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An anorak fail is the painful moment when a self-declared enthusiast gets a fundamental fact wrong about their own specialist subject — the ultimate humiliation in nerd culture. It's the train spotter who misidentifies a class of locomotive. The aviation nerd who quotes the wrong specification. The classic car obsessive who confuses the production years. For regular people, being wrong is normal; for an anorak, it's catastrophic. The anorak fail doesn't just damage your credibility — it calls your entire identity into question. Usually accompanied by immediate, flustered correction attempts, which somehow always make it worse.
He confidently named the wrong class of engine and got corrected by a twelve-year-old — absolute anorak fail.
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