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When's the last time you cried, sissy?

― andy, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried that my mom died, andy, what's it to ya?

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

During the American Idol finale.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

last time i watched edward scissorhands

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that one time when I was all right for a while, I could smile for a while. But I saw you last night, you held my hand so tight as you stopped to say "Hello". Aww you wished me well, you couldn’t tell...

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

cutty...YOU ARE SO GAY.

kthxbye

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

During The Simpsons one day last week. It was only a little bit, but it was a yowl.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, i'm lying. when ddb left me for a polish woman.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

cutty in a dashboard confessional shocka

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

MMMmmmmm, Polish women...

― andy, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

andy OTFM!!!!!!

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

ddb in heterosexual shockah!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i watched 'harold and maude' last week and bawled like a big sissy.

― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, i'm lying. when ddb left me for a polish woman.
-- cutty (holle...), June 8th, 2004.

huh?

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

oh wait!! i lied! on the way home from work last friday i bawled in the car like a big sissy. i was stuck in horrible traffic and had a terrible day (got in trouble again.. this time, might get sacked). tears were flowing like CRAZY.

― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lookalike.com/cavalcadeofstars/images/roy.gif

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I rarely weep from sorrow or anger, that's for girls... but I'll get somewhat maudlin when faced with great beauty. I saw a Sri Lankan girls' dance troupe, and the lead girl said in her broken English that the next dance they were going to perform had been danced for over 3,500. The girls, so lovely, in their folk garb... I wept like a babe.

― andy, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

watchin' eternal sunshine...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

3,500 years, that is.

― andy, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Saturday, May 29 - I had just arrived at Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina. Within ten minutes of arrival I had switched into swimming trunks, lathered myself up in sunblock, and made the sandy trek down to the Atlantic Ocean. I waded out to waist deep waters, and BLAM, a wave crashes on the right side of my face, shoving sandy salt water into my ear canal.

Sunday, May 30 - I wake up with no hearing whatsoever in my right ear; not just the dull vibrations of my own voice/breathing amplified and muffled, but NOTHING. I was certain some shell fragment had pierced my eardrum and had lost the hearing in my right ear. I had a teary-eyed freakout in front of my mom for the first time in ten years. When the doctor preempted the words "hearing loss" with the adjective "temporary", that was possibly the most relieved I've ever felt in my entire life.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried all weekend. Huge great horrible uncontrollable crying. I had a teary bit this morning, but it passed.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It's better and healthier just to bottle it up and keep it all inside.

― andy, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Not if your a girl. It fucks with your menstrual cycle if you don't cry on a monthly basis, you know!

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do we cry, physiologically?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Not if your a girl. It fucks with your menstrual cycle if you don't cry on a monthly basis

why? do you menstruate thru your tear ducts?

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hermes58.freeserve.co.uk/flashg1.jpg

"Look, there's water coming from her eyes!"

"It's called, 'tears.' It's a sign of their weakness."

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.angelfire.com/tv/smurfygirl6/crying.jpg

― andy, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF???!!

― andy, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

When I cry it almost always because, in some way, I feel sorry for myself. From time to time I weep altruistically. Like Jesus.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

About 3 weeks ago, when I split with my girlfriend.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

With me, it's normally when something really hurts, like someone's kicked me in the chuckies.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

some mixture of exhaustion and anxiety. i guess that's called "stress."

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

While listening to "What Do You Know?" by Matthew Sweet last night. I've always loved the song but never quite realized how bitter and helpless it is (especially affecting when you've spent the night thinking about Robert Quine).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It has been said that there are chemicals present in tears of emotion that aren't present in those used only to lubricate the eyes- someone insinuated that you can in some way "cry out" your upset and feel better. i know we wail as babies at just the right volume and pitch to make someone come and do what we need. And the last time was at the end of an episode of QaF when they played just the right song.

― tess, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"chuckies"??!!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Our cat died yesterday, and I cried at several different times during the day while burying her in the backyard and while running across reminders of her in the house or just failing to distract myself from thinking about it sufficiently with law & order reruns or the interweb.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

My cat is still in the process of dying (fucking months now since the vet said so!), so you have my sympathies Martin. I'm expecting to know exactly how you feel any day.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"Crying out" being upset has nothing to do with chemicals present or not present in tears. It has to do with the fact that stress is relieved by the tension alternately created and dissipated when one cries.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

When my closest friend had to have her amazing dog put to sleep last week, and then when I started thinking about my ailing cat. So my sympathies too.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to hear that, Martin.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to hear that Nick. Our cat was Jen's long before I moved in to live with the both of them. Some 6 or so years ago, Jen's vet gave the cat 6 months to live. Luckily that estimate was way off and Godfrey had a chance to be a pretty happy cat and good friend to Jen for much longer.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

someone once told me that the physiological purpose of crying was to make you sleepy. So I guess it's kind of like your body giving you a valium to help you chill.

― poop (poop), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

when was the last time u cried?
The all-new "When did you last cry?" thread
What's the most ridiculous thing you've cried at?
Have you cried in front of a painting ?
You were the only one in the theatre crying
The One Movie That Makes You Cry, Every Time
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Crying C/D?
Crying in public: C or D, etc
Tracks of My Tears
is there anybody on ilx that can't cry?

ILE is a vale of tears.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

my cat dying in december made me cry pretty hard, too.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot:

Cry Like A Baby
how many times did you cry when you watched whale rider?
If a piece of art makes you cry is it great art?
I woke up crying
Did anybody else cry at the end of the 25th hour?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is making me tear up a little.

TEAR UP SHIT, that is. I AM HARDCORE.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i was listening to the "ready to die" intro track in my car a few days ago for the first time and i had to stop myself from crying. when the bit with biggie's mom and dad fighting over what to with him was followed by that part with the audio two track (which i'd been listening to a lot in weeks previous, i got a small shock of recognition when i heard it on the intro), it really hit me hard. insert something poignant here about music and memory and such. plus i'm always a fucking emo wreck come exam time.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I really recommend (for men at least) squashing those tears down in that warm, safe place where as a child you'd hide. It's not okay to cry. Drink it away.

Has anyone seen Albert Finney in "The Browning Version"? That's a serious tearjerker.

― andy, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

until midway through 2003 i managed to go about 3 years without genuine blubbery and now look at me.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

A year ago the most lovely cat I've ever owned went from ill to terminal in the space of a day. We took her to the vet with the hope that we might heal her with a new approach. The staff were all convinced, however, that she was on her way out. She'd been shitting herself all night and could only barely walk. I'd rescued her from an alley years before but, from other experiences with sick cats, I knew she didn't deserve to be forced to suffer longer to no avail. When the vet came in, the wee beastie was already starting to pant and fade off. The vet suggested we just go ahead an euthanize her quickly and asked us to leave the room but I couldn't leave her alone in a place she had so loathed over the course of her life. So I held her in my arms as they injected her and watched the little spark of life go out in her eyes as her last breath came gurgling out. Up until then I had been teary but resolute and I continued in this vein, thanking the vet and her assistant. The front desk told us to just go, they'd send us the bill, which I thought particularly civilized of them. Then we went outside and walked down a cross street to the edge of a park and I sat down on the sidewalk in the wintry February sun and cried like I haven't since and rarely before.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a very similar experience when I had my dog put down about five years ago. I held him as he was injected. We'd had him fifteen years, since I was five. I have never, and possibly will never, cry like that again.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't had a pet for 13 years now and this thread is reminding me why.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

It's still worth it Dan!

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It is worth it, yes. But it is still very, very hard when death inevitably comes along.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm also married to someone who is allergic to all things pet-related, so my petless status isn't going to changy anytime soon unless I get something standoffish like a fish or a turtle.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, I didn't mean to turn this into a big festival of sad pet dying stories. Not that I don't sympathize...

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

A child is a pet. Kind of. For a bit. Maybe not. At all. Nickalicious and Alex in NYC to thread.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

What a potentially morbid turn this thread has taken!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I know! What with all the snobby fish and amphibians. If that turtle gives me one more supercilious sneer, I'm gonna rip off his carapace and serve the fish in it as appetizers.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i cried like a motherfucker after watching lilya 4 ever, which actually had a lot to do with bupropion, i think. but it was sad, and suprisingly the little amnesty bits on the dvd with robbie whatsit were even sadder. 1 million kids sold/abducted into prostitution every year?!?!

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried last night while watching Coronation Street - i cried at last friday's episode too. I hardly ever cry at things that happen to me or others in real life, is this common?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

why we cry here....

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f03/web3/n1kaim.html

― saza bob, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a really excellent article. OK, I was joking about the "girls have to cry or it fucks up their menstral cycle" but the whole crying as release of the stress protein thing actually makes a lot of sense.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

On saturday, whining to my mum about work. "But they're picking on meeee! It's not fair! Wahhh!"

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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