Meta - Moaning: Moaning about moaning.

[randynewmanscat]

Truth is, people who moan in old age, moaned in their youth. Pretty sure they have now identified the moan gene 🧬.

Yes but they have refined it by old age. I note that moaning type pensioners like Battenberg but don't like drafts.
They should focus on the Battenberg.

 

[randynewmanscat]

I am going to suggest that the question mark ends the sentence. If I am correct you should have spelled "it" with a capital letter. Also those full stops are superfluous.

Strong puncto and grammar nazi there Rusty.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Fair cop, gov.

But societies to blame.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yes but they have refined it by old age. I note that moaning type pensioners like Battenberg but don't like drafts.
They should focus on the Battenberg.

There has been some recent research. Repeatedly moaning causes the moan gene to under biogenesis , producing many copies of itself. It replicates at the speed of light and becomes permanently switched on in every cell.

In effect the moan muscle gets stronger and fitter through exercising it.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Yes but they have refined it by old age. I note that moaning type pensioners like Battenberg but don't like drafts.
They should focus on the Battenberg.

But societies to blame.

I'm resisting the urge.....

And I hate bloody Battenbergs.

 

[randynewmanscat]

I'm resisting the urge.....

And I hate bloody Battenbergs.

Embrace the Battenberg, the sight of it is preferable to seeing the reaper.

 

[Noodle Legs]

Moaning about what, or who really gets to you?

Anything British. Culture and people. We literally are a nation of moaners. Social media, work, tv, family, (and let’s not forget the classic weather rant) there’s no escape from it and it’s quite sad really. At some point even the easiest going person gets sucked in, it’s contagious. Hell, even the fact I’m posting this is proof of the pudding! It seems we’d much rather moan about something and/or make some passive aggressive comment or action than tackle whatever is bugging us head on, being direct and moving on. I’ve never known a country so negative about anything and everything. Small wonder I find myself withdrawing from society.

 

[Randomnerd]

I thought I would pop into the thread and see what is happening. It doesnt look that moany in here. I could have a moan about it not being quite as moany as I would have liked, but I am by nature more of a ranter than a moaner.

Looks like a decent bunch of folk though. And I like what you’ve done with the flooring. Is that a sea buckthorn room mist I can smell? Nice…

My observations, for what it’s worth. Discussion is at your discretion, obviously. Or you could just sit there and chunter under your breath:

• Old people moan, it seems, at a much greater rate than the median aged mass. Does death’s relative imminence induce a moan-stirring eddy?
• Early retired men appear high on the Moan Index: this thing or that thing isn’t quite right about the air damper on the Audi, or those marigolds are quite orange-coloured. Will joining a parish council committee help them deal, or should psychotherapy be administered? Are the two treatments mutually exclusive? I’m seeing a business opportunity.
• Moaning is more infectious and deadly than Variant Delta. The moanee spreads more moans with every interaction, until, like the whole “butterfly wing theory“, somewhere, a crazed gunman kills nine innocent people in a drive-by. It all began somewhere else with a misery-dump focussing on the restricted supply of ten speed rear mechs from Japan.
• An anti-moan serum has been invented. Namely, objective reality. That stuff, out there. Look. The world is good. Amazing even.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

For Gawds sake, is this thread still going

 

[Ajax Bay]

I came across this quote from the theologian, the late Jonathan Sacks who put it thus (adapted): "Be a night rider, not a moaner. Switch your front light on, don’t curse the darkness".

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Thread resurrection inspired by the current incessant whining about thread titles

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/who-let-this-noisy-rabble-in.301820/page-13#post-7432015

Bah!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Thread resurrection inspired by the current incessant whining about thread titles

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/who-let-this-noisy-rabble-in.301820/page-13#post-7432015

Bah!

Oh yeah, that.

Just let it be I say. Everything will sort itself out eventually anyway.

 

[markemark]

It’s better than the non descriptive short titles. One was just “Oh No” the other day. These are far more self indulgent as you have no idea what they’re about.

 

[T4tomo]

BBC in

Oh God, the pedal thread... I posted what I thought was a reasonably uncontroversial comment (that my pedal spanner sees a lot of use and it's worth having one) and I see I've been summoned to be moaned at as an "outlier"! I'm therefore done with that thread. It's not a hissy fit or anything, I just can't be bothered debating. People have opposite views, that's fine.

I tend to do that a lot, if someone invites comment, advice, or opinion, then I'll share mine. I'll go back once or twice maybe to see whether there were agreements / disagreements, and then I'm generally done and I don't go back. Life is hard enough already without getting dragged into internet arguments and moan-athons. Some people here could argue and moan in an empty room and some of the big threads have seen the same people arguing for months... I don't know how they do it.

I see a lot of value in having a pedal spanner in the shed! 🔧

 

[gbb]

We all like a moan now and then but at the shops yesterday I was stood next to a young lady on her phone and she was saying to someone on the other end..
'Well if it doesn't effect me in a positive way...I'm not really that interested tbh'

And I thought, good on ya, that's the way I try to operate. My wife is terrible for getting wound up about other people's problems and I've found myself saying...why are you bothered, all you're doing is upsetting yourself over something that doesn't even effect you...what's the point of that ?

At least try to stay positive and happy...and of course, some people like that young lady, actively push away negativity. Best way to be in my book