There are a couple of words that seem to trip up men. And I am not being sexist. I just notice that it is always men spelling them wrong. But then again since I work in a predominantly male environment and most of them are self taught computer geeks, maybe my study is slanted a bit.
Any mother will tell you, we say anything to our sons to make them feel better about themselves because we know their wives will be rather brutal like we are to their fathers.
Well, N(r), I find in my research that it’s a combination of the two. Size AND use=perfection. I’m still looking for willing research subjects to add to my empirical data, though!
Me? No…
Except that… well… when I gave you my virginity the other day, it was kind of special… for me, at least… and…
Well… I suppose I kind of hoped that maybe you felt the same way…
I dunno…
*sobs* *wails*
*slams head on floor*
Um… no… you’re still thinking of someone else.
I’m the one who made you dinner. And brought you flowers.
You said I was the only man who touched you like that.
I believed you.
And Rynnon… she did love me!
She just doesn’t love me any more.
Apparently.
*sobs* *wails* *breaks furniture*
But, you know, Ry… I could do with some help getting over the whole thing… if you’re free this evening…
I can even bring the flowers. Mookie gave them back.
Bod, when you let a woman with a deli ticket machine in her bedroom take your virginity, you really shouldn’t put much faith in her “feelings” for you.
I only know one thing in Spanish: Amigos Para Siempre. Would that help me navigate around Spain? *starts humming “The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Plain”*
I could be wrong. Far be it from me to be nice and understanding. It goes against everything in my nature. But I do think she was punning as best she could. And I am assuming she is female since she was vying for LB’s attention.
Well, if the armoured vehicle was steered close to the foreign hostile troops and one of their soldiers stood right under the barrel, SOME injuring would have occurred.
Yup, I’ve referred to it many times. I actually told a coworker leaving for the weekend, “Hey, be careful out there. I’d hate for you to get severe lead poisoning.” I was being completely facetious, of course!
Where, to properly train our nation’s military so that your ignorant ass can sit on the computer, bashing the government and the country without fear of a car bomb going off at the local mall? If you think there’s a better way, why don’t you run for office? Clearly, you know how it should be done.
Lunchbox – sorry, but according to the video are tax dollars are being wasted on people who can’t even make a decent tank gun. No matter where you sit on the political landscape that is an epic fail for usage of tax dollars.
And I take issue with the idea that sending our troops to occupy another country makes us safer, but that;s just me – oh, and I guess a really big percentage of the population!
1. It’s an M2hb .50cal machine gun, not a ‘tank gun’.
2. The gun here has been in production since 1917, and works VERY well when properly maintained.
3. From the video, you can’t tell where they are. This could easily be somewhere in the US for pre-deployment training.
4. You misspelled “our”, and your grammar sucks.
5. Prove to me that our actions in the Middle East have NOT made us safer. I maintain that, despite the unpopular wars we are in, fewer risks exist here in the United States than prior to our involvement there.
6. The beauty of the entire debate is that you are free to disagree with me, and vice versa. All I ask of anyone is to support the troops carrying out the mission, regardless of political views.
You don’t have to support the war to support the troops. Keep in mind, a lot of these same guys are the one that will come to the rescue when a hurricane, blizzard, fire and/or tornado destroys everything you know. They are there picking up the rubble from an epic earthquake. *hugs LB and gropes a bit while in the area*
I’m gone maybe 2 weeks and I’m already missing quality groping. Sigh.
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.The .50 cal in the fail was most likely reassembled correctly. As it has a retaining pin to hold the barrel and the upper reciever together, it either broke, or someone lost it (it is surprisingly small) and said screw it.
You can’t support the troops without supporting their mission.
When you say “omg i want teh troops home, thats support! i kno rite? thats y i joined codepink to demonstrate at teh marines office and call them baby murderers!”
i would love to see you say “i support the troops” to a marine who wants to go back for a fourth tour. I would love to see you swallow your pride to lie to his/her face like that.
Meh, the threads were probably stripped or someone didn’t seat it right. I don’t think a bad timing would have caused that, but I’ve never seen what happens when you screw those up.
That was just a .50 cal with linked ball ammo. Pretty much the same thing that a M16 fires, but the bullet is about the size of your thumb if you include the jacket. It’s not going to blow up. You can fire a M203, grenade launcher, straight down and be fine. The military is cautious about fail safes. That’s why we don’t use stuff like RPGs.
Nope, timing won’t.. the gun won’t fire at all if the timing is off. Stripped threads or improperly seated barrel is my guess too. But, hey, with a gun designed in 1917, anything could happen.
Sorry, I watched but I don’t find the humor in it. The .50 misfire on this fail wasn’t going to kill anyone. The missle might, depending on how the rocket is “programmed”.
Well it could be that it was passing a checkpoint and a journalist was there covering the story that caused this type of mass exodus and snapped a quick picture.
I knew this guy that would record vlogs at random points while on patrol. Half of them he was forced to delete because of sensitive information. This probably was a prank on the gunner.
Sunset? Um… it’s not quite three here, and the sun isn’t due to set for well over an hour. Plus it’s freaking cold here! If you’re planning on carrying me off into the sunset you better be REALLY warm!
*grins and is swept*
He was around you, wasn’t he? I have a ton of experience with my firearm and I’m sure I’d still be trigger happy around you.
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We are using metaphor, right?
I wanted to make a shoot from the hip joke, but nothing came to mind that was particularly humorous. I’m just tossing it out there so no one else can use it.
fail? That’s a freaking awesome idea. I would so buy
something like that. Maybe have it use IR instead of
projectiles, but still a really neat concept.
I know you think it’s cool because all the other kids are doing it. But you know polka is a gateway dance. You could end up jitter bugging before you know what happened.
(Political humor) Actually, the whole war in Iraq was a fail. The biggest fail of all times. Although it was a huge win for the big families who sold guns (not all like this one).
Due to the lack of legitimacy it wasn´t a good idea. If 100.000+ people die, one should have far more acceptable reasons – or else is no better than those brutal dictators.
There were better reasons. Kind of the same reasons that in WWII the Allies landed troops in North Africa and then Italy before directly attacking Germany.
It just wasn’t workable to attack Iran or SA directly. Iran’s programs were farther along, and SA is the holiest Islamic nation, having Mecca and Medina, as well as controlling so much of the oil that disrupting it would have really flushed the West’s economy.
Either would have been a more legitimate target, but both were even more likely to go badly from the start and get worse, while Iraq was a known quantity, militarily. Also, being between both nations it allowed for (as I said) the flanking of Iran (with occupied Afghanistan) and a potential base for ops in Saudi Arabia – you may remember that Al-Qaeda’s first big grievance with the US was that US troops were still based in SA after Desert Storm.
Also, controlling Iraq, which had the Middle East’s second-biggest oil reserves, would allow more pressure to be put on SA with less economic disruption.
Most folk weren’t interested in such a big-picture view (I blame MTV), so they used WMD. It seemed simpler, plus at the time, every intel agency still believed Iraq had them (just not that they’d have used them.)
The occupation was bungled badly, because Rumsfeld was a colossal tool.
Orly, you have come at an unfortunate moment, where most of the thread starters are gushing with innuendo. It’s really not this perverted usually.
As for commenting on the video, let’s try reading every comment before we complain, shall we?
Failblog party? I wanna go. Can we have it at Mookies house, it is centrally located afterall. Maybe 4th of July since that is a holiday around the world and everyone can fly in from all the countries. I will bring the streamers.
Don’t ‘sulck’, czuhc. That must have been before my time. For the benefit of those of us who are unaware of the special wonder of your boots, please enlighten.
Wow, I am REALLY disturbed that I missed all that. Fluffy’s hiding in my pants, Christopher’s claiming to have dined from my box… does he even know that I’m MALE???
You know what people? I’d take the time off work, buy a plane ticket from Los Angele, rent a car and get a room just to party with you guys. Instead I get derision.
Hey Neener… It’s not only that we were all the butt of a joke (we were). It’s just that while you are willing to go the distance, be adventurous, and meet other failbloggers, most people here don’t feel that way. Most people here will not travel across the country to meet a bunch of strangers.
I heard you were thinking of leaving. Please don’t.
We don’t mean it that way. Really we don’t. But to be fair, well have been the butt of a joke from time to time here. Even Dragon. I’m sure of it. I just have no idea when that might have been.
To be a regular here (or even a guest star, really) you have to develop some thicker skin. Just for self preservation.
As you know, dragons like treasure hoards. I am no exception, and over the years I have collected quite a hoard of loose gemstones. Right now I am absolutely in love with Mandarin garnets (do a google image search to see).
Anyway, my latest sparkly just arrived today! An absolutely stunning 2.5 ct. round mandarin garnet set in a simple mounting with one very small color-change garnet accent stone. GORGEOUS!
I didn’t even SEE your post ’till now! I love that stone! I am currently wearing a bracelet made of that. I think. It was a gift, and the stones are orange, so I don’t know for sure. But now I want earrings. And a pendant. I am a bit acquisitive sometimes.
I can try. If Mandarin Garnets are as rare as that… these are NOT Mandarin Garnets. I like it nonetheless. It’s one of the very few orange pieces of jewelry I own… that is not crap. I still want Mandarin Garnet earrings. Garnets ARE my birthstone after all!
Nope, close, nope, and hell no. And yes it is VERY cold here.
I did once try to count all the orange stuff in my place, but got caught up trying to decide if a set counts as one, or as many pieces as the set contains.
The only room that REALLY has a lot of orange is the kitchen, sorry to disappoint.
My company is paying hehee and all the meals are out. Unfortunately I am having to leave my puppy here It will be his first night away from me. It’s breaking my heart but he is going to a place where he can play with dogs all day long and then sleep at night.
Can somebody please tell me how to copy an image from Google Images and upload it to this site? I am not very computer-literate. I have been experiencing COMPUTER USER FAIL.
Hooah to my brothers and sisters in arms still in hell.. but I’ve had that happen to me…shit I even had the barrel on my Winnie pop off once… horrible time..lol
Yay for tax dollars! So glad they’re being used in the development of….one-time use…machine guns. -twitches- I think Billy forgot to check his equipment…silly Billy.
And lawls at the Made in China post. Now they put all their lead in faulty machine guns!
The M2 has been around over 90 years. And they work VERY well, as pretty much anything that John Browning designed does…
They are designed for interchangeable barrels, since the barrels take a LOT of abuse. They’re essentially disposable.
Prior to our little situation over there, most of these weapons were packed away in cosmoline, waiting to be “decommissioned.” Well, since these things will actually shoot through the adobe-like walls of many of the mosq… er… terrorist strong points, they’ve become rather popular.
I’m guessing that they’d done a barrel change, and someone told someone to hurry because they were getting a picture taken or somesuch, so, well, they just stuck the sucker in so it’d look good. Then someone tried to fire it.
That’s probably more than likely, regarding the reason of the mishap. Or perhaps it really was a prank played on those poor boys. Either way, good for a chuckle.
Silly Jarhead. You forgot to do your head space and timing. Doesn’t surprise me though. One of your Marines fired a live AT-4 in a building when I was deployed. Thankfully no one got seriously injured. That was also a fail.
It’s not the size of the barrel, it’s how you use it… right?
Definately…at least thats what mama always said!
*corrects definitely for name(required) surreptitiously*
What is with that word, Ry? It’s not even pronounced with an ‘a’!
There are a couple of words that seem to trip up men. And I am not being sexist. I just notice that it is always men spelling them wrong. But then again since I work in a predominantly male environment and most of them are self taught computer geeks, maybe my study is slanted a bit.
Taht’s definately nto troo!
Now wai. I aint bying it.
lt ls aer yuo dmbe er sything:?
mebee
meep meep
Higher quality then you think!
Ry just give up. You are not going to win.
We misspell all those word so woman can continue their superiority trip.
“my study is slanted a bit.” TMI
Yeah… we spell poorly…and women…. can’t drive for shit.
I’m female and I used to spell it as definately until I was corrected once.
i have a stinkin’ account but it wont let me post with it! what do i do? I WILL DO ANY THING TO KNOW PLZ!
Why did your mother teach you this, no willing girls around?
Any mother will tell you, we say anything to our sons to make them feel better about themselves because we know their wives will be rather brutal like we are to their fathers.
he meant your mama.
someone can’t spell
Definately LB. At least thats what mama always said.
Well, N(r), I find in my research that it’s a combination of the two. Size AND use=perfection. I’m still looking for willing research subjects to add to my empirical data, though!
I crunch data all day long, will I fit into your research?
I think I can schedule you for a few sessions. One is never enough to truly tell…
I hope you have perfected your algorithms.
I have some alternative ideas. Maybe you can help me work out the kinks.
I’m all about the kink baby!
Good! I think we should whip up a few more research tests, just for good measure!
Well I’d be happy to help if you need to take care of a large load.
*pulls Name(required) out of the thread* Three’s a crowd, man.
Depends on the third! *drags Mookie in*
*stares longingly*Four is a party?? right?? *extends hand*
*WOOOO*
Ummm, I mean… Hey, Mookie, can I enlist you for some research?
She could be part of the blind study. Just poke her in the eyes before you poke her in the butt. It’s a win/win.
No need for any poking. She will go blind as soon as he undresses. I thing it’s the eyes, protecting the heart.
If you thing your eyes, you really will go blind.
haha, oh man.. nice double fail by me…seems to be slow at posting today
No its how you do it in a nasty way.
we had that video weeks ago, right? i like the sound of it falling down
i was first earlier before this was even up here
Well I posted here before this fail was even UP! Hah!
And it’s the parade to the post!
And they’re off. . .
And its bubblegum sticking to the rail and cabbage leads by a head and bringing up the rear is beatlebomb. . .
….and at the turn, beatlebomb is pulling into the lead, as cabbage appears plagued by gas and bubblegum’s hooves seem to be sticking to the turf…
Three cheers for Spike Jones!
first
I believe the guy in this video was aiming at YOU. Too bad the gun failed…
no no silly check ur moms chin, looks like a perfect shot
You’re not first, you’re second.
And for that, you earn seven million troll points.
“lolzorz” You can redeem your 7,000,000 Troll Points HERE!
*Points at Disguised Troll Cage labeled: TROL-MART*
You even have enough to get a Brand New CAR!
*smiles and gestures* Right this way!
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*sneaks behind lolzorz with tazer-cattle prod combination*
i thought i was the troll here!
im not logged in… maybe i should do that…
Don’t be so self – centred! This place is crawling with trolls.
Now get back in solitary confinement.
well maybe ill just send out 2 or 3 comment every other day so i can become as popular as mookie(though i doupt thats possible…)
Hey, I don’t cheat on Lou!
Um…
Do you have something to say?
Me? No…
Except that… well… when I gave you my virginity the other day, it was kind of special… for me, at least… and…
Well… I suppose I kind of hoped that maybe you felt the same way…
I dunno…
*sobs* *wails*
*slams head on floor*
God! Guys are so needy. You think just cuz a woman takes your virginity it means something to her. I bet you believed that she loved you didn’t you?
That was you? Why were you speaking with a Spanish accent? And it was so dark… I feel used.
Um… no… you’re still thinking of someone else.
I’m the one who made you dinner. And brought you flowers.
You said I was the only man who touched you like that.
I believed you.
And Rynnon… she did love me!
She just doesn’t love me any more.
Apparently.
*sobs* *wails* *breaks furniture*
But, you know, Ry… I could do with some help getting over the whole thing… if you’re free this evening…
I can even bring the flowers. Mookie gave them back.
Bod, when you let a woman with a deli ticket machine in her bedroom take your virginity, you really shouldn’t put much faith in her “feelings” for you.
I realise I was naive.
So… are you free this evening?
I meant “are you free this evening?”
But I don’t think it’s worth a bukkiting.
Nobody was looking anyway.
I might have 5 minutes free tonight. Want me to pencil you in?
Five minutes is plenty. You can even borrow my pencil.
Who needs bukkits when you can
*taze*
*taze*
*taze*
Heeheeheeheeheeheehee.
It’s always taze, taze, taze
You’re happy when he’s on his knees. . .
You’re a titan among commenters, Marius.
Titus Rhetoricus.
But are you going to talk dirty to Lou in Spanish?
I only know one thing in Spanish: Amigos Para Siempre. Would that help me navigate around Spain? *starts humming “The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Plain”*
Remember everyone. Although this may be a bit untimely don’t forget to appreciate your skwerrly!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/21/squirrel-appreciation-day_n_159626.html
Thank You!
*BOWS*
Thank YOU!
second who said first
TO timeslot 1-22, 10:59 AM from Timeslot 4:39PM–
Who IS (on) first? I second yr choice & move to pass the amendment. All in favor say “EYE”.
*gavel slam*
*BANG*
yer bois, fire extinguishers!
the bang.
The clang.
the akward silence.
Beautiful
Very nice.
No big deal. If it slips out, you just stick it back in. Happens to me all the time.
I don’t seem to have that problem..weird…guess i mounted it right
Are we still talking about gun barrels?
uhhh… i hope so cuz i dont have anything funny to say
*tumbleweed passes by*
Gun barrels, yes. What ever did you think we were talking about, Judy?
It seemed like….uh….uh…..*shufffles feet*….I think I hear my phone ringing…..
1-22-09 4:42 PM to 11-59AM:
“And today We have Naming of Parts….”
(frosh English Lit poem….oh never mind….)
Long, hard, hot after you use it right… yup, I think so!
hahaha! i wish i didnt understand that…
I would not touch this with a ten foot pole.
I would….
Well, I don’t have a ten foot pole…but I can…OK, I’m just going to stop right there.
Surely that’s not nearly far eno… but that’s okay… you just stop where you feel most comfortable.
Stop Halfway Inn, it’s comfortable there.
Repeated visits to that particular hotel?
Yeah, a lot of in and out.
Good lord! I would never stick it in a gun barrel!
and the hands thrown up in exasperated defeat
The front fell off!!!
Projectile Dysfunction.
lol You name it!
For your information:
Queen Anne is dead!
But is Prince Albert still in a can?
He graduated to a meatomy.
To: 11:13 AM (Ryannon) from the future, 4:45 PM:
Prince Albert, Are you still in the can? I need to go pwee.
Is your refrigerator running?
THIRD!
Very Good “marmor,” You get 20,000,000 Troll Points for being Third!
You can redeem them HERE! >>>>>
*Points at Disguised Troll Cage labeled: TROL-MART*
You even have enough to get a Brand New CAR and a HOUSE!
*smiles and gestures* Right this way!
uhh, he’s fifth not third… can i taze him anyways? and what about the tiger cage, it’s allways fun!
I think you could get authorization for water boarding in this situation.
ive learned that its best to save the top comments for the witty ones so please… dont touch the comments until you are well beyond 11th marmor
“and yes that gos for me too’
You can just gos.
I think I need to gos to the toilet…
Uh oh I think you wents.
Someday our goslings will grow up.
And, the ducklings will be beautiful.
premature ejaculation
ejection…?
Those guys are damn lucky that didn’t happen in an actual fight…
Yeah, you are real lucky, if that was in a real fight… uh… some foreigners might not have been killed. It doesnt bare thinking about.
Thank gawd…I’d really you rather keep your clothes on.
I do my best thinking naked.
You can get bare all you like. I just didn’t want to see Isaaaaac’s dangly bits.
*bare hugs*
I can definitely bare that!
You spelled definately wrong.
Crap.
I can’t bare it when I make spelling mistakes.
“Cuddles up the the mr_bare coat hanger”. I’ve had it with this..
If you don’t like it, you’re free to leave.
In fact, let me help him along…
Awww I think she was just joining in the fun with the spelling of bear the way it is.
If you say so, apologies to N(r).
Likewise and me too.
I could be wrong. Far be it from me to be nice and understanding. It goes against everything in my nature. But I do think she was punning as best she could. And I am assuming she is female since she was vying for LB’s attention.
So…what’s a “mr_bear coat hanger”??
Awww, previous fail recognition fail
I am surprised at you.
http://failblog.org/2009/01/06/hook-hanger-fail/
The hanger was where the bear penis should be.
Ah, hell, I can’t remember ‘em all.
*rolls eyes at self*
Well, if the armoured vehicle was steered close to the foreign hostile troops and one of their soldiers stood right under the barrel, SOME injuring would have occurred.
Yeah, good thing it didn’t hit anyone one the head. Those things are DANGEROUS!
Guns are dangerous too.
Guns don’t kill people! Little pieces of lead do.
It’s called Sudden Acute Lead Poisoning.
Yup, I’ve referred to it many times. I actually told a coworker leaving for the weekend, “Hey, be careful out there. I’d hate for you to get severe lead poisoning.” I was being completely facetious, of course!
Naw, even if it happened in “an actual fight”, it’s shit simple to put the spare barrel on. Takes all of 10 seconds if you know what you’re doing.
So that’s where the taxpayer dollars are going.
Where, to properly train our nation’s military so that your ignorant ass can sit on the computer, bashing the government and the country without fear of a car bomb going off at the local mall? If you think there’s a better way, why don’t you run for office? Clearly, you know how it should be done.
Lunchbox – sorry, but according to the video are tax dollars are being wasted on people who can’t even make a decent tank gun. No matter where you sit on the political landscape that is an epic fail for usage of tax dollars.
And I take issue with the idea that sending our troops to occupy another country makes us safer, but that;s just me – oh, and I guess a really big percentage of the population!
1. It’s an M2hb .50cal machine gun, not a ‘tank gun’.
2. The gun here has been in production since 1917, and works VERY well when properly maintained.
3. From the video, you can’t tell where they are. This could easily be somewhere in the US for pre-deployment training.
4. You misspelled “our”, and your grammar sucks.
5. Prove to me that our actions in the Middle East have NOT made us safer. I maintain that, despite the unpopular wars we are in, fewer risks exist here in the United States than prior to our involvement there.
6. The beauty of the entire debate is that you are free to disagree with me, and vice versa. All I ask of anyone is to support the troops carrying out the mission, regardless of political views.
You don’t have to support the war to support the troops. Keep in mind, a lot of these same guys are the one that will come to the rescue when a hurricane, blizzard, fire and/or tornado destroys everything you know. They are there picking up the rubble from an epic earthquake. *hugs LB and gropes a bit while in the area*
Just don’t mess with the settings on the innuendo machine…they are very sensit…
Ah crap. Too late.
I’m gone maybe 2 weeks and I’m already missing quality groping. Sigh.
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.The .50 cal in the fail was most likely reassembled correctly. As it has a retaining pin to hold the barrel and the upper reciever together, it either broke, or someone lost it (it is surprisingly small) and said screw it.
reassembled incorrectly. Sigh again
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*splorch!*
*hug!*
*bare hugs*
Hee…!
Don’t let the Admiral catch you doing that. He’s mighty deft with a spatula.
*group hugs Christopher and dragon*
*gropes unashamedly*
what…? a girl’s gotta get her kicks somewhere!
*watches* *is actually eating popcorn at this very moment*
WOOP!!!
Loz packs a hell of a grope!
*joins in group hug*
*is always willing to do a solid for Dragon and Loz*
Mmmmm…snuggles.
*snuggles*
That’s a bullshit notion.
You can’t support the troops without supporting their mission.
When you say “omg i want teh troops home, thats support! i kno rite? thats y i joined codepink to demonstrate at teh marines office and call them baby murderers!”
i would love to see you say “i support the troops” to a marine who wants to go back for a fourth tour. I would love to see you swallow your pride to lie to his/her face like that.
Amen LB. You hold ‘em down while I hit ‘em with the history bat.
i support the troops not the cause, i’ve got friends in there!
“are tax dollars”?
Being misused? Not in THIS video…
lol how patriotic
You can’t spell patriot without riot?
I can recommend a few songs by Anti-Flag and the Dead Kennedy’s for you, if you think like that.
I don’t. I just noticed that, and thought it was a funny coincidence.
Rioting-the unbeatable high
Adrenalin shoots your nerves to the sky
Everyone knows this town is gonna blow
And it’s all gonna blow right now:.
I see. . . what’s that?
Tomorrow you’re homeless
Tonight it’s a blast. . .
You’re preaching to the choir, brother, you’re preaching to the choir!
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Noconspiracy, try looking up the DK’s some time.
Good Stuff!
My ignant arse is sittin on the computer, earnin a paycheck to pay TAXES TO SUPPORT THE TROOPS…wow…who’s ignorant now
Apparently neither of us are, nor are many of the others who replied. By the way, you’ve lost your ‘?’, would you like to borrow one of mine?
I love it when those highly trained professionals with the best military equipment fail like that. There´s a lot of similar videos on youtube.
Meh, the threads were probably stripped or someone didn’t seat it right. I don’t think a bad timing would have caused that, but I’ve never seen what happens when you screw those up.
Do you think the gun was loaded with combat ammo? I would expect it to explode or something – but I never was a soldier.
That was just a .50 cal with linked ball ammo. Pretty much the same thing that a M16 fires, but the bullet is about the size of your thumb if you include the jacket. It’s not going to blow up. You can fire a M203, grenade launcher, straight down and be fine. The military is cautious about fail safes. That’s why we don’t use stuff like RPGs.
Nope, timing won’t.. the gun won’t fire at all if the timing is off. Stripped threads or improperly seated barrel is my guess too. But, hey, with a gun designed in 1917, anything could happen.
Thanks guys! I found another funny yet scary military fail ^^^
No answers? Am I the only one who thinks that´s a laugh? Click my name!
Sorry, I watched but I don’t find the humor in it. The .50 misfire on this fail wasn’t going to kill anyone. The missle might, depending on how the rocket is “programmed”.
You´re right. But it didn´t kill anybody, at least the guys were laughing at the end
So that’s what happens if you load a machine gun with potatoes instead of bullets.
“Vicar sighted, 1200 yards and closing! Prepare to fire a string of High-Explosive Potato-Defiler rounds!”
Does anybody make a repeating Spud Gun?
it’s a fake.
You’re a fake.
ha well clearly seeing how they had the camera set and ready to go. Unless it was a prank they wanted to play. but still something to laugh at.
A lot of filming and photography goes on in war zones dumbass. Where do you think all the footage on the news comes from?
Well it could be that it was passing a checkpoint and a journalist was there covering the story that caused this type of mass exodus and snapped a quick picture.
I knew this guy that would record vlogs at random points while on patrol. Half of them he was forced to delete because of sensitive information. This probably was a prank on the gunner.
Just pass me the retarded button. I posted on the wrong fail. And I refuse to use the bukkit. I know who and what has been in there.
I see today you are trying to recover the time you missed FB last days!
Indeed. I have about 70 emails in my inbox waiting for me as well. Not ready to tackle them yet.
Defending our country FAIL.
Yes, you are.
He’s a fake. God would never capitalize the entire word.
Or claim a single country as his.
*Smooches!*
*Sweeps Avis into his well muscled arms, carrys her off into sunset*
Sunset? Um… it’s not quite three here, and the sun isn’t due to set for well over an hour. Plus it’s freaking cold here! If you’re planning on carrying me off into the sunset you better be REALLY warm!
*grins and is swept*
*Is warm*
Gurrrrrl *snap* he ain’t warm, he’s HOT!
*is swept*
he was aiming at that caravan in the previous fail.
One truck does not a caravan make.
But 50 people on one truck? What would one call that?
I bet they haven’t let him live that one down, always ddouble and triple check your weapons after dismantling for cleaning and maintenance.
I used to say that to my ex all the time. His was going off for no reason all the time.
He was around you, wasn’t he? I have a ton of experience with my firearm and I’m sure I’d still be trigger happy around you.
.
We are using metaphor, right?
It’s your gun and your ammo, you can load it as fast as you want to
I wanted to make a shoot from the hip joke, but nothing came to mind that was particularly humorous. I’m just tossing it out there so no one else can use it.
You can shoot from anywhere just remember NOT IN THE FACE!
And hopefully remember to remantle them before use.
♫Roll Out The Barrel♫
♫We’ll Have A Barrel Of Fun♫
DO A BARREL-ROLL!
*Opens a barrel of monkeys and lets them all out*
*RIFL*
*takes the Admiral’s RIFL and shoots fish in a barrel*
Doing things the easy way?
*grins*
Be careful, my fish are strong swimmers.
*SNORTGIGGLE!*
*cough cough*
http://engrishfunny.com/2009/01/21/engrish-gun-oclock/
hilarious…should be a fail
fail? That’s a freaking awesome idea. I would so buy
something like that. Maybe have it use IR instead of
projectiles, but still a really neat concept.
*gives fluffy a refreshing lozenge*
Why not? The gang’s all here!
Das right homes. We all be here. Now bloods to the left, crips to the right.
Das ist gut?
Wat?
Used for instrument bows; also an elusive unification of theoretical forces.
Cheers coyote *smiles*. You just brought back a fond memory.
Alright Coyote!
Everybody Polka!
I broke a toe once doing a polka. I’m not exactly sure what happened, but I do recall that alcohol of some sort was involved.
Another senseless polka injury. When will you kids ever learn?
Doing the polka is all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
“You’ll dot your eye out!”
Tell me about it!
You polka, you pay.
I know you think it’s cool because all the other kids are doing it. But you know polka is a gateway dance. You could end up jitter bugging before you know what happened.
*foxy trots*
♪ Jitter bug! ♪
-Astaires-
♪ Foxtrot! ♪
♪ Twists like a lemon ♪
Mmmm… Lemon, tequila and salt… are you thinking what I’m thinking?
I think so. But where are we going to get a case of pickles, 7 midgets, 2 beagles and a banana tree on such short notice?
*presents Ryannon with large box*
You should be a lovely town in France.
PICKLE!
No silly! Coyote is Nice.
Is that the polka or the poke you?
(Political humor) Actually, the whole war in Iraq was a fail. The biggest fail of all times. Although it was a huge win for the big families who sold guns (not all like this one).
Yeah, I watched Zeitgeist: Addendum.
Hey, don´t forget Germany! We had one or two war fails too.
Iraq: A good idea, poorly executed.
Seriously, how ELSE are you going to flank both Iran and Saudi Arabia?
Due to the lack of legitimacy it wasn´t a good idea. If 100.000+ people die, one should have far more acceptable reasons – or else is no better than those brutal dictators.
There were better reasons. Kind of the same reasons that in WWII the Allies landed troops in North Africa and then Italy before directly attacking Germany.
It just wasn’t workable to attack Iran or SA directly. Iran’s programs were farther along, and SA is the holiest Islamic nation, having Mecca and Medina, as well as controlling so much of the oil that disrupting it would have really flushed the West’s economy.
Either would have been a more legitimate target, but both were even more likely to go badly from the start and get worse, while Iraq was a known quantity, militarily. Also, being between both nations it allowed for (as I said) the flanking of Iran (with occupied Afghanistan) and a potential base for ops in Saudi Arabia – you may remember that Al-Qaeda’s first big grievance with the US was that US troops were still based in SA after Desert Storm.
Also, controlling Iraq, which had the Middle East’s second-biggest oil reserves, would allow more pressure to be put on SA with less economic disruption.
Most folk weren’t interested in such a big-picture view (I blame MTV), so they used WMD. It seemed simpler, plus at the time, every intel agency still believed Iraq had them (just not that they’d have used them.)
The occupation was bungled badly, because Rumsfeld was a colossal tool.
tl;dr
So these people were shooting those jumping flash guys after they were court martialled, right?
Huh, who’da thunk bush was stupid enough to invest money into the one time use machine gun?
His advisors at Halliburton, that’s who!
Ah…the smell of our tax dollars at work.
I love the smell of tax dollars in the morning.
They’re not on the dresser, are they?
(apologies Ry, I could not help myself)
*braces for comments on ‘helping myself’*
Orly, you have come at an unfortunate moment, where most of the thread starters are gushing with innuendo. It’s really not this perverted usually.
As for commenting on the video, let’s try reading every comment before we complain, shall we?
“It’s not this perverted usually”…
Um. What blog have YOU been reading?
I don’t get your point. I’m having a dense moment.
THAT is funny Ryannon!
Hehehehehehehe
Good morning!
Hiya! I oSnly had tiHme for a quAick visGit!
Second that
the 50 cal wasnt gauged properly, so the unit armorer is fail as well. lol
This is why Anpu doesn’t let the French tell him how to make a machine-gun.
This schizophrenic is really getting on my nerves. Can we not do anything about this guy?
Which one? Capt. Awesome or Anpu?
Yes.
Captain’s run out of ammo I guess.
Uh, Is it wrong, then, that I look forward to the fun-loving, frisky antics of Anpu?
Just wait. After the billionth repetitive post, you’ll get tired of it, too.
More like kajillionth.
Stinkin’ Anpu still owes me money. I’ll catch him out in the street one of these days.
Oh it only took 5 for it to be boring to me.
This is why you are unlikely to get an invite to any failblog parties.
Failblog party? I wanna go. Can we have it at Mookies house, it is centrally located afterall. Maybe 4th of July since that is a holiday around the world and everyone can fly in from all the countries. I will bring the streamers.
Wow. You do really good impressions! That was uncanny!
Hahaha I had a good reference point to learn from.
If you are coming to Mookie’s house let me know, so I can put my pants on before your arrival.
You own pants?
You know that weird triangular welcome mat by your door. . . . .
“Maybe 4th of July since that is a holiday around the world” ?????
Yes, Avis, I meant to leave a comment on your blog. But I understood the p arty was at YOUR house – HAHA.
Maybe in a tree?
I was thinking the park. Neutral ground, public location. If timed right concert to be enjoyed (therefore we’d be allowed to have adult beverages).
We could have a party in February in LB’s pants. He says they are roomy.
Sweetie, every day is a party in LB’s pants.
Some days its a pity party, some days its an itty-bitty-committee party, and the rest, well, its the Republican party.
Ouch, damn Chris! 1. Pity party, maybe. 2 Itty-bitty-committee, definitely not. 3. Republican, only on Thursdays.
Are you as hot as your picture suggests?
Suggests? That IS her picture!
I think he likes my pixels.
And I hear everyone’s coming.
And are YOU as hot as your picture suggests?
That depends. Are you an alcoholic? B/C they did my vermouth.
You misspelled origami.
… dammit.
Christopher folds?
Well played Mookie.
LOUD NOISES!
LB’s pants, LB’s pants! And no one ever mentions my boots anymore. Have you all forgotten?
*sulcks*
Don’t ‘sulck’, czuhc. That must have been before my time. For the benefit of those of us who are unaware of the special wonder of your boots, please enlighten.
Allow me. Czuhc has to wear tall boots to tuck his “special gift” into so it doesn’t trip him. It’s quite a liability for him, poor thing.
Thanks, Mookie. I wondered why he was walking crooked. So, he really WAS happy to see us, huh?
It’s a failacy. He stepped in poo and is hung like a pimple. Don’t let him fool you.
*SNORK*
Now that’s some funny $hit right there, tee hee!
ROFLMFAO. That comment practically asphyxiated me.
I have my moments and dedicate them to all my fail loves.
Wow, that’s slicing your appreciation a bit thin, no?
Loves not loaves silly woman.
^ et voila [click]
Wow, I am REALLY disturbed that I missed all that. Fluffy’s hiding in my pants, Christopher’s claiming to have dined from my box… does he even know that I’m MALE???
After he’s been away for two weeks, I don’t think he cares.
We could have a picnic under my tree or we could rent a tree more centrally located.
No trees in the part of the park I’m talking about. Great big band shell though.
I had my heart set on having it at Mookie’s house. I was so looking forward to snooping around in her medicine cabinet.
Why? Is that where she keeps her panties?
Panties? What panties?
The ones I gave you earlier… you know, the berry flavored thong with the candy waistband?
I ate those, I needed some topping for my sundae.
*pouts*
You were supposed to share!
Awww I would share my edible panties with you anytime LB.
HEH HEH HEH…she’d have to wear panties to need a place to keep panties.
They aren’t for wearing, she uses them to tie up the men.
Dude, chill with the heavy breathing! We get it.
Oh, no that’s not heavy breathing, that’s what it sounds when I lol. Think Eddie Murphy.
*like*
Psst… that’s not a medicine cabinet! It’s a liquor cabinet!
Rubber buns and liquor? Oh Avis…
My farts bring all the boys to the yard
and dam rite they taste beetter than your’es
WTF??
U R just jelus that you dont do massive farts that smell and taste
good like mine are. Mmm Mmm good.
DON’T FEED IT!
you awlredy did
that’s not a medicine cabinet, that’s a space station!
Lol amaracan army!
The Unatad Statas of Amaraca?
Add “tha” and “af”.
Unatad Statas af tha Amaraca?
Tha Anatad Statas af tha Amaraca as pawarfall!
*looks around for maracas* Where?
If those guys were shooting at an actual enemy I doubt they’d be so cavalier about it.
Proudly made in the USA (by the lowest bidder).
=O
Support our troops… they need the money for equipment!
I don’t think they mounted it properly.
I believe that’s what she said.
Not to me, she didn’t!!!
She didn’t want to hurt your feelings. She did, however, think it really loud.
Finally, it’s up! I’ve been watching and LOLing at this video for a while. I was scared it wouldn’t get enough votes and get stuck in limbo.
You finally got it up? Viva Viagara
That must have been some magic Viaγra.
Especially since I’m not male.
Hey, now, I hear the little blue magic does some amazing things for the ladies, too!
Not so much.
How come no-one else saw this video the first time it was on the first page?
We may have. It’s a short term memory thing.
Just keep swimming.
Dude, you were like “WHOAH”
and I was like, “Whoah”
and you were like, “whoah”
“Trolls are friends, not- wait a minute, they are food.”
Mine? Mine? Mine?
You know what people? I’d take the time off work, buy a plane ticket from Los Angele, rent a car and get a room just to party with you guys. Instead I get derision.
Says the man blowing the raspberry.
Oh, and I’ve got an s you can have. If you want it.
Hey Neener… It’s not only that we were all the butt of a joke (we were). It’s just that while you are willing to go the distance, be adventurous, and meet other failbloggers, most people here don’t feel that way. Most people here will not travel across the country to meet a bunch of strangers.
I heard you were thinking of leaving. Please don’t.
We don’t mean it that way. Really we don’t. But to be fair, well have been the butt of a joke from time to time here. Even Dragon. I’m sure of it. I just have no idea when that might have been.
To be a regular here (or even a guest star, really) you have to develop some thicker skin. Just for self preservation.
That somehow didn’t nest properly. It was meant to answer neener.
Funny, of all people to have NESTING problems, Avis…
I know. I don’t get it. It’s all too strange.
*gathers up some string, bits of paper and twigs and begins creating a 3 bedroom 2 bath nest for Avis and nestles it in a lovely cedar tree*
Oh, man. Not only have I been the butt of many jokes, I have been a prime target for trolls and a recipient of actual hate mail. WooHOO!
But, on the other hand, none of that changes the fact that I feel quite beloved here.
It’s definAtely not just a ‘feeling’, Dragon. You ARE beloved here!
Hee…!
*hug*
*pout* Hate mail? I know of a hateful male but didn’t realize you got hate mail.
She did, but he was an idiot. Irksome, but an idiot.
Hate mail from a hate male.
No one you know, darlin’…just a hateful, angry troll.
*hug*
Oh I figure any man sending hate mail is a hate male
But I don’t assume to know them all hahahaha
Any man sending hate mail to women as lovely as yourselves is no man at all!
Awww! Now all I need are bird sized versions of mid-century modern furniture to decorate!! In orange of course.
Thank you!
*pictures self in Avis’s apt.*
Halp! I’m drowning in Orange Sherbert!
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d: ƃuısɐǝʇ ʇsnɾ
It’s not ALL orange you know. But there is a lot of it.
*shoos skwerl out of apt with a broom*
Avis, you would love the ring I just got today.
As you know, dragons like treasure hoards. I am no exception, and over the years I have collected quite a hoard of loose gemstones. Right now I am absolutely in love with Mandarin garnets (do a google image search to see).
Anyway, my latest sparkly just arrived today! An absolutely stunning 2.5 ct. round mandarin garnet set in a simple mounting with one very small color-change garnet accent stone. GORGEOUS!
Very pretty gem Dragon.
I know the collectors bug very well.
I didn’t even SEE your post ’till now! I love that stone! I am currently wearing a bracelet made of that. I think. It was a gift, and the stones are orange, so I don’t know for sure. But now I want earrings. And a pendant. I am a bit acquisitive sometimes.
Hee…! Mandarin garnets (also called spessartite garnets) are very rare. If you have an entire bracelet of them, that would be one incredible gift!
If you send me pics, I can probably tell you what the stones are. I’ve collected quite a hoard of knowledge as well as the stones.
I can try. If Mandarin Garnets are as rare as that… these are NOT Mandarin Garnets. I like it nonetheless. It’s one of the very few orange pieces of jewelry I own… that is not crap. I still want Mandarin Garnet earrings. Garnets ARE my birthstone after all!
why dont you call each other on the phone and talk about all this boring stuf ofline?
bobby, to judge by you spelling you decided to get the f out of here. Good thing too.
*quietly inserts r into my snotty comment*
Have you no shame?
Of course I do, just not where this is concerned.
*scampers off*
*random thoughts:
Orange Cool Whip,
Orange Silk Sheets,
Orange Feathers,
Orange Handcuffs,*Damn it’s COLD in Chicago!
Nope, close, nope, and hell no. And yes it is VERY cold here.
I did once try to count all the orange stuff in my place, but got caught up trying to decide if a set counts as one, or as many pieces as the set contains.
The only room that REALLY has a lot of orange is the kitchen, sorry to disappoint.
Avis, I get to go to Florida Monday where it is NICE AND WARM! Wanna come?
You paying? I’m broke. If you get a suite with a kitchenette, I’ll cook.
My company is paying hehee and all the meals are out. Unfortunately I am having to leave my puppy here
It will be his first night away from me. It’s breaking my heart but he is going to a place where he can play with dogs all day long and then sleep at night.
Ohh, poor puppy! I have a new beau, and he might not be too thrilled with the idea of me running off to Florida without him anyway!
I am trying to find a flight that has a layover in Trenton. It isn’t working out though.
Planning on surprising a firefighter?
A layover, huh?
Well, I suppose that’s one way of putting it.
*wonders what everyone’s talking about…*
Just know, when the door bell rings. . .it’s not Avon calling.
Will they ring twice?
I don’t know. They’re not the postman you know.
Just make sure you don’t see a Little Angels Program van parked in front before you open the door.
I’ve seen this before o-o
I think that may be the best ending way for a machine gun to fail
made in china.
Awesome blog!
not maxworthy…
Glad to see our country put all that money to good use.
I suspect a major slump in the market!
Can somebody please tell me how to copy an image from Google Images and upload it to this site? I am not very computer-literate. I have been experiencing COMPUTER USER FAIL.
Symbolic 14 second video description of the whole US-Iraq war
Unpatriotic. Ur supporting the terrorists by posting this! Or something like that.
Or… nothing like that.
Can anyone say “Wiley Coyote?”
Hooah to my brothers and sisters in arms still in hell.. but I’ve had that happen to me…shit I even had the barrel on my Winnie pop off once… horrible time..lol
Someone not screw in .50 cal barrel…
a .50 cal gunner’s worst nightmare.
That guy is obviously not a .50 gunner, though.
epic fail.
LMAO, made in China no doubt! ROTFL
Jim C
http://www.privacy-tools.net.tc
Duh, it’s called psychological warfare. The enemy will either be instantly overwhelmed by pity or die of laughter.
First!
so does this mean the terrorists win?
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
Forgot to pin that barrel in place, did ya Marine? Hell, we’ve all done it.
This is why we check “head space and timing” instead of just eyeballing it.
“Don’t worry, honey, it happens to everybody once in a while.”
Yay for tax dollars! So glad they’re being used in the development of….one-time use…machine guns. -twitches- I think Billy forgot to check his equipment…silly Billy.
And lawls at the Made in China post. Now they put all their lead in faulty machine guns!
The M2 has been around over 90 years. And they work VERY well, as pretty much anything that John Browning designed does…
They are designed for interchangeable barrels, since the barrels take a LOT of abuse. They’re essentially disposable.
Prior to our little situation over there, most of these weapons were packed away in cosmoline, waiting to be “decommissioned.” Well, since these things will actually shoot through the adobe-like walls of many of the mosq… er… terrorist strong points, they’ve become rather popular.
I’m guessing that they’d done a barrel change, and someone told someone to hurry because they were getting a picture taken or somesuch, so, well, they just stuck the sucker in so it’d look good. Then someone tried to fire it.
Oops. Instant internet immortality.
That’s probably more than likely, regarding the reason of the mishap. Or perhaps it really was a prank played on those poor boys. Either way, good for a chuckle.
someone got their ass chewed for not checking the headspace on that bad boy… good job Pvt Murphy! lol
YAYAYAYA I SOO POSTED THAT VIDEO!!!!
It’s probably just made in china.
Just kidding. Lol.
take that terry wrists
damn sweatshops pump out jordans just fine but when it comes to .50 cals…
…
BEHOLD!!!!
America’s war machine…
The sad part is I know EXACTLY what they did wrong to that .50 cal to make that happen. >_<
The head space and timing was not right. The barrel was probrably not screwed in fully.
Silly Jarhead. You forgot to do your head space and timing. Doesn’t surprise me though. One of your Marines fired a live AT-4 in a building when I was deployed. Thankfully no one got seriously injured. That was also a fail.
WTF remove things that are no longer watchable because of stupid youtube removing them
o wow…
uuuuuh, join the navy?
Shy bullet pack Win
by chance was it made in China???
All i can say is, what if they were fighting off a zerg swarm at the time…
Oh, I see! It’s a spear gun, it shoots the barrel at the enemy!
that was a really poor comeback. =d
i thought it would explode
I got a few screws left over but she’ll be right.
U Sure?
Yeah give her a go mate.
somebody did a great job of re-assembling that after cleaning
US army fail?
if that gun was a roman gun it would be called “failus maximus!”!
This is not the kind of initiative that keep Soviet paratroopers off my lawn!