What is "shit happens"

phr. (label en vulgar) (non-gloss definition: An expression of acceptance of misfortune.)

"Shit happens" is a common vulgar slang phrase, used as a simple existential observation that life is full of unpredictable events, either "Así es la vida" or " C'est la vie". The phrase is an acknowledgment that bad things happen to people seemingly for no particular reason. The phrase was first observed in 1964, but wasn't used in a print publication until 1983. Alternately said, albeit less vulgarly as "Stuff Happens".

" Shit happens" is a common slang phrase meaning that events (especially unfortunate) occur everyday, all the time.

Shit happens may also refer to:

• Shit Happens, a DVD by the band Every Time I Die
• "Shit Happens", the second episode of the second season of TV series Bad Girls