Switched has a new home! Huffpost Tech.

Click here to visit the new home of Switched!

Hot on HuffPost Tech:

See More Stories
AOL Tech

'Crappy Life' Site Details Your Daily Humiliations

by Peter Mychalcewycz on March 24, 2009 at 10:26 AM


Life's little indignities add up, so you'd better be learning how to laugh at them. The French are.

"Vie de merde," a French Web site that revels in humanity's daily humiliations (the name literally means "A Crappy Life"), provides readers the chance to indulge in other people's tales of misfortune. It is, not surprisingly, one of the most popular Web sites in France, and has seen its readership grow to more than 70,000 people, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Web site, founded by 20-year-old Maxime Valette, started out as a way for Valette to vent his own frustration at life's little annoyances. The site really began to grow when he invited outside submissions. Stories began flooding in, and a lot of them were hilarious. Take this one, for example: "I came home starving the other day, opened the fridge, and gobbled up some paté I found... An hour later, my girlfriend called to ask what I'd done with the leftover cat food."


Valette and his team personally select about a dozen premium stories from the thousand or so submissions they get each day. The site currently has 7,200 vignettes on display out of the near 400,000 stories that have been submitted. To be selected for display, submissions must be original and funny, and not concern accidents, serious illness, or death. Aside from that, anything goes.

Vallette and company have recently started an English-language version of "Vie de merde," called "F My Life." It follows the same premise as the original and is just as funny (and we can understand it). So point your browser in that direction and start feeling that soothing catharsis. [From: WallStreetJournal]


Related Links:

Tags: france, french, frustration, trends, vie de merde, VieDeMerde

Comments

2

Add your comments

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.

HuffPost AOL Social News Most Popular