Miscellaneous: Today, I finished up my physics project. I had to make some thing...

By Physics fail. - 11/11/2009 19:09 - United States

Today, I finished up my physics project. I had to make some thing out of toothpicks and glue that will keep an egg from breaking when dropped 20 feet. It took me 10 hours to make it, but only took my dad 10 seconds to step on it and break it. It's due tomorrow. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/04/2016 00:12 - United States - Yorktown Heights

Today, after working like a caffeine-fuelled thunderstorm for 9 hours straight on an art project, my 2 friends informed me that it was due next week. I slept for 10 hours, and then went to my class without my project, thinking I lucked out in the long run. Clearly not, as it was due today. FML

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By alex - 24/02/2012 21:35 - United States

Today, I tried to make a rocket, using Diet Coke and Mentos. It worked pretty well, as both the kitchen window and my chipped tooth can testify. FML

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By Anonymous - 12/01/2011 18:47 - Ireland

Today, I was taking my architecture project to school. I'd spent days preparing my little model house. I stepped outside with it in my hand, and right at that moment a gust of wind ripped it away. It's currently lying in my neighbour's garden, smashed to pieces. FML

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The Blob

By Anonymous - 16/11/2020 17:02 - Germany

Today, I cracked an egg which turned out to have an extremely thin shell, so at first contact with the bowl, it came apart in my hand and the contents glooped right through my fingers, all the way down the kitchen cabinet, into a half-open drawer, as well as onto the floor and underneath the cabinet. FML

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Opening old wounds

By Anonymous - 28/08/2021 12:01 - United States

Today, I was cleaning out the garage and found one of my old science fair projects. It was disqualified for outside help and cheating. I didn't do either. FML

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By Anomaly - 03/03/2015 02:43 - United States - Trenton

Today, I saw a person in my class completing a project that was due two periods later and that they had just started in the bathroom. They got a better grade than me. FML

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Working too hard!

By Sudoc - 03/12/2017 05:00

Today, after spending 6 hours straight working on a project at school, I decided to call it a night. The instant I set foot out of the lab, the building started screaming. The maintenance guy had set the alarm without telling me. The police had to let me out. FML

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By Anonymous - 05/04/2022 10:00

Today, I proudly put on display the custom clock I'd spent 3 months building from scratch. It struck the hour and promptly fell off the wall, breaking my wife’s antique vase that she'd inherited from her great nana. FML

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By S. - 26/08/2012 16:20 - Estonia

Today, I bought a pack of toothpicks. There were 500 of them. When I got home I accidentally dropped the pack. After twenty long minutes of picking them up, I dropped them again. FML

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By Anonymous - 21/02/2012 19:24 - Germany

Today, my sculpture, which is very important for my art grade, fell from my desk and broke to pieces. My art teacher suggested I soak the parts in water to make it easier to stick them back together. They dissolved. FML

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bobtea 1

Wednesday 11 November 2009 23:35

YDI for leaving it on the floor.

LemonFairy 0

Thursday 12 November 2009 3:45

FAIL people. Re-read the FML. It's for physics, and must be made of toothpicks and glue. Toothpicks and glue. Have that key fact down? Good.

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mouseclicks 0

Friday 13 November 2009 7:55

Holy shit, I just went through almost the exact same thing as you a week ago. Physics - same project, and everything. Toothpicks, and glue only. What are the chances? :) But, I was desperate enough to win in my period, so I became over-confident and pre-tested my container. The egg survived, the container...not so much. :( And I didn't have enough time to rebuild the crushed parts on the bottom-left for the next morning. But, dear god. What is with all of the retards on FML. He said the only materials allowed were toothpicks and glue. Honestly, we don't care or give a **** how special you feel, or how much you want to brag about that super duper project you made in 5th grade. In the U.S. (or at least Cali, where I'm taking my physics course), Physics is typically an 11th grade class! Obviously, it's going to be plenty more complicated that your stupid elementary school project. It's already been repeated 20 times in the comments, and in the OP itself that the ONLY MATERIALS ALLOWED WERE TOOTHPICKS AND GLUE. This challenged the student to be able to calculate impact force, incorporate the velocity formula with the displacement from when its dropped, mass, and determine/ estimate how their container will protect the egg. My project also took several hours like the OP. All of you kiddies who think it's so easy, just because you attached a ******* parachute or stuck in some styrofoam around your egg in 3rd grade, GET OVER IT. 11 grade physics in comparison to you stupid elementary school project which was 10x easier. TOOTHPICKS AND GLUE ONLY, YOU ******* RETARDS. God. I'm still in disbelief how stupid so many of you are (not to mention, so many of you trying to call the OP a dumbass can't even spell, rofl. Read carefully next time.)

Shuinoshina 0

Saturday 14 November 2009 6:04

He is a dumbass, you dumbass. He left his shit on the floor to get stepped on by his father, so he deserves it. Also TL;DR, no one cares about your rants and butt-hurt.

CheeseHater 23

Saturday 14 November 2009 11:25

You should see this as an opportunity; now you actually have a reason to kill that father of yours.

lovergirl7 1

Wednesday 24 March 2010 3:06

#48 you look high :)

shannieerawrr 0

Saturday 11 September 2010 14:26

dear #113 ... STFU, thankyou

Illyssa_fml 4

Friday 17 September 2010 15:07

haha! wow some ppl don't know how to read. The assignment had to be done with only toothpicks and glue..not balloons or foam or anything soft. Toothpicks and glue!! haha.