Have an excellent one, all! Be happy!International Day of Happiness"On this first International Day of Happiness, let us reinforce our commitment to inclusive and sustainable human development and renew our pledge to help others. When we contribute to the common good, we ourselves are enriched. Compassion promotes happiness and will help build the future we want." -- Ban Ki-moon

have a good one

Happy Happy Day

Yay... :-/

will you be changing this thread title next year ? signed Mr Grumpy

QuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelwill you be changing this thread title next year ? signed Mr GrumpyAre you Mr Grumpy or Mr Pedantic?

QuoteOriginally posted by: rmaxQuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelwill you be changing this thread title next year ? signed Mr GrumpyAre you Mr Grumpy or Mr Pedantic?He might be Mr. Grumpy-Pedantic, in the best British tradition.Perhaps even Sir Grumpy-Pedantic to you.

Overheard at a lavish Black Tie Affair:"Ah, Sir Grumpy, allow me to introduce Lady Lascivious-Luxury..."(Grumpy brightens considerably, "Oh yes, how do you *do*?".)

2023 World Happiness Report[edit]
The 2023 World Happiness Report was a triannual analysis of 2020-2022, heavily influenced by COVID19 and other significant challenges.^[24]
For the 6th consecutive year, Finland was ranked on top, followed by Denmark, Iceland, Israel and the Netherlands. In the top-10 rankings Israel jumped 5 places, while Switzerland fell 4 places.

If you believe that, you'll believe anything.

All happy countries are alike; each unhappy country is unhappy in its own way.” -- Leo Tolstoy (sorta)

Swedes seem happy by nature. I must have met a biased (albeit very small) sample from The Netherlands, because they seemed pretty pessimistic or frustrated by their life. Poles are underrated imho, perhaps because of their habitual complaining about everything (but really, so what that the inflation rate is 18% - we trained almost 3000% in 1990!*).

*) I'm not sure of the exact calculation, but the numbers as you know was skyrocket high.

Maybe Gamal knows what were the actual inflation rates in that period. I'm not sure if the numbers I find are YOY or monthly change.

My reading of most of these studies is that rather than inquiring about actual happiness (which is probably really hard to pin down), they add up a lot of vaguely related statistics and then tell people: “look at your great numbers - you should be happy, damnit!”