Happiness

[Udayana]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34292274

"The Dalai Lama has given his blessing to a new course of evening classes, available across the UK, promising to make participants happier… and the world a better place.

The eight-week course, designed by the Action for Happiness organisation, claims to be scientifically proven to increase life satisfaction, mental wellbeing, compassion and social trust.

Entitled Exploring What Matters, the classes will be free - although organisers do ask for a donation to cover costs. Hundreds of people have already volunteered to host the course in locations across the UK."

http://www.actionforhappiness.org/

Worth a try or are you already happy enough?

[floo]

On the whole I am comfortable with my life, which is better than being happy or unhappy, imo.

[dadvokat]

Happiness can be found in a glass of single malt scotch.

[floo]

Happiness can be found in a glass of single malt scotch.

And unhappiness if the glass is too large and too full!

[Rhiannon]

I think it is an excellent idea because of the structured approach. It's not necessarily going to tell people stuff they don't know already, but following a programme means you actually do it; do it often enough and these things become habit.

I really like the Happy Movie which looks at this in detail. Funnily enough I was talking about it at the weekend with my kids and we were considering genes and happiness - research suggests it is 50% genetic and 10% circumstances, leaving 40% up to us. I explained that the 10% included things like wealth, location and race, to which my 9 year old butted in with, 'We're all members of the human race, thank you!'

[bluehillside Retd.]

Reminds me of the time a young Brigitte Bardot arrived in the US and was interviewed live on air. The interviewer asked what she hoped to find in America, and she replied, "a penis".

Turned out she was actually saying "happiness", but hey - that makes me happy 

[SqueakyVoice]

Reminds me of the time a young Brigitte Bardot arrived in the US and was interviewed live on air. The interviewer asked what she hoped to find in America, and she replied, "a penis".

Turned out she was actually saying "happiness", but hey - that makes me happy 

There's another story about a boys choir singing the Ken Dodd song "Happiness", but changing the the lines to, "A penis, a penis, the greatest  gift that I possess..." without anyone noticing.

[Rhiannon]

That reminds me of Martin Clunes on HIGNFY explaining how he used to slip in certain phrases for bets with his mates on TV. He called Lovejoy 'Lovejuice'.

[bluehillside Retd.]

Or the (in)famous sign-off line that Johnny Craddock had at the end of an episode of his wife's cookery programme: "And may all your fairy cakes taste like Fanny's".

Happy days...

[Udayana]

lol 

[Rhiannon]

There ya go. Happiness sorted. 😀

[SqueakyVoice]

Samantha will be leaving us now, as she doesn't  want to be late for her Happiness meditation  class again.

Last week Samantha and her gentleman friend had to suffer intermitent electrical problems on the Victoria  line and decided to practice an exercise from the week before on the way. He placed happiness in her hand and they jerked all the way until they got off at Seven Sisters.

[jeremyp]

Samantha will be leaving us now, as she doesn't  want to be late for her Happiness meditation  class again.

Last week Samantha and her gentleman friend had to suffer intermitent electrical problems on the Victoria  line and decided to practice an exercise from the week before on the way. He placed happiness in her hand and they jerked all the way until they got off at Seven Sisters.

Happiness is Humph reading his lines.  This one I heard whilst driving down the motorway.  It was so funny I thought I had suffered a stroke

If you think about it, a milk bottle is almost exactly like a song. It is wide at the base but tapers to small diameter opening at the top which is sealed with a foil cap to prevent spillage. But that is not what makes it like a song. No, because the bottle contains milk which is exactly like the words, the milk (or words) may be poured from the bottle (or song) and the bottle can be returned to the milkman to be refilled with different milk (or words) - just like singing one song to the tune of another.

But, what about garden birds? Yes there is the danger that as your milk milk sits on the doorstep the foil cap might have holes pecked in it allowing the ingress of contaminant making the milk unpalatable. Sadly things are liable to go sour due to an unwelcome little tit.

At the piano is Colin Sell.

[bluehillside Retd.]

jermeyp,

Ah now then: "Samantha is just off to see her gentleman friend who's a chef. She tell me that she's a fan of his beef in red wine, but on balance she prefers his tongue in cider".

And this to a Radio 4 audience at Sunday lunchtime!