In my part of the world (my original part, that is) the word "whingeing" was always a prefix to the word "Pom". English immigrants to Zild often arrive expecting paradise and rapidly find out that the differences between the Land of the Long Whine Pom and the Land of the Long White Cloud are really more cosmetic than quantitative. At that point they start complaining, and rarely stop until they climb back on to the big white bird which brought them to La Zild in the first place. "Oh, just another whingeing Pom!" is a phrase often heard ...