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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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)
kpopfanatic93 6
"Learned" and "learnt" are the same thing. "Learned" is more commonly used by American English and "learnt" is normally used among those who speak British English. But, both are correct.
equius4life 8
I have a feeling this is Roblox because people there are so irritating there... once someone argued with me about wanting to use text language and no grammar in a rp... just no that's not how the english language works!
ImTheAlpha 30
Dude, that's a total YDI. Have you learnt your lesson yet? I'm American, and I prefer spelling it learnt.
InuwindoW 13
That's straight BULLSHIT!
mrpimpster 3
@121 "Torrent" is correct; look it up on dictionary.com and pay special attention to definition four. You just failed big time.
NBL_fml 8
Always google before correcting someones spelling.
fudgesicle14 0
Was it FML?
DazedSiren 5
Learnt, it's not a wrong word dummy. It's like irregardless. Not a proper word but made a word from inappropriate use of the English language. That's like correcting "lol". Next time do yourself a favor n keep your two cents.
Cinn_fml 23
...You're comparing "learnt" to "lol"? Really? One has been in the dictionary for a very long time, and the other is an acronym that can be pronounced as a single word.
DelphiCat 17
He's comparing learnt - the original and therefore technically more correct version of a word, to irregardless - word with an unnecessary prefix which has only been used in the last hundred years and my spell checker does not recognise?
downtime 13
138, Learnt makes sense, irregardless makes me want to punch something. How anyone was stupid enough to think irregardless makes any sense is beyond me. It's an obvious double negative, and anyone who uses it synonymously with regardless needs to be put down. Breathe in...breathe out...calm blue oceans calm blue oceans...
Cinn_fml 23
My bad, but yes, what Delphi and Downtime said.
giRLiNtErUpTed88 5
Learned and learnt maybe the same word but they are different tenses of the word learn. English speaking people, though proud of yourselves as that, should learn more about the language before trying to humiliate someone on the net cause common knowledge, it will end up biting you in the ass.
JadeWinter 16
You Americans are way too full of yourself to even consider that another country might do something that differs from you!
madcappd 4
Which is worse: Correcting someone's grammar without having been taught that the word is used differently in other countries, or making blanket hateful statements about an entire nation of people?
Levvy 22
Really? So, considering the numbers of them here who are fully aware of the "learned"/"learnt" distinction here whose posts you evidently can't read, I guess we're to infer you're illiterate?