North Korea: One of the Happiest Places on Earth?

Time via Yahoo ^ | Jun 1, 2011 | HILLARY BRENHOUSE

[Daffynition]

According to a global happiness index released in North Korea, the country and its allies are the most cheerful countries in the world. Naturally, the "American Empire" strikes Pyongyang as just plain sad.

Shanghaiist reports that North Korea's Chosun Central Television recently came out with a happiness index compiled by local researchers. Their findings? China is the happiest place on the planet, earning 100 points (a perfect score!). At number two is none other than North Korea itself. Cuba, Iran and Venezuela (in that order) round out the top five.

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[Daffynition]

From the sad, sad, fruited plain. ///sarc

[Doogle]

[babyfreep]

Wow....communism must be wonderful! /sarc

[babyfreep]

Wow....communism must be wonderful! /sarc

[reg45]

Smile or get shot!

[babyfreep]

Wow....communism must be wonderful! /sarc

[Clintonfatigued]

Who is doing this survey?

[babyfreep]

Yikes...sorry about the triple post.

[Huskrrrr]

I’m Barack Obama and I approve of this ad.

[Farmer Dean]

Does anyone on the planet buy into the incredible bullsh-t these Koreans pump out?
Or maybe chewing the bark off of trees to survive really makes some people happy??

[bigheadfred]

Wow....communism must be wonderful! (x3)

That a way baby. Pound away. Beat us till it hurts.

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[terycarl]

I THINK THEY ARE VERY HAPPY...no electric bills, no property taxes, car payments are rare, mortgages....I don’t think so, donations to their church...not a problem, what on earth do they have to worry about?????

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We'll keep the light on for ya.

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[TheBigIf]

Wow! This is great news! North Korea is also the greenest country on the planet as well! (As can be seen even with the night photo above, no energy at night) Every person there lives the most minimalist lifestyle with the lowest possible carbn footprint. They also have beautiful concentration camps that help you adapt to your new found lifestyle and happiness.

I cant wait to share this news with all of the liberals, progressives and democrats I know!!! I will even donate all of my extra money to buy them plane tickets to head off to this left-wing paradise being that they are so miserable and digusted at American traditional values and capitalist greed.

I will even throw them a sending off party!!!

Spread the news!!!! Democrats pack your bags!!! Happiness awaits in the happiest and greenest country on earth! Free health care also!!!!

[EQAndyBuzz]

Funny that’s how I look at a lobster tank.

[bigheadfred]

Yeah, everybody knows South Korea has the best blow-up dolls.

[Jack Hammer]

North Korea truly is a wonderful place to live, provided only one has not fallen into the trap - alas, all too common these days - of enjoying such bourgeois habits as eating, drinking, thinking, reading, marrying, procreating, and religious worship.

Then, too, one must not be overly reserved and prissily attached to such other bourgeois habits as protecting one’s genitalia from electric shock, one’s bones from fracture, one’s internal organs from rupture, and one’s mind from breakage caused by endemic insanity.

And, of course, if the notion of dying prematurely from a countless variety of diseases brought on by chronic malnutrition and slow starvation is somehow objectionable, then you may wish to seek residence elsewhere.

But, hey, if you can handle all that, North Korea is definitely for you!

[JoeProBono]

[atomic conspiracy]

The only reason these guys still have an atomic bomb is that nobody has figured out a safe way to eat the components.

[Daffynition]

I understand Kim Jong-il injects himself with the blood of virgins.

[Huskrrrr]

Yes, maybe I’ll retire there. ;>)

[Daffynition]

Kim Jong-il keeps a very large liquor cellar. Famous liquor brands from around the world are lined up, maybe about 10,000 bottles in all. He prefers Johnnie Walker Swing for whiskey and Hennessy XO for cognac.

[TheBigIf]

Look! They even have such happy music too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrJY1sDpEDk&feature=related

[TheBigIf]

They have special camps in North Korea where you can retire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2sReWDyHI

[Daffynition]

And good eats.

[Jack Hammer]

If that photo is anything to go by, it would seem to be more likely that he flies into their rooms at night and sucks it out of their necks while they’re sleeping.

[musarratullah]

oh.. what about pakistan.... heheheh

[Nickname]

You’d damn well BETTER be happy when the government controls every aspect of your life.

[Jack Hammer]

Pakistan may not be everybody’s “cup of tea,” but a discontented Pakistani can always seek citizenship in another country.

Certainly, a skilled journalist could find employment - and citizenship - elsewhere.

North Koreans cannot go anywhere; they will be executed for any such attempt.

[nuconvert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-31Y59Ow3U

[riri]

Leftist tools everywhere will be citing this “study”.

[riri]

Leftist tools everywhere will be citing this “study”.

[gogogodzilla]

Happiness is mandatory, comrade!

Failure to obey the state is punishable by death.

...

Are you happy, comrade?

[Daffynition]

Most excellent find! Thank you.

Makes me want to go outside and kiss the ground. ;D

[nuconvert]

Yeah, I’ve posted it here several times over the yrs.
The message is totally lost on most of the people leaving comments at the link.

[Daffynition]

There are stories that Kim has every grain of rice he eats personally inspected (any slight flaw and it is discarded).

I've never understood this part of the Far East:

[Daffynition]

You talkin' to me?

[Cincinatus]

China is the happiest place on the planet, earning 100 points (a perfect score!). At number two is none other than North Korea itself. Cuba, Iran and Venezuela (in that order) round out the top five.

You can tell that from the hundreds of thousands of people trying anything to get into those countries.

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[ctdonath2]

A Bose-Einstein condensate of joy.

(dunno, just kinda popped into my head)

[Daffynition]

HAHAHA! I like it!

I’m easily amused. ;D

[ctdonath2]

Cause of the comment; http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beliefs/