The word / term FAIL

[SoapyShowerBoy]

Is this an internet forum only phenomenon or do people actually use this in real life? I'm seeing it increasingly on here, I thought it was just a teenage American youtube thing!

I'm interested to know. I'm also prepared for the inevitable fail response!

[FoolOnTheHill]

I'm afraid I use it all the time now.

It is especially apt in a department that has been outsourced, and of which only a small percentage will be retained by the new employer.

EPIC FAIL.

[patmahe]

Don't think I've ever heard it used in real life and if I did it would probably make me cringe in the same way as 'my bad' does.

I think its generally just used to express amusement at people falling off skateboards etc...

[ewenm]

Fail is a verb but lots of people use it as a noun (see second post for example). It's a shame as there are plenty of decent nouns for the purpose already.

[Don]

What's problem?

People have been saying "That's a FAIL!" for generations...

I realise the phrase EPIC FAIL is new...

[Don]

I loathe the phrase: "That's a big ask."

No it's not. It's a "massive challenge" not a "big ask" FFS.

[evenflow]

I don't really like the phrase but some of the pictures can be quite amusing!

[ewenm]

What's wrong with "Failure"? Or is a 2-syllable word too difficult?

[Ladyhayles]

I find the whole EPIC FAIL thing really annoying.

The one thing I am struggling to understand is the pictures on the internet that have PWNED written on them. I thought the term was OWNED but whenever I see this is just makes me think of pawned!?!?!?! Not sure that anyone in the photos I've seen have got anything I'd pay for!

[SGirl]

Ladyhayles said:

The one thing I am struggling to understand is the pictures on the internet that have PWNED written on them. I thought the term was OWNED but whenever I see this is just makes me think of pawned!?!?!?!

And is it pronounced "pooned"?

[Ali_D]

Don said:

I loathe the phrase: "That's a big ask."

No it's not. It's a "massive challenge" not a "big ask" FFS.

Combined with the numpties who can't say 'ask' and come out with the word 'axe' it sounds as if someone's coming at you with a big fking hachet

[Bill Carr]

Listen to you bunch of gheyers, you just need to chillax, ok?

[Adam B]

ewenm said:

What's wrong with "Failure"? Or is a 2-syllable word too difficult?

seems to be for Americans/braindead where most of this language destruction seems to emanate from. "Innit" still top of my hate pile though, just sounds weird and stupid, like a lazy "isn't it" but used incorrectly

[Menguin]

u guise r 2 old

FAIL

[Justayellowbadge]

Bill Carr said:

Listen to you bunch of gheyers, you just need to chillax, ok?

I'm awfully sorry, but you must die.

[pedantlewis]

SGirl said:

Ladyhayles said:

The one thing I am struggling to understand is the pictures on the internet that have PWNED written on them. I thought the term was OWNED but whenever I see this is just makes me think of pawned!?!?!?!

And is it pronounced "pooned"?

Ladyhayles - I believe it developed into pwned because it was frequently mis-typed. Same goes for "teh" being used instead of "the" on purpose.

SGirl - I don't know, but there's a fairly amusing vid on Youtube called something like "if meetings were like internet forums" were someone pronounces it "powned".

I have to confess to saying fail in real life, though I sometimes cringe at myself.

[Famous Graham]

SGirl said:

Ladyhayles said:

The one thing I am struggling to understand is the pictures on the internet that have PWNED written on them. I thought the term was OWNED but whenever I see this is just makes me think of pawned!?!?!?!

And is it pronounced "pooned"?

Nope, like owned but with a p in front of it - powned.

It originated in online first person shooty type games. Legend has it, that it was a typo in some Counterstrike code so the first release said "X pwned Y" instead of "owned", but I don't know the veracity of that.

Wherever it originally came from, it soon became the standard, particularly of annoying American teenagers on CS servers.

I think I've described that before, on here, and got told I was a massive geek as a result.

Probably fair.

[f13ldy]

SoapyShowerBoy said:

I thought it was just a teenage American youtube thing.

You know they called it YTube right?

[Ladyhayles]

Thanks for the explanations given regarding PWNED.

However, still doesn't make it right, funny or any less annoying!

[The Black Flash]

The term does get thrown around at work, as does "Woot!".

But that's because we're all computer dweebs. I'm not proud.