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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Pedantic pointWe didn't "colonise the 3rd world" - the term "3rd world" didn't even exsist until 1975, when it was used to describe nations that were neutral in the Cold War (the US and it's allies being 1st World and the Soviets and their allies being 2nd world). It just so happens that most of these neutral countries are what we now consider to pretty much be "3rd world shitholes".
What we did (and by "we", I mean "England") did was colonised the world...
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That just makes me think about pink bits.(, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 11:26, closed)
We were quite insistant about thatWe wanted the pink, and tried to eradicate anything brown...
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