Make Yourself Happier Using Only A Pencil - Pleasure and Pain with Michael Mosley - BBC One

[maidenluva47]

Anybody, see the innuendos at the end. :P lol

[scottishlad1987]

edinburgh is the most miserable city in edinburgh? shit, i live there :o(

[IDsignbyShireen]

A PENCIL is all you need to bring a smile to your face and pleasure to your minds! Try it.....

[VulcanFleet]

He needs to control for the effect of lulz from somebody walking up and telling you to eat a pencil. That would make me happy.

[Simmsdaniel1]

Anybody else notice the song at :50 is on Little Big Planet?

[B0mBjAcK83]

The 'Little Big Plannet' song/music is actually My Patch by Jim Noir from his Tower of Love LP.

[xuanjiangsara]

Michael Mosley is really a fantastic and cheery science host who giggles a lot in the BBC documentaries. If I met him with a pencil in mouth, I guess will laugh so hard that swallow it.

[2JAMMY]

I think we would all smile & laugh naturally if we were not bled dry by the idiots in control :( ... :)

[Drrummer]

A pencil is good for relieving boredom.

(1) tap out a a funky rhythm.

(2) with the help of some paper (or other willing surface) draw and design and sketch.

[fuckshit485]

i think looking silly is what is triggering pleasure..

[Clipster15]

1:50 woa?

[cuteyoshipup]

the thing in this video that made me smile was hearing LittleBigPlanet music in the background :D

[sanchufish]

nae gadges fae the slums of edinburgh then, Irvine Welsh will be so disappointed

[bellendbrie]

depends where you put it

[gjsterp]

Need to test this under an MRI.

[yt1account]

this is fantastic

[mysterioscone]

Another reason not to inject botox in your face :P

[biologyprodigy]

didn't do anything.

[gedhosty]

oh how incredibly interesting goody goody

[surferriness]

I bet it was the same pencil , through the whole vid ;D

[Nanowarex]

Didn't work for me.

[Kiwigal84]

i dare someone to get the guards outside buckingham palace to do this!

[alaswoeisme]

Let's see if this can cure depression!!!

[tahitiancookie]

common sense...yet people dont try it!!! this is great <3 i love bbc.

[criscros7]

@tahitiancookie

"common sense"

Not necessarily. When you're happy, you smile, sure – but it's neither obvious nor self-explanatory that it also (kind of) works the other way around. One might ask: why would forced smiling make me feel happier when I'm actually not feeling like smiling? Undoing my belt doesn't make me feel stuffed, either (admittedly not a great example). The physiology behind this effect isn't all too easily explained, although, yes, it does seem superficially reasonable.

[ffrasaa]

funny how they only asked english people, I'm sure that wasn't intentional.

[xAlfiegirlx]

my pencil tastes funny

[mrjclim]

Gon' try it.

[krzysiomc]

cheaper than weed^^

[ollytennant]

Omg it actually worked =D

[DahRecruit]

Funny nice to know.

[isofox1]

LOL, I really need this.

[Leupiiii]

Thumbs up when you try it too :D

[gtsgamer]

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[JointCracky]

hehe... great!