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Tell me your horror text Autocorrect stories please!

198 replies

Butterfly98 · 12/12/2019 23:22

Not a horror one but friend sent me a WhatsApp message earlier saying our Christmas tree is really nice as she saw it on DD's Instagram. I replied saying yours is really nice 'as well' but somehow the words 'as well' were changed to 'awful' and I didn't realise until I sent it! Was that the actual iPhone that autocorrected or WhatsApp? Anyway she has a good sense of humour and thought it was funny! Tell me your good and embarrassing autocorrects that you only noticed after you pressed 'send'!

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Jeeperscreepers69 · 14/12/2019 18:30

Eeee my god im rolling, 😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

SerenDippitty · 14/12/2019 18:33

I also know someone called Lexy and a very senior colleague replied to an email (with half a dozen people copied in!) ‘thanks sexy’ blush

Freudian slip if ever I saw one!

Dillydallyalltheway · 14/12/2019 18:37

I text my mum the other day to tell her I would be a bit late for coffee because I’d managed to book in for a last minute “wash and blow job!!”
She is still giggling about it.

thinkingcapon · 14/12/2019 18:46

Texting joiner re new dado rails in the house.......yip.....got it in one........DILDO rails........🤣

SilverySurfer · 14/12/2019 18:49

I rarely use my mobile but when I do Autocorrect is turned off. It it causes such a nuisance and/or embarrassment why don't you turn it off?

MrSnowmansCarrotStickNose · 14/12/2019 18:55

Not me but a girl I worked with sent an email to a client with a brain injury and finished it "Kind retards". She didn't notice until after she sent it.

lanbro · 14/12/2019 19:04

Years ago my housemate was at a concert with her lesbian sister and partner. Other housemate sent a text saying "let me know if you gays want a lift home "! Unsure if auto correct or her dyslexia to blame but was hilarious!

olbndansmummy · 14/12/2019 19:09

I was replying to an email to a large government body, (think hmrc, but not them) and ended with "I look feck off to your response" only when hubby asked me to read it later did I see what he was crying with laughter at. I did send an apologetic "I meant to say look forward" email, and the chap rang me almost as hysterical as dh was😳

Permanantlypuzzled · 14/12/2019 19:16

Anybody remember the boil in the vag post on MN a while ago.
That caused a lot of amusement.

ErrmWTAF · 14/12/2019 19:19

I was texting (what I thought was) the mother of two girls who had attended DS(9)'s birthday party, that we're leaving the venue and we'll be out at the nearby [duck] pond.

A. My very new phone apparently already had the measure of me.

B. It wasn't the mum. It was the dad...

Slazengerbag · 14/12/2019 19:21

I was having an argument with a school mum in text message. She was accusing my son of being with a gang of kids who beat her son up over a weekend. We were on holiday at the time so there was no way ds was there. She kept going on and I typed ‘look Wendy I am not having this conversation with you anymore. He wasn’t there and that’s it.’ Apart from it changed her name to wanker!! I maybe use the word wanker too much on text 😬

madeleineinlondon · 14/12/2019 21:55

I was emailing a friend I had never met in real life but knew from a forum (not this one). We were both self employed and anxious about getting enough work: she’d just told me about all the projects she was working on and I, very creepily, replied: ‘You sound lovely and busty’.

NameChangedForTheDay · 14/12/2019 21:59

I posted on Facebook that I'd smuggled my gin into the o2 Arena.

However, I later realised I'd actually been autocorrected to say I'd smuggled my 'gun' into the o2 Arena. 😲

NameChangedForTheDay · 14/12/2019 22:00

@Slazengerbag 😂😂😂

Hairybauble · 14/12/2019 22:02

An ex sexted me:

I can't wait to suck your tits and kick your puppy.

dudsville · 14/12/2019 22:04

I love "we should think about the furer".

I sent a text earlier that obviously intended to make me sounds really cool. I sent "are you coming yo?". Yo was meant to be "up".

Misskittyfantastico85 · 14/12/2019 22:13

I sent a message to my manager saying I was busy getting pregnant before my meeting.

*prepared, not pregnant, prepared

blacktiger · 14/12/2019 22:17

My friend once text me to say she was running late when she was picking me up on the way to a night out. Her text was "just nipped into Asda as I've pissed my tights". She meant ripped Grin

Clevs · 14/12/2019 22:25

Not really a horror autocorrect, but it made me chuckle. I found out after a night on the vodka with friends that 'Smirnoff' is replaced by 'poisoned' on old school Nokia phones. It was quite appropriate as I was texting a friend who had popped out to a shop for more supplies and we ran out of vodka whilst he was out. I definitely felt poisoned the next morning 🤢

GGsMumma · 14/12/2019 22:28

@nopoli that just made me laugh out loud

yetea · 14/12/2019 22:49

When it was a work colleagues last day I emailed our entire department asking if they wanted to bring the 'prozzies' out now. Not quite the goodbye we had planned.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 14/12/2019 22:57

I used to have a client called Hetty. She was very large. My computer spellcheck used to autocorrect Hetty to Hefty. On more than one occasion i sent her an email starting "Dear Hefty".

SidekickSally · 14/12/2019 22:58

An HR colleague emailed to say he’d just finished screwing the candidates.

He meant screening of course; he was mortified.

atomicnotsoblonde · 14/12/2019 23:47

My phone was unlocked in my bag and somehow sent a text to another school mom that said 'I'm watching you'.

I've genuinely no bloody idea how on earth it happened and she was really weird with me for the rest of the kids school life. Sadly this was in reception and she's still slightly off with me now in year 8!!!!

Mortified. 😳😳😳

vdbfamily · 14/12/2019 23:57

my first phone always used to come up with nun instead of mum on predictive text which led to some confusing emails.
I once texted someone to come round for a meal which predictive made into neck which again caused a raised eyebrow.
Most recently a few weeks ago, a friend texted me saying how sorry she was that my big brother had passed away. She told a couple of stories but where she had tried to write about my ' dear brother' it had actually autocorrected to my ' dead brother' . I really hope she never noticed as she would have been so embarrassed. Not sure if I have a warped humour but it actually made me laugh.

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