Schadenfreude: pleasure taken from the misfortune of others.
Those clever Germans with a word for everything. The fact that this feeling would be common enough to get its own word says something very unflattering about human nature.
Along those lines I was on Skype with CE giggling over the HK and Yahoo personals, as a distraction from her annoying boy trouble.
Some were really icky. Some were dull. Some were funny. It's good to know that everyone likes to have fun, watch movies, and eat food. Except me, course. I am very anti-fun. Ask anyone.
There was one personals ad in which a fella made a point of saying that he was "not about doing anything in a conservative way." We *cough* each independently concluded that this was code for "Likes backdoor action."
(Did we over react or does that sound about right to you? Minds in the gutter. Maybe he rides a unicycle to work or wears his baseball cap inside out.)
And then in the midst of all of this snarking and mocking there were the ads that took the ark right out of our snark. Ads so adorable, so vulnerable and sweet and hopeful that we feared for the well-being person posting. We just hated to think of these people dying alone or ending up with someone cruel and unfeeling.
Of course these people might be axe murderers who barbeque puppies. You just never know.
3 comments:
The real question about Mr. Backdoor Action is whether he's talking about other people's back doors... or his own. I had a friend who was all about women violating him with artificial appendages, this even before he went to prison. Of course, he bristles at the suggestion of having a man do the job.
GC: C'mon now, it's his perogative to choose who to invite in.
How funny...I had a crush on this word for a little while...cheers to the Germans for it...
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