'First world problems'

[User482]

As a whiney 24 year old might say, wha'ever.

Suit yourself, granddad: I'll leave you to harrumph into your copy of the Daily Mail.

 

[Drago]

An iPhone is an extravagance at any age. Or any smartphone.

 

[jonny jeez]

Have you told them that it is like being in a third world country, and you will be going elsewhere until they rectify matters?

I did, with some volume. I don't think they are taking my plight seriously enough, I shall need to send their head office an instant meggage...hold on, let me just put that card away...

 

[Paulus]

Had the chimney sweep round earlier, and he wasn't all cheery and covered in soot. Neither did he sing "chim-chimminy", or bring a Victorian waif to clamber up the flue.

Did Mrs Fnarr like the brush going then?

 

[swee'pea99]

Suit yourself, granddad: I'll leave you to harrumph into your copy of the Daily Mail.

Whippersnapper!

 

[User482]

Whippersnapper!

Not in my first flush of youth by any means, but a broad mind and narrow waist have yet to swap places.

 

[LinchPin]

I've just read this.

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/...ter-floods-hit-carlisle-factory-a3162891.html

It's very much a 'first world problem'. What are your first world problems, and how do you cope?

It could be worse.

 

[outlash]

That biscuit looks like it's dozing off waiting to be dunked......

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

My most regular First World problem is finding that, by the time I do my Saturday shop, the supermarket has sold out of the week's Radio Times. I end up having to buy some horribly tabloidish downmarket listing instead - always seems to be plenty of them

 

[pauldavid]

Of course, it's easy to write off this young person as just another feckless youth, but economic reality is rather different for young people today than it was when I was starting out. The situation regarding rents, job security, pensions and student debt has degraded significantly over the last twenty years.

Knackers

 

[keithmac]

Well that's my Christmas ruined...

 

[Hill Wimp]

zOMG!

Waitrose and Sainsbury are stopping 'Click & Collect' a day early as the Christmas demand is so high....

I can't believe this actually made the morning news.

Well it's a bit of a bugger when you want to collect your stuff from John Lewis on Xmas Eve.

 

[Oxo]

An iPhone is an extravagance at any age. Or any smartphone.

I need/like (delete as appropriate) 24 hours news, weather, emails, bus timetables, rail timetables, text messaging.
I also have my diary, clock, note book, reminders, maps, sat nav, my entire music collection, camera etc etc.
Occasionally I also use my iPhone to make or receive phone calls.

 

[marknotgeorge]

I can see why young people spend money on interesting things like smartphones, cars and renting in an interesting area when the cost of 'sensible' things like buying a house goes up and up, the pension age goes up, and the papers are full of stories about pension funds being ripped off by fat cats. What's the point of saving for a rainy day when there's gonna be a hurricane when you get there?