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Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Pilla on March 13, 2010, 10:55:30 pm
Hey!

As the topic implies, how angry have you ever been or are capable of becoming? All my life, I've never raised my fist to anyone out of angry or malice. The most I can become is maby at most annoyed with someone, but never to the point of losing my control and going out like a lunatic. I have been physically slapped in the face in the face for defending a gay guy...oh, true story time!

One time when I was under a gazebo(sp?) and this guy saw one of my friends, who was gay or whatever. He started calling him all types of names, and then began to get in his face as if he was going to attack him. I stood up and got in between both of them, and the guy looked at me like I was out of place or something, I told him he had no right to say such things to someone for who they where and he stood there for a minute as if he couldn't process the thought. A second or so later he raised his hand and slapped me across the face, I just looked back at him with a serious look (if there is such a thing) and stood there saying nothing (although I could feel I was crying). Anyways, some friends told my little brother (who is about 6,1 and heavy set) and he went berserk. He came towards me screaming "WHO WAS IT, TELL ME WHO THE FUCKER WAS" and I just kinda told him to calm down and that everything was ok.

At this point the guy had walked back a few feet looking a bit worried but still smirking from what he did, and thats when my little brother yelled "I'LL KILL YOU" and began rampaging towards the guy, all my friends and others had to hold him back...

That being said, I know my brother well, and know he isnt the one to do that type of drama. When it was all over and the parties had left the scene, we both laughed and I said "I'll kill you? C'mon!".

I have many stories of how I have never ever had to be angry or lash out... I figure life is already messy so why add to it by being angry? I paid for some friends food not too long ago and one of them completely disrespected me by swearing loudly in a restaurant with kids. I told them to be quiet but they just got louder...didn't get angry, jut thought im never going to pay for  food ever again for rude people. Tell me, how often do you get mad, and are you a cool cucumber like me? Is it even needed that we have anger?
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: tuxedo marx on March 13, 2010, 10:59:19 pm
what an enormous asshole
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on March 13, 2010, 11:28:59 pm
i haven't had a tantrum since before highschool, i just feel like an enormous dick if i act angry.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Farren on March 14, 2010, 12:18:44 am
Pilla you should learn how to tear shit up

tear it up
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: big ass skelly on March 14, 2010, 12:20:26 am
The angriest I've ever gotten was my recent reply to TFT... I'll pull it up in a sec

So I said "Have you looked in the mirror lately TFT? You always seem to have a negative attitude about everything but you always hide behind a sarcastic veneer and slack grammatical style."
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: dragonx on March 14, 2010, 12:24:59 am
that is not recent at all mark
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Jester on March 14, 2010, 12:25:26 am
Quote from: big ass skelly on March 14, 2010, 12:20:26 am
The angriest I've ever gotten was my recent reply to TFT... I'll pull it up in a sec

So I said "Have you looked in the mirror lately TFT? You always seem to have a negative attitude about everything but you always hide behind a sarcastic veneer and slack grammatical style."
jester likes this  :bravo:
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Rajew on March 14, 2010, 01:21:06 am
I've never gotten angry on the outside really. I bottle that shit up.
The angriest I've gotten and shown was probably one time I very sternly asked my roommate "so why am I the only one you rag on for not following his religion to the strictest?" or something like that. I was really angry inside but it just came out as a "dude not cool".

One day I'm going to explode from all this repressed anger
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: DoctorEars on March 14, 2010, 01:32:45 am
Got so angry once that I kicked a chair and broke it.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Barack Obama on March 14, 2010, 01:36:52 am
Mild road rage and the occasional personal fit thrown behind closed doors but I keep my composure in pubs yo.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: ThugTears666 on March 14, 2010, 03:16:40 am
I honestly never overreact or get super angry, maybe the thought of smashing something/someone goes through my head if I'm really really annoyed but I never act on it. It pays alot to stay calm. You save yourself alot of trouble that way. Wasn't it Killer Wolf that said he had real problems with anger?
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: DoctorEars on March 14, 2010, 03:22:44 am
Quote from: Dr. Ears on March 14, 2010, 01:32:45 am
Got so angry once that I kicked a chair and broke it.

This being said I haven't got this angry since I did break the chair.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: MaD on March 14, 2010, 04:54:16 am
I get angry all the time when I play games online but that's pretty much it.  I used to be pretty bad when I went to arcades because I got so comfortable around friends that I had no problem swearing at them when I got mad about losing or dropping combos.  although I didn't care too much about swearing whether I was mad or not that's just the way with fighting game crowds you catch this energy and hype and everyone's crazy really.

There was one time that anger actually helped me out.  There was a 40+ man sf4 tournament in Dallas and that was the first kinda big tournament I managed to place top 8 at.  I normally lose to nerves but my first match was against this rose player, and even though he was garbage and playing rose I was just making hella mistakes because I felt "no I better not lose to rose c'mon" and then I knocked him down, went for a cross-up, he got up and did a wake-up ultra and it was hella early.  Rose was facing away from the direction I was going and I treated it like a whiff, tried to land the cross-up to maximize punishment.... then somehow teleported in front of him to get hit with the ultra...  A nearby crowd screamed "SHAMWOW" and all I could think is "hell no, that's the last break this guy is getting, he plays rose he is dying right now"  he got a game on me but I beat him for the whole set and got top 8 hooray.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: the_bub_from_the_pit on March 14, 2010, 05:01:26 am
Quote from: MaD on March 14, 2010, 04:54:16 am
There was one time that anger actually helped me out.  There was a 40+ man sf4 tournament in Dallas and that was the first kinda big tournament I managed to place top 8 at.  I normally lose to nerves but my first match was against this rose player, and even though he was garbage and playing rose I was just making hella mistakes because I felt "no I better not lose to rose c'mon" and then I knocked him down, went for a cross-up, he got up and did a wake-up ultra and it was hella early.  Rose was facing away from the direction I was going and I treated it like a whiff, tried to land the cross-up to maximize punishment.... then somehow teleported in front of him to get hit with the ultra...  A nearby crowd screamed "SHAMWOW" and all I could think is "hell no, that's the last break this guy is getting, he plays rose he is dying right now"  he got a game on me but I beat him for the whole set and got top 8 hooray.

what thew fuck are you talking about
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Massy2k6 on March 14, 2010, 05:30:16 am
The Dr said my anger issues are now at bay, I'm also up for release soon so I'm excited.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Farren on March 14, 2010, 06:47:08 am
I don't get mad but I get annoyed often and am very smartassed so everyone calls me a dick
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: dragonx on March 14, 2010, 06:49:43 am
idk coxswain...idk....
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Mongoloid on March 14, 2010, 08:12:11 am
I get real pissed about to the point of snapping at someone just about every day regarding my job but I think it's because I am very passive aggressive that I am able to control myself. My one regret is that I maintain a very emotionless look on my face regardless of what I feel so it bothers me that people don't understand how pissed I am.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Erave on March 14, 2010, 08:28:16 am
I used to have really bad anger problems. Not so much anymore. I can wear my aggravation on my sleeve, but usually I just keep it inside as not to piss anyone off. Most of job security relies on me playing cool.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: thejackyl on March 14, 2010, 09:52:53 am
I tend to bottle up my anger.  When I'm in public, usually the most I'll do is swear, but I get behind closed doors, I've gotten mad enough to black out.  I never remember what I do when this happens, so I'm going off what people have told me.

That's only happened twice, once in like....  third grade? cam home after getting picked on all day, than my brother continues this after I'm already pissed of, I black out break a lunch box over his head and punch this glass penny jar and shatter it, cutting my hand up, and it was about an inch thick too.  Came to after my parents came home and I was in my room, went downstairs to "Why are you downstairs, your grounded" I asked why, and they threw a huge bitch fit.

The other time was at my last job.  I was pulled off of counter because of a few douchebag customers, and I was having another shitty day, and one of the employees starts whipping me with a wet towel.  After aboout 2 or 3 whips, I grabbed the bun rack and threw it at him.  Missed him, but smashed the rack to pieces.  Came to seconds later, to see the same asshole that was snapping me with the towel cowering in fear in the next room.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: The One on March 14, 2010, 12:54:25 pm
I usually get angry after i fail the same mission about three times in a row in a game, which results in me throwing the controller around the room and letting loose my entire vocubalary of swear words.

also used to happen when i died in world of warcraft when i almost got something done, life used to seem so unfair then. but that doesn't happen anymore since i dropped wow for rl.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: JMickle on March 14, 2010, 01:03:10 pm
really fucking angry
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Shepperd on March 14, 2010, 06:41:39 pm
I dont remember the last time I got angry.

I never get angry.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Seawed on March 14, 2010, 08:17:55 pm
I might shout at the person who made me angry, although usually I just sort of sit by myself and allow myself to simmer down and then go on as usual. I have a strange feeling that I bottle up my emotions and I might end up doing something really stupid one day though!
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: tuxedo marx on March 16, 2010, 11:29:47 am
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/10/article-1226511-07269565000005DC-939_468x347.jpeg)
VERY ANGRY INDEED (no i am not a bitter man at all why would you ask)
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Faust on March 17, 2010, 05:50:04 pm
I'm a pretty angry man as a rule, so there's a whole bunch of examples I could give...

The most angry, however, was probably when I threw up due to my own rage. That was also pretty disgusting. My usual response is to just scream, break something (this hasn't happened for a couple of years), or take it out on my loved ones. I've never hit anyone due to anger, nor have I even gone to hit them.

I AM A COWARD AT HEART, EVEN WHEN IN A FIT OF RAGE!!!

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I have a strange feeling that I bottle up my emotions and I might end up doing something really stupid one day though!

Dude, that way lies one hell of a tumour or bowel condition. Stress can have a serious effect on your health; you should never bottle up emotions to the point of internal damage.

I know a bunch of people who developed IBS after STRESSFUL TIMES!!
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: kayo Hairbinger on March 17, 2010, 05:56:19 pm
I ripped my bathroom door off of the wall before because I was angry because of my momey
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Malad on March 19, 2010, 10:56:36 am
im mad because my girlfriend's ex-boyfriend who dropped out of high school, joined the military, went AWOL for 3 months, got a dishonorable discharge and no longer has a drivers license, is now back in my city AND has already tried to contact her twice. that's within two weeks of being here.

how am I supposed to take this guy down. he's like 6 ft 170 lbs, I'm 5 ft 9 135 lbs. lol. am i dead?
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Farren on March 19, 2010, 04:34:23 pm
with a baseball bat
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Rajew on March 19, 2010, 05:08:12 pm
Quote from: Malad on March 19, 2010, 10:56:36 am
im mad because my girlfriend's ex-boyfriend who dropped out of high school, joined the military, went AWOL for 3 months, got a dishonorable discharge and no longer has a drivers license, is now back in my city AND has already tried to contact her twice. that's within two weeks of being here.

how am I supposed to take this guy down. he's like 6 ft 170 lbs, I'm 5 ft 9 135 lbs. lol. am i dead?
tell the westboro baptist church hes a gay soldier and maybe theyll handle it for you (maybe theyll heckle him and he will fight them and possibly injure one or two of them and get arrested)
I just resolved two of your problems at once dude, I'm your guru  :fogetbackflip:
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: fatty on March 19, 2010, 05:50:02 pm
Quote from: kayo Hairbinger on March 17, 2010, 05:56:19 pm
I ripped my bathroom door off of the wall before because I was angry because of my momey
where my momey at
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on March 19, 2010, 10:21:15 pm
Quote from: Faust on March 17, 2010, 05:50:04 pm
Dude, that way lies one hell of a tumour or bowel condition. Stress can have a serious effect on your health; you should never bottle up emotions to the point of internal damage.

I know a bunch of people who developed IBS after STRESSFUL TIMES!!

research indicates otherwise buddy. expressing emotion leads to more stress, for longer
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Terrorantula on March 19, 2010, 10:51:52 pm
I lose my temper quite often and either fume or yell. I don't attack physically.
Most recent? Yesterday on the Metro I saw a guy hitting his kid over thew head with a plastic bottled full of Gatorade. When I approached and asked him to stop, we got into an altercation. At one point, I threatened to to grab the bottle away and "pour it all over his ass."  I broke off, however.- I didn't want a fight. Normally it doesn't reach that level.

Anger isn't always bad- it can lead to action to change things if used correctly. If used wrongly, however, it can lead to a disaster.

Malad, don't attack the guy- talk to your gal! Remember, she's yours like your friend- not yours like your car. You don't own her.  :mad:
 If you're concerned about losing her to this guy she may be able to reassure you, and may be willing to cut ties with him at worst- but that's her decision to make in the end.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: goldenratio on March 19, 2010, 11:03:29 pm
over 9000. i can get over 9000 angry.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Terrorantula on March 20, 2010, 12:02:20 am
I don't physically attack people IRL but I do kick things, and I apparently snap and snarl at people.  MY RP characters are rather dangerous...
In fact....

*Stomps his foot and causes a fissure to open under Malad*  Respect your gal, got it?
*Psycho laughter* Ahhh  ....Much better.  :happy:
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: big ass skelly on March 20, 2010, 12:21:13 am
I wouldn't like to meet your RP characters in a dark invisionfree skin, that's for sure.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Carrion Crow on March 20, 2010, 12:30:34 am
Quote from: Rockman on March 16, 2010, 11:29:47 am
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VERY ANGRY INDEED (no i am not a bitter man at all why would you ask)

Haha, sorry it took me so long to rise to the bait of this post but yeah. I agree with you wholeheartedly. As a Liverpool supporter it kinda makes you feel uneasy when you see dishonesty like that. I am glad that players like Benayoun don't go down unless they have no option to, like there was a match a few weeks ago where they were like "Why didn't you just go down?".

The Europa League method of goal-line linesmen hasn't really been that effective in making right decisions really either having watched the games. It's either human error or they just hire pure retarded people to be referees.

Also did you see this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/8575595.stm

Filthy.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: kayo Hairbinger on March 20, 2010, 01:35:33 am
Quote from: fatty on March 19, 2010, 05:50:02 pm
where my momey at
g

I meant money I made a mistake
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Terrorantula on March 20, 2010, 01:52:15 am
Quote from: big ass skelly on March 20, 2010, 12:21:13 am
I wouldn't like to meet your RP characters in a dark invisionfree skin, that's for sure.
Most of them aren't mean and nasty, they just happen to be  supernatural beings, as per the setting ... And in D&D my sorkies were total fail. Rogues and fighters, not so much.. I think I'd be a better player now.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: †SilentStalker† on March 20, 2010, 03:54:32 am
well my mom says i get angry p easily and when i get angry i get violent, i mean, literally, one time i punched the wall and hurt my hand a little bit

my mom says thats no way for a 25 year old to act , but im like "whatever mom"  :rolleyes:
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Mongoloid on March 20, 2010, 08:18:25 am
Quote from: Terrorantula on March 20, 2010, 01:52:15 am
Most of them aren't mean and nasty, they just happen to be  supernatural beings, as per the setting ... And in D&D my sorkies were total fail. Rogues and fighters, not so much.. I think I'd be a better player now.

can't tell if you're joking but it sounds to me like you've got bigger things on that anger issues
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Pilla on March 21, 2010, 08:29:37 am
Interesting replies! I can't recall anytime I've wanted to psychically maul someone, but if I do feel anger...if you can call it that; I normally stop talking to someone who gets on my nerves enough. A fine example of someone who got me to that point was a guy I took out to eat and all he did was farted and talked loudly in swear words... I hate angry emotions, but I guess it might be necessary to sometimes assert your position in this world with a little untamed violence! One day... all of the hatred and silent rage and hellfire will awaken within me, and all who stand in my way will fall in bloody violence.


Nah that sounded tasteless, what I'm really saying is... maybe anger is part of the natural order, and if you repress it that could lead to issues later on. So far so good with me though. I think when I was a teen I might have had some moments that where questionable, but I promise you I keep my composure most of the time. I'm glad to see different people have different ways on handling anger :3
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Sir on March 21, 2010, 09:01:21 am
Well, there were times I was confronted for visiting a therapist while in the Army. A crooked doc eventually leaked the reason, which was gender identity disorder, which I had struggled with alone all my life. My supervisor brought it up out of blue one day, and called me gay. I wanted to stab him, but I punched a filing cabinet instead. Nice, massive dent. The topic was never brought up again.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Farren on March 21, 2010, 04:32:31 pm
what about species identity disorder?
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Swordfish on March 22, 2010, 09:58:44 am
I find it really difficult to get angry, even with certain things, i just can't be bothered to get worked up. I mean my best friend got persuaded into pawning my rather expensive laptop off and then spent it all (mostly) on weed and i just couldn't get angry about it, still it's not like i needed it i mean i left it over his house for AGES because i didn't need it any more, but still it was mine but i couldn't get angry at him, mainly because he's an idiot that can be persuaded surprisingly easy BUT also because he wouldn't have done it if it weren't for that shmuck "friend" of his.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: everyclear on March 22, 2010, 01:54:46 pm
did he at least share the weed with you?
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Corfaisus on March 22, 2010, 02:35:00 pm
Getting angry to the point of feeling sick to my stomach and quickly repeating what I just said, loudly. About as angry as I can remember.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Swordfish on March 22, 2010, 03:05:11 pm
Quote from: everyclear on March 22, 2010, 01:54:46 pm
did he at least share the weed with you?
i don't smoke, but he has tried to get me into it, but i'm not interested but he did say he would forevermore give me free weed whenever i'm around (though i think he said that because he knows i won't take him up on the offer).

i just find it dificult to get angry, guess i'm just mellow person.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Farren on March 22, 2010, 04:28:04 pm
yeah but if you just let him get off with it and don't say anything he's probably going to keep doing shit like that
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: everyclear on March 22, 2010, 04:29:26 pm
Also you should totally get free weed from him.  At the very least call his bluff, and make a profit off it or something like that.   Just because you are a mellow and laid-back person doesn't mean that you need to be a fucking tool either.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: tuxedo marx on March 22, 2010, 07:23:23 pm
Quote from: ed on March 20, 2010, 12:30:34 am
Haha, sorry it took me so long to rise to the bait of this post but yeah. I agree with you wholeheartedly. As a Liverpool supporter it kinda makes you feel uneasy when you see dishonesty like that. I am glad that players like Benayoun don't go down unless they have no option to, like there was a match a few weeks ago where they were like "Why didn't you just go down?".
yeah, you share this view with a lot of the liverpool fans i spoke to in and around 'pool after the game (have i mentioned that the people of liverpool seem really nice and honest?), there was a lot of shame around town that evening. it's sad because the fans can't be responsible for the actions of the players on the pitch and they don't deserve to have a cheating disgust-merchant at the club. you raise a good contrast with benayoun who always gives 100% for his club and never goes down without the effect of gravity. that's football though eh?

it also doesn't help that i was pretty much a few metres left / up from that picture
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Carrion Crow on March 22, 2010, 07:32:47 pm
Howard Webb has made me angry too many times this season. And he looks like the Hood from Thunderbirds.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: tuxedo marx on March 22, 2010, 07:37:49 pm
the standard of refereeing in general has slipped. bring back graham poll i say!
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Swordfish on March 22, 2010, 07:44:35 pm
Quote from: everyclear on March 22, 2010, 04:29:26 pm
Also you should totally get free weed from him.  At the very least call his bluff, and make a profit off it or something like that.   Just because you are a mellow and laid-back person doesn't mean that you need to be a fucking tool either.

don't miss understand personally even if he did shit like that (which incidentally he hasn't in a long time, bear in mind that incident happend years ago) i still value the friendship of a long time in which he hasn't done stuff like that more then a laptop of which i had no use of, yes he was a git/bastard/etc for doing it but the incident has been dealt with, it's just i find it physically/phsycologically(sp) very difficult to get angry at people.
whilst i don't get angry with people i do have limits after witch i ignore them to the point they could be speaking to me and i wouldn't acknowledge there existence, i never talk to them again, and i make sure others know why I'm ignoring them so others can join me in ignoring said person, I've completely ousted people like that before, making a person loose all social standings in there local area/school/club etc is far better way at getting back at them then being angry, being angry achieves nothing so i tend to take a passive style of actively getting back at them.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: tuxedo marx on March 22, 2010, 07:49:34 pm
excuse me this is now the liverpool FC love-in topic please stay on topic
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Carrion Crow on March 22, 2010, 07:53:29 pm
How the hell did that massive turdstain not get sent off after he stood on Maxi's face and made him bleed! Such a pile of #2.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Mateui on March 22, 2010, 10:34:36 pm
Quote from: big ass skelly on March 14, 2010, 12:20:26 am
The angriest I've ever gotten was my recent reply to TFT... I'll pull it up in a sec

So I said "Have you looked in the mirror lately TFT? You always seem to have a negative attitude about everything but you always hide behind a sarcastic veneer and slack grammatical style."
:hmm:

 :laugh: you never cease to make me laugh Mark. Thank you.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Terrorantula on March 22, 2010, 10:56:41 pm
Quote from: Mongoloid on March 20, 2010, 08:18:25 am
can't tell if you're joking but it sounds to me like you've got bigger things on that anger issues
HUH?
Whatever...
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: Killer Wolf on March 23, 2010, 10:51:00 pm
I've always had a hard time understanding people that "don't get angry." I've always been around anger, in myself and in others. My parents, my friends, you name it. Maybe I'm just that trying, that I piss off everyone unfortunate enough to be around me. When I was in second grade, before I'd even seen/heard my parents get really loud in an argument, the teachers were concerned that I was too angry and aggressive. Someone flicked me in the ear and laughed, so I stabbed him in the arm with a pencil. When we had "free time" to draw and color, mine usually had "big angry black and red slashes everywhere." I was in counseling all through elementary school. Other kids went to lunch period, I went to the counselor's office.

They figured that my temper combined with my lackluster performance in school meant that I had some sort of developmental issue, that I was possibly one of the slow kids. To that end, they administered a battery of I.Q. tests. When the results came back, I was pulled out of regular classes and upgraded to the gifted program. That kept me acting mostly normal up into high school, aside from one outburst where a couple kids hit me in the head with a metal rod rolled up in a magazine and I beat on them with a desk before throwing multiple desks at them. Unfortunately, my family moved to a different district, so I no longer had access to the accelerated programs I was accustomed to, and almost as soon as I was stuck back in "general population," the behavioral difficulties returned, but by then I'd learned to go cold.

By going cold, I mean that I was still really easy to set off, but once I started, it had the potential to go beyond mindless rage and into something that was much easier to direct. An example... I bought a pair of engineer boots, I was proud of them because I used my own money, all of that crap. Besides, at the time I just thought they looked cool. This guy walked up to me during lunch (9th grade) and said "Nice boots," but before I could thank him for the compliment, he added, "How far did you have to chase that n____r to steal them." It pissed me off, but at the same time the solution slid into perfect focus. He was wearing a confederate flag belt buckle, cowboy boots, and a dixie outfitters shirt, and he'd just used a racial slur. I replied "Not far, he was pretty tired after he came out of your mom's room." He took the first swing, I jammed it, and headbutted him in the face. He fell down, holding his mouth and bleeding, I walked away and he never said another word to me. (This was about two months after I'd seen a guy practically obliterate another kid's teeth with a similar headbutt setup, I guess it was fresh in my mind.)

Now, if someone makes me angry, most of the time the first place my mind goes is devising complicated ways to make them regret the day they were born. As an academic exercise, I find it extremely calming, so I don't really "go off" on people any more, however; If I do something that makes me angry, like breaking something I was trying to repair or not doing something I'd promised to do, or if something inanimate doesn't function as designed (doors particularly), I can still go off the deep end for a little bit. There was a passage in Nobody's Safe, by Richard Steinberg, that summed it up it perfectly.

Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: malaperi on March 24, 2010, 07:49:43 am
i blow up once a year. i never know when its going to come, something just triggers it & from there
im pretty unpredictable about capability & duration. the last time it happened a friend of mine threw
a taco bell sauce packet at my car. normally, i wouldnt care the slightest - i must have had a lot of
weight over my head at the moment. i then proceeded to claim justice over said perp. luckily, we
remained friends after my apology.

i am not an angry person. i am always calm, collected, understanding and responsible for my own
actions. i know there are things i cant control & i let them slide. im not violent, i would never hurt
a fly, ive never gone on drunken rages.

but for a moment - its really spectacular.
Title: How angry can you get?
Post by: nonfeel on March 28, 2010, 03:39:17 am
I'm excited.