Instead, they are rather a discontented lot.
Many of the glasses are half full, or rather — judging by the discontented expression of the woman who is the stage's sole occupant when the play begins — half empty.
This week's deal has underlined that reality and the time has come for us to leave rather than remain a discontented junior partner picking up the bills but with no power to influence the rules of the club.
Somebody might feel that saying, "Yeah, I'm a happy person," is a good answer, rather than, "No, I'm discontented and I'm a pain in the neck to live with at home because I'm constantly striving for something else and I can't find it".
"A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class".
Instead those disparate groups of discontented Iranians united behind the main challenger, Mr Mousavi.
The design and staging hint at, but never quite play to the real possibilities of, a concert-cum-play, but the cast are terrific, capturing all the restless energy of the terminally discontented, who are destined to self-destruct rather than face up to change.
Tunisians are discontented, but by and large channel their discontent through political and economic institutions.
In a news conference on Tuesday, President Karzai said that candidates who were discontented with the outcome should take their complaints to court rather than attacking their opponents.
But some analysts suggested that streets filled with the discontented could prove a permanent feature, as politicians dwell on debates over Islamic law rather than popular concerns like security, the economy and corruption, and the military remains entrenched in a narrative less and less shared: that it is the savior of the revolution.
