Fiona Apple makes everyone sad. Especially when she sings.
I'd like to listen to music when I do yard work, but the sound quality of the mp3-playing headphones from the "home center" is woefully substandard.
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Please post your most trivial first world problem here
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I'd like to listen to music when I do yard work, but the sound quality of the mp3-playing headphones from the "home center" is woefully substandard.
Another trivial first world problem, of course.
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Another huge problem of mine: I can’t tell if the bands I’m listening to are intentionally using Lo-Fi recording techniques, or if the bitrate on my favorite satellite radio station is abysmally low. Either way, it’s having a seriously negative impact on my artistic enjoyment. 
My home gigabit internet is only doing about 810Mb/s right now.
The main road leading into my workplace is closed for repairs so I have to detour. This adds 3 minutes to my commute. 
You know i was listening to The Spice girl's timeless offering "If you wanna be my lover" and found it contained some truth bending statements and outright lies.
My past 30 year old inner self was sent reeling in a nostalgic existential crisis!
My past 30 year old inner self was sent reeling in a nostalgic existential crisis!
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That’s my wife. Drives me nuts. The tube CLEARLY tells you IN PLAIN ENGLISH, “For best results, squeeze tube from bottom”. Hello?!?!? Can you NOT read?!?!? Why wouldn’t you want the best results!?!?!?I'll tell you one of the most trivial world problems: people squeezing toothpaste like this:
It’s ok. I always forget to fold the laundry after pulling it out of the dryer and leave it in a pile on the bed, and she hulk squeezes the toothpaste and NEVER replaces the empty toilet paper roll with a new one. It’s a fair trade off.
Someone disconnected the beeper on one of the microwaves in the coffee station near my desk. Now I risk having to walk 40 feet from my desk only to find that it's not done yet.
I didn't get any "likes" yesterday.... 
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I strongly dislike you right now. I've just moved and of course the internet didn't get hooked up as promised, so now they're sending a technician over. Somewhere next week...
First world problem. I don't have internet at home
Looks like maybe she's squeezing it "with her bottom", not "from the bottom".....
I don't see a problem, first world or otherwise. You can always squeeze it back into its proper shape. In the good old days, toothpaste tubes were made of metal and if you squeezed them around too much they'd bust open. Now THAT was a problem.
If she's capable of that, I would consider it a benefit rather than a problem.
This thread is an even number of pages, but it won't last...and adding this gripe is only making it worse
This reminds me of a story from childhood. We were at Grandma’s overnight and she had “Pepsodent” toothpaste. For whatever reason that morning she came out of the bathroom complaining that something was wrong with the toothpaste - it tasted awful.
My Grandpa came out with a big grin displaying an almost identical tube of ointment called, I think, “Ozonal”
My wife worked all day while I played golf, watched TV and practiced on my bass.
Now she's bringing home dinner but I want pizza and she wants Chinese food.
I can't go on like this much longer.
Now she's bringing home dinner but I want pizza and she wants Chinese food.
I can't go on like this much longer.
I haven't bought something in a while, so I feel unloved and unfulfilled.
The TV in my living room uses an internet connection to display program information on the channels it picks up over the air through the antenna, kind of like old school meets new. For some reason, the spot where the TV sits has always had a problem receiving a clean and clear wifi connection. We could never figure out why. The Roku plugged into the back of the TV doesn't have a problem, and the Blueray player sitting below the TV doesn't have a problem. But it made me mad that I intermittently could not see which episode of Star Trek was coming up on H&I or which SciFi show was playing on Comet. I finally broke down and bought a wifi extender box, plugged it in, set it up, and my TV once again is displaying program information. Thank the Goddess!
