Team Bedwetter or Team Rosy Spectacles?

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Sure it is. It's simply a way of saying they're being childish. You still haven't come up with an alternative.

I don't see why there needs to be an alternative as I don't see why there needs to be a collective name used in the first place, but as you seem to so desperately crave one what's wrong with anxious, impatient, irritable, childish (your word, not mine). It gives a post a bit more credibility than bed wetter. It works both ways too, I think the tinted specs brigade or whatever is just as pointless.

 

[Triggaaar]

I don't see why there needs to be an alternative as I don't see why there needs to be a collective name used in the first place

You don't see the need for it, but others do. You wanted us to be allowed a different opinion, right?

what's wrong with anxious, impatient, irritable

Because they don't convey the same feeling. When someone is being a drama queen about the lack of ambition, the lack of signings, how crap Burke is and how we'll be relegation fodder, saying their impatient just doesn't cover it.

It gives a post a bit more credibility than bed wetter.

Remember this is just an internet forum, it doesn't need credibility. I find some of the reactions to our dealings annoying, and I don't feel the need to be restrained in my response.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

You don't see the need for it, but others do. You wanted us to be allowed a different opinion, right?
Because they don't convey the same feeling. When someone is being a drama queen about the lack of ambition, the lack of signings, how crap Burke is and how we'll be relegation fodder, saying their impatient just doesn't cover it.

Remember this is just an internet forum, it doesn't need credibility. I find some of the reactions to our dealings annoying, and I don't feel the need to be restrained in my response.

So bed wetter is now how to describe a drama queen?

 

[Icy Gull]

I wonder if any NSCers glibly use the term bed wetter in everyday conversation and notice the odd looks they get for suggesting that someone who has expressed a mild concern about something has been labelled bed wetter

 

[Acker79]

Getting annoyed about stuff - especially how people use language - is one of the cornerstones of NSC, and long may it continue.

But if there's a better description than 'bedwetter' of one who proclaims our season dead and buried before the end of July then I'm all ears.

Moaner.
Negative Nellie/Nora/Norman/any other alliterative name/no name
Melodramatic Mary/May/Mellie/any other alliterative name/no name
Childish
Impatient
Drama Queen
Extremist/add extreme to any of these other words
Faultfinder
Complainer
Bellyacher
Grumbler
Whiner
Malcontent
Grouch
fussbudget
kvetcher
Bleater
Whinger
Griper
Disgruntled

 

[Acker79]

How do you do that?? I usually just ROLL mine!

Don't be such a bedwetter.

 

[The Brighton Bear]

Moaner.
Negative Nellie/Nora/Norman/any other alliterative name/no name
Melodramatic Mary/May/Mellie/any other alliterative name/no name
Childish
Impatient
Drama Queen
Extremist/add extreme to any of these other words
Faultfinder
Complainer
Bellyacher
Grumbler
Whiner
Malcontent
Grouch
fussbudget
kvetcher
Bleater
Whinger
Griper
Disgruntled

Now there is a word that I had forgotten about. I must bring that back into my vocabulary.

 

[MattBackHome]

Moaner.
Negative Nellie/Nora/Norman/any other alliterative name/no name
Melodramatic Mary/May/Mellie/any other alliterative name/no name
Childish
Impatient
Drama Queen
Extremist/add extreme to any of these other words
Faultfinder
Complainer
Bellyacher
Grumbler
Whiner
Malcontent
Grouch
fussbudget
kvetcher
Bleater
Whinger
Griper
Disgruntled

Fussbudget is very good - and not one I've heard before. Bleater I like as well, though I don't think either convey the hysterical panic associated with your typical "PULL YOUR FINGER OUT BURKE" thread starter. But definitely close.

Still prefer Bedwetter as it conveys an element of the infantile as well.

 

[Pinkie Brown]

Team nocturnal enuresis v Team Pollyanna?

The battlelines have been drawn. Have those incontinence pants and rose tinted specs at the ready.

 

[Stat Brother]

A simple:-

I'm Team Bedwetter

or

I'm Team Rosy Specs

Would have sufficed.

 

[Diego Napier]

A simple:-

I'm Team Bedwetter

or

I'm Team Rosy Specs

Would have sufficed.

I hope you're pleased with yourself.

Talk about lighting the touchpaper and standing back, one or two of these posters will now never be dry.

I suppose you'd just call yourself a catalyst.

 

[London Irish]

Moaner.
Negative Nellie/Nora/Norman/any other alliterative name/no name
Melodramatic Mary/May/Mellie/any other alliterative name/no name
Childish
Impatient
Drama Queen
Extremist/add extreme to any of these other words
Faultfinder
Complainer
Bellyacher
Grumbler
Whiner
Malcontent
Grouch
fussbudget
kvetcher
Bleater
Whinger
Griper
Disgruntled

Superfan
Pollyanna
Licker
Serf
Gullible
Fawner
Creep
Credulous
Servile
Naive
Flunkey
Toadying
Greasy
Crawler
Groveller
Uriah Heep-er
Forelock tugger
Sycophant
Teacher's pet
Doormat
Lickspittle
Cringing
Puppet
Oleaginous
Kowtower
12 seasons a Slave

 

[Acker79]

Superfan
Pollyanna
Licker
Serf
Gullible
Fawner
Creep
Credulous
Servile
Naive
Flunkey
Toadying
Greasy
Crawler
Groveller
Uriah Heep-er
Forelock tugger
Sycophant
Teacher's pet
Doormat
Lickspittle
Cringing
Puppet
Oleaginous
Kowtower
12 seasons a Slave

Indeed. Such a wide variety of words to choose from, for either side, why choose such awful words? Let's mix it up a bit, people.

 

[Bladders]

This Stockdale saga is now taking too long for me, so I'm having my first bed wetting session right now!

 

[RexCathedra]

You could just have offered "Team Realist" -- the interesting thing is that both of the original categories see that as applying exclusively to themselves.

"I'm just a realist."
"No, I'm really a realist."

 

[London Irish]

Indeed. Such a wide variety of words to choose from, for either side, why choose such awful words? Let's mix it up a bit, people.

And also, surprise and amuse people by flitting back and forth - I was a stupendous creep during the days when we had no money but now find myself inadvertently bedwetting a lot

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Where's the "perfectly content to follow my team whatever their fortunes like I have been for the past twenty years" option.

Absolutely bang on, bro..... Except in my case more than 20 years.

And it's tempered by a pragmatic and realistic optimism, which does not amount to rosy spectacles, but is far from bed wetting. Who knows where we might be in 3 or 6 months time?