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Please post your most trivial first world problem here

#282
I have to have a charging cable for my phone in all the places I am likely to sit:

my recliner
my desk at work
my truck
my desk at my home office
my desk in my home recording studio
the place where I keep my keys and billfold
next to my bed

that way my phone is rarely likely to run out of juice- or even get below 50% on battery life. If it did, it would be gigantic first world problem - a phone less than half charged?!?! for shame!
 
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#284
SactoBass said:
Fortunately, the solution to such feline mayhem is within our grasp:

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Let us not forget that proper teep install-innery also mitigates against more serious office disasters:

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#286
DrMole said:
As a visitor to Colorado, only through DIA; and not in past 10 years- this made me both laugh and shrug shouders.
My mandolin was built in that state(Denver) and it has earned much good will for the remainder of the state.;-)
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I spent years hoping my favorite stress relief would be legalized.
Now that it finally has been (and I no longer indulge), I find myself wondering what the hell I was thinking...

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My "first world problem" is people who misuse terms like "first world" and "third world".

These terms came out of an article written in the 1950s about how the world was dividing itself up during the Cold War. The First World was the US, UK, Western Europe and their allies. The Second World was the Communist countries (Soviet Union, China) and their allies. And the Third World was countries not aligned with either group. So many of the world's wealthiest (oil-producing Middle Eastern) nations are Third World countries. Many African countries that we now think of as Third World were originally First World as they were administratively linked with England, France and Belgium, etc. And much of the Second World no longer exists following the unification of Germany and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
 
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#293
4stringsjack said:
Not that I was aware of! I'm talking about my VW. Fast is never fast enough. Neither is faster. ;)
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Two wheels, 1200CC v-twin engine, fly-by-wire. 0 to plaid in not enough seconds to properly enjoy the rush, plus suspension that makes muddy fields and gravel roads sources of fun instead of terror. If I ever get it onto the track, I may find out why some people insist on putting quick-shifters in those things.

If that's not fast enough, maybe try drag-racing :)
 
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whero said:
My "first world problem" is people who misuse terms like "first world" and "third world".

These terms came out of an article written in the 1950s about how the world was dividing itself up during the Cold War. The First World was the US, UK, Western Europe and their allies. The Second World was the Communist countries (Soviet Union, China) and their allies. And the Third World was countries not aligned with either group. So many of the world's wealthiest (oil-producing Middle Eastern) nations are Third World countries. Many African countries that we now think of as Third World were originally First World as they were administratively linked with England, France and Belgium, etc. And much of the Second World no longer exists following the unification of Germany and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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I hear ya, but the terms have simply changed usage. Similarly, I've stopped trying to teach people the difference between "hacker" and "cracker."
Could be that it followed the regression of some of those Third-World countries, now I read the way you've phrased that.
 
#295
AboutSweetSue said:
Levi’s won’t quit changing the fit in their numbering system. It’s very frustrating because the 514 doesn’t hug my gluteus maximus like my last pair, which is very disappointing to my wife. She may leave me if I don’t find a better fitting number.
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Same! What is it with Levis and 514s?!! I have one pair that fit perfectly, and one pair that bag embarrassingly.
I'm going to have to get my next pair tailored, to guarantee the fit.
 
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Cowboy in Latvia said:
The only time I hear the phrase "first world problems", It's meant to trivialize what someone is going through. My point is that those who have actually lived in places that aren't first-world don't poo-poo other's issues regardless of size. It's like a whole lot of other 'charged' words and phrases that don't actually help anybody and only serve to divide society.

The fact that the phrase is primarily used in developed countries should be another indication of the privilege of the people using it, not those it is meant to 'shame'. It doesn't raise any awareness, it doesn't help anybody actually...it only serves to divide people further.
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Sad but true. Happily, it's not universal.
In my circles, we point the phrase at ourselves, as a way of acknowledging the levels of privilege we enjoy, and to put the problems in proportion to reduce the degree to which we stress about them. Two key phrases recur in various forms in that context: "if this is the biggest problem in my life right now, it's a pretty good life" and "sure it's a problem, but it's a good problem to have."
 
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