THE COMPLAINING CORNER

[Stick]

Being British it is my given right to complain about our weather.  Normally this involves complaining about how wet it is.  However, when it has been dry for a while one simply has to complain about the lack of water for the garden plants.   :clown: 

That's a Complaint? I know you can do better then that Stick.
To start, with a name like Stick I know I'd have a lot to complain about.

Crikey, Ron's complaining about my complaining.  :lol!: :lol!:  Now that's a talent!!

 

[RDPipes]

I live in Connecticut. The governor and legislature make sailors on shore leave in New London look like models of good sense.  Our state representatives, asked for their position on any public issue, reply, "I haven't decided, but I'll get back to you as soon as I read the public employee union's press release on the subject." While campaigning, Gov. Malloy described himself as Connecticut's chief state employee. In 2010, the gov  promised to install fiscal prudence by putting the state on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Someone must have told him that would show the state is bankrupt, so he's been tap dancing ever since. Then he announced that his new budget is balanced. He meant that he'd borrowed enough money to cover most operating expenses. Then he said the state actually had a budget surplus, and he recommended that state taxpayers should each get a refund of $55. Then it became apparent even to him that there was no surplus, so he withdrew this idea.  Don't laugh, Obama has had him to the WH and praised him for "showing the way" to the other states. It was an odd thing to say, since Connecticut is tied for last in new job creation. CT actually has fewer jobs than it had in, I think, 1998. But it's okay with Obama and Malloy, I guess. A poll last week reported that 40 percent of the state's citizens would like to move out, citing taxes and lack of employment opportunities. We were infamous for some half-witted kid who shot up an elementary school with an AR-15. So the legislature outlawed AR-15s, high capacity magazines, and other measures, none of which would have prevented the Newton massacre. Malloy basked in praise for his leadership.  Last week another kid stabbed a classmate to death in school, because she declined to go to the prom with him. Malloy and his legislature have been quiet on kitchen knives. Did I mention the weather? It's six months of punishing cold followed by six months of oppressive heat and humidity.

It's rare that I receive an invitation to complain, but thanks.

Bravo sir! Now that's how to complain my friends. And it's a legitimate one ta boot.   

 

[Domer]

I'd like to complain about all these complaints!

 

[monbla256]

I'd like to complain about all these complaints!

For sure !!! :bounce: :twisted: :twisted: 

 

[RDPipes]

I'd like to complain about all these complaints!

I'd like to hear your complaints about all these complaints.   

 

[i.keenum]

The good complaints are too long for me to read and the short ones are too bad for me to care. When is some one going to get a goldy lock sized complaint tailored just for me.

I don't have the attention span for two pages of this,
my nutz itch and a the new baby is keeping me up at night.

Work is too long and gas too expensive.

I don't have enough pipes, tobacco, knives, or money.

I am way too young to feel this old, the knats and mosquitos are starting to come out and I don't like it.

 :lol!: 

 

[RDPipes]

The good complaints are too long for me to read and the short ones are too bad for me to care. When is some one going to get a goldy lock sized complaint tailored just for me.

I don't have the attention span for two pages of this,
my nutz itch and a the new baby is keeping me up at night.

Work is too long and gas too expensive.

I don't have enough pipes, tobacco, knives, or money.

I am way too young to feel this old, the knats and mosquitos are starting to come out and I don't like it.

 :lol!: 

That almost sounds like a song I once heard.   

 

[KevinM]

A lot of Waylon Jennings' songs are very good examples of the complaint genre.

 

[RDPipes]

A lot of Waylon Jennings' songs are very good examples of the complaint genre.

Must be why I love Waylon so much and,Willie aint got nothing on'em!  

Although the song that came to mind was "I'm much too young to feel this damn old"
by Garth Brooks

 

[flyguy]

Cart, when we get over 50 some of us become curmudgeons. The older this group gets, the more curmudgeony (is that a word?) they become. It is what we are and there is no fighting nature. Curmudgeons are complainers. Nuff said.

 

[RDPipes]

Cart, when we get over 50 some of us become curmudgeons.  The older this group gets, the more curmudgeony (is that a word?) they become. It is what we are and there is no fighting nature.  Curmudgeons are complainers.  Nuff said.

Nah! I'm not old enough to be a Curmudgeon, a complaining bastard maybe.  

 

[flytyer]

I just found out the health insurance my company is offering will go up $40 a month for smokers next year. I've complained about this sort of thing before, but at that time it was only $9 a month for smokers. In the mean time anyone who drinks way to much, eats foods that are high in fat or sodium, and leads an unfit lifestyle pays the lower rate for insurance. If I have to pay for a few pipes or cigars every week these people should be paying the same or more than that. If the health insurance Co. is going to make smokers pay more everyone that doesn't live the ideal healthy lifestyle should pay up too. I don't like anyone telling people how to live life. Ounce they segregate all the smokers maybe they will dig into everyone's eating habits, or look into how many drinks they are having a week and charge them more for that too. We have people that can barely get up out of a chair to go get the fast food lunch they have several times a week, yet if you enjoy a smoke or two you pay the price.

 

[RDPipes]

I just found out the health insurance my company is offering will go up $40 a month for smokers next year. I've complained about this sort of thing before, but at that time it was only $9 a month for smokers. In the mean time anyone who drinks way to much, eats foods that are high in fat or sodium, and leads an unfit lifestyle pays the lower rate for insurance. If I have to pay for a few pipes or cigars every week these people should be paying the same or more than that. If the health insurance Co. is going to make smokers pay more everyone that doesn't live the ideal healthy lifestyle should pay up too. I don't like anyone telling people how to live  life. Ounce they segregate all the  smokers maybe they will dig into everyone's eating habits, or look into how many drinks they are having a week and charge them more for that too. We have people that can barely get up out of a chair to go get the fast food lunch they have several times a week, yet if you enjoy a smoke or two you pay the price.

I totally agree sir, there's healthier people out there that been smoking all there lives then the buffet whores and drunks that populate this country. What we need and sadly never will is a president that's not a puppet and is really concerned with what is fair and just for this countries people and not concerned about big business.

 

[KevinM]

I add my compliments to flytyers comments on pipe smoking and health insurance. This rises above the level of complaint to that of pet peeve for me. There are many things people do that are not good for their health, but should be left to individual judgment and sense of moderation. Not every thing we do should be subject to government review and tut-tut-tutting. I wonder if someone took illegal drugs, would they be required to confess and pay a higher health insurance premium, or would they be waved through because they suffer from an "addiction sickness?" If the latter, where's the equity?

 

[flyguy]

Cart wrote:
"Nah! I'm not old enough to be a Curmudgeon, a complaining bastard maybe."

Denial is the first sign of Curmudgeonism.  :lol: 

 

[RDPipes]

Cart wrote:
"Nah! I'm not old enough to be a Curmudgeon, a complaining bastard maybe."

Denial is the first sign of Curmudgeonism.  :lol: 

WHAT?

 

[Brewdude]

Cart wrote:
"Nah! I'm not old enough to be a Curmudgeon, a complaining bastard maybe."

Denial is the first sign of Curmudgeonism.  :lol: 

WHAT?

Know what denial is?

Denial is de river in de middle east.

 :joker: 


Cheers,

RR

 

[RDPipes]

Cart wrote:
"Nah! I'm not old enough to be a Curmudgeon, a complaining bastard maybe."

Denial is the first sign of Curmudgeonism.  :lol: 

WHAT?

Know what denial is?

Denial is de river in de middle east.

 :joker: 


Cheers,

RR

NO!

 

[BriarFox]

My personality type is INTJ. If you do not know about personality types I suggest you read up on them and then you would understand.

 

[RDPipes]

My personality type is INTJ.  If you do not know about personality types I suggest you read up on them and then you would understand.  

introversion, intuition, thinking, judgment