The Official First World Problems Thread™
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what? it gets the job done and is of no worse quality than the buildityourself kits you can get at Walmart. in fact it's often better quality!
Flat pack furniture is the bane of society. IKEA or Wal-Mart, it is made to be put together once and then disposed of if you ever want to move it.
I suppose I am an odd person. I love both technology and old-school furniture. There is something warm and inviting about solid wood. IKEA stuff is made like a hollow-core door. Of course, one of my (many) hobbies is building furniture.
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@Intercourse said:
Flat pack furniture is the bane of society. IKEA or Wal-Mart, it is made to be put together once and then disposed of if you ever want to move it.
yep. flatpack in the guest room (especially if the guests ever include teens) heirloom furniture in your room. ;-)
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flatpack in the guest room
Not for myself. We have weeded out almost all of the old, crappy furniture. As one of my hobbies is building furniture, you eventually start to run out of space to put new shit. So even the guest bedroom is mostly upgraded to solid-wood. Next on the to-do list is building bunks beds for my son to move him out of the nursery and in to a room more fitting of a 3 year old. Should be a fun one.
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@Intercourse said:
Not for myself. We have weeded out almost all of the old, crappy furniture. As one of my hobbies is building furniture, you eventually start to run out of space to put new shit. So even the guest bedroom is mostly upgraded to solid-wood. Next on the to-do list is building bunks beds for my son to move him out of the nursery and in to a room more fitting of a 3 year old. Should be a fun one.
We have quite the mix, but with a small place, it works out well. Once we move to a larger place, we're probably going to sell/throw out quite a bit of furniture, and buy new/better stuff.
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@Intercourse said:
As one of my hobbies is building furniture, you eventually start to run out of space to put new shit
ah....
if i might suggest leaging poo out of the furniture building process?
;-)
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Once we move to a larger place, we're probably going to sell/throw out quite a bit of furniture, and buy new/better stuff.
Being a grown-up is expensive. Even more so if you are married...
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@Intercourse said:
Pffffffbt. Kids are a downright bargain compared to a wife.
wait till they're older.... ;-)
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wait till they're older....
Touché. At age 3, my son is not too expensive.
Although, now that I think about it, daycare does run ~$1K/month...
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@Intercourse said:
Pffffffbt. Kids are a downright bargain compared to a wife.
Don't tell my wife I liked this.
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@Intercourse said:
Being a grown-up is expensive. Even more so if you are married...
Don't I know it. My car is on its way out, I'm recently married, and house hunting...
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You're a farker? I knew I liked you.
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You're a farker? I knew I liked you.
Not anymore, really. Well I guess a "read once a week maybe if bored, but never post or anything" farker. Whatever.
I kind of regret never being part of the SomethingAwful community during its heyday. They were really goddamned influential culturally for a very long time.
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I knew I liked you.
You obviously have him confused with someone else. He makes life miserable for everybody and you know it.
<http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/how-slow-is-discourse-on-your-mobile/5405/197
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Same boats I'm in.
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@Intercourse said:
Pffffffbt. Kids are a downright bargain compared to a wife.
No. A kid is a bargain compared to a wife. Kids are not.
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No. A kid is a bargain compared to a wife. Kids are not.
I am still on spawn #1, but I have no doubt that you are correct...
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you have no idea what you're missing!
the smells! the sights! the knockoffs!
:-D
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@Intercourse said:
I suppose I am an odd person. I love both technology and old-school furniture.
Who doesn't like old school furniture? And easier question to answer is who can afford to only buy old school furniture. For sure, not me.
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@Intercourse said:
Being a grown-up is expensive. Even more so if you are married...
Especially when only one of you works.
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And easier question to answer is who can afford to only buy old school furniture. For sure, not me.
Apparently not me either:
@Intercourse said:
one of my (many) hobbies is building furniture.
Of course, the tools were not cheap, but it keeps me out of the bars so that helps keep the cost down. ;)
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@Intercourse said:
Of course, the tools were not cheap, but it keeps me out of the bars so that helps keep the cost down.
Yes, answering the part of the question that's always left out. Not cheap, compared to what?
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compared to what?
Alcoholism? Divorce? Me going crazy for lack of a creative outlet?
I would really hate to total up all the money I have in tools, but it would be easily in to 5 digits (before the decimal point, for the pedants). But I also do all of our home repairs, renovations, upgrades, etc.
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I only have one life to drink during, so I consider it money well spent.
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Life is too short to drink cheap booze.
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@Intercourse said:
Life is too short to drink cheap booze.
That is why I live in a city where dive bars have craft beer.
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@Intercourse said:
I love my liver, that is why I only kill it with the best of booze.
My liver can't tell the difference, but my wallet can.
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My liver can't tell the difference, but my wallet can.
My tastebuds can tell the difference, that's for certain. What's your drink of choice?
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@Intercourse said:
My tastebuds can tell the difference, that's for certain. What's your drink of choice?
There are three things I tend to drink:
Beer - Yuengling (this is a mid priced beer, I can get a suitcase - 24 cans - for under $20, or about $15 if I schlepp to Wal-Mart)
Wine - Rex Goliath Pinot Noir. I think my grocery store seriously overbought this stuff, because it's always on sale for $5.
Whiskey - Cheapest I can find (Imperial or Aristocrat), goes for ~$14 for a 1.75LThe whiskey I typically mix with some kind of soda, and its taste is plenty good for that.
I'll splurge on something better (typically Knob Creek) for my flask. But then I can count the number of times I take it with me golfing per year on one hand, so that's a special occasion sort of thing.
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I've never been inside an IKEA.
It's easier to find your way through the Mines of Moria than to escape an IKEA.
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Beer - Yuengling (this is a mid priced beer, I can get a suitcase - 24 cans - for under $20, or about $15 if I schlepp to Wal-Mart)
I wouldn't use that stuff to act as ballast, it's pretty nasty.
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I wouldn't use that stuff to act as ballast, it's pretty nasty.
And now I know that my instinct to distrust the taste of a beer hipster was right all along.
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Then again, he's a Bruins fan, so it's possible his lack of taste has nothing to do with his beer hipsterism.
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Whiskey - Cheapest I can find
shudder My minimum for whiskey is Jack Daniels. I really dig the flavor from the maple barrels, which goes really well with Coke as a mixer. Cheap whiskey will give me an almost instant headache. Even Jim Beam will. Nearly instant migraine, well before I even get a buzz.
It's easier to find your way through the Mines of Moria than to escape an IKEA.
Yep. 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.
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And now I know that my instinct to distrust the taste of a beer hipster was right all along.
More good beer for me. And I don't even consider myself a beer snob.
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@Intercourse said:
Cheap whiskey will give me an almost instant headache. Even Jim Beam will. Nearly instant migraine, well before I even get a buzz.
This is a valid reason, but I don't have this problem.
And I don't even consider myself a beer snob.
It's your right as an American to be wrong.
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@Intercourse said:
shudder My minimum for whiskey is Jack Daniels. I really dig the flavor from the maple barrels, which goes really well with Coke as a mixer. Cheap whiskey will give me an almost instant headache. Even Jim Beam will. Nearly instant migraine, well before I even get a buzz.
I can't even look at a bottle of Wild Turkey without getting a headache.
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@Intercourse said:
My minimum for whiskey is Jack Daniels.
I always thought that stuff tasted like charcoal briquettes wet with charcoal lighter. But then my preference in liquor is towards the stuff that's likely to turn me diabetic long before intoxicating me.
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Unless you're buying Swedish food like mustard or kanelrolls. Also, IKEA meatballs with that red fruit sauce are great.
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I can't even look at a bottle of Wild Turkey without getting a headache.
Same here, and it all goes back to my 22nd birthday. I drank enough Wild Turkey for the entire bar and the next day I learned the meaning of the word "hangover". shudder
I always thought that stuff tasted like charcoal briquettes wet with charcoal lighter.
To each their own. That is why there is so much variety, to please a wide variety of tastes. I see people drink wine that I would more likely put on pancakes than to drink it, but as long as it pleases them, who am I do judge?
my preference in liquor is towards the stuff that's likely to turn me diabetic long before intoxicating me.
If you like "chick drinks", just say that you like chick drinks. <Yes, that was me judging, and yes it is hypocritical after my last post>
IKEA meatballs with that red fruit sauce are great.
Yes they are. Also, it is not that I never go there. If you need storage for a small or awkward space, IKEA is king due to them starting in Europe and catering to smaller European homes. That also makes them awesome for apartment dwellers, etc. They have their place. They also have some cool old-school toddler toys (wooden trains, wooden block sorters, etc) and some of their kitchen stuff is pretty cool.
Mostly, I just wanted to give you shit. ;)
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I'll send you guys a bottle each of Fireball, Fernet, and Malört.
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and this is why they raised the price of prime.... thanks.
Hey, be late with your car payment, what happens? You pay a penalty. Amazon's late with Prime, apparently they pay a penalty, too. Fair is fair.
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I'm crazy
This was like a Blakeryrant without the lunacy. I'm kind of disappointed in retrospect.
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. I wonder if @codinghorror was one of the programmers there, because it sure feels like it think's I'm Doing It WrongTM.
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