First World Problems: Share the Silliest Things That Bug You!

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The discussion revolves around various "silly problems" that, despite their trivial nature, cause frustration. Participants share experiences such as the annoyance of tissues not dispensing properly, typing errors leading to lost text, and difficulties with packaging, particularly hard-to-open plastic. Other grievances include software prompts that disrupt workflow, slow internet connections, and issues with customer service calls. The conversation touches on everyday inconveniences like toilet paper shortages, ineffective product packaging, and the challenges of using technology, such as touchscreen lag and autocorrect errors. Many participants express a sense of camaraderie in sharing these minor irritations, highlighting how even small frustrations can impact daily life. The thread reflects a light-hearted acknowledgment of first-world problems, with humor woven throughout the complaints.
  • #181
OmCheeto said:
After the lisab-Santorum incident, I leaned away from warning people about googling certain things, nor even mentioning them.

In my defense -- and if I remember correctly -- you were warned not to google!
 
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  • #182
Racism. I've never thought this would be over in the next couple of hundred years.
Bullying. When there are big boned and small boned babies, there would be differences among them that sooner or later lead to discrimination. Maybe the current law has not been really lawful just yet. :D
 
  • #183
lisab said:
In my defense -- and if I remember correctly -- you were warned not to google!
That was "https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/pf-random-thoughts.338126/page-469#post-3324716 " that you warned me not to google.
I warned everyone, not to google "Santorum".

ps. It took me 10 minutes of googling to figure that out. Btw, have I ever mentioned, that I love you?
pps. Never mind. I just googled it. The answer is 33.
ppps. I apparently like other people also, so don't let this go to your head. ;P
 
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  • #184
my job that pays a living wage is so easy & boring...
 
  • #185
nitsuj said:
my job that pays a living wage is so easy & boring...
Can I have it?
 
  • #186
OmCheeto said:
That was "https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/pf-random-thoughts.338126/page-469#post-3324716 " that you warned me not to google.
I warned everyone, not to google "Santorum".

ps. It took me 10 minutes of googling to figure that out. Btw, have I ever mentioned, that I love you?
pps. Never mind. I just googled it. The answer is 33.
ppps. I apparently like other people also, so don't let this go to your head. ;P

You and Lisab have opened my eyes to several things in the last few days, on your behalf (and mine) and to get Danger all worked up, here's a song I'm sure she has heard :cool::D



Lisab, if you can get medicare to accept bills from a staff: mentor, I might could use some internet guidance :eek::D
 
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  • #187
RonL said:
on your behalf (and mine) and to get Danger all worked up, here's a song
As much as the first 2/3's are revolting, that's actually a good song because of the moral: he realizes the error of his religious ways and becomes a better person with an actual sex-life. :approve:
I'm not sure how Lisa likes the idea of a woman being a "prize to be won" with wine, though. :olduhh:
 
  • #188
Danger said:
Can I have it?
It's only boring and easy if I have the job, It would be far too "exciting" & "challenging" if I didn't have the job...first world problem. Also my socioeconomic status is half empty :(
 
  • #189
nitsuj said:
It's only boring and easy if I have the job, It would be far too "exciting" & "challenging" if I didn't have the job...first world problem. Also my socioeconomic status is half empty :(
Ahhh... a "dog who scratches", huh... :biggrin:
 
  • #190
Danger said:
Ahhh... a "dog who scratches", huh... :biggrin:

I'm not familiar with the saying?
 
  • #191
nitsuj said:
I'm not familiar with the saying?
Sorry... something my mother used to say. It think that it came from Shakespeare or an Aesop fable or similar. "A dog in the manger scratches his fleas; a dog who hunts doesn't notice them." It's like some people telling their kids to eat what's on their plates because children in Africa are starving—a reference to being dissatisfied even though well-off compared to others.
 
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  • #192
^^ "A dog in the manger scratches his fleas; a dog who hunts doesn't notice them." Love it! Thanks!
 
  • #193
I don't know what the native speakers think about the odd saying. It doesn't make sense at all to all non-natives :DD
 
  • #194
It's really annoying that we are so dependent on technology!
The power went off for half an hour this morning, so I wasn't able to do my job at all..

AnOldStudent said:
I don't know what the native speakers think about the odd saying. It doesn't make sense at all to all non-natives :DD
Are you sure?:D
 
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  • #195
I understand it completely. All poor kids need more love and food from the rich. So wealthy kids in First World countries need to shut up, stop moaning for food and money from their parents! :mad:

Come and lave mi: ba bey ~ ba ba ~ and ma ma ~ Aye need yor lave and maney
 
  • #196
Medicol said:
I understand it completely.
Apparently not. It was simply a gentle poke at Nitsuj for grouching about what some manual labourers would think of as a cushy job.
 
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  • #197
Lisa! said:
It's really annoying that we are so dependent on technology!
The power went off for half an hour this morning, so I wasn't able to do my job at all..Are you sure?:D
Yes, I don't understand it at all. Odd grammar and meaning.
 
  • #198
Danger said:
Apparently not. It was simply a gentle poke at Nitsuj for grouching about what some manual labourers would think of as a cushy job.
It's a derivative far off of infinite values. :DD
 
  • #199
I took a State Motor Vehicle Department form into my family doctors office today. It is a form needed to get a temporary disabled plate for my car. My wife broke her right ankle in early November and also has arthritis in her left knee.

The receptionist handed me a nice blue form and told me to fill in my wife's personal information on the form and write exactly what I wanted the doctor to do with the MVD form. I wrote on the form; "All he has to do is sign the blasted thing." The receptionist then told me it may be several days before the form is ready.

The doctor is aware of my wife's situation because he had to sign a Medicare form to get my wife a walker before she left the hospital after surgery. I really didn't want a walker because I knew that she couldn't use it with problems in both legs, but the hospital according to their assessment of my wife's condition had already given her a walker. (are we confused yet) The family doctor also had to sign a Medicare form to get a physical therapist to come to the house.

I had to immediately go out and buy a wheel chair because Medicare will only provide one assistance device. (which is the walker I now hang clothes on) Being the care giver to a woman who could not stand up and was on Vicodin was really difficult for the first week. Bed side potty detail was a not a fun experience. Luckily I have probably pooped in the woods more than the average person giving me a slight advantage over a novice potty handler.

Now the physical therapist has told us that he can't give my wife any physical therapy until either the arthritis in her knee improves enough so that she can use the walker or she gets the cast removed and can wear a boot that will allow her to put some weight on the foot with the broken ankle.

We got the cast removed last week and the orthopedic surgeon said that the bone has not healed enough yet for a boot so they put on another cast for four more weeks.

I have a severe problem with my right knee. I wear a brace and get injections every six months by an orthopedic surgeon. I was due for another injection so I called the orthopedic surgeon's office to schedule it in and the receptionist told me that the doctor no longer takes Medicare patients. I pay $220 a month for a Medicare supplemental policy that picks up every thing that Medicare doesn't pay for. But the doctor no longer takes Medicare.!

Today when I went to our family doctors office to try to get the MVD form signed I told the receptionist that I also needed a referral to a new orthopedic specialist. She handed me another nice blue form and told me to write on the form exactly what I wanted done in regards to a referral to another doctor who will take Medicare.

Luckily I can come to PF and banter with wonderful people. It really does help with the cabin fever. To be honest that Up For Auction Thread I started was for my own entertainment as much as anything.
 
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  • #200
edward said:
I wrote on the form; "All he has to do is sign the blasted thing."

Umm... TLDR,TFB.FOTHC.BH.CRTP.DHLA.SHITM.NS.IS.Z.

TLDR = Too long. Didn't read. Time for bed. Fell off the couch laughing. Broke hip. Can't reach the phone. Don't have life-alert. Send help in the morning. No sooner. I'm sleeping. zzzzzz..
 
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  • #201
OmCheeto said:
Umm... TLDR,TFB.FOTHC.BH.CRTP.DHLA.SHITM.NS.IS.Z.

TLDR = Too long. Didn't read. Time for bed. Fell off the couch laughing. Broke hip. Can't reach the phone. Don't have life-alert. Send help in the morning. No sooner. I'm sleeping. zzzzzz..

Nothing made sense, you forgot the l :w:D
 
  • #202
OmCheeto said:
That was "https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/pf-random-thoughts.338126/page-469#post-3324716 " that you warned me not to google.
I warned everyone, not to google "Santorum".

ps. It took me 10 minutes of googling to figure that out. Btw, have I ever mentioned, that I love you?
pps. Never mind. I just googled it. The answer is 33.
ppps. I apparently like other people also, so don't let this go to your head. ;P
You do realize that it makes EVERYONE curious now that you said not to google *enter specific keyword* :D
 
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  • #203
nuuskur said:
You do realize that it makes EVERYONE curious now that you said not to google *enter specific keyword* :D
That's what makes Om a hero :D
 
  • #204
Someone, threw trash bags, full of, obviously, trash, in front of my house last week.

pf.2014.12.12.1415.trashy.1st.world.problems.jpg


My OCD did not kick in, until today...

I threw all of the uneaten, rotten food, into the street.

And yes, I wore rubber gloves, and let my nearly 60 year old, full moon, Minion inspired, Walmart wannabe, BUTT!, stick out into traffic, as the elastic on my 10 year old sweatpants, would not hold them up.

The bags are gone, but, my neighbors, are all driving really slowly past my front yard...

Do not, mess with the Om....
I may be senile, but I have all the time in the world now, to figure out, casually, how to kill you...

:)
 
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  • #205
I think there's a grey line between being senile, and just not giving a sh*t anymore. :D
 
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  • #206
B. Elliott said:
I think there's a grey line between being senile, and just not giving a sh*t anymore. :D
Quite a thin grey line, yes.
 
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  • #207
lisab said:
Quite a thin grey line, yes.

I have been balancing myself on that line for about a year now. I don't know which side I will fall off on.

off on, off on the clapper uh oh
 
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  • #208
A lot of thinning grey lines.
 
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  • #209
OmCheeto said:
Someone, threw trash bags, full of, obviously, trash, in front of my house last week.

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My OCD did not kick in, until today...

I threw all of the uneaten, rotten food, into the street.

And yes, I wore rubber gloves, and let my nearly 60 year old, full moon, Minion inspired, Walmart wannabe, BUTT!, stick out into traffic, as the elastic on my 10 year old sweatpants, would not hold them up.

The bags are gone, but, my neighbors, are all driving really slowly past my front yard...

Do not, mess with the Om....
I may be senile, but I have all the time in the world now, to figure out, casually, how to kill you...

:)
The feng shui is just a little off in your yard, edward has the other pot plant :D

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You say his daughter lives next door?oo)
 
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  • #210
edward said:
off on, off on the clapper uh oh
Better than "off on, off on... the clap uh oh". What was that we were saying about being more careful in old-age?
 

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