Today, I had to present a program to my supervisors in University. Not being a native English speaker, I used my own invented abbreviations for parameters in the program. Apparently STD is not an appropriate abbreviation for "standard deviation." I can still hear them laughing. 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, I "answered" an email instead of "forwarding" it. As a result, there is a chance that my Master's thesis supervisor gets a message from me starting by the F-word, and complaining about my bad work and inability to understand a deadline. FML
Today, my supervisor forced me to bring the image of a failed simulation to the group meeting, because he thought it looked funny. So did the others and it's now going on our webpage. I have to provide a scientific description of how I made a mistake in my code. FML
Today, I pronounced FAQ as 'fuck' to my boss. I'm not a native speaker. FML
Today, while not feeling well at work, I had to finish up some papers. I was so out of it, I couldn't remember how to spell my name. I had to improvise by pronouncing each syllable of my name out loud. My boss now thinks I'm a dumbass. FML
Today, I was warned that I was failing too many students and it had to stop, so I showed my boss all of the easy assignments a lot of students didn't even turn in. She told me to stop using so many "big words" in them. I teach at a four year University. FML
Today, I presented the worst seminar presentation probably in the entire history of my graduate department. I kept stumbling over questions, and overall, making an ass out of myself. I probably should leave my masters program at how thoroughly I burned myself. FML
Today, I wanted to look clever during a work meeting, so I used a thesaurus to find a fancy word for “important.” I ended up calling a project "pivotal" but mispronounced it as "pee-votal" in front of everyone. FML
Today, a tourist from an English-as-second-language country taught me a new word. In English. 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 went for an interview at a great company. Everything was going well until I tried to demonstrate my knowledge of their industry by using a technical term. Turns out I'd completely misunderstood the term and used it in the wrong context. The interviewer raised an eyebrow, and I could see "Don't call us, we'll call you" flicker in their eyes. FML
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Pleonasm 36
They were all like " WTF LOL."
zingline89 18
Did they Clap?
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setsuna9 25
that seems like a perfectly acceptable abbreviation. I've seen it like that before. And, besides, std is also the abbreviation for standard.
CocaColaPepsi 13
If your not a native English speaker then how would you write this FML? You're such a liar!!
bellaboo95 4
Actually that is the proper abbreviation for standard deviation. The people in your class just must be immature lol
TheOath 12
I did the same in math once on a test by accident because it was so long to write it out. My teacher circled it and wrote, "What the hell??" What I write now is St. Dev. I hate stats..
Neligee 9
Lmfao ! Hilarious !
senor_awesome 14
Well, obviously it doesn't stand for standard deviation! It stands for Self Taught Drummer! I swear, kids these days...
FlyMeAway 2
Not your fault OP. just next time I'd briefly research your terms before using them:)
humorizer 14
Joke's on them! They're called "STI's" now!
LexieWins 0
I think they were just laughing at you saying STD, with your accent. That's all.
september1395 7
I use std dev to abbreviate standard deviation>.<