Egg on the face -- an Embarrassing moments in history thread

[DaTT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

Another good one!

 

[QueBert]

Aren't most Windows unveilings embarrassing?

Vista, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ

No way that Vista one's directly from Microsoft. It's impossible they would willingly have demoed that POS, it doesn't work at all. If that's an actual MS demo I'm wondering how that company didn't go out of business decades ago. Either that or they demo'ed it without trying it 1st. I just can't see them using it in house and going "Well, it works like 10% of the time, shit good enough, let's go demo it!"

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Amtrak

 

[Emos]

Battle of Cannae (for the Romans at least)

 

[alkemyst]

How about the many disasters that came out of the Soviet Space program?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe

Wow, as a communist you should know losses of people are not embarrassing.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I think some Germans are embarrassed about Hitler.

 

[shortylickens]

Selling weapons to the Arabs.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

My first time.

Thankfully, there was no actual eggs involved. Later, however...

 

[Imp]

wat



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296



wow, deja vu for another embarrassing moment.

How did only 3 people die? That thing blew up in the video.

 

[JulesMaximus]

nmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NpgcocXuDw&feature=endscreen&NR=1

 

[OinkBoink]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

I didn't know about Iran Air Flight 655. It was before I was born.

So they really accidentally shot it down? Or is there something more to it?

 

[SandEagle]

AAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

AHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH

breathes


AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

3 people died in that crash, NS1. what is so funny about it?

 

[SamQuint]

How about the Tacoma Narrows bridge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw

This is a classic engineering fail. The bridge only lasted 4 months.

 

[SandEagle]

GWB winning the presidency
GWB stealing the presidency, 2nd term
Mission Accomplished (lol)

 

[Bateluer]

GWB winning the presidency
GWB stealing the presidency, 2nd term
Mission Accomplished (lol)

I think you have that backwards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004

 

[SillyOReilly]

Hindenburg.

World Trade Center (if you consider the collapsing of them).

A bunch of George Bush Jr. quotes.


OMG. I just watched that video and had the same reaction as NS1!! LMAO

A box, stacked upon itself for 100 floors.

 

[jagec]

I think you have that backwards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004

Exactly what I was thinking.

Actually, he didn't "steal" the election either time. The first time, he won the election despite losing the popular vote. That is because the US has a pointless, backwards way of "voting" for the President, not because of an advantage enjoyed by either side.

The second time he won fair and square. God help us all.

 

[BladeVenom]

No one's mentioned the Costa Concordia disaster, and Captain Coward, Francesco Schettino.

 

[zoiks]

Selling weapons to the Arabs.

Adopting Israel as a stepchild.

 

[zoiks]

3 people died in that crash, NS1. what is so funny about it?

I didn't get the humor either.

 

[IAteYourMother]

My bad. I watch so many Mayday's. I was certain everyone on board died. Oh well, how embarrassing.

how did only 3 people die? That's a miracle.

 

[IAteYourMother]

I didn't get the humor either.

It is pretty tremendous irony

 

[Sonikku]

The day Adventures of Pluto Nash came out.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Geraldo's opening of Al Capone's vault.

 

[ichy]

The Challenger (the one with the teacher that won the trip).

Christa Mcauliffe did not "win" a trip on the space shuttle, she was chosen after an extremely competitive selection process.

The fact that NASA was doing stupid PR stunts like launching a teacher into space was embarrassing enough. Add in that the Challenger disaster was completely preventable (and predicted by the engineers who designed the SRBs) and it's just horrific.