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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #510 on: August 13, 2017, 07:29:06 AM »
  I just cleaned my toilet last night and now it's too pretty to pee in.  :'(
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #511 on: August 13, 2017, 07:30:05 AM »
My shower brush and my new shower curtain are contrasting shades of blue.  They look dumb together.  :'(
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #512 on: August 13, 2017, 09:05:13 AM »
^ You shouldn't have to live like that. I don't think people care enough these days.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #513 on: August 13, 2017, 03:00:47 PM »
^ You shouldn't have to live like that. I don't think people care enough these days.

  I know!  I had to clean the toilet myself!  :'(
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #514 on: August 31, 2017, 07:13:27 AM »
  I wanted to buy a couple of bananas in the supermarket yesterday, but all the ripe ones were gone.  :'(
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #515 on: August 31, 2017, 12:35:57 PM »
Can't really be arsed with the 5 hour drive to Cornwall on Saturday morning.  Think I might have to fly instead as it's 40 minutes in the air.  It's tough being me.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #516 on: August 31, 2017, 12:58:52 PM »
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #517 on: August 31, 2017, 06:05:51 PM »
I fel almost gulity for contributing to this mis-named thread, knowing , as i do that millions of Brits are starving and/or cold and/or living on the streets because they're just to poor to buy all the essentials. And I don't suppose it's any different in the USA, or anywhere else in the developed world.

Being poor in a rich country is no better than being poor in a poor country, methinks. It just means that you could manage very nicely if you could only  take your insufficient income somewhere else and live on it there, instead.    Yet   somehow, you still participate in that collective guilt for being one of the overpriveged. If you're botn in Britain then you're alright, Jack. Others will literally  kill themselves trying to get here.

Oh, and we;'re more likely to possess some second-hand electronic junk than people in some countries do. and a power supply to run it on, if wecan only  can afford to keep the meter fed.

I'm not grumbling for myself here. I'm OK, at present.  Far from wealth, but not doing without anything that matters.  just saying, it's not really a question of where you live, but how close you are to the bottom of the heap in whatever place you're living in.




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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #518 on: September 01, 2017, 01:00:03 AM »
It sucks waiting for hot water to come out of the hot tap.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #519 on: September 01, 2017, 02:26:08 PM »
It sucks waiting for hot water to come out of the hot tap.

Tell me about it the shower in our upstairs bathroom takes over a minute
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #520 on: September 01, 2017, 08:37:44 PM »
It sucks waiting for hot water to come out of the hot tap.
Tell me about it the shower in our upstairs bathroom takes over a minute
So annoying. Our kitchen tap is especially bad.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #521 on: September 02, 2017, 03:05:18 AM »
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #522 on: September 06, 2017, 03:59:33 AM »
The car rental place didn't have the car I reserved.  I had to drive a brand new Audi A3 Sport around all week.  This country is feral.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #523 on: September 06, 2017, 05:45:53 AM »
  There is no breakfast buffet waiting for me in my apartment when I get up.  :'(
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #524 on: September 07, 2017, 04:08:08 PM »
  There is no breakfast buffet waiting for me in my apartment when I get up.  :'(

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