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A fail due to some specific reason which is undefined at first, but subsequently comes to light.
NOTE: When applied to forum debate situations, both parties must be unaware of the relevant specifics (at first) in order for the phail to be valid.
See also: whin, whail
Awwww! It was my battery charger! I didn't need to buy a whole new phone! Total phail!!
Darn. I should have listened to that other user. Phail.
When you buy lap dances from almost every girl at the Chico, CA Centerfolds, get 2 double troubles on VIP night, spend the whole shift there telling the girls it's your Disneyland. Then you buy two of the girls vibrators at the sex store for Christmas only to invite your favorite girl to the Denny's to buy her food and fail to take her home because the grits took too long, but you get free dessert out of the deal.
Pedro pulled the Ultimate whore phail. Epa epa!
So epic that it deserves to be spelled the incorrect way. So much fail that it has to be spelled with a "Ph" instead of an "F". Put the 2 together and you have such and Epicness Fail that the whole universe collapses...
I got AIDS from a blood transfusion. - Epoch Phail
Yo I had a -32 k/d spread in that last Halo match. - Epoch Phail
I'm gay. - Epoch Phail
Epic Phail is used when Phail doesn't explain just how much the person or thing phails.
(Someone trips while walking, drops something glass, misses when playing basketball, etc.)
You exclaim: "EPIC PHAIL!" ("Epic Phailure" works just as well.)
To fail so epicly you cannot just explain it using the word "Fail" But you have to say it "Phail" fail
Also an antonym to EPIC, can be used as derogatory or as a compliment in Halo live
EPIC
1. John is such an epic phail he doesn't even know what he's talking about.
2. That was such an epic phail with the scarab gun he killed my entire team!