BS: Happiest Place on Earth

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: GUEST,Barry D
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 07:30 PM

I think the happiest place on earth is wherever a person is happiest.

Denmark would rank very high on my list, as would Toronto and Asheville, NC.

Two things: 1) try reading NPR correspondent Eric Weiner's "Geography of Bliss, and; 2) take the test here to determine your own "happy place":

http://www.bestplaces.net/fybp/quiz.aspx

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 07:27 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 05:56 PM

What, Stringsinger - you mean...ABSTINENCE!

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 03:47 PM

Places aren't happy or not. People are happy or not.

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Stringsinger
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 07:28 PM

"Denmark. Possibly the country in the world that is most tolerant of sexual behaviour including types considered deviant elsewhere"

Perhaps but the country in the world where deviant sexual behavior is most practiced particularly by those of the religious right is here in the U.S.

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: GUEST,Van
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 08:01 PM

It's home.

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 05:36 PM

well that good news has cheered me up a bit ...

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Bee
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 07:19 PM

"I've never known a Dane who wasn't bone simple."

Bill Burroughs


Translation: honest and straightforward. At least, that's been my experience of Danes I met... and Icelanders, too.

I met a man who sang the praises of Norway this past Sunday. I took a shuttle van home from Cape Breton. It was packed full of a typical selection of us CBers: the chatty, friendly and slightly slutty lookin' woman in her late thirties; the sixty-ish balding red-headed man who knows everybody on the island; the delightful and shy Acadian woman on her way to pick up a relative from hospital; the young man returning to the Oil Patch after two weeks of debauchery with old buddies (my lord, was he sweatin' out the stench of stale alcohol!); and next to me, way in the back, a tall thin very dark older fellow who appeared to be Indian or Pakistani. But no, he was a citizen of Norway, visiting his daughter here, and yearning for the hills and green valleys of his homeland. He was lyrical in describing its beauty and the virtues of its people. An interesting encounter.

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Goose Gander
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:47 PM

"I've never known a Dane who wasn't bone simple."

Bill Burroughs

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:31 PM

Denmark. Possibly the country in the world that is most tolerant of sexual behaviour including types considered deviant elsewhere, and of soft drugs. Oh, and mildly socialist in general too. Hmm, food for thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Amos
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:29 PM

And Denmark, with its universal cradle-tograve health care, child care, social security, and >50% income taxes, is rated #1.


Looks like a sweet but slippery slope to me.



A

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: GUEST,Big Brother Don
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 06:26 PM

I'll tell ya one thing. It ain't Shanes' jail cell.

- Don McBride

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 05:07 PM

The USA is a sweet 16 on the happiness chart.

Hey it beats being #32 in things like health care.

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Amos
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 01:33 PM

Ahhh--it's strange isn't it, the varied circumstances under which the truth will finally out?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 12:47 PM

I am happy right now, here in this room. Nurses take care of me and give me pills. And I don't have to go to bed because the floor and walls are all mattress-covered.

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 11:58 AM

Bored, A?

Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Amos
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 11:49 AM

Excerpt:

"Despite the anxieties of these times, happiness has been on the rise around the world in recent years, a new survey finds.

The upbeat outlook is attributed to economic growth in previously poor countries, democratization of others, and rising social tolerance for women and minority groups.

"It's a surprising finding," said University of Michigan political scientist Ronald Inglehart, who headed up the survey. "It's widely believed that it's almost impossible to raise an entire country's happiness level."


Denmark is the happiest nation and Zimbabwe the the most glum, he found. (Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe was sworn in as president for a sixth term Sunday after a widely discredited runoff in which he was the only candidate. Observers said the runoff was marred by violence and intimidation.)


The United States ranks 16th.


The results of the survey, going back an average of 17 years in 52 countries and involving 350,000 people, will be published in the July 2008 issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. Researchers have asked the same two questions over the years: "Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not at all happy?" And, "All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?" ..."

Subject: BS: Happiest Place on Earth
From: Goose Gander
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 11:37 AM

No, not Disneyland, this place.