rolling FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS thread

Home for the holidays and wanted to watch Kurosawa's Ran on mom's big TV. Netflix sent me the Masterworks restoration instead of the far superior Criterion disc.

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u writing another book bro?

spent a whole day agonizing over the final few spots of my ballot for a music critic poll

s1sk downloads signing off in the middle of downloads and never coming back

anyone who thinks these problems are first world is poor

pancakes this morning were a little salty

I have cholera

as long as the oxen are fine we're good

Someone started a trypophobia thread and I don't know if I can stop myself from clicking on it.

Listen to me on this one. DO NOT OPEN IT. Trust me. You'll regret it.

^^^

triphophobia

recognize the poison in our board

nagging feeling of near-impotent guilt re: the 1bn ppl living in poverty

xps i seriously SERIOUSLY wish i had never opened that thread - i still get a queasy feeling when i even think about it :/

It is horrendous.

Yeah, I probably won't. I hope.

Really don't. I didn't know what it meant. I backed out as quickly as possible.damage wasn't quite done, but nearly

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oh shit wrong thread

oh fuck you grady

Ban grady!

give him one day for every lotus hole

UNBAN GR8080

yah i read that thread and u all r crazy they are just holes in things

if bein freaked out by that insane alien nonsense is crazy well mister I just don't wanna be sane.

lol!!!

Aren't at least half of escalators broken?

And post offices, DMVs, and other public offices always have multiple service windows, yet way too few people working at these windows to serve the long line of customers.

haha i caught myself getting pissed off at broken escalators yesterday

three words: single core processor

Escalators don't become broken they become stairs. Rip Mitch Hedberg.

Aren't at least half of escalators broken?

The escalator in my building seems to break down at least once a week.

Escalators don't become broken they become stairs. Rip Mitch Hedberg.

― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:54 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

rip indeed, but:

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^^^so sick of seeing this in the buildings surrounding my workplace/where i take lunchbreaks

this thread is the definition of first world problems

I HATE APPLE

went with my sister to the local pastry shop -- upon exiting, she exclaimed with dismay "they put my petit fours in the same box as your tiramisu!"

reddening — what does yr name refer to?

because earlier today I had this idea about a video game where at certain points you might be like moving down a long hallway and suddenly you find that you can't turn your character around or walk backwards or even see what's behind you, because [ghosts/magic/whatever] — then I saw yr name just now and I went "GUH?"

(possibly I saw it earlier and subconsciously remembered it?)

It's from a flash game called Johnny in an art game?, which is parodying games like One Chance and Every Day the Same Dream where you kind of march forward into your destiny. I think it was just the parody-maker being lazy, though, since you can turn around in both those games!

someone told me that escalators are extremely power-hungry and incredibly environmentally unfriendly as a result.

escalators are everywhere in HK, and we've got some reaaaaaallly big ones.

and some reeeeally freaking tiny ones.

I don't remember where it was now but there was an escalator that was seriously about three steps long. 'er indoors is short and it was only about half her height. Then there's that eight-storey fucken thing in Mong Kok. If you fall you are dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AothOuCTCM0

Hong Kong escalators

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUf-2NvxogE&feature=related

was listening to a tech podcast from CES this year and people were complaining that they'll have to upgrade their flatscreen TVs every 3-4 years now since the technology is changing so rapidly

sometimes i have to switch my QC3s to the 'lo' setting before i plug them into staticky speaker outlets. then, when i unplug them, the volume plays way louder than i thought it would and startles me for like half a second :( :( :( :( :( :(

my debit card expired so now i've had to re-enter the number on tons of websites -- also my netflix rotation got thrown off by two days

Debatable coaching decisions are really hampering my fantasy basketball team

my biggest takeaway from getting a job right out of college that required a top secret government clearance was "keep track of where you've lived"

Pennsylvania Act 33 Child Abuse clearance asks for previous addresses since 1975 AND everyone who has lived with you since 1975.
O_o

i'm sick of the damn IRS punishing me for making money

viewing it as a 'punishment' is what got me... like yes, they designed this form specifically to discourage people from leaving their apartments. all for the sake of saving 45 minutes in filling out a form

"Shouldn't society design data capture processes that encourage all these things, rather than "punish" the people who have these attributes?"

everytime I am faced w/ this challenge I end up using my gmail history

i am strongly in favor of society punishing smug assholes

^^^

i used to have to fill in Criminal Records Bureau forms on the regular because i work with children/vulnerable adults and i felt pretty smug when i'd lived 10 years in the same place and filling the form in got easier

on the other hand i'd rather they didn't let bad people work with vulnerable people so it doesn't seem a big hardship tbh

Y'know, it's not worth complaining about, and nothing actually needs to be changed, and basically fuck this guy because his tone is horrendous, but it is a huge pain in the ass. I've lived in 20+ places since moving out of my mom's house!

yeah, that's the thing, tons of stuff is a pain in the ass.

the whole first world is one giant pain in the ass m/l

streaming tv site updates adblocker detection, won't show you tv until you let them show you the ads too

pee related

Remember when people used this moronic phrase

"My home has been virtually destroyed by flooding"

"First world problems, bro!"

i need to see a Spike Lee Ted Talk to research a piece i'm writing and its nowhere on the internet

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:18 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha

oh FUCK I've been offered a free trip to a Caribbean private island and I'm going to have to miss the second week including the women's final ;_;

― lex pretend, Friday, 23 May 2014 18:06 (Yesterday)

can't wait for lex to lecture ilx more about privilege

thought abt this thread today when i got upset about some shoddy reparative tailoring on an old lanvin suit

scum tbh

Now a grim reality for the lad

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Paul McCartney got sick so now we have to wait four more months to see him

I've missed a load of games due to Glastonbury and ugh the first one I will get to watch in its entirety will be Belgium USA, which will surely be like a really shitty midtable Premiership game.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 12:28 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

;)

usb port on cheap laptop not deep enough to accept dragonfly DAC without having to jiggle the connection periodically

my new sofa is too big for my house

restaurants pricing sturgeon as if it were beluga, gtfo

Want desperately to go to sleep as soon as possible this evening, but must attend condo association meeting tonight.

human suffering is a strange thing -- I have experienced "problems" over the last several months that, by most people's standards, would deserve me a kick in the head for even suggesting they were problems, which I feel embarrassed even to repeat here. Yet I have spent months feeling irritable, anxious, and scared the majority of the time, feeling like I was in a vise that wouldn't let up it's grip, feeling like I was going to lose everything. I am reminded of the saying from the Sopranos. "- "Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky." And that great wind is upper middle class white privilege I guess.

i wish my colleagues didn't assume i had imessage on my computer and send me super long detailed texts with charts and files that no fucking way am I gonna deal with on my iPhone 6S

i wonder if unless thinking about all the blessings in yr life gives you comfort (like to meditate on all the wonderful things you have to dispel yr anxiety) it could be that your awareness of the relative frivolity of yr problems contributes to yr suffering since you don't give yourself permission to experience it - instead you experience the suffering alongside yr disdain for yr own suffering xp

i meditate on the comfort of my iPhone 6S on the reg tbh

I mean, to be clear these problems involved several *major life decisions* of the type expected to cause stress, it's just that they were major life decisions that I am so lucky even to be able to make right now that yes, I did kind of hate myself for suffering anxiety over them.

but even if the problems are truly trivial, the existence in which you are processing them is changing in unanticipated and unpredictable ways right now... it's kinda like trying to take a sip of a bloody mary while the plane flies through a a patch of turbulence

that's an excellent metaphor and captures how it feels

Somewhat relatedly, this is strangely affecting although slightly overdramatic and FWP (forgiveable offenses for an extremely talented high school student):

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/ontario-teen-numb-short-film-liv-mcneil_ca_5eecd230c5b6d71ac27ff017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSkbd6hRkXo

And, appropriately, the 15-yr-old director's commentary:

This is just a generalization of the feeling of isolation, not my personal feelings, I for sure haven't been enjoying quarantine, but some have it worse. We have all been going through stuff right now, especially with Black Lives Matter, my struggles are in no way comparable to some things people are going though right now. this is my own experience, some are a whole lot worse than mine. I'm just showing what I know.

This is a mini film, Numb by me. I did this for a school project but I'm really happy with how it came out, so I'm posting it here. This took me a combined 3 weeks or so. hope you enjoy! please feel free to share as much as you like, just please credit me and M83, the band who made the music.

company pass dangling from lanyard clacks annoyingly off my belt buckle when walking down the corridor of my office

Wait, how low do you wear your lanyard?

Back in the late 80s when I first joined corporate life, I remember hearing lanyards and passes would soon be obsolete now that retinal scanning was possible. The future has failed to arrive!

Wait, how low do you wear your lanyard?

how high do you wear your trousers more like

this lanyard is not adjustable, it hangs where it hangs

my belt is around my waist you maniacs

Tying a loop in the lanyard itself is knot a knoption?

(X post)

I’m concerned where this forces security guards to look to check your credentials.

Just get a shorter lanyard cord, if you want a rainbow one like mine I can give you one

ahah great problem.
yeah the solution seems obvious : tie it up !

or get your neck more swole

this lanyard is not adjustable, it hangs where it hangs

my belt is around my waist you maniacs

They're always annoying long. I always had to tuck them inside my shirt while working with clients.