Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 22, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 2 years ago

    The couch beats the bed on my father’s list of happiest places.

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    BasilBruce  almost 2 years ago

    So if Pig gets into a comfy bed in Finland with a danish and some ice cream, he’ll have it made!

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Three countries with a long and hard winter? No way. I still prefer my rambling Italy.

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    leopardglily  almost 2 years ago

    Fun fact: In Finland, when a student earns his PhD, he’s traditionally presented with a top hat and small sword.

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    ronaldspence  almost 2 years ago

    The supposed “happiest place on earth” is down the road a bit from us, but from the price of admission, the only happy people are Disney $hareholders!

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    marilynnbyerly  almost 2 years ago

    My comfy bed when the electric blanket is just right. I think I hear it calling me now.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    If my bed were in Tahiti I could be in my happy place.

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    Sanspareil  almost 2 years ago

    Pig seems to have left his closet!

    Happiness is whatever gets you through the next half hour!

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    Radish...   almost 2 years ago

    What was 3rd?

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    blunebottle  almost 2 years ago

    Three cheers for Pig!

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    Doug K  almost 2 years ago

    Pig doesn’t travel very far from his bed or the couch.

    Compared to the whole world, Pig’s world is a small world (after all).

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    rdav1248961 Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    There is a Museum of Happiness in Copenhagen. I visited it in 2021. One of the activities was to write what makes you happy on a post-it and read other visitors’ responses. Another exhibit showed that happiest and unhappiest days of 2016 in the UK. The happiest was Christmas and the unhappiest was the day after the U.S. presidential election.

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    hitman4cookies  almost 2 years ago

    I’m going to my happy place now.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Number Three is the Toilet although it may arguably be higher on the list.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    No way no Norway.

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    akachman Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Love you, Pig.

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    Goat from PBS  almost 2 years ago

    Just imagine how happy the Finnish, Danish, and Icelandic beds are. Even more so when they are so warm compared to the frigid climate of at least two of those countries.

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    Ellis97  almost 2 years ago

    My happiest place would be inside my own wonderful bedroom.

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    klapre  almost 2 years ago

    Always wondered about the methodology of those polls.

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    Liam Astle Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Do you notice that those are WHITE majority countries.

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    [Unnamed Reader - bf182b]  almost 2 years ago

    Disneyland must be feeling neglected.

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    Wichita1.0  almost 2 years ago

    But it got honorable mention.

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    LNER4472 Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    There are two factors to be considered when reviewing this so-called “happiness index” ratings every time they’re trotted out by the many advocating for high taxation and “cradle to grave” social “safety net” structures like the Scandinavian countries have:

    1) The countries that rate high on the “happiness indexes” typically also have very monolithic cultures—common education, common religion (not just Christianity, but specific sects like Lutheran), common domestic backgrounds, etc. in a country smaller than many American states. In other words, little if any “red state versus blue state” tribalism, urban-versus-rural, racial strife, etc.

    2) Said countries also have a built-in cultural imperative against complaining. Crankiness and complaining are frowned upon in Scandinavia, whereas it has replaced baseball as the national pastime in the United States. Exhibit A: Rat. This has serious implications for the true accuracy of the “happiness indexes.” If you interview a nation of “Pigs” (Scandinavia) and a nation of “Rats” (USA), of COURSE you’re going to come up with vastly different ratings, no matter what the government, tax rates, societal “safety nets,” etc. Further, look up the notion of Danish/Norwegian “hygge,” something that no doubt affects the national psyche. (As well as the winters that instigate the concept.) Pig seems to have THAT concept down pat, at least in this strip.

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    Zebrastripes  almost 2 years ago

    Once again, poor Pig shows his insecurities about the world! His world!

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    jel354  almost 2 years ago

    The “Happiness” saga continues.

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    jel354  almost 2 years ago

    The “Happiness” saga continues.

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    gigagrouch  almost 2 years ago

    All more-or-less socialist countries, BTW.

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    Call me Ishmael  almost 2 years ago

    So to be happy, live where it’s cold ?

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    Bookworm  almost 2 years ago

    My “Happy Place?” Easy. My big comfy chair in my small paid-for house. I get out of either only for necessity and even then und protest. (Admittedly, my own comfy bed is a close second, but I tend to sleep through the happiness.) 8>)

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    David_the_CAD  almost 2 years ago

    I am with you Pig.

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    hariseldon59  almost 2 years ago

    Any uncrowded natural setting will do for me. One of the most peaceful mornings I ever spent was at the Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park. An uncrowded beach is nice, too, except during hurricane season.

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    Mary Ellen  almost 2 years ago

    Yep, sounds right to me! I’ve been in the hospital since Friday, and I miss my bed and couch so much.

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    Bilan  almost 2 years ago

    Does Pig get that ink all over his pillow?

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    zeexenon  almost 2 years ago

    100% agree with Pig, except, of course for bedtime.

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    Buoy  almost 2 years ago

    The great outdoors is my happy place. Give me a beach, a conifer forest, or a river canyon and I cannot be sullied.

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    bajacalla Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    I could happily live in either country. Iceland especially. <3

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    dosbears Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Does Pig have SwinePox?

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    timothy6522  almost 2 years ago

    I see those “spots” have returned to Pig!!!They seem to show up periodically.

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    SFpagan  almost 2 years ago

    click those ruby shoes together and say, “There’s no place like home”

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  almost 2 years ago

    Happiness is wherever you are.

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    Sisyphos  almost 2 years ago

    Pig’s list is by far the more practical!

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    Swirls Before Pine  over 1 year ago

    A comfy bed with a Dane is even better.

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    georgemetropolis  over 1 year ago

    Let’s just agree that rat has the most rizz out of all of them

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