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Thread: First World Problems
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mousethief
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Pursuant to a cute page on Bored Panda in which tweets of first-world problems are paired with photos of anguished models, I thought it might be fun to have a thread here in which we post our petty complaints (real or made up) for mockery. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Examples might include "I burned the last English muffin and had to have a piece of ordinary toast" (made up) or "I didn't realize my favorite Chinese restaurant is closed on Mondays, so I had to radically shift mental gears to eat Mexican" (real).
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Ariel
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It must be a sign of how bad the recession has been that my local chip shop no longer serves guacamole.
(Not only that, they also deny they ever did, which is even more worrying.)
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Adrienne
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Originally posted by Ariel:
... my local chip shop no longer serves guacamole ... they also deny they ever did...
So it was mushy peas all along then.
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Lothlorien
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The lift in my building breaks down occasionally and I have to use the stairs. Two Christmases ago in the middle of summer it was out of action for a month.
(Actually a real problem because of hip and back trouble)
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Sioni Sais
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We had an overnight electricity breakdown: do you know how bad a housefull of Yankee Candles smells?
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Lord Jestocost
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Our church's data projector broke down and so we were unable to show Geraldine's wedding from the Vicar of Dibley to illustrate a sermon.
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Drifting Star
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I have to press three buttons on two different remote controls just to turn on the TV. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Og, King of Bashan
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We used to complain bitterly when one of the two ice cream flavors offered in the cafeteria was bubblegum, and got downright indignant when the other was superman (artificially flavored vanilla dyed blue, red, and yellow).
But come on, bubblegum ice cream is an abomination.
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HCH
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We were all out of Grey Poupon and I had to use ordinary mustard.
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I had to shovel snow this morning and couldn't decide which of 3 shovels to use.
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Sipech
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The Underground station was closed so I had to take a bus home.
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Ariel
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# 58
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I wish I didn't have so many social invitations! Aargh!!
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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There are too many TV channels, I can't decide what to watch.
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Desert Daughter
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if Eurostar charged less extortionate fares on week-ends I'd nip over to London (from Lille) more frequently to watch a show or otherwise embrace civilisation. Being stuck in Lille on a Friday night is true hardship, believe me ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Cenobite
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My wallet's too small for my credit cards (made up).
I can't get any sort of signal on my iPhone at my in-laws' house (true).
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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I ate too much dessert and have a tummy ache. ![[Frown]](frown.gif) (real)
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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quote:
Originally posted by Drifting Star:
I have to press three buttons on two different remote controls just to turn on the TV.
The maid lost the remote control, and now I have to walk across the room to change channels.
![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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Penny S
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The almond shortage has meant Waitrose customers can no longer buy Green and Blacks almond chocolate bars. (Reported in the press, but I had it from the mouth of the baker in the shop itself today.)
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Ariel
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# 58
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Some careless idiot managed to back into my Porsche this morning and write it off, and now I will have to use the Ferrari for everything.
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L'organist
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There's rioting in North London as Waitrose runs out of goats cheese.
What will poor little Tarquin and Phoebe eat now? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Kelly Alves
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I once contributed to FWP's facebook page with this: "People keep sending me Sims Social items that I already have, instead of the ones I need." ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
Updated version would be: "Why do they send me extra Candy Crush lives when I am already loaded up; why, why?"
Or: "I can't live with the agonized screams of all those doomed Pet Rescue pets haunting my dreams. It's all my fault! It's all my fault!"
[ 08. November 2013, 21:14: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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Enoch
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Why must they show pictures of starving children? It only reminds me that I still can't get into my cossie.
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Welease Woderwick
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The traffic taking Tarquin the half mile to school is getting silly, some days it takes me 15 minutes!
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by Adrienne:
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
... my local chip shop no longer serves guacamole ... they also deny they ever did...
So it was mushy peas all along then.
I wondered how long it'd be before someone mentioned mushy peas ...
Ariel, you don't live in Hartlepool, do you? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Evangeline
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The Australian dollar has fallen against the Euro and made champagne more expensive
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Galloping Granny
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Has any other country conned people into paying more for milk products in triple-layer plastic bottles (milk tastes better if you keep the light out – really?)?
Cream lasts a long time in a 300 ml bottle if I have a teaspoonful on my cereal every morning (it's okay: I confessed to the doctor). But I carelessly bought one of the opaque bottles and I can't see how much is left.
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Huia
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Dealing with insurance companies.
Today I had a visit from Arrow, a firm that is doing assessments of driveways and paths damaged in the earthquakes for my insurance company. The assessor was lovely, but I found it very stressful and wished he would just go away, then I thought of people in Haiti and other countries who don't get what they've lost replaced.
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Lord Jestocost
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Some combination of new iPod + latest iTunes release meant that a whole slew of tracks which I knew I had by various composers suddenly vanished form the iPod. Eventually worked out that even though they were listed by "artist" (i.e. composer) in iTunes, on the iPod they were listed by "album artist". Thus suddenly a track by Handel is listed as being by Sir Neville Marriner. Like I care who actually performed it!
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Penny S
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I can't access my bank account online. I am one of only a few affected. Fortunately I can see that it has the right amount in it, so hacking is not the cause.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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The button has stopped working and I can no longer roll down the driver's door window. Since the air conditioning crapped out years ago, this means sweltering (once it warms up again). Waaaaaah.
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Latchkey Kid
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It is now a legal requirement to register your pool so I will probably have to suffer having a safety fence inspection.
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Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner
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marzipan
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I keep getting struck by lightning when I'm playing Minecraft. My imaginary possessions get set on fire! Oh noes!
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Now containing 50% less cheese
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moron
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I remember when aspartame was introduced as a sweetener for diet sodas and allegations arose that it screwed (sorry ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ) with menstruation somehow.
A clever reporter managed to find a woman who was willing to say 'They are taking away my right to drink diet soda'.
Mock if you must (I believe we have some obligation) but really it doesn't bode well for civilization.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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My father (93 years old) keeps getting phone calls from collection agencies looking for people who had his phone number previously. He doesn't know how to add the calling numbers to Call Blocking, and calls me to do it for him whenever he gets such a call. God forbid the phone company should make it easy to add a call in progress to Call Blocking. Oh, the headaches caused by modern technology!
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Ariel
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I had to wait 20 seconds for a web page to load this evening!
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Nicolemr
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My daughter and son-in-law's pet snake got loose in our apartment and now I have a baby snake slithering around... unless the cats got it which is an even more disturbing thought.
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la vie en rouge
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Being a bit more serious for a moment, there was consternation in the office the other day when the water filter broke down.
Oh noes! We have to drink tap water! How will we cope? Never mind the millions of people who would love to have drinkable water on tap that you don't have to walk to the river for and doesn't give you cholera. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
We are very spoilt.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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quote:
Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
We used to complain bitterly when one of the two ice cream flavors offered in the cafeteria was bubblegum, and got downright indignant when the other was superman (artificially flavored vanilla dyed blue, red, and yellow).
But come on, bubblegum ice cream is an abomination.
Why? You can blow bubbles when you're all done eating the soft part.
My car is turbocharged, but I've come close to losing street races against vehicles with more cylindres.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
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Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
But come on, bubblegum ice cream is an abomination.
Why? You can blow bubbles when you're all done eating the soft part.
Not in these parts. Bubblegum flavour is simlpy that. A flavour. It is all soft part.
ETA - simply, not simlpy.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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My first world ice cream problem it that it takes too long to choose which flavour to eat out of the 32 available.
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Galilit
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ditto
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Adam.
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As winter comes, I have learnt that the switch on our gas fireplace is in a slightly awkward place to reach. Sometimes it can take me as much as four seconds to 'build a fire.'
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Ronald Binge
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I stopped shopping in Tesco Ireland when they stopped carrying Tiptree Jam and Dorset Cereals (true).
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Enoch
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Our Philippino maid keeps bursting into tears about her family. It's such a nuisance. It upsets little Tarquin and Petronella, and we've got the Smith-Bentleys coming to dinner this evening.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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I don't need the Sat Nav to get to Tesco today and though my wife could use it to get to her book club meeting, I insist on taking the Focus because it's faster!
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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LutheranChik
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Our county recycling center no longer accepts #3 through #7 plastics, Styrofoam or glass, so now my liberal guilt gets ramped up a few notches every time I roll our considerably heavier trash can out to the curb on Thursdays.
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Galloping Granny
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quote:
Originally posted by balaam:
My first world ice cream problem it that it takes too long to choose which flavour to eat out of the 32 available.
And then the one you chose because it sounded yummy turned out to be rather horrid but you ate the lot because you'd paid for it.
Incidentally, ice creams are so huge that I always ask for a child's size but that's all I can manage on a hot day before it dribbles, and I'm not slow because I'm a biter not a licker. I can remember penny ice creams that were way smaller and much more suitable for a small kid.
(When I was at school it was very bad form to eat ice cream or anything else on the street.)
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cattyish
Wuss in Boots
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I've run out of the handy flu remedy capsules so will have to drink the horrible lemon-flavoured sachets until I can be bothered driving to the shops for more.
ETA Cattyish, genuinely grateful that I have access to medicines and a car and shops.
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