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» 135 Failures in Communication

  1. MRN ♂ says:

    Maybe its the tax.

  2. Meeeme says:

    Almost first

  3. Aja says:

    Ahh… free Kodak moments.

  4. MRN ♂ says:

    Free Willy was about five bucks when I saw it, and I didn’t complain then.

  5. *Snaps*
    *Godzilla impression*

  6. The Moomin says:

    The film is free, that’s a packaging charge.

  7. Canada Sux says:

    What was probably intended (though indeed not said) was that processing was ₤3.99 and that new film would be included at no additional charge. Canadians move here, but don’t bother to learn the language.

  8. The Moomin says:

    Or maybe if you pay £3.99 to adopt it, they release the film into the wild?

  9. JeremyG says:

    DOUBLE FAIL!!!!
    FREE film, quality DIGITAL photos!!!!!

  10. tu madre says:

    it’s in euros, that explains everything

  11. ForeverNoob says:

    Well, I’m all for freeing film… but what exactly will my 3 pound 99 achieve?

  12. Minbad says:

    Maybe it’s the bail to release the film…?

  13. Film? Who uses film?

  14. Kyo says:

    So where’s the problem? Film is free and the photos are 3,99…

  15. L says:

    Here in The Netherlands we have a chain store called Free Record Shop. Well, that’s obviously a very stupid contradictio in terminis, but apart from that their cd’s are rather expensive too:-\

  16. Cdtte Col Timothy John, 2Lt of FAILton! says:

    They pay tax!

  17. 5 eagles leaps says:

    I am back. Good morning to whom all is here.

  18. Spoon God says:

    Maybe you get the £3.99 free with it :D
    That would be awesome

  19. For 3.99, you get film for yor digital camera.

    Which is free.

  20. Cloral says:

    It seems like this is the thing companies do nowadays. For instance, there’s an ad that’s on a lot here that states you pay $19.95 for ‘free unlimited long distance’. No, you pay $19.95 for unlimited long distance. It isn’t free. You pay $19.95 for it. Whether that’s a good deal or not is another discussion. But it isn’t free!

  21. Martha says:

    free is not even free anymore these days

  22. Connor says:

    mabe the mabe the signs free

  23. forge says:

    Film? Film? What is this “film?”

  24. Mob mesh says:

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  25. Smeep says:

    First time poster – but I don’t see the problem in this pic. Sure, the sign is retarded but I can see a KFC.

    KAY EFF SEE.

  26. Fire Panther says:

    This almost as funny as a piture i took on my trip in Australia, it’s a picture of a 24/7 Store that’s closed, as in not open ok. But i lost the file so i cant post it, ah well

  27. Giloi says:

    This isn’t really a FAIL if you understand it.
    You pay £3.99 to get your film processed, and in return they give you a free film with your prints to keep you coming back.
    That’s how it used to work back in the stone ages around here anyway.

  28. Oh my GOD – that’s in Leyton!!! Bah ha ha – GO EAST LONDON!!!

  29. G. James says:

    Free as in speech, liberty, or beer?

    Apparently not beer.

    GNU Film?

  30. nacho205 says:

    Its free! but first you have to pay for it

  31. Tom says:

    Canada Sux and Giloi are correct, but the choice of wording on the sign is poor.

  32. rwegerg says:

    maybe tis is gay

  33. Camomeal says:

    I’m pretty sure digital photos DONT have film either.

  34. Fire Panther says:

    maybe its a brand name called free film

  35. Dr. Failington says:

    You pay for the name

  36. DH says:

    Is this a double fail?

  37. CK says:

    two fails in one sandwich board: am I the only one noticing that they’re advertising film for quality DIGITAL photos? as in, the sorts of cameras that don’t require film?

  38. Joe says:

    i guess it’s supposed to be Film Free (digital)

  39. Joey says:

    More like photo company fail

  40. tahrey says:

    Wow, so many RL-n00bs here… posted and largely commented on by people who have never actually operated a film camera I reckon.

    It costs you £3.99 to have your used-up film processed. When you get your photos back, you get a fresh one with it, gratis and for nothing.

    Just because something comes from a time before your knowledge when such signs were common and widely understood, and you can’t be bothered to think very deeply about it, doesn’t make it a fail.

    Digital cameras have only been in reasonably common ownership, what… 7, 8 years now? Saw my first one – a very expensive, bulky Fuji with terrible picture quality – in 2000. I didn’t move up from film until late 2002, and that was because I *needed* something I could take a great deal of not-necessarily-very-high-rez, MS Word compatible pics with for a university project. I ran the maths and figured processing on all the films I would have to shoot would come to at least 20% over the price of a cheaper but otherwise still-expensive, smaller but still as large as the cheapest 35mm point-and-shoot, better but otherwise still not very good model, and used it as an excuse to join the bleeding edge.

    Then a friend had to go an outclass me and get a high-end pocket-friendly Foveon, just for personal use, as a pre-graduation present. 3 megapixels… in mid 2003. We were very jealous.

    Seriously, are you people even out of elementary school? Do you not even recall your parents doing this, or having a clunky fisher price my-first-camera into which 110 cartridges went?

    • tahrey says:

      The “digital photo” bit at the bottom is just a logo on the sign stand, also. I fear for the mental state of the world sometimes.


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