#12 = unnecessary.
but fyl OP, that's a bad way to find that out...

YDI for being a loser. "OMG MY PARENTS HAVE SEX!!" Don't write FML's about things that and aren't even bad nor really any of your business. Before you (or anyone) goes into the whole "well they could have told me" thing, ask yourselves, do you really want to know every intimate detail of their sex life, or want them to know yours? Probably not, so quit bitching and get over yourself.

response to "lunaticsol": dude, shut up.

I hope you learned not to stand toe to toe with your father who owns you :)
Hopefully, some rat will snitch you out when you cheat on someone.

now the REAL question is, why weren't your parents celebrating your birthday with you? ahhha.

It's not the fact that they're swingers per se, it's the fact that it's the OP's parents.

It does really knock you on your ass for at least a little bit when you find out your PARENTS don't fit that traditional mold of being exclusive to each other, when you thought for your hole life that they did.

And besides, it must also suck finding out about it like THAT.

whole** :B

Too many uptight prudes here... loosen up, it'll be good for you, I promise.

My Mom and her ex used to be swingers, didn't bother me, but then again my Mom bought me m first vibrator, lol.

agreed. What her parents do is their personal business, it just sucks that you had to find out this way.

#9 - i was commenting more on the user's name ("my parents are hoes"), but i suppose it doesn't matter since dickheads had to go and hide my comment.

surprising though it may be to find out your parents' particular brand of sexuality, i still don't think it's anything FML-worthy. you don't see parents on here going "today i found out that my 34-year-old daughter has sex with her husband, fml" so why do grown adults react that way about their parents?

they are not sick. they are all adults and what they are doing isn't hurting anyone, not even the OP. Sure OP will be shocked and a bit wierd with thier parents for a bit but its not like its changes who their parents are. The OP has no idea how long their parents have been swingers and its obviously not brought any harm. If this is their first swinging experience then at least OP knows

What, you don't have birthdays? It's not always a YDI, idiot

hahaha these YDI's crack me up there's always one, and they are great, and someone always gets mad at them too, haha it's funny. it's funnyyyyyyy. hahaha its funnnnnnnyyyyyy. I thought so at least if you want to jump down someones asophogas for something that ill just say it regular funny, than take one of those chill pills and chilax and chill out, than grab a brew thats chill and soak in some chill water with a chill significant other. that's my advice take it or just throw it right back like a cherry pie, just aim away from my left broken pinky

ASOPHOGAS LOLOL

the way you spelled "awkward" is awkward.

OP lives in Canada, not the USA. Reading Comprehension - Use it.

seriously. she lives in canada. they are legally able to drink at that age. seriously

wow your pretty stupid

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yeah. since i live in america, i'm suddenly going to know the drinking age of canadians. it was an honest mistake, get over it. so bitchy.

YOU'RE pretty stupid* Dumb ass.

Canada's your neighbouring country. Should be common knowledge.

Yeah, great excuse. You're allowed to think the whole world is exactly like the US because you live there.

Idiot.

Seeing as the internet is kind of, you know, NOT American maybe just don't just jump to conclusions when the information is posted right there.

I'm Canadian, and I know America's drinking age. You just seem ignorant.

news flash, canadians are also americans. so are mexicans, brazilians, colombians, etc. america is the WHOLE area from canada down to argentina. you dumb fuck

@27 - I'm American and know that the drinking age in Canada is either 18 or 19 (depends on what part of the country you're in). The United States has one of the oldest drinking ages in the world.

@41 - So, what are we supposed to call ourselves? United Statsians? There's no other easily pronounceable way of identifying ourselves as being from the United States. Get over it.

#14 fails.

#46,
You could call yourself a 'member of the United States of America', or if you'd prefer to shorten it a 'member of the US of A'.

#73 - that makes no sense. but ya
its really ignorant of you #14 because I'm Canadian and I definitely know the drinking ages in the States. Just saying

Whats the drinking age in Mexico then? Since it borders the US. Don't cheat and look it up.

When I read that they were 19 and in Canada I was wondering how long it would take before some moron made the under 21 comment...sadly it took less time than I expected.

Canada: 18 or 19.
America: 21.
Mexico: 18.
The Netherlands: 16.

I'm Dutch. It is not hard.

Calm down everyone. God, she made a mistake. Leave her alone, she doesn't need several people correcting her. OP, it sucks that you had to find out this way.

yeah seriously people calm down I don't know the drinking age in Canada either

It's eighteen.

mhmm. all of you have to act like major pricks just because i don't happen to know canadian's drinking age from the top of my head. i'm not planning on going to canada anytime soon. so how should i know that?!

well other than the fact that pretty much everyone has already pointed out that it is common knowledge what canada's drinking age is...and it really, really is...instead of saying something stupid like you did, did you ever think to maybe just look it up? if i read something that sounds funny to me, im not going to automatically correct it and assume im right.

Well, if you're talking to me too, I already knew the drinking age for Canada. But people were giving her a hard time just for thinking that it was the same age that it is in the U.S.

Yes, because the United States obviously = the ENTIRE WORLD. Why must people be so US-centric?

I don't know about everyone else, but my problem isn't that you didn't know the drinking age in Canada - though it is a little silly seeing as we're right above you - it's that you assumed in the first place that the poster was from the states. So many Americans on the internet act as if their country is the only country that exists, or that only Americans use the internet. It makes you come off as arrogant and stupid... which really doesn't help disprove the stereotypes about Americans.

@#41: If you haven't noticed, the majority of the world uses Americans to describe people who live in the United States, Canadians to describe people who live in Canada, Mexicans to describe people who live in Mexico, and so on. Americans is taken from the name of our country, the United States of AMERICA, which is often shortened in common speech to America.

Most people, when referring to the continent, use North Americans or South Americans, or specify with the word "continent."

Therefore, it is completely ridiculous to call someone a dumb fuck for using an extremely common and correct term. If you doubt its correctness and frequency of use, refer to multiple presidents of the US, and their well-known opening line "My fellow Americans."

Next time, get your facts straight before calling someone a dumb fuck without proper justification.

EDIT: Waiting for someone to say "wow moroon no1 reeds shit ovir 3 lynes long. git a lyfe"

exactly. That's like asking me from CANADA to name all your states and all the previous presidents. Not interested. is not going to happen.

I know it sounds technically correct, but it is not.

Or 18 depending what province you're in.

And 16 in Belgium :)

actually its 18 in belgium now, all EU countries are required to have the same drinking age. same goes for france, germany, spain, etc, etc.. you fail

Edit: or it should be anyway

And in India no matter what age you are your mom will always slap you!! LOL!!

Oh come on, if you saw your dad grinding some random chick would you be like "oh it's no big deal, he's probably just a swinger"?

No, you wouldn't, the OP isn't a judgmental bitch at all, any sane person would have done the same thing.

This^

It's also ignorant saying you hate all Americans with only one comment to back up you're theory..
I'm Canadian and not all Americans are like that.

#37, uhm, I'm American and I know the age restrictions for other countries, along with other information about them. Not all Americans are ignorant, but you sure sound that way.

Clearly a few ignorant statements are representative of all Americans. You sound just as ignorant as you're accusing us of being.

Wow so it's not ignorant to judge ALL Americans by one person's comment? I live in the US and know the drinking age of Canada and a lot of other countries. Oh, and notice that's countrIEs, not countrYs.

congrats...u just made urself sound like the biggest idiot here w/being ignorant urself then spelling countries as countrys


Dumbass go die

So she gets a drinking age wrong and suddenly all Americans think they know everything? Fuck, what the fuck is your problem? You're the exact thing you're accusing Americans of being. Ignorant.

To start this off: I'm Canadian, and proud of it. There are CERTAIN Americans that bother me; the ones who are all high and mighty (You ALL know the stereotype and the things the stereotype does; think Canada's covered in snow and Canadians live in igloos, try to pay in American money because "it's the only money that matters", etc), but most don't. My grandmother was born in the US (rural New York), so I know that not all Americans are asses. I also have a (baptist) friend who was born in Georgia, parents from Arkansas, and know that the stereotype that all Southern-born Americans are incest hicks, is very false.
I get bothered by pushy American tourists who assume things should be just like the US when they are on vacation, and even more bothered when some assume that Canadians live in igloos, drive dog-sleds, and have snow year-round. Another thing that bothers me is the whole "aboot" instead of "about" thing. We say "about", just like everyone else. It's only the accent on the East coast that sounds similar to "aboot".
I also strongly dislike Canadians who are ignorant to Americans/who hate Americans because of the stereotype. Sometimes I wish that both the ignorant Americans and ignorant Canadians would just roll over and die, because then we wouldn't be having this discussion.

BTW: Drinking age is 19 in all provinces except Quebec, which is 18. (As far as I'm aware)

It's also eighteen in Alberta, and I believe Manitoba as well.

Ok, I stand corrected. Quebec was the only one I knew about for sure. But thanks for letting me know #141.
(Although it's much easier for me to go to Quebec than Alberta or Manitoba, considering I live in Southern Ontario and the Quebec boarder is only a 5 hour drive rather than nearly 3 days...)

Now, I don't think it's "sick" and "gross" .... and don't necessarily find it an incredibly OMG HORRIBLE thing... I find it kind of whorish, but, these days, what isn't? Hurr, and it's not like they're kids/teens either, so definitely not so bad.

But... it sort of seems to me that if you really love somebody, you'd only want to be with them, not others. Maybe a three-foursome for some kink every blue moon, but as a general rule it's your partner who attracts you, not others. Dunno, if my partner was a swinger or wanted multiple people in the bed most of the time, it would hurt my feelings, like they thought I wasn't good enough for them. And I wouldn't do it to them.
Maybe I'm just a traditionalist or a romantic [shrugs]

And, though this is merely just a possible reason, maybe their relationships are strong because their partner is too loose?
Because most certainly I'm sure a lot of guys/girls would love it if their partner said "Nah, it's cool, you can sleep with whoever you want ever, babe, not just me" - and note, I said love IT, not THEM (the partner).
Kind of liiiike... Saying a cat belongs to you and loves you most when everyone else feeds it too.

But that's just a mere probability, and of course none of your friends are going to admit that's true if that's how they feel (that their partner is just a pawn), so it doesn't really matter.

And of course, as for the OP, nobody REALLY wants to know about their parents' sex life, period.

Ah, and, I'm not trying to say they ALWAYS want to be with different people. I know that, or at least would think that would be the case if they married someone, especially with children.
I'm just saying really I wouldn't try it myself and it would still hurt my feelings if my partner wanted to try others instead. Why marry me in the first place!? "You can too" just wouldn't cut it for me. :c
It's just me though.

Anyone who would think it's inherently gross/sick or bad sort of is a prude, yeah. And immature, I mean the gross/sick part... because lol sex omg how groosss

The OP is from Canada. The drinking age in Canada is 18 or 19 depending on where you are. Other comments already covered this.

Read the other comments. The OP is Canadian, from Newfoundland, where the drinking age is 19. It varies in other Canadian provinces, were the legal age is 18.

... Because there are places in the world other than the United States?

i completely agree... its just more "fyl" than "ydi"

Yeah, it's bad when the post TELLS you where they're from

Yeah, I always check what country they're from. Sometimes it'll explain a few things....
Shocking, right?

Very good point (question) # 57/pimpin88!

To many unanswered questions to decide what to click on this one (like so many other FMLS).

But even if they are swingers, that doesn't mean it's a problem for the OP, just something she has to accept. She didn't find out before running into them at the bar, so they're obviously descrete about it.

I was thinking the exact same thing. I was gonna say FYL but then I saw they were a Newfie so I put YDI hahahaha

You're an ass for laughing just because they're from Newfoundland and Labrador.

Hey! Don't diss the Newfs! Let's see how you handle your screech ;p

-> I'm a Newfie via parenthood, although born & raised in Alberta. Actually, I just got back from a trip to Newfoundland.

I'm a Newfoundlander and proud of it. I live in a beautiful province with many wonderful friendly people.
I'm so fed up with the "stupid newfie" stereotype and ignorant people like you who say that and have more than likely never been to Newfoundland make me sick. Why don't you come here, go on George Street and say that? Let's see how funny "stupid newfs" are then.

This FML does read like a newfie joke. OP: Time to get off the island.

Yes, I agree, but one shouldn't automatically assume that the OP is from the same country they are; which seems to be that people think that they are in the US because the MAJORITY of people on here are from the US.

Just because you can't see it doesn't mean you have to be a dick about it. So don't come to us and say that we're the one with the bad manners, because clearly you just don't fucking get it.

What XOfiestypixie said. It's not about "memoriz(ing) the drinking ages of every single country" so much as the fact that people seem to assume the US is the only country to exist in the world, which is just arrogant and stupid. Unless someone says something that makes it seem like they are specifically from my country, I do not assume that they are from my country. It's really not that hard.

They're called Newfoundland Dogs & Labrador Retrievers for a reason, clearly they originate there.

Did that really not clue into you #105?
How about Irish Setter, Irish Wolfhound, Welsh Springer, Portuguese Water Dog, etc...

lol wow canada? not the same ages as the us for drinking

Uh, hello? The OP is from Canada, where the legal drinking age is 18.
Check your facts before you start being an asshole.

Speaking of checking your facts, the drinking age in Canada varies by province. The OP is from Newfoundland, where the legal age is actually 19.

Meaning it's legal for him to be drinking. Either way, if they had looked first they would have realized this and not been such a dick to someone they don't even know.

how do u knw the OP's mom n dad arent still married, n that maybe the OP thought her dad was cheating on her mother?

#125 you're a fucking idiot

That's really not true at all. Too many people tend to judge intelligence based on the accent (which usually isn't that strong if you're not in the outports), but I don't know where you got that idea. Although I've never been to Labrador, I have been all across Newfoundland and you really don't seem like someone who's been there.

Newfoundland is a beautiful place with many things to do apart from "drink, smoke, party, and have sex". Terra Nova National Park is a wonderful natural area, and Gros Morne National Park, which is also a UNESCO world heritage site, offers gorgeous views. You can find wonderful fishing throughout the province (although it's a shame the government has nearly destroyed the outport fishery). Marble Mountain has the best skiing east of Quebec, and L'Ance-Aux-Meadows is a wonderful Viking history site. The Viking Trail also offers many natural sceneries, including the shipwreck of the S.S. Ethie and the Arches. George St. boasts the most bars per sq. foot in all of Canada, and Cape Spear is the most eastern point in North America. The is a lot more I could continue about, but I'll leave it at this.

Just because someone dislikes the idea of swinging doesn't make them stupid or ignorant.

Agreed - I don't see what's so bad about this. I would be happy if my parents were happy, regardless of what they were doing so long as it wasn't hurting anyone.