Sometimes things go according to plan, which is great. Other times we fail miserably, but that’s okay, too. And then there are the rare cases when we fail successfully, typically not even knowing how, and often resulting in some rather comical situations.
Plenty of such instances are shared on the ‘Task Fail Successfully’ reddit community, which proves that not everything in life is as black and white as failing and succeeding. Scroll down to find some bizarre cases of these gray areas and enjoy a good giggle; or confusion.
On the list below you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with an expert in employee engagement, award-winning author and speaker, Eddie LeMoine, who was kind enough to answer a couple of our questions about the links between success and failure.
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Double Trouble
She Spittin Straight Fax!
I Guess I’ll Give It Another Try
Successfail Race
Failed Successfully: Cheating
My Bank Sent Me 28 Letters In The Mail To Inform Me I Have Opted Out Of Receiving Paper Statements
Just making up for the statements you'll miss in the next two years.
Successfail Pretender
Puzzle
Yes
Well Yes But Actually No
Our Smoke Detector Caught Fire
An Interesting Title
But The Sign On The Wall Said
Battle Of The Sign Successfails
I don't think the first one was a fail. I've seen it before and it was on purpose
Went Axe Throwing In Our Yard And Yeah…
I Guess That’s A Win
After Accepting A Gift On Steam, Thanks For The Useful Information!
We Were Talking About Running
Another One
Somewhere In Japan, Someone's Sprayer Got Broke Along The Handle
Man Buys A Car With Cigarette Money Then Dies
Different Kind Of Date
My Jar Of Salsa Broke Rather Practically
My GF Tried To Catch A Moth. It Was Easier Than Expected
Went To Mcdonald’s And Ordered A Cheeseburger With Ketchup Only.. Well I Guess I Got What I Ordered
Task Failed Successfully? (Found This On Youtube)
There's Always A Funny One
Me Irl
It Works I Guess
Light Connection
Successfail Hookup
Walked Into The Kitchen To Find This Monstrosity
Pretzels
Saw This Rather Attractive Window Display In London Today
Good Enough For Me
My Fly Catcher Caught A Fly On The Non Sticky Part
Does This Count?
Umm
Gay Task Failed Succesfully
When you hear "There's something wrong with you" all day long you get depressed even if there's nothing wrong with you. CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION.
Failed To Start Because Of The Following Error: The Operation Completed Successfully
Technically It Sort Of Did Its Job
Installation Failed Successfully
When I update the controller for my sound system on the pc I get 'Update failed. Try again'. So I try again, and get 'No update required'.
Ai Forgot How Motorcycles Work But The Details Are Immaculate
Can You Spot The Difference?
Perhaps the expected answer had the lines drawn top to bottom, and the person drew at least one of them in the opposite direction.
Lock Picking Failed Successfully
I Think This Belongs Here. It Failed And Span 180° On The Bed But Continued To Print, Successfully?
Steam Successfully Failed
Soda Failed Successfully
Did I Hit It Right?
Okay Nintendo
Ice-Skating!
Mee6 Successfully Banned Mee6
This is a bot on discord that can do jobs for you, like banning people from a group chat, incase somebody doesn't know
My Bad
Does This Go Here Lol
Litteraly The 'Sent' Mark Over The Top Of The 'Not Sent' Mark
Task Failed Successfully
Did it just congratulate itself for successfully failing to verify??
Bugs Not Fixed Successfully
There's nothing like having your bugs fixed incorrectly. Why, the house would be overrun with larvae! I refuse to babysit.
Can't Use One Or More Drives Completed Successfully
I never make drive pools without a completely separate physical mirror drive of the same size because that s**t right there... always happens. Some drive breaks and the whole thing comes crashing down.
Thanks Adobe
Adobe in general. Remember back in the day having to have Acrobat to read PDFs and ONLY to read PDFs? They called it Acrobat and most of us only used it to read ONE SINGLE file type. It's like a human acrobat that can only do jumping jacks.
Getting Vitamin C
Potassium. Bananas are for potassium and Oranges are for Vitamin C. I know they both have both but association in popular culture etc.
