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Party at Tommy Lee’s house?
Total win
agredd
That’s an AWFULLY total win.
WINNER!!! i would scare people by sitting on him and saying”common son, FASTER! but they should hang this on the pool door or something instead
halp!.
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It’s effective, but maybe a little too real, and it might cause unnecessary panic, especially among those with poor deph perception!
depth, that is!
But that’s the shallow end? No kids allowed in the depth end!
no living kids, for that matter.
I think it might end up having the opposite effect though.
Parent 1: Hey is that a drowning child over there?
Parent 2: No, it’s just that obnoxious advertisement
Drowning child: Bllbbblblbb
Oscar for the drowning child impression ^^
WIN! xD
Drowning noises
You’re doing them right.
Drowning is silent. And destroys the lives of not only the victim, victim’s family, but also everyone else at the pool that day…lifeguards can’t see everything….but will go through horrible guilt and post traumatic stress disorder….the other children at the pool witnessing the death of a friend too young for life to be over.
I think this add is dangerous if it is placed in a pool where people swim. If you get used to a ‘dead body’ in the pool, how will you react fast enough in a real situation?
This add should be posted on walls as a reminder to parents to watch their kids.
It would drive the lifeguard part of my brain crazy.
Stupid child.
Mop it up.
stupid child efficiency mop?
At the bottom of the pool. What a dumb question.
Found him!
Where is your towel?
Right here next to my pan-galactic gargle blaster.
*sleepy goodnight squeeze*
Sweet dreams!
*squeeze*
oh! i love those! it’s like having your brain smashed in with a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick!
yes. i myself prefer a nice jynnan tonnyx.
While all of you nerds were having your little nerd talk I was getting it on with the triple-breasted whore of eroticon six.
Wow your cool
Pan what now? I think i need a bebel fish in my ear to translate your jibberish.
I think you mean babel fish. You’re as dim as the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.
Horrible. Just horrible!
I would say horrible… And kind of funny.
Could you say “Horrible with a hint of funny”?
Horrible with a hint of funny.
Huh, what do you know, I could say it!
I think that’s what the ad is supposed to look like – it’s supposed to have a picture of a kid at the bottom of the pool to emphasize how important it is to know where your kids are at a pool.
Really? Flip – I totally didn’t realise…
Verily, you have happenchanced upon the truth. Observe lay of the shadow – the area in which this “boy” is, is quite clearly already shrouded from the sun. Yet this “boy” appears to cast a shadow himself. It seems disapointing so many should fall for such a simple illusion whence the deduction of its true nature is elementary.
Where did you come from? 15th century England?
You just confirmed the USA sucks at teaching geography at school. Still, you are the first American I meet who does not even know there are other countries besides the USA.
Or maybe you just don’t know it’s possible to learn a second language. Trust me, it is. Even you could do it. Ain’t life great?
Prick, you are a prick.
amazing you stated the fact that you can read you get a gold star!
*staples gold star to forehead*
Silly americans…
This entire chain of comments, starting up at “The Guy With The Face”‘s two cents is a massive circlejerk of pretentiousness and poorly deployed irony.
And stupidity. Forgot that important bit.
And it would appear that you’ve just confirmed that whatever country you’ve come from lacks the capacity to tell/understand a joke. He asked if the person was from 15th century England because he was speaking in such a distinct manner, not simply another pattern of speech. How pathetic that you could not recognize this.
But I suppose an individual like yourself who looks to jump on every opportunity to bash the American educational system, would be insecure enough to actually lack an education of their own. Not surprising.
I think they asked if he was from 15th century England because the person but their name as Sherlock Holmes.
yeah too bad thats like 3.5 centuries too early
More like 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 but u were close..
19th Century, if I’m not mistaken. ^^
He is Sherlok Holmes…
I dont really think this ad is a fail. Its eye catching and raises awareness to parents of the sad reality of unsupervised children drowning. I mean, the hilarious reality!
It’s a fail when someone dives into the toddler’s-knee-deep water to save a floor mat.
^—–this
It’s a huge win if that happens.
Firstly, you never dive into water to save someone. If you do dive in, then you deserve to find yourself on a spinal board. You always use a drop or slide entry, always feet first.
Secondly, surely the words around it would be a bit of a hint.
Yes, deliberately cause confusion between what is a real child drowning in a pool and a fake child drowning in a pool. HUGE win.
“Hey, is that a kid at the bottom of the pool??”
“No, it’s just that ridiculous ad again”
“Oh ok, whew”
“…Hey, has anybody seen Tommy anywhere?”
Yes. HUGE WIN.
Not to mention the possibility of disturbing actual children because they saw a “dead body” in the pool and now need therapy.
This is an ad?
For drowning children, yes.
I thought there was enough of that without advertising it.
Given the depth of the water … let’s wait to see what happens to the first would-be rescuer to dive in.
LOOOOL well lets just say there wont just be one flat child under the water!
… like the bird playing with its picture in some little mirror in the cage.
I call that evolutionary selection.
I’m a lifeguard and I know that none of us would dive for that child. We might run fast to pull up the fake ad, but that is it.
But seriously? This would bug all lifeguards and take a while to get used to.
As another lifeguard I have to agree. However, I work at a wave pool and would greatly appreciate parents looking after their kids more … we’re more like babysitters than lifeguards at times it would seem.
I have a child?!
*had
I see the new breed of fish-child are out.
good call haha
Yea, I don’t see how this is a fail. Just a seriously creepy and morbid safety advisory. That looks like one of those kiddie wadding pools and the only child in question is only up to his knees in the water and he looks like he can’t be over the age of 3. You’d have to really try to drown in one of those pools. And the fact that you have stark shadows around the “drowning kid” but none at all around the kid who is standing up.
Kids have a tendency to freeze up when going face first into the water. They can drown in a puddle. Being a parent I think it is Ad WIN! (Certainly concidering the amount of parenting fails here on failblog…)
Yeah, I don’t see a fail in this. My cousin drowned in a kiddie wading pool when he was 2, so people should watch their kids around any type of water. But if you can’t, at least keep a stupid child mop handy to clean up afterward.
Sorry for your cousin, but I think he wouldn’t be alive being this ad in the pool. I think it’s more probably that someone die by trying to “save” this ad given its realistic appearance.
Amen. This is a complete WIN! A+ on child safety awareness.
Kids that age can drown in a bucket. A wading pool is actually relatively EASY to drown in for a toddler/preschooler.
Totally not a fail. Failblog fail.
theres an odd number of fail in your sentence so I guess it’s a fail
well i think it is fail, cause people can easily mistake this ad for as real child. and that is not cool.
Hardly. The words, and the defined edge kinda give it away.
Yeah, it is kinda morbid. But i like it. Nothing says safety like distracting pictures of dead children in the water.
Not shown: The gruesome “Where’s Your Finger” safety posters distributed to sausage factories and butcher shops.
This is a safety ad fail?!?
IMO this a good ad and I seriously hope there was no one so blind-sighted who thought that as a real kid… right?
Also, it should be tagged: Failblog fail XD
Yes, this picture belongs to SUCCEED blog, it is WIN, not fail…
It’s Not Really A ‘FAIL’ Nor A ‘WIN’
…a neutral then? kind of like switzerland?
The FAIL isnt about the ad itself, it refers to the toddler on his own in the pool, ironically looking at the ‘Where’s your child’ ad.
The toddler on his own also has a life jacket and obviously there’s somebody nearby (with a camera)
The small child is a fail IMHO. The parents should teach the child to swim instead of putting him in a “life jacket” without head support that will drown the child as easily as without such a jacket.
thats the lifeguard rescueing the drowing boy!
I say we should just push all children into a pool. The strong will survive and the weak will perish!
You are an ass. This is coming from someone who had to go through exactly that and I STILL can’t go underwater because of the trauma!
Moron….
Right. And how do you know that the parents are not there with him, just out of sight of the camera?
Where’s your child? Sod it … where’s the beer?!!
clearly not a fail
i thought the fail was the boy looks deep under water
but yet it just goes up to the toddlers knees
oh well haha
It’s totally fail.
1) what kid wants to swim in a pool with that on the bottom?
2) someone might think it’s real. not cool.
3) people might get so used to it that it could be the proverbial boy who cries wolf.
sure you’d have to be dumb, but this is failblog. we KNOW that kind of stupidity exists.
of all of these, 1) strikes a chord with me the most. it’s… just so damn creepy.
Hell I’m an ADULT and I don’t want to swim in a pool with a picture of a dead kid at the bottom.
Can’t imagine what a sensitive child might think about it. I mean, I’m not generally about ubersheltering, but that’s a bit much.
Dubious taste maybe, but not a fail.
also,
Did he die??
I agree. This is not a fail.
As a lifeguard, I jumped when I first saw it. It’s incredibly realistic, and that’s very scary. I think it’s an effective ad, but, as many others have said, it would be sad to see someone jump or dive in and try to save the “drowning child.” It’s shallow enough that the kid would have drifted to the edge. Also, parents are supposed to supervise their kids in play areas like that, and most places have guards double or triple up around little ones.
We had a meeting at our pool about this program run by Lifesaving Victoria, that ad is one of the promotions for the program. It can also be used hung up in rooms and hallways to promote the program.
In Western Australia it was apparently really effective in communicating to parent the importance of watching their child, even when Lifeguards are present.
That kid already looks traumatised. What parents want their 3-year olds to think they are paddling around dead bodies?
THIS. Exactly. To me, that’s the fail here. That kid looks like he’s crying, probably because the ad scared him.
WHERE’S THE FAIL, SEYMORE?!
Ah wait – I finally see it…
The idea that a ~8 year old kid is drowning (and completely submerged) in water that barely covers that toddler’s ankles.
I mean, babies can drown in as much, but they could have placed this somewhere better.
(anyone “jumping in” to save them and getting injured probably got served, given the obvious shallowness of this bit of the pool)
I don’t see the fail in this one. You can drown in a bowl of soup…
Lol only if you’re Peter Griffin!
This ad can make you rich!
1) Jump head first in the pool screaming “HIS DRAWNIN!!!!”
2) Pretend you’ve hurt yourself badly by hitting the bottom of the pool.
3) Sue the pool/ad maker (whoever has the most money) because their ad caused your injuries. Also sue because your 3 year old mistook the kid on the ad for a real, dead child and is now traumatized and can’t even go anywhere near the bathroom.
4) Be rich.
You are german, aren’t you?
LOLocaust
Don’t compare the Germans with Nazis. ‘Cause antisemitism and hating other cultures because of a lack of knowledge and a head full of intollerance is not only a german invention.
Looks (quite) realistic, right?
(Is it at a pool or a beach?)
I don’t think beaches have drains
*facepalm*
I thought the beach had sand. No? My mistake.
yea where is the child lol
FIRST!!!!
Dude, that kid is totally photoshopped! The reflections are all wrong.
Its publicity, dumb…
In fact, is good, very good…
if i had a pool, i´d like one with shark teeth just under the springboard (ist this the correct word?) XDD
The REAL fail is they forgot to not blue-fill the upper lefthand corner of the picture, which (because of the ripples) obviously is also underwater.
Shadow of roof makes blue.
s/”forgot to not”/”forgot to”
Fail, I guess.
It’s 1pm do you know which pool your child floating at the bottom of?
Not a fail, it’s supposed to look like that.
wow
thats so retarted
GFYS.
That’s a win. Great ad…
IS THAT A REAL KID?!
cuz if it is that was a total unfail(is that a word?)
if the kid is real he probably is doing that to scare ppl
No, it’s not a real kid. Take away the kid and you have a poster two thirds of which is a blank space. Otherwise, great stunt.
And suddenly there were two of those stupid ads in the water… Strange, one of them looks just like my daughter. How did they get her picture?
(5 minutes later) What, strange… Oh my God, it is my daughter! It’s not an ad!! Lifeguard!!!
total win!
Party at Michael Barrymore’s !
make me laugh
Failkid is failing. But the ad is a win.
This public awareness ad brought to you by the Crying Wolf Ad Agency.
insensitivity-to-parents-of-drowned-children WIN.
Win.
I wonder how many people jumped in to save that “child.”
That’s just wrong
Seems to me like the whole picture is an ad, not just the part under water. The water is obviously fake. And the top left is blue/white?
How, and I never use this term lightly if I can help it, can anyone be THAT retarded. Seriously?! There’s just…no! I can’t believe this is true, no one could possibly be THAT stupid. Just…no, no…I refuse to believe that the human race could disappoint me any more than it already has…yet there it is. Damn.
GFYS. You should never use that term, and you could have helped it. There are plenty of words out there to indicate what you meant, and using it simply shows us your lack of intellect.
This must be a YAFF (Yet Another Failblog Fail)
i love how that little kid is like “wtf?”
Someone mentioned YAFF = Yet Another Failblog Fail.
I’m using that one from now on.
This is most certainly a YAFF.
Nobody noticed that it’s fake?
It’s good photoshop, but still, it’s fake…
Sorry for the ones who believed this…
Yeah, like the moon landing was photoshopped
lol the kid looks very serious, studying it, very concerned, makes the pic great
It’s awesome, I want one for my workplace. Also I’m pretty sure it’s Australian as we have Watch Around Water media hanging out all around the pool. RLSS are getting called in the morning
Its just the new water rug made of real human skin…
such a win… really good material for prevention
that lifeguard is too young
The really funny part is that my English teacher used this as a example for thinking figuratively.
I swear to god I found this on google earth!!!
Hmmm I thought dead boys floated.
Horrible but if it works, we get better from it.
Too bad if your kid drowns and lands on one of these.. happy searching…
I think it’s a very good one. I almost drowned when I was 3 because people thought I was a doll!
WOW…that’s WOW.
I can’t believe some people are saying this is a win.
oh gawd this comment chain should be a failblog picture lol
Ummm failblog, do you know you act stupid sometimes?
As a lifeguard, I approve of this ad. Parents do not watch their children well enough. Maybe this will knock it into their minds that water and children can be a bad mix.
Why don’t he just stand up?
when i first saw this i thought it was some pedophile waiting for his chance to grab a kid o__o
Only a lifeguard can understand this kind of situation. And people that are not taking it seriously, or worst laughing at it, are people that can’t be able to teach their own children to safety life at the beach.
hahaha….
Its not real. Its part of the ad that there is drowned kid. Derr. Its to shock audiences into being safe around water with their children. I think its a win for an ad. It shocked you guys enough to call it a fail
Its not real guy!
Its part of the ad that there is drowned kid. Derr. Its to shock audiences into being safe around water with their children. I think its a win for an ad. It shocked you guys enough to call it a fail
the thing is, you’re not supposed to have the towel underwater. as you just said, ”Derr”.
What idiotic kid drowns on the shallow end?
And seeing those advertisements must drive lifeguards mad.
Lifeguard: Oh crap! Kid drowning! *dives into shallow end*
this is a WIN
Also a lifeguard training tool WIN.
Guard #1: “Soooo sleeepy. Too early for work.”
Guard #2: “Yeah, I hope today is slow.”
Guard #1: “I’m gonna go lie down in the office… hey, WTF!!”
I think the better question is “Where’s the lifeguard?” If this is a public pool, they employ lifeguards and there would definitely be a lawsuit if there was a guard on duty and this happened.
win xD
What a big fail!
Totally a win
this is sick! but good joke anyway…
crazy, but sick as well…
LOL. This is crazy!!!
Omg that looks too real i wonder how many people have considered jumping in to save him
Dying, dying, DEAD!!!
Dear GOD that’s disturbing!
I like it!
Swim baby swim! Oh, damn
That is a really sick advertisment. FAIL
This is funny. Not scary. A dark type of funny. Not bad at all.
morbid! and scary!
yes, I wouldn’t take my kid there!
true, this is really scary!
haha, safe, yes!