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Use FIRST comment wisely……..
did he die?
yes, now get over it
hey everyone I have an annoucement I will no longer be correcting speelling and ‘punctuatiun as I have realised there are more important things to do. Such as gathering a german army and starting WW3. Thank you and goodnight!!
Everyones(least)favorite German Arthur Eld
You should see a psychiatrist, your obsession with me is increasing every day, Tinkle.
Arthur, it’s my favo(u)rite German! How are you doing today? And who in heck are you talking to? I don’t see anybody else here?
It’s like these Magic Eye pictures. You have to stare until you squint – and then you can spot Tinkle. Which is a pretty disappointing result for the effort.
“Tinkle”, you say? I’m not going to piss away time on that.
*moves on to another thread*
I think so. Same style, different e-mail addresses and usernames.
Nice site…found this site at failgif.com.
I enjoy a good fail or 12 each day…makes mine see smaller!
Brown nosier LOL.
You silly european folks, always putting superfluous “u”s where they have no right being… ;D
I hate the new, alternate AE with the red avatar. He’s my least favourite German.
*snickers*
*sigh*…now we have to get the Allies together again so we can defeat your nefarious scheme……
Obviously you started your retirement early. Realised is not spelled with an “S” it is spelled with a “Z”. Like “Realize”.
s or z depends where you are from America spells with a z, UK about half half, and Australia spells mostly with s.
and then there’s me in aus spelling everything how it sounds- WHOOPS.. . :S man english is confusing
nice name. how’s the killing of giant spiders with one handgun going?
thats funny because you spelt puntuation wrong…
CAN I JOIN!??
Did who die? WTF! AND WHY IS THERE ONLY ONE LIGHT ON! Cheap a-holes
Why don’t you jump after him and find out?
jump after who?
after him
who said he jumped?
Hey it’s my old brother that got lost years ago!
*runs in slow-mo with Chariots of Fire music playing*
Oh wait, it’s Tinklenator. *tazes*
O_O Did Tink finally die? Was Tink really Cassandra all along? You feeling lucky?
really?
he’s dead, jim
it’s worse than that, he’s… damnit.
Following own advice fail! lol!
Oh wait…
Oh that hurts my head.
>Following own advice fail! lol!
they are following their own advice, they have only one light working to show the message.
Teff observational fail
I think he was referring to the person he replied to….
person he replied to fail!!1
This whole comment section is one big fail, need rescuing……………
keltai2.mybrute.com go here, create a brute, and fight with millions of other players from all over the world
comment placement fail
Using one light for a useless ad still wastes electricity. Therefore, fail.
Yeah, but compared to how much OTHER billboards waste, this is totally awesome.
That comment would be so clever if it wasn’t for the obvious fact that the energy saved by even a few people responding to the ad would be larger than the energy used by the billboard. You’re trying too hard to be a smartass – fail.
You’re mean! Not everyone is as smart as you, your highness.
You know, that one actually made me rofl.
LOLOLOLOLOL!
*coughcoughcough*
(Please don’t disappoint me after this, I’m very sensitive, you know.)
omg super win
if u dont get it heres
“SPOILER ALERT”
the sign part is only lit up where thiers text
oh and arthur i have a german army and if u like i willl lend it to u
why?
WHY?
WHY!!
WHY!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!!!!! exlamationpoint !!!!??!!!
I certainly know this is a 100% Eskom win indeed! I know climate change is really hitting the world really hard! Let us use less energy and help the environment by using less electricity! Together we can help save money and reduce our carbon footprint!
Environmentalist wacko Win you mean
How ignorant of you.
No, how normal of him. Environmentalism is low on the priority list.
Ignorant of what? It was environmentalism, he wasn’t wrong there.
No, it’s not environmentalism, moron, he was wrong: Three seconds of Googling would’ve revealed to you that Eskom is South Africa’s national electricity supplier, that has run into major problems of demand outstripping supply due to their poor planning. This is a government ad campaign by a national utility as part of their “demand-side management strategy”.
Eskom is indeed actually a major fail. We have these national electricity warning thingys telling us when we’re using too much electricity. Fail due to the fact that after every advertisement it’s either in the red or green. Telling us to switch of everything until they let us know…and yet we have to watch tv for them to let us know. If it weren’t for the huge money scam they had two years ago….things would’ve probably went better, but due to Jacob Zuma’s corruption scam… he used most of the money that was supposed to go for getting Eskom back onto it’s feet for his presidential inauguration. It cost us tax payers 48 million rand for that….and another big lump sum for his daughter’s big party. I don’t even know his damn daughter. but yes we can just say…..COUNTRY FAIL!
Who says Eskom has failed? Have a closer look at the billboard – the left-hand side is blank – only the right-hand side actually has the necessary print! Environmentalists know climate change 100%! Not to mention the Kyoto Protocol for reducing greenhouse gas emissions – Sayonara polluters!
…which America didn’t agree to. Hmm, where’s that place with the factories again?
the only reason we had to reduce electricity consumption was so the fatcat running ESKOM could get his R1 million Rand bonus. the whole advert cost a fortune to run while we sat in the dark for hours. they put warnings of electricity usage on TV which we could not see due to blackouts!
A WINNER IS YOU
Sweet! Exactly what I was thinking.
Sooo, what’s the rest of the billboard?
thats the point
look at the lights
My lights are on but no one is home.
My lights are out but I’m still there skulking in the dark…
*peers into Olur’s room with night-vision binoculars*
*Turns on all the lights to temporarily blind Brewski, cue baloons and confetti.* Aaand: Surprise! We got beer and snacks, welcome!
Party on a Monday? You know how to start the week off right!
*Raises glass*
Here’s to you Brewski!
Have a great week!
well for a ‘wacko’ hes pretty smart, betchu couldnt think of something like this…
The other three are blacklights.
Hahaha! *squeeze*
*lights black out*
How do you know when to change the bulbs?
When they start to shine white light!
when you see by them?
Certain substances light up under blacklight.
Just sayin’.
Are you sure?
A ‘blacklight’ is a type of UV light, so yes, anything thats activated by UV.
I know- I have a tattoo that does! It’s a bi*ch to actually do though!
no way that’s so cool i’ve always wanted to do that! Where do you get that done? (I live in South Africa, coincidentally the place the sign comes from…)
when the lightbulb really wants to change?
It contains the seed of the revolution.
Is checking out a “Conservation Win” on failblog a wise use of electricity…?
It’s a conversation piece.
Conservation peace?
If you turn out all the lights, you could have a seance, and see who materializes.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOooooOOO!
My god!
The potato has returned to haunt me!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
I’ll never do it again.
*sobs*
*Pats* There there, look at the bright side, we can always make french fries
French those fries!
Cut the lettuce!
Just don’t burn any candles. It’s the CO2, y’know.
If you turn out all the lights, I won’t be very pleased.
I’m recycling the electrons flowing through my PC.
How?
…
Yes, if some people get the idea to be smarter about electricity as a result. That’s the point of ad campaigns, and advertising does generally work.
A controversial conservation conversation piece?
Sorry, I fail. First time commenting and I forget to hit “Reply”
I wouldn’t worry, I did it on the last fail
It’s allright, we all make the occasional Fail Faux Pas…
Including not hitting refresh before commenting!
This was all intentional as part of a demonstration on “How not to fail”.
*sidles away from the light into the shadows*
*Joins moomin*
*Sidles away from Moomin as for some reason he is glowing under the black light*
I have a part-time job as a villain in Scooby Doo.
What’s your salary?
I got taught the secret of making unfeasibly tall sandwiches. It takes skill for them not to overbalance.
Oh I have a part time job scaring five year olds into eating their veges, *Hands moomin card* you should look into it, it’s quite lucrative…
I got banned from that after the potato incident
Thankyou anyway.
*takes card*
What potato incident are you talking about?
It involved a vicar and some curtains.
And he never got the hang of it.
I think he eventually recovered and pulled himself together though.
do you regularly use the word meddling?
Only when I get caught.
*sets great dane off on a mission*
Go on I just want to hear you say it……just once!
Rikes!
Jinkies!
Let’s split up! k@ and Moomin, you take the dank, dark cellar full of screaming ghosts. Daphne and I will carefully check out the master bedroom suite with the large, heart-shaped bed with silk sheets.
LIES! I haven’t heard you use the word “meddling” not once!
I haven’t been unmasked yet.
*rips off Moomin’s mask* Ah-HA! Wait, when did you grow a mustache?
wait thats no moustache, thats moomins murkin.
I would have kept my moustache hidden if it wasn’t for your meddling midgets.
Ah, it was the midgets? That explains the dirty Sanchez, then.
Yay! thank you……oh wait now I have to be shocked you are actually Geoffrey the real estate agent!
Moomin’s mask is full of hay. This is most easily spotted by bringing an allergic King (preferably King Karl Fredrik the First) in close proximity (or at least in visual range) and see if he develops hay fever.
Hooray! We captured the villain!
*passes out Scooby snacks*
Careful, I’ve heard rumours that they are hallucinogenic.
I appear to be dancing on purple quicksand to the tune of peoples eyelashes- I think you may be right about them there Scooby snacks!
I dont like Mondays, turn out all the lights, the party is over.
Well there’s always sex after parties.
What kind of sex requires an after-party? Are there asshoes involved?
Sex the day before your birthday?
What about the huge amounts of energy needed to create such large sheet op paper left mostly blank??
FAIL!
can be recycled by use of graffitti!
How do we know it is not just painted white?
The same way we know the cake is not a lie.
Ow you guys are making me think too much for a monday!
No one’s forcing you to try to make sense of this.
I might be….
I saw what you did, there. *squeeze* Oooh!
Sowwy.
Horshoes, I get it!!
Close, but not close enough.
Monday was created for zen meditative thinking!
And coffee.
Mines a double Espresso please!
Mine is de-calf.
De-calf? That sounds udderly boring.
Not what you need first thing in the moo-ning.
Absolutely you need to beefired up. If anything thay should make ĂĽber-calf.
(♪Got the Belgian blues…♫)
triple calfinne- absoblutely de- bo- vine
Maybe thay could squeeze (*squeeze*) in some taurin in there as well? Maybe we should speak to the bos?
Maybe the paper’s hand made?
Made from Elly poop- it works!
Hand made with elephant poop… *washes hands compulsively*
It is only recycled tree!
I know I was a little freaked at first!
Making paper uses HUGE amounts of water too!Environmentalists just want to feel good, not actually do any thing to help.
The lady got out of the bus and taught us how to spell fish.
Wow, this is only the second South African pic I’ve seen on here. The last was when the chair broke during a news broadcast. I <3 my country. ^^
Lekke! (no I am not from ZA)
ZA? Please enlighten me!
Zud Africa- ’scuse spelling.
Ah, no wonder I was confustigated!
Confustigation is my natural state of being. *Squeezes*
Mornin!
*Squeeze*
Morning! Happy Monday to you!
I thought it was combusta-flamation.
No no no…you have me confused with BFF!
He’s the one always (or his stunt doubles)
who are always going off the cliff and blowing up!
south africa ftw. though the eskom power cuts were a biatch
Eskom in general = Massive Fail. Eskom’s Advertising Agency = Win.
If you turn on the lights during the day does anyone see them?.
only on very dark days
Or light days or even coloured days or permanent days.
forgot “press” after permanent.
“You are the light of my life”
start of a song….now lets hear all the light songs we know LOL.
Chill! You’re spamming.
*leads gaynor away*
Are you talking to yourself again, dear?
No no, I’m having a sĂ©ance!
Well, I have contacts who tell me that their sister’s aunt’s 3rth-cousin’s uncle’s great-great grandpappy’s ghost is a real spectre!
Gaynor, if you reach my late cousin, just tell him something for me: “I told you the fuse wasn’t long enough!”
Your cousin says the fuse was plenty long enough; it was the faulty wiring’s fault.
I think that was my cousin, electrice fence and pee.
Brewskis cousin was, road runner and acme product
Pork and hamming
spaghetti and meatballs
Sorry about the spamming. Where you talking to me gaynorvader?.
Yep! I was wondering if you were ready to renounce your insulting ways and cry Czuhc’s pardon for your unprovoked attack on his sexuality!
you are such a penis
You misspelled “have”. And left out “large”.
nope thats definately what i was going for. Nothing misspelled or left out.
…and I was polite to you and didn’t point out that there was actually more mistakes in your comment, like the missing capitalization and punctuation. Ah well, I guess I wasted my time on a sorry little thing suffering from its own insignificance – aka you.
*shrugs*
Oops. *were, not was
big woop no capitals or punctuation I did not realise this was an exam, u smug self absorbed german gay.
I appreciate your arousal, but I’m sorry to disappoint you – I like girls. But hey, there’s soooo much you don’t realize, right?
so u admit ur and self absorbed?
*smug
You know, Arthur, for a penis you display remarkable intelligence and dexterity when it comes to typing. So much so in fact that I don’t believe you are a penis at all! It’s all an elaborate ruse to build more efficient cars, isn’t it?!
I’m just lucky. I let my dick fall on the keyboard and that sometimes produces senseful comments. Sometimes though lseiut kföliksrz+0
Amazing. You really are pointing the way.
Pricasso!
*sigh* bye…
sure..gaynorvader & Pat the calf.you regulars need all the warriors on your side against these wallball breaking trolls.
I’m not generally bothered by trolls, but I can understand why they annoy people.
Really? I can’t.
see below
Eclipse….?
waste of metal and space fail..but good on lights lol
Son…..I am dissapoint.
I didn’t know this was the Cannes Lion Blog. I’m glad there’s no second billboard in this picture. Could have triggered 900+ “it’s not a fail it’s a WIN”-comments.
There is a second billboard! Look in the background to the right. It has all of its lights working too!
Oh no.
You are also a penis
Hes right art, ur a total tosser.
*yawns*
Bad disguise. You are too boring not to be recognized.
*squeeze*
You’re one of the most pleasant people here Arthur, I can’t understand why you’d come under such fire.
I think they’re just jealous of your popularity.
*thankyousqueeze*
Apart from the waste of space that stalker doesn’t bother me. I think Tinkle’s main problem is my nationality. *shrugs* It’ll go away, sooner or later.
I believe it is a waste of DNA and perfectly serviceable proteins, that could be used by a more worthy being.
Like an amoeba?
My thoughts presicely (sp?)
So what I have gathered so far on FB about you Arthur is that you are German, you type with your penis which makes you male, and I guess it explains why in your pic you are naked. Is this some sort of environmentalist statement as well? Learning all about Arthur…
Don’t listen to them, they’re my experimental onions! I don’t know how they escaped but when I get home I’m cutting their arms off. It would seem onions with arms really aren’t of any use to society! *sigh* back to the drawing board….
You should have known splicing onions would end in tears.
*snork*
I was hoping they’d show more intelligence after I left them in the sun and they grew some heads.
Metaphor win!
*squeeze*
There’s a BMW lurking in the shadows. WIN!
I developed an antipathy towards BMWs lately.
BMW ?.
BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) – German Automobile Manifacturer.
‘nything else?
Big man W@nking
Black mans willy
Oh no you di’int
Yes, I am really becoming more fond of Audi.
Win!
Butbutbut… it was an Audi fail, wasn’t it?
(Morning!)
*stares at Arthur’s triple-butt*
Have you seen a doctor about that?
(Happy Monday! Nice weekend?)
Yes. He envied me for my ability to shit on three toilets simultaneously. Didn’t really help.
(Was alright, thanks. How about yours?)
If you didn’t drink so much, you wouldn’t need to use the toilet so much. I saw you last night, you were three shits to the wind.
(Pretty good, uneventful, thanks! I’m looking into helping the economy by doing a minor kitchen remodel.)
That’s what I was doing yesterday…
(Nice! I like it when work like that is done and there’s something new that I can smile about whenever I see it. For a certain time, that is.)
Yyyyyyyyyou forgot the letter Yyyyyyyyyy.
*may only use it sometimes*
I tried to comment on the one down there, but it decided to paste it here? IDK.
traitor. LOL
take off eh LOL.
Typ wsly 2
vwl cnsrvtn ftw!
Buuut I liiike my vooooweeeels!
wsm rpl!
Reminds me of http://www.foundshit.com/pictures/funny/beer-billboard-ad.jpg
Amazing. That is probably the coolest billboard I have ever seen!
Justin B
http://www.anonymity.2ya.com
Topic Change Request!
Hijaculation is in order…
hi peoples!
My name is peoples. You know why they call me that?
Becasue you’re actually a moomin?
whos moomin?
In case you forgot an ‘e’ – the Moomin is an enhancement of life for us all. Which has a socialist tone to it…
who are u i neva saws u befor
Neva? The Russian river?
weres dat?
France.
weres france?
To your left. Can you now leave, please?
*squeeze*
who u sqeezing?
The squeeze was for Arthur.
Follow the boxes.
whos arthur?
ummmmmmmmmmm noes me doswent
I had weird parents I guess.
Nevermind.
maby u alllls is weirds
I’m not weird, I’m just strange….
Is odd out of the question?
we alllll strange in are own way
Am I strange?
How about special?
pick 1
*picks nose*
*finds something*
*offers to no name*
var myArray = new Array ["special", "odd", "different", "strange", "wierd"];
var whatAmI;
function whatAreYou () {
whatAmI = myArray(math.random);
trace(WhatAmI);
}
I was different.
wow im doing arrays in class
Pfft! Arrays, what you need is a nice linked list!
Why do I need a linked list for something this simple?
“Don’t make things more complicated then they are” – Ghandi.
So you cad add in words you’d forgotten like; unusual!
You can add them in the array.
var myArray = new Array ["special", "odd", "different", "strange", "wierd", "unusual"];
var whatAmI;
function whatAreYou () {
whatAmI = myArray(math.random);
trace(WhatAmI);
}
easy enough.
But now you’ve had to create another array (I’ll assume you delete the old one) very inefficient of you young man!
happily acepts the offer
Either noname is schizo, or we have two different noname trolls? I didn’t think the other one did ICHC-speak?
who shizo?
Who is schizo? Was s/he a troll that died before I came to FB?
Schizo is an abbreviation of schizophrenia, a rare mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. Distortions in perception may affect all five senses, including sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, but most commonly manifest as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction. Onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood, with approximately 0.4–0.6% of the population affected. Diagnosis is based on the patient’s self-reported experiences and observed behavior.
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
I think Brewski may have been confusing schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder, a common mistake.
We had a “no name” causing problems around here a couple weeks ago, right? I believe he/she insulted some regulars.
i think that was me u drunk!
oh and congrats on keeping regular u musta gota alota fiber in u systems
Think so, yes. It must be him, he’s as dumb.
he!? *humph* how dares u *slaps*
AAAaaaaah yes… Give it to me, big boy!
*passionately kisses no name*
0.0 *slips into the moment*
Good morning everyone!
Morning you! *polite squeeze*
*polite squeeze back*
It appears to be a brothers Grimm story in here today!
What do you mean?
A cross between a troll & rumplestiltskin- it doesn’t seem to want to settle on one name!
I thought of a good name for it – twinklenator.
I just call it tinkles
Lol. Or noobtroll?
How does Tinkles call himself?
His latest is “Arthur Eld”.
Hmm… Kill him with fire, nobody can impersonate Arthur, NOBODY.
*squeeze*
*squeeezs neck morn’in*
did tinkle die? did he did he die did he? did he?
No, my falling brick trap went off on his keyboard, all his fingers are broken.
this has no place on failblog. come on.
Yes it does. Very much. Actually double that..
It’s a failed fail, hence “WIN”.
If you are failing on purpose it is a win. Because you where intending to do so.
Disagree. In my world its more preachy left-wingy prattle.
But if that floats your boat then, hey, have at it.
Since when is saving money left-wing?
this is actually a win. lol. fail blog, you failed.
That may be the reason why they wrote “Conservation Win”.
But please…waste all the paper you want!
This is actually a fail. The words “electricity”, “wisely” and “Eskom” simply do not gel together.
No one knows saving like africa does…
Did you bless the rains down in Aaa-haaafrica (?)
That’s creative! xD
Have a lot win this week. REally rare
Lawd, brilliant!
u guys guess maybe the missing lights are part of the ad?
great ad.
@mike: yes!!!
Reply fail!
(at self) Constructive comment fail!
Use electricity for billboard ads. That’s what they were thinking: MONEY
I dont know if it is so much of a fail as good marketing? is there a barometer for failing or good marketing?
Calvin stuffboredpeoplelike.com
Use giant piece of paper wisely.
well,i think they made their point…i mean,they only used that one part of the billboard so they would only have to use 1/4 of the electricity that would have been necessary had they filled the whole sign.
unfortunately,they probably had to rent particularly large board to prove that point and still make the message visible from afar,thus making the conservation point void.i give it a fail.
Clever.
Comment No. 300
Now that is one smart sign. Very nice.
Yaye! FailBlog Fail!
Very good..I like this saving.
I live in Johannesburg South Africa, where this board was flighted , almost a year ago.
If you look at the context of the time during which this poster was flighted, you’ll probably feel it was a great execution. At the time we had several power failures in our country due to un scheduled maintenance (they claimed) wet coal (they claimed) and low coal stock piles (they claimed). The use of electricity was on everyone’s mind and a drive was on to educate people about saving electricity. In fact certain billboard companies such as Primedia (I used to work for them) decided to put their illuminated billboards on timer so that they would switch of during the quietest times at night. The would switch off att 11 pm and come on again at 4:30 am to catch the morning traffic. This billboard is brilliant, it’s clever and it gives you a laugh too.
and that’s m 10 cents.
Nice use of a billboard
I want to kiss the designer of this board!
The idea must have hit him like a rock to the head!
This doesn’t happen often enough does it? :/ Win!
Clever, but wouldn’t work in the day time
South africa, win!
Um… that’s a FAIL… they can only afford to power one light. Mostly because they’ve let the existing power stations fall to pieces and failed to generate enough for those that need it.
Conservation? NO, simple case of they can’t provide the service.
NO!!!! beacuse the icon is so small! get it?????
Yes they are conserving electricity. No, they are not conserving paper.
electricity AND ink!
that is a fail and a win in conservation:
it conserves lighting and electricty
and not paper and bilboard space
WTF?!?!?
how clever!
Reply if you love America!
Too bad they waste electricity for advertising.
That’s so predictable! XD
Epic Win !
100 % WIN
Surely It’s A Fail Because Of The Amount Of Paper Wasted? O.o
Are You Sure About That? Do You Always Use A Capital Letter For Every Word?
its still wasteing all of that paper
Never heard of electronic billboards you dickweed. No paper!!
Did he live?
I hate you.
This is so fail.
fu-ckin treehugger
clever. I like it.
Yay for smart people(:
USE BOMBS WISELY
wow i love this ad
Amazing ad!!!!!!
At first, I read “Use electricity widely” !
This would have been a true fail …