The Feelgood Thread!

[Agrippina]

It's not easy, is it. I couldn't get through my relapses, and certainly not the bad one I went through last year, without the support of my internet friends.

[Aca]

14-year-old Zev from Natick, Massachusetts, has taken the photography world by storm with his surreal photo manipulations. Better known by the nickname of ‘fiddle oak’, Zev presents a highly imaginative portfolio of surreal self-portraits, which he created together with his sister Nellie (aged 17). His work seems to mirror the transition from the fairy-tale childhood worlds into those that are way more complicated and still unknown.

http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-po ... iddle-oak/

Great imagination

[Agrippina]

Argh! Slow internet, won't load the page.

[Aern Rakesh]

This story is heartbreaking, but also heart-warming and faith restoring. As I said on my FB page, these are the kind of angels I believe in.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_4ZgY5VOa4[/youtube]

[Onyx8]

14-year-old Zev from Natick, Massachusetts, has taken the photography world by storm with his surreal photo manipulations. Better known by the nickname of ‘fiddle oak’, Zev presents a highly imaginative portfolio of surreal self-portraits, which he created together with his sister Nellie (aged 17). His work seems to mirror the transition from the fairy-tale childhood worlds into those that are way more complicated and still unknown.

http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-po ... iddle-oak/

Great imagination

Gorgeous. Several of those totally remind me of Spiller from "The Borrowers", a childhood favourite of mine.

[Matt8819]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqFaiVNuy1k[/youtube]

[Thomas Eshuis]

Also related to Star Trek, was on tellie yesterday:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIDOdmhV130[/youtube]

[Aca]

Also related to Star Trek, was on tellie yesterday:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIDOdmhV130[/youtube]

[Aca]

Not news, not really feelgood, i just like it

...a poem about immigration in UK

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJX5XHnONTI[/youtube]

He says
"those god damn pakistanis and their goddamn corner shops
Built a shop on every corner took our British workers jobs
He says those godamn Chinese and their goddamn china shops
I tell him theyre from Vietnam but he doesn't give a toss
I ask him what was there before that damn Japan mans shop
He stares at me and dreams a scene of British workers jobs
Of full time full employment before the godamn boats all came
Where everybody went to work full time every day
A British Business stood their first he claims before the Irish came
Now British people lost their jobs and bloody turkish are there to blame
I ask him how he knows that fact he says because it's true
I ask him how he knows the fact he says he read it in the news
Everytime a Somalian comes here they take a job from us
The mathematics one for one, from us to them it just adds up
He bites his cake and sips is brew and says again he knows the spot
The godamn Carribeans came and now good folk here don't have jobs
I ask him what was there before the goddamn Persian curtain shop
I show him architectures plans of empty godamn plots of land
I show him the historic maps
A bit of sand, a barren land
There was no goddamn shop before those pakistanis came and planned
Man
I'm sick of crappy mathematics
Cos I love a bit of sums
I spent three years into economics
And I geek out over calculus
And when I meet these paper claims
That one of every new that came
Takes away ones daily wage
I desperately want to scream
"Your maths is stuck in primary"
Cos one who comes here also spends
And one who comes here also lends
And some who comes here also tend
To set up work which employs them
And all your balance sheets and trends
Work with numbers not with men
And all your goddamn heated talk
Ignores the trade the Polish brought
Ignores the men they gave work to
Not plumbing jobs but further too
Ignores the ones they buy stock from
Accountants, builders, on and on
And I know it's nice to have someone
To blame our lack of jobs upon
But immigrations not as plain
Despite the sums inside your brain
As one for one, as him or you
As if he goes, they'll employ you
Cos sometimes one that comes makes two
And sometimes one can add three more
And sometimes two times two is much much more
Than four
And most times immigrants bring more
Than minuses.

[Aca]

Carlsberg ad, but it put a smile on my face

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS3iB47nQ6E[/youtube]

[Aern Rakesh]

Ah, that is good.

[orpheus]

You know, I was just thinking about the video I posted several pages back: http://www.rationalskepticism.org/news- ... l#p1723533

Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong. It struck me that here were two genius performers who liked and admired one another, who enjoyed working together, and who were having such fun in this song that it brought the house down -- and yet at the time this was made, there were many restaurants which wouldn't allow them to dine together simply because one was black and the other white. And it's still a problem.

Boggles the mind.

[Ironclad]

Nice one Aca

[Ironclad]

From the BBC:

A dozen male train drivers in Sweden have circumvented a ban on shorts by wearing skirts to work in hot weather.

The workers, who operate the Roslagsbanan line north of the capital Stockholm, have been wearing skirts to work for the past two weeks.

Employer Arriva banned the drivers from wearing shorts after taking over the running of the line in January.

But the company has given the men its blessing to wear skirts, according to local newspaper Mitti.

MORE..

[aliihsanasl]

AYUTTHAYA - A pedigree Thai dog carried a plastic bag containing a newborn baby girl believed to have been left in a roadside dump back to its home on Monday morning, saving her from inevitable death.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/3 ... -baby-life

[Doubtdispelled]

AYUTTHAYA - A pedigree Thai dog carried a plastic bag containing a newborn baby girl believed to have been left in a roadside dump back to its home on Monday morning, saving her from inevitable death.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/3 ... -baby-life

Really nice story there, Ali!

But now, going from the sublime to the ridiculous....



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-22855015

[Aca]

Is it wrong that i found this really funny?

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/crim ... tes-looks/

Punter complains to West Midlands Police about prostitute's looks

A man dialled 999 to complain to West Midlands Police about the quality of a prostitute in the West Midlands.

The man contacted officers saying the prostitute should have action taken against her for breaching the Sale of Goods Act for "making herself out to be better looking than she was".

Officers advised the man that public solicitation of sex was illegal and have now sent him a warning letter.

[Aca]

intro: Cheerios commercial involving bi-racial family brings out racists and haters out

if you watch first few minutes, you'll get to see the original add



and then somebody made a spoof ad responding to haters, which you can see here

[Aern Rakesh]

I can remember the first commercial I ever saw that featured a black family. It was for Night Nurse (the cold remedy) and they definitely got my business.

[Onyx8]

How much they must hate their president.