rolling FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS thread

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.

• have had Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" stuck in my head for three days

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

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ12Ry-hD6I

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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

lol yep

:D

I woulda gone with the mozart line but what do I know

i wish my iphone 3GS would fucking break already so I can get one of the newer ones with 64GB of storage

https://twitter.com/ebertchicago/status/244982314579410944

ha

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.

Ebert should've known that Brainless Hulu would have some design flaws

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

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you heard that same voice in your head whiney, don't front

given a choice of ads; clicked on the mcdonalds ad b/c i wanted to look at hamburgers; ad was for healthy smoothies

gross

clicked on a link, thought it was an article, it was really a podcast

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

wake up wake up wake up wake up

^^^ fwp winner

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

that rose will start a scrapbook that will win the heart of your friend's paramour

My band's minister of information has caused media uproar with his bizarre anti-semitic conspiracy theories. #securityofthefirstworldproblems

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?

oh dear lord

People who move around a lot often do so to fulfill their ambitions, pursue opportunities, and learn more about other parts of the world.

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it was really a podcast

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?"

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"

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