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Schadenforde 

Delighting in the undoing of Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford.
Video depicting Rob Ford smoking crack with Somali gangsters brings me a tremendous feeling of Schadenforde.

Schadenfeude 

–noun satisfaction or pleasure felt seeing others fight.
"One person's misfortune is another's happiness." Whenever Elroy Park, esq engages in a battle, I can't help but feel a sense of schadenfeude.
Schadenfeude by chomop December 8, 2009

Schadenfilter

Noun. The joy of creating a beautiful image of someone else's suffering.
Her curated Instagram series on homeless people living under bridges is a striking case of Schadenfilter.
Schadenfilter by syndicate_312 January 19, 2017

schadenfood 

Unhappiness caused by the inability to enjoy food due to having recently eaten inferior food.
Somebody ordered a pizza, but I just ate a box of crackers. That sucks. Total schadenfood.
schadenfood by Sammy96604 June 3, 2011

schadenfeude 

The German word that means "people talking pleasure in your pain"

Also a song from the musical "Avenue Q"
"Schadenfeude, eh? What's that, some kind of Nazi word?
schadenfeude by Moon demoness September 20, 2006
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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