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)
jeesh101 7
rofl, Americans always thinking they're right. And yes, that's definitely the correct use of "they're".
vashappin 8
It is spelt learnt dumbass you deserved it
Dilwann 27
Ahem, _dumbass_, both are right. Just like spelt and spelled. How would you feel about a ban and removing comments?
ShMo0o247 1
Good now you can go outside and do something
unicornpower56 7
LOL I think I saw that
AlwaysAndNever 5
I'm American and I still spell it as 'learnt'. There is no right or wrong just like 'color' and 'colour' or 'spelled' and 'spelt' I still use learnt, spelt, and color. But really, it's not wrong or right.
ItsCaydence 6
Sounds like IFunny... People are always getting worked up over nothing lol
caffeineneko45 8
Banishment was extreme, but correcting someone's grammar is just rude (although you probably weren't trying to be). So I'm going to have to say both YDI and FML.
gear4 29
******* American ..
einselar 6
And thus shall the grammar nazis burn. Because, you know, nazis.
Chris93Jones 20
I bet you learned your lesson