The smile of Wight

ha ha Mr Miller i am 'tickled pink' by your idea. i seem to remember from my schooldays that red paint and blue paint mixed together makes purple, so i imagine pink and blue must make a lighter purple, which is the colour i suggest for the little men with both a pink and a blue component.

to take this even further i would take issue with the use of yellow in the first place. obviously people are often referred to as feeling blue when unhappy but i have never been told that someone is feeling yellow when happy, more when cowardly and would therefore represent people who were afraid to answer. i have often heard the term 'in the pink' and 'everything in the garden is rosy' so maybe there were better colour alternatives with a little more forethought

re blue v yellow men's expressions, perhaps we dont need to change their expressions but on the little men where there is a yellow and a blue component why dont we just make them green? i seem to remember from my schooldays that blue paint and yellow paint mixed together makes green so it should be easy for the graphics department to do this.

also i dont see your use of the term unsatisfied being amended when plainly it is incorrect use of english language. one wonders if the amendement would have been swiftly applied if my name had been julie miller rather than augustus ? as you can see i am plainly greatly dissatisfied

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Dear Marilyn, thank you for your comment. We have amended the story to make it clearer. Based on the figures, the Island has slightly fewer 'happy' people compared to the South East, but these people are happier on average than those in the South East.

This type of survey is very flawed. For example, if I had been asked how happy I was yesterday I would have said 0%, because I had just been to a funeral of a long-standing family friend. If I had been asked only 2 weeks ago, prior to said friend's unexpected death, I would have said 75-80% happy, as my allotment is coming to fruition and my daughter had just returned from 6 months overseas, with the 20-25% unhappiness mainly due to the poor weather only. Surveys such as these should be conducted over a longer time period in order to be more meaningful.

The South East is supposed to be slightly less happy than the Isle of Wight & yet you are saying that 72.1% are happy on the island compared to 72.79% in the South East. Pedantic I know but please get it right (even 'though I consider it a useless poll!!)

you should be glad big brother takes an interest in your wellbeing, he will undoubtedly tell us what to eat and when to eat it and that we are all too fat or too thin soon as well, the millions the survey cost are millions well spent, if your one of the researchers

And whilst we're at it, how come the yellow man with blue legs is as happy as man who is blue all the way up to his chin? Where's the consistency? Equally, I'd have thought having blue legs is a sort of halfway house between dis/unsatisfied and satisfied - and as such warrants a disgruntled or perhaps a resigned expression rather than a smile or a frown.

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