If there's one thing the internet loves, it's seeing people fail.

Sure, kittens might be popular, and pandas occasionally like to make their presence felt, but really... it's always been about the fail.

They can say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing or eat the wrong thing - it doesn't matter really - just as long as it involves pain/humiliation/screaming, then the web is a very happy information super highway.

So it's with great fanfare that we bring to you the greatest fails of 2011, boasting everything from towers falling down to people letting off fireworks in their trousers - it's all here.

Hell, there's even a clip of a man breaking a frying pan as he attempts to flip a pancake... it's that extensive.

Hats off then to its editor, the crown prince of fail, YouTube user TwisterNederland8, whose love of people hurting themselves knows no bounds.

Needless to say, this video we have for you here contains clips of people really doing themselves an injury, so if you're of a squeamish disposition... you probably best click away now.