SchadenfreudeThere's nothing like administering first aid to cyclist who has just spanged into the back of a milk float when you have tears of laughter running down your face. The world is just one long episode of You've Been Framed - when have you laughed at the misfortune of others?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 12:05)
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OK, so this doesn't involve any kind of falling over. At all.Coming as I do from a small town, and living it up as I now do in a reasonably large conurbation, it falls to me around ths time of year to descend on the ol' spawning ground to visit relatives over the festive period.
As most people will testify, 10 stultifying minutes in the company of said relatives will lead to a scrambling en-masse to the pub (or, during more skint days, a bench) whereupon several others in a similar position may be chanced upon. Certain pubs, certain clientele, and this can be a true source of schadenfreude, a bit like an annual school reunion but also with people you didn't go to school with.
My personal favourite was a chap I had gone to school with, the sort you might call a 'Billy Big-Bollocks'. sporty, chatty, and a bit of a turbo-knacker to those less fortunate in these respects at the time. Looking back, I feel he must have been insecure, foisting his own perceived shortcomings onto others to mask the deep-seated self-loathing he MUST HAVE FELT. Either that or he was a just a right old tosser, irrelevant. Bizaarely for a short toothy ginger, he was also possessed of an admittedly impressive line in faux-Jamaican patois, 'toasting' I believe they call it. Hearmenow.
I saw him a couple of years ago, and he a fat bald estate agent with the pallour of a man who knows the best is a long way behind him, and all he has to look forward to is Redtube, Fray Bentos, and the cold embrace of the grave. In fact, given the whole thing with house prices and the like, he might very well be unemployed. Or dead. I suppose that isn't that funny really. Nonetheless...
HA!
(, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 17:06, 2 replies)
"all he has to look forward to is Redtube, Fray Bentos, and the cold embrace of the grave"fucking brilliant
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 17:07,
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What's wrong withredtube and fray bentos? Sounds like a good plan for this eve.
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Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 17:56,
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