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Hygiene Fail
People attending events in this space are expected to conform to normal grooming standards.
You man be asked to leave if you or your clothing have an odor offensive to other players.
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Pegasus Games, Madison, WI
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That must be the odor eater.
NOMNOMNOM
I knew you had it in (your) sole.
Something strange is afoot.
You seem to have nailed it!
Admittance is the first step to recovery.
It’s a long heeling process.
It's toe long, if you ask me.Cobblers!
Arch rivals? ^
*arranges formations of infantry carrying overlapping shields and long spears, developed by Philip II of Macedon and used by Alexander the Great, or any of the digital bones of the hand or foot distal to the metacarpus or metatarsus of a vertebrate that in humans are three to each finger and toe with the exception of the thumb and big toe which have only two each*Phalanx for that.
If anyone smells like mothra balls, they are pivoted around and thrown out.
If something is rotten in the state of Denmark we must make the piker toe the line and stay instep with our immortal rulings.
We are Syrian.
:[
Shoe-dn’t we be stopping this now?
It’s bad for our heelth.
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
if your cloths have an offensive odor, can you ask them to leave?
depending on how hawt you are?
The odds of a WoW gamer being hawt would be…?
…more than half. They’re always like that here.
LOTR players are cuter.
We play both WoW and LOTR.
The goods are indeed odd.I can name at least 10 people I play with who are smoking hot, they have degrees that give them letters after their names and they’re socially skilled. Not “I have a level 20 I tinker with” players, “I have 4 level 80s and raid 5 times a week” players. Stereotypes are lame…not without founding…but lame.
How many times do we have to tell you that your fingers do NOT count as friends, no matter how sexy you dress them up in finger puppet outfits.
and a Bachelorate in Masturbation is not a degree qualification..
He gives a whole new meaning to Magna Cum Loudly.
I read that as magma cum loudly.
Ouch
Smegma cum loudly?
Ewwww!
I think my head just burst from laughing… not sure, but I think…
They don’t?
It’s not!?
*disappointed sigh*
*puts up ad for selling a grey BMW*
*eyes roof of BMW* What happened? Did you bang on it with a golf club?
I dunno, ask my boyfriend ;D (who also plays WoW)
where you guys meet each other…
Worst part is, I’m sure they’d be able to, with enough training.
This smells fishy..
WIN
*sniffs*
Sadly…this sort of thing is needed at most game conventions. People ignoring their bodies because of a game ftl… :<
LRP is worse.
Well, therein lies your paradox. See, in LRP, you’re all running around, swinging swords, and one is libel to get sweaty. On the other hand, WoW produces what I like to call “neglect sweat” which is disgusting. Not all WoWers develop it, and I assume that most people that play it lead normal lives. However, LRPers will by and large get sweaty, and I suspect that you could spot most LRPers from a block away.
I’ve heard about people so caught up in their games in casinos that they urinate on themselves because they won’t leave their machine. :/
Ah, GenCon gamer funk, how I DON’T miss thee ….
Would that 6-2-1 rule violations could be a banning offense there.
Spending hours there, the sign actually works.
Can anyone read the fine print? I think it’s
‘C’mon people, we shouldn’t have to say this!’
but I’m not entirely sure.
I think you are right.
Cool. Thank you!!
Ahh, that makes sense. The message itself isn’t a fail, but the fact that it needs to be up in the first place is.
I actually go to this store and there are apparently a couple awfully stinky folks hanging around there regularly…
The upside is, if you fart while playing, you can blame it on the stinky people and not have to have your dog with you.
Would that be like launching an odor offensive?*Calls for the odors of the day*
I have a magnifier, you’re right. Apparently this has been a past issue warranting money spent on a poster.
I have the same poster on my door leading into my bedroom. No entrance if they smell funny. It has turned away several people here in Arkansas.
How is this a fail (not funny either), who wants to be near disgusting smelling people, and it says that “we shouldn’t need to say that” or something at bottom so people have been exceptionally offensive in their hygeine before making them put this sign up.
Thus THEY are the fail
Should be hygeine fail or something then imo
Read under picture
Reading under pictures is for chumps…
I go to this store. The print is small but it says “C’mon people, we shouldn’t need to say this!”
That is awesome. So, as a patron of the store, is the sign needed in your opinion?
Only on Yu-Gi-Oh night. They actually banned a few of the Yu-Gi-Oh players and shut down that weekly event for a while, it was so bad.
Most patrons there are responsible but there are couple of repeat offenders.
Ahh, the musty, sour smell of men who have more important things to do than bathe.
Hooray for responsibility
Yeeeaaaahhhh….sooo we’re gonna need you to go ahead and take a shower.
Then put the new cover sheet on.
And don’t forget your flair.
Didn’t you get the memo?
Did they use my red stapler to put up the sign?
We’ll send you another one.
The Nazi’s had pieces of flare, that they made the Jews wear…
But… I’m a dwarf warrior. They don’t wash themselves.
There is such a thing as too much reality!
I'm a you man.(as in, "You man be asked to leave", in the text beneath the picture)
They just forgot two commas.
Comma Chameleon?
*becomes comma twos*I weel Comma alla the way outta tha closeet.
Eep!
Ahh! There’s Italian Jam all over my closet!
Firemens! Comma quickly!
Jon? You don’t live in Alaska and have a proclivity for leopard print thongs on casual Friday at work do you?
Not quite…
The firemens are for Jam, anyway.
if your not washing enough, what are you doing outside, thinking you have friends?
“your”…nice…
You are a fail generator.
Czuhc, I think we have one of those Nazi’s.
Is he from the future and wearing pink clothes?
it is unfortunate that forgetting grammar (in a sentence i didn’t even use caps) and making a joke like the one about deleting wikapedias main page are missunderstood. where do i vote for the sarcastica font creation?
hmmm…….. grammar correction… fail?
dare i say it?
there’s your sarcastica font you asked for
It’s a vicious cycle. You skip a couple showers, nobody wants to be around you, and then you turn to video games. Then you get so caught up you never shower again. EVER.
And start to post alot on failblog:P
So you had no shower today?
But I’m definitely not a dwarf warrior.
Take someone in with you, save water.
Aw, can’t. There’s no one home but [us] chickens. Literally
Clucking hell!
Please don’t use foul language.
*swaps out ‘u’ for ‘w’*
*gooses*
Langwage?
*tickles*
*Wses foul language.*
Eek!
Er…
No, can’t rescue myself from that one
(and *ducks*)
I just had one and I’m a short worrier.
I have Kalms, they’re herbal.
what day is it?
Hah! As if I could remember what year we have!
Decade?
Hardly.
“a lot”, not “alot”
You’ll like it but not a lot.
*is lovely*
and we all lived happily ever after?
I think this isn’t really the place for English grammer disscaution…
*snickers a little*
*leaves this one to someone else*
Too Easy…too easy.
I totally agree with MrKilljoy. I too diss caution, since safety is third.
And hygiene fourth, by the sounds of this…
*throws cushion to the wind**ducks*
*replaces breathing apparatus*
*ducks cushion*
Hmmm, my comment didn’t show up, so I wrote another one, and then as if by magic…..I look like a twit!
Bork.
At least you've got your ducks in a row.This thread is all fowled up with bird talk.
Magic? Is that the excuse you are going to start going with?
Yes.
It explains my spelling.
♪ Oh oh oh it’s magic
you know….
Never believe it’s not so
It’s magic! ♪
You have an enchanting voice!
Color me ensorcelled.(I just learned that word 10 minutes ago.)
That is so charming!
You're fairy glamorous yourself, Ms. K@.
Of course she’s glamorous, she’s the sorce(ress) of all custard.
*snork*
a PWN star, surely
they find the smell of the dead offencive?
but it fits the custom T_T”
I am the lord of the undead!
* evil laugh *
…
*hides in the corner for his own idiocy*
Nyaha (x
Some of them goes in for making it as realistic as possible..
The text description under the image has a fail too!
Conform!? Normal?! Standards?! Who are these people??
they are normies! they follow all the normes of thier country…
or in other words nerds!
They obey the rules of their society.
There, same thing in different words. And don’t call me nerd.
ok, sorry for that… got drifted abit…
so we were talking about???
society? people? normes?
anyway I don’t really belive this blog is normal…
We’re unique. We have surveyical proof.
*whistles*
Whose necks?And our own language! Don’t forget the secret handshake.
You can’t get your issued pink robe if you don’t know the handshake.
I wish we had secret milkshakes instead
*passes the secret milkshake*
Is that the special one that brings all the boys to the yard?
"Get out of my yard!" *shakes milk*Damn meddling kids!
Have another and blame it on the bunny?
Hare of the blog?
Blame what on the bunny?
It’s not? Then I might as well do that:
*shags a polar bear*
*smiles and waves*
Definitely waves, if you shagged it while it was having a little swim.
I hope for your balls’ sake it happened at your place… the polar bear’s place tends to be quite chilly.
*Obeys social gnomes*
I’m off to spend eternity pretending to fish in some old lady’s pond…
Granny will love to hear that.
*rebels against the gnomes*
Watch where you put your rod young man!
Watch where you put your Dennis Rodman!as opposed to “gifties”, who are also nerds?
Do people who play WoW look like that as well?
Hardly, that thing is far too muscly…
That’s well-shaped fat.
Unless 5Eagles was talking about the sign itself.
Square, glossy outer layer of sweat (or Laminated Plastic) often written on as they’re too inanimate to fight back…
Sounds like your average WoW player
they ware plastic muscles?
As in – tupperware?
Taken alongside your ‘grammer’ comment, I can’t decide if you’re doing this on purpose …or …not.
Unless you meant – ‘wear’?
In which case I’ve confused myself…
world of warecraftlol i played wow for some month in the summer of 2006
imho it got boring as hell pretty fast *yawns*
Not boring if you remember where, when and how long. It must have been a magical time for a 14 year old pimply faced kid still masturbating into his sock so his mom won’t find out.
but thats rather far from the truth.
why would anyone masturbate into a socks? i never understood that..
oh dear
one “s” and one “but” too many..
You can never have too many buts.
*looks at poster*
*looks at clothes*
*Sprays on half a can of axe body spray and walks in anyway*
I need this sign for my office. Sad, really.
We could have used it in Florida for a while in Tech Support. We had a guy that wore the same clothes several days in a row and bragged about sleeping in his car because he was so busy getting so much play that he couldn’t go home and get to work on time. With all that stink going on in conjunction with this sign, I now understand what kind of play he was getting.
Shakespeare? These jobbing actors tend to bum around.
Did he drive a BMW and park in a public garage?
Do you have a Winter’s Tale to go along with your winter hat and shiny nose?
I LOVE your avatar, Moomin! I laff heartily every time I see it.
I’m a jammy sod to have been made such an avatar!
All the kudos goes to jam for this.
Sounds like Ry’s Techy was peddling a midsummer night’s dream of his.
*Honks The Moomin’s nose*
*squeeze*
I don’t see how this is in any way a fail. If you smell bad, why should you not be asked to leave? Now, if the lol-er here had said “Gamers Fail”, it would make more sense… Otherwise, this is pure win for the “gaming”.
That is a gaming win!
No, this sign is a huge WIN! I have smelled many foul things in my years of conventions; sometimes dealer rooms become unnavigable because of stench.
Hell, our local games convention references hygiene in their program book every year!
Really. The big game cons I attended in Denver added that into their books after the first year. The lesson was learned.
All you people need jobs.
We have jobs! We are paid to post here so it appears to be a very active, viable site. If it wasn’t for us, this site would have suffered the same ill fate as your sex life…non-existent.
Sniff. . . I smell burnt troll hair.
No, I need money.
For some reason, the two appear to have a very weak corelation. So much for mainstream economic theories… and common sense.
I always wondered how people could fail to notice they smell offensive.
I have a “buddy” who always smelled…then one day when he called to my house to stay over for the night, I offered him some of the boyfriend’s Lynx. He said “No thanks, it doesn’t bother me”. I pointed out that it bothered me, and no matter how far I sat from him, if we were in the same room, I could smell him.
We don’t talk anymore
Everyone is used to their own smells. If you shower often enough, there’s no problem with anyone else. Many gamers, unfortunately, do not shower often enough…or are the big types that get very funky very quickly.
Women also have a sharper sense of smell, for the most part. Sometimes a guy will just not smell himself..not that it doensn’t bother him, he really can’t smell it. One of the worst smells for me is body odor mixed with Axe.
They need these signs outside bars on the NJ shore. Jeez, did you use the ENTIRE can of Axe?
Exactly. If I walk into the room two days later and I can STILL smell your cologne/perfume, we need to talk.
Is that what that smell is? I thought it was Staten Island.
You silly people – it’s a SPELLING FAIL. Odour has a u in it. (In English anyway.)
Sorry Nitpicker – the sign is in American – not English. We Colonists have to everything differently!!!
So America no longer speaks English?
Wow every gaming place i have ever been too needs this sign
The hobbit in Fayetteville NC, not 5 miles outside Fort Bragg, mostly military crowd there so in the year I’ve been going there on saturdays there hasn’t been a major smell problem yet.
Isn’t actually a gaming fail. The poster is for Shards of Alara, a Magic the Gathering set. But… mtg players probably have hygiene problems too.
Not in our store they don’t!
Or in ours
It’s tragic, this gathering..
We were fine until that blasphemy that was the “Rise of the Eldrazi” set came out.
oh noez! that escludes all the favourites for the first place at the gaming cards tournament!
Ew
Did any of you realise that they might be using all their time to play games because they stink and not the other way around?
Gaming fail = civilization win!
Gaming FAIL?! More like store owner WIN! I would only visit that store.
This isn’t a fail this is very much a win. There are some stinky bastards that should be kicked out.
I think the real problem with this sign is the dichotomy betweem “normal grooming standards” and “offensive to other players”
I play WoW casually, and I am told I have excellent hygiene.
Your not playing hard enough
They totally have this same sign in a gaming store near me too. Sad, but a very necessary.
It’s sad that it has come down to this. Makes the rest of us look bad. XD
I have been to that particular game store many times. Sadly enough that sign is actually desperately needed there on occasion.
This is Magic the gathering, not WoW
thank you i was wondering who was going to point that out
I have a friend who calls that particular segment of the gaming community “hygienically-challenged meat mountains”.
And now that I know about the socks-trick, I have new suspicions about why one particularly nasty-assed gamer guy I know always showed up on game night with no socks. I thought before it was so he could let his toe-jam breathe.
I’m just waiting for the hordes of wow players to come in and defend themselves against these claims of stink-age. Oh wait they’re all playing wow. We probably won’t see them until patch day.
I don’t see anything wrong with it. They should stick such signs on buses and in libraries. Actually quite visionary.
is it bad that i noticed the shards of alara poster before the fail itself?
Which excludes, like stated before, most gamers around.
I’m all cleeny though :3
HAS ANYONE ELSE NOTICE THAT THE POSTER IS OF WoW BUT, FROM MTG!!!
yeah someone needs a to groom… the bride! ha
Trust me, guys. At some gaming conventions and events, they NEED that sign.
I’ve helped run some Anime, Gaming, and/or Sci-Fi/Fantasy conventions, and yes, it’s sadly true, these signs do have to be posted. After the 3 to 4 straight days of sometimes 24-hours a day of geeking out that some people do, we have to remind some people to please visit the shower in their hotel room, for the sanity of other guests.
THIS IS NOT WOW
ITS MAGIC THE GATHERING, GOOOOSH
GET UR FACTS STRAIGHT
I used to work in a call center that hired just about anyone who could speak the language, and we actually had to put up signs similar to that in the office, because some people there just reeked of body odor. It was pretty ridiculous.
Considering the popularity of WoW and games in genral and general cleanliness of the public…the caption is fail. The fatc taht taht’s not even Wow is another fail altogether…and stereotypeing is another fail
I have seen such a sign before at my local comic book store. I have also seen it printed in the event program for an anime convention. It has to be said!
this isnt WoW, its magic the gathering..
It really is sad that a sign like this needs to be put up, but there are some people that get so rank that you have to tell them to shower.
I would also like to point out that LARP and amp guard are two different things. Amp guard is where they run around with the foam bats and the whole “lightning bolt!!!” thing. There are no weapons in LARP because it’s against the rules.
Thank the heavens they’ve finally developed a sign for these occasions cause GODDAMN can those gamers REEK! I mean, holy crap. If you ever step into any of those things, you first feel the wall of body heat smack you in the face just before feeling the wrath of Satan’s toe fungus hit you next. It’s absolutely dreadful, I tell you, especially when your trying to play some good ol’ pacman xD
I know of at least three gaming shops in town that NEED this sign. There’s one near a comic book shop that smells so bad on Saturdays that I can’t even come near their door without finding myself gagging.
Gamer funk. Don’t let it happen to you.
shards of alara has some pwnage cards in it
cruel ultimatum ftw!!!!!
Hooray Pegasus! You have taken an active stance against the “warm nerd” smell (pizza, b.o. & Ax body spray)!
Are you kidding? This is a WIN to the highest power! :-O I’ve been to way too many anime conventions when people smelled like crap right next to me in the gaming room. This sign should be in every gaming room in the country.
Ugh .. I play Magic there. Unfortunately, there’s another dude who plays there that doesn’t always adhere to this policy. =(
Also, there’s at least one more gaming store in town that has a similar sign.
Also also, the room the sign is posted in is a multi-purpose general gaming space .. MTG, Warhammer, D&D, and yes, WoW (cards, miniatures).
Look…That excludes your average WoW player
The poster in the bottom right is magic the gathering. A very popular card game. If you have ever attended an event that last for more than 2 days you know that the sign is needed. Lmao some people sleep in the halls and never leave. Its usually to the point where no matter where you go for the event you get people that smell that bad!
Holy shit I live in the town this is in!
LOL
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