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“A” coffee? FAIL
lol love it
How much credit are you looking for anyway?
Finally! Someone who shares the same interests as me in zombie horses!
Time to “crack” some skulls and “pop” a cap in some peoples!
Because…?
Commonly used in many places. A coffee is a cup of coffee. Seriously. That part’s just a regional thing.
What could they possibly have been trying to say?
2nd
They make it so easy these days.
The first trick is to get them hooked.
On a coffee?
Works for Starbucks.
mmm.. crack and coffe, the best combo ever
isn’t it though?
I always have coffee with my crack.
/:|
Looks like a nice place…
*pops in*
*Cough.*
-ee.
As if the crack wasn’t enough, now it’s going to be impossible for their customers to sit still long enough to sign the paperwork.
Crack is slang for talk. The sign says come in for a coffee and a chat.
way to ruin it!!
Sorry. Didn’t think it was particularly funny anyway.
Me either; I thought the same thing as you. I didn’t think it was slang for just talk; I thought it was another term for “fun” etc around here, but oh well.
I figured it was some back alley shop in south central LA and therefore pretty darn funny. But I would have made it a Win not a Fail (for being blatant about selling crack.)
Its spelled “Craíc” though.
True, but we aren’t in the middle of a spelling renaissance. To be honest, I’d probably spell it this way too.
It’s meant to be Craic – Irish slang for back and forth talk and fun
They spell it ‘crack’ in Liverpool. Just sayin’.
Isn’t crack what people from Liverpool spend all their stolen money on?
j/k. I’m from Liverpool, and I spell it ‘craic’. But I went to school.
Even in the sense of “fun and conversation”, the original (and still current in dictionaries) English spelling is “crack”. The Irish respelled it “craic” when they adopted the term.
Nonsense. The origin is Gaelic, and the
bloody damnèd SassenachEnglish borrowed it, not the other way around.Nope. English use of “crack” in this sense goes back to the 18th century, while Irish use of “craic” started in the 20th. See http://irishkc.com/craic-or-crack-is-it-irish.htm or check the entry for “craic” in Wikipedia.
I applaud the sensibleness. At first, these fails look odd, but they usually just need some clarification because of language boundaries. I’m always amused when I find out the reasoning behind it.
Coffee and some crack?? Talk about your over-stimulation!
<…or a nice way to say coffee enema…
*fleeswithaverydecidedquickness*
Not a fail. This picture is almost certainly from Ireland – where ‘crack’ means fun conversation.
Aye, but put up by an idiot. It’s actually ‘craic’. So it’s still a FAIL.
so it should be on engrishfunny.com?
Or ilishfunny.com?
Well, Failblog sure knows how to crack a joke today.
According to Jason & satsumo the buzzkills, that joke isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Stop cracking jokes.
Stuff like this happens till the crack of dawn.
As long as I don’t crack a knuckle.
You guys are all cracked up anyway…
I’d take a crack at cracking a joke but my funny bone is tired and isn’t working right now >.<
it doesn’t bode well for the economy if they’re financing crack dealers…
Say crack again…
crack again…
my two favorite things…. In one place…. Cool.
coffee and motorcycles?
Anyone else notice the first letter of each line makes FAPAS? Fap at some?
SUB-minmal message! WHAT DOES IT MEAN??!?!
The term “crack” means pleasant chatting in Australia and Ireland.
This fail is fail.
Craic.
Your spelling is fail.
Your knowledge of English slang words is fail.
Thank you. I could not figure out what that sign was supposed to mean.
Is this shaped like a headstone, or am I just ticked off at this failing Drobo thingie at work here?
*brews up some ebil, girly
coffeecrack**fills a few tubs*
*
safety**gestures invitingly*
*falls face first into one tub*
*stops moving*
Marinating AGAIN!!
*adds some Kahlua to the tubs*
I’ll take some from a tub that is sans zombie bits if I may.
The robots have decided to rebel?
I think this one deduced the zeroth law today.
It’s just a bunch of plumbers sitting around a coffee machine.
LOL!
Turning off the visualization center of my brain now.
I wish I could do that. I tend to think in pictures.
For those of you who like freebasing your coffee.
Some mornings it’s neccessary…
If you have crack do you really need coffee? Just askin’.
Well sometimes the crack lacks sugar.
Or is that coffee?
Most coffees lack crack.
The coffee ensures you’re awake enough to work the crack pipe without burning yourself and the crack ensures you’re awake enough to burn your mouth to hell with the coffee.
Take my advice…don’t ever smoke out of a pipe with a loose chore. That’s another good way to burn your mouth to hell.
“It’s a trap!”
If I saw this, I would walk swiftly in the other direction and hope the police weren’t watching me.
Am I the only one who thought it was a police trap at first?
Expecting a funny comment? TO BAD WALUIGI TIME!
It’s actually a scrolling sign. It says ‘ Pop in for a coffee and some crack-brained Scouse conman will try to sell you a dodgy motor at 151% APR and you will buy it because you want to get out alive. Welcome to Liverpool. PS the car will be stolen’.
I thought this was some campaign against starbucks…
That’s just good advertising.
Should be ‘craic’, which is the Irish for fun, ‘crack’ is just an anglicisation of that, but looks weird…you’d never see that spelling in Ireland
No, “craic” is a Gaelicization of “crack”.
Hmm. Now that you’ve said it twice, I think you may actually be joking rather than ignorant or some kind of linguistic Thatcherite!
My posting citing an online (Irish-sourced) discussion is in moderation limbo, but check the wikipedia entry on “craic”. I’m neither joking nor mistaken nor anti-Irish. I just happen to to be interested in etymology, and I know whereof I speak.
Actually I’ve looked it up and it appears you may be right. The borrowing isn’t from Modern English but from Old English, and sometimes words get borrowed back and forth, and my source didn’t give those details.
So mea culpa, friend. Hedgy as the above sounds, it looks like you were right and I was wrong. Live and learn. And further self-abasement for accusing you of Thatcherism, linguistic or any other kind. *rubs dirt on forehead*
If you want some real fun, trace the etymology of ‘shaman’. There’s one that bounced around quite a few languages, including some of them twice, before getting into English.
Actually, the borrowing from English into Irish took place in the 20th century, but props to you for checking it out and admitting error–a rare thing on the internet.
So are people who actually know something about etymology! Not to be wantonly discarded when one encounters them, especially in order to stand on an indefensible point. (They’re sharp and standing on them is injurious to the foot.)
(My source just gave the origin of ‘crack’ as OE and gave the IE root. Stupid of me to assume the borrowing took place then.)
This site doesn’t appear to have a Friending mechanism that I can find, but I will make note of your name and watch for your comments going forward!
If you’re interested in etymology, check out (I’m going to insert spaces in this in hopes of escaping the moderation limbo that posts with URLs are consigned to:)
w w w. w o r d o r i g i n s. c o m
Especially the discussion boards. I’m a regular there.
Aww, this is sweet. Next up, etymologist dating. You don’t happen to be different sexes do you?
As the usual kind of internet personality rears its ugly head shows up.
Apparently the <strike> tag doesn’t work here, or I just botched it.
stricken textunstricken textYep, I botched it. You know, a Preview button would be a welcome addition here.
My earlier sentence should have read “As the usual kind of internet personality
rears its ugly headshows up.”What did I say to deserve that (with strikeouts or without)? I thought it was genuinely sweet. Do all Etymologists make negative assumptions like this?
No, it’s not etymology in this case. It’s text semantics. We ordinarily read these things by instinct, but I’ll give a brief analysis, and in the process explain just what you said to “deserve that.”
The sentence “Next up, etymologist dating” is heavily marked as sarcastic/derisive. ‘Next up’ is a phrase associated with sensationalistic “news” programs, and ‘etymologist dating’ that because we’re cordial and friendly we must be looking for something more, nudge nudge, wink wink.
And your next sentence displays your homophobia. Overall it’s a kind of high-school bully post; the mocking tone is clearly established, and in only three sentences too.
Now you come back acting all aggrieved that I made “negative assumptions” about you, when actually the implications of what you said were perfectly clear. This, too, is in pattern. And by saying ‘Do all Etymologists’ you again mock the nerds.
Loved this conversation
I think you’re being a little oversensitive. Next up is just a turn of phrase, perhaps I use it more often than I should.
Etymologist dating was simply playing with how the internet tends to progress ideas and has niches for everything. There are already geek dating sites.
I assumed that you wouldn’t date if you were the same sex, because that the most common case. I didn’t say anything negative about homosexuality.
If I make a playful comment and the response is negative, I think I’m justified in commenting to that effect. Not all mocking is derisive, I am a geometry/math geek and I would mock that in the same sense.
Well, if all that is true, I owe you an apology. I’m sorry for the assumption. I hope, however, that you can see how I would take it the way I did.
And you’re right, you weren’t exactly homophobic, just heteronormative. In fact (and you could not have known this) I date ONLY people of my same sex. And if you’d been knocked around and spat on and called names all through high school, you might be hypersensitive too.
Still, I apologize for my negative assumptions in your case.
And not to go off on a tangent, but geometry and math are cool too. You just gave no sine of being a fellow geek. My friend Lenore is fond of pointing out that secant tell someone’s tone just by their text. With a big enough sample, I can triangulate, but even then I sometimes come off as a square.
And I bet Dr. Techie would cosine my sentiments.
And I would just like to say that I have backed down from being wrong twice in this thread, and that’s all I intend to do!
It’s good to see a brothel that offers not only financing but also free coffee.
nice place
is that a double rainbow on the right?
I’ve been looking for someone to finance my coffee and crack habit *pops in* *pops in again* *pops in again but just for the fun conversation*
These Financial Consultants must really know how to persuade their customers!
“No coffee for me please, it makes me jittery.”
This is not really this is in Ireland where crack is slang for fun
*facepalm*