to beleive the ability to be outraged regularly by events is a prerequisite for living in the 21st century?

[OrmRenewed]

It seems that every reaction has to be writ large. Not only do people describe quite ordinary things as 'stunning' and 'brilliant, but the negative reaction is similarly extreme. People don't say 'tsk', roll their eyes and move on, pondering on the irritations of modern life. They get very cross, write to the papers and feel outraged. And possibly demand compensation.

I don't. I think I am a dinosaur.
How do I develop my outrage? Does it use a specific part of the brain. Would eating fish help? Am I too old to learn?

Oh I agree! That is outrageous. Perhaps we can start PAYE for your new TV.

Well, you think you have problems with your sour satsumas and what not? Hm? Well, I have a splinter in my finger. I could DIE and then will blame the NHS.

Oh yes

All hail 'Pronto' - the leader of the revolt...

I've never seen The Sound Of Music...

but is it pre-peeled and separated?

No! It isn't.

Oh sorry, must start as I mean to go on. Scrub substitute

On a brighter note...Hello Magazine are coming to my house to do a photo shoot because I have stubbed my Digitus Primus. I sold them the exclusive rights....... there is bruising and swelling

The fee will help pay for my rehab treatment for an addiction to Green Skittles.

i think there are much worse crises than the lack of tea and coffee!

come on folks, pull yourself together!

i have tea in my hand (well, will have when i stop typing) and i can have a biscuit if i can be bothered to go to the biscuit tin.

I'm most annoyed that i'm sitting here inside when the sun's shining and people have the audacity to walk down the street outside my shop!!!!
how very dare they!

oh, you know what, now i'm devastated because i've finished my tea.

[sob sob sob sob]

enjoying getting outraged yet Orm?

Yes. It's most satisfying

But not satisfying enough to stop me being disgusted of course.

yup it's because we're all so important that we should have a blanket ban on anything that might offend us. Never mind the fact that nobody has a right to not be offended.
Hopefully 4lions will send the moral guardians of our souls (I'm of course talking about tabloids,24 hour news stations,any member of the public who offers an opinion or story to any of these outlets when the stroy has "x/y/z-gate" as its headline and talking head celebrities) into such intense bouts of self-pontificating moralistic handwringing that they will simply implode and the rest of use can get on with our lives.

Wow! That was a hell of a sentence mayor!

Was there a teeny bit of outrage in it...

Nope just nice restrained attack on the pseudo-moralistic, faux-outrage and competitive grieving wasteland that has become our "news"

I'm rarely even flabbergasted these days, let alone downright outraged.

I put it down to Moral Laxity.

Or old age and laziness.

Any every time anyone looks a bit peaky it is "an imminent pandemic"

Ah yes, like that Swine Flu epidemic. That one. Where we were all supposed to be dead by last autumn.

I am really enjoying all these lovely gentle words - peaky, miffed and flabbergasted. Don't think these are words that the DM has ever used.

Where does 'gobsmacked' fit, Orm?

'Peeved' is another good one

Hmmmm.... I think straying into outraged territory there poledra.

And 'vexed'. I get vexed sometimes.

I was, on one occasion, incensed....
The feeling put me out of sorts for quite sometime...

I'm rather fond of 'piqued' and also a little put out that Orm thinks gobsmacked is on the cusp of outrageousness.