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World's Pitiful Unite at FMyLife.com

Joshua Sharp

Posted: Feb 12th 2009 6:38PM

Filed under: Culture, USC, Odd News

Put it down as one of the great message boards of our time. Great in the worst possible way.

Powered by shameless self-pity, adored for its pure, unadulterated entertainment value, and shared for its sheer addictiveness, FMyLife.com is destined to become a permanent resource to put your most disappointing days in their proper perspective -- even if it is a bit NSFW (not safe for work).

One user submits: Today, I received my passport in the mail. They got my birthdate wrong. Then I picked up my birth certificate that I had sent in with the application. Turns out my parents have been celebrating my birthday on the wrong day for 16 years. FML.

FML. Meaning, of course, F@!* My Life.

Though many FMLs involve relationship complications, others are just sadly sardonic about their patently unfair life: Today, my boss fired me via text message. I don't have a text messaging plan. I paid $0.25 to get fired. FML.

The site owners say they check each submission before publishing it online, attempting to weed out the exaggerated and the outright false. But there is no basement for the pitiful stories which populate this den of shared misery in the interest of public amusement, and some of these are so inconceivably horrible, part of me wishes they weren't actually true.

Today, the girl I love and I went to visit my parents out of state for the first time. My father grinned and acknowledged that she was a 'keeper,' at which she laughed and said we were 'just friends. I was going to propose to her next week. FML.

Factual or not, this site is remarkably therapeutic -- which is rather timely, given the current recession.

FMyLife.com. It will make any day seem infinitely better by comparison.