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[[File:Sticker art in Sydney - 2025 d.jpg|thumb|255x255px|A variation being used in sticker art. "SILVA" is the tag of the sticker artist. Sydney, 2025]] | [[File:Sticker art in Sydney - 2025 d.jpg|thumb|255x255px|A variation being used in sticker art. "SILVA" is the tag of the sticker artist. Sydney, 2025]] | ||
The term is used on the back of a car sticker in the episode [[Speed 3]] of Father Ted | The term is used on the back of a car sticker in the episode [[Speed 3]] of [[Father Ted]]. | ||
In 2011, [[Australia]]n politician [[Tony Abbott]], who was at the time [[Leader of the Opposition (Australia)|Opposition Leader]] and [[leader of the Liberal Party of Australia|leader of the Liberal Party]] (later becoming [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]]), used the sentence in an interview.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-08/shit-happens-abbott-grilled-over-digger-remark/1935128 | title='Shit happens': Abbott grilled over digger remark | newspaper=ABC News | date=8 February 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/seven-slammed-over-abbott-shit-happens-broadcast/xvaqiouv3 | title=Seven slammed over Abbott 'shit happens' broadcast }}</ref> | In 2011, [[Australia]]n politician [[Tony Abbott]], who was at the time [[Leader of the Opposition (Australia)|Opposition Leader]] and [[leader of the Liberal Party of Australia|leader of the Liberal Party]] (later becoming [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]]), used the sentence in an interview.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-08/shit-happens-abbott-grilled-over-digger-remark/1935128 | title='Shit happens': Abbott grilled over digger remark | newspaper=ABC News | date=8 February 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/seven-slammed-over-abbott-shit-happens-broadcast/xvaqiouv3 | title=Seven slammed over Abbott 'shit happens' broadcast }}</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 12:58, 22 June 2025
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Shit happens is a slang sentence that is used as a simple existential observation that life is full of unfortunate unpredictable events, similar to "c'est la vie". The sentence is an acknowledgment that bad things happen to people seemingly for no particular reason.[1][2]
It can also be said less vulgarly, including phrases such as "it happens" or "stuff happens".[3]
History
The fact that people have been remarking that shit happens has been attested from 1964, when Carl Werthman quoted an example in his UC Berkeley masters thesis; the relevant excerpt was published in The American City (edited by Anselm L. Strauss) in 1968.[4]
Examples of usage
The term is used on the back of a car sticker in the episode Speed 3 of Father Ted.
In 2011, Australian politician Tony Abbott, who was at the time Opposition Leader and leader of the Liberal Party (later becoming Prime Minister), used the sentence in an interview.[5][6]
Australian toilet paper and essential goods retailer Shhit Happens uses a modification of the phrase as their trade name. Stylised as either 'Shhit Happens' or 'Shh!t Happens'.[7][8]
See also
References
External links
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- ↑ The datum: "That shit happens all the time." In "The Police as Perceived by Negro Boys", ed. Carl Werthman; in The American City: A Source Book of Urban Imagery, edited by Anselm L. Strauss (Chicago: Aldine, 1968), p. 285. Here in Google Books. A footnote says that Werthman's short contribution to the book is "Excerpted from 'Gang members and the police', unpublished M.A. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1964."
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