Today, my college class was talking about Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from the edge of space down to earth. A boy suddenly put his head up and said in a serious tone, "I thought he jumped from the moon?" Several girls concurred. This is my generation. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my 5-year-old told me that she'd learnt about gravity, then asked, “So when you fall down, is it because the Earth punched you?” I said yes, along with a giggle. Later at the supermarket, she tripped and screamed, “THE EARTH HIT ME AGAIN!” I was then reminded of high school when it felt like everyone was staring at me. FML
Today, while teaching my high school class about astronomy, I showed them a picture of earth from space. One girl raised her hand, and asked me what the "white things" were. In other words, clouds. FML
Today, in astronomy class, a kid used Uranus in a hilarious innuendo. I was the only one who laughed. I also happen to be the teacher. FML
Today, I got a call from my 8-year-old's 3rd grade teacher. Apparently a question went around class asking, "Why do you think you were put on this Earth?", and my son answered, "My dad says it's because I swam the fastest." FML
Today, my friend took me tandem skydiving. When it was time to jump, he began crying, said he'd cut our parachute cords, then said "Goodbye, cruel world!" and pushed me off the plane with him strapped to my back. I pissed myself and cried like a bitch. He thinks his "prank" was hilarious. FML
Today, my whole family was so excited about watching the Artemis II launch and scolded me for not mustering more enthusiasm. Great, we can go to space now… so anytime someone talks about real issues like climate change or racism, we'll hear, "Well just go to space then" or "Space will solve our problems." FML
Today, I found out I was 13th in a graduating class of about 350 students. When I told my mother, without batting an eye, she told me, "Hey, shit floats". FML
Today, after giving a speech at college, I did the good ol' mic drop. The microphone fell with a loud bang that was heard through the clapping. FML
Today, a short guy asked me how the world looked "up there", as I'm really tall. I decided to lift him up so he could see for himself. I failed both times I tried, to the great amusement of everyone watching. FML
Today, while teaching juniors about black holes, I said, "Imagine everything being sucked into a black hole." An African-American student shouted, "I'd better start clenching!" Nobody took the lesson seriously after that. FML
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mowmowlife 21
It seems they don't understand the gravity of the situation.
flockz 20
if that was the case, screw jumping back to Earth. i don't want to live on this planet anymore anyway.
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LexieWins 0
A guy in my geography class once asked why the ocean doesn't boil if the sun goes down into it at night. Wtf is wrong with people?
NoOneCaresReally 8
A girl in my class once asked how big the continents were - she thought they were the size of the classroom.
CrewBoy 10
I convinced one of my old **** buddies that Buddhist Monks could actually float.
BellaBelle_fml 23
When I was in high school a girl asked, " So, if people have been on the moon why hasn't anybody gone to the sun?" My teacher looked at her with a 'WTF, are you serious?' look and said, "Because the sun is far too hot, they would burn up before even landing." The girl then replied, "So why don't they just go at night?"
hatesfate 6
This one time... ...no this isn't a pissing contest Btw 14 nice irony from your username to your comment.
Bekll 31
I have a friend who truly believes Big Foot is real. Btw, he's in his late 20s.
hannah_lynn 12
This girl in my class asked if water could catch on fire.
gc327072 31
88- you have class with Adele? Cool.
firefly319 7
I always feel like these people have a mother & father that are really brother and sister.
UncleFreddy 5
big foot is real dumbass.
AnyaS 19
119, I hope you're trolling.
skyeyez9 25
I think it would be fun to go along with it, and fill their head with more bullshit. Tell him he is a dumb shit and everybody knows the Sun just appears to set in the ocean due to an optical illusion....everybody knows the Sun sets in Arizona, near Flagstaff.
NoOneCaresReally 8
Oh crap, that's my generation too :(
AH1Zviper 15
Bravo.
zingline89 18
If you're going to quote the guy, please quote him correctly
BulldogHoops 14
I had a classmate yesterday ask how he "managed to jump off of earth" and if he just "went too far south and fell".
warfare32 9
Sometimes people don't know the full details. But it's common sense to know jumping from the moon is bloody difficult. And really pointless.
zingline89 18
Holy shit tell me you're not serious. It's not "bloody difficult", it's bloody impossible. On the moon, its gravity takes over and the earth's is irrelevant.
warfare32 9
I was going to put impossible, but I feared the Internet trolls who would try to prove me wrong. It's technically possible, but I don't care lol.
zingline89 18
I'm always open to being proven wrong, so please tell me how it's possible. The moon is 240,000 miles from earth. How can he "jump" to earth from the moon. You need a rocket to completely escape the gravity of the moon. And once you're outside of the moon's gravitational pull, you'd still be stuck in no-mans-land where the earth isn't pulling you towards it either. So, you can't jump from the moon.
batgirlsalterego 7
warfare32, I really hope that you are just joking ...
FMLTuna 6
zingline your understanding of physics is flawed.
LuckyLynx7732 5
Even if you could manage to jump off the moon, there isn't a suit in the world that would keep you from burning up during atmospheric re-entry.
DocBastard 40
IF you could jump faster than the escape velocity of the moon (which is 2.3 km/sec), and IF you could survive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, and IF you could slow yourself back down again, it would be possible. Unfortunately, all of these things are impossible, so it is impossible. Case closed.
ChakatBlackstar 29
I'm sorry, but the real concern here shouldn't be "is jumping from the moon impossible", it should be "how could he have gotten to the moon in the first place". Flying to the moon isn't exactly the easiest thing to do and tends to be fairly big news when it does happen. You would think they would have noticed the lack of news about such a feat.
Tuffay 14
It is possible... With the right spaceship!
hsRoseTyler5 14
My best friend asked me if the Great Wall of China was in Japan once. She said she'd like to visit it when she goes to Tokyo.
spiritfang11237 16
LOL If my friend asked me that I would've said, "Oh yeah and while you are in Tokyo checking out the Great Wall of China, you should just run over and see the palace Tzar Nickolas was murdured in. Take pictures for me?"
Krill97 19
My IQ level just dropped a bit
BulldogHoops 14
No it didn't.
Isoldael 27
Hrrrm... Thinking about it... Your IQ just got higher, since the average score of a nation should always be 100. :)
hotshot2626 9
Did you pull that number out of your ass? Or did you just feel good about it?
0RedPenguin0 8
The collective IQ of the entire FML community dropped about 7 points when they read this
DocBastard 40
Hotshot - IQ tests are designed so that 100 is the average. So I feel pretty damned good about that number.
ICastillo 25
Op you should have just gone with it and told them he jumped from the sun. Just see how dumb these people are.
MadameMerle 11
As if stupidity solely occurs in this particular generation. Retards have been and probably always will be among us. Face it.
lysx84 24
True, though this particular generation seem to embrace stupidity and have all the social media to spread it in. Previous generations silenced the retards. Or tried to.
LuckyLynx7732 5
Yeah, that is why organized religion has lasted so long.
gardenwhipped3 14
I am just happy they can read. Maybe someday they will try to pick up a book instead of a smartphone.
ChakatBlackstar 29
You know, some smartphones can download e-books now? So...they can actually do both at the same time now.