Tag Archives: fail

Professional Commenter or Birdbrained?

Having a quick browse of the local news before sitting down for dinner this evening, I found myself chuckling at a comment posted against this story about a concept car for the upcoming new Mad Max sequel, Fury Road, found in the Geelong Advertiser. Says “Jo of Geelong”: “HHHHHHMMMMMM!!!!!!! if only Ford would use their […]

Newspaper Fail: Why Bother?

When reading this article in regards to potential changes to taxi regulations in Victoria, I found myself asking – “why bother?” – when looking at the accompanying picture. Someone took the time to blank out the taxi number of the front vehicle, but not the others! Why bother taking the time to block the first […]

V/Line: Treating Customers Like Idiots – Still

This afternoon I got the following tweet from V/Line’s curiously named “@vlineinform” account, once again showing how the truth should never get in the way of, well, treating their customers like idiots. Now – notice that the current time is “16:37”, and that the tweet(s) were received “3 mins ago” – meaning they were posted […]

Ambiguous Facebook Fail

A light hearted one for Australia Day, I just saw this on Facebook. Circled in red we see “Application Requests”: So I clicked it, and the box popped up to say they had moved. Nope, it’s in two places. Facebook is cluttered enough without putting things all over the place. I’m sure people would find […]

Single Point of Failure

Well, yet again this morning, thousands of commuters from the western suburbs of Melbourne and Geelong had their daily travel severely disrupted, after a power failure at Newport station disabled signals and points. Now, I’m the first to accept that unexpected things happen all the time, and that running an integrated public transport network is […]

Packaging Fail

Spotted this one in Woolworths while doing a spot of last minute New Year’s Eve shopping: What exactly is a “wood buring oven”?

Classy Spam Fail

Got a belly laugh from a piece of spam I found trapped by my filters this morning, showing how truly classy spammers can be: Gee, that’s an attractive email. Let’s open that one! Not!

Supermarket Lazy or Misleading

In the midst of the weekly shop, I came across the following special offer: Seriously, what? Certainly confusing. I think in simple terms, you can see that you get two for ten dollars, no matter what items out of Plus, Cheerios, or Milo cereal you choose, but explaining how much you save depending on the […]

Headline of the Day: Taking the Piss

Almost spat my cup of tea all over my laptop screen when I looked at this tag headline as it appeared on the Herald Sun website this afternoon. Snapped penis? Surely the headline writers are taking the piss on a Friday afternoon! Of course, the “snapping of the penis” referred to in the article involved […]

Newspaper Fail: Lucky Escape for Driver

Got a laugh out of this syndicated AAP article on The Age website this morning. “They said the vehicle had gone through the brick wall of the two-storey house, crashed into the lounge room, before being reversed and driven away.” Sounds pretty nasty, right? “Police are now looking for the driver of a white Toyota […]