Help Me Name Units of Emotion

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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There was a recent thread on whether it might someday be possible to quantify pain. The consensus seemed to be it is tricky and there are many causes and much individual variation. Yet, perhaps one day.

This begs the question on quantifying happiness, anger, curiosity or any other emotion. This thread asks you to name a unit for happiness, or any other emotion or feeling of your choice. It does not matter whether it can or should be quantified.

For example, I propose that happiness should be measured in “puppies”. I think Schulz was right about that. But what units should be used to measure other emotions?

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Indignation is measured in Karens

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Feeling blue is measured in Smurfs? But that’s a bit too cheery.

Feeling antsy is measured in ant hills?

Love can be measured in boxes of chocolates?

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Rage could be measures in spit chips, cut cats or snakes
Anguish could be measured in rivers
Joy could be measured in bundles

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Ignorance is measured in Kardashians.

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An angry glower can be measured in oysters, from P. G. Wodehouse:

“Roderick Spode? Big chap with a small moustache and the sort of eye that can open an oyster at sixty paces?”

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Ignorance is not really an emotion, but the correct unit is millitrumps. Except for one exceptional case, no one has ever measured more than a few dozen millitrumps.

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I’m not sure what units Paranoia is measured in and I don’t know why you’re specifically asking me. Get away, stop looking at me, leave me alone.

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Rage, anger, etc. are of course all measured in “fury of x burning suns” IMO.

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Religious fervor would be measured in billigrams.

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golf clap

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Depression can be measured in colors, from pale blue, through darker blues to black.

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The sun is shining today. Paint It Turquoise?

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A bit off-topic, but female pulchritude is measured in millihelens, the amount required to launch one ship.

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The unit of aggression is the tant. It takes an extremist or even a terrorist to register a whole tant. Ordinary levels of aggression may be measured in mili-tants.

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Hmm. Next you’ll be claiming that wokeness is measured in ennials - but that most people use three orders less.

Sure, that’s not very funny. Humour is currently measured in Gaffigans, but this replaced older units - such as Carlins and Lettermen.

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The origin of the word tantrum has, until now, been unclear to me.

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And how does that make you feel?

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Beautiful! :laughing:

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Most emotions could be measured in miles/kilometers per unit. I mean, just how far can anger, sorrow, excitement, and ennui take you?