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Ouch
Yeah, that poor rubber mat never even saw it coming!
Didn’t have time to prepare for the landing.
I’m pretty sure his face hit those iron dumbbells. Ouch.
I hope they’re ok.
Congratulations!
You recieved the Fractured Skull!
Take this item?
[ Yes ] [ Yes ]
NO SERESLY DID HE DIE?
TAKE THE DAMN ITEM! YOU WON’T FIND OUT UNTIL YOU DO, DAMNIT!
*takes Fractured Skull!*
*figures he could use a new face*
*
safety**faceplant*
*waits for it to grow to maturity*
This is a Fail??? I doubt the nerds at Failblog could even lift half that weight.
Probably a few of them lift half that much weight in Doritos ever day. Some of them lift twice that weight when they get up from their chairs.
The ostensible fail isn’t in the amount of weight lifted, but in the fainting. Actually, I think that the only fail was in people in the gym developing erections in response to his collapse, instead of immediately helping him.
Well, but the Failblog guys don’t record it and show it to the world. So, yes, Fail!
The fail is in the technique. He was lifting that weight with his back. I don’t think that was feinting, I think that was him stumbling after he seriously screwed up his back. Trying to lift like that will screw you up for life.
Knees, not back. The faceplant into the dumbell rack is just a bonus.
Nah. That particular sort of lifting isn’t particularly safe, nor a good idea for, say, moving things around the house. But deliberate lifting with the back to strengthen it or to demonstrate such strength is something that lifters do all the time.
What? Deadlifts, cleans, squats and lunges are perfect “for moving things around the house”, and they’re not unsafe if done correctly. His form fell apart because it was too heavy for him.
He isn’t doing any of those; he’s lifting with his back. The point is that, though lifting with one’s back is not a got idea in practical application, nor very safe in any application, it actually is something that lifters deliberately do — distinct from deadlifts, cleans, squats and lunges.
I can, at least half.
Anytime Fitness has rubber dumb bells. This guy should switch!
It’s definitely a fail. 315 lbs isn’t that great of a deadlift, so fainting onto a dumbbell rack after one rep is a fail in my book.
1. I don’t think he fainted, he was kinda moving even after he hit the rack.
2. the biggest fail is that they were too busy laughing, filming and pointing when they should have rendered immediate medical assistance. (or rather, called 911).
Collection fractured Olmec heads secured!
Hee! *gives Aja 4 MU$*
*buys mystery crate*
More garbage!
Buy anteaters instead! They are much more useful.
And EXPENSIVE!!! Just bought one last night, but ran out of health points to uncover anything.
not according to Overdrawn At The Memory Bank!
Have I been living in some variety of cave?
I have no idea what you guys are on about
Which leads me to question, are there several different variety of caves? I always pretty much figured, CRAP, I’m in a dark enclosed place!, was applicable to ALL caves.
Yes, I am moderately clausterphobic. Why do you ask?
There are many types of caves including fissure, talus, solutional, granite, slate, erosional, man-made, rare emerged sea caves, sea caves, and sandstone caves.
Not to mention, the Bat Cave.
I prefer dynamite
What rubber does?
Fake
I don’t this is fake he lifted it wrong and used his back, when you are supposed to use your legs. He will have back pain for weeks and after hitting that rack…yah……
Really? His back will hurt for weeks too?
Hahahahahahahahaha C:<
i bet his face hurt more though…but it his face probably recovered whereas he is confined to a wheelchair because his legs are paralised because the nerves in his back snapped
Its a lift called a Dead Lift, its one of the best back workouts there is. You have to use your legs and your back simultaneously, it did look like he used a bit too much back though. Funny shit.
Looked to me like he used a bit too much FACE.
He used just the right amount of face to get a nice short nap.
Too much time between clean and jerk.
… but now someone has to clean that jerk.
I’m not cleaning that up.
That’s why gyms have big fire hoses.
Nothing funny about it.
He used his back. But he forgot the blessed safety equipment – the lifting belt used to support his lower back.
In short, he’s an idiot who was not thinking about what he was doing.
A safety belt would not have helped him. It was his lack of breathing that caused him to faint.
next time, just don’t let an orge go to the gym
oops i meant “ogre”. Stupid failblog
For the record, a deadlift is neither a snatch nor a clean and jerk, therefore it isn’t weightlifting.
It’s powerlifting, if anything, so LABELLING FAIL.
“I don’t this is fake he lifted it wrong and used his back, when you are supposed to use your legs. He will have back pain for weeks and after hitting that rack…yah……”
Maybe you should learn a thing or two about working out and lifting weighs, this lift targets the back and NO you are not supposed to lift with your legs whilst doing it.
first off that powerlifting not weightlifting weightlifting is an olympic sport ( snatch, clean n jerk) n second off ur right and wrong BigD you are supposed to use ur legs more than he did if you dont wanna hurt your back
Nice try, but it targets the hamstrings, so YES, you are supposed to use your legs.
BigD, if you don’t use your legs to lift in a deadlift, you are not going to lift much of anything. Even a straight-leg deadlift requires a lot more leg use than you seem to think.
you know whats’s a “deadlift”? google it.
WIN
unlike the rubber, he fainted, and then got knocked out all in the same motion.
i really enjoyed how his friend laughed at him when his face said hi to the dumbbells
Lift with your legs, not your back. nice how the guy recording ran to his aid after he fell over and crushed his face.
Yeah, he’s a real swell guy for doing that.
you’ve never seen powerlifting before huh? You use your back for this lift.
you use your legs. and protect your back with a good York belt.
First off guys weight belts only encourage bad form when lifting the use of them in competative powerlifting and the more elite level classes are usually accompanyed by a lifting suit and or bench shirt.
Relying on these things is not something that protects you you dont strap your biceps up to do curls right.
Deadlift is a great total body movement not simply legs and back.
1 rep max lifting takes time to get used to this guy just lifted to much weight without the proper training and technique.
Still damn funny though lol
I love how so many people think they know what they’re talking about. Thanks for setting them straight.
Anyone lifting with their back is asking for lifelong back issues. Doesn’t matter if that particular lift is supposed to be using the back to do the lifting, it is incompatible with human biology.
no
1. you need to lift with your back…. leave the legs completely out of the equation and lift with a jerking-twisting motion
2. ???????
3. Profit
You misspelled safety.
I guess you’ve given up on the underpants?
No he didn’t die! lol he got 10 stitches though but he’s alright now! I can’t believe this finally hit fail blog thats great
Thanks for letting us know, although hitting failblog is not exactly my lifetime ambition.
No, that’s the Darwin Awards.
So why’d he pass out? too much blood to his muscles and not his brain?
Valsalva maneuver, look it up
YA. never good to vagal down while standing up.
what brain, if the man had a brain, he would be holding the camcorder instead.
He faced the consequences…
wow, this is my school, you can see on the mat “alexandria cardinals”
Faceplant instead of facepalm! Nice!
Palmtree!
Jules +1
Palmplant?
Hairy palm?
Palm reader?
His life line extends all the way to his buttcrack.
And so will his chiropractor.
Faceplant is like facepalm times ten and most appropriate when you’re dealing with a real dumbbell.
Plus, a few months after planting you have a whole new crop of faces.
They keep best in a jar, by the door.
But who are they for?
Lonely people.
My face crop failed last season. I think I planted them too close together.
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Unconsciousness is blood leaving the brain.
Stupidity is common sense leaving the building.
Are you saying Elvis is still in the building?
Naughtiness is a pun-run breaker leaving her corner.
Forgiveness is squeezing the pun-run breaker anyway.
*squeeze*
Funiness is someone else faceplaning into the dumbbells.
Thoughtfulness is providing definitions of obscure words.
faceplaning
-verb
The act of sliding ones face along an abrasive surface: Dude, I submitted your faceplaning to failblog.
*Squeeze for Fluffy*
faceplaning
-verb
The act of leaving out the T in “faceplanting”.
*facepalm*
I think I like it better as faceplaning, it’s like cheesegrating.
I don’t find cheese grating. It’s my favorite in the dairy category.
I liked it. It gives an accurate mental picture.
If you don’t mind Fluffy, I would like to use that term in the future.
I have this mental !mage of a guy losing half the skin on his face to road rash…you know, like “hydroplaning”, only with your face!
Be careful not to lock the hair up while faceplaning.
you misspelled cheesegraing
It’s his 75th birthday, today.
I hope the aliens are giving him a nice birthday party!
Where did my youth go? Why didn’t fame hold off old age and death? Why the hell did I leave the fame in the first place? Do I want it back? Could I have it back? And if I could, would it make any damned difference?
Damn druggies…
Don’t make me use my stuff on ya, baby!
I was talking to Elvis, not you.
Actually, you look quite like him
I am Elvis, but I signed everything over to Marius. We had us a deal. If I wanted to trade back, he’d let me. It was all written up in the contract. Thing was, I lost my copy in a barbeque accident.
*attacks Maruis while screaming*
*flees with sweaty silk scarf*
Dang it! That was my last scarf. Get back here. . . Sh!t! Get old, you can’t even cuss someone and have it bother ‘em. Everything you do is either worthless or sadly amusing.
Actually Elvis’s Birthday is tomorrow Jan 8.
Pain is natures way of reminding you that you are not dead yet.
So let’s hit him on his….head?
First?
No.
Sorry.
Try again later.
Or don’t try again later. We’d actually like that better.
Considerably!
But I was trying to get us a new friend.
Hehe!!!
With friends like that, who needs trolls??
A friend indeed is a troll in need.
Sell it a bridge to lurk under.
Eeek! A…
…Hm. Is that getting old yet?
So wait, you’re an elephant now?
*Weirdcrossbreedsqueeze*
*runsawaywithaquickness*
In all my encounters throughout my youth, I don’t remember a dragon encountering a mouse before. I guess my old DM’s were sadistic in a totally different way, but the point is maybe a dragon would be startled by a mouse. Did the Mythbusters ever test that one?
Actually, this dragon is not at all afraid of mice…this was a running joke that I was worried was wearing thin, so I thought I’d ask.
Hmmm… I’ll have to try it if we run into a dragon in our current game. One of my group has a rat as a familiar.
It makes me smile every time still.
to bad he didn’t hurt himself or it would be funny
So I suppose that rack of weights to the face didn’t hurt then?
Not if he was already unconscious.
Would hurt afterwards if he woke up too soon though.
first!
Um…nope! Sorry.
SURVEY SAYS! errrrrr….(best impression of the survey board i could do with limited resources)
It’s a good impression.
I give it an 8 out of 10.
… and from the Soviet judge, a 2.4
I didn’t refresh
I should know better. GOOD JOKE THO! Let me try one…in soviet Russia you survey board…..nope not for me.
If it matters, the undead judge was slightly impressed.
*holds up 7 and 8*
*doesn’t get it*
*goes to hold up 7 of 9, but gets slapped in the face*
ouch.
7 ate 9….they were zombie numbers after all
In Soviet Russia board survey you
let me guess, the french judge lowered my score… EVERY TIME! but i will live
Try losing the white flag, it’s intimidating the French viewers.
Weight for it. . .
*snatches the Moomin*
*squeezes*
*falls over*
*joins wait watchers*
*watches Jules wait*
*waits for BBB to watch his waiting*
Weight a minute. I’m watching the waitstaff. Oops.
Really how much does the weightstaff way?
*watches, weights*
They’re all heavyweights, from eating way too much curds and whey.
*puppytackles*
Oh joy. Two of my favorite out of house doggys!!
*scratches behind J an GS’s ears*
*pulls out special treats*
*hands the dogs wheynnies*
Good boys!
*throws my weight behind a “d” to complete the and between J and GS*
*catches the Admiral*
*squeezes*
*calls over*
*runs up to the wicket*
*bowls the Moomin*
*matches the Moomin and Admiral*
*squeezes*
*lols over*
*latches Dragon*
*squeezes*
*crawls over*
*poke poke*
Did it die?
Well, the pun-run did. You killed it.
*surreptitiously squeezes Khaaaaaaan*
*gasp*
I forgot to add the “*keels over* part!!
*goes to corner with head hung in shame*
*squeeze!*
Fetch out…
the funny things!
And that’s when Jon started taking the warning labels on Nyquil seriously.
You spelled Viàgra wrong (and so did I).
Hahahaha, me, serious?
That’s a good one. As if I would ever be serious.
It’s the nightime coughing, sneezing, headache, sore throat, something, something, something so you can rest medicine.
In other words it’s an over the counter medicine. Incidentally it also no longer works as advertised.
Sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, so you can rest medicine. Also known as the original coma inducer, stronger than anything you can buy on the streets.
(check Dennis Leary’s No Cure For Cancer for more info)
They took out the one ingredient that did anything because of the meth-heads. NyQuil wanted to stay on the shelves, so they changed their formula. Now, it doesn’t work so well.
Aye — it used to be “the nighttime sniffling sneezing coughing aching stuffy head fever so you can rest medicine.”
I’m freshly cheesed-off whenever I have to sign for my Sudafed.
Do they give it to you in a plain brown wrapper, after they run a background check?
No, but it takes something like 15 minutes to just get the pharmacists attention, then another 10 or so to finish the transaction. What used to take five minutes tops now takes darned near half an hour. Grrrrr!
They probably have 911 on stand-by and surreptitiously film you.
A couple of years ago there was some kind of shortage of Vanilla extract and people were shop lifting it. They put it behind the counter with the “cold medication in question”. I’ve never felt self-conscious about buying vanilla before.
“PLEASE, don’t hold out on me man! I NEED my baked goods.”
A vanilla extract shortage?
Nothing is more annoying than having to wait forever, then sign for cold medicine when YOU CAN’T BREATHE. The guy behind the counter looks at you suspiciously and grudgingly hands over the dratted Sudafed or Advil Cold & Sinus as if he thinks you’re going to cook up some meth right there in front of him!
I tell them to sell me as much as they can without having to call the cops. Most decongestants and cold medicine make my heart do funky things. I’ll sign for the sudafed, thanks.
Luckily, my pharmacist has a sense of humor.
Hee hee hee hee whiteout!
That’s not an earworm because my foot is now tapping on its own.
Hooray!
*Drums on desk*
Hmmm… apparently my onomatopoeias are considered naughty words by Failblog…
♪♫ The pig says moo! The pig says moo! Heigh-ho the derry-o, the pig says moo! ♪♫
It was the methane that made him faint.
I tried to hold it in, but I had cabbage for dinner last night.
The weights are foam
The ones he was lifting, or the ones he crashed in to?
*ponders*
Yes?
Oh, ok.
Did he rip?
Boy, you cut straight to it.
Lets take a split second to check.
Any way you slice it, the answer will be the same.
Yup, that mandolin down.
This seems pretty dicey to me.
It was a close shave.
It almost looked like shear genius.
Will these puns ever strop?
You guys are quite a pare.
Bowie-fore we go any further, let me sharpen my wit.
These puns are a finely honed skill.
Sometimes the pressure to come up with a good one makes me feel edgy.
Too many puns are making me exasp-serrated.
Will dissever end?
Without a shred of doubt.
I wish I was as cleaver as you all.
Failbloggers are so sharp, I feel like I’m all whet.
uh oh, I’m about to tear it up!
You answered your own question up there, Leila. ^ ^ ^ ^
Oh Judy! Where is your mind? I was worried about his poor pants.
Leila, you NEVER ask Judy where her mind was. That’s not a road trip you want to take.
Road trip? Load up the car with Ritz crackers and spray cheese!!!
Don’t forget the Jolt Cola. Tastes nasty, but it’s totally worth it.
Shotgun!
*hops in behind wheel*
*doesn’t eat [1], doesn’t sleep*
*doesn’t guarantee the safety of anyone outside the car*
[1] FPANF
I already got my wings. Not afraid of your driving.
*waves hand in air*
This is not the Rhode you want to drive down.
You want that one. –>
Here take this hand basket too.
Holy crap! That’s my old high school! Jefferson Senior High in Alexandria, MN.
It’s mine too! Central High School in Phoenix, AZ.
Holy crap! Mine, too! Warwood High School, Wheeling WV!!!
That’s my school – Leasowes Community College, UK!
Not the gym, I meant the clickie.
Holy crap! Those weights are my father!!
I can’t believe it’s not butter!
Mine too! You must be my long lost brother/sister!
I used to live in Phoenix when I was a pup! I attended Villa De Pause (not sure on spelling, go figure) elementary school!
Klein High School, Spring TX…but that’s not it.
My high school didn’t even have a gym!
Well, at least you were able to rent a car there, I suppose
Mine had those old style theater seats above the gym so you can see the basketball players heads.
ha mine had the bleachers of death that came out of the wall. kids used to hide in them during games, one night a kid got trapped in it when they were retracting it….I bet he felt like Indiana Jones.
Wasn’t that an episode of “Bones”?
What is bones? Is it a show about kid being trapped in bleachers? If so I am totally interested!
Bones is one of the many FBI/forensic detective type TV shows. One of the episodes dealt with a kid squashed to death by retracting bleachers.
oh, well this kid didn’t die. but now when ever he sits on a bench he begins to cry and shake.
Stop talking about me as if I weren’t even here!! You’d be afraid too.
3B did you go to my JHS? Cause that happened to someone there too. Luckily like Jaysen’s, our bleachers had that space behind them.
*has a comment in moderation*
*used the “i” word, but with exclamation points instead of “i”s*
My high school had two gyms. The larger one had both the old style theater seats above and the retractable benches of doom. I don’t know why I’m sharing such mundane information, but I felt compelled to.
The power of fail blog compels you.
Okay, I was just trying to be funny and now I feel a little bad.
The mundane worms it’s way in, that’s how we start to *gulp* get to know each other *runs*
Oh no, someone else has come down with the runs.
*tiptoes into the thread*
*deftly removes the extra apostrophe from BG’s post*
*tucks the apostrophe into her cleavage*
*tiptoes out of the thread*
Ok, the blogmonster ate a comment that was perfectly fine! It had the “i” word, but I used “!” instead! And there was NOTHING naughty about the comment at all!
Grrrrrr!
L@me.
So wait, we can’t bl@me Arthur any more?!
!
The PTB need to sort their filters out.
Why do we always think the blog monster should just starve to death with all these tasty comments being thrown about?
I blame Arthur.
My school’s gym is 2 floors high, and theres a giant glass wall on the rooms on the top floor, looking down on everyone.
They also use it as the room we do all of our tests in, so we have to put up with people pulling faces at us through all of our exams.
What the hell did just happen???
He passed out from lack of oxygen to the brain.
Seriously, the heavy exertion combined with the yell afterwards caused him to faint. Not surprising, fainting is a serious problem during strenous exercise for pretty much the same reasons. You’re using the oxygen to exert the muscles, if you fail to breathe harder to get more, then whump…
and then the weights crashed into an overpass
The “great debate” from yesterday is now up to 1,748 comments. I think someone found a hot button issue.
Who’s in the lead? The creationists, bible thumpers, or ignoramuses (ignorami?)?
You forgot the atheists/agnostics/non-religious group.
I really like the word, “ignorami.” I may have to use that.
Ignorami, arch rivals of the Illuminati.
Ignorami: the dyslexic art of paper folding Japanese people.
You’re not a pig. Nor am I.
Ummmm, I can’t bring myself to actually read the comments. I think my head would explode. I said yesterday that I was going to stay out of the debate, if I read the comments, I won’t be able to NOT say something!
I know you wouldn’t! *squeeze!*
*squeeze*
There were some decent comments made. But in a world where we’re told not to talk about such subjects, sometimes it’s still good to hear opinions. When I was there, there was more conversation than trolling.
Agreed. I have been pleasantly surprised by the level of discourse over there. Of course, some people are incapable of having a reasoned debate and will revert to acting like six-year-olds on the playground, but for the most part I’ve seen more discussion of ideas than flames.
*fingers in her ears* nananananana I don’t like your opinion, it’s not mine!
They’re up to 1,875 comments now!
Debaters won’t quit! They’ll go blind that way!
THAT’S NOT TRUE! Liar, liar, pants on fire!
*runs off crying*
DW MADE AE CRY!!! I’M TELLING!!!
*runs off*
Uh oh. Ummm….
*points to the Admiral*
HE did it! It wasn’t me!
You started it!
Did not!!!
Hmmm…I had a moderated post that said the word bl@me get deleted here…
*cannot fathom why her comment is in moderation, but hopes it will show up eventually*
Honestly…I didn’t say the “i” word, or the “c0ck” word, or anything naughty at all! HMPH.
Blogmonster doesn’t like disco.
Aww…dang.
*tosses out old BeeGees and Abba albums*
*picks up albums and stashes them away*
♪ Don’t break my heart
my achy breaky heart ♪
*wields a shellacked minnow menacingly*
Very naughty Leila!
*puts hands over ears*
*runs screaming from the room*
I can’t help it. I love Abba. My Godson would watch Mamma Mia over and over and over. He was 9 months old. It was super cute. Now I’m hooked.
*ducks and narrowly misses minnow*
You missed out BB.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.
Meh. Don’t really feel that I missed anything. Wouldn’t have been much of a show with me there. I have common sense. We’d have been off the island as soon as I could make the professor realize that it would be a challenge to fix the boat. No more coconut radios.
You’re forgetting about the Gilligan factor. No plan was safe.
Silly Marius. I would have flipped out due to lack of chocolate and liquor and killed Gilligan within a couple of days. He’s not a factor.
That’s my kinda ship(wrecked)mate!
You and me Dragon. We’ll whip the Skipper into shape, keep MaryAnn drudging in the scullery, throw Ginger overboard to keep the sharks busy, steal the Howes’ money, and bang the professor into shape. Get me off this island and let me slip into something more Fiji sized.
“… and bang the professor into shape…”
*SNORK*
Little buddy!
*Snickers*
Hissss – crack!
Pun intended Avis. The professor was lacking but still the dreamy one of the bunch.
The cool chicks always go for the smart boys.
Thanks, Dragon. I’ll keep telling myself that.
I think you hot chicks like boys with braaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnzzzzz too, right?
Indeed we do, ZA.
*zombiesqueeze!*
I got trapped in there for a while yesterday evening.
Trapped would be a good word for it.
Yea I was reading through them, it literally made my stomach hurt. So much negativity and hatred. but mainly just the raw stupidity on both sides and people claiming to be full of knowledge when I think they were really full of something else…I’ll give you a hint: it smells bad and rhymes with spit.
You may want to wash it occasionally, helps with the smell.
I only have something that rhymes with venus – not so sure about the smell. I like it, but I have been told to rub it every once in a while – which makes it only smell worse…
Cut back on the asparagus.
Wrong door.
The smartest people I’ve ever known are those that are aware of how little they actually DO know.
*squeezes B³*
*squeezes Dragon*
Hiya lady!! I have that case of Catsup (Ketchup) for you.
Oo!
Now I just need to find something crunchy!
Carrots?
Cracklin’s?
Chips!
Cracklin’s, you must be from the south.
No. I just read a lot. A LOT.
I’m actually very close to the center of the states. Denver baby!!
Mile High!!
(Club?)
(Sandwich?)
(Spear?)
*facepalm*
*spears Jon with a pickle*
Surprise!
Uhm, ow.
*Skewers AA on some toast*
Sharp, sharp toast.
AA and Jon, cut that out. Shish you kabobs.
*shakes head and sneaks a skewer stake for later*
Did you say “toast”??
Yes. Yes I did.
Shouldn’t I have?
*hands hover over toast-holsters*
*Theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly plays*
You really don’t want to see how the Admiral produces toast. :p
*smoke curls up through teeth*
*preemptively dives 18 feet underground*
Holy/Unholy crap! I forgot I was still part of that – BRB!
Call me when the total comments for it is over nine thousand, I have the PERFECT comment for then.
Since the anagram for ‘weightlifting failure’ is “Rightful, fine, agile wit.” – i have to say I am freakishly amused…
uh….who borked the blog?
What broke?
Never mind.
Operator error.
All is well and all is well and all that can be well is well.
When it refreshed a few minutes ago, it loaded wrong for me, but that’s easy to fix. Just refresh again.
I had to reboot my laptop today. Perhaps someone evil is doing something to the internetz.
I’m too scared to turn my laptop off these days, in case it explodes when I try to turn it on again.
Ooh, ooh!! *raises hand* I know how to fix that!!
You take it somewhere you actually WANT to blow up. That should make it safe.
Some place like the religious debate failblog?
That……………..or Starbucks. Starbucks is kind of like a Hydra. Even if you blow one up, there will be 3 more on that corner in less than a week.
McDonald’s too.
Poor dumbbell.
bold, bore lump – as you say….
Picks coir if fou. ^
What? No anagram for this one Kindoflake?
I see what you did there.
Umm………will you be my seeing eye Scotty? I somehow missed it.
*squints and re-reads*
*shakes head*
Nope, still don’t get it.
Scrabble freak?
*LOVES Scrabble*
Well, if you ever get your butt over to the other FB, we can play a game!
We’re always looking for new
viccompetitors.The other FB has Scrabble?
Sure does!
*runs to start a game with Gracie*
Hee! I’ve got room for another game or two since I’m not cooking.
We’re playing official Scrabble. The clone is allowed to continue after it made modifications.
Started up again, but can only play with friends who live in the US. Wanna play??
EGG-zellent!
*runs back to create yet another scrabble game*
Woo!
We will have to find a time when I can play, too!!!
I already sent you an invite, sweets!
It’s your turn, NS.
I’m not at home yet — can’t access the other FB from work.
Of course, that’s probably a good thing. 
Heehee…we’ll wait.
It’s a problem for those that can’t exercise self-control.
*is remembering another person who swore he wasn’t going to play on the other FB from work*
*flees*
After the bosses go home, I would play on FB if I could — but I can’t, so I won’t. The site is blocked & I don’t have one of those new-fangled smart-phone thingies.
Time to go home, though — I guess I have to play Scrabble now, don’t I?
*gives chase*
*can’t catch up from laughing so hard*
Yes, NS, you’ve got a seat at the table.
Every time I ask Rooster to help me out, we always get… uh… sidetracked.
Do tell…
*sits and waits*
I don’t think so!
*pouts*
Oh sure. “I know something that you don’t know and I’ll never tell.”
Like you guys couldn’t figure it out!
:p
*squeeze*
(
)
Saw it already. I still say that she should go with hand made Swedish. Then she can lacquer the handle herself. More personal that way.
While I agree with you, I don’t think that matters to her. She can be a little … weird sometimes.
Perhaps she should chop around some more before she buys.
Like wanting an axe? What is she planning on using it for? Decoration, chop down a tree, put in zombie survival kit?
She wants the hatchet size, for working with kindling. And yes, it’s that hatchet sized axe that would cost $250. She likes the idea of how the company that makes them came to be, and how they decided to make axes. Like I said, weird.
Makes perfect sense to me.
ht tp://oddlyspecific.com/2009/12/makes-perfect-sense/
The Gränsfors mini hatchet is a steal at $145, but if she wants a bit of panache she should go for the broad axe at $277. Each one is signed by the guy who made it!
The broad axe is also useful if attacked by orcs and the like.
Arguing with her about anything in the design world is futile. I have long since given up. I wasn’t kidding about the $40 socks either!
Um, Jules? What did that have to do with axes? I’m a little confused.
Don’t argue Avis. You two should..
..bury the hatchet.
It’s less us arguing and more me pointing and laughing. Which I’m not supposed to do anymore. I want a $30 garlic press. She thinks that’s silly. I think her hatchet is silly. We reached an understanding. Sort of.
I know, I just could pass up the joke.
You could?
You can press garlic with the hatchet. WHAMO!
Doesn’t really want to join other FB, but doesn’t want to feel left out either…
I agree with ALL of you. Well, except Avis. On your own there Freebird.
You don’t like Scrabble?
I love Scrabble, but no one will play with me as I am a terrible speller and have a head full of obscure words. Makes for long turns and very defensive play.
That’s the reason I love Scrabble Marius.
Avis, I meant that Rooster didn’t distract me whilst attempting to scrabble.
Not attempting to scrabble, I want to set up an FB account, but want his assistance doing so (pics) and we never seem to get to it. I wonder why?!
Well when my wife and I first started dating, we did hardly left the apartment, for anything but school and work. It did make for some fun times.
Me too. Can’t spell, but would like to play with decent people so I can use small/humorous words. I used to be a great speller
I’m with you BG. I remember having all the parts of my brain when I started this life, but I seem to have misplaced parts of it since.
*fellowspellfailersqueezes*
My problem with Scrabble is not my spelling knowledge. I just suck at thinking of good words. I know big words, and I use them, but when I’m playing all I can think of are the 3 letter words.
We should play then. The whole board full of 3 letter words and us forgetting all the large ones we use here!
*3letterscrabblesqueezes*
My wife isn’t very good with board strategy, but she is good at reading her tiles. She uses her entire rack at least once per game.
Are we still talking about Scrabble, or …
Twister?
Once per game may be an exaggeration, but it sure seems that way. It’s very frustrating to see a good lead evaporate in one turn. I’m a member of the three letter word club so there is no coming back from that.
*Snickers at Jules*
*snags the snickers*
I’m starving.
*Gives up the snickers*
I saw what you did on that island.
The answer is -
*tries to look innocent when misplaced brain parts are mentioned*
*fails*
I may have to challenge some of my kitteh friends to lolspeak Scrabble.
Nightshayde, how would you know when a word was misspelled?
*perks up*
What’s this, now?
My husband won’t play Scrabble with me. He fears me, as he should.
You don’t say…
We were shopping somewhere with our little girl in tow. She saw Scrabble in a store window & asked what it was. He told her it’s a game he won’t play with her mother & that she should be wary of playing with me, too.
Never knew what hit it.
He’d hit that.
Never knew what he hit.
he hit what he never knew
Meh, looked like dead weight anyway.
Just in case anyone asks:
Door hinge rhymes with orange.
Not really.
Of course it does. I could rap it, yo.
No, it doesn’t really. But if you have an accent, I suppose it could. Or say if you were mispronouncing one or the other, then maybe they would rhyme.
At least it is debatable now, that _nothing_ rhymes with orange.
red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather -
after reading that out loud, it rhymes…
Um yes, by definition, leather rhymes with leather.
*snork!*
I thought that it was an alliteration.
rap doesnt always rhyme
And the Anagram of Door Hinge rhymes with orange is one of my all time favourites:
Yo-ho-ho! Swineherd triggerman.
I think this fail has been invaded by a crazy troll. i am not really sure what to do….do I stand completly still and hope it doesn’t notice me?
We do not have to converse, so feel free to move around again.
Who wants the honors? Is it my turn?
please, show us what cha got!
Oh no. I kind of like……..er……..well………Kindoflike. I’m enjoying the anagram blurts.
Thank you, my dear.
Your name was hard, but here it is:
Pop bribe by top pop.
Aw man! It’s been a while since the Admiral’s brandished his spatula. I was kind of looking forward to it.
I have never seen this spatula! I am sad now
Spatula? Umm……….I might be willing to sacrifice myself……………………..for your entertainment.
*bends over and looks for AA over shoulder*
That’s not exactly how it was used…
*puts a hat on Kindoflike’s head*
There ya go, sweets!
Now he’s ready!
Hehe! The hat does do the trick.
*smacks 3b in the booty with cheap spatula bought at store* sorry…i couldn’t resist…that was awesome!
Jaysen, we don’t go smacking people on the rear we don’t know that well, particularly when they were looking for someone ELSE to do it.
Go to the naughty corner.
*checks BBB for bruises*
It’s ok. I liked it.
Have you been introduced to the ET finger yet?
*uses ET finger*
Now you have.
*runs around and away*
Well, that sure penetrated the complacent daze I was rockin’. *sigh* Why Jules? Just…..why?
Meh, there are lots of anagram generator websites out there.
I liked:
Boob Bop Peppy Trip
Tribe Bop By Pop Pop
the Tribe one is catchy, i like it. but if it has “boob” anywhere in it i’m hooked.
Shoulda play “Eye of the tiger” as background music.
It better not
did he came?
No he didn’t goed has went while having has the coming.
Is that what that meant?
more of a walking fail
Weight for it: DARY
This is why you dont do drugs, kids, mkay?
Did he die?
yep right before he poo’d his pants…
NO, JAYSEN!!! YOU NEVER REPLY SERIOUSLY TO A “DID HE DIE” COMME-
*FailBlog implodes*
That was a serious reply?
Well, serious enough to be a humo(u)rous direct answer to the troll’s question, if that makes any sense at all.
Perfect sense. Nonsense, but perfect nonsense.
*squeeze*
I thought you’d understand, Avis. It’s nonsense, but nonsense that makes sense.
*squeezeback*
*senses the senselessness of nonsense*
*has sixth sense for nonsense in the form of frankincense*
*myrrh*
*nonsenses the senselessness and gets some ice cream*
*follows closely* i love ice cream!
*flits by and steals a lick of BG’s ice cream*
*fleeswithacreamyquickness*
*flits back with sprinkle packets*
*sprinkles BG’s cone in hopes of forgiveness*
Please excuse my manners. Can’t resist ice cream.
Fine, so long as you forgive me now. I too suffer from an ice cream addiction and may steal a lick or two.
…hello… is there anyone there? Well at least I have my books. *breaks glasses* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I thought I’d be funny, I thought I’d be funny, I thought I’d be funny. I’m so sorry
Little did Jaysen know, that he had entered the Twilight Zone…
doo di doo doo, doo di doo doo….again bad impression due to limited resources
Time enough at last Burgess?
Wasn’t that called The Scary Door?
creepy music plays
Rod? Are you behind the closet door with a knife Rod?
No, see Amanda’s comment above.
Fake
Flake
Break!
Snake
Take
Make
CAKE!!
Bake?
Quake
take!
wake
Rake
Stake in steak
Shake
*rufflestail*
*Breaks into KC and the Sunshine Band*
Should this be funny?
If you know what “Schadenfreude” means and understand it, then yes.
♪Schadenfreude, making the world a better place to be.♫
I love that show!
You’re sounding like my dad when I watch Comedy Central.
My wife use to say the same thing. She just started to get it.
It’s an interesting suggestion that failure has to be funny.
he looks and sounds exactly like Brucie from GTA
Now I want to see the clip.
Face plant in 3…..2……1..!!!! and the blood rushes into the brain again.
prolly hurt his back pretty bad
Why do people try to lift more than they are able? your suppose to only try and lift a little at a time and work up. its not suppose to hurt. especially your face. they have separate exercise machines for that.
(Google: Facial Flex Facial Exercise and Toning Kit)
Did someone make the dumbbell joke already?
respect for the 315 but seriously bad tecnique hes lucky he didnt tear something
We don’t know that he didn’t.
“Where is my whiskey? I am gonna get tore up.”
Use your adult words Jules. It’s whisker. Whisker. Oh. Oh wait. Oh, I see what you did there.
Was that even a 3 plate? Didn’t look like the standard 45lbs plates.
They look like rubber plates.
Wow he shouldnt of been trying hang cleans without a belt anyways! Trust me I know I hurt my back when I dont use one, but that has ALMOST happened to me you feel really light headed after that, Im just FAIL PROOF, sometimes
This post, however, is not one of your fail proof times.
It could be proof of fail though.
Don’t be too hard on him, language is not his primary means of communications.
suhh what?
fake and gay
How nice of you to introduce yourself!
Pretty and nice.
tall, dark, and hansom!
ok well i may not be dark but i am 6’9″
6’9″? Seriously?
Feeling severly undertall right now.
*huff*
The hubby’s 6’7″.
i find the shorter gals attractive. when we spoon im the ladle
Most guys do, I find.
I dated a 6’2″ girl once. She was beautiful and it was GREAT being able to look her in the eyes and not slouch to kiss her. But I am not going to lie, it was intimidating at times. But then she decided to join the force and moved to Germany
…things just got a wee bit too personal, sorry failpeeps.
*squeezes Dragon*
The losers, you mean.
i hope you didn’t just refer to me as a loser?
yay for bad lifting technique!
Later all…Time to watch my Longhorns whup a little butt….or not. Either way lots of Patron!!!
or Cabo Wabo…
Hook ‘em!!
So, I think we might have a new moderated word.
L@me.
I don’t know, I had/have a comment in moderation and still can’t figure out why.
Does that mean that you’re the one who broke the blog?
I never comment to my moderated posts!!! I had one go into moderation and not make it. All I asked is if we were still bl@ming Arthur! Promise!
B’s right, you can no longer say the L totha A totha M totha E word.
We’re gonna need to have fire without fl@me.
That very last word you used may in fact be the culprit. In light of the debate on the other fail.
You’re welcome to use my flaim?
We don’t have any Failfriends who have that letter sequence in their names, do we? Gracie and I fell prey to a similar problem just a couple of weeks ago (n-i-g was banned for about a week).
OH NO!!!!
You mean the fl@me of my *FOOOM!!* will have to be disguised from now on??
Speaking for the zombie contingent, we won’t miss the word indicating the fires of Hades.
Some derisive comments from some days ago.
How will i L@ment the loss of this great word?
Reply fail
(( i really have no idea how i did that
Poor form, dude probably couldn’t even do squatz properly.
hehehehehrehehehehehehehe…idk
that coach or whoever that is doesnt deserve to be what his doing.
You should never lift with your back like that.
lam
ame
I sent a message to the PBT asking about the new moderations. I haven’t heard back yet.
*ahem*
That would be the PTB.
The “Powerful Be Them”, maybe?
*joins in the testing*
I think it’s definitely “|ame”.
What about if you’re wearing gold lamé?
Accents tend to slip past the filters radar.
Imágine that.
Dang…I was getting all ready for some Peanut Butter Toast!
Peanut Butter Toast? What do you mean?
And here I was, all jazzed up for Piano Busting Time.
Why Shadow?? Just……why?
*reaches out to tickle Shadow’s ivory’s*
8)
S’okay, BBB. You should know by now, I never, EVER say what I mean.
*squeeze*
It’s not PolyButylene Terephthalate? Nuts.
I have just heard back from out lovely PTB! Go look at the failbook.com post for hints as to why the new filter catcher.
erm, which one?
Apparently some folks were making a joke about the site itself and using the now moderated word quite a bit. So they moderated it.
*just realized the comments might have been moderated after the fact*
So are they fixing it?
I asked, but haven’t received an answer yet. We’ll see.
oh right, the one here. I thought you meant a post on failbook.
Yeah, mulptiple mentions of “L@mebook” which is a similar site, apparently.
OK, I got it the other times they censored a word similarly because the word in question was … well, offensive or capable of breaking things. But who is offended or threatened by this new word? TPTB? So everyone gets to pay?
Where does it end? How many mental gymnastics are we expected to go through to avoid using common unoffensive words solely on the basis that the PTB feel like being offended by them?
*hates censorship*
*feels peoples stupidity should be allowed to see the light of day*
*even when it bites him back*
I sorta understand the “i” word, in an effort to stem the flow of pron. But this new one, I agree, is a bit on the extreme side.
Maybe it’s an effort to stem the flow of disabilities?
*snork*
I just heard back about un-moderating it. The answer is: not any time soon.
*shrug*
Well, it is their website, to do with as they wish. I thought it was kind of bold for them to take on an established competitor head on like they are, but growth seems essential to their business model. Certainly worse things have been done in the name of competition.
I’m not saying I like it, just that I understand the business reasons that motivated it.
I’m just glad that we can still post at all. They could have dropped comments altogether! I know of one site that did that, it’s not nearly as much fun without the comments!
I saw some of those comments. Many, MANY people were unhappy about the similarities to the l@mebook website and were not at all shy about voicing their opinion about that.
I didn’t go look at the comments, but I can only !mag!ne what they must have been like. That said, I’m still glad we can still comment!
I just went and looked at those comments. THAT is what people get all up in arms about? Yeesh.
I just took a quick peek at the l@mébook site. While there are similarities there is one component that is vastly different. We’re not there. As has been pointed out in various articles, our comments are what makes this site a success. Of course, if it is made difficult to post thoughts here, that could change.
*snerk*
Glad I scrolled down. I was about to do the exact same thing.
all i can say is Lol.
You sell yourself short! You can also say “All”, “Can”, “Is”, “I”, and “Say”.
Heavy metal… not for everybody.
♪
Bang your head against the stand like you never did before.
Make it ring, make it bleed, make it really sore.
♪
Night Ya’ll. Glad I could finally come out and play for a while.
*failpeepsqueezes*
*squeezeback*
G’night, BBB.
*squeeze!*
Go smash a piano for me.
*runsawaywithaquickness*
I thought he was going to break his leg.
Не можешь срать, не мучай жопу.
He WHAT?!?!
That’s “Не”, not “He”. And Who is on first.
Cyrillic alphabet. What looks like “He” transliterates to NYE (Which in Russian means “not”.)
I believe that the Shadow knows.
Неwas just having fun.Ve are goinck to pump… (clap) …YOU UP!
Probably all the blood drained from his head.
Clean pull win, lightheadedness fail
This is a terribly dumb thing to do in a gym.
Where would be a good place to do it exactly?
“Oh you little klutz you”
DOES FAIL BLOG GIVE YOU YOUR PROF PIC?
After reading a lot of this, i had to post. There was no mistake here in lifting with legs or back. That was a clean lift. The problem is that when you lift such an extreme weight, and strain that hard, it makes the blood rush to your head, and you pass out. It’s pretty common.
Did you read the comments where other people suggested this very thing? It’s not really the lift we were poking fun at, rather the faceplant into the weight rack. Well, that and the fact that no one seemed to come to his aid following said faceplant.
wrong.
This wasn’t a fail for the weightlifting – just for the walking away afterwards…
Looks like he was trying to give himself a hernia…
I bet most of the fat asses and heifers on here probably couldn’t even deadlift their keyboard.
heart attack, falls, brain damage.
I especially like the way that after he shattered his face into a million fragments the camera guy laughed.
That guy is in pain and probable nerve damage in the back; look at the spasmodic leg in the final second or two of the video. He’s probably got what feels like bolts of lighting going through his back, and a possible slipped disc. Falling and hitting his head directly on the barbells didn’t help, either.
Not funny.
Valsalva Effect in action. For anyone too lazy to Google it, it’s “the technical term for holding one’s breath at the wrong time during a rep, thereby building up intrathoracic pressure which will impede the blood flow to and from the brain, causing a blackout.”
A lot of people get spots before the eyes when deadlifting and I’ve had a grey out (similar to when you stand up to fast) but this guy went all the way. I’m sure he’s fine.
LIFT WITH YOUR LEGS, NOT WITH YOUR BACK!
HAH! no doubt that shit was allllll lower back! WTF?! I thought he was gonna fail at the lift…ohhh what I fun surprise the real fail was! HAH!
It’s called a deadlift, and it looks painful even when using proper form. It’s supposed to work your hamstrings, and is definitely not recommended for newbies like this guy.
I told you to tie your shoes!!!
F***!!!
HAH! That’ll teach ‘em! That was a serious friggin face plant on the DB’s!
This is why you breath when lifting weights.
Aww, poor little feller. Looks like he done tuckered himself plum out.
“He nailed the lift, Ken, but I think the judges are going to deduct a tenth of a point on the landing”.
WIN
Again, the FailBlog sickos are enjoying seeing people injuring themselves.
Of course, what else is there to live for?
Going around injuring people.
“A little exercise never hurt anyone.” Suuuuuuuuuure.
Deadlifts are a compound, full-body exercise… it’s not a matter of lifting, “with,” your legs or your back: the best way to describe and visualize a deadlift is to think of it as a reverse squat–you don’t pull with your arms, you PUSH your legs, “into,” the ground to lift the weight up. This guy was doing at least a dozen different things wrong during the lift, not the least being that he was holding his breath throughout the entire range of motion. I’m inclined to think that 1. he blew out an o-ring from bearing down while holding his breath, thus making him pass out, and 2. as so many people on here noted, he probably completely racked his back using such piss-poor form with too much weight than he could safely handle.
Wh…what?
What kind of room is that? That looks nothing like my pantry filled with cakes, snacks, twinkies, and pie. I’m going to level up in World of Warcraft now while the girth of my waistline keeps growing. I’m awesome!
1st time i see it i thougt that guy gonna shit in his pant but this is more fun. hit it one more time baby!!
He passed out because he didn’t use proper breathing technique. He’s form was beyond poor but that doesn’t make you pass out. He black out from lack of oxygen.
This is called a straight-leg deadlift. It is a legitimate exercise used mainly to strengthen the lower back muscles, specifically the spinal erectors.
He didn’t breath. That’s the problem.
omg that is my school, i didnt even notice it till right now. holy shit that blows my mind
i feel like a very special person knowing that this went down at the very school that i go tooooo!!!!!!!!,
this is my friend :] haha he split his chin open quite a bit. hes totally fine!
it was about 330lbs deadlift. pretty effin good.
i’m pretty sure he craped so epic and hard, he
died or possibly narcolepsi
Death Threat shirt ftw!
1) that was hardly any weight.
2) His form was atrocious.
3 He didn’t even finish the lift, you don’t just drop it after you reach the top.
Proof exercise is bad for your health.
His back was not completely flat (as it should have been) when starting the movement. Not having a flat (or straight) back when deadlifting can cause major problems later on in life (especially with regards to spinal compression). He also did the stupid thing of letting the weight go when he reached the top of the movement (which can be very dangerous for the body). He should have performed the negative portion of the movement (returning to the starting position) in order to complete the repetition. Also, the fool was leaning back too far at the top of the movement! There is no need whatsoever to arch your back at the top of the deadlift. Once again, spinal compression is dangerous. This video should serve as a warning for people to not exercise IN THAT MANNER. Of COURSE you should exercise, but you should learn to exercise PROPERLY and with EXCELLENT FORM. Matvey: ANY exercise can be bad for your health, but if you do it correctly, it is most beneficial to your health.
That happens a lot actually, passing out after a heavy deadlift.
it wasnt even that much weight for a deadlift, especially since it was only one rep