Why is everyone here mortified and or humiliated?

[LittleRedSparkle]

Is it just me or is everyone getting a little too stressed about life or something?

So many threads with "I'm so mortified and/or humiliated?" They seem to be quite simple things too

Hysteria is catching.

Life in general is quite stressful. The whole world is tits up. It must filter down somehow

Because they don't properly understand the meaning of the terms?

Because no one would bother to read a thread about being "ever so slightly peeved for less than a minute"...

Yes, I'm devastated by this.

TAAT Op, hope you're embarrassingly mortified.

I would totally read a thread about "ever so slightly peeved for less than a minute"

drama is the new thing

I don't know, i quite like a 'slightly peeved' thread

I blame the X factor.
It's all hyperbole now.

I am actually beyond mortified and humiliated that you brought that up, ALemonyPea - how could you shame me like this???

Quite a lot of people fume

Tabloid press terms. "Travel misery" and the like.

Headlines like "travel inconvenience" isn't quite so catchy

Perhaps mortified is the new offended.
I'd read a 'slightly peeved' thread!

I'm devastated that people have disagreed with me. I might need to go NC to get over it.

Oh I have just said Iam mortified on a thread I was though so its fine

I would be very drawn to a thread when op chose to write a whole post about being "momentarily disgruntled"

Because embarrassed is too hard to spell.

hahahahaa - thanks all

making me laff out loud

Some people feel things quite strongly, especially humiliation. I often read things on here and think "oh it doesn't seem that bad" but I think when you experience embarrassment or humiliation, it's one of those feelings that can be quite amplified.

Drama and attention is the usual reason I think.

My teacher told me I should be mortified for talking in the line for assembly. I looked it up as I didn't know what mortified meant. I never understood why she thought contracting gangrene was a suitable consequence of chatting to my classmates.

I'm always amused when someone writes 'I am actually crying and shaking'. How do they type when they've whipped themselves up into such a frenzy?

Not as much as 'literally' being used out of context!!

"I literally pissed myself in Sainsbury's this morning"
Oh dear, clean up on Aisle 3- a lady has soaked the floor reading a thread.

"I literally dropped dead with shock"
Call the mortician, another 'death by reading stuff'.

I literally shake my head when I read this