Fury

[Clinton Huxley]

Have you ever been so infuriated that you couldn't speak? Just stood there, head turning the colour of ketchup, lips curled in a snarl, spittle spurting, maybe making a sort of squeaking noise?

I have, naturally. Not caused by people but always by things, usually things that don't work properly. I've shaken my fist at a toaster at least once.

You?

[FBM]

A few weeks ago, I beat my wireless keyboard until several memebers of the alphabet had to be rescued from the far corners of the room. Then it occurred to me to replace the battery...

[Clinton Huxley]

That's the sort of thing I would do. Or I become incoheret with rage if something doesn't work as advertised. I've roared at bits of computer equipment, lawnmowers, traffic.

[Animavore]

I once flipped at a computer game and swung my joypad (in the days before wireless ones) like a mace and it shattered into a million pieces leaving me with a chipboard dangling from a wire.

[Clinton Huxley]

Haha. Back in the mists of time I was doing some programming and I couldn't get the code to work. I told my pc to fuck off, pushed my chair over and stormed out of the room.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Funny you should mention this - I've just hurled a cheapo piece of shit electric hedge trimmer across the lawn after setting everything up and digging the blasted thing out from under an avalanche of junk for it to strip it's shitty plastic gears within the first minute of use.
Fucking thing....

[Seth]

I once smashed my thumb with a hammer while building a shed not once, not twice, but three times. The first two times resulted in much verbalizing and antics. My friends knew I was really hurt the third time because I went white, said nothing and sat down on the floor.

Other than that I don't get angry enough at inanimate objects, or people for that matter, to succumb to fury or rage. It always ends up badly, or so my observations as a cop tell me.

Although I did get upset enough to shout at my ex and tell her to get the fuck out of my house. But I never hit or threatened her with harm. It's just not worth it, and I'm rational enough to realize that even when I'm angry.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

I once smashed my thumb with a hammer while building a shed not once, not twice, but three times.

How the fuck did you mange that?

[Mysturji]

My work laptop is in absolutely no doubt what I think of it.
So is everybody in the office.

[DaveD]

I once smashed my thumb with a hammer while building a shed not once, not twice, but three times.

How the fuck did you mange that?

He was aiming for his head.

[Animavore]

Usually when I lose it I end up with a tug-of-war in my head between destroying the object of my fury and that voice in my head which tells me it's not worth it. This leaves me in a stalemate and I end up standing there, fuming, and doing nothing other than acting out the violence in my head. The funny thing with this is I end up with ideomotor twitchings all over my body as the muscles want to carry out the signals from the brain (minor clenching of fists, brief tightening of biceps, imperceptible pushing of feet into the ground etc.)

[Trinity]

Fury has only visited me a few times in my life simply because fear of expression is more dominant. I therefore have years of suppressed anger so it's highly probable I'll explode one day. Might be messy.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

[Trinity]

I remember playing this computer game when I was a teenager (spectrum probably), very basic adventure game with " do you want to go north/east etc and you type in the command. Anyway, got lost in a maze, and then wanted to do something and the game didn't have enough vocabulary recognition to understand my requests and after I tried every which way to type what I wanted the game to do, I just typed "fuck off!!!" in frustration. The game replied with "how rude! If you dare to hurl insults again, you'll be sent to the gates of Hades" or something. So of course I typed "fuck of" again and the game told me it warned me and ended my game!!! I was soooo pissed off, all my progress was lost but at the same time impressed that the game designer knew that people would get frustrated and that it would get the final laugh.

[Audley Strange]

I think that game may have been "The Price of Magick" which has an hilarious ending.

So which are we discussing Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphoné or Billy?