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What makes you inordinately sad?
Why the fuck was someone standing there taking that picture instead of helping those tiny ducklings out of the drain?!?!I want to un-see that picture, too, Helena!!
And I want to stomp the photographer's ass!
My mini dachshund, Limp 'bizkit', suffering a permanent limp due to the abuse he received from the breeder we got him from makes me sad. It also makes me sad to have to sit by helplessly while he has yet another seizure. Poor puppy.
Angela wrote: "Why the fuck was someone standing there taking that picture instead of helping those tiny ducklings out of the drain?!?!I want to un-see that picture, too, Helena!!
And I want to stomp the photogr..."
I wish I hadn't seen that picture either because of what it implies. Pictures don't always tell the whole story, though. One assumes that the ducklings fell into the grate. But, if you notice, one duckling is standing beside her mother and the remaining COULD be behind her and not in the picture. I've decided that's what happened.
They look too big to have fallen through the holes. So that's what I believe. Also, why would a person sit there and take the pictures and not try to prevent them from walking over it?
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Scout wrote: "Aw, fuck. If that's real. Is it, Cyril??"As far as I can tell, this picture is real and all but one of the ducklings were rescued by the photographer. The story is at the bottom of this link: http://www.queensu.ca/security/graphi...
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Hugs and smooches, Britt. I know you miss your Mom something awful.
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::struggles helplessly::
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I'm sorry, Britt!
Animals without a home. Livestock being raised for slaughter. Racism or xenophobia.
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::struggles helplessly::"
**squeezes**
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My trusty Trixie, the '98 Honda Accord that was my very first new car, died on Friday.I'm driving a loaner from work (yay for working at a multi-dealership company), but driving away with Trix looking all pathetic and broken in the lot made my eyes water.
I'm sad that she isn't working, I'm sad that she's not worth it to fix her, I'm sad for all of the fun times I had in that car that I won't have again, I'm sad for the awesome rides I took in her... to and from Tucson for college, DD duties from 4th street to our house on Mabel in Tucson, zipping around with ex-boyfriends, driving super fast to the beach in the snow when my grandma was dying and my grandpa needed a friend, bringing Pippa home for the first time on my lap, and carting around a good friend who died recently and who will never ride in my new car.
I hate it.
Helena wrote: "I wish I could un-see that picture."I'm with you. *sobbing in the library*
Watching posturing politicians makes me sad.
Kids that are not happy at home(because their parents are unfit for being parents) and authorities not doing enough to help them.Cruelty in any form.
People who have lost the will to live.
Arminius wrote: "Kids who are picked on."
...and who don't stick up for themselves because as we all know, bullies are cowards and will back down once you get in their face. Or whose parents don't settle things with common sense or a fist instead of hand sanitizer and lawyers.
...and who don't stick up for themselves because as we all know, bullies are cowards and will back down once you get in their face. Or whose parents don't settle things with common sense or a fist instead of hand sanitizer and lawyers.
Going to the store, doctor's office, etc. and seeing a parent chit chatting on their cell while their 18 month old runs around unattended, barefoot and filty, wearing nothing but a sagging diaper. That is, until the parent gets off the phone and the attention they finally give the child is a smack upside the head or a spanking that qualifies as a beating.
Clark wrote: "Arminius wrote: "Kids who are picked on."...and who don't stick up for themselves because as we all know, bullies are cowards and will back down once you get in their face. Or whose parents
do..."
So true, but who prepares the kid on how to handle the bully? The ones that are picked on are usually the shy, backward kids to begin with. Some learn that bullies, as you suggested, are cowards and respond accordingly while others are traumatized.
Arminius wrote: "So true, but who prepares the kid on how to handle the bully? The ones that are picked on are usually the shy, backward kids to begin with. Some learn that bullies, as you suggested, are cowards and respond accordingly while others are traumatized. "
Point taken, Arminius. Admittedly, that first step is the toughest. Bullying makes me see red.
Point taken, Arminius. Admittedly, that first step is the toughest. Bullying makes me see red.
I just thought of the biblical quote about the meek inheriting the earth and, for the first time, I wondered if inheriting the earth would be a reward or a punishment.
Scout wrote: "I just thought of the biblical quote about the meek inheriting the earth and, for the first time, I wondered if inheriting the earth would be a reward or a punishment."My aunt shared this with me one time (her BFF made it up): "The meek have the ability to stomp you in to tomorrow, but have the calmness of spirit to decide not to..."
I like that Heidi! Intolerance and ignorance really steam me. Especially intolerance based on ignorance.
Kevin Carter led a tragic life, ending in suicide shortly after he won the Pultizer Prize. Sounds like the man had a lot of demons in his head.
Oh,dear God! I'm in agreement with Janice.I question what my sanity would be if I continually saw this suffering and could do nothing. I imagine my head would be full of demons, also.
Shawn Hornbeck makes me sad. And the man that fell to his death at the Rangers game trying to catch the baseball and his son was standing right there. I can feel my heart wrench.
Every time I see this thread, I pause for a second, then move on.
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To be clear, I pause when I see this thread because I suddenly do feel inordinately sad about so many things that I can't possibly explain or change. And then I move on.
I’m so sorry to hear that Charly- they are both in my thoughts and prayers.
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I'm so sorry Charly, I will pray for them.
Last week, I found out in the same day that1. my friend's ex-boyfriend shot himself... he had over 2000 people in attendance at his funeral - biggest sweetheart bear huggin' fella you could ever meet
2. another friend's 7 year old niece was killed in a car accident - her dad was driving drunk. she was supposed to be the flower girl in my friend's wedding in 2 weeks.
3. another friend's teenage nephew was killed in a car accident. it was his 17th birthday.
also, wednesday was the anniversary of the day my friend's nephew died. he was only 4 years old... beat the leukemia, but an infection killed him. his little brother was born last week just two days before this anniversary. my friend's birthday will always be the day after this sad anniversary.
please... no more death for a long while. a long, long while.
Real Housewives.