If it takes a day and a half for a chicken and a half to lay an egg and a half…
How many monkeys does it take to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
Amazingly enough, once again, words often have more than one meaning.
scuf·fle /ˈskʌfəl/ -fled, -fling, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to struggle or fight in a rough, confused manner.
2. to go or move in hurried confusion. 3. to move or go with a shuffle; scuff.
–noun
4. a rough, confused struggle or fight. 5. a shuffling: a scuffle of feet.
6. Also called scuffle hoe. a spadelike hoe that is pushed instead of pulled.
7. (in tap dancing) a forward and backward movement of the foot.
(Though, in my defense, it is sometimes very difficult to tell when you are being funny and when you are just telling someone they are wrong…but here’s another *hug* for my mistake.)
Our Dragon likes to use the lesser recognized meanings of words. I think of them as verbal honeypots. If I am ever lucky enough to recognize one before it recognizes me, I plan to label it with a **Burn Warning!**
Grammar fail/spelling fail. “LEGO” is always capitalised, and is read “LEGO” in plural form. If you wish to refer to multiple LEGO bricks, you call them “LEGO bricks” or “LEGO pieces”. Legos, legoes, even LEGOES and LEGOS are all incorrect.
*This has been actual knowledge dropped on this thread for make benefit pedantic information super crosswalk*
Akshully, now fuzz’s brain is not altogether here now — ‘cuz he’s a bit absinth’d-minded. But his lick’r'ish tongue is of a mind to stay near you literate ladies for a time, if you don’t, um, mind much.
Real absinthe is illegal, they try to pass off Pernod as real absinthe but it isn’t made of wormwood and poisonous so it’s not real. Why, can you get me some?
Yes, or “be at peace.” Can be used also to indicate an alteration (or in Fuzz’s case, downright perversions) of the original form or intent of referenced source material.
“hand breaks” are called that because you release them with your hand . Truck “hand Break” or emergency breaks if you like are on the floor and are initiated by your foot. The only fail here are people who dont know what a “hand break” is
The hand brake is a “parking brake” i.e. to be used when the vehicle is at rest (or to pull cool turns). Feel free to test it as an emergency brake, the results should be most amusing.
Sad, throwing the “get a life” quip. This from an individual who spends his days cybering folks on “failblog”. If life is too short for my crap, it’s definitely too short for yours.
These are big iconograms. The fact is, stick figure “hands” look a helluva l ot like “feet”. I have clubbed feet, and if I squint at them (well, my eys are always squinting), they appear to be hands.
[This release of endorphins brought to you courtesy of crxmanpat, who just happens to "drive a stick". (a 1990 Honda CRX Si to be precise, hence the name "crxmanpat", I drive a CRX, I'm male, and my name is Pat)]
*orgasms with laughter* hehe.
Most cars in Europe are manual transmission, I know very few people who drive an automatic. However, we don’t refer to them as a ’stick’, lol.
The proper terminology is “manual transmission”. However, us Americans called them “stick shift” (mainly because we were using a “stick” to “shift” the gears), and over time we just shortened it to “stick”.
Or perhaps that it is a “stick” shift as opposed to a “column” shift.
It is possible to have a manual column shift, where the gear stick is coming off the steering column housing
ehh in my experience, it seems it’s commonly called the “parking break” or the “emergency break.” I’ve only heard it called the hand break specifically when it is the old skool hand crank (giggity) so the fail may stand?
It DOES sound bizarre, but…
“However, some cars (Isuzu Bellett, Triumph TR/Spitfire, MG ‘Midget’, various Fiat and Mercedes) came with crank handles as well as starter motors until as late as the mid 1970s and as these cars are still going strong there are a few people with fond memories of having to crank them by hand.
Being a poor University student myself not too long ago I remember having to crank a Bellett to get it started after the starter motor packed it in and I couldn’t afford to fix it. Fun times. ”
I didn’t have any idea what he was talking about until I looked it up.
Exactly!! Finally someone knows that cars have a foot operated handbrake. I guess if they called it a foot-brake then they would get confused with the brake.
The British ones are truly bizarre. They all live in caravan parks, on land which they don’t own, and piss off the locals by refusing to move on. I guess they’re the only real equivalent to your ‘trailer trash’.
I was alluding to “The Riches,” with my beloved Eddie Izzard. Do you get it there? It’s on FX, I don’t know if Sky has it. Or if it’s even Sky anymore….
Sorry. Just. Can’t. Not…
. In Tsardom of Rus, Ivan the Terrible was “Mr. T.”
.
(fool me once, pity on me; fool me in Orthodox Russia, I’ll get on my knees and pray … to the, um, Whom … again)
then they would be foot brakes e-brakes, not hand brakes. hand brake suggests you use your hand, which most standard transmission cars have in between the driver and passenger.
Actually, the emergency brake was originally built as an emergency brake, in case of a failure of the regular brake. The modern brakes are so reliable that w e rarely use the emergency brake in emergencies.
I can vouch for that. The brakes on my ‘83(?) Fuego died, along with most of the rest of the car, some 14 years ago. I was pulling up to a stoplight in rush-hour traffic, and my hand brake kept me from running into the car in front of me. It also came in quite handy after my friend and I pushed the car past the top of the hill, and I used it to pull into somebody’s driveway, halfway down the hill.
I love you, hand brake!
E-brake… “The parking brake”
Short for emergency brake.
And know the copy/paste trick!
“The purpose of the emergency brake is to provide a fully-mechanical means of applying this stopping pressure as an alternative to the conventional braking system. On some vehicles, the emergency brake can be found as an added pedal to the far left of the driver’s foot well; on other vehicles, it can be found as a lever located in the centre console or along side the driver seat. When we employ the emergency brake, a complex array of levers and cables applies the braking pressure in a manner that is directly connected to our physical effort. It is a secondary, but more direct, braking means to the conventional hydraulic system.”
The funny part is, if they had placed a more accurate picture it probably would have still ended up as a fail for looking like a hand around a phallus (FAILLus?).
in a lot of cars, you engage the hand brake with your foot, so it makes sense to have that picture. they call it a hand brake because that’s how you release it.
I drove a car in Japan and the hand brake/park brake was actually a foot pedal. Only one car so I’m not sure – but maybe they all have that over there?
Mercedes cars don’t have a handbrake. Instead they have a parking brake which is the fourth, the leftmost pedal, directly at the wall. So, no fail fo me.
Really no need for the e-brake cause those are automatic transmission instructions. Chances of coming out of park are pretty slim, but can happen. I know alot of the older automatic transmission cars I’ve had, the emergency brake was rarely if ever used and 90% of the time once you applied the brake it would stick. And most of the time I’d have to take the wheel and drum off and see why it was not releasing the brake. It’s a good idea to make sure your brake is in good working order, I was with my buddy a couple weeks ago and his mastercylinder failed he went to hit the brakes for a stoplight at the bottom of a hill and his pedal went straight to the floor. Luckily he acted quickly and found the e-brake pedal on the first shot, props to him because it is up high and if you’re not used to locating it in a panic situation you’ll probably miss it. Best to hold the release lever open and then apply the brakes, you won’t want to slam on the brake because more than likely you’ll just skid and probably not stop in time. ok im done
You people are all idiots… If you use your hand to engage it, it can be called a “handbrake” (not break either). If your foot is used, then it should be called a “parking brake”. “Parking brake” is universal for both types, “handbrake” is not.
Also, think outside the box… people are saying that if it were shaped like a handbrake, penis jokes would ensue and it would be more of a fail. Then don’t change the picture… change the words to “Use parking brake.”
Got to love those mistakes
I second that.
I frist that.
i turd that
Dirty protests aren’t acceptable in civilised society.
I fist that.
Now it’s getting interesting. *Breaks out the lube*
*pokey-bum wanks*
the majority of your comments are largely unnecessary and irritating.
You would make an excellent captain, methinks. I have a vacancy opening up. It’s on a good ship.
Its a night trip into bed you hop…
*winks at the admirable Admiral*
::dreams away::
Thanks for that lolipop. I’d hate to contribute something “unnecessary” or god forbid “irrititating” on a forum dedicated to FAIL.
Gosh. Who would have ever thought someone here would be accused of being irritating. She didn’t even say first.
loli has it to an art: bypassing “largely” and going for completely unnecessary and irritating.
this is a win for dedication.
The majority of you is largely unnecessary and irritating. Especially that part you call your face
I suspect that someone thought the real handbrake logo looked vulgar so they made a substitute.
You Frist that? You diagnose, from the floor of the US Senate, the health of a woman in a vegetative state by watching a video of her?
*golf clap*
you asse
I think Loz should not DeLay her diagnosis.
*doesn’t get it*
Tom Delay? the Hammer? GOP bagman that most Americans want to stab with a rusty spatula? American politics?
She turned me into a Newt!
…well I got better.
*newt gin wretch*
*retches*
*Wrenches*
*tetchy*
*bows*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i was about to be fyrst!!!!!!!!!1
Luckily good taste got in before you.
I’m really upset for you. Can you tell?
yes? or no? Who cares?
17 minues late, so close… NOT!
Hey, this thread is a green party!
Just here to ruin the fun.
There was fun here?? Balls, I missed it
How gay was that?
Ok, ok!
wtf, does it mean, we all are aliens??? Craaap, run away!!!
Moisty, Bobby, join the party!
Moisty? I’d say I have more of a healthy sheen.
(Missing the comma intentional fail.)
Hey green party!!! WHOOOO! YEAH!
*gets in corner of the room*
I’m in your party, drinking your shots.
all your shots are belong to us
Environmentalists! Quick, everyone, hide your SUVs!
i don’t want to be green. i like my petrol. just as much as that sign.
joining the green party!
*inhales*
I feel so exposed in all my blueness.
and now we’re black and blue … but here comes the power …
Did someone call for power??
.
Sincweard (my dragon’s name) is black, but she has blue, green, and purple jewels underneath her.
Anne McCaffrey? I thought you were dead!
I was just pinin’ for the fjords.
Gone to meet your maker? *cries* Come back!
*bashes head off the counter*
I won an award for making fjords. It’s over there.
Let’s hitch there.
That’s improbable.
I’ll drive.
Lemme get a towel.
I’ll bring the no tea.
It’s almost, but not completely, unlike it.
42nd! (numerically incorrect but it’s not the end of the universe.)
now we have the answer for everything
if only we knew the question…
If it takes a day and a half for a chicken and a half to lay an egg and a half…
How many monkeys does it take to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
sinkweird?
Sinc = treasure
Weard = guardian
.
*is an Old English geek*
Aww come on, you’re not that old!
Heeeeeeee…
Or English, for that matter. You’re nothing but a big liar!
No … she’s just a literary fiction … an’ a sometimes my fantasy.
*breath of fire kundalini*
*coils and curves*
now that is hot
You’d better believe it, buster.
damn… frost wyrms aren’t good suitors to real dragons
wait… are you the dragon or is it just your familiar???
My avatar is a pic of the dragon at my back…literally. It is my dragon tattoo (well, one of them).
I would like to think, though, that I have cultivated a few
draconic qualities of my very own.
A very vlad quality too.
yay we have opened the white dragon aspect (we’re so awesome we hold all of the spectrum)
Shouldn’t that comment be in the sprinkler lady fail
it’s relavent here
*waits for Loz*
yes where is she *blush*
how do you do the blush emote
It’s revenant here?
i spelled it right
He’ll be back.
And I’ll agree that “it” is spelled right. But, unfortunately, “relevant” was not.
-_- meh
Heh! :p
where is that asse when you need her
Don’t worry she will rise up from the dead
She will become the living
She will come back to reclaim her stolen “meh”.
—-
– pace The Distillers
They be steelin mah meh!!!
–th.
ooo … you makin’ me hot and thorny
look at my new gravatar
est-ce que je peux mange ton vagin?
look at mah avatar
corey, you are a filthy frenchmonger.
it truly is the ‘language of love’ eh?
Dragonwriter = treasure
Aww….shucks.
*scuffles the ground with toe*
You fought the ground?! Did you win?
Amazingly enough, once again, words often have more than one meaning.
scuf·fle /ˈskʌfəl/ -fled, -fling, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to struggle or fight in a rough, confused manner.
2. to go or move in hurried confusion.
3. to move or go with a shuffle; scuff.
–noun
4. a rough, confused struggle or fight.
5. a shuffling: a scuffle of feet.
6. Also called scuffle hoe. a spadelike hoe that is pushed instead of pulled.
7. (in tap dancing) a forward and backward movement of the foot.
I was only trying to be funny
Oops.
*hug*
Sowwy.
(Though, in my defense, it is sometimes very difficult to tell when you are being funny and when you are just telling someone they are wrong…but here’s another *hug* for my mistake.)
orly? that’s the price we pay for t’internet communication I guess.
*hugs*
Our Dragon likes to use the lesser recognized meanings of words. I think of them as verbal honeypots. If I am ever lucky enough to recognize one before it recognizes me, I plan to label it with a **Burn Warning!**
I like honey.
GIRL STRUGGLE OR CONFUSION IN A HOE-LIKE FORWARD AND BACKWARD MOVEMENT OF HUGS AND APOLOGIES!!!
kewl
Can there be wet tee-shirts too, plz?
Admiral, you are a pooh-bear.
*smooch*
You can always dream, raelalt!
*hands wet t-shirt to realalt*
*handles with fingertips*
.
Hey, wait a second! You weren’t wearing this during
your dream were you?
No, sorry…I used it to wash the honey off of…erm…
Nevermind.
OK. Cold shower time again.
mmmm…. honey…. oh wait…o.0 mmmmm dragon honey
mmm thats nice
*Towel-SNAP to corey’s face*
If you retards wake up you will know that some cars
have the handbrake next to the foot pedals… FAIL idiots !
ZZZZzzzzzzz…[orly?yawn]…zzzzzzzZZZZ
being geeky is just a hobbit.
but being a word wizard shows Valar
You’re sillymarillion.
You’re tolkien to me?
No…she’s tolkien to herelf.
*talks to herelf* I’m gonna go play Lego s.
Grammar fail/spelling fail. “LEGO” is always capitalised, and is read “LEGO” in plural form. If you wish to refer to multiple LEGO bricks, you call them “LEGO bricks” or “LEGO pieces”. Legos, legoes, even LEGOES and LEGOS are all incorrect.
*This has been actual knowledge dropped on this thread for make benefit pedantic information super crosswalk*
*bows to the leg o’ lass*
Tonight is vodka gimli night, right?
*pours drinkies*
Gimlies all around! None for talons, this time.
Akshully, now fuzz’s brain is not altogether here now — ‘cuz he’s a bit absinth’d-minded. But his lick’r'ish tongue is of a mind to stay near you literate ladies for a time, if you don’t, um, mind much.
I like the good n’ plenties, dear.
Sounds precious and plentiful. You have more to share?
*places vehicle in park*
::awed silence::
I have plentie more. *admirable silence*
Silence turns honey golden over by the windmill park … and absinthe makes the heart grow fonder … sweetness is in the wind, sugar dumpling.
Wormwood will get you everywhere.
::awed sylvan serpent::
::awed by snakes in the woods::
*wonders whether we should have another vehicle for such arboreous awe*
Trees are non-judgmental.
LEGO to Absinthe. *gargles* Splendid!
Oh, leggigo.
*thinks we may have just received a sign of judgment*
fuzzontheconceptATmailDOTcom
Good thing he’s not a tree…
whatmail?.com?
I heard somewhere sweetness was in the wind…
this one’s better … it let me sign up with a pseudonym …
fuzz@mail.org
now the peoples can talk to fuzz on the emails if they don’t wanna bother other failbloggers with their commentz contentz
You’re assuming they’re all ICHC retards…which, maybe.
They can sendz they cheezburgerz to the woodz, tho, cuz I’m kinda vegetarian mostly.
Soz amz I *hugs*
I am an unrepentant carnivore.
Rowr.
With a built-in flame broiler.
Hee!
Is absinthe not illegal in the U.S.?
Real absinthe is illegal, they try to pass off Pernod as real absinthe but it isn’t made of wormwood and poisonous so it’s not real. Why, can you get me some?
You fail at failing.
That’s not a double negative.
And that’s not not a not not.
its not?
no no no — get back to rehab
I won’t go go go!
Ho ho ho.
He, he, he!
Ha ha…HEY!
Who are you calling a ho??
The man said ‘why do you think you here’
I said ‘I got ho ideas.’
___
– pace Amy Winehouse
“”With peace” in Latin (ablative case of pax), sometimes used in formal writing to indicate disagreement with a source” ?
Yes, or “be at peace.” Can be used also to indicate an alteration (or in Fuzz’s case, downright perversions) of the original form or intent of referenced source material.
Perversions? I’m intrigued…
When he’s down right is mostly twists of the tongue.
Hmm…
AHAHA I LOVE THIS GUY. No, really.
“hand breaks” are called that because you release them with your hand . Truck “hand Break” or emergency breaks if you like are on the floor and are initiated by your foot. The only fail here are people who dont know what a “hand break” is
No, the only fail here is people who don’t know the difference between ‘break’ and ‘brake’.
The hand brake is a “parking brake” i.e. to be used when the vehicle is at rest (or to pull cool turns). Feel free to test it as an emergency brake, the results should be most amusing.
BC Ferries at it’s best.
you do know that the brake the you lock in place with your foot is still called a hand brake right? (also known as parking brake)
haha, BC ferries FTW!
Well, it depends. If it is an old sign, that that would be true because in older cars, the e-brake was at the left of your brake/clutch pedal.
It’s really not that big of a fail, is it? Lots of cars have foot-operated “hand brakes.” Doesn’t stop the manufacturers from calling it that :p
Do they?
I’m more confused by the symbol for ‘park’ (which I’m guessing is an automatic car thing).
Pikachu! Valet attack, now!
Yeah haha, that’s what I was thinking of, too.
I herd u liek Pikachu. . .
*masturbates*
amen!
Yeah this looks like a very specialist sign – where it probably makes perfect sense.
I put it down to people assuming that everyone everywhere also conforms to what they believe to be the universal standard of their mind.
And you know what happens when you ‘assume’ things
Wait. When you ‘assume’ things, doesn’t that make you and me in to giant panda sphincter? How goes that saying?
It goes, “life is too short” for this shit … or “lits” for short, talons-of-get-a-life.
Sad, throwing the “get a life” quip. This from an individual who spends his days cybering folks on “failblog”. If life is too short for my crap, it’s definitely too short for yours.
Wait, shouldn’t you be at work?
He’s taken the day off school today.
Let’s see how far you get.
(but don’t try it with me — we’ve had our special time and now I’ve moved on in my get-a-life)
!
(we were once in a spelling quilting bee together, and he was hogging the blanket)
!!
I always give the winning blanket to the victorious ones, Fuzz. You’re no match for me, I believe wisdom comes with age, you crochet-y bastard.
And I no matchete you … this time … you whipper-it-out snapper.
Some vehicles actually have a foot operated handbrake, its right next to the brake pedal. Therefore this sign is not a fail.
I agree – what would a picture of a real hand brake look like anyway?
It would look a little like “mr s.a.u.s.a.g.e “
which would probably be even more of a fail…
I dunno. That mr s.a.u.s.a.g.e. packs a whole lot of fail…so much so that he doesn’t have room to pack much else.
I don’t think it is even humanly possible to get a picture of that much fail
I think you’re in love with mr s.a.u.s.a.g.e.
*masturbates*
I get he impression he packs a lot of fudge as well.
*snork!*
Well done, my friend…well done.
Just off the top of my head…less like a foot pressing a foot brake, and more like a hand pulling a hand brake?
These are big iconograms. The fact is, stick figure “hands” look a helluva l ot like “feet”. I have clubbed feet, and if I squint at them (well, my eys are always squinting), they appear to be hands.
Moot point anyways, since I can’t legally drive.
This has got to be biggest fail in here.
You should learn that talonsofpeace is just a big bucket of fail.
“Bucket of fail” I like, but I’d prefer to use a nomenclature that describes my corporal being. How about “Big flesh bag of fail”.
Or just “Little words on your screen”.
Nah. Forgetting one little word, such as “the”, doesn’t mean you fail that hard. You’re OK. Just work on your self-esteem.
Feethands FTW!
monkey asse
I am quite adept at climbing, especially considering my size.
hmm … moving up in the world … while a challenge to circumnavigate
*blows kiss for Sara’s expanding horizons*
if you drive stick, you would know. It is between the driver and the passenger and you pull it up every time you park.
That’s what she said!
Sorry.
lol!
I always giggle when I hear Americans saying that, “drive a stick”.
So the stick goes up when you park, and then you drive it?
I’m liking this a lot…
there are sticks everywhere in Mexico. Many people driving sticks.
Drive a stick!
Drive a stick!
Drive a stick!
[This release of endorphins brought to you courtesy of crxmanpat, who just happens to "drive a stick".
(a 1990 Honda CRX Si to be precise, hence the name "crxmanpat", I drive a CRX, I'm male, and my name is Pat)]
*orgasms with laughter* hehe.
Most cars in Europe are manual transmission, I know very few people who drive an automatic. However, we don’t refer to them as a ’stick’, lol.
The proper terminology is “manual transmission”. However, us Americans called them “stick shift” (mainly because we were using a “stick” to “shift” the gears), and over time we just shortened it to “stick”.
Oh. I thought it was ’cause it always got stuck when you were trying to shift it.
Best definition ever!
Oh, I thought it was ’cause you were all just witches over there.
Or perhaps that it is a “stick” shift as opposed to a “column” shift.
It is possible to have a manual column shift, where the gear stick is coming off the steering column housing
A new meaning for gear head.
It was “four on the floor” for a floor (stick) shift,
and “three on the tree” for a column shift,.
ehh in my experience, it seems it’s commonly called the “parking break” or the “emergency break.” I’ve only heard it called the hand break specifically when it is the old skool hand crank (giggity) so the fail may stand?
It might be time to take a dictionary break and look up “homophone”.
Amen.
And what does toad mean by ‘old skool hand crank’? Sounds bizarre :s
It DOES sound bizarre, but…
“However, some cars (Isuzu Bellett, Triumph TR/Spitfire, MG ‘Midget’, various Fiat and Mercedes) came with crank handles as well as starter motors until as late as the mid 1970s and as these cars are still going strong there are a few people with fond memories of having to crank them by hand.
Being a poor University student myself not too long ago I remember having to crank a Bellett to get it started after the starter motor packed it in and I couldn’t afford to fix it. Fun times. ”
I didn’t have any idea what he was talking about until I looked it up.
Crank is bad for you. You should try crack.
___
(I stole that one from Killerwit, but he AIN’T HERE!!!)
mr s.a.u.s.a.g.e.?
thank you, thank you. hypnotoad, awesome!
Exactly!! Finally someone knows that cars have a foot operated handbrake. I guess if they called it a foot-brake then they would get confused with the brake.
No so much of a fail if you drive an Mercedes
the same…. xD lol
It’s a semi-fail…
A Mercedes dammit!
uh…
sorry…
*goes back to corner of the room*
*gives Jlcb the bukkit o’ pudding*
*steels bukkit*
really? i doubt I would ever fail again if I drove a Mercedes….as long as I have the money to buy it outright, then I would be rich….$$$$ nice
yea! haha i was about to say that my handbrake is a footpedal
really not a fail…like palahniuk mentioned.
probably, a picture of a handbrake would be much more a penis thing again…
And in turn that picture would end up here anyway
lol, true enough, maybe they were trying to keep it PC
in soviet russia, the handbrake brakes u!
russian reversal fail
I am genuinely sad, being a member of the old Soviet Bloc!
In Soviet Russia, comments like these are fail.
Don’t worry comrade, comments like these fail all over the world.
besides who wrote this is self a sovient russian (me) its an epic win!
No it is not, if you were aware of the rules of win you will see that:
Rules of win, Section 3a
“The declaring of ‘WIN’ while referring to the self, or action done by said party, will immediately render the so called ‘win’ invalid.
Section 3b
“When self win is in fact a fail the fail suffers an effect referred to as “win fail” causing it to become ‘FAIL²’”
I hope this clears up the matter
my ass… got confused!
Well, it has been awake since it opened at 6am.
WIN!!
I hereby nominate this comment for Burn of the Week. Is there a second?
I second that burn!
All in favor say ‘aye’.
Aye!
Aye mate, dead on.
If you got the notion
I second that emoticon
You’re a member of the old Soviet Bloc? I thought you just choked on food to make people give you money and worked at a Renaissance fair…
some new trucks have a peddle to set the hand break
and some gypsies make a living by pedali…wait what?
I love gypsies, especialy irish ones…so sexy!
Really?
All I ever hear about them is in stories involving forced marriages between 13 year olds and fights where people lose fingers and the occasional ear.
*puts on colourful headscarf and massive earrings*
come on then, abstract, I’m waiting…
*wink*
I love British ones that pretend they’re a different family and become lawyers. And pill-poppers.
The British ones are truly bizarre. They all live in caravan parks, on land which they don’t own, and piss off the locals by refusing to move on. I guess they’re the only real equivalent to your ‘trailer trash’.
I was alluding to “The Riches,” with my beloved Eddie Izzard. Do you get it there? It’s on FX, I don’t know if Sky has it. Or if it’s even Sky anymore….
? so you press something in with your foot then do something else with your hand? maybe it is just an e-brake
mercedes has foot hand brake
really? maybe it has a foot e-brake..
No it was designed for chimps and other creatures with hands for feet.
Isn’t that a highly communicable disease?
aye, hand, foot, mouth. we had a nasty case of it when i taught pre-school
Loosers, a lot of cars have handbrake for leg. Like Totoya Camry.
Loser, just because people keep spell “lose” like “loose” does not make you fail less.
F. Proofreading fail on my part.
*facepalm*
*facepalm* – is this a kind of new nuclear bomb – win!?
Only if the facepalm is delivered by Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris win!
right, “legbrake” then, maybe? hand brake, not so much. It’s just an e-brake
Right foot blue.
*… and shouts!*
“Legbrake” is what the mafia does to you when you owe them money.
Or is that “Kneebreak”…
You’re right, it’s legbreak.
But I think you meant “Kneecap” … or is that “Asscap” …
Kneecapping is also what the paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland enjoy doing to people of ‘the other side’. That, or just shooting them.
gets their ira raised, i suppose
Oh, dear.
It’s “foolscap”
::writes::
I pity the paper fool!
In Soviet Russia…
Sorry. I. Just. Can’t. Do. It.
And that’s why we like you.
And there were sooo many possibilities. But all way too obvious.
Sorry. Just. Can’t. Not…
.
In Tsardom of Rus, Ivan the Terrible was “Mr. T.”
.
(fool me once, pity on me; fool me in Orthodox Russia, I’ll get on my knees and pray … to the, um, Whom … again)
Anastasia? I thought you were dead!
Nah, just couldn’t feel nuffin.
asscap or vaginal mitten
I hope you get asscapped by a cervix mitten.
Somebody jus’ got their privates berated.
Well, I’ve seen some Mercedes (specially the mid 90’s ones) that had a “hand brake” with a pedal instead of a lever.
then, i propse that the name be updated along with the technology. Just call it an e-brake. my s. h. i. t. t. y. Dodge Neon had a foot e-brake.
Mad propse to you
Theater props position to you.
(hee … I almos’ made a theatrical proposition)
close enough…
You realise that some cars (Hunday Santa Fe i.e.) have the handbrake as a third pedal. So that is not so incorrect.
then they would be foot brakes e-brakes, not hand brakes. hand brake suggests you use your hand, which most standard transmission cars have in between the driver and passenger.
And of course,
mostall manual transmissions lack a “P”ark position.unless, of course, you bend down and use your hand to activate the “hand brake”, but that would probably cause accidents.
O, RLY?
YA, RLY!
NO WAI!
YHWH!
Now there’s an unnameable statement of an unspeakable name.
It is that it is. Give the boy a tetragrammy.
*standing atop an Alp*
♬ Yodh He Waw He hoooooooooooooooo!
Lmao, a singular ‘alp’? I like it!
this is killing me.
*prays for a speedy resurrection*
Yahweh will resurrect me, no worries, dear.
It might take two or three days…
It’s ok, I have a cave and some women to watch me.
WOT!?
w00t!
“w00t” was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for “Wow, loot!”
Your choice of slang makes you an ubergeek.
nah, because it is now commonly used among the general populace.
but you mich be ubergeek for knowing that…lol
*might
akshully, an urbandictionary afficionado, alliteratively
why, thank you. Achievement win!
Agreed!
*proudly displays Ubergeek merit badge*
*cries tears of joy*
*requests Star Wars style award ceremony*
You want a bunch of dirty Ewoks singing?
Now, with added Jar-Jar for the fail!
Whatever, he still kissed his sister.
nah, not realy. you have to already be stopped to apply e-brake.
i learned to drive in a mercedes that had a pedal instead of a lever…
57th btw
true, and they call it an e-brake…not a handbrake
E like RAPEbrake!
What does this ‘e’ stand for? I’m glad they don’t have them on manual cars, otherwise we’d have 4 pedals to deal with.
I understood it to mean emergency break but I could be wrong.
*brake (sorry)
Why emergency?! It is used for parking, you’re not supposed to jam it on in an emergency!
Actually, the emergency brake was originally built as an emergency brake, in case of a failure of the regular brake. The modern brakes are so reliable that w e rarely use the emergency brake in emergencies.
I can vouch for that. The brakes on my ‘83(?) Fuego died, along with most of the rest of the car, some 14 years ago. I was pulling up to a stoplight in rush-hour traffic, and my hand brake kept me from running into the car in front of me. It also came in quite handy after my friend and I pushed the car past the top of the hill, and I used it to pull into somebody’s driveway, halfway down the hill.
I love you, hand brake!
E-brake… “The parking brake”
Short for emergency brake.
And know the copy/paste trick!
“The purpose of the emergency brake is to provide a fully-mechanical means of applying this stopping pressure as an alternative to the conventional braking system. On some vehicles, the emergency brake can be found as an added pedal to the far left of the driver’s foot well; on other vehicles, it can be found as a lever located in the centre console or along side the driver seat. When we employ the emergency brake, a complex array of levers and cables applies the braking pressure in a manner that is directly connected to our physical effort. It is a secondary, but more direct, braking means to the conventional hydraulic system.”
I really don’t know about cars. *embarrassed*
That picture was taken on BC Ferries! I ride them all the time!
[It's like when they mention your home town at at rock concert, mindless pandering but you still eat it up.]
What part of “foot” do you not recognize!?
The metric system part.
Perhaps the person had a foot-shaped hand.
Forever in debt to your priceless advice.
~ Nirvana
I have a new complaint to this foot-shaped hand.
Older Fords had foot operated hand brakes, too. This is just ignorance.
Foot operated Handbrakes are no Handbrakes anymore, they are footbrakes.
I’m going to leave you alone because you know “brakes” from “brakes”, and you’re possibly German, which is hot.
*breaks*
But everyone knows Germans are neither men nor women.
A true dilettante needs no such labels.
*blush emoticon*
This is the time on Sprockets when we dance.
By definition, a hand brake is not operated by foot. An emergency brake (e-brake, parking brake, whatever) may be operated by either foot or hand.
/buzzkill
Yeah, but that still doesn’t tell us where the park is that we’re expected to place our vehicle in.
As long as it’s not centrally located, it’s fine.
The funny part is, if they had placed a more accurate picture it probably would have still ended up as a fail for looking like a hand around a phallus (FAILLus?).
and they say I am the sick pervert *doesn’t masturbate*
NO!!! What have you people done?! You just triggered a warping of reality! Everyone ruuuitlsdgftrhjyuui;npuiaenTH
*The universe implodes*
in a lot of cars, you engage the hand brake with your foot, so it makes sense to have that picture. they call it a hand brake because that’s how you release it.
That could be a hand pushing it for all we know…
I spy a pokeball.
I drove a car in Japan and the hand brake/park brake was actually a foot pedal. Only one car so I’m not sure – but maybe they all have that over there?
This sounds like a personal problem.
In the previous century, some old cars (before 70s) had hand brake as a peddle. I know an old Mercedes (1970s) had 4 pedals
Mercedes cars don’t have a handbrake. Instead they have a parking brake which is the fourth, the leftmost pedal, directly at the wall. So, no fail fo me.
Really no need for the e-brake cause those are automatic transmission instructions. Chances of coming out of park are pretty slim, but can happen. I know alot of the older automatic transmission cars I’ve had, the emergency brake was rarely if ever used and 90% of the time once you applied the brake it would stick. And most of the time I’d have to take the wheel and drum off and see why it was not releasing the brake. It’s a good idea to make sure your brake is in good working order, I was with my buddy a couple weeks ago and his mastercylinder failed he went to hit the brakes for a stoplight at the bottom of a hill and his pedal went straight to the floor. Luckily he acted quickly and found the e-brake pedal on the first shot, props to him because it is up high and if you’re not used to locating it in a panic situation you’ll probably miss it. Best to hold the release lever open and then apply the brakes, you won’t want to slam on the brake because more than likely you’ll just skid and probably not stop in time. ok im done
That’s OK. I brake for comments
you know the new Passat has a “hand break” which is triggered by a button, to push that button you have to press the foot break !
lol good one for BC ferrys, someone should email them.
some cars use “handbrakes” that need to be pressed with your foot.
example: Citroen XM
I actually have a hand break (e-break) that you set with your foot.
I don’t get the fail. The handbrake in my Mercedes works like that (;
This is from BC ferries. They smoke hella weed in BC.
haha, BC ferries FTW
Interesting placement of the hand brake over there – might explain some of the crazy driving.
The old handbrakes used to be pressed by the foot, an extra pedal.
Woot? What are you all talking about? Doesn’t evenyone have hands like that? My mom told me SHE was the different one, not I…
*masturbates* who wants white manjuce
Hey idiot. Its Juice, not juce. Stupid.
Hmmmm my Mercedes S Klasse has one of these “Hand” Breakes
many cars have hand brakes pedals,including are’s and its a 2003 model ford expedition
You people are all idiots… If you use your hand to engage it, it can be called a “handbrake” (not break either). If your foot is used, then it should be called a “parking brake”. “Parking brake” is universal for both types, “handbrake” is not.
Also, think outside the box… people are saying that if it were shaped like a handbrake, penis jokes would ensue and it would be more of a fail. Then don’t change the picture… change the words to “Use parking brake.”
Your the idiot. Handbrakes are used for, not only parking but also drifting, and some vehicles are pedal or lever activated. Stupid.
You know, in some vehicles the handbrake is in the form of a pedal. Try a GMC Vandura. Its an example of that.