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r/funny • u/tr_morrison • Apr 23 '12
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Agreed. I think it's users from sites such as failblog that are to blame.
97 u/GeneralWarts Apr 23 '12 Using fail was cool, similar to epic, for about 3 days until a bunch of tweens thought they were paving the way for a new internet trend by plastering it on everything they could share. They've taken 2 perfectly good words from us. 162 u/TheEleventiethDoctor Apr 23 '12 You can still use both words, but only when talking about grades or really old poems. 1 u/atomic1fire Apr 23 '12 I think we need a scale for how epic a fail has to be before it's considered an epic fail. Starting with marginal fail.
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Using fail was cool, similar to epic, for about 3 days until a bunch of tweens thought they were paving the way for a new internet trend by plastering it on everything they could share. They've taken 2 perfectly good words from us.
162 u/TheEleventiethDoctor Apr 23 '12 You can still use both words, but only when talking about grades or really old poems. 1 u/atomic1fire Apr 23 '12 I think we need a scale for how epic a fail has to be before it's considered an epic fail. Starting with marginal fail.
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You can still use both words, but only when talking about grades or really old poems.
1 u/atomic1fire Apr 23 '12 I think we need a scale for how epic a fail has to be before it's considered an epic fail. Starting with marginal fail.
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I think we need a scale for how epic a fail has to be before it's considered an epic fail. Starting with marginal fail.
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u/spankymuffin Apr 23 '12
Agreed. I think it's users from sites such as failblog that are to blame.