Hey! If you want someone who knows London, you want me. Loz is Irish, remember. That would be like saying we need a Californian when the fail is in Delaware.
The fail is.
The building is in France (Paris)
And London is in britain (Most known building in London is probably the houses of parliment) (I probably spelt that wrong….)
Well you did have that avatar with the pic of yourself for awhile, that might have had something to do with it. Remember, bald is SEXY!! Unless it’s supremacist bald. That, not so much.
You should know the innuendo machine works overtime here!!
And believe me, I would likely ask the very same question if you were standing right in front of me. I like clarification. And, I’m nosey.
*whispers to Mrs_Z*
Big Ben is actually the name of the bell. The clocktower gets referred to as Big Ben though, but it’s not actually called anything.
Funny, but when I hear London I don’t think of a single place. I think of wandering around on the streets. (And to all of the clever wits out there, I mean on the sidewalks. Not the streets proper.)
When I think of London, I think of Covent Garden, Porters restaurant, the RSC at the Barbican, the British Museum, the Odeon at Leicester Square, and laborers with large, rough hands and dirty overalls reading “Pride and Prejudice” on the tube.
Kew Gardens. That was lovely.
Frighteningly enough, while I was there I was at the Basil Street
Hotel. Smack dab between Harrods and Harvey Nichols (I’m sure I didn’t spell that right). It was an odd visit.
When I moved to London with my parents a few years ago, they chose a prime location – smack bang in centre of South Kensington, withing walking distance of the Natural History museum, The Science museum and the Victoria and Albert museum.
I felt entirely out of place there. Sloane Street specifically. I’m more of a jeans and t-shirt kinda girl. I gave up the sneakers for nicer shoes, but dressed up for me means not jeans.
The funny thing was (in my mind anyway) that I came home with an accent. Iwas only there for two weeks!
The very first day, the very first venture out of the hotel, some guy came up to me and asked for something that sounded like A. D. P. It was five minutes after he passed that I realized he had asked for 80p. Not that I had anything to give him at the time.
I have no idea. It was just some guy on the street. I was with my folks and they called to me so I shrugged at him and walked on. I really had no idea ehat he was asking me until later.
He looked clean and well cared for. Tall, thin and blonde. Didn’t look like a junkie I think he picked me out of the crowd because I obviously didn’t belong.
I would put his age at about 18 then, so yeah, cheeky.
He seemed intent on getting somewhere, if I had to guess, I’d say he had gotten stranded and was trying to get back where he needed to be. Or maybe that was just what he wanted me to think.
Until the influx of California immigrants in the eighties, everyone crossed at the crosswalk. Waited for the light, even when there was no need, as well. The natives still do.
When I think of London I remember that awful tour of the countryside. Seriously I’m never traveling with the tourists (my parents) who arranged that again. Tower of London is awesome though.
If I’m not mistaken TRUE London isn’t all that large, just a few miles in all. Now the metropolitan area, that is a sizable city.
Yes, I took the terribly tacky tourist trek while I was there. Double decker bus and all.
Basically the financial district, right? It’s been ten years since I was there. I’m going from what I remember the docent on the bus telling us. I want to go back, I had the best time. Well, I did until my step-sister joined us. And then, even her father wasn’t best pleased.
Something like that. I don’t know the exact area but I believe it stretched up from Westminster to the Tower (could be wrong on that).
I don’t get to see much of it from a tourist perspective but I have a good view from our office though.
I made a point of doing the silly bus tour. The highlights included the standard stuff, and odd bits of info like “we have at this point now passed ten
Starbucks coffee houses”, we were only about ten blocks into the tour. There was something about the pillar that marks the supposed spot where the fire started, and all sorts of other things. As you can see I retained those bits of useless information. Why I couldn’t apply the same principal to school is beyond me.
Hammy, when you get the chance, GO!! Just make sure you start saving now. In fact, that might be something to do for yourself upon graduation, assuming you start saving right now. I’m sure those who live there would be happy to tell you all the places you should see. And those of us who’ve been will have suggestions too.
According to my teacher, yes. Although I barely read it at all… I skipped most of the 2nd section. It’s basically described as overcrowded, old, dusty and gross.
Mind you, it is set in the 19th century.
There are several places called London. In order of ascending size they are:
• City of London, a walled city from the Middle Ages now home to an important financial district (“The City” and “Square Mile” referring to this area are used as metonyms for the financial sector as “Wall Street” is in the US)
• Inner London, developed from a fairly typical old European city, built along the Thames river is a major tourist attraction, it includes the Cities of London and Westminster.
• Greater London, the entire urban sprawl, this is the entity which has local government, an elected mayor, and so on.
Beyond that there’s the Metropolitan area – extending out to peaceful towns and villages in the countryside which just happen to have a fast railway link to the city and thus act as a “dormitory” for the workers.
For posterity (and their children) – he definitely accidenty his accidentally, but – since he was woefully unaware – he gets a cookie.
*offers cookie*
Don’t let it happen again.
*breezes in on a cloud*
No worries! I’m serving flourless chocolate torte with raspberry sauce today. And besides, there’s virtually nothing you could do to mess with my fabulously good mood today!
“You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is,
I know how to curse.
The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!”
@@@@
FB maybe developing its own patois, but theres yet irony in being told one does not understand a past fail on failblog by one who does not know the past of failblog
“accidentally” “you, sir” “rtard” “lolcats” –
these memes were each created years ago on another site and have in the past 14 months now been ‘borrowed’ by Failblog
:: offers a toast to FB’s posterity ::
1. Accidenty was first mentioned in a fail by accident, not by comments.
2. You, sir has definitely existed way before the Internet was invented.
3. Lolcats ARE NOT included in Failblog. Do not confuse the two, or you will have your internal organs removed with a rusty spatula.
4. You were the first to mention the word rtard here.
*adds her two cents (not to be confused with .002 cents)*
Many a meme has been used here, some are from elsewhere, some not. It does not matter from whence they came, we use them here (frequently). Therefore they are part of our charm. Get used to it.
1. wrong
2. you sir, are and idiot : )
3. failblog came from lolcats’ icanhazcheezburger; lolcats
came from caturday
4. wrong
5. ????
6. theres no profit in claiming an argument to be flawed that you have just yourself proved
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this thread is void of win, i vote we stop
Hey Dragon, I just spent an entire hour at the post office, waiting to send a package.
I think our postal service (in Chicago specifically) needs a bit of a revamp.
These weak and idle memes,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
…
But to ’scape the serpent’s tongue –
As he’s made his welcome over long
And percept of his aim ‘comes flawed –
Good night says flogger to you all.
“Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door
where impossible things may happen that the world has never seen before
In Dexter’s Laboratory, lives the smartest boy you’ve ever seen
but Dee Dee blows his experiments to smithereens
There is gloom, and doom while things go boom
in Dexter’s Lab!”
The FAILs on this FAIL are both legendary and of great repute.
And I’m not in London, Paris, or Las Vegas, so I therefore approve of this advertisement.
Hehe Same here. At first I thought the fail was the Eiffel Tower as a heart, and then like a minute later I was like “OOOOOOOHHHHHHHH AHAHA I GET IT!!! ”
Yeah… I was supposed to know everty designer tee from Europe that has ever been made. PLUS I said it was ironic, therefore catching the win in the tee. You are the fail here.
For the most part it’s all phonetic over there. Reading the comments aloud can help. But that doesn’t take into account the syntax (or lack thereof).
A private messaging feature would be fantastic! That would, of course, mean we’d all have to register. It would make the more… intimate comments less interupted.
There used to be a restaurant in the little town of Champagnole up in the French Alps named Pizzeria Le Big Ben. They had a big mural of the statue of liberty on the side. I just googled it and it seems it’s still there, no idea if the mural is though, it was about 15 years ago I was there.
Er, that’s not a fail; it’s a joke t-shirt. I have that tee. I bought it in London. I’m from London. It’s by David and Goliath; all their products feature puns or general silliness. It’s supposed to be ironic; it’s the British sense of humour, which clearly not everyone gets!
ok this one annoys me, its not a fail, its a joke! It a david and goliath shirt, and they’re awesome, its supposed to poke fun, all their shirts do! http://www.chicksrule.co.uk check them out!
I thought it was because we we get the English words tour or tourist from the French word for tower – the Eiffel Tour was the first real tourist attraction. I thought the shirt meant “I toured London” – oops, just had a nerdgasm.
gay paris
not that theres anything wrong with pink triangles
the tower looks much like a penis
^A dirty mind.
A flirty rind (of orange)?
A girthy behind?
A smirky lime?
no it doesnt
Well you’re just jealous because it’s much longer than yours.
You’re just jealous because it’s much longer than yours.
you must have one funky looking penis
I kinda feel sorry for you then.
Ha!
They got it so wrong!!
That’s the Eiffel Tower from Paris!!!
Not London!!!!!
Ha Ha !!!!!!!!!!
Paris!!!!!!!!
Not London!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paris, not London!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PARIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha!!!!!!!!
Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
state the obvious
Paris=GAY
An ‘eye-full’ of fail…
wow.
a london-eye-full of fail even
double-pun preceeding a double-post
classy
Where’s loz when you need her?
Hey! If you want someone who knows London, you want me. Loz is Irish, remember. That would be like saying we need a Californian when the fail is in Delaware.
or like saying della wears a new jersey
Or like saying you’re one turnip short of a vegetable garden (in Hebrew).
Um…Right. I think you are several turnips short of a vegetable garden. And maybe a few tomatoes as well. Though you have plenty of lettuce.
Lettuce not use harsh words with one another, for you never know when a new friend might turnip.
lettuce turnip and pea?
Oh, how corny is that?
Ah,sparagus the veggie puns!
There’s nothing to relish about it so let’s just leaf it alone.
hahahhahahaha I like that. It’s corny but clever.
Wasn’t a tomato a fruit …sorry don’t mind me…
Strictly speaking, the tomato is not a vegetable. It’s really a kind of dolphin. Ask Andy Riley.
No offense but I trust her to administer an appropriate snide remark more than you, just by a bit.
Thats what heshe sed
but i dont want to talk about it
doesnt take a genius to work out that the eiffel towers not in london, just sum1 with a brain
Loz is right here
but I’m with BFF on this one, he’s the Londoner not me!
Hey, chez summoned a Loz! You’re a-okay in my book, chez!
The fail is.
The building is in France (Paris)
And London is in britain (Most known building in London is probably the houses of parliment) (I probably spelt that wrong….)
Most known building? What about the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Westminster Abbey?
Or Big Ben! (Not a building but still a very well-known landmark)
The shame! It’s my avatar anyway.
Oh, I forgot.
*tears down MISSING: DIANATHEINSANE poster*
We missed you!
Awww, thanks! I’ve been a bit busy of late…*smiles a big goofy smile*
Hey, Di! Nice to see ya! I can’t believe you let life interfere with your failblogging.
Well, it was sort of a major life development…
I got engaged! My…*giggles*…fiance proposed on Thursday night.
Congratulations! I’m glad to see you so happy.
*breaks out the champagne*
Wow!! Congratulations Di!
*passes out glasses while Dragon pours*
Don’t pass out…! You’ve only had one glass of champagne!
:p
That’s great! Congratulations.
WHOO-HOO!!!
Congrats!!!
Congratulations to your fiance. He does know that he has to share you, right?
I’ll get the CONGRATULATIONS! banners!
Oh, and I knew this would come in handy.
*points*
*blimp sails past with “CONGARTULATIONS DIANA!*
Congartulations? I am suing that company!
Awww…thanks guys! And yes, he knows he has to share my time with all you lovely Failbloggers.
Better make sure he knows you’re insane, too.
Pretty sure he’s figured that out after 4 1/2 years
4 1/2 years. It must be true love.
How did he find out that I am lovely? I try to keep that a secret.
The angels gave up your secret.
Blabber mouth angels. Now all of the ladies will be after me. Again
I heard from St. Peter that….
*whisper whisper*
Well you did have that avatar with the pic of yourself for awhile, that might have had something to do with it. Remember, bald is SEXY!! Unless it’s supremacist bald. That, not so much.
I believe that you need to have your eye prescription checked Avis.
I think Dragon might back me up on this.
Perhaps you can go in together and get a two for one deal.
What exactly are you offering there, Coyote?
I meant at the optometrist! Everything is innuendo around here.
I notice that you say that when you’re safely half a continent away.
*smooches coyote*
If my heart didn’t already belong to my most admirable Admiral…you’d be in some trouble from me, bud.
You may have heard that arguing with a woman is futile. I wouldn’t recommend arguing with two.
*smooches coyote, too*
You should know the innuendo machine works overtime here!!
And believe me, I would likely ask the very same question if you were standing right in front of me. I like clarification. And, I’m nosey.
Y’all know that I am not buying this for an instant.
Well…fine then. Insult me and call me insincere. You *sniff*…you won’t hurt my feelings.
*goes off in a corner to cry*
*rubs against Dragon’s leg in comfort*
*surreptitiously passes her a hankie held by tail*
*saunters off*
Insincere? No. Sincerely kind? Yes.
Coyote, I think maybe you need to look in a mirror.
YEAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Congrats DTI!!
Wow – congrats DTI.
Congratulations! *raises glass*
*congratulatory squeeze*
I was about to say the same thing.
Congrats, DIT!!! Have a happy! And tell me, how is Big Ben not a building?
*whispers to Mrs_Z*
Big Ben is actually the name of the bell. The clocktower gets referred to as Big Ben though, but it’s not actually called anything.
alright smart ass
It’s also a bell; I doubt most people would recognize it if you showed them a picture.
Well when I hear the word London I think of Parliment…
So personal opinion I guess…
Do you really? Not Parliament?
Parmersan
Persian
Parisians
No, it’s correct. Unless you meant SUCK…
Funny, but when I hear London I don’t think of a single place. I think of wandering around on the streets. (And to all of the clever wits out there, I mean on the sidewalks. Not the streets proper.)
Pavements!
Right. Pavements and zebra crossings.
In England nobody gives a crap where you cross the road.
I take full advantage of that every time I go out.
Except I bet that everybody uses the zebra crossing when crossing Abbey Road. Well, at least the tourists.
Exactly. Those law-abiding tourists, oh they crack me up!
Yes. If you’re in Abbey Road it’s a must. That’s somewhere I’ve never been.
*adds Abbey Road to the list*
When I think of London, I think of Covent Garden, Porters restaurant, the RSC at the Barbican, the British Museum, the Odeon at Leicester Square, and laborers with large, rough hands and dirty overalls reading “Pride and Prejudice” on the tube.
GAWD I love London.
Haha! I get none of that at the Canary Wharf. Wall to wall suits.
I love London too.
Kew Gardens. That was lovely.
Frighteningly enough, while I was there I was at the Basil Street
Hotel. Smack dab between Harrods and Harvey Nichols (I’m sure I didn’t spell that right). It was an odd visit.
Ooh… get you all posh! haha
It’s been a very long time since I was in ‘Kensington Dahling’!
When I moved to London with my parents a few years ago, they chose a prime location – smack bang in centre of South Kensington, withing walking distance of the Natural History museum, The Science museum and the Victoria and Albert museum.
I lived in Soho (briefly). No ‘red light’ comments please BFF!
Not even a flash?
Clickie #48 for a flash!
Why do you think I made fun of Sloane Street girls? Pearls and twinsets as far as the eye could see. More money than sense.
Pearls and twinsets! HAHA…
You’re not wrong though. Money is no object around there.
I felt entirely out of place there. Sloane Street specifically. I’m more of a jeans and t-shirt kinda girl. I gave up the sneakers for nicer shoes, but dressed up for me means not jeans.
Ah yes! There are a lot of snobs and it’s normally ‘old’ money. We will never be rid of our class system.
Damn right!
*nose points in the air*
The funny thing was (in my mind anyway) that I came home with an accent. Iwas only there for two weeks!
The very first day, the very first venture out of the hotel, some guy came up to me and asked for something that sounded like A. D. P. It was five minutes after he passed that I realized he had asked for 80p. Not that I had anything to give him at the time.
Did he have a cold?
I have no idea. It was just some guy on the street. I was with my folks and they called to me so I shrugged at him and walked on. I really had no idea ehat he was asking me until later.
Where were you when he asked that? I’d be surprised if it was the ‘posh’ area.
Jam, there are plenty of homeless guys in South Kensington, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
Brompton road, between the two poshest of stores.
They get moved along though.
Well there you have it! Maybe he slipped by unnoticed.
He looked clean and well cared for. Tall, thin and blonde. Didn’t look like a junkie I think he picked me out of the crowd because I obviously didn’t belong.
Cheeky sod then if you ask me!
One question – what’s 80p?
At the minute it’s worth about 1 dollar! *sigh*
I would put his age at about 18 then, so yeah, cheeky.
He seemed intent on getting somewhere, if I had to guess, I’d say he had gotten stranded and was trying to get back where he needed to be. Or maybe that was just what he wanted me to think.
Like, eighty pence?
80 pence indeed. Doesn’t even buy you a loaf of bread anymore.
London is too Ritzy for me
Until the influx of California immigrants in the eighties, everyone crossed at the crosswalk. Waited for the light, even when there was no need, as well. The natives still do.
…everyone in Seattle crossed…
Damn small comment space!
Nobody in London bothers waiting for lights. They just walk in front of cars. It actually scares me sometimes.
I actually started searching Wikipedia to find out about this “sudden influx of Californians” to London.
Good thing, too, or you might step in it while crossing!
Hmm…major nesting fail. *Slinks out of the thread in shame…*
Don’t forget 221B Baker St.
When I think of London I remember that awful tour of the countryside. Seriously I’m never traveling with the tourists (my parents) who arranged that again. Tower of London is awesome though.
BFF, I’m going to be annoyingly picky here but Windsor Castle isn’t in London.
Sorry… just had to point that out!
*crawls back under rock*
*checks map*
GAH! How could I?!
*crawls under own rock*
There, there…
*pat pat pat*
*walks by* Why are you patting that rock Dragon?
Maybe it’s a pet rock. I hear they were all the rage in the ’70s.
They were. You could by accessories for them. There were even pet rock cemeteries!
Which brings up the question – what did they use for gravestones?
Surely using the dead body of a kinsman would be too morbid.
A headstone for a pet rock?
How did one know if it had died anyway?
It didn’t move, rigor mortis set in and the body temperature was that of room temperature.
Ummmm…. Coyote? Did people have pet rock funerals as soon as they acquired said pet rock?
Only if the rock had died. Would you bury a live pet? Please be serious.
*sigh*
Rocks are live?
There, there….
*pat pat pat*
If I’m not mistaken TRUE London isn’t all that large, just a few miles in all. Now the metropolitan area, that is a sizable city.
Yes, I took the terribly tacky tourist trek while I was there. Double decker bus and all.
1 Square mile give or take but it’s now all urban sprawl.
Basically the financial district, right? It’s been ten years since I was there. I’m going from what I remember the docent on the bus telling us. I want to go back, I had the best time. Well, I did until my step-sister joined us. And then, even her father wasn’t best pleased.
Something like that. I don’t know the exact area but I believe it stretched up from Westminster to the Tower (could be wrong on that).
I don’t get to see much of it from a tourist perspective but I have a good view from our office though.
I made a point of doing the silly bus tour. The highlights included the standard stuff, and odd bits of info like “we have at this point now passed ten
Starbucks coffee houses”, we were only about ten blocks into the tour. There was something about the pillar that marks the supposed spot where the fire started, and all sorts of other things. As you can see I retained those bits of useless information. Why I couldn’t apply the same principal to school is beyond me.
Pudding Lane. I remember doing that stuff in school.
There are a lot of Starbucks places it has to be said.
I did the boat tour once. I can’t remember anything she said other than to point out the random statues of blokes on the tops of some buildings.
All of my knowledge about London comes from reading Great Expectations in school.
I’ve never read that so I have no idea if it’s factual or not.
Well I’ve read 1984 and apparently none of that happened!
Hammy, when you get the chance, GO!! Just make sure you start saving now. In fact, that might be something to do for yourself upon graduation, assuming you start saving right now. I’m sure those who live there would be happy to tell you all the places you should see. And those of us who’ve been will have suggestions too.
According to my teacher, yes. Although I barely read it at all… I skipped most of the 2nd section. It’s basically described as overcrowded, old, dusty and gross.
Mind you, it is set in the 19th century.
I’ll be sure to. I would like to do some traveling later. So far, I’ve only been to one country outside of Canada.
Well, that kinda sums up some of it! HAHA.
If you ever make it across Hammy, I’ll happily show you about.
BFF, did you happen to read the copy-write date on that book?
That George Orwell must have been a damn fine STC explorer.
All this book talk. If it’s not Dean Koontz I’ve probably not read it!
There are several places called London. In order of ascending size they are:
• City of London, a walled city from the Middle Ages now home to an important financial district (“The City” and “Square Mile” referring to this area are used as metonyms for the financial sector as “Wall Street” is in the US)
• Inner London, developed from a fairly typical old European city, built along the Thames river is a major tourist attraction, it includes the Cities of London and Westminster.
• Greater London, the entire urban sprawl, this is the entity which has local government, an elected mayor, and so on.
Beyond that there’s the Metropolitan area – extending out to peaceful towns and villages in the countryside which just happen to have a fast railway link to the city and thus act as a “dormitory” for the workers.
omg i can believe this image is posted in here, it is called DESING people… i it made by urban putfitters i guess, annndd i love it!
this is just an eiffel pun
Kinda londumb, I gotta admit.
It’s on a paris with most things around here.
Can vi(enna) carry on with this thread?
I don’t know…someone might get Bern-ed.
I’ve got a helsinking feeling that something a milan times worse might happen.
Actually, I think we’ve made good Prague-ress.
We’re doing wellington so far.
Do you think we can delhi-ver more?
This Leeds nowhere.
Rotterdam shame that is.
Such a toronto of puns…washington we do?
Seattle down, don’t let it Spo
o-kane you.Rome around aimlessly then Seattle somewhere Nice?
Visit London, and see The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and the Louv- waitaminute…
hehe, ur talkin about Las Vegas, u can see everyhting there.
Except for sincerity.
Biceps for comedy.
Jumpers got goalposts.
Dammit, this is the last time I will be using this crappy eeepc with XP for posting.
David and Goliath WINNN
I have that shirt….xDD
ZOMG where did you get it? is it possible to order it online or something? i must have it! thanks
mnnnnnnnnnnnnawwwwww fail city
3rd
So she had an Eiffel Tower in London…good for her, though I wouldn’t go around advertising it on a t-shirt.
she accidentally the whole city?
you accidenty your accidentally
you sir, are and rtard
I’m afraid you are the “rtard”. Here, we use “accidenty” not “accidentally”.
For posterity (and their children) – he definitely accidenty his accidentally, but – since he was woefully unaware – he gets a cookie.
*offers cookie*
Don’t let it happen again.
I humbly request a cookie for being called “sir” when clearly I have pretty butterfly wings.
A splendid point, my dear.
*hands her a delightfully white chocolate cookie*
May I have a bite?
Of course! come sit by me, I have drinks too!
*gives the obviously not-sir a cookie*
Hee…too fast for me, WN.
At least now she gets two cookies.
*Starts cookie collection*
More for her to share wif us, would you not say?
Uh oh… (don’t tell DTI)
*breezes in on a cloud*
No worries! I’m serving flourless chocolate torte with raspberry sauce today. And besides, there’s virtually nothing you could do to mess with my fabulously good mood today!
*groaks torte*
Could I have a piece?
Of course! *serves hammykins a sizeable piece of torte with a generous coating of raspberry sauce* Enjoy!
Ooh! Can I please have a piece as well?
But of course! *serves BondFan a similarly-sized piece with an equally generous coating of raspberry sauce* Dig in!
Mmmmm…
It’f dewifouf!
I’ll just take a glass of the raspberry sauce and eat it with a spoon….
*droooooooooooool*
Di – just got back. Allow me to congratulate you and the future Mr. Insane on your pending nuptuals! Has a date been set? And are we all invited?
You, sir, should not refer to past fails in which you do not understand
*squeezes BFF*
*is squeezed*
My first squeeze of the day.
*squeezes WhatIKnow*
you, childrens, are but n00bs to the nets
No…we just have our own language of Fail. It’s best not to resist too much when someone tries to teach it to you. Really.
Hiya Dragon!
As we all know, resistance is purile; he’ll be along soon.
Hiya, WN!
It’s true…we are nigh on irresistible, aren’t we?
Floggles the mind, I must say.
And I did.
…If I do say so myself!
Which I did.
I concur, I concurred
I blog, therefore I spam?
“You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is,
I know how to curse.
The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!”
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FB maybe developing its own patois, but theres yet irony in being told one does not understand a past fail on failblog by one who does not know the past of failblog
“accidentally” “you, sir” “rtard” “lolcats” –
these memes were each created years ago on another site and have in the past 14 months now been ‘borrowed’ by Failblog
:: offers a toast to FB’s posterity ::
1. Accidenty was first mentioned in a fail by accident, not by comments.
2. You, sir has definitely existed way before the Internet was invented.
3. Lolcats ARE NOT included in Failblog. Do not confuse the two, or you will have your internal organs removed with a rusty spatula.
4. You were the first to mention the word rtard here.
See how flawed your argument is?
*adds her two cents (not to be confused with .002 cents)*
Many a meme has been used here, some are from elsewhere, some not. It does not matter from whence they came, we use them here (frequently). Therefore they are part of our charm. Get used to it.
1. wrong
2. you sir, are and idiot : )
3. failblog came from lolcats’ icanhazcheezburger; lolcats
came from caturday
4. wrong
5. ????
6. theres no profit in claiming an argument to be flawed that you have just yourself proved
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this thread is void of win, i vote we stop
We never said we invented the memes. Merely that we make frequent use of them. Please note the difference.
Relax, Caliban…if you can’t enjoy what we do here, you are perfectly welcome to go elsewhere. Otherwise, you are flogger-ing a dead horse.
As for the lolcats – “The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity.”
Hey Dragon, I just spent an entire hour at the post office, waiting to send a package.
I think our postal service (in Chicago specifically) needs a bit of a revamp.
Hee…!
And I’ve spent the last week not talking on the phone because my throat is sore and my voice all creaky!
(Sorry ’bout that.)
*offers a honey beverage for the throat*
No harm, no foul.
And now I’ll extricate myself from this particular thread lest I earn the Admirals wrath.
Hee! I don’t think that’s necessary, Avis.
Although I reserve the right to change my mind!
I’ll try to remember that!
*snork*
If you’re not interrupting something steamy, you’re always welcome, silly!
And I’ve been saving the honey for you, honey. I have my pomegranate juice here, which is making me quite happy.
Note to self – Never interrupt a passionate Dragon.
Never tickle a sleeping one, either.
Dat’s a very good rule of thumb right there.
Meddling in the affairs of dragons is strongly discouraged.
Same goes for spatula wielding Admirals.
Hammy is a hat-wearing critter that has nothing to fear.
Hee!
These weak and idle memes,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
…
But to ’scape the serpent’s tongue –
As he’s made his welcome over long
And percept of his aim ‘comes flawed –
Good night says flogger to you all.
Quoth the troll,
“You guys are STEWWWPID!!!”.
Hmmmmm….^^
My most admirable Admiral…I do believe you are right.
Good night flogger.
Yes, Dragon, I’m sure of it.
lol
Mm-hm.
“Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door
where impossible things may happen that the world has never seen before
In Dexter’s Laboratory, lives the smartest boy you’ve ever seen
but Dee Dee blows his experiments to smithereens
There is gloom, and doom while things go boom
in Dexter’s Lab!”
That brings me back.
me too
experiment go boom
___
“All conditioned things are impermanent.
Work out your salvation with diligence.”
__()__
Hope you had fun, Caliban.
I’ll spare you the passage from The Tempest that’s in my mind right now.
I do greatly beleive you mean “chitlingks”
You need to a verb in there…
I accidenty my enema.
An action verb?
“Is not this Tower of London as nigh heaven?”
~ cracked Thomas More
“Come, then, let’s go fight with them; but first, go
and set London bridge on fire; and, if you can, burn
down the Tower too.”
isnt London Bridge in the US, it was moved?
Maybe she’s really ugly… so she wears it so that people will think she gets some.
Hiya, Loz! I was just saying the other day that I’ve missed you!
*hug*
Aww
I missed you too! I’ve just finished yet another assignment so I’m back on failblog for now. I’ve had a couple of fails to submit as well!
Woo!
I WAS sorry that you missed my birthday party, though. It just wasn’t the same without you making your “grandma” jokes.
:p
You’d have no need for that shirt then.
*smootches*
Very good today.
It’s a joke, duh.
Yeah, I have a shirt with the Union Jack that says “Greece” underneath it. It’s obviously a joke.
Multicultural win =]
That is not a Landmark fail… that is a T-Shirt WIN!
Maybe they were confusing it with Blackpool Tower. That’s not in London either though, so it would remain a fail.
unconditional fail!
It wouldn’t make sense even if it said Paris. “I Eiffel Tower ___”?
I agree xP
hence the fail
Well it’s just a bonus fail haha, the main one being the fact that the Eiffel Tower isn’t located in London xP.
The FAILs on this FAIL are both legendary and of great repute.
And I’m not in London, Paris, or Las Vegas, so I therefore approve of this advertisement.
True, true. So that makes them EPIC FAILs?
If you take it to mean tower the verb… no that doesn’t make sense either.
Maybe this pic was meant for Engrish funny.
It could be a pictorial representation of “I tickle the soft white underside of London with my pointy hard pink thing”.
But probably not.
…No, wait, it’s still bad grammar if it said “I Eiffel Tower Billy and Bob”.
WOW, cheap shirts xD
And why would someone put an Eiffel tower picture in place of a heart anyway? That ’s just weird…
Unless you’re into pink triangles.
Shavey heart guy would look so much better with Eiffel Towers!
You really must stop invoking that image…especially when I’ve been sick.
*hands Dragon a margarita*
Drink plenty of fluids and call me in the evening
And watch out for tall, skinny, green men with huuuge eyelashes.
*downs margarita*
Thanks for the tip…I’ll keep my eyes open.
The real fail is that I had to stare at this picture for about 30 seconds before I saw the fail.
Fail finding fail.
Hehe Same here. At first I thought the fail was the Eiffel Tower as a heart, and then like a minute later I was like “OOOOOOOHHHHHHHH AHAHA I GET IT!!!
”
When you come to Failblog long enough you start trying to identify a penis in every picture…that’s what threw me off.
Watch out for the potato.
Why thats a big tower you’ve got there
I think we’re missing the important questions here: Did she [Eiffel Tower] France? Did she [Eiffel Tower] the Eagles running back’s underpants?
Yet again, TPB cuts to the heart of a literary confusion with grace and aplomb.
haha good one
Eiffel kinda bad about that.
I’m sure your France will make you feel better.
The symbol clearly states “I [tower over] London.”
Implying that she is roughly the size of Godzilla!
Why would a Godzilla-sized person wear that small shirt?
What is this unfamiliar to me tower supposed to mean? If there was a heart or something…
…the chickens would come home to roost…
Don’t tell me they got Eiffel Tower too. They already have our Parthenon marbles.
Oh and speaking about marbles, does anyone want to have a party at my place? Got a fridge full of energy drinks and empty wine bottles.
It’s “I fail London”. See. I FAIL = Eiffel. See? See? Funny! Yeah! Funny!
*blink. blink.*
*hears crickets in the distance*
sorry, maybe next time
No it’s not, you’re wrong
TheCake is a lie-r!
(That was a-cute fail on words, though.)
I think its an irony win. I would totally buy that shirt.
It’s a designer tee. Obviously ironic. Who ever posted this is the fail.
Yes. I was supposed to know every designer tee ever. Youre right, thats my bad.
Yeah… I was supposed to know everty designer tee from Europe that has ever been made. PLUS I said it was ironic, therefore catching the win in the tee. You are the fail here.
Wow dude that is like WAY cool! Well done!
RT
http://www.privacy.at.tc
I despise you.
1ST
only about 40 off kind sir
I’ve got that shirt!
And I love it xD
You can also find on where it says “I (big ben) Paris”
It’s so good <3
Coincidentally enough, this shirt was bought in Tokyo
And likely made in China, what’s your point?
Monumental Fail!
I believe thats whats called an ‘American Detector’ in Brittan.
Funny, I would have thought an “American Detector” would have been shorts and athletic shoes worn to a nice restaurant.
Viva la London?
These are on sale in London.. I personally find them quite funny…
My curiosity got the better of me and I just visited an ICHC comments section. The horror, the horror.
*gets into little ball, rocks to and fro murmuring “They’re not real people, they’re not real people”*
Sweets, WHY did you do that? You KNOW how it affects you!
I’ve always thought that one needed a secret decoder ring to understand them.
I have heard that we will have the same private messaging features (what ever they are) as ICHC.
For the most part it’s all phonetic over there. Reading the comments aloud can help. But that doesn’t take into account the syntax (or lack thereof).
A private messaging feature would be fantastic! That would, of course, mean we’d all have to register. It would make the more… intimate comments less interupted.
It would reduce the posts in the comments section to about a dozen.
Nah, there’s to much that we need the entire group for.
The comments section will never die. I would take the comments section over PM any day.
*POUNCE!!!*
Speaking of “intimate”…
*TACKLEHUG!!*
You’re first and ten.
Woohoo!
If you’re especially nice to me, I’ll let you sack me.
If you let me sack you, I promise not to do any rushing.
*hikes*
*gets a hand on your bootleg*
Oooh…I see you’re going long….
Your lack of coverage is irresistible!
*runs hand along your tight end*
*attempts down and in while using back for support*
I’ve dreamed of your current field position in my fantasy football…
My mind spirals thinking about you. Your receptions are sensational.
There will be noooooo handoff plays tonight.
Oh, I’m definitely going for a completion.
I’ll make sure there are no penalties for interference!
I Eiffel Tower London. I didn’t think that could be used as a verb either.
Yeah, this is a double fail. Landmark fail and slogan fail. Two for the price of one.
Yeah but the last one isn’t stupid enough for failblog so that one doesn’t count.
this is epic
Maybe it’s time to build an Eiffeltower replica in London…
No room.
They could easily bulldoze Hyde Park for it!
Demolish one of the Queen’s parks for some French metal thing? Horror of horrors!
I was going for shock factor. Seemed to work too!
Bite your tongue!
Stupid American
I’d like to Eiffel tower her!
I’ll just bet you wood!
I’ll take that bet…Here, RMT, shake on it…No, no, up high…like this…
I’m trying to figure out how exactly one would Eiffel London…
I have this teeshirt
Does no one get irony anymore?
“Does no one get irony anymore?”
Doesn’t seem so.
No we don’t irony the T-shirts.
French foreign policy?
That’s almost as stupid as the mushroom patterns on the tip of my penis.
I *Space Needle* Chicago.
I Eiffel Tower London, too.
I [Effiel Tower] London!!!
I *BigBang* Paris
wow. I just now figured the shirt out after all those comments.
I don’t think this is a fail. I saw this shirt at a high street store. I believe it is meant to be “ironic”.
So now it’s not a fail if it isn’t photoshopped?
Maybe it’s supposed to be London, Ontario. Y’know about 98% of our posters are from there…
That’s more than half.
hahah wtf!!!
that t shirt was made in the USA, for sure
It’s meant to be a joke, they also sell I [big ben] Paris.
This picture was taken in London, Ontario, Canada in which they have a miniature recreation of the Eiffel Tower.
There used to be a restaurant in the little town of Champagnole up in the French Alps named Pizzeria Le Big Ben. They had a big mural of the statue of liberty on the side. I just googled it and it seems it’s still there, no idea if the mural is though, it was about 15 years ago I was there.
Hahahaha this makes me really happy!
What is our world coming too?
Could be deliberate.
typical american fail…how they should know the difference between london and paris?
Really people, I dont think anyone really got that the Eiffle tower is IN PARIS, NOT LONDODN.
Er, that’s not a fail; it’s a joke t-shirt. I have that tee. I bought it in London. I’m from London. It’s by David and Goliath; all their products feature puns or general silliness. It’s supposed to be ironic; it’s the British sense of humour, which clearly not everyone gets!
Thank you!! YOu’re about the only one who understands that!!
xXx
OMFG THATS SOOO FAIL
HAHAHAHA ITS PARIS DEE DEE DEE
ok this one annoys me, its not a fail, its a joke! It a david and goliath shirt, and they’re awesome, its supposed to poke fun, all their shirts do! http://www.chicksrule.co.uk check them out!
Wow… What a horrible photoshop…
not photoshop, really thing.
If anyone didn’t know, the point of the shirt is for it to say that. It’s a joke, not a fail.
I have that shirt! I love it and I wear it proudly.
I thought it was because we we get the English words tour or tourist from the French word for tower – the Eiffel Tour was the first real tourist attraction. I thought the shirt meant “I toured London” – oops, just had a nerdgasm.
true… I live in London and these shirts are meant to say ” Paris owns London”… but I guess the concept got lost amongst these moronic comments.
Clearly, it’s “I [French] London”. As in, “I not only love London, I love London so much that I am French kissing it.”
Later on, the wearer plans to feel up Berlin, and, time permitting, perhaps dry hump San Francisco.
It was actually purposely made that way…. I have that shirt.
That was so fail I couldn’t even facepalm…
I think the eiffel tower is supposed to represent the word “French”; the shirt is meant to be read “I French London”
frenchman expresses his undying love for london
I might buy shirt like this but this is too gay.
this is…JFDSKLJ!
landmark fail ftw!
This was meant to be like this dumb asses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nahh it’s meant to be like that.
No fail-
http://www.chicksrule.co.uk/product/i_love_london_womens_tshirt/108
Haha I have this shirt…I noticed the fail but never sent in a pic. XD
But this is David and Goliath – the fail is the whole point of it.
This garment was obviously made in America. *ducks incoming blows*
Kidding!
#174
Double fail.
That doesn’t even slightly resemble a heart.
don`t you get it ? it`s a david&goliath shirt which they sell in london as far as i know and they are supposed to fail like this
That tops from david and goliath, its meant to be a joke, they’re aware that its the french eiffel tower. idiots.
Exactly! Although I had to translate that in my head at the time. One reason I didn’t really know what the hell he was talking about.