Tag Archives: fail

More Corporate Fail

It must just be my week for encountering pointless corporate behaviour. Hot on the heels of the Hewlett Packard packaging debacle, I received the following statement from GE Finance today: Thank you GE Finance! Thank you for wasting time, money, effort, and paper to send me an account for such an amount!

Spelling Mystery…Unsloved

Stumbled across this impressive piece of proofreading fail via Claudia Aitch at claudiaaitch.wordpress.com: The mystery of Channel Seven’s missing spellchecker is, umm, “unsloved”. Or unsolved. One or the other.

Chicken What?

I’ve long been a fan of Engrish.com. It is probably somewhat politically incorrect, but it is often so funny, that not laughing is a very difficult task. “Engrish” is the term given to the use of English words and phrases as decorative fare on products and services in non-English speaking countries, in particular in Asian […]

Google Street View Face Recognition Fail

In the wake of claims from Senator Stephen Conroy a little over a year ago about Google committing the biggest privacy breach in history in the midst of collecting updated data for their StreetView service – (which the Privacy Commissioner later basically dismissed as rubbish) – as a goodwill gesture, Google promised to make sure […]

Newspaper Fail With Principle

Just stumbled across this article talking about a “principle” who has stated that students are unfairly labelled as bullies. Should that be “principal”? Obviously the headline writer didn’t follow the “principle” of getting a good education and learning how to spell “principal”. Fail.

Stuck In The Middle With Adobe

Reading a web-bound PDF document last night, I was prompted – (most unusually) – whether I wanted to use Adobe PDF Viewer (Chrome Plugin) as my default PDF viewer either “Never” or “Always”. I was ready to click “Always” when I stopped and realised how silly this question sounded. If I want it to “never” […]

Oops – Released The Wrong Article?

Just spotted this giggle-worthy stuff up on The Age website: An old version of an article that wasn’t meant to be used perhaps? Funny.

Photoshop Fail

I was just watching a video about the three-match suspension of Melbourne player Jack Trengrove on the Herald-Sun AFL Minisite, and noticed an epic Photoshop fail. I’m Not Going to Change the Way I Play Firstly, lets look at a shot from within the running video: Note the lack of a “Herald-Sun Superfooty” sign on […]

Live From A Little Earlier, Again!

Checking the Yahoo!7 TV Guide over the weekend, I came across a strange classification for an AFL match shown on Channel Ten: Could someone explain to me what a “Live Repeat” is? I’m not sure. Ironically, this game broadcast was neither “live” – after all, free-to-air channels refuse to show them live – and nor […]

More AFL Mathematics Fail

Hot on the heels of this piece of fail from the AFL website, comes the latest: Melbourne – 12-10-73? Surely they mean 12-10-82? Brisbane – 11-4-57? I’m sure that’s actually 11-4-70? Geelong – 7-12-47? Got a feeling that’s 7-12-54! Port Adelaide – 2-6-17? Might be 2-6-18 perhaps? Also, the scores aren’t “live”, they are quite […]