I reckon there must be a few people blowing in here every so often who don’t also read Phantom Scribbler (poor things, so much you’ve missed out on already!) so I claim the honour and delight of passing on her invitation to participate in the Blogging Event of the Year: First Ever Whining Carnival, 21st December!
Now it’s important to note that owing to the shortness and darkness and snowiness and dampness of the season over there, Northern Hemispherean complainers have a considerable natural advantage over us in the competitive pity party stakes. But don’t let that be discouraging you. Some of the finest whines known to humanity have been lovingly nurtured iin Antipodean soils. Start cellaring up yours now.
Actually I prefer to be known as a Whinger, not a Whiner, but apart from that I suppose I can take time from my exhausting workload and drag myself to the computer. It’ll be a hassle but yeah, I guess I can think of SOMETHING to moan about. If I have to.
I mean, it’s so bloody hard to do anything these days except work work work, and you should hear the shit my boss comes out with.
And I don’t even want to talk about the pay.
Agreed, whinging sounds better. Are they the same, though?
Blog-impaired whin(g)ers are more than welcome to whin(g)e right here in this comment thread, I’ll make sure Phantom finds out about your efforts.
I don’t know Laura. Let me consult my friend, google.
there have been a few commenters here of late who would hands down but i’m not sure they’re the ones you had in mind …
who are they Jason?
I would have to be a white whine but can turn into a red whine when sunburnt
Well, after a quick google, the words both basically mean to complain, but regional nuance is a powerful thing.
Whining also means a high pitched droning noise, obvs, which is the big difference I think.
I’d say in this context, we Aussies can proudly label ourselves whingers and still be in the spirit of the carnival.
I live in hope that one day Homer will be a sparkling whine.
Not holding my breath, though.
Just so’s y’all know, “Bring Back EP” is Homer, riding his one-trick pony again.
Rob
Homer’s prose is as obvious as a beer fart in a phone booth
Nahh,
I am a fortified whine because I am well over forty
{laughing/retching} at Jason’s last….
On a smaller scale you could have cheese and whine parties.
don’t you mean cheese and whine pate’s
‘pates’,
is that when you balance cheers and whine on your head?
at out house we always have three cheers but when I whine on my head I go savignon blanc!
too many cheers can cause you to become unwhinged!
so one starts on the eat the chairs to get unwhinged bit what do you do for unwhining.
There are ssome on the long and whining road. yes that is apauling
oh, it’s not too chablis!
Oh a Whining Carnival. How pathetic. It’ll just be full of pissweak posts by little people banging on about their petty problems, complaining, complaining, complaining about why their coddled little worlds aren’t perfect which is all people seem to do these days because they just don’t know the meaning of real suffering, unlike me waking up today with a hangover the approximate size and shape of toad-infested Queensland, to the vile and infantile tunes of a mobile phone that I can’t bloody find and the racket outside of moronic truck-borne fuckwits funded by the gormless sheeplike ratepayers to perform the dance of the seven wheelie bins at random intervals, while feeling like a deep-fried turd with a mouth like a vulture’s crotch after a hot time in a dead zebra and the place reeking of whiskey, singed cat and cigarettes and nothing in the fridge but onion leather and a bowl of cold fat with a big black hair sticking out. But do you catch me whining about it? No way!
Put a cork in it, Nabs.
Let him be. He’s in the whinger of discontent.
Why isn’t there a National Day of Action against Violence Against Obnoxious Yobs who can’t hold their alcohol?
What about moi?
What about moi?
nah it isn’t discontent its dat content but only Arabs live intense.
I think a national day of action against the banning of EP
Brave and true, Commentor formerly known as Homer, stay brave and true.
Kiss me Kate listen to the Monty Python sketch called the albatross sketch
Homer flying on a whine and a prayer, as usual.
Why not?
most people here would be drinking pink fizz.
of course FXH would drink Buck’s fix!!
When you buy new shoes, your foot hurts!
As I spent most of my life in the Barossa Valley, I have become very adept at turning water into whine.
As an alcoholic, I am very adept at turning whine into water.
winston like our very own john curin or Hawkey for that matter was no alcholic
Homer - your spelling seems to have deteriorated since you changed your name. Unless there’s a pun I’m missing in “alcholic”. Just whingin…
bad spelling. I should be banned!