What makes you blub like a baby?

[SamNichols]

go on, tell me. What, recently, has made you blub?
I have had a wee cry, recently, at:
Control (I knew the ending, but still came as a shock)
The ending of 'Across the River and into the trees' by Ernest Hemingway.

What in general makes you cry? Do you cry? Am I made less mannish by the fact that I seem to cry a lot at the moment?

 

[Noodley]

The amount of "non soapbox" stuff appearing on soapbox makes me weep.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

..I cried last week after a family bust up

I also cried once during the film ring of bright water when the otter got spaded....but i was 7 years old

 

[SamNichols]

Where should we put it? We just want to change the tone a bit, we don't want it like the Guardian's CIF website over there...
Maybe we'd rather tell stories and poems from our soapbox than in the cafe.

 

[SamNichols]

..I cried last week after a family bust up

I also cried once during the film ring of bright water when the otter got spaded....but i was 7 years old

Oh cartoon animals dying always gets to me - I might have a moment just thinking about watership down (Bright Eyes...)

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

...Oh ****...now you've done it....remember the end of the book when hazel meets the black rabbit....I 've never looked at a roadkill the same ever again after that.

 

[SamNichols]

blam, now you're thinking about Watership Down, I hit you again with an Animals of Farthing Wood. Now, don't think of any more animals dying...

 

[Abitrary]

Slow mariah carey songs

 

[graham56]

A kick in the nuts brings tears to my eyes

 

[litespeeder]

The early eighties boxing film, 'the champ' still brings a lump to my throat, I recall my sister and parents watching it at the same time, the room was blubbering.............

 

[Kirstie]

The last film/book I cried at was the Fox and the Hound, when I was about 10, although Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks nearly got me once recently.
Other than that I cry when I'm depressed and lonely, as most people do...!

 

[Fab Foodie]

The Railway Children.

There are many more movies and occasions...but I'm too embarrassed to say. But the Railway Children does it every time.
I tend to cry more with joy than I do with sadness.

I think a good blub is fine.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Onions. And certain songs. And kids dying.

 

[Unkraut]

I've found that for some reason you get more emotional about things when you've got kids.

I know what you mean. There is a horrible short scene in Titanic where a mother is reading her children a bedtime story to put off the awful moment when they will realise they are about to die.

 

[twowheelsgood]

The bloody opening credits to Bagpuss. Kills me every time.

When Ollie Postgate says the bit about being a saggy old cloth cat but Emily loved him, I have to leave the room.