Today, I photocopied several hundred pages of my school's textbook because I didn't want to buy it. My school later says to just buy it and it will be reimbursed. FML
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Today, I bought a textbook for my college class. Not only is the £150 book only sold by our teacher, it turned out to be a piece of shit that he obviously wrote, printed, and stapled together at home. When I went to the faculty about it, I was told it's all perfectly legal, and to drop it. FML
Today, I bought my very first college textbook. I received a stack of hole-punched papers. My $195 "book" isn’t even bound together. FML
Today, I turned in my homework. Too bad I accidentally handed in the printed answer sheet I found online to copy from. FML
Today, after waiting two weeks for an email with my online textbook access code, it still hadn't arrived in time for my quiz tomorrow, so I ended up spending most of my money on the expensive physical copy. Not long after I got back home, the email finally arrived. FML
Today, my classmate told me she can copy an article from the internet and hand that in, as long as she cites it at the end. FML
Today, I went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
Today, I started at a new college. I bought my textbooks and went to my first class only to find out that they changed my schedule without telling me. I'd already opened the book. I could not get $200 back. FML
Today, after having too many projects for end of term, I asked to borrow my sister's paper that she used for the same class last year. After submitting it online, I found the example paper that the teacher handed out. My teacher used my sister's paper from last year as an example for us. FML
Today, my son got expelled after using the photocopier to photocopy his penis. He then used the copies to replace every directional arrow posted throughout the school. FML
Today, a student's parent yelled at me because they had to pay for school equipment their son had stolen from my desk. Apparently, it's my fault because the item was just too tempting for him not to steal. FML
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m0tl3ycru3 0
Way to go tree killer!
UpsideDownTurtle 6
Bind the photocopied pages together and sell it to the next un-informed student for cheaper.
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Comments (131)
PrimeStarscream 30
Reimbursed my butt! You pay 200 bucks for a book and you're lucky to get 50 back! It's criminal! Grrr!
louize_fml 0
Having those papers is messy. You just wasted time, money and effort.
Cmdr_Shepard 17
There's a wonderful invention that you may have heard of that will change how you buy books forever: the internet. Not only can you find textbooks for MUCH cheaper than bookstore prices, but you can also sell your book online and get way more cash than what the cheapy mccheapskates at the bookstore will give you. Think about it: I'm taking 5 psychology and sociology classes next semester. I just bought all my required books on Amazon.com for about $250. After I sell back the textbooks I had for this semester, I'll end up only paying $150. If I had gone to the bookstore, all my books would have easily been over $500. So before you decide to be an idiot again and copy a whole textbook (which is copyright infringement btw), just go online and see if you can get the book for cheap.
vbmg152 19
Idiot!
AmyWanker 2
Copyright infringement is a federal offense. You can legally photocopy only 10% of a book you own. Dumbass.
Okayitwasme 0
No, you did a good thing OP! I had the school tell me that before too, and guess what? I never saw a red cent! Not only that, they can't take it away from you and you can sell it to another student for less next year.
5upernova 3
You do know that it is illegal to photocopy them and if your professor catches you, they will force you to not bring it to class.
cheerforever27 0
you are just really stuiped wasting all those poor trees :(
floopyflooper 2
It's ironic that you spelt the word "stupid" wrong. Don't you think?
Donniehw 5
I have no idea what reimburse means so I cant post a funny comment or yell at this person for screwing mother nature....
shichi 9
Two problems with copying so many pages: - copyright infringement - if it's an essential textbook, it would probably come in handy beyond just the unit. In some cases, you can get away with copying portions of a book. In other cases, you're better off just buying it.