There's a twitter hash tag I quite like - #firstworldproblem or varients thereon. It does something to take the edge of a twitter complaint - acknowledging that these are the peculiar problems of an enormously lucky group of people living in a technologically enabled world.
And, though there's not really a complaint in this, I had something in that spirit happen yesterday. I was in the States and got an automated fraud prevention call from Visa. The robot lady talked me through authentication etc, with the occasional text-to-speech generated interjection for my name or date of birth. Then, as it ran through my transactions to make sure they were valid I found I had no clue what the first one was. Couldn't make it out at all. Then I finally decoded it - it was an English-trained robot trying to pronounce Le Pain Quotidien, and failing. That's a #firstworldproblem.
