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.
Have you seen the schmucks on the street- I thought we had actually gone back in time to the eighties, it is a neon and hairspray nightmare out there, not to mention the legwarmers!
photographers – who are not up to date…
people on a movie set….
people who make sandwiches – what do you mean thats “cling”- film?!? Same difference.
etc etc etc
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:-\
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!
Wow really very nice and good information you share here. I read your entire post and really superb information you share here on funny stuff thanks for your information.
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
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.
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?
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?
Maybe its the tax.
Maybe it’s Maybelene.
Maybe it’s Christmas (I remembered the apostrophe this time).
Maybe I’m amazed.
Maybe tomorrow, you’ll change your mind.
Maybe tomorrow, I’ll want to settle down.
So maybe tomorrow
I’ll find my way home
♫Maybe you’ll think of me when you are all alone♫
♫Maybe the one who is waiting for you♫
♫Will prove untrue, then what will you do?♫
♫Maybe you’ll sit and sigh, wishing that I were near♫
♫Then maybe you’ll ask me to come back again♫
♫And maybe I’ll say “Maybe”♫
♫ Maybe
Oh if I could pray and I try, dear,
You might come back home, home to me. ♫
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner?
Maybe you can hire the A-Team.
Maybe baby!
Your face belongs to Noxzema
Noxzema’s like a peeing furnace
Maybe selling film nowadays is a fail by itself.
Maybe you don’t know nothing about photography.
Almost first
not really
Ahh… free Kodak moments.
The film just got out of jail, but you still have to pay for it.
Free Willy was about five bucks when I saw it, and I didn’t complain then.
A free willy? Sorry, i don’t swing that way.
*the choir sings RULE BRITANNIA*
*waves Union Jack*
*Snaps*
*Godzilla impression*
The film is free, that’s a packaging charge.
There’s always a price for quality, too.
I’d like to purchase some of your quality, please.
mmmmmmm quality street….
*drools*
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.
That’s a funny looking Pound symbol you’ve got there.
That’s the form that was common until the currency was Americanis— er, decimalised. I still rather like it.
I’m struggling with the Canadian link. Some sort of grudge you’re airing?
An observation being aired, behind which airing is perhaps a grudge, behind which is certainly the observed phenomenon.
Whoa, layers.
Out of curiosity, how do they spell Snobbery in England?
E-T-O-N.
S-O-U-T-H-E-R-N-E-R
*flees*
I say!
*clutches bowler hat and chases after Moomin with brolly*
Ee by gum, tha’ll neva gets me thanos.
*leaps on passing whippet and races to freedom*
*puts on riding outfit*
*climbs on horse*
Tally ho!
*gallops to the Moomin*
C-O-M-F-O-R-T
*downs a shot*
Oi you
*tickles Moonmin till he goes red*
Being tickled makes you a communist?
get tickled enough you will do anything!
*tickles coyote*
CAPITALIST PIG DOG!!! Hey, your right.
y-o-u-’-r’e
Good God
y-o-u-’-r-e
amazing what a good tickle will do to your grammar too! mwahahahaha
You fiend you!
What the hell does that make me then?
*snork*
Normally with a lowercase ‘s’, of course.
Or maybe if you pay £3.99 to adopt it, they release the film into the wild?
*breaks into Born free*
*charges k@ with breaking and entering lions*
0.0
*takes photos and sends to The Sun and The Mirror*
*poses*
that will be £3.99 for free, ah thankyou
Buy free, get one for three?
Page three reference! WOOHOO!!
I have been in the Sun & the mirror!
I have also been on page three…….
.
.
.
of the telegraph
k@’s can’t resist paper can they?
Least I am litter trained now!
*sits on the local paper*
*hands over cash*
*grumbles something about the end of free photojournalism*
-after having been Papped for real, that is a good thing! (I hadn’t even brushed my hair)
Was it a smear campaign?
Felt like it- but no speculums involved!
Scraping the barrel with that one! :p
*threadsqueeze*
warm it first though!
or you can pay £3.99 to get to get unlimited an amount of film.
DOUBLE FAIL!!!!
FREE film, quality DIGITAL photos!!!!!
it’s in euros, that explains everything
If those are Euros, my name is Mickey Mouse.
♫Whose the leader of the club that’s made for you and me?
G-e-n-er-a-l♫ oh forget it.
I wouldn’t try and sing the entire thing. It could be fatal.
(Hi, coyote!)
Hello there, or anywhere for that matter.
Your name is Mickey Mouse now.
Euros?
back to first grade
Well, I’m all for freeing film… but what exactly will my 3 pound 99 achieve?
For the film to be rehabilitated into the wild.
The important thing is that we all get together to support this cause.
Maybe we can come back after a few years, journey into the wilderness, and hope it will recognize us?
*maybe?*
Should do, it has a photographic memory!
*jazz hands*
We’ll just have to wait and see what develops.
lets hope it happens in a flash though
*looks at clock*
Let’s hope that it doesn’t die of exposure.
Only if it shows its good side
Have you read its profile?
i call it Ricky!
You call the roll Ricky!?
Rickaaaay!
For one thing you will be out 3 pound 99.
Maybe it’s the bail to release the film…?
It’s ransom I tell you!
you pay 3.99 for it but than you get it for ABSOLUTELY free! i’m counting my money already…
Set Mr. Film free!! Only £3.99!!!
Film? Who uses film?
Have you seen the schmucks on the street- I thought we had actually gone back in time to the eighties, it is a neon and hairspray nightmare out there, not to mention the legwarmers!
photographers – who are not up to date…
people on a movie set….
people who make sandwiches – what do you mean thats “cling”- film?!? Same difference.
etc etc etc
Lies!
*puts fingers in ears an sings*
lalalalalalalalalala
Possibly these Rooks ^ clicky!
So where’s the problem? Film is free and the photos are 3,99…
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:-\
They still sell those at the Free?
Last time I was in one, I only saw DVDs and games.
They pay tax!
I am back. Good morning to whom all is here.
Good morning.
Good morning shadowsniper you need an avatar. They are free for 3.99 LOL. Go to gravatar.com ?
Free food only costs 3.99
Maybe you get the £3.99 free with it
That would be awesome
I agree.
They’re not sugar free donuts.
Your thumb is covering the comma.
It’s sugar, free donuts.
For 3.99, you get film for yor digital camera.
Which is free.
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!
free is not even free anymore these days
mabe the mabe the signs free
Film? Film? What is this “film?”
Wow really very nice and good information you share here. I read your entire post and really superb information you share here on funny stuff thanks for your information.
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.
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
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.
Oh my GOD – that’s in Leyton!!! Bah ha ha – GO EAST LONDON!!!
Free as in speech, liberty, or beer?
Apparently not beer.
GNU Film?
Its free! but first you have to pay for it
Canada Sux and Giloi are correct, but the choice of wording on the sign is poor.
maybe tis is gay
I’m pretty sure digital photos DONT have film either.
maybe its a brand name called free film
You pay for the name
Is this a double fail?
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?
almost free
i guess it’s supposed to be Film Free (digital)
More like photo company fail
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?
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.