How to describe this character?

[bhaisahab]

Depends on the context.

Pessimist, defeatist, complainer, party pooper, killjoy, grouch, whiner, downer... etc.

Or as I prefer to call it, a realist.




Side note

I like this saying: "A pessimist is an optimist with experience" (don't know the source)

There is another expression that I like "A paranoiac is someone who knows what's really going on".

[bhaisahab]

'Whinge' and 'whine' mean the same to me. I honestly couldn't tell the difference between a person who was whingeing and one who was whining.

In fact they are apparently derived from the same word: "From Middle English whinsen, from Old English hwinsian (“to whine”)"
whinge - Wiktionary

I remember hearing, in the 70s, this little joke from my uncle in Australia: "How do you tell that it's a plane full of Poms that just landed?" "When they turn off the engines, it doesn't stop whining."

[Raymott]

I remember hearing, in the 70s, this little joke from my uncle in Australia: "How do you tell that it's a plane full of Poms that just landed?" "When they turn off the engines, it doesn't stop whining."

Of course, I'd never tell a joke like that!

[5jj]

Have I ever done so?! If so I really do apologise. It must've been a misunderstanding, because I've always been thankful to the dear posters.

My not overly serious comment was not directed at you, Mehrgan.