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Revenge Really Does Taste Sweet

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the served-cold-of-course dept.

Wizzy Wig writes "The Toronto Star is reporting on scientific experiments showing a link between revenge and the 'pleasure center' of the human brain, thus putting a nature spin on something heretofore thought of as a nurture based, or learned, emotion."

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  1. Only A Month Late by Romothecus · · Score: 2, Informative

    A little behind. If this could have been posted before the NY Times article went archival...

  2. FPS by Disc2 · · Score: 1, Informative

    anyone who's ever played a first person shooter could tell you this. There's nothing sweeter (and more selfish) than following around someone who's just foiled your most intricate stealthy plan, killing them again and again as they spawn, to the detriment of your team.

  3. Re:What this might mean by Rallion · · Score: 3, Informative

    FPS games work well.

  4. Re:Tastes sweet but smells foul! by nwbvt · · Score: 2, Informative
    Many curtain rods are adjustable so that it doesn't really matter what size the windows are.

    And as far as it being "common practice" to take them with you, when I recently moved out of my old apartment the owner required me to remove the shades I had put in.

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