About

Greetings Bitter People of the Internet Blogosphere.  Bitter Ben here from First World Problemia.  I have a complaining-about-first-world-problems problem and people at work started noticing so they started calling me Bitter Ben.  A long time ago, I learned in marketing that you should find a need and fill it.  I started noticing that a lot of people like to complain about little things, but they felt ashamed to do it, because they felt like they were being petty.  So I came up with the idea to start a 900 line (1-900-BITR-BEN), where people could call and complain about all the little things that drove them crazy, but the twist was that the Customer Service Rep could also complain back.  This would not only allow all the complainers to get it out of their systems, but the call would be longer and I would get more money.  This lead me to come up with my tag line, “We make bitter better.”  That idea failed because of a number of reasons, so instead I did the next best thing.  Start a blog with the same mission.  For free.  For now.  But someday, you will be eating in Bitter Themed Restaurants, reading Bitter themed novels, and wearing bitter oversized T-shirts.  Everytime you hear someone say bitter you will think of me or this blog and you will pay a fee just for thinking about it.

So for now, jump into this safe bitter filled environment, where you are free to complain as bitterly as you like.  No matter how petty, all bitterness is free to roam these wide open bitter halls, or meadows if you prefer. Comment the heck out of every post, because you can be sure I will comment right back with more bitterness.  Let’s “Make Bitter Better”.

Bitter Ben

 

A picture of the real Bitter Me.

A picture of the real Bitter Me.

Some Bitter Posts to get you started:

The two posts that miraculously got Freshly Pressed:

41 things I’m Bitter About

Bitter Reasons to be Tall 

Some other Popular Bitter Posts:

42 Things I’m Bitter About

Face Punching Friday Giftures

The Struggle Bus

Bitterness for Dummies

Ninja Bitterness

And a few of my Bitter Favorites:

Guardians of the Bendrameda Galaxy

The Four Chambers of my Bitter Heart

Surviving Work Disasters Bitterness

From the Bitter Benzoac Era to the Bitter Twitter Era

Don’t forget to follow the Bitterness elsewhere:

 

Bitter Twitter

Bitter Facebook

Bitter Tumblr

Bitter Instagram

 

Credit to Michelle of Life as I Know It for this cartoon version of me.

Credit to Michelle of Life as I Know It for this cartoon version of me.

1,009 thoughts on “About”

  1. Hi Ben, Thanks for following my blog. I certainly would not want you to be bitter about me. Yours is a unique idea for a blog and for some reason I like it.

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  3. Bitter cars (con’t) – Yes Ben, there are Bitter cars and they’re both rare and yet amazingly affordable. The best website to see them is http://www.bittercars.com, or here is the url for one of mine. http://s195.photobucket.com/user/timo1938/library/1985%20Bitter%20SC/Bitter%20number%20402

    I am a very outspoken supporter of these cars and everything related to Erich Bitter. – if anybody is interested in learning about Bitter cars, please send me a note (obrienboysatgmaildotcom). I’d be happy to share and encourage your interest.

    Best regards
    Tim

    FWIW – I requested the personalized Colorado license plate “Bitter” and was rejected. so I’ve got “Bttr SC” – but “BttrBen” would certainly fit as well.

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    • I just checked with the state of Washington and it says that BITRBEN is not taken. It is almost a done deal. By the way, your revelation that there is a whole subsection of cars called Bitter Cars opened up a whole world of possibilites. I will probably be using this info for a future post.

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  4. Dear Bitter Ben. If you are looking for a sweet Bitter car – please send me an e-mail. I’m a Bitter Car fanatic and found your site while searching for the rare and remaining Bitter SC. A Bitter guy like you, needs a Bitter car. I can help you find one. – Best regards Tim

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  6. For reasons I cannot explain, I find you hilariously biting and a bit clever.
    I’m afraid it may mean that I am bitter as well.
    It’s possible.
    Either way, I’ll be back.

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    • It’s about the time you realized that you are bitter. I would like to say that I am the opposite of a motivational speaker. I bring out the bitter deep inside that people have been ignoring their whole lives and helping them embrace it.

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  9. Well Ben, 1st off thanks for stopping by my blog and giving me a “like” I do appreciate it. Myself, I am 63 and heard a lot of whining in my time, your 900 number may in fact solve many problems. Good luck in whatever direction you choose. Take care, Bill

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  12. Ben you have a great blog that makes me laugh out loud and I feel good and happy after reading your posts. I know this is not what you want to hear but I figure my warm sentiments will add to your bitterness and that should make you happy …

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    • Clearly you have not understood my mission in life. I am trying to make the whole world bitter and you are the last one left that hasn’t gone bitter. Could you go ahead and just be bitter so I don’t have to get off the couch and send my bitter attack dogs to your house and bite you with their bitter venom.

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      • Well, I could try as I don’t want to force you off your couch but I think at least one member of the human race needs to remain bitter-free if only as a nostalgic reminder of long ago bitter free days . . .

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  16. Ben! I came here to thank you for leaving the “likes” on my blog from time to time. After I arrived I said to myself, “Self, you REALLY need to follow Ben!” I always listen to myself.

    Have a bittersweet week. –John

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  20. Thank you for liking my posts. I am enjoying reading about your “bitterness” and your quirkiness. Very entertaining.

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  22. Hey BB (Bitter Ben), it’s Skinny. Here’s one for you: If you put the bitter butter with the better butter it makes the bitter butter better and the better butter bitter.
    My father said that to me at least a thousand times.
    You are a funny guy, despite the bitterness. I like reading you.

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  23. Phew! Got here in the end! All the scrolling has given me RSI!

    After deciding to take a break from the normal heartbreak blogs I usually read I was hoping for a like minded fellow bitterite (?!) but it’s just a big love in. Where is the bitterness? I’m disappointed…and a little bitter. Oh…I just got the irony…now I’m happy…or am I?!

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    • Sorry, I know my previous comment is still awaiting moderation but it’s 10am here and I have nothing better to do right now so i thought I’d share my feelings on the title of your blog. Lets face it not much thought went into ‘Ben’s Bitter Blog’ did it? I feel like it was decided upon during a session down the pub and it ended up being scribbled down on the back of a fag packet?!
      So here are my ideas for a new name :

      From Here To Bitternity
      Bitter The Devil You Know
      Getting Bitter Everyday
      It’s A Bitter Sweet Symphony That’s Life (ok, this is just a lyric but I’m boring myself now)

      At best I’ve given you some pretty good new names for your blog I think you’ll agree, at worst you’ll be glad that you opted to moderate comments and who knows I might have left you feeling bitter for taking up your time with my pointless replies in which case you should be happy…or bitter…whatever.

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      • I think you’ve mistaken me for someone who makes changes. I might change to a number of clever titles if I had ambition or goals or the desire to anything but the laziest, bitterest person.

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    • Disappointment is what I do. Disappoint my father, my family, my employer, and especially people who read this blog. Any kind of expectations you have about it will be met with disappointment and bitterness.

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  24. I had to scroll down this freakishly long line of comments to add my own. That says something about the popularity of bitterness, I suppose. Or the popularity of Ben. I guess it’s open to interpretation. Anyway, how the hell did I end up in your Bitterland? I have no idea. But I’m glad that I did, as it’s freakishly awesome in a dry, sour kind of way. I am following you now, and it’s entirely your fault if I end up losing friends. I’m known for being sweet. You’re a corrupting influence!

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    • Just so you know, once you enter Bitterland, you never get to leave. Or if you do, it requires a large fee. You’re better off just staying and becoming bitter like the rest of us.

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  28. And here I came here thinking we were going to talk about beer . . .

    Now *I’m* bitter!

    (That’s my way of saying . . . I feel conflicted because I don’t like bitterness, but I like this blog. A lot.)

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    • You should be sorry. I have so many of those pieces of cyber awards from so many people that mistake me for inspiring or German…they make me bitter. However, because you have taken the time to realize that I don’t like them and that my blog is bitter I shall award you with a bitter ,”Thanks for reading my blog and finding it worth your 10 or so seconds to read this bitter mess.”

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      • I will take that award and I’m gonna make a trophy for it that I will cherish forever. I just hope that “Thanks for reading my blog and finding it worth your 10 or so seconds to read this bitter mess” fits on a small plaque…

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  39. Thank you for checking out my site & liking it. I love your sense of bitter humor! Fits perfectly with my outlook on life. I look forward to reading & sharing more of your bitter musings.

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  41. You please write about parades. I hate them. I am not quite bitter enough to do justice to how much they suck. Don’t mean to make you more bitter by making this request. Oh wait. Maybe I do.

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    • I will think about it. I usually don’t go to parades because it involves walking and driving someplace and watching other people walk. It sounds exhausting. I might as well watch a marathon. The more that I think about it, it sounds even more like a good subject.

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    • Although my current motto is: “I never sweat on purpose,” I used to march in parades. They are a lot more fun to march in than they are to watch, especially if you are watching the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade. Yawn. That said, I could get very bitter when I had to march behind animals. Horses weren’t too bad, but you never want to get behind an elephant. Trust me on this.

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  42. Ha! I really enjoy your blog. as a bitter bartender serving a bitter clientele i find it a lot easier to just have a laugh– and if it’s ever too much to stomach bitters and soda usually does the trick! keep up the good work!

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  46. I involved you in the blogosphere’s equivalent of a chain letter by nominating you for a Liebster Award. It’s kind of a pain, but you can find details at my blog.
    I just realized you may have too many followers, but this has taken too much time already.

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  47. Hello Ben : )
    I would like to ask for your thoughts on my latest bitter posts, which explain more of my concerns about the first world. It’s not only about the infrastructure and technology, it is much graver than that.

    In your latest reply to me you mentioned: “Let’s take this first world problem thing on the road!” Well, that’s what I am doing on my blog, or at least am trying.

    Most of us tend to think that our system is flawed but friendly, it is the least of all evils and it will always adjust itself. This is a huge misconception. We are in big trouble – and I am talking about the FIRST world.
    The posts I would like you to look at are on the home page: http://familyhurts.wordpress.com/
    for now especially these two:
    “The end of capitalism 1/3: right back into the game”
    “The end of capitalism 2/3: new feudalism via a global-scale foreclosure?”
    (Today I will post the third part)

    I would like to ask for some support for this cause, both from you and from your friends/followers. You guys are brilliant and these concerns need insightful, knowledgeable and responsible people.
    Thanks a lot for your attention 🙂

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  48. A phone line for complaining. They should have put that one on Shark-Tank. Beats the guy who claimed he could make gold out of ocean water put through a hurricane-machine. People pay $100 dollars an hour to complain to a shrink who isn’t listening. This is another one of those ‘Why didn’t I think of that’?

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    • What I would do is go on the Shark Tank and insult every one of them in the deepest and most personal way. Then when each one started to rail at me, I tell them to stop and call the bitter line. They would spend hours telling me what an idiot I was and I would make millions.

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