Why is it that people use the term "pissed" off, has anyone ever urinated on themselves from anger?

Answer 1

From the web:
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PISSSED OFF (or PEE’D OFF, PEED, PISSED, P’D, PO’D) adjective [1940s]: Angry, enraged, disgusted, furious, indignant, very annoyed. One of several such terms (as “pee’d off,” ‘teed off,’ ‘ticked off,’ or ‘ticked’) widely used by the Armed Forces in WW II and carried into civilian life afterward. It followed from the somewhat earlier verb form PISS OFF from the 1930s. One theory is that the expression came from the earlier expression ‘peeved off’ (1920s), which became PEE’D off and then was transformed into ‘pissed off’ by mistake – but that sounds pretty shaky to me.

I am going to share with you what I heard was the origin of the expression from a time long ago and a place far away (Brooklyn, circa early 1950s) – so take it for what it’s worth as folk etymology, but this is what I had heard and what I had always believed. When I was a youth, I was told that there were two kinds of ‘hard-ons’ (see posting ‘hard-on / die with a hard-on). There was the ‘hard-on’ you got when you were aroused, and then there was the ‘hard-on’ that you often woke up with in the morning for no apparent reason (‘piss proud’– see below), which we called a ‘piss hard-on.’ It was called a ‘piss hard-on,’ possibly because having to urinate had something to do with why you had it in the first place, or because, as we were told, the way to get rid of it was to pee or ‘piss it off’ – and , of course, that worked. ‘Pissing it off’ was a hell of a way to get rid of a hard-on for ‘real men’ (I was probably about 12 at the time), and thus to get ‘pissed off’ was to be disgusted that this was the way such a promising event had to be so ignominiously disposed off. So, when I hear someone casually say ‘pissed off’ on TV or in public, I still think of what it ‘really’ means, as I also do when I hear folks offhandedly say that something ‘sucks.’

PISS PROUD: Having an erection, especially upon awakening. In his 1796 A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Captain Francis Grose defines this as a ‘false erection.’ “That old fellow thought he had an erection, but his—was only piss-proud.”

Answer 2

No, never literally pissed from anger. Just a figure of speech.
And I have always found it better to be pissed off than to be pissed on. lol

Answer 3

All I have to say is 'It's better to be pissed off than pissed on'

Answer 4

hmmm maybe someone long ago got pissed on then after he showed he said he was pissed off i guess it must have stuck

Answer 5

Hahaha. Nice question.
I haven't.
And I'm quite sure I don't know anyone who has either.

Answer 6

Pissed means "drunk" in Australia - and you can get quite angry when you're drunk.

Answer 7

Sometimes it gets on you when you're aiming at someone else!...I just hate that!

Answer 8

chuckled at that question..