(12-18-7) Can you buy happiness?

[Vital Viper]

Well I usually don’t like talking about real world stuff here on the forums especially when it is just me complaining about how my like has stunk over the last month or so. I’ll spare you the details and drama and just let you know that I’m in need of some happiness.

So today while in Wal-Mart with RFS hanging out and looking for Christmas gifts for our families we were making our purchases when something caught my eye. It was bright silver and bendy. I’ve seen these before and actually use to have one, they were called “Tangle.” I looked at the display for the new metallic collection and realized a rather interesting claim. It clearly says “Makes you happy”

Immediately I’m thinking “They can’t LEAGALLY claim that, can they?” so being in the crappy mood I’m in I had to take Tangle up on its claim. I seem to remember the set I had being amusing and possibly even fun but a guarantee to make me happy? So for $1.50 plus tax I took the risk and figured it was well worth potential happiness. Here is a picture of my platinum Tangle:

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/1979/tanglebe8.png

I’m still miserable, should I buy more and more of these things to try to be happy and then sue them?

On a side note what kind of things make you happy and why?

[Dracophile]

Clearly the solution is to buy lots of Tangles and make them into one SUPER Tangle. :cool:

[Snappyguy928]

Well the thing that makes me most happy are Happy meals (I eat some stuff but split it with my little brother ) when a new toy comes out so I can enter the contest. Last Christmas I won a Ps2 :D.

Also, why buy the tangle thing? Isn't there one on display you can look at?

[Lily]

Clearly the solution is to buy lots of Tangles and make them into one SUPER Tangle. :cool:

Then using the Super Tangle to stroke fear to all who oppose you.

[007Honey]

For heavens sake,get a girlfriend! Get the right girl and you SHOULD be happy!
If you got one already she clearly needs to step things up a little OR you need medication!
That's my advice!:)

[Vital Viper]

Well the thing that makes me most happy are Happy meals (I eat some stuff but split it with my little brother ) when a new toy comes out so I can enter the contest. Last Christmas I won a Ps2 :D.

Also, why buy the tangle thing? Isn't there one on display you can look at?
Well I use to buy Happy Meals well into my teens because the protions in it are the actual ones recomended for adults AND you got a neat toy :P

But the Happy Meal boxes just don't come right out and say "Makes you happy."

What would happen if Tangle became a Happy Meal Toy? Mega happiness?

Then using the Super Tangle to stroke fear to all who oppose you.
The world is now mine.

For heavens sake,get a girlfriend! Get the right girl and you SHOULD be happy!
If you got one already she clearly needs to step things up a little OR you need medication!
That's my advice!:)
Note the location of dating on this chart:

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/1549/whatiknowchartup4.png

I currently don't have a girl friend, but I'm sure when the time comes I will meet the right girl.

[007Honey]

Well now you have advertised that u don't have one then I think u better set up a judging panal cos I'm sure the offers will come flooding in!:D

You may have already met the perfect girl (maybe at college or Macdonalds...well I don't know where u go do i?!) but if you go around looking unapproachable then maybe you won't get many offers. Also RFS is enough to scare them off!!Only joking!:rolleyes:

Oh yeah and they sure saw you coming when you bought that silver thing didn't they?!

Things that make me happy:
Helping people (clearly not doing a good job here!)
Good friends (You got RFS!)
Foods you like(No I am not fat, in fact very slim!)
Music
Baths (with candles!)
Shopping (don't buy small silver metal things!)
Playing with my pets.(They love me no matter what I say or do!)

[Vital Viper]

Well now you have advertised that u don't have one then I think u better set up a judging panal cos I'm sure the offers will come flooding in!:D

You may have already met the perfect girl (maybe at college or Macdonalds...well I don't know where u go do i?!) but if you go around looking unapproachable then maybe you won't get many offers. Also RFS is enough to scare them off!!Only joking!:rolleyes:

Oh yeah and they sure saw you coming when you bought that silver thing didn't they?!

Things that make me happy:
Helping people (clearly not doing a good job here!)
Good friends (You got RFS!)
Foods you like(No I am not fat, in fact very slim!)
Music
Baths (with candles!)
Shopping (don't buy small silver metal things!)
Playing with my pets.(They love me no matter what I say or do!)
Well RFS has seat #1 on the judging panel, taking aplications for remainng seats :P

Well I don't know exactly what you mean by 'unapproachable' because you could mean it in two ways.

1. As in physically not taking care of yourself.
2. As in being emotionaly unavailable.

In that respect I believe I've been dealing with # 2 for a long time. I'm a busy guy and I've always spent so much time accomplishing things that I never really allowed myself time for the simple pleasures of life (such as love). I've had girls tell me before (after it was to late) that they wanted to ask me out but they were intimidated. I remember one time when I was in Louisburg I had a friend who was a girl and I found out she had feelings towards me and I basically sat down at lunch one day and gave the "It's not you it's me" speech :blush:

But with things happening the way they are I'm going to have to be forced to settle down and live a slower life. I think I'm going to finally going to be emotionally available in the near future. If that makes any sence.

I like helping people as well but I've recently realized that comes from a general feeling of wanting to be appreciated. I have one good friend, is that all I need? I'm rather slim as well but I've been abusing the 'eating foods I like' to make me happy and I feel in the long run it is contributing and will contribute to worse medical problems than obesity. I don't like to spend money I don't have to, especally right now (yes I'm having money problems). I have no pets, never did. I've found it hard to do anything relaxing in the past because it just never made much sence to me to just sit there and do nothing. As for music it entertains me (I have a odd taste in music) but I would go as far as to say it makes me happy.

Thanks for your help tho Honey, I can tell your trying to help but it's not you it's me. LOL

[007Honey]

Its ok.I didn't expect you to be instantly cured by those suggestions.
I meant unapproachable as in seeming intimidating (you scare the heck out of me on these forums alone!) and maybe a little guarded when it comes to girls. As in shyness that comes across as being aloof when actually you might quite like the girl.Of course you can't just throw yourself at a girl! Lol!(Not that I think u ever would have the courage!)

Your appearance is nothing to worry about...We all love the cape!:)

I think you will make a smashing (as we say in Britain!) guy for a girl who can understand you deeply. Make sure you give her the chance to, as in talk to her about stuff other than Cp and sport!

As for the money problems,yeah that can get you down. Maybe you need a rich girlfriend?

In the words of Enriques latest song called "Somebodys me":
"Somebody wants you,somebody needs you,somebody dreams about you every single night."
Remember that while you search for that special girl.:)

[walmartshrty]

Well I don't think you should take this whole Tangle thing seriously because it actually could make you happy! (Depending how naive your are.) I don't think buying stuff can especially make everyone happy, but it sure doesn't hurt!

P.S. I are going to steal your Tangle! :O Because I am jealous.

[Topoftheline]

Well I don't think you should take this whole Tangle thing seriously because it actually could make you happy! (Depending how naive your are.) I don't think buying stuff can especially make everyone happy, but it sure doesn't hurt!

P.S. I are going to steal your Tangle! :O Because I am jealous.

I have a colorful tangle!! lol It's bigger too! I better hide it from you before you steal it. I can never figure out how to make a round perfect circle on it. :P

[Dracophile]

Well I use to buy Happy Meals well into my teens because the protions in it are the actual ones recomended for adults AND you got a neat toy :P

But the Happy Meal boxes just don't come right out and say "Makes you happy."

What would happen if Tangle became a Happy Meal Toy? Mega happiness?


The world is now mine.


Note the location of dating on this chart:

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/1549/whatiknowchartup4.png

I currently don't have a girl friend, but I'm sure when the time comes I will meet the right girl.

Idea was stolen from:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/radiof/macro/rfsknows.png

[walmartshrty]

I have a colorful tangle!! lol It's bigger too! I better hide it from you before you steal it. I can never figure out how to make a round perfect circle on it. :P

=O A colorful tangle?! No, you lie! There can't be, there just can't be! -Steals-

P.S. RFS, the one thing you have to remember about women is that it's all about them. XD

[007Honey]

RFS not you as well!!!
:rolleyes:

We are not aliens! It's not that hard to talk to us is it? Are you picking super models to talk to or us regular girls?
Are you spending any time away from your computers,game consoles,each other?!! Lol!

You must be around girls at college. What do you do,run when you see them?:D

Oh and just think. If YOU get the right one,you can excite her with all that dragon stuff you're collecting! Just don't complain when she goes on about shopping,candles,etc...oh i don't know, whatever I say girls will say "I don't talk about that!"

In England you might both be married with kids by now for heavens sake!:rolleyes:

[Dracophile]

You must be around girls at college. What do you do,run when you see them?:D

I'm single and not looking.

[007Honey]

Woh!
I wasn't saying ya had to or anything.

Well, good for you!:)

[JohnLennon64]

I know for a fact that you can buy happiness. Incense is happiness in a solid form and and at only about 10 cents a stick you can't ask for a better deal

[Vital Viper]

Update:

Today at work I let other people play with it and they said it made them feel happy.

*shakes Tangle violently and yells at it to make him happy*

It still isn't working for me :(

Apparently it is also a Necklace for things with small necks:

(You may recognize this fella from CP Effect) :P

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/866/tanglenecklacews3.png

[007Honey]

Oh I have the plastic ones like that. I'd love to get lots and make a huge one! Yeah we should dod that and get in the guiness book of records!
It seems a bold claim that they make you happy. Maybe you should sue tham and make some money,then you might be happy for a while at least!

[Greenday5136]

For heavens sake,get a girlfriend! Get the right girl and you SHOULD be happy!
If you got one already she clearly needs to step things up a little OR you need medication!
That's my advice!:)

Girlfriends are headaches, no offence. DON'T get that girlfriend Vital! When you break up, you will be 10x more sad.

[007Honey]

Girlfriends are headaches, no offence. DON'T get that girlfriend Vital! When you break up, you will be 10x more sad.

Lol! Excuse me but I've never been a headache to any guy! I always put them first.
Even to the extent that I'm not happy but they are!:|

[Nolaur]

Dude dont shop at wallmart! Do you know what they do to the workers there? They pay them like three dollers a day:|

[ArcboundMyr]

If you have money to spare, I'll give you happiness by beating the heck outta that Tangle thing that never gave you happiness, put the video on youtube, then send it to you. Wonder if that'll work...? :D

[Vital Viper]

Lol! Excuse me but I've never been a headache to any guy! I always put them first.
Even to the extent that I'm not happy but they are!:|
I tend to be the same way in general. I almost always put others before myself. I know I would make a good boyfriend, but it would be nice if my girlfriend was the same way that way we could both be happy making each other happy :P

If you have money to spare, I'll give you happiness by beating the heck outta that Tangle thing that never gave you happiness, put the video on youtube, then send it to you. Wonder if that'll work...? :D
I'm convinced Tangle is industructable, I think I should try to blend it :P

[ArcboundMyr]

If he can blend a copy of Halo 3 without being murdered, he could blend a Tangle.

[Jug Jug]

http://i16.tinypic.com/8gi0jlu.png

Im having tons fun with my tangles and my ipod nano :D

[007Honey]

I tend to be the same way in general. I almost always put others before myself. I know I would make a good boyfriend, but it would be nice if my girlfriend was the same way that way we could both be happy making each other happy :P


I'm convinced Tangle is industructable, I think I should try to blend it :P

I'm not sure I wanna think about u and your girlfriend to be making each other happy!:sick::rolleyes:
Before you say it,I know u didn't mean it like that,I just couldn't resist making a joke!:P

[Dracophile]

Dude dont shop at wallmart! Do you know what they do to the workers there? They pay them like three dollers a day:|

Paying somebody under the federal minimum requirement is illegal and is only allowed in places where workers get tips (waiters at places like TGI Fridays and Chili's).

http://i16.tinypic.com/8gi0jlu.png

Im having tons fun with my tangles and my ipod nano :D

Nice iPod Nano, I didn't realize they sold them in "Poorly Photoshopped Editions". :rolleyes:

[Makarov]

RFS, but don't they reduce the money for taxes. My brother use to get payed under $7.15 an hour, but taxes took it to about $5. Back to the topic, I say yes. You buy things that makes them happy. Usually how it works.

Happy Holidays

[Dracophile]

I have the legendary Super Tangle:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/radiof/supertangle.jpg

[007Honey]

I don't like the colors! The one I have from the Uk is prettier!:P

[Dracophile]

I don't like the colors! The one I have from the Uk is prettier!:P

Mine's just a mess of random Tangle pieces. I didn't try to make it look pretty. :blush:

(Tangle was a building "block" set before it was re-released as a crazy stress reliever.)

[007Honey]

Mine's just a mess of random Tangle pieces. I didn't try to make it look pretty. :blush:

(Tangle was a building "block" set before it was re-released as a crazy stress reliever.)

Guess I'm just fussy! I would have alternated colors! Plz undo it and make a pattern.I think I have OCD, it's driving me crazy!:D

[Vital Viper]

Doesn't look very super to me, more like double tangle.

Super would be like 4 or five of them, Mega would be like 10 :P

[007Honey]

Ok so we've come to the descision that its not super enough and it aint all that pretty!
Got anything else we can moan about?:D

[Putty]

Happiness equals youtube poop

That's a fact right there you got

[FunnyBoy]

I love that thing (the tangle thing). I got one like 2 years ago, and its one of the few things that I havent lost. :P

I always make a little cup out of it, but theres no bottom. I think mines the same color. I could have gotten the colored one, but I didnt.

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4194/tanglenr1.png
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7928/tanglecupad1.png (the cup)

BTW, I am actually going to get mine right now.

Edit - RFS's is better.

Can you connect them together (like if you got more)

[knickandknac]

tangle sure made me happy!
now whenever i feel so mad i wanna throw something against the wall, i just pick up my tangle and well, throw it against the wall.
nah, just kidding. listening to the jonas brothers calms me down.
i'm serious. lol.

"whoever said you can't buy happiness was most likely shopping in the wrong mall." i love that quote!

[Galanoth7395]

Vital Viper, I need to ask you a question.
Why are you so popular?
I'd like to know plz reply.
It seems as if you have a strong Christian faith. I like that. ;)

[Jug Jug]

Heh. I like my rainbow tangle now. I was just out of film so i like :D

[Vital Viper]

This just in:

I have lost my Tangle. In an attempt to truely test it's happyness giving ability I have carried it with me almost everywhere I have went. I fear I may have accedently left it somewhere or let someone play with it and forgot to take it back. Or it could have even been stolen :O

Should I buy another or just use this knowledge to give them as gifts?

[Dracophile]

Your Tangle was absorbed into my Super Tangle by means of telekinesis. :cool:

[Vital Viper]

Your Tangle was absorbed into my Super Tangle by means of telekinesis. :cool:
Well than you owe me a dollar fifty :mad:

[Dracophile]

Well than you owe me a dollar fifty

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[Vital Viper]

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We're even.
That is internet money, It Might as well be stuck in a Pay Pal account, lol.

No deal howie, no deal.

[007Honey]

Is it just me or is the "tangle of happiness" making you guys fight now?

Never said that on the packet did it?!!:rolleyes:

[Yellowtail]

Clearly the solution is to buy lots of Tangles and make them into one SUPER Tangle. :cool:

Yes, I knew a kid who bought 10 and joined them together. >.<

[L.R.S.]

For heavens sake,get a girlfriend! Get the right girl and you SHOULD be happy!
If you got one already she clearly needs to step things up a little OR you need medication!
That's my advice!:)

Ha Ha! I agree! No offence Mr Viper, Sir, but, I mean what kind of guy thinks straight away "they cant legally guarantee that". I mean COME ON :rolleyes:

[Dudeikoff]

I've seen that here in the UK, they don't make me happy but they sure do kill time!

:gviking:
-Dudeikoff

[Miss 100]

Money can't buy happiness in its core. No one product can be manufactured and sell "happiness" to everybody as "happiness" is ambiguous. It's an emotion which may be felt blissfully to each his own. Sure, the essence of happiness may be bought to those who already to enjoy tangles but by no means will it make "you" happy. "You" in the majoritive sense of the word, that is, means "everybody". How pretentious of them. It's absurd, blah. If their claim is wholly true, and if it were that simple, you would be able walk into a supermarket and ask for a jar of happiness. Yes, sir, so their statement was erroneous and, to be frank, plainly fallacious. If it isn't making you happy it is quite clearly lying!

:P

Sue them! Nah, actually that would just bluntly prove that you're a grumpy penny-pincher... If you are then by all means go ahead! =o It's ok not to be happy 24/7 but it's never ok to be petulant, haha, for lack of a better word. =)

I've never actually heard of a tangle before although the image looks eerily familiar to me. I'm experiencing déjà vu here and am feeling an ever more heightened sense of confusion. Darn it! why did you have to make this thread?! LOL. Oh well, I'll get over it. ;]

To address the side note, there isn't anything in particular that makes me happy. Music helps me convey my emotions, happiness mostly, so there's your answer. The littlest things like the sunrise and the sunset, the smell of rain and the sight of snow are no less than overwhelming if you really ponder them. The change of the season makes me happy, the occasional smiles I am able to provoke on peoples' faces and the path of time. Learning a new word or song. It's all good, life is amazing and, no, I promise I'm not high on anything; I'm just one of those annoying happy people. Yaaaaaay! =D

Uhm. Yes, I truly hope that the things that are preventing you from being happy subside soon. No one deserves to be sad. Whether that be through the somewhat cheery distraction of a "Tangle" or otherwise. I'm not fond of seeing people in crappy moods so chin up, lad!

;)

Holy cow. That was a pretty long post taking into consideration the fact that I was pretty much waffling on about nothing much in particular. Hohoho!

[Makarov]

Just like most signs, they lie. Lays... The best chips in the world. Who can prove it? Just like these tangle things. Anything can make you happy. We're all different. So, while one 5 year old kid might hate a tangle thing while a 34 women might love them to death. Money can buy you happines I think. Since scientist can't prove this, there is no right or wrong answer.

[007Honey]

Just like most signs, they lie. Lays... The best chips in the world. Who can prove it? Just like these tangle things. Anything can make you happy. We're all different. So, while one 5 year old kid might hate a tangle thing while a 34 women might love them to death. Money can buy you happines I think. Since scientist can't prove this, there is no right or wrong answer.

Lays are exactly like Walkers that they have in the Uk. So yeah,they can't be the best!

It all depends I guess,on how you define happiness. If two minutes of a kind of contentment come over you when you play with a tangle is happiness for you then it's worked.
If like most of us,you need a longer,deeper feeling then I guess the statement on the tangle packet is not going to cut it.

BTW Thanks to this thread I want to make a really big tangle now! I'm off to the store later to get some. Wish me luck battling the Xmas shoppers!:)

[rulerofgame]

Things that make me happy are:
1. Sports because, they are fun and make you fell happy and you eventuly forget some things while having fun
2.Club Penguin, even tho. it gets boring sometimes it helps me and it is fun to talk with other people in the game.
i hope you find what makes you happy!

[007Honey]

Waaaah!!!-_-

No tangles,anywhere in my town!!! I'm stuck with my little small one.
Oh well!

[Dudeikoff]

Waaaah!!!-_-

No tangles,anywhere in my town!!! I'm stuck with my little small one.
Oh well!

It the complete opposite with me. The shops round here are totally choc-a-block with Tangles!

:gviking:
-Dudeikoff

[007Honey]

It the complete opposite with me. The shops round here are totally choc-a-block with Tangles!

:gviking:
-Dudeikoff

Yeah and they keep telling me evrything is so flaming cool here in America and so far I've had to shop online for bags of stuff!
I even live near a big city and I can't get half of what I want there either!:|

[Dudeikoff]

Yeah and they keep telling me evrything is so flaming cool here in America and so far I've had to shop online for bags of stuff!
I even live near a big city and I can't get half of what I want there either!:|

I'm not in America by the way. I'm in England! :D

:gviking:
-Dudeikoff

[007Honey]

I'm not in America by the way. I'm in England! :D

:gviking:
-Dudeikoff

Yeah I noticed that. I miss home...waaaaahh!!-_-

[knickandknac]

maybe you should draw a pretty girl's face on the tangle? :confused: just a suggestion.

merry christmas & have a happy new year!

[Poisenman101]

Well, I guess Miss 100 summed it up nicely. :rolleyes: Old saying: "People are about as happy as they make up their mind to be." Soooo....make up your mind, old buddie.:D
And RFS likes Hootie??? I think they are AWESOME!!! I knew he had good taste after all.;)