# Bhutan, happiness and thinking about death **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2016, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bhutan-happiness-and-thinking-about-death/751534 "2016-04-08T09:33:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bhutan-happiness-and-thinking-about-death/751534/21 "2016-04-11T03:17:00Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > That seems like a really stupid study. There aren’t many words in people’s everyday vocabulary that start with “jo-,” and while “joy” is pretty positive, I don’t think many of the others are unambiguously positive or negative. [“Joanna Lumley” is unambiguously positive.](https://jonmwessel.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/new-avengers-lumley-photoshoot-5.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bhutan-happiness-and-thinking-about-death/751534/22 "2016-04-11T03:47:57Z")
Trivia: Bhutan’s capital, Thimphu, is the only capital city without any traffic lights. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bhutan-happiness-and-thinking-about-death/751534/23 "2016-04-12T19:39:45Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > blog post > [@elbows](#): > > your blog Blogs are allowed here. See Siam Sams blog about pigeon eggs. 8 years old and 45 pages. You’ll be happy to know that, “Ladyboy did lay her second egg right on schedule today,”. > **[We Have Pigeon Eggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=467835)** > > So the wife and I just returned from a trip up North. We were gone nine days. Got home about 8:30 last night (Monday night). Turned on the lights, opened the curtains to the balcony. When I opened the curtains, a pigeon on the balcony freaked out and... ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bhutan-happiness-and-thinking-about-death/751534/24 "2016-04-13T07:51:54Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > “Job” might be a fulfilling career that pays cash (positive), or a thankless drudgery (negative) > “joke” might be funny (positive), or a mean-spirited practical joke (negative). > “join” might be off-putting to an introvert. > “jodhpur” and “jojoba” are even more difficult to measure. So help me, when I read the OP the first thing I thought of was “Johannesburg.” ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bhutan-happiness-and-thinking-about-death/751534/25 "2016-04-13T10:43:26Z")
Reading this thread feels like being dead must feel. I’m off to think about that. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bhutan-happiness-and-thinking-about-death/751534/26 "2016-04-14T04:41:36Z")
John, maybe instead of just having a web site to post diet updates, you could add “Articles That Interest Me”. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bhutan-happiness-and-thinking-about-death/751534/27 "2016-04-14T13:11:59Z")
Or a Facebook page. They’re easy to start and post to. And much more appropriate than using The Pit for random daily thoughts like: [QUOTE=JohnClay] Today I went with a Mormon friend up the “mountain” again. Last time it took 30 minutes to get to the top and I had to stop a lot. This time my friend had to stop a lot and it took an hour to get to the top. At the end he said his legs were shaking and he had to wait a while until he was able to drive his car. He commented that there were a lot of cute girls. (I agreed) He’s been a Mormon for 5-6 years but he had a Guns n Roses t-shirt with a skull on it: [http://planetarybargains.biz/PBPictu...nt-Closeup.jpg](http://planetarybargains.biz/PBPictu...nt-Closeup.jpg) Recently he started wearing special Mormon undergarments. They were like a white t-shirt and long shorts. They went to his knees and showed beneath his clothes. Then we went to a antique toy show that had a lot of 1980’s Masters of the Universe figures. What was this thread about again? I think I stopped getting obsessed about staying on topic. [/QUOTE] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bhutan-happiness-and-thinking-about-death/751534.md?page=1)