I know it's only Monday but I don't see this one being topped! During our lunchtime conversation, we were talking about things Germans have invented (the highway) and strange words they also invented that have passed into general international use, in particular Schadenfreude. Johanna has apparently never heard of this word and we tried to explain how when someone slips on a banana peel, you laugh. Or when you get splashed by a puddle. Or when someone gets hit by a ball. It's in every culture but only the Germans invented a word for it!
Cue Barbara who then said ....
"Only Germans are honest enough to admit that taking joy in other people's misfortune exists!!!"
Touché. And that, I must applaud.
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