You 'feels' you lose

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Slydice

https://twitter.com/ICHHDUBLIN/status/923615420451639302

SolvableKnave

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eviltwin

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Slydice

https://twitter.com/cjwerleman/status/922261365246500866

razorblunt

I'm a big fan of The Boss but I only came across this recently, it's the intro to the song really (though the song itself is a classic), it's the delivery of the story, the slow music in the background.

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https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/924276966986981376

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https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/922455520467808256

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osarusan

Ah jaysus.

Bailey Sellers' 21st birthday is tinged with sadness as she's received a final bouquet of flowers from her dead father.

He pre-paid for a floral delivery each year since he died from cancer when she was just 16.

She's been receiving them with a note for the past five years.

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"A 34-year-old Reddit user from Camden, New Jersey, just posted a photo that illustrates her own mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s, and it’s absolutely heartbreaking to look at. Using 14 crocheted squares made during the 2 years following her diagnosis, the woman shows the slow progression of her mother’s condition – and her fading abilities to complete the skill she once loved. “…She made squares for a while, then the circles, then the little pieces of crochet, until she got to the point where she just carried around the needles and yarn in her purse,” the user writes on Reddit. “It has been a few years since she was able to speak and several since she was able to identify who I am.”"

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Back to the animal theme:

These are photos of a stray dog just after she was rescued, she had to be sedated so that the vets could shave off all that matter fur safely:







And this is her, after she received some of the TLC she so badly needed:

Slydice

https://twitter.com/samaritans/status/930716713766850560

SummerHaze

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This fills me with rage and makes me incredibly sad in equal measure.

SimonTemplar

Chris Evans really is a legend. A true Captain America. Click the link in his tweet to get context.

https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans/status/939976020479938562

SolvableKnave

SimonTemplar wrote: »

Chris Evans really is a legend. A true Captain America. Click the link in his tweet to get context.

https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans/status/939976020479938562

https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/939754929866117125

razorblunt

Those Keaton Jones replies are fantastic, but his mother is a Confederate Flag waving racist, the whole thing is going to get messy.

Not saying the bullying is right but alot of these offers will be pulled I'd imagine.

Tell me how

SimonTemplar wrote: »

Chris Evans really is a legend. A true Captain America. Click the link in his tweet to get context.

https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans/status/939976020479938562

razorblunt wrote: »

Those Keaton Jones replies are fantastic, but his mother is a Confederate Flag waving racist, the whole thing is going to get messy.

Not saying the bullying is right but alot of these offers will be pulled I'd imagine.

I was walking in town today and met a guy about the age of that guy in the tweet and his father walking with him.

As I passed, them the father said to the young lad really loudly "Tell her to go f*ck herself. The fu*king b*tch".

I've no idea the context but this tweet came to mind. Maybe the father was telling his child how to deal with a bully, maybe he was talking about a teacher who had disciplined the child. I've no idea. But it did strike me how lots of children behave despicably because that is what they have been shown is acceptable behaviour.

I am not excusing bullies but I also think of their world which has brought them to be like that.

I hope this fellow sees the love coming his way over the tweet and can use that if he does end up seeing some right wing flag waving hatred which he is being told is normal.

razorblunt

Tell me how wrote: »

I was walking in town today and met a guy about the age of that guy in the tweet and his father walking with him.

As I passed, them the father said to the young lad really loudly "Tell her to go f*ck herself. The fu*king b*tch".

I've no idea the context but this tweet came to mind. Maybe the father was telling his child how to deal with a bully, maybe he was talking about a teacher who had disciplined the child. I've no idea. But it did strike me how lots of children behave despicably because that is what they have been shown is acceptable behaviour.

I am not excusing bullies but I also think of their world which has brought them to be like that.

I hope this fellow sees the love coming his way over the tweet and can use that if he does end up seeing some right wing flag waving hatred which he is being told is normal.

Completely agree, the sins of the parents and all that.
It's still an awful predicament and the kid could completely be an innocent party, but it's interesting that many of the first people to respond where black NFL players, whilst her Facebook has the flag and "I stand for the anthem" emblazoned across it.

There's a Go Fund Me that went past 55k in a couple of hours, hopefully its not going into the parent's pockets.

silverharp

this is as much as I know about the story but I dont think the mother is what she is being portrayed as

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

inforfun

Whatever happens, you can be sure that that entire story will be hi-jacked by one side or the other.

blackwhite

razorblunt wrote: »

Those Keaton Jones replies are fantastic, but his mother is a Confederate Flag waving racist, the whole thing is going to get messy.

Not saying the bullying is right but alot of these offers will be pulled I'd imagine.

I think that someone gets branded a racist because a photo emerges of them posing with a flag sums up just how toxic much of social media has become.

blackwhite

blackwhite wrote: »

I think that someone gets branded a racist because a photo emerges of them posing with a flag sums up just how toxic much of social media has become.

A flag that most didn't find offensive until quite recently when we were "educated" to believe it was.
Thinking about the "Dukes of Hazzard" for example.