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?!

I mean "everyone on MN seems to suffer from. . ."

My default setting is curmudgeonly. Anything different to that requires a large lottery win or alien invasion. So, that's just curmudgeonly then.

to OP. There is nothing worse

What's a little hyperbole between friends? Nothing to get carried away about.

From 'Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway' by Susan Jeffers 1987:

'It's terrible' is bandied around in the most inappropriate circumstances. For example, 'I lost my wallet. Isn't that terrible?' It's certainly an inconvenience; it's hardly terrible.
I gained two pounds. Isn't that terrible?' It's hardly terrible to gain two pounds. Yet that's the way we talk about trivia in our lives. And our subconscious is registering, DISASTER ... DISASTER ... DISASTER. Replace 'it's terrible' with 'it's a learning experience.'

I was showing the book to someone I thought it might help. She got the point!

Have ground my teeth so much with rage that my dentist recommended a mouth guard to stop me doing this at night and loosening my teeth.

Have had to have a rabies injection because have been frothing so much and people are starting to avoid me in public.

Have made an appointment with my doctor to DEMAND tranquillisers. Had to scream a bit at the receptionist before they would understand this was like a complete emergency.

I did get a bit fed up with young teachers announcing to the staffroom that they'd just taught a stunning lesson or showing us the children's stunning art work. I'll decide whether I'm stunned, thanks!!

It's 'rediculous' how much I love this thread. (My most irritating mis-spelt, over-used MN and FB word, along with 'discusting'). I do like 'fumming' though! 😀

PiecesOfCake
I've noticed you can't be "sad" any more either. You have to be "beyond sad".
Or devastated

On the other scale 'super excited' makes me physically hurl, yes really

Oh Blimey this thread! Ha bloody Ha!

No-one cares that my eyes are literally boiling in their sockets & I actually sneezed my head off during the afternoon.

If I were a man, I'd have flu for sure but it's just a pissing cold.

Ooh, great quote, Beezie.

Dot, feel a v.v.v.bad case of hyperbolphobia coming on. Have logged call to emergency services (all three).

Can't believe the marching MILs (always mils) have been missed out.

My MIL often marches to my house and DEMANDS that DH and I go out while she looks after my PFB, PSB, Dcat1, Dcat2, Ddog1, Ddog2 and Dfish.

She is literally so controlling and toxic. And I am such an introvert.

I'm livid that I was duped into opening this thread under false pretences.

absolutely crying with laughter at this.

Seriously, I'm actually sat with a small grin on my face as I sip tea and surf while waiting for a rather important email to land in my inbox.

But inside, I am absolutely crying with laughter!

Beyond livid? Mind I do like a cuntingly selfish myself.

My teeth however never itch! Nor my piss boil. Abject failure.

Reminded of my old boss who when "incandescent with rage" wrote a letter
to you FenellaMaxwell you've made my day.

Perhaps its just that when life is really tough, terms like tragic and devastated are reserved for the big stuff. If nothing much is wrong, then the small things seem more important to people because they aren't busy worrying about really bad events. Perhaps its a sign that life is good in many ways? When I went to India, I saw more people with happy faces in the slums than I ever do on a shopping street in UK. Are we just spoilt?

Entitled novice

'Whoever parked outside your house/ looked at you funny/ bought the last kitkat is incredibly entitled.
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Incredibly.
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Boils my piss.

ROFL

actually sat slightly hunched on sofa with laptop on lap and a blanket round my legs. The floor is a very cold tile.

I think language just changes over time and words lose/change their meaning or depth.

Pipistrelle40 after the appointment with your doctor to demand tranquillisers, were you then RUSHED to A&E?

I mean no one ever goes to or is taken to casualty these days, they're always rushed there. Usually (if you believe what you read in the Hate Mail) you're rushed to A&E after being fobbed off by the GP who was useless!

SukeyTakeItOffAgain, am totally, head-explodingly apoplectic that you have CONFRONTED me over our joint vaguely-tea-related user names. To add to the utter devastation you have also inadvertently made me realise that I mis-remembered the rhyme and in fact it was bloody Polly who put the kettle on.

The corner shop has run out of peppermint teabags. I am sobbing, literally crying big angry tears of rage and frustration :( How on earth can I even start to work through this??