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English is rich and varied language, used in a multitude of cultures. Some places you might find two or three dozen variants of bottled water that has not been flavored - we usually don't call various mineral content "flavoring", nor is varying amount of CO2 "flavoring". So what's the "fail" in marking a shelf clearly as "This is NOT pure mineral water with no artificial taste additives"? (#2)
"Genuine fake watches" is _honesty_! (#4) - and a great idea for getting attention. I don't see how that kind of marketing could be called a failure.
Who are "failing" in #6 - the mating turtles, or the people watching them? I don't think mating represents failure in any way.
And whats about #7 - don't you think that the people that had the pool built in that shape wanted it to be in that shape? I think they did. Maybe your thoughts are right on track: Maybe it was build as a praise to manhood. If it wasn't: Maybe the failure is in your imagination. Maybe the next picture to be presented as a "Fail" is St. Peter Cathedral in the Vatican; seen from the right angle, the large agora with the stairs up to the church with its huge dome at the top has a very similar shape to that pool...
The last couple of years "FAIL" has been misused so badly that the entire concept is being ruined. When the majority of pictures display no real failure at all, just the picture collector's ability to create a twisted interpretation of just about anyting into something that can be labeled with that one, single standard phrase, or rather word, that the collector seems to know, then the fun wears off after a while.
(No, not one single word... but two! The collector actually masters twice as large a vocabulary as you first though!")
What is it?
@1st post: tl;dr