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⌈ Secret Post #2825 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

"First world problems", because to me there's unfortunate implications that people in poor countries don't also have fights with their in-laws and stub their toes and so on.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

I think the point of "first world problems" is that those trivial things are as "bad" as things get for those privileged people. Not that those thing don't also happen to people in the developing world; but that they have serious socioeconomic problems in their lives to deal with in addition to average human problems.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't call those "first world problems". You know what I call first world problems? When I don't know what to buy my daughter for Christmas because she, at 11 years old, already has a tablet, a phone, a DSI and a television in her room with premium cable hook up.

And then I pause and throw up a 'thank you' to the Universe because I'm well aware that even in the "first world", there are those who are not lucky enough to have this kind of dilemma. But even that doesn't change the fact that there are those in the second or third world who have to worry about things like going to the bathroom in an outhouse without being sexually assaulted and murdered.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I don't think what you've said is "first world problems" - as I always understood it, it's a joke that's basically bragging about wealth. Something that's not -really- a problem. For example:

I just put a pizza in the oven, and then my friend brought over a pizza, now there's too much pizza.

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I got the new iPhone, now I don't know what to do with my old one.

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I hate how big my house is, it's so much work to go from my room to the kitchen to get a beer.

and so on.

That kind of thing. It's not a real problem except in the most shallowest of ways. Maybe there are people who use it like "I stubbed my toe, wah, first world problems" but I think they're using it wrong.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's how I've always heard it "stubbed my toy /first world problems." But apparently my friends just use it wrong.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, like other people are saying, I think it's more about "problems" that people in poor countries don't have.

A couple weeks ago I was putting groceries away and got a little annoyed that I had trouble fitting stuff in the refrigerator because there was already so much food in it, realized that was basically the definition of a first world problem, and felt like a total asshole.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that's just stupid. You didn't do anything wrong by having enough food in your fridge. How is that being an asshole? Now, maybe it should make you laugh at yourself, and maybe make you try to be less quick to get irritated at such trivial problems, but why feel like an asshole? In my opinion, the only thing feeling like an asshole for daring to have first world problems accomplishes is to make people slowly become resentful and ungrateful for what they have.