I’m sure you’ve noticed that the German language is full of great words. It’s an elegant system that allows to convey even complex concepts in one word. Take schadenfreude, for example. This expression describes the pleasure or satisfaction when someone else goes through a failure, suffering, or humiliation. Such a spark of delight might appear when a rival doesn’t get the promotion they expected or while watching fail compilation videos. Feeling this way occasionally doesn’t make people bad. However, the everything in moderation rule applies here heavily.
For your schadenfreude fix, we have a list full of hilarious fails and more, courtesy of the ‘Faillgram’ Instagram account. Scroll down for some harmless fun and don’t forget to upvote the ones that made you feel bad for giggling.
While you're at it, make sure to check out a conversation with a professor of differential psychology and psychological diagnostics and co-author of Schadenfreude as Social-Functional Dominance Regulator, Jens Lange, who kindly agreed to talk with us more about the phenomenon of schadenfreude.
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The retirement age was pegged at 65 because of physical decline. Not mental. Folks older than that run things because people keep voting for them
The local vet would be cheaper and more experienced than the emergency room. And they'll give you a yummy treat if you don't bite them.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the fact that, even drunk, she could obviously still walk in those shoes. At least until she fell down onto the pizza pillow.
A few days later he has a heart attack. Guess who is in the new will....
Yea I can believe that!! now go back to sleep; it's Saturday anyway!!
The professional one looks too good to eat. At least the amateur one you'll be putting it out of its misery
Cross out that apostrophe and mark them down!! It's the only way they'll learn.
If you only use 1 foot, I'd like to see you drive a standard transmission.
Wtf? Is that dirt? Crust? Dirty ol' scar from when that chick tried to choke him out with piano wire? A great wall of skintags? My eyes!
Long similar story. I got my Volvo xc60 awd crossover stuck going up an unplowed snow covered gravel driveway. The neighbor with an f350 tried to pull me back to get to where I could get the vehicle out. He got stuck and stared sliding off the driveway close to a small tree. Then the tow truck that came along got stuck. We ended up cutting the tree down so the f350 wouldn’t hit it. The tow truck which was stuck was then able to pull the f350 out and it helps free the tow truck. Then the to truck with its winch was able to pull my vehicle back.
Could have left that last comment out, it was funny up until that point!
That was before Kanye and Neo-Nazi Nick "Your body my choice" Fuentes had dinner with Donald Trump. Birds of a feather.
