"Thread Rage" - there's supposed to be a practice in some Japanese companies of having a room somewhere in te building where there's crockery provided and so forth; and when then stresses and the strains get too much, you go along and smash a few plates, or break up the furniture. Then you come out ready to be polite and charming the rest of the day.

I sometimes feel there are people who use the Internet this way. And we just get the mild end of it in the Mudcat.

Some people work off the rage playing pointless smash-em-up computer games. Maybe soon there will be comoputer programs that enable you to have a pointless quarrel, instead still think there's a place for contrivwersy and disagreement, and even anger. But anger intended to do something is a world away from crossness and irritability and rage, where it's just a mood.