MetaFilter posts tagged with schadenfreude

Sweet Smell of Success

Halloween Jack — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:38:03 -0800

Getting tired of fail, fail, and yet more fail? SUCCEED Blog chronicles that which is made of win. Leave your schadenfreude at the door. (via).

Get your schadenfreude here

reenum — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:53:08 -0800

Recently, there have been a host of websites that delight in exposing the inanity and stupidity of our society. There is the granddaddy, Overheard in New York, which recounts silly conversations heard in the Big Apple, as well as a host of similar sites. There are now a variety of such websites, dedicated to different aspects of our society. First, there are the ones targeted at different groups: STFU, Marrieds, STFU, Parents, STFU, Believers, and My Roommate is Such a Dick. Then, there are the ones that expose the silliness and inanity in our communications: Texts From Last Night, My Drunk Texts, Passive Aggressive Notes, and Lamebook. Relationships and sex loom large as well: Disgusting People I Have Made Out With, Why My Ex Sucks, and I Bang the Worst Dudes. Finally, there is just plain bad luck or failure: F My Life and FAIL Blog. Bonus: Awkward Family Photos and Hot Chicks With Douchebags

Trust me, I'm an attorney

Inspector.Gadget — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:44:21 -0800

More brazen than Madoff? Former NYC hotshot attorney Marc Dreier (he of the now-defunct vanity firm), was arrested in Canada in late 2008, charged with spearheading an occasionally daring series of frauds. Read the bankruptcy filing, ponder the fate of former Dreier associates, and maybe pick up some flashy furniture at a deep discount.

Kraft durch (Schaden)freude

Skeptic — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:53:01 -0800

Short selling is basically the practice of selling borrowed shares, with the intention of purchasing them back later at a lower price. It amounts to a placing a bet on the share value dropping, is a favoured move of hedge funds, and has been recently blamed for much of the current economic mayhem. However, when last Sunday Porsche tersely announced that, in addition to its 44% of Volkswagen's shares, it had secured 31% through cash-settled call options, the invisible hand of the market gave those short-sellers an atomic wedgie: Since the German state of Lower Saxony holds just over 20% of VW, Porsche's disclosure meant that, in fact, there were only 5% of VW's shares left on the market, whereas traders were shorting for about 13% of those shares. This set off the "Mother of All Short Squeezes". Traders scrambled to buy those few shares to cover their short positions, sending the share price of VW upwards to ridiculous heights, and completely distorting the German blue-chip index DAX. Today, Porsche eased the pressure on the short-sellers by releasing 5% of VW's shares. Coincidentally, this also probably bagged them enough billions (never mind street cred) to finance their whole takeover operation. Suddenly, even hedge fund managers are clamouring for more disclosure and regulation in the markets. They aren't meeting much sympathy.

"I'll blow yer f**king head off!"

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:31:04 -0800

The dangers of being a TV news reporter. A guaranteed context-free three-minute montage of television field reports gone awry.

SchadenFilter: Darwin Awards 2007 announced

heeeraldo — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:53:28 -0800

2007's Darwin Award winners have been announced. This years crop includes death by enema, elevator, and electricity.. Previously discussed on MeFi here, here, and here.

Image of the Year.

kittens for breakfast — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:47:46 -0800

Image of the Year. From the article: "If you want to go shallow for an Image of the Year, you can't do better than Paris Hilton, seen through the window of a Los Angeles sheriff's car, weeping as she's being hauled back to prison to complete a probation-violation sentence. But when you first notice the credit on that now infamous picture, there's a double take. The image came from the camera of Nick Ut, whose picture of a little girl burned by napalm, naked and running directly toward the camera and into the conscience of the American people, became perhaps the most powerful and influential vision of the Vietnam War. Not only was the Paris Hilton image taken by one of this country's most celebrated war photographers, it was taken June 8, 35 years to the day after the devastating image of 9-year-old Kim Phuc fleeing her bombed-out village. Let's put these two pictures up on the wall together for one last, end-of-the-year look, and see if something emerges."

A Turkey of a Different Sort

TheWhiteSkull — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:31:53 -0800

Hopeless, hapless, helpless. England will not be competing in Euro 2008. Not surprisingly, the FA's response is swift. Now not even big Sam wants the job. For some reason Roy Keane weighs in. Others are probably having a quiet little chuckle. But should he ? It's probably time for the footballing equivalent of a unicorn chaser.

The (smart) rats have left the ship

alms — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:15:30 -0800

In the wake of Rupert Murdoch's takeover of the Wall Street Journal, several of the paper's top reporters have left for safer ground. Among them is Tara Parker-Pope, who joined the New York Times on October 3rd. Her blog, Well, currently accounts for three of the paper's top ten e-mailed stories: in addition to number 1, Five Easy Ways to Go Organic, she has number 5, Shhh...My Child Is Sleeping (in My Bed, Um, With Me), and number 8, Drug-Resistant Staph: What You Need to Know. Touché Rupert.

Come on now! This is America. Time is money!

KokuRyu — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:12:53 -0800

RC Model Crashes [youtube] B-52, P-51, RC Model crash filmed with an on-board camera, Monoplane crash, Thunderbolt crash, Dogfight and mid-air collision

MILLION DOLLAR STRONG

landis — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:42:27 -0800

What's It Gonna Be? NSFW language (Single link music video). On the website of Chicago's Schadenfreude comedy troupe.

Treason is the reason for the season

soyjoy — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:27:46 -0800

Fitzmas is coming!... isn't it? Can you stand the anticipation? Could this major holiday turn out to be a big letdown? (Remember, "Fantasies of Cheney being indicted and Bush as unindicted coconspirator are just that at this point--fantasies.") But that doesn't mean we can't be ready with Fitzmas carols or Indictment Bingo, which Wonkette proposed and BackupBrain has now rendered as an actual randomized Fitzmas Bingo card for playing along at home.

DeLay Gets QueerEyed in Time for the Pen

digaman — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:32:39 -0800

[Mugshot filter] The Hammer is tanned, rested, and ready... to kick some partisan-hack a**! But seriously folks, has Tom DeLay ever looked better in his life? Book 'im, Danno -- and don't muss that fabulous hair!

The Fug of Whoooarrh

Sidhedevil — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:24:42 -0800

The good ladies of Go Fug Yourself have created an elegant little Web freakshow devoted to the fashion aberrations of the rich and frumpy. Less annoying than the shrill harridanry of Rivers mere et fille, hipper than Mr. Blackwell's "Worst Dressed", and much safer for work than AwfulPlasticSurgery.com, it's a must-see for anyone whose veins, like mine, are a-fizz with the coruscating combination of Schadenfreude and diet Coke.

Schadenfreude's a bitch, ain't it?

Johnny Assay — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:29:46 -0800

Marilyn is Wrong! Because your life doesn't contain enough nitpicking.

schadenfreude

srboisvert — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 04:53:32 -0800

The Rush to Recovery. Enjoy a little schadenfreude. Harry Shearer - Real Player.

waxpancake — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:14:35 -0800

The Rise and Fall of Plastic.com, part one. Freelance writer Mat Honan (Mefi user Emptyage) probes the story behind Plastic, using interviews with Joey Anuff, Carl Steadman, and the rest of the Plastic crew (some conducted publicly). Most Metafilter users never really embraced Plastic, but I can't help but wonder about Carl. $40,000 is a lot of money for one person. Does he know what he's doing? Why does he care so much? Maybe we'll find out in the second part of the OJR article.

waxpancake — Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:29:59 -0800

Contentville goes Splitsville. Steven Brill's online newsstand -- originally funded with $130 million from CBS, NBC and Primedia in February 2000 -- closed their doors today. In a memo to his staff, Brill wrote, "My idea for Contentville just didn't work." I'm guessing that heavy competition from other online retailers and an abundance of freely available online content did them in.

120degrees — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:43:13 -0800

Not that this link is of any importance. I just wanted to recognize Schadenfreude as "Word of the Day" today at merriam-webster.com.

toddshot — Fri, 04 May 2001 20:39:34 -0800

Schadenfreude plus Flash equals Cadge Cinema. Nothing groubdbreaking, nothing life-changing, but a nice way to waste a little time by laughing at the misfortune of others.

120degrees — Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:19:06 -0800

Now this could possibly be Schadenfreude at it's best!! "eToys Expects Lower Than Estimated Fiscal Third Quarter Operating Results" Net sales are expected to be between $120 million and $130 million, rather than the $210 million to $240 million previously estimated. How could they be off their estimate by HALF? Oh yeah, maybe if they hadn't spent so much time (and money) pursuing ETOY? Who's got the last laugh now?.....

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:42:22 -0800

Schadenfreude is such a wonderful word; too bad English doesn't have any equivalent. If it's scrolled down, look for August 22 with headline G4e still stumbling, competition massing . Critical quote inside.

mathowie — Tue, 04 Jan 2000 10:45:11 -0800

Through some supposed database mixup, Wal-Mart sells various books on porn, and later pulls them from their website. Ha! I love seeing stuff like this happen to a company that is hell-bent on having a clean image. There's some indescribable joy I get when I hear a Mouseketeer gets arrested for drug use, or a tele-evangelist is caught with a prostitute. I can't put my finger on why, it's just incredibly comical to me. They haven't fixed their search engine yet, here's a juicy screenshot.