# schadenfreude motherfucker **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 7, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205 "2012-11-07T12:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/41 "2012-11-07T17:57:25Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > I don’t want to take anything away from your delight in the misfortune of others, but that’s like pronouncing Versace “Ver-SAYSS.” The first syllable of “schadenfreude” rhymes with “Todd” and the last part is pronounced “froy-duh.” Yeah, but I wonder how long that will last. It seems to be a word that most people see written down. I’ve heard her pronunciation all my life. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/42 "2012-11-07T17:59:45Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > 1. **adaher** : Never really heard of this guy before the election, but that fucker was working his ass off for the Romney campaign. There was not a thread in which he wasn’t spinning, distracting, dissembling, or otherwise bullshitting. I wonder if **adaher** had a non-disclosure clause in the contract. I’d love to have an insider’s perspective on being a paid shill. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/43 "2012-11-07T18:25:22Z")
I think my favorite part of the whole evening (other than the outcome of course) was listening to Diane Sawyer. Holy crap, she was hilariously [wasted](http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/local_news/water_cooler/diane-sawyer-drunk-video-of-sawyers-abc-news-election-night-performance-has-many-wondering). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/44 "2012-11-07T18:37:40Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > I don’t want to take anything away from your delight in the misfortune of others, but that’s like pronouncing Versace “Ver-SAYSS.” The first syllable of “schadenfreude” rhymes with “Todd” and the last part is pronounced “froy-duh.” Don’t worry, you’re not taking anything away from my delight. Part of my delight is clowning around with the pronunciation. Try to remember, I’m the guy who talks back at the radio whenever the announcer says _“Noter DAYME”_, and shouts out _“NOTE-Ruh DAHM!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/45 "2012-11-07T18:55:54Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > 1. **Bricker** : Revealed himself to be completely bereft of any sense of ethic, morality or functioning core. Worthless partisan piece of shit. On the contrary, **Bricker** shows admirable restraint in the face of ridiculous and cynical provocations. It takes guts to put your ideas before people you know will be hostile to them, but that’s the only way progress is made. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/46 "2012-11-07T18:57:04Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Glen Beck’s show is on right now. I’ll be listening to him on the way there. His program ends at noon and Rush Limbaugh comes on. I’ll be listening to him on the way back. > > I’ve been looking forward to this particular lunch break for a loooooong time. I predict much evil laughter in my immediate future. I was not disappointed. Beck’s take - which was delivered as though he just watched his family get murdered - the election results were indeed God’s will. And God’s will is that we need to suffer so that we finally wake up and discover what true freedom really is. Limbaugh on the other hand is completely unhinged. I caught a solid 15 minutes of his show, in which time he barely took a breath as he railed against “everybody who voted for Obama” and how they all want free TeeVees and phones and all the food stamps they can get their hands on, and … “they want you and me to pay for it.” He’s about one undiagnosed aneurysm from dropping a full on N-bomb, at this point. Fine entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/47 "2012-11-07T19:02:52Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > buying the White House. Well, that’s exactly what Obama did. > [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I remember how terrified a lot of people, myself included, were with citizens united meaning right wing billionaires could drown everyone else out. But even with their money they still failed. fuck em Yeah, the left wing billionaires were the ones to drown everyone out this time around. Obama spend about 100 million more than Romney. > **[The 2012 Money Race: Compare the Candidates](https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2012/campaign-finance.html)** > > Below is a tally of the money raised and spent through September by the presidential candidates, the national party committees and the primary “super PACs” whose sole purpose is to support a candidate. Contribution and spending totals do not include... ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/48 "2012-11-07T19:15:29Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > 1. **adaher** : Never really heard of this guy before the election, but that fucker was working his ass off for the Romney campaign. There was not a thread in which he wasn’t spinning, distracting, dissembling, or otherwise bullshitting. Last post, 9:44AM 06 November. My assumption is the paycheck cleared his account shortly thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/49 "2012-11-07T19:17:51Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Well, that’s exactly what Obama did. > > Yeah, the left wing billionaires were the ones to drown everyone out this time around. > > Obama spend about 100 million more than Romney. > > [The 2012 Money Race: Compare the Candidates - NYTimes.com](http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance) Most of the anti-Obama spend that I saw in Florida was American Crossroads and other Super PAC money. Relatively few pure Romney buys. Also didn’t notice much from [MoveOn.org](http://MoveOn.org), at least on TV, this time around. What’s the total when you figure in the SuperPACs? ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/50 "2012-11-07T19:18:02Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#): > > Even if it was a million votes - all I’m saying is that this outcome doesn’t really mean all of America suddenly came to their senses and realized the error of their (and the Republicans’) ways. It’s definitely a reason to celebrate and maybe for some well-deserved Schadenfreude, but still more than a hundred million people (?) chose to believe the lies and fact-distortion. That’s a humbling number, I believe. You want a humbling number? 118 million. That’s the TOTAL number of votes cast for this presidental election. Decisions are made by those who show up. If someone managed to figure out a way to get the over 50% of eligible voters who don’t bother to show up at the polls both on their side and to go and vote you could change the world. Now it could be for good or for evil but either way 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/51 "2012-11-07T19:23:19Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > I have a conservative cousin in Vermont(!) who told me that he felt Vermont was becoming too diverse(!!). I guess he must have seen one black person somewhere. > > Anyway, as a result, he was going to move to West Virginia. Hm. Should you tell him that West Virginia is, in fact, more diverse than Vermont? At least in terms of proportions of non-hispanic whites: ([Vermont, 94.2%](http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/50000.html); [West Virginia, 93%](http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/54000.html)). If he’s scared of them queerly-colored folks he’s probably best off in Maine ([94.3%](http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/23000.html)). Just don’t come visit me in North Carolina (an utterly, pants-wettingly horrific [65%](http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37000.html) — and if he could only see the demographics of my morning bus ride! Discarded fried chicken bones and watermelon rinds everywhere!). ---
**Author:** ![Dolomite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8491ac/32.png) [@Dolomite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dolomite)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/52 "2012-11-07T19:31:38Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > You want a humbling number? 118 million. That’s the TOTAL number of votes cast for this presidental election. > > Decisions are made by those who show up. If someone managed to figure out a way to get the over 50% of eligible voters who don’t bother to show up at the polls both on their side and to go and vote you could change the world. Now it could be for good or for evil but either way 😉 The other half are well on their way to jail; all hope is lost. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/53 "2012-11-07T19:33:10Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I think my favorite part of the whole evening (other than the outcome of course) was listening to Diane Sawyer. Holy crap, she was hilariously [wasted](http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/local_news/water_cooler/diane-sawyer-drunk-video-of-sawyers-abc-news-election-night-performance-has-many-wondering). Holy shit that’s funny! She’s looped 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/54 "2012-11-07T19:35:16Z")
My delight is simple: I’m laughing at those who had “1-21-13 End of an Error” stickers on their cars by Thanksgiving 2008 and the “Nobama” stickers. The man was never given a chance to prove his so called socialism, etc. before they tuned out. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/55 "2012-11-07T19:50:37Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Yep. > > Akin? Lost. Happy to have been part of that one! ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/56 "2012-11-07T22:21:49Z")
One car that I see around town has a “No Hope in Socialism” bumpersticker, with the first O replaced with that sunrise Obama logo. Try visiting Scandinavia sometime, dumb-ass. It might open your eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/57 "2012-11-07T22:45:04Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > One car that I see around town has a “No Hope in Socialism” bumpersticker, with the first O replaced with that sunrise Obama logo. > > Try visiting Scandinavia sometime, dumb-ass. It might open your eyes. Better idea - why don’t you move there? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/58 "2012-11-07T22:59:18Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > Better idea - why don’t you move there? Painful election for you, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/59 "2012-11-07T23:00:07Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > You probably cried like a little girl when Bush beat Kerry. I was [more indifferent](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=284455&highlight=Kerry) to politics in 2004 and don’t think I was phased. A big part of why I wanted Obama to win was to ensure the ACA goes into effect, our health care system is a total failure and it is a good first step. If a republican wins the presidency in 2016 I won’t like it but it won’t be a big deal, just so long as the ACA remains the law. If the ACA was overturned or rendered inept, then I’d cry like a little girl. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/60 "2012-11-07T23:10:50Z")
If you’re an Obama voter and having difficulty bringing the Schadenfreude - or should you care for a deliberate overdose - listen in to [Shelly on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw&has_verified=1). NSFW language, mostly black screen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205.md?page=4)