Today, I was writing my rough draft of an essay, and I forgot how to spell a word. I waited for auto correct to help. I was writing on paper. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I was writing out palm cards and didn't know if I'd spelled a word correctly, so I stared at it for about 10 seconds waiting for spell check to tell me if it was right or not before I realised I was writing on paper. 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, I was so tired at work that I typed out "wherehouse" instead of "warehouse" in a document shared with my co-workers. It took me several seconds to realize why the heck the spell checker had underlined "wherehouse" in red. FML
Today, I was writing an essay while sleep-deprived. In between actually writing, I started typing my thoughts. It was only after I’d submitted the essay that I realized that I hadn’t deleted the random words. My teacher can see my early-morning rambling about potatoes. I have no way to delete it. FML
Today, after pulling an all-nighter on an essay, I submitted it one minute before the deadline and felt like a genius. Later, I reopened the file and discovered I'd uploaded the rough draft instead of the final version. The last line ended with “fix this later,” which was not my finest academic work. FML
Today, I realized I forgot to write a 5000 word essay for my English class. I tried to be calm since I had until midnight to finish, and it was only 8pm. I typed for three hours straight,and finished the assignment. I read over the instruction again, and realized it only had to be 500 words. FML
Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
Today, I misspelled the word "failure" in front of all my co-workers. Now I'm not given any writing tasks. FML
Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML
Today, I realized I had misspelled "Education" on all the resumes I've been submitting. FML
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alpaquette91 9
Oh the 2012 generation!
cradle6 13
I hope you remembered to save your paper every few minutes just in case! I mean, what if the power went out!?
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EmilyJoSmyth 4
I've seen this said somewhere before but I can't remember where.
bizarre_ftw 22
People have been asking for a while what will be the result of the fully electronic generation. Sadly, we must all turn and gesture to this
andythegreat 0
You need to go like 6-8 months without a cell phone, no computer. Pay for everything with cash. Just to somewhat remember how it is to not have all of that influence your daily life.
zack11289 3
Proof that smartphones are making people stupid....
iwadasn 33
That's why I refuse to buy one. Everyone I know who has one is ridiculously overdependent on it. Here's a fun game to play: temporarily remove an Apple fanboy's iPhone. Watch him twitch and lose his ability to function.
AzWolf 5
Ever hear of a dictionary? Look the word up!
miz_kamakazi 11
Paper? What's this "paper" you speak of?
xXRazelleLuniiXx 9
A substance that is usually written on with a pen or pencil, that is orginated from a tree.
miz_kamakazi 11
Um yeah, I was just kidding. Jeeze Webster, why don't you go look up "sarcasm". Maybe you'll get a clue. Then again, there are some things a dictionary just can't teach.
xXRazelleLuniiXx 9
No shit sherlock. While I do that, you should learn to take a joke. It's a really good trait to have.
NoxiousNorwegian 5
I'm not even sure that there is a correct response to this... Better luck next time ?!?!?
Jessic1 5
Are you a blonde??? I not do you die your hair?
xXRazelleLuniiXx 9
I do not understand why you people assume blondes to be stupid. I realize that I am being melodramatic about the subject, but it infuriates me. I say this as a blonde, who suprisingly, did not spell anything wrong!
MissRoxiie 12
What does hair has to do with intelligence? As a blonde myself, i'm getting really pissed of people discriminating blondes or womens in general. Oh and i guess your autocorrect was off because you managed to make two flagrant error in less than 15 words.
Jessic1 5
Well I am too so yeah
Jessic1 5
Well I don't assume that they are because I am a blond and I don't really mind it at all...
jth21 2
Sad..
iwadasn 33
And this is why your generation has no idea how to spell.