Today, I got a letter from the Navy saying that they accepted my application to join the Navy. I never applied. FML
I agree, your life sucks (19522) - you totally deserved it (728)
On 01/24/2009 at 2:14pm - love - by Noname - United States (California)
NAVY stands for Never Again Volunteer Yourself, but sometimes, you get Voluntold.
#1 - On 02/04/2009 at 10:15am by Netrok
This artist really digged through the box. Good drawing, but I don't think the background colors suit the mood very well.
#28 - On 09/12/2009 at 8:24am by PumpkinTarte
Actually, I think the colors are perfect. The guy doesn't expect anything to happen, he's just sitting there playing with his... blocks... and everything is fine and dandy, until...
Jet
Not to mention the dude in the picture is army, not navy lol.. But the art is really good
#51 - On 09/12/2009 at 11:16am by Neopopulas
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Someone should make a drawing of FML#: /miscellaneous/3207661
#76 - On 09/12/2009 at 5:18pm by egaonogenki
The colors are correct. Look, the kid is building something with blocks, therefore the person dragging him away is a seabee!!
(In case you don't know, the seabees are the construction force of the Navy and we wear the camoflage)
Colors are 'correct'? Clearly you don't know anything about art.
#89 - On 09/12/2009 at 9:39pm by PumpkinTarte
I think he just meant that the uniform was accurate, not describing the picture in an artistic way.
#91 - On 09/12/2009 at 10:04pm by emolilyx
Apparently you know nothing about military. He wasn't commenting on the art colors, he was commenting on the uniform. Please read more carefully next time.
#92 - On 09/12/2009 at 10:06pm by blakfalcon
LOL owned. They really should learn hex. And art. And how to not be a Nazi. Regardless, I like the picture, and the colors do make sense (yay for the seabee comment, they are awesome!).
LOLwut. Yeaa, thing is I dont do hex cos I'm too busy helping to design the office you probably sit in everyday. Structural Engineering for the win, fucktard.
Hex is easy, 1-9, then A-F, even jerks like yourself can learn it. And yay for leaning things at a young age, I am not old enough to have a job yet. Jumping to complain/guessing mode much?
O_o. The background DOES make sense. The kid was in a calm environment, and the light blue looks cool and calm and totally innocent. Then whoosh comes the soldier, all muddy and camouflage.
The person using the bad hex was CRITICISING the nazis, not BEING a nazi... YOU were being the Nazi, a hex nazi.
The colour are correct?...colour never correct..just show artist feeling...Maybe correct means beautiful.
I love the colour...great illustration.
Creepy 40 year olds who think that their age means they can be jerks to other jerks on the internet are also idiots. I didn't point it out first. EVERYONE is a jerk on the internet, get over it. And why did everyone steal my Hexnazi reference!?
its great and its "dug" not "digged" sorry, it just really bothered me
#156 - On 11/08/2009 at 9:32pm by mymilkshake
Wow, I didn't know that bit of trivia about the Navy! It's awesome if the artist would that much thought into the picture, and it wasn't just a coincidence.
No, iKaite, fuck so-called engineers who don't even know simple hex. I'm willing to bet you're actually still a dime-a-dozen uni student still struggling to study civil engineering and you're crushing under the weight of a class as simple as calc 2 or physics 101. I doubt you'll graduate. You'll probably give up and switch to nursing, then fail out of that too. Have fun with your communications degree.
#159 - On 02/18/2010 at 10:27pm by UpYoursLiar
They probably just got the wrong name/address. You should just ignore it, it deffinatly wasn't worth putting on this website.
#2 - On 02/08/2009 at 12:14pm by hello
I think it was worth it to post. Anyone can have you apply for the armed forces. I bet it'd be a bitch to sort too.
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How the F is this even postworthy?
#3 - On 02/09/2009 at 2:08am by blimpblimp
oh yes, this is post worthy, especially if OP did not have any plans of signing up for the navy
cool illustration btw
#50 - On 09/12/2009 at 11:11am by spinarium
#50: It takes a LOT more to join the Navy than just applying. There are far more steps to it. Talk to any recruiter-- you can't just apply like that, unless you're going to a Navy school, but even then, you'd still have to go through more than just a stupid application.
It was probably just an impersonal flyer that went out to the entire block.
Definitely not post-worthy.
#99 - On 09/13/2009 at 1:29am by onigiriqueen
You know, the way things are going there... he might be better off staying in the states.
#71 - On 09/12/2009 at 3:16pm by Muzik_freq
Nah we still have a while before it gets that bad. I'd look into Europe for long-term planning though.
You realize the only reason Canada is involved is to clean up the mess George W. caused when he decided to powerfuck an entire country, right?
#150 - On 09/22/2009 at 7:29am by IronWarrior
You're not officially in the military until you report for basic training. Call the local recruitment office and let them know you didn't even apply. If they try to make a big deal out of it, just hang up, and don't report. There is legally nothing they can actually do, but they'll do everything they can to try to force you.
#6 - On 02/11/2009 at 11:23am by Andy
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I think its funny how people give advice like this. You guys are fucking idiots. 98 % chance this is fake, and a 1% chance the the OP will read your post, followed by a 1% chance that it was even helpful and hadn't thought of it by himself. Idiot.
#30 - On 09/12/2009 at 8:38am by taylorchasewhite
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100% of your mum's statistics were made up. But the guy basically got it right, maybe with a bit of embelishment/poetic justice for the sake of proving a point. The 'serious' comments on FML are just so lame, they're more comic than the farsical ones.
YES lets give this guy advice becuase we all know hes dumb??? WTF im pretty sure he doesnt care what you say.... neither do i... its funny and a cute pic end of story
#46 - On 09/12/2009 at 10:58am by ihatethis77
About 73% of all statistics are just made up on the fly anyway.
#151 - On 09/22/2009 at 7:32am by IronWarrior
Look pal, here's the thing. Joining the military entails a myriad of paperwork, and things you have to sign. It's not an application, it's not that easy. So really, there's nothing to worry about. Believe me, I just joined the Air Force, you gotta jump through hoops to join up.
#7 - On 02/11/2009 at 11:56am by airforcekarl
Actually, with the Navy, you only have to jump through hoops to go in as an officer. As enlisted, it's a matter of a couple weeks. I should know, my husband has talked to 3 recruiters, and my friend is a SEAL.
#36 - On 09/12/2009 at 9:29am by celticwoman04
uhhh no, you have to sign a crap ton of paper work to join enlisted and take a day out of your life to go get an official military physical. I should know, I'm in the Navy lol.
#38 - On 09/12/2009 at 9:53am by paramite12
My uncle was pulled over for speeding or something back in 1967 while home on leave. The police checked his name and he was promptly arrested for not responding to his draft notice. Apparently, Grandma was holding his mail for him...the whole time he was in Vietnam.
#8 - On 02/14/2009 at 10:40pm by Mark
My uncle was pulled over for speeding or something back in 1967 while home on leave. The police checked his name and he was promptly arrested for not responding to his draft notice. Apparently, Grandma was holding his mail for him...the whole time he was in Vietnam. < Now THAT'S an FML.
#27 - On 07/23/2009 at 8:35pm by TheOtherNewest1
And if you havent noticed, nowhere near the "love" category.
#11 - On 03/11/2009 at 2:25am by Cantexplain1234
i hate to break it to you amigo, but that's not how it works...there is a whole process you go though with paperwork, then you go to MEPS, and you swear the oath of enlistment...its not just a, i'm gonna apply for a job scenario
#13 - On 03/17/2009 at 10:08am by xphantomx
agreed #7, at least we (supposedly) jumped through hoops for the right service
#16 - On 03/30/2009 at 10:44am by skyraider17
I just got a letter asking me to re-enlist in the navy today. I'm 16 O.o
#17 - On 04/05/2009 at 2:00am by solipsistic
sweet... preemptive recruitment... it's genius
#5, quit sending all your filthy cowardly hippies up here... we're running out of ice floes to push them out to sea on. Global warming... you know...
#19 - On 04/20/2009 at 7:34pm by canadian_eh_479
Why is this a FML? This isn't even bad, I would just through the letter away.... This makes no sense at all. You don't deserve any more cookies EVER!!!!
Cookie!
#21 - On 05/03/2009 at 9:50pm by C0okieMonster
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whoever posted this is an ass. have some respect for the people who risk their lives to keep you safe and dont make up stories about them just to get on fmylife.com. idiot
#24 - On 06/14/2009 at 6:32pm by nikkimontgomery
Just because the people who defend our country are great men and women doesn't mean the people who chose NOT to sign up for the military aren't great people too. The post wasn't even disrespectful in the slightest.
#57 - On 09/12/2009 at 12:25pm by themixedt4pe
I know! That wasn't disrespectful at all! It's a funny little story that sucks for him, not an insult to people in the navy!
that's an FML?
You got something against Service?
Mr/Ms Montgomery, thanks much for your support of the Armed Forces.
#22 - There hasn't been a draft for forty years. Moron.
I agree with #3, there is a better site for thiS kind of pathetic fml. It's called my lid is average. Don't waste space on this site for this retarded fml oh and just ignore it
The cartoon is brilliant, but the FML seems more like a clerical error...
#29 - On 09/12/2009 at 8:24am by hauntingsleep
ahh gotta love a good old Yakov Smirnoff joke although his jokes do get kinda of annoying after a while there ok every once in a while
#84 - On 09/12/2009 at 7:26pm by Mylife_is_so_fd
the army doesnt enlist chuck norris, chuck norris enlists the army
#93 - On 09/12/2009 at 10:27pm by NewLight8421
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Oh my gosh!! The op is so ride!! The men and women serving our country deserve the highest hoenor and then you come on here and post this....WOAH
The problem here is, si some people are chickens and would NOT want to join the army. I personally wouldn't want to, but that doesn't mean i disrespect them. Some people just don't want to have to be a part of it.
#43 - On 09/12/2009 at 10:47am by XxKate1294xX
Moron. Just because somebody wouldn't want to be in the army doesn't mean they hate them. I don't want to be a Doctor or a Physicist, but do I hate those? No.
the illustration for this fml is great, and yes I think it is an FML because he didnt sign up for the Navy. The OP is not being disrespectful by saying that he doesnt want to go. I know I would consider my life fucked if I was enrolled for any of the armed forces when i didnt want to be part of them.
geez, guys, i really don't think the point here is to be disrespectful towards soldiers. the point is that joining the armed forces is an enormous, grueling, potentially life-endangering, lengthy and -binding- commitment which he never had any intention of making. probably a pretty easy situation to get out of, considering the circumstances, but still a little harrowing at first glance.
or "omg fake!!111", whatever floats your boat.
anyway. LOVE the illustration. simple, great style, and funny!
Claim mental illness. They won't take people who are Bipolar and I know this because I wanted to apply but they said I couldn't join. FML!
#56 - On 09/12/2009 at 12:13pm by beautiful_mayhem
christ people, why the hell are you all fighting about this!? yeah, its a crappy FML, yeah we all need to respect the army, navy and everyone else. but do you all honestly need to FIGHT about it?! god.
#59 - On 09/12/2009 at 12:33pm by heaven_help_us17
This is a pretty boring FML. No one should be surprised that it's a pretty boring illustration.
#63 - On 09/12/2009 at 1:11pm by justjayit
I hatehateHATE reading the comments!
[[Why I always do, I will never know...]]
Why does everyone always have to make such a big deal about things? Seriously.
Just because it was a mistake and it's not a big deal to get out of, doesn't mean it's not an FML. It can be silly little things too, it doesn't have to be big things. Also keep in mind not everyone feels the same way about things as you do, so what seems like an FML to one person isn't to someone else. Accept it and move on.
Most of my family is in the military or was at one point, and I don't find this disrespectful at all. He was just saying he never signed up for it. That doesn't mean he hates the military, he just doesn't want to join. It's not for everyone, and that's ok.
This site is just supposed to be for fun. So please stop reading so much into everything people post on here. It's not hurting you in any way, so let it go. If you don't like it, don't read it.
P.S.
Have you ever clicked the "Moderate the FMLs" link at the top of the page in nice bright red letters?
That's where anyone can vote on the FMLs they want to see on the site. So YOU basically PICKED this!
There's too much fighting and hate going on in the streets and everywhere else in the world nowadays, so can we please stop trying to create more over stupid little things that really don't matter at all?
Thanks.
#68 - On 09/12/2009 at 2:24pm by mak_attack
Internet flamers: Socially inept outside their basement, they don't know any better then to flame the internet with misery because that's all they've known.
Dude, I agree with everything you just said. These things are a matter of opinion. Also, if anyone needs to get a life, it's the people that come on here and do the whole, "OMG THAT'S NOT AN FML!!!!" because really... Who cares? It's a silly website meant for entertainment. You wanna do stuff like that, go find a debate forum.
maybe it's an FML in "love" because they think someone who loves them signed them up? I don't know the application process but I assume you need some info on the person... Maybe I'm wrong.
#69 - On 09/12/2009 at 2:35pm by wishywashy
LOVE the illustration. The look on the baby's face is fucking PRICELESS.
The reason it's in "love"? Hay thurr sailorrr
#78 - On 09/12/2009 at 5:38pm by allmidnighteyes
"The party scene is kinda mean, I think its sick and twisted.
The navy showed up at my door and claimed that I enlisted!"
-Relient K "College Kids"
#83 - On 09/12/2009 at 6:40pm by wearinsexypants
The US isn't currently doing conscription. Not in this war, at least.
#117 - On 09/14/2009 at 2:33am by JustCallMeCloud
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Those little church boys in Reliank K can go suck a fat cock.
#101 - On 09/13/2009 at 2:01am by moonlight_daze
He may have applied for a job online, not knowing he was putting in an application for a recruiter to contact him. That is how I got into the Seabees. I applied for an job as an electrician online and the next day a Navy recruiter called me.
I'm sure some of the stories are true because my friend posted one that had to do with me the other night.. Lmao!
#95 - On 09/13/2009 at 12:18am by myfriendjill
This is a awesome!! great illustration that I haven't seen for long time. and cool FML..
I love it..Keep it up.
In other country there are so much unfair about force in military. They sent private (soldier) to the war just only for the benefit in business of their government...So sad.
wow.... ive laughed more reading the comments than reading the actual FML's XD
#111 - On 09/13/2009 at 8:33pm by randomperson14
I just think it's amusing that there are 111 comments on this thing. And only like 6 actually have to do with the illustration. The rest are all arguments. This is what you spend your life doing? Good work.
#113 - On 09/13/2009 at 10:57pm by reaganmc10
Joining the military doesn't work like this in any way, so this is a pretty shitty FML and I'm annoyed the mods chose to bring it back with an illustration.
#116 - On 09/14/2009 at 1:14am by Flounder
People, you don't submit an application to join the armed forces
This FML's a hoax
#120 - On 09/14/2009 at 1:40pm by X_totallysucks_X
i think someone in the military didn't understand that bush didn't get the draft back.
#129 - On 09/15/2009 at 12:53am by mnkyc_mnkydo
umm ... i applied for the navy and i didn't hear back. consider yourself lucky and that you have every chance to be taken in again. where as I'm stuck in a dead end job. thanks for not being desperate to check your email on the day acceptance comes out.
#130 - On 09/15/2009 at 5:16am by confusedful
hahaha nice illustration it really captures the mood =)
#131 - On 09/16/2009 at 12:38am by thepunisher
Unless you sign a contract, you haven't joined the military. You can't apply to the NAVY. You sign a contract, and raise your right hand and take the oath. You'd be lucky to get in the Navy or any other branch of the Military.
Wow, I didn't know the American Navy started drafting babies. Do they even make safety-assault-rifles or bayonets that are duller than Crayola safety scissors?
#136 - On 09/16/2009 at 11:58am by IronWarrior
Why is there ever an art for this?
You CAN'T be "accepted" via letter.
To get into the NAVY, which is near impossible because it is filled to capacity and people jockey for all the potential job positions, you have to got MEPs, Military Entrance Processing.
At Military Entrance Processing, you take the ASVAB to see what jobs you qualify for, then take a physical to make sure you can serve, and then you pray to god there's a job open you're qualified to get into.
Then you sign a non-binding contract, take a non-binding oath, and wait (usually a few months) until your ship date, at which you got back to MEPs, THEN sign the BINDING contract and take the BINDING oath. Then you're on a plane to Great Lakes for boot camp.
And you would never get accepted by the Navy even if they were empty and drafting. I think a decent handle on the english language may be an asset and "Why is there ever an art for this?" is far from proper language. I think what you were trying to say was "Why is there even art for this?" Even if we allow the ever/even typo, you can not have an art. You can have a work of art, a piece of art, and an art class, but not an art. Language Fail.
#141 - On 09/17/2009 at 8:17am by IronWarrior
FUCK HEXNAZIS haha what if the FML staff posted this just to get everybody on the comments to fight i find the comments more funny also but awesome illustration. Love it.
#140 - On 09/17/2009 at 12:48am by hahahaloser
lol my friend accedently signed up for the navy.. sometimes if you fill out a information form for them.. you sign the aplication.. thats what he did
#144 - On 09/17/2009 at 4:37pm by nicefakeone
aww come on peeps stop arguing. it a fucking artists interpretation! neither the fml or the drawing may be "correct" but WHO REALLY CARES. its there for the purpose of making people laugh and feel better about their own shitty lives. sheesh.
#152 - On 09/25/2009 at 11:13pm by randomperson14
The artwork is pretty good, but whatever retard did it should recheck the outfits that the navy wears these days..god.
#160 - On 02/22/2010 at 2:47am by iiazndorkii
