Miscellaneous: Today, I was having a great time shopping with my gran, until...

By Foreigner - 01/08/2011 15:05 - Jersey

Today, I was having a great time shopping with my gran, until she started complaining about all the foreigners ruining our town, and counting each person who didn't look 100% British. It wouldn't even have been so bad if I wasn't adopted into the family, from Russia. FML

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By Anonymous - 17/09/2015 17:28 - United States - Macon

Today, I went to visit my senile grandma, since she's ill and nobody else in the family visits her. I ended up having to sit through a long rant about the Illuminati, black people, and how we'd have a cure for the common cold already if it weren't for "those god damned foreigners". FML

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Overcompensating

By daddy's girl - 22/01/2013 04:08 - United States - Springfield

Today, I had to drag my grandmother out of a store because she went up to a black family and started apologizing for slavery. FML

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Shitgibbon

By Anonymous - 28/09/2021 05:01

Today, here in Canada, my father-in-law talked to me about how people who are "not Canadians" are destroying the country. He called me an "import" several times within the course of an hour. I've been a citizen for over twenty years. FML

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You deserved it 105

By Anonymous - 04/08/2009 12:02 - Singapore

Today, my grandfather was counting all the grandchildren he had and saying how fortunate he was to have all of us. When I pointed out that he'd forgotten to count me, he turned and said "You're adopted, you don't count as a real grandchild" FML

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Faint praise

By Anonymous - 09/06/2021 12:02 - Romania - Iasi

Today, we had a group of friends over, as well as my grandma. She started talking about me when I was a kid, when I suddenly heard her saying, "Well, yeah, she wasn’t a beautiful child, not at all, she looked.… OK." FML

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Delulu

By Favorite - 13/11/2023 15:00 - Philippines - Makati City

Today, my mom scolded me for ruining my sister's "vacation" here. She just got deported from abroad, and was only gone for 2 months after falling for a marriage scam. Now she deludes to herself that she was born and raised there, and claims not to understand our mother tongue, calling it third world primate language. FML

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You deserved it 88

By Kayak - 29/12/2013 23:23 - United Kingdom

Today, I was verbally abused by a tourist because neither I nor anyone else in my country can speak "proper English". We're in England - clue's in the name, dipshit. FML

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By mike - 10/07/2013 07:51 - United States

Today, I was over my grandparents' house for my grandfather's birthday. For years they would talk to each other in Italian and I could never understand them, so I started to take an online class to teach myself Italian. Now I know all they talk about is how much they hate everything about me. FML

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By secretsmakefriends - 15/10/2013 21:43 - United States - Vashon

Today, my grandmother called me in a fit of panic because her new neighbors are black. So is my fiancé, whom she is supposed to meet tomorrow. FML

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Who are you?

By forgotten - 02/10/2009 07:46 - United Kingdom

Today, being the nice grandchild that I am, I went to visit my grandmother. She didn't recognise who I was. I thought she was joking. She later called the police as, "Some weirdo had walked into her house." I'm that weirdo; she wasn't joking. FML

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pieintheface 0

Monday 1 August 2011 19:02

Russian accents are badass

hombrepollo 0

Monday 1 August 2011 19:06

Don't worry.. Take the comforting words of Rebecca black... Everybody's Russian

Comments

Free_Candy 0

Monday 1 August 2011 19:06

FYL, just FYL.

RabidBunny 10

Monday 1 August 2011 19:07

The important thing is to never forget your roots, never forget who you are.

Carlie_McCartney 1

Monday 1 August 2011 19:20

That feels like a quote from The Lion King...>_>

zenti 2

Monday 1 August 2011 19:48

Nah, the Simpsons. Apu's mom, anyone?

HelloNoora1 0

Monday 1 August 2011 21:55

lupe fiasco, that's what it sounds like

rkurdek 4

Tuesday 2 August 2011 13:34

*cue inspirational music*

smurfman44265034 0

Monday 1 August 2011 19:07

cool

happymelon 0

Monday 1 August 2011 19:07

The old: a precious resource of minor racism.

HolyHandGrenade 4

Monday 1 August 2011 19:07

Grandparents being racist? What a surprise.

bobbymullet 11

Monday 1 August 2011 19:08

I had to read this like 7 times to understand it. apparently she still loves you so..ohh well.

geeksaresexy 18

Monday 1 August 2011 21:47

OP is female...

shrimp1234 4

Monday 1 August 2011 19:08

your grandma is kickass

fatalkiss 0

Monday 1 August 2011 19:08

It wouldn't have even been so bad? Uh, yeah, it would have. Racist old ****.

goshpeople 4

Monday 1 August 2011 19:50

You really think it's completely her fault for holding racist beliefs? Why do you think so many elderly people are slightly racist? They were TAUGHT to be from a very young age, in school and everything. Sure, she may be faulted for continuing to hold such views when most of society now condemns it, but it's extremely difficult to change deeply ingrained beliefs inculcated from birth, especially when you are already old. I don't think that makes her a ****. Just a sadly misguided old lady.

bwenduh45 7

Monday 1 August 2011 20:02

Umm #57 I don't think she's THAT old.......

muchagente 5

Monday 1 August 2011 20:50

apart from the language, which i do object to, i agree with 21.

Sheilatakeabow 0

Monday 1 August 2011 19:11

Haha, I know a lot of grandparents like that. They firmly believe that if you're not 100% British you can leave, despite the fact that there's no such thing as a 100% British person.