The Schadenfreude thread

[Justin Tonation]

Not in the OED. Apparently, it's a very recent neologism.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Not in the OED. Apparently, it's a very recent neologism.

Did you really open some physical edition of OED and look this up?

do you put a little hash mark next to every word you've looked up

also...However, it has a synonym, epicaricacy, that appeared in a small number of 18th century dictionaries but has failed to enjoy the same success.
You need to expand your dictionary collections it's looking like


this is a cool new thing I learned
Interrobang: - a punctuation mark ‽
sounds like a good band name to me

[Justin Tonation]

Not in the OED. Apparently, it's a very recent neologism.

Did you really open some physical edition of OED and look this up?

Online access, a perk of working at a university.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Not in the OED. Apparently, it's a very recent neologism.

Did you really open some physical edition of OED and look this up?

Online access, a perk of working at a university.

are they still providing staff with blazer elbow patches?

[Justin Tonation]

Not in the OED. Apparently, it's a very recent neologism.

Did you really open some physical edition of OED and look this up?

Online access, a perk of working at a university.

are they still providing staff with blazer elbow patches?

Pfft. That's a faculty thing, not for us staff peons.

[kosmo vinyl]

There is in fact a band called Interrobang and it has two members of Chumbawamba in it

http://interrobangband.co.uk/

Found out that the ?!?! was an interrobang at a pub quiz and then adopted it as the name of the team… as we either knew a question!! Or had no clue??

[kosmo vinyl]

Speaking of Chumbawamba

This remains one the best songs

Torturing James Hatfield

https://youtu.be/atqGWBnThm4

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Please shoot me if I say "Speaking of Chumbawamba"

Speaking of shooting

Ex-NRA chief tricked into speech to 3,044 empty chairs for gun victims

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Barr
who protected Trump at every step...getting called a RINO by Trump
When will they learn, trump has no loyalty, I think he'd throw his kids under the bus to save his ass

and much more!

[Justin Tonation]

If you read nothing else today...

Opening graf: Noted local criminal Mark McCloskey played host to a barbecue/political rally on Sunday afternoon, drawing tens of admirers to the sweltering parking lot of a closed outlet mall in St. Louis County to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the time he pulled a gun on a crowd of people who otherwise would never have noticed or cared he existed.

h/t @abufelix12 and @LibyaLiberty (who had RT'd it)

[sweetcell]

Microsoft threatens to bring back Clippy
A tweet asked for 20,000 "likes" to make it happen, and only took an hour to get them
 

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Not sure how bringing clippy back exemplifies schadenfreude?
who's pain are you enjoying here?

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Not sure how bringing clippy back exemplifies schadenfreude?
who's pain are you enjoying here?

Clippy's. Do you think its easy being an anthropomorphic paper clip? To have the sex drive of a human but the apparent lack of genitals? Walk one mile in that eunich office supply's (proverbial) shoes and tell me how you like it.

[Justin Tonation]

Not sure how bringing clippy back exemplifies schadenfreude?
who's pain are you enjoying here?

Clippy's. Do you think its easy being an anthropomorphic paper clip? To have the sex drive of a human but the apparent lack of genitals? Walk one mile in that eunich office supply's (proverbial) shoes and tell me how you like it.

You sure about that lack of sex appeal? The French don't call him Le Trombone for nothing.

[grateful]

Not sure how bringing clippy back exemplifies schadenfreude?
who's pain are you enjoying here?

Clippy's. Do you think its easy being an anthropomorphic paper clip? To have the sex drive of a human but the apparent lack of genitals? Walk one mile in that eunich office supply's (proverbial) shoes and tell me how you like it.

eunuch