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  1. Phen-- says:

    Not everyone is a superhero at math.

  2. Your Publisher says:

    Fail fail. What they’re saying, while stupid, is completely true. 99% > 50%.

  3. Albie says:

    Is it fail? I mean…. it is a statement of truth! :P

  4. DanBootleg says:

    i found this very informative, i really did not know

  5. Fishbone says:

    Not a Fail, 99% is more than half.

  6. mac says:

    99% > 1/2 = Fail FAIL

  7. toth says:

    Technically, it’s not a FAIL, just a massive understatement.

  8. titmonger says:

    never realised Canada was omnipresent.

  9. Holo says:

    this is old but still good though i doubt i am 14 miles from Canada because that would make Canada closer than london…

  10. Roger says:

    From where I am sitting I am not 14 miles from canada. Thats the real fail.

  11. More like mostly all, eh?

  12. Point two fail: I’m in the UK…

  13. Tadgh says:

    mediocre fail

  14. N says:

    How is this FAIL? It’s clearly full of win.

  15. spellbunny says:

    Canadians – we don’t say eh!! eh?

  16. ickyickypew says:

    99% of these comments are not funny. That’s more than half!

    (including mine)

  17. Nuck Chorris says:

    Just 1% is urban… that’s less than “half”.

    And imagine… Canada is 6000 Miles away from where I am.

  18. wolfgangmunzerl2 says:

    …14 miles from the candian border, eh.

    in 15 miles your back in the US

  19. jayhonk says:

    Massive ’subtle humor appreciation’ fail.

  20. joe says:

    well, that is more than a half :)

  21. Mikey D says:

    What about all the wilderness that hasn’t been specifically designated so? Is it proto-wilderness?

  22. Scot Z says:

    99% > half. This is a fail fail (if there can be such a thing).

  23. Cessnance says:

    The real fail is that someone thought this would somehow interest kids. “I’m sure those immature morons are absolutely incapable of imagining just how much 99% is. Or what it’s like to be, like, close to a national border. That must be something no child has ever imagined before.” Not a “did you know” fail, but a condescension fail.

  24. Anonymous says:

    This FAIL is a FAIL FAIL, because the writing was intended to be funny. It was therefore actually a marginal WIN.

  25. ilikenothing says:

    well…. 90% IS more than half…

  26. I saw a TV spot from Korea pointing out that TV sizes of 11/20 are larger than 9/16, as pointed out by the advertiser. The problem is that the meanings are totally put out of sense. First of all: it is not true; secondly: they are almost the same; thirdly: the average customer is not interested in this hell of figures and ways to write them down. If we look after TVs in our shops, we want 16:9 or 720p, not 9/16, 1.78x, NTSC, m:n, 212:100 or any unrelated, invented, false, artificial, custom identifers. Btw: Why is subpixel rendering called Pixel Plus HD?

    BTW:
    2,160 km² is designated wilderness
    _ _22 km² is populated area

    this is what we want to know.

    BTW: if we round right, 2,161 km² were supposed to be designated wilderness, but the sum should be 2,182 km² which is most closely estimated by rounding the significancy down.

  27. Jen says:

    It cracks me up when they are like “Youre only 14 mils away from Canada- Imagine that, eh?”

    I AM CANADIAN and I dont say “eh” unless it is tottally applicable to the statement I just made… and its like..like 30% of the states is 14 miles or less away from canada.. so.. its not really that special now is it? Stupid poster.

  28. Wikipedia Fail:
    German Wikipedia article says: 2.182,4 km²
    _English Wikipedia article says: 571,790 acres (2,314 km²)

    Which of them is true now?

  29. Retaba says:

    I can’t seem to get a comment posted anymore…

  30. Fake Snake says:

    Why “fail”? Last time I checked “99%” WAS more than “half”.

  31. DrunkenNuck says:

    Ignorant American’s attempt at a promper use of “eh” fail…

    The 14 miles from the border of Canada is a did you know win IMO… How many Americans actually know their geography? lol

  32. signe says:

    It’s not technically wrong… It IS more than half… But that is a weird way to put it.

  33. kentosan says:

    Squirrels clearly aren’t very proficient at arithmetic.

  34. ram bonie says:

    99% of these comments are worthless. This may have been stated already but i read less than half of them.

  35. ShouldBeDoingSomethingElse says:

    Those red squirrels have a hell of a hockey team, though…

  36. Lark says:

    How is this a fail? The poster is right, you know. 99% IS more than half.

  37. Kath says:

    I think the second thing is sillier.
    What’s so exciting about being near the border of Canada?

    I’m imagining it, eh, right now, and It’s doing nothing for me.

  38. Finity says:

    *** SHUDDERS WITH PENT UP ANGER ***

  39. poooeater says:


    99% > 50%

  40. wow. that is all I have to say.

  41. someone says:

    This post is so ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A

  42. GainesWorthy says:

    Stupid fail, it is a win. A fail is something that makes no sense. That does. 99% is more than half (50%)

  43. Mister B. says:

    But…. 99% is more than half, because half is 50% and 90>50, right…..?

  44. Paragon12321 says:

    That’s as many as four tens!

    AND THAT’S TERRIBLE!

  45. Emily says:

    I find it hard to believe that nobody has pointed out the additional grammar fail in the above fail:
    “The Red Squirrel found on Isle Royale is… different than any squirrel found anywhere in the world.”
    Should be: different FROM.
    = grammar fail.

  46. Canucklehead says:

    Just to clear this up: we Canadians already understood the 99% > 50% business. Stating it in the advertising copy is just for clarification for our brothers south of the border.

  47. I Fail at Failing says:

    Technically it’s absolutely correct! I say WIN!!

  48. Stephen says:

    The poster is a joke poster. All the comments on it are whimsical and intended to make you smile. The real fail here is that anyone thought that it was serious.

  49. Pastelucho says:

    No shit, Sherlock!

  50. IBKC says:

    I accidently all over the red squirrel. What should I do?

  51. in_a_box says:

    *pft* Fail fail in my opinion. It is not an incorrect statement, it simply could have been said better. *shakes head* It’s all nonsense.

  52. Khrome says:

    well.. it IS more than half

  53. Frank says:

    True… which lessens the fail content..

    Still, it’s 99%, which is 1 away from 100%. It’s could’ve been worded better, like in_a_box said.

  54. lolcatssz says:

    this isn’t wrong you know…
    99% IS more than half

  55. rage says:

    not fail. this is truth.

  56. Mandalor 91 says:

    I remember being there… besides Yosemite, it was the most beautiful place I had ever been to.

    AND I REMEMBER THE SQUIRRELS!!!

    The fearless little beggars stole a whole bag of peanut butter (little packages like you get in a hotel or restaurant). Then they would go up into the nearest tree and scream at me like f’n kamikazes!

  57. Joey says:

    that whole thing was a fail…

  58. quantum insanity says:

    They get a pass on a technicality…

  59. Chris says:

    60% of the time, it works every time!

  60. Maupa says:

    Hi!
    I don’t understand, what is come over you all;
    99% IS (!) more than half! Isn’t it????
    Maupa

  61. al says:

    Actually there are TWO places in the world where the red squirrel is found, the other is Formby, Liverpool, England. It’s the shittest town around, the squirrels are all we have…

  62. Idiot says:

    Actually it’s not al fail, so its indeed a worthless comment, because 99% is more then half, so, no fail. Although its not the most smartest sentence ive ever seen….must have been written buy some treehugger

  63. Thomas says:

    NO WAY! 99% is more than half?!

    It’s a distinct squirrel species – and found nowhere else? GET OUT!!!

  64. Nele says:

    Red squirrels are also on mainland Europe :) Loads of them.

  65. white_rotten_rabbit says:

    I know, like a bazillion people already said it, but still: this is definitely a fail fail. Incidentally, so are all the photoshopped fails and pseudo fails where people are getting hurt or injured like for example this fucking not funny Tour de Fail.

    When will people learn how to tell a genuine fail from a fail fail?

  66. Livness says:

    Also a fail because we have red squirrels in the uk (even if it is all the way up north).

  67. Cormac says:

    “The Red Squirrel on Isle Royale is its own distinct SPECIES”

    Secondary fail?
    (Tertiary counting the grammar fail)

  68. sean says:

    Its a win numb nuts 99% is more than half. so Fail on you.

  69. morethananumber says:

    Bah, the real fail is a stupid squirrel picture. Hamster pictures are better!

  70. trusts says:

    good math skills?


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