Today, I found out why you shouldn't drop instant mashed potatoes in a fish tank, especially when you have expensive fish. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I heard a loud crashing noise. I ran into the kitchen to see what it was. My cat had knocked over my fish bowl and had my Beta in her mouth. After scolding her and rescuing it, I decided to clean its bowl. When I went to dump some of the water in the sink, my fish went down the drain. FML
Today, I bought a fish bowl and a fish for $15. I brought him home and sat him on my desk. Everything was going well until the shelf gave out and his bowl slid off of the shelf... onto my $2,000 computer. The computer is fried and is not covered by the insurance, the fish is fine. FML
Today, I found my brand new tropical fish dead in its tank because my boyfriend got drunk last night and decided to pour red wine into the aquarium. FML
Today, I finally found out why my fish were dying in their tank. My younger sister had been spraying detergent in there because she wanted "to make the fish smell like lemons". FML
Today, I bought a fish. I put the tank on top of the fridge so my cat wouldn't get at it. I'd forgotten to buy some things for its tank, so I quickly ran out to get them. When I got home, I saw the tank destroyed on the floor, and my cat devouring my fish. I had the fish for less than an hour. FML
Today, I spent almost two hours cleaning my fish tank, only to find out that my cat had secretly eaten all of my fish while I was cleaning the tank. FML
Today, I was walking to the pet store to buy a month's worth of fish food for my fish so I wouldn't have to come back for a while. For fish food it was expensive. It was also surprisingly heavy and I had to carry it back to my house. When I got home, I saw my fish floating at the top of its bowl. FML
Today, I came home to my boyfriend emptying his bowels into my aquarium. FML
Today, my pet fish died because my drunk father microwaved it. FML
Today, I found out my friends replaced the water in my bottle with vodka when all my fish died. Any water I don't finish the night before, I pour into my tank the next morning. Thousands of dollars and years hard work, gone. FML
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punchline_fml 5
Not exactly how you make fish and chips
loller27 6
how about fish food
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Comments (193)
loller27 6
how about fish food
slick5880 22
How about instant rice?
Doxy 22
Fish food is too mainstream. Instant mashed potatoes are the new thing.
crimsonprodigy 15
36 * so asian, no racism intended. Lol
dan13mey 0
Because they are too stuck up to eat anything other than real potatoes? D:
sinking_fish 12
How about pudding mix?
TheRealBruce 12
Jello would look more colorful and fun.
Jonkbaby 23
on the bright side, you have dinner
Driveshaft 5
Why...?
punchline_fml 5
Not exactly how you make fish and chips
gladstone123 5
LOL hilarious comment!
iBoardSlide 0
Why? Cause they eat them? Die? Make you angry that you didn't get your potatoes?
ShroomsOnAcid 17
Maybe not, but OP has invented an entirely new recipe. It's the poor man's quick & fancy version of foie gras.
iliketrains09 12
Brilliant!!
KK3137 31
Well, 96, not sure about poor man's, the fish are pretty expensive.. But yeah :D
kay2beauty 0
Ba Dum Tss
Frenchtony 17
Punchline you're a well nammed bastard !
dj8798 9
why
littlegold 7
I wanna know why too!
SaMmIMonster96 6
I would say that the fish died.. Most likely because of the unknown chemicals that are slowly eating away our insides. :/ that is my guess anyway
xleanne_aLly 23
Haha, I wanna know HOW they managed how it fell in the fish tank. If it was on purpose then the OP probably wouldn't have made a fml..
xleanne_aLly 23
I'll just assume he was drunk, because even when I'm baked I'm not that dumb. :p
SaMmIMonster96 6
Idk, the only things that "fall" into my fishtanks are things that I put in them... I did find something out though, goldfish love popcorn.... Long story lol
hooligyn123 18
Because instant mashed potatoes expand. Its the same theory as rice and birds... End result exploded/over expanded stomaches.
auriane_fml 19
why is always what I ask myself when my sister or mom drops something in the fish tank. they have managed to drop dvd's, batteries, dust and alot more in our fish tank. I wonder how they are still alive. I can only assume that OP is just as clumsy as they are.
redhedsaysrawr 18
and that is how mine died... idiot...
satans_babe13 0
OP probably mistakened the instant mashed potatoes for fish food and accidentally poured them into the tank :p and its called instant for a reason. Add water and stir and you've got mashed potatoes.. The fish cant breathe in a tank of mashed potatoes.
SweetPerfectionn 3
I love how simple this comment is. Only one thing to ask here. Great comment.
TheLoneWandererX 2
Oh the humanity!
amberbby69 6
The word instant didn't mean anything to you?
bamagrl410 31
It was probably an accident...
whyme203 15
You don't understand one does not simply accidentally drop instant mashed potatoes in a fish tank.
skyeyez9 25
I know. Especially since they all have lids and you have to intentionally do it. Sounds like OP was too. Cheap to buy fish flake food and tried those dehydrated potato flakes instead. I bet the potato flakes swelled up in their stomachs and killed them all.
DataWog 30
I'm quite certain that the potato flakes would absorb their full capacity in water too fast to be eaten beforehand, and the deaths were the result of polluted water rather than gastric problems. That was my first thought too, but sprinkle a little handful of potato flakes into a bowl of water and you'll see they get waterlogged nearly instantly.
I_Punch_Babies 7
ydi...for having bought expens1ve fish and for wasting good mashed taters
TheLoneWandererX 2
You deserve a thumbs down for spelling expensive wrong!
rockyraccoon28 8
instant mashed potatoes are NOT good mashed potatoes.
nabila21 0
You deserve a thumbs down for punching babies!!!
I_Punch_Babies 7
they are if its all one can afford and considering OP bought expensive fish i can only assume that they waste their money on weird things and compensate for such a monetary setback by only eating po folks food. i still like instant mashed potatoes though
ShroomsOnAcid 17
But a bag of real potatoes is usually cheaper than a box of instant ones, pound for pound. A lot of people buy cheaper food but end up eating more of it because it leaves you hungry. If you buy real food and just eat less (only as much as your body actually needs) it can come out to pretty much the same cost.
zann_fml 2
Shrooms is right. However, oddly enough, we have a really good bread recipe that uses instant potato flakes. So I always have them for the bread!
I_Punch_Babies 7
thats true for the long run but some people (like me) can only afford the instant stuff when money is tight and due to laziness and/or exhaustion from working all day some people would rather have something quick and easy to make instead of firing up the oven and actually cooking them. still better than eating fast food everyday imo
Justforlolz 14
Sooooo, ya, am I the only one still wondering why 6 would go out of the way to put a one in place of the "i"?
ShroomsOnAcid 17
59, I've been in that situation before so I understand, but with a little bit of planning it's quite possible to make it work. Real potatoes can still be cheaper instantly, depending on where you live. I'm not trying to argue, by the way, I'm just pointing some things out. Everyone makes their own choices depending on the circumstances.
I_Punch_Babies 7
yes you are and its cuz when youre half asleep a 1 can look like an i even on a "smart" phone
I_Punch_Babies 7
^that was meant for 73. guess i wasnt quick enough
Justforlolz 14
What does your keyboard look like? Because anybody who actually uses a keyboard should know that one is NOWHERE near "i".
bfsd42 20
59, a 5 pound bag of potatoes can be as cheap as $1. An onion costs about $0.40. Even with milk, u can make a shit load of mashed potatoes for under a buck.
OffToTheGayBar 9
76 just thought it was cool to use a one and got proven wrong, now he's feigning innocence. Hi-lurious.
Random017 7
Please tell me this was accidental.
DrMime 10
New instantly exploding dynamite!!! No more will you be waiting for the explosion to reach it's maximum size! With it's insta-splode technology, demolition is a blast!!! I'm guessing that's how your fishes met their fate.
Torva_fml 16
How.. How would one possibly accidentally drop mashed potatoes in a fish tank?
whyusofat 17
Imagine grocery shopping then on your eating going home with only instant mashed potatoes in your hand u trip on a rice grain the splash goes the potatoes in the fish tank. -Sorry over active imagination :D
Random017 7
I don't know but it's better than trying to figure out why it would be done on purpose.
whyusofat 17
On your way*** Stupid auto correct
FUUUandyourmom 16
85, most fish tanks have lids now.
DataWog 30
Most NEW tanks have hoods. If you get a second-hand tank (which most people do since the kits are such a rip-off) it's about 50/50 whether or not there'll be a hood. My 30g, 25g, 10g, and most of my 5g tanks didn't come with hoods and have been open-top the entire time I've had them. In fact, only 2 of my tanks have ever had hoods. But even with this momentous lack of overhead protection, the only time I've accidentally dropped something into the tank was the time I knocked the bag of algae wafers off the shelf and could only get about 1/2 of them back out. Fish ate pretty well that day. And the next. And for about three more days after that. Had some water quality issues for a few days but after it was all eaten everything leveled out. Certainly nothing from the kitchen never made it into my tanks. I'm going with 'it was on purpose' and 'YDI'.
kotabones 0
Most fish tanks have lids correct? I don't see how it ws accidental. Oh well ydi
ssst42 1
Why would you do that?!
TheLoneWandererX 2
Because you touch yourself at night...
infamous1212 10
Shouldn't have spent all your money on the fish. Then perhaps you would have been able to buy them actual fish food. ;)
jemmers 13
Why on earth would you put instant potatoes into a fish tank? Do you hate the fish? Were you high? Yes to both I'm thinking. Big YDI there my friend.
rattusrattus 19
EPIC TALE TIME! Our intrepid Original Poster was walking from their pantry to their kitchen with their half-eaten packet of Smash, passing their glorious fish tank. But! Someone left a roller skate in their pathway. They trod on the skate and executed a sublime pratfall, the packet of Smash flying from their hands and landing in the tank with a splash. Poomf! Instant mashed potato and many scared fish.