JCC Extinct First World Problems

Saber-tooth tigers, though, as IRD adverted to, are extinct. If they were not, they would be within the classification of a first world problem because they would be more awesome than Chuck Norris. Therefore they comply with the prerequisites set out in the thread title: extinct first world problems.

 

Being unable to get to your favorite store because there's a huge crowd around a pair of breakdancers.

 

Having to wait to use an arcade game cause some guy that was really good and lots of quarters was still playing after an hour.

 

Having your entire family accused of witchcraft by the Puritans and then burned to the steak.

 

Not knowing the definition of "First World" and its origins.


Mmmmmm.... steak.

 

Caller ID and the ability to star 69 redial has made prank calling a thing of the past.

Why do you think The Simpsons dropped the whole Bart prank-calling Moe's Bar thing by the mid-90s?

 

Because the writers used to know when a joke had run its course?

 

Besides which, they're still quite abundant. Only now, rather than being a one-off event, they can spawn whole "playing on my phone" feuds, as the Chappelle Show once referenced. The fact that he was able to base a whole skit on the concept, demonstrates its continued cultural relevance.

 

New goal: prank call wocky

 

When I was a boy, one of my classmates in primary school used to prank call the entire grade on the evening that the school directory was published. It was a pretty grand tradition. I still remember the year he used "Do you have a closet?" on me.

 

Having to ask around your friends (or write a letter to a magazine) for the solution when stuck in a video game.

 

Fixed.

 

I remember 11 year old me being incredibly excited that one of our family friends managed to help me out with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis as he had ISDN. I had been stuck for a year.

 

These passenger pigeons are everywhere!

 

Do you recall where you were stuck?

 

Yes because it's terribly embarrassing. At the temple in central America. I couldn't work out to distract him with Sonja so I could steal his lantern.

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I used to ring the operator and ask to speak to Buzby

 

Yeah, that too.

 

i went to safeway today for the first time in years. there was still a little video store inside the safeway. and the person in front of me paid with a check! it was ****ing weird.

 

Sierra On-Line (!!!!) had a call in line for hints. I remember using it for Space Quest V.

 

Having to answer the phone in your house only to realize it's a call for someone else and you have to get them or take a message.

 

I'm worried that my favorite spot (outdoor, at the far right corner of the building) at my favorite hookah/cigar lounge will be occupied by others when I arrive there later this night, and thus will have to sit at a less than desirable location.