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 am mortified by the hyperbole on MN.

It isn't good for my severe medical complaint.

In fact, I'm appalled that people even post this stuff.

By the way, several years ago it was literally made official that literally literally also means figuratively.

See here for details...

quite a few on here are quite happy to tell people to fuck right off for a minor incident

I'm sure a less aggressive exchange would suffice

there are some well ard women on here

Thank you for that link, NewCross... I am now seething to discover that there is no opposite of figuratively, literally...

Maybe some of us are just a bit beige when we are bit angry instead of incandescent with rage.

I find age does that, takes the edge of raging and exuberance alike for me.

Really, TheOnlyLivingBoy? That's given me the RAGE, that. My teeth are literally itching and I am literally fooooomin'.

Literally literally means figuratively. Go figure...
literally boils own head. Twice. Literally.

Is your piss boiling though?

Mind you when I had cystitis I thought mine actually was

quite a few on here are quite happy to tell people to fuck right off for a minor incident

YY but only from behind their keyboards though.

It seems the average Mumsnetter wouldn't even say to a neighbour, "Excuse me, I think you've taken my wheelie bin by mistake", because apparently that's confrontation now and they don't like it

Ditto any other completely normal and polite thing to say to a stranger who''s made a mistake.

trulybadlygently I am often gently perturbed too, IMO there is not enough gentle perturbing in the world these days. Unfortunately I find that often my gently perturbed moments are rudely interrupted by people crashing their shopping trollies into the back of my legs .

So then I have to speak to them , gently of course, and tell them to do one.

That's brilliant quite interesting TheOnly

I find it's getting difficult to contribute to a tribute thread set up on a celebrity's passing. I was quite sad when Leonard Cohen died as he's written some songs I'm fond of with some brilliant lyrics in places.

Such a comment seems almost out of place amongst posts from those "devastated" and from people who have been "crying all day"

Not wanting confrontation is annoyance to some i guess the well hard women^

itchy teeth i thought this was when something made you cringe or does it mean you angry

all this anger and raging is so tiring to even think about

To the pp who said this thread mocks those who are not as emotionally robust....it doesn't at all, that is missing the point. It is not mocking people who are raging, heartbroken etc....it is mocking people who describe themselves that way when actually they are as mildly put out and emotionally robust as the next person.

Well, I am offended by mentions of the professionally offended and intend to report all of you to MNHQ.

My piss is quite literally boiling because I am incandescent. Plus, I shall send MN a bill for repairing the toilet I have literally broken due to my shaking with rage at the meaaaaaan MNers here. You have no respect for my speshul snoflake status but you all waltz in with your comments at all hours.

I love the waltzing husbands

And all these people whose "teeth itch" over minor grammatical errors.

Emotionally abusive.

that term is flung around for a pastime.

A couple can't have a normal argument now without one or the other being accused of being emotionally abusive.

You have a point paxillin. I think age has a lot to do with it.
I find nowadays all the piss boiling, charging around being incandescently fuming, and feeling 'discusted' is just too bloody exhausting.
I channel my inner Elsa, make a coffee and watch the birdies in a tree.
The 'discust' passes.
I used to think I could never get over stuff without a good shout and a confrontation coupled with a dose of huffing and puffing. But I find I can, and I keep my gunpowder dry for a better occasion.

Am I allowed to be fuming if a woman in a Range Rover double parks in the limited school parking area forcing me to block other people in (literally no where else to park) and said people then beep me and verbally abuse me?

Is that a legitimate 'fume'

Ps. After the second time I had a quiet word with her and she now parks in the disabled bay. To which my response is a simple shrug.

Ok help me, wise people of MN - I asked my colleague to get me a cappuccino when he went out and he's brought me back a latte. Should I be devastated, or heartbroken? I just can't seem to work it out.....

Fenella what you need love, is a slap. Meant, in the kindest possible way.

deeply disappointed in him and hurt

obviously this is a passive aggressive action

don't say i didn't warn you next he will be forgetting to ask you what you want but will ask everyone else

HRTFT. Has anyone been apoplectic with rage yet?

Neither. You should report him to HR for blatant neglect of your basic human rights. If you were a man he wouldn't have -got- gotten your order wrong. Literally lighting a candle at my desk in support of you.

I once literally shook with rage. I'd had quite a bit of provocation going on for a while.