where did stupid phrases like 'epic fail' and 'do want' come from?

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alkemyst

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your mom makes them up when we are crashing at her house having a few 40's and boones.
 

Eeezee

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"do not want" does NOT come from 4chan, although 4chan certainly abused the hell out of the phrase.

It is a line from one of the recent Star Wars movies (episode 3 I think) with a boot-legged double translation (ie the audio is English, but there are subtitles that were translated into Chinese and then back into English - obviously the translation was very poor). There are tons of little gem phrases like "DO NOT WANT" when someone is screaming and about to die. The most awesome occurrence was when Vader yelled his famous line, "NOOOOOOOOOOO" and it got translated as "DO NOT WANT." I highly recommend that you watch it if you get the chance, the movie is much better with the strange subtitles.

I don't know if "epic fail" really came from anywhere in particular.
 

Chronoshock

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Jul 6, 2004
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Originally posted by: spittledip
do want? never heard that one

That one originated from people who downloaded a pirated copy of star wars ep 3 from china which contained english to chinese to english subtitles. When darth vader screams "nooo" it got translated as just "do not want" and the phrase came to be used for all undesirable things. The natural opposite is "do want"
 

Duddy

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Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: Tooncesthedrivingcat
yiff in hell furfag

WTF is this shit? I saw that written on a bathroom wall and was like WTF?

If your an idiot like me, you would go to Google images and search yiff with safe search off.

Pain........the...pain............
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: Duddy
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: Tooncesthedrivingcat
yiff in hell furfag

WTF is this shit? I saw that written on a bathroom wall and was like WTF?

If your an idiot like me, you would go to Google images and search yiff with safe search off.

Pain........the...pain............

:light: good call!
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EDIT: TPAD :|
 

TruePaige

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I herd u like mudkipz?

Also - EncyclopediaDramatica is a great resource as well.

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