But that’s millions more than speak Chelsea gangsta … slang, brands and symbols. First you identify him by his brand of trainers, then communicate using sign language before getting down to biz proper. All very well, till it flows over into he real world.
Anyway, I speak like Charles, just with a different accent.
I suppose I’m old and I do like to have a good moan but only to myself.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow it’s mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life’s gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I thought I recognised you from somewhere Ralph 
My minds gone blank, the was a woman character in a Charles Dickens novel who was always moaning and thought her problems were always worse that everyone else’s. Anybody remember her?
An old song that is in a song book I bought 60 years ago (still have it). It might fit the topic…
Are you thinking about Biddy from Great Expectations by any chance?
The one I remember complaining a lot was Miss Betsy Trotwood in David Copperfield
She was quite an outwardly disapproving character - and she had a vendetta against donkeys straying near her property and used to shout for her maid to chase them away.
Thank you, but no, not her Biddy was lovely and I was so pleased when she and Joe ended up together!
Thank you, but not her either!
Mrs Gradgrind ? ( Hard Times )
I immediately thought of Miss Havisham but I’m guessing she’s not the one?
A character devastated by her circumstances but not a whinger as I remember.
Thank you, but no, although she was definitely a moaner!
A bitter piece of work but more viscous than moaned!
What about Mrs McCawber ?
She was always worried poor women being married to Mr McCawber
No moaning on my part. I survived. Tolberly well. That’s many better than others…
Got her! Thank you for all your ideas but it was Mrs Gummidge from David Copperfield
A widow, always moaning and crying and saying she “felt” everything more that other people
Being “gummidge” is a thing!
“What is the meaning of Gummidge?
A peevish, self-pitying, and pessimistic person, given to complaining, from the name of Mrs Gummidge, a character in Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850). From: Gummidge in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable »”
I’m feeling a bit Gummidge today!
I do look a bit like that 
I just love this thread I am thinking of what else I can moan about 
I’m sure you don’t 
