The Official First World Problems Thread™
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Designing an espresso machine for ISS
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Misread "ISS" as "ISIS", and wondering who was making appliances for the Caliphate :)
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This is a meta first world problem. This morning I was thinking about how today was going to have an Error'd article, then realizing it was only Wednesday, so I was going to post in this thread about that first world problem. Then it actually was an Error'd article, so I can't post that as a problem.
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My seat heaters seem to be slowing down. This is a true first world problem.
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Misread "ISS" as "ISIS", and wondering who was making appliances for the Caliphate
Every time I hear the term "ISIS", I think of Archer.
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ISIS-controlled territory truly is a danger zone.
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@Intercourse said:
Every time I hear the term "ISIS", I think of Archer.
I'm older than you. I think of Joanna Cameron.
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Every time I hear the term "ISIS", I think of SSIS and then I think of SSDS.
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I am not that old, but I think of the mother of Horus.
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I'm older than you. I think of Joanna Cameron.
On the basis of that picture, you are a wise man indeed.
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Seattle men busted at the border with illegal candy
Aw God! Protect our children!
http://hungryhouse.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Legal-or-not-legal-in-US.jpg
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No that show was cheap as shit. Oh great, a superhero who doesn't even do anything because the show doesn't have the budget for special effects. Whee.
Guess what? Incredible Hulk? Wonder Woman? Even the goddamned Greatest American Hero (and that was a comedy!) actually did superhero stuff sometimes! Shazam/Isis "power hour" or whatever it was called was like, "hey kids, want to watch something really cool? WELL TOO BAD YOU GOT THIS!"
EDIT: they all had better theme songs, too.
EDIT EDIT: even the Captain Marvel movie serial from the 1940s was more entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdElOYs9kWo
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The guns would be legal because they are obviously video game artwork and do not seem to be based on real models.
Though I figure it's only a matter of time before the crazies in this country start banning things that don't exist...
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But look at their size compared to the kinder egg. Massive choking hazard
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Isn't the whole point of kinder surprise that there's a little plastic toy hidden inside of chocolate? A.k.a. The Most Obvious Choking Hazard Anybody's Ever Heard Of?
I guess Europeans just like their children to choke to death more than the US does.
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Don't know, this is the first time I've heard of Kinder Surprise.
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But look at their size compared to the kinder egg. Massive choking hazard
But look at the safety features! If one becomes lodged in the windpipe, the bayonets will auto-perform a self-tracheotomy and save the child. Think of the children!
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Yeah well if any Europeons get pissy about our food and drug standards, just ask them how many thalidomide babies are in the United States. Hint: none. Our FDA actually did its homework on that drug, and never approved its use in the first place.
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They used to be cool little toys that you'd put together yourself, with moving parts and all sorts of choking opportunities. These days the most complicated you'll get is two pieces of plastic that press together.
Even a child with no idea that there's a toy inside would have to be pretty stupid to eat the chocolate, open the inner container and then swallow the toys. Bloody nanny state
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the bayonets will auto-perform a self-tracheotomy and save the child
You've convinced me. Time to start a campaign to have a bayonet added to all toys
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Our FDA actually did its homework on that drug
I thought it was blocked by one guy being a jobsworth and not letting it through on a technicality, then the actual harm being noticed before the red tape was done?
Correct me if I'm wrong, I read a brief article about this some time ago and would appreciate a decent source.
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My first world problem: I really wish Steam would quit throwing ads for stupid goat games at my face! Why is this even a category of game?!?!?
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My first world Steam problem: Shovel Knight is still not on sale. What gives, Steam?
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So, my car has one of this:
I can switch between my favorite stations by pressing any button from 1-6 or by scrolling with the thing attached to the wheel.
My First World Problem™ is that each time I press, say 3, the scrolling action starts at 1
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Steam downloaded 1.6GB of something last night for Goat Simulator without asking me. I wonder if they've changed something in the original and renamed it?
(It's actually quite fun and worth a fiver)Edit: Yes, it's a new game mode called Goat Simulator MMO, a pretty decent parody of MMOs.
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Don't know, this is the first time I've heard of Kinder Surprise.
FYI: Kinder in this case doesn't have anything to do with kindness. It's the German word for children.
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Isn't the whole point of kinder surprise that there's a little plastic toy hidden inside of chocolate? A.k.a. The Most Obvious Choking Hazard Anybody's Ever Heard Of?
Inside the chocolate egg is a plastic egg, and the toy is inside that. I'd say the plastic egg would be too big to swallow. As @Jaloopa points out...
Even a child with no idea that there's a toy inside would have to be pretty stupid to eat the chocolate, open the inner container and then swallow the toys.
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Inside the chocolate egg is a plastic egg, and the toy is inside that.
TRWTF is that the chocolate isn't very nice.
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TRWTF is that the chocolate isn't very nice.
And the other RWTF is the that the surprises are generally shit
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I guess Europeans just like their children to choke to death more than the US does.
European kids aren't dumb enough to swallow the damn thing whole.
Filed under: the ones that are, we send off to gulags
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European kids aren't dumb enough to swallow the damn thing whole.
Filed under: the ones that are, we send off to gulags
The ones who are dumb enough, we're better off without. #DarwinAwardNomineees
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And to boot, the TV ads make you want to choke someone.
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Though I figure it's only a matter of time before the crazies in this country start banning things that don't exist...
Read http://www.thisistrue.com/b-zero-tolerance.html and weep.
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Yeah well if any Europeons get pissy about our food and drug standards, just ask them how many thalidomide babies are in the United States. Hint: none. Our FDA actually did its homework on that drug, and never approved its use in the first place.
Yes. One counterexample automatically negates all the other situations in which USA food and drug standards are completely fucked up.
How much pink slime is in European food for human consumption? Hint: none.
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Read http://www.thisistrue.com/b-zero-tolerance.html and weep.
Lee, a reader in Texas, knows that such rules do get out of hand: "In Garland, Texas, about a year or so ago, a boy was suspended from school under a similar 'zero tolerance' policy -- for forming his hand in the shape of a pistol. The Gestapo, er uh, police said that he was 'engaging in terrorist activity.'
I'm sure Lee is a trustworthy source.
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Aw God! Protect our children!
[Kinder eggs illegal in the US]
Been discussed before - albeit nearly 5 years ago...
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FYI: Kinder in this case doesn't have anything to do with kindness. It's the German word for children.
Kinder... garten... Kindergarten... "child's garden"... creepy...
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That's the only goat game I know of. They recently added MMO-parody stuff, but that's the same game as Goat Simulator.
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How much pink slime is in European food for human consumption?
That's because Europeans are paranoid and unscientific[1]. While the stuff doesn't look appetizing, it's not really harmful.
And people who have a history of eating things like head cheese and other disgusting things aren't really suited to complain about this.
[1] see GMOs, which one of the founders of the anti-GMO movement just had a change of heart about and now calls the movement unscientific..
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Does "naming your car after a well-known type of explosive" belong in the bad ideas thread?
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But it's not organic or natural!
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Well, that's Citröen naming convention. Was either that car or attach a baby seat to my bike.
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Isn't the C4 one of the models where the centre of the steering wheel is fixed, and just the outside moves?
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Yep, and I like it. The controls are always at the same place. The C4 is the beta-testing model for Citroen. Just look at the new C4 Cactus.
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How much pink slime is in European food for human consumption? Hint: none.
Who cares? It's harmless. It just "looks" scary, and thus is good for local Action News 7 to do a "special report" on.
It's like a job creation program: what would shitty local news stations do if they couldn't spend half their time scaring really stupid people with common household items? Actually report news? Hah!