stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 8/24/2016 at 5:09 AM, usagi said:

lol

I live right in front of a sewer so theres a couple of cockroaches in the street most of the time (it's not 3rd World looking tho dont get the wrong idea) and every single day without fail a girl or woman will go AAAAH and shriek at full pulmonary force at the sight of a cockroach right below my window, every single day, it's just a fuckin cockroach ffs

ha, I saw a group of women getting scared by a single cockroach when I was in Seville as few weeks ago, it was running around the table they were sitting at outside a bar, one of them climbed up on her chair. my mate walked over and stood on it. we don't get them over here.

Hang up a sign that says "Don't Scream! Cockroaches will become aroused!"

oddly enough, and even though I've seen and killed hundreds of them over the years, both in and outside the house, I've never seen a single flying cockroach. I've had friends, one of them living just a couple blocks from my house, tell me about roaches flying in through the window; if they hadnt told me I wouldnt know

I almost deleted this whole post cause this is the most inane shit but eh

worrying about the quality of your posts in the stupid first world problems thread is a pretty first world problem

Came off my bike the other day trying to dodge a panicked squirrel. Plus I ran out of big Band-aids, so I've just been trucking about with raw, weeping wounds shooting all the neighborhood critters death stares.

House-sitting for my friend from work and his wife, but their dachshund is terribly lacking in potty training. Every day I come home from work I find her kennel bed soiled and defecated on, plus she'll continue to pee and crap on the floor after the fact, despite there being diaper pads for her to go on. She just took a shart on the floor right before I made this post, and I could hear it all the way from the other room.

Already washed her kennel bed four times now, on top of cleaning up all the other messes she makes. And I've already made numerous attempts to take her outside to do her business, but she just stands there, shivering and staring at me. Feels like working overtime.

Happy National Dog Day. Fucking dachshunds.

Received another letter from the TV Licensing people, demanding I pay up or inform them of my no license required status. Despite me having done so four times already.

How can I put it into words how little I watch or want to watch television, especially the BBC? How many times can I tell them I would rather pour acid in my eyes than watch a tv programme? I love England, but this mandatory license business is fascism.

lol I've got a closetful of those. tbqh they'll never stop. finally had to flee the country.

tv licence? what is this shit?

  On 8/27/2016 at 4:12 PM, usagi said:

tv licence? what is this shit?

If you own a television, you have to pay a £145 licence annually for the privilege. Even if you don't, they try their damndest to get you to pay. They've now changed the rules so if you watch BBC television online, you have to pay.

I do not do any of these things so I should not have to pay. At least, in theory, I shouldn't. I expect more letters soon enough.

  On 8/27/2016 at 5:27 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 8/27/2016 at 4:12 PM, usagi said:

tv licence? what is this shit?

If you own a television, you have to pay a £145 licence annually for the privilege. Even if you don't, they try their damndest to get you to pay. They've now changed the rules so if you watch BBC television online, you have to pay.

 

I do not do any of these things so I should not have to pay. At least, in theory, I shouldn't. I expect more letters soon enough.

It's the same here.

I'm not paying either because it'd be the same if I told everyone with access to the internet that they should pay me for being able to listen to my music - even if they don't. But the fact that they CAN means that they should pay me a monthly fee.

  On 8/27/2016 at 6:38 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 8/27/2016 at 5:27 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 8/27/2016 at 4:12 PM, usagi said:

tv licence? what is this shit?

If you own a television, you have to pay a £145 licence annually for the privilege. Even if you don't, they try their damndest to get you to pay. They've now changed the rules so if you watch BBC television online, you have to pay.

 

I do not do any of these things so I should not have to pay. At least, in theory, I shouldn't. I expect more letters soon enough.

It's the same here.

I'm not paying either because it'd be the same if I told everyone with access to the internet that they should pay me for being able to listen to my music - even if they don't. But the fact that they CAN means that they should pay me a monthly fee.

 

In here it's now a tax that's mandatory even if you don't own a TV but it's based on your income so if you're poor enough (make less than 7500e per year) you don't have to pay anything. The highest bracket pays 143e per year.

Basically it goes to maintain the government owned TV and radio stations and related internet services.

  On 8/27/2016 at 5:27 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 8/27/2016 at 4:12 PM, usagi said:

tv licence? what is this shit?

 

If you own a television, you have to pay a £145 licence annually for the privilege.

first time in my life I'm hearing about this.

This tv licensing stuff is a bunch of bs!

Can't believe you guys have to pay for that. 

I dunno, the state of non-commercial/public broadcasting in the US makes it seem more reasonable. PBS is the closest left to actual journalism on American TV, so I sometimes wish they had the BBC's budget. 

I guess my point was more so that a portion of property/income/etc taxes should already go to funding that. I get what you're saying though, public broadcasting in the US is insanely bad. Canada is pretty rough too. lol.

  On 8/27/2016 at 7:41 PM, mokz said:

 

  On 8/27/2016 at 6:38 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 8/27/2016 at 5:27 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 8/27/2016 at 4:12 PM, usagi said:

tv licence? what is this shit?

If you own a television, you have to pay a £145 licence annually for the privilege. Even if you don't, they try their damndest to get you to pay. They've now changed the rules so if you watch BBC television online, you have to pay.

 

I do not do any of these things so I should not have to pay. At least, in theory, I shouldn't. I expect more letters soon enough.

It's the same here.

I'm not paying either because it'd be the same if I told everyone with access to the internet that they should pay me for being able to listen to my music - even if they don't. But the fact that they CAN means that they should pay me a monthly fee.

 

 

In here it's now a tax that's mandatory even if you don't own a TV but it's based on your income so if you're poor enough (make less than 7500e per year) you don't have to pay anything. The highest bracket pays 143e per year.

 

Basically it goes to maintain the government owned TV and radio stations and related internet services.

 

Yeah, it's the same here but 90% of the stuff they show on those channels is pure garbage.

fuck I hate writing job applications. aiming to transfer to this ideal role in the Cancer Institute assisting with cancer research data mining. perfect role really, I've just had too mad a week to focus on getting it finished. there's 4 hours til the deadline. if this were a couple of years ago, I'd be well-mashed on beers and weed by now as a coping mechanism, but as it stands I'm just sitting here eating pizza and playing cookieclicker. dunno which is worse.

Damn, you're still playing cookieclicker? that's a firstworldproblem in and of itself

me too =(

prestige level 1.884 million =(

  On 8/29/2016 at 4:27 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Damn, you're still playing cookieclicker? that's a firstworldproblem in and of itself

yep it's not even a real game.

Used two eggs instead of one in cookie mix and the cookies come out like sponge cakes. They're nice, but I wanted cookies.

My iPod Classic is nearly dead after many years of good service, but now I have my entire music collection in a format that can't be read by anything else very easily (high bitrate AAC files). I was hoping to just use my phone as my iPod going forward, but it can't read the bulk of the files, so now I'm stuck either downgrading my entire collection to AAC files of 192kbps or less, or purchasing some new audio-only player. Neither prospect makes me happy. 

Also, I didn't know about those BBC taxes. Thanks for paying it you poor socialists, I enjoyed much of your British publicly-funded comedy in my youth via PBS here in America.