rolling FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS thread

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, April 22, 2011 5:42 PM (6 minutes ago)

lol @ reenacting the crucifixion for the holidays

Hells Cargo does you the "favor" of having the largest transactions covered first, which often results in them charging you more overdraft fees.

^^yes this is standard practice, again its so that your "most important transactions have priority"

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

...and also with you

though they will often reverse the fees if you call and complain.

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.

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).

congress working for you!

xpost

The Playstation Network is down for two days.

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

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.

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.

^^^ first world whining

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.

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.

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.

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), 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

shoe on a belt is genius

Depositing checks through my phone is awesome.

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.

Also see thereifixedit.com

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, Friday, April 22, 2011 9:06 PM (Yesterday)

this post rules

new yorkers piling up unread; new yorker magazine alert thread taunts me

Increasingly don't find NYer worth cover-to-cover reading, fwiw. Let yourself just read the articles that grab you. #firstworldsolutions

always read the comics

the cartoons

I read the poems always like at least one of them

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.

• getting Japan relief fund raiser event fatigue u_u

• just spent a week's pay on getting the brakes on my car fixed

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.

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.

it is not my turn in any of my facebook scrabble games

^^^

when I turn on my AC it's a little too cold but when I leave it off it's a little too hot

having to remove these fucking stickers from my fruits and vegetables

but **YOU DON'T HAVE TO**

Do you eat the stickers on your apples, pears, other non-peely fruit?

i keep forgetting what happened in the previous episode of a tv series by the time i get around to watching the next one

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??!

Dude they've been doing that all week; for fucks sake, how did you manage to sleep through it until now?

dunno, guess my earwax must've become unimpacted during last night's brief slumber

forgetting to attach an attachment to a work email :(

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

forgetting to attach an attachment to a work email :(

did this w/ a long detailed e-mail sent to ~300 people once. :''(

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

http://i.imgur.com/nCGTA.png

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

;-)

"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

have to put sheets on my bed, would pretty much rather kill myself