First World Problems

PlainP

It's been on my mind for a while now. Every time I see it happening I have to wonder to myself why people do it. I wonder what fascination people have with keeping it on. Then I have to ask myself, is it just me? am I the only person who throws it away? Am I a freak of nature?

Yes people first world problems....

The little plastic ring on plastic milk cartons, do you keep it on or throw it away?

I always wonder why people keep it on as every time you go to pour the milk you have to hold onto it so it doesn't fall into your cup or cereal bowl..

Eve_Dublin

Done to death, OP.

notnumber

The topic was researched at length by the best academic minds in the world.After a 10 year program where 2 billion people where interviewed the conclusion was neatly summarised in the below link.

PlainP

Oh apologies Eve, I'm fairly new here, unlike yourself...

PlainP

notnumber wrote: »

The topic was researched at length by the best academic minds in the world.After a 10 year program where 2 billion people where interviewed the conclusion was neatly summarised in the below link.

As I've mentioned "first world problems" and all

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Spending 2 billion USD on trying to win an election.

hometruths

Negative equity

Eve_Dublin

PlainP wrote: »

Oh apologies Eve, I'm fairly new here, unlike yourself...

Ah sorry! Carry on...

PlainP

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

Ah sorry! Carry on...

I did use the search function...maybe I didn't put in the proper query??

could you point me to where these threads are so I can get answers to my my first world problem??

summerskin

PlainP wrote: »

I did use the search function...maybe I didn't put in the proper query??

could you point me to where these threads are so I can get answers to my my first world problem??

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=73953535

bbam

PlainP wrote: »

I did use the search function...maybe I didn't put in the proper query??

a first world problem in itself OP

PlainP

summerskin wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=73953535

Nothing in there about the plastic milk carton ring...

notnumber

PlainP wrote: »

As I've mentioned "first world problems" and all

only an early morning jibe my friend.I wish you luck on your quest to find the answer to this question.I always remove the offending bit of plastic.

Rabies

PlainP wrote: »

The little plastic ring on plastic milk cartons, do you keep it on or throw it away?

I always wonder why people keep it on as every time you go to pour the milk you have to hold onto it so it doesn't fall into your cup or cereal bowl..

More of an inconvenience

PlainP

notnumber wrote: »

only an early morning jibe my friend.I wish you luck on your quest to find the answer to this question.I always remove the offending bit of plastic.

Quests and rings. Reminds me of a book I once read....

Rabies

PlainP wrote: »

Quests and rings. Reminds me of a book I once read....

Anal Adventures of a Cheerleader?

working fool

Trying to find dunnes stores or m&s bags to go shopping in aldi ?

PlainP

Rabies wrote: »

Anal Adventures of a Cheerleader?

Yes it was definitely that one :rolleyes:

ifumust82

Chips and a dip scenario......


You have a dip but are almost out of chips......you have more chips but if you open them then soon you'll be left with no dip and just chips.


First World Problem right there

donalg1

I remove the ring and leave it on the counter for someone else to put in the bin.

Akrasia

Rabies wrote: »

Anal Adventures of a Cheerleader?

I was thinking more along the lines of Johnny Quest's archeological investigation of sodom and gomorrah

Hande hoche!

ifumust82 wrote: »

Chips and a dip scenario......


You have a dip but are almost out of chips......you have more chips but if you open them then soon you'll be left with no dip and just chips.


First World Problem right there

Damn now I want some delicious salsa and tortilla chips.

Dr Turk Turkelton

ifumust82 wrote: »

Chips and a dip scenario......


You have a dip but are almost out of chips......you have more chips but if you open them then soon you'll be left with no dip and just chips.


First World Problem right there

This problem gets replicated every time I get a kp chocolate dip stick.
Should definitely be more chocolate in it.often you will take to much out on an early biscuit stick and then at the end you will be eating them dry.

Where are all the do-gooders to help us out then?
I think Bono should petition the world leaders for chocolate forgiveness.

PlainP

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Damn now I want some delicious salsa and tortilla chips.

Gotta have jalapeños with this...Lots of them

bbam

My wife gives out as I leave dirty dishes on the worktop rather than putting them in the dishwasher..
First world problem I tell her, imagine if we had no dishwasher and you had to wash all the dishes by hand...

She usually hits me quite hard at that stage... but I like that too

BensonSlide

The crema on my espresso this morning was rather pale and inconsistent. Looks like I'm going to have to descale my damn Nespresso.

Bummer.

JohnMarston

bbam wrote: »

My wife gives out as I leave dirty dishes on the worktop rather than putting them in the dishwasher..
First world problem I tell her, imagine if we had no dishwasher and you had to wash all the dishes by hand...

She usually hits me quite hard at that stage... but I like that too

I have a dishwasher in the apartment and still wash all my dishes and containers and stuff by hand.

Want a real problem? The batteries in my tv remote control died last night and i had no spares. I had to change it by hand

bbam

JohnMarston wrote: »

Want a real problem? The batteries in my tv remote control died last night and i had no spares. I had to change it by hand

Did you try pressing the buttons harder
We all to it...

Paz-CCFC

ifumust82 wrote: »

Chips and a dip scenario......


You have a dip but are almost out of chips......you have more chips but if you open them then soon you'll be left with no dip and just chips.


First World Problem right there

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Damn now I want some delicious salsa and tortilla chips.

Since when did Irish people call crisps "chips"?

BensonSlide

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

Since when did Irish people call crisps "chips"?

Since that Abercrombie & Fitch place opened up in Dublin.

BraziliaNZ

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

Since when did Irish people call crisps "chips"?

We call Tortilla chips Tortilla chips. Stop the lights!

PizzamanIRL

You want to take €80 out of the ATM but the machine says 'please enter an amount in multiples of €50'

So you have to take out 50 or 100.

JohnMarston

bbam wrote: »

Did you try pressing the buttons harder
We all to it...

Tried that, worked for a while, eventually it wasnt enough. They served with honour

ifumust82

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

Since when did Irish people call crisps "chips"?

Tortilla's are not called Tortilla crisps are they??

Crisps are a different animal altogether

goose2005

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Spending 2 billion USD on trying to win an election.

In the third world you just give 2 million to the guy who counts the votes and call it a day.

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

You want to take €80 out of the ATM but the machine says 'please enter an amount in multiples of €50'

So you have to take out 50 or 100.

Could be worse - imagine in Zimbabwe you want 120,000,000,000 but it asks for multiples of 50,000,000,000.

ifumust82 wrote: »

Chips and a dip scenario......


You have a dip but are almost out of chips......you have more chips but if you open them then soon you'll be left with no dip and just chips.


First World Problem right there

They have problems like that in poor countries too, they're human like us. First World Problems implies that poor people also don't get annoyed by trivial crap - of course they do.

Paz-CCFC

ifumust82 wrote: »

Tortilla's are not called Tortilla crisps are they??

I wouldn't find it odd if I heard "tortilla crisps".

Crisps are a different animal altogether

They seem closely related enough to me to warrant calling them crisps.

BraziliaNZ

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

I wouldn't find it odd if I heard "tortilla crisps".



They seem closely related enough to me to warrant calling them crisps.

Write to the standards agency or something, this is an outrage

Paz-CCFC

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Write to the standards agency or something, this is an outrage

Someone posts in a thread entitled 'First World Problems' about a trivial problem? "Stop the lights".

UCDVet

My favorite first world problem.....
Complaining that evil corporations are making 'genetically modified' food, or that the food you are buying isn't 100% organic.

Quirk_Douglas

The first world's main problem is mass immigration from third world countries.

Aside from that, hedonism. Wanting everything handed to you on a silver platter. Also, the influence of the internet and message boards such as this one where arrogance is permitted, and seeps into the attitudes of people even while they're offline.

Aimless, directionless lives. Becoming a Godless society with nothing to replace it. To paraphrase Bob Mitchum, we're 'building our gallows high, baby', and it's all going to come crashing down around us. In spectacular fashion.

eggwhitelad

its the worst ******* weekend in history if you didn't get your rock and roll

ejmaztec

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

We call Tortilla chips Tortilla chips. Stop the lights!

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

Someone posts in a thread entitled 'First World Problems' about a trivial problem? "Stop the lights".

What I want to know is - where are these lights, and where can I get some so that I can stop them?

ilovesleep

I hate it when someone plays down a betrayal by saying something there's war in the world, and disasterous weather conditions eg tsunamis and starving populations in Africa and you're focusing on this .....

So just because there are starving people in Africa, earthquakes and tsunamis and wars your betrayal, that you won't even acknowledge and apologise for, is ok?

It's not you weasel

BraziliaNZ

ejmaztec wrote: »

What I want to know is - where are these lights, and where can I get some so that I can stop them?

They're not on yet

http://www.visitdublin.com/event/Switching_on_Christmas_Lights_Ceremony

Terrorise the event, stop the c*nts

eggwhitelad

ilovesleep wrote: »

I hate it when someone plays down a betrayal by saying something there's war in the world, and disasterous weather conditions eg tsunamis and starving populations in Africa and you're focusing on this .....

So just because there are starving people in Africa, earthquakes and tsunamis and wars your betrayal, that you won't even acknowledge and apologise for, is ok?

It's not you weasel

people that go on like that deserve one in the kisser

old hippy

UCDVet wrote: »

My favorite first world problem.....
Complaining that evil corporations are making 'genetically modified' food, or that the food you are buying isn't 100% organic.

Yes, imagine berating multinationals for putting patents on small crop growers in India or tearing down primeval forest in order to grow the GM food.

I suppose you sneer at fair trade product as well?

mfceiling

JohnMarston wrote: »

I have a dishwasher in the apartment and still wash all my dishes and containers and stuff by hand.

Want a real problem? The batteries in my tv remote control died last night and i had no spares. I had to change it by hand

Rookie mistake john..


You take the batteries out, rub them between your hands, breathe on them, twirl them around and then put them back in again. Bingo...you're good to go for at least another week.

JohnMarston

mfceiling wrote: »

Rookie mistake john..


You take the batteries out, rub them between your hands, breathe on them, twirl them around and then put them back in again. Bingo...you're good to go for at least another week.

I suppose thats what i get for not going to the experts in the first place. Thank you sir

keith16

When you jump in the shower and you forget your towel....man that's awful.

faceman

Having to drink beer out of a pint glass that has a handle. :mad:

666irishguy

The Third World.