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I don't mind sports and I follow a few myself, but I don't get the fervor over college football. And I don't mean, "I'm a nerdy goon that doesn't get sports." I mean college football is a loving joke and I don't understand why anyone takes it seriously. This is a level of football where lovely players like Tim Tebow and Johnny Manziel could put up 500 yards per game. It's garbage football. Why does anyone care about this when there's better (i.e. pro) football being played all over the country? I'm sorry in advance if I piss off any college football fans out there. I just don't understand it. The Michigan/MSU schadenfreude is pretty self-evident, though. That's some good stuff.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Shut up, nerd. Also people made a big deal out of the couch because East Lansing is so often made fun of for those kinds of shenanigans, so it's funny to see Michigan fans pull the same poo poo. All joking aside, if my team were the Lions, I'd be bitter about the NFL too. Then again, I think football is kind of boring in general, and I care more about baseball, basketball, and hockey. Henchman of Santa posted:And a lot of the most fervent college fanbases are in areas with no pro sports presence--Alabama, Nebraska and Oklahoma come to mind--or where the college teams had already established themselves before the pros got there. This is probably it. The southeast U.S., where football is most popular, has perpetually lovely and/or Johnny-come-lately teams (Jags, Bucs, Panthers, Saints, Dolphins, Titans, etc.). If I lived in the SE, I'd probably care about football more, and I'd probably rather root for a college team.
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Oct 18, 2015 15:47
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Jastiger posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjzgbZL12VI "League of Legends isn't even a good game. it's not fun or interesting." ~moments later~ "I've played over 8,000 matches, so I can speak with authority about this." 
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Oct 23, 2015 10:44
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I'm sure the kid got a real cake in the end. I'm not one of those rear end in a top hat parents who hits their kids, but there is something to be said for kids starting to develop some emotional resilience at some point. The world isn't ever going to be as kind as your parents, so there's no real harm in messing with the kid for a minute before the real cake comes out. Then, the lesson isn't "you can't trust your parents EVER AGAIN." Instead it's, "Sometimes poo poo happens but your parents will be there to help make it right in the end." Yeah, they caused the poo poo in this case, but the kid can still learn not to lose it every time something doesn't go their way for whatever reason. Then again, the videos of kids getting their faces slammed into cake bug the poo poo out of me. Not because it's cruel (which is arguable I guess), but because it isn't funny. It's not clever. It's loving retarded.
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Oct 26, 2015 19:49
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canyoneer posted:That's a thing in Latino birthday parties, so in at least one culture (and probably a few of the videos) it's not considered cruel. Huh. Alright then. If it's expected then I'm cool with it. The impression I got from some of the videos I've seen are that the kid is completely blind-sided by it, but others aren't so bad and the kid seems to be in on the joke. Where I'm from, the only situation I can think of to expect cake in the face is the bride and groom of a wedding.
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Oct 27, 2015 03:26
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Clitch posted:Precautionary link hovering saves me yet again.
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Oct 29, 2015 12:30
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ayn rand hand job posted:http://m.mlb.com/video/?content_id=527579583&topic_id=63106348 Oh yeah. That's the stuff.  I don't really hate the Mets except that I'm a Red Sox fan. This has 1986 written all over it.
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Nov 2, 2015 12:22
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Please post all your saddest Mets fans! Caaaaan do!  10th inning, immediately after the blown save.  A Mets fan pukes and/or cries and/or moves to commit seppuku with a beer can after the blown save.  12th inning, right as the Royals start putting up 5 runs.  12th inning, after the 5 runs. My team sucks right now, but this is so much worse. It's brutal to get so close and lose, especially at home and with a blown save in the 9th and extra innings. The ghost of 1986 rises up to take its pound of flesh from the Mets like an evil genie. Railing Kill has a new favorite as of 16:09 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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Nov 2, 2015 15:49
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That's the stuff. Aww yiss
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Nov 3, 2015 18:49
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Some primo schadenfreude in last night's Celtics game. Context: C's have the ball with 1.1 seconds left before halftime. They have to get the ball from one end of the court to the other and make a basket in 1.1 seconds. So, Jae Crowder chucks the thing all the way across the floor from where he's inbounding it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJL-D-rcd50 ...And it goes in instead of getting to his man on the other end of the court. It doesn't count because he was out of bounds when he threw it. I was listening to the game on the radio in my car when it happened. The Celtics' hyperactive color commentator was literally speechless. The other broadcaster just stammered "it went in" before saying that Crowder could do that 1,000 more times and it'll never happen again. Also, the Celtics ended up losing by 2 points. 
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Nov 5, 2015 15:49
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Chromatic posted:Unluckiest batter I've ever seen. 1:53 is The dry commentary right after 1:48 is priceless: "Well, now we know why he had that expression on his face."
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Nov 11, 2015 16:50
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 Sorry. I just can't let that one go by without comment. Holy poo poo.
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Nov 13, 2015 18:23
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ayn rand hand job posted:it was supposed to be James Earl Jones. That's what I figured, but holy poo poo is that literally the worst possible mistake to make. ... And James Earl Jones gets his revenge. Or perhaps they are the same person. 
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Nov 13, 2015 19:50
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Considering Rousey is a big-time truther, I don't feel bad about this. Pretty much this. Got a nice shot of schadenfreude to go with my coffee when I heard the news this morning.
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Nov 15, 2015 21:37
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Anosmoman posted:Not to forget Norway I know the dude's voice is masked or whatever, and I sure as hell don't speak Norwegian, but I'm just going to pretend that you guys have Klingons in Norway.
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Nov 27, 2015 22:06
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Clancy Brown is still the best Lex Luthor. Because he is Clancy Brown.
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Dec 3, 2015 17:23
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Dwight Eisenhower is cool as a cucumber to the defendant's right, though. A real professional. joedevola posted:Am I alone in thinking that cop looks like he has a few too many chromosomes? Me too. He looks like George Zimmerman (and is somehow a worse human being, which is saying quite a bit).
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Dec 11, 2015 20:13
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This is what older people imagine all Millennials are like.
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Dec 16, 2015 22:23
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gvibes posted:Matt Levine at Bloomberg has a line he always uses that I love:  Alter Ego posted:Not to turn this into D&D but even if that is the reason Citizens United was a Real Bad Supreme Court Decision and it should be overturned. Yeah. This. And I honestly don't see how Hilary's reaction makes her any more vindictive than any other politician would be in her position. Anyone else holding or seeking public office would do the same if some Super-PAC gave them as much poo poo as she's gotten.
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Dec 18, 2015 18:32
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veedubfreak posted:The real freude is going to be when Hillary becomes president because every single republican running is a complete idiot. Far and away the dumbest guy the RNC put out there in 2000 won their nomination and ended up as president for eight years. Granted, not everyone in the 2000 primary was as stupid as all of them are now, but my point is never underestimate the American people's ability to elect the seemingly unelectable.
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Dec 18, 2015 18:59
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Tony Phillips posted:At long long last. About time. Shilling has been posting dumb poo poo on Twitter for years. The fact that it's taken this long says more about ESPN than it does about him. His stupidity is self-evident. ESPN suspended him once or twice over the years, but they should have poo poo-canned him years ago. That's all without even mentioning his video game scam. I choose to remember the Curt Shilling that pitched game 6 of the 2004 ALCS, not this bigoted rear end in a top hat.
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Apr 21, 2016 13:52
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Henchman of Santa posted:They really have poo poo luck on crucial XPs, huh? That one's even worse than Carney's. Carney's is worse. About as improbable, but also cost them a playoff berth. The Pretty Good about it is purestrain schedenfreude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yru_1al8EY
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Nov 14, 2016 05:07
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Garrand posted:I don't know this show so I don't know if the super artsy bullshit is regular or not but it really did make 10:30 and on all the better. Glad I sat through it. It is pretty typical. It's a short series (10 eps or so), and Jon Bois does literally everything for them, and does so on a shoestring budget, but he does some interesting stuff with production to keep it interesting. More Pretty Good (Schadenfreude): An episode about professional poker being the dumbest, most stressful way to make money on the face of the planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUZ2SrSxsA An episode about the worst marathon in US, or any, history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4AhABManTw An episode about the infamous 222-0 Georgia Tech game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZzrsDJo-4 Lots of suffering to enjoy in these. The rest of Pretty Good is a lot less schaden and a lot more freude. I recommend it all.
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Nov 14, 2016 19:02
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Tony Phillips posted:Standard Browns loving up in the best way possible. Stex T posted:They're the perennial snake-bit franchise; in the last few decades they've done nothing but lose and in often conspicuous and hilarious fashion. God bless The Factory of Sadness. To me, from the relative safety of Not Being a Browns Fan, their losing is different than the Cubs (up until recently) or the Red Sox (same) or even Cleveland's other long-suffering team, the Indians. The Browns are and were never good. Like, at all. The Indians and Cubs are/were heartbreaking because they would get so close and then blow it. Same with the Red Sox in 1968, 1975, 1986, and 2003. In order to be Lovable Losers, you first need to be lovable, to be known for something besides losing and to have an interesting history. The Browns just loving lose. They're the consolation prize of a city that had its team stolen from them in the night, and they have done literally nothing but lose since their inception. It's the only thing interesting about them. 
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Dec 12, 2016 19:07
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Basebf555 posted:One time the Browns came close to competing for a championship. Their running back was about to plow into the endzone for the wining score in the semi-finals, putting them in the Super Bowl. It's their Bill Buckner moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18caPNisP2U Context: The Red Sox blow a lead to let the Mets into extra innings in game 6 of the 1986 World Series. It is an elimination game for the Mets. A routine ground ball goes toward Bill Buckner at first base, and he lets it scoot between his legs, allowing the Mets to win. But then the Sox still had to lose game 7, which of course they did. That was cold comfort to the psychotic fans who hated poor Bill Buckner for decades after that. So if the Red Sox were like the Browns, it would be as though that moment were literally the only time they had ever come close to winning. Never change, Factory of Sadness.
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Dec 12, 2016 20:06
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Basebf555 posted:The thing that a lot of people forget about this game is that the Red Sox got the first two outs of the 9th inning without any trouble at all. The Mets were literally down to their last out, and long before the Buckner play too. Its really not fair to Buckner because the pitchers that blew the lead in the first place never get brought up.  Bill Buckner was actually a decent, reliable 1B. It was bad pitching that blew the 9th inning of game 6, and it took a total team effort to blow all of game 7. Luckily, a lot of those demons got exorcized in 2004, and I would hope the same is true for Steve Bartman in Chicago. bobjr posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq8G81oOHhY Bartman did indeed get death threats in 2003. But I think he's way worse than Buckner. Dude has headphones on to listen to the radio call from the stands. He knows baseball. So why the gently caress is he reaching out to catch a playable ball for his own team? (Although, to be fair, he's not the only dumbass right nearby who's trying to catch that foul ball. Idiots, all of them.) I'm just bitter because I really wanted to see a Cubs/Red Sox World Series that year, and both league championships were lost in dramatic fashion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-35ghwAw90 The Yankees won it in the 9th with a walk off home run, because of course they did. It was a different time. gently caress Grady Little.
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Dec 12, 2016 20:41
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Basebf555 posted:ESPN did a documentary on that, and its heartbreaking. He seems like a similar type of person as myself. Leading a fairly normal, if boring, life and not really seeking the spotlight in any way. He went to the game with a few friends(who immediately pretended they didn't even know him as soon as the poo poo hit the fan), and he probably just wanted to have fun, check out the game and go home. I agree with pretty much all of this, but he was still a dumbass for reaching out like that, regardless of whether Moises Alou was going to catch it. You see it all the time in games: if the home team's fielder is going up to catch a fly ball, you get the gently caress out of the way. (If it's an away player, then to hell with him.) Bartman did a single, momentarily dumb thing which unfortunately cost him dearly. It would be like someone becoming the pariah of an entire city for littering once.
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Dec 12, 2016 20:59
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Bird in a Blender posted:The Browns actually used to be really good, but that was back in the 50s and 60s. They won the NFL championship in 50, 54, 55 and 64, but these all pre-date the Super Bowl, so they get forgotten sometimes. Unless you're just talking about the new Browns, then yea, all they do is lose. I was just talking about the post-1999 Browns. The old Browns are from The Long Long Ago, in the Other Time.
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Wasabi the J posted:Quebecois are nice and completely aware of their reputations. They're just big city people with French ish affectations, so it amplifies any perceived slight. When I was a college student, 10,000 years ago, there was a girl from NYC in the same program and in the same year as me. I had three creative writing workshop classes with this girl, and she was loving insufferable. Every one of her critiques about anyone's piece turned into her grandstanding about NYC, apropos of nothing. The topic or genre of the writing in question didn't matter. "This was an alright story about a high school prom, but if it was set in NYC it would be way different. See, you guys don't realize this, but in the NYC..." "The extended metaphor for nature in this poem is communicated clearly, but we have such a different view of things in New Yawk. See, where I come from..." "The griffins in this fantasy story, which is not my style by the way, seem legit, but I just don't know. I mean, who's even seen a hawk, like, really? We don't have any in New Yawk so...."  New Yorkers are uniquely prideful about their piss stain of a city. It's not enough for them to be proud of where they're from like everyone else. They have to tear down where you're from in the process. I'm sure I'm overgeneralizing, but whatever. I welcome anyone from NYC to prove me wrong by not being a dick about where you're from.
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Dec 13, 2016 20:13
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Zero One posted:Think that's impressive? Stand back and watch how the MOTOR CITY handles transit! Hahaha I picture the "people mover" as one of those conveyor belts they have in airports. Just people in the open air, moving along the sidewwalk, like cats on Roombas. Actually, I can't decide if that's sad or awesome. Hmmmmmmm
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Dec 16, 2016 02:47
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Textbook example of mom-cooking. "I didn't have half the ingredients, or know how to make it, so I just threw a bunch of poo poo in there". I love the timing of the punchline to that video. She waits two minutes and feeds them some of the dip, and only then does she finally say, "Oh yeah. I didn't have any lemon so I used orange, and I didn't know what spices to use so I just used celery salt and oregano." Oh, sure. Just throw some random poo poo in there. Oranges look similar to lemons, and all herbs are basically green, white, or red, right? Just throw a green one and a white one in there. Everyone knows that sight and taste are closely linked senses.
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Dec 17, 2016 12:08
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The people on the Blizzard forums have been dumbasses for a long time. These are the same people that bitched about early D3 screenshots as being "to colorful" and "not dark enough" and "not the Diablo we know!!!1!" So Blizzard made those happy-go-lucky rainbow levels, just to gently caress with them.
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Dec 21, 2016 01:23
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Merry Christmas, LA Beast, wherever you are.
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Dec 24, 2016 00:32
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Say Nothing posted:And now, we return you to your regular scheduled schadenfreude thread... Say Nothing, you are a (post) Christmas miracle.
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Dec 27, 2016 01:59
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Solice Kirsk posted:Did anyone besides the UFC marketing team expect big things from her? She was really good because the talent pool was so shallow. I've said it before and I'll say it again, she's the female Karo Parisyan. The fight was also one round, so it wasn't like she was hanging in there for a while and then let her guard down. She can do arm bars and gently caress else. She's terrible. Malachite_Dragon posted:Isn't Ronda kind of a terrible person anyway so we shouldn't feel too bad? She retweeted a Sandy Hook false flag conspiracy video with a comment like, "really makes you think." Yeah, Rhonda. It makes me think, "whoever made this video is an evil dumbass." I don't know if that makes her a bad person, but she's at least a huge idiot whose combination of stupidity and celebrity probably made more than one person buy that evil bullshit that wouldn't have otherwise. But her being a bad, overhyped fighter is reason enough for schadenfreude for me. FCKGW posted:My new favorite image Fuckin lol
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Dec 31, 2016 21:11
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Tree cutting fails!! The one at 1:16 is good stuff. "gently caress off, human. I'm going back up."
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mobby_6kl posted:Reminds me of the pendulum experiment, though there was an even better gif somewhere: That kid has the OSHA thread written all over him in 5-10 years. Holy poo poo. 
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I watched the follow-up with his dad and in the context of a longer video, the kid is exactly as stupid as you'd imagine him to be.
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Krispy Kareem posted:That's a thing of beauty and wonder. 4WD doesn't help in snow except in certain situations, and trucks are way worse in snow than cars regardless. Well, they're not bad if you put plenty of weight in the back, but I'm going to guess this dink didn't have anything in the bed (and was driving like a dumbass). I usually see trucks or SUVs in ditches during snowstorms, mostly because bad drivers assume the 4WD is some magical proof against snow.
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spog posted:http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/11/trollstation-prankster-sentenced-for-racist-comments-to-black-people-at-slavery-museum-6376219/ The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite (or Request): Coldly Compiled Lists > Schadenfreude Thread: address his ‘"thinking skills"
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