Temper Tantrums

anyone else here ever been threatened with "the quiet room"--as an adult???

bet it shut you right up, huh?

me too.

i used to have a big ole' temper tantrums at my whole drama class every lesson for two years. y'see, its seen as a doss subject, so people do it cuz they think it's an easy subject. SO not (it's not hard, well i dont think it is, but it's TEH lot of work + effort). we did 4 plays in 2 years, and i had to take charge of everyone and shout and organise all the rehersals etc. aarghh my blood pressure probably went sky high!

anyway, twas worth it, im predicted A*

My friend's brother punched a desk in two the other day in a temper tantrum, I wish I could have seen it.

Last night I was supposed to go see a Clockwork Orange with my friend Amber, but when we got to Omaha we found out we were early (it started at midnight and it was only about 11:30) so we went to a friends' apartment. Somehow she talked us out of seeing the movie, I don't really remember how, and so we sat around from 11:30 to maybe 2:30, and all I did was watch them chainsmoke, drink and talk about sex. Then they decided to go to Taco Bell, but since I was the only one sober enough to drive, we had to take my car, which just pissed me off, cause I hate driving in Omaha and they made fun of its size (which is very, very small). And they smoked in my car.

It just wasn't any fun. The only person in the group's company that I consistently enjoy was at his parents' house in Iowa. I swear if I hadn't been so tired I would have seriously lost it at one point in the evening. The whole situation was enough to make me never want to smoke again, and made me very glad that I will be moving away soon.

You should've stopped the car, then told them to stop pissing you off because until they got out of the car, you control whether they live or die. That usually puts people straight.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by insomnomaniac [/i]
[B]anyone else here ever been threatened with "the quiet room"--as an adult???

bet it shut you right up, huh?

me too. [/B][/QUOTE]

yeah, the phrase alone kind of weirds me out. but is the "quiet room" like in the movies? stark white with padded walls and only a tiny window from which the professionals can observe you?

i can usually work through my anger by fantasizing about fucking shit up. i guess my rational side knows that when i'm done taking out my frustration on whatever, i'll be pissed i fucked it up. so if i'm super super pissed at something, saaaayyyyy my POS computer, i usually just close my eyes and picture myself going "office space" on it w/ whatever's handy.

although i have to admit, i did smash the shit out of my cell phone last year (not with an anvil; i didn't have one. i do wonder what kind of person keeps an anvil in their apt/house).

I don't have an anvil either but a tire iron is handy if you're in the car. At home I have a large flashlight that I use.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by grade 5 dropout [/i]
[B]You should've stopped the car, then told them to stop pissing you off because until they got out of the car, you control whether they live or die. That usually puts people straight. [/B][/QUOTE]

I kind of did contemplate this at one point. Amber took forever saying goodbye to this guy she has a thing for, and so I drove right up next to where they were standing and just sat there, thinking to myself threatening thoughts like, "IF SHE DOES NOT GET HER FUCKING ASS IN THIS CAR IN 8 SECONDS I'M DRIVING THE FUCK HOME."

Not like I'd ever do that. It's just nice to think about.

I have a constant urge to get in a minivan with one of those big side doors (which my parents have but wouldn't be too pleased with me doing this with it), drive around with it open or have someone drive me around while I or someone elses stands out it with a baseball bat or a golf club hitting rearview mirrors off other cars. For some reason whenever I'm pissed off or depressed and walking around outside I always want to break all the parked cars on the side of the road.

I'm pretty sure I have mental problems but who doesn't these days?

Also, insomno, where'd you get that reality thing?

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the "quiet room" was not white or brightly lit as in the movies, and i never got put in it so i don't know every last detail, but it had a small window near the top outside, and the door was a regular door with no window in it. it did have padding on the walls, but it was light grey.

aaaand finally, in terms of the fantasizing thing, i once had to excuse myself from a class i had with a professor i loathed, because i kept fantasizing about shotting her, first with a regular handgun, then a rifle, then a 12 guage shotgun, then a bow and arrow, then a blowdart, and then hucking a grenade at her, then a ninja rappelling down from the roof, swinging into the window of the classroom and beating her to death, then a wrecking ball coming through the wall and crushing her against the blackboard, and then finally, pictured myself leaving the room and seconds later, a rumbling, and then i bust through the wall in a bradley tank, turn the gun turret slowly toward her, and blast her out of the building. i had to excuse myself because i started to laugh maniacally in class and i was getting weird looks.

wow, were you in my english class last year too?

nope. don't think so.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by framstedt [/i]
[B]I went downstairs into my basement, put the phone into a bag and wrapped the bag around the phone several times. I took an anvil down from one of the shelves and began to smash the phone with the anvil. Believe it or not all this succeeded in doing was flattening the phone a bit. Undeterred I retrieved a hammer from my tool chest and began hammering away at the offending object. The sounds of plastic cracking were delightful to my ears. I imagined mailing the smashed phone back to the manufacturer. I laughed at the thought. I had damaged it beyond repair, beyond recognition and I was satisfied. I threw the damned thing in the garbage and went about enjoying the rest of the evening.

So, let's hear about your recent temper tantrums. This one was a doozy. [/B][/QUOTE]

You have an anvil?

I've always said that life is disappointing in part because you don't see anything that all that fiction trained you for as a kid. Like how everyone knows what to do in case of quicksand, but no one has seen it in the past 50 years.

Or how an anvil solves every problem but I'd never seen one or had the chance to drop one on anything.

Fram, you're a lucky man.

My brother and I are always trying to think of things that are in the collective conscious, but which no one has ever really seen on a regular basis. The ones I can remember are:
1. anvils
2. those pointy sleeping caps with the little ball at the end, I can't think how else to describe them
3. slingshots

There are a bunch more but I can't remember more of them. This was kind of a pointless post.

That wasn't a pointless post, Jane. That was fucking awesome.

4. Quicksand
5. God

You wanna be my friend, you have to take God out, but I totally hear you on the quicksand thing.

Also kettles, for some reason. We have a kettle in my house, but apparently they're not as mainstream as they used to be,

this is easy, just watch news footage from the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. little kids carry these all over the place.

Really?! I just always think of the old fucking huge ones they had on the Roadrunner cartoons when I think of slingshots. Or the early Simpsons, maybe.

You can buy slingshots at department stores, people use them to kill rats. I had one, I'd shake up coke cans and shoot them, my life has been a grandiose waste of oxygen.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by jane s. [/i]
[B]You wanna be my friend, you have to take God out, but I totally hear you on the quicksand thing.

Also kettles, for some reason. We have a kettle in my house, but apparently they're not as mainstream as they used to be, [/B][/QUOTE]

Regardless of the fact I don't believe, God in fact is a collective consciousness thing that most people believe in and have never seen. Same category. That was actually not meant offensively. Sorry.

All right, good point.

But I was going more for a cartoonish kind of thing here. Like Warner Bros. cartoons and stuff like that. Which is where I got the anvil and slingshot thing.

they can be very dangerous weapons, actually.

Yeah, there's a scene in the King book "Thinner" where this gypsy chick shoots a hole through the main character's hand with a ball bearing and a slingshot.

That's one of those things you have to sit there and ponder on for a few seconds before you are able to move on.

Did God ever show up in Warner Bros. Cartoons? Seriously, it's all the rage for him to be in cartoons now (ie: South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama...) but I don't know if I remember any old school stuff with him in it.

Probably not, because people are a lot more easy with the thought of God nowadays then they were 50 years ago. God is always so funny on the Simpsons.

i like jesus on south park. and the singing whale with the triple-uvula on warner brothers.

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He has his own homepage?! Whoa. That has some major class.

well, it's more of a fan page, since technically two dimensional cartoon whales don't yet have internet access. but someday...::cue swelling music::