Why Do Air Crash Investigations Bring Out Such Strong Emotions?

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DaveC426913 said:
I most certainly did. Was the talk of the office too.

Wow! o:) That's cool! So what was wrong with the fish? Are you a biologist?
 
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Well apart from the odd bit of dust in my eye at the end of films, I haven't cried since I was 18. I believe it's because either I am dead inside or just a bloke, one of the two. Still I haven't cried over anything real for 17 years, I had a lot of dust in my eye at the end of The Colour Purple.
 
I cry once or twice or thrice a year... Believe it or not?
 
I cried to Jerry Springer when I was 16 or something when I was at my friends place, I couldn't watch it and had to leave, heh.
 
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lisab said:
Wow! o:) That's cool! So what was wrong with the fish? Are you a biologist?
He had bloat. I had a needle.

pssssss...
 
DaveC426913 said:
He had bloat. I had a needle.

pssssss...

I did the same thing to my Lucy. She survived, but I don't think the surgery worked. So one day when I knew she didn't have long to go, I took her and her husband Ricky for a walk in the Columbia River. Everyone had a grand time. Ricky died the next day. Lucy a week later. But still no tears. I knew she had lived a good life.

lucygoesforawalk.jpg
 
wolram said:
Just for the technical side i like to watch air crash investigation, it has all ways been an interest to me as to how things can fail, but i seem to be getting all sissy and weeping
watching the programs, surly this not natural for a male.

no true man weeps
 
Did you, by chance, see Brett Favre's goodbye speech the other day. I wouldn't call a Packer a sissy (unless from a long distance), but there were a bunch crying.
 
marlon said:
no true man weeps

True if we do cry it's without blubbing and sans handkerchief. A manly tear rolls down our cheek, occasionally, but that's about it. We certainly don't get lots of hugs and sympathy, it's a very private affair between a man and his respective passions. :wink:
 
Schrödinger's Dog said:
True if we do cry it's without blubbing and sans handkerchief. A manly tear rolls down our cheek, occasionally, but that's about it. We certainly don't get lots of hugs and sympathy, it's a very private affair between a man and his respective passions. :wink:

Truer words were never spoken, man...

marlon
 
OmCheeto said:
I've lost 47 goldfish to date and have yet to shed a tear. Is there something wrong with me?

Depends...was Pepperidge Farm printed on the bag they came in? :rolleyes:
 
Well it seems i am not as hard as i thought i was, i must work on this weakness, may be i should watch party political programs instead of disaster related topics.
 
wolram said:
Well it seems i am not as hard as i thought i was, i must work on this weakness, may be i should watch party political programs instead of disaster related topics.

Maybe it was that "notaflu" you had that made your insides all mushy.
 
Moonbear said:
Maybe it was that "notaflu" you had that made your insides all mushy.

May be, how can anyone reconcile being mortal?
 
wolram said:
May be, how can anyone reconcile being mortal?

Alcohol is nice.
 
OmCheeto said:
I've lost 47 goldfish to date and have yet to shed a tear. Is there something wrong with me?

Yes, you seem to be prone to misplacing your goldfish.
 
DaveC426913 said:
*whom I wrote a poem for:
"I like Spike."**

**What? I didn't say it was a good poem. I'm a fish buff, not a poet.

Oh, my wet pet.

-Author Unknown

Google "fisherman poetry". You can be both. :biggrin:
 
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Moonbear said:
If a guy DIDN'T cry over losing a pet, I'd think something was seriously wrong with him!

Three days after this post we lost our beloved cat Einstein. He was seventeen years old almost to the day; and healthy right to the end. He was hit by a car; probably couldn't hear well enough anymore. It is a very, very sad week for Tsu and I.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
Three days after this post we lost our beloved cat Einstein. He was seventeen years old almost to the day; and healthy right to the end. He was hit by a car; probably couldn't hear well enough anymore. It is a very, very sad week for Tsu and I.
Oh, Ivan, I am so sorry. When my cat Bob died, I was in bed crying for two days. She was so special. When she had kittens, she came and got me, and wouldn't give birth unless I sat next to her the entire time. She suffered a brain concussion during the last litter she had, either a car accident , or kicked in the head by a horse. I found her staggering home and soaked to the bone. She had one dilated pupil that indicated a concussion. She'd also been attacked by some cruel kids that shoved a stick into her abdomen.

When she died, she collapsed and died in the street in front of me trying to make it home.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Three days after this post we lost our beloved cat Einstein. He was seventeen years old almost to the day; and healthy right to the end. He was hit by a car; probably couldn't hear well enough anymore. It is a very, very sad week for Tsu and I.

I'm very sorry to hear about your cat Ivan.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Three days after this post we lost our beloved cat Einstein. He was seventeen years old almost to the day; and healthy right to the end. He was hit by a car; probably couldn't hear well enough anymore. It is a very, very sad week for Tsu and I.

I am very, very sorry to hear this news about your sweet Einstein.
 
How heartbreaking! I love my kitty soooo much, I can't imagine losing her.

Ivan, I'm so sorry. It sounds like he had a healthy, long life. My sympathies to you and Tsu. I lost my beloved kitty, Mr. Jones, by being hit by a car.

Evo, your story made me want to cry! I hate cruelty so much. It's the quickest way to get me totally irrational. Reading your story made me think of all the ways I would pummel those damn psychopathic kids! I'm so sorry!
 
wolram said:
May be, how can anyone reconcile being mortal?
Kurdt said:
Alcohol is nice.


This is one of my favorite quotes:

“Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.”
· A.E. Houseman​
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CaptainQuasar said:
This is one of my favorite quotes:

“Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.”
· A.E. Houseman​
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⚛​


Very nice!
 
Thanks all. Yeah, he was a really great kitty - very loving, extremely smart, completely attached to both Tsu and I as we were both completely attached to him. After seventeen years of his ever-presense in our lives it will be difficult to get used to this. That's a lot of years of reaching up while half asleep and knowing that he'd be there.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
Three days after this post we lost our beloved cat Einstein. He was seventeen years old almost to the day; and healthy right to the end. He was hit by a car; probably couldn't hear well enough anymore. It is a very, very sad week for Tsu and I.
Please accept my condolensces Ivan. :frown: I am very attached to our animal members of our family.