Woo-hoo, genuine word posts yet again, not just Bill poking at the Board with a stick trying to get something moving.

Okay, to me, schadenfreude is the enjoyment of other's (usually mental) pain. I experience it, for instance, when my crap company's incompetent bosses are squirming trying to explain away to the City why various information supplied to that august body turned out to be wrong or misleading. I've also always felt that there was a soupçon of masochism in there as well, i.e. you are also caught up in whatever is going on and it may be damaging you as well, but you can't help smiling at it. Does that make sense?

Sadism is delight in the inflicting of physical or mental pain or at least that's the way I read it.


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