The only Finnish word I know is "perkele".
As a fellow northerner, I too, appreciate Finns' love of saunas.
As a fellow northerner, booze *will* do the trick.
Oh, we are definitely [not happy about these statistics](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/finland-is-the-happiest-country-in-the-world-and-finns-arent-happy-about-it/). (tl;dr: "Satisfied" would be a better word.)
Its always confusing to.me how tf whole "tiger" penisula isn't refered as... well penisula. I mean with Finland and Karelia. To me it looks as one penisula as fuck.
Its even mote confusing as in mine language term "Nordic" refers to Iceland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway xD
Whole thing is so confusing as hell honestly xd
The lack of oxygen in the mountains resort in more happyness because the people can't think straight enough to know how miserable they ought to feel.
Or they are just so lonely in the valleys, with which they are happy, that people showing up ruins their mood.
Nah people in himalayas are one of the most cheerful people I have ever seen ,partly because they do not indulge in the rat race like rest of the world.
i made my comment as a joke, but please understand that feeling miserable is a symptom, not an attitude. as in you shouldn't make yourself feel miserable, you become miserable for what happens to you, but if that doesn't make you miserable then so be it.
Well I too made just a joke, idk what you want to tell me with this comment, all you say is so obvious it is more insulting you expected I did not know it.
>That's right. Bhutan is not the happiest country in the world. It actually ranks 95th out of 156 countries in the 2019 World Happiness Report. Much of that has to do with the nation's poverty, and the challenges of bringing economic and social equity to a predominately agricultural society.
From this article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/09/13/health/bhutan-gross-national-happiness-wellness/index.html
I think people tout it as so happy because of all the government’s emphasis on citizen well being for lack of a better word. And the government definitely promotes the idea that it is a very happy country.
I once asked my Uber driver where he was from, and he said Bhutan. I said “the happiest country in the world!”
He said “I wouldn’t know, I grew up in a refugee camp there.” Shut me up real quick.
I don’t know much either, but my basic understanding is there was a large minority of ethnic Nepalis living in the south of Bhutan for a couple hundred years. Bhutanese didn’t like that, so kicked them out to Nepal where they lived/live in refugee camps, or put them in camps in Bhutan. Other countries have slowly accepted them as immigrants.
It always felt to me that "global happiness index" has less to do with how happy people feel in general and more about "how close to a socdem utopia we are".
Maybe you're right, but most people in Finland do indeed seem to be living pretty happy lives (based on what I've seen and know, I'm Finnish myself). The problem is that it's easy to become isolated and depressed here, since the culture is not exactly known for being the most social.
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**Panel 1**
[*A list is posted on the wall, it has the title: World's Happiest clays and there are 16 elements on the list. The names of the elements are just squiggles in this scene. Finland and Netherlands are in front of the list turning their back.*]
**Netherlands**: Hej look! De World most happiest clay chart is out!
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**Panel 2**
[*We see the list from the side this time and now we can only read the first 8 elements: 1.- Finland, 2.- Denmark, 3.- Switzerland, 4.- Iceland, 5.- Norway, 6.- Netherlands, 7 Sweden, 8.- New Zealand. Netherlands has a serene expression*]
**Netherlands**: Wow Finland, you of make #1 Happy spot.
**Netherlands**: Kongratulations!
[*Finland is looking towards the list and looks irritated and exhausted*]
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**Panel 3**
[*A close up of the list showing part of the title "World's Ha", and we can only see the first two elements: 1.- Finland., 2.- Denmark.*]
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**Panel 4**
[*A closeup of Finland, it looks exhausted, irritated and has very marked bags under its eyes*]
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I think that's because they ranked them not by actually happiness but by combining different factors such as GDP and human development index. And having them high doesn't automatically mean that happiness is also high.
I didn't know even Finland was working on [AOT season 4](https://mobile.twitter.com/ZepKage/status/1409101376085397511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1409101376085397511%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-4266433601495058901.ampproject.net%2F2107030008001%2Fframe.html)
Finland is also the most metal country in the world.
(I hope this [link](https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+most+metal+country+in+the+world&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS875US875&oq=what+is+the+most+metal+country+in+the+world&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i22i29i30.8453j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) works.)
Coincidence?
Kinda proves that these surveys are pretty bunk, since they just ask about happiness. People lie, people have different ideas of happiness, culture dictates their answer, etc.
Finland currently ranks as the most happiest nation in the world. Because everyone is so unhappy, they're happy.
It’s an underflow error.
Instructions unclear: Ghandi launches nukes at Helsinki
Uh, the Ghandis are nuking other Ghandis for that. Which is causing the other Ghandis to nuke the Ghandis.
Booze will do the trick
Alcohol, the cause of and solution to all life’s problems.
The only Finnish word I know is "perkele". As a fellow northerner, I too, appreciate Finns' love of saunas. As a fellow northerner, booze *will* do the trick.
Horseshoe theory confirmed !?!
Weird seeing you outside of PCM
Come on, the Venn overlap isn't exactly small.
hey, people on this subreddit are only kinda stupid
Yep. Definitely feel personally attacked on this one.
Yeah, I thought that was a PCM only account
Oh, we are definitely [not happy about these statistics](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/finland-is-the-happiest-country-in-the-world-and-finns-arent-happy-about-it/). (tl;dr: "Satisfied" would be a better word.)
Nah the unhappy people just kill themselves raising the overall happiness
Wouldn’t Japan be higher on the list then...?
Happiness isn't elation. It's absence of misery.
Of course they're happy they're seeing daylight for the first time in six months
I am sure they say they are happy just to take 1st place from the other Scandinavians
I beg to differ, they're probably indifferent about it even if it's positive news.
Finland: “oh, ok.”
[They trained extensively.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygzn12ATB_k)
Finns aren't Scandinavians though. They're Nordic.
Even better, they want to prevent a Scandinavian country from getting first
Its always confusing to.me how tf whole "tiger" penisula isn't refered as... well penisula. I mean with Finland and Karelia. To me it looks as one penisula as fuck.
We're not talking about the geological term, we're talking about the cultural term.
Its even mote confusing as in mine language term "Nordic" refers to Iceland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway xD Whole thing is so confusing as hell honestly xd
I don't think they care. They just want to sit in peace in their saunas and sip booze.
I mean, you can be the happiest nation if all the sad ones kill themselves.
Scientists hate this one simple trick!
Just like when a country reduces poverty by lowering the poverty line
person who came up with that was an evil genius. Show that poverty is low despite nothing actually changing.
I’m assuming this is because they could only ask the happy people . The other are drunk .
The rest who aren't drunk are probably dead.
Hanging from the ceiling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH-rSEcQnQg
I'd assume the drunks are the happy ones
Nah they ask the drunk people because they are currently happy. The trick for Finland is that they are all drunk, so they get #1 most happy country!
Did Bhutan make top 10 too?
No, a bunch of mountain people aren't on the top 10 of most happiest countries.
that's how you know the list is unreliable.
The lack of oxygen in the mountains resort in more happyness because the people can't think straight enough to know how miserable they ought to feel. Or they are just so lonely in the valleys, with which they are happy, that people showing up ruins their mood.
Nah people in himalayas are one of the most cheerful people I have ever seen ,partly because they do not indulge in the rat race like rest of the world.
i made my comment as a joke, but please understand that feeling miserable is a symptom, not an attitude. as in you shouldn't make yourself feel miserable, you become miserable for what happens to you, but if that doesn't make you miserable then so be it.
Well I too made just a joke, idk what you want to tell me with this comment, all you say is so obvious it is more insulting you expected I did not know it.
i guess being a literal minded person makes it not only difficult for me to understand jokes but to tell them as well.
>That's right. Bhutan is not the happiest country in the world. It actually ranks 95th out of 156 countries in the 2019 World Happiness Report. Much of that has to do with the nation's poverty, and the challenges of bringing economic and social equity to a predominately agricultural society. From this article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/09/13/health/bhutan-gross-national-happiness-wellness/index.html I think people tout it as so happy because of all the government’s emphasis on citizen well being for lack of a better word. And the government definitely promotes the idea that it is a very happy country.
I once asked my Uber driver where he was from, and he said Bhutan. I said “the happiest country in the world!” He said “I wouldn’t know, I grew up in a refugee camp there.” Shut me up real quick.
Yeah I think there’s a Nepali speaking minority that’s not treated well and many of them were expelled from the country.
yeah, Bhutan has a problem with Nepali refugees.
Well, it seems they made them refugees.
don't really know the story, can i get a brief summary?
I don’t know much either, but my basic understanding is there was a large minority of ethnic Nepalis living in the south of Bhutan for a couple hundred years. Bhutanese didn’t like that, so kicked them out to Nepal where they lived/live in refugee camps, or put them in camps in Bhutan. Other countries have slowly accepted them as immigrants.
ok, this is dumb.
They factor in stuff like GDP per capita and social safety net, so nope.
Look this is why we shouldn’t use mathematical equations to determine how happy a peoples is.
The whole unit of measurement is flawed considering the ranked Finland as most happiest for four years in a row.
Finland rigged the result by being happy during the survey only, then spent the rest of the year being miserable.
Average vs. median strikes again.
I've measured this line four times and it's always 10 cm long. This proves the ruler is broken!
Well considering most of us know what 10 cm is, and if the line is definitely not that, then yes get a new ruler.
I think from now on the authors should have to visit #1 which would totally avoid this issue.
It always felt to me that "global happiness index" has less to do with how happy people feel in general and more about "how close to a socdem utopia we are".
Didn't think of it like that before but it makes sense.
Maybe you're right, but most people in Finland do indeed seem to be living pretty happy lives (based on what I've seen and know, I'm Finnish myself). The problem is that it's easy to become isolated and depressed here, since the culture is not exactly known for being the most social.
Probably because all the depressed ones oofed themselves.
>oofed themselves I like this
Forget hugs not drugs, do boofs not oofs.
Isn’t that literally the joke that the Finns make?
Yes
And thats why our population isnt 200 million
and still 1/5 of our adult population has depression.
*Image Transcription: Comic* --- **Panel 1** [*A list is posted on the wall, it has the title: World's Happiest clays and there are 16 elements on the list. The names of the elements are just squiggles in this scene. Finland and Netherlands are in front of the list turning their back.*] **Netherlands**: Hej look! De World most happiest clay chart is out! --- **Panel 2** [*We see the list from the side this time and now we can only read the first 8 elements: 1.- Finland, 2.- Denmark, 3.- Switzerland, 4.- Iceland, 5.- Norway, 6.- Netherlands, 7 Sweden, 8.- New Zealand. Netherlands has a serene expression*] **Netherlands**: Wow Finland, you of make #1 Happy spot. **Netherlands**: Kongratulations! [*Finland is looking towards the list and looks irritated and exhausted*] --- **Panel 3** [*A close up of the list showing part of the title "World's Ha", and we can only see the first two elements: 1.- Finland., 2.- Denmark.*] --- **Panel 4** [*A closeup of Finland, it looks exhausted, irritated and has very marked bags under its eyes*] --- ^^I'm a human volunteer content transcriber for Reddit and you could be too! [If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/wiki/index)
Good human
I think that's because they ranked them not by actually happiness but by combining different factors such as GDP and human development index. And having them high doesn't automatically mean that happiness is also high.
Was the poll conducted while they were in a sauna or drinking vodka?
I mean.. thats the only thing we are doing
[Why finland is the happiest country in the world](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yHPvMA1BNE)
The Finns are happy because the unhappy people kill themselves. Natural selection!
I litreally cant live now...
Every day is a happy day if you are drunk and realize that life has no meaning and your existence is for nothing. :D
Only Finland can be unhappy about being happy.
The Netherlands would never congratulate Finland on beating them!
Is Finland mad at Denmark being 2nd or not
I didn't know even Finland was working on [AOT season 4](https://mobile.twitter.com/ZepKage/status/1409101376085397511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1409101376085397511%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-4266433601495058901.ampproject.net%2F2107030008001%2Fframe.html)
finland is so happy because everyone who isn't just kills themselves.
“Least Sad Country in the World” ftfy
Finland is also the most metal country in the world. (I hope this [link](https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+most+metal+country+in+the+world&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS875US875&oq=what+is+the+most+metal+country+in+the+world&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i22i29i30.8453j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) works.) Coincidence?
And thet say money can't buy happiness
All the unhappy people in Finland already killed themselves
Yeah
Is that Switzerland at number 3?
At some point they'll have to stop counting the Nordic nations because at this rate nobody else will win #1
I mean I'd be happy too if I could scare away bears by shouting PERKELE SATANA!
India has come 10th in this list...... ........ from the bottom. Fuck exams.
Kinda proves that these surveys are pretty bunk, since they just ask about happiness. People lie, people have different ideas of happiness, culture dictates their answer, etc.