This "oooh that's such a first world problem" malarky

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is it just me that finds it a little bit wanky as a stand alone comment then?
It's just started mushrooming a bit and is rather getting on ones tits.

sorry.

You are kind of illustrating the first world problem concept with this post aren't you.

But yes it's a bit wanky and old hat too.

Just people trying to sound clever and all aware and concerned.

It's wanky. If I want to be upset about broken biscuits, I will be.

Yes, it's taken over from 'is that all you have to worry about?' nicely, hasn't it?
Bit wanky alright.

Sorry, but until tou have lived a little in a country with big issues and seen it first hand, you would understand ....

yes....but posting it seriously in regards to a obviously intentionally trite comment, makes it seem wanky.

And tis the mushrooming of it, it's everywhere.

I'm not sure why people bother posting it - if they have weightier matters on their minds why do they even read the OP and then take the time to comment

You'll know when it has gotten out of hand when you find it quoted on a tea towel/wall canvas/carved letters.

Sorry, but until tou have lived a little in a country with big issues and seen it first hand, you would understand

I think we 'understand' anyway and it's still wanky.

it's a pathetically passive-aggressive comment

Yes, it is stoopid and unnecessary to post

Really??? You may understand and can pass comment but that it just because you can have an opinion ....

What?

reminds me of my colleague saying 'i'd much rather be an ethiopian, they must be happier even though they are poor because they don't have any personal debt'

I was

No, no debt but no food or clean water either...div

Really??? You may understand and can pass comment but that it just because you can have an opinion

Well yes

And anyone who has lived a little in a country with big issues, would still sound wanky to post 'That's such a first world problem' on internet discussion forums.

It's tantamount to telling someone there are kids starving in Africa because they're full up and can't finish their dinner.

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I think that's why I have issues

If the Op posts AIBU to put Scampi Fries in my Jam Sandwich?

Than respond to that.

If you put "Oh FWP op "

when you've clicked on the title and wasted time reading it, than surely that is even more of a FWP in that you seek out the trite to point it out

Its a paradox of inconsequentialness surely?

I always have a sneaking suspicion people post it to infer they are some higher meaningful sentient plane that the rest of us

and others just post it to try and cause bunfightiness.

also, do you honestly think that people living subsistence lives don't gossip and bitch about their neighbours? They just don't do it on the internet!

It makes me think of people who ask someone with depression "well what have you got to be so upset about, pull yourself together"

Its for showing off.
Its for saying 'I am so much more politically aware than you are'
It is most often said by people who have very little experience of either first or third world problems (and yes I have said it before but Gap Year Gawping doesnt count)

It can be an apt putdown but it is usually an irrelvant snipe and almost only ever used by someone behind a computor screen.

It is the up to date equivilent of 'Oh I wish that is all I had to worry about'

In short - YANBU

Oh I've missed this particular put down. But I may be able to top trump it in a real life situation. Couple adopting from a non-UK/US country at the end of a very very long process finally resulting in a court appearance for the adoption.

Judge "why do you want to adopt from XXX"
Couple "Because we've always wanted to help a third world country"
Judge "this is not a third world country - permission denied" Gavel. End of adoption

Mind you he was right because

a) it isn't a third world country
b) anyone adopting to help a country needs to take a harder look at thier motives for the childs sake.

But still , no doubt 2-3 years down the drain.

they got through all the whole process and hadnt realised that you dont say stuff like that?!

It raises a good point though - how many countries actually want to be referred to as third world.

I thought developing country was better. But I suppose 'oh that is such a developed country problem' is not as pithy and emotive.

"Sorry, but until tou have lived a little in a country with big issues and seen it first hand, you would understand ...."

I have lived in a country with big issues, providing medical care to people with nothing, and I don't understand this petty, belittling attitude to others' concerns. Everyone has problems, big and small. It doesn't take away from the fact that other people also have problems, also big and small.

'living a little' in a developing country doesnt make anyone an expert in the problems placed by its resident population

It makes someone an onlooker.

I just think if something is a problem- it's a problem, first world, third world, other world, a problem causes suffering to the mind of the person experiencing it, compassion is deserved by any one who is suffering.
YADNBU

"they got through all the whole process and hadnt realised that you dont say stuff like that?!" nope - of course the judge could equally have denied them on the basis that anyone who said such a thing to an official of the country may well be considered too stupid to be a parent.