In reality, for most people the Lip Venom sensation is probably less like eye-watering misery than like the slightly inflamed aftermath of eating a box of Red Hots.
And the thought of yet another posh Mitteleuropa memoir set to Strauss, cross-generational misery-lit, made me slightly sick.
Japan's misery is expected to worsen slightly, with GDP expected to contract by 0.5% in 2002.
I've drawn a chart of job growth for the 1930's; there was rapid nonfarm job growth (8.1percentt) in 1934, a year of mass unemployment and widespread misery -- but that year was slightly less terrible than 1933.
Presently the misery index for the UK is slightly above 10, which contrasts with 28 for Greece and 29 for Spain, 13 for France, 7 for Germany, 9 for the Netherlands and 15 for Italy.
After Myler had kicked a fourth penalty, winger Collins went in at the left corner and former Warriors flanker Wood completed the home side's misery to give the scoreline a slightly unfair reflection with the third try.
As my son put it to me: "We take black joy in other people's misery; it's good if the diarist is slightly worse off than readers, we find it encouraging.
Then there's the slightly less-worse-case scenario: we make them live in misery, or even relive the misery of their original existence and cause them to go extinct again.
**Play along as a tasteless, slightly dense office drone in this Halloween helping of misery**.
Presumably the idea is that looking at them makes you feel slightly better about yourself the next morning as you wallow in a clammy, Jager-induced pit of misery.
