Today, I received our gas bill for about £200. My flatmate felt that this was extortionate and therefore phoned up our gas company and angrily told them to recalculate the bill. They did. We now owe £300. FML
I agree, your life sucks (13770) - you totally deserved it (2706)
On 02/06/2010 at 7:40am - misc - by Anonymous - United Kingdom (Newcastle upon Tyne)
(-1)Wow, your life sucks. Sometimes its better just to have some faith...
#1 - On 02/06/2010 at 1:53pm by Lifedoutcobra
(0)you're 41 idiot? I'm pretty sure that made no sense whatsoever. congradulations, you have failed at calling somebody an idiot; you may now kill yourself.
#74 - On 02/07/2010 at 10:28pm by MadPercussion
(0)in lizzie232's comment it said first... but i don't kno wat happened lol
#10 - On 02/06/2010 at 2:02pm by Elizabeth_lyi
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a pound is a unit of mass!
you can't convert mass to money, noob.
#11 - On 02/06/2010 at 2:03pm by blland
(0)Actually, blland, pound(lb) is a unit of weight in the English system, not mass, whereas a kilogram (kg) is a unit of mass in the metric and SI systems. Though the two are relatively convertible(1 lb = 0.4536 kg; 1 kg = 2.21 lb), they are actually quite different.
And £ does not equal lb, noob.
(-2)@11 a pound (£) used to be a pound (lb) of silver in saxon/medieval ages (that's medi-evil) both of which came from the libra measurement. Unfortunatly out in the colonies they no longer teach proper measurements I suggest you stop jabbing randomally at the keypad and let the adults talk, I do understand there are some of you out there who know how to talk, type etc. and mean no offence but to muppets like #11 get off the net.
(0)Dude, it's FML. You are going to come across some idiots.
#75 - On 02/07/2010 at 10:32pm by MadPercussion
(0)am I the only one who realized #11 was joking, it was a bad joke granted but it was so obvious, if he knows what the pound symbol (sorry my computer doesn't have it) means then chances are he knows that pounds are british currency, everyone who thought he was serious is just as stupid as they accuse him of being
#77 - On 02/08/2010 at 2:50am by rubberjesus
(0)It sucks but they sometimes estimate the amount. The complant made them do an exact check so you would of had to owed them the remaining amount next month any ways probly $400 or so. Find out why you're wasting so much gas.
#13 - On 02/06/2010 at 2:06pm by sourgirl101
(0)blland - please tell me youre kidding, and not actually that stupid. And yeah, that sucks. that is seriously one hell of a gas bill.
(0)You should start scrounging up all the pounds you can find, my friend. And might I suggest taping your "flatmates"'s mouth shut before he calls the water and the cable companies as well?
#18 - On 02/06/2010 at 2:21pm by KurouTenshi
(0)not that it's important, but we're both girls. and yes KurouTenshi, taping her mouth shut would be a VERY good idea - op
(-1)Lol Tiancal, gas suckers. probably also some asshole that protests about everyone elses "carbon footprint" as well.
(-1)Tiancai, I'd laugh, but you're probably just stupid enough to believe that, not to mention probably dream of gassing Jews, judging by most of your comments on this site.
Why bother coming here and mixing with 'degenerate Westerners', I wonder? Why don't you just piss off to your favourite Chinese ultranationalist forum and quit your bitching here? Though I guess you actually enjoy trolling this place...
(0)I'm waiting for the Europeans to stop being assholes. Guess I'll be waiting forever.
#25 - On 02/06/2010 at 3:01pm by MadeOfAwesome
(0)Well 21, you'd have to be pretty ignorant to not be able to figure out what it means.
You'd also have to be pretty ignorant to make stereotypical comments about Americans, when everything that happens over here directly affects your life. ;]
I'm not a Brit, far from it. I'm not even from Europe
#52 - On 02/06/2010 at 6:17pm by whocaresanyway
(0)I love how he prepares for it. Even before someone slips up they're waiting.
I'm not going to lie though, I have no idea what the hell a flatmate is.
Guess it helps when you're born in an area that actually uses these words, eh?
(-1)I'm waiting for all the Europeans to attack the Americans when they ask "What's a flatmate?"
SMH, Douchebag
#23 - On 02/06/2010 at 2:48pm by DaKillahMan
(0)I'm European and I don't know what the hell a "flatmate" is. I don't come from an English speaking country.
(0)haha flatemate is roomate... it's kinda obvious for Americans to figure out you know... it's not like a German term or something... and even then English is a Germanic language. Thanks for having faith in us Brits. Why don't you use euros like eeryone else in Europe? P.S. Look up why we use farenheit too ;)
#29 - On 02/06/2010 at 3:17pm by strangegirl505
(0)hahaha you people are funny. even though it's not hard to figure out. you fail.
#31 - On 02/06/2010 at 3:21pm by cocam01
(0)a flat mate isn't a room mate. you don't tend to share rooms with a flat mate. A flat mate is someone that you share bills etc with but you will often have seperate rooms. A flate mate could also be someone you share a house with (under rent) or even get a mortgage with (again without room sharing).
As for the unit slur we do tend to use both ºF and ºC without much confusion between the two.
We keep the pound and other imperial measurements through habit more than anything else.
I wonder why America has not used the yard or the stone though? If you are to use the imperial system surely that would make life easier. (3ft to yard, 1760 yard to mile, 14 pound to stone)
(0)well the same thing applies to the term roommate. I live in a 3 bedroom house with two "roommate" we each have seperate rooms and share a portion of the rent and utilities and honestly it's not hard for Americans to figure out what flatmate means either.
#64 - On 02/06/2010 at 10:09pm by mikeyboi19
(0)While I have no excuse for our exclusion of 'stone', we do use 'yards' over here in the states. In fact, in Catholic school we were punished with yard sticks thus beating the system into us.
#72 - On 02/07/2010 at 8:04pm by gildedmuse
(0)FYI, the American Revolution was in the 18th century, and we (England) were probably the most influential country during that time, and after it, up until about 1920. It's called the British Empire, dumbass.
(0)Waheyy the first post I've seen on here from north east England :D
#36 - On 02/06/2010 at 4:10pm by NyronNosworthy
(0)oh they teach it here, but the fact is without the frenchs help, American would still be under British rule. it seems you can't win a war without foreign help
(+1)Because the French and British were kicking Hitler's ass before we stepped in, right?
#38 - On 02/06/2010 at 4:36pm by capthavoc123
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I'd say "we" have all saved each others' asses through the last couple of centuries, then. Yay, well done people; group hug!
(0)Hahaha how the hell do you use up 300 dollars worth of gas? i live in alaska on winter and i only pay 150 monthly O__O
(0)One day, I would like to live in a world where both English and American FML fans get on with each other without slagging each other off (L)
(0)Could that in turn be a FM:? "Today I read a FML where Yanks and Brits disagreed FML" I jest, Mind you imagine the alternative *shudders*
(0)is gas bill like
real gas?
or. electricity.?
causeeeee we don't get any gas bills here lol.
#50 - On 02/06/2010 at 6:03pm by rawrimapenguin
(0)wow. I think I read this about two weeks ago. boooooo.
#53 - On 02/06/2010 at 6:21pm by chadwick110480
(0)hate to say it, but repost. and woah, that's like $600!
#81 - On 07/02/2010 at 11:39pm by Angelfire093x
