To wonder if people on here do actually "fume"?

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I see a lot of "I'm fuming at X" and sometimes, the level of anger is not even proportionate to the topic at hand.

I must admit, I'm quite hot headed and can be prone to anger but I don't recall ever fuming. Is it an MN word? I don't hear it much elsewhere.

It's a word I use irl.

If fuming means shaking with anger, being unable to sleep or concentrate on anything but what has caused you to fume, then I fume.

Funnily I've been cured of fuming since leaving ex

I still get pissed off, but generally get over quite quickly. BIL has the ability to make me fume too.

It could be the straw that broke the camel's back situation, which may be why they are more angry.
Or it may be just that different situations have different levels of emotion for different people.

It's not a word I use IRL (or on mn for that matter) but you're right about the disproportionate bit. FWIW, I use 'lepping' IRL but never on mn, it doesn't translate well into text and might accentuate my common as muck-ness.

I was actually fuming today & said as much. I rarely use it as a word but this afternoon it was apt.
There was a women at my meeting today, who wound me so completely & utterly up I left actually shaking in anger at her. I kept my cool and was incredibly professional despite listening to some complete damaging and insulting rubbish.
I bumped into my friend on the way out, she looked at me in puzzlement but because she had young children with her I couldn't tell her exactly why I was so wound up. I ended up just saying - "that woman, that woman arghhhhhhh! "
Luckily she knew exactly who I was talking about.
I will be drinking lots of wine and unloading on DH tonight just to bring my blood pressure down.

Does anyone else like a good fume? Or is it only me?

I gotta admit though, I fumed today like never before but it does feel good to let it all out!

Well, I appear to be BU and will be practicing my fuming.

I went through a period of being in a permanent state of "fume". I haven't got the energy now.

I fumm.

It's the level of lividity that I wonder about. I generally stay more or less the same colour, or maybe go a bit red, when I am angry. Everyone on MN seems to lose colour.

fuming as an expression of intense irritation is old, I recall it from years back.

I am, however, never fuming on behalf of any posters after reading their posts, I never nearly spit out my tea in mirth over the tablet/ipad/pc either.

I love when people say they are 'shaking with rage' or 'shaking with anger'

Lmfao

I fume. It's cos I'm slightly inhibited. Hate conflict. And are therefore rubbish at actually telling people when I'm annoyed.

I think it's a massive over reaction. It will give you gall stones or a rash or make blood squirt through your eyeballs after too much fuming.

Fuming makes me think of toddlers with their arms like pretzels peering crossly over their shoulders to check you've noticed their fume.

It's not a very dignified reaction.

Try stating your case calmly and engaging in adult dialogue.

I'm always slightly bemused about the number of people who claim to be panicking about the slightest problems. It makes me think of Corporal Jones rushing around saying "Don't panic! Don't panic!"

I've wondered about all the fuming, shaking and raging that goes on on MN. I particularly like it when people say they are sat there fuming/shaking/raging. What happened to "I am sitting"?
Perhaps we tranquil types should set up our own Espace Non Fumeurs.

I seem to be seeing 'fuming hell' all over my Facebook at the minute

I have shook with anger a flcouple of times. It's like a tingling all the way through my arms and fingers. Dh says it's the blood rushing your veins when your about to belt someone

Used to think he was talking shit until I was in the situation when I had to punch someone (only happened once in my life!)

Really like the word flcouple...might start saying it more often incase it catches on

I do not fume, I "foam"

If I'm "fucking foaming" then DP needs to get out the house!

Writing it down I just realised how strange it actually sounds

Jumble I've heard 'foaming' before

Also 'I'm fucking boiling!'

I use it in real life. I spend many a working day alternating between fuming and silent seething.