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How do you get angry?

Greetings fellow reprobates and welcome to another musing, The titular question is not as simple as it first appears, I want you to consider the actual process you go through when you get angry. Let us first set the scene using a metaphor of high pressure pipes, switches and taps. The task is to fill a bowl with water.  There are two high pressure pipes, one with an on/off switch, the other with a tap, which do you choose? I'm going to make an assumption and paraphrase what you are thinking: "The tap obviously, completing the task with the pipe with a switch is just too difficult to comprehend!" Changing the scenario slightly, you take a new job filling bowls from the pipe all day, every day. Your supervisor has a tap pipe and every day for a week you watch how they fill the bowl then have a go yourself. You watch them turn on the tap, fill a bowl, turn off the tap, get another bowl and repeat the process.  When it is windy the work is a little harder and they have to hol...