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» 658 Failures in Communication

  1. velvet says:

    Lug nuts? What are lug nuts?

  2. Joe says:

    Um…so you mean you are supposed to tighten those?

  3. fgzfxjgjzf says:

    first

  4. ITSMERYANSHECKLER says:

    FIRST!

  5. Sunny says:

    This is one of the best fails I’ve ever seen since following this site (about three months ago).

  6. Ola says:

    Apparently he was sick on LUG NUT DAY!

  7. gnarlyswine says:

    yup staged

  8. kilo says:

    Switched to race wheels n tires, just forgot to tighten correctly

    • Admiral Apparent says:

      Heh, this event is known as autocross. It looks like it didn’t cross the driver’s mind to check the lug nuts after changing out the street tires. I know I’d be hacked off if this happened to me!

      • Blinky says:

        Really? We don’t care. Your name suits you though.

        • Admiral Apparent says:

          Who is this we of which you speak? Ah, now I remember you. You’re the asshat that has sex with the unconscious. I see you speak for your date as well.

          • Blinky says:

            Ah ha Admiral Asshat is funny – - – that is rare for you

            • Avis says:

              Meh. And Blinky isn’t funny — nothing new there.

              • Dragonwriter says:

                Geez! I JUST get back from my trip, and the first thing I have to do is annihilate a troll for dissing my Admiral??

                *lights troll on fire*

                *roasts a few marshmallows on it*

                *uses lots of big words that it won’t understand*

                *laughs derisively at its ignorance and stupidity*

                There. *dusts off hands* Did I forget anything?

                Oh, yes!

                *grabs the Admiral and gives him a super-deluxe, patented Dragon-smooch (tm thingie)*

                • coyote says:

                  Welcome back. :)

                • Loz says:

                  *aspires to one day be as great as our dragon*

                  • Loz says:

                    (So many new people who I don’t know… I feel intimidated :( )

                    • Mikey D says:

                      *squeeze*

                    • Admiral Apparent says:

                      Jeez Loz. You’re legendary here!
                      *takes Loz by the hand and leads her out of the corner*
                      Can we get a spotlight on Loz? ;-)

                      • Dragonwriter says:

                        Hold on…I think she dropped her religion over here…

                        And awww, Loz! Don’t say that! The only way I could ever possibly be “greater” than you is in the “broad” sense of the word. ‘Cuz, being a curvy Flag Girl, I’m pretty sure my hips are “greater” than yours. :p

                        • Loz says:

                          Oh no, not my religion! Damn, those things are so slippery.
                          I just don’t know all these new people, failblog has become some sort of Mecca, you’ll have to fill me in.
                          I appreciate your modesty, dragon, but you are the true matriarch here and we all look up to you for guidance! I even had a little statue made of you and it sits by my bed.

                • Blinky says:

                  he called me an asshat; i called him an asshat — you all defend him like he’s “special” sence he has no humour? — if all AA does is state the obvious (apparent), what good is he? you do know that you can’t actually hurt someone with bold type? this is funny #yawn#

                  • Marius says:

                    We like AA. He has a brain and uses it.
                    You, not so much.

                    • hammykins says:

                      Plus, it’s easier to like someone with a gravatar.

                      • Dragonwriter says:

                        Um. Do you guys see any bold type in my post that this ignoramus responded to?

                      • @ Blinky:
                        Dude, what is your malfunction? Admiral Apparent has a profound sense of humor, which he uses in good taste. Your lack of understanding does nothing to diminish how the other regular posters here feel towards him, but rather makes you look petty and insecure. Rather than bash someone you know nothing of, or try to steal his spotlight for your own petty causes, why not study a little bit. Learn something, try being funny, and lose the asshat label.
                        Or, is that all too much for your mediocre intellect to comprehend, and the meaning is lost on you by the time you finish looking up all the ‘big words’?

                  • coyote says:

                    Child, the Admiral is special. He has a razor like wit and a devotion to the subtle. He does not set out to be a pain to one and all. He exercises a knowledge, control and respect of the English language.

                    Others may notice that these traits are the opposite of you. About the only thing the two of you have in common is being carbon based and that may be an erroneous assumption on my part.

                    As most assuredly he is a friend to many, you are not.

                    I welcome your reply.

                    • hammykins says:

                      Maybe trolls are silicon based?
                      We need to get some tests done. TO THE LAB!

                    • Blinky says:

                      all i’ve ever noticed is his nastiness and feined devotion to the dragonlady— its nice he has friends here but a shamed that they do not chastize you all whom so quickly try to push away and hurt new people with you superior wit — nice to meet you all btw

                      • Avis says:

                        Now see, it would be so much easier to take you seriously if you even attempted to use proper grammar and spelling.

                        • dilettante says:

                          Or if he weren’t a Pac-Man ghost. All you have to do is eat a banana to make him fade.

                        • hammykins says:

                          All
                          I’ve
                          feigned
                          it’s
                          it’s a shame (I think that’s what Blinky means…)
                          who (not whom)
                          +bonus marks for the run-on sentence
                          =7

                        • Blinky says:

                          you are all so fun I have tried to turned on my spell checker and my run on sentence checker and my capitalization and punctuation checker just for you but surely that would not satisfy any of you in the least ever so why should i ever bother trying to please you enlightened ones, great sages of failblog and masters of all wit and humour and what is correct to play along with youso good night it has been a waste of time complete find someone else to gang up on. do you send secret emails to each other congratulating and condescending tips for the next victim — thanks for the 7 points hammykins that was funny but you can keep them — delettainte good try but I am not a pacman ghost but a guy who has an uncontrollable blinking problem and I already make fun of myself for it so ha ha ha — goodnight maybe we can all play tomorrow if your moms will let you

                        • Avis says:

                          Do you even know what a capital letter is?
                          As per the blinking problem, we all have our own various idiosyncrasies. We won’t penalize you for that. We WILL, however, penalize you for assuming you can just come in insulting whomever you please.
                          I will wait while you go find a dictionary.

                        • dilettante says:

                          I actually do feel bad about your facial tic, you feeling left out, and your poor grasp of the English language, but if you put “taint” in my name again I’ll be very put out. You don’t want that.

                        • coyote says:

                          Do not feel that you need to return. I will not think less of you. I couldn’t. If, at some point, you do return; try being less obnoxious. You may be surprised by the results.

                        • coyote says:

                          I just realized the twit left me out. Now I feel rejected. Here I gave him the best minutes of my life and what do I get? Ignored! *sob*

                        • hammykins says:

                          Don’t worry, you can have some of the points he gave back to me.

                        • hammykins says:

                          *hands 3 points to coyote*

                        • coyote says:

                          Second hand points? NEVER!

                          Do you think that it will have the hutspa to show again?

                        • hammykins says:

                          Great. Now I’ve got seven fail points and nothing to do with them.

                        • dilettante says:

                          C.H.U.T.Z.P.A.H.? I don’t believe it exists. *Is attacked by chutzpah*

                      • coyote says:

                        We do welcome the pleasant with open arms. As an example take a look at today’s reception for dianatheinsane.

                        Crappy attitudes are met here as they are everywhere, with a swift put down. Your behavior may be the norm amongst your classmates, but here it is anathema. If you wish to play with the adults then you must adhere to the social customs of the adults, or leave the field.

                      • titaniumspork19 says:

                        Whoa whoa whoa. “Superior”? First thing you need to learn, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Do not assume you are superior. Assume, in fact, that you are inferior until you prove yourself otherwise. Do not insult the regulars, who have proved themselves many times over. Step back and try again.

                      • Admiral Apparent says:

                        Yikes!
                        Blinky, you came out swinging at me! If you wanted to be welcomed, why lead with the insult? That is not the way to make new friends. I can understand why you may not find me funny, but I am puzzled as to why you find me nasty.
                        .
                        It’s sad that you can’t see the sincerity in the exchanges between friends here. There is nothing feigned about the affection shown towards my special Dragon friend.

                • Marius says:

                  Good to see you back Dragon! :)

                • Judy says:

                  D-DUB! bout damn time you got back!

              • fluffy the fish says:

                Yeah.. you can’t call him an idiot either. You’d be insulting the idiots of the world.

            • coyote says:

              Okay people. Here is an example of the true troll. It is not some piddly little pile of rubbish, but an actual social hemorhoid that is in need of removal.

      • Aja says:

        You would be pretty cross, then?

      • Wow that’s pretty bad, I think whoever signed him off for tech inspection needs to be replaced.

  9. CBR says:

    I say this video a year or so ago and according to the owner of the car, this was caused by incorrect lug nuts. There were the wrong thread pitch and when they got side loaded during corning they failed.

    • Cloral says:

      Always remember to corn your car before eating it.

    • WCSiNx says:

      Yes, I remember reading his comments as well on a car forum. Here’s the reason the owner is STILL full of fail however. He claims it was the shop’s fault because they gave him SAE thread pitch lugnuts where obviously his car uses metric. EVEN IF THAT WERE THE CASE, the ONLY way you could spin those lugnuts down and not realize that you’re slicing threads apart would be if you put them on with an impact wrench which is a huge fail no-no in my opinion. NEVER tighten things with an impact unless 1. you have the proper torque stick and 2. you spun them down by hand until you engaged ALL threads on the nut with no binding or crossthreading.

    • dm10003 says:

      as much as i like absurdity, i wish there is a way to collapse all the comments down to the interesting ones.

  10. Failitis says:

    Something tells me somebody also had some screws loose.

  11. Judy says:

    He’s hell on wheels.

  12. Wanderer says:

    Looks like they will have to re-indent the wheel

  13. Noisiëz says:

    gues superglue doesn’t always does the job…certainly not with squirles or rabbits around…

  14. As an alternate theory, I offer this:
    The driver was an arrogant ass, and the pit crew intentionally left the lug nuts loose to prove a point.

  15. Admiral Apparent says:

    *wonders whether Flag Girl is going to make it to the blog today*
    *wheelie hopes she does*

  16. blåbär says:

    I ENJOYED THIS!

  17. capt. awesome says:

    Oh come on! Don’t tell me the Chinese build our cars too. Just add French weaponry and you’ll have a tank that’s crappy by World War I standards.

  18. Joe says:

    Rule # 1 of motorized transport: Keep the wheels between you and the ground.

  19. cowboys suck says:

    darn duct tape, said on the package it works on anything

  20. Jimbob Jones says:

    Wait… So you’re telling me that WASN’T a hover-car?

  21. GladIwokeUp says:

    stupid, stupid, stupid!

  22. zabriski says:

    Wheels fell off!!! Did you notice?

  23. IGNTNUNLMTD says:

    Apparently, red cars DO actually need lug nuts too.

    • dilettante says:

      And naughty girls? Need lug too.

      • Avis says:

        Thank you SOOOOO much for the earworm. It’s not even the whole song going through my head. Just the part you allude to.
        Grrrrrrr!

        • dilettante says:

          Just for you, Fox-y:
          Baby don’t let me be misunderstood
          Temporary love’s so bad, but it feels so good
          Then along came you, now I know it’s true…

            • dilettante says:

              Here, you can get it out with some Paula.
              Do you really wanna love me forever
              Oh, oh, oh
              Or am I caught in a hit-and-run?
              Straight up, now tell me
              Is it gonna be you and me together
              Oh, oh, oh
              Or are you just havin’ fun?

              • Dragonwriter says:

                DILLY!!!! You stop that right now!

                • Judy says:

                  Thanks, Dragon. To much Paula is just wrong…..wrong….wrong.

                  • dianatheinsane says:

                    Entirely correct. No one should be muching Paula – especially not in Much.

                    • dilettante says:

                      You know what the favorite song is in Much?
                      You should’ve been gone
                      Knowing how I made you feel
                      And I should’ve been gone
                      After all your words of steel
                      Oh I must’ve been a dreamer
                      And I must’ve been someone else
                      And we should’ve been over

                      Oh Sherry, our love
                      Holds on, holds on
                      Oh Sherry, our love
                      Holds on, holds on

                      • Dragonwriter says:

                        I’ll get you for this.

                        • dilettante says:

                          Hee!

                          New movie’s showin… so you’re goin
                          Could care less about the five you’re blowin
                          Theatre gets dark just to start the show
                          When you spot a fine woman sittin in the front row
                          She’s dressed in yellow, she says “Hello,
                          Come sit next to me you fine fellow”
                          You run over there without a second to loose
                          And what comes next, hey bust a move

                        • Dragonwriter says:

                          Okay, watch closely everyone. I’m about to employ one of the classic uses of duct tape.

                          *advances on Dilly*

                        • dilettante says:

                          Yikes! Must…employ…escape tactics…
                          Kyrie Eleison
                          Down the road that I must travel
                          Kyrie Eleison
                          Through the darkness of the night
                          Kyrie Eleison
                          Where I’m going will you follow
                          Kyrie Eleison
                          On a highway in the light

  24. GladIwokeUp says:

    Me go fast! Vrrrrmmmmm! Me go round curve! scccrrrreeech, vrmmmmmm! Me go no where now!

  25. Vermin says:

    And not just one wheel, but all four.
    LMAO

  26. Blue2thFairy says:

    This is Mazda’s new advanced breaking system.

  27. Diana says:

    I fully recognize that this question suggests a total lack of intelligence on my part, but how do I change my avatar to something more interesting than a pretty blue pattern?

  28. 21r says:

    So, there apparently ARE limits to duct tape.

  29. Edmond Dantes says:

    That was sweet.

    You can always count on rednecks for a good fail.

    Thanks red states! Keep it up.

  30. Blue2thFairy says:

    “Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.”

  31. scott says:

    Massive fail X-D

  32. dianatheinsane says:

    But the hamster is dead.

  33. munch says:

    NNNOOOO!!!!! That did *NOT* just happen to a gorgeous Mazda RX-7 FD3S!!

    This was the ultimate photoshop hack!

    I refuse to believe it! Just as I refuse to believe in the existance of the pit crew whom I just had sent to the shark tanks for their negligence!

    (OTOH, thankfully, there is no irreparable damage to the body of the car.)

    • velvet says:

      *gives munch a Twix candy bar*
      .
      There, there. It’s ok.

      • munch says:

        *CHOMP!* Thanks!

        But, still, you just don’t treat an FD3S that way. I mean, it’s like keying a Porsche, or placing a lit M80 underneath a Stingray Corvette. You … just … don’t … DO … that!

        Those bastards will pay, I swear it!

  34. elliot says:

    all 4 wheels? seriously? thats a damn good job.

  35. Mizana says:

    Lulz atleast one wheel kinda stayed on……alittle….

  36. gladiwokeup says:

    When I was about 9 years old my father had a bad a$$ 69′ Chevelle SS, he was constantly tinkering with it and I being the child I was (still am at times) watched him with enthusiasm, watching how he used tools and what they were intended for. I once saw him use a 4 way lug wrench to break lugs aloose from a wheel that had been put back on at a shop by using the stand on it technique and also the beat the lug wrench with a hammer technique. Always wanting to help my dad he said he needed to work on the back breaks, I had seen this done before and knew the wheel and tire needed to come off, so using my knowledge gathered from watching him I set off to help, found the lug wrench and a hammer, I was proud, I had taaken all of the lugs off. But my dad forgot to tell me that he still needed parts. He came out, got in his car and before I could tell him what a fine job I had done, he puts the car in gear, starts to take off and boom! there comes the rrear right tire and wheel………….I hid for 4 hours, lol.

  37. Kurumi says:

    Poor RX-7. I can haz wheels?

  38. allikf says:

    Oh how I wish this would happen to all the little street racer a-holes that come to my neighborhood.

  39. yup says:

    oh look! there goes the right tire … uhm – why is it overtaking me? o_O

  40. Saint says:

    why do none of my posts appear?

  41. Saint says:

    except that one. ^

  42. Dan says:

    I could do something like that. lol.

  43. Judy says:

    “442 Failures in Communication”??? What a bizzy, bizzy blog we’ve been today!

    • hammykins says:

      Seems like we’re due for a new fail soon…

      • dilettante says:

        I think it’s 1 am and 4 am that the next ones show up, Pacific Time, or that’s what Admiral said once (IIRC). I’m usually up then, but I live in the future from Failblog’s reality. Like Barbie said, “math is hard!”

        • Judy says:

          What time zone are you in, Dilly? I’m eastern (just hit ten p.m. here)

          • dilettante says:

            As am I! The only proper time zone.

            • Judy says:

              May I hope, daresay, that you may also be a Steeler fan? *waits on baited breath!* (whatever the hell that means!)

              • dilettante says:

                Sadly, I wish I knew anything about sports, I keep coming in second at Quizzo :)

                • dilettante says:

                  (Psst but I’m in their state)

                  • Judy says:

                    Gonna have to google that one….

                    • Judy says:

                      OK. PA, I can deal with that. Go, Steelers! (Here we go….Pittsburgh’s goin’ to the Super Bowl!)

                      • dilettante says:

                        Yeah, we JUST missed that one. Good thing, when our baseball team won and the football team before that the city asploded and everyone was out in the streets flipping over cars and setting stuff on fire. I hate when we win.

                        • dianatheinsane says:

                          How entirely unlike the city of Brotherly Love…

                          Seriously, my view of Philadelphia is unfortunately colored by a few unpleasant incidents and a father who grew up there, moved to Pittsburgh, and now refers to his hometown as Filthadelphia without a shred of sarcasm. That said, I have some charming cousins who live there. Do you live in the downtown area or in the surrounding sprawl?

                        • dilettante says:

                          I work in Chinatown but live right in the heart of the new city central gentrification…I call it Filthadelphia too:)

              • CWR says:

                Do you really want to know? (It’s bated, BTW) I’ll understand if you don’t want a geekture…

        • hammykins says:

          Thanks. I’m new around these parts and don’t know much about the schedule.

      • Judy says:

        One would think, but still….
        So how you enjoying posting on the blog so far, newbie hammykins? (btw – Welcome!)

  44. Saint says:

    if this post shows up. i’ll… i’ll…. say something in it.

    • dilettante says:

      You just messed with the space-time continuum, and you will destroy us all. Dear god, what have you done??!

  45. Saint says:

    crap. on a stick. none of my earlier posts posted, and now i’ve posted again with different posts, which did post, so i’m a poster, and possibly an imposter, but definately not a poser, as i weigh 300lbs and me posing is just scary, so i’ll stick to posting posts that may or may not be posted posts, or holy ghosts, or cannoli goats, i don’t know, i’m confused, someone make it stop!

  46. rhinotank says:

    Damn, that RX-7 got wasted. What a shame. Pit crew and drift fail.

  47. Cloudchaser Shaconage says:

    Considerin’ how they all came off at once, I wonder if it’s a setup

  48. Steve says:

    In this video, the guy bought the wrong size of lug nuts!
    Funny tho

  49. John Massey says:

    LOL< I bet some lugnut lost his job on that one! LOL

    RT
    http://www.total-privacy.us.tc

  50. someoneintheknow says:

    That’s a fairly old video now. It happened back in ‘07. Long story short when he bought the racing wheels the shop he bought them from gave him lug nuts, but they were the wrong lugs. You can get an certain english thread lug nut to thread onto a metric stud and feel tight, but it won’t actually hold. That’s what happened to this poor S.O.B.

  51. Nobarai says:

    Poor RX-7!

  52. cakes206 says:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

  53. Jordo says:

    poor rx-7? i feel worse for the guy who has to pay to fix that flaming piece of flaming shit.

  54. G says:

    1/2″x20 lugnuts are not the same as the M12×1.25 lugnuts this RX7 needs.

  55. Mazjinga says:

    did they really blow it on all 4 of em? lol

  56. soisoisoi says:

    they pimped his ride

  57. Nick P. says:

    epic win! I submitted this video!

  58. Jayme says:

    This is one of the sadder fails on the site. I almost cried when I saw it :(

  59. ThisOldNewManGuy says:

    Probably the only reason the average is 4 1/2 instead of 5 is because too many people were laughing too hard and missed the 5 button.

  60. Christopher says:

    Ah Yes, something similar happened to me. But I was on a motorcycle, so it hurt about 10 times more. LOL.

  61. andrew says:

    Okay, if one falls off, somebody screwed up; if two fall off, then two people screwed up; if four fell off, then they must have tried to fail!

  62. Natalie says:

    I don’t know what to say.. WTF!?
    The pit crew better be happy that wasn’t me that happened to.

  63. Pato says:

    I guess that guy failed his drivers license.

  64. JuuEi says:

    Aww WTF?! :D D

  65. PH says:

    Wow major fail XD

  66. i bet they all got shot .

  67. TB Tabby says:

    Terms of use fail.

  68. nab says:

    removing vids from a failsite = Fail

  69. FairisFoul says:

    This was supposed to be up there ^… but something happened that I don’t fully understand and now it’s down here.


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