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Yes, the South East is at least. Overcrowding + massive consumerism.
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*Children are being taught in schools how to be happy. Something called Happiness Studies has crept on to university curricula.... *
I wouldn´t change it for my times.
*...So why, since Norway is now officially the country most likely to provide contentment, is there unlikely to be a queue outside the Norwegian embassy for migration forms? Perhaps because most thinking grown-ups have realised that the key to living a fulfilled life is complex, and is rarely if ever reflected in surveys of wealth, health and longevity. *
Hell ya, that´s why you need weekly-based hard nights, shapes you.
*...It is perhaps a peculiarly British trait, this need for a dash of unhappiness in our daily lives. Noel Coward caught the mood brilliantly in 1952 in a song called "There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner", a stirring celebration of our national love of misery which includes the lines, "With a scowl and a frown/ We'll keep our peckers down/And prepare for depression and gloom and dread".*
Won it there
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yeah, and theres like 25 people in Norway.wonder if that has anything to do with it? we have overtaken Holland as the country with the highest population density in Europe.
Its crowded, confusing, intense, and I wouldnt have it any other way,
Love this country, and if you dont, HTFU or go somewhere you can eat a steak the size of a toilet seat every day, you'll be bored in months. -
I'm taking out my shoe laces as I type...
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cunting no laces mochasins...
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yeah, and theres like 25 people in Norway.wonder if that has anything to do with it? we have overtaken Holland as the country with the highest population density in Europe.
Its crowded, confusing, intense, and I wouldnt have it any other way,
Love this country, and if you dont, HTFU or go somewhere you can eat a steak the size of a toilet seat every day, you'll be bored in months.i dont like this view.
at all.
the reason why Norway is the 'happiest' and indeed the same reason why there is "*unlikely to be a queue outside the Norwegian embass" *is because happiness is fucking hard, takes courage, patience and masses of intelligence.
Seeing as Britian sucks the cock of corporate America, a country where their value system is based on money, power and fame.....you're unlikely to find the people who migrate here really giving a fuck about anything deep therefore see Norway as somewhere 'boring'. The UK is unashamedly a 'lesser America'.......we just haven't commited fully yet to being, a majority of cunts.
IMO
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i dont like this view.
at all.
the reason why Norway is the 'happiest' and indeed the same reason why there is "*unlikely to be a queue outside the Norwegian embass" *is because happiness is fucking hard, takes courage, patience and masses of intelligence.
Seeing as Britian sucks the cock of corporate America, a country where their value system is based on money, power and fame.....you're unlikely to find the people who migrate here really giving a fuck about anything deep therefore see Norway as somewhere 'boring'. The UK is unashamedly a 'lesser America'.......we just haven't committed fully yet to being, a majority of cunts.
IMO
Some truth in that, we do follow America too much and I think that has led to our following of all things materialistic, although I would not say that intelligence has anything to do with happiness.
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from where i started out from, my life is +1 every day and i'm grateful to be alive.. it really doesn't take much to find happyness, just a simple, practical, honest way to live.. i have been in london most of my life, work fucking hard for less money today, struggle to make ends meet.. but blessed with my own beautiful family and some solid friends, i can't afford to be miserable or bitter about stuff no matter how bad, sometimes it is hard to realise that and even i need to be reminded once in a while.. it is very easy to take life in the UK for granted, when there are people in the world, who's suffering is un-imaginable..
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i dont like this view.
at all.
the reason why Norway is the 'happiest' and indeed the same reason why there is "*unlikely to be a queue outside the Norwegian embass" *is because happiness is fucking hard, takes courage, patience and masses of intelligence.
Seeing as Britian sucks the cock of corporate America, a country where their value system is based on money, power and fame.....you're unlikely to find the people who migrate here really giving a fuck about anything deep therefore see Norway as somewhere 'boring'. The UK is unashamedly a 'lesser America'.......we just haven't commited fully yet to being, a majority of cunts.
IMO
Sounds like you need to lay off saturday night prime time tv and tabliod newspapers, a lot more to this country than that. Just look around london some of the greatest centres of learning in the world, free to all world class musuem's and gallerys. And that's not getting to the rest of the country.
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More equitable societies tend to score highly in these things. The greater the gap between rich and poor the more unhappiness there is, it seems.
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from where i started out from, my life is +1 every day and i'm grateful to be alive.. it really doesn't take much to find happyness, just a simple, practical, honest way to live.. i have been in london most of my life, work fucking hard for less money today, struggle to make ends meet.. but blessed with my own beautiful family and some solid friends, i can't afford to be miserable or bitter about stuff no matter how bad, sometimes it is hard to realise that and even i need to be reminded once in a while.. it is very easy to take life in the UK for granted, when there are people in the world, who's suffering is un-imaginable..
Too true, people seem to forget how lucky we are.
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