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Who hates Iceland? Is it because of Bjork?
People that lost money when 3 Icelandic banks went bankrupt.
Yeah…or more likely it’s to do with the volcano that erupted in Iceland last year and grounded all the planes in northern Europe ruining loads of peoples holiday.
I’m not sure if this is Danish or Swedish google search, but there is still a rivalry between Denmark and Iceland because Iceland used to be part of Denmark so …
OH no! That great rivalry still exists?
Nah. definitely Bjork.
So is Bjork great to you or not?
Danish, I can tell on the pixels and the ø only used in denmark and norway.
No, that’s Norwegian.
Close enough.
Do a YouTube search.
Ha ha ha. Great keyword relate search… Funny
I thought so to. I wonder if there is a hidden meaning?
I hate it when that happens!
This should be Win. Fail fail.
Wouldn’t ‘fail fail’ be a double negative, thus actually meaning ‘win’?
Only if you try to apply math-rules to language…
lmao ^
The two negatives cancel each other out. It is neither a win nor a fail.
In math, two negatives cancel each other out, but in language the rules are different.
:/ If I say “it isn’t not” that’s a double negative, and therefore a positive. The same as math XD
And if I say “I aint seen nothing” I don’t mean “I have seen something”. Just because its true in some cases does not make it true in every case, and language rules are made up as we go along unlike math, that is constant.
Now my brain hurts. >.<
Actually, in English, “I aint seen nothing” does, in fact, mean “I have seen something”. Unlike spanish/french (and many other languages), in english once you do a negative doesn’t mean you should do everything else negative.
That being said, most lower class english speakers *cough* ebonics *cough* (or those who are native spanish/french and never learned better) frequently get it wrong.
So, saying “I aint seen nothing” means one of two things:
1. I saw something
2. My english is poor, and I really mean “I saw nothing”.
The fact that you mention “lower class speakers” tells a great deal of where you are comming from; the school of thought that divides languages into educated “proper upper class” as the true language and uneducated “poor lower class” as a degenerated form of the true language.
But language belongs to everyone who use it. If enough people understands the meaning of words and phrases then its a part of the language. Sure, the different memes within the language tells a lot about the speaker and context.
As most english speaking people understand what someone means when they say “I aint seen nothing” the its no less true then “I saw nothing”. Sure, it might tell the listener a great deal of more about the speakers background (I, personally, see a british street urchin saying it) but it makes no less a part of the language.
You’re wrong.
Double negatives do indeed cancel themselves, but in language the reader is allowed to guess what the writer meant to say, rather than taking the literal meaning. Having your readers correct what you say say is not the same as writing the thing correctly in the first place. Check my paragraph for a demonstration.
Lets concentrate on the english language or otherwise I would just have to mention Afrikaans, where you must use double negative where there in english would only be one.
You are still trying to force the rules of math on (the english) language.
Many times it is true that they cancel each other out but not allways. Sometimes the second negative is used as an intensifier.
No one had to guess what Pink Floyd meant with “We don’t need no education / We don’t need no thought control” or what The Rolling Stones meant with “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.”
Language is a code, not a formula, and that code is constantly rebuilt and reshaped by its users. If enough people say that “I aint seen nothing” is the same as “I have not seen anything” then that is the code.
if you take away a negative from a negative, it cancels out (-1)-(-1)=0, but if you have a negative negative, it’s a positive -(-1)=1. Negative numbers are 180 degrees from 0 in the complex plane (positive numbers are 0 degrees), and when you multiply numbers, you add the angles, and since 180 + 180 = 360 or 0 degrees, you get a positive.
Yes, as in “This should be a win”. I was trying to use a double negative on the fail, in other words saying that the label “Fail” was a fail.
Don’t make an inception joke.
you guys totally ruined the joke… by the way what the hell does ”inception” mean. stop using so complicated words
its failblog stop being serius 
I take it you don’t get out to the movies very often…. try Google.
It means the beginning of something, but the internet seems to think it means recursion, because of the movie, in which it actually means planting an idea in someone’s head through dreams.
that was why they called it that. the planted the beginning of an idea.
It has to be said….. a fail within a fail within a fail.
Not when that first ‘fail’ was the objective.
Send them over to my yard. I will be more than happy to have them there.
I’ll even go pick them up in my van for free.
With their Harley’s and all???
What kind of van do you have…?
Do you have some candy?
Taking Boys?
Y U NO Shota Cat?
Kelis-win!
What did this person expect? Look, if you start making milkshakes, boys are going to show up in your yard. It’s a fact of life, deal with it.
As previously stated, this should be a win. The “I hate islam”-part should be the fail.
It’s a stupid religion, it demands that woman cover their hair.
Now, saying “I hate muslims” would be a fail.
Comedian Kyle Cease used the milkshake bit on his album “One Dimple” a few years back.
♪♫damn right…it’s better than yours♫
Your milkshake wins this round, Trebek!
Who hates Ireland? What’s wrong with it?
Also, a “Fail” stamp color fail.
I bet all those boys are fat. Fat boys like milkshakes.
how is this a fail?