I'm sitting in my office watching some stupid fat mare I work with harping on about her holiday. She has just come back from NZ, having been there a month. She has literally been in the office for 3 hours and, instead of delighting us with travel stories, has gone on and on and on and on about delayed flights, rude service, stringent searches (we haven't even REACHED NZ yet) and dirty airports.
Is this an English trait? Do we really relish wallowing in the bad and push the good to the backs of our minds as a nation?
WHY????
I didn't know horses could talk.
Soph,
The English do seem to complain a lot more than other nationality groups in general.
Are you complaining about being English?
khao suay rodney, khao suay
Why on earth should the 'English' be any more 'rubbish' than any other foreign nation?Aren't the English Rubbish
The lady in question is most likely just a moaner or on the rags :smile:
Soph... but those are the good parts, especially the stringent (body) searches
And here I was, thinking that bitching about little things were a Danish trait.... ah, no, there it is... bitching about EVERYTHING is the Danish trait....
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Bloody Hell! It can't be that difficult!
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Originally Posted by mangoedout
Are you complaining about being English?
Oh my god you GOT me!!! You see we are.
But then I just put it down to it being a choice between listening to her or ramming anHB pencil up my nose and ending it all. What a day.
Man Walks Into A Room Marked "Complaints"
Man: I want to complain.
Man In Charge: You want to complain ... look at these shoes ... I've only had them three weeks and the heels are worn right through.
Man: No, I want to complain about ...
Man In Charge: If you complain nothing happens ... you might just as well not bother. My back hurts and ... (the man exits)
that's what you get for complaining after an unsatisfactory argument...
"Goddamn it Lord, bless oh ye this bacon..."
George Liquor American
It's a common trait across cultures--people want sympathy for the things that annoyed them, so they complain even when they probably had more good experiences than bad. Further, people who carry on about good experiences (especially about things others may not have had a chance to do) are generally resented as "showing off" which also encourages people to focus on the bad before they focus on the good.
- Reg
reg, thats a good post, but, u aint taking into consideration that the poor gal had to endure a whole month amongst kiwis, i mean that must have caused nitemares, waking up every morning and looking out of her window wondering whether there would be more naked males chasing sheep that day, im suprised that the poor gal hasnt been put into a mental home after those sort of experiences, i for one say thank god for the resillience of english women...
Oh, that's just the folk down in Te Kuiti. Can't blame them really--bugger all else to do there.
- Reg
They don't call em Britards for nothing!
they dont call them britards at all, dipshit
But yes complaining is the god given right of the chosen people, we didnt conquer the world to hand it over to the Americans who let it all turn to shite
Serial Wolf Bagger
But how can you say that?. After all it is Americans who improved and expanded the English language. Just watch howpathetic BBC is and you'll see what I mean. I mean after all, why do you think only Britards work for Elite Institute and all the other worthless teaching agencies around Thailand?
dont know i dont teach, though the only teachers ive met from elite were north american or antipodean
Improved the language
recieved pronunciation> ebonics
BBC > CNN
the defence rests your honour
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