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FIRST!! Oh Boy, the firsters strike again
*commits suicide in shame*
*waits in hell for the guy with the ridiculously long name to lure him into a devilishly complicated yet effective trap*
Yummie, i like SPAM.. Especially if served on a freshly toasted FAIL
That’s too bad. Everyone else hates it.
even if they did have braille on the board, blind people dont even read it. because they are blind
it’s obviously only there for effect. stevie wonder is blind, so they put braille on the billboard to emphasize that….
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Photoshop is such a nice application. I love it!
emphasizing blindness is no cool
emphasize might have been the wrong word, “point out” might be a better phrase, but still not the right one…
How bout…”making fun of”?
The fact that Stevie Wonder is blind should not be pushed onto the public. This billboard seems to be saying “Hey, look! He’s blind, yet he can still play music”. No. Stevie Wonder produces wonderful music, and his blindness should not be him, he is his music.
I sorta lost track of my grammar and thought proccess there. Now let’s get onto something less philisophical…
LOLZ THEY R SO FAIL LOLOLOL
it doesn’t matter if its right or wrong, who cares, those blind people won’t get to read it anyway
Win.
agreed.
Yeah. I would think it’s offensive.
If only we knew how to read braille
I do know how to read braille, and the billboard is correct. The person who posted this just didn’t know that there are abbreviations for certain letter combinations, and “st” and “er” are 2 of those abbreviations. (grade 2 braille)
THE BILLBOARD IS CORRECT.
Thanks for explaining that for me.
Thankyou you are awesome! Finally someone with some common sense
It is there in case some blind graffiti-youth happened to climb up to try spray-painting THIS billboard, but then they woul find out it was Stevie Wonder, and not do it. So obviously the fail is to spell it wrong, so they’ll spray it anyways…
Ummm…. that braille is correct…. verified by my blind friend Jim.
Verified again…. the “ST” is a contraction, (Dot 3, Dot 4), and the “ER” at the end of his name is a contraction (Dot 1,2, 4, 5, 6). So, the braille on the billboard is correct…. the person who “failed” it didn’t know enough about braille contractions to know the difference.
Yes, the billboard uses Grade 2 braille, which is used by blind people in the USA. The real FAIL is whoever created this graphic.
The initial dot 3’s are the braille equivalent of caps lock.
holy crap dude thats the damned joke you moron
Wrong line.
How dare you! You don’t deserve a trap, you cretinous buffoon.
Best insult I have heard today! Deserves some cake, here have a chocolate eclaire.
Why, thank you. Excuse me while I get my troll-bashing mallet.
Why didn’t you tell me about this earlier?
You should have asked! Here, you have a go.
*digs stranger up so his or her head shows*
It is like whack a mole without the challenge part.
*squeezes troll*
My new strategy is kill trolls with kindness, then ignore them. How early in the morning do you have to be just to write first?
*takes shower to avoid getting sick from troll*
Yet you have it all wrong, I am not a troll but in fact a regular poster here. I do not write first either.
I did not call you a troll. Forgive my bad reply placement. I meant stranger.
You responded with a Squeeze troll…
Hmm, I liked it, but I might have used cretaceous baboon instead.
I have always liked “you vomitous mass” or “you pustule” as an insult…does that make me odd?
No, I think the generally accepted fact that you ARE odd is what makes you odd. You are on failblog after all, and that isn’t a point for the defense either.
Just a tad
*tries to remain sensible*
*giggles*
OK OK I admit it
*stands up*
My name is K@ and I am a certifiable Loony!
Welcome to the club!!!
I prefer, “You fight like a dairy farmer!”
How appropriate, you fight like a cow
*squeeze*
Yay!
*squeezes The Moomin back*
I can’t believe your mobility!
Morning!
*Big squeezes*
I like “such stultiloquence!”
Who is going to touch the billboard to read it?
Presumably a suicidal bling guy trying to make his way along the Billboard to the edge…
At least he is going to die knowing that Stevie Wonder is coming to town
You must be very lonely to be talking so much.
Nope, was just quite bored for a moment^^
There you are!
*Bashes Stranger0815 several times till he is firmly underground*
There.
THANK YOU!
Yeah, pretty good, try again
Erik Weihenmayer could do it!
ACTUALLY — no fail here. they used Braille contractions for st and for er, hence the differences in the sign and the braille written below.
+1500 points if this is true. (The Points Giver rarely bothers to check, especially about blind things, since it’s often not found on the net.)
Yeah, I can confirm this. The single dot at the beginning of each word indicates a capital letter.
It’s also not a fail because the Braille was pretty obviously intended to be a cute/clever way to draw attention… not for the blind to read. The real failer here is the guy who submitted it.
Agreed. The billboard uses Grade 2 braille which is used by blind people in the USA. Grade 1 braille is straight-up letters, numbers, and punctuation. Grade 2 braille uses contractions like “st” and “er” as shown in the billboard, as well as full contractions like the letter “P” by itself is short for “people” and so forth.
But how would a blind person get at the billboard whilst driving?wait why is a blind person drIVING?
That’s the fastest way to the Stevie Wonder concert!
Confirmed. I learned Brl to become a transcriber when my wife lost her eyesight. The grade 1 Brl at the bottom spells out each letter for “stevie wonder”, but the Brl on the billboard uses grade 2 Brl, which has a lot of contractions for common letter combinations, and uses a leading dot to signal capitalization, so it does indeed read “^[st]evie ^wond[er]“
Was about to say that this is not a fail braille – but was correctly using contractions…. and luckily a few others already commented.
Shame on those who judged this a fail because the braille was ‘wrong’ – you just showed yourselves up for being ignorant.
Braille at its simplest level has one set of dots per character, but in grade II braille, a combination of dots will indicate punctuation and sets of letters commonly seen together.
Remember that a sighted reader skims over the typed word, and with proficient braille readers they have to read every character of every word, and using contractions speeds up the reading process.
The point of the billboard was to draw attention to braille – in the anniversary year of Louise Braille, thus it is a win. Many organisations and blind people use braille in their logos and adverts, even though only the sighted braille reader can see it, the reason it is done is to emphasise that this is a legitimate form of communication.
Hmm – Louise Braille. Was she any relation to the somewhat more famous Louis Braille, who devised the Braille system in 1821?
Ah, you win for pointing this out. I still have trouble reading it just by looking at it, and was going nuts trying to figure out how it was mispelled.
this is a fail fail.
And I’m a fail snail….
who leaves a delightful snail trail
…as he’s going to get the mail.
and desperately needs a pale ale
Is there a pale ale sale?
I think it is a bale of kale and pale ale sale!
While reading that braile!
and his pancakes are stale.
and his arms start to flail
So we can use them to hammer nails ….
That sound tends to make babies wail.
you threw your baby in a wail?!?!?!?!?
What whale?
The one humping micheal bale
He threw it to Harry the prince of Whales
kind of like having braille writing on the panel of a drive-up ATM
In the early 90s, my wife had an account with Citibank. The drive-up ATM had Braille instructions… for the touch-screen. FAIL
Do you seriously think they have different manufacturing equipment for drive-up and walk-up ATMs? They’re all the same ATMs. Some are installed in drive-through lanes. This is not a hard concept.
Braille on a drive-up ATM makes sense. Blind people shouldn’t have to give private information like an ATM PIN to a caregiver who is driving them. Instead the client sits in the back, the caregiver drives up to the ATM and the client can conduct the transaction.
But not on a touch screen!
That is funny (says the wife of the blind bass player).
Can’t read this!
I think the Braille written on the billboard is right. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille .
It is right. I learned to read Braille so I could proofread signs. They’re using Grade 2 Braille on this sign where common letter combinations get their own character. In this case there is a contraction of “ST” at the beginning of Stevie and the “ER” at the end of Wonder, which the person trying to point out the “fail” ironically failed to mention.
It’s ridiculous to put Braille on a billboard, but I can understand why they did it. I mean, the guy IS blind, after all. We associate Braille with the blind, so it’s just basically a decoration much like we would use different fonts.
Just touch you screen
Okay. I noticed dissimilarities between the Braille posted at the billboard and the Braille posted below the billboard.
Actually, it IS right. If you look at the wikipedia page, the first dot means “Capitalization follows”, then the next two dots is the contraction for “ST”, then it proceeds as normal.
Still, braille on a billboard?
ahahahhahahahahahahhahahhahahhahahhahahhahahahahhaha!
If Stivie wonder is blind that would make at least some sense. Symbolic meaning of blind artists performance.
Yeah, if he was blind….
Maybe…
one day…
Yeah its the same as people saying r.i.p. to Michael Jackson, if he was dead it would at least make sense, just like if Stiiiiiiivie wonder was blind.
With the extra eye, are you sure he is blind?
*Gropes Moomin’s Braille*
I feel to see what you did there.
.. . .. . . .. ..
. . . .
.. . .
^^ for my amusement only
E i E i i E i i i i i E i i….?
WordPress compressed what I actually wrote.
Makes a weird kind of sense with the name I suppose.
Louis Braille must be spinning in his grave!
*squeezes k@*
*squeeze*
am glad you noticed it was not morse code!
Why would it be Morse? There aren’t any dashes!
.
Have you seen the troll up there? (S)he labelled me “that ridiculously long-named guy”. The cheek of it!
I know, how outrageous is that!
I always thought of you as that “outrageously long and ever changing name guy who wears many hats” …
It says something important about someone when their name is in constant flux. I am not sure what it says, but it says something ….
It says awesome, perhaps?
… – - – …
Why the SOS?
Maybe it will post this time?
-tries for the 3rd time-
Because….It’s the only morse code I know ><
Maybe it’s not “Save our souls” but something else like “Semen on Sandwich”
But I thought it was Mayo… Is it wrong that I enjoyed the “SOS”?
actually, the only reason we uuse sos, is the …—…, is the easiest to remember combination:it doesn’t stand for anything
” off”?
Err… WordPress is eating bits of my message too…
By that I meant to say:
“<naughty word> off”?
Directed at troll, you indeed win yourself one chocolate eclaire!
D: I want one!
You must earn the creamy chocolatey goodness, ah who am I kidding, here..
*passes chocolate eclaire*
Weee!! *noms*
*says with full mouth* Fhangue!!
*wipes face with handkerchief*
Glad you liked it, but please swallow before you speak.
And always remember to drink first, then swallow.
Would that be creaMass chocolatey goodness?
BUKKIT gah,
Judy *squeeze* love you, but you just ruined my one indulgence!
I suppose I deserve it after the soup on friday though!
Eh, pass the bukkit over here! I spammed the thread yesterday and I need to blaaarrgh into it!
I don’t get it….
Stevie Wonder is blind, and the poster designers thought they’d put braille on it as they thought it would be fitting. Unfortunately, what they didn’t realise is that:
A). Braille needs dents to be read by blind people
B). They can’t “speak” Braille.
Allright, if they did not get that braille right, what did the braille actually says?
the one underneath shows what it should say.
however it actually says
comma ST e v i e W o n d e r ,
not sure why the random comma, but the actual braille translation is not as wrong as they are making it out to be, despite the stupidity of putting it on a billboard
Yes, it’s 2nd level Braille contractions. So it’s likely that the boy who cried fail only knows the basic lettering.
am kicking myself- it is apostrophe not comma….am sooo rusty!
What apostrophe?
The Braille symbols on the billboard are:
[capital][st][e][v][i][e] [capital][w][o][n][d][er]
Apostrophe is the same as the capitals mark, but half a cell to the left.
And given Stevie Wonder is blind, the Braille on the billboard is almost certainly just stylistic… not really intended to be read by blind people.
And by “stylistic” I mean…
Every day, on the way to work, I ride past a Vision Australia office… their logo on the side of the building is just “va” in Braille… not raised bumps or anything, just dots drawn on a sign. Would the submitter accuse them of failing too, in their logo design?
It doesn’t help the background has stars on it!
apostrophe is a dot 2 and capital is a dot 6. You fail!
I think partly the angle of the picture is making it difficult to see where the dots are for some of us. I would hope it would be easier to read on a billboard.
The braille is correct the first two characters are “capital letter follows” and the short form for “st”..
hubby say’s the capital (dot 6) should be in it’s own character. Then the contraction for st would be (dot 3 dot 4). What they did was “capitalize the contraction” in the same character which makes it a totally different symbol which doesn’t mean anything. They also called it 2nd grade braille, back in 1976…
A contraction (ch, ing, wh, sh, etc.) are symbols that mean combinations of common letter combinations.
that fail is so obviouse a fake..
THE PIXULZ!!!11! SHADOWZ!!!!11!ONE!!!
PHOTOSHOPED!!!1
this isnt a fail, it’s a trade mark….. the one who made this fail failed for not knowing the difference between a trade mark and braille
and a banana
Does that mean bananas could actually be a form of subliminal advertising?
*Slips in*
SQUEEZE!
*Peels out*
It would be one hell of a time just to get a blind person up on the billboard and then they have to reach the brail (in the middle of the larrge billboard). Anyone who dares to try it I wish them good luck and I’ll think they’re insane.
*falls in Parisian river*
Ka@, are you in deNile?
wherever I am it is Amazon!
Happy Thames for you, then!
It Rox well!
So your life is Rhoneing along well?
Ah it is all good, was a little limp(opo) when I had to haul my a$$ out of bed to get to work this morning!
Danube better get a little more sleep the night before, K@.
you are right 4 hours may not be enough Tyne
It’s not healthful to Miss(issippi) sleep like that.
I usually try for at least Severn!
According to QI, you Don need that much sleep. People who sleep four hours a night are supposed to live longer.
Despite that pearl of knowledge, I still think getting such little sleep puts at risk for catching Yellow fever.
*sneaks a “you” up into the post above*
What if you get a Col(orado)?
I suppose that may be all you Nidd, but would you want to spend your entire life wandering around tired?
Well, if you sleep, you can’t throw up, and if you can’t throw up, you can’t cuss, and cussing is Volga
Ural wet.
You’re Strymon too hard Captain, just let the puns flow.
Welcome to Egypt.
Why would there be a billboard near by the Paisian river.
Why did I forget to put a question mark?
Why am I asking myself these questions?
*facepalm*
clue..What is the River that runs through Paris?
Where is starlight theatre then (look at the bottom righthand corner of the billboard)?
IN SEINE! nothing to do with the billboard just a play on words! jeeesh!
I am not insane! They just wrote that on my chart because…..because….oh, they just did, ok?
Judy! Let’s go!
*rips sink off floor*
*hurls through window*
*climbs through and runs away*
Can us other cuckoos come with ya?
Sorry.. but I couldn’t resist it. BrailleBlog!
*THWACKS with shellacked Pike*
Let that be a lesson, none of that!
*giggles*
Probably put up by the same people that produced the braille version of the Umpire’s Handbook
HEY! FIRST!
Nope.
firstHonestly, how long do we have to do this before people get the point? Is there just a society of general slobber that is trying to annoy the regulars and those of us who actually want to contribute?
Just ignore them.
The statue of the FDR monument in Washington DC shows FDR sitting in a normal chair. This angered some who were disabled, because they wished to point out that a disabled man was a very successful president. (Regardless of your politics, he WAS elected FOUR times. I just miffs me because he didn’t want to be seen as disabled when he was alive, anyways.) To placate them, the gov designed his hands so that he is signing, and put the inscription in both normal text and braille. The problem here, is that all inscriptions on federal monuments, by federal law, must be readable from FORTY FEET AWAY. I don’t know about you, but my arm is just about three feet long……..
Damn, that is what Stretch Armstrong was about!
Jimbo, they later broke down and added a statue of FDR in a wheelchair, at the entrance to the monument. Again, to appease the handicapped community.
Mainly I thought the braille on the sign was what was funny. Did they break the law, or are the bumps reeeaaalllly long?
Hey, I know where that billboard is – and I’d had the same thought about putting braille on a billboard.
Hm, actually you FAILED.
The translation on the billboard is according to braille grade 2, which is more sophisticated but absolutely CORRECT.
Sorry, smarty-pants.
1) Read the comments.
2) Try to read it when blind.
3) Safety.
4) Do you need a bunk up to get up there?
5) ???
6) Profit.
It’s obviously meant to be stylistic.
Is that not immediately obvious to anyone with two working brain cells?
Good grief really, gosh you must be fun at parties!
One brain cell says style, the other says math. They are still debating…
My two brain cells went on strike. But I can agree on one thing, why the hell are you even here? It seems like you don’t have funny bone.
Since the brailles correct…..maybe its a poster fail for whoever posted it on the site??
ohh thats funny, im blind to
is this a fail
No, it isn’t. The fact that it has got FAIL written on it and that it has a place on FAILblog is pure coincidence.
I Braille to see it BFF.
ok
BFF do you have a Facebook or safe email that we could share something w/ you?
switches ‘we’ for ‘I’
He he. Get ready to laugh.
BFF, I think that posting your personal email in a public place like this is calling for trouble, especially since it seems it contains your full name. I wrote to Emily and asked her to delete this comment, for your safety.
Fluffy, you would not believe how stupid I felt after I posted that comment. I thought that would be my last day on Failblog as trolls would seize the chance to be an imposter of me. I hope you can all forgive me for my lack of common sense.
BFF!!! Long time no see!
*squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze*
Dammit! Sorry…that was me. I mean, I. I was working on the Failpeeps site.
*apologetic squeeze*
*adds another squeeze*
Just ’cause.
Hey BFF! I was wondering where you’ve been!
*squeeze!*
*squeezes DW, Avis and AA*
I’ve been in Tokyo for the past few weeks! Due to the time difference, I only get to comment on the US early morning fails. Unfortunately, the only time I’ll get to comment with you guys is when I’m back in the UK (unless one of you wakes up exceptionally early).
See you at four!
*squeezes Qwaz*
See you!
*Squeezes*
Something happens to my internal clock when I go over to a friend’s house, I can’t seem to go to sleep even when everyone else is sleeping where they fell.
Or stays up exceptionally late.
Indeed. But surely, that would mean FB could damage your life if you stayed up that late?!
I don’t think so, but I also don’t think I would be making much sense if I tried to post that late.
We’ve missed you!! But I hope you’re having an absolutely fabulous time in Tokyo!
Aw, thanks! Tokyo is actually pretty hot this time of year, but I’m staying cool under the air-con. Hope you guys are having a great time as well!
Enjoy your stay in Tokyo. We look forward to your return to London posting time.
Have fun all today, I will be enjoying a family picnic. Toodles.
Bye, Emp!
*waves*
*waves*
toodles Emp!
Well, I’m off to bed. ‘Night all!
night nighty! – *regrets course work*
I can’t see…
*check*
I LOL’d
Good for you! *THUMBS UP*
I am blind.
Ya don’t need eyes to see that.
Whatever it says, I’m now trying to figure out how to braille “property of Jeff” on my boobs to surprise my blind husband. I can see that it will take a lot of study first…don’t want to mess up the tattoo!
Actually, we made a Brailled t-shirt with “if you can read this you are too close” in puff paint.
It was on the back. Sorry.
This is NOT bad Braille. Dots 3-4 are grade 2 Braille for “st”. And visual Braille is just an awareness thing. This is not a fail.
Also, the 1-2-4-5-6 at the end is “shorthand” for “er”.
this is correct, he’s just arguing placement of the symbol for “capital”
Oh man, cranky blind bass player just pulled the high school brailler out of the closet. He’s fired up now.
If you really want to pick the nits, it’s not actually Braille because it’s not raised. It’s only pictures of Braille lettering.
Jeff, says, “right on dude, that’s funny!”
The way the person wrote the correction, is 1st grade braille (no contractions) without capitalization… s,t,e,v,i,e w,o,n,d,e,r
Okay, I ”read” the sign for Jeff and he typed what I wrote on the perkins brailler and then read it for me.
The sign says: Capital, ou, e, v, i, e Capital, w, o, n, d, er
I agree with the other person that said the stars make it harder to “read”. so the ou may be me reading wrong with all the crappy stars.
PS – Jeff is excited about the tattoo I’m planning.. so we are going to do some practice braille runs using m&m’s….later guys.
I clearly see “St”, not “ou”. If you stay within the confines of the Braille cell you see the dots are more in a “/” pattern, one on the bottom left and one on the top, which is the contraction for “st”, and as you stated the . in front indication a first letter capitalization.
Who said he the braille was misspelled? it isn’t. his name is spelt correctly
just test.
I agree, the braille is correct… that’s an “St” short-cut.
please please please..
..no more melodies.
They lack impact, they’re petty.
Yes, it is a oficialy fail…the braile is written backwards.
no it is not.
Actually it isn’t wrong it’s grade 2 braille it’s using an ’st’ sign at the beginning and a ‘ed’ sign at the end, i’m partially sighted and know braille.
It’s like having braille on drive up ATMs.
You’re assuming that only the driver can use the ATM?
More like braill on a steering wheel, not a good idea…
Have you ever seen Stevie Wonder’s house?
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Neither has he.
Sheesh, failblog gets crappier and crappier … so why am I still here?
Not a fail. The braille on the billboard is correct.
LOL, why its a triple fail
- blind ppl don’t drive
- they can’t feel it
- they got the braille wrong. XD
HOLY SHIT! I’ve actually seen this billboard, I saw it when I was on vacation.
how it FAILS
1. probily just dots with no way of felling them.
2.on bill bord, can’t reach it.
3. too big.
4. A blind person won’t notis sit (blind duhh)
5. blind people don’t drive!!! not going to be anywhere neer it.
6. probily not even braill (but it douse look like it)
And 7…
Why? who said that was a good idea!?
If you want to contact me, too bad! You will never find me! Mu ha ha ha ha ha!
+0.5 points.
It still says “Stevie Wonder”, but there is a symbol for “ST” in braille, and they used “S” and “T”. But it’s still right.
Knowledge fail (for me)
Last!
Who would be stupid enough to do that?
It is in fact correct! It is grade two braille, and it says Stevie Wonder!
You took the words out of my mouth N to the 3.
I don’t get it.. Why do people always go off-topic near the top? Well..
Braille Fail. Ooh that rhymes.
I fail.
Triple fail is the fact that Celtic Woman was playing the same night in the same city at the Sprint Center (we were there)…that place is way bigger than Starlight Theater, and Stevie Wonder is more well known than Celtic Woman…they barely filled up a quarter of the Sprint Center.
The times I went to Starlight was to see a broadcast of Prairie Home Companion and a Weird Al concert…both were awesome.
Hey! I went to the PHC broadcast too. Love the Garrison Keillor.
The signs on the actual sign is different to what is re-written???
i believe this qualifies as epic fail.
Actually, the Braille is right. It’s a grade 2 contraction. But your corrected Braille is also correct grade 1 (letter by letter) ST is contracted to the 1 and 4 dots. ER is contratcted to the 2,3,4,5 and 6 dots (visually like a backwards Braille Q) Each is also capitalized with the 1 dot before S and W. Although, to be a literal translation of the printed word, there should be two 1 dots indicating caps lock. Both are correct. But good for you for paying enough attention to learn Braille
the person posting the photo also did not get the Braille correct.
They used S T instead of the one cell contraction for ST same with the E R
… — …
I just could understand the braille words below the big yellow letters, but read the braille words in the billboard, it’s very hard, because of the stars, the stars and the braille code mixes.
The Braille is correct! It is contracted Braille which is what all Braille readers use unless they are beginning to learn Braille. (I am a Braille transcriber.) BTW, it just says “Stevie Wonder”.
The zoomed in braille is different from the one on the billboard. Still, the braille placement is a MIGHTY FAIL (there’s a new one for you…)
I have lived in the Kansas city area almost my whole life. They do a GREAT JOB of screwing things (everything) up. Hey KANSAS CITY wayyyy to go on this one!! Let’s make fun of blind people!!
it kind of does make sense that they put braile on the billboard because stevie wonder is blind.
Has no one else noticed that the braille on the billboard and the user submitted text on the photo are the exact same color? Why wouldn’t it be white like the rest of the text on the billboard? Doesn’t make sense.
Looks to me that this is a fake.
They probably wanted the braille to stand out. I know sometimes that when braille is reproduced as pictures along with print, it is often put in gray to differentiate and make it easier to read.
What if the guy who was putting it up wanted to know what the billboard says?????
*Wanders if someone is going to say “How could a blind person have that kind of job?”*
Whomever wrote that the braille on the billboard is wrong, is wrong themselves.
The braille added to the billboard is written using “grade 2″ braille (with a capital S and W) and the braille put below it is written in “grade 1″ braille without capital S/W.
http://www.mathsisfun.com/braille-translation.html
I’me visually impaired, and I know braille, and i can’t see what’s wrong with the braille
i’m seriously concerned with how not a single person has pointed out that the braille does not actually exist. everyone is arguing over whether the braille is wrong or not. not only is it the same exact color as the writing pointing out the fact that it’s incorrect, but there are dots floating in mid air. maybe i’m wrong. and i’m sorry if someone has already pointed this out, i read a lot of the comments trying to find out if someone had but couldn’t read 280. please tell me if you have noticed this as well.
Ha ha.
Hi huys! I read braille (My dad is blind) They did do the braille correctly, it’s just level two braille. That first character is a combination of ’s’ and ‘t’ to shorten it. It can help significantly when books and such are in braille.
Stevie Wonder SUCKS anyways
Somebody needs to learn grade-2 Braille before they start making fun of shit. And even if you don’t, you can at least blast the “ER” sign at the end as surely as the “ST” one at the beginning. Ignorance may be bliss, but at least be thorough.
Blind win
This just isn’t a fail at all!
I can also confirm this is grade-2 Braille! I work at a specialist college for the visually impaired called Henshaws. I can read grade-1 and am working on grade-2.. I work with this day in day out during term times. People should learn about things before they take this piss out of it!
lol the failer failed
photoshoped, the writing and the “brail” are in the same colour?
the guy who made this , epic brail.
Hey! Where Am I? Helper? Guide Dog? Hey What Does This Say? ” Walk 3 Steps Forward”? Ok, Well Signs Don’t Lie So 1 2 3 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (CRUNCH!) Docter: Yep He’s Dead.
its only braille because stevie wonder is blind. nobody is supposed to actually use the braille
o.o I totally saw this irl and thought about posting it.
You Should Have Done It When You Had The Time
I Think Your Brain Failed Scott
The braille is correct – it’s contracted braille.
The contraction they used was the correct one for “st”.
Didn’t anyone notice the contraction for “er” at the end of Wonder? If they were looking letter for letter, they would’ve noticed.
First.
to fail?
Surprise, surprise…KCMO would majorly fail like that hahaha.
Morons, they did the braille right. The first dot means capitalization, and the second is a contraction for St then at the end, the last dots are a contraction for er. This is not a fail. dont comment on fails when you have no idea what you are talking about
Too bad it’s photoshopped… :’(
But still, the point being that Stevie is blind does make sense but it’s not like a blind guy is going to feel up the billboard.