Today, the communications expert I'm forced to work with added the line "as they can catch bigger fishes" to a film script. She does not believe me when I tell her that the plural of fish is "fish." This idiot not only has the final word, she makes twice what I do. FML
Collection
Autumn: Leaves and Laughter
When the leaves fall, the laughter rises. Discover autumn stories as crisp as dried leaves!
Today, I was verbally abused by a customer because her entrée was too fishy. I'm not the chef, just the waiter, and I work at a fish grill. FML
Today, I found out that the airhead sitting next to me at work who can't get anything done on her own, makes more money than I do. FML
Today, my coworker keeps loudly saying things like, "Oh, now THIS!" If I don't ask, "What?" she pouts. If I do ask, she tells me, at length and with very bad grammar, how every one of our colleagues and partners is either stupid, rude or out to get her. FML
Today, at work, I took an order from a stuck-up sounding lady over the phone. She said her last name was "duckling, but with an F". Bemused, I wrote her name on the order. When she arrived to pick it up later, she told me she'd said "s", not "f". FML
Today, my boss and I were preparing a lunch order for a nearby real-estate agency. I noticed that the order was riddled with spelling mistakes, so I laughed and mocked the realtors, calling them stupid and incompetent. My boss then pointed out that the order was written in his handwriting. FML
Today, I went to my boss with concerns that my manager is dumping her responsibilities on me. He agreed and told me to just do whatever she wants. She gets paid twice as much as me to talk on her cellphone all day. FML
Today, I shouldn't have told my boss that I was interested in management. She now throws any problem she doesn't want to solve at me and either gets mad when I can't work it out or takes credit when I do. FML
Today, I made it onto my boss's shit-list, after pointing out that he'd misspelled "customer" as "costumer" 6 times in his report, and "college education" as "collage education" twice. It'd be a dick move on his part even if making corrections like this weren't part of my damn job. FML
Today, I was at work and was confronted by a customer wanting to get a "Nemo" fish. I explained that 'Nemo' needs to live in saltwater, not freshwater, like their tank was. The customer then turns around and grabs a perforated tank divider and says, "Can't I just split them up with this?" FML
Today, my boss yelled at me for ruining the report she was supposed to write with my "terrible spelling and grammar". I've checked it thoroughly, and all of her 'corrections' are wrong. She doesn’t believe me, and is refusing to look at a dictionary. FML
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thank you, your FML was submitted, and will appear the moderation soon!
Top comments
Docbee 11
Fish and fishes are both acceptable plural forms of "fish"; well that's what magic schoolbus told me!
Ylianaxoxo 9
Fishes isn't exactly wrong, sweetie.
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (88)
flockz 19
perhaps the person saying the script is an uneducated person?
Docbee 11
Fish and fishes are both acceptable plural forms of "fish"; well that's what magic schoolbus told me!
tomatosz 23
It's partly a regional thing , but there are some "rules" behind it: when they're talking about a multitude of any fish, fish would be the plural. When they're talking about multiple species, "fishes" should be used. (I caught a lot of fish today.) (This aquarium contains many fishes (so many species).)
jackiemora 18
A Kim Possible episode taught me that, lol. (Shego and Dr. Drakken)
Enslaved 36
The Bible even says that Jesus fed 5,000 with five loaves and the two "fishes".
DoubleSoul 11
You learn something new every day. I knew both were plural but didn't know that fishes referred to species. Awesome.
chosha_fml 26
Nope, fishes is one form of the plural for fish, simple as that. The correct way to say your second example would be 'many species of fish' because 'many fishes' would just mean many fish.
MDTeddy 13
1 Fish 2 Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
ethan_nelson61 4
That's also what my Biology teacher told me! So YDI op. No consolation there!
zeffra13 31
#53, As a wildlife biologist, I can honestly say your correction is incorrect.
oj101 33
What are you talking about OP? It's fishes. And for the record, so you know next time, the plural for multiple sheep is sheeps. *satire*
robotiick7 23
Last time I checked it was sheep not Sheeps
clueless05 12
#30- google satire
GRgoldfish 19
has anyone told you you're a di*beep*?
u002764 3
you are wrong. fish- pleural, same species fishes- pleural, different species
RedPillSucks 31
So analogously, sheep - many sheep of the same species sheepes - many sheep of different species. Does this work with moose too? I'm here all day folks. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
Bibliovore 26
#50, "plural" means more than one; "pleural" means pertaining to the pleura, which is a membrane that lines the thorax and surrounds the lungs.
love_me_electric 20
The plural of moose is meese, everyone knows that.
kaitlynjane 28
The plural for moose is... MOOSEN. Example: I saw a flock of moosen. There were many of 'em. Many much moosen!
Ylianaxoxo 9
Fishes isn't exactly wrong, sweetie.
flockz 19
in this instance yes. "fishes" is only used when you're referring to multiple species of fish. for example, if you said you saw four fish while scuba diving, this means you saw four individual fish. however if you said you saw four fishes, then you saw four individual species of fish. so in this instance the OP was correct, because the script wasn't talking about different species, but rather "bigger fishes". but yes fishes is also a possible plural form of fish.
tomatosz 23
#16 This is generally true, but in some cases it can just be a regional difference, and that doesn't always make it wrong.
djxerxes9000 18
Good to know, Darling
lily_marleen 20
#47 - You are awesome. That comment made my day! :)
djxerxes9000 18
#47 I know thats why I said it, sometimes sarcasm doesn't translate into text, so no need to punch me in the throat (or fingers in this case) I work in a scrapyard and a lady in the office greets everyone in the morning with "Hello kiddies" **** its annoying.
emmingle 24
Looks like she's fishing for a demotion.
ingernh 4
Well, just look forward to saying "I told you so" when she discovers you were right
SexySlayer1248 18
I would make the argument to take it out because its distracting, simply because people will debate if its proper English or not
TheMathMajor 26
Well, if you can call her an idiot for that, then you're an idiot too for correcting her. Both words are acceptable.
Pleonasm 35
And here I thought that writing a script should be like shooting fishes in a barrel for a communications expert.
LexSwift 17
After getting bitched at in 2nd grade everytime I wrote "fishes", I've grown up and realized that because so many idiots never got it down, it's now acceptable to say "fishes". Little Me got bitched out for no reason. Wonderful!
laden_swallow09 34
It's not for no reason. "Fishes" is still improper in most cases. Don't fall under the guile of those idiots whom you've previously spoken of.