Today, I only just found out that the abbreviation "lbs" is actually short for pounds. I've been saying "labs" my entire life. I'm 21. FML
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Today, I found out I've been misspelling my middle name for 25 years. FML
Today, at work I put myself squarely in the lame / old people category when I foolishly asked out loud what FML meant. FML
Today, at the age of 22, I found out that Wednesday has another D in it. Literally no one ever corrected me. FML
Today, I realized that since I was in elementary school, my friends, my workmates, and even my family, all call me accidentally by someone else's name instead of my actual name. I'm 30 years-old. FML
Today, I sent my resume to a place where I hoped to work at. Since the job requires me to be doing work on the run, I put on it that I have a laptop. The only problem is that I always thought it was "labtop." I didn't learn the correct spelling until my daughter called me an idiot, she's 6. FML
Today, I found out that I've been using a "Trick Scale" that my family bought to boost my self esteem so I'd think I was losing weight. I found this out at my physical, where I learned I have actually gained ten pounds. FML
Today, I found out that I've been pronouncing "quinoa" wrong for years. FML
Today, I was mistaken for an 8th grader because of my height. I'm 32 years-old. FML
Today, I learned that I've been saying a word wrong my whole life and all my friends have been too polite to correct me, when I found out that "Segue" and "Segway" are pronounced the same. FML
Today, stepping on a scale for the first time in years, I had to lift up my stomach to see the number. FML
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xSavaqee 12
I guess we all know you didn't pay attention in school.
J215B 33
I'm surprised that nobody ever corrected you before. You must have some crap friends.
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Comments (119)
siberianhamster 17
You're 21? Don't worry; you've hardly lived, and there's plenty of other mistakes waiting to be made.
spatula232 25
Wise words from a hamster
DArthurVaderian 18
Lol I love the reference #12 Fawlty Towers rocks!!!
Curtis66 19
anybody can make that mistake if they're not corrected fyl.
ileenefudge 29
How did you pass your classes without knowing that? More like how did you ever manage to pass your science classes(assuming you passed) without knowing that?
Feklfekl2222 32
I'm no expert on America but isn't science taught in metric?
ileenefudge 29
I think it depends on the science class? I know for sure all if not most of my classes used pounds and ounces ect. At least one grade teaches it in America for sure.
Welshite 40
I have a degree in the sciences. I'm more familiar with grams and kilograms than ounces and pounds. Liquid units such as pints and teaspoons confuse me, and I'm more likely to use milliliters and liters in conversation. But that's only because I'm in daily contact with these units. Most US citizens wouldn't know what .5 g or 15 ml look like.
chinaski7628 32
I'm assuming OP knows what the terms 'pound' and 'lbs' mean, just not how to pronounce the abbreviation (it is possible to know what something means but not know how to pronounce it). In that case, I can't see how a mispronunciation would affect a science grade unless it was an oral exam-- and even then it would probably just momentarily flummox the teacher, not earn a failing grade.
chinaski7628 32
I reread it and apparently she didn't know lbs meant pounds. I desperately wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. My point is still kind of valid.
Saraishi 25
This never made sense to me: you need to know the metric system in any science class and it's the norm in medical areas,why do use the other one (whatever it's called)?
fordneagles 34
#39, because the United States, Burma and Liberia are the only places in the world still stuck on the damn Imperial system... And the rest of us still have to allow for that. If I was president of the US, Imperial and pennies would be the first things to go.
justmeCee 16
That sucks that they don't teach metric in the states. In Canada (at least when I was in elementary and high school) we were taught both, metric and US imperial in math class.
DArthurVaderian 18
We are taught both in the US. Also, the Imperial system is only really used in the commercial area, and switching it out in one move would be extremely confusing to most people. Sports especially would be almost impossible to convert. Also, WHATS WRONG WITH PENNIES???
DArthurVaderian 18
Also #53 you know almost nothing about the US Political system if you think the president alone has the power to make such huge changes. You are thinking of Congress.
pwnman 33
Seems like a lab report on you should be made for your intelligence!
Migole 36
Wow...I'm not American and English is not my first language and even I learned this in school.
buckeye1 9
Did you do that based off of what you thought or was it that nobody ever told you exactly what it meant.
buckeye1 9
True. where is a L or B in the word pounds?
Jeisler 11
I can't comprehend the stupidity.
stupidface15 16
wow doc this is heavy
ericcrash 13
Well, lbs is an abbreviation for Libra which is pounds in Latin, if I'm not mistaken.