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Bin the Corgi logo – anybody got the Capita one?
It would appear that Capita have been appointed the preferred bidder to take over the running of the gas safety scheme by the Health and Safety Executive.
That’s a surprise, but it couldn’t happen to a nicer, more self important, self satisfied bunch of money grabbing wasters.
I bet that came as a bit of a surprise to them. 😀
Shadenfreude? Moi? 😀
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Hi John,
As usual the obsessive in me went straight to wikipedia to see what schadenfreude was all about. I was particularly delighted to see the list of variants in other languages that, as usual, get more obscure as the list goes on…..
Chinese: "enjoying other’s calamity and laughing at other’s misfortune".
Danish: "One’s own happiness is to be preferred, but the misfortune of others should not be scorned."
Danish: "There is no glee like schadenfreude."
Dutch: "No pleasure more beautiful than schadenfreude."
German: "To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish."
Finnish: "schadenfreude is the most genuine kind of joy, since it doesn’t include even a drop of envy".
French: "One person’s misfortune is another’s happiness".
Hebrew: "There is no joy like schadenfreude"
Japanese "others’ misfortunes are the taste of honey."
Korean: "to smell sesame oil",
Malay: "fits your face"
Romanian: "let the neighbour’s goat die too"So, let their neighbour’s goat die too!
(Eh?)
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quote Gareth Lewis:As usual the obsessive in me went straight to wikipediaGood job I spelled it right then eh? 😀
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