Are you sentimental?

Legs.Eleven

I'm very sentimental and really find it hard to hold it together sometimes. This morning was an example of that.

I showed the video below in class as part of an English lesson to some adult Spanish students and warned them before i started it that they were probably going to cry like I did. I'd already seen the video the night before, so knew what to expect but halfway through the video, I let out a sob and couldn't hold it together. I expected them all to be in the same state when I turned around but there wasn't a wet eye in the house and I felt like a right plonker wiping my eyes and blowing my nose while asking them their opinion on it.

Most liked it but one commented on how they hate these sentimental kinds of videos made to manipulate people in order to go viral (which it actually hasn't). I thought it was such a cynical viewpoint that I couldn't relate to at all, especially as the story is true and the people in it are obviously sincere; I thought it was beautiful tbh.

Is anyone else here as sentimental as I am or do others here hate sentimental stuff like this? Do you cry when you watch movies or see a baby laugh or someone offering their seat to an old person, for example?

Here's the vid (be warned: you might cry!):

http://vimeo.com/85667492

endacl

Didn't cry. Why would you cry at that?

Barely There

As a real man, I believe the only times it's acceptable to cry is when your dog dies or you've been kicked really hard in the balls.

Legs.Eleven

endacl wrote: »

Didn't cry. Why would you cry at that?

Because he got off the streets, met his brother after years of not seeing him and got his poems published! Eh...how could you not be moved by that?



*Checks calendar to see if Shark Week is approaching*

The One Doctor

Sentimentality is dangerous, so I don't use. it. It's the same force people use to justify not changing things that are in need of change. It's a very powerful and supremely illogical force.

The Backwards Man

I cried.








Bloody phone won't play the clip.

jimgoose

Barely There wrote: »

As a real man, I believe the only times it's acceptable to cry is when your dog dies or you've been kicked really hard in the balls.

Correct and right. It is also acceptable to come over all maudlin over the demise of the Great British Sportscar - Triumph TR6, Austin-Healy, Lotus Esprit, etc. - but only after a gallon a' porter.

anncoates

Generally, yes.

gugleguy

Yes. But others see it as a chunk in my armour. Give an inch......

jimgoose

The One Doctor wrote: »

Sentimentality is dangerous, so I don't use. it. It's the same force people use to justify not changing things that are in need of change. It's a very powerful and supremely illogical force.

You are Qui-Gon Jinn, and I claim two packets of Rancheros!

Legs.Eleven

anncoates wrote: »

Generally, yes.

Did the video touch you?


Did you CRY???

Legs.Eleven

The One Doctor wrote: »

Sentimentality is dangerous, so I don't use. it. It's the same force people use to justify not changing things that are in need of change. It's a very powerful and supremely illogical force.

I don't really get what you're saying here.

jimgoose

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Did the video touch you?...

Show us on the doll where the bad video touched you! :pac::pac::pac:

endacl

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Because he got off the streets, met his brother after years of not seeing him and got his poems published! Eh...how could you not be moved by that?



*Checks calendar to see if Shark Week is approaching*

Didn't say I wasn't moved! It was a nice story! I just didn't bawl me eyes out.

Here's one for you. Kleenex on standby!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ

Peregrine

Moving. But no, I didn't cry.

Duggy747

The GF thinks I'm an emotionless robot because she's never seen me shed a tear :pac:

Barely There wrote: »

As a real man, I believe the only times it's acceptable to cry is when your dog dies or you've been kicked really hard in the balls.

Or this...

jimgoose

Duggy747 wrote: »

...Or this...

<sniff>

anncoates

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Did the video touch you?

Did you CRY???

I'm in work so I'll sneak a look at it in a while.

I'm kinda fireproof to some obvious sentimental things but then very mawkish about others. Any story about kids being badly mistreated or abandoned in the media makes me tearful or I'm a sucker for sh_te like that story a few months back where the old couple took pictures of each other in the garden for each season and then one of them died. I'm also a hopelessly nostalgic person.

Sleepy

I'm odd. I'll get sentimental about things which I'll keep for no good reason (e.g. I still have the champagne cork from the day I got my Leaving Cert results, a keyring from my first part-time job etc.) but I'm utterly de-sensitised to "emotive" videos...

Legs.Eleven

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I cried.








Bloody phone won't play the clip.

As I was scrolling down there, I thought, "Course Backwards man cried " but....no.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

I hate all these videos and television shows designed to manipulate your emotions. For example while being forced to endure 24 hours in a and e last night on channel 4, I saw an ad for an upcoming series which follows 6 terminally ill people around in the final days of their lives. It seems designed to appeal to your most basic emotions to win viewers. If that's not cynical I don't know what is.

iDave

Cant spell sentimental without mental.

Legs.Eleven

endacl wrote: »

Didn't say I wasn't moved! It was a nice story! I just didn't bawl me eyes out.

Here's one for you. Kleenex on standby!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ

Ah not bawl your eyes out but shed a bleedin' tear ffs! Just played it for my boyfriend who's very sentimental and he didn't cry either.



Might it be the two big glasses of wine I had last night and I'm just hungover?

Legs.Eleven

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

I hate all these videos and television shows designed to manipulate your emotions. For example while being forced to endure 24 hours in a and e last night on channel 4, I saw an ad for an upcoming series which follows 6 terminally ill people around in the final days of their lives. It seems designed to appeal to your most basic emotions to win viewers. If that's not cynical I don't know what is.

Do you think that video specifically was made to manipulate though? Genuinely curious.

Zab

That was way too dripping in inspiration.

I think this is the saddest thing I've ever read: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/dealing-loss-stillbirth-381/

Barely There

There's too much bawling and blubbing these days.

X Factor and shows of a similar ilk have become cry-porn.

You've been eliminated - *crys*

You're through to the next round - *crys*

It's time for an ad-break - *crys*

Maximus Alexander

I'm fairly sentimental, in that I can be moved by things and I might struggle to throw out old love letters and birthday cards and things like that, but I also have a powerful bullshit filter and I don't cry just because I find something touching.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Do you think that video specifically was made to manipulate though? Genuinely curious.

The one in the OP? Probably not. I'd hope (maybe naively) that "regular joe" is generally not that conniving. I do think however that they subconsciously equate "emotional sob story" with "loads of youtube views". SO they are manipulative without consciously trying to be if you know what I mean?

I think Channel 4 are definitely doing it on purpose.

The One Doctor

What annoys me is the way TV and film deliberately manipulates emotions with music. We're told what to feel at specific times. Except in Fair City. Then I just laugh all the way through an episode. Best comedy ever.

The Backwards Man

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

As I was scrolling down there, I thought, "Course Backwards man cried " but....no.

Right Legs, I was underneath a Caddy fixing an undertray. So I gets out of the pit, down to the house, swarfegas the hell out of my hands, powers up the laptop so I could watch that clip. All for you.

And I didn't cry.

dee_mc

I'm pretty sentimental (proper sentimental like keeping things for years because they remind me of someone etc, but also have been known to cry because of TV shows or films ) but that video didn't do it for me to be honest... nice story though.

Legs.Eleven

Barely There wrote: »

There's too much bawling and blubbing these days.

X Factor and shows of a similar ilk have become cry-porn.

You've been eliminated - *crys*

You're through to the next round - *crys*

It's time for an ad-break - *crys*

Ah yeah that stuff grates on me too tbh (although I'd involuntarily shed a tear watching it but hate myself for it). Riverdance from the 1994 Eurovision still get me blubbering like a simpleton.

Reedsie

Few tears in this thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056915156

Sometimes yeah but I also hate viral kind of videos like that one with the girl in the war zone that they copied the "1 second a year" thing and made a fake one just to draw out sympathy. No thanks.
Other times videos will get me

diveout

"Sentimentality always leads to the gas chamber." - Flannery O'Connor

No I am not sentimental, nor am I cynical. Both are on different sides of the same inappropriate coin. Both are inward, deeply emotional and irrational attitudes/perspectives.

czechlin

I am quite sentimental, to a certain extent. I really treasure some memories, especially the ones related to my grandparents. I can make myself a bit teary just thinking about some of them. And get a bit weepy when it comes to some movies, videos etc. But I'm not too keen on stuff that goes viral these days.
On the other hand I absolutely hate crying in public. That would be a very rare occurrence for me and I'd rather walk into the sing pole and make an utter tit of myself than shed a tear in front of people. One of my best friends is the opposite, when she's upset she shouts and cries and gets over it. Works for her and we all are well used to it by now. I am more reserved and this wouldn't be my thing at all.

gugleguy

As it is, I'm far too sentimental in some posts of mine on boards. But I try and learn.

Alf. A. Male

Barely There wrote: »

As a real man, I believe the only times it's acceptable to cry is when your dog dies or you've been kicked really hard in the balls.

What kind of real man wouldn't tear up a little when his team wins a trophy?

Tail Docker

gugleguy wrote: »

Yes. But others see it as a chunk in my armour. Give an inch......

Nothing brings tears to my eyes like a chunk in my armour. Especially in the heat.

dockleaf

I used to be very unsentimental until I had children. Now if I see anything vaguely sad about children my eyes well up. I think it's mother nature messing with my hormones.

My husband has never, never cried. We've been together through the birth of our two children, the death of his father, grandmother, grandfather, and even when he had to sell his beloved BMW two seater and not one tear. :eek:

Maximus Alexander

dockleaf wrote: »

My husband has never, never cried. We've been together through the birth of our two children, the death of his father, grandmother, grandfather, and even when he had to sell his beloved BMW two seater and not one tear. :eek:

Does it not bother you that he's a cold, unfeeling monster?

kfallon

endacl wrote: »

Here's one for you. Kleenex on standby!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ

FFS was expecting a 'Red' not 'You' Tube link

:pac:

wandatowell

Barely There wrote: »

As a real man, I believe the only times it's acceptable to cry is when your dog dies

My dog died 2 years ago and it still hurts every time I think of her.

Barely There

wandatowell wrote: »

My dog died 2 years ago and it still hurts every time I think of her.

I was kicked in the balls 2 hours ago and it still hurts.

Birneybau

I'm quite sentimental but I get in a full on rage when it's some empty manipulative boll0cks that seems to have taken over the the net/television. It's pure ratings fodder pure and simple.

Even Top Gear the other night had some squaddies that had missing limbs training for something akin to the Paris-Dakar race. It was inspiring but they got one of them reminiscing about a friend of his killed alongside him. And they left the fcuking camera on him as he broke down in tears until it became really uncomfortable, would not take the camera out of his face. Nothing is sacred in the prime time battle.

gugleguy

Tail Docker wrote: »

Nothing brings tears to my eyes like a chunk in my armour. Especially in the heat.

Going by the popularity of this thread some sentimentality scale has to be devised. So some sort of proportional penalties can be imposed on overly sentimental people. Somebody like Czarcasm could then act like an penalty enforcer. So there all you sentimental folk.

Daveysil15

It's a nice video but its hardly tear inducing. It's no Toy Story 3.

holystungun9

Aww, I feel a bit for you that you cried and your students probably thought you were a bit mental. It's a risky video in one sense as its effect is to pull on your heartstrings and watching it in class with others in the middle of your day is very different to watching it at home, chilling out and when it was your decision to click on it and watch it.

Not sure what time your class was but if I'm Pablo who has just come in to class after having had my coffee and porras, been texting my girlfriend, my mind thinking about what I'm doing after class, etc., I'm definitely not in the headspace to get teary-eyed over that vid.

Things like X Factor or Dragon's Den although not the theme you were on, usually go down well because people hardly ever tire of giving their opinion on whether someone is a tw@t or talented or not, or whether an idea or invention is good or not, or worth the investment.

On a lighter note I taught my students the word 'f*ck buddy' today and that 'mistress' has no connection with Mr. , Mrs., and Ms., and it's best not to include it in their formal letters for their exam.

Fly my pretties, fly...

shopaholic01

I'm not sentimental at all and that video didn't really effect me. I did feel sympathy for the guy, especially at the end when you see him stooped over.

Sorry, legs. :P

WellThen?

If this does not get even the blokes I don't know what will!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btuxO-C2IzE

shopaholic01

WellThen? wrote: »

If this does not get even the blokes I don't know what will!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btuxO-C2IzE

Oh sweet mother of Jesus, it's Born Free all over again! :(

Call me cynical however, but would the lioness have been so comfortable and relaxed around humans?