What's your most annoying first world problem?

[Purple Shrimp]

Mine is people with .gif's as avatars. I'm trying to read someone's post, but the dancing cat or rapidly changing images of Fluttershy keep distracting me! Damn all of you .gif users to hell! I bet your special punishment is being forced to watch annoying .gif's for all eternity so you can see how annoying they are! So, what first world problem irks you the most?

U mad OP? lol my most annoying first world problem is probably how people can be rich and fortunate in their material possessions, with a loving wife and kids, BUT THEY STILL GET DEPRESSION, (from time to time anyway). I heard Vanuatu is the happiest country in the world, but they're poor. The thing about living in the first world though, is once you grow accustomed to all these material gifts and money, you don't want to give it up

my most annoying first world problem is people who don't understand that depression is usually a symptom of mental illness

 

[Jegsimmons]

young people who go to college and pretty much become hippie socialist even though they never take economics as a course.

also the religious idiots who make us normal religious people look bad.

also, people unfairly grouping after lecturing about unfairly grouping.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Television commercials, I know they are good advertising, but c'mon, they ARE annoying.

 

[Quttan]

Not being able to read because your book ran out of batteries is a uniquely first world problem, and quite annoying.

 

[gamerguyal]

It always bothers me when I see people not finish their food. I mean come on people, if you weren't that hungry, you shouldn't have ordered so much

Sometimes I do this unintentionally and I end up feeling guilty for doing it. Like the other day, when I was out with some friends and one friend had to be home at a certain time, but for some reason "we" decided to go to a chinese buffet 15 minutes before she had to be home. I tried to say that it was a bad idea, but they wanted chinese food, so my logic fell on deaf ears. Needless to say, I didn't even finish my first plate before I was being dragged out the door, paying $10 for less than half of what I intended to eat.

 

[infohippie]

not being able to correctly estimate the amount of milk needed for my cereal.

if i pour too much milk, ill be forced to eat extra cereal or throw away perfectly good milk.

God damnit! I knew I wasn't the only one who hated when I poured disproportionate amounts of milk in my cereal! Probably 5 cartons worth has gone down the sink this year...

...Wut?
When you finish your cereal you're supposed to drink the leftover cereal-flavoured milk straight from the bowl. There's no such thing as pouring too much milk on your cereal.

[sub]That's like saying you pour away the excess blood and meat juices after finishing a steak![/sub]

 

[ShotgunZombie]

People who think internet memes are funny...
By the way, the following is a rant so excuse/ignore if you'd like...
They're just mindless fucking dribble! Context-less jokes that don't even make sense half the goddamn time! Am I supposed to laugh when you repeat the quote you read on some forsaken stick figure doodle for the fiftieth time?! Fuck you!

 

[TehRandom1]

I can't take a nap right now because all my electronic devices are trying to give me notifications

 

[Happy Yay]

People who think internet memes are funny...
By the way, the following is a rant so excuse/ignore if you'd like...
They're just mindless fucking dribble! Context-less jokes that don't even make sense half the goddamn time! Am I supposed to laugh when you repeat the quote you read on some forsaken stick figure doodle for the fiftieth time?! Fuck you!

People who get all bothered about what other people like. What's it to you that some people find memes funny?

 

[EdwardOrchard]

It always bothers me when I see people not finish their food. I mean come on people, if you weren't that hungry, you shouldn't have ordered so much

Sometimes I do this unintentionally and I end up feeling guilty for doing it. Like the other day, when I was out with some friends and one friend had to be home at a certain time, but for some reason "we" decided to go to a chinese buffet 15 minutes before she had to be home. I tried to say that it was a bad idea, but they wanted chinese food, so my logic fell on deaf ears. Needless to say, I didn't even finish my first plate before I was being dragged out the door, paying $10 for less than half of what I intended to eat.

I swear, I think my Dad gave me some kind of eating disorder when I was younger. He would always yell at me for leaving food on the plate, or not eating my meat/vegetables. Nowadays, if there's food in front of me, I HAVE to eat it. Like, if there is food on my plate/on the table, I will always be hungry. This was a problem where I used to work where you had your breakfasts/dinners catered. The cooks would always pile food on your plate, way more than was necessary... and I devoured..nay..INHALED it all. I gained like 20 pounds in my first few months.

As for what annoys me in the first world:

DVD/Bluray subtitling on some movies... Whenever somebody speaks a different language in a movie, and you have no idea what they're saying unless you manually turn on subtitles... And then the subtitles are on for the entire movie... very annoying. There was a movie I watched a while ago that did this, and the first five minutes was two guys having a conversation in Russian... five minutes goes by and I'm like, "Well, what the fuck is going on?"
If it's a movie in English, then ffs, just put in subtitles for any foreign languages.

 

[darkfire613]

I don't have enough money to commission one of these amazing plushies. Honestly, that's my biggest gripe with my life right now.

Spoiler

 

[Belaam]

I can watch shows on Hulu via a web browser on my laptop, but can't watch Hulu via a web browser on my PS3.

Even when I signed up for their free trial, Hulu via PS3 has a fraction of the selection of Hulu via computer.

Yes, I know it's due to licensing issues, but it drives me nuts. Mostly because my tv is substantially larger than my laptop and its really hard to curl up with my wife and watch shows.

 

[Mallefunction]

U mad OP? lol my most annoying first world problem is probably how people can be rich and fortunate in their material possessions, with a loving wife and kids, BUT THEY STILL GET DEPRESSION, (from time to time anyway). I heard Vanuatu is the happiest country in the world, but they're poor. The thing about living in the first world though, is once you grow accustomed to all these material gifts and money, you don't want to give it up

Or they feel the need to fuck up that awesome family by cheating or doing something stupid because, "OMG! MY LIFE IS LIEK SOOOOOOOOOO BORING!"

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I'm not in a first world country....so in context, me complaining about my 40 Kbps internet is a first world problem, since most people in this country don't even get fucking Electricity.....in 2011.

 

[Lukeje]

not being able to correctly estimate the amount of milk needed for my cereal.

if i pour too much milk, ill be forced to eat extra cereal or throw away perfectly good milk.
if i don't pour enough, i'll be forced to walk back to the kitchen to get the milk and then risk pouring too much again.

and the cycle continues...


oh, and cereal that gets soggy way too fast. like i'll pour a bowl, and the phone will ring, and 3 minutes later I come back to my breakfast and it's turned into a bowl of soggy garbage.


so basically, cereal related problems.

Why don't you just drink the milk from the bowl afterwards if you pour too much?

Mine is people with .gif's as avatars. I'm trying to read someone's post, but the dancing cat or rapidly changing images of Fluttershy keep distracting me! Damn all of you .gif users to hell! I bet your special punishment is being forced to watch annoying .gif's for all eternity so you can see how annoying they are! So, what first world problem irks you the most?

U mad OP? lol my most annoying first world problem is probably how people can be rich and fortunate in their material possessions, with a loving wife and kids, BUT THEY STILL GET DEPRESSION, (from time to time anyway). I heard Vanuatu is the happiest country in the world, but they're poor. The thing about living in the first world though, is once you grow accustomed to all these material gifts and money, you don't want to give it up

my most annoying first world problem is people who don't understand that depression is usually a symptom of mental illness

It is, and it can be seen in first world countries much more than in poorer countries assuming they're not going through some sort of terrible crisis of war or starvation.

I know, it's really weird isn't it. The countries with the most doctors who can diagnose depression end up with the most depression diagnoses. Oh wait, that's not weird at all. It's assuming a correlation between two unrelated things (wealth and number of depression cases) when really there are hidden variables at play (the number of doctors actually able to diagnose depression and the ease of someone in an `affluent' country being able to see one).

 

[Dr Snakeman]

The fact that my parents try to be involved in my life, to a fault. They are always telling me how they think I'm doing everything wrong.

And I fully understand how incredibly lucky I am to have both parents, still married, who actually care about me. But this thread isn't for real problems, now is it? It's for us young, upper-middle-class white males to gripe about little stuff.

So... there you go.

 

[Swifty714]

Again i say

Bronies.

 

[ShotgunZombie]

People who think internet memes are funny...
By the way, the following is a rant so excuse/ignore if you'd like...
They're just mindless fucking dribble! Context-less jokes that don't even make sense half the goddamn time! Am I supposed to laugh when you repeat the quote you read on some forsaken stick figure doodle for the fiftieth time?! Fuck you!

People who get all bothered about what other people like. What's it to you that some people find memes funny?

Because I don't find them funny myself but the people around me will not hesitate to repeat those memes endlessly throughout the day like broken records and update me on the latest Troll Face quote or whatever...
But I see what you're saying and I'll level with you; I don't hate the people who like internet memes, I hate the memes themselves...

 

[Divine Miss Bee]

When I incorrectly estimate the size of Tupperware I will need to put my leftovers in. Then I have to get a smaller one, put the leftovers in that, and now I have to wash a Tupperware container as well as the dishes.

this this this. a thousand times this.

also, when i don't have a dishwasher and have to wash things by hand. i really hate that.

 

[Kae]

I was going to say something but then I saw the flag that's just outside my house and although it's the best flag ever it means that I shouldn't even post this comment.