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Brain fart

Anonymous - 27/01/2010 18:09 - United States

Today, the speakers on my laptop weren't working. I worried I'd broken something, and started freaking out. I restarted my computer numerous times and played with the settings for an hour before calling my sister in to help. She looked at it for two seconds, then unplugged my headphones. FML

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burnnotice - 19/09/2009 14:10 - United States

Today, I was trying to turn on my computer and couldn't. I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out what was wrong when I finally called my husband for help and made him leave work. He came in, looked at the wall, and plugged it back in. The look on his face said it all. FML

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aireun - 09/07/2009 05:33 - United States

Today, my laptop plug got stuck in the wall outlet. I stood there for 10 minutes violently trying to yank it out. My boss came in and screamed at me for making noise. I was angry, so I glared at him and yanked on the plug as hard as I could. It dislodged itself noiselessly and I fell over. FML

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Occam's razor

Lolololo - 18/08/2024 09:00 - Canada

Today, I called tech support because my new computer wasn’t turning on. After a long while on the phone, they finally asked if it was plugged in. It wasn’t. I spent way too long troubleshooting with a dead device because I never plugged it into the outlet. FML

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PC doctor - 01/04/2022 12:00 - South Africa - Kimberley

Today, I restarted my PC a few times because of a little clicking noise coming from the direction of the tower. No, my hard drive wasn't doing a death rattle, it was music coming from ear buds lying beside said tower on the desk. FML

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Anonymous - 01/12/2010 08:35 - United States

Today, I tried to fix my laptop charger by fiddling around with it using metal tweezers. Not only did I forget to unplug the cord and shocked myself, I also ended up breaking the charger completely. FML

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Username - 15/12/2010 17:22 - United Kingdom

Today, I was listening to music while I wrapped Christmas presents. All was going well when the music was cut off, literally. I snipped the cable to my very expensive headphones in half. FML

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Anonymous - 27/11/2012 05:06 - United States - Appleton

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

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Anonymous - 18/04/2025 03:00 - Netherlands - The Hague

Today, I bought new earphones for my phone so I could finally listen to music again. Not an hour later I broke it. FML

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dtmm - 22/01/2023 20:00

Today, I was listening to my music on my phone through my Bluetooth wireless headphones. While listening, I turned my music and the power on my headphones off for a bit. I thought I'd lost them when I got home. They were so loosely fit over my ears that I felt like an idiot when I realized they were still on my head. FML

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Anonymous - 16/12/2024 05:00 - United States

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

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cronatoes 0

Wednesday 27 January 2010 23:27

congrats, your now a certified tard.

xosKsxo 0

Wednesday 27 January 2010 23:21

ahhh lmfao sorry that one made me laugh

conversationist 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 0:13

way to fail. i hope you don't drive and just "happen" to miss that tiny little red octagonal thing on the side of the road...

DonkeyDelight 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 0:15

Your life must be so hard. I don't know how you could possibly go on.

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Thursday 28 January 2010 0:22

glad someone was there to help you out. you might want to keep someone at your side.

Tahsis 4

Thursday 28 January 2010 0:23

I did it once. It took me two minutes to fix it.

Shokz992 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 3:50

Two minutes is still a very long time to take figuring it out... :/

justcantlivealie 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 0:24

thanks for making me laugh!

Via_Was_Herree 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 0:26

lmao ydi that one. sorry.

deathsled 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 0:27

I'm impressed that during all your "troubleshooting" which included messing with the volumes that you never heard audio coming out of your headphones even if they were just sitting on your desk.

pandemic_fml 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 2:48

This. I don't have speakers hooked up to my desktop, but if I plug in my headphones and turn the volume up, it works just as well for my purposes. I don't even have to wear them.