Your Say Thursday: Are You Happy?

What more can I say about this question? Just thinking about the hysterical hordes of HYS readers pondering the contentedness of their own existences makes me almost fall out of my chair laughing. What with the hordes of Islamic terrorist immigrant rapists wailing and slapping at their windows all night long, it's a wonder any of them even have the strength to type anymore, much less answer this sort of broad, open-ended question that doesn't even try to lead the reader into an angsty tirade against anyone that isn't them or their mate. But they did. They reached deep down deep inside, found the strength and, by God, blessed us with their gloopy pearls of wisdom, all over our waiting faces. Here are a few of the best.

"Happiness is just an illusion. You can be in the same all round position twenty times, a couple of times you will be sad another few happy."
Kevin Humphreys, Liverpool, United Kingdom

I'm pretty sure I could be in the same all-round beer-and-supermodels position twenty times and be pretty made up with myself every time, so I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

"How can people be happy when the better off in society want to take what little poor people have in benefits and give them food coupons to live on.Greedy people make me unhappy, im happy i own my own home have 3 great children and wife and that i have mostly been in employment throughout my life"
james, Chester uk

How can we be happy in a society where the big ebil gubmint come and take all my toys and make me eat drugged gruel made of piss and Frosties, and other grand conspiracy theories?

"No, I am not happy. I am worried. Dead worried. For everyone. Peak Oil is happening, the energy crisis slowly revealing its full extent, bio-fuel production is causing starvation, global warming is destroying the only place we can ever call home, and people are not aware enough or doing enough to help. Not individuals, and certainly not governments.

Perhaps it's true in a way, ignorance is bliss."
Laurence Wells, Bath

FUCKING HELL THE WHOLE WORLD IS EXPLODING!!! QUICK, TELL THE INTERNET!!!

"Just make it a rule that if you're going to whine about something, make sure you've got a sensible alternative. Focus on solutions; not problems. It's quite simple really. If there's nothing you can do about something, you have to learn to live with it. That's why people who get diagnosed with a terminal illness can actually at last find happiness because they've accepted that there are things they can't change"
[sick_of_hys_whingers], Norwich, United Kingdom

Ironic (i-RON-ik)
1. Containing or exemplifying irony: an ironic novel; an ironic remark.
2. Someone called sick_of_hys_whingers, whinging on HYS.
3. You. See also; 'Shitbox'.

"Chuffed to Bits - I live in a part of Devon where we all speak the same language and all are happy to obay the British law and have no terrorist threat and have good home grown food on our door step and our children are polite and free of gun culture influances and have no race or religous problems and have no immigrant or asylum problems and live to a ripe old age - It is a shame most of the rest of this country has gone to the dogs."
chris marchant, Brixham, U K

Bloody hell, Chris, all we get up here is a weekly bowl of gruel from Mars while Tagalog-speaking immigrant children blow our legs off with handguns for obeying British law. As if that wasn't enough, the minute any of us live past 36 they feed us into a big machine that turns us all into special copies of the Koran that tell them to bomb ASDA's until they stop selling British spuds. It's total fucking carnage, let me tell you.

"NO!!! Life in New Labour's United Kingdom is unbearable. This country is the absolute pits and its all down to Blair/Brown. Are you listening New Labour????"
Stephen Ferguson, Girvan, United Kingdom

Listen up, government! My life of privilege is being overshadowed by my overblown sense of entitlement and I demand you fix it immediately!!! Are you listening, anyone???? Anyone at all???? HELLO????

"Aye. "Sometimes wanting is better than having.""

-Spock
Discontented Bob

Yes. "Why don't you come here and snog my ridge-nosed face off?"
- Major Kira.

Wait, that was in a dream I had. Sorry.

They make it too easy really, I should have gone for the one about what should be done to curb the rise of radicalised Islam, but I'm just not in the mood for that level of ignorance today. I'm sure there was once a time when people could be happy with what they have, could enjoy what they have and would make the most of what they have without pissing and moaning about it all fucking day long. Granted this was probably before the internet and MTV and people watching fifty-seven episodes of Cribs in one day and then demanding the gubmint give them a custom diamond plasma vibrating mega-telly, but at least try to cheer up, you miserable cunts.

Goodnight.