So I’ve been searching around for a couple of new words. One is for, when you find a site on a specific subject you never thought of, the uncontrollable urge to read everything on that site. The other is for the kind of gross feeling you have when you’re done.
These isn’t just an Internet phenomenon. My grandparents used to buy The Star and the Weekly World News tabloids, so when I went to visit they`d have a stack, and I would be driven by some internal force to read them all in one sitting. (I remember an article about a killer teddy bear — replete with a freaky photo illustration — that, in addition to the breath-sucking goblin from Cat’s Eye, conspired not to let me sleep in the 80’s). Anyway, when I was done with the stack I always felt righteous naush.
This has happened to me many times with websites, and as I understand it’s happened to other people, too. I can’t seem to find a schadenfreude-type word for the desire to read `til you yarf, but I think I have one for the feeling you get when you’re done: milted.
This is from the time I followed a memepool link to The Darkest Fish, and, suffering from the unnamed impulse described above, read everything I could find on it, and subsequently felt like I just sat in an aisle seat through Star Tours (oooh, here comes my Backlot Burger…). Now, the point of this page is to show pictures of guys proud of the sick and rotten fish they’ve caught — which sometimes, in their death throes, eject milt on their captors. This site and this word once helped me win at Cranium, and now I pass the savings on to you.
Did someone say `darkest fish`? No? How about `copyrighted image`?
Some sites don’t have this effect — they have to be sort of angry, or negative, or gross. Like you can read a year of Player Vs. Player. with no adverse effect. I’ve tried to keep this site generally positive, so, should some ill-advised soul read it to the oldest, dumbest end, he won’t be punished additionally.
If you’ve never felt milted, I double dog dare you to visit the following sites and not read them from end to end:
- Awful Plastic Surgery (Some NSFW)
- Penny Arcade (Kinda NSFW)
- Make Mine a 007 (SFW)
