Bgugi@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIs thinly-veiled political whinging really a question just because you used a question mark?message-squaremessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down115
arrow-up162arrow-down1message-squareIs thinly-veiled political whinging really a question just because you used a question mark?Bgugi@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square14linkfedilink
minus-squareDonjuanme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down12·1 year agoWhinging eh? I read that similar to whinching or winging though I know you mean whining. If we’re tossing in question marks?
minus-squareReCursing@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoWhinge is a perfectly reasonable word
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down5·edit-21 year agoShhh, you’ll confuse the Americans who have never bothered to know anything about the culture of one of their most ideologically similar allies who literally speak the same language.
minus-squareandyburke@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoWe saw the beans on toast and and we left. 🤷♂️ j/k - the people in charge here are wild narcissists just like in the UK.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI never said the ideological similarities were good ones. Thatcher can rot in hell.
minus-squareApepollo11@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoI’m not entirely sure I read your comment correctly, but it sounds like you’ve never heard the word “whinging” before. For the avoidance of doubt, it’s a real word. It rhymes with “hinging”.
minus-squaretuck182@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAnd in the UK at least it’s a distinct word and meaning from whining. In the US I think we just use “whining” for both meanings.
minus-squareAnAmericanPotato@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agohttps://www.dictionary.com/browse/whinge
Whinging eh? I read that similar to whinching or winging though I know you mean whining. If we’re tossing in question marks?
Whinge is a perfectly reasonable word
Shhh, you’ll confuse the Americans who have never bothered to know anything about the culture of one of their most ideologically similar allies who literally speak the same language.
We saw the beans on toast and and we left. 🤷♂️
j/k - the people in charge here are wild narcissists just like in the UK.
I never said the ideological similarities were good ones. Thatcher can rot in hell.
I’m not entirely sure I read your comment correctly, but it sounds like you’ve never heard the word “whinging” before.
For the avoidance of doubt, it’s a real word. It rhymes with “hinging”.
And in the UK at least it’s a distinct word and meaning from whining. In the US I think we just use “whining” for both meanings.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whinge