# Cheer Up Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536 "2008-10-25T18:24:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/1 "2008-10-25T18:24:53Z")
So, I’m newly broken up, and quite downhearted. All the usual feelings: guilt, fear, loneliness, jealousy, inadequacy. So, I need some innocuous and happy stuff to cheer me up. So far, I have: 1. Cute Overload 2. Webcomics, but so many of them deal with relationships that it’s distracting. 3. Flute playing, but since my ex got me into it, it’s hard. 4. Studying… yeah, right. 5. Winnie-the-Pooh 6. Food, but I have no appetite. So, any recommendations? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/2 "2008-10-25T18:43:43Z")
Depends… are you of girl-kind, or guy-kind? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/3 "2008-10-25T18:50:38Z")
Go recklessly shopping. If you’re a chick, get your hair did. Go get a massage. Hang out with your best friend for a full day, then get shitfaced. Hang a picture of your ex on the wall, then desecrate it in some way for some laughs. Then burn it while using plenty of expletives. Punch or throw something. Hard. Then look in the mirror, and think about how temporary all this shit is, and a few months from now, your life will be so different, and you’ll feel so different about everything, because you’ll have changed and learned for the better. And cause you’re probably an awesome person. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/4 "2008-10-25T18:56:11Z")
[failblog.org](http://failblog.org), if schadenfreude cheers you up. It works for me every time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/5 "2008-10-25T19:06:33Z")
I ❤ [failblog.org](http://failblog.org) ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/6 "2008-10-25T19:18:22Z")
Try this on for size: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ\_A&watch\_response](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A&watch_response) The video response is good too. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/7 "2008-10-25T21:51:38Z")
I bought a pile of books! I found the graphic novel version of \*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, as well as a couple books on relationships that might help me out next time I go through this. I work tonight, so it’s mostly Internet for the next few hours. Thanks for all the suggestions :). ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/8 "2008-10-25T22:23:31Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I ❤ [failblog.org](http://failblog.org) The only problem with it is - It’s kind of redundant to put the word ‘fail’ on 90% of the pictures. We know! ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/9 "2008-10-25T22:25:22Z")
Speaking of the Fail Blog, I Can Has Cheezburger is a great source of both cute and occasionally funny pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/10 "2008-10-25T22:34:38Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Try this on for size: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ\_A&watch\_response](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A&watch_response) > > The video response is good too. By the way, this is exactly the sort of Internet thing I’m looking for. It’s wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/11 "2008-10-25T22:53:20Z")
> [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](#): > > By the way, this is exactly the sort of Internet thing I’m looking for. It’s wonderful! On the cute side of things, there is this video. It can be quite sad though. Depending on my mood it makes me go awww, get sniffly, or both: [Shii’s Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irF5fEMixng) Sometimes a good cry after a breakup feels good though. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/12 "2008-10-26T04:59:50Z")
[Webcam feed of puppies sleeping.](http://www.ustream.tv/videoplayerpopup/channel/317016) ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/13 "2008-10-26T07:16:28Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > [Webcam feed of puppies sleeping.](http://www.ustream.tv/videoplayerpopup/channel/317016) Do NOT click on that link, unless you want to be reduced to a pile of goo. It’s an absolute cuteness… and we all know there’s no such thing as an absolute in nature. Its cuteness is perverse – PERVERSE, I SAY! _But I just want to put them all in my shoes!_ ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/14 "2008-10-26T07:31:24Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > The only problem with it is - It’s kind of redundant to put the word ‘fail’ on 90% of the pictures. > > We know! But that’s part of the charm! Especially when it names the FAIL with a precursory descriptor fail. Also, you gotta hand it to [this](http://failblog.org/2008/09/13/invisibility-win/) guy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/15 "2008-10-26T07:39:26Z")
Cheer up. Peace out. [Have a coke](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8H5263jCGg). ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/16 "2008-10-26T07:51:44Z")
[quote=“Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead, post:1, topic:469536”] So, I’m newly broken up, and quite downhearted. All the usual feelings: guilt, fear, loneliness, jealousy, inadequacy. So, I need some innocuous and happy stuff to cheer me up. So far, I have: 1. Cute Overload Dogs…meh…no cats…why no cute kettehs? Need kettehs? [http://icanhascheezburger.com/](http://icanhascheezburger.com/) Cute Overload is … sweet, but get back with us when you has… teh cute… Love, Phil ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/17 "2008-10-26T15:13:53Z")
Yay! This is fun, guys. I’ve also been looking up happy techno, like the Caramelldansen. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/18 "2008-10-26T15:22:52Z")
**The Nairobi Trio** [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uw03hS_EMY) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/19 "2008-10-26T15:27:08Z")
It might not work for you, but when I’m feeling down, I go [here](http://www.waterworxbali.com/nudibranchs.shtml), to the sea slug gallery. If you like all animals, and not just the fuzzy kind, it might hearten you to know that these beautiful creatures actually exist on our planet. I think about them swimming around beneath the ocean’s depths and all just seems right with the world. Also, if you like laughter and silliness, try [www.spamusement.com](http://www.spamusement.com). ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536/20 "2008-10-26T16:53:46Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > It might not work for you, but when I’m feeling down, I go [here](http://www.waterworxbali.com/nudibranchs.shtml), to the sea slug gallery. If you like all animals, and not just the fuzzy kind, it might hearten you to know that these beautiful creatures actually exist on our planet. I think about them swimming around beneath the ocean’s depths and all just seems right with the world. > > Also, if you like laughter and silliness, try [www.spamusement.com](http://www.spamusement.com). The sea slugs cheered me up because they reminded me of experimentation with desensitisation where they basically kept poking slugs 'till they stopped responding. The idea still tickles me. “Ah! What’d you have to go poking my feeding tube for? … Hey! … Hey. … Okay, you know what? Screw you. I’m just going to enjoy myself over here.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-up-thread/469536.md?page=2)