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Fail! They’ll be poisoned by rainbows.
Moorning.
Ey up.
*puts on flat cap*
Eeh, bah gum!
I find that stereotype offensive to my people :p
I don’t know what came over me.
*takes off flat cap and puts on City bowler hat, briefcase and pinstripe suit. Tucks The Telegraph under arm and sips tea*
Better?
Wey aye man! Nee botha!
You and Arthur and your made up languages.
*shakes head in dismay*
Failblog Failed here!
If every American drinks 167 bottles of water (made of plastic) thats 50.1 billion plastic bottles, assuming the population of USA is 300 million.
Take away 32% for recycling, and what are we left with?
34.068 BILLION PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES!
FAILBLOG FAIL!
Nerd ALERT!!!
I did the math too! Based on 300mil Americans, definitely a failblog fail!!!
Um, for you thickheads: there is one glaring omission you have missed: they forgot the word EACH.
34 billion isn’t 68% of 167. Sorry.
and also it also seems to imply that they drink the actual bottles themselves… oh English.
Reading English fail.
That’s the fail here. The sign doesn’t say EVERY american person drank 167 bottles each. It just says Americans which, without whipping out a calculator and gathering on your own that they meant every single one, would imply that America as a whole had 167 bottles total.
You forget that other things can happen to the bottles besides going to the landfill. They may be burned, for example, or reused (as distinct from recycling).
I do not understand why failblog is here if nearly everyone assumes photoshop or tries to prove them wrong. Either enjoy failblog or please be escorted away. Thank you!
No, the fail is that if you 32% of 167 water bottles recycled, the amount of bottles not recycled is not 34 billion,
CORRECT MATH FAIL!
but it doesn’t specify that each individual American drank 167 bottles themselves. The way it reads is that as a Country we drank 167 bottles of water. it’s very wrong… at least grammatically.
Oooooooh, we can re-enact the Thomas Crown Affair.
*runs off to get bowler hat and steal priceless pieces of art*
I keep reading both of BFF’s posts as ‘takes off cat flap.’
I must have Granny on my mind.
so….there’s about 300 million Americans total…and they each drank 167 bottles of water….32% of that was recycled….that would leave….16 billion that go to landfills.
huh…
No it would be correct.. 34 billion.. (16 billion are recycled).. The Sign isn’t a fail!! This is a failblog FAIL!!! just worded a little strang but makes sence 100%
Well I think the fail is that they didn’t say that American drank 167 bottles of water EACH, they just said that Americans drank 167 bottles of water.
clearly it meant each, no one would assume that in the U.S. there were less than 200 water bottles used in a year!
but the point is that you’re not supposed to assume. They’re supposed to give it to you straight.
It’s a lack of units math fail.
i have a stinkin’ account but it wont let me post with it! what do i do? I WILL DO ANY THING TO KNOW PLZ!I WILLBE ON ANNOYING PEOPLE UNTIL I NO THE ANSWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#!^@*
u suck and ur stupid ass hole
just shut up big shiter
i have a stinkin’ account but it wont let me post with it! what do i do? I WILL DO ANY THING TO KNOW PLZ!I WILLBE ON ANNOYING PEOPLE UNTIL I NO THE ANSWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the metallic oxide salts.
Aren’t metallic deposits a symptom of rainbows? As is leprechaun infestations.
(Howdy. You’ve been rebuilt?)
Not sure. All I know is that this wasn’t happening twenty years ago, but now it’s happening now.
(Howdy! *squeeze* Old laptop died in early April, so I wasn’t online for a few weeks.)
I don’t think I want to taste the rainbow, after all.
(Good to have you back, POB! We missed you.) *squeeze*
I’ll help you with the math: the sign reads 167 bottles (per person)!!! 300 million americans in 2006.. is a total of 50 billion bottles. 32% of 50 billion is 16 billion .. leaving you with 34 billion that is wasted… No fail at all just strangely worded, other than that makes perfect sence.
I still say it’s a fail, on the grounds that I’m american, and I don’t drink bottled water at all, so thats a count of 0 for me. Therefore their facts are still wrong.
(plus they didn’t say each, at all)
yes, but on average it is probably true. IF you take the total bottled water consumption for the US for that given year and divide it by the population, you probably get around the 167 figure as noted on the sign. Still no fail.
I drink maybe 2 bottles of water a month at most, but I have friends that drink cases of them (not sure why) so in the end it averages out.
I agree completely. I did the math, then went to leave this exact comment – you beat me to it though, but are correct. the sign is very poorly worded, but makes sense, and is factually correct.
But it never says “on average”. That is the whole point. It doesn’t make any claims that it is each american drinking that. It is poor wording, but if you take it literally, it says that only 167 were consumed. CLEARLY, this is not the case, which is why this is a fail. A poor wording fail, but a fail nonetheless!
It could also be read as Americans drank 167 billion bottles of water in that year as a whole. Which would make it a total math fail.
Good thing I only drink beer, not really.
Wait. Who am I kidding?
Always talking to yourself I see.
If you 2 can’t get along I’ll be forced to send you to seperate rooms.
…but I like this room its nice and padded.
And I shall be forced to build a door (which is not a door), and which may or may not access any actual place, living or dead, in each of them. *sigh*
A jar?
A *whispers, lest Judy hear* pickle jar, even.
inb3first
Are you the lovechild of Hitler and a starlet?
I was thinking backing singer or midget version. Then again, I always think midget. *shrugs*
(Morning)
I like Hitler and a midget even better!
(Morning! LTNS.)
Hitler cutlet. (Lower your EQ by eating evil old men.)
That sounds like a weird porn film I wat. . .heard of or something.
*waves*
Licking TraNsSexuals? Yeah, I … heard about that one too.
Little tight nun’s suit.
*passes to Arthur*
Luscious Tiny Ninja Sex.
Lately, There’s No Sauce!
Ludicrously, Take Nothing Seriously
*Laughs* That’s Never Supervened.
Like The New Suit?
Livid Transvestites Not Safe?
Left Titty Nearer Self
My left boob.
It’s hard to forget the midgets when they’re in your butt. *hugs* Morning Moom!
Morning Mookie *hugs*
Under my care, I think the midgets are rebelling. We miss you.
Yikes! A midget rebellion! I can watch the midgets during the day, while Lou is at work. Give you some much-needed R&R.
Just let me go soak some potatoes in laudanum for their lunch…
It’s only a small problem, should be able to handle it
I’ve chloroformed their shamwow blankets so we should be ok. You can get back to photocopying things for Lou!
More like genetic copies than photocopies, at this rate.
Is there anything you want to tell us?
*excited*
Hi Arthur! Ha ha – no, but any news I have, will certainly be posted here first…
Well, judging by your pictures it’s a good thing there are no news. There are already too many teenage pregnancies!
What a charming thing to say! *squeeze*
I would offer to come over and fix the photocopier, but that sounds like a lead-in to a porn film.
I can almost hear the throbbing beat of that cheesy music as you enter the room in your short-sleeved button down shirt with the plastic name tag… Nice mullet, btw!
Ohhhhhhh, I wish I had the hair for a mullet. I’d insist on having the name sown onto the shirt. Nothing but the best for you Mookie.
Just so long as they aren’t generic.
Mornin’ all!
Mornin’ Mookie!!
*squeeze*
Crow! How you been? How’s the weather back there?
Typical Michigan weather…lol.
But it was pretty nice for the holiday weekend.
How’s things over there? Tell Lou hi for me!
inb4first
inaftern00b
I guess that’s why they’re factoids and not full-fledged facts.
With due diligence and care we can make this a rock solid fact.
And superglue.
Don’t forget the spit, nails and chewing gum.
Rock solid fact: 34 000 002 205.
If I had a paper thin fact then I would therefore have a better fact than you, but unfortunetly I don’t.
Please get it.
How about NO.
My facts cut like scissors.
I think the mistake here is attributed to a typo, rather than misinformation
It’s reassuring that still 34 billion went to landfills. It could have been worse.
I know, people could get injured falling into all them holes.
(How do)
(trainee is here)
*waves at trainee*
Is that like a baby steam-train? You must be chuffed.
I don’t like his trainees!
(Morning!)
Does he get your slippers yet? Yes, you say? In his mouth?
)
(Morning Team
I’m thinking Czuhc is starring in his own remake of The Secretary.
(G’day)
You’re bound to have a winner with that line of puns!
)
(hi bye gotta fly!
I’d like to do a study on the communty built on failblog … its like no other I’ve seen on the net. It seems to project a much stronger sense of a lack of a social life than most. Unfair assumption or cunningly insightful?
And yet, here you are . . .
I figured his/her name said it all Foop.
Did they forget the “I can”?
*snork*
Apparently so.
That made me *snerk* too.
That’s more than half!!
Eh…
I don’t get it.
/facepalm
I wish there was a decent fail pic, like “Error: Succes”.
I don’t get this one.
This comment will become a fail pic won’t it?
Well famously 34 billion is a bigger number than 167 (of which the 34 billion is suppodly a percentage of). But I think we can all assume the creator of the sign intended ‘167′ to read ‘167 billion’.
And no, 34 billion isn’t 68% of 167 billion, but then there are other things that can happen to a plastic bottle other than be piled into a landfil or recycled. I imagine many are re-used for example.
That’s where you’re wrong. The factoid is only slightly misworded. it’s 167 per US citizen. A conservative estimate of US population is 300,000,000. 167 x 300,000,000 = 50,100,000,000 x .68 = 34,068,000,000 which fits the figure in the factoid.
How can you not get it?
Then tell me, how can you sell 167 bottles, and end up with 34 billion bottles on a land fill?
where did the remaining 33,999,999,833 bottles come from?
Cleavage.
D: All of the above.
Simple. They overestimated demand and produced 34,000,000,167 bottles. 167 bottles were sold and went to good homes, the remaining 34 billion had to be binned.
I saved up 13 billion bottles last year, then decided I really only need 6 billion and threw the rest away to annoy my eco-manic neighbors, so I may have contributed a little.
I hope you threw them over the fence into their garden.
Filled with salt and poo, of course.
the fail is about americans going to landfills. that’s ecologically wrong!
I live in europe so I don’t really get this stuff.
so true.. as an european you would have them recycled. life is so good when you have a clean environment and no math knowledge. i envy you :\
I think you got it wrong with the “Math Knowledge” part.
Our teachers are assholes.
Hahahaha no math knowledge haha ahem. Ah Americans and their arrogant ways!
*shakes head in bemusement*
So many fails right there. SO. MANY.
The only fail I can see in this one is that they just forgot to mention that it was 167 plastic bottles of water for each americans …
That makes :
305 683 227 Americans
167 bottles
51 049 098 909 bottles in 2006
32% recycled = 68% in Landfills
51 049 098 909*68/100=34 713 387 258 bottles in Landfills …
Oh yeah !! you’re right … they failed in the 34 billions … It’s more like 35
or anyone could point out the fail you’re all laughing about ?
can i use the ET finger for that?
http://failblog.org/2009/02/24/merchandising-fail/
Nope. There are other things that can happen to a plastic bottle other than it be recycled or end up in a land fill.
it could be incinerated, or re-used; for example. The fail here is a typo, not a maths issue. I assume its supposed to read either ‘167 billion’, or yes ‘167 bottles per american’.
It comes to 34M if you just use a round 300M for the population. Most likely they used the round figures of 300M population and 50G bottles… which comes to 166 2/3 bottles each (rounds to 167) and 34M bottles exactly (if the 68% is exact).
But still, it’s still a fail that they didn’t include the word “each”. And the grammar is still shaky in general (I don’t think they drank that many plastic bottles… the contents of those bottles, maybe).
Err… replace both “34M” in that with “34G”. I knew what I meant, dammit.
OK
So just a Typo fail … funny … but not that funny in the end.
Well nevermind
May the Fail be with you!
How do you recycle an American?
Throw a bottle of bear into the recycle bin and wait.
Yes, a bottle of BEAR.
Everything that has “Bear” in it will make them want whatever the crap it is.
Hope ya not grizzling, G!
Hey I’m new here.
Hey there. Then quit it with the nationalistic slagging (it tends to polarize people!), and pick-up on the bear references in my last two posts!
That’s right. Stupid European!
Oh and whenever you get a Bottle of Bear, hide the children.
YOU DIDN’T GIVE ME ENOUGH TIME
I just farted
I just worked-out
I just ate breakfast.
I just want to go home.
*ding!*
I just dinged.
*waves*
I just waved!
I just smilied.
I just hate to see you this way.
Don’t leave me this way
Do you really want to hurt me?
Are you gonna eat that?
Are you gonna go my way?
What if God was one of us?
What the f*ck are we saying?
Who cares?
We care a lot!
We do??!!??
I did not receive that memo.
*rifles through desk, yet again*
As they’re 90% water, 5% fat and 5% bullshit my guess would be fertaliser?
Having is not the important part. It’s using.
Only in concealing one’s identity, can one truly be known.
How fresh is the bullshit in your figures? because very fresh bullshit could be made up of about 50-70% water, thus screwing up your statistics!
The fat is meant to make great soap
First
First WHAT?
He’s counting the water bottles.
Pretty slow there pal.
Triple fail:
- Factoid fail
- Holding camera straight fail
- Focussing fail
In fact, the guy taking the photo was in a car which drove with 65 mph. So it rather is a good job.
Was he driving as well?
Yes. Backwards.
And blindfolded. Amazing!
10 and 2! 10 and 2!!!!
Umm… 12. I think.
Finally, we’re steering in the right direction.
It was taking a downward curve there for a while.
Better to procceed with caution.
This thread is hitting the skids.
(Good morning everyone!)
It hasn’t quite crashed, but we’re clutching at straws. Maybe we just need a brake.
It’s poosible everyone’s just tired and things are falling lfat.
Holy crap I need more coffee! Look at the typos!
It’s a miracle!
Hippie.
*celebrates*
Yippie!
Go get a job.
You’re new here, you try to participate but every second reply you make is insulting? Hmmmmm…
I’m 15.
And?
Go get a paper-round
I have real ones if you need them, just look at my picture.
*sigh*
That does explain it. Kinda.
I know. Besides you guys are the only ones who think of me as an annoyance.
We wouldn’t if you weren’t insulting others.
I doubt we’re the only ones, but everyone else is more polite. We prefer blunt honesty: You’re annoying, even for a 15 year old.
You have cookies and your NOT sharing?!
I don’t know how you know that, but yes, that’s true. But keep in mind, my cookies are always filled with certain herbal substances causing giggles, insights and hunger. The guy is 15, you have been drinking, others here have to work… It is actually quite thoughtful NOT to share.
Yoo-hoo, Arthur! *waves hands in air*
I’m not doing anything productive. Can I have a cookie?
Is it bad if your comment is awaiting moderation?
I didn’t do anything!
See, I told you to stop fighting with yourself.
Okay.
*passes cookie*
*intercepts and runs for touchdown*
*swoops down, snatches cookie*
MY cookie! You fumble. Hee!
Crumbs! That was sneaky!
I’m hip about time.
…Go get a job.
Make that: Two out of three.
Eh
Three out of five?
Close only counts in … wait what??
Wow you guys are retarded. If it were “America drank” or “all Americans combined drank” then yes, this would be incorrect. “Americans” is inherently equivalent to “each American” or “every American.” It should be obvious to anyone who isn’t a moron that this is an average. The FAIL goes to the person that submitted this and every one of you idiots that thinks this is a fail.
DON’T. RUIN. THIS. FOR US.
I can hear the drums.
Get the hose.
Nice ABBA reference, Doc B. I remember long ago another starry night like this.
*doesn’t quite know what to say,
*offers a diamond*
paints this thread blue and grey*
.
I’m sorry
Silly SILLY man…Neil Diamond could never make it the same!
*wishes he could amend that post to say Don Mclean!*
Here come the drums, here come the drums.
Hey there baby, babeh…
well,i assume you aren’t from america,or maybe you’re just stupid,but thats not about the sentence structure.its fail because of the grammar. though if you look at it right,yes,it is structurally correct.however,with general american grammar,this is quite a fail.
no.
Anpu mourns the state of America’s education system and its apparent inability to proofread.
Our education system is also unable to proofread.
Europe FTW
Wish I was European, sounds like some kind of utopia.
But, as you know, the channel is broader than the pond.
For some reason I was thinking of the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I think that’s his name.
For some reason I was thinking of the book The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.
What’s it about?
LSD.
I was thinking of Huxley Pig. Who is he going to be today?
*ponders*
Yes. Europe for the win.
This is why I’m proud to be an Australian.
I’m proud to be an European because of the Indonesian per-capita consumption of butter.
Now I know why they say American education is good!!
I’m proud to be an Indian!!!
It’s amazing which fails trigger patriotic (nationalist?) comments.
*waves Japanese flag and belts out the national anthem*
Sorry, what were you saying?
I’d never do a thing like that.
*squeeze*
Fail
Dayam!
That means 53 bottles were recycled, and 339,99,999,886 bottles were thrown away without being drank.
I think this board’s message is loud and clear: Tap water in a bottle is just as nasty as tap water from the tap.
No wonder people drink so much soda these days….
I don’t get it. Isn’t it correct. The Americans (app. 300 Million) drank each 167 bottles of water = 50 Bill. bottles of Water. 32% were recycelt so 34 Bill. went to landfills. Where is the fail?
A) it doesn’t say each American drank 167 bottles. It says “Americans” drank 167 bottles.
B) Grammatically speaking, it could be taken to mean that 34 billion Americans ended up in the landfill and 32% got recycled.
I like option B.
Don’t tell Mookie that she is currently being recycled into an Irish lass.
It would take some bottle to do that.
I like option B too.
Do your math. It will all become clear.
^^ approximate 2006 US population = 300,000,000 * 167 bottles per american = 50.1 billion bottles * 62% = 34 billion
I do believe the major fail is in that picture. Jesus. What crap focus.
If you look in the bottom right, the true fail becomes revealed.
A midget with white paint on his feet tried to walk up the sign but failed and fell down.
Drinking bottled water may cause your vision to blur.
*squeeze!* Brilliant!
Like so many darn posts I don’t want to bend,
By placing my stoopid two cents at the end.
So many of yours are precious and bold,
They shouldn’t be left alone to grow old.
Okay… So, let me work the problem.
We of course assume that they meant 167 Billion bottles. That is roughly 18 bottles per person, on the entire planet. Reasonable figure, considering that places like NY, USA is going to have more plastic bottles used than Africa. So it works so far…
Of those 167 Billion, 32% got recycled (which I think is a lie–I think it is more likely 10%) which according to math which I learned in 2nd grade, would be just over 50 Billion bottles that were recycled. Leaving a whopping 100 Billion that did go into the landfill.
There is nothing mathmatically or grammitically correct about this sign. It is indeed 100% fail. That is the only thing about it that is correct.
Plus, you don’t drink a plastic bottle of water, because that would mean that you are actually drinking the bottle, not the water inside.
It should read “drank 167 bottles of water, which are made of plastic”
No it would be correct.. 34 billion.. (16 billion are recycled).. The Sign isn’t a fail!! This is a failblog FAIL!!! just worded a little strang but makes sence 100%..
I’ll help you with the math: the sign reads 167 bottles (per person)!!! 300 million americans in 2006.. is a total of 50 billion bottles. 32% of 50 billion is approx 16 billion that are recycled leaving you with… Thats right! 34 billion that are wasted.. no fail at all.
Any reason you need to repeat what Scythelord said over and over again? And this is not displayed/advertised/whatever as a math fail. The fail is the incorrect grammar and wording.
Love that the people who vote on this site voted it “thumbs down” because they didn’t understand the math themselves. Morons…
Mathematically speaking, this is NOT FAIL at all. But I didn’t do any research as to how many bottles of water Americans drink or how much of the bottles being recycled.
167 * 300.000.000 /3 *2 = 33.4 billion. It’s not a FAIL at all. Just 167 bottles p.p.
photographer FAIL! How on earth can you fail to take a sharp picture of a damn SIGN?
Double fail.
That looks like a Whole Foods sign… http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/
sorry, this is a fail fail
This is not a fail…They obviously meant each American, or individual Americans each used 167 bottles of water. Estimating 300 million Americans, multiplied by 167 bottles each, equals 50,100,000,000, 32% of which is 16,032,000,000, leaving a remainder of about 34 billion. Whoever thought this was a fail is a moron
aaaand? i just found this as an annoying blaaaaaaaaah
I pity the future of America when you idiots can’t understand a basic word problem. I agree that there is something odd about this note…Perhaps it’d be better served on engrish but it is still true as pointed out by quite a few folks.
The population of America in 2006 of 289,44,215 people used on average 167 plastic water bottles. Of the totaling 49,840,183,905 water bottles used only 32% or 15,948,858,850 bottles were recycled. This means 33,891,325,055, or roughly 34 Billion, were tossed into land fills.
Fail blog this is your fail. I win.
It’s still a fail. If they meant 167 bottles per person, that is what they should have said. Instead it says that 167 bottles were used, period. The fail is that the communicator failed to properly convey their meaning, it is not the reader’s responsibility to pick it out.
The fail is in the grammar not the maths. For a start there aren’t 34 billion Americans available to go visiting landfills. Recycling Americans might sound like a good idea, but I doubt if it is legal. (Well it may be in the South ? )
THAT’S OVER 9000!!!
No, the fail is that the picture is very poorly photoshopped. It was supposed to be a picture of a squirrel in a suit drier.
Wow, this fact has really opened my eyes to the importance of Recycling… and Choosing words carefully XD
Specifically, which words to capitalize.
This is still a fail, because the sign implies that 167 water bottles are consumed total, not per person.
This isn’t a math fail, its a grammar and wording fail.
1. The first part says that only 167 bottles of water were drunk by the entire country
2. It then states that 32% of AMERICANS were recycled (SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!), and 34 billion went to landfills
If I wanted to be really picky, I could point out that the sign also uses percentages for one part of the statistic, and a normal number for the second, which is confusing and possibly incomplete, but that’s not as funny.
clearly at least 339999852.1616766467065 went to the landfill undrunk
in liberal land, this makes sense……..
The real problem is:
Americans drank 167 plastic bottles of water. The sign is talking about drinking plastic bottles, they just happen to be be water bottles.
they make it sound like you drink the bottles……….
The first fail that came to my mind is the word ‘americans’ meaning ‘citizens of USA’. There is actually about 900 million americans, counting the whole american continent.
really? IS there??
HAHAHA…… This is like a double fail.
First, how do you drink a plastic bottle?
Second, since when is 68% of 167 = 34 billion?… For that matter, since when is 68% of 167 billion = 34 billion?
LOL
Hahahah, I’m pretty sure they meant 167 billion…But, man that’s hilarious.
Ignoring the first figure (not sure if they meant 167 billion or 167 bottles for every person), that works out at having every single american drinking at least 446 bottles of water every day
You’ve got it all wrong. In 2006, 167 Americans drank plastic bottles. 32% of those Americans were recycled as well as 34 billion Americans ended up in the landfill.
i dont get it..
68% of 167 is 34 billion :/