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😦 Moment of Frustration Scream Day 😧

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Vent your anger. Scream out the frustration! On October 12, we celebrate the International Moment of Frustration Scream Day. At least when it comes to the American couple Ruth and Tom Roy. Reason enough to include this day of action in the calendar of curious holidays from all over the world and to follow up on the background of this day to cope with frustration with this article. Why should or may we shout out our frustration on this date in October?


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Who created the International Moment of Frustration Scream Day?


The International Moment of Frustration Scream Day is an invention of the American couple Ruth and Thomas Roy. With their website wellcat.com, the two are regarded as a real instance in terms of calendar curiosities. After all, they have created a total of 85 trademark-protected occasions on this platform since the early 2000s.


Although Roy no longer releases new curious holidays at his wife's request, we owe the two of them such great occasions as .B. the Inane Answering Message Day on January 30, the Change Your Name Day on February 13, the Make Up Your Own Holiday Day on March 26, the More Herbs, Less Salt Day on August 29 or the Married To A Scorpio Support Day on November 18 (see also the list of further links below – here primarily the overview in the linked Wikipedia entry and the CNN article by Doug Criss).


In the case of the International Day of Frustration Cries, the earliest known version of a post on the wellcat.com website dates back to March 2003. In fact, the origins of this event go back even further. For example, Tom Roy began creating his own holidays during his work as a radio presenter and journalist in the 1980s.


Clarity here is provided by an article by Rick Greenberg of the Washington Post of October 12, 1994, which points out that the International Day of Frustration Cries was launched about four years before the publication of the article (English "(...) the Roys, a couple from Lebanon, Pa., who dreamed up the holiday about four years ago"). So either 1989 or 1990. An article in the LA Times of 19 November 1996, which refers to the founding of the International Moment of Frustration Scream Day in the late 1980s/early 1990s, argues in a similar direction.


In these sources there is also the indication that this day of action is to be located parallel to the Panic Day (National Panic Day) on March 9, which was also created by the Roys (see also the list of further links below).


Why does the day of the cries of frustration fall on October 12th?


For the majority of their holidays, the couple does not provide a concrete justification for the chosen date. In the case of the International Moment of Frustration Scream Day, however, things look a little different. According to an interview with Richard E. Meyer of the LA Times, Tom Roy chose October 12 because it is also the birthday of one of his now adult daughters Jill (see also the list of other posts from the calendar of curious birthdays). Whereby here probably the cathartic effect, rather than the birth of the child should have been in the foreground (see also the list of further links below). Whether there is also a substantive connection to the US Freethought Day, which was celebrated in parallel on October 12, is not known. ;)


On the Day of Frustration Screams: 30 Seconds of Screaming to Overcome Frustration on October 12

Generally, quite different positions and views on effective methods of coping with frustration are represented. While some swear by sports, drugs, shopping or eating (more or less successfully), others prefer seemingly healthier methods such as sex, laughter or even the cry of frustration (see also the present articles about the day of orgasm on May 9 or World Laughter Day on the first Sunday in May).


And it is precisely the latter variant that is at the point of this curious day of action, for which the Roy couple promises that on October 12 either the world will end or that we will all – which is more likely – at least feel much better.


And even if there is once again no reason for the choice of date, we can state for October 12 that all those who are currently battered by life should let their frustration run free for 30 seconds at 12:00 p.m. World Time (1:00 p.m. in Germany). After that, you'll definitely feel better. :)


In this sense: Off to the outside, your screaming necks and declare war on frustration! Keep your ears closed. And then: Shout as if there is no tomorrow for you! In any case, the world will not end on October 12 (...) but we can still scream.


Whether in the United States, in Germany or anywhere else in the world. ;)


More information and sources on the International Day of Frustration Cries


  The International Moment of Frustration Scream Day on October 12 on wellcat.com

  The latest known version of the International Moment of Frustration Scream Day on October 12 on wellcat.com – here in the archived version of the WaybackMachine

  Wikipedia entry on Thomas Roy with an outline of his filmography and a list of all the curious holidays initiated together with his wife (English/multilingual)

  Doug Criss: Meet the people behind all those wacky holidays – on: cnn.com on February 26, 2018

   

 Daisy Carrington: From pants to pot-plants: How to make a holiday out of anything – on: ccn.com 31 July 2013

Richard E. Meyer: A Healthier Nation Via . . . Bathtub Party Day – on: latimes.com on November 19, 1996

Rick Greenberg: Holler Out Loud! – on: washingtonpost.com on 12 October 1994

Jason English: Today is International Moment of Frustration Scream Day – on: mentalfloss.com on October 12, 2012

Calendar entry for October 12 as International Moment of Frustration Scream Day on checkiday.com

Contribution to the International Moment of Frustration Scream Day on October 12 on holidayinsights.com

The web portal giftypedia.com about the International Moment of Frustration Scream Day

Website of the MOMA in New York on Edvard's Much painting The Scream  


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