The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.

“It must make you feel nice and young to say that being a man means nothing and …”

“Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they …”

“So this was all you got:the zooty sideburns and masturbator's pallor of an old …”

“Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . …”