How bad's your anger?

[eyez0nme]

can you control it, or does it just let itself loose, uncontrollably?

[Zonehunter1]

One question before i begin to answer: will you partake in this topic?

on that note i have had to control it my whole life. the few times it got out? got suspended each time at school.

[Jay]

I rarely get knock-down, I'm-taking-you-out angry, and for the most part I can control it, but when I DO go head-hunting, heads roll.

Sometimes I don't want to control it. It's much easier to yell at people and stay moody than to wrench a smile back on your face.

[FireWolf238]

i get angered really easily. i'm usually pissed off so all i need is a trigger. I live in a place where most people piss me off. but i can control my anger...that's the only reason why i'm not behind bars yet

[Praetorian]

I'm not ever really angry. Sometimes I get frustrated and I just grab the nearest pencil and break it. That's VERY rarely though. Like once a year.

[Overkongen]

I don't ever go on a screaming fit, or throw things around... However...

My eyes are able to display true evil. I was out teaching once, and grabbed one of the students cell-phones. Heading back to my desk, her eraser flew right by my ear, and hit the blackboard. I put the cell-phone down, went back to her, and calmly stated that she was never going to throw anything at me ever again. She then broke down in tears.

[FireWolf238]

same here, i can give a very evil look. like all i need is to stare that way toward someone and they walk around me in a long arch...which is awsom

[Jess]

I'm usually pretty even tempered. When I flare up, it's usually over very quickly, and I usually just say or think something nasty before it's over. I do probably have the worst temper of all my siblings, however. When my younger brothers got picked on, I would fight off the bullies. I've been really angry only a couple of times in my life - and then I was so angry, I literally saw red.

Once was when I was a kid. We went to a private Christian school, and my parents scrimped and saved to afford to send us there. Most of the kids there were the children of well off Ford executives - so we, being so poor, had few friends, and got picked on a lot. My uncle, who was 7 years older than me, 17, suddenly died in a car accident. One time some boys were picking on me, and the petty frustrations were suddenly too much to deal with, and I lost it, kneeing them both where they lived and running away.

The other time was in Japan, actually. I'd adopted two stray kittens while there, and one needed to be fixed. I didn't have a car, so the CIR in town dropped me and my cat off, then brought me back to my place and told me he wouldn't be able to help me pick up my cat after the operation that afternoon, after all. So I sat at home and tried to decide if I could try to bicycle there and bungee the cat carrier with my poor groggy kitty in it to the back of the bike, or would the slower but less bumpy walking be better (I guess it would've been about 45 minute walk or so). As I was deciding to begin walking back to the vet's office in the neighboring town, I got a phone call. On the other end the Japanese vet said: "Kage...dead." (my cat's name was Kage) As I reeled in shock, I called one friend who had other plans, but might be willing to pick me up anyway - plus her Japanese was tons better than mine. She was kind enough to come running, and brought me to the vet. The poor vet, as evidenced by her abrupt message to me, spoke little to no English. As she waited for me to arrive, she and her assistant had used a Japanese - English dictionary to write out a statement for me, explaining that Kage had stopped breathing while he was under anethesia (sp?). With my friend's fluent Japanese we got the story straight, I asked them to take care of the body, and I turned down her offer of payment to me, though I didn't pay for the surgery (I often wonder if I made her feel worse by not accepting the money...I knew it probably was no more than my cat had some heart problem or was allergic to the anethesia or something...but maybe accepting the money would've made her feel better. Ah well.). So, after this, I really needed to be around people, because I was pretty depressed. My friend drove me to a party in her town...where I met the CIR who'd driven me that morning. He looked at me strangely when I arrived, and asked about my cat. I told him Kage'd died under anethesia - and he said:

"Good. Now I won't have to drive you to the vet anymore."

Well...yeah. I saw red. I swear, if I hadn't been on the other side of a car from him while he said it, I would have jumped on him and started hitting him right there. By the time I got around the car I had enough control regained to simply say "You are an asshole," and stalk off.

So I don't *really* lose it that often. But when I do, I lose it bad enough that it could get me in trouble someday. So you know what they say about redheads having fiery tempers? I think it's true in my case. :)

[FireWolf238]

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"Good. Now I won't have to drive you to the vet anymore."




that's a suicidal thing to say. If i were you than CIM would not have been very healthy for a while.......

[Loc]

I'm generally pretty relaxed and it takes a lot to get me angry. I can always control it if I do though, I've never went crazy and attacked someone or anything.

[Quartermaster]

I love to answer questions.

[more cheerios]

I have a horrible temper, but I don't take it out on people. Only if I get really frusterated at idiocy (aka: race supremecy, deaming others, etc) will I say anything

[Bob]

The other day i threatened to beat someone to death with a loaf of bread...

[FireWolf238]

my line is " i'll cut your dick off with a plastic spoon and make you eat it uncooked" this usually gets the point accross :D

[more cheerios]

The other day i threatened to beat someone to death with a loaf of bread...
Well aren't you original?

[Jay]

same here, i can give a very evil look. like all i need is to stare that way toward someone and they walk around me in a long arch...which is awsom

I'm the same as that, and given my size, when I look angry people give me a wiiiiiiide berth.

[Bob]

Well aren't you original?

Not really, there was a loaf of bread on the floor in front of me

[Psychochink]

It takes an awful lot to get me angry to the point of losing control, or for that matter even upset. Effectively, it takes somebody deliberately trying to injure me that push me over that edge. Which is a good thing, because my mind naturally gravitates towards violence as a solution.

It's been many years since I got into a fight - mostly I'm sure due to some kind of recognition on behalf of my potential opponents that if something were to start, I would have no limits when it did. It's not particularly socially responsible, but at least I've recognised it and keep it on a leash.

[Kyoushu]

Instead of being balanced, I have both a short temper, and yet can be really mellow. It's really kind of crazy.

I'm more towards short tempered, though. I get mad a lot. >.>

[Kari]

It depends on who I'm around. xD;; My mother can absolutely infuriate me with little or no provocation, but other than that it's extremely hard to anger me, and when I am no one can tell. ^_^

[FireWolf238]

yay there is only 4 of us powder cegs! i feel special now ^_^

[setrict]

I don't get angry much, and when I do it's usually at things rather than people. People tend to backoff after a good warning stare, but those inanimate objects have no fear. I've never been out of control angry, and hope I never am.

[Soli]

I have a short temper that luckily none of you have seen, and probably won't. :p When I get mad at somebody I yell and rant and make their life miserable. Or kick them. I've been known to do that too.

[Stephy]

I get angry hardly ever and once I do it scarcely lasts long. If ever I am angry for too long it ends up turning into tears...

Oh! I took an angry face picture before, but Shannon said it was cute... It was suppose to be angry and scary not cute. :p

[erbiumfiber]

I used to get a lot more angry (more just pissed off) at the everyday crap that life dishes out- rude salesclerks, crazy drivers, wacky neighbors. Since moving to Japan where everything is about being non-confrontational, I hardly ever get angry any more. I'm a lot more calm- even people in my family back in the States notice it when I go home...

[Galeros]

I am probably the most mellow person in my family. My dad has the worst temper, followed by my sister, then my brother, then my mom, then me. Truth be told I have not been really angry in over three years. When I get upset I tend to cry. Hehe, and I am a guy. :eek:

[Pierrot le Fou]

I get pissed easily, rarely get angry, and even more rarely lose my temper.

Little shit pisses me off. Like idiots. And there are lots of them. So I can be constantly edgy. I try to hedge my frustration at idiots, but I just can't break the habit. Or their necks. Quite the pity. When I do get semi-angry, I go to the gym, lift more weight than I probably should, feel my muscles buckle under the strain, go home, and sleep or drink. Then I tend to be in a far better mood.

[FireWolf238]

haha, i'm almost like pierrot....except that being pissed off is my usual mood, my anger builds up from there. There are of cource some rare excepitons when i'm not pissed and even more rarer are the moments when i am actually happy....yea life pisses me off

[Idlethought]

I get pissed easily, rarely get angry, and even more rarely lose my temper.

Little shit pisses me off. Like idiots. And there are lots of them. So I can be constantly edgy. I try to hedge my frustration at idiots, but I just can't break the habit. Or their necks. Quite the pity. When I do get semi-angry, I go to the gym, lift more weight than I probably should, feel my muscles buckle under the strain, go home, and sleep or drink. Then I tend to be in a far better mood.

Like Pierrot I can get pissed easily, mostly from just being annoyed by stupid shit. The most mundane things will catch my eye and just be another notch on my annoyed-meter. Theres plenty, plenty, of times where I've been so angry that I've wanted to punch a hole in someone but I have yet to be physically aggressive. Just not how I was brought up to be I suppose. I guess, though, that it's not too healthy either that I bottle up all my frustrations. For 19 years and counting. Perhaps one day it'll all just erupt and then I'll be in some shit lol.

[Trump]

Really, I can't find anything to get truly angry about. Life sucks, life is frustrating, but what in that is worth getting angry over? I get pissed and annoyed by normal things, but not truly angry.

The only time I can see myself getting angry is if someone purposefully went out of their way to hurt me or my friends/family. But I don't associate with those people so chances of it happening are slow.

[Bob]

Really, I can't find anything to get truly angry about. Life sucks, life is frustrating, but what in that is worth getting angry over? I get pissed and annoyed by normal things, but not truly angry..

Other people make life suck, and they arent gonna stop making it suck until you beat some intelligence into them

[FireWolf238]

thnaks bob, someone needed to say that...wait, what happend to NERD?

[jingi893]

A long time ago, I used to get angry when I was married and drank. Now I'm a divorced happy drunk. And yes, I too get pissed at idiots. Sometimes the Zen works, sometimes it doesn't.