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)
gracehi 33
You should have learnt how to spell first.
iamyourgod 3
Really, it took you that long to realise the true coluors of the Internet?
starbucksguy 16
*colours But I like your point!
iamyourgod 3
My bad. I typed that on an IPhone and it took me several tries to get it to stop auto correcting. Guess I ended up miss spelling it in the end.
starbucksguy 16
Autocorrect on iPhones is a bitch...
mike3775 39
Who cares if they spelled it wrong. If I wanted to spend so much time checking for spelling mistakes on internet posts, I would become an elementary school teacher. The site was harsh on banning you, but talk to them, and maybe they let you back in.
Katshia 2
Hope you learnt your lesson :)
JasonEP 3
Boom!! Ahahahah best response ever.
Maygen 5
Well honestly why correct someone's spelling? What harm does it do you to read something that is spelt wrong? Especially when it's not really wrong, it's just that you're ignorant.
doodlecloud 27
Pretty sure both are acceptable...though isn't learned actually the more American version anyways? Maybe you should at least google things before having a go at other people.
doodlecloud 27
Oh my bad, you corrected to and not from the American spelling. My point still stands though.
Nevereverland 8
Thats a shame all your posts gone! Now you have a chance to start fresh.. maybe learn different types of spelling and grammar just for the sake of not getting banned again.
eddieyes 0
Can't believe you didn't know learnt , where were you educated
Faqtha 0
Guilty as charged. That still bs thou
randz 0
Poor you. Guess you learnt it the hard way