First World ProblemsOnemunki 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?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 12:00)
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It's all a matter of expectations, isn't it?I heard a comedian years ago talking about this. For instance, you're in a metal contraption weighing hundreds of tons, FLYING at hundreds of miles an hour, making a journey in hours that would have taken days not too many years ago; and you're complaining that your food isn't very nice.
YouTube video took nearly a minute to load? Never mind that it's a filesize that a few years ago would have taken weeks, today it was nearly a minute, godammit!
Etc etc
Yeah, this is a non-post. That's a First World Problem for you to complain about ;)
(, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:22, 3 replies)
Nice one, thank you :)(, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 13:39, closed)
I was on a flight back from the US last year and the in-flight entertainment system wasn't working (only for pleb class though).
Half the people in pleb class were kicking off about how it was unacceptable - we were all given 175 dollars off our next flight.
I was sitting there still marvelling that we've made tonnes of metal fly across the Atlantic in hours, I couldn't care less that I didn't have the ability to watch some film I have no interest in seeing on a tiny screen - I used to have to make this journey several times a year...and still, every time I marvelled at it.
(, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:54, closed)
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