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  1. teff7 says:

    Its a requirement!!

  2. MRN says:

    Not a success, I guess.

  3. Søren H says:

    …but failure alway is!

  4. Notu says:

    Boobie! Sort of…

  5. Chaz_Festerbottom says:

    Constant fail reminder fail?

  6. ryan says:

    Maybe she meant Sucking is not an option. Either way, she was wrong.

  7. Chaz_Festerbottom says:

    Drunken stupor tattoo?

    • PaulterA says:

      Even if she was wasted, any self-respecting tattoo artist would have talked her out of it. Unless they explained what was wrong and she still said “Thash ok. I ww-hic!-want it that way.”

    • ummm says:

      i think the “artist” must have been pretty cocked too. that or mean. and what a terrible spot and orientation, even if it wasn’t so stupid. quad fail!

  8. Jean says:

    First… or am I?

  9. English says:

    She could have had a cheaper tattoo done with the word FAIL

    It means the same thing :-)

    • kannadzuki says:

      Actually, as the tattoo is right now, it would make a great poster slogan for Failblog… if Failblog needed posters. :)

  10. Aja says:

    Does she come before hard work?

  11. blah says:

    my penis

  12. erich718 says:

    Hey this is my very first post here.. WIN!

  13. oh hi says:

    Neither is shaving, I see.

    • DragonKatt says:

      Heya, fyi, girls don’t stay super smooth all day long. Chances are this is the armpit version of 5 o’clock shadow. She looks shaved to me. Also…girls who have thicker and darker hair tend to still look prickly, even when smooth.

  14. Freezman says:

    WTF, I’m a french fag and I don’t get what’s wrong with this ? Can anyone explain to me please ? ^^’

    • SNORLAX says:

      you write sucess not success :D

      • SNORLAX says:

        but i’m not english too…i hope i told you the true

        • Captain Obvious says:

          the tattoo reads ’success is not an option’, the phrase they were trying to quote is ‘failure is not an option’.

          They pwnt themselves by tattooing they’ll never succeed.

          • Amir says:

            Are you guys all idiots or something? There’s nothing wrong with this tattoo, other than that you’re not familiar with this particular phrasing, and only familiar with the idiom “Failure is not an option”.

            What this phrase means is that success is not optional – it’s mandatory.

            • Michaelcj5 says:

              I believe you are the one that is confused. If they meant that success was “not optional,” then that’s what should be written. If success is not an option, then there is no possible chance of succeeding. So you both fail.

            • Blarg says:

              That is one of the greatest non-sequitur’s I’ve ever seen…

              You are the idiot, Amir.

            • Deodand says:

              A tattoo that can be taken either way is a fail.

            • Failerella says:

              I get your point but considering the idiom is a lot more familiar I’d say she chose….poorly.

            • svengali says:

              this phrase does not mean that success is mandatory. to say it’s not an option implies there are options and success is not one of them.

            • name says:

              i dont get the fail-part here either, i think the tattoo is rather cool.

            • MisterGrok says:

              English comprehension FAIL

              Saying that success is not an option doesn’t make it mandatory, it eliminates it as an outcome.

              Saying that success is not optional does make it mandatory as it eliminates all other options.

          • rayray says:

            thank you captain ovibous (sp?) LOL!
            argument win!

      • Freezman says:

        Ok ! I didn’t get it because in french, the word is “succès” ^^ Thanks !

        • Sylena says:

          uhm no… the word success is correct but the bra is in the way… position of the tattoo failed. :P

          • Freezman says:

            Uh, Ok, now I get it… The bra’ll go through the word Success… Is that right ?

            • Wendy who doesn't have time to be creative says:

              Really guys? It’s a fail because the saying is “Failure is not an option.” Saying success is not an option means there’s no chance you’ll succeed.

              • Freezman says:

                No, “Success is not an option” means that the Success is obligatory… On a car, there’re options and serial (“de série” en français, I don’t know if my translation’s good :s) stuff…

                • nina_tjs says:

                  Nope. “not an option” means there won’t be any. What you mean is “not optional”, which would indeed mean that there has to be success.

                  • Hasabrain says:

                    or … “its not an option, its a requirement”, implying its not ‘optional’. It does actually still make sense, it just sounds as if its contradicting a popular phrase.

                • Come on people this fail is so obvious I can’t believe you don’t get it. It’s a fail because when you veiw her from a 45 degree angle to the south, during the winter months between 4:30 and 5:07pm the sun only illuminates certain letters in the sentence and it reads “us is a notion”, referinging to the existentialist movement. As we all know Neitzsche started the nilist or existentalist revolution and not the pathetic French philosopher Sarte.

          • Deathbegins says:

            Are you silly? Success is not an option is fail. If it would be “Failure is not an option”, it would be right.

            • Freezman says:

              I’m not silly, everyone understand as he wants, personnaly, I think this mean that the success is obligatory, as it’s not an option… I think that’s “Success is not optional”… Hu, OK, I went in Google trans’ and actually, you have the same translation for “optionnel” and “facultatif” and it’s “optionnal”, So I think in France we have a nuance you don’t get… And that’s why I don’t understand the sentence as you understand it.

              • eArtrash says:

                for you, success is definitely not an option!

                • cardboard mousemat says:

                  bad form art face, the Frenchman makes a valid and well articulated point.

                • Freezman says:

                  I spoke with some french friends, and they all understand the sentence as I do…
                  Thus I think it’s due to our different language, which don’t see the same meaning in the same phrase…

                  In a car, you have optionnal features, and serial features… If something is not in option, that means that there’re 2 possibilities : 1) The thing is in the serial features (by default) or 2) The thing is not available…

                  Proof that the two sense of this sentence are right, but personnaly, I understood 1) first…

              • nina_tjs says:

                Well, who cares about what the nuances are in French? The person got the tattoo in English, not French, so English language rules determine if it’s a failure or not.

            • Matt says:

              dig a little deeper to discern the meaning

            • Cur says:

              I think there’s another option here that hasn’t yet been explored (or at least I haven’t seen it)… I disagree with this being a fail because it seems like an intentional misuse of the phrase. Upon first look I just figured the girl meant the tattoo to be sarcastic or even ironic. I would wager she knew what she was doing here, and before I read the comments, I even thought it might be taken as clever. (But oh well… there’s a reason I don’t have any tattoos of my own)

        • SNORLAX says:

          you live in french or in the french speaking part of switzerland? :D

        • Laura says:

          I think it should say Losing is not an Option.

      • ulu says:

        you fail.

        and failing, while laughing at someone who fails, brings you EXTRAFAIL

      • Jenrai says:

        Ohm… No. You don’t.
        Well, maybe you do. My dictionary don’t though. ;)

  15. SNORLAX says:

    girl, you got fuc kn’ PWNT!

    if someone would make me a tatoo like that, i would cut his da mn hands

  16. homelessgirl says:

    that couldn’t be more unattractive

  17. Darrin says:

    Mission accomplished.

  18. technicolor says:

    A. Fail
    B. Fail
    C. Frank Zappa?

    Who wrote this test?

  19. Civisi says:

    Person fail, but “Tattoo WIN!”

  20. porka says:

    I want to see the boob.

  21. 5 eagles says:

    it could mean kill or be killed.
    tattoo=$256.98
    black bra=$34.95
    explaining to your grandchildren=$priceless

  22. Ryan says:

    Tattoo FAIL, perhaps.

    Self-Esteem FAIL: absolutely.

  23. JustinCase says:

    From what I can see, looks like she has a terrible body.

    • hghtrd says:

      All hail Grand Poobah Wizard of Female Body Inspectors…

      Dude, I think you must be used to seeing airbrushed women (you know, like in those magazines you stash under your bed where you hope your mom won’t find them). From this photo, you can tell nothing about this woman other than the fact that she has a lame tattoo, has fake nails, is a hideous shade of orange and shaves (not waxes) her armpits.

      You were SO close to impressing us, too! Better luck next time, JustinCase!

      (No, I don’t know the woman in the photo…and I don’t want to know her, either)!

      • Lord Rogue the Third says:

        Whoa… rant alert.

      • JustinCase says:

        wow dude. well im sorry that you or your significant other is such a terrible thing to look at that the first moment you see someone downing anothers appearance your blood boils and you feel the urge to defend that stranger who we all can agree is a “fail” anyway. cudos to you sir, you are a champion amongst pigs.

      • Grand Poobah Wizard of Female Body Inspectors says:

        While I appreciate the gesture, I really just woke up.

  24. The Moomin says:

    LOL, they left the label on the green thing.

  25. Michael says:

    what sort of animal is that? a pig? who tattoos pigs?!?!

  26. KaBooM says:

    Shaving armpits / woman fail. :( Gross

  27. Zaz says:

    Well, looks like beauty diet isn’t one either!

  28. Leo says:

    should be the sites motto.

  29. Failtruza says:

    It surely isn’t. If it were, all losers would choose it, like some tatooed girl I know of.

  30. czuhc says:

    Always use quotation marks for emphasis:
    Success is “not” an option

  31. Hairy says:

    I’m back!

  32. GQSmoos says:

    Nobody seems to have considered that things seem to always go wrong for this person and this has become a mantra this person has developed to poke fun at that fact.

  33. Blue2thFairy says:

    Had she not spent all her money on the tat maybe she could afford a bra with more than one cup…..and straps.

  34. efodix says:

    should be a win!

  35. amandali says:

    I’d say this is an accuracy win.

  36. RockyRoader says:

    Does she have a boyfriend/husband named Cess?

  37. papajon says:

    So… this should be in the “SUCCESSBlog” site then?

  38. mancer0 says:

    lol

  39. SNORLAX says:

    bad tatoo

  40. Bob says:

    pooptarts.

  41. A Noun says:

    Underachiever and proud of it!

  42. SNORLAX says:

    I BET SHE’S A LIL BIT HA I RY

  43. flow says:

    i don’t get the position of the body… what part do we see on this picture?

  44. Lord Rogue the Third says:

    Is anyone else getting a banner ad saying “It’s hard to keep a secret when it’s written all over your body”?
    Yeah… This is kinda like that.

  45. Mediate says:

    Success is NOT an option….sounds like Obama’s philosophy.

  46. N/A says:

    Gross manicure fail *shudder*

  47. PoodleGroomer says:

    This is her second picture. The black bra goes with the black panties, mismatches shoes and kid. The tattoo was away from the camera.
    Cheer leading prepares girls for life.

  48. Nauds says:

    Well of course success isn’t an option, how’s she supposed to cash that welfare check if she’s successful? That involves WORK, duh.

  49. 666-horse-power-trolling-motor says:

    Farting is not an option…yet it is!

    *Whiff whiff*

  50. the pod says:

    at least, if not the best outlook, it’s been inscribed… well.. KINDA legibly… sorta.

  51. Bleah says:

    The best compost has both carbon and nitrogen

  52. 2thfairyjamgaynorvaderarthureldmoominczuchcuddlesleilabrewskiwhoanelliemalacitebondfanboggyavismrnwilldogajagrannycatflap says:

    FIRST!!!!

    oh and its photoshopped btw

  53. At least everything appears to be spelled correctly.

  54. 666-horse-power-trolling-motor says:

    “Sweep the leg Daniel-san!”

    “No Sensei.”

  55. Clo says:

    i don’t get it…
    If i translate it in french, well… it means something ordinary… a typical sentence…
    Like “i don’t have a choice, it’s not optional: i have to success… ”

    Whatever…

  56. renochavez says:

    really? somebody actually got this? wow…

  57. Clo says:

    Well, i just read the others comments, and maybe is it a “french typical sentence” only, cuz the other french guy (Freezman or smth like that) got this like i did…

    Voila… (i know everybody actually use this french word… don’t know why… kinda useless word haha)

    Just some different meanin according to the language i guess

  58. ah_burn! says:

    You do realise that’s not a fail at all…

  59. Nicole Wilson says:

    The tattoo is read left to right only when she is horizontal and, presumably in a state of undress. I glean from this that she is a woman who has great difficulty saying no. On her left side, reading from her bikini line to her armpit she has the words, “You’re going to succeed and I’m going to suck seed!” tattooed in thirteen languages (and Braille). Alcohol determines which side of the bed you get to lie on.

  60. PoodleGroomer says:

    Extra Fail. It’s a guy with gorgeous nails that needs a bra.

  61. Larwick says:

    I thought the fail here was that it was a man putting a bra on himself, but no it’s way worse.

  62. henry says:

    tattoo fail? or failure win?

  63. Kickass Kelly says:

    How is this a fail?
    Its all spelled correctly, and It’s not like, put on backwards.. its just down her side…
    I understand it perfectly.
    Thats ridiculous.

  64. Duh says:

    Its not fail, success isn’t an option, it is the outcome. Meaning she doesn’t go in with two options, her only plan is to succeed. Posting this=fail

  65. Flick says:

    Either is stubble free armpits

  66. Clo says:

    Can anybody explain us where is the fail?

    Misunderstanding the fail is not an option, it’s everybody’s case.

  67. ashleysue says:

    I guess Googling the phrase before you have it permanently written onto your skin was also not an option.

  68. hotgirl21345 says:

    WTF IS THAT EVEN FEMALE???

  69. Wildman says:

    I couldnt read it anyway.

  70. stuntcock says:

    neither are big tits in this case

  71. Barbara says:

    Serious bra fail.

  72. asd says:

    Armpit fail.

  73. Curiosity101 says:

    Nice place for a tattoo, or anything else for that matter.

  74. Belgian lady says:

    I’m afraid I missed the point.
    Can someone explain me ?
    Thanks.

    • Belgian czuhc says:

      It has been explained in the first section of the comments. Several times.
      It should have been “Failure is not an option”.

  75. puppatoons says:

    That just looks like it should have the parts labeled…chuck, rib, sirloin, round…

  76. Brian says:

    i hope its required…..dumbass

  77. Roogie says:

    According to her motto it’s a win.

  78. I poot on you says:

    She should add “…it’s Mandatory”

    • domorvedar says:

      Correct. An option is a possible outcome of several from which one may choose. When something is not an option, that means the choice aspect has been removed, but does not implicitly mean that the lack of choice is because a single alternative outcome is mandatory. Additional context is generally needed to lead the reader to such a conclusion unambiguously.

      Even in the context or buying an automobile, something that is “not an option” is not necessarily “standard equipment” by default; the feature simply might not be available on that model at all. That’s why the model feature charts in the literature have a designator like “N/A” as well as the “S” and “O” designators. And even a “standard feature” is an option of sorts; generally speaking, you don’t have to buy any particular car, so you have the choice of buying the feature or not.

      So trying to define something only by saying what it is not can lead to ambiguity win.

  79. REEL2REEL says:

    I can write anything here because no one reads this.
    Did you know that Video is Latin for “I See”? Karaoke is Japanese for “without orchestra”? Interesting huh? I learned that while doing crossword puzzles. Another interesting fact is that the geographic divide between Asia and Europe is the Ural mountain range. Not many people know that one. There is also a river of the same name in Russia. Those are common clues. Another pretty common clue is Ewer. Weird huh? Its vase shaped vessel for holding liquid. Sometimes with handles. A good example is The World Cup trophy. They also like to throw in this one. “The bards river”. Of course they always rephrase it to confuse you, but I’m to smart for that.See I know that the bard is of course Shakespeare and the river is the Avon from his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

  80. Satsuki says:

    lol. I actually like this one. Are we sure it even is a fail?

  81. Ashleigh says:

    *Facepalm* Grownups these days…

  82. BeetleGuice says:

    i really dont understand how this is a fail at all, so many people say that expression. Just because the girl didnt want like a paragraph tattooed on her ribs doesnt really make this tattoo a fail? Pretty much every expression i shorten now days.. such as “when life gives you lemons..” or “when in rome..” its very often you hear a person actually recite the whole phrase, just saying..

    • domorvedar says:

      The examples you gave are sentence fragments, so it would be obvious to readers or listeners that they should complete the sentence with the rest of the well-known phrase, or ask someone for the rest of the sentence.

      Outside of this blog, I’d never heard the phrase “success is not an option; it’s mandatory.” I’ve heard “failure is not an option” many, many times. So when presented with “success is not an option…” I’d be likely to fill it in with “…it’s not even possible.”

      • uh.huh. says:

        Ok. I see both sides HOWEVER.. Her tattoo reads. “Success is NOT an option”.. if it was meant to be not optional her tattoo would read “Success is not an OPTION”. So.. in french, english, or any other language… I WIN.

  83. puppatoons says:

    Kinda funny… is that this tattoo is presented best when she’s flat on her back.

  84. l4wl says:

    MAKE ME A SAMMICH.

  85. Booya has a booty says:

    Hairy armpits, hello.

  86. GLW says:

    Comments are never funny in this blog. Just not funny at all.

  87. Not required says:

    She’s still hot

  88. NopAntSlance says:

    For someone getting a tattoo like that, I bet that statement is more accurate for them than what they really wanted it to say.

  89. Jimmy Summersteen says:

    Is that a man? WTF is that? That’s disgusting. What a terrible tattoo. I’d rather gouge my eyes out, boil it in camel piss, and feed it to my kids than get a lousy tattoo like that.

  90. mikki54 says:

    I’m making a note here,

    HUGE SUCCESS!

  91. kmae says:

    nice armpit.

  92. EverboundVEnvel says:

    Going by her orange skin, fake french tips and horrible tattoo, I’d say that the wording of said tattoo is simply redundant. Triple Fail.

  93. Jeremi says:

    doesnt look like the gym is either.

  94. ryan forman says:

    y5h4b65 jgtttrv 5y 7bh

  95. o noes says:

    shouldnt of covered

  96. daniel says:

    did she die?

  97. well i really dont know y im even commenting but im bored so says:

    if u realize the picture cuts of the rest of the tattoo

  98. bankman says:

    wait, what tatoo?

  99. Mr.Giggles says:

    umm… In reality its a WIN considering it says Success is NOT an option which is a different way of saying “You must ALWAYS fail.”

  100. lulu says:

    HAHAHA stupid americans ^^

  101. speed0spank says:

    She is an idiot for the fail-tat, but who could say she looks like she has a terrible body?


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