Show me something happy

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I'm being bombarded with bad news from media - double dip recession, cuts to benefits, unemployment increasing yet again, Cameron is still alive and kicking, my region is the worst for animal cruelty...cue sad story of abused dog, and a bombardment of stories about autistic or disabled children being abused or killed by their carers/teachers/parents/society.

Granted I could turn off my TV and laptop and live in blissful ignorance, but instead I come to you and ask you to show me something happy - photo's, videos, or stories that can renew a persons faith in humanity. What makes you happy? Have you heard any happy news stories?

Here - have a smiley frog!

Mod. edit: video redacted because of swearing.

http://happynews.com/

Enjoy!

Here's a happy goat to go with that frog!

http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episo ... ael-sandel

if you have to watch the news.......then make it fun!
if you except the lies, make it fiting?

ok....on a lighter note

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_BjqTrGf2g[/youtube]

I like this thread. Here's a bunch of smiles from me:


Good news does exist, you just need to know where to look

a little late for APRIL FOOLS!! !

but, in 1977, the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement in honor of the 10th anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semicolon-shaped islands.
A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica.
The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology.
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In 1957, the BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."
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In the earlier part of the Twentieth Century, in the County of Caithness in the north of Scotland, great excitement arose when a pot (or part thereof) was discovered, apparently stemming from the Roman occupation of Britain. It was exciting because there was no archaeological evidence up to that point of the Romans having been that far north. The local newspaper, The Caithness Courier, gave prominence to the find, and quoted in full the inscription on the artifact. It was- "ITI SAPIS SPOTANDA BIGO NE.*
The Courier never lived down its naivete.
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*it really said, "It Is A Pi$$pot And A Big One." just the juxtaposition of the letters was deceptive.
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Anybody here or out there remember the wonderful Cliff Robertson Oscar-winner "Charly"? [based on Daniel Keyes' "Flowers for Algernon" novel]? This film was about a mentally ret*d adult man who aspired to be smarter, and who lucked-into becoming a test subject for an experimental brain operation designed to boost intelligence. Anyways, this man got the operation and soon was doing a "*Pi$$pot"- type of indefinite-letter-parsing wordplay on a blackboard, thusly-
"it that is is it that is not is not is that it it is" -
He did this to challenge the smarts of his teacher and to prove that he had indeed become a smarter man- by showing that the addition of proper punctuation could transform the aforementioned gibberish, into-
"It that is, is. It that is not, is not. Is that it? It is."
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Here is another brain-tickler for anybody who happens to be in this remote corner of WP-
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From The Times:
"A young girl, who was blown out to sea on a set of inflatable teeth, was rescued by a man on an inflatable lobster. A coastguard spokesman commented: 'This sort of thing is all too common these days.'"

Epic awesomeness

Katrina And The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U[/youtube]

Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgZ7gMze7A[/youtube]

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A[/youtube]

Lipps Inc - Funky Town
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CImrIKNmBo[/youtube]

Kool & The Gang - Celebration
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M[/youtube]

Mod. edit: image removed - it's more appropriate in the adult section.