Schadenfreude thread: It's all fun and games 'till someone gets upset

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Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
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HaB posted:

Good lord.

That Brunette is Little Miss Snarky McSnarkerton. Is there some story to this? Did the blonde sleep with her husband or what?

Props to the blonde for keeping it professional, though. I would have trouble not snarking back in the same situation.

Carol Erikson has been with the station for at least 15 years now, maybe she has a bit of a reputation for being a diva? I remember when this happened last summer, the station and both anchors were quick to put out there that they were all very good friends and those clips were out of context.

Seems pretty catty to me either way though.

# ? Jun 13, 2014 16:34

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 11:38

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

I thought the brunette was being funny at the beginning, "no monkey business" and "thats bananas" and the weather lady really took her goofing around personally.

# ? Jun 13, 2014 16:40

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

areyoucontagious posted:

At first I thought the Wired article was going to be a positive spin, but it's really more a drama piece about an addict and how he's ruining his life. I thought that quote was fake at first, and now I'm just sad. Dude's buying pinball machines now - do you think he has any real friends?

This quote was even better:

Wired posted:

One day when his ex came over to see the finished project, he showed her that he was sleeping on a convertible sofa bed with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles bedspread. �Well, at least I don�t need to worry that this room will ever get another woman wet,� is how he recalls her reaction. (Kooluris� ex-fianc�e declined to participate in this story.)

It's possible to really be into something and still have friends and relationships even if your partner doesn't share your interest - but keeping a Manhattan apartment as a playroom is a bit much. Given how it turned out for him it was a good move since he had a place to live when they broke up.

Not quite sure why he can't get a real bed since he lives there now, though.

# ? Jun 13, 2014 16:40

Elfface: Nov 14, 2010; Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
IRON JONAH

Why waste money on a bed, when he could spend it on arcade machines?

# ? Jun 13, 2014 17:11

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

because you can't gently caress in an arcade machine

oh god that's why he's buying pinball tables isn't it

# ? Jun 13, 2014 17:16

sirbeefalot: Aug 24, 2004; Fast Learner.; Fun Shoe

flakeloaf posted:

because you can't gently caress in an arcade machine

oh god that's why he's buying pinball tables isn't it

*TILT*

# ? Jun 13, 2014 17:18

sephiRoth IRA: Jun 13, 2007; "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan

sirbeefalot posted:

*TILT*

Pretty sure Jodie Foster isn't going to show up to his pinball room launch party.

# ? Jun 13, 2014 17:55

TITTIEKISSER69: Mar 19, 2005; SAVE THE BEES
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Midjack posted:

This quote was even better:

Wired posted:
Wired posted:
One day when his ex came over to see the finished project, he showed her that he was sleeping on a convertible sofa bed with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles bedspread. �Well, at least I don�t need to worry that this room will ever get another woman wet,� is how he recalls her reaction. (Kooluris� ex-fianc�e declined to participate in this story.)

It's possible to really be into something and still have friends and relationships even if your partner doesn't share your interest - but keeping a Manhattan apartment as a playroom is a bit much. Given how it turned out for him it was a good move since he had a place to live when they broke up.

Not quite sure why he can't get a real bed since he lives there now, though.

# ? Jun 13, 2014 18:02

MisterBibs: Jul 17, 2010; dolla dolla
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Not a picture but a story I touched on in another thread:

I was waiting for someone to come out of a movie theater, parked in the parking lot. The theater's parking lot is dotted with those bits of curbed earth where trees go. I don't know what they are called (I've heard them called Tree Islands, but I dunno). Basically, the ones in the parking lot look like this, if a bit smaller:

(sans tree)

So I'm waiting and I hear a thump and a scraping noise. A middle-age lady evidently didn't see it, and ran over it. The height of the curb was just about equal to the height from the bottom of her car to the ground, and the car gets stuck. She revs her engine a few times, and nothing.

I desperately wanted to take pictures, but a cop stopped by and my friend came out of the theater, so I left. But how do you miss those things?

EDIT: vvv She ran over it head-on in my case. :wtc:

MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 18:50 on Jun 13, 2014

# ? Jun 13, 2014 18:45

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

MisterBibs posted:

I desperately wanted to take pictures, but a cop stopped by and my friend came out of the theater, so I left. But how do you miss those things?

You'd be surprised just how often they get hit. We had someone back into something similar (Sans tree) in the apartment parking lot a couple of weeks back. It was, obviously, the concrete block's fault.

# ? Jun 13, 2014 18:47

Roblo: Dec 10, 2007; I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

MisterBibs posted:

I desperately wanted to take pictures, but a cop stopped by and my friend came out of the theater, so I left. But how do you miss those things?

EDIT: vvv She ran over it head-on in my case.

Yeah, it happens. I took this yesterday. Nothing serious but...how?

# ? Jun 13, 2014 20:31

Missing Name: Jan 5, 2013

Sometimes I see people try to jump those to avoid the actual lot exits and instead go right into the street, different lot, etc.

It rarely works as well as they might imagine it would have. "gently caress, there's my muffler."

# ? Jun 13, 2014 20:35

Stayne Falls: Aug 11, 2007; Everything was beautiful

KoRMaK posted:

I thought the brunette was being funny at the beginning, "no monkey business" and "thats bananas" and the weather lady really took her goofing around personally.

Yeah it was pretty obvious to me they were doing a shtick, and a pretty amusing one at that (for local news/weather at least).

# ? Jun 13, 2014 21:00

Softface: Feb 16, 2011; Some things can't be unseen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc5EMEyvFA4 LA Beast has a new video that even he can't muster enthusiasm for, and which proves his fans like seeing him in as much needless pain as possible.

# ? Jun 13, 2014 21:32

1-Up: Aug 8, 2007

Try parking on-top of a "concrete-piggy":

Edit: Newspaper article only says "odd parking" and that the police had no information regarding an accident.

1-Up has a new favorite as of 22:07 on Jun 13, 2014

# ? Jun 13, 2014 21:37

Shugojin: Sep 6, 2007; THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...

I mean I've bumped into the curb at the end of a parking space on occasion but how would you even be going fast enough to get up there? :confused:

# ? Jun 13, 2014 21:46

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Can we assume the front-end damage of the older Audi has something to do with it?

# ? Jun 13, 2014 21:56

Apogee15: Jun 16, 2013

Cakefool posted:

Can we assume the front-end damage of the older Audi has something to do with it?

Probably not. There's no way a car like that could push a van like that on top of that concrete thing and get away with as little damage as it has. I doubt it'd even be possible if it was put in to park.

# ? Jun 13, 2014 22:05

Ride The Gravitron: May 2, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

Requesting a specific Schadenfreude. It was a series of facebook posts that started out all "If you can't drive with your knees then gently caress you!" and then like 2 minutes later all "I totaled my car. My life is ruined"

# ? Jun 13, 2014 22:55

Teddybear: May 16, 2009; Look! A teddybear doll!
It's soooo cute!

Volume posted:

Requesting a specific Schadenfreude. It was a series of facebook posts that started out all "If you can't drive with your knees then gently caress you!" and then like 2 minutes later all "I totaled my car. My life is ruined"

# ? Jun 13, 2014 22:58

Stupid_Sexy_Flander: Mar 14, 2007; Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?; Grimey Drawer

There's a decent amount of schadenfreude going on twitter at the moment, due to the hashtag #endfathersday.

it's a hoax People losin' their poo poo up in heah, up in heah.

# ? Jun 13, 2014 23:05

Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

1-Up posted:

Try parking on-top of a "concrete-piggy":

Edit: Newspaper article only says "odd parking" and that the police had no information regarding an accident.

I watched this happen about twenty years ago, but the woman was driving a Corvette. And it wasn't enough that she pulled that off and got stuck, she started freaking out and kept her foot on the gas while shifting back and forth between drive and reverse, burning through her tires and loving up the bottom of her car even more.

# ? Jun 14, 2014 00:23

DarthBlingBling: Apr 19, 2004; These were also dark times for gamers as we were shunned by others for being geeky or nerdy and computer games were seen as Childs play things, during these dark ages the whispers began circulating about a 3D space combat game called Elite

- CMDR Bald Man In A Box

Was driving home one evening approaching a bit of road that was a well known speed trap area used by the police. So I make sure I'm hovering below the limit which in turn is pissing off the driver behind me who speeds up to take over and races on down the road. 10 seconds later I drive past him as he's been pulled over by the police at the speed trap.

I drive by howling with laughter.

# ? Jun 14, 2014 01:03

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
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When the night is calling

areyoucontagious posted:

At first I thought the Wired article was going to be a positive spin, but it's really more a drama piece about an addict and how he's ruining his life. I thought that quote was fake at first, and now I'm just sad. Dude's buying pinball machines now - do you think he has any real friends?

I don't see how he's ruined his life. He was engaged to someone who is clearly a raging casual, now he is not. :colbert:

# ? Jun 14, 2014 01:52

AKA Pseudonym: May 16, 2004; A dashing and sophisticated young man; Doctor Rope

Midjack posted:

This quote was even better:

It's possible to really be into something and still have friends and relationships even if your partner doesn't share your interest - but keeping a Manhattan apartment as a playroom is a bit much. Given how it turned out for him it was a good move since he had a place to live when they broke up.

Not quite sure why he can't get a real bed since he lives there now, though.

What really makes that weird is he's my age and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a thing when we both would have been in High School. I remember being kind of proud that there was finally some kid poo poo I didn't know about and didn't care about. So he has nostalgic bed sheets for something he has no business being nostalgic about.

# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:11

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:27

moot the hopple: Apr 26, 2008; dyslexic Bowie clone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9s4Wh_iH8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6fbGSrdBOM

Have some high stakes poker tears.

# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:50

GaiaShell: Mar 11, 2002

moot the hopple posted:

Have some high stakes poker tears.

Beautiful. This one has no tears, but a guy who misreads the hand as it ends, and starts celebrating before a wonderfully timed "YOU LOST BRO"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8gpFFYb4tg

# ? Jun 14, 2014 06:06

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46nBzcA8dbQ

Phil Hellmuth gets mad as poo poo when someone beats him who "didn't play right" (ie beats a "pro" poker player with luck)

# ? Jun 14, 2014 07:27

occluded: Oct 31, 2012; Sandals: Become the means to create A JUST SOCIETY; Fun Shoe

I'm working as a photo editor in a big newspaper. The amount of devastated Spanish fan schadenfreude coming in over the wires is amazing. Page after page of dejected drunk people in stupid hats covered in facepaint.

I love my job.

# ? Jun 14, 2014 08:22

Shnag: Dec 8, 2010; "I'll be whatever I wanna do!"

bucksmash posted:

Beautiful. This one has no tears, but a guy who misreads the hand as it ends, and starts celebrating before a wonderfully timed "YOU LOST BRO"

Holy poo poo comparing that woman's locked down emotions to the rest of those guys throwing tantrums and acting like babies. I get keeping the poker face going through out the game, but she still showed little emotion revealed her hand. She then gathered up those chips with the enthusiasm if she was packing them away after a for fun match. At the end he asks her a question, was it just luck on her part?

# ? Jun 14, 2014 14:46

cyfad: Sep 29, 2009; Welcome to the human race.

occluded posted:

I'm working as a photo editor in a big newspaper. The amount of devastated Spanish fan schadenfreude coming in over the wires is amazing. Page after page of dejected drunk people in stupid hats covered in facepaint.

I love my job.

I request you post your favorite(s)!

# ? Jun 14, 2014 15:01

MisterOblivious: Mar 17, 2010; by sebmojo

bucksmash posted:

Beautiful. This one has no tears, but a guy who misreads the hand as it ends, and starts celebrating before a wonderfully timed "YOU LOST BRO"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8gpFFYb4tg

Related video:
"If [he] folds this hand I swear to god I will shoot myself in the head head with a bazooka."
"Which is awkward but you've got the arms to do it."
....
"Phil Hellmuth would have thrown a chair by this time."

# ? Jun 14, 2014 15:37