The First World Problem Thread...Voice Your Struggle

[jaxadam]

Two days in a row! This one did the trick. Just got the windshield tinted with ceramic last Friday too. 300 miles on the truck. Oh well at least my tonneau cover gets installed tomorrow.

It’s just getting funny now. One day after the lift was installed the rear shock popped out. Oh well at least the tonneau cover is installed.

 

[Ordacleaphobia]

Cursed truck
I'll check in on you next week after you get a flat but before the stereo shorts out.

 

[jaxadam]

Cursed truck
I'll check in on you next week after you get a flat but before the stereo shorts out.

You know you've gotta just take these things in stride... It's just speeding up the rear shock upgrade to this week!

 

[Kaura]

Finally went to a medical center and got my ears cleaned since I was basicly deaf in my left ear. Well, now I can't bear to listen to music since once again my right ear seems to have some hearing loss.

 

[Fenriswolf]

So today at work, I was having to try and help fix the internet. Not saying I was the worst person to ask, but I have made it abundantly clear the only thing I know about computers is how to upgrade stuff to play video games. So anyways, I'm on the roof trying to see what's wrong with one of the internet antennas, and they're asking does it look like maybe the hurricane messed it up and it got some water in it. I'm up there like America's Ass when he was like it seems to run on some type of electricity.

I tried using my vast amount of IT knowledge


For some reason, shit still don't work.

 

[Moongrum]

I'm still buttblasted I didn't get laid off. Especially when people much more valuable than me got laid off making my job more difficult

 

[p0ke]

Wife insists on using wooden utensils during the rare occasions that she cooks something, and she also insists that wooden stuff can't be washed in the washing machine and she also never washes said utensils.

I'm seriously considering accidentally using said utensils as firewood.

 

[jaxadam]

Wife insists on using wooden utensils during the rare occasions that she cooks something, and she also insists that wooden stuff can't be washed in the washing machine and she also never washes said utensils.

I'm seriously considering accidentally using said utensils as firewood.

Some things just taste better if they’re made with wooden utensils. Especially if they haven’t been washed in a while.

 

[p0ke]

Some things just taste better if they’re made with wooden utensils. Especially if they haven’t been washed in a while.

I don't even know why my wife insists on the wooden ones, I guess it's just what she's used to. One time she said she won't use plastic ones because they'll melt, but seriously, you'd have to leave them on the pan for an hour or something for that to actually happen.

The only issue I have with plastic utensils is that they snap quite easily when the soup or porridge or whatever gets thick.

 

[Bodes]

Wife's family is arriving this afternoon for 4 nights. 4 adults and 2 teenagers and 3 under 5 years in our 3 bedroom house.
Really nice people, and we get along fairly well (dependent on limiting alcohol consumption), but boy is my comfort zone going to be tested.

 

[nightsprinter]

So my wife partakes in the jazz cabbage every now and then. She was watching a Markiplier video about fidget toys and since I have ADHD and a touch of the tism, she had to come and ask me, since I'm neurodivergent have I ever tried any fidget toys. Keep in mind...we started dating a couple months after All Hope Is Gone came out, you would think we know each other pretty good at this point. Somehow she was surprised when I whipped out my balisong trainer and started flipping it around.

She's apparently still surprised be me, even though she was there and helped because my autistic ass, who's amazing at everything from the get go's, bought the butterfly knife before I bought the trainer.

Fidget toys are dope. My wife brought this one home from work and I've been putting a lot of mileage on it.

 

[nightsprinter]

Cursed truck
I'll check in on you next week after you get a flat but before the stereo shorts out.

LOL I can ID with this. the truck I put $11,000 into to lift and do a variety of other things had a stereo that promptly shorted out. It would emit an ear piercing tone like a hearing test. There was a loose cable somewhere. Man what a piece of shit that was, I'll never modify another vehicle again. Shitboxes til the day I die now.

 

[nightsprinter]

Throughout the course of an entire calendar week, there are only 10 hours total that I cannot be at home to accept UPS packages which require a signature. Now for 6 of those 10 hours, my wife is typically home and can sign. So 10-6=4. 4 hours. 2 of those hours are on one day, and 2 of those hours are on another. And without fail, that is when UPS will show up. This has happened numerous times now. I try SO HARD to order things at times where the delivery window won't interfere, but stuff always winds up being delayed or coming early. It's truly remarkable in the most annoying way.

 

[wheresthefbomb]

I don't even know why my wife insists on the wooden ones, I guess it's just what she's used to. One time she said she won't use plastic ones because they'll melt, but seriously, you'd have to leave them on the pan for an hour or something for that to actually happen.

The only issue I have with plastic utensils is that they snap quite easily when the soup or porridge or whatever gets thick.

I have strong feelings about this. All of my heavy-use items are a single piece of material, ideally stainless steel but I'll settle for plastic or silicone when it comes to scrapers/spatulas. Even then, I want them one solid piece, not that plastic-mounted to wood shit that always ends up with rotting food scum in the crevices. Same goes for cheese graters, I can't abide those free-standing pyramid/trapezoid shaped graters because they always end up with cheese stuck inside that fossilizes into an invulnerable adamantine crust.

Edit: also silverware that is a plastic handle mounted to a metal business end or any other kind of multi-piece, crevicey nonsense can fuck right off

 

[p0ke]

I have strong feelings about this. All of my heavy-use items are a single piece of material, ideally stainless steel but I'll settle for plastic or silicone when it comes to scrapers/spatulas. Even then, I want them one solid piece, not that plastic-mounted to wood shit that always ends up with rotting food scum in the crevices. Same goes for cheese graters, I can't abide those free-standing pyramid/trapezoid shaped graters because they always end up with cheese stuck inside that fossilizes into an invulnerable adamantine crust.

Edit: also silverware that is a plastic handle mounted to a metal business end or any other kind of multi-piece, crevicey nonsense can fuck right off

I agree on that - the plastic or wood on those doesn't really provide any extra value either imo. Our silverware is all metal, apart from a few steak knives that we only use a few times a year. All the utensils are also generally one piece, either wood or plastic. We do have a few scoops that have a few different pieces of plastic, and I hate those because the glue always comes off after a while and then they just won't stay together again. Worst case is that I'm making soup and the scoop falls off the handle right into the soup.

Cheese graters are ok though, you just gotta flush it right after grating before the cheese dries up in there.

 

[Edika]

I don't even know why my wife insists on the wooden ones, I guess it's just what she's used to. One time she said she won't use plastic ones because they'll melt, but seriously, you'd have to leave them on the pan for an hour or something for that to actually happen.

The only issue I have with plastic utensils is that they snap quite easily when the soup or porridge or whatever gets thick.

The wooden utensils do help with not scratching anti stick coatings. The avoidance of plastic utensils in our case is mostly for environmental reasons if they get damaged.
But man, that's one thick soup or porridge if plastic utensils snap lol!

My FWP is that I decided to pull out my old Presonus card and install Reaper to start maybe recording stuff and play silently. The card is not bad but its USB connected and it's on a new PC. I have issues with latency, if I manage to get sound of it, and so far all plugins I tried, even after some time tweaking, sound like crap. Even my 100W heads at 0.5 sound significantly better than any of the plugins I've tried and I did tried the Nolly and Gojira plugins that are considered awesome. I'm either doing something wrong which is the most probable thing, I need better speakers or I can't understand what's the appeal on these things. I'd prefer a better 0lug and play solution though. I don't have that much time to do tweaking just to practice a bit bit if I don't improve on this I won't be able to record anything decent.

 

[p0ke]

The wooden utensils do help with not scratching anti stick coatings. The avoidance of plastic utensils in our case is mostly for environmental reasons if they get damaged.
But man, that's one thick soup or porridge if plastic utensils snap lol!

I get the environmental point there, and that's one of the points my wife keeps making, but to be fair, how often do plastic utensils get damaged? Yes, like I said, I've had plastic scoops snap when making porridge, but that's happened to me exactly twice in my life. But yeah, I prefer my soups and porridges thick af

 

[KnightBrolaire]

I have strong feelings about this. All of my heavy-use items are a single piece of material, ideally stainless steel but I'll settle for plastic or silicone when it comes to scrapers/spatulas. Even then, I want them one solid piece, not that plastic-mounted to wood shit that always ends up with rotting food scum in the crevices. Same goes for cheese graters, I can't abide those free-standing pyramid/trapezoid shaped graters because they always end up with cheese stuck inside that fossilizes into an invulnerable adamantine crust.

Edit: also silverware that is a plastic handle mounted to a metal business end or any other kind of multi-piece, crevicey nonsense can fuck right off

i have some silicone spatulas from Amazon that cost me like 15$ for a 3 pack and they take an absolute beating. Silicone is the best shit hands down imo. Super heat resistant, food safe and doesn't deform easily like cheap ass thermoplastics. Highly recommend silicone oven mitts as well. I've melted enough shitty pairs of oven mitts over the years.

 

[Randy]

Fidget toys are dope. My wife brought this one home from work and I've been putting a lot of mileage on it.

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Ah the ol' nipple poker.

 

[nightsprinter]

Ripped off a wicked hangnail yesterday that took all the side skin off with it and swelled up my finger so playing guitar is just too painful today. So I'm stuck here for the day and no topic is safe from my poor humor.