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I have a nasty feeling we're further than ever from our emotions - or I certainly feel that way, anyway. This is where you tell us when was the last time you cried and why.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 5 April 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I last cried three days ago. I was on a bus listening to my CD player, and I shed a tear at the start of the chorus of "Tiny Dancer".

I cry waaaaaay to easily at songs.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 5 April 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I still have not cried in the 21st century!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I sobbed horribly early saturday morning inbetween emotional phone calls to various people.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I cried at work last Saturday, because I couldn't close the lab partition properly (quite a physical task involving lots of dragging and heaving at the best of times) and I was all on my own. (Actual reason: PMT.)

I might have cried a bit since then too, over books or films.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this might be the most repeated thread topic on ILE (fremme neppa venette excepted). I'm not complaining or anything.

Last Wednesday.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

No, hang on - last night. But only a bit - not properly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i teared up while watching all the real girls last week.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm always baffled by how often people seen to cry, no offence intended.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

N was looking at pictures of kittens again most likely

― chris (chris), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i cried watching 'the ministry of mayhem' on saturday morning kids' itv, two weeks ago. i cry quite a bit though.

― pete b. (pete b.), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I must say that I do know someone who once burst into tears in Rymans (If G is lurking today he'll be able to confirm the store) because of all the lovely stationery, and she wanted it all

― chris (chris), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It was a phonecall. No kittens.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Jel, if you don't cry, your tear ducts will eventually explode, bursting your eyeballs and then short-circuiting your brane. It's true.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry N

― chris (chris), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It's OK! I was just in a weird 'anything will set me off' state.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

my brane short circuited when I removed my emotion chip.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i cry a lot in movies, no matter how horrible. it bears absolutely no relation to whether or not i'm enjoying what i'm watching. i used to be embarrassed by this, but i've given up trying to fight it and snuffle quietly into the napkins. i feel a bit elderly having to bring extra tissues into the cinema, though.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we should launch a 'make jel cry' competition.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The last time I cried was chopping onions Friday.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Last week, when I was cutting an onion for a spicy chicken dish.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't let the tear-shedders get you down, Jel... I can't recall the last time I cried (not counting onions). None in the 21st century. So clearly one (or all of these) applies:

1) My life is very dull and uneventful
2) My life has been good - i.e. no personal crises, etc
3) I am a heartless automaton

The last movie I cried at was probably The Elephant Man (and that was a LOOOONG time ago). Please recommend some films that are guaranteed to make me cry.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I must say that I do know someone who once burst into tears in Rymans (If G is lurking today he'll be able to confirm the store) because of all the lovely stationery, and she wanted it all

A friend of mine did this on Saturday when we were in the London Graphic Centre.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i pretty much cried myself to sleep last night. awesome.

― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

this morning watching "Holes" on TV (and not just b/c Shia LaBoeuf is underage). I must be ovulating, yeah, that's it

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 5 April 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Not lately enough.

But if I did cry, the world would be the same afterwards.

― the bluefox, Monday, 5 April 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Donna I teared up at 'Holes' too! But not because I was perving on Shia LeBeef.

My last time crying I cannot remember. Probably recently.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 5 April 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

spotless mind!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 5 April 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.protoformproject.com/dvd/images/starlight.GIF

― Dada, Monday, 5 April 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I cried laughing at something my sister said yesterday, but oddly I can't remember what it was. One of her waitressing tales I think. DADA!!!!!!!!1

― Aaron A., Monday, 5 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

On Thursday I think? I've been tearing up a lot recently.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 5 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

my last proper cry was on the 21st of march.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 April 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chrismoore.com/images/SMBALLS2.JPG

― Dada, Monday, 5 April 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

where is aja when we need her?

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

last time i can recall for sure would be the week around my grandfather's funeral, february of last year.

― the krza (krza), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

last week 4 me not saying why

― Emma williams (Emma williams), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

five minutes ago - just a little - because I feel crummy and I miss my cats and stuff.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(Kim, feel better! Where are your cats now?)

Haven't cried since last year Summer, when I was super-stressed.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It's ok, thanks - the cats are just in another city with my ex-bf. In a nice big house, so I shouldn't be sad.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't cry very much. My only piece of adult crying was in November last year. I had got turned down for a job (that i didn't want), i'd had a bad interview (for a job that I wanted), i was going to a dentists appointment and all my D-pression caught up with me in one bad moment.

I had forgotten how raw it makes yr eyes feel.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Not sure. Not recently I think.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Movies that made me cry: Rabbit Proof Fence, Thirteen

― squirl plise, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometime late last year, I believe. I know I had a reason to cry last July, but after that? Think I might've sometime soon after that, but I don't really tear up all that often. It takes me a lot to cry, and I've found that unless the situation is definitely dark enough, I can never cry in front of other people.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't cried real tears in decades. That's not to say that I have not felt the emotion that is accompanying.

I suppose that when I hear Judy Garland sing Somewhere Over The Rainbow, I get the closest to actually crying that will ever happen.

Unless I pound my finger with a 12 pound mallet.

P.S. Dada, your posts make me want to cry for the bygone era of humanity.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not a big crier. When the camel's back breaks it's never any one straw -- it's always the sum total of various unrelated things that are upsetting me or stressing me out. Last time I cried was about a month ago and it wasn't for that long.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

movies that have made me cry:

the last picture show
magnolia
all the real girls
my architect
the big lebowski
casablanca
ordet
the passion of joan of arc
grande illusion
hiroshima mon amour
the insider
nashville
sandlot
taste of cherry
wild strawberries

and a ton more, i am a cry baby.

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i usually cry when i feel as if my life is just worthless shit. two days ago i cried.

― ggg, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

These days I've been full of anger and unhappiness and self-pity. I'm barely functional, with the result that my apartment is a disaster area. Sometimes I think I should set out to have a good cry and see if that unparalyzes me.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been getting teary about things a lot, actually. I have PMS and have been having altogether too many Serious Conversations. Bleah.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

where is aja when we need her?
-- Orbit (cstarrcstar...), April 5th, 2004 9:23 PM.

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last time i can recall for sure would be the week around my grandfather's funeral, february of last year.
-- the krza (thekrza...), April 5th, 2004 11:38 PM.

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last week 4 me not saying why
-- Emma williams (WELSHDRAGON...), April 6th, 2004 12:07 AM.
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five minutes ago - just a little - because I feel crummy and I miss my cats and stuff.
-- Kim (grimstitc...), April 6th, 2004 12:26 AM.
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I thought all these were replies to Orbit's question.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I cried on Saturday night. But they were tears of happiness.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I cried last Wednesday at ER. It was the one with all the poorly babies. I didn't so much cry at the show, more I hope that never happens to me. And the week before I cried at a documentary called 'The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off' it was so moving.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

THE MAN WHO COULDN'T CRY (Loudon Wainwright III)

There once was a man who just couldn't cry
He hadn't cried for years and for years
Napalmed babies and the movie "Love Story"
For instance could not produce tears
As a child he had cried as all children will
Then at some point his tear ducts ran dry
He grew to be a man, the feces hit the fan
Things got bad, but he couldn't cry

His dog was run over, his wife up and left him
And after that he got sacked from his job
Lost his arm in the war, was laughed at by a whore
Ah, but sill not a sniffle or sob

His novel was refused, his movie was panned
And his big Broadway show was a flop

He got sent off to jail; you guessed it, no bail
Oh, but still not a dribble or drop

In jail he was beaten, bullied and buggered
And made to make license plates
Water and bread was all he was fed
But not once did a tear stain his face

Doctors were called in, scientists, too
Theologians were last and practically least

They all agreed sure enough; this was sure no cream puff
But in fact an insensitive beast

He was removed from jail and placed in a place
For the insensitive and the insane
He played lots of chess and made lots of friends
And he wept every time it would rain

Once it rained forty days and it rained forty nights
And he cried and he cried and he cried and he cried

On the forty-first day, he passed away
He just dehydrated and died

Well, he went up to heaven, located his dog
Not only that, but he rejoined his arm
Down below, all the critics, they loot it all back
Cancer robbed the whore of her charm

His ex-wife died of stretch marks, his ex-employer went broke
The theologians were finally found out

Right down to the ground, that old jail house burned down
The earth suffered perpetual drought

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

...apparently Johnny Cash covered this song, this I must hear!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Best pro-crying song ever:

Take a look around you
How much longer can you live this way
Trash on the floor from weeks before
It just gets deeper by the day
Can't let go of that foolish pride
You just keep it all locked up inside
Its time to face the pain
So stand up and cry like a man

Theres no one left to blame now
She had her reason why she had to go
The feelings that you hid the love you couldn't give
Kept her from touching your soul
You need to break down that fortress inside
And surrender to the tears in your eyes
You'll never be free my friend
Till you cry like a man

Theres no shame in letting teardrops fall
Its a good thing it'll be all right
A little rain can make the trees grow tall
You've got to be strong - so stand up and cry like a man

You know she's gone for good now
Your love is torn beyond repair
But theres not a trace of a tear in your face
There ought to be some there
Those deep emotions keep you in the dark
If you don't let them out they're going to freeze your heart
You'll never be in love again
Until you cry like a man

- Dan Penn

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to post to this yesterday, saying it was saturday, after nasty route canal treatment when the injections didn't work properly (won't go into the gory detail) and I spent the walk home trying my best not to cry and burst into tears, but as soon as I got home and saw Chris, I sobbed very heavily for 5 minutes, but I've cried since then -

this morning, on the dentists chair, after he was digging around finishing it off, after saying that the nerve would be dead - oh dear, best give you an injection (two injections later) oh dear, best numb your jaw (four more injections later, me shaking, tears streaming down my face) oh dear... I suggested that maybe it was taking a bit of time for the injections to work, so he sent me outside for half an hour and after that it was fine.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

but as soon as I got home and saw Chris, I sobbed very heavily for 5 minutes,

yes, it's a common occurrence

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

What is that all about, you can be string as anything, but then you see or speak to that certain person & you just can't hold it in any longer!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to be like that at university, would be 'string' :) until I phoned my mum (anyone else, fine), and then WOOOSHHHHH waterworks fit to drown a kitten.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

string? ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

heh heh!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm ashamed to admit that I cry every time I listen to a particular Abba song. Not because it's so shit, but because it always touches a nerve and makes me well up. It's called Slipin through my Fingers, and it's about a mum who's daughter is growing up. In fact I'm almost crying just thinking about it.

Watership Down kills me, when Hazel is caught in the trap and Art Garfunkel comes crooning in with Bright Eyes sob

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I cried a bit last night, out of righteous indignation and sadness on behalf of a friend of Matt's whose daughter is treating him like NOBODY should to be treated by their own flesh and blood. But more especially if they're deaf and blind. Grr.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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