Why Do Air Crash Investigations Bring Out Such Strong Emotions?

[marlon]

This thread sucks because it's insulting to men, hence : THREAD LOCKED

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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.

 

[Evo]

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.

 

[Kurdt]

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.

 

[Math Is Hard]

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.

 

[lisab]

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!

 

[CaptainQuasar]

May be, how can anyone reconcile being mortal?

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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[lisab]

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!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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.

 

[Astronuc]

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. I am very attached to our animal members of our family.

 

[marlon]

I had a good cry this morning...

Wanna know why ?

marlon

 

[Astronuc]

I had a good cry this morning...

Wanna know why ?

marlon

Why?

 

[marlon]

Why?

the answer is in the "oohh nno another i want to quit smoking thread"

marlon

 

[Astronuc]

Well - hang in there. Keep it up.

Certainly men cry in conjunction with a strong emotional response, such as at the loss of a loved one.

Crying is very natural. Not crying is unnatural.

 

[marlon]

Well - hang in there. Keep it up.

Certainly men cry in conjunction with a strong emotional response, such as at the loss of a loved one.

Crying is very natural. Not crying is unnatural.

Astro,

You natural tendency to be diplomatic never stops to amaze me

RESPECT BRO

marlon

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I had a good cry this morning...

Wanna know why ?

marlon

Have you gone all iffeminate?

Nah just kidding, I cry only at things that aren't related to reality, you know like movies and stuff, I have no idea why. I reckon if my entire familly was killed in a bus wreck I probably wouldn't cry. It's very strange.

 

[DaveC426913]

Astro,

You natural tendency to be diplomatic never stops to amaze me

RESPECT BRO

marlon

That's because he is such a girlie.

 

[wolram]

I had a good cry this morning...

Wanna know why ?

marlon

Your (g) string broke?

 

[marlon]

Your (g) string broke?

Nope,

Because i can no longer detect and "enter" g spots with my eyes closed


marlon

 

[OmCheeto]

I have wept every day since Obama won.

Every day.



I am very happy.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

Men cry because there is a tiny sad clown who lives inside the superfluous left nipple. Sometimes the clown's mojo interacts with the man's aura, then crying results.

But my clown is crying for Obama too.

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[wolram]

I have wept every day since Obama won.

Every day.



I am very happy.

WOW, so he won, i am happy it makes you happy, but i never would have thought such a thing could make one cry.

 

[LightbulbSun]

Why do men weep?

Because despite popular opinion, we're human too, and humans are emotional creatures.

 

[hypatia]

They cry because they can.

 

[Lisa!]

Men are allowed to cry as long as nobody see them crying...

 

[BobG]

I, on the other hand, took my poor Betta 'Spike'* - upon his natural death, following a year of healthy life after his belly operation (which I performed with antiseptic and a needle on my office desk) - down to Lake Ontario and set him free there so he could make his way down the St. Lawrence into the ocean and back to his native Thailand.

That was five years ago.



*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.

This story makes me cry. How beautiful! (sniff )

I'm a sucker for a weeping man, they get me everytime.

Me too...not all out bawling, mind you, but if there's a bit of glisten in the eye that they're desperately trying to hide at the end of a movie, awwww...that's just the sweetest thing.

Why *shouldn't* men weep? Ditto what Moonbear said. If it was a sad movie, of course.

Now, if they cry because the parking lot at the mall is crowded...

Actually, this sounds like a better reason to cry. I really wouldn't have ever thought of crying in a crowded mall parking lot, but if it ends in ... , I'll do it.

 

[OmCheeto]

WOW, so he won, i am happy it makes you happy, but i never would have thought such a thing could make one cry.

I was born in 1959. In America, the period between 1964 and 1969 were quite tumultuous to be a 4 through 10 year old. First Kennedy, then MLK & Robt Kennedy, then the riots, etc. I never actually interacted with any people of colour until I joined the Navy in 1977. Up until then, they were a figment of Television's imagination, and the picture planted in my head was not pretty.

Since then, I've learned a lot, and have embraced Martin's human embracing speech that people should be judged by their hearts, etc. etc.

I have been waiting for this day for many years.

ps. Didn't I join this thread by saying I always cry when Forrest's braces fall off?

Yes. I'm crying again, in a movie theater parking lot kind of way.

 

[Kurdt]

They let you on a boat with a leaky face Om? I bet you never stopped mopping decks.

 

[mathwonk]

at the possibility of not proving another theorem. having marched with mlk jr, obama's victory also moved me.

 

[~christina~]

Hearing about Ivan's kitty made me sad.

17 is a long time to live for any cat

Kitty should be chasing OmCheeto's 27 goldfishes right now.

 

[Evo]

Funny, I don't think of Obama as being "black", it's only when I read it or hear it referenced that I am reminded of it.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

I only remember it when Silvio Berlusconi tells a joke about it.

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[DaveC426913]

I only remember it when he gets elected as the leader of the free world.

 

[lisab]

Funny, I don't think of Obama as being "black", it's only when I read it or hear it referenced that I am reminded of it.

These last few days, I've been amazed at how much attention the press has given to Obama's race. Like, they didn't notice before he was elected?!?

When I think of President Obama, I think - "Supreme Court! Oh yeah...Supreme Court!"