The Official First World Problems Thread™
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huh..... hired in the year 212.... whoops.
fixed.
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It's easier to find your way through the Mines of Moria than to escape an IKEA.
Only if the Mines of Moria have a direction arrow and an exit sign every few feet
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IKEA meatballs
Oh jeah those got a bit in a scandal because of horse meatPaardenkloten
Flemish slang for horse testicles
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Oh there is one thing I get "regularly" that is not bottom shelf. I don't drink it that often, but when I drink rum, I get Wray and Nephew Overproof White Rum (it's Jamaican). It's something like 126 proof, but used in the correct amount, actually sweetens a coke. Really nice drink.
I couldn't find it for a while, but my local ABC store started carrying it a couple of years ago.
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Also, IKEA meatballs with that red fruit sauce are great.
Hmm...my grandmother used to make meatballs for her Christmas parties with an excellent sweet red sauce. It was grape jelly and ketchup. Sounds awful, but was in fact great.
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Probably the single biggest thing that bothers me about Gmail is the last few versions of the Android app, which seems to go out of its way to make it difficult to multiselect a bunch of emails so I can delete them at once.
Have you tried clicking the circles at the left? You know, the ones which hint at who the email is from or display a pic if one is available?
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Have you tried clicking the circles at the left? You know, the ones which hint at who the email is from or display a pic if one is available?
No, because I turned them off when they were squares, because of how much space they take up.
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No, because I turned them off when they were squares, because of how much space they take up.
Well, that's why you can't multi select. You turned off the selection UI.
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Well, that's why you can't multi select. You turned of the selection UI.
Whatever did I do before those existed? Oh yeah, long-press. It even used to work, but they broke it about the time they added those squares which are now circles, so half the time the instant you take your finger off, the select goes away, or it opens the message.
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Works fine here with the circles turned off.
Long press the first email, then tap the rest to select them.
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Works fine here with the circles turned off.Long press the first email, then tap the rest to select them.
Well, maybe Samsung fucked it up, I don't know. For me, long pressing in this one place works poorly. I turned the circles back on for now to see how I get along with it.
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Similarly: I voted for a Steam deal, but they had server issues and it counted my vote but I didn't get a free trading card and now I can't vote again. :(((((((((
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Also I found out today my Xbox 360 is kaput. :(((((((( I got like 100+ games on that thing. Do I buy another one? Or just not have one?
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Also I found out today my Xbox 360 is kaput. :(((((((( I got like 100+ games on that thing. Do I buy another one? Or just not have one?
[i]Fallout: New Vegas[/i] literally killed my first Xbox 360.
In some random building (the ghoul-infested observatory?), walked up some stairs, opened a door, screen went black. Console rebooted but then couldn't even sit on the dashboard for more than 5 minutes, still can't without RRODing.
I went out the next day and bought a replacement because I wanted to continue playing [i]Fallout: New Vegas[/i].
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My RROD was crazy. A roommate's Xbox 360 RROD'd, so he went and grabbed my box since I was at work. Hooked it up, put his hard drive in, turned it on, then mine RROD'd too. Two boxes in the same house within minutes of each other. I think after that he grabbed another roommate's and that one worked.
Haven't had one since but I've been really tempted to get a used one on ebay.
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My 360 got the RROD a month before the warranty ran out which was lucky as it got replaced.
It's been fine since although gets a lot less usage than it did. Can't even remember the last time it was turned on.
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I believe rich people got food delivered from the butcher's and so forth to their door. Thinking castles and manors and so on.
Back door.
"Get around to the servants' entrance knave."
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You can get for some 100€ some of the black ones (used).
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FWP:
The keyboard shortcut I was trying to remember, to trigger "Navigate to Last Edit Location" in IntelliJ IDEA, is <nobr>CtrlShiftBackspace</nobr>.
Unless otherwise configured — and I hadn't — <nobr>CtrlAltBackspace</nobr> kills the X server.
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Oh there is one thing I get "regularly" that is not bottom shelf. I don't drink it that often, but when I drink rum, I get Wray and Nephew Overproof White Rum (it's Jamaican). It's something like 126 proof, but used in the correct amount, actually sweetens a coke. Really nice drink.
I couldn't find it for a while, but my local ABC store started carrying it a couple of years ago.
I'll have to check it out.
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It's pretty lethal stuff in my experience.
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flatpack in the guest room
We used IKEA units for our kitchen years ago. We'd gone to a few kitchen remodelling places — you know, professionals who ought to have known what they were doing — and got a few quotes first, but their designs were awful, wasting a lot of space. By doing the design ourselves (and using IKEA units) we ended up with a heck of a lot better kitchen. Even with hiring people to assemble everything (the units were the easy bit; the rewiring and replumbing were rather more exotic) it was still cheaper and better.
@Intercourse said:
They design their stores in such a way that you have to walk by every single item/department. There is no, "I will just pop in to IKEA real quick". It just doesn't happen.
No, you just need to be real observant to see the shortcuts and even more savvy to figure out whether they're shortcuts forward or backward. I can usually breeze through in about 10 minutes (plus the time actually spent studying the items I've gone for). I'm pretty damn fast in the supermarket too; shopping sucks, so I try to avoid it and when I have to do it, I stick to my list…
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Wray and Nephew Overproof White Rum
That stuff is nice. It's one of the few spirits that I'll have with ice. I drink scotch more often, and then always neat. No point at all in having something nasty. (I don't care for bourbons; I've had ones that I could tell were good, and still didn't like them.)
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@Intercourse said:
Kids are a downright bargain compared to a wife.
Not if you're sending them to an Australian day care. Ours is $80 per child per day.
(I realise that this would be doubly-uneconomical for you given the distances involved.)
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Not if you're sending them to an Australian day care. Ours is $80 per child per day.
I spend about $1000/month, and that is bad enough. I completely see why unless both parents make really good money, it would make sense for one to become a stay at home parent.
When he was younger it was more expensive. About $1300/month for infant care.
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FWP: Didn't order enough from the Chinese take away to get the free prawn crackers, so ordered them too. Then because it's Christmas or something they gave me the ones I paid for and a free bag of them too so I had far more than I could eat.
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I have too many laptops.
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@Intercourse said:
How many is too many?
I can see three, and that's excluding tablets, netbooks and broken stuff...
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The work social club buys a fruit box each Monday and we all help ourselves. This week the peaches are a bit hard.
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The innuendo thread is that way.
Decided on the Song Of The Day thread instead...
Edit: WTF... @discoursebot
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@RTapeLoadingError - Last Day Without A Discourse Bug: null
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Sell them. You never know how many people are out there trying to keep their old work horse functional.
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FWP: those little dots in my laptop's touch screen which BTW, is totally useless.
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laptop's touch screen...
...is totally useless
Agreed. Not quite sure why that is a thing.
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So my ISP's website shows that my area has been "supercharged" so I can now get the free upgrade from 60Mb to 100Mb.
Cool - it even gives me the option to do it online but I don't trust that for reasons so call up, where I'm told a different system shows that it's not been upgraded yet.
More silly is that the area was already capable of 100Mb (120Mb in fact) but needed to be "supercharged" for it to be a free upgrade vs a paid upgrade.
The upgrade's been put through anyway and may take effect in 24-48 hours but equally may need to wait until all systems are in agreement over the upgrade.I'm not going to get too upset about this as it's a free upgrade.
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Turbochargers are more efficient than superchargers.
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But not as awesome.
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Nothing's efficient in Telecoms.
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They're not exactly mutually exclusive....
Or (Yes - one super charger, two turbo chargers)
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Do I have to bring up turbocompound engines here?
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FWP: I moved Steam so the apps are on my hard drive instead of the SSD. But I accidentally put them in d:\apps\stream.
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d:\apps\stream\streamapps\common[insert game name here]
That sounds very useful.
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Yeah, except that it's d:\apps\stream\steamapps.
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http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2014/12/new-injustice-discovered.html
"Should I spend a pound or two on checking my coat at the bar, or another Jagerbomb?"
If you have to even ask, you should fucking stay home.