Monday, October 03, 2005
Economics of Happiness
Today is a very sad day, partly for the fact that it’s Monday, but more importantly, some club got whacked 4-1 and costed the misery of many, many (and I mean really many, many) people. Let me explain this theory more thoroughly…
Firstly, the most sad of the lot has got to be the ones that were directly related to this result, some (the lesser beings) calls them the European champions, I preferred to call them scousers, it’s a more generic term in my part of the world. They always claim that You’d Never Walk Alone, and I really think its so damn true! They have lots of friends man, people like Newcastle, Blackburn, Birmingham and Portsmouth, they are all in the same half of the world as reflected on today’s papers. But these fans are the ‘sadest’ people today. After fighting so hard for a draw in midweek, they end up back at square one at the turn of the week.
The next group of sad people are the fans of some artillery-related club. However, it seems like the hike in oil prices have also affected the prices of gun powder as well. The guns have been shooting blanks recently and it needed the help of an opponent to win their game. Life just isn’t the same without Patrick. And the result of this 4-1 trashing did not do much to alleviate the problem as they now go 11 points behind and still trying to find a cheaper source of gun powder.
Another group of very sad people are the who-win-then-I-support-who-lor fans, these people can turn from half blue/half white to SHARP to Dreamcast to Vodafone to O2 and now to blue. By logical reasons, they should be the happiest people around since whoever they support wins, or rather, whoever wins, they’ll support!! However, today, they are very sad people, too. Instead of winning the Champions League game, the trophy they badly want, they end up winning the League game instead, which they have won in a record margin last term and are still leading by a mile this time round. I mean, this fans will really appreciate it if the results were reversed. Having said that, a bank account like theirs is like having a cheat code in your Football Manager or playing 1-star difficulty on your Winning Eleven, if you still can’t win, my advice is, switch to another game.
Lastly, people like me are also very sad. After a truly magnificent display on Saturday against some minorities, all I can say about the three goals respectively, are (1) clinical finish, (2) precise passing, (3) great vision and all in all, a stroll in the Park. However, the 4-1 result greatly undid all the good work as we fell, temporarily, 10 points behind and with a game in hand.
Thus, everybody is sad today. But here comes the interesting part, if the results were reversed, 4-1 in midweek and 0-0 yesterday. We will have many, many happy people today!! Scousers will be happy to earn a draw (what else do you guys expect anyway?), Gunners and us will be delighted that the gap is closer and the Blues will be happy that they beat the previous champions and can go all the way this time (or so it seems…). This scenario will be ideal for everyone, nobody will be sad. This is what I call the economics of happiness, and the blues have been productively inefficient by thrashing the Scousers yesterday. For the happiness of the greatest number, you got it wrong this time,moron mourinho!
Firstly, the most sad of the lot has got to be the ones that were directly related to this result, some (the lesser beings) calls them the European champions, I preferred to call them scousers, it’s a more generic term in my part of the world. They always claim that You’d Never Walk Alone, and I really think its so damn true! They have lots of friends man, people like Newcastle, Blackburn, Birmingham and Portsmouth, they are all in the same half of the world as reflected on today’s papers. But these fans are the ‘sadest’ people today. After fighting so hard for a draw in midweek, they end up back at square one at the turn of the week.
The next group of sad people are the fans of some artillery-related club. However, it seems like the hike in oil prices have also affected the prices of gun powder as well. The guns have been shooting blanks recently and it needed the help of an opponent to win their game. Life just isn’t the same without Patrick. And the result of this 4-1 trashing did not do much to alleviate the problem as they now go 11 points behind and still trying to find a cheaper source of gun powder.
Another group of very sad people are the who-win-then-I-support-who-lor fans, these people can turn from half blue/half white to SHARP to Dreamcast to Vodafone to O2 and now to blue. By logical reasons, they should be the happiest people around since whoever they support wins, or rather, whoever wins, they’ll support!! However, today, they are very sad people, too. Instead of winning the Champions League game, the trophy they badly want, they end up winning the League game instead, which they have won in a record margin last term and are still leading by a mile this time round. I mean, this fans will really appreciate it if the results were reversed. Having said that, a bank account like theirs is like having a cheat code in your Football Manager or playing 1-star difficulty on your Winning Eleven, if you still can’t win, my advice is, switch to another game.
Lastly, people like me are also very sad. After a truly magnificent display on Saturday against some minorities, all I can say about the three goals respectively, are (1) clinical finish, (2) precise passing, (3) great vision and all in all, a stroll in the Park. However, the 4-1 result greatly undid all the good work as we fell, temporarily, 10 points behind and with a game in hand.
Thus, everybody is sad today. But here comes the interesting part, if the results were reversed, 4-1 in midweek and 0-0 yesterday. We will have many, many happy people today!! Scousers will be happy to earn a draw (what else do you guys expect anyway?), Gunners and us will be delighted that the gap is closer and the Blues will be happy that they beat the previous champions and can go all the way this time (or so it seems…). This scenario will be ideal for everyone, nobody will be sad. This is what I call the economics of happiness, and the blues have been productively inefficient by thrashing the Scousers yesterday. For the happiness of the greatest number, you got it wrong this time,
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