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   LifeSucks.com...

I catch a lot of trains. That means I see a lot of poster advertising at the stations. One campaign that has been particularly annoying in recent months reads Life Sucks Now Has A Website.

Excuse me? Have you guys ever visited the internet? "Life Sucks" has been a predominant theme since the place first appeared. It's primary website was originally the free web hosting places like angelfire and geocities, but in the last many years, "Life Sucks" has well and truly belonged at livejournal (and to a lesser extent blogger, which I use as my interface here).

I know, you're trying to help people by telling them that someone has set up a website to help people with depression, kinda like the various helplines that exist. But really, couldn't you have chosen a slogan that is a little less redundant. As long as the internet has existed, people have used it to complain about how much their lives suck, and you just make me laugh when you should be invoking sympathy.

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