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A website inviting users to share tales of misery and humiliation has become one of the most popular sites in France, the Wall Street Journal reports. The editors of "Vie de merde"—roughly, "a crappy life"—sift through about 1,000 submissions a day and post those that strike a chord for being funny, original, touching, or some combination thereof. Typical: "My boss came into the office and asked me, 'What are you working on?' I replied, 'My departure.' He'd forgotten I had just been laid off."
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