Random Fail: First World Problems

[Silenka]

Yeah I have food issues bordering on an eating disorder but I'm such a weirdo and probably the only person with these anxieties

I've never heard of them as bad, but I too have a strong aversion to touching other people's food remnants. Not as bad as you, I can force myself to do it if I have to but I generally think it's disgusting. I don't mind if it's my boyfriend, but most of my friends/family nope, it grosses me out. Cleaning up my own dishes is fine but it's very hard to get me to do anyone else's.

I've always been very picky about food myself - I have a huge hangup about veins in meat, for example. I pick through my meat (steak, chicken, whatever) very thoroughly to make sure I don't accidentally eat any 'gross parts'. I usually won't eat skin, either. And forget about mystery meat. I've only recently started sometimes eating pepperoni again and only because it's spiced enough that it's tasty enough for me to ignore all the thoughts about what it is (I refused to eat it for a good 10 years though). You will never catch me eating a hotdog, bologna, salami, Taco Bell ground beef, etc. But often my criteria for edible meat are completely inconsistent, like how I ate apricot summer sausage at a Christmas party a couple years ago because it was DELICIOUS >_>

[Ksandra]

just pay attention to what you buy as some have holes in them which I've never found them to work the way they are supposed to (supposed to let clean litter filter down, and dirty stay on the liner, but it just means small bits of pee/poop still get filtered).

Also...you lock your cat up during the day?

[arus2001]

I'm OCD about dishes in the sense that I won't wash them if people just throw them all haphazardly into the sink. Maybe it was a habit I picked up busing tables when younger, but basically I'd scrape then stack everything neatly. When it comes to the sink, it translates to knowing what's where so I don't just dip my hand blindly into soapy water and get stabbed by a knife that just so happened to get lodged a certain way. Overall, it makes the eventual rinse and stacking easier for me, too, as it's not some random glass, then a plate, then a spatula, etc..

Of course, no one else in the house here gives a shit so I'm just like, "Fuck it, you people use the dishwasher..." even though it has a bad habit of not cleaning thoroughly and nobody else seems to care about that, either. Nothing like grabbing a plate and seeing something like egg or cheese remnants to smeared on the surface.

[Myrrh_Quetz]

I took yesterday off from school because stupid people make my head hurt and now I have a horrible cold. Fuck

[Raldo]

To all you people with the weird food phobias... how do you operate in a buffet setting? Is it fine because it's not technically someone else's plate (instead it's a communal food stash), or do you avoid them like the plague?

[Byrthnoth]

I'm typically fairly sanitary, but when it comes to Thin Mint cookies all bets are off. The five second rule becomes the "did it go in the toilet or the trash?" rule.

I can only assume that the strife in South America is the reason that Girl Scout cookie prices increased again this year. It's hard to get enough crack to make millions of Thin Mints without stable governments.

[Aksannyi]

To all you people with the weird food phobias... how do you operate in a buffet setting? Is it fine because it's not technically someone else's plate (instead it's a communal food stash), or do you avoid them like the plague?

I don't do buffets unless it's my only option, like a family party where my attendance is required. People have a tendency to mix foods - like I fucking hate when you get olives in the shredded cheese (for example) - and others just touch and grab stuff by hand and it's altogether a nasty experience.

[BaneTheBrawler]

ugh, cat box liners. they work, but if your cat feels like being an ass or you wait too long they're just as nasty as anything else.

also, my mom has a lot of random first world problem/fails... and i got to deal with a fucking disgusting one today. will go into depth later, but i hate cleaning aquariums. it's the only reason i dont keep any of my own. my mom has lots, and guess who gets drafted to help with them.

[Fievel]

Cass moved in with her cat a year ago, I am not a big fan of cats and hate dealing with cat litter so I got this.

http://www.litter-robot.com/litter-r...Fa5DMgod6xsAog

It's pretty fucking awesome, I spend maybe 2 minutes once a week just putting a little more litter in it and emptying out the bottom.


I was put in a similar situation as Quixon, I told Cass that she had to deal with the litter box, but then she got pregnant lol

Toxoplasmosis, yet another reason cats suck.

[Abandon]

i actually enjoy cleaning, i just can't be fucked to get up and actually do it unless poked/prodded about it.

Dishes are the OG time waster. Throw on some music, get the suds going, and leave me the fuck alone until i'm done dancing/singing/cleaning

[BaneTheBrawler]

I like aquariums. They are cool, and entertaining. However, I hate cleaning them. Honestly, if I had my own aquarium and had full control over it, I don't think I'd mind too much. But I don't. Instead, I get roped into cleaning my parents' aquariums, which I do NOT control... and until recently were nasty as fuck because my mom kept insisting we use these old shitty pumps/filters that she got a good deal on because they're old and shitty. The single biggest reason I hate cleaning my mom's aquariums, however, is that she also insists on saving the nasty fish water in buckets so she can water plants with it. IN HER HOUSE. She leaves them, in the way, for weeks at a time. After a while they actually stop stinking because all the shit sinks to the bottom, but it's still fucking disgusting... and in the way.

We've always had 1-2 aquariums running at a time: a 75 gallon and a 55 gallon. Neither were running at the time, but my mom met someone who needed a place to keep his fish for the winter. His commercial fish. As in, he sells them to people. My mom, being the helpful sort, offered to take them in. She called it a rescue, but I'm not entirely clear on whether she's on the hook for them financially if they die. If she is, I don't see how it's a rescue. Especially since the number of fish she brought home dwarfed our existing capacity. So now, in addition to the two large tanks, we have a 20 gallon tank running. But that still wasn't enough. So my mom bought a bunch of stock tanks... and for some reason only set up two. One for the fish, one for plain water to keep at the right temperature so we can do water changes. Except she's already crammed every available space full of stuff for other projects, so the stock tanks are set up in an aisle in the garage with barely enough space to get past them. Also, the filtration we had for our existing tanks was insufficient. So she bought all new pumps for all four tanks. And the fish in the stock tank were still too much for that pump. So this "rescue" is already costing her thousands of dollars, which she will not be reimbursed.

And as I said, the stock tank doesn't have adequate filtration. It's also the most populous. Or it was. My parents went out of town for the week, and tasked me with feeding the fish and bird. I go over there, feed the fish in the upper tanks, talk with the bird (he's an umbrella cockatoo), make sure he's got food/water. I go downstairs to feed the stock tank fish... and easily 40 fish are belly up. So now instead of a simple feed and observe task, I'm stuck trying to save what fish I can. With NO FUCKING ROOM TO MOVE. My legs barely fit between the shit behind me and the tanks... and I'm a really, really skinny guy. So I start with a siphon; easy, no mess, not fucking disgusting. But siphons are fucking slooooooow. The remaining fish are dying. I know that because I can see them sluggishly swim to the surface and try to breathe air every few minutes. They're literally suffocating on their own shit. So I start heaving buckets of this nasty ass fish shit soup into the floor drain. And it gets fucking EVERYWHERE because there's no room to move around. All over my clothes. Fortunately, my outer layer was water-resistant, but it still fucking reeked.

Also, she had me scoop the dead fish into a bucket of water and just leave them there because she wants to look at them. She won't be home until Saturday. Those fish are going to sit and rot for three fucking days. Oh and also she might actually have to pay the guy for them. I'm not sure about that. I fucking hope not because this whole thing has been fucking ridiculous.


on the bright side, at least now the aquariums have good filters. And I saw at least three survivors in the stock tank... though even after replacing half the water it was still too murky to tell if there were more.

[Moss]

so your mom is a fish lady

[Brill Weave]

Lots of words

Bane you're looking at this the wrong way. You moved out. She misses you. Keeping the nasty smelling shit water makes her think of you.

[Aksannyi]

The parking lot at work is flooded. My shoes are soaked through. I'm currently barefoot at work and my shoes are sitting in front of a (rather loud) fan so that they can dry, and I hope they don't take all day because I have to pee and there's no way I'm going to the bathroom barefoot.

[Quixon]

just pay attention to what you buy as some have holes in them which I've never found them to work the way they are supposed to (supposed to let clean litter filter down, and dirty stay on the liner, but it just means small bits of pee/poop still get filtered).

Also...you lock your cat up during the day?

I have an Australian Shepard. He herds the cat back into the bathroom if he leaves the general vicinity the dog has designated as the "Cats Area". I have a baby gate up so the cat isn't bothered when we aren't home. The cat can get over if he wants, the dogs can't. This cat is a wimp though, he's just content chillin in the bathroom sleeping all day. All he needs to do is swat the dog once or twice and he'd be fine, my dog wouldn't identify him as a herding target then lol. My moms cat is like that, and he leaves the cat alone for the most part.

[Quixon]

Fish Tank Issues

I have a 100 Gallon Custom Built Reef Tank that I'm selling this spring for fucking pennies on the dollar because I'm done with cleaning it and maintaining. Nothing smells worse than water change water, I could imagine how bad it must have smelled with 20x the amount of fish waste that should have been in there.

Why the hell did she agree to take all the fish without the right conditions to keep them alive? They would have been better off outside hoping the tank there was deep enough to not freeze.

I'd love to see their electric bill lol.

[Coren]

First world problem: I get my hair cut/trimmed every 3 weeks. Was supposed to go last thursday, but I got stuck on a day-trip out of town for work. Now my barber is out of town for a week and a half. I feel like a mop.

[Cliron]

First world problem:

Woke up late for work all groggy. Flicking through facebook as I do in the morning when I notice this:

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article...5#.UxixJvmwLYg

15$. Screening of Game of Throne's season 4 premiere, two weeks before everywhere else in the world at the Barclay Centre....and the tickets only came out to the public this morning!

I think 'Great! A small pleasant surprise that makes me a bit appreciative of living in NYC given all the crap I have to endure here'.

LOL No.

Tickets sold out to AMEX customers the day before they were released to the public. On StubHub there are some tickets for $5000.

[Silenka]

To all you people with the weird food phobias... how do you operate in a buffet setting? Is it fine because it's not technically someone else's plate (instead it's a communal food stash), or do you avoid them like the plague?

I love Chinese buffets. Chinese food is delicious. I don't have a problem with anything at a buffet except I often worry about seafood sitting out for a long time because of the absolutely terrible food poisoning you can get from it. But I've never been sick from one yet and all you can eat shrimp and crab legs (the one near my parent's house has this) is a pretty fucking good deal for 10 bucks. When the Chinese buffet where I'm currently living closed down I almost cried, it was so nice to spend 8 bucks and get meal as big as I wanted.

I'm not really keen on other kinds of buffets though. I rarely go to them and Western food buffets tend not to have their food changed out as often from what I've seen. The food tends to be much dryer as well - most Chinese food is fried in oil or sits in some kind of liquid sauce which keeps it moist or at worst, a bit soggy, but food at other buffets tends to get very hard and chewy which is way worse.

[Moss]

this commercial exists

nsfl

Spoiler: show

the fucking screencap says it all. the worst.