(12-20-2024, 07:02 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(12-20-2024, 07:00 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: "behaving in an angry or sulky way, especially because you cannot do or have what you want"

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.c...h/petulant

In other words, a whiner.

Can you explain the difference between whining and complaining?
Maybe give an example of each?

Sure, here's whining:

"It's rich for you to claim you'd react with less "complaining" or "whining" when you were never tested that way."

Here's complaining: 

"Man, Mikesez is really bringing down the quality of this board by turning every thread into a whinefest about how everyone hates him."

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(12-20-2024, 07:31 PM)TDOSS Wrote:

(12-20-2024, 07:02 PM)mikesez Wrote: Can you explain the difference between whining and complaining?
Maybe give an example of each?

Since he'll struggle with this, I'll help the [BLEEP].

Both words are practically synonyms, but whine has the connotation of being immature or having no substantive reason.

Therefore it doesn't describe you on here at all. He just chose the wrong words to use. 

He also used "petulant", which is odd.

Petulant is normally an adjective. Petulant suggests an immature response to perceived unfairness that doesn't match the idea of already of having explained something.

It is something that you would rarely say to an adult except in exceptional circumstances. They would really have to behaving like a kid and not just being argumentative or difficult.

That word sounded good in his head so he thought it would be a sick burn, which it wasn't. 

MAGAs are very strange people.

Shut up DOOF, no one gives a [BLEEP] what you think.

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