FAIL

It's not just a verb anymore. Through the magic of the Internet, "fail" is now a noun. More than that, it's a state of being. It's the ultimate descriptor for someone screwing up big time, which raises the laughter level of onlookers.

Perhaps the greatest facilitator of this Internet meme is Failblog.org. Every day the website posts new hilarious pictures where the general theme is "someone REALLY screwed up here." A diver hitting one's head on the platform certainly falls under that umbrella.

Entities can generate fail, too. Perhaps they had to nearly halve an almost finished hotel because of building errors.

Fail is not to be confused with an "epic fail," which is loosely defined as "the dumbest thing anyone can do to someone not very well-liked" (at least until another human bumbles in life somehow).  A Slate writer explored the fail phenomenon when he heard an audience member held up a piece of paper that said "FAIL" during U.S. Senate hearings. This "FAIL sign" could be considered by the same Internet collective to be the antonym of an "epic fail," which would probably be "full of win."

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “FAIL”

• Go ahead, pet one

  
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• One Year Walk and a Beard Growth Time-Lapse

  
  Wend Blog — Authority: 544
  Click here to view the embedded video. In Fall 2007 Christoph Rehage set out on a mission to walk from China to Germany. He didn’t make it. As you might know from the video or from the blog, I did walk about one third of the initial way, from November 9th 2007 (my 26th birthday) until October 27th 2008 . ...
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• FFFFOUND! |Feel like buying one today, uungh

  
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  FFFFOUND! | Feel like buying one today, uungh
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• Friday FAIL

  
  Hermione's Heart — Authority: 493
  One of my favourite non-spanking blogs is the FAIL Blog . Its a website that features pictures, signs, conversations and messages that somehow arent quite right. They fail in some significant but humorous way. I am going to start a Friday FAIL series of vanilla items that simply wouldnt work as pervertables in a ...
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• Fake Tan Disaster

  
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• Don’t Worry

  
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  From RTE Taoiseach Brian Cowen said: ‘This overwhelming negativity needs to stop because it’s not in our national interest to see that continue. ‘It is portraying our country as incapable of coping when in fact all of the success we had in the past was not illusory. ‘It is the community spirit that I ...
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• Turkey Fail

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 567
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• Fortune Cookie

  
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  (Expecting the lame-ass "Its all Bushs fault" comment from Travis in 3...2... ) TBG- ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
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• FIFA Proves That World Soccer Is A Joke Again: Chile World Cup Expulsion Likely

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 746
  Proving that world Soccer is an ongoing joke, FIFA (the International Federation of Association Football) is threatening that Chile will face World Cup Expulsion over a minor league issue in the country. The drama is due to the most unlikely cause: Chilean club Rangers has taken legal action against the Chilean ...
  6 hours ago

• Arm-Flapping Asspie Finally Getting Extradition

  
  BelchSpeak — Authority: 480
  For the past several months, UFO nutjob Fary McKinnon has been fighting extradition to the United States. At first, he claimed that his crimes, which were hacking into NASA and many other DOD systems was only an attempt to find UFO information, and he shouldn’t be extradited because he feared he would be tried as ...
  9 hours ago

• The Blog Awards!

  
  Project Management Resources, Templates, Books, Tools, News :: PMToolbox — Authority: 150
  The lovely people at Computer Weekly announced the winners of the IT Blog Awards last night at a presentation at Shoreditch House.  And I’m really pleased to say that – thanks to you all – I won the Project Management category!  I was also the runner up in the IT Professional Female category – Flynny’s ...
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• Kevin Federline Lands Job Promoting Ed Hardy

  
  Amy Grindhouse — Authority: 655
  Kevin Federline lost about half of his blubber. As such he was able to make it out of his front door and find a job. He was booked to promote a certain clothing brand. The clothing of choice for out-of-work, divorced, TV dads everywhere. Federline spent his Thanksgiving morning in Brisbane. He was making an ...
  16 hours ago

• Half of Euro online travel purchases legally unsafe: EU (AFP)

  
  PC Mike - Tech News and Reviews — Authority: 165
  AFP – More than half of all people who buy flights, hotel rooms and hire cars online risk being left without compensation if companies fail under outdated law, the EU said Thursday. Read the original here: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Half of Euro online travel purchases legally unsafe: EU (AFP)
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• How’d That Tetris Piece Get All The Way Down Here?

  
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• Team Obama: Only Statists need apply

  
  DPGI - the aftermath — Authority: 141
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• If it had said bacon, I would have gone for it

  
  Politics, Economics, Religion and People — Authority: 146
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• Murdoch to ban Google, giddy laughter heard from Redmond Washington…

  
  Senses: A blog about the Thirdi Software perception — Authority: 131
  Can you hear it? A strange maniacal and giddy laughter faintly travels on the wind. I can hear it loud and clear from my office here in Vancouver …it sounds really close. Shhhh. It sounds like it’s coming from Washington State…yes, close to Seattle. Wait, I know that twisted giddy laugh…it’s Microsoft ! A ...
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• Will They Ever Learn?

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 154
  How many times do I have to go over this dumbass robbers.Do not and I repeat do not rob a friggin bank when you live five doors down. Urgh, Christopher Walker attacked a cash-in-transit security guard with a stick outside Lloyds bank in Birmingham and then took off with £25,000 in cash. Problem was he proceeded to ...
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• Still, don’t know much about history…

  
  DPGI - the aftermath — Authority: 141
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• Sknahtevig

  
  I Wonder Woman — Authority: 127
  Sigh. Banner-stringing FAIL. Regardless of my spelling prowess, I can GIVE THANKS for so many things. For a warm home, for a happy family, for health, for knowledge, for the ability to learn and grow, for the opportunity to raise our children the best way we know how, and for many, many other things. Im ...
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