Seeing as how this sign was obviously created for small children (to be most often be read by parents/guardians/teachers), it makes perfect sense to display the reltionship between 99% and one half, seeing as how many elementary/primary school students aren’t yet taught or easily able to work with fractions and percentages. It may be a stupid statement for someone in 5th grade and up, but for a young child it’s a very good thing.
did you know that if you add 9 to any number, the resulting number will always be 9 more than the number you start with? It’s amazing. It works with every single number in existence. Even decimals.
It’s true. In the 50’s they had a problem with population expansion. It was in all the papers “Red menace spreading” they had little kids hiding under desks and back yard shelters. I heard they went as far south as Cuba before they stopped them.
….not realizing that I needed to click “Show All” after a certain number of posts are posted and all won’t show on page 1 which makes no sense, but then again then world isn’t fair or a fair and none of the rides are free and the food and drinks are massively overpriced and the people are all rude or stupid and I could go on but Mom is calling did you know that the other day she asked…
I can already see the conversation between an Isle Royale park ranger and a Yooper who decided to ferry over on vacation.
Ranger: 99% of the island is designated wilderness.
Yooper: *blank stare*
Ranger: That means 99% of the island has no homes, stores or factories.
Yooper: *blank stare*
Ranger: *sigh* That’s more than half the land with nobody living on it.
Yooper: Oh ya der! Dat’s perty neat. I’s gots lotsa land for hun’in out back uv meh double-wide but nex time up I should bring meh gun an’…
Ranger: No sir, there is no hunting on Isle Royale.
Yooper: Well what for good is dis place den guy?
Ranger: *sigh*
jokes funny but i have no idea on what a yooper is in the being of in the grand shceme of existance mixed up words and no grammer and spelling wrong makes me good insides
Yoopers are people who come from the U.P. (upper peninsula) of Michigan. The area is larger than Maryland but has about 1/20th the population, and its largest city of Marquette has 20,000 people. To overgeneralize, they are a very friendly but often backward bunch, with an accent that’s something like half-Midwest and half-Canadian. It’s pretty standard to hear “ya”, “eh”, “der”, “youse guys”, “an’ so”, or probably my favorite, the silent “t” or silent “th”, as in “merit’in” (marathon) or “at’ins” (athens).
Detroit’s a lot closer to Canada. It’s only a mile, separated only by a rather nasty river. THe city opposite is called Windsor. You uused to be able to take a Windsor city bus to, say, Tiger Stadium (but I don’t know if that’s true now. I know they built a new staduim, and though I grew up there, I haven’t been back in 10 years.)
The Tigers’ new stadium is Comerica Park. You may have gotten out ten years ago, but those of us whose property values have spectacularly tanked in the last couple of years are stuck. The Tigers suck, so I hear.
The English language is absolutely horrible. It needs to be taken out and shot.
–and don’t pretend for a moment that yours is ‘better’ than ours. It’s not. In fact, I’ll say it. It’s worse. Longer is worse.
Bloody tossers the lot of you.
(Lojban FTW)
hmmm posted a reply and it disappeared but the comment is saying that seeming as its our language we can spell and use grammar as we want which is what that comment is doing + as mentioned in the magic disappearing comment i was drunk
Dude, if you’re going to be proud of yourself about arguing something, it may behoove you to actually know something about it. You might want to take a gander at the history of the English language, since your andgiet of stæfcræft is unwrÃtere.
There’s no such thing as correct or incorrect when it comes to language – all that matters is consensus. There’s room for aesthetics, but the primary purpose of language is communication, so what matters most is how accurately, precisely, and efficiently it can be used to communicate information. In these respects, the English language fails quite frequently, regardless of what version is used.
There’s no such thing as correct or incorrect when it comes to language – all that matters is consensus. There’s room for aesthetics, but the primary purpose of language is communication, so what matters most is how accurately, precisely, and efficiently it can be used to communicate information. In these respects, the English language fails quite frequently, regardless of what version is used.
And it would seem that I now join those who post, and yet their posts cannot be seen. Silly WordPress.
I thought imperial was slightly different than ours. i.e. what the Irish use while ounces, gallons, etc is actually slightly different sizes .. *goes google*
OH, so you couldn’t just take our old system and leave it as it was?! Of course not! What a ridiculous idea, you must change everything by tiny amounts to make it your own!
Teeheeee
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.
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.
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.
Me, I has been having and experiencing that like problem and same trouble and then post disappear and can’t be found even if I search and look for them.
I am and might be furious and upset about this and that too, as well!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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…
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
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?
Not everyone is a superhero at math.
That was one of the most worthless poster comments I’ve ever read.
you make me lol
you make me money
NOW
MAKE ME MONEY NOW!
In Soviet Russia, money makes you!
I’m pretty sure 99% IS more than half. So, it’s some kind of win.
did you know:
4/3 of people have trouble with fractions
You make me sick
You make me dinner, woman!
Did you read your post before you posted it? Had you done so, I suspect revisions would have been in order.
THATS MORE THAN HALF THE WHOLE SHEEP PIMP
Since when have any comments on the site really been worth reading?
Since when do we read our post before posting?
Since when do we post things about reading posts before posting?
Since 8:17 am
Oh.
Actually, since 7:42
It’s not even 10:00 and already that boy ain’t right.
This is the best string ever!
Since when do we care?
Since PoB, Loz, Dragonwriter, Avis, Ryannon… I could go on. They make my day brighter. Or at least more hilarious.
Awww! Tanks for including me in that list!
*hug*
Towelie, you’re the worst character ever.
Seeing as how this sign was obviously created for small children (to be most often be read by parents/guardians/teachers), it makes perfect sense to display the reltionship between 99% and one half, seeing as how many elementary/primary school students aren’t yet taught or easily able to work with fractions and percentages. It may be a stupid statement for someone in 5th grade and up, but for a young child it’s a very good thing.
I think whoever wrote it may have graduated from the School of Redundancy School
BA in superfluously and duplication?
Yeah, the whore children come first, before everyone else, at the very beginning.
But I think you earn a BS.
Why?
99% is definitely more than half
Fail fail. What they’re saying, while stupid, is completely true. 99% > 50%.
Yeah… its a stupid thing to say, but its not really failing… since they werent incorrect.
Stupid can’t be a fail?
I think this is a fail, no matter how true it is.
I think you are a fail, no matter how true it is.
:smirk:
I think you are a asshole. :smirk:
And I think you are AN idiot.
No matter how true it is.
Isn’t it supposed to be “I think you are ‘an’ asshole. :smirk:”?
I think you are a smirk. :asshole:
99% true. More than half!
The truth of the Truth is relative to the quality of its observation.
Seconded. If you think most people won’t recognize immediately that 99% > half, you’re a moron.
‘Stupid is as stupid does,’ and what stupid does best is fail.
true, yes.
stupid, yes.
fail, no.
Truth in Advertising win!
That all depends on how big that 1% is…
Well that all depends on how big that 1% is….
I second that. If the 1% is like 1577feet^2 and the 99% only like 1457feet^2.
at least he didn’t say ‘first’
Is it fail? I mean…. it is a statement of truth!
Only 50% of the time
49% actually
The above statement is only 23% true
I accidently the statistics
80% of all statistics are made up.
Only 64% of the time
that’s more than half.
99% more like
99% is, like, more.
It’s, like, 99/100ths.
that’s, like, almost 1/1th.
but its not 1/1th is it
That’s just one too many explanations!
My 2th hurts. I’m getting a filling tomorrow, I’m scared.
Hug me!
I will after I get a drink, I’m thirdy
*waits with arms outstretched*
tooth hurty?
it’s four twelvey, actually.
Are you sure? I’m quite fifthy
Oh I see, you can put comments inbetween comments… Sneaky
you can accidentally comments 99% of the time
Its closer to 100%, really
You guys make me lol…even when you fill up the thread before I get here.
*hugs Loz*
*is still scared*
Hopefully having my gf for moral support will help! I’m a big wuss
You’ll be fine, sweets. I’m glad fluffy will be there with you, though.
oh the OTHER fluffy… no I see…
Ordinal grammar fail: you mean 1/1st
…and 64% of the time,
They work every time.
So that reply is 20% true?
11%
Probably over 50% anyway.
Divide by 2 and you get 25%
did you know that if you add 9 to any number, the resulting number will always be 9 more than the number you start with? It’s amazing. It works with every single number in existence. Even decimals.
Damn. that was, like, so profound that it broke nesting capabilities!
Only to every comment you add below it.
Did you know that if you eat an apple every day for 100 years you will live a long life?
Only if you don’t choke
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
–Woody Allen
WHAT SHOULD I DO?!
Use an action verb.
your symbol looks like a swastica
ooh eck, so it does. :S
I admire your imagination.
I imagine your admiration.
Your’s kinda looks like an iron cross.
that’s what I was thinking… kettle… pot… both nazi bastards
Your’s kinda looks like a flower.
I’m like the Red Cross, but pink
I like my gray hourglasses.
Mine kinda looks like a fish.
Mine looks like a government conspiracy…
Mine looks like…
*squints*
Well, okay, it’s really hard to make out. You’ll just have to trust me when I say you are looking at quite a lot of my bare skin!
*faints*
*grins*
*swoons* .. oh wait I don’t swoon .. *ogles*
*chuckles*
(This is in response to Loz’s post.)
*administers CPR*
that’s because I smell nice and am very attractive
Hence the name rottenpossum.
Rye!
Yes but it’s a good swastika. The kind the Buddhists use as a symbol of love and mercy.
Coming from the one with symbol=iron cross…
i found this very informative, i really did not know
The Red Squirrel came about its name after conquistadors found them to be vicious killers of men. Nesting within their kills!
kay!
Not becuase they’re commies then?
It’s true. In the 50’s they had a problem with population expansion. It was in all the papers “Red menace spreading” they had little kids hiding under desks and back yard shelters. I heard they went as far south as Cuba before they stopped them.
(Squirrels won’t nest below this level)
We dare not risk another frontal assault, that squirrel’s dynamite!
Random useless fact:
A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
random useless fact I’m wearing black underwear
Skimpy
ren and
Jerry’s
Tom and
Huck.
and finn
(no fictional duos will nest below this level)
Finn
MacCumhaill
matata
ma-TAY-ta. Let’s call the whole thing off.
Hakuna!
Random useless fact: Hakuna Matata is Swahili for No Worries.
No sh1t…? Perhaps you haven’t heard the song…
you simply have to dump on everyone, don’t you loz?
*dumps on magenta*
That’ll teach you to be so bad humoured!
i don’t find being rude and unkind to people humorous.
Magenta is taking this WAAAAAAY to seriously.
Yeah, this is definitely not the place to be serious and uptight.
No shit??
you simply have to dump on everyone, don’t you dragonwriter?
‘Tis my raison d’être!
Oh goody
No but apparently they repeat.
leberry Finn
and Finn.
(no fictional duos will nest below this level)
leberry Hound
kleberry Hound
[my fail for double posting]
….not realizing that I needed to click “Show All” after a certain number of posts are posted and all won’t show on page 1 which makes no sense, but then again then world isn’t fair or a fair and none of the rides are free and the food and drinks are massively overpriced and the people are all rude or stupid and I could go on but Mom is calling did you know that the other day she asked…
a buck
Not a Fail, 99% is more than half.
I can already see the conversation between an Isle Royale park ranger and a Yooper who decided to ferry over on vacation.
Ranger: 99% of the island is designated wilderness.
Yooper: *blank stare*
Ranger: That means 99% of the island has no homes, stores or factories.
Yooper: *blank stare*
Ranger: *sigh* That’s more than half the land with nobody living on it.
Yooper: Oh ya der! Dat’s perty neat. I’s gots lotsa land for hun’in out back uv meh double-wide but nex time up I should bring meh gun an’…
Ranger: No sir, there is no hunting on Isle Royale.
Yooper: Well what for good is dis place den guy?
Ranger: *sigh*
(all apologies for the Wisconsin humor)
jokes funny but i have no idea on what a yooper is in the being of in the grand shceme of existance mixed up words and no grammer and spelling wrong makes me good insides
……….or what’s a ‘yooper’?
Yooper is usually a term for people from the U.P. or Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Hence UPer or Yooper.
Google and/or Wikipedia are your friends…
Yoopers are people who come from the U.P. (upper peninsula) of Michigan. The area is larger than Maryland but has about 1/20th the population, and its largest city of Marquette has 20,000 people. To overgeneralize, they are a very friendly but often backward bunch, with an accent that’s something like half-Midwest and half-Canadian. It’s pretty standard to hear “ya”, “eh”, “der”, “youse guys”, “an’ so”, or probably my favorite, the silent “t” or silent “th”, as in “merit’in” (marathon) or “at’ins” (athens).
thx
Oh lordy…I grew up in Wisconsin, and this made me ROFFLE!!!
cheese!
*takes ErickB’s picture*
*hopes it wasn’t one of the ahem .. er … * nvm
Liar. You SO hope it was!
*innocent look*
tl;dr
If that’s too long for you, we’d never get along…
I only like ones that go from a to z.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz?
that would make for quite the bizarre-shaped pen1s.
Kinda sharp at the end, ow
But kinda ribbed… for her pleasure.
yeah, the x-y-z part would rip you up inside.
‘ewwwwwwwwwwww’
Waynes world XD
The mno would be ok.. best to end it there, sooo thats about…. half? Time to get the cleaver
owch
(Penises wont cleave below this level)
Rdiged for your pleasure
Rdiged?? I think there’s a cream for that…
Oh? Could you help me apply it?
I thought you liked the one that goes from caps lock to enter.
actually marathon would probably be “maraton”. you’d also hear
“i s’pose”, “jeepers”, and “gosh darn” quite often.
We’re not all backward hicks that talk funny, I swear!
Are the rest forward hicks that talk funny?
You betcha.
Yooper humor is always ok.
This is located near the Straits of Mackinac, it’s a lovely place, I’ve sailed passed it in the past.
did you pass gas?
I think the currents are going to take this into a polluted zone…
Haha, how’d this end up here? Its supposed to be at the “Fishbone” “mermaid”posts
Feel wick.
I… what does that mean?
Wick means crap. ‘Feel wick’ means ‘haha I bet you feel crap for making a mistake’. Kinda hard to explain…
Still trying to understand what you meant!
I explained it! ^
…sort of…
She’s saying you should be embarrassed by your fail and feel all stoopit about it.
It means you failed on posting on failblog :-c
99% > 1/2 = Fail FAIL
Technically, it’s not a FAIL, just a massive understatement.
never realised Canada was omnipresent.
Detroit’s a lot closer to Canada. It’s only a mile, separated only by a rather nasty river. THe city opposite is called Windsor. You uused to be able to take a Windsor city bus to, say, Tiger Stadium (but I don’t know if that’s true now. I know they built a new staduim, and though I grew up there, I haven’t been back in 10 years.)
Fascinating…
Sarcasinating …
extrapolating…
flaparapalating…..
Jeopardizing
Ruining the thread-ting.
Resuscitating…
Continuating…
Inaugurating
Discombobulating…
Ingratiating…
masticating
Terminating.
Reciprocating…
Resuscitating.
Woops.
Reiterating.
Exasperating.
Expostulating!
facilitating
flibbertygibbeting
*masturbating*
The Tigers’ new stadium is Comerica Park. You may have gotten out ten years ago, but those of us whose property values have spectacularly tanked in the last couple of years are stuck. The Tigers suck, so I hear.
this is old but still good though i doubt i am 14 miles from Canada because that would make Canada closer than london…
How the heck do they know where I am sitting?!
there watching you…… get out NOW
*sends erickb a phone in an envolope*
But really… imagine living in Canda, eh?
Beer and moose .. or is it meese? Beauty day ‘eh?
Moose!
*secretly fixes her previous spelling error*
*surreptitiously hands Loz and ‘a’*
Keep your hands where I can see them, mister!
An ‘a’? Why?
“envolope”!
*tosses out ErickB’s “a” and substitutes an “e” instead*
*also gets rid of ErickB’s superfluous “d”*
Goodness, the warehouse is always getting those orders wrong.
Oooh.
*snork*
I fail at spotting fails.
“Canda”. Heeee.
Oh…
*steals Loz’s red pen*
Hey! This is the same color as your face at the moment!
Two errors in one comment, I must’ve been temporarily possessed by a demon!
Obviously! It’s the only explanation.
Wait…you didn’t drink the water, did you??
Oh crap… did it have metallic oxide salts in it?
Quick tell me…! Do you see rainbows??
Yes! This didn’t happen 20 years ago! What should I do?
I’ll phone 999, I think I’m dying.
*hands Loz a plastic cup with a string attached to it*
But these buttons only go 1-2-3-3!
Contact!
*wonders what to do with all these superfluous letters*
I will take this opportunity to correct you, since I like how it pisses everybody off when I do. It’s “they’re” not “there”.
I will take this opportunity to tell you I don’t give a crap….
Ah yes, but will you take crap?
Because failblog tracks you every time you connect to it. Failblog also stores your sexual and political preferences based on your comments.
So failblog can tell me what I don’t know yet?
ONLY IF YOU KNOW IT BEFORE THEY KNOW IT BEFORE YOU KNOW IT
Stop shouting at me! My head is already about to explode!
Probably because you’ve been failblogging all day. Get out and get some fresh air!
I can’t, this desk chain restricts movement beyond what is required for my job
I get my daily food though soon
well I clean offices so don’t drop any food on the floor
he got the special treatment
i’ll give you the special treatment
You missed a spot.
srry got sum muddy shoes
/me drops some food on office floor and stares at Holo
*takes large knife out of large back pocket*
*and plunges knife deeply into the flesh of satan*
*wink wink* *nudge nudge*
Say no MORE!!
Your wife… does she… does she go? Eh?
Oooh! Are you a Candian??
*surreptitiously hands Dragon an ‘a’*
*surreptitiously points ErickB to the joke up there^^^*
*wink wink * nudge nudge*
Say no MORE!!
*has a bizarre sense of deja-vu*
no MORE.
Vu-ja-de * the inexplicable feeling of “I ain’t never seen this shit before in my life”
I prefer not to have sex with politicians. But thanks for asking.
From where I am sitting I am not 14 miles from canada. Thats the real fail.
I’m within the United States of Canada… well north of Jesusland.
Jesusland, formerly known as the USA. Hahaha.
I thought it was spelled Jusesland
Only by the few renegades who despise the new name and like to mock Christianity.
satanism is REAL
Good news!
Only in the south southern suburbs.
These are good news
Oh, lets not start this again…
That’s “satinism”…
So are God, Hell, and the national debt.
Finally! Some good news!
satinism is real, spreading, and silky smooth.
Heathens, the both of you! -shakes fist-
Proud to be a heathen… at least it’ll be warm where I’m going.
Florida? California? ‘Vegas?
Ring of Capricorn?
Not after applying ointment.
I’ll meet you there Khaaaaan! I’m going to hell too!
Same! *packs bags* Hey, there’s a lot more fun company than Heaven!
I’ll bring the margarita machine!
Better pack a lot of ice. I hear there is a shortage down there.
I’ll bring the margarita machine!
Heeeeee!
Goddammit.
I SWEAR, when I posted this it showed up ONCE.
Then I refreshed, and it was there twice.
It’s a conspiracy, I tells ya!
I wouldn’t be surprised, failblog is failing often these days!
I’m still waiting for them to fix this comment-page issue. Get on it, guys!
Better pack a lot of ice. I hear there is a shortage down there.
You too??
The more the merrier!!!
*we also welcome sexual harrasment*
The ring where you’d go if frozen though… ;P
Replace if with is -_-
If you would be so kind
“Is you would be so kind”? That does not make sense!
only 99% of the time
More like mostly all, eh?
Yeah! So basically…
They accidentally the WHOLE THING!
No, just more than half.
Point two fail: I’m in the UK…
so am i……………… lets have a uk party!
*parties like it’s 1999*
*parties like its 0001 bc*
I hear a guy called Juses is being born next year, and he’ll be awesome, or something.
heres hoping he runs for prime minister but he wont because he’s not in England
..and was Jerusalem builded here, in England’s green and pleasant land?
so maybe?
mediocre fail
How is this FAIL? It’s clearly full of win.
Canadians – we don’t say eh!! eh?
Well some do… but we don’t all say eh. Eh?
99% of these comments are not funny. That’s more than half!
(including mine)
Humour fail. (Or humor, for you illiterate Americans)
or hummer for all of you…. people who like hummers
Or Humber for our friends in the North
i.e. Americans.
yeah but they already have a spelling
The English language is absolutely horrible. It needs to be taken out and shot.
–and don’t pretend for a moment that yours is ‘better’ than ours. It’s not. In fact, I’ll say it. It’s worse. Longer is worse.
Bloody tossers the lot of you.
(Lojban FTW)
did someone forget their medication?
Does ibuprofen count?
No, it gets swallowed and dissolved. It can’t count, anyway, without a brain to be able to appreciate concepts like numbers.
OMG, a bloody toss…that would be horrible.
no its quite enjoyable
it depends on what is bleeding
It’s not a matter of better or worse. It’s a matter of correct or incorrect.
And as has been stated before ..
The English have been bastardizing the English language since 1278.
*since it IS a bastardization of languages*
bastardising* bastardisation*
+ were English we chose what the English language is
*despairs*
*snicker* Yah, ‘ees won of yurs.
Why did you have to go and ruin it, Holo?! *shakes fist*
I was drunk when I wrote that actually
hmmm posted a reply and it disappeared but the comment is saying that seeming as its our language we can spell and use grammar as we want which is what that comment is doing + as mentioned in the magic disappearing comment i was drunk
Just hush, child.
marathon surely?
Fastest I have seen anyone despair,
-Holo unlocks Achievement: Hope’s Black Hole-
That’s not a big achievement .. ask the rugby team.
It doesn’t have to be very big, according to some people, to destroy the Earth!
No….the Americans have been bastardising (Yeah, fuck you, it doesn’t have a “z” in it) the English language. The English just develop it.
Wow, hardly a fail has gone by where I haven’t argued with an American about the English language. I’m quite proud of myself.
You’re flyin’ the flag…
*snork*
Dude, if you’re going to be proud of yourself about arguing something, it may behoove you to actually know something about it. You might want to take a gander at the history of the English language, since your andgiet of stæfcræft is unwrÃtere.
Just sayin’.
*ogles* And i like what your ‘just sayin’
.
Daba apparently doesn’t care if he is right just as long as he’s arguing.
*ogles* And i like what your ‘just sayin’
.
Daba apparently doesn’t care if he is right just as long as he’s arguing.
Heee!
You know, multiples aren’t always necessarily a bad thing!
Ok I swear failblog is ran by illegal gremlin immigrants!
There’s no such thing as correct or incorrect when it comes to language – all that matters is consensus. There’s room for aesthetics, but the primary purpose of language is communication, so what matters most is how accurately, precisely, and efficiently it can be used to communicate information. In these respects, the English language fails quite frequently, regardless of what version is used.
There’s no such thing as correct or incorrect when it comes to language – all that matters is consensus. There’s room for aesthetics, but the primary purpose of language is communication, so what matters most is how accurately, precisely, and efficiently it can be used to communicate information. In these respects, the English language fails quite frequently, regardless of what version is used.
And it would seem that I now join those who post, and yet their posts cannot be seen. Silly WordPress.
Just 1% is urban… that’s less than “half”.
And imagine… Canada is 6000 Miles away from where I am.
…14 miles from the candian border, eh.
in 15 miles your back in the US
Wait, what’s that in kilometers?
ma i ques is lowerest dan ziru
I do generally assume, with people that use american standard instead of metric, that it is lower than 100.
‘American standard’… do you mean ‘imperial’?
Praise be to the Imperium and the God-Emperor of Mankind!
I thought imperial was slightly different than ours. i.e. what the Irish use while ounces, gallons, etc is actually slightly different sizes .. *goes google*
OH, so you couldn’t just take our old system and leave it as it was?! Of course not! What a ridiculous idea, you must change everything by tiny amounts to make it your own!
Teeheeee
Well we figured you wouldn’t be wanting it back, since you got that metric thing going for you now
We actually have a mix. We use mph on roads, for example.
We use cars on roads. Motorcycles also. Sometimes we use vans witha car inside.
*facepalm*
Just a wee bit further.
Massive ’subtle humor appreciation’ fail.
well, that is more than a half
It’s more than two halves for slightly undersized values of ‘half’, too.
What about all the wilderness that hasn’t been specifically designated so? Is it proto-wilderness?
Its quite bewildering, isn’t it?
It’s probably a jungle out there, too
Is that wilderness though? We need a map. And flags. Lots of flags.
99% > half. This is a fail fail (if there can be such a thing).
You’re a fail for not reading the bazillion comments before you which have already pointed that out.
Bazillion%?
Failzillion
his MOM’S a fail!
Yes, we call your comment a ‘meta-fail’.
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.
This FAIL is a FAIL FAIL, because the writing was intended to be funny. It was therefore actually a marginal WIN.
well…. 90% IS more than half…
*strangles*
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.
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.
Take off, eh
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?
I can’t seem to get a comment posted anymore…
Oh, this one is corporeal!
Th first page no longer updates for me
Me, I has been having and experiencing that like problem and same trouble and then post disappear and can’t be found even if I search and look for them.
I am and might be furious and upset about this and that too, as well!
Now and then magically spontaneous it works and has no failure or fault! Arrrrgh!
It is a redundant reoccurring occurrence happening often!
*:::CRIES:::*
You guys should try clicking ’show all’…
*shows all*
Woo!
Why “fail”? Last time I checked “99%” WAS more than “half”.
-waits for it…-
Turn the page.
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
It’s not technically wrong… It IS more than half… But that is a weird way to put it.
Squirrels clearly aren’t very proficient at arithmetic.
99% of these comments are worthless. This may have been stated already but i read less than half of them.
Those red squirrels have a hell of a hockey team, though…
How is this a fail? The poster is right, you know. 99% IS more than half.
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.
*** SHUDDERS WITH PENT UP ANGER ***
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99% > 50%
…
wow. that is all I have to say.
This post is so ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
Stupid fail, it is a win. A fail is something that makes no sense. That does. 99% is more than half (50%)
But…. 99% is more than half, because half is 50% and 90>50, right…..?
That’s as many as four tens!
AND THAT’S TERRIBLE!
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.
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.
Technically it’s absolutely correct! I say WIN!!
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.
No shit, Sherlock!
I accidently all over the red squirrel. What should I do?
*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.
SURE IT IS!
well.. it IS more than half
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.
this isn’t wrong you know…
99% IS more than half
not fail. this is truth.
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!
that whole thing was a fail…
They get a pass on a technicality…
60% of the time, it works every time!
Hi!
I don’t understand, what is come over you all;
99% IS (!) more than half! Isn’t it????
Maupa
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…
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
NO WAY! 99% is more than half?!
It’s a distinct squirrel species – and found nowhere else? GET OUT!!!
Red squirrels are also on mainland Europe
Loads of them.
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?
Also a fail because we have red squirrels in the uk (even if it is all the way up north).
“The Red Squirrel on Isle Royale is its own distinct SPECIES”
Secondary fail?
(Tertiary counting the grammar fail)
Its a win numb nuts 99% is more than half. so Fail on you.
Bah, the real fail is a stupid squirrel picture. Hamster pictures are better!
uh… no dur
good math skills?