Headlines of the day
Vicar hospitalised with potato up his bum (Metro.co.uk)
The report went on to say, “He explained to me, quite sincerely, he had been hanging curtains naked in the kitchen when he fell backwards on to the kitchen table and on to a potato.” This reminds us of an old joke that involved a proctologist, a dozen roses and a note.
Fast-food order may have led to father-son shooting (Chron.com)
Sounds like someone wanted it his way.
Polish foreign minister: Obama's grandfather was a cannibal! (Drudge)
That’s nothing. We hear the foreign minister’s grandfather was Polish.
Scoop: Spears to appear at 30 Rock tree lighting (MSNBC)
Hope they told her this has nothing to do with firing up a blunt.
Breaking News—Sad people will stare at anything. Also, happily married couples have more sex. Honest. Film at 11 (No, not that kind of film)....
Study: Unhappy people watch more TV (James Hibberd thr.com)
An extensive new research study has found that unhappy people watch more TV while those consider themselves happy spend more time reading and socializing.
The University of Maryland analyzed 34 years of data collected from more than 45,000 participants and found that watching TV might make you feel good in the short term but is more likely to lead to overall unhappiness.
"The pattern for daily TV use is particularly dramatic, with 'not happy' people estimating over 30% more TV hours per day than 'very happy' people," the study says. "Television viewing is a pleasurable enough activity with no lasting benefit, and it pushes aside time spent in other activities -- ones that might be less immediately pleasurable, but that would provide long-term benefits in one’s condition. In other words, TV does cause people to be less happy."
The study, published in the December issue of Social Indicators Research, analyzed data from thousands of people who recorded their daily activities in diaries over the course of several decades. Researchers found that activities such as sex, reading and socializing correlated with the highest levels of overall happiness.
Watching TV, on the other hand, was the only activity that had a direct correlation with unhappiness.
"TV is not judgmental nor difficult, so people with few social skills or resources for other activities can engage in it," says the study. "Furthermore, chronic unhappiness can be socially and personally debilitating and can interfere with work and most social and personal activities, but even the unhappiest people can click a remote and be passively entertained by a TV. In other words, the causal order is reversed for people who watch television; unhappiness leads to television viewing."
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