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Everyone below this line is GHEY
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Everyone above this line is wrong
OH FFFFFFFFFUUUUU-
how…how did you know?!?!
I think that it was just a gheyss.
*applauds*
I like that.
You like it TOO much.
You like ohfu?
He’s an eggie.
ohfu? I thought he said tofu
What is with this line stuff?
No, it’s fohu.
Everyone above this line is a TROLL
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Brittany must be a brianiac.
She probably cant open her car door because her batery died too.
The sign is perfectly fine. Just because you don’t have internet doesn’t mean that you don’t have the capability to email someone.
Um…how exactly do you think email works?
You’ve obviously never heard of Exchange. Just because the internet is down, doesn’t mean that you can’t send emails internally through the business.
Failblog fail.
I’m more worried about this it fella…
There is a difference between internet and LAN. They could send an email through to the MAIL server that would be sitting on the LAN, the MAIL server would then send it through to IT (who would also be attached to LAN). In fact they would still be able to email people outside of LAN if the MAIL server still had access to WAN.
I’m glad someone pointed this out. This sign is obviously from an office, and not intended for home internet users (how would they even see it?). Failblog fail indeed.
exactly. failblog fail.
Brittany must be a blonde!
Your above your own line…
Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve just called my girlfriend to break up with her. Let’s see if I still have Jürgen’s phonenumber..
The things you learn about yourself in the internet…
(Welcome back!)
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what if im between these two lines?
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Then we must read between the lines to get your meaning.
*claps*
rotflmao!!!!
What fails about the picture? Just because your Internet access is down does not mean your e-mail is down…if you are on an internal network…like say at a college, where you could have internal e-mail working but no external internet working. Given the message is on a dry-erase board, on a door – this is probably a dorm.
You can also just have a DNS issue where you cannot resolve IP addresses, but email would still work, regardless if it was inside of a LAN or not. I have had an issue with that where i work. Occasionally the DNS server has an issue, but we can still send and receive email inside and outside of our network with no problem.
IF that were the case, why wouldn’t you just email the notification? The wipe board of your door is more efficient?
Who cares you are all having making assumptions.
*woops not sure how “having” got in there
Or it could be like my work and everyone has blackberries which should still allow emails. But that’s not the point – It’s still a funny message.
I was checking to see how far down I would have to check comments before someone posted this. What is Fail is that people are stupid and don’t realize that not all email is on the interwebs.
I would assume this picture was taken by someone else living in this residence. They would know if loss of internet also meant loss of email in their situation. Why would they post it if it wasn’t the case? I know on my campus when the internet’s out, email is too.
Yupp, happens at my college sometimes. No fail in this picture at all.
I agree. If your proxy server is down, then you cannot access the internet, but your email would still work, unless of course you were using webmail but why would you use webmail in the office? The only fail this is, is whomever posted it that doesn’t know the difference between a exchange server and a proxy server. DUH!
it’s a fail because personal computers can’t get to the webpage needed to log into the email, the only place that could get there was the library and then the IP address would be wrong, and not everyone knows how to use CMD to get your IP address.
The internet is down, not the Intranet, the internal e-mail system will work, which is what brittany is referring to.
nooo 2nd
OmGzOrz u iZ fIRsT?!
wELlL dONe!
YouR PaREntS mUsT Be PR0UD.
You misspelled ‘Bongstores’.
actually no, my parents cut themselves ever since i was born
not getting this comment.
I am a line jumper.
IT=Internet Technicians.?
IT=it is not working.
Room# 2046, IP address 127.0.0.1; please send me a new internet.
Your new internet is shipped and on its way. We also included our free “onlines” as a bonus packet.
Honey, I am faxing you a shopping list. But please fax it back when you are done, because I need it.
I will fax you back the shopping list along with the groceries and
lubconsumables.You broke the fax machine. I think it was the smoked salmon. I am sending your lunch by carrier pigeon.
What do you mean with “by”? The pigeon was the lunch, right?
You mean… you ate Püpi? The love of my life?
No Püpi was carrying ‘Petey the pidgeon’ as his lunch.
The stuffing was tasty. I will compensate you and if you are good I won’t tell anything to the immigration police.
Stuffing? I thought you got rid of that last night? In your special way.
Use smoke signals to send it, for that fuller flavour.
Oops I did it again!
~ Brittany
My neighbor jerked my pigeon.
My boyfriend sauced my goose.
TMI mookie
Hey! That’s MY IP address! You STOLE my IP address! Give it back!
Hi guys, I am working in IT for… ehh far too long. Not unusual to have Intranet and Internet access seperately. It’s not rare for employees of the companies I work for to lose Internet connection only, while there are still do everything in the Intranet, including email and exchange server access (Emails = possible).
Some companies also use Internet via terminal server for safety reasons. If “internet doesn’t work”, only google and failblog are down, rest is fine
Pssst!
youre both rite!
Brittany – you don’t have to do this to get a man! I’ll give you my phone number!
I was hoping nobody would notice. *sigh*
I don’t need your number, you can email me when IT have fixed the problem.
♪ We don’t need no phone at all
We’ve got a thing that’s called radar love ♪
♪ Ding, ding, why don’t you send me a mail?
Ping, ping, oh you can’t, as the server has failed. ♪
♪ Miss Brittany, look and see
If there’s an email on your server for me
Why’s it takin’ such a long time
For me to hear from that jam of mine ♪
I’m sorry, there seems to be a delivery failure.
♪ Return to sender, address unknown.
No such person, no such zone. ♪
Did you try using an underscore?
♫ Oh why can’t we talk again
Don’t leave me hanging on the Internet…
Hang up and run to me
Whoah, hang up and run to me ♫
♪ Can’t pay my bills,
Can’t pay my telephone bills,
Can’t pay my internet bills,
If I did, I’d send you a mail. ♪
Funny was long gone when I arrived.
“We in the IT Department do not have a sense of humor we’re aware of. May we come in?”
We in the IT Department like formulas. For example:
Emails = possible
Terminal server = foobar – granola bars
Exchange = swingers + booze
And spread sheets.
And checklists.
And databases. We love databases!
Thank you Undaddy. Came to say the same thing.
It’s so said when failblog fails.
kicks the i froam that sentance.
i know this, how ever the IT at my school tell us to email them when our email goes down.
Show them you’re fail blog first comment! They’ll love it!
Also, if you can’t read, contact us on the same email and we’ll write back to you as soon as possible.
That’d probably work as there’s no e-mail there. :p
There would be but the internets are borked and I forgot to save it.
If you have a question for Google, put it in an email to anyone on Gmail and Google will get right back to you.
The green love heart makes it all better.
The pen has a red lid but writes in black. LOL!
SHOPPED!
I think we’re being decieved!
And a green heart. What a twisted world Brittany must inhabit.
This can only mean one thing. . .
She’s been got by the rainbows in the water supply!
Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnnnnnn.
*dramatic close-up of green heart*
Dramatic chipmunk
Gasp!
So that’s why my shirt is rainbow-colored after the wash.
She’s feeling a little grinchy, is all. It’ll pass after Christmas.
One in the spleen, two in the green?
Why does my picture not show up?
You can’t email it? Maybe you have no internets.
(Or maybe you should use gravatar.com)
Also, it is a fine tip marker but the writing looks as though done with a chisel tip marker. DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN.
… but if your business has its own mail server…
but …. ah hell it’s still a fail as the tech should have done an all user email.
Sorry but this isn’t a fail =)
That mail traffic (probably a school or so) will travel over intranet first so the internal mails would still work even if the internet is borked
Your last word is broke
Borked: So broken that even the word broke is broken.
It says “If your internet is not W or King”. What kind of secret message is this anyway?
W stands for warmonger. I can’t reveal anymore.
I agree this is not a FAIL. The FAIL is posting this as a FAIL, whomever submitted, posted and thinks this is a FAIL are the FAILers.
Since the posters are FAILers we are FAILers for FAILing in commenting on this FAIL, FAIL?
but what if the FAIL FAIL with a FAIL on the commentor FAIL but we just FAIL by looking at the FAIL which is not a FAIL as was said but is actually nothing. Either that or FAIL with a FAILblob of FAILsauce.
Awesome-sauce.
Enough! You FAIL, I FAIL, we all FAIL! And when there’s enough FAIL to go around for all, then a chain smoking monkey appears sporting a flannel jacket, leather jeans and carrying a sign saying ‘I have a fetish addiction’. WHY IS THERE ALWAYS A MONKEY?!?? Please make the monkeys go away. Please?
wait, so is the FAIL that she asked for e-mail, or is the FAIL where they employed a female tech support?
or is this a double FAIL?
Well, if we’re going to play stereotypes, it goes both ways…
They could hire a female and actually have some semblance of communication skills from tech support but little technical knowledge thus leaving you wondering what was the point, or they could hire a male who knows his way around a computer but is still no help because he can’t understand even a simple question and instead of admitting it and working with you, resorts to being an a-hole about it.
Moral of the story: You can’t win with tech support.
Hmm… What can we do..? Quick BOBBY! Go get someone with glasses to fix it!
Wow, just leave, OK?
(reply fail to Jay)
I thought a troll was already banned when I read your first comment.
You know that is possible to send e-mails in a local network, right? It’s not needed internet for it, if you have internal mail servers… this is not a fail, or, at least, it might not be a fail.
Sí, is possible.
♪ Somewhere beyond the si
somewhere waiting for me ♪
I hope you are singing that with a Spanish accent. This is the hispanic thread.
♪ Me llaman el loco abusivo
Cuando fornico o cuando escribo ♪
Look out! There are llamas!
Better than a camel’s foot.
*pops paper bag*
Aaaaaaaaaah! Llama stampede!
A llamapede? Or would that be a llama of many legs?
Te llamo el indeciso
Cuando te retrasas y cuando te fastidio…
♪ Me llamas el escurridizo
Por no querer ser advenedizo
Me dices el olvidadizo
Pero soy solo asustadizo ♪
♪ Me llaman Penelope
Porque espero fielmente
Me llaman Griselda
Porque soy tan paciente ♪
♪ Te llamo la sirena
porque tus cantos me atraen
Te llamo nereida
por tus encantos de mujer ♪
Maybe their intranet still works.
If you can’t see this message, please give me your room number, your zodiac number and your lucky number. Thanx.
Her handwriting is nice.
Brittany Murphy’s law.
what did fail here? no relation between company exchange email server and the internet… silly hype nerds
No, really?
What were we all thinking? Tsk!
The text is written with a normal marker on a whiteboard, that’s a fail to me.
Hairy!
Where ya been?
I’ve been veeerrry busy with clients, job applications. Been on vacation for 3 weeks and my internet provider locked me off for a few weeks.
And now I am back
A few weeks? Next time check her white board for information on how to get back online.
Good idea! Next time I’ll e-mail those lazy providers right away!
Be careful that they don’t kick your ass!
Contact PETA if they do.
You remembered!
My Brian did.
Does it really matter, alma?
INTRANET != INTERNET
Moronic != Platonic
Ironic != Catatonic
Sardonic != Chronic
Frantic != Plastic?
Ultrasonic != Mnemonic
Laconic != Hedonic
Colonic != Ionic
Electronic != Histrionic
Bubonic != Hegemonic
Tectonic != Plutonic
Masonic != Pneumonic
(what are we playing? )
Klismonic != Morbonic
(naughty games)
Mornington Crescent
(I win)
marx brothers = marxism
im chkn me facboook
on mah DSi
Characteristic != Comic
But (gin and tonic) X 7 = Catatonic
Ur mum = bitch
Ur penis = small
Now reply with another funneh, abusive equalization !
What do you mean by “another” in this sentence?
I think he was trying to formulate “spelling < literate", but he ran out of l's.
The ‘<' sign is not included on troll OS.pro 2.1
Ur wrong = his mum, his penis
Bite me!
How is this a fail? So their internal corporate e-mail and lan are fine, but their ISP or gateway went down?
Fail Fail.
*cries*
I now know how Arthur feels about BMW WIN!
NOBODY knows how Arthur feels about BMW WIN!
♬… NOBODY knows, but Jesus ♬
*gropes*
I now know how Arthur feels.
Nice ankles btw.
*ankle squeeze*
How does he smell?
With his nose?
*darts tongue in and out*
*anklesqueezes*
Monty!
It’s true, I do.
To find out if you’re email is working, please send a mail to yourself and ask for reading confirmation.
(To answer a previous post yesterday)
I am 17.
I live in the USA.
I am in 12th grade.
25 cm.
Good morning.
*squeeze*
I’m about 5ft.
Maturity: random (depends on mood, people, location, and mental state)
Curved like a scimitar.
7 cm when erected. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
*jams paper in CD drive*
*tries to get it to go through the wire*
*breaks the laws of physics and emails paper through the wire*
*scientists are left baffled*
oh wow! my office operates on the same level of efficiency!
Well, she’s definitely no brianiac.
Good morning all I sent your all an e-mail to this effect.
this is fake! you can see the bad photoshopping on the left of the board (weird white color), and the reflection shows there’s writing, where the photo does not.
i think your comment is a bad photoshopping, you said on the left of the board, but the picture has it on the right
Also, the “weird white color” was removing the email address for privacy reasons. Duh.
ah you’re both right!!!! can my excuse be it was way too early in the morning for debunking fails? major fail on my part *hardcore sigh*
Well im sorry to be a none failer, as i do love failings of all types.
They may be on an internal email network where the internet is not required for the email to function. So it is a plauseable request.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Say it ain’t so!
Not really a fail. Email is not internet. POP/SMTP servers might not need internet to function (depending on their setup).
Is it only us handful of morning failers that read the comments?
In my university I can send an @mail to the technicians without internet connection. You guys never heard of LAN’s?
*lip trembles*
*patpatpat*
What’s an atmail?
Maybe he accidenty the @.
Not seeing the FAIL in this picture. Most companies and educational facilities have internet separate from intranet and can still have email while the internet is not working.
Hah! And here I was thinking nobody would realize that.
*is waiting for the next one*
Well, our office IT is so crap we can hardly use the email when the internet is working, so nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :p to all you smartarses.
Hehehe
You should completely kill it and send a mail with an attachment.
Definitely no fail… Brittany is most likely an RA of a dorm, and considering a lot of students don’t check their email for IT notifications, they wouldn’t know why the Internet is down and run to complain to someone.
This note would be on her door if she’s not in her room.
Everything above this line is IGNORANCE
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*sigh*
Why you ask?
If the internet connection is not working, and its a business, that would mean that the proxy server is in some way not working properly, thus cutting off the internet. If the email server is hosted though a Seperate server, then the inTRAnet will be working just fine and would allow for inTRAnet email traffic.
Thank you for this. If only someone had pointed it out sooner.
Doesn’t mean the proxy server is not functioning properly. Could be a number of things. May not even use a proxy server. Could be the ISPs problem. Could have been construction in the area and someone cut a line while digging.
On networks the web often goes down without affecting the email server…
my internet isn’t working :S
Actually, this fail is a fail. Just because the Internet isn’t working doesn’t mean that the internal Mailserver isn’t.
Sometimes I wish failblog’s comment system was upgraded to be more like Digg’s
this is a real fail. a photoshopfail. is failblog running out of pictures?
also, if there was no e-mail adress fo real. its not funny. :c
Not a fail. Rather boring.
since it mentions an IT department it is either a business or uni or similar organisation, probably with an internal exchange server, most likely with a proxy between the LAN (intranet) and WAN (internet) sides, meaning all internal communication works fine (so internal email) and all external communication (internets) doesn’t work. given the above I brand this fail: Understanding basic Corporate networking FAIL!
not a fail, the guy believing it was a fail IS a fail
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Everyone above this line is made of shrimp pasties called corn balls.
don’t know if anyone’s pointed this out yet, but in a bigger company, inter-office emails still works fine if the internet goes down. this fail is a FAIL. Also, anyone still actually ghey enough to put “first” on a message board is a LIFE FAIL
A perfect ts operation, I think. This way no one will bother you down in the IT pit and you can go back to drinking coffee and paying ping pong.
The front office people at my school do that all of the time.
*BEEEP*
“If your computer is not working, please e-mail [name omitted].”
Brittany’s are typically dumb-asses.
dont u guys realize that it was whited out on the computer? look above “thank you”……its not the same color
That is so typical of a school administrator.
Did any of you interwebz engineers think that maybe the fail is not the email part but the IP part? Tell me how someone has an IP with no internet connection.
by having a local ip in their local network.
thats also why they have email IN their LOCAL network.
they just cant reach the internet from their network.
If your phone is not working, please give me a call with your number.
I’ve actually had this yelled at me by an IT “professional.”
I kinda wish the message was from someone called Candii (‘It’s spelled Candy, with two i’s’)
I thinks it is fake.. they make this poster to make fun out of it..
I swear this is true:
I work in retail, and last year on December 24 — yes, the day before Christmas — the power went out. Not just our store, but the the whole area. So we called the power company, and they said it would be up to three hours before power would be restored…and then they said for more information, log onto their website.
Yes, we had some people in the cafe using the WiFi, but without the power…no WiFi.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! LawLOLawL!
what about emailing on a cell phone, though?
its pretty much possible that the intranet is still working, so the coworkers can mail eachother (and have a ip-address), but they just cant reach the internet. so this is completely perfect.
Like someone else already pointed out, this is probably not a fail. Most dorms, offices, hotels, heck even ISPs, can have services (such as email) in their own internal (ie. local network, etc) servers, so emailing may be perfectly possible.
Tricky one, but definitely not a FAIL
Failed fail!
Ever heard of internal mail? Fail.
not a fail.
its a fail fail
Our internet connections were down at work. We needed the new instructions, but they were never sent. I called IT to explain the problem & was told to send them an email so they could email the instructions to us because they didn’t know how to use the fax machine.
It’s a buisiness they have a Exchange serv, its not a fail….. intern mail works
It’s a college dorm, where there will be myriad alternative options within walking distance. Someone else’s room where the network isn’t down, for instance, or the wi-fi that probably works on the lawn of that same building, or one of the tens of thousands of other places that probably are easily accessed on campus.
Or maybe one the few dozen (or hundred) nearby coffee shops. I think this is Win, since Brittany clearly is laying down the law in the form of “don’t come to me with your petty problem.”
No joke, but that’s what my teacher said one day as well. “We can’t download that PDFs, our internet is broken” He answered: “Well in that case I’ll email it to you”
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everyone in between these lines are homo l
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it’s probably an RA door for a dorm – at least that was my thought- and I know their pain. Also, there was something else written on the board that was deleted by whomever uploaded the picture. You can see the white blocks after e-mail, and the reflection of it on the wall beside the board >.>
Umm, corporate email can still work internally without internet access being up.
“Fail” fail.
It’s Photoshoped
you can text message to an e-mail -__-;
RA Fail!!!
I work in I.T, our internet goes down quite often but if their running their own mail server chances are it will still send internally within their domain so i don’t see the fail
This isn’t really a fail. Internet isn’t working but inTRAnet can be up and you can have internal mailing systems (like i know google has that set up).
The funniest part for me is that you need internet for e-mail too.
this is fake…
C’mon dudes, she’s clearly stupid like a fox. This is a lazy win.
What a dumb bitch…Hahaha. It’s even funnier because I know two people named Brittany, and I intensely dislike both of them.
Not much of a fail. On the surface it’s a bit of a fail so that’s why it was posted. But it doesn’t go beyond that because if you think about it, this could be in a dormitory where kids have access to internet elsewhere like the library or other floormates, so they could email using another computer. It could be possible that a particular room is having problems. I don’t think this Brittany girl would write something like this if she knew the person had no other access to email.
IT have you tried turning it off and on again?
I think this was the TECH support being a smartass, probably tired of people complaining of internet problems that they probably can’t fix. YAY PASSIVE AGRESSIVENESS!
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I think this could be a IT win. Since the users cannot email, the IT department won’t get any emails, thus they won’t be bothered to fix the problem.
that one sucked