First world problem.

The Humble Sausage

I have what can be defined as a 'First world problem'. The issue is that I'm noticing a worrying increase in the use of the term First world problem' amongst people from the 'First world'. Friends, colleagues, internet posters and semi-professional clowns seem to be using it to define everything that i presume was always previously referred to as a 'problem'. Its enough to make me pine for the more intellectual dominated days when people thought about what came out of their mouths and used terms like 'amaze-balls' (how else would you compliment beautiful testicles i suppose). Its use as hilarious as it is as well as mis-use makes my blood boil. Does anyone else hate the term? more importantly what can be done to in particular stop colleagues from using the term everyday without the purchase of a firearm? 'My dinners a little cold'...'First world problem'...'the barber made sh1te of my hair'....'first world problem'. Even in what may be defined as in context it is still annoying, 'this caviar and lobster sandwich is making it hard to drive my Lamborghini'...'first world problem!'. Just because you find a persons issue trivial doesn't make it not an issue for them and the term is just not funny. Anyway its almost never someone moaning loudly who's on the other end of the 'quip'. Its normally someone gently stating a minor issue. I could just relax i suppose.

OldNotWIse

Say, "yes it is a first world problem...and we are in the first world....ergo it's just a fuucking problem"

Cookie_Monster

What's a 2nd world problem?

First is trivial, 3rd is finding food or water and generally being able to stay alive, what's the middle ground, eh?

Hande hoche!

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

What's a 2nd world problem?

First is trivial, 3rd is finding food or water and generally being able to stay alive, what's the middle ground, eh?

Extensive queueing for commodities.

urabell

When you have to read a massive post without paragraphs

The Humble Sausage

urabell wrote: »

When you have to read a massive post without paragraphs

They don't have paragraphs in the third world?

The Humble Sausage

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

What's a 2nd world problem?

First is trivial, 3rd is finding food or water and generally being able to stay alive, what's the middle ground, eh?

The Second World refers to the former Socialist, industrial states (formally the Eastern Bloc), mostly the territory and the influence of the Soviet Union so i imagine vodka not being strong enough or a sickle being blunt?

jimgoose

Your basic paradigm is these three questions:

1) What can we eat?

2) Why do we eat?

3) Why doesn't this God-forsaken place do rice-noodle-chickpea-sliced-steak salad?? These people are basically bayshts of the field!!

Buzz Killington the third

I thought that phrase died about a year ago now?

danniemcq

Juslt like all these things it will eventually fade. It'll never go away but like "YOLO" and "CHIVE ON" it'll start being replaced by something equally annoying.

But hey first world problem I guess.

jimgoose

danniemcq wrote: »

Juslt like all these things it will eventually fade. It'll never go away but like "YOLO" and "CHIVE ON" it'll start being replaced by something equally annoying.

But hey first world problem I guess.

You Chiiiiive-turkey!!:pac:

donegal__road

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Extensive queueing for commodities.

I have Polish friends who's memories of communist Poland was having to queue for everything.

AnonoBoy

"How are we going to get our country out from this crippling debt of billions of euro?"

:rolleyes: First World Problems.

Hande hoche!

donegal__road wrote: »

I have Polish friends who's memories of communist Poland was having to queue for everything.

Yeah have friends tell me similar about Romania and Hungary.

Chancer3001

Chive on is not annoying. Best website ever