When we profile your rage we are reacting to the facts.

August 16, 2014 11:04 AM

Regulations For Your Rage – The Toast
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome (17 comments total)

Your rage should know we were doing our best to avoid civilian casualties.
Worth it for that line alone.
posted by arcticseal at 11:46 AM on August 16, 2014 [6 favorites]

Anger and rage are totally NOT the same thing
posted by ZaneJ. at 12:37 PM on August 16, 2014

Nothing about the dying of the light. INCOMPLETE.
posted by blue_beetle at 12:46 PM on August 16, 2014

We would prefer that your rage be punctual and arrive neither too early nor too late.

Timing is everything. Please pencil me in for a total meltdown at the appropriate appointed time. Thank you.
posted by Michele in California at 12:51 PM on August 16, 2014 [2 favorites]

Anger and rage are totally NOT the same thing

Please express anger rather than rage, as anger denotes appropriate distance between yourself and what is being done by others to others. If you experience rage - the hot, personal, dehumanized feeling associated with being the direct victim of injustice - please step aside and let the merely angry speak for you.
posted by northernish at 1:00 PM on August 16, 2014 [19 favorites]

I thought anger could be righteous. I was wrong.
posted by Segundus at 1:15 PM on August 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

I'd say this is related...
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:15 PM on August 16, 2014 [3 favorites]

There's definitely such thing as righteous rage, it's just that it sounds like something a scene kid would have as a chest piece tat in 2006... So people mostly say righteous anger.
posted by emptythought at 1:31 PM on August 16, 2014

I agree with/like it except, foop, for that last point. Because I have met an awful lot of men who are all "You make my dick hard -- you bitch! I am so pissed off! How dare you!"

So, you know, my experience has been that sexy or not, (in the eyes of some men) I am WRONG on that last line. Check either box, I am still WRONG!!!!

and people wonder why I have issues...
posted by Michele in California at 1:31 PM on August 16, 2014

Reminds me of this poem about rape jokes that was posted here some time ago...does anyone know which one I mean?
posted by Omnomnom at 2:19 PM on August 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

Do you mean Patricia Lockwood's Rape Joke?
posted by (Over) Thinking at 2:30 PM on August 16, 2014 [5 favorites]

Thank you! Yes!
posted by Omnomnom at 2:44 PM on August 16, 2014

Your rage is against the machine. Please move it.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 4:54 PM on August 16, 2014 [9 favorites]

Your rage is not as impressive as you think it is.

People very dangerous to you have far more rage than you can imagine feeling.
posted by ThatFuzzyBastard at 7:21 PM on August 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

There's good rage and there's bad rage.

I was raised to never see rage.

You only got this job because of your rage.

I don't pay any attention to my rage and that's why I'm successful.
posted by GoLikeHellMachine at 8:51 PM on August 16, 2014 [4 favorites]

Change takes time. Your rage needs to understand that.
Otherwise your rage could cause a backlash.
posted by salvia at 9:05 PM on August 16, 2014 [2 favorites]

Rage should shave its beard and unwind its turban. Rage should smile at catcallers.

Rage takes many forms!
posted by psoas at 7:34 PM on August 17, 2014