Fury

[charlou]

Billy Connolly? He's a furious fucker.

[Cormac]

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?

I would have thought that Fenchies in general, and Von Starnberg in particular would have had that effect on you.

But, I have been that person.

[Trinity]

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?

Yeah, it was funny. At one point, I had a choice of going through a door up some stairs which was signposted as "there's nothing up there" so of course I was going to have a look. I got up there and it said "there's nothing up here". Tickled my tiny brain

[Cormac]

Billy Connolly? He's a furious fucker.

He spends a lot of time in Oz.



... speaking from experience perchance Charlou?

[Cormac]

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.

Oh shit. I can feel this and picture the scene!

[Animavore]

Funny, ain't it?

[Cormac]

Funny, ain't it?

Marginally.

[Animavore]

I've smashed my thumb myself a few times when working construction. Once with a sledgehammer against the end off rebar.
Though none of that was as sore as when an air-handling unit which wasn't braced properly slipped down and landed on my head and then pinning me against a wall leaving me stuck between it and the A-frame I was halfway up

[Ian]

I don't have much of a temper, and I tend to be reserved and non-confrontational anyway. So it is a rare thing that I blow up at anyone or anything. But it happens on occasion; my wife theorizes that since I tend to keep my emotions -including my frustrations- under wraps, they gradually accumulate over time and inevitably come out at some point.

There might be some truth to this. Last November she and I got into a wicked fight over something relatively inconsequential. But she kept pushing and would not let me ignore the argument, and I wound up punching a large metal air conditioning unit in my garage a few times, and followed this by leaving the house, driving until I found myself fifty miles away in Annapolis, and staying in a hotel overnight. I didn't come home until the following evening. As for the relatively inconsequential trigger, I cannot now remember exactly what it was. But my various frustrations over my marriage are something which I'm certain do build up, and I doubt they'll ever be simply blown off like steam every so often - the factors which create and fuel them will need to be dealt with one way or another.

Fortunately, I'd never let an episode like that turn into violence against another person. Denting my air conditioner is about as bad as I'll ever get.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Furies are obscene and unnatural! Fucking yiffing bastits!!!!!1!!!

[Cormac]

I've smashed my thumb myself a few times when working construction. Once with a sledgehammer against the end off rebar.
Though none of that was as sore as when an air-handling unit which wasn't braced properly slipped down and landed on my head and then pinning me against a wall leaving me stuck between it and the A-frame I was halfway up

Did you tell that story before? It sounds familiar...

[Seth]

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?

It wasn't easy, I had to take careful aim. That third shot was a tough one...

No, really, I had a bunch of friends over helping me with the "barn raising," most of them girls, so I had to be manly and suck it up and go on building the shed, which I designed and drafted. Due to a mixup with the local flood plain zoning regs and my callowness, ended up being three feet taller than I had expected, so we ended up with a shed large enough to house an elephant...which we appropriately and humorously named "The Elephant Shed."

Turned out to be a great shed, worked perfectly for horses for 30 years, so it's not all bad.

Also survived several floods...

[Animavore]

I've smashed my thumb myself a few times when working construction. Once with a sledgehammer against the end off rebar.
Though none of that was as sore as when an air-handling unit which wasn't braced properly slipped down and landed on my head and then pinning me against a wall leaving me stuck between it and the A-frame I was halfway up

Did you tell that story before? It sounds familiar...

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 02#p183102

[laklak]

The windshield wipers in my mom's car kept blowing the fuse and dad was trying to fix it. He checked the whole circuit, the fault was somewhere in the wiper motor. He took it out, farted with it and put it back in, and it promptly blew another fuse. He calmly took it out again, wired a plug to it, plugged it into 110 volts AC and screamed "So burn the fuck up you cocksucker!".

[Warren Dew]

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?

Yes. Unlike the rest of the posters, though, never at an inanimate object. Compared to humans, inanimate objects are a joy to work with.