North Korea releases happiness study. Happiest: China, North Korea. Saddest: America

[Drew]

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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The United States places dead last, coming in 203rd. South Korea is nearly just as depressed a nation; it ranks 152nd on the list. Some spots, North Korea's research indicates, are just nowhere near as smiley as the Axis of Evil.

The Chinese net is ablaze with the results, screen grabs of which have been posted to popular sites. Implored one commenter on the Chinese online forum Mop: "Please send me to the U.S. so I can suffer, too." (via Shanghaiist)

Bolded my favorite part. Well really the whole article is my favorite part.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110601/wl_time/httpnewsfeedtimecom20110601northkoreaoneofthehappi estplacesonearthxidrssfullworldyahoo

[Seran]

Starvation, poverty, subjugation are evidently good things in communist and socialist nations. Bizzarro world too, I imagine.

[Cephalopod]

I didn't realize how sad I was until I read this.

[Axhinde]

Wait, North Korea released a study that found themselves at the top of their list?! What are the odds..........................

[Gelston]

No, second to the top. It is obviously not biased.

[waywardgs]

I'm sad now.

[Tgo01]

Not as good as their 'research' claiming Kim Jong-Il is a fashion icon (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/07/kim-jong-il-fashion-icon_n_528767.html).

[TheEschaton]

LOL, is this a 30 rock episode?

[4a6c1]

I'm very sad right now. Sad as only an American can be.....Because the ice machine stopped working and (if I feel like it) I will call the maintenance guy to come fix it. But I'll still have to wait an hour for ice.

First world problems.

sad sad sad face

[Smythe]

Starvation, poverty, subjugation are evidently good things in communist and socialist nations. Bizzarro world too, I imagine.

Yeah. It's surprisin' what a burden it is ta have ta actually t'ink fer yerself! Hell, ya can jes' look around here 'n see fer yerself how sad it is.

Fewkin' Americans.

/sarcasm

- Smythe

[4a6c1]

Yeah. It's surprisin' what a burden it is ta have ta actually t'ink fer yerself! Hell, ya can jes' look around here 'n see fer yerself how sad it is.

Fewkin' Americans.

/sarcasm

- Smythe

Do you talk like that when you fuck. Please say yes.

Actually. Better yet. Please say you type like you talk like that while you fuck.

[diethx]

I'm also very sad. Our apartment was wired so poorly that it would be impossible to install a ceiling fan in our living room. So we're stuck running the A/C ALL THE TIME. :(

[diethx]

Oh and I don't have popcorn and I wish I did and I'm too lazy to drive the quarter mile to Kroger. siiiiiggggghhhh, thanks Rojo for mentioning popcorn in some other thread. Bitch. siiiigggghhhh

[Cephalopod]

I read about Kuyuk waiting on Domino's in another thread, and now I'm extra sad because I want pizza... but I already had dinner, and polished off a pint of Ben and Jerry's Peanut Butter World, so I really can't order pizza.

Also, diethx having to run the A/C ALL THE TIME makes me think of nipples. This doesn't really make me sad, though.

[WRoss]

I'm sad because we will all be speaking Spanish pretty soon.

[4a6c1]

Oh and I don't have popcorn and I wish I did and I'm too lazy to drive the quarter mile to Kroger. siiiiiggggghhhh, thanks Rojo for mentioning popcorn in some other thread. Bitch. siiiigggghhhh

I ate my popcorn and drank some nasty cafeteria tea and read a For Old People large print biography on einstien that I grabbed by accident at the library. But I forgot to read that thread..... siiiiiiggghhhhhh.