Today, two of my friends condemned me for being "narrow-minded", because I couldn't help but laugh at the thought that someone would believe mermaids actually exist. 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, my dad refused to believe that the Animal Planet's mermaid mockumentaries were faked. Instead he got into a huge argument with me, claiming the government is covering up the existence of mermaids and must've threatened the producers to keep it quiet. FML
Today, I babysat for two little girls, who wanted to play 'mermaids'. I smiled, and said that I would love to play with them. The older girl laughed, saying "You can't be a mermaid. Mermaids are pretty." FML
Today, an overweight coworker of mine was saying that her favorite mythical creatures was Mermaids, because she considers them graceful, carefree and aesthetically beautiful, like her. I absentmindedly blurted out, “Not with that body.” The word “Sorry” didn’t cut it for the write up I received. FML
Today, I found out my friends call me 'Shamu the whale' behind my back. FML
Today, I told a friend I had become more religious lately. He immediately started mocking me for being a "stupid creationist bigot." When I told him how offensive that was, he acted bewildered and started condescendingly lecturing me about how "science has proven God does not exist." FML
Today, my friend accused me of lying about being gay. Why? I happen to ship some m/f couples in the works of fiction I follow. According to her, gay people are inherently opposed to anything heterosexual, and therefore it shouldn't be possible that I like those ships. The kicker? She herself is straight. FML
Today, at the Mommy and Me dance class that I take my four year old daughter to, the instructor had us do a stretch, telling us to pretend we're mermaids. My daughter said to me, "But you're not a mermaid, you're a whale!" FML
Today, I found out that my friends have been "fake laughing" whenever I make a joke just so that the situation doesn't get awkward. FML
Today, at a dinner party, someone brought up astrology and I casually said I don’t really believe in it. One guest immediately accused me of being “emotionally closed-minded” while another started defending me like we were in a courtroom drama. I just wanted more soy sauce, not ideological warfare over moon signs. FML
Today, I was having dinner at a long-time friend's place. In a matter of 15 minutes, her mom had managed to establish unequivocally that three kinds of people were ruining the world: vegetarians, atheists, and homosexuals. I'm all three rolled into one. She knows that. FML
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Abenti 8
They actually did exist. They went extinct sometime in the 1500s.
buck33 14
Same with the unicorns.
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greeneye_fml 12
Your friends are idiots.
gregkingsley 4
They do exist dummy they hang out with Bigfoot by the shorelines.
mzcherrybaby 2
Someone needs to watch Animal Planet...
ChoolyBooly 32
It was a hoax. Declared later to be fake and merely a theory for if mermaids did exist. There is nothing that is true about it.
Derpenstien 4
It doesn't bother me that you think that. What bothers me is when someone says the same thing then runs off to church. How is one guy belief in small, unseen forces (like faeries) less valid than the belief of one massive, unseen, all-powerful force?
love_me_electric 20
Doesn't really surprise me, since the whole point of religion is "my God is the one TRUE God; your God is just make believe." Religion has been putting down the beliefs of others since it came into existence.
MandieL 27
Show me the proof that they don't exist...everything is possible unless proven otherwise.
NiktoLjubitTibja 2
The only reason I disagree with this FML is for the same reason I disagree with detractors of all personal choices: it doesn't matter what each person personally believes or lives as long as it doesn't affect a single other person. My being pagan doesn't affect anyone but me (no Christians are going to Hell because of me, no atheists are going to disintegrate just because I have a religion, etc), just like the next atheist's atheism doesn't affect me, but that person. Why should I care if some stranger is LGBT or not? Back to the FML, the OP had lived their life thus far just fine without knowing anyone believed mermaids existed, and they'll continue to do so. It doesn't matter that the OP doesn't believe in mermaids, because the people that do aren't going to affect their life any (they didn't before, and the past is indicative of the future). And as far as person-specific choices and lifestyles are concerned, if you are that heavily invested in someone's choices that has nothing to do with you, then you are seriously WAY too involved in people's lives (even creepier if they're strangers). If they're wrong, that's their consequences to suffer, not yours, so just let them live like they are, whether they believe in mermaids, deities, or the Purple Flying Spaghetti Unicorn.
DelphiCat 17
But the difference between believing in some religion or other and believing in mermaids is vast. Religions are based on faith, and whilst you can argue that gods aren't real because no one has ever seen them you cannot actually prove they are not real, because the entire system is based on the belief of the follower of the religion. Mermaids, like unicorns, gryphons, chimaera, dragons, and other creatures of myth would require not faith, but zoological, archeozoological, or palaeontological proof - there would be bones, fossils or living specimens - believing mermaids is real is not a question of faith, it is simple lack of knowledge, and whilst you could say OP was wrong to laugh at people just for being a little stupid, she is not being 'narrow minded' in the slightest. It is also in everyone's best interest to correct people who think such things, because you're not insulting their beliefs, you are expanding their realm of knowledge, and therefore saving them from future embarrassment and the judgement of others who will assume they are stupid for not knowing mythological creatures are not actually real.
hatingyourlife 1
Except you forgot that little part where religion isn't based on just faith, but faith that the religion they believe in is the only right answer.
mermaid_ariel87 5
They do exist!
Zacham 5
I actually broke up with my last girlfriend because of that. she was nice. but doesn't make up for the fact that she believed in mermaids
rose1122 6
then she doesn't deserve you.
flyingcakes247 3
still...80-90% of our oceans have NOT been discovered which makes it a huge possibility that mermaids may exist. If we have only explored a little amount of ocean, then why are we denying the fact that there might be something down there? Same goes for the universe. How can we deny aliens when we we've barely begun to search the stars?
gman90210 18
You need to start hanging out with smarter friends