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What distilled emotion have you been infected with?

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:34 / 11.06.03

So, David Schneider isolated rage, and look where *that* got him. But what distilled emotion have you been infected with as a result of animal liberation gone hideously, horribly wrong?

I, for example, have recently been infected with sop. I gaze at cute widdle babies. I make tiny noises at kittens. Irub my face enthusiastically against my terrified friends while making little mewling noises. The world is full of sun and fluff and sleeping bags, into whihc one is tucked and nice and warm, watching Blakes 7 as the rain bounces off the rooftops. Well, except for the rain, which is sorely missed.

What hideous lab accident has befallen you?

00:32 / 12.06.03

i was exposed to too much Orgone radiation on a school trip as a pubescent teenager, and as a result, everything, and i mean everything, makes me shudder that little shudder you shudder when a beautiful woman walks past in a dress that isn't really moving in the same direction as she is on one of those sticky summers' days after a long, brutal and exceptionally dirty, dirty weekend.

EVERYTHING.

01:55 / 12.06.03

I too had a terrible accident when I was a teenager, pissing about in GCSE chemistry with a vial of concentrated petulance. Tripped over Dave's bag and spilt it all over myself. At first it seemed that no damage had been done, but that evening, when I was told that I had to do my homework before I could watch Eastenders, I felt myself changing. I had to run and lock myself in my bedroom and paint the walls black, for I had become

THE SULK

(someone had to do it)

07:43 / 12.06.03

On a school trip to the distilled emotion factory while leaning against the railing I slipped and fell into a vat of apathy. The school of course was apologetic but I didn't seem to care. (yuk, yuk)

10:31 / 12.06.03

I was involved in a horrible teleporting accident which left my DNA permanently merged with a Cynical Pedant, whilst the pedant was left a helpless callow youth trapped in a den of hippies screaming 'Help meeee...' in a tiny voice

14:49 / 12.06.03

Infected with rage-at-authority on a trip to london. I think i caught it on the tube, and when my friend told me which stop to get off at, i yelled. And got stared at a lot.

14:59 / 12.06.03

I'm terminally infected with ROCK. Rock is not simply an emotion, but the single, prime emotion - only it isn't generated naturally - the state of rock can only be induced through contact with some kind of external phenomena which ROCKS. When deprived of rocking phenomena I'm nothing but a worthless, immobile wreck. Thus it's in the interest of my surroundings to rock.

The Return Of Rothkoid

15:56 / 12.06.03

You're only doing that until you can save up for a RAWK infection.

Which is what I have, when I'm not having Spleen.

15:58 / 12.06.03

Gingerbop, you'd have got on really well with the Mad Old Lady in the queue in Iceland, yesterday lunch time. I think she'd been told by one of the staff that they wouldn't open another checkout just for her, and that she'd have to join the queue with everyone else, so she spent a good ten minutes declaiming in a loud voice to anyone else in the queue who would listen, and anyone who wouldn't:

"It's like a communist country now. Yes, definitely a communist country. They can't make you, though. No. They can't make you. Definitely communist. Definitely a communist country. It's communist. They can't make you though, can they? No. They can't make you. Definitely a communist country."

And so on, for ever. Could have been a Fall gig.

I too have been infected with RAGE!, but not at authority, no: just MEN. Men between the ages of 10 and 65. Hate the lot of them. I want to cave their smug, self-satisfied, poxy bloody "I've just noticed something amusing that I don't expect you would understand" grinning bloody mugs in. I've been like this since the start of Spring, and went with my wife's suggestion that it was something to do with it being rutting season, but that's long past now and it's still with me. Bah!

16:08 / 12.06.03

What's it called when you're sort of miserable all the time, but gleefully looking forward to the prospect of making things much, much worse? That's what I've got.

And, um, I got it in a laboratory of some kind. At some undeterminded point in the past. From some sort of chemical or biological agent.

Yes, that will do...

16:22 / 12.06.03

Well....my whole life has pretty much been spent switching back and forth between misery and rage. Don't I sound fun to be around?

Danzig: He Pitys the Fool!

16:45 / 12.06.03

I have mumbling tourettes syndrome. Rather than shouting obscenities at the top of my voice at random people in random places, i tend to mumble under my breath very specific obscenities at people who have generally got on my wick. pfhucken wammka

13:05 / 13.06.03

Scholarly rigour.

I knew I shouldn't have drunk that unlabelled Potion off Snape's desk. I was looking for Eroticum Slasharios and ended up sat in the library reading a 500-page book in French on the consequences of two different manuscript traditions of the text of Festus for the Arval Brethren's role in the lustratio.

However, I was then so turned on by the enormousness of my own erudition that it came to much the same thing, in the end.

18:03 / 13.06.03

Insincerity is virulent within me. I can hear it rampage in the still of the night.

I am prouder of the pestilential infestation of scepticism, but that's not an emotion, which I inherited with my Dad's good looks in a random DNA spurt.

18:52 / 13.06.03

I suppose that it would make me green in a Hulk-type way, but: Envy. I really, really, really want to be a character in a slash story. Like, really. It pains me every waking moment that I am not. I was mutated by over-exposure to stories about Men I'd Rather Be. It started when I was a tiny, tiny child, and is alleviated occasionally by things which produce an inflated sense of self-worth, like sucking cock.

Hm.

Ninjas make great pets

19:02 / 13.06.03

"It could be rage, in which case you have to kill people, have yellow eyes and run like a fool"
- I found a great deal of poeple have been infected with a slightly weaker strain, these are called - joggers.

myself; boredom. theres fuck all new to do and I get bored to tears and in the end I find Im just so un-interested I cant never finish anyth..