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kinmik posted:I love it when people go above and beyond to help others in need. I remember there was another incident where no further donations were necessary after some natural disaster or something, but I can't recall what. Was it the boston marathon bombing where people trying to donate blood were being turned away from the hospital because they already had more than enough given?
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Overminty posted:Was it the boston marathon bombing where people trying to donate blood were being turned away from the hospital because they already had more than enough given? Yup, we got instructed to donate in two weeks or so to refill what they used to help the victims.
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Yeah it was that. Thanks for helping me remember.  Have a Pokemon. 
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Julio Lopez posted:A California surf dog is helping those with special needs: Holy moly, this is totally  in a good way.
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"Cedar, Before and After Rescue" 
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Metal Ray Sunshine posted:"Cedar, Before and After Rescue" I love stuff like this  FREEDOM! 
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The SKYWHALE was launched recently in my home town of Canberra. God bless you floating titwhale   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeIhmkSsB8A
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YouSpoonyBard posted:During an interview with a woman who had lost everything because of the recent tornadoes, she finds something very important: Along the same lines, an older one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKNgY1Rj1mc
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Nordick posted:I.... what. This thing is a real animal. HOW IS THIS THING A REAL ANIMAL I DEMAND TO KNOW RIGHT THIS INSTANT. 
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This made my day, thank you
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Willie the chihuahua doesn't want to take a bath
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MikeJF posted:Along the same lines, an older one: Oh jesus when she picks him up you can hear him purring into her microphone
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The most of all daytime murder birds. The kestrel. 
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Falconets (Microhierax) are the cutest little killing machines. They're even smaller than kestrels!   Trying its best to look intimidating.
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What do they kill? Like... grasshoppers? Edit: Oh god they hunt in packs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-thighed_Falconet THEY'RE TINY WINGED WOLVES
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Magres posted:What do they kill? Like... grasshoppers? 
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Holy poo poo you could have one perched on each finger (wikipedia says feeding parties of up to ten of these things have been recorded) and then shake your hands for what amounts to a shotgun blast of little murderous birds. We can make the Murder of Crows vigor from Bioshock Infinite happen. I love nature.
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Garibaldi Rous tries to figure out a sprinkler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLwz5fhzYZM
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A friend of mine is a music teacher. It's hard, low-paying, unappreciated work and she knows she'll be the first to go if budget cuts come around. Sometimes though, she gets a letter like this one and everyone she knows gets a little jealous and misty-eyed:
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During the inaugural season at Target Field here in Minnesota, for about a week, there was a Kestrel that would sit on the right field foul pole. It got named Kirby. During a rather boring game where not much was happening, Kirby started dive bombing and catching large moths to eat. He completely out-performed both teams that night. Sadly he was only there for about a week before moving on. Here he is in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRzKWdSdN1I
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Jerry Cotton posted:A penguin on its way to the fish shop. Why am I wearing the skin of my brethren?!
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 These two awesome looking people are my mom's parents - on their wedding day. With my grandfather's passing this morning, they are both gone, but I'm not here to be a downer. I'd love for people to be uplifted by their story like I always have been. My grandmother fell in love young, and found herself pregnant and unmarried back in the 1930's. She traveled from her little town in the Bahamas all the way to California on her own, pregnant and afraid, trying to find the man she thought would be waiting for her. Instead, she found the man's wife. And family. They slammed their door in her face, leaving her broke and homeless in a strange country. She made her way to a Salvation Army women's shelter, where she was given food and a safe place to give birth to her first daughter. With nothing to keep them in the US any longer, they managed to make it back to the Bahamas to try and build a life for themselves, but as a single mother with a young child at that time, there weren't many options. That's when she met my grandfather. Everyone said he was slow and no good for her. But she saw him for the wonderful man he was, and he saw her for the incredible woman she was. They found something special in each other and he asked her to marry him. Not many women in her situation were so lucky to find someone who didn't care about the taboo of a single mom. So they got married! And they had five more children! And my grandfather never once treated my oldest aunt as anything but one of his own children. When she was a teenager she fell and cut herself on a sewer covering, and ended up in the hospital with tetanus and lockjaw, and the doctors weren't sure she would make it, my grandfather sat with her day in and day out. He fed her liquids with a spoon, never giving up on his daughter (and no one would dare say she wasn't). She survived! She's still alive, and a great grandmother. She tells us he was her hero from that day on. He's our hero, too. And he was my grandma's hero. They lived together until she passed away a few years ago. Over fifty years of marriage and their love never once faltered. So as I was saying, I'm not here to bring anyone down, because while I am very sad to say goodbye to my grandpa today, I'm so happy that not only was he in my life, but I can share such an awesome story with the world.
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Glad I read your story Abbeh, I love stories of good people, and personal heroes. I feel the same way about my father as your aunt did about hers.
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That right there is one fantastic wedding dress. 
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Awww, that's so awesome. In the same vein, I present another marriage story:  This is my best friend and his wife on their wedding day about a month ago. That's not the world's awkwardest wedding kiss they're engaged in, they're taking a bite out of their "unity sandwich" they decided to make. Rather than do the boring, traditional "unity candle" lighting, they made a unity PB&J sandwich. Each one spread "their" ingredient on a slice of bread (my friend was PB, she was jelly,) and then put the pieces together and took a big, messy bite. Oh, and on the back window of my friend's car, rather than write "Just Married," the Maid of Honor and other bridesmaids wrote "Just Fiends."  For my friend's last name is actually Friend. (I wanted to remove that ugly Jets sticker and replace it with a Patriots one, but I was out-voted.)
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DrBouvenstein posted:Awww, that's so awesome. Go Steelers  (I promise not to turn this into an SAS derail, the Pats are actually pretty awesome too)That's adorable that they did a sammich though, and the best kind of sandwich, too!
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Bad Sneakers posted:That right there is one fantastic wedding dress. Here's another gorgeous dress of hers:  I'm glad you guys liked the story!
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Freaking onions. (awesome story)
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A friend of mine does carts at a grocery store. He started a blog where he posts pictures of dogs he sees in people's cars. http://dogsincarsatmywork.tumblr.com/   "License and registration please"
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Abbeh posted:
Thanks for sharing this with us Abbeh, it truly is a lovely story. I'm sure they're together again somewhere
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I NEVER thought I would post in this thread, although I follow it constantly. This clip was excerpted in The Daily Show's Moment Of Zen earlier this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-oJVTQa79s It was cut down to less than 30 seconds; I had tears on both cheeks before the clip ended.
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Wimp is a hit or miss for me, but this video of Anne Sullivan explaining how she taught Helen Keller to speak is so great. http://www.wimp.com/helenkeller/
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Great tumblr, and it's good to know someone's looking out for dogs in cars. And I just found this photo of them in the exact same pose fifty years later. 
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BattleMaster posted:Garibaldi Rous tries to figure out a sprinkler. A couple of years back at a festival I saw a capybara and it was in a tiny little enclosure. I'm not wrong in guessing it was probably unhappy,am I?  Anyways on to the cute pictures   
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Boring Person posted:A couple of years back at a festival I saw a capybara and it was in a tiny little enclosure. I'm not wrong in guessing it was probably unhappy,am I? It was probably upset less by the lack of room and more by the lack of companionship. Capybaras are incredibly social and need constant companionship or they get upset. It's fine to have one all by itself if you never leave it alone and always have someone it likes present, but it's usually best to keep them in pairs or larger groups. 
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