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Posted on 3/4/15 at 7:48 pm to
Posted by CheeseburgerEddie
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Posted on 3/4/15 at 7:48 pm to
Ok so I just clicked the link and my number 1 problem is slide show fricking lists on the internet. I would rape whatever a-hole invented this shite with a leg off a colonial era dining room table
Posted by scrooster
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Member since Jul 2012
37681 posts
Posted on 3/4/15 at 7:50 pm to
Fat girls

Feminists

Leftist women

Ugly northeastern and northwestern women.

British women with bad teeth.

Rosie O'Donald

Hillabeast

Oprah's race-baiting arse and her transvestite cousin Reverend Al.

Andy Dick .... frick Andy Dick.

... and The Dutch.
Posted by Prof
Member since Jun 2013
42645 posts
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:40 pm to
These are all 1st World Problems but when it comes to social, racial, and economic problems I think the term is dismissive. "First World Problems" applies to Europe and the rest of the West fairly well because they have a fantastic social safety net and great health care + higher ed system. IOW, it's exceedingly hard if not impossible to be impoverished there.

Here in the US tho, Black Americans, Poor White Trash, Native Americans etc. live terribly and relatively speaking often worse than 2nd and 3rd World Nations where everyone is all in it together and people help one another out. Then there's Southern Appalachia, the Delta, Indian Reservations and extreme ghettos/inner city areas all of which where there's no way out.

Most of America is rich and truly a land of opportunity BUT there are too many places where folks live forgotten in the 2nd and 3rd world here at home. We desperately need to fix this!

That said, I'm fortunate to live mostly with first world problems even tho my rural area brings me 2nd/3rd world problems every now and then. BUT I know damn well it will pass soon so it doesn't have the same effect. I'm lucky and I know it.

Posted by pioneerbasketball
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Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:41 pm to
Include a picture next time.
Posted by Prof
Member since Jun 2013
42645 posts
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:47 pm to
quote:

Include a picture next time.


Why? It's no secret that certain outposts in the US are horrid. Fortunately they are small, capable of getting better, and inherently fixable. We don't live in a nation where systemic problems make things near impossible to change or fix. We can get better, even change the class we're born into, and we should be very grateful for that.

ETA: In a country as large as ours, we're doing pretty damned good warts and all but we can always get better, imo.
This post was edited on 3/4/15 at 11:49 pm
Posted by derSturm37
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Member since May 2013
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Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:56 pm to
I would have to postulate that [Western] Europe has all that socialist safety net BECAUSE they choose to help one another out. i.e. They are in this way "noble" like the 2nd & 3rd worlders you mentioned. The big difference is that they they can afford it. This because they have, for centuries running, tended to help themselves.

Miller wrote that the first thing American women noticed in Europe was that it was unsanitary. The first thing I noticed there is that almost everyone looks a lot like almost everyone else.

Again, like in those 2nd and 3rd world countries where everybody gets along.
Posted by 2close2Gainesville
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Member since Sep 2008
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Posted on 3/5/15 at 12:12 am to
Listening to other people bitch about nothing but annoying little problems that distract from an otherwise easygoing life, and realizing I agree with most of that shite, and I have to find something to bitch about.
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