[clamp]

Why do Americans cry a lot. I see them cry just when some one sings at a ball game --   I see them cry on Oprah.

    I saw one cry today because he won the election thingy.   Would you want a politician who cries.

      He said " all my life I fought for democracy--choke, sniff ---and could not continue for  crying !!!!!.

      When I was 3 years old in the cobbled streets of north England with a coat too big for me my Dad would smack my head and shake me for even wiggling my bottom lip. Crying -!!   you don't bloody cry lad, cryings for girls

    I was appalled and shocked at that movie "Jar heads' when  a  marine cried because he was refused a shot at the guy in the airport tower.

     He cried because he was not allowed to kill some one.  I know its a movie but bloody hell some one thought it good movie making.

[PhilJ]

Well, if it were a Frenchman he wanted to shoot ..... surely you should understand ! 

[Blltrdr]

Clamp people cry in the US to shed calories and loose weight it's the new Taebo!

[REpozer]

No crying allowed!
 Keep a stiff upper lip, mate. This poem seems fitting.........




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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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1.
Half a league, half a league,
 Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
 Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
 Rode the six hundred.


2.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
 Someone had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
 Rode the six hundred.


3.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
 Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
 Rode the six hundred.


4.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
 All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
 Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
 Not the six hundred.


5.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
 Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
 Left of six hundred.


6.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
 All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
 Noble six hundred.
 

[Cabo Cruz]

Br. Clampo, did you not know that my eyes filled with tears as I read your post regarding the love you feel for your Bullet?

[boggy]

The first thing you learn in any proper acting class is how to cry.

It's not just Americans, you know.  Check out this guy -->    He just found out he has no arms or legs!  DON'T tell the other guys up there or we'll be losing emoticons left and right.

Besides, you HAVE to have a stiff upper lip to pull this look off:

[Lahti35]

Why do Americans cry a lot. I see them cry just when some one sings at a ball game 

.....Because we see or cousins from across the pond at thier ball game.... and it disturbs us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn6CNLi3UhA&feature=related

[single]

Yeah,why do we cry so easily?We mostly do it over some kinda emotional "moment".We bear pain and fearful situations pretty stoically.But let some nostalgic or patriotic or family thing come up and we gush.Can't help it.I am as bad as the rest,worse than a lot,probly.National anthems are one of my favorite cryin' times.Formula One races can do it.Weather.'Course,I am of French ancestry.I understand that the congressman has a tendency to do this.

[scoTTy]

losing an animal does that to me

[clamp]

Geeeeezuz --this is worse than I thought.

     Well don't cry in England. You will look very silly to us and you will lose all respect.

      You might get away with it in Italy though.

     Dead animals make me laugh, well it would if it was the dirty bastrad that shits outside my gate,--- might raise a smile if the owner got run over too.

    At 6 years old  I laughed when our budgie "Joey" died,  thats when my dad realized he'd gone too far and had me sent away to a special school /place.

[REpozer]

Geeeeezuz --this is worse than I thought.

    Dead animals make me laugh, well it would if it was the dirty bastrad that shits outside my gate,--- might raise a smile if the owner got run over too.

    At 6 years old  I laughed when our budgie "Joey" died,  thats when my dad realized he'd gone too far and had me sent away to a special school /place.

It is worse then we all thought. Sorry to hear it mate.
What can I do to help?

[scoTTy]

i really don't care what others be they where ever think of me....

 if they have no feelings what so ever..  i trust they can relax in their quiet times

[2bikebill]

Can you imagine having this discussion not about crying but about laughter? Why not? You don't get one without the other. Don't see much anxiety about laughing, except when it bubbles up at some event everyone is "supposed" to take seriously. When laughter is considered "inappropriate" you can bet your life it's in response to a load of pompous bullshit.
It comes up when it comes up, same as crying does. Any ideas you're getting about right or wrong in either case is all about your own f****d up programming.
Well worth taking a look at
 
know what I mean.......?

[single]

When my son was very small,about 1.5,he was crying,which I always  discouraged, in some fashion or another.This time I got him to laugh instead,It was really weird,I had him laughing and then crying.Fun but I felt that it mite be a bad idea.Only did it one time.Being emotional is ok but there is a time for it,of course.National tv mite not be good.Probly.

[clamp]

Can you imagine having this discussion not about crying but about laughter? Why not? You don't get one without the other. Don't see much anxiety about laughing, except when it bubbles up at some event everyone is "supposed" to take seriously. When laughter is considered "inappropriate" you can bet your life it's in response to a load of pompous bullshit.
It comes up when it comes up, same as crying does. Any ideas you're getting about right or wrong in either case is all about your own f****d up programming.
Well worth taking a look at
 
know what I mean.......?

     Woooaha we got one here --a serial killer in the making.

     No but seriously crying is bullshit and is not considered manly in uk or anywhere else for that matter which is why I brought the subject up,-- are you not embarrassed standing there  crying at 50 years old.   boo hoo I wanna lolly  Tst tst tst Americans.

     It would seem from the face of it that it does not bother you, although I have made lite of it.  I guess its just another one of those American things we have to go along with --you know the green pants and red shirt with a camera round the neck spitting chewing tobacco--- oh and bursting into tears whilst telling the receptionist that the tea was late.   

      This mixture of uncontrollable emotion with arrogance that Us citizens appear to conjure when abroad  leaves a very strange and difficult tourist. 

     But hey,--Im sure you are aware of it!!!!!