Parent Fail

Comment from Bethann
Time: September 6, 2009, 12:51 am

Nothing like teaching your kids manners

Comment from Fanboy Wife
Time: September 6, 2009, 7:24 am

Good thing she has so many children…

Comment from SeanG
Time: September 8, 2009, 8:48 am

This is from a movie. I forget which, but I’m pretty sure it’s British.

In any case, it’s not real.

Comment from Dana Sheehan
Time: September 11, 2009, 3:29 pm

I like how the lilttle one on the right doesn’t quite get the right finger up. But she’s trying!

Comment from Mandarin Kitten
Time: September 13, 2009, 12:05 pm

hey, why isn’t the baby doing it too?

Comment from Anony Mouse
Time: September 16, 2009, 8:07 pm

This does look british, and if so the middle finger doesn’t mean anything. If you want to “flip the bird” in england you do what basically amounts to an American peace symbol, just facing the other way. You know, 2 fingers up, but instead of looking at you knuckles like you do with peace, you look at the inside of you hand. Wow, I can’t believe I just typed all that up.

Comment from Steve
Time: September 19, 2009, 2:12 am

Sorry, Anony Mouse, but you’re not quite right about us Brits ‘flipping the bird’. This symbol means exactly the same as in the US. The ‘two fingers’ or ‘giving the V’s’ is a, now, lesser insult but still rather meaningful. The two finger salute supposedly comes from the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. The English Archers had all been threatened with having their two bow-fingers chopped off to pay them back for having killed so many of the French knights; so the archers would stick up their two fingers (index and middle of their bow-drawing hand) to show that they were still in the killing business. And you’re right, I can’t believe that I just typed all of that up!!

Comment from Mike
Time: October 10, 2009, 1:32 am

Even if this photo is not real I have seen REAL families like this. Unfortunately these people are allowed to breed thus diluting the gene pool. I sense future Darwin Award winners in the making.

Comment from Leighsa
Time: May 18, 2010, 2:13 pm

this is the whitesboro baptist church.Some of the most disgusting people to ever live.

Comment from film critic
Time: May 23, 2010, 8:29 pm

This is a film still from Andrea Arnold’s short film WASP, which won awards at Sundance and the Oscars. The theme of the film is very much Parent Fail and there’s a moment of redemption at the end where Mom realizes how deeply responsible for all their lives she is and for once acts like it.