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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:16 am    Post subject: The Happiest Country? Reply with quote

What with having to foil plots to kill Danish cartoonists, global warming setting off teenagers and just generally being inundated with vile, evil Moslems, who�da thought Denmark is the happiest country on earth?

Somehow, something doesn�t add up. Could it be the Danes just aren�t paying attention to their national and cultural suicide? Or could it be that some posters� own paranoia/personality problems is getting the better of them?


This is according to 60 Minutes, so it's probably not true. The Danes interviewed are clearly telling lies. One even says he thinks 'happy' is the wrong word. 'Content' is his choice of words.
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thepeel



Joined: 08 Aug 2004

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

But how does Ron Paul fit into this?
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Milwaukiedave



Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thepeel wrote:
But how does Ron Paul fit into this?


Starring in a slapstick comedy maybe?
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Czarjorge



Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Denmarks come a long way since the days of Hamlet. That report made me wish I was a Dane. I would really like to get paid to go to grad school, instead of moving to Korea for a year or two to teach English so that I can pay for it.
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tomato



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought I read somewhere that Nigeria was the happiest country in the world.
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Czarjorge



Joined: 01 May 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All the Kenyans I've known would boldly say, "Nigeria is the most corrupt country in the world."
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I thought I read somewhere that Nigeria was the happiest country in the world



Shhh! Don't let that get out. If both Denmark and Nigeria claim the title, they'll have to have a war to see who is happier.
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Justin Hale



Joined: 24 Nov 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's the problem with Europeans. They are smug, a little too happy for their own good. That's unsurprising of course because Europe is culturally, politically, socially and aesthetically excellent. The British laugh at Muslim extremists and their risible proclamations rather than loath them for their inferiority and vulgarity. Europeans will get theirs, with their calling anyone racist for criticizing immigration, with their low fertility rates and parasitic career girl ideas, with their immigrant population who subscribe to barbarism as infallible truth.
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jkelly80



Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Justin Hale wrote:
That's the problem with Europeans. They are smug, a little too happy for their own good. That's unsurprising of course because Europe is culturally, politically, socially and aesthetically excellent. The British laugh at Muslim extremists and their risible proclamations rather than loath them for their inferiority and vulgarity. Europeans will get theirs, with their calling anyone racist for criticizing immigration, with their low fertility rates and parasitic career girl ideas, with their immigrant population who subscribe to barbarism as infallible truth.


Are Brits Europeans?
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Suwoner10



Joined: 10 Dec 2007

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ya-ta Boy wrote:


Shhh! Don't let that get out. If both Denmark and Nigeria claim the title, they'll have to have a war to see who is happier.


That would actually be an interesting war. Probably more guns and rifles in Nigeria, but I think the Danes have fighter jets, a few destroyers and subs.
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stillnotking



Joined: 18 Dec 2007
Location: Oregon, USA

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Justin Hale wrote:
They are smug, a little too happy for their own good.


How is it possible to be too happy for one's own good? Other than drugs, I mean.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's those parasitic career girls who don't realize their real happiness depends on being barefoot and pregnant in their husband's kitchen. They just don't appreciate how good their moms had it in the good old days.
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loose_ends



Joined: 23 Jul 2007

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Last I heard, Australia was the happiest country.
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Justin Hale



Joined: 24 Nov 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jkelly80 wrote:
Justin Hale wrote:
That's the problem with Europeans. They are smug, a little too happy for their own good. That's unsurprising of course because Europe is culturally, politically, socially and aesthetically excellent. The British laugh at Muslim extremists and their risible proclamations rather than loath them for their inferiority and vulgarity. Europeans will get theirs, with their calling anyone racist for criticizing immigration, with their low fertility rates and parasitic career girl ideas, with their immigrant population who subscribe to barbarism as infallible truth.


Are Brits Europeans?


It depends who you ask. If you ask a member of the Conservative Party, you may well get a 'no'. However, Britons are de facto Europeans and Britain a member of the European Union.

Rather a silly question, frankly.

YTB wrote:
It's those parasitic career girls who don't realize their real happiness depends on being barefoot and pregnant in their husband's kitchen. They just don't appreciate how good their moms had it in the good old days.


Absolute rubbish. Women earning $25,000 a year in hagwons and in call centers are doing so out of choice? Give me a break! Mr. Green Women are denied the opportunity to perform their evolutionary duty and purpose because getting pregnant is burdensome and to be avoided rather than lucrative and to be sought. I can fix it.

edit: it's the societal ideas and pressures that are parasitic, not the girls themselves.
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