I'm pretty sure we've had a thread like this once, and I think we should again.
Life. It is hard - too hard sometimes. some lives are even harder than others. You buy a frozen pizza, and it does not fit in the oven. You spend ages growing them flowers in the garden only to have the neighbour's sheep break in and eat them all. Vent Your First World frustrations!
This morning after shower, I dried my beard using a towel, and now it's all bunched up in a ball, refusing to hang straight down! I ought to shave the damned thing right off, see if I don't! :rant1:
Mirrors.
Yes. Mirrors. Alerting The Asmo to the unsightly shape of His Divine Beard! >:(
No WiFi coverage is the obvious one.
The Asmo's bathroom. Spottily covered. He still manages to watch YouTube from His throne, but over 5G.
He has all the First World problems, The Asmo does. :sadnod:
Quote from: Asmodean on May 09, 2023, 12:24:10 PMThe Asmo's bathroom. Spottily covered. He still manages to watch YouTube from His throne, but over 5G.
I think you should see a doctor about that.
Trouble is, The Asmo is what passes for a Internet doctor. As such, His own Internet is... Like a mechanic's car or cobbler's shoes. Spotty.
Waking up in the morning and notice that your electronic devices were not fully loaded overnight.
The water pressure on your nice clean water supply is down a bit.
waking up and its -10 C in the bedroom
Quote from: billy rubin on May 09, 2023, 06:26:36 PMwaking up and its -10 C in the bedroom
That's like... Snow and ice type of weather! :o
snow is only fun if youre warm.
Indeed. First World snow. It's OK... Until it becoems a First World problem. :smilenod:
its always a problem where i live. i have three miles of dirt before i get to a paved road, and the road is often not ploughed. ive been stuck a mile from the house before and had to leave the truck there fro days
last winter i had to pull people out on a chain three times
other times its mud. or the road is underwater. or there is no road anymore.
You know, you and a certain Eastern european nation seem to have broadly the same issue there. :smilenod:
The Asmo, He suggests a few tonnes of decadent Capitalist gravel, preferably on a bed of some larger rocks. That, or a belted sort of vehicle... Might be cheaper and less aggravating in the long run.
Running out of mushrooms.
:sadnod: The Asmo was going to improve upon His frozen pizza the other day with some nice shrooms, except... There were no shrooms. He had to go for a thirty minute drive to get some, because it was Sunday and most stores were closed and the few that were open only sold a particularly-tasteless, utterly-generic brand of champignons.
number 1 and 2 limestone gravel--lemons and oranges-- is about US$40 per ton here, and thats close to what my pickup truck can carry. it fills in about twenty feet of the lane to my house, which is about a hundred yards. another thousand dollars will get me a reliable road from my door to tbe dirt road.
after that comes the three miles.
but its beginning to dry out. still rains every other day now but its ebbing.
Ouch! Did not realise the distances.
You could try to shore it up though. A dirt road with proper drainage can function OK(-ish) in the rainy season. Maybe a nice, deep ditch or two would be more economically viable? Any possibility of a local fund raiser or some such?
i cut the ditch on the side of my drive deeper by putting the truck into four wheel drive and running the left tires down into it. ill put more limestone on it later in the spring.
the township road costs tens of thousands of dollars to maintain-- graders, gravel, mowing, and so on.
i actually prefer it to be minimally navigable. the harder it is to get out here, the fewer people try.
this morning i stepped out before sunrise. first quarter moon, the big dipper's angle told me it was about 0400, and there were still stars and a bright planet in the sky. absolutely dead silent except for the first birds-- thrushes and a wren, i think.
a good road means id have to give that up.
last week i heard the wild turkeys calling. went out and watched them dance on the hillside about a half mile away. cant do that if i share the neighbourhood.
I need more tobacco.
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^ "A picture is worth a thousand words"
I have tobacco, now I need food.
The diminution of my real problems because someone else somewhere else has "bigger" problems.
Well it's all relative, we,,, some of us first worlders are more sensitive than... other worlders.
We may suffer as much, or more, from the unjust cancellation of a tv series as "others" do to the junta abducting all their goats.
And the heads up their ass holier than thous, I hate them.
The 1st worlders who do the this first world problem thing.
I live here, I'm not going anywhere, I can't fix anything elsewhere, it's not my fault.
I'd prefer to just not think about "other" worlds, they are irrelevant, if I don't look they might just go away.
Precisely! You live in the First World. You have problems. They may be different to the problems of a ten year old Congolese cobalt miner, but his problems no more exist for you than yours do for him. What would be the practical reason to compare your bananas to his bathroom slippers?
Quote from: Asmodean on May 16, 2023, 12:08:33 PMWhat would be the practical reason to compare your bananas to his bathroom slippers?
"1" Me bananas
"2" Bathroom Slippers
"Evolved Sapien" Ha, your bananas are only slightly blemished, perfectly edible.
His slippers are all soggy, not wearable at all.
Evolved Sapien has set himself up as my better, he sees how petty I am, he is in tune with the sufferer of the soggy slipper, wouldn't you want to fuck him? have his babies?
Nah. Mr. Sapien comes across as a bit preachy to be fuckable... Unless he's like insanely hot or something. And a woman. Otherwise, the whole children thing could prove difficult. But yeah, if he is an insanely hot woman of child-bearing age, that might offset some preachiness, although if Hollywood taught us anything, it must be how subject such things are to the law of diminishing returns.
I might take the evolved approach and source my cobalt elsewhere, but then I'm bringing them soggy slippers into my banana plantation. It doesn't make bananas any less in any meaningful way - now, there just are someone else's soggy slippers under the plant.
I ate a Krakowurst sausage today, it cost nearly $12 Australian. Now, that's one expensive sausage.
Was it worth the money?
Shame :(
I used to smoke cigars. But in the end I stopped when I visualised burning a £20 note. I could afford to burn the £20 note. But why? Surely I could do something more worthwhile with it? So I stopped burning money.
Quote from: Tank on May 18, 2023, 10:00:16 AMShame :(
I used to smoke cigars. But in the end I stopped when I visualised burning a £20 note. I could afford to burn the £20 note. But why? Surely I could do something more worthwhile with it? So I stopped burning money.
Cheeses, £20
Did you ever try to make your own?
How hard can it be?
Your wife could help,
as I understand it a female thigh is required
I don't know if this explains it
God, why did you make tits?
You knew I'd be damned by
and yet you did it
Makes me question your whole thing
I like boobies too, especially those blue-footed buggers.
I tried smoking cigars in some "classy" settings, but... Really not my thing - not even as a cigarette smoker. I find the taste too pervasive.
My wallet has a loathing for smoking but still I smoke.
My first class flight from Chicago to Houston was canceled for bad weather, and they rebooked me on two economy flights to the same place. The horror. But I am getting a partial refund, and I got to eat at a great restaurant in Chicago that night. So the First World ain't so bad.
I've been waiting for three days to get the rear brake pads replaced on The Deutschmann. The shop is more than willing - the pad delivery service, however... Less so.
Fucking brake pads. For one of the most generic sets of car stoppers in existence. Three days. :rant1:
Apparently, First World problems deserve more attention than Third World problems.
they do from me, since i live in the first world