Is MN screaming just...well.....shouting?

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I have always understood "screaming" to mean something along the lines of Janet Leigh in the shower in Psycho or Violet Elizabeth Bott.

I have been on MN for a couple of years now and will admit to being shocked by the number of people (often, but not exclusively, MILs) who resort to screaming when they don't get their own way.

It now occurs to me that posters are more likely to just mean "shouting" which puts things in a whole different light. Is it just me?

It would feel like such a faff getting my laptop out every time I wanted to MN. And my laptop is quite slow too so it’s frustrating to use. I suppose that might help me spend less time on MN though!

Mine might be perched on the arm of the sofa all the time [bllush]

@profyaffle am I you..or are you me?

I think people who have grudges about silly overdramatic mn bingo type responses should get them off their chests in the threads they occur on or reddit. Starting snide threads to have a pop at annoying mn tropes never ends well really, and besides it smacks of being too much of a wimp to challenge any cuntiness on the spot, or rewriting history in the wake of deservedly having one’s arse handed to one laqueen used to like doing this

Wrt to the original question re screaming on mn, it depends on whether it’s at the sistine chapel or not

And then when people do raise it on the thread they get told to stop derailing. Can’t win.

This thread doesn’t seem to have gone too badly either.

The sistine chapel was one of the first things I ever read on here

I wasn't being snide - I was asking a genuine question.

If a poster is having a hard time with a bonkers relative, it isn't really useful if I pitch in with a pedantic question about whether they were actually screaming or not.

Give it time wirebrush

I wasn’t esp talking about you op, some people have definitely taken it in a certain ‘general things that fuck me off about mn’ type direction tho which often happens, not your fault i know

I know what you mean @MadameButterface. The ones like:

Why are people who aren't parents on here?

I joined today and demand everybody stops using acronyms

Why does everybody swear? It's 'common'

Stop posting about Brexit / Megxit / Trump

The sheer amount of " shaking with rage " threads, though! It makes me think of 3 years olds having an actual tantrum or people who have yet to outgrow their princess complex behaving like spoiled children.

What about 'meltdowns'?

Am just about prepared to allow in cases of SEN, but not in the case of NT adults. That's just called 'losing it'.

Tbh "shouting at the Michaelangelo" sounds nowhere near as good...

I do hope the michaelangelo one was a right good proper Munch scream complete with fainting and loosening of corsets, it was in my fantasy anyway

I do hope the michaelangelo one was a right good proper Munch scream complete with fainting and loosening of corsets, it was in my fantasy anyway

Indeed - which is why it is has been so disappointing to gradually realise that screaming isn't always what it seems .

I do agree OP, there is massive exaggeration on here, surely.
However like @FriedEggs1, my partner seems to have a different definition to me, in this case of shouting. What I consider only a 'heated exchange of views', he accuses me of shouting and arguing. And I have said to him, look DH, do you want to me to demonstrate what me shouting in anger actually is? Because it won't be pretty!

So after shaking with rage while fuming at something utterly vile, the poster found something funny enough to cause her to spit her tea all over the keyboard and then laugh so loud that she woke the baby, shook with laughter so much that she woke her sleeping partner and caused the dog to look at her funny.
Then her CF neighbour text her to pipe down.

On a side note, I've often wondered how and why the neighbours even have your mobile number, specially when
A. You've never spoken to them before.
B. They only moved in two days ago.

@MorrisZapp It's true that "remark" isn't used as often at it once was. It reminds me a bit of Enid Blyton. "Uncle Quentin took no notice of that remark."

I think we say "comment" more instead. The only regular use I can think of now is "sentencing remarks".

Although I expect we still say "remarkable".

It's "fumming", people. Not "fuming".

My only technology is a 16 yr old iMac, btw. So I am not even sophisticated enough to be MNing on my laptop.

It's "fumming", people. Not "fuming" and you do it in the dinning room.

@TrickyD You also learn good English at Unviersity. It's believed there are a few "Unviersities" on university websites.

@FirstInGinglish It's also...

Wait for it...

FEWMIN!!!!! Somebody on MN was "fewmin" because their DD watched Jaws at a sleepover. (After reading that thread, I had to watch Jaws, because I'd never seen it before!)