campe.
*cuddles*
*…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… and dreams about how she almost said something
about a dragon tail*
Guy in the truck: “Oh, look! What is that huge fountain of wetness doing in the middle of the road!? I think I’ll drive right through it, and not swerve, not even a little. How brave I am!”
DAMNNNNNNN!!!!!!!
Water slide……..or water fly!
Someone divided by zero….
*hides math notebook*
I think someone just kept adding stuff…
So nice of all those people to stop and help the poor guy. That drain cover would have killed him if it had landed on the roof.
Um… if I had just witnessed some fool get taken out by a gigantic manhole cover and a thirty-foot column of sewer water, I wouldn’t get out of my car to help him either. What kind of idiot would willingly get within shouting distance of that thing? Lack of helpfulness WIN.
So stupid of the guy to drive into a friggin geyser. Yes he is lucky the drain cover didn’t crush him could he would be on the Darwin Awards site as well.
He’s lucky he didn’t get killed by the drain cover and end up on the Darwin Awards site.
DO NOT WANT!
Oh wait…wrong meme. Sorry.
Nom nom nom
*masturbates*
Wheres my surfboard.
And mah gyrocopter?
First!
¡moM
July 3 — weather shapes up. At MSP (three miles away) there was heavy rain and thunderstorms from 5 to 6 AM: http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KMSP/1999/7/3/DailyHistory.html.
52 mile per hour wind gusts, too. Sounds like fun.
On Google Maps Street View you can see the exact manhole cover, too: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=minneapolis,+mn&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=44.940589,-93.274521&spn=0.002305,0.004302&z=18&layer=c&cbll=44.939739,-93.274561&panoid=19M5nShLDz0HQ-oZmnmMTQ&cbp=1,259.4105688857988,,0,5
That’s one *hell* of a manhole cover! Who uses it, Michael Moore?
Hi – I am a drainage engineer in Orlando, Florida. Can you confirm this location information is correct. I would like to share the video with my colleagues.
thanks
Drive-in car wash WIN. And FAIL.
I like how cars just keep driving. Where I live we have a highway through nowhere, and there’s a spot that dips slightly. When it rains, the drainage sometimes fails and the dip fills with water. Unlike the cars in this video, the result is people stopping dead in their tracks, getting out of their vehicles, and holding long discussions about whether a foot of water is safe to drive through. Eventually someone will volunteer to go first. Occasionally some dumbass will fail half-way through the puddle and slam into the overpass column. It never seems to occur to anyone but me to just take the off ramp and follow the side streets to the next on ramp, avoiding both the flood and the bottleneck.
Common sense failure? =P
free carwash win!
NOT funny :/
Boy, I hope he got the damages to his car paid by the city.
how big is that manhole cover? sucks to be that truck guy hahah
LOOK! IM AT THE BOTTOM!
I’d leave it for five minutes if I were you…
Damnit! No matter how many times I call that plumber, this still happens every time I flush…
it’s a drainage fail. and an ownage win. !!!
I wonder how many of those idiots flooded their engines by driving through deep water so fast…
0_o holy shit
HOLY CRAP CALL THE COAST GUARD.
Umm, am I supposed to say first? I mean, I don’t want to look like a dumbass, but it seems to be the way to fit in here. Err, umm…
Third!
It looks like the guy is trying to drag the cover out of the way! LOL!!!
¡ B O O M C U M S H O T !
rule number one:
when the street explodes in an violent vertical flood, and there isn’t an ark to be found, run down the middle of a highway.
rule number two:
wait for darwinism to drive by and pick you up.
WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
last…
… i merely believe
http://failblog.org/2008/08/21/drainage-fail/#comment-77626
Dear Not a fuktard like you,
If you don’t like the rest of the world, please feel free to stay exactly where you are and not visit any of it. With an attitude like that, I’m pretty sure that none of the other countries will miss you.
Except for Finland…
Funny, I just finished watching Titanic. What a coincidence.
Failblog has become a strange animal. Its comment sections are nowadays flooded with circular arguments about which country is best, obscure references, and constant stand-offs between a population that seems to have suffered a huge intelligence gap right down the middle (well, maybe it’s more to one side).
I love you, I hate you… Be still, my sweet failblog! I can impress thee no longer. :\
However, I do think this is all illustrating a good point. The more famed it becomes, the more riff raff it attracts, thus the ever-increasing noteriety. The good, on-task, intelligent people are here–the others are just louder.
I came to Canada from the U.S., and the people here aren’t very different at all. I just think that people cooperate much better in smaller numbers. I’m afraid I can’t muster much patriotism for the U.S. of A., but many of the complains lobbed against them are ignorant of many numerical, historical, & economic factors. Sometimes I think this world is powered by ignorance, and I am guilty of that as well.
K saw the cancer killing /fb/.
Hers was the voice.
I think it’s lupus.
dilettante’s in the House…
does this old heart good
*smile*
Wtf?
This rocks! Well… it probably didn’t rock for the people in the cars… or the dude outside of his car. But it rocks for us lonely, bored teenagers safely in front of our computers! ^^
Ok, who is the dumbass walking around in the road, while it’s wet, and waiting for traffic to come along and run their ass over. Common Sense FAIL!
you speedbump, that’s the guy that was in the car until it got hit by the drain cover
That’s what my girl did last night; there weren’t enough towels in the house…
your girl peed herself? it almost sounds like you’re bragging…
You should stop this silly America vs Canada vs Australia argument and accept that Britain is better than all of you because we founded you all.
Of course, everyone just keeps going. Society fail.
I believe this happened in South Minneapolis along I-35W…I seem to remember this being on the news.
The excessive flow occurred shortly after the fat lady at the buffet declared, “I haven’t had a pea in years!”….. and a call to, “man the life boats” rang out, but the warning to stay clear of the manhole covers was, inadvertently, not given.
Staying relevant to the topic FAIL!
Any comments on this site past 5th line of thread staying on topic FAIL!
Thanks for the brain drainage, Simon says.
Go Canada!
OKAY! who dropped the Mentos in there?
OMGWTF
560th XD This is my Favourite failure by far!
My question is why are ppl still driving? why hasn’t anyone stopped and helped this person or stopped b/c there is a massive explosion of water in the middle of the interstate that could kill me if I kept driving into it?
I thought manhole covers were supposed to cover manholes. not smash cars.
OMG! That is so crazy.
EPIC FAIL!
LOL. FUNNIEST ONE YET. i had a “microscopic” thing just like this in my primary(7-12y.o.) that sometimes did that when it rained heavily, but it never got more than 50 cm. LOL
I could hardly watch this! I am horrified!! That guy could of been sucked down that drain!! HORRIFIED!! It was funny at first, but once I saw the drain cover in the middle of the road I wanted to PUKE!!
some one used the full flush…
Is that the sewer LID that hit his car?
I whish i was there
lol thats enormous!
isn’t it obvious? the road builders wanted everyone to see a geyser as they went by!
*cackles* oh my god this is wayyy to funny! Where is that at anyway?
I fail at comments
Imagine explaining to your boss why you were late to work that day….
Old faithful strikes again.
It migrated …erm, somewhere… for the winter.
This is what happens when everyone flushes at the same time …….. seriously
LOL! the second time it goes off the driver runs down the street trying to get away! Geyser win. Drainage fail.
Sue the sewer company.
Think of all that precious money being wasted at the car wash.
I like how their is about 3 comments about the video the rest are yelling at canadians, yelling random names, and a bunch of other bull. oh and if i screw up on grammer and/or spelling i will be verbally abused for the next 354 comments. gotta love the nerds(yes myself included) who spend hours a day surfing through pages of other peoples misery just to correct grammer.
How does this happen?
Thats kinda Cool
PWN3D!!!!!
HERE…COME.. THE MEN IN BLA-ACK!
Remember MIB2, when K and J got flushed?
This is what happens when Chuck Norris goes to the bathroom.