Submitted by Marcin O. Photo taken in the NYC subway system.
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O’Rly?
Ya’rly
Oohhhh Really?
Yeah, Really!
Really lite.
O’reilly?
Actually it’s O’Neill, nice to meet you.
As in Martin O’Neill? I love you…
Loz is a girl, so there’s no way here first name is Martin.
Although I’ll say that her first name + O’Neill = much sexier name than Edward Kenneth Simpson.)
(I know her first name, but I’m not telling!
It was an obscure Aston Villa reference, I realise she is of the female persuasion and ‘Martin’ would indeed be a strange name given the circumstances. And I find Edward Kenneth Simpson to be a very sexy name thanks.
Nothing is sexier than the SEKSy pob!
Flatter will get you everywhere, m’lady.
*flattens*
Ooooh! I’ve seen cartoons, so I know just what to do in this situation.
*breathes air back into Loz until she’s inflated back to regular size*
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(I think I know “y” that happened…)
Ooh, and here I was thinking blow jobs had to be the other way around!
Well, I am a proponent of reciprocation in that regard…
“Save your breath to blow up your date tonight” – the little book of insults
Right…TNT or C4?
I’ll go with TNT, because it’s dynamite.
Don’t you mean “DY-NO-MITE!”
Now THAT’S what I’m talking about!
I caught you a delicious bass.
You have quite a Napoleon complex there.
don’t get all blowne apart about it.
heh — boner part go *bang*
Loz – looks like you got a fan.
Do I, Should I, Can I, Have to Forgive him yet?
He hasn’t paid his dues.
*grabs official Treasurer’s bat*
That’s a nice keyboard you got there Arrian. Would be a shame if something should happen to it…
My boss would be bemused at finding a stranger beating my workstation with a baseball bat, but on the plus side, I’d get the day off work (:
Please, be my guest.
this is photoshopped
ME TOO!!!!! YAYS!!! But I only have one “L” sadly. Almost!
that’s MTA for you
Obviously, he who took the picture merely photographed a mirror to make it seem as though the sign was incorrectly labeled.
If they photographed a mirror, wouldnt the words be backwards too?
Ability to understand how a mirror functions – FAIL!
It could well have been a very cleverly placed levitating and otherwise invisible system of several mirrors… but I’d rather believe New York has some silly authorities…
Did you ever try turning you monitor into a mirror? Scanning one doesn’t work.
Not if he scanned the mirror while the image of the sign was still on it!
agrees.
FAIL
Try to read a book in the mirror (or this comment) even, and see how you’re fail.
They obviously took the picture in a mirror, then scanned the mirror into the computer.
Thank you – you just made a pretty ordinary fail truly Hilarious.
mayhap he scanned the mirror while he was taking a photo of the sign in it; as to obtain a deceptive photo, and an aesthetically pleasing desktop background
omg u just FAILED so much, u bettter run and hide!
btw his nickname in german is smt like “the Clever one” What makes him fail x2
So it would suffice to say he is Kluge-less.
Or indeed that he is floccinaucinihilipilification embodied.
I LEARNED A NEW WORD! This excites me. Thanks Beren
Thanks, BEREN??
*Grins*
Sorry Dilettante, it appears that I stole your idea!
Nah, words are for everyone, I was just wondering where Thiefree was yesterday, I thought I saw her/him around.
“Words are for everyone”, you should be a motivational speaker at a convention for dyslexics.
Words are amazing! I’m a her, very much so. Hello. *waves*
(Not with my hand, though. I mean undulate like the sea. I’m getting quite good at it.)
I can sea that!
I don’t wanna know what you’re doing with your hand, then.
Maybe she’s inspecting her bunker?
double-clicking her mouse?
“…Now watch as the males of the species flock around a newly discovered female.*
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“…They barrack her with statements of self satisfaction to see if she is in season… it may look cruel to you or I but this is perfectly natural for homo internetus…*
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“Sadly, they do not realise that their advances are repulsive leaving them doomed to extinction.”
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/David Attenborouogh impersonation.
dude, you misspelled, “They garage her”.
remember when dilettante could see everybody’s butt.
*clenches reflexively*
You’d better. I can see your butt from across the Atlantic Ocean.
LOL – Ok, one to you.
Shame on across the Atlantic Ocean.
*covers up*
That display was meant for some one else…
Was dilettante on the FAILplane when she could see everybody’s butt?
Are you the guy who scanned his mirror ?
i rofled xD
Me too!!!
hmm me thinks this nest is BURN of the week!
No, the sign is right. The arrow is pointing to the LEFT side of the sign, this is true… but look at that staircase. This sign is obviously up against a wall or railing. You can’t walk to the right of the sign. What the arrow is ALSO pointing to is the RIGHT side of the hallway.
Yes, Usoki. I’m in that subway station all the time and it means stay to the RIGHT on the walkway up on the LEFT. Sheesh.
I see this sign many times a week when commuting to work. It really is like that, no mirrors involved! What it’s really directing you to do is keep to the right of a barrier (you can see it a little in the picture), which happens to be to the left. The effect is still amusing.
really really
Japanesey
O RLY?
Maybe you’re supposed to walk to the left, but keep at the right side while you’re walking left.
Hard to explain, but hopefully someone will understand it.
It’s OK, I understand you. You mean if the person splits themselves in half, like an amoeba, and walks down both sides, left and right. Right? Right!
I believe the sign is intended to mean keep the sign to your right, not keep to the right of the sign. Confusing to some perhaps considering the brevity of the sign, but I believe in some other countries they refer to signs with a right pointing arrow as keep left signs. Then again, I could be mistaken. Again.
So it’s kind of like an east wind, which comes FROM the east….
Any way the wind blows, doesn’t really matter to me. (To me.)
*appreciates
“momma, just killed a man. Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he’s dead.”
Quick! get the po-po.
No, the sign is right. The arrow is pointing to the LEFT side of the sign, this is true… but look at that staircase. This sign is obviously up against a wall or railing. You can’t walk to the right of the sign. What the arrow is ALSO pointing to is the RIGHT side of the hallway.
Yeah, I understood that completely as soon as I looked at the sign. I’ve seen many similar signs to that one in my life.
Well if you turn your back to it and look at it over your shoulder…
and moonwalk while trying to catch the train…
while singing “Beat it” and wearing only one glove…
And molesting children…
While your hair is on fire…
Wondering how the hell your hair got on fire in the first place …
Probably due to friction from repeated crotch-grabbing in leather pants.
Child Predator Glove.
In leftist russia, you got no right.
or so: which ur left hand is right?
And, does it know what the other is doing?!
Your left hand is the one with the thumb on the right.
not when you look the palm…..all is relative
In Soviet Russia, armed bears keep rights!
I may have to amend my ways. Not everyone has the constitution for bad puns.
I AM AMERICA: AND SO CAN YOU!
Is that a threatdown?!
It’s a performance of patriotic rapport!
re:Cow
good point, thats pretty funny…. haha
“while your hair is on fire” ?? please respond to comment next time, we fought to get our nesting back, please use it.
I’m sorry abstract, but I must FAIL you. Look at the timestamps. It looks like cindy was referring back to Cow’s post that said “Well if you turn your back to it and look at it over your shoulder…”. Granted, still a nesting fail on cindy, but a comment fail on you. Carry on.
Epic fail.
Being from NYC and a person who takes the train and bus, I’m not surprised by this. The MTA is horrible and I doubt their employees and managers really educated in anything (except maybe evil).
Like I always say… MTA stands for: Metropolitan Transit Atrocity.
Perhaps it is pointing to the right side of the corridor (on the left)…
Anticipation FAIL
Very relativistic. Some times to go right one must go left.
Somebody seems to have a problem with the left!
Damn republicans…
lol as if the republicans are right-wing
*shakes fist*
*shake spears*
*shakes Michael J Fox*
Nice joke there, Rush. :rollseyes:
Rush? *rolls eyes back (you might lose them)*
So, where are the priests of the Temple of Syrinx?
*holds the red star proudly high in left hand*
Doesn’t he kind of shake himself?
I’m going to hell for that one, I’m sure…
May be worse than that, O’ Jon –
you might go to limbaugh….
*Limbaugh — continually lowers the bar*
*mastubates*?
hah I misspelled it.
Good, if you’re using some kind of tube, you’re not only high-maintenance, you’re doing it wrong.
Not if you’re a girl.
This is not a fail at all. According to Dictionary.com, one of the definitions of “keep” (as a noun) is “the innermost and strongest structure or central tower of a medieval castle.” In a certain sense, an escalator resembles a tower, and since it is mostly metal, it is clearly one of the strongest structures within the subway system. Thus, the sign is warning people that the subway’s “keep” – i.e. escalator – is to the right, and therefore, as property indicated by the arrow, people should walk to the left to avoid falling onto the escalator.
All of you have failed.
Wow, Armstrong, that was a Stretch…
Well, seeing you used all this time looking up in dictionairies trying to justify something that is obviously f*cked up,
I would say:
Looking-Up-In-Books-No-life-Fail which is like the highest level of NoLife =P (although everybody that posts on this kind of thing is really bored anyway)
Actually, you just exhibited a rather remarkable fail, seeing as I gave my source as Dictionary.com – you are apparently under the impression that this is a book of some sort.
He’s right there. Websites aren’t books.
B-B-B-Burn!
No – it is definitely a money saving two-signs-in-one thing. The first part of the sign is a political statement. The second is showing those who are not already doing the first part the way to go so they do not run into the pole.
The arrow appears to be pointing to a right angle, so perhaps the message is about keeping the sign/column perpendicular to the floor.
Or, rather, the line on the sign perpendicular to the column.
The sign is right. The arrow is pointing to the LEFT side of the sign, this is true… but look at that staircase. This sign is obviously up against a wall or railing. You can’t walk to the right of the sign. What the arrow is ALSO pointing to is the RIGHT side of the hallway.
LOL, WUT? An arrow pointing to the left is pointing to the right? Am I too sober to follow your point?
How many times are you intending to repeat this piece of unfunny balderdash, Usoki?
transferring….gramar poice …where is that ‘l’?
Wow, I know many places with similar sings.
Ooo! What are they singing?
Ooossining!
“‘Stand here by this rockpile/ And listen to those hammers ring.’”
You’re giving me the blues, Bessie. Go directly to jail, do not pass Go.
Yeah, because our comments are meant to be taken at face value, always…
Enjoy your sad life, Chopsticks.
That’s a sinister-looking sign.
^ a dextrous mind
*provides ambient sounds*
*makes the sound of one hand clapping with both hands, one for each friend above*
WOOP!
I know what your other hand is doing.
I don’t like your sign language.
Such a sad, sad little person…
Typical New Yorker attitude win?
Through the eyes of a dyslexic kid.
Duh… 6 train is the most crowded of all them I believe. And gets me to school really late after 8:30 almost arriving the same time as 8:15
So this is how Dylan got inspiration for Like a Rolling Stone.
Oh, 6/E/V station at 51st St. How you make me laugh every morning.
Chopsticks is right—you all fail.
Anon delivers … fail.
Fuzz? Found you again, babe.
Anyone know which station this is? I think it was word edited, because this kind of sign doesn’t usually appear in the subway, those type of signs are over head, not on poles. The pole signs are the ones that say the station or other info. Directional stuff is above so EVERYONE can see it.
It’s at 51st/53rd and Lex and it’s actually not a fail
After you make the turn you have to keep to the right of the railing.
I see this every day!
photoshop FAIL.
That is all.
Oh, I get it. So the arrow was supposed to be pointing to the escalator?
It’s there to say, “If you go in this hall, keep to the right”.
Not a Fail.
The sign was meant to be read by people who are walking by it at an angle, not standing right in front of it.
if you were facing the way the arrow was pointing,
you would want to be walking right.
i suppose there wasnt another pole to nail the sign to, thats all.
Less of a sign fail, more of a lack of post fail.
Retard much?!
I have my doubts about you.
Maybe they ment “Keep to the right places in this place”
keep to right and fall into the tracks lol
in NYC, that is the right.
what station is this sign or was located?