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Apes are not that fat.
STOP IT.
STOP IT NOW.
Yes. That would be great.
THIS IS A WIN!!!!!!!!!!
You are such a freking douche bag! This stupid Russian Prank call thing is fricken retarded. Cut it out!
Wow dude. really? i hope you get the views you so desperately crave
I not even sure this guy is an Russian. MB he trying discredit Russia or something…
its a guy off black ops. go figure.
And this year’s Greatest Troll of the Web….
Bravo.
Posting the same thing over and over isn’t that great of trolling, so he does not get the award.
It’s actually not trolling. It’s spamming.
Wow, learn to advertise :I
/\/iggers should all be whipped to death. inhuman beasts they are.
Your mother should have been spayed, ragged mongrel that she was…..
Yeah because all parents are to blame for their children. God forbid they become people. Even douches like that might have had good parents.
Abortion!
Dude shoulda been the one she swallowed
If anybody can see what that Troll posted I’d recommend you go get a Flash-blocker of some kind.
The two I know about for Firefox are FlashBlock and NoScript. I’m not getting paid by either one of them so I’m not going to recommend one or the other.
No worries, it’s been removed.
i don’t see any fail here
Come on… you don’t see it?! It’s so obvious…. It should say, “An ape has conversations with more apes.”
You sir, just failed horribly… Failmaster indeed. You have taken the art of failing and perfected it. You have accomplished one of the most epic fails I’ve ever seen.
Horse was referring to the fact that the description is, in fact, quite accurate. He’s calling Opera an ape. For missing that very obvious joke, you have failed horribly.
I believe he was implying that oprah has a lot of other black people on her show, and that black folk are apes. Or perhaps I’m giving troll credit where it is not due.
I don’t think she’s called an ape because of her race, but because of her behaviour and her so-called guests’
You ma’am, are incredibly naive. Calling a black person an ‘ape’ or a ‘monkey’ is a racial slur, which came out of the crackpot “Eugenics” theories which Hitler made so (in)famous.
The FAIL is that the little blurb is written based on a description of the episode which the producer sends to the TV Guide network, so it was actually written by Oprah’s own network.
Skeptical,
Harvard, Princeton, and London made eugenics popular right before they exported it to the nazis, along with synthetic oil and rubber from Standard Oil. Oh yes, I said something not funny, I went there failblog, i did.
You all fail. Failmaster’s comment was intended to undercut the racist implication that blacks are apes by pointing out that all humans are apes.
This was a particular episode where they where talking about a
literal ape communicating to humans
ugh… in fact, you sir, you failed… read Failmaster’s comment one more time. xD
He was suggesting that Oprah’s guests are also apes. Perhaps you are an ape too, since you lack basic reading skills.
Technically, we’re ALL apes…
+1
Anyone else wonder why humanity keeps pushing itself farther and farther away from Nature?
um…because nature is a cold-hearted B*tch who feeds kittens to bears…
lol yes she does!
and thats why i like nature furry little imps the lot of em
Anyone else wonder why people need to talk about almost totally unrelated subjects that make the person come off as preachy?
Because we are on failblog? *DUUUHH*
5 internetz are now yours
We’re all primates. We are not all apes.
Technically, you don’t know how evolution works.
Truth, you are so retarded. Go be retarded on FML.
Truth, you have also failed…her name is Oprah not Opera….check yourself before you go judging others.
Your inability to recognize [what should be obvious] intentional comedy (or at least an attempt thereat) explains volumes about how all the intentional acts uploaded to this site as Fails get upvoted to the main page: It’s people like you voting!
Or perhaps they were both being sarcastic, and you, sir, are illiterate.
wouldn’t this be kind of racist?
i mean, we’re not offending apes right?
can’t believe they called Oprah an APE!
i agree, the proper term is primate
All human beings are primates….
But not all primates are humans…
All apes are primates too. Humans are a type of ape.
Wow, one of the richest women on TV and you idiots call her that?? Unbelievable, actually no, it is quite believable. Poor trash just can’t stand it when others do well.
Judging a person by how much money they have is pretty primitive of you.
Yeah, no kidding.
BTW, it’s not racism or jealousy Oprah is so disliked for, it’s the size of her overinflated ego and her sensationalism.
Amen
And how does that make her ape-like?? Egotism and sensationalism pretty much describes the entire entertainment industry. And the OP (of this comment thread) should have said richest, influencial and respected women in the industry. Now when any of you on this thread get your own NETWORK let me know.
I dislike her show because of its content; I don’t care for programming that appeals to middle-aged housewives. Of course, since I;m not part of her target demographic, I don’t think anyone is either surprised or upset by that.
I don’t have an opinion of her herself; I’ve never met her, and don’t have enough interest in celebrities to follow news about her personal life.
I dislike her because she decided to spend money on schools in Africa instead of inner city schools because she felt that those kids would rather have shoes and iPods.
Just because someone is poor doesn’t make them ‘trash’. Most poor people work much harder than Oprah has ever had to.
And he didn’t call her anything so you are an idiot as well as an idiot
Bush is also an idiot and somehow he managed to stay two terms in the white house… they’re just lucky idiots, period.
People compared him to a monkey and an ape. So I’m not seeing the big deal.
Actually, I think the feature story was about an ape in some zoo that can have conversations with people by pointing to pictures on cards.
I remember a story about it a few years ago. The reporter asked it (in English) if it wanted to say anything, and it pointed to the pictures that meant “I want coffee”!
The fail is that it sounds like the description is talking about Oprah.
They didn’t. They’re referring to the Gorilla Koko (which would make it a species ID fail).
I’m outraged that they could be this insensitive to apes.
right!
Me too! I didn’t see the fail at first – thought it was about calling Orca “Retro”when obviously she IS (I was watching her in the 80s – uh, never since) but missed the “ape/human” thing. Obviously an insult to apes everywhere.
Get a CLUE people; Michael Moore is an APE too – oops, was that racist? Apes is apes and peoples is peoples. Not a hard distinction to make.
Win
Yo man, thas wacist
It’s Oprah she doesn’t count.
Indeed. How can people be this insensitive towards apes?
Yeah, that! Hehe
More like a win…
i agree…this is categorized wrong… Win for the cable company, cox.
i agree.
How can this not be a win?
For obvious reasons.
Win
Second that
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Ah – well the sock monkey may be an ape but I’m not sure which species Johnny Vegas belongs to.
I feel bad that I thought the TV channel was ‘RETRD TV”
Well, would be a match, too, wouldn’t it?
no RETRD TV is called OWN.
That says retro…
That’s why he said that he thought. Reading comprehension fail.
Hah me too. No longer forever alone.
HOW DARE THEY!!!!
If I were an ape, I would be pissed if someone called me Oprah.
Unless she gave me a care afterwards.
Car not care.
Self FAIL
LOL! So glad I’m not the only victim here of my own typos.
An ape would probably be better help in one’s life
Like the “Trunk Monkey” videos on YouTube? Yes, yes it would.
That’s a win.
My pet ape has gone berserk! He feels that is degrading to apes, aaah no! Stop! aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhsakij ndshjagn hjngsgkhdgdsfnjhsfgbasbgh
why isn’t this a win, petition anyone?
Epic troll.
Those poor apes. Always being degraded.
Look under your seats….You get a banana! And You get a banana! And you get a banana! YOU ALL GET BANANAS!!!!
Thousands of them.
I *really like* Bananas … Heck, I know we ALL do, but for me, they are something special.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Absolute best comment! lmfao
Not cool.
Deep in your heart you know it is. Stop lying to yourself.
Since the show is about an ape that can communicate through sign language it’s not a fail by any means. The box gives a description of the topic of that particular episode.
Oprah knows sign language?
Despite the fact that you are a jew, you win on multiple levels.
LMFAO!
It’s about time someone gets it right. Now kiss my red bare ass. Don’t think I wont sling sh!t at you. Damn humans.
That you, Aprah?
“Aperah” XD
You’d think that 2 billion in the bank would mellow a chick out….
There’s a racist joke in here somewhere….
It’s too dark, I can’t see it.
ZING!
Curious Oprah Learns The Secret
COLTS, huh? You must be disappoint after yesterday’s loss, eh?
WIN is more like it XD
That is a WIN. Put that cult leader in her place!
Pure win.
Hahaha!
Lmao
Sorry, but this is clearly a TROLL WIN.
Sorry, but that description looks dead-on accurate to me.
That’s a terrible thing, to steal Dr. Phil’s description.
On Retro TV no less. Thankfully now she has her own network and she can fade into the big “O”blivion.
Are you guys just… completely unaware of the racist connotations in calling a black person an ape? This can only be construed as “funny” in the sense that it appears (hopefully) to be a complete accident resulting in something insanely appropriate.
This is in no way a “win,” no matter how much you dislike Oprah as a person. Maybe if you are unaware of the racial issue, it’s understandable that you might find it amusing, but if you’re calling it a “win” while full aware of the connotations? Congrats, you’re a racist.
I agree with the caption. FAIL.
oprah.com/showinfo/Ultimate-Amazing-Animals-The-Ape-Who-Has-Conversations-with-Humans
1. It is accidental.
2. I think it’s a win, not because it can be seen as racist but because Oprah has about the same IQ as a (non human) ape.
3. I wasn’t aware of the racist aspect until you pointed it out.
(4. Technically Oprah is an ape, as are you, as am I, as is every other human being.)
If you dislike Oprah, there are plenty of insults with non-racist connotations you could fling at her, if you must. The issue here is that in history, racists have referred to black people as apes, implying that they are less evolved compared to whites, as BS “science” once tried to claim. Yes, we know now that all people of all races are technically apes, but that doesn’t erase the historical connotations, and it remains a racist insult in this context.
It doesn’t matter if the intention was just to say she is “as stupid as an ape,” it will inevitably come across as “sub-human because she is black.” Thus, it is a FAIL whether the racism is intentional or not.
Oh, and to clarify, while I understand that the fail pictured is probably an accident, my argument is directed at the comments calling it a win.
Well, let’s just say that I’m not really into being politically correct. As long no one means any harm it’s fine by me. It’s their intent that counts. And even if you would find it funny because of the accidential racism that still doesn’t mean you are a racist. Lots of people laugh with racist jokes, even those who are the subject.
It’s one thing to be telling non-PC jokes around friends who understand that no harm is meant, but when you take it into public you are bound to offend someone. That is where the harm is. It’s always best to be “politically correct” in public situations, regardless of how you might speak with friends. To be knowingly racist, sexist, etc. in public is plain rude. To be unknowingly so is okay as long as one apologizes when corrected, but continuing to be offensive, under ANY excuse (popular ones: “you’re just too sensitive” and “well, all these OTHER people think it’s funny”) is as bad as insulting someone to their face, saying that you don’t care about how they feel and your amusement is more important.
“Lots of people laugh at racist jokes” does not be that NOBODY is offended by racist jokes, ever, so that statement is pretty irrelevant.
And in response to the below post, again, I am aware that the situation in the image was an accident and no offense was meant. It is the people approving of the statement I take issue with.
does not MEAN*, not be. It’s a bit late here. -_-
The problem is that no matter the joke you are always bound to offend someone. And there is harm in everything. But stopping everyone from using all racist jokes would be just silly.
You can’t be unknowingly racist/sexist/.. because it contradicts the definition of racism and sexism.
whether or not a joke is apropriate depents entirely on the situation and you can’t defend the usage of free speech as a whole, nor can you defend complete cencorship.
You can only judge a specific post or joke. And since we seem to disagree on this one there’s not much left to discuss.
Please keep in mind that racist jokes aren’t the same as actual racism and that getting rid of the jokes isn’t the same as getting rid of racism.
How can you say such things, here of all places? This is a FREAKING HUMOR SITE. No one here is being racist, because actual racism ISN’T FUNNY. If you want to preach to someone, go to Stormfront. No one here is poking fun at Oprah because she is black. Grow a skin, will you? If anyone is actually offended by this, I say f*fm em’. People like that only make the race thing much worse than it has to be.
Also the fact that there are plenty of insults with non-racist connotations you could use doesn’t matter. Cause no one was trying to insult Oprah in the image anyway.
CB: u cant take joke, can u? this was supported to be fun. No one cared about skin colours and stuff. Ur the only one who raised this racism stuff up so far. In fact, if Oprah were white and they were calling her an ape, you would not complain would you. You are racist (to both black/white people).
Um…
If the target was a white person? Then there would be no racist connotation, as it comes from something historically used against BLACK people by whites. Not getting how pointing out a slur makes me racist, sorry.
As it is, I raised the point in hopes people would realize that calling a black person an ape is, as previously mentioned, a slur, in hopes that it might change their opinion as to whether or not this is a win. Apparently this is being brushed off as being “too PC.”
I see the humor in that this was a total ACCIDENT. I do not see the humor in people approving of the statement “Oprah is an ape” knowing FULL WELL (or at least, after I have pointed it out) that it can be seen as a racist insult.
tl;dr. This side of the internet is no place for srs business.
+1 Why so serious? CB thinks people will browse FAILBLOG and expect the publications here to be of a serious nature and thus be offenced? Get outta here…
I guess I’m about to be labelled a racist for knowing Oprah is rather apelike, but not knowing she’s black. I’ll probably have forgotten the next time it becomes relevant, too.
Too bad Oprah, no matter what color she may be, is still an ape. A half-educated ape, but still APE.
1) It’s hilarious.
2) It’s hilarious specifically because it’s unintentionally racist (for the aforementioned reasons). There’s a LOOOONG history of calling blacks monkeys as a way to imply that they’re less evolved.
3) Calling something that has unintentional racism a “win” seems to imply that racism is a win.
It’s a hilarious, accidentally racist fail. We need not go any further than that.
This. Wholly and only this.
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You really need to calm down. It wasn’t meant to be racist, even if it was, there is nothing that you can do about it. Do you find it fine when black people say things about whites? Sure, no big deal, but when someone says things about black people, everything is blown out of proportion.
Why is it that we have a national black month, Hispanic month, Arabic month, and so on? Why isn’t there a national white month? Oh right, that’s racist. If you ask me, and many people for the matter, we as white people are being degraded. There really is no reason for all these different celebratory months.
I am in no means racist, but I found this hilarious. You just have to find the humor in regards that a mistake was made.
Win!
There is to much WIN in this, i’m blinded.
This is so obviously a WIN!!
Okay, now y’all are just being facetious.
But I’d rather you be facetious than racist, I guess.
Also, that smiley doesn’t look anything like someone sticking their tongue out. I would make a sad face, but that would probably look wrong too. (Who wants to start a long, wordy debate about the appropriateness of smilies?)
An accurate description of many black women (cf. Michelle Obama).
Also an accurate description of you.
I am with Colbert I don’t see colour so I have no idea if she is black, but the caption is an epic win
In case you guys are wondering, this particular episode of Opera featured an ape that knew sign language and was communicating with humans.
Just throwin’ that out there.
It’s pretty damn accurate if you ask me.
The Oprah episode where the ape talks to humans seems to be the most plausible answer to the program description, or it was mistakenly inserted but was meant for some other nature documentary.
You gotta admit though, she does sometimes behave like an ape by shouting all the time. “Were going to Awstraaaaliaa!!!!!!”. I mean, seriously, if it was The Morgan Freeman show or The Condaleeza Rice Show, no one would ever link them with apes. No racism, just inferences.
I wonder how many people would complain about racism if that caption had been describing an episode of say, Leno or Larry King.
(Presumably the same amount, anything other would be quite the double standard)
Yeah, that seems about right.
Thats a win in my book
I suppose it’s about the chimp that learned sign, Kanzi, I think his name is.
“picture by Stedman” ROFL
cb is completely right here! thank you for your clear and cogent comments! there is a long history of describing/depicting black people as apes so as to demean them and cast them as evolutionarily inferior to white people. the humor in suggesting that this is by any means a ‘win’ needs to be seen through this context.
Unfortunately no matter what color Oprah may be she is still an uneducated primate. This is a WIN!
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just stop. it was an accident, happened to be funny, so just stop.
No, it wasn’t an accident. The description of that show is not a mistake. This particular episode of Opera contains an interview with a monkey that knows over 1,000 words in sign language and can communicate with humans.
My mom watches this show and this episode was on the other day. It’s not a mistake or a racial slur. It’s just an accurate episode description that everyone else is making a pun out of.
1. All humans ARE apes, technically speaking.
2. Black people are compared to (non-human) apes because there tends to be a noticeable resemblance.
3. The known fact that blacks are much less intelligent, on average, than whites (just as whites, by the way, are less intelligent on average than Asians and Ashkenazi Jews) says nothing about evolutionary superiority. Evolution is a process that adapts organisms to their environment. The environmental differences that led to marked physical differences between broad groups of people also, judging by the mountains of scientific evidence available, seem to have led to marked mental differences between those same groups.
Actually, that is quite an uninformed assessment. The gap between blacks and whites is easily explained by poverty, lack of suitable facilities and other relics of past racism that perist to this day. And that gap is closing. As far as Asians and Jews, it’s mostly societal.
Shutup CB u stupid dumbass. You don’t have to come along and try and make others think you’re right by pretending to be someone else
Let’s not tell what was fail in this picture and just laugh if it was funny.
WIN!!!
That’s really offensive to apes.
I don’t like Oprah either. I lost all respect for her the day she let Jenny McCarthy onto her show… But cm’on. Seriously.
That’s clearly a win!
thank you for your clear and cogent comments! there is a long history of describing/depicting black people as apes so as to demean them and cast them as evolutionarily inferior to white people. the humor in suggesting
Someone accidentally the reply.
nice fail at copying and pasting
Black or not, the majority here feel the same thing. She is an ape. We loathe this snake oil salesman enough to brave the racist stigma simply because it’s true. Truth trumps feelings and sensibility every time.
I guess this show must’ve been about one of those apes they taught sign language to or something. They’re actually pretty interesting creatures.
(BTW, technically humans are apes–we are “great apes”, in the same category as gorillas, chimpanzees, etc., but it doesn’t really come up that often except in biology…)
So true.
Oprah sucks.
I smell jigga juice.
To be completely honest, that description is pretty spot-on.
Hahaha.
Oprah might not be an ape, but her audience does act like it
Nazi Win?
how is Oprah an Ape?
this isn’t a description a fail…
it’s a failblog fail.
not funny at all.
yesss who works for them? raise?
Apes can talk to humans. Info – 91%
lol, she had a special about amazing animals and on it there was an ape that talks so they gave the description of whats on the show that day not what its about
I’m just gonna say what I know a lot of people are thinking. Oprah’s a stupid N!gger. Not a N!gger because she’s black, but because she’s STUPID and black. See, to me, that’s the difference. I love black people. They’re awesome! Some of my best friends are black! But if you’re black AND stupid, (like Oprah, Obama, etc) you’re a stupid N!gger.
Btw, I swear I’m not a racist. I just tell it like it is.
1. Your unapologetic racism makes it clear that you are far more stupid than any of the blacks you hate and fear so much.
2. The common attempt to redefine the term “n¡gger” to mean something other than its common usage is FAIL. Your technique, which is to redefine it as a black person who is stupid, is even more pathetic and stupid than those who claim that it means someone of any race who is stupid. I’m ever so sorry, but you do not get to redefine the meaning of the words used in your culture. It just ain’t up to you.
3. The blacks you choose as examples of your “n¡gger means stupid black” claim are highly intelligent compared to the average human. This further underscores the lie in your claim that your use of the N-word is not racist.
4. I hope your black best friends become aware of your views, and that they stomp your genitals severely enough that you cannot propagate your moronic opinions via your children.
Its only racist if you want it to be,come on.
Crying racist is pathetic.
Win.
Win.
Win.
Win.
Win.
This.
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This.
That is most defiantly a win
if you look at the pictures in the background there is an actual ape with people…..its not talking about Oprah……so leave her alone…..there are not very many people in the world that will give a free car to people.
I think this is a WIN!?
Human ARE apes, people – we are the 5th ape!
I still think it’s a win, reading all the comments. yeah I’m life less somehow.
I can’t see how people think this is racism o.o
but that’s just my view.
I’m still going to school and my best friend is black. he has absolutly NO problem with these things, idk why some people blow things up like hell just to discuss and b1tch about it. since I met the guy, whenever I saw him I said “hey aapje” which means hey little ape in dutch. only it isn’t offensive. I asked him in a 1on1 convo once and he said he actually found it rather funny.
My conclusion:
Calling things these days something racist is Racist itself these days!
I mean come on we’re all the same, so why is the name ape racist on black but not on white? you damn racist yourself. there is NO such thing as racism, you just make it.
This is ridiculous! Oprah is NOT an ape – she`s a cow!
In an alternate universe, this image said “cow” instead of “ape” and everyone laughed without the racism debate.
THIS IS WIN!
The only fail is this should say gorilla. Koko (one of the ones that converses using sign language) was just on Oprah not long ago. Ndume might also have been, I’m not sure. No one was calling Oprah anything.
Why are people always bringing religion into conversation? I don’t want to know about ape evolution, this is simply racist…..but funny
well actually the show featured an actual ape that could talk to humans, I mean anyone with common sense would have researched it a little first and seen thats what they meant, but yeah …. to much to ask I guess.
Achmed: You racist B******!
This is a win because it happened to WJAR and not my station!
This is a double fail, because if you notice, the person who took this picture is a subscriber of Cox Communications!
Holla Providence, RI!