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all the threads and discussion on here about airing family business or personal woes in public, especially on here of course, was anyone else brought up being told that there's always someone worse off than yourself?

I don't think I ever forget this for more than half an hour and it never fails to help my attitude. Even if it doesn't stop me feeling sorry for myself, it does make me shut up about it:)

Hello gorgeous one ;))

yep, i was brought up like that too, thankyou mum :)

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along with "never judge an Indian (native American) till you've walked a mile in his moccassins " :))

yes Uggers and a good sentiment ,think that every time i see a funeral

Yes i was to .. told my OH that yesterday ..

A lot of us must have had good Mums :))

Gawd help us... surely there can't be anyone worse off than me......can there LOL.

I can't in all honesty say I'm big enough to do that David but I do try to count my blessings rather than dwell on the blows that life has a habit of dealing out.

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No Jeannie you are the bottom of the pile love the one who is the worsest off of all. I think that's who Lynda meant ;)) You don't moan though do you:)

Oh Uggers, you're just so British! ;) You need to vent your feelings, just like they used to do on that Jerry Springer show :) Maybe we should book you onto Trisha (Does she still exist? - I don't do daytime TV?)

yes,there is Always someone worse off.I sometimes moan because i don't see my son's as much as i would like,they work long hours,like so many these day's,but i still moan that they haven't called in. To Day I went to a funeral of a 30year old,Who is worse off now me or the mother who I couldn't find words to express how sorry i felt for her.Yes always some one else worse off than yourself.

Thank you Flump

SRS, My brother-in-law was on Trisha and none of the family would go on with him to support him cos we were all mortified lol

I too was always brought up with that saying, and to 'count my blessings' ... and try to live by them both :)

I rarely feel the urge to grumble about my lot in life . " Stiff upper lip " and " stuff and nonsense " are my by words .

I always tell my kids not to moan about their lives as there is always someone worse off .

Top marks for the tread Uggers : ))

'I cried because I had no shoes then I saw a man who had no feet'.

That's an old Chinese proverb that I remember reading in my Brownie annual. back in the day.

6 coffins arrived in the OK yesterday.....I think that sums it up for me..

Hello everyone:) It might make me an emotionally repressed Brit who will have a nervous breakdown one day but so far it works for me:))

I'm not criticising people sharing troubles with friends or people seeking help or anything. We all need people to lean on at times I'm sure but when I see what I think of as people moaning, I remember the way I was brought up.

What I want to know is how did Rose know I was going to post on here before I did hmmmmmmmmmm

Oh bum looks like I'm sitting in your corner again Uggs.

reminds me sometimes of the yorkie joke about I lived in a cardboard box, You was lucky we didn't even have a cardboard box ...etc.

If I feel down I think of my nephew who says he is lucky as he is alive with a brain. he is a tetraplegic who broke his neck at 17 tour of duty in the navy.

Well it's just a coincidence but I have been in contact in the real world this week with 3 women in their eighties. One lost her only daughter to cancer in January, the other lost one of two sons to cancer the same month and the third woman has buried both of her children, one killed at 28 three weeks after she got married and the other who died a couple of years ago of cancer. I know all these women really well and none of them *ever* go on about their sadness. And then you hear people who never stop whingeing about far lesser things

lol Uggers, sorry to be so flippant, I didn't realise.

I would hate to be on TV no matter what the circumstances but to hang out your dirty linen would be mortifying.