It’s an American East Coast thing and I know that’s no excuse, but it’s so separate from the actual meaning of “gay” that I don’t even think about it. It’s not what it sounds like.
It’s a very common synonym for something a bit crap in the UK too and not derogatory at all, unless you are talking about a great big gay homosexual gayer, in which case it’s highly offensive.
So just because someone has a brightly coloured avatar they’re automatically gay?
And isn’t the rainbow a christian symbol, too? How do you reconcile that?
I’m Buddhist, I love Jesus, I’m a religious scholar. And the historical Jesus would approve Jluve’s message — in a time and place where who you ate with was a hugely bigger deal than most moderns realize, he shared his table with everybody.
I’m not sure of what religion I belong to.
I’m also bi.
And the statements in above levels are TOTALLY, like, for sure, true.
*wondering if I spelled right or made any sense at all*
I’m sorry if I offended you. My talk was very junior high and I’m sorry. I didn’t mean anything by it. Most of my friends are gay and use the same language.
(I’m a theater costume designer) We talk like this all the time…I didn’t know it was offensive anywhere. We’re very insular in America, as I’m sure you know…
Oh, I wasn’t offended. It’s used so much that it doesn’t even register as anything else. It was a joke because people on failblog often get offended by that.
You THINK you wanted to, but actually the transmitters planted in your wisdom teeth made you do it. Didn’t you notice that every time you feel the gravity waves your urge to kill increases?
There is no reasoning to the words people choose to use as insults. On the further-to-the-right-side of the Atlantic, referring to one’s Ivy League education is an insult, in a presidential election!
But I’ll have you know Sarah Palin attended more colleges than any of the other candidates:
Sarah Palin:
– Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
– North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
– University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
– Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
– University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism
As for dem dem’s: Barack Obama:
– Columbia University – B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations
– Harvard University – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
This ad is perfectly logical. “Turkey Club with Fries” is an descriptive caption of the illustration. “Fries not included” indicates that the menu item offered is “Turkey Club”, and that the illustrated fries are not included in the menu item, but available as an additonal item.
There’s nothing cynical about this, though. I worked at a Steak ‘n Shake for 3 years. None of their sandwiches come with fries, but the pictures in the menu show them. People would say, “I want a turkey club,” and then when I’d bring them JUST a turkey club they’d get pissed because they didn’t realize fries don’t come with it. I see this and I actually think “WIN!” because labeling the pictures like that is long over due.
And I would also argue that if you can logically explain a “Fail,” then it loses fail status. The point of a fail is to screw something up – like if this picture said “Turkey Club and French Fries – $6.00 (fries not included)”
gobble gobble lemme tempt you, lemme tempt you with some fries
gobble gobble lemme tempt you, lemme tempt you with some fries
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
F-A-I-L
Everyone’s accusing me!
F-A-I-L
Everyone’s accusing me!
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
Yea, and when they order their turkey club they won’t have any french fries. AND they’re drinking their 100% milk made lactose-intolerant beverage and they INTOLERATE LACTOSE. Yea they’re pretty much screwed when it comes to lunch…
Bart Simpson: Grandpa, Matlock’s not real!
Grandpa Simpson: Neither are my teeth, but I can still eat if someone cuts ‘em off and smooshes them into a fine paste. Now that’s good eatin’!
Ooh, I totally had a faint glimmer of recognition when I first saw this, and now I know why. You’re right! Also, I keep getting hungry. This fail needs to go away so I can keep my not-so-girlish figure.
This is an advertising fail, a self contradiction win, and I’m sure it’s a few other things, but I’m going to stop now before this run-on sentence turns into a behemoth.
lol. are there at least freedom fries ? !!1
No fries, all forms of fry sold seperately
SALAD FINGERS LIKES RUSTY SPOONS.
AND MICHEAL JACKSON LIKES SALAD FINGERS.
EVERYONE’S HAPPY.
Hubert Cumberdale, you taste like soot and poo.
YOU’RE a finger puppet.
You’re a finger salad and I claim my next five pounds.
Just your 2 cents, yeah?
in capitalist england, failblog fails to pay me anything like 2 cents, let alone five pounds.
Move to Ireland, failblog pays much better over here.
And its generally a much better place to live anyway
can I come?
Sure. Just do what mr. s.a.u.s.a.g.e always does.
Ok! *masturbates*
Unfortunately, the food is just as bad if not worse…
Or pretty much identical.
[blockquote]I was in a heavy metal band. People either liked us or hated us, or thought we were okay.
–Mitch Hedberg[/blockquote]
HTMfaiL
How do you know what I taste like?
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Steak ‘n’ Shake…
Haha, you fool failed to say “first”!
*masturbates* who wants white manjuce with it?
Freedom Fries.
I prefer the taste of sausage
I bet you do!
Betting?
*masturbates*
Masturbating?
*bets*
WIN
try me:) open wide….oh….
Hey you, the Turkey Club! Is your meeting adjourned? The French Fry and Battery Clubs want to use the room next.
GAY. This bores me too. I need better fails. ARE YOU LISTENING FAILBLOG
Put it this way.
Good Fails come to those who wait.
Better a mild fail while we wait for the ’5 alarm fire’ fail.
I’m not good at waiting. I do not accept mild fails. There better be a good one when I get home from work.
Or? You’ll go postal and shoot all the comments?
Or they’ll cry, pout and throw a screaming tantrum
The behavior would match the patience
Ouch.
Please refrain from using “gay” to mean something negative.
>_>
It’s an American East Coast thing and I know that’s no excuse, but it’s so separate from the actual meaning of “gay” that I don’t even think about it. It’s not what it sounds like.
It’s a very common synonym for something a bit crap in the UK too and not derogatory at all, unless you are talking about a great big gay homosexual gayer, in which case it’s highly offensive.
It’s not an American East Coast thing, it’s a most-of-the-English-speaking-world thing :p People use it everywhere.
Yes, and we’re not going to stop, either. Just because it ticks “people” like you off….
Why “people” you think Loz is a puppy?
Too late, this usage has already gone global (at least it’s in use by da yoof this side of the pond).
It went global when I was in third grade. It doesn’t make it less offensive to my dear Loz…
It takes a lot to offend me. Especially on the internet…
That’s cause your a great big gay homosexual gayer.
Lol. Except I’m not.
But the rainbow icon begs to differ! (Granted, I’m on a crappy work machine and all I see for sure is a blur of rainbow color)
So just because someone has a brightly coloured avatar they’re automatically gay?
And isn’t the rainbow a christian symbol, too? How do you reconcile that?
OMG, Christians are gay!!1!
(thepowerofblue is joking above this level)
LOL!
well, i never. just another piece of evidence that organised religion is totally, totally gay.
Totally!
Like, totally for sure!
I’m Christian, I’m bi, I approve this message.
I’m Buddhist, I love Jesus, I’m a religious scholar. And the historical Jesus would approve Jluve’s message — in a time and place where who you ate with was a hugely bigger deal than most moderns realize, he shared his table with everybody.
I’m not sure of what religion I belong to.

I’m also bi.
And the statements in above levels are TOTALLY, like, for sure, true.
*wondering if I spelled right or made any sense at all*
*is also bi*
at the last supper did the fish come with french fries?
Your avatar is a fractal, isn’t it?
That’s what I was thinking fractal not rainbow, besides rainbows are just a government conspiracy.
Gayer than who?
than his mom..lol all offence to thatgamergAy, not to you, loz
I don’t quite get the insult… lol.
I have no problem with gay men, it just means they like wut I like… lolz!
I’m sorry if I offended you. My talk was very junior high and I’m sorry. I didn’t mean anything by it. Most of my friends are gay and use the same language.
(I’m a theater costume designer) We talk like this all the time…I didn’t know it was offensive anywhere. We’re very insular in America, as I’m sure you know…
Oh, I wasn’t offended. It’s used so much that it doesn’t even register as anything else. It was a joke because people on failblog often get offended by that.
It was a joke? You scared the shit out of me!!
“I’m so new I don’t know what to do”
Sorry for scaring you! I feel bad for scaring a new kid, especially a drunk one.
Want some chocolate?
Chocolate? yes please!
Sorry, the offer wasn’t directed at you :p
Loz, if you have enough left over after dille has some, may I have some chocolate?
And by dille, I of course mean dile.
I reckon there will be plenty, as dile will be feeling pretty vile right about now. So yes, you may share it with me Sara J
*looks at Loz with hyooooge, sad, pleading puppy-dog eyes*
Fuzz calls me dill
And, yes, pass the chocolate?
*hands Sara, Dragon and dilly a big chunk of chocolate each*
*om nom nom nom!*
Nice rainbow, Loz.
I made it myself from a garden sprinkler and some chemicals kindly donated by the government.
It’s gay.
They made you do it, right?
No no, it wasn’t a conspiracy. I did it because I wanted to.
Was it of the metaliccc… matallic… sized salt?
You THINK you wanted to, but actually the transmitters planted in your wisdom teeth made you do it. Didn’t you notice that every time you feel the gravity waves your urge to kill increases?
Yep!
I gotta point out here that there is no orange in your “rainbow.”
I’m so gay I just rode in the pride parade last weekend!
There is no reasoning to the words people choose to use as insults. On the further-to-the-right-side of the Atlantic, referring to one’s Ivy League education is an insult, in a presidential election!
But I’ll have you know Sarah Palin attended more colleges than any of the other candidates:
Sarah Palin:
– Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
– North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
– University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
– Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
– University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism
As for dem dem’s:
Barack Obama:
– Columbia University – B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations
– Harvard University – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joe Biden:
– U. of Delaware – B.A. double major in History & Political Science
– Syracuse University – Juris Doctor (J.D.)
And our pal John McCain:
– U.S. Naval Academy – class rank: 894 of 899
I’m sure there’s a joke in there somewhere about insulted intelligence …
This ad is perfectly logical. “Turkey Club with Fries” is an descriptive caption of the illustration. “Fries not included” indicates that the menu item offered is “Turkey Club”, and that the illustrated fries are not included in the menu item, but available as an additonal item.
The fries are there to apparently convince the buyer to buy some.
I still would go for the sausage. (Cause it just taste better)
*gives a donation of his meat to the needing*
EXACTLY
Yeah, gonna hafta agree with you there.
I thought it was on the packaging for some frozen product… but ok.
Nope, it’s a Steak and Shake menu. I see it all the time.
Steak and Shake?
It’s a restaurant.
Dang west-coasters . . .
West-coast? But I live on the East-coast…
I see steak and Shake lots in the midwest. Their shakes are good, their burgers are OK, the fries in question are actually toxic.
And they actually give their stock code on the placemat as well, which is a bit horrifying, IMHO.
I was thinking it was Steak & Shake too…after they updated their menus and such… I miss that place. Was a Missouri …well, St. Louis… staple.
You *had* to eat the skinny little fries with their cheese sauce (best when you added some of that hot pepper juice to it!)
Ah, memories…
Also – when am I going to stop replying to 6-month-old posts???
OK, epster, you’re under arrest for the murder of joy.
*loads epster into the squad car*
Hey, how’d this ticket get here?
I FAILED all my humor lessons.
Correct. This is not a fail.
Many of the fails here can be explained logically like this. The key is to suspend your cynical side for a bit and just enjoy the fail for what it is.
There’s nothing cynical about this, though. I worked at a Steak ‘n Shake for 3 years. None of their sandwiches come with fries, but the pictures in the menu show them. People would say, “I want a turkey club,” and then when I’d bring them JUST a turkey club they’d get pissed because they didn’t realize fries don’t come with it. I see this and I actually think “WIN!” because labeling the pictures like that is long over due.
And I would also argue that if you can logically explain a “Fail,” then it loses fail status. The point of a fail is to screw something up – like if this picture said “Turkey Club and French Fries – $6.00 (fries not included)”
Same here. Caption = WIN! for every employee tired of explaining “nothing comes with fries”. Except for chicken fingers & fries.
gobble. . . gobble . . . gobble
ROFL.
ROUND 1
Turkey vs. Potatohead [Darth Vader Edition]
F[ail]IGHT!
gobble gobble lemme tempt you, lemme tempt you with some fries
gobble gobble lemme tempt you, lemme tempt you with some fries
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
F-A-I-L
Everyone’s accusing me!
F-A-I-L
Everyone’s accusing me!
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
I don’t wanna give you french fries no more, I just wanna be my own damn entree
gobble gobble hey
gobble gobble hey
gobble gobble hey
gobble gobble hey
*swingin to the riddim*
Riddim or riddlin?
win?
At least its not a 50 year old sandwich
You’re a 50-year-old sandwich.
Good things are always aged a little.
“No K, YOU are the 50-year-old sandwiches!”
And then K was a sandwich.
It could be, it doesn’t say its not.
I do. Seriously.
HEY, WHERE’S THE GUY WHO CHECKS FAILBLOG EVERY 5 MINUTES? WHY ISN’T HE FIRST???
you’re the guy that checks failblog every five minutes. turkey twizzlers ftw.
oh ho! you think you’re clever, leaving it longer than five minutes to reply to this, don’t you? very funny, i think NOT.
K isn’t a guy
You are K and I claim my five pounds.
No, YOU are rayui , claiming 5 pounds. Oh, wait…
Is 5 pounds equivalent to $2.50 USAian?
.
If so then where is your accordion?
You can find your five pounds at the Wendy’s. They’re having a deal on frosties.
the rare frosty burn…
5 British Pounds=8.80 US Dollars
Ugh. Turkey Twizzlers. ugh.
Yes. And also try our new lactose-intollerant milkshakes. MADE WITH 100% MILK.
Poor lactose intollerant milkshakes can’t drink themselves.
xD
Yea, and when they order their turkey club they won’t have any french fries. AND they’re drinking their 100% milk made lactose-intolerant beverage and they INTOLERATE LACTOSE. Yea they’re pretty much screwed when it comes to lunch…
In Soviet Russia, lactose is intolerant of YOU!
this thread just became inlolerable.
I gotta admit though that this “in soviet russia” joke is actually funny.
On failblog, we are intolerant of redcat.
M’eh don’t worry Loz Redcats Brain is so tiny that if a hungry canibal split open his skull there wouldn’t be enough inside to cover a small cracker.
Popular British comedy reference WIN!
I have a cunning plan…
My soyshake brings all the boys to the yard…?
May contain soy.
Everything’s free for a small fee in America! Ay-yi-yi!!! *breaks into song and dance*
Isn’t that story from the west side?
Yep.
I wanna be in America…
*Dances along with phobos*
(above statements should not be taken literally)
Is it my imagination or is that the corner of a Steak ‘n Shake menu there?
Hard to say. The checkered edges would suggest a corner, but we can’t really rule out the possibility of it being an inset.
my roflcopter stil goes soi soi soi soi soi
Your roflcopter is urgently needed in Iraq.
Ok, hilarious.
it’s so funny
“Türkçe sandviç avec pommes a la Français? Your tastes are so cosmopolitan, Dr. Lecter!”
French apples?
How do you like them apples?
Better than them bananas, I’m sure.
Even the organic bananas?
Bart Simpson: Grandpa, Matlock’s not real!
Grandpa Simpson: Neither are my teeth, but I can still eat if someone cuts ‘em off and smooshes them into a fine paste. Now that’s good eatin’!
POMME DE TERRE
(French soil not included)
Mon Dieu! Ou est les frites? C’est un disastre! Un catastrophe!
(Correct French grammar currently unavailable)
Hey! I know where this is! This is from steak n shake!
Ooh, I totally had a faint glimmer of recognition when I first saw this, and now I know why. You’re right! Also, I keep getting hungry. This fail needs to go away so I can keep my not-so-girlish figure.
Potatoes?
Boil em
Mash ‘em
Potatoes, potatoes
Let’s call this whole thing off!
*Gershwin.
Stick ‘em in a stew.
Won’t ask for more when he knows what’s in store.
You keep nasty chips!
I crinkle my nose at this stew.
I wonder how this one got up here when mine is just as blurry as this one?
*feels rejected*
Stick ‘em in a stew
I actually go to Steak and Shake sometimes…first time I ordered this, I looked at the menu and was like, “WTF?!?”
terrible photoshop job
yourmom is a terrible photoshop job… look at that comment. No way anyone is stupid enough to actually post that comment.
Haha. this is funny.
LOL me and my bro were at steakn shake yesterday and noticed that ROFL XD
turkey club w/ french fies
(no club or fries included and dont even think about the drink)
How do people make these kinds of mistakes??!?
Too bad…Steak n Shake fries are my favorite…
This is an advertising fail, a self contradiction win, and I’m sure it’s a few other things, but I’m going to stop now before this run-on sentence turns into a behemoth.