Fail Quotes

[Ibrahim90]

I'm not sure if this belongs to the win or fail quotes section (it has a bit of both) I suppose; but being the jerk that I am, I put it here. . it's from a Government Science report by a member here, written in March 2008. no, it's not by one of the top members here.

it was directly copied from the original, without editing, as it was literally typed:

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"The new chairman took to the stand, and gave his thanks, babbling on  about how he vowed not to repeat the 2000 election, and thus have a good  nghts sleep. then th most senior member also spoke. load of A@#-she  kept saying that we must elect official because they must elevate the democratic party-notice no mention of country. Non of them did-at least that I heard...then it was on to the main event.."

"Williams (the chairman) said that 10 resolutions were proposed for  deliberation, and then began to read out the rules: title were to be  read, then the resolutions voted on. He was immediately assailed by the  others, who demanded that the full rules be read, all 2 pages per  resolution average. the motion was nominated (why nominated I have no  clue-just vote for it) and approved. Then several poeple to the left  side of the room, apparently a group of Hicks, spoke out, demanding a  resolution to simpify the resolution-at which a group of more democrats  retorted, saying, that they needed to pass a resolution that banned  poeple from voting who can't get the English used..."

"resolution 2: reforming the the nomination process, whereby the Caucus  and convension would be scrapped. this caused an uproar. One man, a  ruddy person standing to the right-center of the room, spoke for it. Mr  Lang and an old rickety lady spoke out against it. the old lady was particularily vocal."

"resolution 4: use of the winner take all system: 1/2 the assembly asked  it be dropped, saying it was like the caucus dropping, but that turned  out to be incorrect (duh?). After a short, sharp debate (again ruddy guy  vs. Rickety lady), it was shot down..."

in the statistics epilogue: "many were poorly, or plainly dressed, sme  even looked like street urchins or bums, sporting unkept beards and  hair. Many were clearly uneducated, idealistic, or just plain not  republican. The meeting was disorganized, and it was hard to listen to  anything they said." also: "4-Opinianation: too high... many were  argumentative, over emotional, or just plain F%$&*ing stupid-looked  like a congregation of southern bptist ministers orr snake handlers or  something of that order. 5-Party discipline: they have discipline?"       
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PS: I wrote it. this was after I went to a Democratic party convention, at 2AM in the morning. swore from that day on I'd never be a democrat.

[Travis Retriever]

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A sample from the video's description: "For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice." Joseph Dunninger

Classy.
Where's James Randi when you need him?

*EDIT* And he disabled both comments and video ratings.  Why am I not surprised?

[AnCap Dave]

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I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.
As President, I'll end Obama's war on religion. And I'll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage.
Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again.
I'm Rick Perry and I approve this message.

I love when these fundamentalist douchebags lie about children not being allowed to pray in school.

[MrBogosity]

My biggest reaction was to, "We're so oppressed! We're no longer allowed to force gays to stay in the closet!"

[Travis Retriever]

Every single (disgusting) pro-child beating comment in the comment section of this video: https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?threaded=1&v=j1GJsCa_4G8

[Ibrahim90]

Every single (disgusting) pro-child beating comment in the comment section of this video: https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?threaded=1&v=j1GJsCa_4G8

I'm left shaking my head, and wondering what the hell.....those people are just damn clueless.

at any rate, since fail should never be confined to the European culture, here's an ancient one (it is in Arabic; I'll provide a translation (don't worry, I speak this as a first language)

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و داحس والغبراء هما اسما فرسين وقد كان " داحس" حصانا لقيس بن زهير من عبس، و" الغبراء" فرسا لحذيفة بن بدر من ذبيان. كان سبب الحرب هو سلب قافلة حجاج للمناذرة تحت حماية الذبيانيين مما سبب غضب النعمان بن المنذر وأوعز بحماية القوافل لقيس بن الزهير من عبس مقابل عطايا وشروط إشترطها ابن زهير ووافق النعمان عليها مما سبب الغيرة لدى بنى ذبيان، فخرج حذيفة مع مستشاره وأخيه حمل بن بدر وبعضا من أتباعه لعبس لمقابلة ابن زهير وتصادف أن كان يوم سباق للفرس. اتفق قيس وحذيفة على رهان على حراسة قوافل النعمان لمن يسبق من الفرسين.

كانت المسافة كبيرة تستغرق عدة أيام تقطع خلالها شعب صحراوية وغابات، أوعز حمل بن بدر من ذبيان لنفر من أتباعه يختبئوا في تلك الشعاب قائلا لهم: إذا وجدتم داحس متقدما على الغبراء في السباق فردوا وجهه كي تسبقه الغبراء فلما فعلوا تقدمت الغبراء. حينما تكشف الأمر بعد ذلك اشتعلت الحرب بين عبس وذبيان.

"And Dahis and ghabra' are the two names of horses. Daahis was a horse for Qays ibn zuhayr of 'abs, and the ghabraa' was a horse for hudhayfah ibn badr of dhubyaan. The cause of the war was the pillaging of a caravan of lakhmid pilgrims under the protection of the dhubyanis, which angered al-nu'maan ibn al-mundhir*, so he entrusted the protection of the caravans to Qays ibn al-zuhayr of 'abs, in exchange for gifts and several conditions ibn zuhayr proposed and Nu'man approved, which caused jealousy to erupt among the banu dhubyaan, so hudhayfa left with his advisor and his brother haml ibn badr and some of his followers for 'abs. And this coincided with a day of horse racing. Qays an hudhayfah agreed to wager the guardianship of the Caravans to whichever horse beats the other in a race.

the distance was great, taking several days through which forests and desert chasms are traversed; at this, haml ibn badr entrusted  a handful of his followers to hide in one of the chasms telling them: "if you find the daahis ahead of ghabra' in the race, then turn its head so that the ghabraa' can outrace him". On doing this, the ghabraa' took the lead, and when this was found out, war erupted between 'Abs and dhubyaan"

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this was in the 6th century by and by, but it is still fail, so I think it will work.

[spoiler]* for some odd reason, his name keeps getting used incorrectly; he did not reign until 580 AD, and the war was known to have lasted 40 years, until the 590's-605; the more likely king was mundhir ibn imru' al-qays, his father (r. 514-554 AD), or possibly even 'amr ibn al-mundhir, his oldest brother (r. 554-569 AD). oh, and the guy who wrote this apparently never paid attention to grammar or balaaghah, but that is another matter.[/spoiler]

[Travis Retriever]

One thing I wish they would teach in High School is the Principal/ Agent problem, and then apply that to any discussion about Government activity.

What's the Principal/Agent Problem?

[evensgrey]

What's the Principal/Agent Problem?

It's a type of problem that comes up when one entity (the Principal) hires another entity (the Agent) to do something on behalf of the Principal that may not be in the best interests of the Agent.  Solutions are generally in the form of how the Agent's behavior can be governed by the Principal to ensure that the Agent does act in the best interests of the Principal, including how things like wages or other payment for services are structured (mostly to ensure that the Agents interests do become aligned with the Principal's interests).

Solving this problem is basic to all employment situations and also all government regulatory situations, as it is always the case in government regulation that (even in the cases of unelected governments) those who create the regulations are not the same people who actually enforce them, and so there is no inherent alignment of interests between members of the two groups.  In the case of elected governments, further complications arise in that the persons elected are only a small subset of the electors, and so there is no particular alignment of interests between the electors and the elected, and between the electors and the entire population (of whom some are invariably excluded from being electors).

[Virgil0211]

I'm left shaking my head, and wondering what the hell.....those people are just damn clueless.

at any rate, since fail should never be confined to the European culture, here's an ancient one (it is in Arabic; I'll provide a translation (don't worry, I speak this as a first language)

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this was in the 6th century by and by, but it is still fail, so I think it will work.

[spoiler]* for some odd reason, his name keeps getting used incorrectly; he did not reign until 580 AD, and the war was known to have lasted 40 years, until the 590's-605; the more likely king was mundhir ibn imru' al-qays, his father (r. 514-554 AD), or possibly even 'amr ibn al-mundhir, his oldest brother (r. 554-569 AD). oh, and the guy who wrote this apparently never paid attention to grammar or balaaghah, but that is another matter.[/spoiler]

Just a quick question, but how hard is it to write in Arabic? I mean, I have trouble drawing simple shapes. I can't imagine being able to write that text out regularly.

[Ibrahim90]

I don't know if I could answer that question; It's just something I learned when I was a kid, much like you learned to write in English (well, Latin script adapted for English); I don't remember it being any harder really-just the opposite.

the best thing I can say is: practice. if you are interested in learning this.

and I hope you are writing this from right to left....doing it like in English would making way too hard. yes, quite a few Americans I know did this. don't ask why...

[FSBlueApocalypse]

I wrote a post for a blog that got promoted to its front page. However, the guy who promoted it made several major edits that changed the tone of the entire article. I changed several of the edits back to make the post once again reflect the tone I wanted it to. I returned a hour later to see the post was taken down and this warning message

If a post gets edited and promoted, there's a reason it's done. And it's not for you to change it back. Congrats on never making the front page again.

[VectorM]

What a douche.

[Ibrahim90]

I wrote a post for a blog that got promoted to its front page. However, the guy who promoted it made several major edits that changed the tone of the entire article. I changed several of the edits back to make the post once again reflect the tone I wanted it to. I returned a hour later to see the post was taken down and this warning message

you should write an article in your own blog, and send it to him, and let him know your thoughts....

[MrBogosity]

What was the article and how did he change it?

[FSBlueApocalypse]

Edits in Italics

FanPost edited and promoted to the front page by CagesideSeats.com.

After tossing around a few ideas, I thought I would give my own spin on the well worn topic that is WCW's fall from grace. I'm sure most of you will know what will lie ahead, but I have a few personal items that I rarely see mentioned, and hopefully I'll give it enough of my own spin to make it seem fresh.
You could choose 1,000 moments, but let's just make it the Top 10

With that in mind, let's start the countdown with one of WCW's worst attempts at a bait and switch.

Star-divide

It's May 1998 (damn I feel old just typing that) and the Monday Night War is at its peak. In April 1998, Monday Night Raw finally bested Nitro in the ratings for the first time in over a year and a half. However, the ratings would go back and forth throughout the summer and fall until Raw would take the lead spot for good in Nov. 1998.

Both sides came out swinging during this time in an effort to get people watching. One of the more infamous moments was when the DX Army (HHH, Chyna, X-Pac, and The New Age Outlaws) "invaded" Nitro on April 27 1998.

Following that, DX do a similar "invasion" outside of WCW's headquarters in Atlanta and another Nitro.

All of this prompted Eric Bischoff to issue a challenge for Vince McMahon, which was for the two of them to have a match at Slamboree 1998 to settle the score.

Now, anyone with half a brain knew there was no way Vinny Mac was going to show up on a WCW pay-per-view (PPV) to help out their buyrate, but WCW kept promoting it like there was a legitimate chance of it happening. Instead, what paying fans got was Michael Buffer saying "Vincent K. McMahon" a few times before Bischoff ordered a 10 count and to be declared the winner.It would be the last real success WCW had

All of this would become the hallmark of WCW's dying days. Promising the world while before delivering cheap stunts to the increasingly smaller paying crowds. In addition, you only have to take a look at the rest of the Slamboree '98 card to realize what will be another common thread in this series: WCW treating its PPVs as secondary to the Monday Night ratings battle.

On a side note, when this "match" was on WWE Classics, it featured one of the more eyebrow raising and unnecessary of WWE's white washings. In the original broadcast, there was no music when McMahon was announced. However, in the WWE version, McMahon's "No Chance in Hell" is inserted.

Indeed