Are you sentimental?

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

coffee_cake

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?

wandatowell

Barely There wrote: »

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

How did that happen?

FunLover18

Daveysil15 wrote: »

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

I'm very sentimental, but I haven't watched the video so I'll take your word for it.

I cry every time at Toy Story 3. I have read Winnie the Pooh several times but I can't bring myself to read the last story, even thinking about it

I have a box of birthday/christams cards going back several years. I'm sentimental about family and possessions, so I don't often fall for deliberately manipulative channel 4 documentaries but TV ads can move me but rarely to tears, for example this Extra ad is completely manipulative and cynical but I can connect with the sentimental value without wanting to buy Extra gum

shopaholic01

FunLover18 wrote: »

I cry every time at Toy Story 3. I have read Winnie the Pooh several times but I can't bring myself to read the last story, even thinking about it

What happens?

Legs.Eleven

holystungun9 wrote: »

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.

It was first thing this morning. Nah, they know me well at this stage and they know I bring in all kinds of shit (not actual shit but funny, sad, emotive, political vids/articles etc.) to get them talking (better than the horrible course books we're expected to use) and it was part of the theme of the class, which went well overall. They liked the video and no tears, except for my own and we'd a decent discussion about it after for 9.30am.


HOWEVER and a big fcuk off however, I showed it to another group this afternoon and one of my students had to leave the class because she was in absolute floods of tears. Turns out she's on meds for an underactive thyroid and anything at all sets her off. That wasn't great tbh but they all liked it - the Spanish tend not to be overly sentimental anyway.

FunLover18

shopaholic01 wrote: »

What happens?

It called "In Which Christopher Robin And Pooh Come To An Enchanted Place, And We Leave Them There" and it is heartbreaking, along the lines of TS3.

You really should read it for yourself because there's no way I can do it justice

shopaholic01

FunLover18 wrote: »

It called "In Which Christopher Robin And Pooh Come To An Enchanted Place, And We Leave Them There" and it is heartbreaking, along the lines of TS3.

You really should read it for yourself because there's no way I can do it justice

They die? You should just think that Milne decided to stop writing about them.

FunLover18

shopaholic01 wrote: »

They die? You should just think that Milne decided to stop writing about them.

Eeyore goes crazy with an uzi … I can never forget

stpaddy99

WHAT QUALIFIES AS SENTIMENTAL and what doesnt

Raminahobbin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6GDil0rGls

EVERY. TIME.

FunLover18

Raminahobbin wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6GDil0rGls

EVERY. TIME.

Real life equivalent