Roommate Fail
Free LCD TV.Yes it works perfectly.Yes it has a remote. No i wont deliver. Why is it FREE you ask????? My room mate thought it would be “hysterical” to pause “explicit gay video” on my TV while my girlfriend and I were on vacation for 2 weeks, thus burning an image into the scree. So… If you don’t mind a silhouette of a skinny white guy taking a load in the face from the biggest black penis in recorded history forever adorning your new TV, It’s yours.
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Who wouldn’t want that?
YOU KNOW
Epic Win for the roommate
I know, you’d have to be GAY not to like something like that!
….to use as a centre piece for your Christmas gathering?
Or weekly PTA meeting?
My mother’s club meetings….Wait… Those ladies might actually like it. Now it’s not funny anymore
I wonder if mind bleach would work in this situation?
- passes Mind Bleach -
*takes some* D=
- takes a deep swig -
-ha-
takes a gulp of mind bleach
You mean cyanide of course.
whaa… i was to busy with this mind stuff. WOAH! *speaks jibberish*
*stop using action quotes*
*shwack* nunchucked
hahahahahahaha nunchuck win.
LAME!!!
How many quotes can quotes quote if quotes quote quotes?
Seriously.. I’m curious about how many colorful(ish) lines we can get over there<<< =P
i want it!! not
Jokes on him. LCD’s recover from burned images. May take a while but if you’re in his area, scoop this up!
And moreover, he will know it was there, so it will be more noticeable for him even after it has mostly faded away. Eventually it will be faint enough that nobody who doesn’t know about it will notice, but every time he looks at the TV he will see it.
That’s kind of how IT, the clown works, isn’t it?
And u know, what has been seen…
Much like the Giygas “fetus” *shudders*
yes yes, we all float down here…..
Couldn’t one just burn a more pleasant picture over top until you cant distinguish from the old one?
ha! id laugh my ass of if that wasn’t true
I’m in his area, i called about it, trying to “scoop it up” but he never caled back, i guess it was gone already
you could put it up as decoration to make you look rich-er
second
You may be second, but you’re FIRST to fail!
ahah that was good
how very cruel
awesome xD
Seek damages in small claims court and kick the roommate out.
But first, take lots of pictures for the judge to see.
is that even possible? O_o
Yup!
You the roommate?
win!!!!!
Technology fail: LCD TVs don’t burn in because they have a backlight and a glass colour filter. Plasma TVs, CRTs, and OLEDs burn in.
Laugh at the joke and move on >_>
HE CAN’T!!! He must. share. wealth. of. knowledgggggge!!
Tell that to the LCD monitor I had…
Well, you told me I have an LCD. And I just would like to know if you know what an LCD is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has an LCD, and then find out that that person has *no idea* what it means to have an LCD.
It is called image persistence and is caused by the LCD crystals over charging. You can remedy the situation by leaving the screen shut down for an extended period of time, however, the longer the !mage was left on the harder it is to fix. I have had screens from video gamers with !mages recurring after the monitor is put back into extended use. It leads me to believe the crystals can be permanently damaged.
The PTB killed my message to this poster Marius,
, thanks for my bat!
LSD crystals can be damaging too. very. but who cares?
Odd moderation.
could it be that today is your fortieth birthday, and you are taking it out on poor jefe?
Three Amigos reference WIN!
I would say that you have a plethora of LCDs, El Guapo. (I just watched Three Amigos with my kids the other day.)
Lowest Common Denominator?
Uh oh, I had a naughty reaction to someone doing the “how dare you not be an expert before commenting” thing, and the PTB are moderating me. Guess I’m a bad girl…
Join the club.
Oh, I used the word “i*mage”. :sigh: That’s ok, I like Marius’ club. They have cake.
Oh yes, plenty of cakes and ale to go around.
But you forget that th cake was a lie. !!
NOOOOOOOOO! But she said it was delicious and moist!
In Soviet Russia, there is no cake. But there are queues for it!
Oh, wait…
GLaDOS lied. Come to Black Mesa. We have head crabs!!
Ha Ha, fat chance. ^_^
Well I already have crotch crabs so… what the hell, count me in.
That’s what SHE said!
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
*cries*
Thats what I was thinkng and looking, if someone has already posted it here.
oh yes they do. Try it. However in my experience it is only temporary
http://www.techlore.com/article/10099/Do-LCD-TVs-Burn-In-/
Everyone should Google “Do LCD screens burn in”
Or what?
Or Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers sing non-stop outside your home, with a special guest voice by Barbara Streisand.
*faints from fright*
*Hands out sharpened sticks for eyes and ears*
Darn, I said “i*mages” and am being moderated.
I said lou:
Or live in your ignorance and be punished by the LCD gods by having i*mages stuck on your screen at the worst moment
*Puts on conspiracy nut outfit (only $9.99, with a complementary free tin-foil hat!)*
It’s all the corporations, maan, they,like,store !mages, you know, and then, they like advertise recycling, while in reality they, you know, retrieve the !mages, and, like, give them to the government, maaan… And then, they, like, monitor you, you know what I’m saying? And, there’s evidence, you know – why, like, the word “!mage” is, like censored, it’s ‘cuz they don’t, like, want you to know, like the truth, you know?
*removes outfit*
every time i see LCD, I read LSD. EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
Let me Google that for you.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Do+LCD+screens+burn+in
That’s why you can find a button or setting in the menu screen for recalibration. If the LCD isn’t a cheap piece of crap than you shouldn’t have to wait for it to fade.
I’ve heard of another trick though that involved leaving frozen shots of certain colors on the screen in a long and time consuming process. Guess it sort of burns over the original burn in.
Sorry didn’t see that blaatkip had mentioned the second trick already.
@ grond
You’re wrong. Look it up.
Apparently we old timers are using a term from our CRT days. It’s a form of burn in, that’s not burnt in.
I’ve had WoW burn in on my LCD monitor. There’s ways to remove it though.
LCD TVs do burn in, but the burn in will go away if you just leave the TV off for a day or two. On Plasma screens, the burn is permanent.
So all he did was get the type of tv wrong.. it’s still burned in.
That, or he better take the ad down and leave the TV off.
ah room mates gotta love em… they come different flavours: psycho, schizo and plain idiot are the most common ones
…although nutter, sociopath and kleptomaniac are also available.
Promiscuous can be found too. They’re cheap, but tend to be loud.
You left out the scariest of all roommates – Infectious.
*Shutters*
…and blind to mess, dirt and general hygeine issues.
*has flashback of when she came home after 2 weeks away*
*remembers her flatmates had 12 cats- that weren’t allowed out*
*with 1 litter tray*
*remembers the smell*
*turns green*
*sprints to the loo*
I only lived with family. Nuff said.
I once had two roommates who used to live in the same dorm before moving into my student residence. Apparently, in their dorm it was considered normal to not only play their drum n bass music really really loud, but also to put on some happy hardcore at 4 am and then dance to it. One of them lived right across the hall from me, the other one had the room above mine.
Sounds like my neighbours…..they don’t do that anymore
And here I was thinking the rock-throwing psychopath was bad … ah, those were the days.
I just share the place with cats now. It means I still have psychopaths for housemates, but they’re so cute and fuzzy
whats wrong with DNB?
The guy that did that to the monitor posted about his prank on the CollegeHumor.com Roommate Confessions weekly blog.
Which one exactly? I can’t seem to find it.
It was issue 77. I posted the link to it earlier but I guess the moderators removed it.
yup i saw that confession too, it was hilarious to see the other side of the story sometime after…
You can repair LCD “burn in”. Just repeatedly drive the LCD pixels on and off hard should fix it. Google for LCD burnin.
LCDs like it hard.
WIN
i want it now
It burns! It burns!
TV fail – Advertising WIN.
That’s a prank win…
Funny thing is that is quite easy to remedy… must be nice to have lots of money and a “roommate” that likes those types of video.
I should think the roommate is the one paying for it.
so the “post”er is a black dude huh? paying for orally maybe?
Woah i just find it not surprising at all that this took place in CANADA
Has it ever been funny to make fun of Canadians, outside of the US?
I don’t even know stereotypes about Canadians. Am I doing it wrong?
The only one I know of is that “allegedly”, and I use the word in its loosest form, the word “eh” is placed at the end of every sentence, which isn’t really that much of a laugh, to be honest.
We do use “eh” alot at the end of our sentences.
Some other stereotypes are that we live for hockey…wait we do.
we love our Tim Horton’s coffee and we love the cold snow storms weather for about three months and want instant summers. We are diplomats first and then the toughest soldiers in the world. And i am sure there are other stereotypes I left out.
Sounds like Sweden to me.
Stereotypes are usually a little screwed up, but have just a little truth to them.
Just don’t ask me what I thought about the hockey strike
I can’t count how many TV shows and people were making jokes about it.
You gotta admit, Canada does have kids playing hockey at a lake on one of it’s bills. Is it the 5?
Ha Ha! You must be screwing with me. If that’s true I honestly didn’t know that, but to be fair I never got to see any of their money the couple times I visited there.
I’de rather watch hockey than basketball on any day that ends in “y”, but I’m sure there are plenty of others that are the opposite.
I had to change money over when I went for a conference. Happy children, hockey. Vibrant colored money. No kidding. And at Quizno’s I was asked if people get mugged at the airports in New York.
yes its the $5.00
Ah yes, I forgot about that. Where I live we constantly use a sound like “nä” or “ne” which kinda means “ain’t I right?” or “dontcha think?”. So no, “eh” is not much of a laugh.
Wir sind die Ritter die “ne” sagen!
- Was sagen Sie?
- Kachelhöltjes!
Here in Tokyo, there isn’t a stereotype I’m aware of that other people from Japan use to make fun of us, but I can think of hundreds of little accents and emotions I can use for people from elsewhere. For example, people from the Kansai region speak a little like Texans, with elongated vowels and generally happy-go-luckiness, people from Nagoya speak with a sharp tone, and the general “country bumpkin” sound is “be” or “noo” which is placed at the end of sentences, and loosely translates as “riight” or “yup”.
I once met an Austrian guy who couldn’t stop making fun of Austrians from other regions because of their pronunciation.
In our village, we say [some German word], whereas in the neighbouring valley people say [same German word, slightly different pronunciation]. HAHAHAHA !!!!
Same when I visit my family in the South. You can tell where you’re from because: see czuhc comment above.
h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_rXxi0zhM
Thanks to DrB, whom we miss.
English people talk funny too. Most people near me speak like total idiots, like ‘ayup, duck’ and ‘sup, blad’ and other madness. I, however, talk with correct grammer and sentance structure. On the internet, at least…
Shame you can’t write with it.
Hey, ayup duck is the foundation of most northern conversation, why do I care anyway I’m from leicester (insert w00p here) where we have a mixture of northeners and those gangster type twats
I’ve heard that, too…but many of us from “south of the border” (okay, south of THEIR border, eh?) throw the words “like” and “y’know” into our sentences like rice at a wedding, so I guess it, like, balances out, y’know?
I’m a transcriptionist and the following words should be forever stricken from the English language:
like: i.e. “Like, we went, like, out to, like, the restaurant to, like, eat.”
uh
um
you know
okay
There may be more, but those are my top peeves. If anyone had to type themselves, verbatim, they’d clean up their stupid language patterns quick!
Yes you are always doing it wrong AE .LOL You get blamed for alot from what I can see.
Just what are you trying to say about Canadians Phil?.
Just what are you trying to say about Canadians Phil, eh?
There I fixed it.
Thanks eh BG.
gay 4 sure ²
You know if you run a “telidyne’? magnet across the screen it will scramble the magnets for a bout three weeks but they realign themselves to a clear screen again no burn side affects.
Now does anyone have a ride where we can go and get this TV.?
You want to know where to get the TV and not the magnet? Hmm…
*Eyes 5E suspiciously*
Screw that! I want the movie!
This is a free WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN. The Fail is so epic that it is a Win already.
This is a deffinite room mate win! im guna have to do this one day
Well do you ever live and learn? I didn’t know it was possible – burning the screen that is – and at first I had serious doubts as to the advertiser’s sanity…as usual it’s my igorance to blame!
Still, my mother is after a new telly – this could be just the one for her….
If the guy can afford a big flatscreen and a 2 week vacation, he should be able to afford a space without a roommate.
BUDGETING FAIL.
Agreed.
Not necessarily. The TV could have been a gift, or he could have gotten it with a tax return. The vacation may have been to visit family, paid for by his job. Plus, it could be just the roommate who needs to share rent, and this guy is doing him a favor by letting him do so. But that last one is a stretch.
advertising win. no more.
If I had the original image that got burned into the TV, I’d just invert the colours and let it burn the TV again for another two weeks. Problem solved! I think… (Plus enduring this remedy is not what I would look forward to.)
LOL! He fails so hard! I’d buy that TV, cuz you can easily just connect an extern HDD and run a program that gets rid of these burn-ins or what they’re called.
I’ll cum over and get it.
Whose fail, exactly? The guy giving away the tv or his friend?
Sorry to be a killjoy, but I guess this Craigslist post shows that it’s a joke…
Sorry, but this is in no way a fail. It’s a total WIN!
%*#!%$&*#!
Oh that post makes it through.
Nice!
*Screams foul and hatefull things at failblog*
Nomnomnomnomnomnom!
*nibbles Marius*
better?
*Joins screaming* Hey, I’m in the club, right?
*screams with the rest* Yeah, me too!
*Issues a baseball bat to BFF*
*Hands BG a baseball bat*
Want to take a ride to Seattle?
Whoo Hoo!!! Road Trip!
I WANT TO SCREEAAAMMM
it’s a fail, hands down. was this really a joke from the roommate? forgetfulness+joke coverup=silhouette fail.
More like an honesty win.
It looks like he managed to turn it off thus disabling that gay video so… I WANT THAT TV!!
“Burn-ins” in TFTs are rather easy to fix. Just display a fullscreen white image for a few days.
By the way, burn-ins are an artifact of the overdrive technology they use in them, as far as I know.
I’d hit that with a crowbar. An orange crowbar.
Images do not burn into LCD TVS, that’s why I have one. Images burn into Plasmas.
Good luck with that!
On the contrary, images can burn into any kind of screen (except a projector, but that goes without saying).
It’s not a question of possibility, but permanance. CRT burn is irreversible, so far as I know (although leaving it to burn a negative image might work), plasma can’t be totally gotten rid of, but LCD can be reversed in a few ways.
The fact that it can be reversed does not negate the fact that it can happen.
*sighs and waits for the mods to remove her comment for some silly reason*
Third time lucky …
Okay, let’s try this again …
“On the contrary, im@ges can burn into any kind of screen (except a projector, but that goes without saying).
It’s not a question of possibility, but permanance. CRT burn is irreversible, so far as I know (although leaving it to burn a negative im@ge might work), plasma can’t be totally gotten rid of, but LCD can be reversed in a few ways.
The fact that it can be reversed does not negate the fact that it can happen.”
(is confused as to why i-mages is being flagged)
yay!! No moderation on that one!
Thats kind of stupid to give somebody your TV with a tape your…..um……um….. Im kind of embaraced to sat that WORD if you know what im talking ’bout
I do believe the guy selling the TV deserves a free “justifiable hate crime” coupon to redeem in court should he give his roommate a beatdown.
You know because now he hates his roommate for being an asshat.
ok…also able like so, all free what?.
hate because borrow
hate because grammar
Hmmm… methinks I have found an anniversary pressie for my ultraconservativelyreligious sisterinlaw and her hubby…
BAH HA HA HA HA! ILU! I have a lot of extended in-laws I’d like to try that out on. One Aunt in particular, who thinks she’s allowed to FORBID her twenty- and thirty-something-aged children, nieces and nephews from seeing certain movies if she objects to the content.
It is hysterical
i like how the author makes sure to mention he has a girlfriend, just in case we were getting any ideas…
i would take it, it can be repaired
Capture the very same image, use a “negative” filter (invert colors), burn the new image, adjust gamma.
I would totally take this TV and leave it on a blank channel while company is over. If they comment, I’d swear I don’t see anything. Good times. Good times.
Actually, to resolve LCD image persistence, turn the display off four a couple of days. If that doesn’t fix it, put a pure white screen up on the display for several hours. This should “reset” the LCD pixels. Alternate between black and white screens if necessary. LCDs do not “burn” but the LCD pixels can “memorize” a condition when an image is left up for an extended period.
Now, if it is a plasma display, yeah, it’s burned in and displaying a negative of the image for two weeks should mostly resolve the issue.
LOL! I LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN!
me too!
i use that site sometimes
Dude! Me too! XD BeeTeeDub, is this the Nick I think it is?
I used to live in Saskatchewan. Thankfully not anymore.
Inbreds.
F***’s that supposed to mean?! I only know like, 3 or 4 people that have slept with their sisters, it’s not all of us.
This needs to go on Item Not As Described.
no it need to go on Item EXACTLY as described.
So what is Rule #34? I don’t get it.
I can totally over look an outline like that, yeesh! for a free tv? Its easy to ignore!!! Whats this guy’s phone number?!
ur too late, somebody already pick up the TV
What’s rule #34?
He wont deliver!, which means you get the pleasure of meeting the poor guy!
As mentioned earlier that TV is not a LCD TV but a plasma. Also that TV is not 1080p.
That’s wat friends are for…
One Thing I will say is If Your a Yank and you else where in the world an some1 mistakes you for a Canadian go with it the odds are you will get treated better!
This is too scary, almost like ‘The Ring’
Not to troll, but did the roommate died? Because if he were my freind, he would have.
Also, rommate must have been gay and watched it the whole two weeks.
best fail ever lol
Actually, I think this whole thing is a fake. I’ve seen the EXACT same ad listed on Craigslist in several different cities and states with different phone numbers.
I would question how exactly the roommate could get the static image to stay interrupted on the screen for two weeks, anyway. Every DVD and Blu-ray player I have seen on the market will either go into a screensaver or just shut down if the video is left paused for too long. It’s highly unlikely that someone who bought a 1080p HDTV is going to use an ancient dvd player on it. If he’s hooking a computer to the TV I would think he would have a screensaver set up on it.
It just doesn’t add up, really.
TV Rape is crime!!
I’m going to say this is a fake post, I’ve seen many different versions.
I’d send my roomate the bill to replace the TV. And possibly a lawsuit for sexual harrassment/property damage. Enjoy YOUR holidays in the shelter.
would be a great (white elephant/chinese xmas/yankee) swap gift!
I saw the same post different image. CopyCat?
gieve it to buba®! buba® buys it! buba® asks how much does it cost?
Did buba even read the ad? It’s free. I think he should be a little bit concerned about sharing his home with his housemate if that’s the kind of s”"t he’s into!
No, the rule isn’t obselete – in fact, Rule #35 is that if you find something for which there is no Rule #34 material, you are OBLIGATED to create it yourself, to satisfy Rule #34.
Well i bet that was a LOAD of her mind.
This post is lame.
Your post is lame. agreed
Hell of a good last minute christmas present
I feel like like theres much peaness
Someone who knows how to remove burn-in on LCD screens (it’s not hard) is getting a helluva deal
This is the funniest thing that’s been on here in a long time.
i wonder if he realizes there is a white screen in the menu so you can actually burn solid white into the screen to eliminate the problem. most lcd tvs come with one now.
WTF!! I submitted the craigslist add of this three weeks ago!!! F U DAMON CAVAN!!
Yay copypasta description.
How big is it? LOL not the tv…
I wounder if it was long dong silver.
Best ad I’ve ever seen!
Man…….Couldnt yu just get it fixed? But…….id be abit weird taking it in and the guy fixing it turns the T.V on………..big black c**k
Wow, what a freaking bargain… Yeah, right.
[i]Cum[/i] get it
=(
haha i’ve read something like this on college humor.. the guy who did it (burning the image) confessed on roommate confessions on college humor.lol
HAHHAAHAHAH
HEHE!!
Wow
Why is anyone arguing if an LCD can retain an image? This is OBVIOUSLY a fake post anyway so who gives a crap?!
I care – now I know what kind of TV to get myself
Rule 34 has nothing to do with this.
Learn2meme.
LCD TVs can get a burned in image, but it goes away over time. My kids did the same thing with Wii Bowling, but after a couple of weeks the image was gone. And the colors didn’t burn in, there were just some places darker and some lighter. Even if it’s just temporary, that is a hell of a prank.
But yeah, probably fake.
Lobotomy should work.
Happy new year.
I can’t see it
- Obtain free TV
- Find the gay video in question
- Find the exact frame burned into the TV
- Do a color negative on the image
- Leave on for 2 weeks
- …Profit?
LOL
are you willing to search for the frame?
I can’t stop laughing this it’s hilarious, one of the greatest pranks ever. EPIC.
The fact that it has a gay image gets you interested, the same kind of interested to see a scary film. Which is really just wanting the scare.
Roommate Win
forever imprinted in the brain.
Win?
I’m sure someone has already mentioned this …. but…. burn-in can be reversed.
Lol where in Saskatchewan was this?
hahahahahahahaha. same thing happened to my ex’s tv only it was spongebob.
Holy balls, I live in south Saskatchewan.
extensively long pauses do this? why is there no fail-safe mechanism in the tv to prevent this? that seems like a pretty big design flaw..
I guess it was already taken. =/ I would love to have that.
DAMN!! i live in southeast sk. thats a hilarious prank!!
lol prob weyburn. damn gay town
OMG thats UsedRegina (d) com!!
The real fail here is, LCD screens don’t get permanent burn in, turning off the TV and leaving it off for a day or two would get rid of the image.
is this still available??
Sooo I wasn’t aware LCD’s had burn in. I thought they were burn in proof. I thought only Plasma’s had that burn in issue.
Fail on the post itself?
i llike jalepenos on stiicks
next commenter is gay
Oh… really his roommate? I think he´s gay in a way himself. He forgot to shut down his television and when his gf comes in he said it was his roommate. thats my opinion. gay 45
damn… now I´AM GAY!:D:D:D
LCDs no not burn Pictures in…that only happens with Plasmas…
duh
shit i would have taken that just keep a nice white screen paused for a day or 2 and it would be good as new had to do that with an lcd once.
do you hear that, because i can hear the SET UP sirens screaming
Quite funny, although LCD:s don’t really burn permanently like that. Plasmas do.
On LCDs the “burnt” image will fade away on its own after a while…
lol no joke. plasma is the only one that burns permanently.
i really really REALLY want this tv
all i want to know is did any take that television?
nice and very informative writeup keep it up.
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I wonder if mind bleach would work in this situation?
hmm wishkey
mmmmmmm
lol, was that an attempt at a pun?
This is great, but it’s lacking a little explosion.