When someone uses FWP on me, I just genocide them. They should learn their place.
I can’t tell if you’re complaining or bragging.
I endorse this Pitting; I’m going to keep on complaining about petty shit if I feel like it. I know my complaint about my hair dye isn’t very high on the Worldwide Suffering Scale (measured in Oxfam units), but it still irritates me.
Strange, I found this pizza box with “Pandora” written on it and famine, rape, and disease is exactly what happened after I opened it…
What about pepperoni?
“Jragon released pepperoni into the world…”
You seem to be kind of anxious for people to agree that you are totally bitchy or obnoxious, and frankly I am not really seeing it, but I’m feeling generous, so, okay: Wow, you are totally bitchy and obnoxious! There you go.
Thank you!
Are hangnails a white people problem? When you point that out, do you bitch about your ashy elbows? 
You see white people bite their nails like this and black people bite their nails like this.
Third world people bite their nails for dinner.
Maybe this will surprise nobody, but it doesn’t bug me. I’ve never heard it used as being dismissive…I’ve mostly heard it by someone who realized they were getting worked up about something and then laughingly realizes they were making a mountain out of a molehill.
“Ughhhh! The Kuerig machine at work is out of the hot chocolate that I like and they only have that nasty generic stuff. I swear the ditz at purchasing doesn’t even try. She didn’t even order any decaf last week…hahah…first world problems, huh!”
Always seemed like a lighthearted celebration of the luxury of our small complaints.
Oh, you. This is why I love you and wish people like even sven would go away as soon as possible and indefinitely.
I’m particularly annoyed by this “Dark people in poor countries are so quaint and different” shtick right now as I just came back from vacation with someone who I will never, ever travel with again to any place more foreign than Canada. And even then, all of Quebec is off limits. I mean the entire trip was one stupid question after another about very basic aspects of life, as if she were talking to Martians. I’m like, “These are people too, you know?” I was nonstop burying my face in my palm in embarrassment. I didn’t do this consciously; it was a completely reflexive reaction to asinine questions like, “Do you guys have hospitals in this country?” which wasn’t even close to the stupidest thing she said, btw.
I don’t think my travel companion understood that she was still on planet Earth. People in other countries certainly have different cultures and life experiences than we do here, but we’re all human beings with emotions. I’ve spent whole summers in places where I’ve never had a flushing toilet, but do you think everyone there was constantly kissing the ground, thankful that they even had food to shit out in the first place? People there, like people everywhere, got annoyed by stupid shit. People have feelings, everyone gets irritated. They don’t grovel in their holes 24/7 thanking their gods everyday to be alive. No, the very poor don’t complain about their iPhones because they don’t have them, but if they did, trust me, they’d bitch when the damn thing broke. I have heard endless tales of drama because the neighbor looked at them funny, or because it’s two degrees colder out than they’d like it to be.
Also, FTR, I usually say “White people problems,” but people rarely get pissed about it.
And in response to the OP, I sometimes mock complaints by dismissing them as White People Problems, but not because of the pettiness of the complaint. We all complain about utter silliness. I usually reserve it for serial whiners who have never had a grievance more serious than slightly burnt toast.
I think the moral of this story is: When your shit breaks, it sucks.
Heh. Nice.
Is a White Person Problem turning lobster red when you spend too much time in the sun? Cause I have that one. 
<— that’s about the right colour
Sneak bragging!
I’m sorry, OP, but I can’t get on board this pitting. Just think of all the poor third-world puppies that are being eaten by nasty starving children. Imagine how those puppies feel to know that you are bitching about your jello melting or something. Don’t you realize that the poor puppies can’t feel good about being eaten until everyone who has smaller problems than that stop bitching? Don’t you want those poor puppies to feel good about their fates?
Anyone not seeing it just needs to google the term. It had a huge fad with those meme pictures on sites like reddit, but it seems to be dying down now.
Ive never read the term as saying ‘dont complain about trivial things’ so much as ‘your level of drama for the triviality of the issue is utterly ridiculous and has lost perspective’.
Not to say it cant be used stupidly, but it does make the point that the internet fosters a certain level of overreaction with sites like facebook etc.
Otara
And I can peel my skin really nicely a week or so later, too. {preens}
Your logic makes no sense (I’m all over the “third world isn’t always or even usually miserable” stance). I can’t fix your logic, but I can offer a handy, one button, easy to make me go away as soon as possible and indefinitely. There is really absolutely no reason for you to be reading my posts if you find them useless.
It doesn’t seem like DiosaBellissima is pitting people who use the phrase to laugh at their own problems. She’s pitting people who use it to minimize other people’s complaints.