My Life is Polish: rocks
Completely random promotion: check out My Life is Polish - the site is hilarious, particularly if you are of Polish descent.
If you're not, I recommend keeping a bookmark to Google Translate's Polish to English engine to get some of the jokes painfully true stories.
Example: Today, my mom poured water into our shampoo bottle and said "no to wystarczy do konca tygodnia". MLIP"
The "punchline", automatically translated by Google is "no it is sufficient to the end of the week".
Close, Google, but the correct translation would be "now it will last until the end of the week."
You get the idea regardless, but I submitted a correction to Google anyway. It'll be interesting to see if they fix it down the road.
Some work even if you don't speak the language though: "Today,
I realized that all of my closest friends have been forced to memorize
at least 3 words in polish. By me. I quiz them every couple of weeks
and get angry when they don't get them right. MLIP".
And others will teach you a little about how the language works: "Today, I realized my cats names all magically turned Polish even after
giving them Americanized names. Marley has turned into Marlenka and
Ivan is now Ivanek Gegusz Malutki, there's also one named Bushka. MLIP"
Yet another set of categories serves to highlight the wonderful customs people have come to know and love: "Today, i was sleeping over at my friends house and i kept saying im not
hungry. 10 mins later her mom brings in a plate of little kanapki.
Never underestimate a polish woman when it comes to food. MLIP"
Is this a classier Polish version of FML? Absolutely. And it works marvelously.
Bonus "better translation by me" for you to enjoy: "Today,
My friend asked me out to "studniowka" ( POLISH PROM) . Excited i told
my mom about it. Her response " jak to ciebie zaprosil? nie zna innej
dziewczyny!!!" Thanks mom for caring :) MLIP"
The response was, "Why did he invite you? Does he not know any other girls?"
Stay classy.