Moaning

[All Englands Skies]

Do English people enjoy to moan.

I was discussing this down that place of advanced British conversation (the local Pub)

Seems like we are always on a downer and moan alot, even when we go abroad and "get away from UK" alot of us still moan.

Wy though, could be much worse, starving in Africa, no tea to drink.

 

[non-religious]

I think it's a crass stereotype personally.

Moaning is universal.

Although, the amount of times I have heard English people moan "its political correctness gone mad" kinda makes me feel as though, yep, there is a lot of digruntled, unhappy and miserable people in this country. Ah well, it makes me chuckle everytime I here it, so one person's moan is another person's amusement.

 

[hiscosmicgoldfish]

No, there's nothing better than a good moan. When the sun shines it's 'too hot, can't stand this heat'.. when it's raining.. 'it never stops raining in this country, I'm going to Australia'.. moaning is brilliant.

 

[tansy]

I sometimes wonder if there would be much less conversation if there is nothing to moan about LOL
Imagine in heaven how quiet it would be, as presumably there would be nothing going wrong there - or maybe there could be a special place (like Speakers Corner in Hyde Park), called Moaners' Corner, for people to enjoy it as a past-time...they could moan that there was nothing to moan about!

 

[lostaquarium]

Sometimes even when I'm feeling cheerful about something, I might moan about it Like tansy said, it can be a method of conversation. And it can be funny. Moans are often masked jokes.

However, if a person's moaning because he's constantly grumpy, that's another matter!