With politics being a legitimately realistic endgame for Kyle – remember, Robert Kilroy-Silk enjoyed a post-misery chat show political career – the best hope is that Psychologist Graham adopts the serene, Clegg-esque sidekick role in Kyle's grimly inevitable 2027 cabinet, or we're all pretty much doomed.
The Russian government has spent over a decade seeking to do away with this lingering vestige of post-Soviet misery.
To avoid more post-season misery the Blades will need Febian Brandy, Lyle Taylor, Kevin MacDonald and Jamie Murphy to click in their revamped frontline.
A name which, to those who don't know the city, suggests unspecified post-industrial misery, a cloud of depression somewhere disconnected and remote.
"But the old place is finished," Mr Stockton divines, "and it's never coming back .A pocket of post-industrial misery in Lincolnshire, Grimsby does not stand for Britain.
Spiegel online has a series of photos (click on the "Fotostrecke" link at the foot of the page) capturing the German squad's post-match misery - with David Odonkor sobbing his heart out, and a wretched Lukas Podolski hiding under his jersey.
The answer can be found to a certain extent in places like Nizhny Tagil, a city of 400,000 in the Ural Mountains, where on a recent day the heavy metallic stench of a Soviet-era steel plant combined with the subzero temperatures to create a sense of post-apocalyptic misery in many ways unique to this part of the world.
The group's overall economic outlook index — an amalgam of sales, capital spending and employment — came in at 74.5, a five-point drop from the previous quarter but still higher than the level five years ago, when many chiefs were still mired in post-bubble misery.
You'll resist the urge to cut the evening short so you can go home and relieve your gums, and who knows, you might even help out another poor soul who's suffering from post-cob misery.
Millard then scored under the posts before Saints' misery was compounded with 20 seconds remaining when Oldfield completed his treble.
There would be searchings of hearts, fevers and frets, long looks at each other on the post office steps, and misery for everybody.
