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ERSTE!
PREMIERE!
Erste Bank?
lulz
HEY! THAT’S MY NAME! I’M SUEING!
Erste Hilfe? (First Aid)
Are you female?
YOUR MOM
Nice riposte.
He has a rapist wit.
Touche.
No, douche.
Doucheburger, hold the cheese for table 3.
That’ll be $333.
I have $7.50…
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a doucheburger today.
free ninty nine please
But I only have like 7 bucks…
O RLY???
I know of a great motel he can stay at… weekly!
I know of a great motel he can stay at, weekly!
you wanted me?
Her name is CHick
ich spreche deutsch 2 lol
OMG. Idiot editor.
LOL. Article is in Times.
Los Angeles Times to be exact.
isn’t it times new roman?
This is silly. Her name is Chick.
Read the article you twats. Her name is Laura Chick. It’s a pun.
Twat? I cunt hear you!
yeah.. Spunk up, Twat! We cunt hear you!
(I love recycling my jokes)
Twat did he say? Ah never mind, I’ll finger it out later.
Captain Planet says: Always recycle your jokes!
That’s a pun?
I think we should demand punitive damages.
her name is laura chick lol
Yes, we’ve established that. Let’s all say it once more, “her name is Laura Chick”.
Has everyone got it out of their system?
Oh, and his name is Robert Paulson.
I prefer, “Has everyone gotten it out of HIS system.”
“his OR HER”
I think that usage is accepted to refer to either gender.
so whats her name?
Um…no, Mookie. I really don’t like being referred to as a “him”…just sayin’.
English is in serious need of a gender-neutral singular pronoun.
I agree. “It” doesn’t do the job, either. “Everyone has gotten it out of its system.” Nah. Let’s make one up.
BTW, my favorite pronoun is “youse.”
Jersey did they. The say “yous” for everyone.
Oh jeez, that was 7 sides of hosed. I am going back to packing.
I’m from KY, I prefer y’all.
Where ya goin’, Ryannon?
Only the lowest of the low scum here say ‘yous’, it makes my skin crawl. As does ‘y’all’ :p
Sorta my point.
Their works here. It is a generally accepted usage for this situation. For those of you who are purists (they is a plural pronoun!!!), simply think of it as two possible people: a man and a woman. Therefore, the subject is plural, and there is no problem. This may not be the correct way of dealing with it, but who really cares?
Around here (on business in Georgia) they differentiate between singular and plural y’alls: y’all is singular, all y’all is plural
Leave it to rednecks to make their own grammar!
*rifles through Lunchbox’s pockets for the innuendo machine* Nope, that’s not it!
Lunchbox!
*hug!*
And all y’alls is plural possessive.
No all y’alls is plural, all y’alls’ is plural possessive. Even rednecks have rules for their bad grammar.
Howdy, Y’all! *hugs back* Hope you’re having a lovely weekend.
Pixie, that’s damn funny!
*takes a bow* Thank you, thank you. I’ll be back next week.
Woops. I’ll be here all week.
*snork*
*tries the veal*
*tips the waitress*
Ooooh, I feel guilty just typing that in jest.
I don’t eat veal…ever.
I’ll still tip the server, though.
And we’re glad to have you, Pixie!
Aw, shucks! *blush* I feel so loved.
Dragon, you heathen! Spank yourself for suggesting we entertain the notion of dining ala baby cow… the do taste delicious, though!
Erm…
Can’t we just go back to appreciating Pixie…??
*appreciates Pixie*
.
*still had Dragon’s veal comment on her mind*
*sigh* I’m always second fiddle to the veal.
*hug!*
YAY! *hugz back*
Wait, her name’s Chick?
… and wait…
Don’t worry pixie you wont have to play second fiddle around here.
.
Hey LB what are you doing in GA? I’ll be back there in maybe Feb once Im done working for a bit
Make up a system?
hir? hes?
So we are making up a system now?
In English, “him” can be used as a gender-neutral pronoun when referring to a collective.
I thought it was accepted usage to use “their” for an indeterminate gender pronoun.
Really people…
“Everyone has gotten it out of THEIR systems”.
Many people, many systems.
“Their” is perfectly acceptable as a gender-neutral singular pronoun. It serves both genders, alone or in groups. Giggity!
You’re supposed to say “his or her.”
But the sentance is referring to the plural group that consists of fail bloggers, so “their system” is acceptable, non? I’m too many years out of school to feel this confused on my grammar.
“Has everyone gotten it out of their system(s)?” Doesn’t that work? Ugh I pulled a 16 hr shift today. I can’t remember how to apply proper grammar. lol
Has everyone gotten it out of “thier” system?
Is that gender-nuetral enough?
Her name is Laura Chick. Her name is Laura Chick. Her name is Laura Chick. In death, we have a name.
Or punish somebody.
It’s not a pun, it’s a palindrome.
Laura Chick = Kcihc Arual?
Last time I checked a palindrome was a word, sentence, verse, etc, that can be read the exact same way backwards. For example, ‘radar’ is a palindrome. Or if you want to be special, ‘a man a plan a canal panama”.
Source:
A dictionary.
A Sarah Palindrome?
Like “Is Africa a country”?
no, like “Is Ben Gay?”
It’s your mum. Thats what it is. The who_re with the bad haircut is your mother. I hope she never breastfed you.
It’s not a pun or a plaindrome. It’s a homonym. Homonyms are words that share the same pronunciation but have different meanings, and are usually spelled the same. Palindromes are words or phrases that are spelled or read the same backward or forward.
It’s still a fail though, the editor should of spotted it.
wow dude, you fail. Los Angeles Times the newspaper, not font, you moron
Your brain is a fail. He was joking, you know, as in “haha”
We need more cops. The Grammar Police need help from the Literal Police.
No kidding! Ye gods…we need to establish a new department or something.
The Funny Bone Transplant Squad.
The Humour Police? I’m for it!
*humors you*
I don’t see the fail in this. What’s the fail??? Can someone explain please>?
Clearly, Eggs, your brains are scrambled. What an aptronym.
ok, I take that back. Her actual name is Laura Chick. I have to declaire failblog fail on this one.
I’d disagree…still an idiot editor for phrasing it the way s/he did.
Don’t think for a moment that wasn’t intentional. lol AWESOME!
I’m pretty sure there’s no editor stupid enough to do that intentionally.
You’d be amazed, this is the Times afterall.
I think the editor did it on purpose. I mean, seriously.. he (and I know it’s a HE editor) is not that dumb. He probably thought it was ironic and funny.
I stand by my original statement “idiot editor” only I think it’s for different reasons.
Yeah, I think it’s intentional. The use of “some of” in the headline is a filler to allow “Chick” to be used in the intended space. The more traditional, less, um, “witty” headline would be: “Councilwoman Accuses Male Colleagues of Sexism.”
Of course, you’re going on the assumption that this writer/editor isn’t an idiot, which is problematic at best…
The writer/editor is no dope. That is free publicity, good or bad they sold a ton of papers that day with a very low risk of lawsuit.
I think the phrasing was brilliant. A funny headline, but not really a fail.
I agree, it could have been approached for a different angle.
FROM!
It was a bit obtuse.
Aw. You’re so acute.
I get it right sometimes.
We’re scalene the heights of humor, here.
I saw celes!
you’re both right
The way paks did you mean. See my name!
While you may be right, it is not immediately apparent that Chick is her last name, and, chances are, that headline was worded that way on purpose. For extra irony, of course.
extra irony and increased readership.
One doucheeburger, extra irony, hold the sensitivity.
One douchburger cumming up!
That might be hard to swallow.
Suck it up then.
lol, idiot chick
If you read the rest of the paper it turns out her last name is Chick
its her last name “Laura Chick”
Ha ha ha! A man named “Chick!”
Clearly… ‘Chick accuses some of ‘her’ colleagues of sexism’
Her clearly means a man to you – you’ve had a sheltered upbringing perhaps?
I think mookie used the word guy in the context of ‘person’
Except that Mookie didn’t use the word “guy”, she used the word “man”.
…How stupid was my last comment? Do I deserve a Fooming?
I thought about it, but…this time I’ll let you off with just a warning!
Thanks
*scurries away*
He who offends and runs away lives to be foomed another day.
…except for those worth chasing after.
I could be wrong, but I think I can take pride in having never been foomed by the foom-mistress.
It’s true. I was the first to *scootch*, though.
Ah but you quickly scootched back.
It’s true! You came to my defense against a troll, and I vowed I’d never *scootch* away again.
*sniff* I love you man!
I scootched closer when everyone was scootching away and I don’t even get nice words about it…
My scootch belongs to you mindmute.
Did someone say scotch?
Irish I had some whiskey for you Loz.
Vodka gonna do about it?
Do you ever rum out of puns?
I can’t imaGIN it happening.
No, we have a rye wit about us here.
And I thought you were so ginteel.
You needn’t brandy about your words with me…come right out and say what you mean.
Ale let you know when I figure it out.
Call me lager and let me know.
As soon as this all wines down.
Killed me. Uhh, maybe premature but here goes –
i love you guys.
Oh, Schnapp(s)!
That was absolut-ly terrible.
*still wants whiskey*
Damned economic crisis!
My JD supply has run dry
All this talk of alcohol has had quite a Hypnotiq effect on me.
I’m glad to see you back here. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, you know.
Anyone zima margarita?
The heat here is enough tequila donkey! Just visiting for the evening, back to normal ops later in the week. Yay…
You guys are Killian me. You know I can’t drink!
Pabst we should all go to an APA meeting.
Nah, they just Harp on you all the time.
If you’re going to wine about it, then just get out of beer! Okay, now I’m going to soak in a bubble bath in my pub.
Well, if you’re going to wine about, you might as well just get out of here, Bud!
Now now, don’t act like a mother pucker…
(not related comment: The woman’s hockey team where I used to live was called The Mother Puckers).
And a stout group they are.
*pops in a Johann Sebastian Bock CD*
Lunchbox, you know Harp? Surely they don’t sell it over there?
They most certainly do! I imagine it’s nowhere as good as there, though. One local place even did a black & tan of Harp and Guinness. Not good, not good at all.
If we are going to scrutinize this all the way, I think Mookie was thinkin that there is a man that actually passed down the family name CHICK. And come to think of it.. that is funny too.
Case closed?
Well, solution given, but case not really closed.
At least, let’s nest it below this level, if not close it.
OK, done that. What now?
Cheesecake anyone?
Mmm, cheesecake… though beefcake is good too.
Sorry, BF, that’s not it. Does nobody understand where I was going with that? I must not be nearly as funny as my mom says I am.
Would you mind explaining your joke?
Sigh. I was merely pretending to misunderstand the fail, as so many are wont to do. I mean, the pic does look kinda dykey, so… I was pretending to think the “fail” was that the picture was of a man, and his name was Chick. It’s not uncommon on this blog for people to miss the fail entirely, which I find eminently amusing, and worthy of mocking.
attention whore ^_^
And you’re one of my best patrons. Thanks.
Ooooooh!
*claps and cheers for Mookie*
I don’t get it.
*ducks!*
Come to think of it, I don’t either!
*geese!*
I call fowl on your callous treatment of mookie.
I’ve caused quite a squabble.
Don’t try to pigeonhole me!
She was just out for a lark.
Well birds of a feather must flock together.
A bird in my hand is worth two in her… um… nevermind.
r.u.n.n.o.f.t.
Don’t be chicken, cicili!
Turning your back around here will get you goosed.
*crows with laughter*
Let me know wren you’re done.
It’s a little hard to swallow.
Is it my tern?
Um…ErickB, not to sound insensitive, but I think you should
go and see the doc. Looks like you have thrush.
*offers breath mint*
Oh mmm itb jush thibth mashmallo peebths .. *grabs a glas of water* don’t try to eat 4 peeps at once, they are hard to swallow.
Damn, I haven’t got any bird puns ready. I guess I’ll just have to wing it.
now that’s a groaner that makes me gaggle
Oh, you’ll get it, alright. Why I oughtta….
No, Mookie! Put down the bat!
One of these day Alice, one of these days!
Bang! Zoom!
Heee…! She wouldn’t do that to her dragon-bud.
Straight to the moon
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!
(tee hee! I learned from the best, Dragon!)
Easiest way to think like that is to imagine Homer from Simpsons.
A giant grizzly bear breaks into a bank, eats everyone inside,
dances on top of a giant table before flying out of the window into
his helicopter. Homer: “Heh heh heh…. that was one heck of a dog.”
Maybe it’s a chick with a dick.
Chick McGee?
Or as Randall likes to call it, “children’s programming”.
Laura Chick’s father.
That would be Dick Chick, right?
Dick Cheney?
Duck! He shoots.
But he never scores.
This thread surveiled by the NSA in three… two… one…
But the NSA can’t nest here.
yuk
Perhaps Mookie is postulating that she may have a father/husband/brother/son with the name ‘Chick’?
Then they would definitely be Chicks with dicks, no? Gives a new spin to hermaphrodite.
But if the name comes from her father then she would stop being a Chick when she gets married. Unless she marries a Chick, or a chick and keeps her name.
Incestuous hermaphrodites? **masturbates**
Reading fail? It says “her” and the first name is Laura and there’s a picture of a woman, what more do you need.
I need people not to take everything so literally.
C’mon, sweets, you asked for this one. Take it like a man.
Nah, I’m gonna take it like a Chick. Us Chicks complaint about our treatment all the time.
Ooops. *complain
That’s why they call it bitching…
Please don’t kill me.
It’s a man. The photo is clearly photoshopped XD.
FIRST!
*sirens*
We have a failed comment!
Under the new Failblog law, saying the mentioned word is illegal unless:
1. It is accompanied by a comment
2. It is in a foreign language
Primero!
First! -insert comment here-
eerst
Seriously?
OMG. Not real.
what?
it’s clearly real.
read the article – “chick” is the woman’s name.
why do you find it so hard to believe that it’s real?
seems pretty legit to me.
this isn’t a fail. it’s lame.
It’s a fail because the editor should have realized how the headlines was going to look.
Maybe, just maybe, he had given his two weeks notice and this was his great “eff off”to the establishment before he left. DOWN WITH THE MAN!
Who stole Ryannon’s apostrophe? Come on, own up!
*looks up at the ceiling and whistles innocently*
Only a guilty person whistles!
*shakes head* I expected more of you, sweetie.
First off, Dragon = Native American Giver
she gave me a spare apostrophe earlier. Secondly, where am I missing an apostrophe?
Oh, I just hid it! Gawd. Look in the pudding bukkit, I put it there.
*”two week’s notice” is the “proper” English way to say it.
This isn’t strictly your fault Dragon, more like the typing utility’s, but shouldn’t the first quotation mark in “two week’s notice” be the other way around?
I could be wrong, but I think both are “acceptable”. But then again, I was sure weeks was just the pluralization of week.
Well…both are “common usage”, but only one is considered actually “correct”.
And could you please poke Shadow for me? He’s right above you and he’s being particularly picky and pedantic.
Well, we’ll just agree to disagree and leave it at that or I might have to go back to Babcock.
Dragon, you typed it wrong!
weeks’, not week’s.
Thank you. That was a very cogent explanation. You have clearly grasped what has eluded the majority of the posters.
He should indeed have realized the headlines was going to look that way. By the way, is our children learning?
Good plural abuse slam.
Heh. That sounds like a pro wrestling move.
Is it really a fail if her last name is “Chick” ?
Yep. Most definitely.
What’s with the crowd today? Do they not see the irony?
Irony deficiency is a common problem around here.
It causes punemia.
is it contagious like punmonia?
No, I’m a frayed knot.
Well if your coming undone, I should probably tie you up.
Maybe someone should hose you down.
Is she lying on the floor? Did somebody want to destroy her sweater?
Is there a vitamin you can take for that?
No, it can only be cured with cyanide.
“No, it can only be cured with cyanide.” And happiness!!
http://www.explosm.net/comics
It can be Cured with a Love Song.
I thought the Cure was Friday.
p.s. I’m in Love.
Will you bring me Bloodflowers on Valentine’s Day?
Although it would have been even funnier if her last name was Broad. Or Wench.
Or Hussy.
How many times have I told those boys never to call chicks “broads”?
- R.J. Fletcher
Yeah, I don’t understand why it’s a fail. Her last name is Chick, which makes it funny, but not a fail.
Well it’s a good thing her last name wasn’t Bitch.
Sixth!!! lul
Reply!!! lull
This fail is fail. Come on, that’s her name, “Laura Chick”.
What a deliciously ironic pun! Chick is her last name and it can be taken offensively! Too funny.
i wouldnt call tht a chick
WTF, when I loaded the page for the first time, there were two replies. Then there were five. By the time I posted my reply there were 19. O_O Busy…
Fail because you wouldn’t have known that there was 19 until after you clicked “Add Comment”
OMG! How rude of everyone not to wait for you to post!!
Dragon’s out for blood today. Look out!!!
Woops.
*slinks back into corner with tail between legs*
Sowwy!
No, don’t apologize! There is a superfluity of cretinous activity today, and it must be eradicated. Or at least reprimanded.
*gets out the dictionary*
Hmm, I’m sensing a common thread today … all this talk of punishing and punishment to be meted out.
I can almost see the twinkle in your eye…
I can almost see the twinkle in your eye…
*innocent look* Improper posting is definitely punishable …
Mookie has twinkles in BOTH her eyes…
Ooops. Fat-fingered it.
So, that’s what they’re calling it these days? It’s so vague, I preferred it when people just said, “*masturbates*”.
That’s gotta HURT!
Pretty sure that picture is of a man…
Yes, that’s quite a mandible.
How dare her colleagues call her by her name! Of course I get the sense she changed the pronunciation of it to “cheeck” back in college…
So she should turn the other chick and get over it?
Sounds good to me… wheres that hairbrush.
The other chick is always sexier.
you’ve missed it… The pronunciation is with a soft ‘ch’, as in sheek. She’s the heir-apparent to the Saudi oil fortunes.
Leave Mookie alone!
Reply fail, Mr. Crocker.
Thanks, OM. Your heart is in the right place, even if your reply wasn’t. XOXO
READ FAIL for those who say this is fake or the editor is stupid
The chick’s name IS Chick…
Easy tiger, we got that already.
*FACEPALM*
Reading previous comments fail?
Worse than that. Complete grasp of humor fail.
SQUACK
I wonder what ‘gender sensitivity’ training is. I know about genital sensitivity.
What is this sensitivity you speak of?
Take off the boiled wool underwear.
That dumb broad needs to stop complaining and get into the kitchen to make me a sandwich. -Ed.
…and grab me a brewski, while you’re in there, Chick.
FailBlog-subtly-running-out-of-legitimate-fails WIN
Heh. I’ve been around Failblog since June and even then I saw many people saying it’s running out of fails. If anything, Failblog’s gotten funnier.
It’s too subtle for some, perhaps. Which is scary…
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
-Isaac Asimov
-or-
“O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy’s fate in our hands.”
-Sun Tzu
-and lastly-
“Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood”
-(uncredited)
The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
Neal Stephenson
“SNOW CRASH!”
The “Deliverator”…heee!
Thanks. I’m sitting in the kitchen watching people cook, giggling like a loon, and getting strange looks.
*high fives*
*high fives back*
Happy to oblige, my friend!
At first I thought it was just insensitivity, which is funny. Now that I know that Chick is her name, it just got funnier.
THat’s awesome! I didn’t even read the whole thing, just thought that somebody just made fun outta her, but having you name Chick… lol
Is it just me or does she look a little bit like Leona Helmsly? (sp somewhere of course)
Absolutely! I knew she looked familiar, but couldn’t place it.
This must be the same reporter who headlined about the two soggy holes.
Did anyone actualy read the little part of the article? The woman’s name is Laura Chick. So actually a fail for Chris F.
My dick is as hard as a prosthetic leg
*rofl*
This is hilarious.
the comments on this site are almost funnier than the fails.
do you people seriously sit here all day reading each other’s comments?
i guess i do too.
please continue, i am entertained.
Fail Blog: come for the fail, stay for the comments.
Yes.
Would it be insensitive of me to say that I know a chick named Laura, and I’d love for her to accuse me of sex(j)ism? Or to say that she has a bias, and I’d love for her to hold it against me?
*wonders who on earth pob could be referring to*
Depending if Laura is a slut or innocent…
Chick is her last name guys, read the paper too!
What is the issue on sensitivity?
The woman’s name was Laura Chick.
In these times, I would thank the reporter for a laugh, not give it a fail!
Ms. Chick has to have heard it all in her lifetime.
Try it..
That’s one crazy Chick!
She’s a hot Chick. Not..
Maybe the editor just has a sense of humour unlike half the people here. I love it the journalist should get a raise.
Simple fix: “Councilwoman Chick Accuses Colleagues of Sexism”
It’s still some fail, but less so.
“Councilwoman Laura Chick” would be better.
No need to specify “male colleagues” or “some of”
So it’s still Editor Fail.
This is one of my cousins, and i’m not kidding. laughed my ass off when I saw it..
YOU ARE ALL RETARDED!
her name is Laura Chick
so not sensitiviy fail!
they use her name as a play on words sort of thing
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