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Eyechart Fail

from a Korean textbook

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  1. InoxFY says:

    must.. resist.. urge to say First!

  2. TR says:

    English teachers… I knew several in korea that did stuff like this

    • nightvisiongoggles says:

      I know who did this- Filipinos.
      Most Korean ESL stuff are done here in the Philippines, I’m pretty sure the illustrators were LOLing while doing the layout.

  3. monkehh says:

    second?

  4. Avis says:

    That’s quite an eye chart there!

  5. JiggaWagga says:

    This has to be fake

      • ʍʇɟ ızɐu ɹɐɯɯɐɹƃ says:

        Obviously, the the zebra is striped, and everyone knows striped zebras are found not in optometrist places, but in fact, Africa. Which obviously means it’s ‘shopped.

        • ♫ SeeJay ♫ says:

          Yup, this is shopped, I can tell by the pixels and by having seen quite a few shops in my day.

          • Hapqy says:

            Yup, I agree. I’ve seen a few shops, too (and worked in some as well); the reflections are all wrong, and the picture of the x-ray doesn’t match a sagittal view of a zebra’s skeleton.

            • Dan the Man says:

              They couldn’t even make the “0″ and “2″ black!

            • tahrey says:

              Not to mention that any X-ray machine that bulky and old-school probably doesn’t have remote display facilities; and if that’s a processed film of the image instead, you wouldn’t leave the patient spreadeagled inside the rig whilst pointing out all the hilarious things that are wrong with them.

              Besides… an eye chart, fire hose and pickaxe in an X-ray room, and the radiologist wearing a pre-electric-light dentist’s head-mirror?! Madness. As soon as the auditors come round, this hospital is being shut down “effective immediately”. I don’t even wanna think what their Radiotherapy, Chemo or Nuclear Med departments look like. (Ultrasound, Dialysis and Surgery would be horrific)

        • Infront says:

          That’s clearly a stylish white horse with Titus High Performance flames painted on.

          • Miss Tox says:

            I love you for that reference. Omfg.

            • tahrey says:

              Wow, googled that, looked at the first page that came up that wasn’t this… and just from the pictures I can tell it’s the kind of show that makes people with functional intellects want to smash their last intact television. Everyone looks so smug and as if they just escaped through a wormhole from a cheery 80s sitcom, complete with typecast stereotype characters filling out the various slots in the generic dramatis personae. Ugh.

              (though, where was the token black guy and butch girl?)

              • quizzical says:

                You have obviously never watched it using words like cheery instead of bipolar dysfunctional family with tendencies of homicidal megalomania

        • An Epic Chicken says:

          Wow. That is so random it just might work!

  6. Jacob says:

    You wonder what was going through these people’s heads when they wrote this children’s book. o.0

  7. monkehh says:

    why, yes it is

  8. sumta says:

    2ed and tha tis awsome

  9. shadowyeggs says:

    I don’t get it… Someone please explain?

  10. Lawl says:

    Top to bottom
    OMG
    W2F
    STFU
    PWN3D

  11. DRK)PIE says:

    they failed to spell axe and i get it, it says omg w2f stfu and a bunch more

  12. Not a win says:

    lol u fail u werent first.

  13. Nancy says:

    I taught English in Korea… that’s totally something I would have pulled :)

  14. Incontheevable says:

    This is a win, FTW.

  15. ts6788 says:

    i thought it was OMG

  16. ts6788 says:

    zero……..the letter o…….oh well………

  17. Default says:

    Dear god…the Koreans are on to us! Retreat, internet! Retreat!

  18. Avis says:

    Good grief! Where is everybody?!

  19. hanahbloom says:

    LOL

    I don’t know what’s under pwn3d, but the one after that I read as LMAOROTF, at least that’s what I think it is.

  20. MJ says:

    OMG
    W2F
    STFU
    PWN3D
    URANOOB
    LMAOROTF

    I think this is a win for the text book makers! At least they have a sense of humor ^^

  21. shadowyeggs says:

    Fry.

  22. BowserYoshi says:

    omg not a fail… WIN

  23. magic man says:

    all i see is waldo trying to disguise himself as adoctor

  24. carib says:

    I wonder how many Korean kids noticed.

  25. DL64 says:

    this is a WIN not a fail!!

  26. I'm a loser says:

    This made my day. :)

  27. Now I know why Asians have small eyes.

  28. chogo says:

    OMG – oh my god
    W2F – way to fail
    STFU – shut the f*** up
    PWN3D – owned
    URANOOB – you’re a noob (newb)
    LMAOROTF – Laughing my ass off, roll on the floor

  29. the dik says:

    hoyl sh it! i see a zebra in a fridge!

  30. oooCANDLEMANooo says:

    hahaha.. Epic WIN

  31. ShmazPro says:

    This is asinine… Not that funny. And if it was, it would have to be a “win” in my opinion.

    • bsoloud says:

      asinine? You’re out to lunch! This is slick and tactful, those who don’t get it, don’t see it and those who do, well, we’re rofl and lmao… noob!

  32. MapDark says:

    OMG WTF LMAO !! XD

    This is awesome!

  33. Richard Whitney says:

    Sixty-eighth!

  34. InoxFY says:

    oh GOD what are they doing to that poor zebra?

  35. Summer says:

    I’d call this a win.

  36. goldeneagle says:

    Yep, what MJ/chogo said!(THIRD!:(

  37. Izzy says:

    haha yep, heard of korean book publishers intentionally putting these naughty internet acronyms in to fulfil the empty void in their lives =]

  38. ts6788 says:

    makes u wonder why there is an axe in the doctor office………

  39. jinxed says:

    Looks like a WIN to me…

  40. ts6788 says:

    more like a zoo in the doctor office………party animals?????

  41. ts6788 says:

    Printing more likely made in CHINA

  42. Mickzippy says:

    Redo as WIN!!

  43. Sgt. Obvious says:

    So, apparently, they’re trained in Starcraft from birth. This explains SO much.

  44. Metal says:

    They probably ripped the chart off of a gag chart they saw not understanding it was gag and thinking it was a real chart. Fail on them, lol.

  45. edmonddantes says:

    That’s win. Failblog, pull your head out of your ass and stop labeling wins as fails.

    Long disappointed sigh.

  46. Verifor says:

    Listen to the word chant.

  47. Mechawatts says:

    For the millionth time: This is a WIN. If it’s an accident, it’s a fail, if it’s intentional, it’s a win.

  48. CheapLabor says:

    Definely a WIN ! ahahah

  49. Carly says:

    That would be a win my good fellow.

  50. Kevin says:

    a hammer is definitely not an ax

  51. Extreon says:

    I realize it’s _fail_ blog, but I never got why the comments are always so full of fail and suck.

  52. Boingie says:

    Wow. I once had a word search book for kids that had the “P” word accidentaly put on it.

  53. carrot says:

    I’d say this is EPIC WIN. The book, not these comments here

  54. kristina says:

    this is a win lmao

  55. Justen says:

    Yeah I would totally say that this was an author/artist win!

  56. Sandy says:

    STFU
    PWN3D

    xD

  57. Reggiliano says:

    OMG!

  58. rico says:

    i dont see the fail

  59. Val says:

    Definitely a WIN, but the FAIL is the part above it… “Listen to the word chant” instead of “Look at the word chart.”

  60. thiscadence says:

    an EPIC WIN!

  61. Shel says:

    Well, seeing as the 2 in the following line is red, then the roundish shape in red on the first line could also be a zero, rather than an O. Either one fits, and the chart is hilarious.

  62. rico says:

    Ahh isee. The chart in is in no way hilarious

  63. Born Toby Wilde says:

    Reminds me of that episode of the BBC’s Being Human, season 2, where George has taken up a job as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, and the first thing all the students ask him about is the meaning of “F Word” – leading to him writing “STFU” on the blackboard and getting the class to chant “Shut The Fvck Up” lol

  64. Bender says:

    Commercial from Poland

  65. vanna says:

    This isn’t a fail, its a win. haha

  66. Rose says:

    Because zero, yak, ax, and x-ray totally go together anyway.

  67. jane_gun says:

    Well, I’ll admit that the eye chart is indeed amusing… That said, some of the other comments posted here need careful evaluation. Sure, it’s bizarre to see zebras in refrigerators (by the way, look carefully and you’ll realize it isn’t a fridge but the artist’s attempt at drawing the X-ray film plates albeit not an accurate depiction) but if you observe the page more thoroughly, you’ll see in the top right hand corner, in circles, “Xx” and “Yy” and my suspicion is that “Zz” is originally there too. In other words, the alphabets are taught in this book and the objects/animals displayed will need to start with “X”, “Y”, or “Z”. Hence why “X-ray” (as well as “ax”, which sounds very similar to “X”) for “X”, “yak” for “y” (many commented on the zebra but no one did for the yak?), and “zero” and “zebra” for “Z”. My impression is that the author/artist tries to group all these together by coming up with an illustration like the one we see in the picture: some sort of veterinarian clinic – though I’m not sure why the ax is there (maybe to be used in times of emergency to break the fire alarm glass panel?)… It’s not easy to just think of something to group these various ideas/concepts together but at least the author/artist has given it a shot… ;)

  68. tk says:

    yeah -_- ax totally starts with an “a”

    and after “pwn3d” it says “uranoob” and “lmaorotf” so the writers of that book obviously hate non-native english speakers

  69. Didi says:

    this is a totally win

  70. TWILIO says:

    OMG i totally have a shirt that says that! omg wtf myob pwn3d uranoob rotflmao kthanks bai :P

  71. Lex says:

    ‘uran00b’ is totally right. That book is aimed at n00b English speakers.

  72. god!lool says:

    that’s a win in my book

  73. M.A.D.MiKE says:

    Why is not here – epicwinftw.com ? Epic fail again..

  74. Blue eyed Chinese says:

    I know that’s Korean, but…

    I teach English in China. With they way the locals butcher things from they west things like this are deserved. When I get a group of salty students who don’t care about learning I’ll teach them things such as Cancersticks (cigarettes).

    People here generally don’t care about what something says, just that it says it in English. I had a 7 year old boy come into class wearing a shirt that said, “College Rule #137: Not remembering is the best part.”

  75. n00b pwner says:

    WINWINWINWINWINWINWINWIN

  76. Battlechicken says:

    LOL:D still laughing:D:D:D – LAST

  77. Anonymous says:

    how the fk is this a fail? more like uploader/failblog staff fail korean win.

  78. wellou says:

    It’s so sad to look at it. It woud be fun to laugh at Korean’s English, but I think it happens while you learn other languages.

  79. Sarge says:

    I wanna copy one of these eye charts and then secretly replace the eye chart in my doctor’s office with one of these.

  80. Aydena says:

    The eye chart is stolen from a t-shirt (which is likely from a comic).

    The last line would be KTHXBYE:P
    and in tiny letters “IF YOU CAN READ THIS, UR EYEZ R TEH 1337. TTYL.”

    http://www.offworlddesigns.com/p-73-eye-chart-t-shirt.aspx

  81. suit says:

    wtf – this is a clear WIN!

  82. GlassMan-RV says:

    .-. This is too much win to be a fail.

  83.   says:

    i think the w2f was meant to be wtf but they failed

  84. nearsgirl says:

    yes, let the children wonder what this word means..

  85. mroob says:

    as usual, failblog fails at discerning fails from wins

  86. Daniel says:

    Haha, those silly Koreans.

  87. Gabrielle says:

    Oh em gee. That is a definite win!

  88. FILE says:

    Look at line 5 it says PWN3D.PWNED. Fail.

  89. Zach says:

    SO Fake.. There is not remanence of the flashes light on the lettering? as where everything in the same radius has been effected by the flash but the Eye Chart?? Yeah i took a 1yr in doctored photos.. haha but very good i must say. you should have use photoshop and put in a light source and then fuzz out the light source to make it look more legit..

  90. Q says:

    THIS IS NOT EVEN FAIL WORTHY… REALLY LAME POST

  91. sir cream cheese says:

    no way thats real, but if it was, it’d be an epic WIN!!!!!

  92. gusna says:

    I know what I see….the best coloring book ever!

  93. failisintheair says:

    i think it’s a WIN

  94. MGN001 says:

    this looks shopped.

  95. Macavity says:

    I’m sorry. That’s not a textbook fail, that’s a hidden geekiness WIN.

  96. Bob Macoy says:

    I see…

    OMG
    W2F
    STFU
    PWN3D
    URANOOB
    LMAO and MOTF (MOTHER F***)…

    XD

  97. Banez says:

    I’m more concerned with what the zebra is doing behind there….

  98. anon says:

    this was EPIC WINS I say for someone to manage this through publishing!

  99. A Kim says:

    AHAHAHA I HAVE THIS TEXTBOOK I USED IT BEFORE I CAME TO CANADA I JUST LOOKED AT IT AGAIN AND NOTICED IT

  100. Snowyjoe says:

    Hahhaa, the only English words Koreans know :P

  101. Karhs says:

    All I can say is… OMGH4XWTFFAILZZZ! And, I like pie.

  102. Mak says:

    … FTW.

  103. jyhj says:

    wow i doubt that was an accident

  104. Pooba says:

    Am I the only person who noticed that there is a second fail in this picture? That is not an ax. It’s a hammer.

  105. Lady Sylvan says:

    That’s not a fail. That’s AMAZING. X3

  106. WSA says:

    So some poor korean kid gets “owned” secretly?

    the lulz/failure


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