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  • It might be kinda fun to drag down the economy achieving nothing sufficient schaudenfreude to sweeten our Cocoa.

    You've Got Soup ! Newmania 2008

  • "It might be kinda fun to drag down the economy achieving nothing sufficient schaudenfreude to sweeten our Cocoa"

    You've Got Soup ! Newmania 2008

  • Not to be confused with schaudenfreude or bullying, snark doesn't attack people just to be mean (that'd be Perez Hilton), but it doesn't back away from a fight either.

    Michael Jackson, R.I.P. 2009

  • At the risk of schaudenfreude, I have to say it made me smile.

    Friday, May 22 – The Bleat. 2009

  • And if you want to know why there are so many people out here who can't stand the thought of Hillary as President and may be exhibiting a bit of schaudenfreude (sp?), just look at the way her surrogates have attacked Obama on his religion, his activities as a youth, and his (correct) thoughts about Iraq.

    Gallup: Obama And Hillary Tied ��� Nationally! 2009

  • One cannot help but think that the schaudenfreude part of his soul is rooting the jihadists on.

    Avowed Islamaphobes Seek to Work with Barack Obama 2008

  • I don't follow celebrities very much - they're boring unless they've done something stupid, and I don't want to support schaudenfreude so I just try to avoid it all together.

    Britney and Me 2007

  • The merger went through, I commiserated with my HP friends about how terrible the merger and culture change were, and shared in their schaudenfreude when the resulting acrimony cost Fiorina her job. initial results of the merger were inconclusive, and after railing against Carly in my undergraduate strategy class from 2002-2003, I lost interest and went back to studying open source and later mobile phones.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Joel West 2010

  • The last factor is good ol 'fashioned schaudenfreude.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • It is satisfying to watch conservatives deliver just desserts to their erstwhile leaders, but schaudenfreude cannot serve as protection while our own homemade terror stalks the nation.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

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  • Pschau!

    June 15, 2009