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First World Problems. If it's a problem you can only have if you have money we'll feel bad for you. Then we'll feel guilty for having enough money to have the same problem.

About FWP
  • Does your HDTV take too long to turn on?

  • Is the air conditioning at work too cold during the summer and too hot during the winter?

  • Does your car's AUX input only allow for two devices?

  • Someone only give you a large shake, not a super-size?

  • Is the wireless internet you're stealing not very fast?

  • Did you have to go extreme lengths to avoid talking to or meeting someone?

If it's a problem you can only have if you have money we'll feel bad for you. Then we'll feel guilty for having enough money to have the same problem.

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Our dishwasher packed up and we ended up without one for a month even though we paid extra for next day delivery

There was an extra part needed for fitting it which caused the month delay. Don't worry the new dishwasher is now installed and we were away on holiday for most of the month so managed in the end 🙏

0 Comments
2024/09/07
10:00 UTC

1

I feel like because I am not living for survival, but want to enjoy life, I struggle to relate to the average person, and thus seem to only find people seeking shallow survival and ego connections. Any advice on how to move beyond this as I want a real connection or at the very least personality.

I have recently realized in my quest to find genuine connections, that I have one things most people dont.... a sense of security within myself as well as my resources.

This made me start questioning the world in a different light. One that is not normal for me to do so as I naturally see everyone as equal potential (regardless of if they use it or not).

I seem to find that everyone I meet seems to be too shy, socially anxious, having fragile egos, overthinking things, or just so stressed about resources (which is weird as I live in America, and it's hard to be poor unless your dumb, lazy, or refusing to live within your means, I should know, I became homeless and rebuilt myself a few times and it's easy if you try)

So with this realization I started to wonder, and this girl I talk to online finds it hard to belive how difficult I am finding making friends, as she say I am not unlikable (she also admits to have fallen in love with me as I make her feel secure, which I will admit doesn't mean much to me as making people feel secure and having them fall in love with me seems easy, I want to be able to love or appreciate people back, especially since I often feel like I am the one doing most things in situations and putting in most of the work or effort.)

When she asked me this, I started to pay attention to why people seem to not want to become friends with me or put in the effort, as most people seem to like me (they find me smart, funny, wise, always having somthing good to say, and many said good looking but I think that's probably the least spoken one and least important). It seems most people seem to fixated and distracted by things like not having enough money (and refusing help, offers, or alternatives to cut their expenses). most people also seem to agree with me on how nobody tries to connect anymore and how lonely they feel (yet they refuse my offers to hang out, go for a walk, get to know each other, do somthing together, hell I even offered to buy them dinner so they didn't have the excuse if being lazy or having to pay)

Unfortunately it seems like these people the more I look into them seen to only want somone to "worship them" or "take care" of them. Which Unfortunately makes me think that mabey, while I don't belive in money meaning much or defining a person, mabey my issue might be relatable for those who are pretty well off.

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So I want to know and discuss with those who also feel the same and maybe either find somthing that could lead to a connection or an idea that could create it.

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Also some things about me, male 24, lives in USA, refuses to lie no matter what, likes to make and live adventures, can enjoy anything with the right people (as the experience is what I enjoy not the objects or activity itself), I tend to be hyper independent (I have been working on it), I tend to give my all or nothing in anything I do, I am secure with myself as my self worth is defined myself (as self is in the name and people come and go, but I am always here), not seeking a relationship ( just friends at this point as I am tired of women who just want sex and attention, has me a bit jadded), real world action oriented (I am unable to live in my head or place high value on things that aren't actively happening pr symbolic in nature, thus very present/future oriented), any thing else just ask as I am pretty open.

But let's see what comes of this.

3 Comments
2024/09/07
08:46 UTC

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When is a sponge ready to be thrown away?

When do you think a sponge has been thru enough grease, knives, cereal bowls and ketchup to decide it’s time to let it go and get a new one???

6 Comments
2024/09/07
00:52 UTC

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For context, my girlfriend is 5'1 and I'm almost 6 ft tall. So whenever she uses my car, I have to manually readjust everything in it because I don't have memory seating.

4 Comments
2024/09/07
00:35 UTC

5

My cleaner got sick this week and the agency doesn’t have a spare

My cleaner was sick this week and the agency doesn’t have anyone else to do the clean as several people are on holiday. So now I either have to clean the house myself or live in a house that hasn’t been cleaned for a week.

3 Comments
2024/09/06
21:20 UTC

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Women are too tired for sex because of 24 hour electricity and men assuming they'll be there when they've done literally everything else they want to do in a day.

This didn't feel important enough for "off my chest", but I wanted to complain, so....

I get so frustrated about all these posts about women always turning down boyfriends because they're too tired and dudes getting bent out of shape about it.

It touches a nerve because I've done this a few times, but it is ALWAYS laaaate at night, way past my bedtime, after I've been up for three hours waiting for him to finish gaming and come to bed. And it's ALWAYS on a night that I would've loved to have sex, but he stayed up so late I'm now exhausted, which doubles the frustration because I'm both horny and too exhausted to deal with it.

Women like sex. Your girlfriends are not turning you down because they don't like sex (unless you absolutely suck and don't prioritize her needs during it).

I swear, people would have better relationships and sex lives if the normalized time for sexy time was like 8 PM instead of "right before bed."

Society organized this terribly. It works when you don't have electricity and everyone is going to bed at nightfall, but it just doesn't work when people are staying up to all hours of the night doing all manner of random shit.

Also, I'm not in the mood when you've spent 3 hours absorbed in something else and haven't paid any attention to me all evening.

Everyone would be happier if sex was a thing of waking hours, or if we had rolling blackouts from 9PM to 7 AM. We need to save the planet anyway. The end.

35 Comments
2024/09/06
20:08 UTC

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The BLT with guacamole and side of chips in the local cafe is served in a sourdough toasty that has crusts really hard. You have to be careful biting in or it will hurt the roof of your mouth.

3 Comments
2024/09/06
19:20 UTC

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Live on the street of the Viral ‘Bike Bus’ and caused me to almost miss my flight the other day after TSA pre line was longer than the normal security line. Wasn’t able to get coffee before my flight.

There’s a viral ‘Bile Bus’ (Parents and kids bike to school every morning. 50-100kids. Due to my flight time I was trying to leave at the airport but the bike bus was passing through causing me to wait 5-10 minutes before leaving. When I got to TSA pre check my GF got through security faster than I did while she doesn’t have TSA pre. Didn’t have time for my 8 oz. dry cappuccino w/cinnamon.

0 Comments
2024/09/06
16:26 UTC

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My therapy appointment is soon, but things have been okay lately so I have nothing to talk about.

6 Comments
2024/09/05
20:22 UTC

2

I brought an own brand frozen pizza and an own brand frozen garlic bread from the same shop with similar packaging design, and they need to be cooked at different temperatures

16 Comments
2024/09/05
16:26 UTC

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My wife has been nagging me about securing some speaker wire that the $900 Roomba has been getting caught on so I found some baseboard cable holders in the garage but someone has "borrowed" my hammer and not returned it so I had to use a 3 pound sledge and I smashed a finger.

Title

6 Comments
2024/09/05
00:12 UTC

2

My cell phone service (5G) is faster than my home Wifi (50 mbps)

How long till my service provider gets mad at me for using them over my home ISP?

6 Comments
2024/09/04
03:13 UTC

2

The wifi (in Canada) requires my postal code to connect but won't accept my US postal code

6 Comments
2024/09/04
02:45 UTC

15

I fell off my new e-bike while messing with my Airpods on the way to the restaurant in the San Francisco ferry building; I had to buy a Piña Colada to feel better :(

3 Comments
2024/09/04
01:25 UTC

5

I live on a lake, and my dog keeps pestering me (barking and booking me with his nose) to take him down to go swimming. He won't leave me alone.

2 Comments
2024/09/03
18:01 UTC

81

I have a bunch of expensive clothes that I don’t wear because they’re expensive so I wanna save them for occasions that merit wearing expensive clothes, but no occasion feels special enough so I just wear my cheap clothes all the time

help

11 Comments
2024/09/03
14:43 UTC

39

I ordered a slice of chocolate cake off of DoorDash and got a slice of carrot cake instead.

7 Comments
2024/09/02
23:56 UTC

7

My steering angle sensor went bad and now my headlights wont follow the curves of the road.

New steering sensor won't be in for weeks. Am I just supposed to wait until they shine on the dark parts? They always turned with the steering wheel and now they're just....there.

1 Comment
2024/09/02
16:46 UTC

11

The Chinese grocery items I want are never available on Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods, Instacart, or other delivery services and I have to go to a physical store to buy them.

2 Comments
2024/09/02
16:34 UTC

15

I hate it when the designs on my graphic tees get cracked.

It makes me not want to wear it. It just makes it look worse. Is there any way to prevent it?

2 Comments
2024/09/02
01:35 UTC

117

I can’t show off my +$10k bag because I’m sick

I’ve been wanting to take the bag out, but I got covid right after getting it.

I don’t even feel terrible, it’s been like a light cold for me, but I’d feel bad if I got anyone else sick.

32 Comments
2024/09/01
18:46 UTC

8

My earbuds and headphones are charging, so I have to listen to Spotify on my Xbox

fml

2 Comments
2024/09/01
05:23 UTC

12

All my technical clothes are dirty, so I have to work out in cotton

1 Comment
2024/08/31
19:26 UTC

16

Went to the beach yesterday, now there’s 52 tons of sand in my house, it’s everywhere

Even in my bed

16 Comments
2024/08/31
15:10 UTC

2

Moved down south, living country, all dirt roads. My Honda only has snow mode.

1 Comment
2024/08/31
09:48 UTC

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I have four computers on my desk and sometimes I grab the wrong wireless mouse

I work from home, so my work laptop has its own two monitors and wireless keyboard/mouse.

And my main MacBook Air personal computer has two monitors and a wireless mouse/keyboard.

My 'travel and presentation' MacBook Air also has a wireless mouse.

Fortunately computer four, my "music and surveillance camera desktop" (Mac Mini) has a software KVM (Parallels) so it shares the mouse/keyboard with my main MacBook Air.

So I only have three mice for four computers to keep things simple. And altogether I do have eight displays including the three laptop screens.

Nonetheless, sometimes I do mix up the mouse of my work computer with my main MacBook Air mouse. I should color-code them.

8 Comments
2024/08/31
06:17 UTC

19

The airport travel lounge was at capacity, so I couldn’t hang out there before my flight.

3 Comments
2024/08/30
23:56 UTC

8

My cosmetic surgeon does not have a cancelation list for cosmetic procedures.

0 Comments
2024/08/30
16:47 UTC

44

The massage therapist’s music track was not relaxing.

2 Comments
2024/08/30
15:16 UTC

2

I have a car, medicare, first-class cancer treatment, but the world is unacceptable because parking is $35

0 Comments
2024/08/30
03:00 UTC

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