Schadenfreude: classic or dud?

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For those who find actual revenge a bit vulgar, schadenfreude (per OED, "Malicious enjoyment of the misfortunes of others") is often the preferred option.

Tell us a recent instance of schadenfreude. And more generally: is it morally acceptable? Inevitable or avoidable?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I find the notion of feeling like this utterly repulsive and cannot understand how someone else's misfortunes can lift one from the mire.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Not recent, but great -- driving carefully in a severe snow storm in a little but snow worthy Toyota, being passed honkingly with obscene gestures by some jerk in a large SUV, and watching him wipe out and slide into a ditch before my very eyes.

(He was not injured, thus Schadenfreude was great.)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

you're obviously not doing it right, lara.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Who's been talking??

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Schadenfreude vs Glückschmerz - FITE

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 27 February 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I try not to but sometimes I do. I'm sure people laugh at my misforutunes so it's not as bad as thinking about, say,lighting someone on Fire.

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 27 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

i am having a pissy day:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1877422,00.html

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

'tis the season!

― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

explain.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

schadenfreude is the new karma

― m coleman, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8364421.stm

― a used up cumrag who now plays NFL for the Bengals (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

were they FREEDOM, LOVE, or PARTIES - I forget.

― sarahel, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

From the links on the right: The trial of a husband accused of murdering his wife as they slept in a camper van has heard he killed her while he dreamt she was an intruder...Swansea Crown Court heard Brian Thomas, 59, of Neath, accepts he killed her but says he has a sleep disorder which had been triggered by "boy racer activity".

I dunno, I always kind of liked fuzzed-out indie slop-pop.

― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

xp - never mind, it's the superband one isn't it?

― sarahel, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

ten years pass...

beef-only diet

― mark s, Saturday, 8 February 2020 10:49 (six years ago)

every now and again you sit back and light a pipe, yep

― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 11:37 (six years ago)

'Scared of heights' injury claimant filmed on Europe's biggest waterslide

― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 8 February 2020 12:36 (six years ago)

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