This would probably actually work. Studies have shown that people who are physically tricked into smiling are happier. (Specifically, they had them hold a pencil between their nose and upper lip.)
Excellent idea Peterbb, everyone would love having a coathanger hanging open their mouths, It would be great... so joyous... I'm wearing ONe RIght NOw!
ok, maybe its because I have no life and thus nothing better to do, but I just tried to balance a pencil between my nose and upper lip. I can do it while getting an extreme pout on, but I found it impossible to do while smiling.
and I really have no point to make here do I ...
On a related note, I have a tendency of subconsciously placing a pencil or pen between my teeth while doing extensive classwork. I feel slightly energized when I do this. I don't know if the effect is related to the same induced happiness of the study. I wonder...
Actually, all the study really shows is that people who know they've been told to hold a pencil between their teeth have a tendency to overstate their self-happiness to an interviewer. Possibly.
(The character Lilian Gish plays is an impoverished girl who routinely gets abused by her father. He usually tells her to smile minutes before he beast the crap out of her. Extremely sad film.)
No, in Brave New World the masses were actually happy. Using drugs (soma) and other indulgences, they were kept in a state of blissful contentedness. This is closer to 1984 in that you are forced to present an outward appearance in the hope that it will eventually master your thoughts as well.
Should be titled "office work". Worse than sitting in a cube for 8 hours a day was the utter phoniness of everyone with their fake smiles, throw-away platitudes and pathetic gossip... I am Jack's raging bile duct.
If only the souless, profit chasing f**kers like bobby kotick would just f**king die like they had been deathnoted.
Quote from the foulness that is bobby kotick as an example.
“You have studio heads who five years ago didn’t know the difference between a balance sheet and a bed sheet who are now arguing allocations in our CFO’s office pretty regularly. We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making videogames.” Kotick did this by creating an employee incentive program that “really rewards profit and nothing else, to instill “skepticism, pessimism, and fear” in his company as motivation for making games in the midst of a recession. “We are very good at keeping people focused on the deep depression.”
Its funny because the people who most whinge about the economy are the people who have no real skills. I'm sorry but art design doesn't actually generate food or build houses for people.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
This was like my last job. Got a new boss, and if you didn't act like you were happy then it was you who had the problem, and then that would lead to being fired.
Because they're about to get on a train that takes them to work. The hooks are provided by the train company or whatever, not their place of employment.
this reminds me of the beginning of Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" where they strap him to a machine that force feeds him to make the lunch hour go faster
ofnumbersAug 14, 2010Submitter
"Just relax and let the hooks do their work" - Ned Flanders
binaryfraggerAug 15, 2010
"What the hell are you smiling at?"
grabateAug 15, 2010
I could do with some Re-Neducation.
fungoAug 15, 2010
I, for one, welcome our new Ned Flanders overlord!
ghostwoAug 15, 2010
Kinda hard to whistle while you work though...
frezzleAug 15, 2010
Back when it was good.
mrsaundercookAug 15, 2010
It's having a bit of a rebound. Don't lose faith.
vanderkeifAug 15, 2010
If you call sucking giant dick a rebound, then yes, you are correct.
linageeAug 15, 2010
What's worse? The mandated hooks, or that you have to pay 4.00 euros for them?
tragedyfishAug 15, 2010
Not mandated, just necessary.
tokeliAug 15, 2010
"Feels like I'm wearin' nothin' at all! ... nothin' at all!"
schplatAug 15, 2010
Stupid sexy Flanders
zpanzerAug 16, 2010
DENTAL PLAN
mmerch4Aug 18, 2010
STUPID SEXY...FL..*looks above*.... boooo.
anubis2nightAug 15, 2010
well this help if I'm have a case of the Mondays
meccaydnaAug 16, 2010
It doesn't work after the Wisconsin Spankological Protocol.
mantiskungfuAug 16, 2010
Olden day version of Nancy Pelosi.
nerie2010Aug 15, 2010
cool and the gang
themanichoAug 15, 2010
´v`
twodollarsAug 15, 2010
http://funlok.com/index.php/jokes/how-to-look-happy-at-work.html
gerogeroheyAug 15, 2010
why stho stherious?
mrsaundercookAug 15, 2010
lmao I see what you did there.
thunderboy123Aug 15, 2010
i see two rubber bands in the picture not one.
peterbbAug 15, 2010
This would probably actually work. Studies have shown that people who are physically tricked into smiling are happier. (Specifically, they had them hold a pencil between their nose and upper lip.)
thatsnomoon66Aug 15, 2010
Excellent idea Peterbb, everyone would love having a coathanger hanging open their mouths, It would be great... so joyous... I'm wearing ONe RIght NOw!
randomgorillaAug 15, 2010
And next you're gonna tell us how you got that scar....
xtractorAug 15, 2010
save some sarcasm for the rest of us, buddy
neel360Aug 15, 2010
@ RandomGorilla
Why so serious?
arfikeAug 15, 2010
Sooner or later you'd forget it's there.
schwab002Aug 15, 2010
@Peterbb: They probably smile because they realize how ridiculous it is or must look to hold a pencil like that.
goldfisheyAug 15, 2010
ok, maybe its because I have no life and thus nothing better to do, but I just tried to balance a pencil between my nose and upper lip. I can do it while getting an extreme pout on, but I found it impossible to do while smiling.
and I really have no point to make here do I ...
vincent21212Aug 15, 2010
Actually, a more popular study had participants a pencil between the teeth while completing surveys and what-nots. It forces you to use smile muscles.
peterbbAug 15, 2010
Yeah, I remembered slightly wrong. Pencil-between-the-teeth was to help you smile, pencil-above-the-lip was to make you frown.
vincent21212Aug 15, 2010
On a related note, I have a tendency of subconsciously placing a pencil or pen between my teeth while doing extensive classwork. I feel slightly energized when I do this. I don't know if the effect is related to the same induced happiness of the study. I wonder...
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Actually, all the study really shows is that people who know they've been told to hold a pencil between their teeth have a tendency to overstate their self-happiness to an interviewer. Possibly.
jcainoAug 20, 2010
Wouldn't that make more of a duck face?
ma5termindAug 15, 2010
I wonder what a 2:30 feeling would be like for them.
coolguyslimAug 15, 2010
Or 3:30
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Or even 4:30. Time for a 5-hour energy!
doodlemasterAug 15, 2010
beaten by 6 h 37 m ;-; I love you guys...
greenwaldAug 15, 2010
Silent films had this figured about 100 years ago.
Lilian Gish
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4Ira6rA3Hzw/0.jpg
dkrenderAug 15, 2010
"All I ever wanted was some beaver :'("
janoo1989Aug 15, 2010
Broken Blossoms... a sad but great film.
(The character Lilian Gish plays is an impoverished girl who routinely gets abused by her father. He usually tells her to smile minutes before he beast the crap out of her. Extremely sad film.)
braininaboxAug 15, 2010
Brave New World
atarioAug 15, 2010
And only four euros a pop!
harabeckAug 15, 2010
No, in Brave New World the masses were actually happy. Using drugs (soma) and other indulgences, they were kept in a state of blissful contentedness. This is closer to 1984 in that you are forced to present an outward appearance in the hope that it will eventually master your thoughts as well.
/nitpick
demdudeAug 15, 2010
I'm so glad that I wasn't the only one who felt the need to point that out...
phatfiendAug 15, 2010
I was going to say, but thank you for making my point for me.
alphacubeAug 15, 2010
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store.
lunarparcelAug 15, 2010
da da da da dodada daaaaaaaaaa. (snap snap snap snap)
blackstaffAug 15, 2010
With the hooks, they all look british
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
And without them, they all look american.
lukas1051Aug 15, 2010
Nah, not fat enough.
scuba7183Aug 15, 2010
HAHA AMERICANS ARE SO FAT AND LAZY
blackoculusAug 15, 2010
leave my fat brethren alone!
/criesintohistwinkee
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Americans really are fat. Tim Hortons anyone? That place has more fat per square foot than the doughnuts themselves.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
@Kapitaine, Tim Hortons is Canadian....You know, the land where bacon is higher rated than sex.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
yeah lol Tim Hortons is the most Canadian place in the world... Kapitaine, I think you meant to say McDonald's or Dunkin Donuts.
afgunit106Aug 15, 2010
404 Error : yellow teeth not found
vanderkeifAug 15, 2010
Six flags attracts more obese people than anything else. Stay the f**k out of the waterpark!
gilgamesh999Aug 15, 2010
You can't have happy people without sad people. Let the sad people be sad.
myztryAug 15, 2010
Same with wealth. It's all just relative to everyone else.
ssomu007Aug 15, 2010
funny pictures, impressing. put it up the wall. hmm.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
That one guy looks like Ronald Regan with cooler hair.
luciferactualAug 16, 2010
impossible.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
This is how America smiles to the rest of the world.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
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lioozherAug 15, 2010
Prolly getting ready for their morning pep rally...
gozrothAug 15, 2010
Reminds me of this music video based on the short film "More"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oNSvfkhD3Q
jakebcAug 15, 2010
f**k, I'm surprised they haven't installed these where I work.
lunarparcelAug 15, 2010
Reminds me a lot of that dental headgear a bunch of my classmates had to wear in the 70s.
cam81Aug 15, 2010
DENTAL PLAN!
dms105Aug 15, 2010
Lisa needs braces
waulokAug 16, 2010
DENTAL PLAN!
bmartinAug 15, 2010
They should be careful with those or they'll get kanker sores, and that's always a mood killer.
adcdigitalcoleAug 15, 2010
...and the floggings will continue until morale improves...
mosaicmAug 15, 2010
Welcome to the Retail world!
qazwsAug 15, 2010
The mouth is a shopping basket
7king7kingAug 15, 2010
:( after work
undervaluedAug 15, 2010
They're even charging for them, better have been at least cleaned from the last use.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Should be titled "office work". Worse than sitting in a cube for 8 hours a day was the utter phoniness of everyone with their fake smiles, throw-away platitudes and pathetic gossip... I am Jack's raging bile duct.
diggadiggaAug 15, 2010
AKA, Obama's America.
cshilneyAug 15, 2010
Completely necessary.
amolkoldAug 15, 2010
at first I was like :(
but then I was like :)
livefromheavenAug 15, 2010
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iceman21Aug 15, 2010
If only the souless, profit chasing f**kers like bobby kotick would just f**king die like they had been deathnoted.
Quote from the foulness that is bobby kotick as an example.
“You have studio heads who five years ago didn’t know the difference between a balance sheet and a bed sheet who are now arguing allocations in our CFO’s office pretty regularly. We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making videogames.” Kotick did this by creating an employee incentive program that “really rewards profit and nothing else, to instill “skepticism, pessimism, and fear” in his company as motivation for making games in the midst of a recession. “We are very good at keeping people focused on the deep depression.”
nepidaeAug 15, 2010
Its funny because the people who most whinge about the economy are the people who have no real skills. I'm sorry but art design doesn't actually generate food or build houses for people.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Not everybody can be a carpenter or a farmer man. The people whining most about the economy are the blue collar workers who keep losing their jobs.
shodanxAug 15, 2010
nepidae, you clearly have not set foot in a GM factory lately
andyr3wAug 15, 2010
Norman Rockwell
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Reminds me of his work - is it actually a rockwell?
factorof13Aug 15, 2010
I doubt it. Rockwell was not usually so blatantly cynical.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Clearly these people need to be less pessimistic.
cheesyballzAug 15, 2010
that's walmart alright
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
This was like my last job. Got a new boss, and if you didn't act like you were happy then it was you who had the problem, and then that would lead to being fired.
nemomarlinAug 15, 2010
i read it as we're grumpy as we start work, and quite happy as we leave work for the day.
daevanAug 15, 2010
AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO REALIZES THIS ISN'T A PICTURE OF PEOPLE AT WORK?
nixpix66Aug 15, 2010
Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! I invented the piano key necktie, I invented it!
snoresnoreAug 15, 2010
What have you done Derrick!? Nothing! You've got NOTHING! NOTHING!
s0nicfreakAug 15, 2010
It's suppose to be a bunch of people going into work. Get it?
jdoorjamAug 15, 2010
... then why are they paying for the hooks?
s0nicfreakAug 15, 2010
Because they're about to get on a train that takes them to work. The hooks are provided by the train company or whatever, not their place of employment.
versualizeAug 15, 2010
Dugg for the description. Thanks for making a joke without giving the joke away. Wait what?
vaticanslayerAug 15, 2010
:{)
motivatedguyAug 15, 2010
At least they have a job.
dilton7Aug 15, 2010
mirror
http://www.picsaga.com/monday
bradaphraserAug 15, 2010
So THAT's how he got those scars...
smurfenAug 15, 2010
http://www.backstreetmerch.com/images/products/bands/clothing/lag/bsi_lag2822.gif >:)
doctorrabbitAug 15, 2010
The bald guy at the bottom looks like he's smiling with one mouth and frowning with another one..
lennyp75Aug 15, 2010
"It's.... BLISSSSSSSSSS."
gute123Aug 15, 2010
this reminds me of the beginning of Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" where they strap him to a machine that force feeds him to make the lunch hour go faster
kdx200riderAug 15, 2010
Looks like BO latest recovery plan.
fissiongrubbsAug 15, 2010
Looks to me like a bitter idiot
fontzepontzeAug 15, 2010
BAHAHA! OH, MAN! What a zinger!
jeffgchristAug 15, 2010
What are YOU smilin at?
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100728013218/simpsons/images/c/c9/Reneducation.jpg
nastychildAug 15, 2010
wait, I don't get it. You have to pay 4 Euros for it?
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
i guess.....
***puts on shades***
money does buy happiness
YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
uber7dudeAug 15, 2010
AAAAAAH 1984 TOTALITARIAN STATE AAAAAAAAAAH