# The Whiny Crybaby Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343 "2001-05-24T01:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/1 "2001-05-24T01:51:48Z")
Because dammit, I feel like whining and getting all sorts of pity and affection. You know, I could deal with getting a divorce. I could deal with being miles and miles away from the man I love. I could deal with having to share my son with his father, even though _I’m_ the one who almost died bringing him into this world. I could deal with being broke and having no home of my own and no car and a crappy job and no real friends nearby to turn to. But now…now! This latest thing is just too freakin’ much. I have a **sunburn**. A big, red owwie one on both of legs. It hurts to move. It hurts to sit. It hurts when the dog sneezes two rooms over. Actually, what really pisses me off is that I’m _ **Asian** _! We’re supposed to tan, dammit, TAN. This is so not fair. :::sniffle::: And I’ll probably get all icky and scaly and peel and in twenty years they’ll have to remove dozens of yucky malignant moles from my legs. It’s not ffffaaaaiiiirrrr! Whew, I feel much better getting that off of my chest. Anyone else care to whine, vent, wail, neurotically beg for attention? Or do you want me to keep going? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/2 "2001-05-24T01:55:23Z")
Ahem, _cough_. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/3 "2001-05-24T01:56:49Z")
No sympathy. No. No. No. I _said_ NO! Go to your room. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/4 "2001-05-24T01:57:59Z")
Amy Tan?? Bwaaa hahaha… sorry. Sunburns suck. I hope you feel better soon. _pats your knee as I end the conversation_ …OH! …sorry… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/5 "2001-05-24T02:03:35Z")
It’s not fair that I have to do graphic design assignments when I suck at them. I’m studying to be an editor goddamnit! It’s not fair that I took the day off colleges yesterday and now I don’t have the freaking information to do the assignment so my Neurotic Plan to complete the semester’s work 3 weeks early is foiled. It’s not fair that my mother is leaving work early so she is gonna drop the younger kid home 3 hours earlier than normal. This does not help the Neurotic Plan at all. It’s not fair that the older kid has gone feral in school so I have to shlep him around yet more professionals to get a label so that he can get the help he needs when I know how to fix him already and if the school would just do as I say, we could get on it with it NOW! ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/6 "2001-05-24T02:04:38Z")
**Totoro** you can’t just go WAAAAHHHHH, you gotta have tell us what you’re whining about…otherwise we won’t know and we’ll worry that it’s a brain tumor that’s making you cry and stay up late at night and not be very alert driving to work in the morning and run a red light and kill somebody’s grandma and get arrested for vehicular homicide and our kids will grow up all screwy and it’s just not ffffaaaaiiiirrrrrr. **TheLoadedDog** , I have no room. I am homeless, remember? 😉 **Whammo** , hehehehe, you funny. Amy Tan. ::snicker:: You know, I think I’ve got sun-delirium or something. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/7 "2001-05-24T02:05:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tatertot \* > \*\*I have a **sunburn**. A big, red owwie one on both of legs. It hurts to move. It hurts to sit. It hurts when the dog sneezes two rooms over. > > Actually, what really pisses me off is that I’m _ **Asian** _! We’re supposed to tan, dammit, TAN. This is so not fair. :::sniffle::: And I’ll probably get all icky and scaly and peel and in twenty years they’ll have to remove dozens of yucky malignant moles from my legs. > > It’s not ffffaaaaiiiirrrr!\*\* Hiya **tater**. 🙂 I know the feeling. If it’s any consolation, my burn eventually settled into a nice even tan, which I can still see ONE YEAR later. Put on some moisturizer, and you’ll be okay. Hope you feel better soon! ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/8 "2001-05-24T02:25:02Z")
Awww… now I feel bad… damn whining kids making me feel guilty when I try to punish them… damn gorgeous Asian babes knowing how to push my buttons… \*\* mutter mutter grumble\*\* ::Makes hot chocolate for **Tatertot** :: ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/9 "2001-05-24T03:10:09Z")
Poor l’il Tater! methinks the answer would be to fly directly to Ireland, where they have age-old remedies for the fair and freckled. 😉 Well, ya’d already be there in a wink, right? So here’s a whoppin’ dose of compassion, and hopin’ ya find some aloe soon! ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/10 "2001-05-24T04:35:57Z")
tater, you think this hot Tennessee sun did a number on your Asian skin? Just imagine the havoc it wreaks on my translucent, pale, British-Irish skin! My forhead is peeling right now–I look like a lizard creature. And yes, I wore sunblock. I wore Water Babies SPF-too-high-for-you-to-even-count sunblock and it didn’t help one bit. Get thee some aloe and take some ibuprofen. I do have sympathy for the homeless thing. That bites. You could always come to east Tennessee and live in my spare room–free of charge! I also empathize with the whole separated-from-the-one-you-love thing. But you guys are going to be together. Being apart is tough but I know you guys are going to muddle through and everything will be fine. Nope, no "but what if"s, young lady. It’s settled. I have sympathy for the Nicholas thing too. I know you miss him terribly. I can’t offer to fix that–sorry. My powers go only so far. So far as whining for me…um…can’t really think of anything…oh yeah! Technology and nature are plotting against me! First it is thunderstorms and then phone outages–I _neeeeed_ internet! I _neeeeed_ e-mail! I _neeeeed_ ICQ! I _neeeeed_ chat! ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/11 "2001-05-24T05:22:54Z")
Poor **tater**! Ya got it right; sometimes fortitude counts but from-the-gut whining sure blows off steam. Go soak in tepid water and slather on the aloe. Heckers, you’ll end up tan anyway and in the meantime if someone pisses you off you can snarl, “I’m lovelorn, peeling and _still inscrutable_.” (\<–assume horse-laugh smiley there, m’kay?) AS long as we’re whining…I have the opposite problem. I guldurned _took a long weekend_, yay-howdy, cavorted in warm sunshine, merrily hobnobbed and frolicked–and promptly caught strep throat. Right on cue, the weather turned cold, wet and nasty, too. It’s frickin’ SPRING, already! I’m freezing, head splitting and throat feels like I swallowed ground glass. Mmmph. Whimper. (::wail of self-pity:🙂 A total mess, Veb ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/12 "2001-05-24T07:57:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by evilbeth \* > \*\*Technology and nature are plotting against me! First it is thunderstorms and then phone outages–I _neeeeed_ internet! I _neeeeed_ e-mail! I _neeeeed_ ICQ! I _neeeeed_ chat! \*\* That’s _all_ you need? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/13 "2001-05-24T08:20:18Z")
Well, no, but those things are helping me get the other things I need! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/14 "2001-05-24T10:16:47Z")
Sheesh. People complaining about being out in the sun and gettting sunburned (or strep ?!?!). Must be nice. _Some_ of us have to work _indoors_, basking in the glow of four-foot long fluorescent tube lights. I’m inside from 7 am to 6 pm (okay, I officially work from 9-5, but I have lots to do) and don’t get to see the sun, except maybe for a little bit on the weekend (when I am not also at work catching up on paperwork). I’m in Florida, fergawdssakes, you know, the Sunshine state? Best I get right now is a layer of soot from the wildfire near DisneyWorld. Blackened lung, anyone? And if I do go outside, the only color I get is a burn only on my nose, so I look like a raccoon (sets off the dark circles very nicely, thank you very much :rolleyes: ). Must be niiiiiice to be tanned. [For your free brochure on whining and and annoying people, dial 1-800-922-2222, that’s 1-800-WAAAAAA!] ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/15 "2001-05-24T10:47:37Z")
**Bethie** and **Euty** are flirting in **my** thread. Somebody make them stop. I’m _tired_, it’s hard to sleep when your legs are on fire. And there’s a whole box of Krispy Kremes on the dining room table but I don’t know if they’re for something special or not so I can’t eat them until somebody wakes up and tells me and I’m hungry but I don’t want to eat anything and get full in case they aren’t for something and I can eat them. Also, I can’t decide wether to wear long pants today, which might chafe, or shorts, which will let the sunshine in and might make things worse. WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! Thanks everyone else for the sympathy. Oooh! Oooh! I just remembered, I have a cold sore, too! Knowing that, dontcha wanna send me some chocolates? (Oh, and I secretly have sympathy for everyone else, too but I’m in a bit of a fussy mood right now - it being quarter to six am - and refuse to acknowledge that anyone else has suffered as badly as I have) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/16 "2001-05-24T10:48:28Z")
When my alarm went off this morning, I lay there thinking “I’m so glad it’s Friday” - but it’s NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!! I don’t wanna come to work tomorrow… I don’t wanna get up early again… I don’t wanna spend the whole stinking day in this stinking cubicle!! \ that’s what I get for marrying for love instead of money… I coulda been the indolent wife of a zillionaire… if I’d ever met a zillionaire… poop ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/17 "2001-05-24T10:53:42Z")
Obviously, tater, you have not checked your e-mail this morning or you would have had more to rant and cry about! 😉 [sub]P.S. Sorry for flirting—he started it![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/18 "2001-05-24T11:00:31Z")
I just came in here to complain about some crazy bitch stuffing my inbox with ecards. Argghhh…it’s working…can’t keep up the whining…naturally cheery nature coming through…feeling perky. Oooh, maybe weekend next I’ll come visit you **Bethie** , then **you** could whine\*\*. And yeah, I know he started it…damn mods, ruining my threads. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/19 "2001-05-24T11:02:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tatertot \* > \*\*Argghhh…it’s working…can’t keep up the whining…naturally cheery nature coming through…feeling perky. \*\* Admit it, it was the John Wayne card that did it, right? > [@](#): > > **Oooh, maybe weekend next I’ll come visit you Bethie, then you could whine**. > > \*\* Oooh, oooh, oooh! If I promise to whine, will you visit? ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343/20 "2001-05-24T11:07:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TVeblen \* > “I’m lovelorn, peeling and _still inscrutable_.” > \*\* Forgot to say, that is so totally me. Yup, if anyone is good at hiding what they are truely feeling and thinking it’s me. **Bethie** , let me check on some things today, and I’ll see what we can do. Hoo Ahh! We’ll have us a hoe-down! Oh, and actually it was the Rod Stewart one…of course, now I can whine that “Maggie May” is stuck in my head and will probably be there all day. Wwwwaaaaaahhhhhh! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whiny-crybaby-thread/66343.md?page=2)