# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/141 "2012-11-09T19:51:35Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Oh my god, I’m addicted. I’m addicted to schadenfreude. I am too. This part is even better than the election. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/142 "2012-11-09T20:49:25Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > [I’ll just leave this here.](http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/foster_friess_super_pacs.php) I love it. The big money crooks thought they were buying the election, and whatever money didn’t get wasted, got STOLEN. How’s it feel motherfuckers? Want a bail out to cover your fucking losses? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/143 "2012-11-09T20:50:37Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > 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. As near as I can tell, she’s angry because she’s not an internet celebrity. I think her insane rant will help fix that. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/144 "2012-11-09T20:52:22Z")
As Michelle Bachman glances nervously over her shoulder… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/145 "2012-11-09T20:53:24Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Daily Currant is an Onion-style satirical website. I like this article better: [http://dailycurrant.com/2012/11/08/conservapedia-declares-romney-45th-president-u-s/](http://dailycurrant.com/2012/11/08/conservapedia-declares-romney-45th-president-u-s/) ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/146 "2012-11-09T22:43:49Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > I agree about the negative ads. They are so childish and obviously propaganda that I just scoff at them. It actually turns me off of the the candidate they are supporting. > > “The opponent is a poo-poo head. You’re a poo-poo head if you vote for him. Don’t be a poo-poo head. Vote our guy.” See, I think I would vote for that guy. ---
**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 9, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/147 "2012-11-09T23:22:25Z")
> [@Ace309](#): > > As near as I can tell, she’s angry because she’s not an internet celebrity. > > I think her insane rant will help fix that. To be fair to her, Romney might have won the election **IF YOU GUYS HAD BOTHERED TO FORWARD HER EMAILS AND FACEBOOK POSTS** ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/148 "2012-11-09T23:28:39Z")
On behalf of a grateful nation, I thank all of you who didn’t. I didn’t do anything more than any of the rest of you, but I got here first, so: Good goin’, there, **'luc**! Keep on rockin’ in the Free World! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/149 "2012-11-10T00:21:20Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > To be fair to her, Romney might have won the election **IF YOU GUYS HAD BOTHERED TO FORWARD HER EMAILS AND FACEBOOK POSTS** \*size adjustment mine This is the most entertaining thing about that rant. She spends ‘‘hours and hours’’ looking for stuff to post on Facebook, and honestly believes it matters. ---
**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 10, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/150 "2012-11-10T05:29:59Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > \*size adjustment mine > > This is the most entertaining thing about that rant. She spends ‘‘hours and hours’’ looking for stuff to post on Facebook, and honestly believes it matters. To be fair to her she has been using computers and the internet for all of 3-4 years now, so she probably has a pretty good grasp on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to using the intertubes as a tool of social influence. And I will give her this. Going on facebook and delivering insulting, condescending lectures to your liberal friends and families does work to change their opinions. Especially if those lectures are so full of factual inaccuracies that people stand there thinking ‘how does an adult reach that age and on one hand manage to have an education and an ability to independently perform daily acts of living such as buying their own groceries and balancing a checkbook, and still be misinformed and gullible enough to believe this stuff’. > **[The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science- and Reality: Chris...](https://www.amazon.com/Republican-Brain-Science-Science-Reality/dp/1118094514)** > > The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science- and Reality \[Chris Mooney\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science- and Reality ---
**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 10, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/151 "2012-11-10T14:27:38Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I could listen to this all day. I could memorize this and sing it like a pop song. I have it on as muzack as I do my messageboarding. I. Love. This. Video. > > Hahaaa! My favorite part is when she gets mad at watching the Obama wins footage and she swings the camera around at the screen and says, “Look! _Loooooookkkkkk_!” It’d be funny if she followed that up by saying ‘do you know what they did, your cunting voters’. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/152 "2012-11-10T15:28:32Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > 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. So I was finally able to listen/watch this… I laughed for the first 5-10 minutes because I kept thinking… They should not let Ann Romney upload unvetted videos. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/153 "2012-11-10T17:00:50Z")
I keep hearing the thread title as sung to the tune of “Ode to Joy” _Schadenfreude, motherfucker, Our guy won so suck it, dude Maybe next time this will teach you Not to get your polls “unskewed”_ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/154 "2012-11-10T17:33:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I keep hearing the thread title as sung to the tune of “Ode to Joy” > > _Schadenfreude, motherfucker, > Our guy won so suck it, dude > Maybe next time this will teach you > Not to get your polls “unskewed”_ Thanks a lot. I’ve got a new earworm now. Seriously, it drove out my previous earworm from Thursday night, where I listened to Bob Dylan in concert croaking out some sort of thing that turned out to be “tangled up in blue”. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/155 "2012-11-10T18:12:39Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > 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. That is serious comedy gold. With some schnapps, beer and a sidekick to poke her with taunting lines lines she could become our side of the pond’s version of Karl Pilkington. Granted it would be an incredibly loud, screeching harpy Yankee version of Karl, but still you’d think that Comedy Central would have to think it worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/156 "2012-11-11T09:17:20Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > Nate Silver in today’s FiveThirtyEight writes that Obama lost North Carolina by 2 percentage points, in contrast to Gore who lost North Carolina by 13 percentage points. He also writes that Missouri was once a tossup state and is now solid Republican (it was known as a **bellweather** state) and that West Virginia was once left-leaning. [Bellwether](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellwether). ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/157 "2012-11-11T09:22:52Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I keep hearing the thread title as sung to the tune of “Ode to Joy” > > _Schadenfreude, motherfucker, > Our guy won so suck it, dude > Maybe next time this will teach you > Not to get your polls “unskewed”_ Bravo! Bravo! _Bravissimo!_ [_thunderous applause_] ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/158 "2012-11-11T15:07:59Z")
Since I haven’t seen it in this thread yet, I give you the link to John Scalzi’s Schadenfreude Pie: [How to Make a Schadenfreude Pie | Whatever](http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/how-to-make-a-schadenfreude-pie/) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/159 "2012-11-11T15:26:08Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > Since I haven’t seen it in this thread yet, I give you the link to John Scalzi’s Schadenfreude Pie: [How to Make a Schadenfreude Pie | Whatever](http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/how-to-make-a-schadenfreude-pie/) The photo captions are excellent. > [@](#): > > Athena mixes the pie filling ingredients while plotting the downfall of all those who oppose her. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205/160 "2012-11-14T04:59:47Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > \*size adjustment mine > > This is the most entertaining thing about that rant. She spends ‘‘hours and hours’’ looking for stuff to post on Facebook, and honestly believes it matters. In the interest of fairness I looked at her posting history on youtube to see if there was some brilliant political analysis being neglected. Her posting is almost entirely clips from Fox News and a handful of right-wing blogs tackling important issues like “why aren’t all these people at a Democratic event reciting the Pledge of Allegiance along with the minor celebrity who is doing the opening?” Before this rant her most viewed video was the non-political “Surveillance footage of the Miami Cannibal”(100k views), followed by “Two legs of the Triple Crown”(30k views). Most of her political postings had ~200-400 views. Given that’s in the margin of error for the number of viewers who probably saw it when it first aired on Fox News I’m not quite sure what she expected. Re-posting snippets of political pundits when there are entire channels of nothing but talking heads on 24/7 is unlikely to change things significantly more than those channels accomplish on their own. It seems she learned how to do video capture off her DVR and that’s pretty much been her contribution to the political discourse. But, for some reason, she believes if her insightful focusing of the political debate had been shared more it would have changed the election results. Enjoy, Steven [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schadenfreude-motherfucker/640205.md?page=9)