Today, I was having a great time shopping with my gran, until she started complaining about all the foreigners ruining our town, and counting each person who didn't look 100% British. It wouldn't even have been so bad if I wasn't adopted into the family, from Russia. 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 went to visit my senile grandma, since she's ill and nobody else in the family visits her. I ended up having to sit through a long rant about the Illuminati, black people, and how we'd have a cure for the common cold already if it weren't for "those god damned foreigners". FML
Today, I had to drag my grandmother out of a store because she went up to a black family and started apologizing for slavery. FML
Today, here in Canada, my father-in-law talked to me about how people who are "not Canadians" are destroying the country. He called me an "import" several times within the course of an hour. I've been a citizen for over twenty years. FML
Today, while on vacation, I met up with a friend I have been playing with online for years in person. She took me to her place and introduced me to her family. Her mom gave me a judging look, and her first and only words to me were, "You ain't getting your green card from her!" as she condescendingly walked away. FML
Today, my grandfather was counting all the grandchildren he had and saying how fortunate he was to have all of us. When I pointed out that he'd forgotten to count me, he turned and said, "You're adopted, you don't count as a real grandchild." FML
Today, we had a group of friends over, as well as my grandma. She started talking about me when I was a kid, when I suddenly heard her saying, "Well, yeah, she wasn’t a beautiful child, not at all, she looked.… OK." FML
Today, my mom scolded me for ruining my sister's "vacation" here. She just got deported from abroad, and was only gone for 2 months after falling for a marriage scam. Now she deludes to herself that she was born and raised there, and claims not to understand our mother tongue, calling it third world primate language. FML
Today, I was verbally abused by a tourist because neither I nor anyone else in my country can speak "proper English". We're in England - clue's in the name, dipshit. FML
Today, I was over my grandparents' house for my grandfather's birthday. For years they would talk to each other in Italian and I could never understand them, so I started to take an online class to teach myself Italian. Now I know all they talk about is how much they hate everything about me. FML
Today, my grandmother tried to lecture me about discrimination. This is the same woman who lies about her grandchildren's race, and tried to convince a Jewish person that the Jews were responsible for the Holocaust. FML
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Top comments
pieintheface 0
Russian accents are badass
hombrepollo 0
Don't worry.. Take the comforting words of Rebecca black... Everybody's Russian
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Comments (209)
Free_Candy 0
FYL, just FYL.
RabidBunny 10
The important thing is to never forget your roots, never forget who you are.
Carlie_McCartney 1
That feels like a quote from The Lion King...>_>
zenti 2
Nah, the Simpsons. Apu's mom, anyone?
HelloNoora1 0
lupe fiasco, that's what it sounds like
rkurdek 4
*cue inspirational music*
smurfman44265034 0
cool
happymelon 0
The old: a precious resource of minor racism.
HolyHandGrenade 4
Grandparents being racist? What a surprise.
bobbymullet 11
I had to read this like 7 times to understand it. apparently she still loves you so..ohh well.
geeksaresexy 18
OP is female...
shrimp1234 4
your grandma is kickass
fatalkiss 0
It wouldn't have even been so bad? Uh, yeah, it would have. Racist old ****.
goshpeople 4
You really think it's completely her fault for holding racist beliefs? Why do you think so many elderly people are slightly racist? They were TAUGHT to be from a very young age, in school and everything. Sure, she may be faulted for continuing to hold such views when most of society now condemns it, but it's extremely difficult to change deeply ingrained beliefs inculcated from birth, especially when you are already old. I don't think that makes her a ****. Just a sadly misguided old lady.
bwenduh45 7
Umm #57 I don't think she's THAT old.......
muchagente 5
apart from the language, which i do object to, i agree with 21.
Sheilatakeabow 0
Haha, I know a lot of grandparents like that. They firmly believe that if you're not 100% British you can leave, despite the fact that there's no such thing as a 100% British person.
kut19 6
There are millions of 100% British people since being British is a nationality, not a race.
NomOnShroomz 14
In Soviet Russia... know what? No! I'm not even gunna do it...