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mikenostic

01-08-09, 09:47 AM

I am starting to notice "Fail" in more and more posts when someone thinks someone else has said something incorrect. Is it a video game thing?
It's an internet fad, kinda like the lolcats.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=fail&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=3

http://failblog.org/

They're pretty funny to be honest.
They poke fun at some of the stupid mistakes that people make.
They are kinda like watered down Darwin Awards. Haha.

Orleander

01-08-09, 10:11 AM

Mike, do you think 'Fail' replaced 'Pwned'?
And cosmic, you're a dork. lol

Enmos

01-08-09, 10:17 AM

I fail to understand .:shrug: :D

FAIL! lol

Enmos

01-08-09, 10:18 AM

Mike, do you think 'Fail' replaced 'Pwned'?

I think 'Fail' pretty much replaces 'You're an idiot'.

mikenostic

01-08-09, 10:25 AM

Mike, do you think 'Fail' replaced 'Pwned'?
And cosmic, you're a dork. lol
No. Because they are slightly different meanings, even though they can overlap sometimes.

Fail would be if you made a stupid post that makes no sense.

Pwned would be if you made a stupid post that makes no sense, then someone responds with the correct answer, making you look foolish in the process.

Nasor

01-08-09, 10:40 AM

The "fail" thing started on message boards where people posted lots of images. When someone said something that was really obviously stupid, someone else would post a picture of someone in the process of failing at something with a "Fail!" caption. Eventually people got lazy and stopped bothering with the picture.

"Pwned" came from multiplayer first-person shooters back in the mid 1990s. It started out as people taunting their opponents by saying things like "I own you!" or something similar. It quickly became a common thing for people to type "owned!" to taunt people who they had just killed. But because the game was still going on, they had to type very quickly and would sometimes hit the wrong keys, like the p instead of the o. Which was funny, so people started doing it on purpose. Although really it would just as often come out as 9wned or ownef or any other variation.

EntropyAlwaysWins

01-08-09, 11:02 AM

Fail also has an antonym: Win.
Also either can be strongly emphasized by the prefix 'Epic'.

John Connellan

01-08-09, 12:01 PM

http://failblog.org/

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/fail-owned-security-chain-fail.jpg

There's nothing wrong with this one! This is a pass if you ask me. Look at the size of that metal fence and tell me you wouldn't think twice about stealing this car :D

Nasor

01-08-09, 12:22 PM

There's nothing wrong with this one! This is a pass if you ask me. Look at the size of that metal fence and tell me you wouldn't think twice about stealing this car :D
I'm sure you could drive off and rip out a section of the fence, but most thieves would probably realize that driving away with a piece of a fence dangling on a chain from your bumper is probably a great way to get pulled over by the first cop that see you.

John Connellan

01-08-09, 12:38 PM

I'm sure you could drive off and rip out a section of the fence, but most thieves would probably realize that driving away with a piece of a fence dangling on a chain from your bumper is probably a great way to get pulled over by the first cop that see you.

I don't think a small section of that fence would be ripped out very easily but exactly, whether it's the whole fence or a section of it, certainly gonna put you off stealing it!!!

mikenostic

01-08-09, 12:38 PM

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/fail-owned-security-chain-fail.jpg

There's nothing wrong with this one! This is a pass if you ask me. Look at the size of that metal fence and tell me you wouldn't think twice about stealing this car :D
As long as you didn't mind leaving the bumper behind!

John Connellan

01-08-09, 12:43 PM

As long as you didn't mind leaving the bumper behind!

Now that would be a FAIL!!! Luckily, however, it's tied to the tow hook

John99

01-08-09, 01:07 PM

I am starting to notice "Fail" in more and more posts when someone thinks someone else has said something incorrect. Is it a video game thing?

no its one of those things that takes off. fail means you lose, opposite of you win then the cool kids see that ans say hey that looks f'n cool i;m gonna use that and so there you have it.

cosmictraveler

01-08-09, 01:11 PM

Mike, do you think 'Fail' replaced 'Pwned'?
And cosmic, you're a dork. lol

Hey! I resmembel that remark! :p

Nasor

01-08-09, 01:34 PM

Now that would be a FAIL!!! Luckily, however, it's tied to the tow hook
Yes. But you'd think that a 1989 Honda Civic would already be pretty safe from thieves anyway...

mikenostic

01-08-09, 01:54 PM

Now that would be a FAIL!!! Luckily, however, it's tied to the tow hook
Oh damn, it is!

"Attention to Detail" failure on my part! :D

Syzygys

01-08-09, 02:09 PM

..and of course, there is "epic fail".

Unlike pwned, fail makes sense.

mikenostic

01-08-09, 02:33 PM

..and of course, there is "epic fail".

Unlike pwned, fail makes sense.

What about pwned doesn't make sense to you?

Orleander

01-08-09, 03:26 PM

..and of course, there is "epic fail".

Unlike pwned, fail makes sense.

ah, so you can call someone an idiot with out getting into trouble. Good to know for work. :D

John Connellan

01-08-09, 06:05 PM

Yes. But you'd think that a 1989 Honda Civic would already be pretty safe from thieves anyway...

Funnily enough, that's the type of car that most of the thieves round my place drive - and then burn :D

Michael

01-08-09, 08:20 PM

I read lol = lots of love and LOL = Laugh Out Loud...

Orleander

01-08-09, 08:35 PM

I read lol = lots of love and LOL = Laugh Out Loud...

I read LOL = Laugh out loud with Caps lock.
I have never ever meant lol = lots of love here. LOL

Fraggle Rocker

01-09-09, 02:58 PM

What about pwned doesn't make sense to you?I've never seen that one actually used so I have no idea what it stands for either. Some of these text message acronyms must have been made up out of thin air. I haven't heard anyone say "laughing out loud" in decades. I've never heard anyone say "laughing my ass off" or "eat shit and die" at all. (Much less its slightly more elegant-looking French equivalent MMEM.)

Why not everybody's favorite Mister Garrison non sequitur, UG2HAD?

A lol looks like it must have been a much larger confection from which the more conveniently-sized lollies were derived. And ESAD looks like Extended Seasonal Affective Disorder, something you'd have all year long because you know there's always another winter coming up.

Roman

01-09-09, 03:55 PM

pwned was a mistyping of owned in online games.

Like most memes on the internet, Fail and Epic Fail were developed largely by 4chan, or at least maintained by them.

Fraggle Rocker

01-09-09, 04:11 PM

pwned was a mistyping of owned in online games.I see. I had a friend who modified his company's Fortran complier so it would accept the word FOMRAT.

Syzygys

01-10-09, 07:05 AM

What about pwned doesn't make sense to you?

Well, I guess I just don't like the idea of one moron misstyping a word in a gameroom and another morons making it popular.

But it doesn't make sense because:

1. You can't pronounce it.

2. It means the exact same as the original, correctly typed word, thus it doesn't add anything to the vocabulary.

I guess I am just too logical. Fail on the other hand actually widens the vocabulary and people even not knowing it can accurately guess what is its intended use...

Was I clear enough?

John Connellan

01-10-09, 08:53 AM

But it doesn't make sense because:

1. You can't pronounce it.

I would pronounce it as "poned"

Syzygys

01-10-09, 11:12 AM

I would pronounce it as "failed". :)

It is just a fad (hopefully) and will go away...

Tnerb

01-11-09, 12:28 AM

pwnd

Tnerb

01-11-09, 12:28 AM

lol

Tnerb

01-11-09, 12:29 AM

lmao [lmnop]

Tnerb

01-11-09, 12:32 AM

afk!

EntropyAlwaysWins

01-11-09, 08:04 AM

I haven't heard anyone say "laughing out loud" in decades. I've never heard anyone say..."eat shit and die"

Clearly you haven't played gears of war :D (The main character says it fairly frequently) but yes I agree with you few people, if any, actually say "laughing out loud".

Liebling

01-11-09, 10:52 AM

There's nothing wrong with this one! This is a pass if you ask me. Look at the size of that metal fence and tell me you wouldn't think twice about stealing this car :D

Or, the fail part of this might be the car itself. And that the owner would even consider that anyone would go to the trouble. :P

Internet slang amuses me. I think that old dictionaries should be archived, but that our lexicons are always changing, making the internet the perfect place to extend our language. I hear older people cry about bad grammar, and shortened phrases and words, but we don't own language. Every language evolves, sometimes becoming many new languages.

Eventually, I believe that there will be only one language with several dialects. Look how many languages use other languages words in it. It may be possible that someday all of us will speak the same language, and I think that the internet or whatever the internet evolves into will have a large hand in that. It may not be for several thousand years, it could be in several hundred. Maybe just in time for another planet to make contact with us and have the cycle begin again.

Imagine a world where translations were taken out of some of the conflicts we have.

John Connellan

01-11-09, 06:00 PM

Or, the fail part of this might be the car itself. And that the owner would even consider that anyone would go to the trouble. :P

Very true! Guess my sense of humour is quite limited :D

pineapplepizza

01-30-09, 08:39 PM

Yes and it gets very annoying very fast.

GeoffP

01-30-09, 08:41 PM

noob.

Orleander

01-30-09, 09:28 PM

noob.

LOL, very funny Geoff. :D

Trippy

01-30-09, 09:39 PM

Well, I guess I just don't like the idea of one moron misstyping a word in a gameroom and another morons making it popular.

But it doesn't make sense because:

1. You can't pronounce it.

2. It means the exact same as the original, correctly typed word, thus it doesn't add anything to the vocabulary.

I guess I am just too logical. Fail on the other hand actually widens the vocabulary and people even not knowing it can accurately guess what is its intended use...

Was I clear enough?

I would pronounce it as "poned"

I always pronounced it as 'pawned', for two main reasons.

Given the spelling, it seemed to make sense.

The other relates to the role of pawns in chess.

But that was only until I heard it said, and the realized "Oh duh!"

Orleander

01-30-09, 10:06 PM

I say poned, because it rhymes with owned, which was what it was supposed to be. But Trippy, your reasoning makes more sense.

Trippy

01-31-09, 12:05 AM

I say poned, because it rhymes with owned, which was what it was supposed to be. But Trippy, your reasoning makes more sense.

I say Powned now though, mostly because I came across a You-tube video.

shorty_37

01-31-09, 12:09 AM

I have heard it but never said it to anybody. In my opinion it's a word used by the kids/teens. I think it sounds a bit stupid coming from an adult.

Lux

01-31-09, 02:42 PM

in daily conversation, if someone makes an incorrect statement, or simply does something silly, some of my friends and i have started responding with a simple "ERROR"

on reflection it's well 'arsh, but pretty funny to watch

Fraggle Rocker

02-01-09, 02:43 PM

Imagine a world where translations were taken out of some of the conflicts we have.I'm not optimistic about that. The American Civil War was arguably the bloodiest conflict in Western history, killing a full three percent of the population of the USA/CSA. Yet they both spoke the same language. A diversity of languages provides multiple ways of thinking about the world, and I understand how that could be seen as a factor in increased conflict. But history does not support that hypothesis. In the meantime, multiple ways of thinking about the world give us checks and balances on our own blunders and enrich our culture.I always pronounced it as 'pawned', for two main reasons.Why doesn't somebody ask a Welshman? W is a vowel in Welsh so the word would be pronounceable for them. Probably something like POO-ned.in daily conversation, if someone makes an incorrect statement, or simply does something silly, some of my friends and i have started responding with a simple "ERROR" on reflection it's well 'arsh, but pretty funny to watchIf you ever call an I.T. help desk with a particularly simple problem, such as forgetting to plug in the power cord, you may hear the person at the other end mumble something about "another ID Ten-T error."

Spell it out: I D 1 0 T.