Schadenfruede: happiness at the misfortune of others.
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I’ve been getting some reports that navigation links on the site are causing adult content pop-ups. I am still trying to figure out the cause, but some anti-malware articles I’ve read suggest it may be malware that targets Internet Explorer users. Not sure if I’m right, but run your malware checkers just in case. >_<
-EDIT- The ad boxes seem the likeliest culprit for these adult content pop-ups, so until I can get a solid answer on how to fix it I’ve disabled my ads temporarily. Sorry for the trouble, everyone.
-EDIT2- Removed another widget to see if that clears the adult ads up. If they continue, please let me know. Thank you for your patience.
Also my favorite Avenue Q song.
Something tells me that John is not going to have a very good Thursday.
Something tells ME that he should be taking a good look around his office, while he is still allowed in.
“What’s that, some kind of Nazi word?”
For somebody whose name is very… Germanic in origin, implying that a word is related to Nazis simply because it sounds Germanic is rather odd. I really dislike said association, as almost every culture, religion, and nation have had terrible people and organizations, which I doubt you refer to every time you find a word that seems to be of a dialect that corresponds.
Just not cool.
You would, however, be correct in regional association, as the word is indeed German.
BTW, if you are wondering… Geiger is a German name. Thus the oddity.
Whoosh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQGQ5qBQTA
Oh, you quoted someone?
Next time you’d better state the obvious then…
Well, the quotations kind of made it clear to me, but I know the songs from that musical by heart, so….
I’d think that if the quotation marks weren’t enough, the fact that the Avenue Q song being quoted was specifically mentioned in the author comment would have done it.
Though it’s always good to throw a link to the reference, for those not so familiar with the material.
“I don’t speak your crazy moon-language!”
Well, I don’t know the song or the band at all, so all I got from that Author comment was an explanation to those who didn’t know the word Schadenfreude…
Avenue Q isn’t a band. It’s a Broadway show. Essentially, it’s Sesame Street grown up and just graduated from college.
The character who gives that line is a selfish and insensitive lout, and that line is intended to be just one more example of it.
Nicky: “Ah, schadenfreude, eh? What’s that, some kind of Nazi word?”
Gary Coleman (yes, *that* Gary Coleman): “Yep, it’s German for ‘happiness at the misfortune of others.'”
Nicky: “‘Happiness at the misfortune of others.’ That *is* German!”
And I just realized KittenJedi beat me to it.
Also, Dave: when I submitted my last comment, I got redirected to some Facebook spamware page. If it happens again I’ll try to get the relevant URLs. (I’m using Chrome on OSX.)
Grabbed the URLs from Chrome’s history page. Check your email; I didn’t want to risk posting them here.
I got the email, thank you.
I am really hoping this won’t result in a wipe and re-install of the site or something drastic like that, but if I don’t hear from either google or my webhost promptly, it may come to that. 🙁
I just got the same sort of popup. Sorry, I didn’t get the URL. I panicked and closed my browser at the sight that appeared on my screen! But, here’s some info for you: I use Firefox 29.0.1 and have popups blocks. Little bad boy slipped past TrendMicro and popup blocker. Good luck with this, Dave!
yes avenue q, best show ever! I’ve seen it twice
Gary Coleman: “Yup! It’s German for ‘Happiness at the misfortune of others!”
Nicky: “‘Happiness at the misfortune of others.’ That IS German!”
… The German language has so many wonderful, wonderful words. I would start taking courses, except I’m having trouble remembering my English (head injury, my speech centers are a little…. Mmm…. Out of alignment.) so a second language would probably be inadvisable.
perhaps the association of a similar but different language would help like English and German or Spanish and Portuguese would help your brain to renew the necessary connections
Open your books and follow along, please, as we learn our first 6 words in German: Finger, spelled f.I.n.g.e.r. Ring, spelled r.I.n.g. Hand, spelled H.a.n.d. Arm, spelled a.r.m. Kindergarten, spelled K.i.n.d.e.r.g.a.r.t.e.n. Shoulder, spelled schulter. –OK that one is a little weird, but for the rest, yeah, you could look it up.
German is great for interesting words. I would know, I’m learning it. It’s difficult, like any foreign language, but there’s a lot of similarities with English, and the grammer’s very logical. Here’s a flowchart for naming animals (is it a pig? Are you sure?):
http://www.babbel.com/magazine/funny-animal-names-in-german
My wife took German in high school. (She had to take a language, and German seemed easier than French. She catches stuff in some of the movies we watch.
My brother has a funny story from when he visited Germany in high school.
His host family once had an American student who introduced them to Star Wars for the first time. They get to the climax of Empire Strikes Back, where Darth Vader reveals he is Luke Skywalker’s father.
The american student is watching excitedly for their reactions to this famous plot twist, and they’re blankfaced. They said the reveal was no surprise to any of them. The american can’t believe the entire family figured it out and he asks them how they knew.
“‘Vater’ means ‘father’ in german.”
LOLOLOLOLOLLL
Free spoiler the whole time!!
Same applies to Dutch, only it’s actually written 100% the same, there 😉
When quoting something, it’s good manners to tag on who said it, unless it’s a non-offensive meme.
Like…
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” – Oscar Wilde
Or be sure that it’s extremely, EXTREMELY well known.
“Here’s looking at you, kid.” “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” “Follow the yellow-brick road.” Like that.
Since Dave explicitly mentioned the song, I figured it could be inferred from context.
oh if only they knew what he was having to go through now. with all this piling up on him there might be a chance that the pta meeting will be introducing a new principal instead.
It’s number three for me After “Fine fine line” and “Life outside your apartment”
Dude “Life outside your apartment” has actually gotten me outside during depressive episodes. Love Ave Q!
“I Wish I Could Go Back To College” got me into grad school.
It´s “Schadenfreude”, not “Schadenfruede”.
I can only remember how to spell that word by replaying the end of the Avenue Q song in my head. The actor/actress playing Gary Coleman spells it out at the end. And I always remember things better when they are set to music.
Yeah, my wife said she still spells “encyclopedia” based on the old Mickey Mouse Club song. (Note: “Club,” NOT “Clubhouse.” Totally different show.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy2jWJtO3lE
I always wondered if they ever considered casting Gary Coleman as “Gary Coleman,” or would that have been too cruel?
I know that when “Arsenic and Old Lace” first ran on Broadway, Boris Karloff played a man who “looked just like Boris Karloff”.
And when Karloff had to leave the show, they got Bela Lugosi, and just changed the line in the script.
Woah, I knew the “Karloff” reference, I didn’t know Lugosi took over or that they changed the line. That’s cool.
They did consider casting Gary Coleman as Gary Coleman, actually, but he never showed up for the meeting the producers scheduled to discuss it with him.
They were trying to get Gary Coleman to play himself, even had a meeting to talk to him, but he never showed.
Avenue Q started out as a pitch for a TV show that was going to be a cross between Friends and Sesame Street, that would only be able to air on HBO. However, at a live recording the guys who wrote Rent said, “This would be a great musical!”
As the producers said, if the people who made Rent suggest making your thing a stage musical, make your thing a stage musical.
It’s good to see that Todd and Mina have patched things up since their last encounter that we saw.
( sarcasticaly) oh great! another instance ive forgoten about and now need to sift through the archives! thanks creeper!! 🙂
The Great Wheel is turning and is about to leave great freaking tread marks on John’s arse.
Is it just me, or does anyone else thing the shirt and the wrinkle in it make Todd seem to be dressed as Captain Kirk?
That’s not a wrinkle, that’s actually a star trek shirt. It was mentioned in one of the writer commentaries.
That’s a TNG-era design. In TNG, red = command, gold = security/engineering, blue = science/medical.
And as an architect (thus related to engineering), Todd would be a yellow shirt. 🙂
Dave, your links are clean, they go perfectly to the intended pages.
This has to be malware on the reporter’s computer.
No, it’s happened to too many people on too many different types of software. I think it has to be on the site. But, it might be a hit-and-miss thing.
I don’t think it’s Internet Explorer causing the inappropriate popups. I had them yesterday and today. I read your comic on my android tablet, using the app Feely to browse to your page.
Back to square one, then. >_<
Another data point: I got a popup yesterday and I use Firefox on a Mac. I think it’s the ad slot at the top right beside the comic. I’ve seen other inappropriate content there. Sometimes it’s been scrolling images of busty scantily clad women. Right now, on this pageload, it’s displaying an ad which asks, “Thinking about ERP?” The usual internet meaning of ERP is Erotic Role Play.
Here’s the link content, if that’s any help:
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The bikini models is usually harmless in terms of content, video games and such. I usually just go into google ads and block that advertiser.
This adult content popup is different though… And now that you mention it I saw an innocuous-looking one yesterday advertising some product abbreviated T.A.T.A…
I’ll disable google ads when I get home and see if that helps. Thanks for the notice.
Also I am going to edit out the link, just in case. Thank you, though.
Since it’s Google ad services, you may be able to set the filters a bit tighter for what sort of ads you want to allow? Or, if they’re already set to Child-Safe (or whatever they call it), then you should be able to report digital.syspro.com for trying to slip NSFW content past the filters. And… perhaps say you don’t want any more ads from them?
I’ve gone through and disabled several questionable-looking ads. If adult pop-ups are still leaking through, I’ll have to get more drastic. Can’t find any evidence of hacking on the site’s end; it may well be a shady Google advertiser slipping pop-up code into their ads. :
It just happened again when I clicked the link to get to the comments from selkiecomic.com – I’m using Opera, by the way.
ggrrrrr….
This appears to be a thing going on in a lot of comic press pages right now there’s a discussion about it on Webcomic Creators here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/webcomiccreators/667647339987026/?notif_t=group_comment_reply
Several people there mentioning the inkoutbreak widget as a cause of the problem. I’ve removed mine for now. Let me know if more pop-ups occur.
Sorry, I mean the app FEEDLY.
Third panel. Possessive its never splits.
Yay Weird Al!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
It’s not a possessive. It’s a contraction of “it is,” hence the apostrophe.
As in, “But one nearing it is finale.”
If you continue to misuse apostrophes, is it an apocatastrophe?
which would be wrong, right?
No, but three lefts will be 😀
Oh, I missed that second one. Somehow all I saw was the one in “it’s a circus,” which is right. Never mind, then.
RE:Mallware. I’m on firefox and just got redirected so it’s not just IE.
Okay, it’s not immediately obvious to me.
What charges?
I mean, comic 498 says something about a nurse reporting the incident. So is Mina’s report different?
She said “a District hearing”. That’s not cops (like the nurse). That’s School District. Probably about his firing teachers and threatening to fire others for saying anything about the “Truck/Selkie” incident.
Check out Selkie #475.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie475/
Now that everybody’s settled everything…how about someone asking Todd why he’s wearing a Star Trek shirt?
Mina filed charges? Do I not remember this or are we gonna find out during that hearing?
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie475/
Until I can get an answer from people about this adult content pop-up problem, I’ve deactivated all my Project Wonderful and Google Adsense ad boxes. Please let me know if you still get the adult pop-ups. Sorry for all the trouble, everyone.
I don’t know if it helps, since I’m not the most computer savvy person, but I’m on Firefox and have my Adblock Plus disabled for this site, Ghostery and Avast active. I’ve had no redirects or noticed any questionable ads.
Maybe I’m alone here, but I feel kind of bad for John. The situation he was in is kind of the definition of ‘rock and hard place’. No, he didn’t do the right thing, but he knew that doing the right thing could cost not just his career, but the careers of everyone else involved, in a long, drawn-out, expensive, and very ugly fashion.
No, you’re not alone. I mentioned something similar a few pages back. He screwed up, he’s ADMITTED he screwed up, and right after said admission it’s all coming to bite him in the butt. It’s hard to WTF at Todd and Mina for the schadenfreude, because they’re living with said screw-ups, but from my more neutral vantage point? It’s hard to hope to boom hits him TOO hard.
I meant to make this comment back at 491 in response to Lasenna, but I neglected it for some reason so here’s another rant, (and FYI I’ll probably get in trouble for defending the principal) so, first off it’s pretty messed up to suggest that the Tom should still get the principal fired even though he’s the one who’s been threatening to take his job away if he kept punishing his son. And it’s just disgusting to see the professor get away scott free while the principal gets punished. Yes I know he was defending bullies while punishing the victims, but let’s remember that the “professor” had something to do with that. I guess I kinda admire Todd taking the high road since I wouldn’t, but I’m surprised that he’s turning on the principal. I guess he’s thinking that Trunchbull’s been through enough learning the truth about his son while the principal was supposed to be doing his job, but I think the principal has been through a lot more putting up with the professor threatening to have him fired for punishing his son because he refuses to believe his son does anything wrong unless he sees it for himself, and his staff fed up with him. I know he’s been ineffective and doing nothing but to be fair Tom did successfully sue the last school and threatened to do the same thing to Ashton, yes he is still a bad person for threatening to fire teachers, punishing bullying victims, and trying to take away a cellphone when it was clearly last resort. I just think it’s unfair that the professor gets away with what he’s done while the principal gets punished for defending himself! So yeah, I still stand by what I said last time. Finally the I can’t believe barbarian Tom still fell for his “I’m not the bad guy” excuse, he just saw shear proof that his son is a good actor and a lair and whether or not he thinks he’s doing wrong he still shouldn’t have bought into that. There’s more I wanna talk about here like why I’m still agianst the arrogant parent (he BETTER make amends) but I have to go to bed now so I guess I’ll read everyones comments against me tomorrow, see ya folks.
Oh trust me, any principal who is afraid of some parent, is not worthy of his job.
As for Truck, I truly believe he thought he was doing the right thing. And I truly believe he is a product of how his parents are acting in his presence.
Cause and effect are merely hollow words to Truck, he’s 8, maybe 9 due to having to redo a class (which isn’t uncommon when you switch schools).
Anyway: My son (about to be 10) is also a compulsive liar, or “Highly imaginative” as my mom would like to call it.
Up to a point to where he lost the keys to his bicycle at home, and abused my parents’ goodwill by telling them his bicycle is broken, and if he could get the bicycle they had for him. Of course my parents let him take that bicycle, and my father decided to go over and try to fix the other bicycle.
Truth came out and all he would say was: “Well, I wasn’t lying… it IS broken! Look, front light is dangling, rear light is half gone, chain is rusted… it’s broken.”
And when I talked about it yesterday, he didn’t know why he lied, he just liked the bicycle at my parents more. Which is no problem, but I hadn’t even finished the subject, and he was bragging about how the chain of the bicycle “melted to the frame”… and of course I made the Jacky Chan WTF face.
Asked him if he was even listening to me, that his grandparents didn’t really like to see him anymore because they can’t trust him and he just spat up another lie. And his defence “Well, it was really stuck and when we finally got it out, there was a blob of it still on the frame!”
I laughed my ass off, and told him it was the grease from the chain, and I saw in his face that he knew all along, and he was like. “… oh…”
Now, do I think he’s a bad kid? Hell no, we’re divorced, she remarried and divorced again, got beaten by her new boyfriend, and is now about to marry again. He has his scars from that, but we’re doing our best to eradicate this behaviour from him, as should Tom do with Truck.
Actually it’s Schadenfreude, not Schadenfruede.