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You Brits Just Love Being Miserable

Posted at 9:59AM Sunday 09 Mar 2008

A bestselling book in America has labelled Britain a nation that is not only unable to experience happiness, but positively relishes being miserable. In The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner writes: 'I feel sorry for the Brits. The Brits don't merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.'

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