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.
― mmmm... yung hummus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 December 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://matouenpeluche.typepad.com/.a/6a00e554e97d5c8834013110006574970c-800wi
― mmmm... yung hummus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 December 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/bjwqa.jpg
― markers, Saturday, 25 December 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
u writing another book bro?
― plax (ico), Saturday, 25 December 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
spent a whole day agonizing over the final few spots of my ballot for a music critic poll
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 25 December 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
s1sk downloads signing off in the middle of downloads and never coming back
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone who thinks these problems are first world is poor
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
pancakes this morning were a little salty
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I have cholera
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
as long as the oxen are fine we're good
― markers, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone started a trypophobia thread and I don't know if I can stop myself from clicking on it.
― scary-cat-mascot-costumes-for-kids2.tk (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Listen to me on this one. DO NOT OPEN IT. Trust me. You'll regret it.
― ENBB, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^
― markers, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
triphophobia
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
recognize the poison in our board
― markers, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
nagging feeling of near-impotent guilt re: the 1bn ppl living in poverty
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
xps i seriously SERIOUSLY wish i had never opened that thread - i still get a queasy feeling when i even think about it :/
― just1n3, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It is horrendous.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I probably won't. I hope.
― scary-cat-mascot-costumes-for-kids2.tk (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Really don't. I didn't know what it meant. I backed out as quickly as possible.damage wasn't quite done, but nearly
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1406/1093460880_2af2500cc8.jpg
― gr8080, Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit wrong thread
oh fuck you grady
― ENBB, Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Ban grady!
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
give him one day for every lotus hole
― dayo, Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
UNBAN GR8080
― markers, Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yah i read that thread and u all r crazy they are just holes in things
― plax (ico), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
if bein freaked out by that insane alien nonsense is crazy well mister I just don't wanna be sane.
― lenonsense (Clay), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
lol!!!
― plax (ico), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Aren't at least half of escalators broken?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 January 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i caught myself getting pissed off at broken escalators yesterday
― gr8080, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
three words: single core processor
― new teen paranormal romance (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Escalators don't become broken they become stairs. Rip Mitch Hedberg.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
The escalator in my building seems to break down at least once a week.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:54 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
rip indeed, but:
http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd1118986.jpg
― gr8080, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^so sick of seeing this in the buildings surrounding my workplace/where i take lunchbreaks
― gr8080, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread is the definition of first world problems
I HATE APPLE
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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!"
― there is no turning back in an art game? (reddening), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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?)
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― there is no turning back in an art game? (reddening), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― dayo, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
and some reeeeally freaking tiny ones.
― Suppositori Spelling (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Suppositori Spelling (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AothOuCTCM0
― flopson, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Hong Kong escalators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUf-2NvxogE&feature=related
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Friday, 14 January 2011 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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 :( :( :( :( :( :(
― een, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 February 2011 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Debatable coaching decisions are really hampering my fantasy basketball team
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 25 February 2011 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
sandwich lady forgot to cut my sandwich
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Friday, 4 March 2011 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers
― Alba, Friday, 4 March 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
have you guys seen the movie barcode thing yet? has dr.morbz seen it?
There needs to be some way of searching. Trying to find if they've done the Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
― emil.y, Monday, March 7, 2011 8:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― open jason segal (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha!
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
(Wouldn't really consider it a problem, more a thought that I had whilst looking at a site and decided to share with ilx. I should shut up more, I guess)
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
it was just funny to me tbh
― open jason segal (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
You know, when they do this, it's probably because they're going to do maintenance on it or because it's unsafe to walk on it.
OTOH, I have read that climbing a still escalator results in people tripping because the steps are taller than stair steps, so maybe they're cutting their liability.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
there are so many poorly designed toilet paper dispensers/holders in public restrooms
― gr8080, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
mild insomnia so I'm drinking some beer
― bury my heart at wounded nerd (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like trying to alleviate mild insomnia w/ alcohol is something done across all worlds?
― little humma boy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Terrible iPod Days
― Slow lorax loves getting tickled (dayo), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
nytimes.com sign-in bullshit
― goole, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, just came in here to post my gf this morning
"oh my god, did you see this, a nuclear plane exploded in Japan and... NO, NEW YORK TIMES I DONT WANT TO LOG IN!"
― Whiney On The Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 March 2011 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Sending this off to the shower of bastards that run our web-based back office system who claim they can't support anything above IE6!! Because it's so "stable"!! Well, so's an abacus!!
― Ned Raggett Reads Autumn Almanac (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 12 March 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Missed my yoga class because I forgot to turn the clock back.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
thats a great one
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
anytime anyone on ilx has ever said "this poll is impossible"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I am so sick of lodges where the dining room area flows difficultly into the living room.
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, March 19, 2011 8:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Should sub-boards be removed?
― Head goes goes goes (Schlafsack), Sunday, 20 March 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i went out for a bagel because of this thread and the only decent bagel place i know of closed at 4 and i had to eat all these other foods to compensate and i am still unsatisfied
― horseshoe, Sunday, March 20, 2011 6:16 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 March 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
bought box of weet-bix cereal, box won't fit into commemorative weet-bix 2010 world cup tin - might have to eat the top row, cut off the excess section of box and stick it back into the tin but honestly who wants to do that??
― beatbox snitchin' (haitch), Monday, 21 March 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
The electricity was out this morning and my first thought was "How am I going to get the car out of the garage?"
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 April 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Car door openers have an emergency release, silly
― mh, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, GARAGE door openers
Unsure of the nearest place to buy blank CDs
― fucking up the race charts (S-), Friday, 15 April 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm angry because I'm tired of both Panera and Au Bon Pain and they're the nearest options for lunch. Bah.
― ENBB, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I know there's a manual way to open a garage door. I just couldn't picture it in my mind.
And, there's the additional problem I was going to have of being forced to park the car in the driveway, walk back to the garage, pull the door down securely and the get back in the car. Fortunately, the power came back on before that nightmare scenario took place.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
being bored of available food is like the quintessential first world problem. sometimes i try to remind myself that i have access to a wider variety of food than most monarchs throughout history. i have a pineapple in my fridge at home. it's unheard of from a historical (and geographical) perspective to have that kind of access to exotic foods. (and assuming a solution isn't found for peak oil, we may be in a unique moment of history past and future where these things are affordable and available). xp
― Mordy, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
being bored of available food is like the quintessential first world problem
I know - that's why I posted it!
― ENBB, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
lol of course. i'm agreeing w/ u :P
― Mordy, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm, Panera, maybe I'll go there for lunch.
― mh, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
if only henry viii had panera, maybe wed all be catholic
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Friday, 15 April 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
-ran out of coffee this morning, had to go to mcdonalds
― dayo, Saturday, 16 April 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
-no one wants to turn my tumblr into a book deal
― gr8080, Saturday, 16 April 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
been thinking abt this thread a lot, being in a real 3rd world country for the month.
some submissions:
- waiters will never, ever, under any circumstances, bring you your check (or even ask if you want it) until you directly ask them for it. even if your food is bagged up and there is money on the table.
- internet cafes that only have IE
- using alt-gr for the @ sign and bbcode []
- having to wait until the bus is full before you leave
- FALSE GRANOLA (made w/puffed rice)
- no running water except from 5 am to 9 am
― sleeve, Monday, 18 April 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
never had my cheque brought to me unsolicited before (and have only been asked if i wanted the cheque on a handful of occasions).
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i like referring to the bill as "la dolorosa" when i'm in a spanish speaking country. you either get a laugh or you get looked at like you're a weirdo.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I couldn't get over making the "holding out your palm like a pad and squiggling your finger like a pencil" gesture to get the bill. Seemed like the rudest thing to me, but happily expected by the staff.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
what's the sign in America?
― Hypermotard: (sic), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I usually hold an imaginary pen in the air and sign an invisible chit, but I assume that's pretty much the same thing
― Hypermotard: (sic), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
we do the same thing in the US, i dont know what PP is talking about
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I usually do it without the pad - just scribble in the air with one hand.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Clapping twice briskly while holding your chin up is also the norm here.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i just wipe my arm over the table and let all the plates and glasses clatter to the floor and scream "FINISHED!"
― i put that on my sub (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i poop out the food i just ate and then hand it to the waiter and say "were even"
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i just always drop a $100 bill on the table when i'm done and yell "keep the change" on my way out
― 2㋡㋡9 style (gr8080), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i walk out without paying and when they chase me down the street i say "i own this restaurant" and then i say "youre fired"
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I tweet the restaurant requesting a bill and if it doesn't come within 90 seconds I leave and start a hashtag campaign.
― iSnack2.0Grrl (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i accidentally rub my hair in the flame of the candle on the table, shove my hand into the spaghetti sauce, start writing FUCK in huge letters on the wall with my right palm, and sprint out the store, where one of my friends is waiting for me with a fire extinguisher
― markers, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm bored. at my job. which i have. in a climate-controlled office. where i get paid a reasonable amount for my time.
― pan loco y salsa loca (get bent), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
xp i have a friend waiting for me with a fire extinguisher so i'll say this
― iSnack2.0Grrl (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
another food-related one: being annoyed that daphne's (fast-food greek chain in socal) started putting thousand island on their gyro "street pitas," and that i was so mildly inconvenienced by having to scrape it off with a knife. food made with fresh ingredients, including green vegetables, in a restaurant that adheres to strict health and sanitation codes. it was a hellish experience!!!!!
― pan loco y salsa loca (get bent), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
but that is an abomination
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i agree. sigh. this place changed its menu recently to become more "californian," because of financial difficulties. apparently that means thousand island (which i always ask restos to leave off; it's not my thing).
― pan loco y salsa loca (get bent), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I've always thought that making the exaggerated "writing your own ticket" gesture to a server was pretty stuck up.
Another thing I noticed in some other countries is if you're crossing the street and a car slows down to let you cross, you can do this Marie Antoinette, palm-up, come hither motion to "thank" the driver for yielding. Like what a nod of the head would do in the US.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.gizmag.com/coolware-personal-cooling-system/18431/
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
don't y'all live in first-world countries?
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i was surprised to see that this thread had 36 new answers but it turns out it was just a classic ilx mixture of 'politics of messenger bags'-style narcissism of small differences back & forth and escalation of horrible jokes
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 April 2011 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
opening "rolling FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS thread" on ilx with 36 new answers and finding them to be just a classic ilx mixture of 'politics of messenger bags'-style narcissism of small differences back & forth and escalation of horrible jokes ;_;
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link
every day I fill my water bottle (nalgene) at work with too much water from the water cooler and I have to dump some at the end of the day because I don't want my nalgene o get that halitosis smell and I feel bad about wasting potable water
― dayo, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
According to a person who wrote a book about first world water who I heard interviewed on NPR, you should dump the extra water on a plant or something.
― mh, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
or post it to the sahara region
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
when I want to post an update on Facebook, I have to click on a button, but when I want to leave a comment I just hit Return - what's that all about?
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://whitewhine.com/
― Periblepsis occasioned by homoeoteleuton (Michael White), Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha - that's actually funny!
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
― pan loco y salsa loca (get bent), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:24 (2 days ago)
otmfm
― motivatedgirl (Matt P), Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
enjoying http://whitewhine.com thanks michael WHITE
― like, in Portland, they just don't fucking care, for example. (gr8080), Thursday, 21 April 2011 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
agonizing over what to put as the subject of an email
― J0rdan S., Friday, 22 April 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
spent my last $5 cash on a protein shake when leaving the gym yesterday, then remembered it was the last day before payday and the last two weeks have drained my bank account and i didn't have anything to eat for dinner at home.
when i got home i grabbed this coffee can i keep spare change in which i'm sure had about $30 or $40 in it.
i spent the next hour driving to three different grocery stores that had coin-counting machines only to find that the first two were out of order and the 3rd didn't have one anymore.
frustrated and hungry, i checked my bank balance on my smart phone and realized that i actually had a few dollars in my checking account so i bought a box of macaroni and cheese, went home, ate it, then watched the "deserts" episode of Human Planet, which featured a segment on Tubu women who ride camels and walk through the Sahara for three days just to get to a well.
:-\
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
You can actually pay for things with change, you know. As if it were money.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
you don't have direct deposit?
― sarahel, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i have direct deposit but today is my pay day and this story took place last nite
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Our change barrel is now so full that we can't get any more change in it. Fuck change.
― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
so if you'd used your bank card, the transaction wouldn't have hit/cleared until today, when you got paid, so you wouldn't have been overdrawn, right?
― sarahel, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
sarahel maybe re-read my post
or just click on another thread
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i read your post twice! your "first world problem" isn't even a "problem"!
― sarahel, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"enduring needless nitpicking from sarahel" qualifies as a first world problem tho right?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 22 April 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
no, it just qualifies you as a douchebag.
― sarahel, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
sarahel i was under the impression that i would overdraw my bank account but i was mistaken.
my first world problem is that i didn't want to buy dinner with a bunch of dimes and nickles, so i figured i'd take advantage of these very first-world change-counting machines at one of my nearby grocery stores but they were all broken/non-existant
also i spent $5 on a beverage that has more protein in it than lots of humans on earth get in a whole week
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
but gr8080....
why
― motivatedgirl (Matt P), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
why what
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i was sarcastically being a sarahel stand-in asking you to explain all your actions
― motivatedgirl (Matt P), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
it's friday!
― motivatedgirl (Matt P), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i just don't understand why you'd even need to worry about your bank balance when it's the night before you get your paycheck direct deposited into your bank account.
― sarahel, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.debateitout.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/jurors.jpg
― omar little, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
my bank doesnt work that way?
if my available balance is $1.00 on thursday night, i cant buy something for $2.00 on thursday night?
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
your First World Problem is that you need a less crappy bank!
― sarahel, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
sigh
― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
sarahel as someone who has also recently accepted the stereotypes ilx has laid upon him and decided to just "go with it", i salute you.
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Banks now require you to opt in if you want overdraft protection. If you do not opt in to that ridiculously expensive service, your debit card transaction will be declined if you do not have sufficient funds.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
For the legislation that brought about this change and other consumer protections, I am very grateful.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesse otm x2
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
"OVERDRAFT FEES AGGGHH" such a 1st world prob.
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
2010 was a bad year for me w/ that shit and this is the first time ive come this close in 2011
still, glad my "crappy bank" doesnt let me spend money i dont have so i end up paying $40 for a box of mac n cheese
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I've saved up a crystal lite plastic can full of change for maybe a year.
Cashed it in today: $21.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
another first world problem that factored into my night: anxiety over getting my bank card declined at a grocery store check out :-X
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Some asshole stole my debit card while I was in New Orleans last winter and somehow they obtained my PIN. They deposited a stolen check and then withdrew a few hundred dollars, bought gasoline, and some other stuff. Chase refused to deem it a fraud because they had my PIN. I guess that's a FW problem? Whatever, I want my $300!
xxp - yes! I hated it when I overdrew my account b/c of this "service" that offered me "protection from the hassles of declined transactions" (as Chase's marketing materials put it) at the cost of $35 per instance of "protection."
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
― gr8080, Friday, April 22, 2011 5:42 PM (6 minutes ago)
lol @ reenacting the crucifixion for the holidays
― the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Hells Cargo does you the "favor" of having the largest transactions covered first, which often results in them charging you more overdraft fees.
― sarahel, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
^^yes this is standard practice, again its so that your "most important transactions have priority"
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ reenacting the crucifixion for the holidays― the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Friday, April 22, 2011 12:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
― the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Friday, April 22, 2011 12:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
...and also with you
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
though they will often reverse the fees if you call and complain.
― sarahel, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
And now I'm going to tell you about Bank of America! Their "service" was that they deducted transactions from your account starting with the highest amount, down to the lowest. This """""SERVICE"""""" was so that "transactions of a higher dollar amount are more likely to be important transactions, such as car payments or mortgage payments [and also because if we deducted that $2.00 transaction before the one for $20.00 on the same day, we could only charge you for ONE $35.00 overdraft fee!]"
xp - fuck it, I wrote it, I'm posting it.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
That legislation I spoke of took care of that fucking malarky, too.
Oh - One time the "bigger transaction first" BS led to my having 4 overdrafts, costing $35 each. Then?? You know what?! $6 per day, per overdraft for every day the account stayed in the red (maximum of 7 days' worth of charges).
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Friday, 22 April 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
congress working for you!
xpost
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
The Playstation Network is down for two days.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 22 April 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
o bank of america sux
i keep my change in two 18-year-old souvenir durham bulls cups -- quarters in one, the rest in the other
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 April 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I once walked to my BOA to deposit a check and they told my it would cost $9 to deposit it with a teller, so I had to go stand in the line for the drive-thru ATM, between cars. Kinda lol, kinda MAD.
― wewetyourpants.com (rip van wanko), Saturday, 23 April 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
So many of the bars in my work neighborhood were busy, I had to walk for approx. an hour before finding a spot to have a drink while my wife watches a kiddie movie with her college friend. Now I only have 15 minutes to relax before she calls me for dinner and the spot I want to go to is about 7 blocks away and I'm tired.
― I just like… I just have to say… (Starts crying) (DJP), Saturday, 23 April 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ first world whining
― I just like… I just have to say… (Starts crying) (DJP), Saturday, 23 April 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure it's been said on this thread before, but some of these problems say more about how stress works than about how spoiled the posters are. Whiney's op is a true first world problem. Dan and Grady's just seem like stressful moments.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 23 April 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
otm but the joke is that none of them are really problems, just like a lady having to ride a camel 3 days for water like her tribe has for 600 years isn't really a problem but is probably stressful.
when i think "first world problems" the first thing i always think about is my brother's college apartment. it had a 14" television w/ the little RCA/AV jacks on the front for plugging in a Nintendo or a DVD player. You'd walk in and see a small skillet hanging from the RCA jacks by a shoelace. When you'd ask them what was up with that they'd explain that the RCA inputs on the TV were kind of fucked up and only really worked if you applied some pressure to them in the downward direction, so to have uninterrupted dvd/nintendo they hung a weight that apparently did the trick.
― gr8080, Saturday, 23 April 2011 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I had an old TV in my college house that needed to be hit really hard every once in a while to work so we kept an old shoe tied to a belt on the coffee table so you could swing and hit it without having to get up. We also chained the remote to the coffee table after the most stonerish of the roommates took it to class with him for a week after mistaking it for his scientific calculator.
― joygoat, Saturday, 23 April 2011 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
― wewetyourpants.com (rip van wanko), Friday, April 22, 2011 8:11 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark
actually if there's anything for which i'd praise bank of america it's depositing via ATM -- you don't have to worry about making it to the bank & the money clears immediately
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 23 April 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
shoe on a belt is genius
― mh, Saturday, 23 April 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Depositing checks through my phone is awesome.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Saturday, 23 April 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Also see thereifixedit.com
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 23 April 2011 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
― joygoat, Friday, April 22, 2011 9:06 PM (Yesterday)
this post rules
― markers, Saturday, 23 April 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
new yorkers piling up unread; new yorker magazine alert thread taunts me
― horseshoe, Sunday, 24 April 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Increasingly don't find NYer worth cover-to-cover reading, fwiw. Let yourself just read the articles that grab you. #firstworldsolutions
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Sunday, 24 April 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
always read the comics
― gr8080, Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
the cartoons
I read the poems always like at least one of them
― wewetyourpants.com (rip van wanko), Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ the bank of america posts. i work at b of a (*at*, not *for* -- it's a long-term contract gig through an agency) and even i don't have an account with them. my accounts are with hsbc for checking and a credit union for savings. thinking of moving my checking into the credit union too.
― pan loco y salsa loca (get bent), Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
― gr8080, Monday, 25 April 2011 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
― gr8080, Sunday, 1 May 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like the shift pattern i do at my very easy office job means working hours that are too long, 10 hour shifts sometimes, but i'm unsure if it's worth the almost £200 less a month i would get if i switched to dayshift with flexi time doing 36 hours per week.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 1 May 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i have to walk ten minutes to the nearest grocery shop that has a decent range/pricing and frequently when i'm doing so it rains.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 1 May 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
it is not my turn in any of my facebook scrabble games
― sarahel, Sunday, 1 May 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
― venom p. stinger saddened by royal snub (electricsound), Sunday, 1 May 2011 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
when I turn on my AC it's a little too cold but when I leave it off it's a little too hot
― br8080 (dayo), Sunday, 1 May 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
having to remove these fucking stickers from my fruits and vegetables
― no slouch of a snipster (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
but **YOU DON'T HAVE TO**
Do you eat the stickers on your apples, pears, other non-peely fruit?
― jj n° fad (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i keep forgetting what happened in the previous episode of a tv series by the time i get around to watching the next one
― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
they are digging up my street using a pneumatic drill plus some truck that pummels apart the pavement at 7:30am on a Saturday WTF??!
― dell (del), Saturday, 11 June 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
Dude they've been doing that all week; for fucks sake, how did you manage to sleep through it until now?
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 11 June 2011 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
dunno, guess my earwax must've become unimpacted during last night's brief slumber
― dell (del), Saturday, 11 June 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
forgetting to attach an attachment to a work email :(
― gr8080, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
FYI This is the view from dell's living room window @ 9AM last Tuesday (I think)
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/3eb032ef.jpg
― maximum biker daddy realness (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
did this w/ a long detailed e-mail sent to ~300 people once. :''(
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 07:12 (twelve years ago) link
my PC at home has malware and I can't use Google or Bing bc their search results auto-redirect me to freaky diseased sites
I mean I guess that could happen in the third world too but there's something pretty... entitled about getting butthurt over the crappiness of ask.com
― Beth Gibbons & Foreskin Man (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 08:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nCGTA.png
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 15 July 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
didn't have the patience to steal a pdf of a modern translation of lucretius from a rapidshare-style filedump, had to make do with a free old-timey translation from the internet classics archive
― j., Friday, 15 July 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
;-)
― dave barry (absolutely clean glasses), Friday, 15 July 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
"first world problems" is kind of a way to get yr nag on w/some "you know there are HUNGRY PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD" & get a pass doing it to people other than yr kids y/n - why should you have to wait til you've got a teenager to cop this look amirite
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 17 July 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
have to put sheets on my bed, would pretty much rather kill myself
― J0rdan S., Monday, 18 July 2011 06:05 (twelve years ago) link
"first world problems" is kind of a way to get yr nag on w/some "you know there are HUNGRY PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD" & get a pass doing it to people other than yr kids y/n - why should you have to wait til you've got a teenager to cop this look amirite― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, July 17, 2011 5:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, July 17, 2011 5:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
spoken like someone who didn't have to grow up with the entitlement generation around them 24-7 http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― "oh shit, i'm gonna spotify you so hard!!" (dave cool), Monday, 18 July 2011 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S.
looooool i have to do this too if i don't want to sleep on a mattress cover tonight
― markers, Monday, 18 July 2011 06:29 (twelve years ago) link
- have to get up sometime in next ten mins to go do an easy job that covers my bills fml
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Monday, 18 July 2011 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
power's out, battery backup for my wireless internet might not last long enough for me to keep farting around on the internet all night
― j., Saturday, 23 July 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
when is the iphone going to introduce a "compilation" button like the ipod has, ffs
― jay r?tard (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 23 July 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Whiney: click "more" in the lower right and it's there. If you want it as a button on the lower bar, click "edit" and you can drag buttons on/off the bar at the bottom.
― mh, Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
hipster puppies 2: furs twirled problems
― drowning cool (some dude), Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
bite privilege
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
had to spend money on a car repair that I had set aside for a European vacation
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Monday, 25 July 2011 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
you can't drive you Europe from there!
― Kerm, Monday, 25 July 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
uh, to, wtf??
― Kerm, Monday, 25 July 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
Whiney: click "more" in the lower right and it's there. If you want it as a button on the lower bar, click "edit" and you can drag buttons on/off the bar at the bottom.― mh, Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― mh, Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Nah, I mean when you sort by artists, anything in a comp shows up. it doesnt do that on a pod. drives me nuts
― Dave Coolaid for Sade (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 25 July 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, yeah, that is lame as hell and annoys me.
― mh, Monday, 25 July 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
That fucks me off too. It happens on the Apple TV and there's no easy way to get to the end of the artist list. Ridiculous.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 July 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
imo Apple TV kind of sucks browsing music unless you do it from an iPhone/iPad
and then it's awesome
― mh, Monday, 25 July 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
lol kerm
― drowning cool (some dude), Monday, 25 July 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
Stood on what might have been a piece of glass earlier and ripped the sole of my foot open, now I'm worried I won't be able to go clubbing this week or enjoy my Europe holiday next week because it hurts so fucking much to stand on
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
broken glass everywhere, problems in the first world you know they just don't care
― some dude, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
so sad that they don't have glass yet in the third world
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
Three stitches and told to let it rest so it heals quickly, might as well just end it now.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
wanna check out the new SmashBurger that opened up, but construction on the route there makes it prohibitive to do so for lunch.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 28 July 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
itunes/gracenote gives me this -- http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/619h9L2eHcL._SS135_SL160_.jpg -- for the velvet underground's first and third albums
― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Thursday, 28 July 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
what came first, this thread or the reddit tag?
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Monday, 1 August 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/first-world-problems
-found out that FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS was not an original ILX meme, felt deflated
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Monday, 1 August 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
meta
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 August 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
- have to sit in someone else's cubicle the first few hours of the day -- can't read my computer screen with the sun coming in through the skylight
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 August 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
Ate a hot dog and got mustard on my track ball. Track ball became hard to move around with my thumb.
BUT THEN, I swirled it around and all the dust that was caught inside it got stuck on the mustard and rotated around to the front where I was able to pick it off.
Track ball moves freely once again though the surface is still sticky.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 1 August 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Ate a hot dog and got mustard on my track ball.
http://www.astabgay.com/KingsOfCamp/KOCimages/John_Inman.png
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 1 August 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
Don't repost on g+. That's annoying because then I have to see them twice.
― Jeff, Tuesday, August 2, 2011 10:50 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Or more.
― Jeff, Tuesday, August 2, 2011 10:50 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
sorry jeff
― it was pleasant and delightful, just like (La Lechera), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Spotty wifi in the bathroom at work.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
A+
― Kerm, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
ultimate
― markers, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
does pandora.com take 13 seconds to load so that i can't use f5 to cirsumvrent the skip track counter?
― Kerm, Friday, 5 August 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
(without waiting 13 seconds every time)
― Kerm, Friday, 5 August 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
I still wonder if I should buy [a house] to rent out. My pension is gonna be crazy low so I need something else. :-(
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, August 8, 2011 9:09 AM (15 minutes ago)
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
@1000TimesYesDrove my rental car 25 minutes out and then drove back and returned it because the stereo wasn't loud enough. #musiciseverything
Drove my rental car 25 minutes out and then drove back and returned it because the stereo wasn't loud enough. #musiciseverything
― oppet, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
okay, that's just being an asshole, unless the stereo was actually broken
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
groan
― iatee, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
idk i sympathize
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
if i was the person that had to exchange whiney's hyundai sonata because he complained about the stereo not being loud enough i would make sure that i farted in his new car & then let it run w/ the heat on full blast for a few mins
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ whiney
― markers, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
someone should tell him there's a volume button
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
a good stereo is kind of the most important thing to me too. obv its a 1st world prob but w/e
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
a good stereo will be u&k when i buy a new car in a month or two but it's a fuckin rental that's probably going to get destroyed by juggalos.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
for a rental car?? and to waste an hour+ of your own time? talk about the ultimate
http://www.big-t-shirts.com/ProdImages/big/792.jpg
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
estimate the percent chance that whiney was very actively thinking about the twitter possibilities while he was making this decision
― iatee, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
is there a number bigger than 100
if i was going on a hella long road trip a good stereo would be the primary concern
i mean if he didnt check that out the first time he got in the car thats on him but i fuxx with good sound
iirc most of u little dudes listen to music on laptop speakers so
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
i blast tunes in my car every day, dogg
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
actually, i will be renting a car in like two weeks for work! i will not be concerned with the stereo, because it's a rental!
"Hi I'm a music reviewer and it is my livelihood and it is essential I have a LOUD car stereo so that I may do my job"
btw in no way do I believe he actually did this, it just sounds like something someone would say on twitter to be clever
― mh, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
i really can't imagine that whatever car he got in return had a noticeable louder stereo than whatever car he had in the first place, they are all rental cars
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
like when I joke about making an anechoic chamber in my basement for fun
I'm just bitter because my car only has one working speaker and no working volume control, soI can't hear anything if I'm driving faster than 40mph.
― oppet, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
if i was less terrified of customer service interactions i would ask the rental agent in cincinnati for the car with the sickest audio system and report back to you guys.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
sorry I only follow car dealership updates via twitter
― iatee, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
btw there's no way whiney's drive was more than 3.5 hours, so it's not "a super long road trip"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
in fact he spent 1/3 of that amount of time driving from and to the rental car place + waiting for a new car
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
I mean he's only driving from one side of brooklyn to the other, right?
― iatee, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
they should give him a stereo that only sounds good playing witch house
― mh, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Whine like the cars, the cars that go boom
― Aerosol, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
I had a FIRST WORLD PROBLEM to add to this but I really can't compete
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
― Kerm, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
i really hope whiney didn't actually do that
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
would you bet against it?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
my money would be on the "just wanted a good tweet" scenario, but i dunno
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
nah, he did it
― markers, Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
You know that's going to be the reason, not that the factory settings were too low.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
maybe rental car stereos have lower output so people don't blow the speakers
― 5ish finkel (goole), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
Only saying that there will be justification for this, you wait.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
I've had some rental cars that do this annoying thing where the stereo gets loud when you step on the gas, but then gets really quiet when you slow down or stop. It's actually some kind of setting that you can change if you find out how to work the menu on the stereo.
― o. nate, Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
I've noticed that before too, that the stereo would go down as I turned a corner. Took me awhile to figure out it wasn't me.
There are some damn stupid features cars get sold with these days.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah my car has speed-sensitive volume, i've never tried it tho sounds kinda dumb
― tine nic (k3vin k.), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Not everything in this world needs to be goddammed automated.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
I forgot about that! My car has it too, kind of nice but I am twitchy so I turned it off.
― mh, Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, talk about your FIRST WORLD PROBLEM and all, but who the hell raised so much of a fuss about not being able to hear their radio when the engine revved too hot.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh i dunno. i for one am sick of having to turn down the volume manually every time i turn a corner.
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Can I get a home stereo system that automatically lowers its volume when the needle first hits the record or gets to the label? That scuffing sound is going to ruin my speakers.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
my ex's car had that and it was real annoying at first until i discovered that the stereo's RPM-sensitive volume feature actually had three or four ~different levels of sensitivity~
once i got it dialed in to the level that worked for me it was awesome
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
i blew out my speakers years ago when i maxed the volume when Hollaback Girl came on the radio
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 11 August 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
songs where it's fun to spell c-a-n-k-l-e-s 2 the beat
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 11 August 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
You shouldn't have to do this. It's like Microsoft engineers have taken over the auto industry.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 August 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
no, it was like driving w/o having to adjust the volume knob ever
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Thursday, 11 August 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
How loud are these engines? Of all the things that interferes with whether or not I can hear something, the RPMs are down on the list.
It would even be more distracting for me since if I'm slowing down, I'm probably looking for a street number and i don't need the volume popping back up.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 August 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
well presumably, the faster your engine is going, it usually means the car is also going faster-- more friction from the road/wind etc.
this is when the volume would be rolling back down, pp.
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Thursday, 11 August 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
luckily, my truck makes so much racket that the only setting that makes sense is MAX VOLUME at ALL TIMES
― Kerm, Thursday, 11 August 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
See, I'm already getting confused. Just leave it set at 12 and I'll manage on my own.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 August 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
FYI, J0rd, the display literally said "VOLUME LIMITED" when u tried to turn it up.
I had about 4.5 hours driving today. I lost maybe 45 minutes of my day. Totally worth it.
What, was i going to be alone with my thoughts?! Literally the only thing I like about driving is blasting rap records.
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
im with whiney on this one guys sorry
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Thursday, 11 August 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
I even played kreayshawn for u j0rd u_u
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 August 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
What, was i going to be alone with my thoughts?!
I think he's found an argument we're not gonna beat
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GT9M1.gif
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 12 August 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Thursday, August 11, 2011 6:01 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
uhmazing
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Friday, 12 August 2011 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
Has anyone referred that tweet to white whine yet?
― tehresa, Saturday, 13 August 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
Last time I submitted something to whitewhine, the person whose fb profile it was threatened to sue me and the site for 'breach of copyright' and actually got the post taken down. Amazing.
― oppet, Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ first world problem
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I felt like I was trapped in a recursive first world problem with no escape. Probably got over it by eating some cheesecake or something.
― oppet, Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
how did they know it was you
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
Ha well I did then post a link back to whitewhine on their fb profile. I thought he'd take it 'the right way'.
The offending image, for posterityhttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-qVVw_VJrOZw/TcaV53JrKiI/AAAAAAAAABE/9_ViUfrAo-c/s500/whitewhine.JPG
― oppet, Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
(he pays for his cleaner from his trust fund)
― oppet, Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
what a cad
― shining like national dog shit (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like i have seen that before? did you post it here or did i actually see it on white whine?
― tehresa, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
Must have been on white whine. It was on a couple months back. The guy threw a hissy fit in the comments, then the whole thing vanished.
― oppet, Saturday, 13 August 2011 08:01 (twelve years ago) link
whizer soze
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Saturday, 13 August 2011 08:11 (twelve years ago) link
What a dickweed. I've never had a maid, but of my friends who did when I was growing up, I remember that they had to have the place somewhat tidy for her to do her job. I think Tom might misunderstand.
― kkvgz, Saturday, 13 August 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
― i put that on my sub (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, April 18, 2011 10:00 PM
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Monday, April 18, 2011 10:02 PM
― ☝ (am0n), Saturday, 13 August 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
XD
― tine nic (k3vin k.), Saturday, 13 August 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
- all of kelly clarkson's albums are on spotify, except for my december
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Sunday, 14 August 2011 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
hey that IS bullshit
― sea jasper, a meteor, rose quartz and quartz (reddening), Sunday, 14 August 2011 08:57 (twelve years ago) link
Actually, there are some maid agencies that will do hoarder/extreme messiness cleanup work. The agency I worked for had to call in some of them for new dementia clients.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 15 August 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
re the new malkmus record
there was an ad for the this in spotify telling me to listen to it so i clicked on it and it wasn't available for me to play― markers, Friday, August 19, 2011 1:10 AM
― markers, Friday, August 19, 2011 1:10 AM
― markers, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
ordering glasses online so i went to my optometrist to get my prescription, but i didn't have him measure the distance b/w my pupils, so i have to do that manually, or i have to go back
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
protip: i just walked into a lens crafters (no appt, already had my script from a diff doctor) and they did it for me. no cost, no hassle. then i ordered online :)
― tehresa, Monday, 29 August 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
protip: don't do this These Eye(glasse)s
― caek, Monday, 29 August 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
Thread to Lists Artists Who You Hate Because of Spotify ads
― rolling in the derp (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
my TV broke, so now i have no way of accessing my DVR to prevent it from recording Glee tonight
― toy and candy planet (reddening), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
A friend of mine was recently laid off from a medicinal marijuana farm and paid a severance of $5000 in weed.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
but what was the street value?
― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
i bet people get paid in drugs more often in the third world tbh
― some dude, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
I can't remember, are the stores higher than street value or vice versa?
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
my TV broke, so now i have no way of accessing my DVR to prevent it from recording Glee tonightCan't you do this online somehow?
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think i have the special kind that you can control from your phone or w/e. anyway an update to my story: my uncle fixed the TV and my sister said "oh let's just watch Glee, it's already recorded." :(
― FLAWLESS STANCE, ATHLETIC BEAST, WINNER'S POSTURE (reddening), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
xpost The street value was so shitty - which is why she was laid off - that I believe she and her friends just eventually smoked it all. From my understanding, marijuana is practically valueless on the west coast.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
Charity muggers can take the enjoyment out of giving
― jabba hands, Saturday, 29 October 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
otm, those people are vile
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 29 October 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
- forgot to do my fantasy team again ffs- have to cram in arsenal vs chelsea AND a steak lunch before making it to a comedy gig in galway at five
― interim dn (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 October 2011 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
Internet has been up and down all weekend, mostly down today, but it's because the cable co is rolling out a big speed increase, from 10MB downstream to 25MB.
― Rotary Boy of the Month (WmC), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
e-40 is releasing three new albums on the same day, i'm going to have to make a lot of choices about what else to delete from my ipod to fit them all on it at once
― j., Thursday, 22 March 2012 07:14 (twelve years ago) link
Visiting with friends in South West England last weekend, and the sustained dry weather there means that a hosepipe ban in gardens is imminent. My chum Carl professed concern that he might not get time to jetwash the patio before this was enforced.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 22 March 2012 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ12Ry-hD6I
― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 April 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/uos5I.png
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
The "atrium" of Lincoln Center is another building entirely! What is that shit?!
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, July 28, 2012 12:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
lol yep
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
I woulda gone with the mozart line but what do I know
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 July 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
i wish my iphone 3GS would fucking break already so I can get one of the newer ones with 64GB of storage
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 9 September 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ebertchicago/status/244982314579410944
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 10 September 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
ha
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, 10 September 2012 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
Putting together some music for my wedding reception and having to come to terms with saving some time by using some old 192kpbs rips instead of re-repping my CDs at 320.
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 16 September 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Ebert should've known that Brainless Hulu would have some design flaws
― nutrition aziz (some dude), Sunday, 16 September 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
This is the point in list making that I hate, where suddenly impossible choices have to made. Deciding to leave Ariel Pink out of my top ten was hard enough, now I'm figuring out whether lightning bolt, Oneida, Dial, or Meek Mill gets the shaft on my albums list
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, December 4, 2012 5:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― is that my hand, dolphin? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4nW4jGmCgO8/T1FHOY2BbiI/AAAAAAAAABc/Arx9Gcfyp7c/s1600/images.jpg
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
you heard that same voice in your head whiney, don't front
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
given a choice of ads; clicked on the mcdonalds ad b/c i wanted to look at hamburgers; ad was for healthy smoothies
― j., Friday, 7 June 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
gross
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
clicked on a link, thought it was an article, it was really a podcast
― j., Sunday, 7 July 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
One month, a group of annoying moms from a mom group sent a shitload of group texts in the first week of the month
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Saturday, July 6, 2013 9:20 PM
― j., Sunday, 7 July 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
wake up wake up wake up wake up
― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 July 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
^^^ fwp winner
― Random .mdb Memories (NotEnough), Monday, 8 July 2013 06:29 (ten years ago) link
friend's FB post, precisely five minutes ago
Does anyone know of someone who does flower drying and pressing in Sheffield? It's a single rose that needs to be done urgently. Can you let me know asap please. THANKS
― going to grind shows so they can quasi-ironically EDM (DJ Mencap), Monday, 8 July 2013 12:32 (ten years ago) link
that rose will start a scrapbook that will win the heart of your friend's paramour
― reet pish (imago), Monday, 8 July 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link
My band's minister of information has caused media uproar with his bizarre anti-semitic conspiracy theories. #securityofthefirstworldproblems
― MILLIONAIRE KING OF RAPPERS! (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 8 July 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
SUPER-frustrated that I've been asked to provide my address history for THE LAST 6 YEARS. It's taken me more than an hour to gather the 7+ addresses for this, and the times I lived there. I think tasks like this create extra work for people who choose to be mobile for their personal and professional development. People who move around a lot often do so to fulfill their ambitions, pursue opportunities, and learn more about other parts of the world. Shouldn't society design data capture processes that encourage all these things, rather than "punish" the people who have these attributes?
I think tasks like this create extra work for people who choose to be mobile for their personal and professional development. People who move around a lot often do so to fulfill their ambitions, pursue opportunities, and learn more about other parts of the world. Shouldn't society design data capture processes that encourage all these things, rather than "punish" the people who have these attributes?
― 乒乓, Thursday, 11 July 2013 09:52 (ten years ago) link
oh dear lord
― "Post-Oven" (DJP), Thursday, 11 July 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
People who move around a lot often do so to fulfill their ambitions, pursue opportunities, and learn more about other parts of the world.
http://i.imgur.com/ry2eJ.gif
― going to grind shows so they can quasi-ironically EDM (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 11 July 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
it was really a podcast
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 July 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
hahhahaa at first i thought that was kind of reasonable until i got to "Shouldn't society design data capture processes that encourage all these things, rather than "punish" the people who have these attributes?"
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 11 July 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
shouldnt society monitor us even more closely, rather than make people who move around a lot occasionally spend 5 minutes filling out a form??
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"
― "Post-Oven" (DJP), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
Pennsylvania Act 33 Child Abuse clearance asks for previous addresses since 1975 AND everyone who has lived with you since 1975. O_o
― Talking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Blues (doo dah), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
i'm sick of the damn IRS punishing me for making money
― frogbs, Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
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
― 乒乓, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
"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
― iatee, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
i am strongly in favor of society punishing smug assholes
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
― "Post-Oven" (DJP), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
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
― the SI unit of ignorance (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
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!
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that's the thing, tons of stuff is a pain in the ass.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 July 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
the whole first world is one giant pain in the ass m/l
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
streaming tv site updates adblocker detection, won't show you tv until you let them show you the ads too
― j., Tuesday, 11 February 2014 06:13 (ten years ago) link
pee related
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 07:03 (ten years ago) link
Remember when people used this moronic phrase
― usic and luriqs by Stephen Sonnedheim (wins), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 08:16 (ten years ago) link
"My home has been virtually destroyed by flooding"
"First world problems, bro!"
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
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
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
― markers, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 00:54 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
can't wait for lex to lecture ilx more about privilege
― Mordy, Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
thought abt this thread today when i got upset about some shoddy reparative tailoring on an old lanvin suit
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
scum tbh
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 May 2014 06:26 (nine years ago) link
Now a grim reality for the lad
― Who whom kissed? (imago), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oB3vRKv.jpg
― how's life, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Paul McCartney got sick so now we have to wait four more months to see him
― building a desert (art), Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
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
;)
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link
usb port on cheap laptop not deep enough to accept dragonfly DAC without having to jiggle the connection periodically
― brimstead, Friday, 15 August 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
my new sofa is too big for my house
― ogmor, Monday, 16 November 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
restaurants pricing sturgeon as if it were beluga, gtfo
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Monday, 13 November 2017 05:48 (six years ago) link
Want desperately to go to sleep as soon as possible this evening, but must attend condo association meeting tonight.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 28 October 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
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
― sarahell, Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
i meditate on the comfort of my iPhone 6S on the reg tbh
― sarahell, Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
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
― rb (soda), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
that's an excellent metaphor and captures how it feels
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
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
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
company pass dangling from lanyard clacks annoyingly off my belt buckle when walking down the corridor of my office
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 November 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
Wait, how low do you wear your lanyard?
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 15 November 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
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!
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
how high do you wear your trousers more like
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
this lanyard is not adjustable, it hangs where it hangsmy belt is around my waist you maniacs
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
Tying a loop in the lanyard itself is knot a knoption?
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
(X post)I’m concerned where this forces security guards to look to check your credentials.
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
Just get a shorter lanyard cord, if you want a rainbow one like mine I can give you one
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
ahah great problem.yeah the solution seems obvious : tie it up !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
or get your neck more swole
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 15 November 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
They're always annoying long. I always had to tuck them inside my shirt while working with clients.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 15 November 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link