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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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Top comments
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)
ComicBookWhore 5
YDI for thinking American English is the ONLY English. You give grammar Nazis a bad reputation.
Bladeofarzeal 6
To all of you, who are blind... OP is a she, not a he, get your eyes corrected, you damn fools... -.- Sorry to hear that OP some just don't like getting corrected over fhe innernetz, more importantly they try to look smart, and will rage and hate when one comes along and corrects them.
lostfaithinpppl 19
You so deserve it, OP. If you are going to correct someone, at least make sure you are right. I wished I could click YDI more than once.
poppetpea 5
How ignorant of you! Do you not realise that there are other types of spellings of words other than what you think are correct! I find what you did very disrespectful.
ras24ras 0
Your fault stop correcting grammar
TheyCallMeDamien 18
Nobody likes a grammar nazi.
DanielleinDC 34
I'm sorry you got banned and that your posts are gone, but if you're going to be on an international forum--and I'm guessing it was--you should learn that people in other countries spell certain words differently, not to mention have slightly different slang.
ifailsobadly 18
I sure hope you weren't implying that non-americans are the ones using slang. BTW, OP, you spelt "favourite" wrong too.
iwadasn 33
404, you're just as bad as the OP. Americans aren't spelling things wrong when they use American spelling any more than British people are spelling things wrong when they use British spelling.
ifailsobadly 18
Of course Americans are spelling things wrong, seeing as they are different from the origin of the word which they are attempting to use. Americanisms annoy me, they just have to be different.
dtemple1110 6
*Spelt. Lol jk! ;D
sushi_face 4
When does the narwhal bacon?
vbmg152 19
Midnight!
Aoifexzx 3
Since when was learned the American spelling?