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Noice.
I’m trying to figure out if it’s just a poorly ordered paragraph fail, or an actual ‘giving minors easily torn off wristbands’ fail.
Though in all seriousness it could mean they give wristbands to everyone, color-coded perhaps, and it’s purely an ‘out-of-context’ fail.
The wristbands are for the people who CAN have alcohol.
Basically the fail is in that they are trusting people without IDs on their person to give their correct age and date of birth.
Thing is, I’ve DONE security like this. You only trust the people when they’re clearly over 21. Like for the 30+ crowd. Some kid with a fuzz-stache saying he was born in 1988 isn’t going to get a band.
Fail fail.
… the fail isn’t because of the wristband statement. It’s because of the “If you do not have an ID, please tell the attendant your age and date of birth.”
That does not mean they give people wristbands if they just say they’re over 21, though. (Or 18, or whatever.)
That’s EXACTLY what it means.
-sigh-
I should just go back to lurking and occasionally handing out juice, shouldn’t I?
I want a juice!
Me too, but only if it comes in boxes.
Why would I hand out juice any other way?
Non-boxed juice is just blasphemy.
Indeed.
AGH! How did you make that triangle in your avatar? It’s impossible.
Look closely at my cube, too…
P.S. M.C. Escher is my homedog.
Master of Ceremonies Escher? That’s an artist I’d love to hear!
ESCHERTIME!!!
*sings* U Can’t Comprehend This
I appear to have L’d mao. Let me find it…
seriously, though, I just aout lost it when I read those. You guys are great!
Hehe! We aim to please
Hee…! That we do.
The quirky sense of humour in this blog was what made me join here.
Me also.
JOIN? Nobody never gaved me an applivacation! Not me that i will be able to fill it out or nothing, but could try an asks for help.
I feel my I.Q. shriveling away…
Escher is great art for anywhere you might be bored… hours
of entertainment in one picture!
I think they’re saying if you have ID show it and you’ll get a wristband signifying you are over legal age, and if not you will get one signifying you are under legal age.
You can tell because the 3rd paragraph is not a continuation of the second, but a generalization of both paragraphs.
Its confusing yes, but hey, they’re japanese i’m sure syntax is different there.
Back to the juice box disussion. Ill take my juice from a cup, because no matter how tough you look if you are siping form a juice box you look weak.
You can be ripped with battlescars all over you and blood on your face, but if your holdin a juice box…
Oh Rox, didn’t mean to bust your party.. don’t go back to lurking. But I do have a suggestion – can you please hand out boxes of vodka from now on?
No, no, boxes of Heineken please. *she says as she polishes off her third bottle*
I second this request!
I request seconds!
*hands hammy a beer*
I need to see some ID first though.
I don’t have any.
I’m 32, I wear!
Um… swear.
You wear what?
I didn’t say what age you had to be, just that I needed to see an ID. It doesn’t even have to be yours.
A smile.
Among other things.
So I am just going to say that yes I am 20, yes I was born in 2001. Wait, um that’s not right. I am 20 though, honest, just beer with me.
Request second eye!
You only have one? I never would have guessed!
Aye!
Could someone pass the beer? ICE Cold in a sealed bottle? I’m not really sure weather to trust every one of you with the ability to NOT insert things of a harmfull or funny nature into things.
Feeling a little cloudy today?
*hands Roadkill a sealed ice cold bottle of beer*
I made and bottled it myself! Enjoy!
Yays! Thank you Avis!
*downs cold beer*
Ummmm, Avis what’s that funny taste? Lavender?
Ppfffflllllllltttt!!!!! Lavender? NOT FOR BEER!
*ponders the concept of lavender beer* I’ve had beer made with heather, and other flowers as well. But not lavender. I bet it would be pretty good, actually!
BLEH?
*scrubs mouth with wire brush used 4 Bar B Que grill cleaning.*
Point taken. No flowers in your beer. Got it.
*tips flour in beer*
It’s self-raising for that added high.
Well, I’m going on a beer run now. Race on tonight, ya know.
Any requests while I’m out?
2 bottles of Grey Goose
1 keg of Heineken
1 José Cuervo
Fresh lavender
A canoe
I’m recording the Formula 1 race in Shanghai. You must be a real diehard fan; I can’t stay up that late…oh, you mean NASCAR.
Fluff – I found everything except the Grey Goose – gotta admit, I’m a bit curious about the canoe, but I left it all in your driveway as you requested. The Heineken is on ice.
The canoe is for when you drink American beer.
You know…because American beer is like making love in a canoe.
hehe… I guess my subconscious put that canoe in there.. I forgot about that joke.
Um…yah. I think there’s some serious reading comprehension fail going on here.
See below… I agree
ITS A WIN!!! LOL
Now I’m not comprehending…
THIS IS NOT A BIN!!! LOL
(anyone remember that fail? good times.)
I do. Ah, the golden age of Failblog.
Are we in the end times now?
Failblog better not have peaked already!
Don’t worry, it hasn’t. That same wry, ironic feeling is still strong.
We’ve peeked…and mayhap piqued…but definitely not peaked.
*peeks, is piqued, and POUNCES!!*
WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
*ker-SMOOCH-ah!*
Underage win!
No. It’s not. I’ve DONE security like this. You don’t just take their word on it. That bit is there for the sake of clearly over-21 people who just don’t have their ID on them. That way some 50 year old man isn’t denied a drink just because he left his ID back home.
I went to a festival once where I didn’t have ID and was given a wristband that meant i WASN’T allowed alcohol, so I’m pretty sure this isn’t a fail, it’s just a fairly normal way of determining who is of legal drinking age so that bar staff don’t waste their time checking everybody’s ID?
Sensibility win? Failblog Fail?
question mark over use fail for me…
Who are you?? Please reply
Dude… this is a win
The fail is the people commenting.
OH SHIIIIIIIII-
personally…I think the whole thing is a fail. One because they tell them that if they do not have their ID to just give them their date of birth WITHOUT ANY PROOF THAT ITS THE TRUTH! Second, wrist bands??? really???? those come right off and really aren’t a very good “non drinking” measure. That place is just one big FAIL ….
They usually give the wristbands to the ones OVER 21, not under.
The wrist bands are usually the kind you can’t take off your wrist without ripping and preventing re-use, making it impossible to transfer it. Stamps were actually easier to duplicate if they ink was heavy and you transferred it to a friend quickly, sometimes with the help of a little tongue action.
I seem to have inserted an extra “y” just like God did with my chromosomes.
Don’t worry, I was too distracted by your tongue action on my stamp. I think you just got free entry.
*eyes ten foot pole*
Nah, I’m not touching that one.
You seem experienced in this endeavor.
My youth was not wasted, but wasted was my youth.
I hope you are doing well.
Doing fine. I just mowed the front lawn and didn’t need to crawl into bed afterwards.
I’m happy to hear you are doing well.
Thank-you.
Is that Basil Brush?? As a kid I never realised quite how bawdy that fox was! (and good to hear you’re on the up!)
It is indeed Basil. I know that he is a fox and not a coyote, but what the hey.
Woohooo!!!
*hug*
*dreams of a big yard, a riding mower and a six pack*
One day…one day…
Okay, so the six pack is the easy part of the dream.
Just tell me your age and date of birth…
Yeah, but sometimes they check to see if the stamp is backwards.
That’s why you always get your booze from that frazzled ex-hippy chick with the thick glasses. Thank you Bill Graham Presents!
THAT is the fail
damn you womans
bake me a cake plax
in japan to check the ID itself is hard.
coz many of young ppl dont have car licence or anything to prove their age.
so to ask the age and the day of birth is the only way left to check it..
i know its not rite tho no other way.
I believe that is Japan or China due to the characters in the upper right hand corner of the paper. It’s weird how they do things when it comes to drinking. Example – I was in Toyko in 2003 and you only have to be 18 I believe to drink. When I was asked for my ID I told the clerk I didnt have it. She asked me “age?” I said 21. Then she put my saki in the bag and off I went. While talking to a friend about it I found out that they use the “honor” system.
Form experience, ALL festival attendees must have a wrist band. If you don’t you’re thrown out. If you don’t have an ID, you get the wrist band that doesn’t permit drinking. I don’t get why they even ask you DOB if you don’t have an ID; – you aren’t getting an alcohol friendly wristband no matter what you say.
Wait.
Noise?
or
Nice?
Both. Definitely (maybe).
How about we just go to this place and party it up?!?!
Nice*
:]
*plants egg*
…this time with feeeeeeling!
This isn’t really a fail since this sign was put together in Japan where there isn’t an enforced drinking age. My 5 year old can walk inside a liquor store and purchase alcohol without being of age. Much of it is based on a trust basis in Japan. We even have alcoholic vending machines accessible to everyone.
The American Dream!!!
Seems pretty easy.
“Sorry officer, I told her I was 21.”
Sounds like Quagmire’s policy for women/young girls. Giggity
Honestly – Why the hell do FailBlog comments always suck ass?
weil du einer kleiner chinesischer pimmel bist?
Aber doch, ich glaube dass er aus der USA ist. Amerikanischer pimmel, vielleict?
ich kann deutsch!
Ich kann bablefish!
Schnauze, Dummsack. Hältst du das für witzig? Du irrst. Rassistenschwein.
Ich wusste aber nicht, dass du auch Deutsch kannst! Was sagst du, sollten wire Boggie hier bringen, um ihn zu fressen?
Oh, Wow! I didn’t know I could speak German! I’ve been saying “dummsack” for years!
because they’re perverts. (FailBlog comments.)
You should ask Jon that.
AAH! Fluffy, you beat me to it!
Glad I scrolled down before I posted.
Are you only referring to your comment? If so, I agree.
5th
amazing
shut up
LOUOUOUOUD AS A FIIIRE ALAAAAAARM…..
WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE…
Well, I might have. I’m not sure. Just for the attention. Maybe.
What’s wrong with a little free-spirited pyromania?
Nothing, as long as there’s a hydromaniac somewhere nearby.
Or just a guy like me what likes to piss on fires and stuff!
Oh… My word.
Hehe…the ‘and stuff’ bit made me laugh!
Me too! *still snickering a bit*
Do they think we were born yesterday?
Sure, if that’s what you tell them.
i was born tomorrow.
I will be born two days ago.
Happy Birthday!!!
I’m pi to the Eth power today!
Can I has your ID, please?
No, and if you use LOLspeak again I will kill you – or worse, give Fluffy your whereabouts!
And we will break into your house and you will wake up with LOLcat captions scribbled all over your priceless family heirlooms – and your family.
Though they may not be as priceless.
Oh my! I’m aghast with your indecent reaction…!
Youngsters in this day and age just do not know how to behave themselves properly!
Terrible, terrible news… I shall speak to my father so that he will a bloody good fight with yours!
Lol – Much better. Thank you.
Lol?
:-p
It’s not LOLspeak if you follow it with good grammar/word usage…
Hey, YOU. Yes, you Fluffy. I’ve still got “Summer Nights” stuck in my head. Thanks a lot. I worked outside (we stayed out, till ten o’clock!), put a load of clothes in (tell me more, tell me more!), went to pick up a gallon of milk (Oh, oh oh, the Summer Nights!)
Thanks for the earworm that won’t go away.
I owe ya one, fish.
Gee, thanks for spreading it!
*goes off in search of music to obliterate the earworm*
(tell me more, tell me more, like does he have a car?)
Grrrrrr!
I’m sorry Judy… Let me try and make it up to you:
Angie, Angie, when will those clouds all disappear?
Angie, Angie, where will it lead us from here?
With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats
You cant say were satisfied
But Angie, Angie, you cant say we never tried
You Are Forgiven!
That’s a nice one.
(P.S.: Had to go to the mall after dinner – still had that song in my head!!!)
*snorkity*
Erm…I mean, sorry.
But then they wouldn’t give you any beer.
That would be counterproductive, assuming you want the beer.
My id made me fib.
*guesses the weekend isn’t the time for Freud refs*
Have a cigar, DrB.
*puff, puff, puff*
.
This one is what it is
Sorry, Doc. I was too jealous of your snake to say anything.
This isnt even a fail, the wristband you are given if you are under 18 is the under 18s one, so they can differentiate between the over 18s and under 18s. eg their are two different wristbands.
So it’s not a fail when someone lies and gets an over 18 wristband?
you need id to get an over 18 wristband…
Unless you don’t have an ID, then just tell the attendant your age and date of birth.
yes but if u dont have id then they cant give you a over 18 band!
Then why would you even have to tell them your age and birthday?
Perhaps they have specific colors for specific years? It may be a bit overzealous, but I’ve seen it before.
If they got the under 18 band they would just tear it off to look like everyone else above 18
Exactly. But hey, they can still send an over-18-year-old buy beer for them.
Where are you reading about two wristbands?
WIN!!!
It’s the only responsible thing to do!
I don’t see what’s so special about this sign. The first years at my University are subject to this too at clubs and bars. The people with IDs get a stamp on their hand. So if you don’t have a stamp or a wristband, you get kicked out of the venue. The bartender only serves to those with a stamp and without a wristband. I’m sorry, this picture is fail.
Fail to comprehend the fail.
The sign SHOULD read something like: “You must have ID to prove that you are of legal drinking age. If you don’t have ID, we’ll put a band around your wrist that says you can’t drink at this event.” The ACTUAL wording of the sign implies that if you don’t have ID you can just tell the doorperson you’re legal age and they’ll believe you.
Gee. I sure hope that no under aged would be drinkers cut off their wrist bands. That would be dishonest.
Of course, none of us young’uns would ever be smart enough to think of that anyway.
In any case, I think what the sign really means to say is: “Come in. Have a drink. Don’t tell your parents.”
…and for those who like lists…
.
1. Come in
2. Have a drink
3. Safety (don’t tell your parents)
4. ???
5. Profit!
imma go drink beeeeeeeeeeeerrr
you’ve completely missed the point
Is that what she said?
d’oh.
the middle paragraph is the FAIL.
Thanks for clarifying…
*hands RushFan the melted butter*
Thanks… I wanna sautee some mushrooms.
Ghee, can I have some?
Now I understand.
*Heads for the Oblivious Bukkit again*
No need for the Oblivious Bukkit. The Failblog Community is [almost] all-forgiving.
Especially when you make us *snork*!
To repeat from above:
Basically the fail is in that they are trusting people without IDs on their person to give their correct age and date of birth.
Yes. Dammit we must excise all semblances of trust from our society! After all, what might become of the world if this ‘trust’ is left to run rampant!
And the intelligence of that comment really puts him to shame. Good job.
“Him” being Sam?
Agreed.
Should be “it”.
Nah, Sam may be a clown, but Sam is not scary.
But Sam is a troll. Trolls = it.
Ah. I seem to be having issues today – is there an “Oblivious Bukkit?”
Ah. So you say that, in english…
“me is greater than you.”
Well done! I have been properly put in my place. By the way, I’m a math tutor, so mathematical symbology is completely uninsulting to my person. Thank you very much.
Well, that seems about fair, as you utterly fail to impress any of us.
Out of curiosity, why would a doctor of science use such a childish avatar? Or waste their time trolling on failblog? Wouldn’t your time be spent in a more useful fashion by bettering the world we live in?
So Sam, you can conduct a Scieance Experimint?
Whooopee Poo! I can too, WATCH!
*mixes 1/2 cup baking soda and 74 drops of Methly-Ethyl-Benzomide with 32 mcg. of Floridian!*
*flourishing movements* BEHOLD!
*points at stuff!* >>>>It’s it’s it’s FABULOUS! DAMN!!
Ph.D. ≠ Genius
*bows deeply when accepting huge big check for winning the NOBEL PRIZE in Chemical Electro-Physics*
*donates money to Faliblog Beer & Cookie Fund*
Beer = Genius
Want one?
“Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy”
-Benjamin Franklin
He was something of a genius, no?
Doctor of science… is that like a rocket surgeon??
*puts on rocket surgeon outfit*
The nurse said there’s a problem with the O-rings
in the thrusters!
*puts on skimpy nurse outfit*
You called, Doc? Opps, I seem to have dropped my pen. Let me bend over and pick it up…
Anyone else feel like taking a screenshot of Sam’s posts and submitting the, to failblog?
So you’re stronger than me, but smell isn’t everything!
Your comeback > mine, Hardest! Although I think that aggravting 2nd caterpillar thing is worse than the gelatinous translucent frog…
Bigotry win!
I would call that a bigotry fail, but I don’t take it personally when it is coming from Sam.
Good point.
By the way, do you think Sam and Mike are related?
And you sir, and or madame, are a fifty gallon bowl of guacamole.
Coyote, you have just insulted guacamole.
I’m guessing that’s what’s in Coyote’s bukkit.
I didn’t mean to. I just meant to say that the undefined protoplasm is a big dip.
“I’m currently 45 years old”
“Um sir you look twelve”
*flashes wristband*
“I’m very sorry sir, please continue”
You know, I think the convenience stores I work at are the only ones in Michigan WITHOUT this policy…
I think this fail fails to fail. *universe implodes*
No, in fact it does not. It clearly fails, as does your comment.
sorry but the implosion of the universe has been postploded to a futher date.
We will keep you up to speed.
Excellent! I seem to not be recieving the memos regarding impending implosion.
I thought BFF was the one in control of earthplosions?
He is. I wonder how Chez managed to bypass security and hit the red button.. unless… unless he flashed a wristband!
So THAT’s who broke into my Universe Implosion chamber last night! Why I oughta…
At least chez didn’t steal the Innuendo machine, the random comment award or…
Wait a minute.
*checks*
NOOOO!!!!
Well, I can help a little. Here’s a set of “Random Insult Awards!” give them out as you see fit.
Wow, thanks! These will come in handy, I assure you. Why, look down below. There’s an entire thread dedicated to them.
I thought you might like them…
Again? I’m getting tired of cleaning up the mess every time someone’s universe implodes!
Age AND date of birth?
….What if I only know one of them?
…Because if you’re like one of those inflatable trolls, that is just to much to try to remember.
Ha! “Inflatable trolls…”
That puts funny pictures in my head.
I wish we could’ve popped them…
Well…we sort of did! They were full of hot air, fluffy poked at them, and suddenly they were gone. Woohoo!
Hey, give Arthur, BFF, blogmonster, and sparky some credit too…
No, I mean fluffy was actually the one who contacted the mods and said “HELP! Can you do something about this??”
There’s poking trolls…and POKING trolls.
Good point. Well done Fluffy!
Oh, them inflatable trolls. Wiped from the face of Failblog faster than they infected it.
*Sings One Sweet Day*
It was funny to watch all their idioticity get wiped away comment by comment.
Although I now seem to argue with myself on the inflatable fail.
But I also want some credit, I wrote to failblog too.
Gotta go, enjoy the rest of the weekend my FB-friends!
*squeeze*
You do, I thought it funny scanning back through.
Thankyou for writing to FB too Arthur!
*squeeze*
*cough*
I would, except it was my email to failblog that actually got rid of them…
Then I thank thee, Sir Fluffy, for thine valiant efforts upon the Failed of battle!
That’s Ms. Fluffy to you!
Oh Lord, am I digging a hole for myself… here.
*Hands Fluffy all my remaining dignity*
Do with it what you will.
Oh come now.. it’s really hard to tell a fish’s gender.
Great AND magnanimous… Fluffy, you rock.
The males swim right and the females to the left.
At least that’s what the guy at the fish store told me.
Sexing a goldfish is actually not that difficult. The tricky part is having to stop every three seconds to make sure you still have consent.
BOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!
*SQUEEZESQUEEZESQUEEZE*
BLOOOOOOOO MOOOOOOMIN, you found me standing alone…
Am I still allowed to call you Mikey D?
*SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!!!*
WELCOME BACK!!!
How are you? How are things? Is it going well?
*squeezes Moomin and Bod*
Hey there!
The sheep is baaaaack!!!! *SQUEEZE*
Howdy Avis and Fluffy.
The sheep has vanished again
*SQUEEEEZES Avis and Fluffy*
Hello! Hello!
Things are going really well. I’m still basically ‘away’ and don’t get to visit the ‘blog so often but this evening I got me some internet connect and thought “What am I going to do with my Saturday night?” Some people would be out getting laid but… well…
Hello!!
It’s really nice to see you guys.
Ahhhhhhhhhh!
We’ve been missing the sheep. You’ve been gone too long.
It’s grand to see you’re alive and well!
You Handel-ing the performances ok?
It’s not yet Saturday night! It’s just mid-afternoon! Of course that doesn’t mean that some folks aren’t getting laid, I guess.
And somehow someone is almost always lurking to see if anyone else is failing.
OH MY GOD. Apologies for the caps but I just clicked Avis’ link. I love it. I love it a lot. Better than sex. So, thank you Avis. I’m tired from laughing.
But yes, where I am it is deep night. The discotheques are opening their doors and letting the stale scent of yesterday’s beer drift back out onto the waiting pavement. And here am I failing happily with a fish, a bird and a moomin. Good times.
As for the performances, they haven’t even started yet. We’re not even half way through making the thing. It’s going to be fun, though.
How are you guys? Did anything interesting happen?
Sorry to interrupt.
Can I nestle in here for a while?
*omni-squeeze*
You missed the great troll infestation of ’09. You can see the remnants of it at inflatable fail. We also had a few other trolls that got soundly owned.
Nestle away and welcome!
Wait – I’m going to look up the inflatable fail. From comments left above it sounds like it was quite the event…
I think we might have missed one or two – there’s a Moomin-impostor-troll down there…
We always have one or two floating around. Usually they are not worth the effort. Occasionally we get one that requires re-education. Or that it’s just fun to poke them.
*hefts troll-poking stick*
Thankyou Rushfan, am ignoring them. A Moomin hunter turned up the other day as well, but DrB was kind enough to see to them.
Trolls are adapting, but not in the right way.
Are you allowed to tell us anything about your part in the production? When is the opening night?
*squeezes Aja*
*sigh*
Why sigh, guy?
TROLLS YUMMY! BOGGY LICK TROLLS!
THEN BOGGY SMASHES THEM!Ok. So I just skimmed through the comments on the inflatable fail. It makes for a somewhat surreal experience but I think I got the gist. I’m quite pleased I wasn’t around for that. *shivers*
Opening night is on the somethingth of June… 4th maybe? or 5th? I’m not sure. All I know is that I come back to the uk on the 15th and that until then I am here. It’s all I need to know. As for my part, I get to wear a cool hat and some funky three-quarter-length trousers and talk about coffee and power and desire and tulips. I mean, as I say, it’s not finished yet…
I was trying to keep my name as Mikey D in this thread and The Moomin in other threads.
Not that co-ordinated evidently.
It’s the quickest path to madness, Moomy the D.
Cool, shall have to scour the internet at the beginning of June to look for reviews. Sounds a right part!
Some nice new people have joined FB as well as the Trolls.
And don’t mention coffee. I made myself stupider trying to drink coffee to the point of hallucination. Didn’t work. That’s the kind of thing I do with my Saturday nights
Coffee is the quickest route to madness.
Try to drink coffee to the point of hallucination… try to get laid… try to drink coffee to the point of hallucination… try to get laid…
It’s difficult to know exactly what to do with a Saturday night in the big city.
If you’re lucky, you could hallucinate getting laid? Or get laid with someone hallucinating on coffee? Best of all possible worlds.
How about if someone hallucinates about getting me laid on coffee? Least of all possible efforts.
Could compromise and nip across to france for cafe au lait?
For you, Mikey D, anything.
Garçon! Deux cafés!
Merci Beaucoup Bod.
Ummm, Il y a beacoup des lapins dans le plage.
C’est trop vrai. Et la vache danse sous la cuisine. N’est-ce pas?
Oui. Oui. Ces’t terrible!
Mais, le souris sur la table! Ces’t tres dangereux pour la cafe!
Super dangereux, mon pote. Evitez de chanter – je cherche une bicyclette pour mon diner.
Zut. Mon ordinateur a changé dans un pumpkin.
Mais un jour je reviendrai. Tôt.
It’s such a pleasure to chat again Bod!
It’s good to see you back.
Shame about the pumpkin effect
I’ve used all my French
It’s been good to be back, if only for a moment. I promise I will come again soon. I’ve missed you guys.
By golly, it’s difficult to type on a pumpkin. What did we all do before we had computers made of metal?
Sleep well, my Moomin.
Sleep well all.
*squeezes*
I got one of them micro-pumpkins with a turbo-onion drive, much faster.
Sleep Well Bod!
Hope to see you soon!
Aww – you guys forgot to tell Bod that we invaded LOLcats yesterday!
AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
I missed Bod!!!
*SQUEEEZE!*
Good to see you back here, my sheepish friend, even ever so briefly.
Thanks RushFan. Me do not much though; no me make speak as good BFF, blogmonster, and Arthur do. Them good words make.
I so too think they better wordmakers than I.
What we abouting are talk. Why English me no good now.
I like square butts, and I cannot lie……
If u know both of them you can basically influence the CURRENT TIME!!!
HAMMER TIME!
I’m assuming this was photographed in Japan (given that the Octoberfest logo in the top right is written in Japanese), in which case this should surprise no one. Japan is not as rigorous in checking ID in the way the US is. Although legally you must be 20 to purchase cigarettes or booze, most places will just take you on your honor that you’re old enough.
It’s actually 21, and you’d be surprised how strict the law is in my home country, Japan. I am horrified at the naivety of the organisers of this Oktoberfest, though.
It’s definitely 20 in Japan.
So it is. When was it changed? I could have sworn it was 21. It was on a big sign in the 7/11 near where my Japanese home is.
Are you sure? Cause it’s been 20 as long as I’ve remembered. It could be one of those stupid individualized store policies cause as far as I recall, it isn’t illegal according to Japanese law but stores have taken it upon themselves to stop minors from getting booze although I don’t know why your 7/11 would say 21.
I meant not illegal for minors to purchase (still illegal to drink).
I probably misread the sign. Ah well, we all make stupid mistakes.
I have lived here for 10 years.
It has never been 21.
Ever.
Also, I have a close friend who runs a small chain of bars. He doesn’t even feel the need to ask.
It is very different from the US, where, depending on the state, the server could be fined $500 and the bar could lose their license. Here, I have never heard of the police ever getting involved.
In short, I have a very hard time believing you live in Japan, and if you do, I suspect you are illiterate.
You’d be surprised just how hard they card folks in St. Louis!! When I was 21 I had to have at least three forms of ID. I still get carded fairly regularly, both there and here in Chicago. It freaks me out every time.
Wait till they no longer feel the need to card you, since it is all too obvious that you are old enough.
That means that either they are being polite to you, hinting that you might be under aged, or they are insulting me by saying that there is no way in hell that I could ever be under aged.
There might be some gender bias in the mix too. They’re likely shmoozing up to me in the vain hopes that I’ll spend more money. Or hoping that if they say nice things to me, that I’ll stick around and flirt with the guys that are there thereby drinking more, therefore the bar still makes more money.
I don’t really trust anyone, I guess.
You’re getting more like Mulder every day.
Getting?
Yep. I’m nominating you for president in the Cynics Party, Avis!
Dragon may already claim that title, you know.
I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t claim it.
*politely declines title*
I prefer the titles I already have.
Dragon-friend…
Honeypot…
Totally Badass Warrior Punstress…
I was at Wal-Mart yesterday, and bought a twelve-pack. The sign by the register said “if [customer] doesn’t look 40 years old, check I.D.”.
The clerk gave me a quick glance and rang up the beer.
I told her, “You could have looked at me a little longer!”
We both laughed.
Kids win
douchebag
Huzzah! Random insult time!
Chicken-liver!
Spatula!
Knob-twister!
Addle-brained dust bunny!
Super Buddha!
Tri-coloured Pomegranite!
Sinus-cheese!
Cantankerous sycophantic snotpuppy!
Lollygagging loudmouthed lecher!
Orca spleen!
Tiny tin button!
Insult win!
That made me laugh.
Toenail muffin!
Thought you’d like that one, darlin’.
Woo hoo!!! Random insult time!!!
Shouldn’t he have a license for being that stupid?
this has been repeated, ive seen this one on this site before
No, you haven’t. Unless you went to the voting pages, which is where all the fails go before they are approved for official posting.
(tee hee! I am sooooo using that line next time!)
*facepalm*
I can’t believe the number of people that fail to get this fail.
Massive fail comprehension fail.
Let’s compile all those comments together, take a screenshot, and submit it to Failblog!
I’d vote for it.
Second!
(No, I’m not being a troll.)
Too bad the inflatable troll comments are all gone. All that smashed together would have made a great fail. “Parenting Fail”, School Fail (I think they were in school), Genetic Fail, Human Race Fail, etc.
Again, second.
And as long as we’re smashing things together, why don’t we simply name it “Human Genome Fail” as those were prime examples of today’s tainted youth.
i guess a lot of you young’uns are either too well behaved to think about blagging booze, or well, you’re just not quite sure what to do with it anyway.
Frank was here
went to get beer
There once was a man named Frank
Who was not happy til he drank
He bought a Budweiser
But didn’t realize… er…
“Someone” gave him a Coors as a prank
I like alcoholimericks.
That was quite im’prose’ive
Haiku. Haikuverymuch.
Ode no need to tanka me.
I’ll never write as good as that. I had a date once. Epic out a nice restaurant and went to meter. But all that happened is that irony off at the mouth. Iambic jerk sometimes. *sigh*
I wish I could write good poetry like rushfan. I’ve tried. I had a date once. Epic out a nice restaurant and went to meter. But it came out much verse than I’d hoped. I refrain from attempting that anymore. *sigh* Iambic jerk sometimes.
You know… A similar thing happened to me last night. I was buying beer, and the guy at the checkout just asked me my age. I didn’t have to show my ID. So, I made myself two years younger– because I could.
Now don’t you start screwing with the space-time continuum…
Good god – he must be a mutant Time Lord. Does the Doctor know about this?
Doctor Who?
Where is this??? I must go there!!
Judging by the text in the corner of the sign, and the sign next to it, this is in Japan. Which actually explains it too, as they really don’t care about enforcing the drinking age at all anyway.
Just use your werewolf skills to get beer.
It worked for Michael J. Fox!
That’s easier than shoulder tap.
pure genious
spelling “genius” FAIL
Signs like this should be band.
I will never wrist until that is a reality.
Our ARMy must fight this
You’d have to proof it to me first.
This vodka is 40% proof, is that proof enough?
The first hand sanitizer I ever tried was …. I don’t remember.
Rand(y Jackson)?
I fail at understanding comments.
Bite my dark shadow ass!
I would say WIN!!!
I wouldn’t.
I might, but not about this.
IDIOTS. It’s a fail because they expect people to give their real date of birth without an ID.
Also, stop with the stupid “FIRST!!!” comments and useless spam comments. Nobody gives a shit if you’re first, and it only makes the comments harder to read.
Do you read these before you post?
Yes, I do, and I was commenting on how few people understood the fail, and on how so many people post stupid, meaningless comments.
Yeah, I’m seeing a bunch of those comments too, and they too are annoying.
Perhaps, but they have relevance.
True.
I haven’t been around much lately. Can someone tell me what the Inflatable Troll invasion, that keeps cropping up, was?
The Inflatable fail, or the “Chatroom Troll Crisis” as I like to call it, was an incident that started on Thursday, and dominated most of Friday, where a bunch of 13 to 14 year old schoolkids decided to turn the comments section of an old fail – Inflatable fail – into their personal chat room. We tried to stop them, and by we I mean Arthur Eld, me, Jules, and several others, but they carried on, until Fluffy notified the Failblog admin and they deleted their comments. They haven’t been seen since, and good riddance to those pesky trolls.
Good God. Sorry I missed seeing it, in a fascinated horror sort of way.
It was quite a traumatic experience. Never have I seen so much Internet slang in my life. Dr. Samuel Johnson must be spinning in his grave.
Admin. blocked the ip addresses the little urchins were using. We REALLY won’t be hearing from them again. At least not during school hours.
I hope we never see anything like them in the near future.
I have two words that will instill fear in you. That quiet dread that eventually leads to screaming and bouncing off the walls of a rubber room.
Summer Vacation.
Here is something that may alleviate those fears – the “urchins” (great word, btw) are in school forced to sit in front of computers that block things like myspace and facebook. Summer break allows them more time on their home computers, thus meaning they no longer have to find unblocked sites to chat on.
But nothing is more fun to an adolescent than to do what is known to be annoying. I fear they’ll be back. The way I fear the inevitability of next winter.
Dear god, if those horrors ever come here again I swear I’ll…no, I can’t. It’s to horrible to put into words. The computer would explode.
I shall gird my loins in anticipation of battle.
Oh Coyote.. the worst part was that they did not use the reply button. Oh, the humanity!
I have to commend Jules on his valiant efforts to silence the rugrats. He was very determined!
Ohmigoodness…the poetry! It was an absolutely brilliant strategy.
Sausage? SAUSAGE?
*looks at dictionary*
Oh. Aadvark isn’t in it either.
Just so we’re clear, you felt it necessary to comment on how you don’t care for the quality of the comments?
I was commenting for the people who didn’t understand the fail, I just added that as an afterthought.
Well, I’m afraid your afterthought isn’t really appreciated.
Whatever, I was just putting that out there hoping some of you guys would grow up a bit, but it’s obvious that that isn’t going to happen.
Look, just because you aren’t intelligent enough to understand the sense of humour here doesn’t mean you need to blame us. And don’t you DARE tell us to grow up.
Never, ever, ever.
Why would anyone want to do that?
♫I don’t wanna grow up I’m a toys r us kid
there’s a million toys at toys r us that i can play with
from bikes and planes to video games
I just wanna be a toys r us kid♫
Alright, I’m gonna be totally off topic here. How do you make those music notes?
Copy and paste them from coyote’s post!
That’s what I do…
♫And it works for me!♫
In windows go Character Map.
One more thing. Going off topic is normal. Staying on topic is odd. Commenting on the Fail is rude.
One more try and this time I will pay attention.
In windows go to the Character Map button.
I’m not talking about sense of humor, I’m talking about little 12-year-old kids who say “FIRST!!!” as if anyone cares.
Whoah. Be careful there, as those who say FIRST!!! are NOT, I repeat NOT, in the same group as us. They are mindless trolls hellbent on trying to destroy our community and sanity.
Yes I agree that they are mindless trolls, and I apologize to anyone who has misunderstood my comments. I just wish some people would grow up that’s all.
P.S. sorry for the double post, it didn’t show for me the first time.
No, I’m not talking about people’s sense of humor, I’m talking about little 10-year-old kids who say “FIRST!!!” as if anyone cares.
Looks like you got caught by the 300 comments thing.
Yes, exactly, I didn’t realize that I had to click “all comments.”
There are a few other tricks as well. Stick around awhile, you’ll pick ‘em up. Of course by that time you may want to strangle a few trolls.
Ah, a spot of troll-strangling is good for the soul!
A spot of troll kicking is good for the sole.
But using trolls as fish food? VERY bad for the sole.
You hear people saying about tv if you don’t like it – switch off. You actually choose to come where you don’t like? Go somewhere else – it’s easy – lolcats maybe?
You didn’t really post on an internet blog because it annoys you that people have their weird/wry-humored conversations here?
Right, there should only be comments explaining the fail instead of these ruthless rowdies who just post for the sake of their in-group-amusement.
Distinguishing-relevance-of-problems-fail.
I’m pretty sure the misunderstanding of the fail has been addressed, several times now. And as for the other, your opinion has been noted.
I’m sorry, but I just have to share this. Clickie.
Someone started making it out of elephant poo as well.
*snork* “nice organic scent” *snork*
Thanks, BFF. That was, uh, interesting….
should be the same procedure for passports IMO
this is an under 21 WIN!!! lol
How can they prove how old someone is then?
*holds head in hands and cries*
There, there…
*pat pat pat*
Count the rings
omg…
OMG – WILL YOU PEOPLE PLEEZ QUIT POSTING ABOUT THE FAIL!!!!!
Sure. I once met a wombat with a chip on its shoulder. It was in a wildlife refuge, and I was taking some photographs for a project. When it ran at me I thought ‘Ha! Wombat! You’ve gotta be kidding!’. The cranky little bugger delivered a pretty good bite hehe!
He must have been upset about how his dung was being used.
Oh that wouldn’t be my first vocational preference – a number 2′s job for sure!
ich kann deutsch. das ist sehr dumm.
really? lmao.
lol trust win
Japan WIN
>_> uuhh… Were was this place at…. I mean it’s not like i’m only 17 and can’t drink yet…<_<
hahahaha
In Brazil, to purchase beer say: “A beer please”.
No matter how old you are..
japanese fail!
no you fail it r chinese -_-
engrish win
I just think this is a wording fail.
Here in Ohio, in order to purchase alcohol at most grocery stores, you have to either show your ID or look older than 38 (I think that’s the age when they stop requiring ID).
What is likely happening here is if you do not have an ID, AND you look clearly above legal age, they ask for your age and date of birth. It could be that those are printed on the wrist band.
And I think that the wristband is required to purchase alcohol at the festival, rather than having one that says you can’t. If that were the case, just take the damn thing off!
I R Bell gaits,gev mai al ur bukitz nao.
anywayz,this is one sweet fail,im 13,i could say im 21 and drink beer,though i wouldn’t,i hate beer.when i was 4 my dad gave me some,YUCK!!
you can buy beer in vending machines in japan
enforcing laws against underage drinking?
bwhahahaha!
You know the Japanese don’t really ever card you when you buy liquor. In addition to having a different drinking age. If you look like you can buy beer then its assumed you can buy beer and as for ID Cards they aren’t as prevalent as they are here.
Wristbands = Handcuffs?
wouldnt the wwristband be handcuffss….lmfao
It’s in Japan. They do things differently over there. People don’t get utterly smashed at festivals there like they do in the west. So they put up the sign having a lot of trust in their patrons, knowing that nobody will be getting shitfaced.
I love Japan haha. Just say you forgot your ID, say that you’re 20, and get drunk!
i don’t see the problem.
its more like a win really.
That is funny. I think it’s exactly what they intended though. You can trip up someone who is lying about their age by then asking their DOB. Kind of doesn’t work so well if you put up a sign so that people can do the math while they are in line though.
I remember one of my friends when we were kids telling me that he called a phone sex line, and the woman asked him his age, then asked him his age, which of course he lied and said something like 25, and then she asked him his DOB, and he couldn’t do the math quite fast enough.
If you look in the top right of the sign that’s Japanese writing. I’m guessing this in Japan and is nothing more than a bad direct translation from the original Japanese for English speakers.
The STUPID is YOU! The wristband indicates that you’re underage and not to be served alcohol.
And no, you can’t rip them off.
This event was taking place in Japan. The drinking age there is 18, and it’s not enforced nearly as much as in America. There are vending machines with alcohol and cigarettes almost anywhere in Japan, so any kid could walk up and buy some easily.
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Well actually trusting people is a great way for the festival to earn money. They do not break any laws since they do indeed ask people to show their ID or simply tell their age. By doing this they accomplish to earn additional money from underaged teens lying, without breaking the law.
If you look at it that way, it’s not that big a “fail”.
I’m guessing from the katakana in the top right corner that this was in Japan, and it’s actually pretty rare to get carded in Japan because people aren’t as concerned about who’s drinking. I’ve been drinking in Japan since I was 17 and I’ve never been ID’d once!
this just about says it all when trying to enforce age restrictions for alcohol.
WHAT ABOUT MY BEER?!?!?@#@$?!!1
Nobodys going to stop this 16 year old kid now