The First World Whinging Thread

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  1. minstrel

    minstrel Leader of the Insquirrelgency Supporter Contributor

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    No. Scrap the shoes altogether and wear only a Tarzan loincloth. Nobody will notice you're barefoot, and you'll be making a loud political statement against the tuxedo cartels that rule modern society these days. Fight the power!

    (Besides, it's cheap.)
     
  2. minstrel

    minstrel Leader of the Insquirrelgency Supporter Contributor

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    Wow. That first person he spoke to in seventeen years must have REALLY pissed him off! How do you make someone that angry?
     
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    Hadn't thought of that. They did say he's married now, so maybe it was, "Buy a girl a drink?"
     
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    minstrel Leader of the Insquirrelgency Supporter Contributor

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    Maybe he was at a Justin Bieber concert and felt the sudden need to yell "Freeeeeeee Biiirrrrrrd!!"
     
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  5. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    ETA beaten too it by @Iain - hey ho. I don't get up early enough or eat enough spinach to catch that lad out!
     
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    I've got two first world whinges today - first up; packaging. I have always hated excessive packaging on non-perishable goods. Today I bought a new shower hose and not only does it come in a bag, but the little cardboard label is encapsulated so you can't even rip it off and chuck it into the recycling bin FFS!

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    Second up - bread.

    I bought a loaf of bread which had a label offering a serving suggestion... a sandwich. Brilliant! What will they think of next?!

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  8. matwoolf

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    'David, what on earth are you doing on your knees?'

    'I'm photographing the shower head extension for my writing group. What does it look like I'm...make my sandwich.'

    'David, what are you doing now?'
     
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    I'm going for a walk to stop myself from compulsively photographing shower heads

    Then I'm going to change a shower-head...




    ETA and I am going to miss the hills of Yorkshire that I was walking up last week. Walking on the flat just isn't the same...
     
  10. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Time zones baby, I posted around midnight hereabouts.
     
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    matwoolf Banned Contributor

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    No, I meant it in a nice way. Often I photograph myself but it looks like Fred West's scrapbook with the poor lighting. I'm actually quite pretty.
    ...
    And yes I'll do some hill-walking myself when I get a car. I want to do Skafell thing and then phase 2 Cairngorms.
     
  12. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    God I miss decent bread. Wonder if I can bake up some pumpernickel whilst smoking my bacon and slow cooking some stew tomorrow without tripping the breaker or setting myself on fire?
     
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    is tobacco in such sort supply in Japan ?

    Or is that a synonym for something less delicate ?
     
  14. Iain Aschendale

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    The hallway is exactly four lightyears long to the millimeter and I weigh one pound steel which is different from a pound of lead or a pound of feathers or a pound of gold but the offroad music plays on the dolphin channel forever.
     
  15. Alan Aspie

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    I know Free Bird but... that whoever beaver was just a tear of joy in his fathers eye and his mothers yell in the night when this was in.

     
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    If you are using FF body to your head extension art, then Sigma 70/2.8 macro or Canon 100/2.8 L IS macro are both good tools.

    One always needs a sharp macro lens to focus on head extensions.
     
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    I bought a packet of cocktail sausages and the "serving suggestion" was literally just them in a pile.
     
  18. Alan Aspie

    Alan Aspie Banned Contributor

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    I hear you.

    Decent bread can only mean rye bread.

    Here you are.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_bread

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye_bread

    http://www.ashaggydoughstory.com/blog/2015/1/11/hapanleipa-finnish-sour-rye-bread-breadbakers

    http://www.elo-saatio.fi/finlands-national-food-is-rye-bread

    http://www.cindysrecipesandwritings.com/artisan-dark-rye-bread-breadbakers/
     
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    I made lunch for work to eat healthier and save money. It was a chicken and vegetables stew.

    When I got there they were selling chilli rice burritos. It was closing time so I HEAPED the sour cream on.

    I have now brought my chicken stew home and put it in the fridge. So I can pretend I'm not going to bin it. I am experiencing guilt for my soon to be binned chicken stew
     
  20. big soft moose

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    so have the chicken stew for tea
     
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    Chicken stew is third tier dining and depressing. You have to be hungry for chicken stew [in a first world problem sense]. Stringy chicken and the horrible carrot, it looks like sick.
     
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    Yup. Like I wish I was hungry enough to eat it. I may be around 1am
     
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    Breakfast :D
     
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  25. Manuforti

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    I wrote a humourous short here. It's been up since Sunday and no-one has commented. So I sent it to my Dad who is a compulsive reader via whatsapp.

    He didn't comment.

    That's a first world specific emotion right there.
     

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