Whinging Minnies

Apparently, according to the wife anyway, I whinge and complain about quite a lot of things that really get up my nose.

A ‘Whinging Minny’ is the term most commonly used, which I think is because I’m a Northerner, and Victor Meldrew is often my nickname. I’m often told to stop complaining about it, count to 10, breathe, chill, relax, let it go and let bygones be bygones. I take offence to this and feel I am justified in my need to complain about things and vent my frustration at the injustice of it all, even if my whining whinges and complaints fall on deaf ears, which is quite often the case with the wife.

Besides, when you’re feeling stressed out or angry with something (or someone), I find it’s good for the soul and reduces stress and anxiety levels when you complain about that thing or person, whether verbally (behind their back, of course) or especially when you put it in writing (even if no-one else reads it). It’s my form of stress management and managing anger levels, and my little contribution to a happier less stressed family and home. In fact, I have friends who do far more complaining, whinging, whining and bitching than I do – but I won’t name them!

I’ve got quite a few things I want to get off my chest and will let loose my frustrations through this website (it’s part of my personal therapy and I do find it very therapeutic). It’s far better than trying to vent complaints and frustrations on the Social Networks where people are far more obsessed with telling you that they’ve just made a cup of tea, are feeling tired, heading off to bed, just had a nightmare and wet the bed… blah, blah, blah… who cares about these mundane daily functions that everyone and their granny does every day (it might just be me that wets the bed during bad nightmares though – or it might just be linked to that stupid old age business that’s creeping up on me at a ridiculously rapid rate!).

If you stumble across this website and would like to share a gripe and have a good old whinge about something (or someone*) please feel free to do so.

PLEASE NOTE: this is not a customer complaints website, it offers absolutely no legal advice, and any personal opinions expressed on this website are purely the opinions of the author and posters. I do not make any claims that my opinions and feelings are shared by anyone else, but posters are free to agree or disagree with my posts if they so wish.

*IF YOU DO POST ON THIS WEBSITE, please make your complaints, gripes, whines and whinges general in nature and DO NOT identify any individuals, companies, businesses, brands or any other type of organisation by name or by any kind of reference that could make them personally identifiable. It’s one of those stupid legal things where the individual nuggets that wrong us and fill our lives with frustration, stress and misery can’t be rightly named and shamed in public lest they try and prosecute you for slander – it’s a ridiculous rule if ever there was one but I don’t want those nuggets being able to fund their nugget lifestyles from the hard-earned meagre earnings the rest of us decent hard-working citizens work so hard for! Any posts that contravene this will have to be removed.

Vic.