[Closed] Your first world problems today

Not being able to find a solution to any of life's problems/questions on the STW search function?!

I've moved house and I currently only have 24/7 access to 2 of my bikes

I need a dump. Can't decide which bog to use.

Can't find a laptop stand tall enough to allow me to comfortably watch Sky Go boxsets on the laptop whilst I'm on the cross trainer in my dining room.

How can I live like this?

Oh! the humanity... 😀

Ordinary Lion bar or a white chocolate one?

I am so happy with my current stash of bikes that I can't think of one to add to the 'which bike do you really fancy' thread that I don't already own.

I can only get 3G data connection in the café and it is taking longer than I’d like to copy thousands of image files from a client. Everywhere should have 4G by now - it’s the very least the phone companies can do…

Rachel

Sandwich van is 5 minutes late. I'm really slightly peckish.

I need to go and find a place that sells sparklers. I guess I'll have to ride my Brompton and find a scenic route between all possible places.

Having trouble deciding whether to take the wife+kids out for lunch on Sunday or just the wife+me. Not sure what restaurant to go to, either.

I'm struggling to plan which bike to ride when over the weekend 😥 😕

Also, all this talk of red meat being bad for you put me off buying a beef and stilton sandwich for lunch as I know we're having cottage pie for supper; instead I went for a chicken salad and I'm regretting it already.

Nespresso descaling fluid has ruined my Latissimo with a foul taste. 👿

Sandwich van arrived. Didn't have any bacon sandwiches, only sausage. I fancied bacon.

*sighs, whilst eating a sausage sandwich*

If we're in the first world, doesn't that mean all problems are first world problems?

IE some poor destitute alcoholic in London who has nowhere to sleep is still in the first world so it's a first world problem?

Do I have breakfast tea or everyday tea?

Working from home today and my 100mb internet connection is getting bogged down 🙁

Do I have breakfast tea or everyday tea?

Builders or Chamomile Shirley?

The girl in the office who made my tea didn't put enough milk in it.

It's slightly too brown. :/

Turbo session at lunch time or real ride in the rain later?

I bought a pack of 4 mini pork pies and had to give 3 away.

Can't decide whether to take my daughter to nursery tomorrow by walking or cycling. Can't decide whether to pick up by car or bike (pickup is more time critical.)

Can't build my new Ti frame yet as I'm still waiting for a few bits to arrive.

Nespresso descaling fluid has ruined my Latissimo with a foul taste.

pah! you think you have it bad? my delivery of Kiriani Terisia AA kenyan beans has failed to materialise so i’m stuck with some 2 month old Ethiopian Buesaco Yirgacheiffe. 😐

scrap mixed metals are only £20 a ton at the moment. 5yrs ago I got £180 a ton.

A mate weighed in a car - £30!

I just filled the trailer up with 200Kg of junk. £4.

I got £4 for an old mower battery.
and £1.20 for a washing machine motor.

Scrap is not diamond in the shit it seems at the moment 🙁

If we're in the first world, doesn't that mean all our problems are first world problems?

Not in the spirit of the meme. Being homeless or having measles whilst in the first world is not considered a FWP.

My crisps were stale.

The earth is the third planet from the sun. That makes everything a third world problem. FACT!

Jon Taylor

Not in the spirit of the meme. Being homeless or having measles whilst in the first world is not considered a FWP.

Are you allowed to say meme on here?

I made scrambled eggs on bagels this morning and posted on Facebook. Someone replied asking why I didn't garnish with crispy bacon or add some smoked salmon. My entire day is ruined now.

I feel disadvantaged because I do not have a media room in my "Executive" home.

It's a beautiful day, I've got nothing important to do and there's a huge pile of logs outside that need splitting and stacking. There are also distractions - STW, Youtube, guitars... . I thought I'd finished with wood for this year then a friend phoned at 8:00 yesterday to say he was having a tree felled and they were going to charge for taking the wood away, so could I take some.

I'm just not sure what or where to eat tonight. The wife is out so do I go for a burger? Or ribs? Or even some Mexican? I simply can't decide.

Also, planning a skiing holiday and can't decide which resort to head to.

It's taken longer than I expected to get my office to understand the concept of changing from paying in arrears to paying in advance as the customer would prefer...the fact that we'll have to make two months payments in one month seems to be an impossibly difficult concept to grasp...

I'm willing to accede to the idea that this may not be strictly a FWP and more just stupidity...but it's still un-necessarily irritating

Got 'the rage' because the shop that I bought my Son's Xmas gift from charged me twice, which meant I was overdrawn and the nice lady in the shop had to tell me my card was declined this morning, which was embarrassing.

When I got to work in a mild panic I tried to log into my online banking to work out what 'da fug' was going on - my work PC wasn't playing ball so gave the keyboard a gentle Hadouken.

There was a bang, and the two little legs on the back of the keyboard fired off, one hit me in the forehead. Now they're just sat their mocking me as I try to type on a too flat keyboard.

Pair of pricks.

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25% of the properties in Hampstead Garden Suburb allow their hedge to grow into the pavement. Some by up to a foot! (30 cm for the youth)
The cheek of it.

I have an over ripe per for my dinner, I may get pair juice on my fruitcake, and I don't like mixing my food.

People spelling pear wrong. Twice.

I've ordered a Steyr match air pistol but my local firearms dealer is dragging his feet in sending his RFD certificate through to the supplier in Edinburgh.

It's just not bloody on.

If we're in the first world, doesn't that mean all our problems are first world problems?

That's not true, there are STW members from both Scotland and Wales 😆

People spelling pear wrong. Twice

Pear.
Pear.
Pear.

Strava won't show current cadence and heart rate, only averages. Much disappointment.

Giving myself a well deserved day off today.. After I dropped the kids to school, I came home and went back to bed 🙂

I'm lying here a little perplexed now though, cos I know my falafel recipe is missing that little something extra and I just can't put my finger on what it is

Just shows quite how upset I was, but I managed to avoid cross contamination so my ying and yang is nicely balanced.

Yin. 😀

My commute to work in the second of my two cars was longer than usual because of ongoing roadworks in Bradley Stoke.

Unbelievable - I had to walk almost twice as far as I normally do to get from the free parking to the heated office.

I'm supposed to be going for pizza later, but I'm worried that'll leave me too full up to enjoy the beer tasting after 🙁

Yin.

Off to Paris later tonight for a loooong w/e, can't decide whether to take my Camera or just stick with my iPhone..

🙄

my Fiat Panda OMP strut brace has broken and i don't know where i could find replacement

My guts still hurt from eating a large three course meal and drinking three pints of milk.

I am spending the afternoon writing a procurement strategy and it is so boring I am close to physical pain.

The battery in my tablet does not hold a charge for that long now. Should I buy a new tablet or use it plugged into the mains?

It's raining and cold so putting petrol in the car will be less than ideal. Will be making my first visit to Solent cycles and I don't really need anything so I will be wracked with angst deciding what to buy as there is no point driving 60 mins round trip without buying something.

Off to Paris later tonight for a loooong w/e, can't decide whether to take my Camera or just stick with my iPhone

My colleague did mention that his granola lacked crunch. The poor lamb.

Pair of pricks.

Huh. Your camera is still working though.

I'm on hold to Avis to find out whether it's going to be cheaper to have a car for 4 days in Germany or to just use it to do two one way trips between locations.

The hold music is awful.

I have a hangover.

My mechanical pencil is not working

My OMP strut brace has lost its Fiat Panda...

The hold music is awful.

I've actually written in my aforementioned procurement strategy that we will not procure from any supplier who plays jazz music to you whilst on hold. I wrote this partly out of boredom, partly out of a dislike of jazz and mainly to see if anybody actually reads the document.

My chicken and mango sandwich at lunchtime wasn't very mangoy but it was free 😉

the filter in the moka pot is a pain to clean

Out of cheese 🙁

I'm struggling to find a gardener

Fancy a brew now but if I have one I now I will have to get up at 4am for a pee

United Business lounge in Washington has run out of beer so I have to drink wine instead

United Business lounge

Please read the title. "First world problems". Not "third world problems". United....HAHAHAHA! 🙂

😉

(Am due to be in IAD pretty soon, as it happens. B gates, though)

CaptainFlashheart - Member
I need a dump. Can't decide which bog to use.

Have you resolved this yet?

If there's an en-suite I'd avoid using it.

I can't decide between flat pedals and spds for my upcoming MTB skills course.

ice machine is broken

I drank loads of water on last nigh's bike ride and then drank tea at 11:30 when I go home. Consequently I had to get up 4 times in the night for a wee!
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taking the car to be looked at tomorrow in Ludlow, and Epic cycles is just a short stroll away, how the heck do I not spend some money in there and stop my self slobbering over nice stuff?

Piemonster, downstairs cloakroom bog. Finished the crossword while I was at it. Which was nice.

Good choice.

Never keen on the en-suite dump. Don't shit where you sleep and all that.

Not being able to calculate my eddington number from a directory full of GPX files.

duntstick

Nespresso descaling fluid has ruined my Latissimo with a foul taste.

Had that with a nespresso machine. Running tanks of water through it , perhaps 20 or 30 long shots, through the same old capsule fixed it. Don't know if that will work for you... HTH

Our nanny/maid didn't tell us we were running out of toilet paper before I did the Tesco delivery order. Need to drive there tomorrow.

Motorbike has a flat tire. I can't get the track pump to attach (spokes too close to the valve) so need to use my crappy hand pump.

bloody servants.

a poster on another forum I use is really annoying me, pathetic really I must rise above.

Staying in a luxury cottage in Northumberland. The wood burning stove has no wood or matches. It's not that cold out, but we need to find some where in the local area that sells wood...and then we have to get the dam thing to light!

Of course the Nest controlled central heating works fine, but that's not the point