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I've just discovered the concept of rage rooms. You can visit a rage room and pay to be angry and smash shit up with baseball bats. It looks like it might be fun! Example:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zgyItiVsAko
A few months ago I smashed a length of wood up on a concrete wall in the back garden to... errrrrrr.... restore the balance. Did work.
Have you tried? Or are you too old to be angry any more? Perhaps you know someone who might benefit?
It looks like it might be fun!Â
It really doesn't, it looks dangerously unhealthy to me !
I would recommend Metta Bhavana meditation, also known as loving-kindness meditation, as an alternative 🙏
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Do you get to choose who goes in the room with you?
I can see that being successful, possibly. Bitd at scouts we had a fundraiser stall every year at the village fete. All sorts of normal fete things were done with varying success then one year someone had the idea of a smash the crockery stall. Brilliant! We got donations of old/broken crockery and stacked them up on shelves with a huge catch-tarp behind. Customers paid 20p for 3 cricket ball throws. No prizes, just 3 balls to try and smash up as much as possible. We were busy all day and easily out fund-raised every stall we had ever done before. By the end we were out of viable crockery so just as we were packing up a bit early, a kid came along and said he only had 10p. We said, that's fine, you can have one ball. He said that's all he needed, then produced an ornament from his mum's mantlepiece and said he hated it. We put it right in the middle of the remnants of the shelves and the previous crockery, and the kid took it out cleanly with his one 10p ball. Nice!
The rage room? That's a bit of a step up though. Most regular folk were happy to throw a cricket ball at a plate, but the room would have a smaller appeal I think.
Do you get to choose who goes in the room with you?
Can I pay for my Ukrainian neighbours to spend time with an Orange Idiot of their own choosing?
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Common response on our local FB for people with busted TVs that appear uneconomical to repair (all of them) is donate to the local smash room https://whitewolfbushcraftschool.com/smash-room
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I think one of the potteries in stoke used to have a room where you could smash all the stuff that had failed QC
 Normalising and monetising the idea that "break stuff" is an appropriate response to anger does seem to have some potential adverse consequences if the anger room is already booked. 🤨
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They occasionally pop up next to lower-rent escape rooms. From sticking my head through the door, printers seem to be particularly 'popular.'
They occasionally pop up next to lower-rent escape rooms. From sticking my head through the door, printers seem to be particularly 'popular.'
We all know printers were the inspiration for Rage Against the Machine
I'm loving the crockery smashing fundraiser, sounds a brilliant idea
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My first thought was the Monty Python sketch.
And then I remembered the perennial contests at local fairs and "rag weeks" . 2 pianos, a small hoop, and whichever team could smash up the piano and get all the bits through the hoop was the winner.
Fun to watch. Wouldn't be the same with Casio keyboards.
Also wasteful. Â
In what way?
It probably all ends up in the same WEE bin, just in a few more pieces.
Normalising and monetising the idea that "break stuff" is an appropriate response to anger does seem to have some potential adverse consequences
Looking at the price list it does seem like actual therapy might be cheaper.
@Yak - you must be as old as ne! I remember the smash the crockery stalls from my days in the cubs and scouts. As you say, very popular!
Seen these things years ago. It was in a very touristy European city. Can't remember where, it was about 10 years ago! Always thought it would catch on, but it didn't, well at least until now maybe.
Pleasure Island without consequences!
Get a job with a local builder who does refurbishments- a weekend with a sledgehammer will sort you out.
Ain't this a septic thing?Â
I really don't think we need to be following them for guidance, do we?
I have a friend who runs a pop up rage room. He will come to your workplace and let you and your colleagues smash stuff up. You get to write your frustrations, and who you are frustrated with on a bunch of plates and smash it all up. Very cathartic.
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He is making a ton of money from it too.
I can't see Kevin from accounts being too happy when he sees his name written on a monitor , that's being battered by Alfie with a sledgehammer...