oh yeah you make me think, i did tear up when i watched that episode of the simpsonsQuote:
Originally Posted by Purple Banana
and that episode of futurama too and it talked about fry's brother, what really happened after fry dissapeared
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oh yeah you make me think, i did tear up when i watched that episode of the simpsonsQuote:
Originally Posted by Purple Banana
and that episode of futurama too and it talked about fry's brother, what really happened after fry dissapeared
Thanks for your post above, Hilder. I definitely hear you on what your concerns were/are. They're perfectly valid, too.
I'm sorry that I had been so busy with the end of my school term and the holidays that I didn't have time to do more up-front communicating about what was going on from the very start with the site. I felt very concerned with some of the angry shut-down/brick wall responses that were being issued, too, and I know that was upsetting for you guys, who were seeing less messaging from the site about the new direction than we mods were. When I finally stepped out of med school mode and looked at the situation from the perspective of my former career--I spent nearly 20 years doing marketing, communications and public relations for a huge high-tech company--I realized that we needed to start splainin'. Fast.
Under ideal circumstances, we should have done that from day one, but business communications and PR are rarely done under ideal circumstances, which would be in advance of changes and then regularly as changes occur. They're more often done under reactionary circumstances, after a change or crisis has already begun. With the first approach--honest communications before crises or corporate transformations become widely visible--PR folks can pro-actively manage the messages and help influence public reaction. With the second approach, the messages instead manage us and public opinion is already firmly entrenched before anyone hears any truthful communications.
I'm going to work hard to see that you guys receive more information about what's going on. I've shared my concerns about the brick wall responses with my colleagues on the mod squad, and I've been doing my level best to explain as much as I can when I have the opportunity and when questions from members arise. That's not always easy. In corporate PR, professionals have to answer the same questions over and over again until the word gets out widely. That involves lots of time and lots of repetition. We'll have to do that, too, but that's not as easy for the mods who tend to have a shorter fuse and who have a different style of responding to inquiries anyway. With time and exposure to the idea of being straightforward or honest and accentuating the positive instead of slamming doors, I think you'll begin to see fewer slammed doors. I certainly hope so. The what-the-heck-are-you-asking-this-for/stop-your-whining/thread-deletion response doesn't contribute to the long-term building of a site whose fundamental essence needs to be friendly communications among members. (If we're ever going to get anywhere as a group with cannabis advancement, we need to start with a solid bond between ourselves.)
OK, enough of that long-winded explanation. I got off on a PR tangent. Thank you for your honest input and courteous words, Hilder. I promise you that I'll be making every effort to help restore the nice feeling to our interactions here. I'm very glad you're still here with us.
I'm very glad you all are.
I don't think I have ever cried in pain, however, I think I'm the most emotional person when it comes to A: movies. B: talking about passionate things.
Ive cried in:
The Green Mile
Powder (like 2 times)
Passion of the Christ (I'm atheist however, I grew up worshiping this "man" and that movie completely owned me)
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart (like 3 times)
Probably Titanic
Simon Birch
and probably numerous others.
And I've actually started to get emotional (tear up) on 3 different occasions while talking to my family about Ron Paul. I get so into his message of freedom and just lose it.......
however I didn't shed a tear when my uncle passed, bro tried to kill himself, or when my pets die.....
Thanks Birdie, youre pretty awesome yourself..
I think thats something we all needed to hear. At least those of us who come here regularlywith good intentions, honesty and looking to interact with fellow minded people. There were those who just came to start trouble, and those people were dealt with accordingly. I mean I appreciated and had a few good laughs at the wit and swiftness of some of the responses from the mods, but there were quite a few which werent even directed towards me that hurt just by reading. I posted one of the first threads in the feedback forum asking what was going on and Stinky responded as usual, very nicely. I havent experienced anything but positive interaction with all the mods during my stay here, so its not personal. Then people started getting annoying and stupid, and thats when it got ugly along with all the 60 others that were just plain annoying. I dont feel like you owed us any explanation of the changes the site is going through, merely a this is what going to happen, these are the changes in play, and these are the new rules. in the beginning we didnt even get that. ANYWAY, all is forgiven and forgotten, now lets move on and have some fun!
I remembered something else that makes me cry. Three legged animals and homeless puppies.
Drat!!! now that im not leaving I have to change my sig.. anyone remember what it was? Lol.. too many highs ago, I cant remember.. lol
I laugh at 3 legged animals...
j/k..don't kill me again, I just woke up
hmm you ask, there are many things that make me cry. Im a girl, im a very emotional person and well sometimes its hard to hide them.
movies,deaths,ect.
My grandfather's dog had three legs. I just mentioned that to an owner of a beagle that looked just like him, yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by geonagual
I dont cry when I run out, I just feel deflated.. marijuana is the wind beneathe my wings.. lol.. last week I was out of weed for about 3 hours, and I texted my connection saying something like "the world is bleak, darkness settling in, I see the end.. only you can save me".. lol.. I was like an emo kid on her best day.. lol..Quote:
Originally Posted by denial103
peace to you too mann.. welcome to the boards.
Geo, I will not kill you today, Im in too good a mood to hurt anyone this hour. now off to freshly stoned land I go..
I'll be joining you any minute now - nearly finsihed my joint. I knocked my tooth out last night. I walked into a fucking door frame. Well, sort of fell over into it. Oh well, i can smile and smoke now haha. Stick the roach in the hole and toooooookkkkkkeee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilder420
Frustration can make me cry, pure flustered frustration. Like Stinky Attic.
ROFLMFAO.. way to remain optimistic!!! my cousin chipped a tooth while jumping off of something and one of his front teeth kinda split at an angle to where it was perfect to hold a joint without lip (no pun intended.. although funny) support at all.. he called it his personal permanent roach clip. we named it chippy.. yes, we were blowed..Quote:
Originally Posted by LIP
I cry rivers that lead to oceans you betcha :thumbsup:
I cry when....
I watched "Cold Mountain"
"Love Story"
book I read, 'Joy In the Morning'
Granmas funeral and Granpas
my smokin bff
Sherry B. she passed away Jan 6th, 2007 one year now, from the big 'C' at a young age of 51
RIP
Sherry we will burn one in heaven
I miss you(
and I cried when I got kicked off this bb
for 5 days, 3 weeks ago
because of some one with the name of fake boobs rule
thanks:thumbsup: fbr Ive learned that lesson hard
When my pets die. Dying people hardly phase me (I haven't lost spouse or child), but even when our cat whose guts I hated died, I cried a little.
My dad is the biggest softy ever. He cries during just about every movie where something remotely emotional goes on. OMG I laugh all the time. Sometimes I think I have 2 moms.
I cried when all of my hamsters died. I was was killing them off like crazy though. One would die a week and the next day my dad would bring me a new one. And they always died from wet tail or something. Stupid Petco. I cried every time though. xD I was like 16.
Aside from the usual terrible events that happen...
Seeing men break down the social walls and let loose a few tears always gets me.
Also, seeing children and spouses reunited with their moms and dads who have been serving over seas never fails to make me bawl. (Especially when you see soldiers crying. Or a dad who is just meeting his child because he was away...)I feel so warmed, angered, and cathartic all at once. It's amazing. *sniffles*
love stories make me cry:D;)
not being near my family that iv always had around in my life, grandma aunt etc.
Don't really cry - but songs that relate to my life that are about old times or things changin, just the lyrics relate straight to what you are dealing with or what you have been through - always get to me. Sad that really the only time I cry is when I'm drunk/high as fuck listening to rap by myself in the middle of the night... I am so pathetic HAHAHAHA
BG
I always get a little choked up from saying good-byes at airports haha I don't know why. Also the ending of 3:10 to Yuma made me feel low...
My last good cry, was in Egypt, met my husband there, we had to do some paper work in Cairo, he had to fly back to Kuwait for some big work thing and I am stuck in Egypt for two days. Now if I am with someone who speaks great Arabic, it is great, if not, things for me go south. I call this person, who I should not have ever called, :error: won't go in to details, I miss my flight, not sure if I will be able to afford the 200 dollars to get another ticket, since that was what they charge. Just a long awful story, but let me tell you, after being up for over 24 hours and trying to speak Arabic, when my only words are hello, I WAS CRYING LIKE A BABY!!!!!!!! I mean CRYING BAD!!!!!!!!!! Oh and as an added bonus, I hadn't smoked any weed in over a week, and I am a daily 24/7 smoker, so I was on the edge. :giggity:
I cry when somebody i love is in emotional pain, seeing my mother cry after my dad died, and sometimes still. I don't know why everytime i see a movie about the death of Jesus..I cry..:wtf:My best wishes to all of you
When I was a kid, being said or in pain made me cry.
Now usually anger or laughter makes me cry. Not anger at a person, but angry at how fucked up the world is, how people are willing to sacrifice the lives of others to 'earn" some pieces of paper, a kind of sad anger. And if I life really hard, I will cry. I don't usually cry from sadness, i just smoke weed, and write some shit.
Lots of things when I was little, these days not much... However I was kinda drunk and high once, and I was home all alone. I had the stereo cranked and had been listening to the Portishead live album. I stepped out to smoke a bowl and I came back in and the song "Sour Times" started up, i was so high, and the song was so moving and powerful that by the end there were a few tears running down my cheek hahaha.:D
fustration/stress, it just really bugs me, and really only when i talk to my father, who always seems to find the negative that happens in every situation, and feels as though ive done nothing right since ive graduated 8 months ago.
and spellbound i agree with the soldiers and their kids thing, the last thing that was not something that happened to me and made me cry was when a soldier got back from Iraq and went to visit his kid who was like 5 in school and the kid didnt know that his dad had come back, it was possibly the first time ive cried for the fact that something like that had happened, and thinking about his sons reaction when he saw his dad still makes my eyes tear up a little
For me, Portishead's All Mine and Mysterons make me cry. Cause it speaks the truth about the situation im in right now. Last time I was druhigh I cried sitting at the bar cause I remember how much I love my sister and how good she is to me. Now the song Sour Times makes me laugh cause its my moms theme song cause nobody loves her, Its true.. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by ghosty
I cried, at the age of twenty-one, when my seventeen year-old cat died.
I cried almost everyday till I was 11...then the tears dried and it has only been a few times since...
one thing that does give me a tear in my eye are sporting events..for some reason the excitement and the roar of the crowd makes me weepy. lol
also, I remember when my first daughter was born, I had a little moment when I first heard her cry.
To be honest, I can be emotional at random times...But recently mostly when I saw the documentary 'In Pot We Trust,' seeing videos of Ron Paul speaking of how he would change this country if he were elected president..
And moreso than any, seeing videos of the war, reading the newspaper and seeing the amount of young men and women lost..The amount of families and children left behind because of this...stupid war..
Thai food makes me cry.
TWICE.
ROFLMFAO.. Made me spit out my coke... all over the screen...
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Originally Posted by stinkyattic
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! Best quote of 2008!!!! :D:D:D:D
:rastasmoke:
I hope you had a lovely new year stinky - and Emily, and P4B and FBR.
when my great grandmother died.....i never had the chance to say good bye.
i try not to cry, but i only do when i see things happening to REAL people right in front of me.
i was in florida, and i saw this homeless man so i bought him like 25 dollars worth of wendys.
he looked at me and just smiled, he said he hadnt eatn' in 2 or 3 days, i sat down and talked to him he told me he wasnt always homeless he had a family 2 boys and a wife.
his one boy got cancer and the man did all he could to help his son, but he still died.
his other son went to war and died he was still MIA then he said that his wife had gotten cancer also he had no insurence at this time and the bills for his wifes life where barely covered by the equity of his home so he used it.
his wife lived about 2 months more then died.
he said he had no reason to live every thing he had ever wanted was gone in a 4 year span. he started drinking, and didnt work, he lost his home, and wound up on the street.
this all happened in 2002.
i saw the same man in the publix off of A1A in 2006, he smiled at me and i just yelled "BLUE!" thats what i called him.
i asked him how was life now?
he said i have a nice home, a dog and saving up for a XBOX and a big T.V.
he told me that what i did made him think he was still here and his kids and wife would probably want him living good.
he didnt have a car, he had a bike. i did too so we road to his house.
he showed around and he went in his room and handed me the receipt i had given him with the wendys.
he have me a hug and my 25 dollars back.
i was reluctant to take it but he insisted so i took the money.
as soon as i walked out side i started to cry.
i knew that i had done something amazing something that was beyond anything that i will probably ever do again.
the only time i ever cry is when im talking about something seriously emotional. sometimes during a good chick flick too (ugh, notebook was tough to get through). Im a 19 year old male and i think its perfectly healthy to cry when you need to. I guess it's how you are brought up, coming from an emotional standpoint. Although, that's not to say i don't get embarrassed when it happens in front of people (watery eyes, red leaky nose... not all out balling)
That story about Wendy's made me cry. I knew a homeless guy who worked as a day laborer digging ditches, moving rocks and shit like that even though his lungs were all torn up and he kept hurting his elbow and going to the E.R. to get basic medical care. The next-to-last time I saw him he invited me to a place that sells cold cans of Pabst for $1.00. He bought me one, then I bought him three, and we were both drunk and we laughed about our fantasies of going home with different women we knew we couldn't have, for different reasons. The next time I saw him his leg was hurt and he was completely drunk and could hardly walk. I ignored his stench and hauled his lame butt to a restroom, waited for him to piss, then helped him hobble back to his bench. It was freezing that night and he had no coat, so I told him to wait right there for a few minutes. I got an old HEAVY coat that I kept in the trunk of my car just for that type of situation, brought it to him, and he cried. I cried on the way home, knowing that I was probably his only friend, as I often saw people mocking him and telling him to go home and quit stinking up the courthouse lawn. BTW, Birdgirl and anyone else in Denton, it was Steve who always hung out at Jupiter House or Banter. He had long dirty brown hair and round wire-rimmed glasses. If anyone knows how he's doing lately I would appreciate to hear it. BTW, it would be great to meet up with anyone in Denton sometime. You guys are the best. Maybe we could caravan to the screening of Barry Cooper's latest DVD, proceeds going to DFW NORML. It's Jan. 12th.
Yeah, the wendys story made me tear up too, yours did as well.. I had something similar happen a few times.. the most memorable was when we were in the jack in the box drive through and there was this old thin man crying.. like sobbing.. asking for food. he said his stomach hurt so bad from not eating for three days and begging for food, a taco, a few fries.. his hand was broken, he was holding it up and it his fingers were at a weird angle. it was cold and raining. We felt so bad. we gave him the entire bag of food, a drink, a mcdonalds gift card i had for like 7 dollars and a windbreaker we had in the back seat.
something else that makes me cry, are those fur farm videos of people beating animals to death.. Thats why I dont buy, listen to, or watch anything from jennifer lopez, cause she owns one of em, and except for some of her acting, she blows. first time I saw it, I cried for hours.
I cry when my best friends and brothers die a most tragic and untimely death when I could have done something to stop it. In an instance like that, I cry in front of hundreds of people while delivering the eulogy.
Ashley has been bringing out the "human" in me, and lately I have been finding myself having human emotions. I have never in my life possessed so much unconditional love and so little hate before now. I love nearly every single person on this planet in some way or another, and empathy towards others has recently provoked emotional responses from me. Recently I was up early in the morning waiting for Ashley to come home, and I saw a breaking news accident report. A man had run a red light with his pregnant wife and two young kids in the car, and got T-boned by a road-salting truck. The woman was listed in critical condition when I first heard it(she later died), and her kids were as well. The kids really hurt me on a deep emotional level, but something happening to a pregnant woman cut me and I began to tear up. Something that I still dont expect, but has been happening more lately as I find myself being "humanized."
I cant stand seeing anything happen to children, but the loss of a pregnant woman makes me weep mercilessly in the deepest depths of my soul... I would die a thousand deaths to keep you women safe :(
wow.. thats so sad. Ive never had anyone close to me die. I dont know what im gonna do when I get the call that my former best friend, who is 23, and has aids is dead or dying. man, everytime im pms-ing and i feel the need to cry, im just gonna come and browse this thread.
you sound exactly like me, and it's insane! wow, lol..Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilder420