Is there a name for simultaneously laughing at something and feeling really bad about laughing at it?
Exactly how I felt. Itâs like my brain is fighting with itself.
As usual, the Germans have you covered.
He looked so cool nonchalantly stepping onto that treadmill after talking to the womanâŚ
No one gives a crap that that guy slammed his head. I wonder if this is a routine thing at the gym.
With Shadenfreude, you donât feel bad about yourself. Maybe with shadenfreudesschuld, youâd feel bad.
Itâs interesting - in the everyday anglophone use of the word, Iâve always felt that the guilt or self-disgust was implied, even though, as you say, this isnât true to the exact meaning in the German. I wonder if this says anything about the respective cultures?
But of course, youâve correctly caught me out. I hope youâre happy.
I never thought there was any guilt/self-disgust implied with schadenfreude⌠I always just used it as a term of taking pleasure in othersâ misfortune, period.
Also: dude, who left the fucking treadmill going and walked away? If it was guy that smashed his face in, good, he deserved it. That is super dangerous. (If it wasnât him, I hope they yelled at whoever DID do it).
(Edited to de-dude a bit)
Schadenfreude combined with the still-awesome Fight Club quote: âSelf-improvement is masturbation.â Made all the more beautiful by the treadmill-launcheeâs slow recovery at the end of the video. And yeah, once he recovers from the brain trauma and the broken sternum, heâs gonna find whoever left that treadmill on and commence to beating.
âAs usual, the Germans have you covered.â
I think Shadenfreude is an inversion of that, where you donât feel bad about the happiness you feel over othersâ misfortune. Maybe this is a sub-species, or the German concept of feeling joy over othersâ misfortune is a much more subtle and developed part of life than we Ausländer can imagine in our hopeless, individual little universes of despair.
I am incredibly impressed by how embedly is able to provide a CDN to deal with the obvious and well-known shortcomings of Youtubeâs network connections, and even more impressed by how incredibly effing annoying it can be to try to dig an actual link out of the page source.
Itâs too bad that Google isnât willing to spend the money to actually deliver the content after all that money they spent on purchasing Youtube.
Haha I love âIâm an x athlete myselfâ dude, he is so wrapped up in himself, he doesnât even flinch when treadmill dude womps his head. Everyone else turns around, but x athlete dude is not going to let anything upstage his personal story.
The âex-athlete myselfâ dude is a relatively famous comedian here in NZ and this is pretty much his exact type of humour.
So yeah, staged, but still hilarious.
More of his stuff can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Moontv
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