My first world problem. What's yours?

[Ptah]

When I look at the TV schedule on the internet, the choices are

lisrted by channel number, smallest first.

If I want to see what is on channel 24, I scroll down from 13 to 24.

When I get my remote, I must scroll up to get from 13 to 24.

Up, down, I'm so confused.

[pipi_k]

1. Not enough

Bubblegum flavored jelly beans in a bag of Jelly Bellys

[Chellee]

2. I'd like a bowl of ice cream,

but I'm not in the mood for any of the flavors we have here at the house.

[flying rabbit]

3. I bought a laptop to stream videos in the basement.

It has windows 8 on it.

[Generic Brad]

4. I have too many tv viewing choices

Between Comcast, Netflix, Hulu, Crackle and You Tube I have trouble deciding what to watch.

[Kali]

5. I can't see my dark laptop keyboard with the floor lamp over there

but my light colored auxiliary keyboard has papers piled on it. and it is over there. on top of the printer instead of here on the desk. sigh

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I can't seem to get my iPhone to sync properly.

[chknltl]

7. I think my dog snores louder than I do

but I am unsure of that.

[No Vested Interest]

8. I think it's time to end my 2-month vacation

at my son's condo in Florida.
Need to get home to prepare tax papers to take to the preparer.

[fizzgig]

9. my replacement tv is too small

and the remote won't control volume or power

[patricia92243]

10. On Dish TV, you can change it to acending or decending. But that would mean you have to

have another world problem.

[Recursion]

11. Monkeys have taken over my building's infinity pool

No, I'm actually being serious here. They drove off the pack of street dogs that ran the grounds before and have taken up residence in the cabana.

The building has called the langurwallah, the guy who owns a bigger kind of monkey that scares them off. That's actually a job.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

30. ... bringing up a curious ordinal question ...

... what exactly is "first world", "second world", "third world", "fourth world" etc?

I'm sure there are "first world" problems in India, with the tarriffs on imported beer, and on other items.

But, seriesly, "monkeys have taken over the pool"? To be driven off by a hired bigger monkey? That's gotta be in some strange world!

...

Hey, whaddaya do for a living?

I program computers for Microsoft. You?

I got this big monkey ...

the conversation just has to go downhill from there.

[Recursion]

38. Actually the original term was "third world"

Basically, in the early cold war, development people were all worried about the explicitly-aligned countries, whether pro-NATO or pro-Warsaw-Pact. (Neither of them were specified as "first" or "second" world; just that there were two worlds competing for attention.) A French writer (Sauvy? Sartre?) proposed the phrase "tiers monde" to describe the largely non-aligned (at the time) Global South; it caught on in France in the late 1950s and eventually filtered in to the larger Western memesphere.

So, the "third world" was named without specifying which of the other two were the "first" and "second" worlds. "Fourth world" was coined in the 70's and corresponded roughly with what we now call "failed states".

But, seriesly, "monkeys have taken over the pool"? To be driven off by a hired bigger monkey? That's gotta be in some strange world!

True dat. I just did a thread on the whole episode, if you're curious what happened.

(Also, it was specifically the fact that it was an "infinity pool" that struck me as being on the side of FWP...)

[Behind the Aegis]

12. My puppy has rancid breath!

Thankfully, he doesn't have tooth decay, but boy howdy, does his breath smell horrible.

[cliffordu]

13. Being reviled by the self righteous

And all these leaves in my pool. Crap. They do make a mess.

[In_The_Wind]

15. You know

Those leaves were so pretty until they turned into pond scum dirtying up the bottom.

[LeftofObama]

14. When I get 3/4 of the way through my peach yogurt and realize

that I really wanted cherry instead.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. Very similar to calculators and phones ...

Why on earth would somebody put "1-2-3" on the top row of a phone dial pad, when the numbers "7-8-9" are on the top row of calculators?

This is a perpetual first-world problem.

I hope those two designers are locked in an eternal cage match in hell.

[jakeXT]

20. It could have been worse

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/the-17-designs-that-bell-almost-used-for-the-layout-of-telephone-buttons/279237/

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

29. Yikes! Don't show me the dvorak keyboard!

II-A and VI-B are the layout of my door lock.

But I have to look at the lock. I can't run it without looking, like a calculator.

[KentuckyWoman]

37. haha I posted before I read through

posted the same thing.

[Quantess]

17. I need instructions whenever I try to turn on a TV.

First, press the red button on this remote, then this other button on the 2nd remote, then wait a few seconds and then press the green button on the 3rd remote, then...

[In_The_Wind]

18. The koi pond may not be safe for koi.

We created a wonderful small deep pond that may only be safe for waterlilies.

First (last summer) the water became overheated by the sun, lots of water evaporated. So we carried in water by the barrel full from a nearby stream. Then we planted shrubs to provide shade in the coming years. Unfortunately this winter's snowstorms have given us yet another problem, snow plows pushing snow mountains over the shrubs.
Mebbe my days of watching the fishes swim are over too.

[pink-o]

19. The Next-door neighbor always takes up two parking spots.

Seriously, Dude...we live in San Francisco, show some respect! It's not like there are spaces to spare!

[KennyJames]

21. I am at a coffee shop trying to find a plug,

but actually there is not one....this is the last thing I can say before it dies...

[gopiscrap]

31. welcome to DU

[Jesus Malverde]

43. Welcome to DU...

Come on back!

[Xyzse]

22. I can't find even a single girl scout who I can buy cookies from.

Those thin mints are sweet crack incarnate that I haven't partaken from for more than 2 years now.
I want some bad.

[sharp_stick]

23. Too bad you're all the way in MD

My daughter would love to meet someone like you.

[Xyzse]

24. I KNOW!!!!

Dangit!
Uhhhh, if I send money via paypal or whatever, can you ship?

[sharp_stick]

25. I think she's already turned in her form

but I'll check if you want.

[Xyzse]

27. That would be great.

I think I can still use paypal.
Not that I want to, because I hate them, but, for this... I might just break down.

[LiberalElite]

34. Help is on the way -

http://cookielocator.littlebrownie.com/

[Xyzse]

40. You, are plain awesome.

I thank you, from the bottom of my grubby little paws.

[a la izquierda]

41. I'm vegan and can't eat GS cookies.

[Iggo]

44. There's an app for that.

And I'm pretty sure it's not as creepy as it sounds.

("Hmm...where's the nearest girl scout?&quot

[warrprayer]

26. my electric blanket

is too warm, I have to keep adjusting it

[In_The_Wind]

49. me too

It woke me up, again.

[Blue_Tires]

28. This is supposed to be a forum of (mostly) American posters

and no one here is anywhere near as outraged as they should be over Team USA's ice hockey loss today...

This was supposed to be *OUR* moment; our time to shine...And we let someone else just snatch it from us...

We did NOT become the great nation that we are today by letting other countries usurp our crowning triumphs...

[a la izquierda]

42. I am, because I lost a bet to my Canadian friend.

Now I have to buy dinner.

[Bonobo]

32. With all the talk of privilege, it is VITAL to remember First World Privilege.

Your OP is perhaps more important than you realize.

[LiberalElite]

33. I forced to uninstall from my smart phone

an app for a game that was boring.

[kwassa]

35. The local shopping center has 30 different restaurants, many of them very good.

and many have inexpensive lunch specials.

How will I ever decide which one I should eat lunch in?

[KentuckyWoman]

36. who is the wiseacre that put

789 on the top row on calculators and keypads but on the bottom for telephones.

That jerk.

[Notafraidtoo]

39. The video game i am playing has dumbed down content.

Playing Omerta city of gangsters and it is so close to being good but what it is missing makes it horrible and disappointing. My life could be much much worse.

[HipChick]

45. My sunroof won't open

[PassingFair]

46. I'm starting a new job on Monday, after 4 months of unemployment.

Best 4 months of my life.

I will miss having my mind and body free to wander wherever it will.
I will miss having lunch with my daughters.

We had money saved, so there's been no hardship, but then my husband
lost HIS job in January, so it's back to work for Momma....

I have to be in the office at 8:00 on Monday.



On the other hand, now I can pay for my daughter's student loans
and make the house payments for the foreseeable future, and THAT'S
a good thing.

[vanlassie]

47. I just got a pedicure and I don't like the polish color.

[OriginalGeek]

48. Went to see a thin Lizzy cover band tonight

they didn't play "The Boys Are Back In Town".




ONE job, Thin Lizzy cover band - you had ONE job...