But we're a club that always faces adversity and we don't moan about it.
The people who moan about potholes on Johannesburg's radio phone-in programmes have no sense of perspective.
People moan about the need for marketing, but more and more authors are asked to do marketing.
These sound boring but could save billions, which is one reason so many health-care firms moan about them.
So what's there to moan about, fellas -- we all trust Google to do the right thing, right?
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So complained Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, in a 1714 moan about the Palatine refugees from the Rhineland.
We moan about libraries while Ireland debates the existence of entire hospitals.
It's very easy to moan about giving from the comfort of your own laptop, having had the luck to be born in the West.
Butterfield insists he's managed to mollify customers who moan about SCO.
Voters moan about branch closures and possible increases in service charges.
"People gripe and moan about the penny, but they still want to keep it, " says Richard Doty, senior curator of the Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
We may moan about them but today they comprise just 4 per cent of total government revenue, again 50 per cent in Sweden, 20 per cent in France and 13 per cent in Germany.
Rather than examining in detail the United States' relations with Europe, he prefers to moan about how Britain joined one sort of Europe only to discover that its partners were hell-bent on creating another.
Still, when the professors saw one another at the staff club or at church or at a faculty meeting, they were careful to moan about the riffraff from town coming onto their sacred campus to steal.
Don't moan about Blackpool when you've got a team like Portsmouth who have spent six years in the Premier League, blown millions of pounds on players and still don't have a training base or a decent ground.
In the UK, many people may moan about the treatment they get from the National Health Service, but at the same time, it is not an exaggeration to say it is a much-loved and strongly defended institution.
In America, where the five cities were chosen with help from exile groups, some moan about preferential treatment: the Kurds, for instance, are strong in Nashville, which has a total Iraqi population smaller than, say, the San Francisco Bay area.
So, the next time you start to moan about the weird tech support guys and grumble about your internal support costs and how little seems to get done just understand that this stupid Microsoft bug is just one small part of the black hole that sucks away their time.
He would often moan to his friends about the difficulties of balancing his day job and his writing.
Ta Moan turned out to be a sleepy site, about the size of a football field, with brown rock remains of walls that outlined one central building with some still visible decorated doorways and corridors, and half a dozen subsidiary structures.
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