Today, I was talking to a group of friends about the various problems in Africa. One of them interrupts me and asks with a straight face, "If it's so bad over there, why don't they all just leave?" 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 complaining to my friend how I was doing all the work in my group, and that they were getting all the credit. Her response? "It's OK, you're doing a shitty job anyway." FML
Today, while on the bus, I started a conversation with the person next to me. After a little back and forth, she finally said, "Do you think people will stop talking to me if I say I have AIDS?" FML
Today, I couldn't say a single sentence without being interrupted or having the conversation hijacked into a monologue of past grievances by family members against people they have issues with. And they wonder why I hide in my room all the time… FML
Today, I asked my friends what they thought was my biggest problem. All of them responded, "You're boring." I don't deny it, and I certainly did ask, but… Ouch. FML
Today, my husband ended an argument with, "Do you want to know why people don't like being around you?" FML
Today, my coworker keeps loudly saying things like, "Oh, now THIS!" If I don't ask, "What?" she pouts. If I do ask, she tells me, at length and with very bad grammar, how every one of our colleagues and partners is either stupid, rude or out to get her. FML
Today, I heard a teenage boy ask his friend, "So, is it, like, November in Australia too?" This is the future of America. FML
Today, I realized I could say nothing in my home without being interrupted, talked over, or the subject derailed into a 30 minutes monologue by my housemates. And they wonder why I'm so quiet all the time… FML
Today, while teaching my history class, a girl asked me where North America was. She lives in North America. FML
Today, the laziest person in my department came and complained to me, while I was working, that they didn't know why we were so far behind today. Then they went to chat to their friend for 45 minutes. I know why. FML
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YayFlameWarz 9
Uganda be kidding me!
hansbo 6
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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Ray_of_midnight 23
Well, emigration *has* repeatedly been a response over the centuries to all kinds of distress, including economic hardship. That's how the bulk of the USA's population got here, after all. The problem is one of scale. It doesn't work to do that with an entire continent of people. Emigration due to economic hardship is kind of interesting, really. You have to be badly enough off to want to leave everything and everyone you know behind, but you have to be well enough off to accumulate the surplus wealth for a plane ticket and to set yourself up in your destination country until you find gainful employment. And you can't be the victim of generations or centuries of systemized discrimination and oppression, either, to the point where it's extinguished all hope of ever helping yourself.
DKjazz 20
Wow, what an insightful comment. Thank you.
ninjduck 0
My brain hurts.
EG14_fml 8
Far too long for me to read...
sqeakyclean 7
Cool story, bro.
docscientist 10
Your friend obviously doesn't understand the concept of limited resources.
rattusrattus 19
Well they could move! To the country next door, which is probably just as impoverished/corrupt/war-torn/all of the above as the one they just left.
KoolKat369 5
Umm... They were talking about Africa, and umm... How do I put this nicely? Umm... It's a continent hun! Not a country. :)
zach2173 4
Actually its also a country.
zach2173 4
Actually its also a country.
Marteeny23 19
Actually it's not....
nfjskcbdkdjdjdn 2
I believe you have mistaken Australia for Africa.
Heinousness 0
Your friend must be stupid.
ElegantisDM 0
"My friend is a dumbass. FML" Your life must suck sooo much.
ninjduck 0
Damn Kony.
cajunjynx 0
Kony died in 2009.....
nolan13 4
Hey Kayla you're pretty cute. We should text.
hotforkegger 4
Amen to that lol why would anyone want to live there? Just kidding ppl dont jump down my throat
Awes0meperson 10
*facepalm*
FUCKNAMESBREH 0
That's a Jeremy Clarkson moment.
ssnowywinter 0
I can totally see him saying that. Except, with him, we all know he'd be saying it to be funny.