Is it normal that my dad gets so angry all the time?

This guy sounds JUST like my father. Only that ended with my mother committing suicide before she felt there was no other way out. Now my sister is left with him alone. I suggest you do what I always wish I could have done to save my mother. Get your family out, your mother may not be strong enough, but you are. Find a way out, even if its a one bedroom apartment. Tell her, if she loves you at all she wouldn't force you to live there. I beg you, try and save yourself at least.

kick him in the balls and run away.. and move out.. fuck that punk

This is NOT normal your dad is betraying you and your mom. Your dad is a an abuser, you need to talk to a trusted adult like a police officer or a teacher. Your dad's behavior will continue to get worse and eventually he will hurt you or your mom (if he hasn't already). You need to get this fixed before someone ends up hurt or dead. No matter how many promises he makes about never doing it again he WILL do it again.

Your dad sounds like a real man! Seriously why are you wasting time writing on here and not telling the police ?

What. A. Dick.

My father was on the verge of a temper tantrum every minute of his life. He actually seemed to need outbursts of rage like a drug, so he would try to create excuses to express his fury to satisfy his perverted drive. It was dangerous even to speak to him, since he would suddenly burst into rage over some minor affront that only he could perceive. I suspect he was in some degree autistic, and used rage as a way to prevent people talking to him.

He and my mother constantly argued with each other, but my father reserved his physical abuse for me. Since I was growing up during the 1950s and 1960s, it was impossible for me to appeal for outside help, since in those days, if a child was being beaten, the only explanation the society was willing to accept was that the child must have been bad and deserved the punishment. My father would go literally insane, pull off his belt, and begin whipping me furiously, screaming and bellowing all the way through it. He was so out of his mind during these rages that he would often knock over lamps and smash glass door panes if he missed me with his belt-whip without even seeming to notice.

Both my mother and father interpreted the Biblical passage, "Honor thy father and mother," to mean that whatever physical abuse parents wanted to mete out to their children was automatically pre-approved by God. My mother hit me only occasionally and not as forcefully as my father did, but she was highly sadistic, and would torment me with the prospect of the beating my father would give me when he got home for some small thing I had done wrong during the day. She even used to watch while these beatings went on. Once during an especially severe beating she told my father that that was enough, but he was so carried away that he was unable to stop, no matter how many times she repeated her instruction.

I finally developed a severe chronic illness, probably as a result of this mistreatment, and only then did the beatings stop, when I was 14. As a result of this experience, I did not care a bit when both of my parents died, and was in fact relieved.

That's very sad.

My dad, a lawyer was really mean and angry when he was younger, and even abused me for my misdoings (just me, not my sister) and would even argue and ven manhandle people that offended him, and threaten people with law. But over the years he has become really calm and wont scold me even if I smashed the window when I am angry and rarely argues with anyone anymore, even mom! A result of aging.

and he'll never change

sounds kind of like my one uncle does but he doesn't go that far to make us bow down and i damn sure enough would not bow down to him i only got in a fight with him one time and that was it i try not to talk to him and i try to stay away from him just to stay out of his arguments he makes up because its hard for me to control my anger once i get mad over what ever he says

then he gets pissed off that i put a hole in the wall so i told him well i was mad because you got me mad and thats why i did it he'll keep on saying the same thing over and over til you almost have to hit him thats when i either walk away or punch something to get the anger out then im pissed off for the rest of the day because of him it happens alot

i think its like a game to him somehow. and hes 60
and im 22 but he makes me wonder sometimes does he just hate me or what the fuck is it that he doesn't like about me really i wonder what is it he leaves me wondering every day im always wondering why is he mad every day or even night sometimes you'd think the man has a demon in him how he looks and talks to you
anyone who's having a good day could leave his house upset or mad because of him he ruins the day

This father needs help. He should not be treating you this way. You need to reach out to a school counselor or a trusted adult. Just know though once you reach out for help their is no stopping it... so be sure that you want someone to intervene.A school counselor will notify child protective services or social services.(if you are a minor) So just be sure.

Your Dad sounds like he is mentally unstable and I am sorry for you.

My Dad was the same way, except everything was directed at us kids. Every year I had one teacher who would become concerned for me and inquire with me and I would tell them what my Dad did and when they asked my Dad, he would claim that I was a mentally unstable, compulsive liar. He took me to a shrink and got me diagnosed as emotionally disturbed when I was very little and he waved that diagnosis around anytime anyone got suspicious.

Everyone believed that he was some over-burdened father when he was an abusive dick and the only family member I had that would have understood died before I was old enough to fully communicate with her.

I feel for you, and if you can't get social services or an outside family member to intervene then I would suggest you talk to your Mother and grandfather because this shit is ridiculous.

Maybe you should suggest a divorce? In this case I think that would be best for all of you.

My dad used to be very angry... sitting around in his underwear yelling at us fit passing by the t.v. in a single wide trailer, giving whippings to me at 4 for eating bacon, having screwdriver fights with my mom and threatening to end or family with a gun. I don't think it would have gotten any better if my mom would have stayed with him...but 17 years later he had chilled out a lot and still gets angry, but for more logical reasons. I don't know why he was like that, except that he believed he was fulfilling God's will, butI was glad to move away from him at 5 years of age. He claims to not even remember any if that now. Your mom should at least consider a separation, something that will make him think twice about the way he treats you guys.