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?!

It had crayfish in it as well. Bastard.

Over

Fret - if your children aren't deep cleaning your house on a weekly basis, you have failed as a parent. How do you think your special snowflake will cope when she leaves home for university?

OTGG LTB, both of them. Does your DH normally withold food from you? I'm shaking on your behalf. Call Women's Aid and GET OUT NOW.

And if you think the cat goes around taking your food, that's emotional abuse too. It's gaslighting you.

I am contrite Fenella

I should be more understanding at your misfortunes

Barbara
Is OK. I just ate his Toblerone. In the most PA manner I could muster.

OTGG

I now see it might not be your cat, but someone else's cat that they have let out to purposely shit on your lawn. All cats are dirty discusting mouse torturers that exist only to shit on other people's lawns while their crazy cat lady owners sit in the cat hair covered cardigans blissfully unaware of the discusting filth left behind by their filthy animals. You should set up CCTV and call 101 to log it.

ComputerUser I am an utter failure. Devastated.

Well I think you should all be 'appaulled' at yourselves for belittling those who are going through such difficult emotional upheaval as having someone give them the side eye in Waitrose and causing them to be vomit with rage. Waitrose at its worst if you ask me.

(I spent all summer dealing with a situation like this at work and it was quite annoying to hear everyone say what a tragedy it is for the garden centre next door to have closed. I'm pretty sure the OED definition of 'Tragedy' is not 'garden centre next door as closed.')

*has closed

I think it was in the news overage of one of the Junior Doctors' protests that I saw 'I'm quite annoyed' on a banner.
It was refreshing understatement and all the more powerful.

Whatever happened to the Great British expression of absolute rage ie. the tut and eye roll?

I am often amused on here at the amount of "raging", "absolutely raging", "fuming", "absolutely fuming", "cringing", "absolutely cringing", being "disgusted", "absolutely disgusted" (or discusted) or "grossed out" that may apparently be going on around me.

Minging is another one. Or absolutely minging.

I think it is hyperbole to draw people into the thread, which you often find is about something totally banal.

BarbaraofSeville

I am mildly amused by the image that evoked.
And it's not often I'm even mildly amused, let alone
by a post on MN.

I am awaiting the day I LOL.

I hope all you lot in the North East of Scotland are OK what with the weather giving it a 'glancing blow' yesterday and all according to the BBC.

Who writes this shite?

The late John Peel once said in an interview that his wife was such an unflappable woman, not given to over reaction, that were he to lose a leg in a freak tractor accident she would likely say "dab a bit of iodine on it and see what it's like in the morning"

THANK GOD - my people have returned. I wondered where you all were in the current sea of MN over-emoting.

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.

Today I am an oasis of calm.

It is like everyone is dialled up to 11 on the drama scale all the fucking time.

Yes!

There were delays on my train line yesterday evening. I get that on some lines where there are persistent problems that could send people over the edge but that's not the case on the line I use. I'm lucky that serious delays are relatively infrequent. People were behaving really badly! Screaming, shouting abuse, trying to jam themselves into trains where there really wasn't any room (thus delaying the service even further). I know people need to get home - I have two small children to get home to and childcare to relieve - but seriously, calm down! So much drama, raised blood pressure and really, it wasn't necessary or helpful!

So it's not just an MN thing. It appears to be a life thing.

MN hyperbole sometimes irks me a little. Or should I say something like "makes my teeth itch" or "gives me the rage"? On a thread about weeing in the shower once, someone said something about not wanting to "wade through other people's disgusting piss" when they are having a shower. Come come, I said, that's not what actually happens is it? The wee gets washed down the plughole by hot water and soap and is long gone by the time you make it into your shower. I was then accused of being overly literal (like literally) and a killjoy and of being a barrel of laughs at parties. I must admit I was stumped there.

Can't RTFT due to spitting tea/wine/coffee over my keyboard.

And I haven't even got a keyboard.

"How about 'apoplectic' with rage?"

I have literally fainted in a fit of frustrated fury that nobody has noticed that I said that first! Rot in hell, bitches!