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Staying at all day gives me lots of time. I know I am supposed to be spending it on productive pursuits, but sometimes the internet is just too seductive. One of the apps I have on my iPad is Stumbleupon, which brings up random websites based on interests that you put in. Stumbleupon for sure can be addictive.

One of the first sites I found was “fmylife.com.” “F” of course stands for the “F word” which young people are so proud of putting in front of other words. Like “Wow, this f…ing pot is so f..ing great” or “F.. man, I told my f…ing boss, ‘what the f…’”. “Fmylife” of course is for people who are bemoaning the horrible lives they are living and in this case the epithet seems to fit well. After all “Mybadlife.com” just has no appeal at all.

If only a fraction of the postings on here are real, some people have really, really bad lives. I mean much worse than anything that has ever happened to you probably. Here is a recent one:

“Today, I held an open house. Not wanting anything to be stolen I loaded up all valuables in my car (money, prescriptions, computer, iPod, etc) and went out. My car got stolen. Nobody came to the open house. FML”

Oww. Now that is some bad stuff. But the relationship stuff is what really hurts. Check out this one:

Today, my girlfriend of 4 years broke up with me. She took everything, including the kidney I gave her a year ago. FML

That really hurts, in more ways than one. Some of them are painful, but funny if it didn’t happen to you.

Today, I learned that if you stare down an attractive man while pumping gas, he'll stare back. Then he might ask for your number. At which point his girlfriend will get out of the car and threaten to kick your ass. FML

Or

Ok, that’s got to be made up, right?

Today, I saw a hot guy at the laundromat. Wanting an excuse to talk to him, I tossed a pair of my red underwear into his washer. What I didn't realize was that he was washing his whites. Thanks to me, he now has an entire load of pink shirts and boxers. FML

Now that last is one that you can check a box to say whether the person’s life really sucks or that they deserve what they got. She deserves what she got; if the guy is on Fmylife, he gets sympathy.

This is just one of the many great websites you can find if you don’t work and sit home all day with nothing really to do but wrestle with your own thoughts. I am just hoping that as time goes on I do not post anything on there.

# posted by Miles Madorin : 3:51 PM