Fuming, raging, heartbroken....

[GinIsIn]

It seems like this is used about everything now.

AIBU to wonder why nobody is ever just a bit miffed or slightly put out anymore?

And what happens to the fuming, heartbroken ragers who get so angry about an innocuous comment from a teacher or a sideways glance on public transport when something really bad happens? Do their heads actually explode?!

The trend that the emotion expressed be exponentially greater than the triviality of the situation is profoundly, desperately worrying to me. With nuclear meltdown now the required standard reaction to micro-miffs where do we go for a response to instances of nano-niggles? Or worse, in fact THE worst, and I hardly dare say it, can't breathe even thinking about it but - but WHERE are we going to find words apocalyptic enough to describe how we feel about pico-pouts? Will NO ONE think about the picos?

I am literally traumatised by all this.

Will there be counsellors available at the end of the thread?

Oh, people's inability to assess risk really does make me do all those mumsnet angry things!

I am mildly amused by all of the CONFRONTING that goes on out there - must be the well ards. Sometimes it is more productive to just ask.

Oh, yes, that one literally makes me fume.

'My mil/ndn/pfb's teacher said or did something entirely unremarkable. Shall I confront her about it?'

I think some people think 'confront' means the same as 'ask'. That or they spend all their time getting in people's faces.

Actually, my cat really is an emotionally abusive, gaslighting narc.

I should really use the frequently recommended MN method (after dialling 101 to "get it noted") of setting boundaries and going no contact with the furry little fucker. I'll just continue to be tyrannised by her even though she doesn't meet my emotional needs.

I must confess (like "low contact") "setting boundaries" baffles me somewhat. To my mind, some people are simply knobheads so I don't see them any more aka no contact. This is easy for me to understand. But I don't have a dramatic convo with said knobheads where I "set boundaries". Low contact seems to be only seeing people when I want AKA if they are PILS they can baby sit when we need a break but I'm not inviting them round for coffee the selfish bastards.

Actually...maybe I am low contact with my own cat?

The obvious troll ones make me as well but TBH I think that in general the people who are drawn in are the ones who want to be seen to be sobbing in support, and then they can sob a bit more once the troll is outed as a troll and the thread is deleted.

I remember e.g. The Oliver's army threads which for me were blatant troll threads, and yet there were people checking in left right and centre, and they become all outraged whenever anyone suggests that it might not be real, even after the thread has been deleted people cry "but they can't be sure it's not real....." While sobbing, obv. .

Rainbows all around me, there is no shame in my safe space...

Have had my emotional experience dismissed all my life. Will add this judgemental post to the pile. Well done.

I know I should, but I haven't rtft.

I just wanted to ask why everyone 'slogs their guts out' or 'works their arses off' now.

Doesn't anyone just have a job anymore?

Irony, Navy?
I hope so, anyway.
I'll be devastated and distraught if I'm wrong...

I'm mildly irritated by over use of the word treacherous when there's any hint of snow in the U.K.

I've worked in MH for years and met lots of narcissistic people but literally only a handful who would meet diagnostic criteria for NPD. My colleagues didn't believe me when I said every other ex-partner or in-laws on MN seem to have it.

I don't understand all the emotional overreaction on MN. I couldn't tell you the last time I sobbed over something or was 'livid' yet some posters on MN seem to be in a perpetual state of emotional dysregulation. And God, the competitive grieving on celebrity death threads. 'I've been crying all day' 'I was driving and it came on the radio and I just howled'. Really?

And I have no objection to the word cunt but reserve it for people who deserve the title. On MN someone parks outside someone else's house is a cunt. What term do they use for someone who's truly an awful human being?

Ah, yes, weather news: 'Met Office predicts Arctic conditions' (1 inch snow possible).
'Storm due to lash coastal areas' (gusts up to 40mph).

I also want to stand at the door of many threads and offer a sense of humour to those who have lost theirs

What about "worst nightmares " ?

Poor people can't even get a decent night's sleep.
I think these are the same people who "turned around and said..." and then when the person they're talking to has "turned around and said. .." and the 1st person has "turned around and said. ..".....They're dizzy, slightly mif fed and sleep deprived

Ah, yes, weather news: 'Met Office predicts Arctic conditions' (1 inch snow possible). 'Storm due to lash coastal areas' (gusts up to 40mph).

And then on the actual news, things 'plunge' or 'soar', then when you see the actual figures, it's something like 2.5 per cent.

Demands for trigger warnings in titles that say things like: 'I found a mutant fucker of a spider in the bath'.

Of course she's going to post a fucking picture of it. If she didn't, people would be asking for it.

Also the smug one word response: 'reported' on threads. Just run off to MNHQ Darrell Rivers. No need to tell the rest of us.

Ooh that was odd, I thought I'd posted without knowing it! No, obviously I mean it's literally the most amazing coincidence, I'm shaking with shock - hello HarrietVane99 name twin!

Or should I be incandescent with rage that someone else has a similar name...

It's never merely "raining" on MN. It's always "chucking it down."

My mother says that too - "Oh you can't go out in this - it's chucking it down." It's drizzling, mother.

Quite honestly this thread is the outside of enough!

Harriet Someone had a very similar name to one of my previous user names and I kept spotting her. She gave me the rage so bad because her name was slightly different to mine and the reason was because it contained a spelling mistake.

Talk about the worst thing that could ever happen on Mumsnet .

Itsallaboutmememe I read your post quickly and thought you were boasting about your micro muff

I saw 'I'm screaming,' the other day... it was meant to mean something along the lines of 'i find that really funny'. Screaming.