Life is too short

guitarfishbay

Sporky said:

mudslide73 said:

Moaning about stuff is very cathartic - in a world that's impossible to change and nobody listens it's all I have left.  

Moaning is fine once, after that you need to do something about it.

Does moaning again count?

Flink_Poyd

Like most things on here you take them with a pinch of salt. I have a load of spare sachets from KFC @SonicScythe if you want some, PPG only and buyer to collect 

dindude

One mans moan is another mans discussion.

There is a however good deal of negativity on here at times, times when I almost crave a bit of good old fashioned American style enthusiasm to go with the very British cynicism. 

But my threshold and interpretation of it will be different to the next, so I just walk away from the thread when I want to. 

I do spend less time on here at the moment, largely because I found myself arguing points with people I've never met and really don't care about their opinion on. Surely that is madness itself!

mudslide73

So once I've moaned once I have to take direct action for change to occur? That sounds a bit heavy. Life is to short for that imo.

Sporky

mudslide73 said:

So once I've moaned once I have to take direct action for change to occur? That sounds a bit heavy. Life is to short for that imo.

You don't have to - I'm not your mum (as far as I know).

But moaning over and over isn't terribly good for your happiness. And there's evidence that moaning at all - even just an initial venting - isn't very healthy. Doing stuff is much better for you.

mudslide73

My Mom would just moan about it tbh. 

CHRISB50

If life is too short, don't read it. 

ThePrettyDamned

Sporky said:

mudslide73 said:

So once I've moaned once I have to take direct action for change to occur? That sounds a bit heavy. Life is to short for that imo.

You don't have to - I'm not your mum (as far as I know).

But moaning over and over isn't terribly good for your happiness. And there's evidence that moaning at all - even just an initial venting - isn't very healthy. Doing stuff is much better for you.

I agree with this. 

But I love moaning. I follow a similar rule - if I moan about something, then again, and it actually *does* affect me, it's time to change it. If I moan, but it's something that really isn't relevant to me, I put it in a mental bin. 

Refreshingly quite simple, although it doesn't feel like it should be and it does take practice. My life in the last year has turned around in a really big way, and although I'm still struggling through, I do feel like there is a light at the end. 

With that said, why on earth have a forum if not to discuss what we like or don't like? 

SonicScythe

monquixote said:

You are the one posting a whinge thread.

I'm just the poor sap who has to clean up after people who don't know which section to post in.

1. Again, you can't read.

2. Wibble.

SonicScythe

Wazmeister said:

SonicScythe said:

monquixote said:

So in summary you created a whinge thread to explain that people shouldn't create whinge threads?

Also moved to ot

Can you not read?

SonicScythe said:

And yes I'm fully away that it seems like *I'm* having a moan here, but I don't feel like I am, I just want to point something out that you can agree or disagree with, whatever.

Not the most endearing response though to one of our mods...

Well, no but his response to the OP was hardly endearing either, so yeah...

Budgie

SonicScythe said:

monquixote said:

You are the one posting a whinge thread.

I'm just the poor sap who has to clean up after people who don't know which section to post in.

1. Again, you can't read.

2. Wibble.

Is this the five minute argument you're engineering or the full hour?

SonicScythe

Apparently my posts need approving now because some moderator was disagreed with, so on that note I'll leave you folk to it (if this goes through) Thanks to the people that understand what I was trying to achieve.

Bridgehouse

SonicScythe said:

Apparently my posts need approving now because some moderator was disagreed with, so on that note I'll leave you folk to it (if this goes through) Thanks to the people that understand what I was trying to achieve.

Oi, I have exclusivity on flouncing at the moment, thankyouverymuch.

Flink_Poyd

I suggest renaming Off Topic to Having A Moan

57Deluxe

MOAM

dindude

Phewee, that was close, we almost had a newcomer! As you were lads.

57Deluxe

MOAM

Deijavoo

Here was me expecting a thread about the futility of life, the finite nature of such pointlessness. 

I sort of got it, I think. 

kaypeejay

I really enjoyed that. Thanks very much OP. 

Fretwired

Flink_Poyd said:

I suggest renaming Off Topic to Having A Moan

Meldrew corner would be better ....