Originally Posted By: grelber
Originally Posted By: ryck
We sat back for 10 years while PM Stephen Harper hijacked the will of the people in favour of his friends in business.

I made out OK.

Thousands of seniors without proper housing, all the children living below the poverty line, and those who can't get timely healthcare, et cetera, didn't make out OK. However you did, so good for you.

Originally Posted By: grelber
Originally Posted By: ryck
... it still doesn't mean there's humour in shadenfreude.

Au contraire. In fact, that's the definition of schadenfreude: "pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune."

I have a reasonable facility with English and yet I don't see anything in the definition to support your contention that deriving pleasure from another person's misfortune is humourous.

Originally Posted By: grelber
Ah luvs it! grin

Of course. I wasn't expecting otherwise.

Last edited by ryck; 03/08/16 06:15 PM.

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