Today, I corrected someone who spelled "learned" as "learnt" on my favorite forum. Nothing could've prepared me for the torrent of abuse that followed from the non-American members. Now I'm banned for "trolling," and all my 7,000+ posts since 2006 are gone forever. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was on my favourite forum when I saw a guy ranting at some pro-lifer fanatic. For fun, I replied "umad bro?" apparently moments after the forum founder also left an angry reply. I'm now banned for a month for "trolling the founder" and all my posts have vanished without a trace. FML
Today, I posted on a forum asking if I could be a moderator. Instead, I got banned. FML
Today, I confessed my love for the girl I like, on the forum she moderates. She responded by banning me. FML
Today, I signed up to a Christian website in order to try and 'find God again'. I got banned. FML
Today, while drunk, my brother got on my computer onto my already logged in Wikipedia account and made a few bad edits. He got me reported for vandalism, sending abusive messages to other editors, and banned from editing, pending appeal. FML
Today, I learned that I may have caused a public speaker and author to be fired, because my response to his "open chat" question flustered him, causing him to lose his cool and snap at me. FML
Today, two American guys attacked me for not speaking their language. I'm from England, and they said I'm speaking my own language wrong. FML
Today, I made a Discord account for the first time and got banned, even though I hadn't even logged in. Like, how is that possible? FML
Today, I confidently corrected someone in a group conversation. I was wrong. Very wrong. Everyone stared while Google proved me incorrect in seconds. I nodded and pretended I meant something else. FML
Today, after nearly 19 years, my Facebook account was permanently disabled because I'd banned too many scammers. I admin 58 groups, for over 2 million members, and have banned 50k+ fake accounts. One of them apparently reported me, and since Facebook runs some fake accounts, it was easier to ban me. FML
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DocBastard 40
WHAT???! You mean the Internet isn't American?? You should totally sue!
nadnerbz 6
I hope you learned you lesson. Maybe learnt?
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Comments (502)
downtime 13
I think the point was that it wasn't a "correction" but rather a stupid comment. But that's just how I interpreted it, perhaps this person really did just stupidly suggest that only "learnt" is correct but that would just make me sad inside...
annafii 7
Learnt, earnt, burnt, dreamt, spelt, dealt, spilt...We brits do that a lot ;)
RebelYell14 4
You only think that's the sole reason you were banned. Sprinkle in some naive with your stupid.
Equin0x 0
Fail troll is fail
xgetxbentx 13
Well, I'm pretty sure "learnt" is also a word, lots of words meaning the same thing have to correct spellings. If you're going to be a grammar nazi, make sure you know that rule and what words it applies to. Without that knowledge, you just look like an ass. Besides, learned and learnt is like correcting someone for using "u" instead of "you". Unless the person's grammar is so horrible that you can barely understand what they typed up, there's no sense in correcting them. Well, you can also do it if they try to insult you and make simple mistakes, especially I'd they try to insult your intelligence.
Arch27 27
Large difference between language/regional spellings and internet-idiot shorthand. Color/Colour is nowhere near the same as u/you, wat/wot/what when it comes to correcting people. Someone who corrects "colour" with "color" is just stupid, while when correcting "u" with "you" the opposite is true.
stinkFist232 3
That does suck. Sad how learning opportunities are received so negatively...
Poster_Pastry 0
Yeah people get so pissy over that shit. I correct people all the time and they get mad and I am like 'what are you going to do when you get a job and your boss asks you to type something? Then what if he corrects your mistakes? what are you going to say?? you cannot cuss him out for correcting you.' people need to gtfover themselves
Poster_Pastry 0
I just love the insanity debates going on xD
ranga802 4
It's learnt!!! Lol
Arch27 27
Depends on where you're from.
syraxthered 5
That's what you get for being an ass, in order for this to have happened I can almost guarantee that OP did some cussin and name calling