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To ask what irrationally makes you cry?

263 replies

Champagneformyrealfriends · 29/09/2016 18:25

Mine's the bloody "In The Night Garden" intro. Every bloody night.

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thehousewife · 29/09/2016 21:29

Elderly men eating alone. I cried for 3 days on holiday once as a man was eating alone!! But it seriously gets to me.

AtSea1979 · 29/09/2016 21:29

Bacardi

AtSea1979 · 29/09/2016 21:30

thehousewife just men? Not women?

ninnypoo · 29/09/2016 21:31

Val from GBBO.

An episode of Heartbeat I watched when I was about 12 that still makes me cry when explaining the plot (an old man died and his wife waited at the bus stop for ages).

Basically vulnerable elderly people.

TheForeignOffice · 29/09/2016 21:32

The National Anthem

Heidi41 · 29/09/2016 21:34

Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) when they go up in the glass elevator and they sing Pure imagination and I am gone

NotTodayDoris · 29/09/2016 21:37

Hurt by Johnny Cash

School assemblies even mundane ones but especially those ones with choir singing.

Some TV shows make me cry, especially ones with elderly people or children in hospital, or people being nice.

I think id probably cry at most things if I tried, and I havent had a newborn in a very long time!

BeetlebumShesAGun · 29/09/2016 21:37

The opening bit of "The Little Mermaid" after the credits where all the merpeople are singing and swimming up to the palace is the weirdest one. I cry at the end but that's not so weird as it's lovely father/daughter stuff, but the beginning? Confused

ToffeeForEveryone · 29/09/2016 21:39

When you're at a football match dragged there by male relative and the crowd all roars at once for a goal or such. And I sodding hate football.

Joesmummy2 · 29/09/2016 21:45

Remembrance Day service on BBC, by the time they play Nimrod I'm in bits!

MaQueen · 29/09/2016 21:45

The theme from 'Harry's Game' by Clannad. It has a special meaning for me and DH, and we both get a bit tearful when we hear it.

The smell of Virginia Gold pipe tobacco, as it reminds me of my Dad, who died a long time ago.

Driving down the hill into Windermere...it feels like coming home.

RawPrawn · 29/09/2016 21:47

'Feed the Birds' in Mary Poppins. Huge racking sobs. OH is like this: Hmm

fryingpan · 29/09/2016 21:47

oysterbabe reading your post and imagining those bottles has just made me a bit weepy too!

notangelinajolie · 29/09/2016 21:48

A child solo singing gets me every time, children's choirs too. And I'm not religious but churches make me cry. The last time was for a christening and I was blubbering wreck.

LapinR0se · 29/09/2016 21:49

Flash mobs

MrsFrisbyMouse · 29/09/2016 21:50
Dilligaf81 · 29/09/2016 21:57

Proud by M People. Dc's school use is as background to their achievement assemblies. Any child singing hymns.

ninnypoo · 29/09/2016 21:57

NotTodayDoris Hurt is my go-to song for when I need a good cry!

Miaculpa · 29/09/2016 22:00

ANZAC Day march in Australia (am from OZ).
Old men walking old dogs

Slow Down by Nichole Nordemann. Makes me sob every single time.

blondieblondie · 29/09/2016 22:02

Cheesymonster I would have cried at that too! What a special thing to witness. This is why I hate when people knock religion. It's sometimes all a person has. And I'm not religious myself.

Champers4Pampers · 29/09/2016 22:03

The scene in UP when the couple are trying to have children & it becomes clear that they can't.

The new song "when you love someone" by James TW. I cried like a baby the first time I heard it & still struggle to listen to it. Beautiful song, I obviously have a lot of repressed feelings about my parents divorce.

TheForeignOffice · 29/09/2016 22:05

Me too for the UP scene

limitedperiodonly · 29/09/2016 22:09

Not irrational at

bastedyoungturkey · 29/09/2016 22:10

The scene from the festival of remembrance a few years ago. The Poppy girls sang which was emotional anyway then Huw Edwards was presenting it and he said how special it was for the youngest poppy girl as her Daddy was deployed in the Indian Ocean or somewhere and he'd be so very proud of her then he walked down the aisle and she just ran up To him and they embraced. Tears rolling down my face now thinking of it!

Binkybix · 29/09/2016 22:10

The character 'Herman' from Guess Who when I was small. I just imagined that he had such a sad life.

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