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Re: OT: Ridin' tall on the Santiago Canyon Road (was Re: What could J4 (or WG4) do)
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| Alistair 2006-06-17, 7:55 am |
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docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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> Hmmmmmm... I will now relate a joke told to me by a German (an employee of
> the Deutsche Bank, in fact) which mentions almost all of the touchstones
> of that particular culture. (cultural touchstones are marked with an (*))
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> Two men were out drinking. (*) One of them had a bit too much and felt a
> bit queasy so he needed to return, per os, a bit of what he had
> consumed. (*) Since they were in a small town (*) the plumbing
> arrangements (*) were a bit primitive and he had to step outside.
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> He was away for a while and his friend got concerned. (*) The friend
> stepped outside to the privy and saw his companion poking into it with a
> long stick. (*) He asked his friend 'What are you doing?' and his friend
> replied 'Oh, I was a bit enthusiastic in my regurtitations and my false
> teeth fell into the privy; I'm poking the stick in to try and get them
> out.'
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> 'Do you honestly think that you'll be able to retrieve a set of false
> teeth by poking into a privy with a stick?'
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> 'Oh yes... I found three pairs already but none of them fit!' (*)
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> DD
Yeuch! So the Germans are into faecal humour as much as the Brits are?
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| In article <1149616821.783949.61600@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
Alistair <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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>Yeuch! So the Germans are into faecal humour as much as the Brits are?
Well... the Brits seem to pay a fair amount of attention to the doings of
the members of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, last I looked.
DD
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| Roger While 2006-06-17, 7:55 am |
| Well, the Germans are big into "Schadenfreude" which loosely translated
means enjoying/laughing at the misfortunes of others.
There isn't an english word for it, is there ?
Believe me when you have had a traffic accident, it is most
disconcerting to find the onlookers smirking or openly laughing.
Strange.
Roger
<docdwarf@panix.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> In article <1149616821.783949.61600@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
> Alistair <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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> [snip]
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> Well... the Brits seem to pay a fair amount of attention to the doings of
> the members of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, last I looked.
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> DD
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| In article <e64gs9$qd2$03$1@news.t-online.com>,
Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de> wrote:
>Well, the Germans are big into "Schadenfreude" which loosely translated
>means enjoying/laughing at the misfortunes of others.
>There isn't an english word for it, is there ?
Hmmmmm... that depends on what one calls 'an english word', I'd say.
According to http://m-w.com/dictionary/schadenfreude there's been a bit of
a rendezvous.
>Believe me when you have had a traffic accident, it is most
>disconcerting to find the onlookers smirking or openly laughing.
>Strange.
Oh, I *cannot* resist...
.... not nearly as discomfitting as encountering the same reaction when one
is seen in a bathing-suit... have I mentioned my giving up swimming?
DD
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| Howard Brazee 2006-06-17, 7:55 am |
| On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:10:45 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@panix.com () wrote:
>... not nearly as discomfitting as encountering the same reaction when one
>is seen in a bathing-suit... have I mentioned my giving up swimming?
People tend to believe others are laughing at them for not having
perfect bodies. But those others are usually more concerned about
your opinion of them than of your body.
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| In article <8ukd82dtvoa4peld6b4jklrpocirv34a0i@4ax.com>,
Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:10:45 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@panix.com () wrote:
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>People tend to believe others are laughing at them for not having
>perfect bodies.
I barely know what *I* tend to believe, Mr Brazee, let alone what
'(p)eople tend to believe'.
>But those others are usually more concerned about
>your opinion of them than of your body.
See above, substituting matters of concern for belief.
DD
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| Pete Dashwood 2006-06-17, 7:55 am |
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"Roger While" <simrw@sim-basis.de> wrote in message
news:e64gs9$qd2$03$1@news.t-online.com...
> Well, the Germans are big into "Schadenfreude" which loosely translated
> means enjoying/laughing at the misfortunes of others.
> There isn't an english word for it, is there ?
Yes, there are several: glee, gloating, and smugness all come readily to
mind.
There are people in all races and cultures who revel in the misfortunes of
others, but fortunmately, they are the minority of the human race.
You may have misunderstood the reaction of the people to a traffic accident.
One way of dealing with a bad event is to laugh at it it. If there was
malice on the part of the people laughing then it certainly is schadenfeude,
but sometimes is just nervousness and relief that no one was hurt.
> Believe me when you have had a traffic accident, it is most
> disconcerting to find the onlookers smirking or openly laughing.
> Strange.
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I have witnessed or been involved in a couple of fender benders in the U.K.
where people laughed about it. I don't think it was malicious. It is
certainly a better reaction than the road rage one...
Pete.
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