Boys don't cry

[Slipperduke]

Following on from the Rocky thread, let's all join hands and open up, eh?

When is it ok for a chap to blub?

As I divulged, I had to choke back the tears during Cool Runnings recently. Any kind of sentimental sporting moment usually does it as well. Who was that runner who collapsed on the track and got carried round to the finish by his Dad? Christ on a bike, I almost wailed with emotion.

I'm afraid to admit that I unexpectedly choked up when WBA avoided relegation a couple of years ago, though that was entirely the fault of the horrific comedown I was stuck in the midst of.

When was your last blub?

 

[Leeboy]

Swansea away last season

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Slipperduke @ Jan. 11 2007,12:56)]Who was that runner who collapsed on the track and got carried round to the finish by his Dad? Christ on a bike, I almost wailed with emotion.

Derek Redmond.  It summed up British sport - glorious failure...

*sigh*

As mentioned elsewhere, my tear ducts went on strike in late 1994, and have failed to come back to work ever since.  Occasionally, it's rather frustrating!

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Didn't we do this a few months back & MtS admitted his tear-ducts must be glued up?

Last time for me was when my little girl got another bout of flu on Xmas Eve. She's been ill on & off most of the autumn/winter & me & the Mrs hoped she'd be fighting fit for Xmas Day. Alas, all 3 of us got it & we had rather a miserable holiday season - couldn't face our Xmas dinner until Fri 29 Dec?

The poor little girl just looked so forlorn when she woke up & realised she'd caught another flu bug and it just set me off!

I won't go into the time before that I last cried as it was partly self-induced

 

[MK Shrimper]

I haven't got kids, but when my poor ol' moggy Morpheus was put to sleep after suffering a cat-stroke, I was a bits when he died in my arms.

Still brings a tear to my eye as I type...

One of my mates has a little girl who has a terminal illness, I absolutely salute him for holding it together because I would just be an absolute mess if I was in his shoes.

 

[chaco27saf]

I've only truly cried a couple of times in the last several years, occasionally my eyes will get a bit damp at certain things, but no tears find their way down my cheek.

This thread reminds me of a couple years ago when I was watching some crappy chick flick with my then girlfriend. At the end of the movie she was crying her eyes out, only for her to look at me while I was half-asleep from boredom. She got really mad at me, and although I can't remember exactly what she said I know the term "heartless *******" came up more than once.

 

[Firestorm]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Jan. 11 2007,13:00)]Derek Redmond.  It summed up British sport - glorious failure...

I would cry too if every day i woke up to find that Sharon Davies wasn't there anymore

 

[Slipperduke]

Quote[/b] (chaco27saf @ Jan. 11 2007,14:16)]I've only truly cried a couple of times in the last several years, occasionally my eyes will get a bit damp at certain things, but no tears find their way down my cheek.

Likewise. I just sit there, mist-eyed making a kind of strangled clucking nose in my throat. Not nearly as dramatic.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Slipperduke @ Jan. 11 2007,14:39)]

Quote[/b] (chaco27saf @ Jan. 11 2007,14:16)]I've only truly cried a couple of times in the last several years, occasionally my eyes will get a bit damp at certain things, but no tears find their way down my cheek.

Likewise. I just sit there, mist-eyed making a kind of strangled clucking nose in my throat. Not nearly as dramatic.

A time when it's great to wear contacts, as you can blame them & not having to admit to quivering emotions!

 

[blues_r_best]

I agree with young Slipperduke, any sort of sentimental sporting moment and it starts, also...

The end of most war films,

When pets get shot trying to protect their owners (Turner and Hooch)

and

When she uses her teeth

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (blues_r_best @ Jan. 11 2007,19:01)]I agree with young Slipperduke, any sort of sentimental sporting moment and it starts, also...

The end of most war films ...

Not the end but certainly there is a scene in 'We Were Soldiers' that always gets to me: it's when Madeleine Stowe's character is hand-delivering telegrams that inform the recipient that their loved one has been killed many thousands of miles away in Vietnam. The whole scene just chills me to the bone and I had often found myself welling up - and disguising it from the missus with a well-timed cough or stretch/yawn combination.

Similarly, there's a chilling scene in the Oliver Stone produced film 'Savior', set in the war-torn Balkans, in which the female lead character (played by Nastassja Kinski) gives up her life to brutal Croatian irregulars in order to save the life of her new-born baby who is hidden with Dennis Quaid just yards away from where she has her skull crushed by a large mallet. The whole scene is horrific and the missus is well gone by the end of it and I've been close to the odd sniffle.

**sniff**

On a happier note: there are one or two scenes in 'Road Trip' that have me in tears of laughter each and every time ...

 

[Sao Paulo Shrimper]

When Ethil Skinners dog Willy died in a Eastenders a few years back and before that when Rolly the giant poodle croked it under a car.

Brings a lump to the old throat.

 

[RobM.]

Having to sit through 7 episodes of Catherine Tate on the coach back from Norwich. I was crying because I didn't have a knife to slit the stupid unfunny bird's throat. Please God ... no more!

 

[Stats]

When Darren Clarke won his singles match on the 16th green, 2006 Ryder Cup at The K Club.

Clarke playing in such a big event just 6 weeks after his wife died.

The reaction he got from the huge grandstand beside the green was similar to one a footballer would get when they score a goal.

My eyes filled up and I reached for the tissues.

 

[Winkle]

blubbing linky

 

[Mr Wooly]

Quote[/b] (statski77 @ Jan. 11 2007,22:52)]My eyes filled up and I reached for the tissues.

Surely this also occurred on Sunday morning when you sent on MrB for his long awaited comeback.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Listen to the 80's song by Stan Ridgeway 'Camoulfage', then listen again.

The lyrics are very emotional and tell a great story, I dare you not to feel a tear in your eye.

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

In recent memory:

*Oxford away last season with 5 minutes to go and I thought we'd f%cked it.
*Oxford away last season with 5 seconds to go and we hadn't f%cked it.
*After the events detailed in another thread in the Pub

I also well up every single time (without full-on blubbering) at the two following cinematic moments:

*When Brooks carks it in The Shawshank Redemption
*When Sully goes back through the re-made door at the end of Monster's Inc.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Jonny_Stokes @ Jan. 12 2007,12:48)]*When Sully goes back through the re-made door at the end of Monster's Inc.

Extremely good call there.....

 

[adwebb16]

Every single episode of 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'.

For those of you who have not seen it, in a nutshell:

Needy family (i.e. Fatherless family of 6/Family with diasabilities/Woman who takes in children and lives off a penny)

Send family on holiday whilst the makeover crew literally knockdown the house and just re build with loads of worthy additions, new rooms, hot tubs, new kitchen, office, swimming pool etc

The finale is 'move that truck' where a truck is in front of the house, the truck pulls away revealing the new house and the floodgates in our house just open like the freaking Hoover Dam has just been blown away!