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  1. Kamikaze Ninja says:

    Well, sometimes it sounds like when people say Texas, it sounds like Taxes. Especially people with very strong southern accents.

  2. Daniel says:

    Possibly celebratory footwear of Ann Richards?

  3. jameshogg says:

    Should’ve known taxes would be put on shoes eventually. Silly government.

    • Black Garnets, the fanged werebunny, developer of amusement park for short people. says:

      Then in NY, these would have to be flip flops that cost over $110. Damn fashion!

  4. beeble says:

    This is a subconcience remark for ppl who don’t pay taxes, but do buy must have bs stuff.

  5. Anti-Tax says:

    Taxes are theft

  6. Admiral Apparent says:

    Deep in the foot of Taxes.

  7. awakenbeing says:

    In Soviet Texas, Taxes pay you.

  8. 5 eagles C.C.C. says:

    Texas toast.

  9. There are only two certainties in life:

    Death and thongs.

    And Taxes. Make that three certainties.

  10. Phaet says:

    I don’t get it. IRS footwear. Big deal.

  11. Ignoramous says:

    T A X E S!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaah now i get it. wow, this fail fails@being easy.

  12. You know, I still don’t understand the phrase teabaggers. I’ve always thought that a teabagger is one that “teabags” people. Clicky for explaination for my point.

    • Sgt. Obvious says:

      Exactly, it stems form that, sort of. Earlier this year, right-wing crazies decided to protest taxes (read: having to pay them at all) by conducting a “new Boston Tea Party,” sending a bunch of actual teabags to the White House on tax day. Various pundits pushing it made the mistake of Not Doing the Research, and started talking about “teabagging the White House.” When others heard that and made the obvious jokes, the name stuck as a mocking phrase for these people.

      • Black Garnets, the fanged werebunny, developer of amusement park for short people. says:

        *Raises hand* I was a proud mocker. These “intelligent” people love researching popular culture. Especially if it’s as easy as asking a young intern if a phrase has a double meaning.

      • SuzieQ says:

        I will have you know it wasn’t just ‘right-wing crazies’, as you put it. They weren’t protesting paying taxes, it was in protest of paying MORE taxes…and the increased involvement of the government into the private sector and private lives.

  13. Matt says:

    Tea Parties = True Americans.

    • Todd says:

      Amen brother, screw the haters. They’re just jealous of our patriotic status and our ability to think without the help of big government

      • Donna Wiederhold says:

        Sorry, nothing to be jealous of. Taxes are a part of life. Not wanting to pay them is what put this country at risk. Now the bills are come due and nobody wants to ante up. Sorry, but i would rather have my money go to help others, not to pay for such things as war! Cracks me up you dont want to help others, but you have no problem paying for attacking other countries, and then wonder why they might not like us? I hate to correct you, but they don’t hate our values, they hate the fact that we con’t mind our own business. You want to tell me what those people in Iraq done to us before they were attacked this time. Guess what, another nation comes in here and kills my relatives, they are on my shit list too. The last thing, this crap about being worried about the bill we are leaving our kids, totally hypocritical, since your side has no problem using up the natural resources. What difference will it make if they have money, when they won’t have food, water, and fuel?

      • sauerkraut says:

        Any time I see someone named “Todd” complaining about big government, I hark back to the secessionist loving Todd Palin.

    • BigRuss says:

      Yep. The author of this website is starting to really show whose side they are on… and it isn’t the good guys.

      • You are very highly diluted if you believe in the idealistic “good guys” portrayed in the movies. The fact is there is no absolute right or absolute wrong but shades of gray and light and darkness of those shades are only seen from each individual’s perspective. If you can’t see this, or refuse to acknowledge this fact, it is because you are either ignorant or self deluded.

        One day I hope you can come to see the truth in this statement. I am not saying you are wrong, but I would educate myself on the issues before I start condemning someone I do not know, with a idealist concept that is not my own.

        Before you start accusing me of hypocrisy, just realize I am not saying you are wrong. I am just trying to tell you if you are going to make an argument make sure it is an educated one. I would respect you for that, even if I might not agree with your political leanings.

    • Frosteh says:

      Tea Parties = Sour Grapes

      • BlueBolly says:

        No really… We made a serious impact on politics without instigating violence or starting riots. I’m very proud of that and laugh at the horrible remarks made about the Tea Party Patriots.

        • Arthur Eld says:

          Are those remarks as horrible as comparing politicians of “the other side” to Hitler or Stalin?

        • Frosteh says:

          ‘Cause the tea party movement is on the “right” (in both senses of the word) side of the spectrum. For goodness sake, they brought actual firearms to their rallies and the police didn’t touch them; meanwhile, for one example, a prominent Canadian anarchist got beaten and arrested under charges of armed assault for standing -near- a homemade catapult that launched teddy bears, which he had nothing to do with. It’s more to do with position than actual protest strategy. (Not that I’m claiming there aren’t violent extremists on the fringes)

        • sauerkraut says:

          You made a serious impact on politics? In your wet dreams, perhaps, but not in reality. There are many well-intentioned folks participating in the protests but they are being manipulated by people filled with bad intent.

    • JD says:

      Yep. I used to like FAIL blog before they started to add their lame titles. Now they’re using it as a medium for left wing political undertones. Also, I’d like to point out that no one whines as much as the leftist media.

      • :grin:
        I didn’t know it were possible to be so hypocritical in such a short post.

        • Arthur Eld says:

          But still, I’ll start a revolution right now. Join in, comrades!

        • JD says:

          Which point in my short post was hypocritical? – That I don’t like the new titles on failblog, that I don’t like that failblog is using the new titles for propoganda, or that this particular title “Teabaggers are such whiners …” is incorrect because the liberal media whines more than any other media.

          • Arthur Eld says:

            Yes.

            • Ms B ♥ says:

              Does anyone want some cheese to go with this whine? I have a nice gouda.

            • JD says:

              Leftist sure love to be cynical without explaining themselves ey? No wonder they’re running our country into the ground.

              • Arthur Eld says:

                Hey! I’m busy running MY country to the ground. I leave running the USA in the ground to you folks.

              • Say g'night, Gracie says:

                He’s not even from the States, JD. I doubt if he’s running it into the ground.

                • JD says:

                  I didn’t say he was. I said leftist are.

                  I did however say that leftist like to be cynical without explaining themselves which is apparent in the replies to my original post.

                  • Say g'night, Gracie says:

                    You were replying to Arthur. That implies that you were referring to him. If you’re not referring to the person you reply to, it’s a good idea to state that in your comment. Otherwise micommunications occur. I’ve been guilty of this myself, so I know of whence I speak.

                    • JD says:

                      My apologies. I thought that the internet was public forum. And when I communicate on a public forum I’m communicating to – you guessed it – the public. I mean you replied to me and I was not addressing you correct?

                      My problem is not with Arthur, or any of these other people. I feel I’ve been very clear on this point.

                      My problems are with ideologies and politics of our governing bodies.

                      It’s very odd to have a political conversation on failblog; a place where I generally come to escape the seriousness of the world with humor. So, you can imagine my surprise when I saw that failblog has chosen to enter the political spectrum with their maniacal title to this posting. But hey that makes me a hypocrite right?

                      • Arthur Eld says:

                        You see, JD, when you click “Reply” you don’t communicate with the public, but with the person you’re replying to – unless you make clear that you mean someone else.

                        Secondly, YOU used FB for a political statement. True, the title of this fail can be seen as biased or whatever, but no one forced you to leave a political comment. You did – if you’d address your concern to the staff (hint: “Contact us”), no one here would have made jokes.

                        3. Safety.

                        4. It’s not that odd that there’s a political discussion on FB. We do that quite often. However, it is odd to state that it’s odd after you have contributed a political statement.

                        • sauerkraut says:

                          I’d like JD to identify these “leftists” who whom he so easily refers. And I’d like to know why he wasn’t so vocal in his complaining when the other side controlled all 3 branches of government while it was “being run into the ground.”

                        • JD says:

                          On point number one: fair enough. I can understand that I should have replied to a different poster. My mistake. I will still argue, this is most definitely a public area. If one were to hit reply and the response just went to that person it would no longer be public in which case you’d be correct. Doesn’t matter – point taken – I was wrong – let’s move on…

                          On point number two: the nature of this post is in fact political. How could I object to a political statement unless I also had a political opinion on the matter myself – I thought that was the point of comments and commentary. The jokes I don’t mind – it’s the politics that I mind – I wouldn’t bother visiting failblog if I couldn’t take a joke .

                          On the rare occasion that I feel compelled to express my opinion to/on a website, I’d rather do it publicly and not send the website owner’s a complaint – I’m sure the complaint department has better things to do. I get the most valuable from my expression by making my case publicly instead of being ignored by failblog staff.

                          On point 3 – safety is good – don’t know where else to go with that…

                          And on point four: it is quite odd to me, and by the reaction to the majority of responses to this post, it appears a lot of other viewers think its odd as well. I may not be as big of an old school patron as yourself, however generally the post don’t involve politics in my roughly 1 year as a viewer…maybe the discussions have, but the original posts haven’t. Furthermore, “FB” didn’t even used to have titles without the word FAIL in them. That changed and now someone is using it as forum for expressing an opinion that seems out of place. Seems very odd to me indeed.

                          I would also like to thank you for taking the time to respond with more than one word – even if it was in a very cynical high horse way. I love it when remarks start with “You see, JD” – never heard that before so thanks for learning me something.

                        • JD says:

                          wow! I’m getting it from all sides today – this is actually turning into a descent conversation. Ok sauerkraut. Nice to meet you. I didn’t realize you knew me during the Bush administration – because I was quite vocal indeed. There are more than two sides ya know. For your request, the leftist are numerous and I don’t have enough space in this text box to identify all of them. You’ll find a good deal of them in the democratic party and if you’re looking for names; off the top of my head: Obama, Biden, and Pelosi.

    • Arthur Eld says:

      Okay, serious for a moment:

      @Matt way up there^:

      Isn’t it a central element of the American credo that everyone is free to speak their mind? Doesn’t that mean, that it is VERY un-American to lable people who don’t agree with oneself “false Americans”? Doesn’t this mean that you, Matt, just made a false American of yourself by saying what you said?

      QED.

  14. Lil says:

    You are calling them a fail because of this? Put your freespeech where your mouth is and allow everyone to speak their mind- even in their footwear. Let freedom ring!

  15. Carlyle says:

    There have been some weak efforts on this site, but this is one of the weakest recently. C’mon, more “forklift fail” and less of this lame stuff! :)

  16. EJH says:

    Not sure what sexual acts have to do with typoed flip flops…

  17. ColmTourque says:

    Yeah, I was trying to figure out what the tea parties had to do with it, I think it’s a Texas fail. Real sad spoiled a good fail with politics.
    I think I’m submitting fail blog fail…

  18. RoboGeisha says:

    Title fail.

  19. mike says:

    teabaggers?

  20. LipsAreMeantToBeRead says:

    READ MY LIPS!
    _______
    Just saw this Idle Hand Fail…definitely a classic!

  21. Brave Sir Robin says:

    Geesh! Are trolls taking over? We need to fight back!

    *calls out for regulars*
    *looks around for something to thwack with*

  22. gotohellfail says:

    No more political commentary from Failblog.org We can get that kind of FAIL from any main stream media and from either side of the political divide.

  23. jlue says:

    man… TAXES upside down looks like S3XV which looks like SEXY… :o

  24. DeepThought says:

    Nice political liberal commentary. A littl emore of this and time to un-favorite this site. I want NO politics. Keep your asnine politcial beliefs to yourself.

  25. joshuaheard says:

    What does putting your scrotum in another’s face have to do with that picture? (BTW Texas has no income tax)

  26. Johnny than says:

    WTF!? I don’t really get it…

  27. Separated says:

    Not really funny. You almost made your own fail, Failblog.

  28. I am not sure this is a fail. Rather a rather clever political commentary on texas, taxes and flip-flops.

    Again, emphasizing the importance of voting for the fails that are fails and leaving these types of fails in the voting pages and off the main page.

  29. The Moomin says:

    Personally, I’ll never recover from the fact that government ministers used our taxes to maintain moats and try to purchase floating islands for ducks.

    • Arthur Eld says:

      I loved that little scandal of yours! HIGH-larious, as Dragon would say!

      • Admiral Apparent says:

        You had to pay for duck bills??

        *squeezes*

        • The Moomin says:

          I think it was a weird way to keep the economy afloat!
          *squeeze*

          • Arthur Eld says:

            But you do know that the moat maintaining industry would have been in serious trouble without your politicians?

            • The Moomin says:

              Funny you should mention that.
              Companies have been advised not to cancel their christmas parties for fear that party organisers will go out of business. Nevermind the fact that throwing the parties may bankrupt the companies wanting to cancel them due to lack of funds.

              • Arthur Eld says:

                Bwahahaha! THAT is a fail!

                I can only point out the lowering of taxes for German hotels. Costs us a small fortune. And it’s not like our hotels weren’t doing okay before. Great lobbying, not so great politics.

  30. scuah says:

    Whoever wrote the tag line for this photo truly made an epic fail. Besides not being funny, it makes no sense. What do the Tea parties have to do with these flip flops? Hey failblog, get off your soapbox. No one is interested in your political statements, and we’re even less interested in your pathetic attempts to politicize these great pictures and videos. If you continue, I guarantee a website will pop up that categorizes these misguided attempts at pushing an agenda…how about failblogsucks.org?

  31. ¡Great Scott! Me transmitte sursum, caledoni says:

    ♫All my axes live in taxes..♪

  32. yaryar says:

    “Teabaggers” made a mockery of the real Boston Tea Party – which was a revolt against the British government AND companies favored by the government – exacting unrepresented rule over them (taxes, laws, etc.). And at the same time by accepting the moniker of “Teabaggers” they have made a mockery of themselves. Cheers!

    This is 2009, and in American you vote, you have a representative in office, shut up and vote him out if you don’t like what he/she/it does. If you don’t have enough votes, then clearly you aren’t the mainstream in your community. Don’t make a mockery of our history by distorting the meaning of an event, especially one of the many that spurred the birth of our great nation.

    with that being said, wtf is politics doing on my “wtf these people are stupid” site?

  33. Yo says:

    WTH… Cant we just have our Fails with out the political BS?

    Side Note: Damn the media and the libbies for tying an awesome sexual act to a political phenomenon. Now we cant make any good tea bagging jokes without someone getting offended.

  34. puke says:

    ignorant liberals, no one accepted the term teabaggers it’s the new “postpartisanship” obama brought, don’t aggree with us we’ll smear you with sexual slurs, how dare you not see things the way I do

    Obama hasn’t done one post partisan thing YET, it’s no wonder people are protesting, and despite the whining liberals lying about tea PARTY attendees “accepting” the teabaggers slur rewriting history, protest is american as it gets

    I’d bet dollars vs donuts he didn’t complain about people protesting Bush (Let me guess, that was different because you didn’t like Bush and that makes protesting him obvious and an ok thing)

    Like I said typical liberal, raise taxes, but don’t pay them just check out the new tax evader in charge of the IRS

    • Arthur Eld says:

      Nomen est omen.

    • yaryar says:

      Teabagging was a sexual term before Fox News started using it to describe the people attending these events. Its not the fault of any legitimate media outlets or the presidents. Blame Glen Beck, and those guys….

      I never protested against Bush, and to be honest – I don’t think even he would of made the mistake of calling his followers Teabaggers. Follow your leaders, they are making you look great!

      • fox news viewer says:

        IIRC it was Anderson Cooper of *CNN* that started calling them “teabaggers”; Fox seems to use “tea party protestors” and avoids “teabagger”

    • Black Garnets, the fanged werebunny, developer of amusement park for short people. says:

      BTW, why didn’t anyone pay any attention to or discuss when Obama signed the Equal Pay Act? And in agreement with Yaryar, Fox News has been very pro Republican lately, yet they had no problem using the term. That’s why I found it so funny.

  35. SecondGuesser says:

    Protesting a ridiculous war = patriotic duty
    Protesting a ridiculous level of taxation = patriotic duty

    It’s gotta be a two-way street folks.

  36. Jim says:

    Don’t Mass with Taxes

  37. papajon0s1 says:

    Well, if you are going to be derogatory with your headline, then don’t be surprised when people call you out on it. If you want to make fun of people who are trying to secure freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness then so be it. You rip the tea party patriots yet all they want is for you to succeed in life; to be able to worship or not as you choose to do so, to be able to keep the money you earn, to pay fair taxes. It’s a liberal mindset that is completely contrary to that end. But if that’s your thing, you have at it.

    • Arthur Eld says:

      Wait… trying to secure freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is completely contrary to liberalism? I guess someone didn’t do their homework, papajon0s1…

    • sauerkraut says:

      Did you read the headline, papajon? There’s nothing political about it. There’s simply the word play between “Texas” in the headline and apparent misspelling of “taxes” on the flip-flops adorned with the Texas flag.

  38. Arthur Eld says:

    Oh no – all that whining had an effect! They changed the title!

  39. Fako says:

    Even the descrption failz!

    Picture by: dunno souce… :) GO TAXES

  40. Antoine Von Testicles says:

    Heheh….FailBlog Headline Fail!

  41. puke says:

    yaryar = typical liberal, just make up his own “facts” like “Teabagging was a sexual term before Fox News started using”, pure nonsense, it’s a derogatory term created by liberal media hacks like anderson cooper to degrade citizens that would dare disagree with him, it’s a sexual slur and it’s not funny

    It’s not funny how people like you spew your disinformation as if it was fact

    • Ms B ♥ says:

      I’m sorry, I’m going to need to tax this comment at a rate of…

      *tapping calculator*

      6.666%. Please try to get your information straight in the future.

  42. Bob-H says:

    Chico: Hey, I’ve got an uncle who lives in Taxes!

    Zeppo: No, no … Dollars! Taxes!

    Chico: That’s where he lives! Dollars, Taxes!

  43. Hoopla! says:

    Go Taxes football team :3

  44. chris says:

    can we say that SHOES from taxes are dumb?

  45. StVandal says:

    Don’t mess with Taxes.

  46. stix213 says:

    I don’t know… American flag colored flip flops with the word “Taxes” written on them just seems like commentary about congress and the current administration.

  47. ts6788 says:

    Made in China

  48. bob says:

    this is a photo shop

  49. olo says:

    Oh THE TRAUMA!

  50. deadnotsleeping says:

    I think it’s being spelled phonetically! No really…. imagine wearing a big hat, standing by an oil well, and say out loud “I’m from Taxes.” It works, right? It’s just a spelling problem. :)

  51. Jordainia says:

    wow, Thanks for all the votes! its not photoshop by the way, im not smart enough for that :P Haha, made it china :) )) but my dad acually bought them in texas, mustve been on the clearence rack??

  52. davo says:

    Meda in Chani

  53. nistol says:

    its for the hispanics! ;D

  54. tomlocc says:

    hey bro im chilean and thats my nacional flag if you laught i wana suk you

  55. Danny Boy says:

    double fail…
    looks like sex too,
    S3X

  56. Themias says:

    don’t mass with taxes

  57. gezze says:

    made in china

  58. Pr0nogo says:

    Derp, looks more like a win to me.

  59. Stats says:

    A Freudian slip I suppose

  60. Grant says:

    Also, on the bottom sandal it says “sex” with a backwards e


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