Giving out yards : the art of complaint Irish style / Tara Flynn

The english language has a lot of words for 'complaint' or 'complaining' and, here in Ireland, we need every one of them. Grumbling, groaning, grouching, whining, bitching, griping, lamenting, bewailing - in fact, if we haven't bewailed something before breakfast, we don't feel properly set up for the day. Nobody complains like the Irish do. With terrible weather and centuries of oppression and the like, we have plenty to complain about. But even when we don't, we do. It's the national pastime. A way of bonding, Theraphy