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  1. Dafrety says:

    It’s maddening!

  2. SJ says:

    It leaks! It drips!

  3. julek says:

    FIRST!
    yeah, I’m sooo cool. Now why was a tap translated as “dick”?

  4. Wormulon says:

    what does it do??

  5. B@7|\/|/-\|\| says:

    Fourth!

  6. Blobs says:

    ” A stopcock is a valve used to restrict or isolate the flow of a liquid or gas through a pipe.” – Wikipedia
    Also, if you do a google search for “bibcock” you also get lots of tap pictures…

    NERD!

    • ryannon says:

      For me, a stopcock is a command I tell assholes when they are bothering me. It is an indicator of pain to come if he doesn’t stop.

  7. Lol says:

    The tap coming out of the forehead of the kid… brilliant!

  8. CWR says:

    Daddy told me when I was older that white stuff would drip outta my little head.

  9. raiseer says:

    and the additional fail for the most futile invention ever goes to…

  10. Mikey D says:

    If that is a crazy cock, does the little picture imply the kid is a knobhead?

  11. capt. awesome says:

    They’re right. His cock is crazy.

  12. Fishy says:

    I’ll say keep the Engrish in Engrish Funny!

  13. Hejhopp says:

    Well my cock look like that, is it crazy? :/

  14. jensalik says:

    don’t you know your own language?

    cock
    • noun an externally operated valve regulating the flow of a liquid or gas through a pipe.

    that’s what it says in the official oxford dictionary…..

  15. loufail says:

    As stated in the box, this tap uses suction to work. Why does that sound familiar to me?

  16. Sebastian says:

    Strangely, the german word for “faucet” is “Wasserhahn”, which literally translates as “water cock”. Perhaps the japanese imported the German word by literal translation when faucets were invented??

  17. Smurf says:

    Actually this is not a translation fail. It’s an old-meaning-of-a-word-which-is-no-longer-in-current-use-that-way fail.

    • cicili says:

      OH, like in the Flintstones theme song the first few seasons, ‘You’ll have a gay old time.’ I get it.
      It was changed to ‘Great’.

    • izzyboy says:

      It’s still used that way. You just don’t see it often outside of repair/technical manuals.

  18. joe says:

    that’s what she said

  19. TryTheDictionary says:

    Translation fail? More like education fail. Open a fucking dictionary.

    • ryannon says:

      I get it, you are angry. Go with what you feel. You don’t like people calling your cock crazy. I don’t think it is your cock they are looking at, it’s that look in your eye.

  20. Inv says:

    I like the “tap” on his head :)

    Nice touch

  21. theBunny says:

    What a rip off. That cock’s not even that crazy.

  22. DRoseDARs says:

    My crazy cock, let me show you it.

  23. ryannon says:

    This is the Justin Timberlake follow up to Dick In A Box. Crazy Cock on Your Forehead.
    .
    Step 1: Okay, he hasn’t finished the lyrics, this is just the album cover.

  24. Bod says:

    Hey! Has anyone heard about the German translation of tap?
    It’s crazy!

  25. Flowsen says:

    SIMPSONS!

  26. blƄbƤr says:

    Whats that crazy cock doing on the microwave oven? LOL

  27. LordOfTheDance says:

    I have one of those..

    • eArtrash says:

      I wish there was a low budget advert for this , with that dude whats-his-name narrating while little children run around with crazy dicks on there heads! Awesome!

  28. r.kelly says:

    This is a gag gift, a fake faucet that you can put on random stuff, like your forehead, or a microwave, or something, and magically water comes out of it, surprising your friends! Which makes a ridiculous name less of a fail…I’m serious! Read the packaging!

  29. XPH says:

    Prefect valentines day gift?

  30. John says:

    Umm… But the proper plumbing term for an exterior faucet is a “Sillcock” or a “Bibcock,” so while they probably should have called it a “Crazy Faucet”, they technically didn’t mis-translate it. Not really a fail.

  31. RellzRein says:

    Believe me they get crazy

  32. Moomin says:

    Hey, Mikey D. Are you Swedish?

  33. in_a_box says:

    Meh, the only fail is on behalf of the people who assumed that cock was a synonym for penis. Brush up on your English skills people. As people above have said, cock can also mean tap.

  34. Chris says:

    You all need an education. This translation is correct. Cock is another name for a valve.

  35. Sud_Vicious says:

    Technically it is a cock. It is a plumbing term. The full term, oddly, is ballcock.

  36. stuntcock says:

    it’s only a failure if that’s not what you like, ask lil jimmy norton.

  37. Frank says:

    Crazy Cock will still sprew a load on you and my nuts are itchy!

  38. nako13 says:

    now holds with powerful suction cup action!

  39. Adam says:

    This post is made of fail. The technical term for a small valve is a cock. The phallic meaning to the word came way after this terminology was used for valves.

    Failblog fail.

  40. Danielle says:

    Hm. It looks like his head is leaking. (;])

  41. cauza says:

    i dont get it……….

  42. OHSHITSON says:

    OH MY GOD! I GOT THIS WITH MY VICIOUS VAGINA!8D

  43. Lance E Sloan says:

    failblog fail: look up “cock” in the dictionary. you will see that one definition, albeit possibly archaic, is “faucet”. Along with “sillcock” and “bibcock” that have already been mentioned, there’s also “stopcock”.

  44. karen says:

    Hey,
    Are you a translator by profession? Then you must check out – http://www.translationartwork.com , maybe it could be of some help to you.

  45. Sakatraka says:

    ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!


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