Most of us experience it and we all deal with it in our own special way

For example, in Britain everyone knows the best way to deal with stress is to make hand puppets and listen to Shout! by Tears for Fears

I should probably get out more

It turns out that in Japan there's a well known way of expressing your anger or stress

and there's even a really cool arcade game that deals with it as well

Chabudai Gaeshi is a phrase that literally means "to flip one's table"

Chabudai is not too dissimilar from this table, a short four-legged table

Japanese families sit around and eat dinner on it or put leaflets on it like I do

Typically it's seen as an act done by the father of the household

when he comes home from work, feeling a bit stressed

The kids are being loud and annoying, the wife is going blablabla

And so he has a bit of a violent outburst

and just flips the table

But fortunately this concept has been made into an exciting game!

Hope they've got insurance!

Chou Chabudai Gaeshi, which literally translates to

Ultra Table Flipping Game

So the game starts out with you sitting at the dinner table

The wife's preparing dinner, and the kids are being quite annoying, on their phones, making noises

And so you start banging the table

each time they do something annoying

I didn't understand this at first I thought you were supposed to keep banging the table continuously

Which is wrong don't do that

And then at the last 10 seconds

It's about a minute long

You flip the table as hard as you can

The wife gets the brunt of it

coz she's making her way to the table when the husband/father flips it

and you get to see the table make its way through your wife's face

in slow motion, again and again

The kids don't know what's going on

The crockery, ruined

Dinner, uh, forget about dinner

And what better way to get rid of your stress

...and your family?

I have to say its a lot of fun, I don't have a wife and kids but if I did

I can't imagine a better way to relieve my stress by flipping a table through them

But the table flipping fun doesn't stop there coz there are other scenarios as well

Such as: an angry teacher flipping his desk

a woman working at a burger restaurant

and even a funeral where you flip the corpse over across all the guests at the funeral

Probably the most disturbing one of the lot

You can even play against other people in a stadium style flipping table competition

and the points you get are depending on

how far you flip the table and how much damage you cause

I have to say I haven't seen an angry Japanese person in the last 6 months I have been here

so I find the concept of someone flipping a table in anger very hard to believe

So the reason I love this game so much

is it does relieve stress, it's quite fun flipping that table

Especially when you see the slow motion replay

Let's face it, whilst some people might say "Oh gosh, how violent and barbaric"

Compared to, say "shooting up a Russian airport" in Call of Duty

or running over a whole city, in Grand Theft Auto

I don't think this is that bad at all really

So yeah it's a fun game

a practical way of relieving stress

Probably something I can't imagine seeing in real life

Particularly when...

I think I just broke my table

Oh my god