The First World Whinging Thread

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  1. Shenanigator

    Shenanigator Has the Vocabulary of a Well-Educated Sailor. Contributor

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    As someone recently said to me, they're lying little shits. Don't listen to them.
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  2. EstherMayRose

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    What happened with my post you quoted? In the box in your post, it says "I want to save it to my kids phone". I'm nineteen years old, I don't have any kids, I basically am a kid! How did that happen?

    Not blaming you, just think it's bizarre.

    And of course, I don't really think you should harass your local corner shop. From what I see sometimes, it seems like small businesses often get shit for stuff happening outside their control.
     
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    Looks like our apostrophe problem's creeping back. I felt you were doing so well.

    :bigtongue:
     
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    I think I have an apostrophe problem.

    Who's = who is. Fine in my book.
    I'd = I would. Fine.
    It's = it is. Fine.

    When are they being added to the dictionary.
     
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    Very frustrated and angry that no one wants to have meaningful, deep conversations! Why does everything have to be superficial and shallow to be enjoyable? Jeez.
     
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  7. Some Guy

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    What meaningful and deep topic is on your mind?
     
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    I'm mostly interested in discussing why people do what they do. Anything that has to do with life, the earth, existence in general. Deep diving issues of a more natural sort, vs. societally contrived issues (news, politics, tv shows, movies, gas prices and so on)
     
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    K- I'll PM you for a few ideas to trade, then maybe we can post a thread that doesn't go all Mustang and end up a free for all.
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    My FWW is that my laptop seems to have a weird bug. Everything else works fine but god forbid I try to make a new folder or move some around or the whole thing freezes and the file menu crashes. Getting to be highly annoying,
     
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    Some Guy Manguage Langler Supporter Contributor

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    Get a backup ssd and copy your files, then defrag the disk.
     
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    Originally British food companies selling more varieties of their foods in the US than they do in England or Ireland. I saw shelves of Pop Tarts for crying out loud! We get 2 flavours here in Ireland, and Tesco.co.uk have 4. There is even Pop Tart cereal! They also have more Galaxy (Dove) variety than we do. No fair. :(
     
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  13. The Dapper Hooligan

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    Yeah, up in Canada we have like 5 or 6, most of them some kind of marshmallow fudge based flavour that's so cloyingly sweet I'd rather drink corn syrup straight from the bottle, but don't have the Brown Sugar Cinnamon flavour I actually like. I still have to smuggle those across the border from The States.
     
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    You can order them on amazon. :)
     
  15. The Dapper Hooligan

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    Well, where's the fun in that?
     
  16. Cave Troll

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    Yeah I suppose it is more fun when Border Security confiscates your stash of
    poptarts when you get back to a point of entry. Though maybe not as likely to
    happen if you happen to be smuggling booze back across the border. :p
     
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    To be honest, I've never been searched when driving back into Canada. Crossing the other way is like 50-50. I either get the full treatment, or they don't even notice that my passport expired 3 months ago.
     
  18. Cave Troll

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    Fair enough, Poptart Smuggler sir. :supersmile:
     
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    Thank you, resident Master Technician. I`ll try that, been wanting to back my files up more anyways since my last scare with it not booting into the OS. Just a loose screw but still made me realize I shouldn`t put that off.....than I did anyway.

    Huh, wonder why they think marshmallow fudge is the Candian demographic? Would think it`d just be the basic flavors like brown sugar, strawberry, and etc. "It`s sickeningly sweet like maple syrup eh?" Maybe that was the pitch line.

    My first world whining is as always me being impatient, and still waiting for the oil man late into the third day in a row. We`ve been conserving and it`s not dire I`d just like to get it over with. I need to go pick up my eyeglasses. Do I like leaving the house? Not really, but when I have no choice but stay in the house it`s like a flip switch and I get insta cabin fever. ....I just don`t like being told what to do....
     
  20. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Out of bed, over to the computer room, fire up the desktop because it ain't two factor identification if you can do it with one machine, is it?

    For fifty years, America's nuclear launch codes were all zeros.
     
  21. Mark Burton

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    Yes, but the nuclear launch system was carefully segregated from the internet. Your tablet, on the other hand, is the hacker's equivalent of a tart standing on the bar in the local brothel yelling at the top of her lungs at the sailors who just got shore leave, "Come and get some, boys!"
     
  22. flawed personality

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    I ordered vegetable quarter pounders, which weren't in stock when they picked my delivery. They were substituted with Quorn burgers, which have PO in (I didn't notice this until today), and need to be grilled (my grill doesn't work). Managed to cook them anyway, and threw them in the bun with cheese and ketchup and...they just taste of disappointment.
     
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    That is no bueno. :friend:
    Hopefully next time they will have what you want. :supersmile:
     
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  24. flawed personality

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    Hopefully next time I will remember to click on don't substitute anything!

    ETA: I have one and a half already done, and another two cooked but not in a bun, and I don't wanna eat any of them. :blech:
     
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  25. Kinzvlle

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    "Yeah you say Quorns great, it tastes just like chicken. You know what else tastes just like chicken? Chicken!" *

    Jests aside that sounds quite disappointing hopefully they come back in soon.

    My first world whining is just at being sick and tired..well more tired than normal. I`m gonna be complaining about this till the end of the week. Don`t mind me just drop some tissues by my corner.
     
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