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?!

EarlGreyT (with a name like that obviously an entitled up-yerself-snooty-Audi/BMW-driving-cah) I'm shaken to the core by your beyond judgey and classist post. Did you mean to be so incredibly rude and insensitive???

EVERYONE knows the poor sadface people in the DM are only rushed to A&E after being fobbed off by the useless receptionazi NOT the useless GP - because, yeah, like they'd be allowed to see an actual GP.

Are we just spoilt?

Hmmm. No, we are fucking lucky.

Doesn't stop me from imagining a "foot stomp" when I see the word "fuming."

We can be lucky but funny with it, and unlucky but funny with it as well.

In other news, I have just seen someone on a different thread describe having their period as 'the lady time'.

I guess it's like how everyone is a narcissist nowadays. Preferably a "textbook narcissist".See: all ex-partners, difficult mothers and MILs.

YES!

Or any other personality disorder diagnosed by Dr Google.

Some people are just selfish arseholes.

Lady time? Outrageously classist AND ageist AND othering AND exclusionary (btw I deeply loathe the word "exclusionary" with every fibre of my being and I'm literally seething now because I've been forced to use it).

Did you report the post to MNHQ? Can I get you the key to the safe space?

My head's exploding cos this is literally the most incredible thread on MN ever, huns.

A grandfather who had been orphaned age 7 in 1905, wrote ten years later to his foster family from the trenches thus: "Please excuse my handwriting [which was close-to-perfect] but I am writing in somewhat trying circumstances."

That knowledge has rather suppressed my own use of superlatives save where they are particularly apposite.

Separately, what is with all the adjectives in news programmes? You describe the event, I will provide the adjective I think is appropriate. I do get testy when Fiona Bruce (is she still on the telly: I don't watch it much) tells me that there has been 'a terrible earthquake'.

I asked for a miffed-frowny smiley face but MNHQ rejected it.

SULK

(Suki, I wanted PollyPutTheKettleOn as a username but some total bitch had already taken it. I was inconsolable, naturally)

Interesting cultural shifts: when I was growing up, in a planet far far away, the stiff upper lip was paramount (or rampant?) and the height of emotion was someone saying something like 'I'm not sure ... darling'. We have shifted from reticence to loudspeakers in (ahem) 35 years. Why? Well, the earlier reticence was itself a cultural construct: despite their frigid reputation, Victorians blubbed routinely, and emotion was expressed quite deeply. Granted, there was no social media etc, so one had to pick up the signals in other ways (penny dreadfuls being in this respect more informative than the stiff backed novels which used to populate the A-Level canon).

So while we are madly dramatic about everything now, perhaps the pendulum will swing back in time, and frigid smiles and micro signals will re-emerge as expressions of deep emotion: 'Johnny's left me.' 'Oh bad luck old girl.'

However, I suspect the ubiquity - and anonymity - of instant communication through devices will keep the emotional froth bubbling for many a long year 'as I drown all my sorrows in whisky and beer.'

Huppopapa I enjoyed your reference to the grandfather in the trenches. I'm picturing knee deep mud, shrapnel, machine gun fire as he pens his beautifully written and perfectly spelt letter home. I may even have read it to DH along with the Fiona Bruce reference. He smiled and gave a small chuckle also. PLEASE NOTE, at no time did we roar or ROFL.

If I believed everything on here, MN would have me diagnosed with high functioning autism, ADHD, misophonia, severe anxiety disorder, insomnia and an overactive bladder.

Surprisingly I seem to be able to get through the day quite well.

To add to the thought that MiLs never walk anywhere - they march, there's another verb that disliked people can never do. Anyone that mumsnetters approve of can PUT things down. But angry waitresses, unreasonable DHs, rude families etc PLONK things down.

Or SLAM them down.

There's a good one in the first ten posts in this thread.

If you comment on something, you are POLICING it.

This is just the best thread ever! Totally agree, by the by!

You're wrong about being rushed to A&E. In fact, people are BLUE LIGHTED.

Where the Dr Promptly tells them they have the worst case of hyperbolitis they've ever seen, that they were 9 seconds away from death, and that they have more right than any other living human to be treated by the NHS right now.

I have to be a little miffed by the East Anglia accent bashing on here.

I'd go so far as to say I'm a bit cross.

I love how my DDs count.
'One, Two, Three, Four, Foooooooiyyyyve, Six, Seven, Eight, Nooooooiiiyyyyynne, Ten.

Now It's late and I'm gutted, or rather feeling totally eviscerated by this thread. I need to lie down.

EarlGreyTea I was airlifted to A&E with drips attached to every limb. Was rushed straight through as it was so absolutely serious and told I was suffering from a chronic case of hyperventilation. Not sure what it means but sounds important.

Bleeding autocorrect, chronic case of hysteria aka 'the vapours'.

Is it me or are most of the I'm crying this thread is so funny comments on threads that actually aren't that funny?

Or am I just overly moody but I did like

My dsis came to visit yesterday afternoon in a froth of hyperbolic crisis. After about 10 minutes of shrieking GinDog got up walked in a circle, farted loudly and then lay down again.

I notice a bit of hipocrisy on this thread (I'm fuming, raging,heartbroken,etc about it)... If you describe someone as a narcissist it doesn't always mean something as strong as NPD - You could just mean a vain, self-centred nob - no hyperbole there. Also MH services categorically refuse to treat people with PD unless they present with an actual mental illness too. So it is no surprise that someone in MH will have no more experience of NPD than normal civvies. If you worked in a prison you might meet more 'textbook' NPD' people. Having said that, chances are you would be completely taken in by them and think they seem really cool if you did....

I'm often slightly perturbed... I even occasionally feel a bit fractious 😂

Lady time?

Whoa. How transphobic is that? I hope the poster was reported to MN right away and then made to sit in the naughty corner. It was also classist.

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