I'm free- AAAAAH!

[vzg]

Okay, so when you fall in the kitchen while your mom is making dinner? That's hilarious.

When you fall in front of your PE class behind the school? That's "HUR HUR I'm a doofus."

When you fall on the sidewalk of New York City near a bunch of crowded places in the middle of the day? That's embarassing.

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[thebigfatman]

When you're one of the folks in the crowd and you giggle at someone that has such misfortune as to fall in front of everybody, that's schadenfruede.

I love the Germans, that they have such a word in their language. :)

[vzg]

Straight-A students getting Bs!
Exes getting STDs!
Waking doormen from their naps!
Watching tourists reading maps!
Football players getting tackled!
CEOs getting shackled!
Watching actors never reach the ending of their Oscar speech!

I've been two of those. :O

(Sorry, couldn't help myself. :D)

[thebigfatman]

You quote something both amusing and unfamiliar to me! Do enlighten?

[vzg]

It's Schadenfruede from Avenue Q. :D BEST MUSICAL EVER.

[thebigfatman]

Oh em gee... I still have not seen it. I'm gonna start losing my alternatheatergirl cred, soon.

[vzg]

It's actually the only thing I've seen on Broadway... though that'll soon change. But, yeah, it's amazing. I went in with high expectations and they were met and surpassed.

[thebigfatman]

The only show I've actually seen on Broadway was RENT.

I learned of Avenue Q via a Youtube video of Warcraft characters set to "Internet is for Porn."

[vzg]

That's how I first heard about it, and then through that I got wind of If You Were Gay and Everyone's a Little Bit Racist... and then Schadenfruede, I think. Or maybe that's just when I got all of them.