Schadenfreude - the largely unanticipated delight derived from the misfortunes of others. A delicious, exquisite pleasure. A little like being a Scotsman in London the day England crashed out of the World Cup. You know it's wrong but you just can't help savouring that little sip of another's pain. You gotta love the Germans for giving us a word like schadenfreude. Unfortunately, they never gave us a word for the opposite sensation so we'll have to make do with plain old envy. You know, like the feeling you get when one of your former classmates from film school gets his first feature film screened at the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival. Annoyingly, the film in question, Gareth Edwards' Monsters is also damn good and has already won him a well-deserved Moet New Director award.
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