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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Shame

Myötähäpeä

MYEU-tah-hah-peh-ah

n.Second-hand shame — cringing on someone else's behalf.

FinnishEstablished linguistic term

The Karaoke Machine

There is a video and Eero has never watched it.

Not out of loyalty. He physically cannot. He got eleven seconds in, in 2019, and had to put the phone face down on the table and go and stand outside.

The man in the video is not him. The man in the video is his brother-in-law Janne, at a work Christmas party, in front of about sixty people, performing a song by Queen with total sincerity and no ability whatsoever.

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