
Onemunki says: We live in a world of genuine tragedy, starvation and terror. So, after hearing stories of cruise line passengers complaining at the air conditioning breaking down, what stories of sheer single-minded self-pity get your goat?
( , Thu 1 Mar 2012, 12:00)
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As if millions of voices cried out 'bollocks to this!', and then left it 'til next Thursday
( , Thu 1 Mar 2012, 14:17, 15 replies)

is that 'first world problems' is a somewhat stale meme. It has been all over the net for the last 6 months.
We could just repost a lot of stuff we read a week ago on the Chive, but it'd be unoriginal, and some nerd would post a link to wherever we got it from.
( , Thu 1 Mar 2012, 14:22, closed)

We could also repost stories from the previous QotW, the first QotW and probably most of the ones in between.
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people could just not have voted for it. Actually, who does vote for these questions?
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But in the spirit of democracy, this was a major-league fuck-up by the masses
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that it's not "Tell us your first-world problems" it's "tell us of the first world whining that really annoys you".
People seem to not be reading that clearly.
( , Thu 1 Mar 2012, 14:52, closed)

but this almost seems like an open invitation for /talk trolls to rip the whole thing to shreds.
tinfoil hat, anyone?
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( , Thu 1 Mar 2012, 15:21, closed)

It's blatantly obvious that Scaryduck only bothers checking the last four-or-five suggestions posted on a Thursday. If you want your choice considering - you pop it in then.
( , Thu 1 Mar 2012, 15:30, closed)

I came up with the 'Random acts of Evil' QotW, and I made a conscious effort to not put the suggestion in until the Thursday morning, as I knew it would get better consideration.
Take that how you will.
( , Thu 1 Mar 2012, 15:33, closed)
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