:-)
You are a breath of fresh air on this thread.
I always try to remain optimistic about life, and really find whiners to be quite uninteresting...my old dad had a phrase "Quit yer Whining"...and he trotted that phrase out whenever me or my brother got into our bratty modes...if we whined we got sent to our rooms, to explore what possible actions we could take, to do away with the whining...
Dad always had us come out of our rooms eventually, and explain to him, rationally, not like a whining crybaby, exactly why were we unhappy, and what we proposed as a solution...dad helped us to talk out our problems, and helped us to see our way through to a positive result for everyone...but he would not tolerate whining...that was a no-no in our house...