The New Emotions
Apparently Science has determined that there are six basic human emotions: joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust. The New Statesman has determined that those are not enough, and has proposed five additional FEELINGS that could also join the pantheon: elevation, interest, gratitude, pride, and confusion. To that list I would add the following: self-loathing, ennui, recklessness, unavailability, and badly in need of a drink. Your list may vary slightly.
Catch-all: Choochy
Catch-all: Balkishness
Horny doesn't make any lists?
I was was just wondering this myself, is it not broad enough? what about Lustful then? and Hungry, sometimes that is an emotion.
I am adding "Lace." I don't know why.
When did Nick Rhodes start cutting?
I'd say passive-aggressive deserves to be up there, but it's really more a mode-of-action or a descriptor to the rest.
eg: passive-aggressive surprise.
eg: "Oh, I never thought you'd do THAT."
"wanting to run away and live in a cave" doesn't make either list? But it's my most commonly-felt emotion!
Resignation.
Schaudenfreude, envy, status-anxiety . . .
7. Bad Hair Day
8. Bloated.
Really, though, how can you have "pride" without "shame" and/or "embarrassment?"
No kidding. Even animals get embarrassed.
(dogs pooping on the sidewalk, hee hee!)
Does my ass look fat in this century?
What emotion do you get when you read about Jennifer Love Hewitt "bedazzling her vajayjay with Swarovski crystals"?
Because I'm having that emotion right now.
Vajazzled.
9. Queeny
Altertnative: Kiki-ish?
This clearly and obviously calls for a listicle.
10. shmoopie
I hope Robert Smith doesn't hear about this.
God, that photo brings back some memories.
uh, ditto
Preemptively irritated.
Can EYEROLL be a feeling?
I remember reading that issue of Select magazine, and FYI: the writer has suggested to Richie Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers that maybe he isn't such a messed-up badass; how does he know that it's for real? Edwards grabs a knife and carves this '4 REAL' deeply into his arm, and is like, how's that? And to drive the point even further home, within a few weeks he will vanish without a trace (excpet for his car left near the Bristol suspension bridge).
Although, you can kind of see how he went at the 4 and the R with great gusto, but by the time he gets to the A and the L he's obviously wondering if this is such a good idea.
I hate to be a pedant, but this was several years before he vanished – the '4 REAL' thing happened just as the Manics were emerging. I think it might have been one of the first times I ever heard about them, actually. Poor guy.
You are correct
(That was supposed to have </self-loathing] tags around it, dammit)
< self-loathing > you are correct </self-loathing >
Stoned.
Stoned is definitely an emotion.
also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIiTpYCdNhs
Gnarly.
Lewis Carroll's "Uffish" should be well known. I propose a gay porn star variant, "Fluffish," the feeling of attempting to maintain a professional attitude towards a film project while having one's genitals orally stimulated.
"Truffish" is the feeling of attempting to discern the presence of an expensive ingredient-such as black truffle oil-in a dish that you were unaware required said ingredient, after (1) the cook says "do you taste the (expensive ingredient)?" and (2) you have already eaten half of it and particularly when you think the ingredient, in and of itself, tastes like ass.
The decision to leave Gawker and found a website of one's own while admitting a degree of nostalgia for Gawker itself is termed "Melanchoire."
Obsequious, purple, clairvoyant
Those are not emotions, those are virtues.
Er, that magazine is actually New Scientist.
The feeling one has when one has just decided to do something ostensibly fun and then remembers, when it is too late to back out, why you hated it, is called ConeyIslandsWorldFamousCyclonic.
The Cyclone is PURE FUN. That said, I've accidentally made friends cry on two separate occasions by convincing them to ride along with me. I am more careful, now.
Manic, derpessive.
Regret. Broke.
56. Madonna.
yes
Disgust was mentioned right away.
And of course the British standby, "morish."
itchy.
meh
How has paranoid been overlooked?
UMAMI
Infectious.
78. Frilly
79. Faggy
80. Menstrual
81. Shoop-de-oop
Can classic seven be evaluated: Pride, Anger, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Avarice and Sloth.
Resentment/envy. (If the scientists come up with a list that doesn't at least account for all the emotions discussed by ancient rhetoricians, science FAIL.)
Marginalized
What about love?
BAH!
Muppety.
Under whelmed.
Can one be underwhelmed and Muppety at the same time? That about covers it for me today…
Yes. To wit, Sam the Eagle. Are you bald and blue?
Guilt/anxiety/recovering catholic.
I can't help but notice that more than one of your most recent blogs have been about booze and the feelings one might have as a result of drinking it in an excessive manner. What is the deal?
#42: hate ex-girlfriend today
Pornish.
Twitterpated.
Cock-blocked.
Tizzied.
Completely screwed.
guilt for crimes not committed
rickrolled