Name a personal Epic Fail.

[generals3]

Well i'd say it was that one time in highschool when i proudly handed over my exam as first one and than when walking back to get my stuff back i looked at other students copies and noticed something: i forgot there were questions on the backsides.
On a bright side the teacher allowed me to take my exam back and fill in what i forgot to, but she could have just told me to bugger off.

An other one was on a highschool trip and after drinking a bit too much i decided it was a good plan to puke out of the balcony instead of taking the bathroom. Our room was at the top floor of the hotel... (Yes i hit them all on the way down). Needless to say even the teachers made jokes about it. "Are you gonna be all right on the boat?" one asked with an ironic tone.

 

[Lunar Templar]

I barber chaired a tree i was falling once.

that count ? since if it rolled the other way i'd have been hurt or killed

 

[Robot Number V]

The word is "failure", not "fail". Why the fuck do people harp on others for spelling the wrong "your" but no one seems to give a shit about this? The internet's collective abuse of the word "fail" bugs the living hell out of me.

Also, the word "epic" has lost all of it's meaning thanks to the internet. But I digress.

My biggest FAILURE can be described in the following steps:

1. Procrastinate to RIDICULOUS levels by ignoring a final paper for about a month.
2. Stay up all night (literally-ALL night) writing said final paper the night before it is due.
3. Find out that the teacher has given an extension on the due date, so that the paper is now due one day later.
4. Sleep through the deadline the next day and fail the class.


Yeah. I don't have a whole lot else to say about that one. Not exactly my proudest moment. I also failed two other finals (one of which I slept through) because of the whole self-induced cluster-fuck.

EDIT: Why the HELL is a captcha that is CLEARLY a URL case-sensitive? URLS AREN'T EVEN CASE-SENSITIVE. Also, why is trying to convince me that I have shingles?

 

[scorptatious]

One time, I unknowingly walked into the lady's bathroom. There was no one in there at the time, so I went over to a stall and did my business. While I was in there, I heard some voices, FEMALE voices. At the time, I was confused, I said "Uh, this is the men's bathroom."

I was then told: "No, this is the women's bathroom"

As I was walking out, I suddenly noticed the lack of urinals. I realized my stupid mistake, apologized, and slipped away.

 

[pointless vandalism]

When I was 15 and just starting to appreciate ladies and their curves, I was checking one out at the video store. You know those machines you walk through that detect if you stole something? The giant 2 inch thick wooden ones? Ya I totally plowed right into one knocking myself right on my ass. Considering even at 15 I was 5'10 I'm certain she noticed it. Toot toot all aboard the USS fail boat.

 

[101flyboy]

Super glue. Toilets. Supermarket.

Yeah.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

i was drunk after new years, and my girlfriend poured me a glass of apple juice.
it was piss.
i don't know how it happened, but somebody took our apple juice and pissed in the jug. many times.
the worst part about it was that i didnt notice until i went to get my second glass. now on top of the hangover i had an hour of gargling mouthwash as a result of my huge party. of what i hear though, people say it was the best party of 2012!

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

After years of struggle I'm finally getting my life turned around and am feeling positive for the first time in a long time.

Despite this being a thread about epic fails, I have to say, just for that bit I've quoted - congrats. Conquering depression is an incredible feat. So I hope the positivity just keeps comin'.

OT: not too many epic fails in my life. My minor fails include:

- Giving myself a second degree burn while baking brownies (I've still got the scar)
- Turning a 15-minute drive back from a movie theater into an accidental jaunt across state lines
- Knocking the side-view mirror off of my driver's ed car (and yes, the driver's ed instructor was in the car at the time) by running into a mailbox (a mailbox that happened to belong to the star quarterback of my local NFL team)

Yes. So all my fails happen to be funny.

 

[Basement Cat]

If that's true, and you really are superman enough to everything at once, then you can finish your degree now. So do it, instead of posting your depressing regrets on a forum.

You didn't read my post closely. Too much time passed. 10 years. The credits are defunct.

And I'm hardly obliging you to read any of this I actually feel peppy because I've gotten past that. And others here have posted identical school and related financial problems. If our stories trouble you the Games Forum is a fine place to have fun.

 

[guidance]

This one was not my fault, just putting that out there.

I have crohn's disease and was dealing with a pretty bad flare up for the past 4 months. The medication wasn't helping and I got a ct scan to see what was up. They said they found an abscess which are caused by fistulas so I need surgery to get it all out. Fast foreword to last week, it's been almost 2 months since the surgery and we finally get the piece of paper that tells us what they did and we go over it with my GI. We read the paper and see a lack of the words fistula and instead see the words acute appendicitis.... Turns out my crohns disease is quite mild and instead have been mostly dealing with appendicitis for over 4 months. I didn't even know that was possible. If they knew that I would have had surgery ASAP instead of waiting all those months for my turn. I mean luckily it didn't rupture but don't people die from that?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I once confused Beowulf with Canterbury Tales. I think that is the definition of epic fail.

Actually yeah, confusing two poems of the epic genre would be a most literal epic fail.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

If that's true, and you really are superman enough to everything at once, then you can finish your degree now. So do it, instead of posting your depressing regrets on a forum.

You didn't read my post closely. Too much time passed. 10 years. The credits are defunct.

And I'm hardly obliging you to read any of this I actually feel peppy because I've gotten past that. And others here have posted identical school and related financial problems. If our stories trouble you the Games Forum is a fine place to have fun.

They don't trouble me. I have similar "school problems", quitting a PhD due to a series of illnesses. But I don't consider that an epic fail (anymore) for a number of reasons which I won't go into because that's obviously not what this thread is about. Anyway, glad to hear you've gotten past it.

 

[Ljs1121]

Mine happened a few days ago, actually. I backed the car into the driveway, turned it off, and went to take my key out of the ignition. It wouldn't budge. Of course, being the sensible, level-headed, logical thinker that I am, I went one hundred percent bat-guano crazy. I almost broke the key jiggling it, tried to move some wires under the dashboard, applied and released the parking brake numerous times, and tried a bunch of other stuff that didn't work. Eventually I gave up and just leaned back with my head in my hands, thinking I had broken the car forever.

Turns out I forgot to put it in park. A quick tap of the gearshift and the key slid out like butter. Made me red in the face for certain.

 

[Orange12345]

The most painfull was probably as a kid, when I wanted to see if the carlighter was actually hot, so I pushed in into my thumb.

I also may have, kinda sorta done this exact same thing

EDIT: Oh when I was in kindergarden(first level of school 4-5 years old) I licked a metal pole and got my tongue stuck to it

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I barber chaired a tree i was falling once.

I'm not sure what that means...
Anyway.
I was playing Chino in a my high school production of West Side Story which ends with me shooting Tony, right?
We didn't have any decent sound effects or anything so I was just supposed to synch my kickback action (like if I had actually fired a gun) with the sound of our drummer hitting the snare. To synch it up right, I told him I would bring the gun up, cock it, (or rather pretend to cock it) and when I brought it down, fire. When it came time to actually do that, I totally forgot the cocking part so I just fired and NOTHING HAPPENED. To make things worse, instead of playing it off like the gun had jammed or something (you know, do something I SHOULD HAVE DONE) I just gave the drummer a disappointed look (COMPLETELY BREAKING CHARACTER) then figured, "Well, let's just try again". Bang. Final Scene. Done.
I didn't sleep that night, I cannot stress how hard I come down on myself when I make a mistake like that.

 

[Basement Cat]

I barber chaired a tree i was falling once.

that count ? since if it rolled the other way i'd have been hurt or killed

What does 'barber chaired a tree' mean? I'm guessing that 'falling' means you were cutting it down? Sorry if I'm unfamiliar with the slang.

 

[Lunar Templar]

I barber chaired a tree i was falling once.

that count ? since if it rolled the other way i'd have been hurt or killed

What does 'barber chaired a tree' mean? I'm guessing that 'falling' means you were cutting it down? Sorry if I'm unfamiliar with the slang.

not surprised, yo kinda have to be around loggers to hear it

i was falling the tree (cutting it down) and it did that. not good, and it can kill you

 

[Basement Cat]

I mean luckily it didn't rupture but don't people die from that?

Yup.

From Wikipedia:

"Untreated, mortality is high, mainly because of the risk of rupture leading to infection and inflammation of the intestinal lining (perionteum) and eventual sepsis, clinically known as peritonitis which can lead to circulatory shock."

For your peace of mind a ruptured appendix isn't the 'death sentence' it used to be.

Medical misdiagnoses for those who are ailing are everyone's worst nightmare. You know what they say: Medical students kill an average of 3 patients while studying to become doctors.