gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Eee that wur nothin, when I wur a lad.....
Meta - Moaning: Moaning about moaning.
- Thread starter roubaixtuesday
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Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
Ajax Bay
Guru
- Location
- East Devon
Permit me to moan about people moaning that being called an 'outlier' (you are, in pedal spanner use frequency terms) is "being moaned at". People (well you) might appreciate that a statistical description of a behaviour on one end of the spectrum is not a 'moan', it's a statistical term 'outlier': you are infering a perjorative moeaning - I discourage this.
Sidenote: She went to her LBS and they took off the pedal.
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- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Aha - my opportunity to moan about moaning (and the hypocrisy of some moaning) arises.
It irks me that some examples of racial sterotyping provoke no reaction from those acutely attuned to such things, whereas others are subject to nigh on immediate hair trigger responses that moan about the morality of people making such remarks.
Ajax Bay
Guru
- Location
- East Devon
I'm rather afraid that this thread will never need to be made a 'sticky'.
My compliments to the OP: @roubaixtuesday
My compliments to the OP: @roubaixtuesday
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
I was going to attempt and be very clever by constructing a humorous label for the 'moan gene' from the three letter symbols for amino acids in the human genome, but I am not smart enough.
I can concoct a number of examples from the single letter symbols but I fear they will not get past the swear filter on here.
Table 3:
https://www.genenames.org/files/PMID11944974.pdf
matticus
Guru
I think I strongly agree with this. (But there is a trace of doubt that I have actually understood it properly => did not press Like.)Aha - my opportunity to moan about moaning (and the hypocrisy of some moaning) arises.
It irks me that some examples of racial sterotyping provoke no reaction from those acutely attuned to such things, whereas others are subject to nigh on immediate hair trigger responses that moan about the morality of people making such remarks.
matticus
Guru
What I don't understand is ... people who start statements with "What I don't understand is ..."
Of course it's always the start of a moan. Always about someone who doesn't act the same as they do. You have 2 choices:
- Ignore them. (Possibly with a sort of happy "Huh!" noise)
- Consider the behaviour they describe; explain why the person(s) might do what they do, as their circumstances/experiences/knowledge/resources may differ from Fred's.
NEVER pick the 2nd option!!! Life is too short. If these people actually WANTED to understand these situations, they would have made the (tiny) effort themselves.
Of course it's always the start of a moan. Always about someone who doesn't act the same as they do. You have 2 choices:
- Ignore them. (Possibly with a sort of happy "Huh!" noise)
- Consider the behaviour they describe; explain why the person(s) might do what they do, as their circumstances/experiences/knowledge/resources may differ from Fred's.
NEVER pick the 2nd option!!! Life is too short. If these people actually WANTED to understand these situations, they would have made the (tiny) effort themselves.
Or the third option, just accept that not everyone likes the same things as you and get on with your own life.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
"Stop moaning" they said, "things could be worse."
So I stopped moaning.
Things got worse.
So I stopped moaning.
Things got worse.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
And they will eat your hat. I’m always weary of a goat eating my hat after reading it in my Thomas the tank engine books.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
I had a goat try to eat my saddle once
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Bloody goats!
