What's the most "First world problem" you've experienced?
What's the most "First world problem" you've experienced?
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The most first world problem I ever experienced was years ago, some games show tips and info during load screens, well my new computer was loading the games faster than I was able to read the tips, the moment I voiced my complaint about it I knew it was the most first world problem I would ever experience.
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Variants on that problem have been around for quite some time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
On some older IBM PC–compatible computers, the turbo button selects one of two run states: the default "turbo" speed or a reduced speed closer to the Intel 8086 CPU. It was relatively common on computers using the Intel 80286,[1] 80386 and 80486 processors,[2] from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. The name is inspired by turbocharger, a device which increases an engine's power and efficiency. When pressed, the "turbo" button is intended to let a computer run at the highest speed for which it had been designed.[3]
With the introduction of CPUs which ran faster than the original 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 used in the IBM Personal Computer, programs which relied on the CPU's frequency for timing were executing faster than intended. Games in particular were often rendered unplayable, due to the reduced time allowed to react to the faster game events. To restore compatibility, the "turbo" button was added.[4] Disengaging turbo mode slows the system down to a state compatible with original 8086/8088 chips.
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I now have a motorized desk at work and unlike the one we have at home, you cannot single-tap the memory setting and just watch it adjust. I need to hold it until my desired height is reached.
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I'm sorry you have to live this way
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I'm trying to hang in there.
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Can you still call that living
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Savagery.
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Pretty sure the ones at my work (only by the higher-ups and the people responsible for ordering stuff) don't have presets. So since my desk was just outside my boss' boss' door, whenever he was out I would pop in and move his desk halfway up. That way, every single time he walked in to use his desk, he'd had to move it whether he wanted to stand or sit.
I didn't dislike him or anything. I (and every person I told to do it when they went into his office) just thought it was funny.
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The thing is, the desk in the office does have presets. You still have to hold the button until it stops at the saved height.
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There is no quickfix for the Mercedes auto engine shut off when you stop in traffic so I have to manually turn it off everytime I start the car or else the .5 second delay when I release the brake to press the accelerater gives me anxiety
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I also started to disable start-stop every time I drive after it once fucked me. I came to an uphill stop just when the light turned green so the car decided to shut itself off. After that I stalled the engine in my confusion when trying to move. Long line of cars behind me of course.
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Heads up, most car models that have auto stop/start also have available aftermarket harnesses that can plug into the button and "press" it on each startup, effectively permanently disabling them. See if there's one available for your model
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Anxiety is no laughing matter. Please try to take care of yourself. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be willing to throw a few bucks your way, if there's somewhere we can donate...? Hang in there, it gets better!
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My psychiatrist and 3rd therapist suggested I hire a shaman to take me on a guided ayahuasca trip so that I can fully process the mental damage that it has caused. I'll probably wait until after I receive my new shipment of Travis Barker matcha latte labubus though.
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yes poor soul... I will also donate if you have a link. I'm sorry you're going through this OP
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Having to wait an entire weekend for next day delivery because it doesn't include the weekend.
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I wish there was a "deliver ONLY during the weekend" option so you don't have to have things delivered to your workplace because no-one's home.
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There is a pixel out on my monitor and I debated getting a new monitor.
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That's one of the first checks I do when I unbox a new monitor. Red, green, blue, white, black; scan each one very carefully. Then, does it suffer from edge bleed? After a color calibration, is it as accurate as described?
I went through 3 panels on my gaming laptop, and literally... 8, I believe, on my desktop the last time I upgraded monitors. Laptop was the same panel of course but I kept getting bad edge bleed. Different screens and panels for the desktop but same issue. And once you notice it, it will drive you crazy. I returned a second-hand laptop because of a single stuck pixel, too, a few years ago.
I game regularly in a pitch-black room and these things are so obvious, I don't understand how they pass quality control. Next one will be oled though, I'm tired of this bullshit.
Though then you get into crushing blacks and dark grays (on the phones I've had anyway)... Can't catch a break.
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If it was brand new, id probably return it, but it was 5 years old when the pixel went out. Yeah, the pixels are failry obvious, shouldn't pass qa/qc id be suprised if a new display had 8 stucks pixels. Thankfully color bleeding and sruff doesn't bother me,but im color deficient, id probably be ocd about that too.
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When the DS came out, I walked 20 minutes to the mall, picked one up, walked home, and started playing.
I noticed it had one red stuck pixel.
I had my dad drive me back when he came home and got a new one.
My PSP has one white pixel but the pixels are so small, I kept it… especially because it was a Christmas present.
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That would annoy me and I'd spend too much time looking at it and thinking about it. I can't live under those conditions.
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My job is like 8 miles away from my house, so during the winter, I don't get to have the car cranked long enough for it to fully warm up by the time I have made it to work, so if I forget to use my remote start then I have to drive a cold car to work.
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my first world problem is that my commute is too short to finish a full podcast 😩😭
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There's decent odds that whatever device you are playing the podcast on is capable of running software that does audio time stretching. This will speed up playback, but without making the audio sound high-pitched.
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My coworker's commute is almost an hour on the train, so she can read a new book every week! My commute is only 5 minutes on the train, so I just listen to one or two songs. I wish I could read as many books as she does.
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Piggybacking on this, I once moved from a 1hr commute to a 5m commute and my first world problem was I could no longer keep up on all my podcasts.
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Not mine, but two collages of mine.
Over lunch we were discussing what we cook for dinner most nights etc.
The two of them live together and said that they don't cook they have a food delivery service that delivers nutritious hot home cooked meals to their door every night at 7pm
They complained that on Wednesdays the food isn't as good as other days.
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The ac in my chem class was a bit too cold and I forgot my sweater.
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Funny story, in my biol class the ac is too cold...so the prof brought in 4 electric space heaters to warm up the room. Cant hear him over the sound of the A/C and heaters fighting.
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Set up a wireless microphone by him at the front of the room. Hook the receiver up to headphones with active noise cancellation --- those do a really good job of filtering out fan noise.
https://www.amazon.com/Phenyx-Pro-Wireless-Microphone-Transmitter/dp/B0CRRH28H7
https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-45-Bluetooth-Canceling-Headphones/dp/B098FKXT8L
https://www.amazon.com/Extension-Auxiliary-Headphones-Tablets-Players/dp/B07XF8XG45
I've always felt that humanity can overcome, or at least mitigate, any hurdles opposing it via use of money and technology.
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My friend is a multi-multi-multi-millionaire. Her father started a retail giant in my country. She has her own pool building with (i think it's called) a free span roof. It is big enough to contain 6 copies of the house I used to own, exterior, roof, chimney and all. She spends more money per month heating the building and pool (which has not been used in 3 years) and paying maintenance and upkeep, than most people pay on their mortgage per year. She complained that the cost of natural gas went up 1.2%. She was spitting mad, tearing up the bill, balling it up and throwing it down in a huff. She also has a 30 car single span roof garage with row after row of industrial racking which contains mostly packrat stuff. She keeps that "Quonset" as she calls it, a balmy 20C all year through our -25C winters. And also complains about that cost.
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My robot lawnmower keeps getting stuck on my garden beds and I have to walk out at least once a day to restart it.
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They're called bed because the put the robot to sleep.
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I dated a girl who’s family never kept leftovers from meals even thanksgiving dinner they would throw out anything not eaten after dinner.
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Wtf leftovers are like half the fun
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Thanksgiving sandwiches are amazing.
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I've been to a fancy restaurant before. We were given dirty looks for leaving with a bag of leftovers.
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Wow. To me, Thanksgiving leftovers > the actual meal.
This hurts my soul.
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When I lived with my grandparents for a while I had to use the bathroom without heated floors whenever the maid was cleaning the other one. My current bathroom straight up doesn't have heating.
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Sometimes my 3D printer nozzle gets clogged and if I don't have a new one I have to order one and use my other two 3D printers until the new nozzle comes
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I have a weird relationship with numbers. I like some more than others.
I don't like # 9.
My current phone is a Pixel Pro 9. I'm seriously considering trying to sell it and get the Pixel Pro 10. 🙄
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I don't like odd numbers, so I get it.
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Right?!
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My backlog of Steam games that I haven't played through is kind of overwhelming.
Some highly-replayable games, like roguelikes, make it worse, because they soak up time that isn't going towards finishing the finishable ones.
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My backlog:
- CP2077 (a few hours in but didn't enjoy the gameplay)
- Mass Effect 3 (I loved ME1 and ME2, but many people say ME3 is not as good)
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Fallout 4
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake (I might just give up, didn't enjoy the combat and the padding)
- Hellblade
- Dying Light
- Tomb Raider the recent trilogy
- Baldur's Gate 3 (got stuck because combat is too confusing/difficult to me)
- Divinity Original Sin 2
- The Witcher 3 (not enjoying the combat)
- GTA 4 and 5
- Dragon Quest Builders
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That short list brings me much shame.
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How far along are you in the witcher? Combat is basic and kinda boring but what is stellar for me are the characters you encounter, their stories and your interactions with them; Random ones and the ones that have history with Geralt, people in this game feel incredibly real and the writing, voice acting and characterization are great. Also the world, so grand and beautiful inspite of the horrors in it, man made or otherwise.
The game made me emotional so mamy times, there are some great moments in it... In short, there is a lot that makes up for the meh combat. I struggled initially as well when I first played it, but one I left the first area I started to enjoy myself. think it's worth sticking to it.
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Lately?
Dealing with UPS (and I don't mean backup power, although I did also buy one of those recently.)I ordered a laptop from a foreign country (I'm in the US), and UPS didn't tell me I needed to tell them my 'Tax ID' and there was no way to input it online. So I had to call (and be on hold) a bunch before I could finally supply it, while my package was on hold.
Then they didn't tell me I had to pay the outrageous tariffs (thank you voters) until I noticed it wasn't moving and called them again.
Then most nights it said it was 'on the way' and would be delivered the next business day, until it reverted to 'In Warehouse' (code for held by customs) 4-5 hours later. So far it's done this for over a week: Each day sending out alerts that I'd get it the next day, then silently taking that back. I've been on the phone with them a lot.
Tonight it finally actually said that it cleared customs. I'll believe that when I see that it's left Kentucky. Still says it will be delivered tomorrow (technically today) which seems unlikely regardless.
Update: Tracking still says it will be delivered today, and it's actually nearby now, but that I owe the tariffs again!
Phone support says they see the earlier payment, so I don't owe, and the website just hasn't updated... From over a week ago. She also said it won't be delivered today anyway. Why do they have separate systems that apparently don't talk to each other‽Update 2: Sure enough, the driver arrives and asks for a check. My new laptop is right there. I told him I paid, I show him a screenshot from my credit card, he calls his office, they don't see it. I call customer support on my own phone while the driver is talking to his office, support gives me a confirmation code! Driver's office doesn't accept it. Their system has to be given notice of payment through some internal channel or something, and that should have happened automatically, but didn't. I'm given a number to call and told what number to press.
That department is closed now (Friday evening). Opens Monday.
The driver offered to accept a check and said they would refund the part already paid.
Absolutely no way I'm trusting them after what I've already seen. Trying again on Monday it is.Update 3: Besides ruining my mental health, now they also ruined the plans my wife and I made for today (...Saturday.) I got a notification this morning while out and about around 40 minutes away by freeway that the package was out for delivery. So I called again, and the phone system even said it was out for delivery today, Monday. Today is not Monday. And once again customer service could see that I paid. She did say she'd call 'the facility' and give them the authorization. She also said she would call me back, but my phone didn't ring while I was rushing home. I called back when I got there and miraculously got the same agent, who said that she did get ahold of them, and gave them the code. But couldn't reach the driver or something.
I got home and waited. And waited. Eventually the UPS truck did arrive, and of course the driver asked for payment, and I said I paid and asked her to call in.
Then the miracle happened.
Apparently the support agent had actually managed what none of the others could do, and and got the left hand to know what the right was doing. The driver's manager (handler? Whoever) actually was able to confirm to her that I paid.
The little scanner thing she had however still wouldn't let her actually take my signature and close out the delivery. Even with her contact trying to walk her through it. Thankfully she decided to leave the package with me and deal with it later. I really hope she doesn't get in trouble for that, but her contact didn't seem to mind that plan, and many hours later it's showing as delivered.
The laptop seems fine after all that. I expected it to be all kinds of mangled by this malfunctioning machine called UPS.
Side note: the entire time, the tracking site said
"At the request of the shipper, pre-signing your package is not available.Signature Required Sign Now
Not going to be home? Pre-sign for your package so your signature isn't required..." - I didn't test if it would let me. I knew I'd have to talk to the driver anyway.
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Ah, yes. UPS. In the Netherlands they suck too. We had something delivered from the US 3 or so years ago. It was quite expensive and we knew import tax would be required. Though we weren’t sure if it had been pre-paid by the seller or not. When we heard that the delivery was on its way to our door we thought all was good. Nope. Dude showed up and before we even got a word in he announced in the most snobbish “I’m not paid enough to deal with your bullshit” way that we better pay up in cash on the spot right then, or he’d send the package back. The amount had to be exact as he had no change. We didn’t have cash on hand and supposedly there was no other way to pay.
Called customer service after the guy left. They agreed that there was no other way to pay. They did agree to send the guy back later that day. It was a weird amount that neither the seller nor UPS had communicated with us. So not only did we have to head to an ATM but then had to go to a shop to split things out into specific coins.
When we paid the UPS guy with too many coins he cursed us out loudly and kept on cursing all the way to his delivery truck where he got in, slammed the door and then sped down the road, cutting another car off in the process.
Complained to customer service again. They basically said they would ignore my complaint.
So… how do other delivery companies tackle the same taxes? They send you an email with a payment link. If you don’t pay within x time they send you a letter with a request to pay. With some of them you can even pay using your card at the door. Never have I ever before or since encountered the way UPS dealt with this. When I see that UPS is the only delivery option a store has I won’t order from them.
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Moved to a new city a while ago and there is hardly any good vegan sushi here anywhere.
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Excuse my ignorance, but can you not just order things like vegetable rolls, avocado rolls, etc? The variety might be a little lacking, but sushi does not inherently have any animal products in it. Just seasoned rice and usually some seaweed.
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Sure, there is some vegan sushi I can get here. But it is only good instead of amazing. Making it an even more ridiculous first world problem.
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Get those little pressure lines on your fingers carrying bags of groceries into the house.
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Woah, look at Money Bags over here.
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I guess being unable to lose weight?
It is ridiculous how privileged it is in the context of human history to actually struggle with too much calories.
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My wife is technically obese. She's not bedridden fat like you see on TV, just nicely rounded. She complains about wanting to lose weight and finding it hard.
I suffered pretty serious poverty before meeting her and turning my life round, and also the brexit-covid combo basically emptied our supermarket shelves and scared the shit out of us all.
My mouth agrees with her that we should both do more to lose weight, but my mind says "removed finish that sandwich let's get a bit more famine resistance in us."
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I think this is also a big part of the issue.
Many countries are only recently in the phase of over consumption, meaning that parents and grandparents are often teaching kids early on to not waste food in a extremely unhealthy manner once you are in the context of over consumption.
For some people their parents grew up in a time where wasting the last few bites of a meal, or letting food go bad, or not eating food that in front of you would actually be bad. Like, if you didn't eat the last few bites you are wasting a valuable resource that you might not get the privilege of eating tomorrow.
But for example in many parts of the US right now, you are much better off learning to throw food away than to learn to force feed yourself.
It is a shame that the world is like that, but the reality is that for many people today, being okay with throwing away food is an actually important part of staying healthy.
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I got a Rx for zepbound and lost a bunch of weight.
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I don't know what's the most first world problem I've experienced, but the most recent was when I tried to use my roasting pan on my relatively new stove today and found that the roasting pan is not induction compatible.
So I put it in the Goodwill pile and ordered a fancy brand pan to replace it.
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You could always try one of those adapter plates
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I don't really have a lot of space for more stuff and I did already order another one. Thank you for the suggestion, though.
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The motorcycle I bought to zip around and have fun on is broken, so I have to drive my car instead while I wait for the part to arrive.
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The problem I'm dealing with right now is kind of a first world one in that I'm unable to ride my electric bicycle because the speed sensor is malfunctioning and the sensor from my other bike is incompatible as it's a 4-pin one and the other bike uses a 3-pin one. I do have a 3rd bike too but it's not fun to ride due to lack of electric assist.
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Handheld game consoles are too big and heavy.
Games are too long.
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The firstest world problem ever: Bored horny teen boys memed us into fascism through social media manipulation and no one is willing to face facts about it
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and no one is willing to face facts about it
What do you mean by this? I think a lot of people can see that things aren't right with many teen boys.
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Yes but they stop at that instead of seeing them as the cultural mine canary they are, and the proof of it is still the fact no one is doing anything about it
And you are proof yourself not realizing that the teenage boys during Gamergate are about to hit their 30s soon and they didn't stop being easily swayed misogynistic tools
And their indoctrinating a whole new generation through tate and rogan and the like
While everyone seems to just tut tut and say 'wow teen bois amirite
You really have no fucking clue how bad or deep this problem is and it's so well known that Chinese aristocrats wrote about it a thousand years ago, they called it 'The Bare Brances problem', and it resulted in numerous bandit uprisings resulting in entire villages getting raped and pillaged
And it all started with socially disenfranchised young men who had no future
Just like now
You really, really don't know how bad it's going to get. I've spent the last year prepping a remote cabin because our family has survived two dictators and they passed down their tips
If you aren't doing something to secure your family's safety now, it is likely too late unless you are wealthy enough to drop and go at a moments notice.
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Couldn't hear the TV over my crunchy snacks
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This is my daily. I am harder of hearing than my wife so I have to turn the TV up, but then it is disrupting her sleep.
So then I sometimes use headphones, but sometimes the odd quietness of the room at that point causes her to wake up.
🤷♂️
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My 65" oled tv is pretty laggy, and there's supposed to be an Optimize section in the menu, but there isn't, and the firmware is up to date.
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My local supermarket keeps the dark beers in the cooler!
C'mon guys, the darks are brewed to taste best at room temperature... and I want it now.
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Fresh hop beers being stacked center aisle at room temp.
Yum.
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Being nit-picky about the paper and writing instrument I use.
If I've gotten better in regard to paper selection, I still own way too much fountain pens, (mechanical-)pencils, ballpoint pens, and so on.
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Fountain pens are very cool, though. My problem is own more inks than pens.
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I've limited myself to 3 inks... most of the time ;)
Platinum Carbon Black and DeAtramentis Document Brown (these two are waterproof inks) and the basic Waterman Blue (the same ink I used to learn handwriting when I was a little kid in school, in the 70s)
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When my WiFi has a 5-10 minute hiccup because my ISP is upgrading its network.
<sigh>
How will I ever last?-
Damn. This sounds like Comcast to me.
With my current provider if it happened they have to discount my bill.
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The ice maker stopped working and When I make Sodastream I pour it over ice so I wouldn't make Sodastream soda and was "forced" to drink the Cokes in the fridge. It took 2 days before the ice machine was fixed.
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We have got so much stuff that we have trouble fitting everything into the new house we bought.
I mean, there is this spare room available, but it can only be reached by ladder, so putting stuff there is inconvenient.
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Same. The house I was renting before buying this one had nice, big closets and two sheds. Now I have little bitty closets and no shed.
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I bought the wrong dual arm monitor stand, and couldn't refund it.
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A couple of weeks ago, my favorite coffeeshop was closed. And, to make matters worse, my backup coffeeshop was closed. I was very lucky that my second backup was open. Otherwise, I would have been forced to go to the fucking Starbucks.
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I'd rather eat a spoonful of dry instant coffee than set foot into this establishment.
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Going out looks fun but then you try it and it isn’t fun.
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It's so exhausting.
So many expectations to live up to. Small talk to cater to. All to spend more money on things I can do at home for 1/5th the cost.
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My first world experience was being born. Entirely downhill since then
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I drank too much kombucha in a short time period and it gave me a terrible bellyache.
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It took two weeks to get my hazardous goods transported from the other side of the country.
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THEY STIOPED SELLING THESE I LOCED THEM SO MUCH 😭😭😭🐍
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https://www.lays.com/products/lays-stax-salt-vinegar-flavored-potato-crisps
https://www.amazon.com/Lays-Vinegar-Flavored-Potato-Crisps/dp/B00NGJM3D4
Your local store may not be carrying them, but it looks like Lay's still makes them.
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OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!
I searched the entire Internet for them a couple of years ago and there were some for like $20 each and nothing else, I guess they started making them again? you are a lifesaver!!!
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Bottle kind of looks like it's for an abrasive cleaning powder for kitchen
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100% better than Pringles due to their girth.
But the salt being on the opposite side weirds me out sometimes.
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not me but i would imagine people who lived in a gas-attendant place would wonder where the helpers are if they visited a place where there's no gas attendant.
for my own experience, lost the tv remote, tv is now unusable.
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I was at a gas station one day, pumping my gas like normal when this lady came up to me. She was from New Jersey and visiting my state and had no idea how to pump her own gas. New Jersey doesn't allow you to pump your own gas BTW. I talked her through it and she seemed genuinely freaked out by the whole experience, like she was afraid her car would just burst into flames as she pumped. She was an older lady too (maybe 50-60), but i guess she never traveled alone before and just hadn't had to do it for herself. Nice lady though, she gave me 5 bucks for helping her out.
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She was an older lady too (maybe 50-60), but i guess she never traveled alone before and just hadn’t had to do it for herself.
I wouldn't be terribly surprised if her husband always did it, and he might have died.
One thing I think is a good idea in a marriage --- which often, especially traditionally, divided up responsibilities --- is to have the other partner do any important things at least enough to know how to do it at a basic level if they have to do so in a pinch. Could be taxes or making dinner or fueling the car or whatever. You may not always be available, and, to be blunt, one of you is going to die first.
Something I had not thought of but ran into with some people who lived with someone --- not even always a spouse --- and had someone die who always handled X and never learned how to do it themselves. If suddenly, in addition to someone dying, you now have to immediately deal with the fact that you don't know how how the family finances work, or paying utilities works, or where the X, Y, and Z subscription comes from, it just adds more load. It's a lot easier to deal with it ahead of time.
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niiice! stay awesome good sir!
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I come from South Africa, I've driven at least 200,000km in my life, the first time I put Fuel in a car was at the age of 30 after temporarily moving to Europe.
'Petrol Attendants' often also wash your windscreen while you fuel up
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when i see it in the movies, i feel like having the attendants is a different experience altogether -- like a drive-thru type gas station.
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for my own experience, lost the tv remote, tv is now unusable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_remote
A universal remote is a remote control that can be programmed to operate various brands of one or more types of consumer electronics devices. Low-end universal remotes can only control a set number of devices determined by their manufacturer, while mid- and high-end universal remotes allow the user to program in new control codes to the remote. Many remotes sold with various electronics include universal remote capabilities for other types of devices, which allows the remote to control other devices beyond the device it came with. For example, a VCR remote may be programmed to operate various brands of televisions.
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The TV one is real. Without the remote the TV has one button. Hitting it turns it on if it’s off. When it’s on, hitting it brings up a menu, tap to what you want then hold it down to select it. Even turning it off is super annoying, but trying to do anything else is damn near impossible.
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channel skipping / surfing is hard with the tv buttons as well!
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I live in a nice village, my company were going litter picking volunteering which I really wanted to do but after day 1 (found a few items) it was just going for a walk with an empty bag.
I considered dropping lower the night before my son had to do a litter pick for a beavers badge
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I ate too much, and now I feel so bloated that all I can bring myself to do is sit on my comfortable sofa
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I've been enjoying these all day with my global south tm popcorn. Keep 'em coming X^D
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I am currently at a party of around 50 people sitting alone because I only know 1 person who is off talking to others, feeling super awkward. Does that count?
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A family with too much stuff in their house. We're sometimes given brand new clothes with the tag still on that they forgot about and no longer want. And this is like upper middle class.
Anyway, what I mean to say is tax the rich.
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I find petty, superficial people intolerable.
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That's just universal problem ¯(ツ)/¯
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