the Schadenfreude thread

[b_dubb]

"its always funny until someone get's hurt and then its just hilarious" - bill hicks (i think)

so for those of you who aren't familiar with this word (i was among you until recently - thanks MV) ....

Schadenfreude - pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others

good stuff.  immediately i'm thinking of skateboarding videos of kids disfiguring themselves as they bounce off railings, concrete walls, cars, and other bone snapping shenanigans.  also ... videos of parkour people hopping off one roof top onto another only to find that the other roof is sub standard and they pass right through the roof into the building below.  hopefully there's no industrial meat grinder, cement mixer, bed of nails waiting for said parkour idiot. 

what you don't believe me?


Stupid Parkour Falls Through Roof Funny Videos Crazy Video Clips Gross Vids Extreme Medias

i wonder if the fool survived

PARKOUR!  SCHADENFREUDE!!!

now your turn

[b_dubb]

this thread is ON FIRE!!!!!!!!

[MV/Liberace!]

this thread is ON FIRE!!!!!!!!

HAHA, i noticed that, too.  i was going to post something to it last night, but was side tracked.  let me see....

[MV/Liberace!]

parkour:  artsy fartsy douche baggery:

Extreme PARKOUR Face Plant

[MV/Liberace!]

and yet more...

Painful - jumping off balcony and breaking leg

[b_dubb]

who says we aren't descended from apes?!! what possesses someone to do shit like that?  just go out for football or something! i hope those kids have parents with jobs and insurance.  if they're stiffing emergency rooms for those repairs, that serious bullshit.  ER's should refuse parkour injuries on principal

[Stevenqbosell]

and yet more...

Painful - jumping off balcony and breaking leg

Screw you MV. I don't even know why I fucking watched that. My foot is going to hurt my whole shift now. Thank you and screw you MV at the same time.

I should have never entered this thread 

[MV/Liberace!]

and yet more...

Painful - jumping off balcony and breaking leg

Screw you MV. I don't even know why I fucking watched that. My foot is going to hurt my whole shift now. Thank you and screw you MV at the same time.

I should have never entered this thread 

muahahahaha

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Meh, to me the people who do this shit are almost looking to get hurt. I think true schadenfreude moments comes from an exposure of hypocrisy or hubris. Like a politician, who claims he has great family values and everyone other than him in America is immoral, getting caught with a hooker. Or when an arrogant athlete or team claims they're going to do this and that and then get beat. I like that much better and revel in it.

[MV/Liberace!]

I think true schadenfreude moments comes from an exposure of hypocrisy or hubris. Like a politician, who claims he has great family values and everyone other than him in America is immoral, getting caught with a hooker. Or when an arrogant athlete or team claims they're going to do this and that and then get beat. I like that much better and revel in it.

i think u are correct.



Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) Chastises Bill Clinton

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Awww....come on.....he's "Not gay, never has been gay!" 

[MV/Liberace!]

"Not gay, never has been gay!"

haha, what a denial.

[b_dubb]

he's not gay.  but he is a nasty, bad, naughty boy

[Marc.Knight]

I think true schadenfreude moments comes from an exposure of hypocrisy or hubris. Like a politician, who claims he has great family values and everyone other than him in America is immoral, getting caught with a hooker. Or when an arrogant athlete or team claims they're going to do this and that and then get beat. I like that much better and revel in it.

i think u are correct.



Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) Chastises Bill Clinton

God.  Watching this crap makes me wonder what kind of absolute idiots would vote for a brain-dead person like this.  The same type who voted for:

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Actually, the people of Idaho never got a chance to decide how nasty old Larry was, because he smartly decided not to run after his little incident in the airport bathroom.

But David Vitter in Louisiana.......that's another story. The man was paying prostitutes to diaper him. Yup. Yet he thinks we need a "Defense of Marriage" act (From people like him?). The good voters of that state rewarded him with a 20 point victory. Amazing.

[b_dubb]

the state of louisiana sends a man-baby to washington as a representative?  sad.  and he get's re-elected?  tragic. 

what's with the obvious schizm between reality and how people vote in this country?  are we asleep at the wheel?

[MV/Liberace!]

the state of louisiana sends a man-baby to washington as a representative?  sad.  and he get's re-elected?  tragic. 

what's with the obvious schizm between reality and how people vote in this country?  are we asleep at the wheel?

awwwww come on... who doesn't like to get their ass powdered from time to time?

[onan]

what's with the obvious schizm between reality and how people vote in this country?  are we asleep at the wheel?

We are so drunk-sedated-hypnotized-distracted that we fell out of the car several miles back and the car is still going full speed ahead.

We as a nation have been so manipulated into thinking that there are good thinkers and bad thinkers. We have been trained to vilify anyone not in our respective groups. It appears that civil discourse only happens when physical harm is about to happen.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

what's with the obvious schizm between reality and how people vote in this country?  are we asleep at the wheel?

We are so drunk-sedated-hypnotized-distracted that we fell out of the car several miles back and the car is still going full speed ahead.

We as a nation have been so manipulated into thinking that there are good thinkers and bad thinkers. We have been trained to vilify anyone not in our respective groups. It appears that civil discourse only happens when physical harm is about to happen.

or... having awakened in the back seat feeling the stickiness of having been molested by the vanished operator... pressing buttons and moving levers in an attempt to gain control of something we never bothered to understand.   

[Marc.Knight]

We are Schadenfreude.





Coast to Coast AM -- George Noory Caught Lying

[MV/Liberace!]

this thread deserves another go.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

this thread deserves another go.

Let's start with the basics Sesame Street Style:


Schadenfreude - Sesame Street Style!

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Commando - 'Let off some steam Bennett'

[Sardondi]

Ah, good ol' Larry "Wide Stance" Craig, former Senator from Idaho! Don't you know it's got to be hell for him in an Idaho bar...well, if he went to bars...or lived in Idaho anymore. IIRC he's now with a firm (heh, "firm", get it?) in D.C., lobbying for roomier bathroom stalls so that men who really like to sprawl out and maybe even indulge in their constitutional right to tap their feet in a public restroom can do so and not be falsely arrested in a gay-sex sting, accused of doing something so clearly ridiculous for an Idaho cowboy as give the Universal Sign for "I Wanna Play, Do You?". 

Yes, my good friend schadenfreude has given me countless hours of huge belly laughs for decades. Those tv shows about starving orphans rescued from some war-torn African hell-hole and given a wonderful future with loving families in a comfortable, prosperous and safe European country where an incoming President doesn't eat the outgoing one? A Reader's Digest tale of a 10-year-old wheelchair-bound Paralympic competitor who wakes to find her plane crashed after colliding with an iceberg, and who is forced to battle hungry polar bears armed with nothing but a spoon, and then rides for days on a narwhal to an Inuit settlement where she uses gum-wrapper foil to fashion a solar charger to power a phone so she can call her estranged Dad to come save her Mom and pet pony back at the crash site? Finally giving in to the emotional blackmail of the tough-ass guy who guilt-deluges viewers with 3-minute extreme close-ups of poverty-stricken South American kids with cleft-head and eyeball leprosy who are forced to eat garbage the monkeys throw out? They're nothing to schadenfreude.

None of these, not a single one, can match the ecstasy that floods my soul when I see a smart-ass punk sk8ter traumatically sterilize himself after he misses a 40-foot jump and straddles a metal stair rail. Nothing comes close to giving me the simple pleasure and sense of justice as does watching a swaggering adolescent Welsh bully who just beat several smaller kids, including kicking a girl in the head, himself get one-punched into brain-damaging coma by a passing man who happened to hate bullies. And does it get any better than seeing robbers who enter a Mom-and-Pop pawn shop and start pistol-whipping the elderly owners, who are then shot to Swiss-cheese shit by the son they didn't count on being in the back of the store? Oh, good times, good times. 

[EvB]

First answer WRONG! on Who Wants to be a Millionaire

[MV/Liberace!]

First answer WRONG! on Who Wants to be a Millionaire

lol, this one is classic.  what a douche.

[MV/Liberace!]

haaaaaaha, there are apparently a few of these out there:



Who Wants to Be A Millionaire - First Question Wrong


check out her face at the end.

[MV/Liberace!]

Millionaire Loses First Question

[MV/Liberace!]

The Stupidest Bid on The Price is Right

[PB the Deplorable]

I was so disappointed when Ian Punnett announced he arrived 5 minutes late from the airport to the Who Wants to be a Millionaire show and wasn't allowed to compete.  That didn't seem all that bright of a move somehow.

Would have loved to see Mr. Pompous Know It All end up on one of these fail clips.

I still remember the show with him talking about all the research prep he'd done and how he was just so pleased to tell us that after all these years he now knew where Ethiopia was.