You instantly cry

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Just listening to Abbas slipping through my fingers'and can't avoid crying much to the kids amusement.

Also for me nannas speech to Barbara in the 'Royal family'when she says she just wished to be with her family and not in a home.

Also Daddy my Daddy in the railway children.

Also opening sequence of up

What's your weak point?

Talk of TV ads made me think of that car advert that starts with a young couple bringing their baby girl home and follows them until she leaves for uni. It's from her dad's point of view and shows him carrying her, playing football with her, hugging her tight when she brings home her first boyfriend etc.

That Bring Him Home Song from Les Mis. I don't even like Les Mis and have never seen either the musical or the movie but THAT song just destroys me. It seems to be a Britain's Got Talent stalwart at the moment and I've been "mugged" by it twice this year. When Collabro did it, I had to leave the room, I was in such a mess.

always has me in tears.

It's long, but it's so worth it.

The last episode of Six Feet Under. The perfect finish to a bloody brilliant program, but I was in a complete heap.

Paul Kelly's deeper water - absolutely heartbreaking .... 'Where I'm going next, I'm going alone' from the mother and then a father lifting his so over the waves in the sea.....god sobbing typing it and looking at my boys.... Also hard time by Ron Sexsmith....I walk beside her in my dreams. Reminds me of my old mare I lost a few years ago... She'd been with me more than half my life.

Off to get tissues and brandy now to toughen up

The T-Mobile advert, "Welcome Home" with the flash mob singers at Heathrow. I am an expat and it makes me want to jump on a plane back to Blighty. After I've stopped crying, of course.

The Kohima Epitaph:

^"When you go home, tell them of us and say
For their tomorrow, we gave our today."^

I can't even say it without my voice breaking.

I think 90% of the things on this thread would set me off
The thread has

My friend once told me this many years ago, and it has stayed with me ever since. A woman she worked with lost her husband in his sixties just before he was about to retire. They had so many plans for little holidays, things to do with their grandchildren etc. She broke down when talking to my friend and said "The thing I can't forgive myself for was I was always too busy for him, doing housework, batting away his kisses, never properly listening when he would tell me about his day. And now I have all the time in the world to do housework but I wish I had just sat with him, listened
to him, let him kiss me". I well up every time I think of this and it makes me think I can be a bit like this lady was and to take time to enjoy my family as I don't know what might be round the next corner.

Tim Minchin's white wine in the sun. It reminds me of relatives in Australia and just how bloody far away it is.

Also ER - the one where there is a suspected small pox out break and they are locked in for quarantine for a couple of weeks. One of the minor actors plays a 'frequent flyer' alcoholic and they have had to treat him for fits.

After 2 weeks they (medical staff) suggest he stay sober because he has done all the 'hard work' and he tells them that he killed his daughter driving drunk and he doesn't want to be sober and face the reality.

gawd, this thread. slithy's quote. Am in bits!

welling up reading this thread!

I cry at everything... ads, films, songs, TV shows. Stuff that other people don't find remotely sad, I start blubbing at. Watched ET at weekend and cried when bikes flew into sky.

God posted this thread in June.

Still slipping through my fingers. Can't even type it without tearing up.

'The old rugged cross' was played at a teachers funeral after a tragic death. Hearing my dd and her friends crying to this was truly unbearable.

Anything involving animals in danger (can't watch any Disney or other children's films just in case)

Occasionally Doctor Who

That is all really!

Is it ring of bright water when the otter is killed. Horrendous.

You don't bring me flowers by Streisand/Diamond ... it just wipes me out

Toy story 3
My daddy in railway children
The John lewis advert with the snowman
Highland cathedral (in fact most well played bagpipe music)
Annie
Despicable me 2 (the mummy poem)

Yes I cry a lot! The list is endless

Theme tune to The Littlest Hobo

When Shelby dies in Steel Magnolias.

The end of Beaches when they are all at the beach house.

Dumbo :(

Dawn and Tim finally getting together at the end of The Office.

I remember an episode of Old Jacks Boat (with Bernard Cribbens) that I actually had to leave the room for, I was crying that hard. He told a story about how he and his wife got together and she had since died and then he blew her a kiss. I was in bits. And this was a show for toddlers! (This particular episode was written by Russell T Davies iirc).

Bridge to Teribitha, the book not the movie.

The scene in Magnolia where Jason Robards is dying and his nurse finally manages to get hold of Tom Cruise to come and see his dad. Cruise gets there and shouts and screams at his dad who is mostly unconcious for all the terrible things he did to him as a child , how he was a terrible father and then reverts to little boy mode and just wants his daddy to love him.

That scene broke me. an ocean of tears.

The poetry of Wilfred Owen.

Puff the Magic Dragon - one of my proudest moments as a mother was reading this book to my then 3 year old daughter. At the end of the book she was crying and i asked her why and she told me she felt so sad for Puff and wanted to be his friend.

When I talk about my children having autism to strangers. Not every time but often enough to be .

Toy story 3 both when they're in the furnace and when Andy goes to college. My children look at me like "it's HAPPY mum!!! They get out!"

My dog is 13, we are coming to the end of our time together and I think of that every day when I see how slow he has become, he used to be such a nippy little thing. I think about how preoccupied I was with my dc throughout his best years and now just as they need me slightly less, he is old and doesn't wasn't to walk for miles with me now there's time .

The joy of Christmas.

Small children in plays.

The boy in the striped pajamas.

Stuart a life backwards. Book & film.

Pre son - almost nothing
Since son - almost everything.

am ashamed to say I cry at races - such as 100 metres seeing someone British win makes me go all teary and feel such a fool!

Every bloody appointment, meeting, thing to do with my daughter's sn. I really really wish I could control myself but I can't.