• trollercoaster@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    the caption was way more than that, it started with a quote of the beginning of a popular German proverb on Schadenfreude:

    “Wer den Schaden hat…” - “Who has the damage…”

    The latter part of the proverb exists in two versions, the more benign one ends in “…braucht für den Spott nicht zu sorgen” - “…doesn’t have to ask for ridicule”, the more cynical version ends in “…spottet jeder Beschreibung” - “…is ridiculous beyond description”. Adding appropriate ending was left to the reader.

    To be honest, I was surprised of seeing such a sense of humour in Scholz and his PR team, the jogging accident must have scraped off some of the Teflon he is usually coated with.