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. How bountiful your whimsical bitterness is! Nothing says, untwist those knickers like a good dose of bitter. Nice to meet you Bitter Ben. I’m annoying AnnMarie (at least that’s what my kids claim when I tell them to clean their rooms!)
    AnnMarie
    I look forward to perusing your bitter bites of life 😉

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  2. LOL- I have the belief that thoughts manifest reality- bad thoughts, bad stuff happens, like a domino effect if you will…this is freaking funny. 🙂

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  8. Holy hell you are bitter but I dig it. I have been a passionate ranter of all the stupid shit around me for years, I quite enjoy complaining about what is begging to be complained about. I respect the snark, sarcasm and complaining nature of your bitter. I am inspired to continue on my venture to smart ass royalty and I look forward to reading your bitterness. If you are ever in need of more snark my blog is always open sir.

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  9. I’m too young for this bitter business. And GIFs. If I’d known your blog was a GIF fest, I would never have followed you. Now that I’ve followed I am 1. too lazy to unfollow 2. too masochistic to unfollow 3. too curious to unfollow and 4.

    THANKS FOR MAKING ME FEEL LIKE A CROTCHETY OLD MAN.

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  13. Hello Bitter Ben Thanks for liking a post and nice meeting ya! I like this blog on my bitter days. I am kind of bitter now because of job hunting and it’s a long story Well thank you…This blog should make an Lemon cry:)

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  19. Congrats on your 300th post! I’m not sure what scale measures bitterness accurately, but I hope after another 2 years that psychologists will create a bitterness scale especially for you.

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  20. Thanks for liking my first ever blog post! 🙂 I know the exclamation point and smiley face probably make me seem like a non-bitter person. But trust me, I’m bitter. Man, am I bitter. And to prove it, I liked this “About” post. Plus, after I send this comment, I’m going to follow your blog. But only when I’m feeling overly bitter, which is usually every day after work.

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  23. Hello Bitter Ben – I happened by to check you out after you stopped by my blog – thanks for stopping!! Can’t say “bitterness” is something I knowingly imbibe in but you make it sound kinda funny – I look forward to reading more of you.

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      • Riddle? Clearly you don’t obsessively re-read your fan mail as some have been known to do. On December 5, marlab675 thanked you for occasionally visiting her blog, the “occasionally” causing much merriment for you and your disciples in the ensuing replies. You occasionally visit my blog as well.(As you did yesterday.) I didn’t want to be too effusive in my thanks. Now there’s something really to be bitter about.

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      • Ben

        I am deeply very bitter tonight; had to discover today that my Stockbroker was happily dealing for himself in my account. I shall never trust one of them again. What do I do now? Shall I give him enough rope to hang himself [proverbially speaking] or should I do the right thing and go break both his legs and arms before I kill him? IkeJ

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  27. Oh Lordy Bitter Ben–I just love your bitter honesty! you liked my post this a.m. and that’s how I ended up checking out your blog–I gotta Follow so I have some place to go and be bitter too! Lol!

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    • This a safe haven to come and be really bitter without being judged by those so-called “nice” people or “upbeat” people or those “optomistic” people. Then when you feel better you can go back and cope better with people like that.

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  29. Never been to Seattle. But have you been to Americus GA? It was my Home away from Home and where I parked my Motorhome. I travelled 37 States with Jakkie [that was her name, Fleetwood Jamboree 24 footer] but always gravitated back to Georgia.

    They shot the movie ‘To Dance with the White Dog’ there some years ago. I still think it is one of the most beautiful places on earth. There is nothing nowhere like early spring in Americus when the dogwoods are in bloom.

    They named me Americoon [long story] and I bought my fudge in the Desoto nuthouse on the 280 W.

    Now residing in South Africa, the Deepest South on earth.

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  30. Hi Ben, Thanks for liking my post. I enjoyed reading your blog, and had a good chuckle. Despite what you read on my blog, I too hold a lot of bitterness in me! Keep bitter blogging!

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  31. From whence in the World cometh a man so bitter
    Where is the place of his abode?

    Is he sane or will he fight by my side when I attack
    For sure I shall when the odds are stacked.

    Forward bitterman and let it never be said that the skulked away when the enemy arrived to take our land.

    Ike Jakson is fighten’ the big ones, the loathsome and the hordes of darkness for the little man.

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  36. Hi Ben – thanks for the like! But you’re fantastically organized blog is making me bitterly jealous of course. I just started blogging Jan 1 and still have no idea what I’m doing so I can appreciate the effort required to sustain your bitterness. My hat’s off to you (bitterly so of course). See you around!

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  37. Since I’ve retired, I’m less bitter about certain things – like co-workers and bad drivers on the way to and from work.

    However, I think I’ve replaced, and probably added to, the range (and maybe the depth) of bitterness at life in general just from having to deal with all those people I run into now because I’m not working any more. That and being on FaceBook and getting certain feeds from “friends”. I think I am also bitter about not understanding why people use Twitter.

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  42. Your blog reminded me of the old nursery rhyme

    Betty Botter bought some butter;
    “But,” said she, “this butter’s bitter!
    If I put it in my batter
    It will make my batter bitter.
    But a bit of better butter
    Will but make my batter better.”
    Then she bought a bit of butter
    Better than the bitter butter,
    Made her bitter batter better.
    So ´twas better Betty Botter
    bought a bit of better butter.

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  43. My old mans name was Ben and I can say without reservation he was a lot more bitter than you are Bitter Ben. I still have the dents to my head to prove it.
    Pass my blog around to your friends if you are not bitter toward them.
    Best wishes

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  46. I laughed so hard at this, Ben, that I was crying. Ah, bitterness. I can so much identify, although something tells me you have moved on from your bitterness in spirit. Sorry it took me so long to check your site, but I’m busy reformatting DBB and starting a second blog. Heck, I’m bitter just about the excuses I make. Laughing out loud. I’m so glad I finally visited. Just wanted you to know that I am slowly working through my bitterness, but the journey might take a lifetime. After all, I don’t want to be bitter about giving up my bitterness. I’ve got to give it some real thought. Peace, my friend. I’m going to check out a few more of your blogs and then I’ve got to get back to writing. It’s 3:30 p.m. here in Myrtle Beach and I haven’t written much today. Of course I’m bitter about that to. I’ll be back. I need all the laughs I can get. Rob H.

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  47. Hi Ben, looks like we’re fellow travelers, or at least fellow complainers 😉 I’m also into bitching on my blog. Thanks for stopping by, I’m glad you liked my post on the corny jokes. At least that was one that wasn’t ranting about anything 🙂 Hope you’ll stop by again some time.

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