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Other than the current state of our club, that’s a given.

Three things for me:

Chaplin’s speech in The Dictator.

When the Dad in Step Brothers yells ‘rock the fuck out of those drums Dale…sorry’ (dunno why).

Show must go on by Queen.

The ending of Marley and Me!

Nuvole Blanche.

Do you mean Nuvole Bianche, Quaggy? Because if so, that's quite simply of the most beautifully written piano pieces. I've listened to Einaudi's works for years and it's always 'White Clouds' that is the one that moves me.

I want it played at my life gathering {funeral}

Yep, that’s the one, just an amazing piece of music.

Wouldn't say it makes me weep as such...but this certainly brings a tear to the eye, especially after a few beers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIT0ucf_gys

The last episode of Blackadder goes forth. Every. Time.

Never used to cry, not emotionless but just didn't have the physical reaction to it. Since becoming a parent though I'm basically a water feature.

But basically anything involving loss. My wife loves watching medical programmes and I try to avoid watching them with her as watching people watching their loved ones in mortal peril is absolutely not good for me.

On the musical front, I wouldn't say songs do this but a few performances do, particularly the sub-genre of tribute concerts. The Chester Bennington one where Linkin Park do Numb with no frontman and the crowd sing it back at them is an absolute dead cert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhpMpU6N75o

Or the more recent Taylor Hawkins one with his son on drums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2KnD7sfpoA

The final scene... definitely one of the best ever... haunting

About half the episodes of bluey

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Don’t

That, sleepy time and baby race are the worst offenders

Sunderland til I die.
Most recent series, part 3 the end.😢

Have you seen cricket yet?

Yep, that one got me too. That fuckn show

Best thing on TV dude

I prefer ''Justin's House'', especially whenever he asks what's in his spotty bag. Moves me to tears every time.

That’s two different shows.

How old are your kids?

When I think back to all the greyhounds I’ve had and had to put to sleep. Never got easier. Remember them all.

As a newish grandad,I have to say Bluey and Justin's House(and we're all friends) are top class. Dad in Bluey is a fucking hero

18 and 23

Christ! I had you down in your 20s

I am  ;)

You work fast.

I know you’re just dicking around but come at me when Justin fletcher produces an 8 minute tale of a child’s desire for independence, sleep deprivation and the omnipitence of a parents love set to the score of Holsts the Planets

Omnipotence, love that word!

I'll give you that but his ''Spotty Bag'' is one of the most intriguing and curious things on modern TV - more curious than the blatant innuendo of Captain Pugwash  :girlgiggle:

Same with me since becoming a parent 18 years ago. Watching those videos didn't help. The tap won't stop running!

Haven't quite got to tears yet but definitely hits the feels. My wife cries constantly at it. Especially sleepy time.

'Dating on the Spectrum' is incredibly heartwarming and usually makes me sob a bit

For me it was trying to 'find love on an Atari 2600'. I imagine a similar experience was had on the ZX.

After several humps, it became unresponsive; especially after playing Enduro  ;)

Watching Swindon Town, Christ,  Couldn’t be an easier question.

I did say that was a given 😛

Strangely it doesn’t now, it’s gone beyond that to an expectation of being shite, which I think is even worse

Same for me, I used to care but now everything connected to the club is just "meh" I am resigned to it being shit now and have very very low expectations.

It’s like waiting for the second coming

Or the apocalypse

In 10 years time we will be the equivalent of Aldershot and the people saying now we will bring the players in we need next season will be the same ones saying then, we are too big for NL and we will bring in the players we need next season to go and win the league - absolute zombie fans for a zombie club

Should have "At least we have a club" on the badge.

Certe Habemus Clava. Perhaps Bamboo could add it to his ever changing crest.

says Google, probably complete nonsense to anyone who actually did latin...

So being a Town fan is something you can switch off just like that. I genuinely do envy people who can think that. I think

Tbh, because the badge is complete nonsense {am I talking about my crest or the official one....}, I like to throw in a bit of Latin and modern English combined. The crest is obviously meant to be an absolute train wreck {quite literally in some iterations}. The latest got ''upgraded'' {good show, I'm on that} from ''Salubritas et Sandro'' to ''Salubritas et Laundry''...

I had considered something which related to the continuous nonchalant apathy of some of the fan base but I thought that unfair; many of us have been through enough so didn't want to target our own support. I like to amend the satirical crest with digs and nods towards various board members {sorry, I genuinely mean ''Matchday Guests'', turncoat players and poor management.

There was thinking recently of upgrading it with an orange outline/blocking, instead of ''STFC Red'' but the orange revolution appears to have dissipated at present {unfortunately}.

I do have to start another one though, I've made so many amendments, sometimes over the original lossless file {then saved as a jpg} and edited that some have become a bit lossy with several artefacts. Part of me kind of doesn't mind the shitness - as it then adds a more indicative nature of how I feel about the club; I don't want it to be shit but I also accept that it currently is shit - so the crest becomes a satire sandwich, with more compounded satire loaded on top.

Despite the ridiculousness of it, there actually is some sort of thinking going into it, as well as the mainstays, like the upturned dead robin, the runaway train {yep, I know it's the wrong engine/tender but it wouldn't be STFC if something wasn't wrong}, the deflated football, the nettles instead of olive branches/whatever to represent various bad folk who have stung us or are currently stinging us. These lessen or thin out when things seem on the up. Much like the rest of the crest - it improves as the club improves.

STFC being such a rollercoaster, this crest will seemingly be in an eternal state of flux.

Just watched the last episode of Band Of Brothers and Dick Winters closing comments at the very end.
Gets me every time.

The Sign 🪧

The tv show, 24 Hours in A&E.

Gets me every single time. In each episode there will be at least 1/2 stories that have me weeping. It has some really heartwarming moments too, but I can't watch it often because the whole thing brings me such trauma.

Long lost families. Even us Tories have an emotional soft side.

Haha, it made me think of this thread. It’s so damn good

I bought my son a Bluey book before we'd ever watched the TV show, and he's still a bit young for TV so we've not seen that many. Reading Baby Race made me realise how good it can be, choked me up a bit that one.

Only problem is, now I know he's Australian, I'm half expecting an episode where Bluey bites an aborigine, and for the moral to be that the aborigine was probably thieving anyway.

I genuinely thought they were gonna move & we’d get a reboot of sorts with a new supporting cast.
Couldn’t bare the thought of losing Rusty or Lucky’s Dad

Bluey and Bingo are girls you flaming galah

My friend has had a male dog called Blue for years, so I can't get it out of my head that it's a boy's name. Like when my cousin married a girl called Shona, which was my friend's dog's name growing up. Whenever anyone mentioned her, I just pictured a golden retriever. Luckily they divorced after a couple of years.

Reading this thread

The Carnival Is Over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ZipKdI1sY

Some sad saps on here!

Saddest song ever written,sung by an angel

Stirs something inside that’s for sure.

Try this one. Reminds me of my late mum. Taken at 52 in 1988.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAeeGnAYBo&pp=ygUYaG9uZXkgYnkgYm9iYnkgZ29sZHNib3Jv

Derek when they put his dog to sleep