Today, my college class was talking about Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from the edge of space down to earth. A boy suddenly put his head up and said in a serious tone, "I thought he jumped from the moon?" Several girls concurred. This is my generation. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my 5-year-old told me that she'd learnt about gravity, then asked, “So when you fall down, is it because the Earth punched you?” I said yes, along with a giggle. Later at the supermarket, she tripped and screamed, “THE EARTH HIT ME AGAIN!” I was then reminded of high school when it felt like everyone was staring at me. FML
Today, while teaching my high school class about astronomy, I showed them a picture of earth from space. One girl raised her hand, and asked me what the "white things" were. In other words, clouds. FML
Today, in astronomy class, a kid used Uranus in a hilarious innuendo. I was the only one who laughed. I also happen to be the teacher. FML
Today, I got a call from my 8-year-old's 3rd grade teacher. Apparently a question went around class asking, "Why do you think you were put on this Earth?", and my son answered, "My dad says it's because I swam the fastest." FML
Today, my friend took me tandem skydiving. When it was time to jump, he began crying, said he'd cut our parachute cords, then said "Goodbye, cruel world!" and pushed me off the plane with him strapped to my back. I pissed myself and cried like a bitch. He thinks his "prank" was hilarious. FML
Today, my whole family was so excited about watching the Artemis II launch and scolded me for not mustering more enthusiasm. Great, we can go to space now… so anytime someone talks about real issues like climate change or racism, we'll hear, "Well just go to space then" or "Space will solve our problems." FML
Today, I found out I was 13th in a graduating class of about 350 students. When I told my mother, without batting an eye, she told me, "Hey, shit floats". FML
Today, after giving a speech at college, I did the good ol' mic drop. The microphone fell with a loud bang that was heard through the clapping. FML
Today, a short guy asked me how the world looked "up there", as I'm really tall. I decided to lift him up so he could see for himself. I failed both times I tried, to the great amusement of everyone watching. FML
Today, while teaching juniors about black holes, I said, "Imagine everything being sucked into a black hole." An African-American student shouted, "I'd better start clenching!" Nobody took the lesson seriously after that. FML
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mowmowlife 21
It seems they don't understand the gravity of the situation.
flockz 20
if that was the case, screw jumping back to Earth. i don't want to live on this planet anymore anyway.
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Comments (192)
Horstradamus 6
Yes, and your generation includes YOU who apparently is also as dumb as a box of hammers. He didn't jump anywhere near "space". He jumped from the stratosphere, 24 miles above the earth. Space begins at 62 miles above the earth. Why are you posting about what you don't understand?
Horstradamus 6
Wrong. He messed up his lines and actually said. That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. He left out the word "a". History folks.
Horstradamus 6
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titan87 0
Doesn't surprise me in the least the only thing people now about today are there shows and what time they come on.
race2mars 4
He jumped from 23 miles in altitude. Space begins at 62 miles in altitude. There.
race2mars 4
*Your
nismo_r2 5
Bahahahahahahahahahahahhhaahhahahahahahah. Oh man too funny
sheogarth 3
he didn't jump from the "edge of space". because space is infinite. he jumped from the edge of earths atmosphere...
madman300 8
Hey wait a second... How the hell do you jump from the edge of space?
JackFaire 27
Meh don't worry about it much as we all like to pretend everyone we went to school with was brilliant we all had morons in our classes. I had a girl look at me frantic her cursor on file hovering over the print command one click away from actually printing and damn near having a panic attack asking me "Oh god how do I print?"