It Didn't Happen !!

[joggerjayne]

Does anyone else get fed up with people who are whingeing about something that happened, and they try to strengthen their point by moaning about something that DIDN'T happen?

There was a guy on telly earlier, complaining that the state of the road had made him fall off his bike.

He'd hurt his arm. So, he said ...

"What if I'd fallen on my head?" (but he hadn't) (and he should've been wearing a skid lid)

And you get things like ...

"What if it had been a child?" (it wasn't)

"What if it had fallen on someone?" (it didn't)

"What if it had been plugged in?" (it wasn't)

"I could have been killed?" (you weren't)

Etc, etc ...

Isn't there enough to whinge about with things that happen, without also whingeing about things that didn't happen?

[askyourgran]

It's always someone else's fault and everyone seems to be looking for things to nitpick about.

[Svejk]

know what you mean. what if a bus had come the other way.

[naomi24]

Jayne, I like that. :o)

[anneasquith]

but it could have !!!!!!!!!!

[joggerjayne]

... and yet ... it didn't ...

lol

[Psybbo]

Agreed, whingers!

[anneasquith]

I know it didn't, but ..................

[Mamyalynne]

I call them the 'What if Brigade'

[jim360]

I know, jj, and what if you'd posted this yesterday too?!

[tonyav]

I only got one number on Saturdays lottery, what if I had got the other five.

[silliemillie]

My favourite one is 'you could have someones eye out with that'

I have NEVER heard of anyone having had their eye put out with anything.

[boxtops]

what if we'd had a power cut, and we couldn't see this thread.....

[stewey]

But it could of, like, yer know wot I mean...And then wot would of happened to be; it just aint right: lessens should be learnt from this, innit right?

[stewey]

"me", not "be"...Oh well.

[wolf63]

I used to work with a guy who liked betting on the horses. His favourite saying was - the horse would have won the race if it hadn't fallen at the first fence.

He won £10,000 once and his wife told him to invest it - he did, on horse races. He lost.

[berniecuddles]

JJ stop whingeing...!!! xx

[Tilly2]

The thing is when you get hurt or hurt yourself, you feel sorry for yourself and start to imagine the worst case scenario.

When I got hurt by that stupid, big, fat dog on Saturday, I then went on to think,
'What if it had dislocated my kneecap? What if it had knocked me into the river,? What if, I'd been unable to walk home? What if it had bowled Tilly over and she'd got hurt?'
I think it's human nature, or my nature anyway, to think of other things that might have happened. I didn't vocalise any of these thoughts but they did run through my mind as I hobbled home.

I'm ok now, by the way.

[stewey]

Yes, Tilly; however, how is the poor big dog faring?

[joggerjayne]

You should only gamble what you are happy to "pay" for the entertainment value.

As I was saying to the Blackjack dealer on Saturday, you should only, Hit, only gamble what you, Hit, what you are happy to , Hit, aww crap.

[anneasquith]

this is actually true, some years ago a young child did have to have his eye removed following an injury from a stick :(