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A common euphemism used when a situation, product, or life event is fundamentally broken, glitched, or "not what you ordered." Used to express a mix of absurdity and frustration when reality fails to meet basic logic.
You meet a first world problem like a drink in a bottle that is not the right shape for you so you could simply say "Why is my ice cream green? " as things are not exactly as you wanted. Basically it replaces "This is not what I asked for".
by Eric Altman January 20, 2026
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