lol! First world problems!!!!1111

The BBQ Pit
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(Allow me to preface this thread by saying that I completely understand that this thread, in its own lil’ meta way, is a LOL FIRST WORLD PROBLEM!11!! There. I just spared you 15 posts attempting at clever humor, which really wouldn’t be funny at all. Ok, who am I kidding? You guys are still going to do it anyway.)

I am goddamned sick of anything other than genocide and famine being hand waved away by douchebags as a “LOL!!! FIRST WORLD PROBLEM!!!11!!” Look, that shit certainly isn’t clever and while it may have been funny for the first 1,274 times, it no longer retains the comical value you douche suitecases all think it does.

Whether on blogs, Facebook, or even this very board, there seems to be this prevailing meme of dismissiveness. And while I get the general point that the douche canoe is making, does anybody honestly think the person complaining about their Xbox breaking really thinks that’s a worse problem than, say, the human rights violations in the heart of the Middle East? Dismissing that with “FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS!!!11” is some condescending shit, let me tell you.

Guess what? People can complain about minutia in their lives. People can be irritated by the fact that their iPhone is going crazy slow or that the grocery store stopped carrying their favorite kind of Vitamin Water. Or that their pizza guy took an hour to get to their house. Or that their favorite TV show was cancelled. Or that their favorite book isn’t available in Kindle format. Or that there’s too much goat cheese in their salad. Or that their neighbor stole their parking spot. Or that they just used their last skip on Pandora and a bad song is on, but they can’t skip again for an hour.

It’s safe to say that nobody thinks that their Pandora or pizza related problems are even in the same ball park as famine, rape, or disease. And even though those things are happening around the world, there is no reason people can’t complain about things in their day to day lives not going as expected.

FWIW- no: I am not bitter because some douchecraft carrier accused me of first world problems. Rather, I’m just fucking annoyed with having to read it time after time after time. The relatively minor tipping point was this morning: a friend posted on her FB status that her dog woke her up 20 minutes before her alarm to go out and pee— she joked that she could have cried for missing that 20 minutes of sleep. Some douche space station responded, “LOL. #firstworldproblems!!!” Look brah, that’s not funny. Shut the fuck up. You’re posting that shit from your computer or your smart phone, from your climate controlled house, while probably eating some chips or some shit-- you aren’t any better, douche universe, is what I’m trying to say.

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The problem I see is: Shouldn’t that first world be a doucheverse?

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I bow to your greatness, as that is a vast improvement. Doucheverse it is!

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And you wonder why old farts don’t go onto Facebook or use Twitter?

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I used the phrase “white people problems” and the reaction was that phrase was kinda racist. In my defense, I invoked Chris Rock as the originator. In Googling for a cite, I found a lot of people also invoked him BUT no one could actually document it! So I’m wondering two things- who did originate the term & is this in itself a ‘white people problem’?

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Was it his show or some other show that had a soap opera-ish spoof set in a high school called Pretty White People With Problems?

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It’s not just Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Livejournal— I frequently see this crap on this very board.

OP complains about getting shitty food from Wendy’s. Posts 2 invokes FWP, then a discussion ensues.

OP complains about packaging that shreds, so you can’t save food for later. Post 6 invokes FWP.

Someone complains about Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. Post 8 invokes FWP (and calls the OP a “fucking crybaby”).

OP explains that they are a bit overwhelmed being new to Netflix. Post 7 invokes FWP (though in post 4 he calls it “white people problems” first :rolleyes:).

OP complains that their favorite beverage flavor changed. In post 49, FWP is invoked.

Now, not that I agree one way or another with the particular OPs of any of those threads, but the point still remains that this shit happens here, too.

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Relevant link.

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I don’t understand how something can be funny the first 1,274 times, but not on the 1,275th.

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Yikes! Never noticed it before.

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Because all of those are stupid, trivial problems. So stupid and trivial it is hard to understand why those people harbored anger long enough to type that stupid shit on this messageboard. They are all fucking crybabies and those are all white people problems.

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OP, your post is fucking ridiculous. You absolutely CAN NOT complain abut having too much goat cheese in your salad. Goat cheese is awesome. Douche.

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This board is the only place i’ve ever seen the “First world problems” thing.

It gets old really fucking quickly.

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I take it you’ve never posted in a mini rants thread? Or complained about anything other than famine and genocide?

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I have no problem with the term, it gets its point across. The thing that niggles at me though; it seems like some people think that folks in third world countries don’t ever sweat the small stuff. Well I’m betting that they do. They aren’t just constantly groaning, bemoaning their miserable lot in life.

They have joys in life. Love, happiness, silly jokes, petty arguments. They make complaints about things that aren’t life or death issues too, I’m sure. They are human beings. It’s our nature to find shit to complain about.

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Preach it, sistah. Every time I hear it it brings the mental image of a nagging mother using the “there’s starving children in Africa, you know!” line on a picky eater. The American kid eating his Brussels sprouts isn’t gonna do a damn thing to end world hunger, nor is Mom gonna box up the leftovers and send them to the starving children.

Also, I <3 “douchecraft carrier” (for when a douchecanoe just ain’t big enough) but this stupid board doesn’t have a “like” button :mad:

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Are you my wife?

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Ah it’s fairly common elsewhere. It’s a popular hashtag on twitter. I like using it in that context.

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Why would you take that? Of course I’ve complained about trivial shit. We all do. When I get called on it, I don’t throw a hissy fit over someone trivializing my anger over my inability to open a package by calling it a FWP. If they call it a white people problem, I’d laugh.

Love the black and white of your complaint. It’s so. . . firstworldy. Like there are not all manner of things to complain or rant about that are less severe than starvation and more consequential than “my fast food wasn’t very tasty.”

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P.S. if you go into a mini-rant thread to complain about the mini-ness of the complaints, then you are a being a douche. Starting a thread on a trivial irritation and getting a FWP response should be expected.