The First World Whinging Thread

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  1. Cave Troll

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    It could be worse.
    Half Manson.jpe
     
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  5. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    The first absentee ballot I ever got, back in 1992, came with a little metal stylus and a small sheet of styrofoam. You were instructed to put the ballot on the foam and use the stylus to punch out the little chads (the ones that caused so much grief back in 2000) to indicate your choice, then mail the ballot, sans stylus and foam, back to the Election Commission.

    There was a certain gravitas to that, these days you can get your ballot emailed to you, print it off, and show your preference by "X"ing (but no check marks please. Why?) the appropriate box.

    It lacks romance.
     
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    And you then had a free stylus and block of foam to play with at your will! You could poke holes in that shit all day! Sounds awesome.

    I've just realised that it sounds like I'm reminiscing about good old 1992, but I wasn't even born then.

    My First World Whinge is that when you shuffle YouTube playlists, rather than randomly re-arranging the order, it picks one out at random every time a song ends, so you listen to twelve songs and six of them are the same one, meanwhile there are three songs that haven't come up yet. In a playlist of ten.
     
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  7. Iain Aschendale

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    Note to McDonald's management: When there's a line out the door, keeping one out of three registers open and putting a first-day trainee on that register is no way to run a business. Your wait times would literally have been lower if the trainee was just at the door greeting people while someone who knew what they were doing both cooked and ran the register.
     
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    While I have a great picture that would mirror this in a
    fitting metaphor, I can't post it due to it's depiction of
    the famous fast food clown breastfeeding a child.
    Granted I think that is a sight best not seen to begin with.
    Nobody should ever see Ronald McDonald with breasts...
     
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    Ohh, HELL YES we should!! (put em in discord... shh...)
     
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  10. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    That's what PMs are for
     
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    Must...resist...smutty...joke...urges...!
     
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    nah, let us have it between the eyes!
     
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  13. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    My credit card prevented somebody from Japan from ordering an item off of etsy and shipping it to my home address, and my browser prevented somebody with my ip address from using my home computer from finding a password stored in my home computer.

    Good thing they've got all these layers of security to stop me from buying anything....
     
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    Your brilliant criminal plot was foiled!!! :supermad::supermad::supermad:
     
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    Not the first snow but the first sleet or slush or whatever that white and wet nuisance is.
     
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    We've also had our first little taste of winter... I don't much care for it.
     
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    Cool and wet wet wet here in the Pacific Northwest. Good day to curl up in front of the fire and watch movies.
     
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    It's beautiful weather here in sunny Southern California. The temperature is nice and cool.
     
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    We've just had our first taste of autumn, a day when the temperature didn't get above 22c/70ish F. Followed by another high seventies day, but still, the cool weather is nice. It'll have to get much cooler before I can wear my newest waistcoat though, that thing's built like an old GI wool blanket.
     
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    It's getting hotter here and I don't like summer. :(
    Ya better appreciate that weather, you never had an Australian summer. Winter is NICE
     
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    You come over here in December and tell us how fucking nice our winters are.
     
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    Sizzle sucker x
     
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    I'd prefer being cold and just wrap up, have a fire, have a hot drink, all that. Doesn't matter if it's icey that's fine. It's better than lying in bed unable to take off any more sheets still sweating like a hog and being devoured by mosquitoes.
     
  24. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    You'd be unhappily at home in Osaka.
     
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    I would probably. I've considered moving to London, Sweden or Canada later in life. Or I could go to Victoria, it's a little colder there.
    At least I don't live in North Queensland, hAhAhA.
     

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