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  1. Punkinator says:

    Fail blog is three tabs to the right.
    Placement FAIL.

  2. Danbala says:

    *snicker*
    Does anyone know where this is from – was it during some protest against the Beijing olympics?

  3. uh what says:

    Only in America !!!!

  4. Juasman says:

    Ameirca is gettin’ smrat

  5. flodnak says:

    It’s possible the signmaker had a point, but isn’t expressing it very well. Maybe he was asking if WE would allow it, knowing what we do now. Maybe he realized that when Germany was given the 1936 Winter and Summer Games, the Nazis were not yet in charge, and is asking if the Olympics would have been GIVEN to a country under Nazi rule.

    Or maybe he’s just stupid.

    • charro says:

      Either way, it’s a FAIL on the poster maker’s part. Heh.

    • aussielung says:

      Actually, the Nazis where in charge during the 1936 games. So the pundit poster, although placing the pic in thewrong page is correct, the sign holder really is that stupid.

      http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERchron.htm

    • Keraos says:

      Actually, the Nazi’s were in power at that point. They came into power in 1933, though it took them a few years to disband their political structure to make Hitler the Chancellor and Furhrer.

      So… Fail fail? Since Nazi Germany DID host the Olympics…

      • flodnak says:

        But the Olympics were AWARDED to Germany in 1931. The Nazis weren’t in power then. Who knows whether the IOC would have been okay with giving Germany the Olympics if they had known what was coming.

    • kerin says:

      Dude, Hitler took over in 1933 under the Nazi name, we just didn’t realize he was insane and about to start a world war, though we WERE aware he was murdering political opponents and beginning a national vendetta against Jews. We just didn’t care because it didn’t affect US, and we had an isolationist policy after WWI that encouraged a blind eye towards European affairs. We totally gave the Olympics to a man we didn’t like or trust, but had not yet learned to hate or fear.

    • rshudson82 says:

      Actually, Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, and the swastika flag became the sole National flag in 1935. So, I think in 1936, the National Socialists were pretty much in charge…

      The reason Hitler got the Olympics is because the American attitude (and pretty much the European, as well) toward the Nazis in the early 30′s was still one of appeasement.

    • Velvis says:

      Actually the Nazi party started around 1919-1920. Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. So the Nazis were in charge during the 1936 olympics.

    • Nwabby says:

      Actually, in Hitler was appointed chancelor in ’33. So the nazis were pretty much in charge during the ’36 olympics.

    • Danbala says:

      Actually, I think this post has spawned the highest amount of almost identical “actually, …”-comments I’ve ever seen.

    • k8 says:

      The Nazis WERE in power in 1936 – there was a real dilemma in Germany as to whether or not Hitler would present Jesse Owens with medals should he win (he was the favourite going in and ended up winnning 4(i think) golds).

    • Odilon says:

      Or maybe it’s a koan.

      You know the sound of two Olympics clapping. Now what is the sound of one Olympics clapping?

    • Um, have you SEEN any pics from the 1936 Olympics? I’m guessing you haven’t (or not recently) or you’d notice all the giant Nazi flags and Hitler watching the events…

      By the 1936 summer and winter Olympics, the Nazis were quite in power.

      So the answer is that the signmaker is just stupid, as you suggest.

  6. The ghost of Jesse Owens would like a word with the guy holding the poster…

    Oh, and there WAS controversy at the time regarding whether participation in the Olympics showed acceptance of Nazi Germany and a few people boycotted; apparently the consensus though was “let’s show up and prove they’re not such a master race as they think…”

  7. amocksun says:

    What am I missing here???

  8. Bix Nood says:

    But not Soviet Russia!

  9. Anonymous says:

    What exactly does the sign waver mean by “we”? If he means we as in the USA, he’s stupid on another level entirely, as that particular “we” does not get to ALLOW anyone to host the Olympics. That responsibilty lies with the IOC, which is based in Switzerland.

    Ignorance+arrogance = epic FAIL.

    • n8 says:

      Wouldn’t it make more sense for it to be based in Greece?

      • Jane St.Clair says:

        If you want neutrality amongst European nations, you’re going to have to go with Switzerland. This is also true if you want an off shore bank account or if you are McGyver and you need a special knife.

        • n8 says:

          I thought Belgium was the front-runner in “We’re so European we barely have an identity of our own”-ness. Of course, I’ve not seen the Belgian army knife. (Does Belgium even have a military?)

          • n8 says:

            I guess as it’s NATO headquarters, it has several militaries. :-)

          • viking gal says:

            Actually, I heard on the BBC that the Belgian Flemish and French speaking folk were having a bit of a separatist spat recently…

          • Compulsorry says:

            Belgium sorta has two identities, Flemish and Wallonian, both rabidly nationalist and more or less having a cold war between the two of ‘em; they rarely get any real fighting done but politically, the country is paralyzed. They do have a military (of which 405 troops are getting shot at in Afghanistan, to further the cause of something something mumble something). They don’t have their own army knives, as far as I know, but they do have chocolate, and fries (’tis the country where ‘French fries’ really come from), and beer. Really good beer. And catholic churches. Lots of ‘em.

            The Swiss aren’t exactly neutral either. They’re just xenophobic to the point that they couldn’t care if they wanted to. As a bonus, nobody cares to invade a country that has an average slope of, like, sixty percent or more. It’s insanely expensive to bomb and pretty much impossible to conquer, what with all the mountains everywhere. State motto is something like ‘why the f*** bother’.

      • christian says:

        And wouldn’t it make more sense if the 1996 Olympics were in Athens instead of 2004? Because if the Olympics began in 1896 in Athens, to have it in Athens in 1996 would be more appropiate, like a centennial celebration. But no. We had it in Atlanta. And you’d think that the IOC would be able to figure that out.

      • turtle of doom says:

        Actually, international sport organizations are exempted from taxes in Switzerland. That’s the reason…

      • MonaLisa65 says:

        Wouldn’t it make more sense for it to be based in Greece?

        …and nekkid. Don’t forgets teh nekkid!

  10. some1 says:

    wuahahaha….
    love it!

  11. nostromo says:

    The worrying part of this…on a serious note…is that over the last few years we have all got into the mindset of just knowing viscerally that ‘we’ should be able to decide who gets to host the olympic games.

    • boaks says:

      wait…you mean America doesn’t get to decide everything for the rest of the world?

      • Johnathan says:

        No, we do, it is just disturbing how long it took us to get there. I mean, since we don’t make mistakes, it is only natural, right?

  12. Kashmir says:

    You know the sound that a needle makes when it runs over the surface of a record? That screech? My brain did that when I read that sign. Then I heard crickets. Again, I am forced to confront an entire population who doesn’t pay attention in the worst of schools and uses the internet for gaming only. Meh.

    • pittypat says:

      I use it for helpful tips in making banana bread and other baked treats!

      • Jane St.Clair says:

        I use it to settle arguments that come up during Trivia Pursuit and American Idol via Wikipedia.

        • mothergoose says:

          I use it for the pithy comment threads on PK ;-)

          • rhorho says:

            I use it to hear music I’m too cheap to pay for.

            • mothergoose says:

              *In need of flower advice*
              I need something colorful that does well in mostly shade…that doesn’t take a green thumb…

              • rhorho says:

                Lobelia is the first thing that comes to mind. I’m sorry,
                but I’ve forgotten where you live. Can you tell me your
                (non-specific) location?

                As a tip, lighter colors look better in the shade because
                they “pop.” There aren’t a lot of season-long bloomers
                that do well in shade. I generally go for variegated
                leaves in those areas.

                Coleus has both shade and sun varieties, and some
                varieties are nothing less than stunning.

                • mothergoose says:

                  I’m in South-Central Pennsylvania…

                  • rhorho says:

                    You’re a cuspy, between zones 6 and 7. In the case of buying perennials, you can’t go wrong if you choose plants that are winter hardy to zone 6.

                    [LINK] Zone Chart

                  • rhorho says:

                    If you google “zone 6 shade plants” you will get a lot of websites with good ideas for your area.

                    I’m the most familiar with semi-tropicals, but here’s a good website to start you off. [LINK] I highly recommend that you go for plants with interesting foliage, as that’s what you’ll be looking at most of the time. (Mentioned earlier, most shade plants don’t bloom for very long.)

                    It’s best to buy plants from a nursery. When shopping for perennials, check the tags to make sure they are hardy in temperatures of 0ºF.

                    • rhorho says:

                      Clarifying: It’s better to buy plants from a nursery than by mail order, or discount stores, some of which don’t take care of plants very well.

                    • mothergoose says:

                      Gracias, Rho…and I didn’t take offense at being called a “cuspy”…I’ve been called worse (even on this website!) ;-)

                      • rhorho says:

                        LOL!! Glad to help, Cuspy!

                      • rhorho says:

                        Have you seen my brain? Impatiens are
                        great little flowering shade annuals!

                      • viking gal says:

                        @MG. My mother had an amazing garden when we lived in
                        PA. So I can recommend bleeding hearts and lungwort (I LOVE my Darth Vader lungwort–I kid you not on the name!). And of course the eternal hosta… If the area is under deciduous trees, you can plant spring bulbs, too.

                • the_original_shortright says:

                  my family and i are notoriously lazy gardeners… so we buy a dozen coleous and plant them spaced a decent bit apart in the garden. viola, pretty garden with no work!

                  • the_original_shortright says:

                    *voila
                    (i need to make my inner music nerd go away)

                  • rhorho says:

                    What (general) area do you live in?

                    • the_original_shortright says:

                      north eastern ohio… but we’re remarkably lazy. have 2 dogs (they will chew most any plant or dig at most any plant). and our soil is like 4″ of really great compost that we’ve put down and then pure clay.
                      coleus is just really easy for us to take care of. our yard is almost pure clover because that comes up greener than the grass!

                      • rhorho says:

                        A horticulturist friend of mine has a basset hound named Daisy. She’s really good at squishing things, but responded well to electrical wiring. She got used to what was off limits, and stayed away even when he didn’t have the wiring “live,” then later when he took it down. Sounds like you have a fun set-up, and are lucky that you get the coleus, at least.

                        Clover is undersung as a ground cover, imo.

                      • the_original_shortright says:

                        my mom almost killed my dog when she dug up the second rhododendron… the first one she thought was a fluke but the second she was not so happy about. since then we planted a briar bush in that location. it’s lasted 4 years now!
                        our front yard is nice and pretty green from the clover, the backyard is brown with random clumps of grass sticking up. we have .12 acres including driveway, front yard, house, backyard, detached garage… and also 100+ pounds of dogs. so the backyard is their domain to destroy and such. we sometimes plant flowers in the back garden beds but tend to go with “dog-resistant” types there. the front garden has hostas, roses, lillies, crocuses, arbovitae and my dad usually insists on putting in pansies and stuff like that. on the back porch we always have a few planters with fresh herbs – although last year the little dog ate all the parsley one afternoon. didn’t touch the mint or basil or oregano… just the parsley.

              • herself says:

                Love lobelia, but here (northern Illinois) they like mostly sun. I’ve had great luck with Huechria (Coral Bells) p, hosta (of course) p, Geranium (Cranesbill) p, Hardy Amaryllis (Lycoris) p, Coleus (all) a, and of course, all sedums p. We’re in zone 5 & have heavy clay soil, so having not killed any of these I’m comfortable reccommending them.

                • rhorho says:

                  Lobelia is one of the few sun loving plants that will perform well in shade. Heucheras, Hostas (plantains), Geraniums, Amaryllises, Coleuses and Sedums do well here in east Texas, too. Have you tried Autumn Fern (Dryopteris erythrosora)?

                  If you’re in an adventurous mood, might I recommend trying the Japanese Fiber Banana (Musa basjoo)? With proper mulching, these plants have been known to withstand temperatures of -20ºF. I don’t imagine you see too many bananas growing in your area.

                  [LINK]

                  • herself says:

                    Ferns hate me! I’ve lost count of how many I’ve loved to death, but roses & lilies grow like weeds for me. Every year I foist off bag after bag of lily bulbs on unsuspecting newbies! Lately I’ve been able to find (legally) some of the spring wildflowers I see in the woods, jack-in-the-pulpit, trillium, etc. Unfortunately the squirrels & neighbor’s kid have found them, too! They’ll be relocated this summer. The banana looks interesting. There’s a spot in our yard that apparently is zone 6 thanks to the “heat island” afforded by a west-facing brick wall. An inedible banana might be just what little Miss Mischief needs…

                    • rhorho says:

                      Knifophias (Torch Lilies) look great with the bananas, and would give you a nice tropical look in your microclimate area. If you have a big space there, you may want to try Gunnera, a plant that is in the fossil record, and is thereby marketed as the dinosaur food plant(!). Gunnera is another one that needs to be cut back and heavily mulched in your area. Jack-in-the-Pulpit would do well to tie in looks-wise, if you have a shady area nearby. All three like lots of water, so that’s a consideration.

                      Squirrels! I call them tree rats, because, well, that’s what they are. Once, one of them actually dug up all 12 bulbs that I had just set out. He didn’t so much as nibble any of them, but just dug them all up to make sure he didn’t want to eat them–little b*stard!

                      • herself says:

                        That is why “they” tell us to lay chicken wire over the bulbs (esp. crocus) before back filling the bulb-bed.
                        My micro-climate is mostly micro – 3 x 8 ft at most. I’ve been eying torch lilies for a few years, just can’t decide what to edit out to fit them in…

                      • viking gal says:

                        We had a bad, bad run of chipmunks a few years back. They dug up everything that might be interesting, and ate all of my lily and tulip bulbs. I ended up buying some bulb cages–which meant having to dig a hole to fit that rectangular shape, which was really ‘interesting’ to do (taught myself some new curses in the process). Now I don’t feel so bad if a chipmunk drowns in the pool overnight!

                      • rhorho says:

                        @Herself: If I can help twist your arm, there are dwarf torch lilies that don’t take up much space. I have “Traffic Lights,” along a rock garden border. Some cats have since adopted me, so I don’t have the squirrel problem now, but chicken wire is a great idea for smaller bulbs! I’ll pass it along to my outside cat-free friends. The one incident was the only time a squirrel ever messed with my plantings, so I’m pretty lucky there. Mainly they planted pecan trees in flower pots for me.

                        @VG: My mother has to dig large holes in her sandy soil to “basket” for moles, who run amok in such easy “digs” (ar-ar). I used to hate my clay soil, but am now discovering things to like about it: Nematodes, moles and fire ants don’t like it, and it holds water and fertilizers in place better than sandy soils.

                      • viking gal says:

                        I’ve read about fire ants. I’m glad you have clay soil, too!

                      • froofrou says:

                        *hates VG for only having read about fire ants instead of enjoying their vast bounty of ickiness*
                        -
                        Although, Hubby did teach me a neat trick to get rid of them. If you can get two mounds that aren’t connected underground, stir them up and make them super mad with a shovel, then dump a shovel-full of one mound on top of the other, the intruder ants will go down and kill the queen. Voila, no more ant mound!

            • Musicmom870 says:

              I use it to search for lyrics I can’t understand.

              • viking gal says:

                Have you seen the site for miss-understood lyrics? I think it is called ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy’…?

                • Eric-in-STL says:

                  There are actually books devoted to that kind of thing. I bought the book entitled ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy.’

          • Wholesome says:

            I use it for….well, Uncle Fester was talking about me.

  13. Wow, I remember seeing this one in the upcoming page. I somehow feel history gearing up to repeat itself, simply because so few remember it.

    And the Wang comment thread starts here. He is throbbing and waiting for your devout worship and attention. Or your ineffective attempts at being clever.

  14. Morbek says:

    Um…CRIT FAIL….
    Must be Texas edukashun

  15. mothergoose says:

    Picture link for those curious about the 1936 Olympics…Jesse Owens with the Gold, the Axis Powers with silver and bronze…{link}

  16. mothergoose says:

    1936 Olympics: In a gesture of peace, Spiridon Louis, Greek champion of the 1896 Olympic games, brings Hitler an Olive branch from Mt. Olympus. 5 years later Germany would invade Greece. Photo courtesy of Bundesarchiv Koblenz…{link}

    • Jane St.Clair says:

      Irony is a bitter mistress sometimes.

    • Grumpy Curmugeon says:

      “Choosing your friends” fail. Hitler wouldn’t have needed to expend troops invading Greece if Mussolini hadn’t let the Greeks kick Italian butt so hard it glowed red.

      I don’t think the Allies gave Musso nearly enough credit for all the ways he sabotaged the Axis.

      • Uncle Fester says:

        The Allies, tbh, tried to belittle Mussolini since they’d kicked him to the kurb when he approached them prior to it all kicking off. THe Frence and the British thought he was ‘common’ and so they ignored him, thus handing a pretty strong manfactory base to the Axis… Basically, it’s pompous twerps in Govt that screwed that pooch… Whether you ‘liked’ Benito or not, he would have been a useful gain in WW2

  17. Daft_Wully says:

    YES WE CAN!

  18. Larcurmo says:

    Maybe this was in protest to the Special Olympics?

  19. bekitty says:

    The picture was taken by CajoleJuice on April 11, 2008 in SF.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/15236463@N00/2406050915/

    It’s not a creative commons photo either, so I have no idea what it’s doing here.

  20. Hil has eyes says:

    Wonder how many people know this one:

    People in this world hate Nazis. However it was a legal political power. It was short for the National Socialists.

    Nazi = Socialists
    If Nazi = evil,
    then Socialist = evil

    • There isn’t enough wang in this world for the level needed in this whole lol, let alone this thread.

      I am calling in an All Wangs Bulletin, I need back up and my shift ends… Now.

      • Jane St.Clair says:

        *ahem*
        When I was down beside the sea
        A Wang they gave to me
        To dig the sandy shore.
        My holes were empty like a cup,
        In every hole the sea came up,
        Till it could come no more.

    • Curly says:

      I was under the impression that Nazis were fascists. Of course, as we can see by looking at history, fascism and communism are so far at the extreme ends of the political spectrum that they meet each other on the other side.

      That, and if you talk to a lot of people, they do think that socialism is evil.

    • EtymologicalDisaster says:

      It is true that Nazi is an abbreviation for National Socialist, however, you can call a turd pleasantly aromatic, or “plaro” without changing the fact that it is a turd.

      • NO_MO_BAMA says:

        The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
        Socialist
        Socialist
        Socialist
        Nazis=Socialist
        Communist=Socialist
        Venezuela=Socialist aka Communist
        Cuba=Communist aka Socialist

        OBAMA=all of the above

    • themightysven says:

      The fact that someone calls themselves something does not make it so. (See People’s Republic of China)

      the National Socialist party was Fascist (like Italy and Spain at the time)
      The Italian name for Fascism is Governmento Corpretivo
      This means Government by Corporations
      That’s pretty much the opposite of Socialism/Communism

      In the holocaust the 4th largest group put to death were the Socialists/Communists
      (after the Jewish, Romani, and Homosexuals)

  21. viking gal says:

    And yet their professed reason for being was to be against those ‘evil commies’. So…

  22. anonomous says:

    want to know something funny?

    we did.

  23. Justin says:

    Clearly this person doesn’t believe that 1936 existed. Or at least not the 1936 Olympics.

  24. A_Ash says:

    This picture is so funny.

  25. Lllll. says:

    …”Never again, maybe!”…

  26. Betts says:

    Call me stupid and i’ll agree, I don’t get it. Nazi Germany did hold the olympics. It was just before the world knew of Hitlers real intentions?

    • NO_MO_BAMA says:

      OK, you’re stupid, just like the person who’s holding the sign and the hundreds of other morons who didn’t tell him/her the sign was wrong because they didn’t know either.
      Any bets on who all of the above voted for?

      RIP USA

  27. vix3110 says:

    pundit or fail – is genius either way

  28. Al-Lahad says:

    Everyone knows 1963 was sucked into a wormhole immediately afterwards. Actually, since time travel hasn’t been invented yet, so has every other year!

    Parts of this thread were funnier than the thing, oddly enough.

  29. Danbala says:

    What? They did? That’s a really important piece of information! I wish someone would have told us earlier in the comment thread.

  30. Archil says:

    heheheh nice post, Nazi Germany actually hosted olympic games :D

  31. specialAgentOrange says:

    1936, dumb ass.

  32. Bethster says:

    Yes, we would have, because we did.

  33. GuesssWho says:

    Oh GOD . . .

  34. Ra_The_bOss says:

    its a fail bcuz this actuall happened


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