Today, I was writing a huge paper for a class as our last grade. My dog starts scratching himself. He hit the power button on the computer. Nothing was saved. FML
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Today, I was busy writing my English final paper and all of a sudden my computer just chose to freeze. I thought Microsoft Word would save it, but alas, 4 pages down the dumpster. Plus my earphones stopped working and I can't afford to buy a new pair. FML
Today, right after I finished writing a very important paper and saved it to my hard drive, my barely 2-year-old Macbook decided to completely stop functioning. I went to the Apple store and even they can't get it to turn on. That's $1500 down the drain along with my grade. FML
Today, I sat down at my computer for the first time in a week, and discovered that my cat had thrown up all over my keyboard. I needed to write up an important document but the chunks were stuck down in the keys, effectively locking it up and making it useless. FML
Today, I realized how much I'm on the computer. I tried to "CTRL+Z" on something I wrote down on my paper. FML
Today, my cat decided to use my keyboard as a scratching post, and now my computer won't work. FML
Today, my step-mom restarted the computer because she thought she'd downloaded a virus that stopped her from being able to click on anything, erasing my 7-page paper in the process. It turns out it was just the batteries dying in our wireless mouse. FML
Today, I finally finished my 500 page manuscript and so went out to buy some paper to print it off. I get back home and find out my dad has infected my computer with a virus and the only way to save it was to wipe the hard drive, which he did. That script took me a year and I have no backup. FML
Today, while trying to get my attention, my dog got her nail stuck in a usb port in my laptop. She freaked out and ran off, dragging it off my lap and through the house before if came off. Her nail was only slightly chipped- my laptop now has a cracked screen. FML
Today, I went to check my grade, which was posted for an essay for my comp 1 class. I got a zero. I was devastated only to find out I never actually clicked the submit document button. My grade dropped 20 points. FML
Today, I took a shower after I finished typing an important essay I've been working on for days. My computer illiterate mum shut the computer down when I was gone, without saving a thing. When I confronted her, she yelled at me for "wasting electricity". FML
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althemaster 16
Ans THAT'S why you should save every 2 seconds... No but that really sucks...
xxmollyxx 25
A new version of the dog ate my homework, cool :D Still sucks though!
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Draq 1
Name one decent word processing application released in the last 5 years that doesn't have autosave. Unless you were writing it in notepad or something, in which case you probably would've gotten a shit grade on it anyway. For any given paper I'll likely have about 5 different files open. One for notes, one showing the planned outline, one for citations, one for whatever else (likely a spreadsheet or something), and the main paper. Once the other four are complete and saved, the actual paper writing takes about 10 minutes a page. Lern2rite. By the way, all you anti microsoft sheeple, MSOffice is a damn fine program and the best office suite out there. I have openoffice on my home PC, and it's more unstable than grouphug writers. Anyway I call fake.
cthulhu1138 1
The last computer I saw that turned off the second you hit the power button was made in the 90s.
SomeGuy1234 0
ctrl + S, early and often, lesson learned. Oh and the guy above me, if you unplug the power cord or turn off the surge protector the computer will turn off right away. Oh and on PC's there's a switch on the back of the power supply that will kill power right away.
_FYL_ 0
WTF...ppl are right it auto saves dumbass, just reopen it. And how the hell does your dog hit the power button? For most computers you have to HOLD it down and then it turns off.. I don't believe this one..but many ppl are fackin dumbasses...
ObadiahtheSlim 2
Protip: Configure your APM (advanced power managment) to put your computer on standby. That way no lost work if you accidently hit the power button.
Fy0urlife 0
Its suppose to autosave when ur comp shuts off, everything is automatically turned on even websites
fdsaeiilatan 0
sucks for you, but have you never been taught to save every 10-15 minutes incase anything happens. and if you're using mircosoft word, it'll recover it for you.
FueledbyPanic32 0
YDI for not saving
LibbyBee 0
That really sucks, but it's not the brightest thing to NOT save. Seriously, weren't you told over and over in school to save your work every few minutes? Shouldn't your computer recover it anyways? You must have an ancient computer or something.
clams_rule0002 0
haha you need some k-9 advantix!!!