Can't make up her mind....

.. about Rich. Arlene praises his intelligence in one breath and calls him a "simpleton" in the next. I'm sure "Todd" will appreciate her opinion on Rich's legal expertise.
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Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude...There is no equivalent word in the English language for what appears to be a gloating elation in others' suffering. My sister seems addicted to the rush she derives from schadenfreude.

A New York Times article in 2002 cited a number of scientific studies of schadenfreude, which it defined as "delighting in others' misfortune." Many such studies are based on social comparison theory, the idea that when people around us have bad luck, we look better to ourselves. Other researchers have found that people with low self-esteem are more likely to feel schadenfreude than are people who have high self-esteem.

Brain-scanning studies show that schadenfreude is correlated with envy. Strong feelings of envy activated physical pain nodes in the brain's dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; the brain's reward centers (e.g. the ventral striatum) were activated by news that the people envied had suffered misfortune. The magnitude of the brain's schadenfreude response could even be predicted from the strength of the previous envy response.

They don't go away...

...after you delete. (click to enlarge)

Arlene lost her favorite forum..

Arlene lost her favorite forum. No wonder.

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