What first world problem did you have today?

[Kaido]

You first world people make me sick now

A lot of it is just situational though. In America, a lot parents tell their kids to eat their dinner because "a kid in China is starving right now and you aren't". But what options do you have to fix that situation? Can you send the food to China? Not really. You can donate to a charity, but you don't even know where that money is going or who it is helping, or if you're just being ripped off. You can setup a charity yourself, but now you're working on fixing one of a million problems - save the whales, feed the hungry, save the rainforest, stop pollution, etc. And China has their own problems...they keep pumping out ghost cities like these ones instead of focusing on other pressing issues:

http://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-the-worlds-largest-ghost-city-ordos-china-1541512511

http://www.businessinsider.com/revisiting-chinas-ghost-cities-2013-9?op=1

The bottom line is that everyone has their own problems to deal with, first-world or not. A lot of them are ridiculous (as this is a tongue-in-cheek thread), but you still have to deal with them either way. It does help put things in perspective though. I'm watching a documentary on food insecurity on Netflix called "A Place at the Table" that has made me appreciate having food & having access to food a lot more. I had no idea that people in America lived in "food deserts" where they didn't have easy access to fresh fruits & veggies, only processed junk - I thought the majority of places had supermarkets available, but apparently not.

 

[jhansman]

I constantly remind myself just how good I really have it, but that doesn't seem to matter much when the little shit in life jumps up and bites you in the ass. It's all relative, and yes, being stuck in traffic does not compare with having no idea where your next meal will come from. BTW, dropped my phone the other day, and while it still works perfectly, the glass is cracked from top to bottom. Should I complain? Please advise.

 

[CZroe]

I constantly remind myself just how good I really have it, but that doesn't seem to matter much when the little shit in life jumps up and bites you in the ass. It's all relative, and yes, being stuck in traffic does not compare with having no idea where your next meal will come from. BTW, dropped my phone the other day, and while it still works perfectly, the glass is cracked from top to bottom. Should I complain? Please advise.

I fix these for friends, family, and coworkers all the time. What kind did you drop?

 

[Kaido]

My touchscreen laptop keeps attracting dust & hair due to static, but when I wipe it off with my fingers, it starts clicking buttons & scrolling without me wanting it to.

 

[raasco]

The damn cable company just raised my bill by $30.

 

[lxskllr]

I went to a huge grocery store today, and the variety of affordable food was kind of overwhelming.

 

[gorcorps]

I was re-watching the Patriots lose in Superbowl 42 when I discovered the NFL network decided to include the shitty halftime show. I was disgusted and turned it off. Who the hell thought that was a good idea?

 

[Ns1]

The grill at work had catfish tacos. I like catfish, I like tacos, and I like fish tacos; what could go wrong?

EVERYTHING.

Terribad flavor profile combination.

 

[blackdogdeek]

We were hungry when we went to Costco yesterday to only get some water and oranges for a fundraiser today. While we were walking past the huge bags of junk food we couldn't help getting 5 lbs bags of: Doritos, Popcorn, Baked Cheese Sticks and pretzels.

 

[SlitheryDee]

A guy just came in selling strawberries. Unfortunately the only quantity he offered was the "Enough to feed a small indian village" size. Luckily I had enough pocket change to pay for it.

 

[DesiPower]

The 128MB game took several seconds to download, 4GLTE is too SLOW...

 

[Mixolydian]

When I went to work this morning (at 3 AM) the temperature was 60 degrees. When I was done with work it was only 35. Now it's snowing.

 

[Ichinisan]

When I went to work this morning (at 3 AM) the temperature was 60 degrees. When I was done with work it was only 35. Now it's snowing.

You do not understand how this works.

 

[Ns1]

The 128MB game took several seconds to download, 4GLTE is too SLOW...

Reminds me: Yesterday I had to download a 350mb program using a 6.0Mbps/down connection.

IT WAS HORRIFIC. almost half an hour, downloading between 100-200k/sec.

 

[alkemyst]

Getting off a cruise and the bars on the ship were no open as normal in the morning

 

[Ichinisan]

Reminds me: Yesterday I had to download a 350mb program using a 6.0Mbps/down connection.

IT WAS HORRIFIC. almost half an hour, downloading between 100-200k/sec.

Well that wasn't running at 6mbps then.

 

[Imp]

I had a laser barcode scanner in my face while at the super market. Point that down, please.

 

[Scotteq]

I woke up at 4am for no particular reason. Couldn't go back to sleep, so I got ready for work as normal, drove in, and stopped at a diner. Got eggs Benedict, coffee, and a tall orange juice from a nice looking and very pleasant young woman who was working her way through college, and also bored enough to humor an older man cracking horrible jokes and pretending to flirt..

It was terrible: the egg yolks were slightly overcooked.

But I left her a nice tip anyhow, 'cos that's How I Roll :Colbert:

 

[Ns1]

Well that wasn't running at 6mbps then.

Pretty standard practice to get less bandwidth than you paid for

Although admittedly, it could just be HP's shitty ass download servers.

#firstworldproblems

 

[Ns1]

But I left her a nice tip anyhow, 'cos that's How I Roll :Colbert:

yeah I bet you did, sick fuck.

 

[alkemyst]

Well that wasn't running at 6mbps then.

His #thirdworldproblem is MATH.

 

[DesiPower]

Reminds me: Yesterday I had to download a 350mb program using a 6.0Mbps/down connection.

IT WAS HORRIFIC. almost half an hour, downloading between 100-200k/sec.

lol, back in the dialup days, napster or audiogalaxy, each song would take 30 mins

 

[JEDI]

why do I keep mixing up nsf4 and ns1?

/firstworldproblem

 

[Ns1]

lol, back in the dialup days, napster or audiogalaxy, each song would take 30 mins

AOL serving chatrooms bro.

By the time Napster rolled around, we were all on broadband connections leeching off university students that were moving terabytes around.

 

[Ns1]

why do I keep mixing up nsf4 and ns1?

/firstworldproblem

dass wacist.