Researchers: Irish Ranked 'Most Optimistic' Country in the World

Drakares

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The research which analyzed 150,048 individuals from 142 countries to examine relationships between optimism, subjective well-being, perceived health, and hopes for the future, finds that the Irish and Brazilians are the most hopeful for the future, while people in Egypt and Lebanon are the least.

Sher 'twill all be grand!

Duggy747

A day spent on After Hours would change their tune.....

Sky King

Blissful blissful ignorance.

minidazzler

I'd believe it. We speak in negatives but tend to be quite positive in general.

WoollyRedHat

I have serious misgivings about this.

danniemcq

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I have serious misgivings about this.

I prefer to look on the brightside

Anyone

What they dont say is the research was done in a pub, while the Irish person was in between a hot Lebanese and a hot Egyptian.

conorhal

Drakares wrote: »

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Sher 'twill all be grand!

That phrase has begun to boil my blood, because the word ‘grand’ has been the ruination of this nation, it truly characterizes our blithe acceptance of the substandard in every institution and every aspect of Irish life!
We badly need people standing up and demanding more, rather then squabbling over the crumbs off the table and then trying to press them all together into the semblance of a slice of the cake.
The title of this thread should read, the ‘Ireland the most delusional place in the world’.

1ZRed

Probably true but I think they may be confusing optimism with people having their head in the clouds

humbert

I think the Irish are outwardly optimistic but I have my doubts as to whether they are really optimistic at all.

the keen edge

Well if you are eternally optimistic nothing will ever get you down.

Rhys Essien

Look,we have a school teacher by the name of Edna Kennedy running the country.There will be no fear of us.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I think we're just too bloody lazy and laid back to give a bollox about most things tbh.

Mr Benevolent

conorhal wrote: »

boil my blood

Hilarious phrase. If your blood was boiling that much you'd be a black pudding.

Corvo

WE ALL GONNA DIE

Fromthetrees

We have enough food to feed 36 million people.
We have enough fresh water to bring any country in the world out of drought.
We have an unlimited supply of Zanax and Viagra.
Our only neighbour thinks we're just it's small and harmless little brother.
We have more children per capita than practically every other member of the OECD.
We have the lowest level of infant mortality in the world.
We are under populated.
We have beautiful air and scenery.

I'm going for pints later in the sun.
Why the **** shouldn't I be optimistic???

kowloon

Dash Easy Victim wrote: »

I think we're just too bloody lazy and laid back to give a bollox about most things tbh.

This.

Probably for the best.

OldGoat

My martini glass is nether half empty nor half full, it's simply got room for more gin. :cool:

Anyone

Fromthetrees wrote: »

I'm going for pints later in the sun.

What country are you in?

uch

Ah sure that's Grand

OpenYourEyes

People ask me "Bill, are you an optimist?"
And I say "I hope so!"




*Bill Bailey joke

Fromthetrees

Anyone wrote: »

What country are you in?

The Peoples Republic of Cork my friend.

PizzamanIRL

Irish people just hide their true emotions and pretend that everything is 'grand'.

This would explain why we have a high suicide rate.

wolfpawnat

Sure fúck it, t'will be grand and it could be worse.

We are not Gaza, we are not in the grasp of a horrific famine, we have a fairly alright (not great, but not the worst) health and education systems. We could be a hell of a lot worse.

trickymicky

Fromthetrees wrote: »

We have enough food to feed 36 million people.
We have enough fresh water to bring any country in the world out of drought.
We have an unlimited supply of Zanax and Viagra.
Our only neighbour thinks we're just it's small and harmless little brother.
We have more children per capita than practically every other member of the OECD.
We have the lowest level of infant mortality in the world.
We are under populated.
We have beautiful air and scenery.

I'm going for pints later in the sun.
Why the **** shouldn't I be optimistic???

Its quotes like these that make me feel optimistic about the future and a bit more proud to be irish. I thank you Fromthetrees

Celly Smunt

To each other we'll complain and moan and be generally pessimistic.

if an outsider asks however we tend to be all diddly dee and happy.

wolfpawnat

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Irish people just hide their true emotions and pretend that everything is 'grand'.

This would explain why we have a high suicide rate.

We rate 37th (11.4 per 100,000 in 2011 apparently) on the world for suicide rates. Still too high, but nothing compared to Greenland (108.1 per 100,000) so it could be worse.

Chuck Stone

We have some very pretty roundabouts too.

space_man

'tis a great little country.

Drakares

conorhal wrote: »

That phrase has begun to boil my blood, because the word ‘grand’ has been the ruination of this nation, it truly characterizes our blithe acceptance of the substandard in every institution and every aspect of Irish life!
We badly need people standing up and demanding more, rather then squabbling over the crumbs off the table and then trying to press them all together into the semblance of a slice of the cake.
The title of this thread should read, the ‘Ireland the most delusional place in the world’.

I don't know about you, but I've got a well paying job, a healthy lifestyle, renting a nice apartment with the missus and money enough after the bills to do what I like. I've nothing to be delusional about because I'm not as angry as some.

What should I be 'Demanding more' of?

Rented Mule

Drakares wrote: »

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Sher 'twill all be grand!

Apparently, all sarcasm was lost on these researchers.

Few naggins they said ....

That's great to hear

You can't bate a bit of positivity to get you through life!

Nailz

Fromthetrees wrote: »

We have enough food to feed 36 million people.
We have enough fresh water to bring any country in the world out of drought.
We have an unlimited supply of Zanax and Viagra.
Our only neighbour thinks we're just it's small and harmless little brother.
We have more children per capita than practically every other member of the OECD.
We have the lowest level of infant mortality in the world.
We are under populated.
We have beautiful air and scenery.

I'm going for pints later in the sun.
Why the **** shouldn't I be optimistic???

****ing right! Great post.

Steve O

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That's great to hear

You can't bate a bit of positivity to get you through life!

Easily pleased aren't ye.

Steve O

Steve O wrote: »

Easily pleased aren't ye.

I am!

Smiles and happiness and positive thinking all the way!

Steve O

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I am!

Smiles and happiness and positive thinking all the way!

Bah! Humbug...

Steve O

Steve O wrote: »

Bah! Humbug...

You're right, Christmas is awesome.

Steve O

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You're right, Christmas is awesome.

I have no recollection of the event in question. Kthxbai

Fr_Dougal

Fromthetrees wrote: »

We have enough food to feed 36 million people.
We have enough fresh water to bring any country in the world out of drought.
We have an unlimited supply of Zanax and Viagra.
Our only neighbour thinks we're just it's small and harmless little brother.
We have more children per capita than practically every other member of the OECD.
We have the lowest level of infant mortality in the world.
We are under populated.
We have beautiful air and scenery.

I'm going for pints later in the sun.
Why the **** shouldn't I be optimistic???

You need to do your research on some of the above, completely misleading.

Fr_Dougal

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

You need to do your research on some of the above, completely misleading.

Oh, you're one of them.

Fr_Dougal

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh, you're one of them.

Ha! Nah, but I don't believe in bsing people. We aren't even in the top 20 for the lowest infant mortality rate, that's a good bit off having the lowest in the world.

Fromthetrees

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Ha! Nah, but I don't believe in bsing people. We aren't even in the top 20 for the lowest infant mortality rate, that's a good bit off having the lowest in the world.

According to UNICEF:
Infant mortality rate (under 1), (2010) 3.

Please don't accuse me of 'bsing' people when my post was sincere and was written from my phone so I was going off memory without being able to double check.

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

You need to do your research on some of the above, completely misleading.

Can you point out any discrepancy in what I posted? (outside the fact we're ranked third by UNICEF instead of first)

Iwasfrozen

conorhal wrote: »

That phrase has begun to boil my blood, because the word ‘grand’ has been the ruination of this nation, it truly characterizes our blithe acceptance of the substandard in every institution and every aspect of Irish life!
We badly need people standing up and demanding more, rather then squabbling over the crumbs off the table and then trying to press them all together into the semblance of a slice of the cake.
The title of this thread should read, the ‘Ireland the most delusional place in the world’.

Oh get you.

Smidge

Optimistic, they say?

Not me

I'm a miserable fukcer:(;)

southsiderosie

Interesting. When asked about general happiness rather than optimism, the list looks a bit different - Latin American countries come out on top and even poor countries with a lot of social problems do better than wealthy European countries. Ireland is still pretty high on that list though - I've heard from Hispanic friends that Ireland seems the most 'Latin' of the Northern European countries, so I guess that makes sense.

I was surprised that Singapore did so poorly on the happiness list though!

Smidge

southsiderosie wrote: »

Interesting. When asked about general happiness rather than optimism, the list looks a bit different - Latin American countries come out on top and even poor countries with a lot of social problems do better than wealthy European countries. Ireland is still pretty high on that list though - I've heard from Hispanic friends that Ireland seems the most 'Latin' of the Northern European countries, so I guess that makes sense.

I was surprised that Singapore did so poorly on the happiness list though!

Isn't it true though on the "happiness" rating, that countries that have the least disparity between the wealthiest and poorest in their country have the highest happiness quotient?

southsiderosie

Smidge wrote: »

Isn't it true though on the "happiness" rating, that countries that have the least disparity between the wealthiest and poorest in their country have the highest happiness quotient?

No - Latin America as a region has the highest levels of income inequality in the world, yet they regularly top the happiness ratings. But that also may depend on which ranking - I think there are several.

Wompa1

southsiderosie wrote: »

No - Latin America as a region has the highest levels of income inequality in the world, yet they regularly top the happiness ratings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUhRKVIjJtw