# Just Say Something Nice **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280 "2009-07-26T01:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/41 "2009-07-28T00:02:40Z")
The world is amazing. There are organisms that exist solely because they help each other; bees feed off the nectar of flowers and the flowers are able to pollinate each other because of the bees. There is [electricity in the sky](http://mcgonnigle.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/lightning.jpg). There are [underwater caves that seem bottomless](http://www.shark-freediving.com/blog/wp-content/upLoads/2009/07/deansbluehole.jpg). And what about the things humans have come up with? We keep finding ways to make tasks more and more simple. Increasing our understanding of the world around us (and the things outside of it – we’ve been to the moon!) We’ve domesticated animals. We’ve created computer programs that can hold a basic conversation. We’ve created writing, so that we can communicate with people thousands of years in the future if we so desire, and still feel strongly the emotions of people hundreds of years in the past. We can feel incredible, intense love. We can melt down the strongest metals. We can FLY! > [@ianzin](#): > > 1. No matter who you are, I guarantee that [‘Jozin z bazin’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV2NpPqIHnw) will cheer you up. Sing along! Do the dance! And a little [Begüm Begüm Huuuuu](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqJ2HvqnVRs) can’t hurt either! ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/42 "2009-07-28T01:53:54Z")
[Baby Bunnies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=525252)? Seriously, my whole outlook on life changed when I started learning to see the things to be grateful for. Gratitude is “something nice”. ---
**Author:** ![Other\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Other\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Other_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/43 "2009-07-28T06:06:17Z")
Is any of this helping, **SixSwordS**? You’ve gone quiet and I’m worried. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/44 "2009-07-28T08:44:30Z")
Yesterday I was tired and tummy-sick. I forgot my camera in the bus. I realized it today, called the bus company. Someone had noticed and given the camera to the driver. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/45 "2009-07-28T15:12:56Z")
ianzin, I might have to print that list out for myself. Thanks for taking the time to put that together. My contributions: dolphins chocolate-chip cookies being inside, all warm and dry, and looking out the window to watch a storm pass through taking a nap and drifting off to the sound of cicadas droning and a cat purring ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/46 "2009-07-28T18:49:13Z")
Thank you, **Purplehorseshoe**. I wonder what exactly is a horses hoe? I share **Other Dreams** ’s concern that we haven’t heard from **SixSwords**. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/47 "2009-07-28T19:56:01Z")
I recall an “Burns and Allen” old time radio show. Gracie) George don’t you know if you can’t say something good about someone don’t say anything. Geroge) OK you’re mother finally went back to San Francisco. That’s GOOD. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baby\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Baby\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baby_Driver)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/48 "2009-07-28T20:27:51Z")
I posted this in my online journal about a week ago. > [@](#): > > **Male Beauty (it’s good to be alive)** > > There is a beautiful young man taking the flight back to Newark from Toronto. I first saw him in line at customs, and now he is seated two rows up on the opposite side of the aisle. > > He is not tall – 5’10 or 5’11. He is wearing a tight black tank top and headphones, and is muscled like a man who takes it seriously, knots of muscle down the length of his arms and a tapered waist. He is white, clean-shaven, has dark brown hair and an angular face. His cheeks pop out above the hollows like small cats. They extend beyond the bone; they are separate entities from him. He looks like a Burberry model. He is beautiful like a girl. He is beautiful like a cat. > > He was many paces ahead of me at customs and was listening to music. His headphones looked expensive. He was arresting and immediate and it seemed only appropriate to gawp at him as one might gawp at a three story tall champagne fountain in the middle of a hotel lobby. It transcends carnality, I thought. I am detached. I am observing this young Dionysian with journalistic integrity and humor. As I was telling myself this I felt a warm, indelible tingle travel from the backs of my thighs up my buttocks and back down. The sensation was as bodily as farting and inadvertent as wetting the bed. I felt the hot embarrassment of being caught out, quickly eclipsed by amusement. > > And so now I am sitting here on the plane, feeling languorous and deboned and very human. The plane sat on the runway for a long time with the A/C off. I’ve started The Human Stain by Phillip Roth, and oh is the writing good! It is good, and I feel like half-drunk coffee. I feel warm, and liquid, and milky tan, like coffee with cream – and I am creamed. I’ve dog-eared some of my favorite passages in the novel, the plane is noisily vibrating around me, and I am chock-full of life. Oh life, life, beautiful life – I toast you with my half-drunk coffee. Hallelujah and amen. It’s good to see an attractive person and feel hopeless unrequited lust for them for a moment before moving on. It celebrates your humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Other\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Other\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Other_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/49 "2009-07-28T20:46:49Z")
> [@Baby\_Driver](#): > > I posted this in my online journal about a week ago. > > It’s good to see an attractive person and feel hopeless unrequited lust for them for a moment before moving on. It celebrates your humanity. Your writing is delicious. Ah, if only you could have taken pictures of the man! Then I would surely share your delight! I completely agree with Baby Driver’s observations. HUMANITY!!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/50 "2009-07-29T10:38:50Z")
Well, the ghost is at it again. First it took all my spoons and then my pants and my skirt. I don’t know, maybe it was throwing a dinner party in the afterlife. Hey, even dead people gotta have something to do. I was amused when it left something on my sofa–an instruction book for operating a Eureka vacuum cleaner. I got the cleaner in 1990 and I know how to operate it and no book came with it. This thing just appeared on my sofa. Yeah, I guess my living room is intended to host Dance Party From Hell and the ghost is telling me to clean up. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/51 "2009-07-29T12:12:13Z")
I have an ice cold beer and I put an extra few in the fridge for you. ---
**Author:** ![Baby\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Baby\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baby_Driver)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/52 "2009-07-29T19:21:54Z")
> [@Other\_Dreams](#): > > Your writing is delicious. Ah, if only you could have taken pictures of the man! Then I would surely share your delight! > > I completely agree with Baby Driver’s observations. HUMANITY!!! 😛 Thanks, **Other Dreams**. You made my day 😃 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/53 "2009-07-29T21:28:06Z")
**SiXSwordS** , your capitalization is interesting. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/54 "2009-07-29T21:35:30Z")
Our weather has been lovely lately. ---
**Author:** ![Other\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Other\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Other_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/55 "2009-07-29T21:40:11Z")
> [@Baby\_Driver](#): > > Thanks, **Other Dreams**. You made my day 😃 😃 Sweet! It also made me crave coffee…😛 ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/56 "2009-07-31T01:37:10Z")
Seems like the best place to put this: \*\* ianzin\*\*, such a good list, thanks for good reminders, and so many others here. I’ve just gone through a two week period of emergency care of a beloved cat, diagnosed with a brain infection, which the very good compassionate veterinarians were not able to get an accurate diagnosis. We took her to the NC State Vet school, and, after a long time of good care and trying, she was not able to make it. They were so compassionate and professional—to have that experience in light of the recent health care focus was a nice lesson in people who practice medicine with long hours and great care. Today, the mail brought a small plaster cast of my kitty’s pawprints that the neurologist had done after her death, with her name put in, wrapped in mesh organza bag and a handwritten note from the neurologist that was perfectly worded for our grief. Such a small sweet thing, those kitty prints. I would have never thought of that, and had said that the autopsy was important because it is a teaching hospital, and her case was such a mystery… not particularly attached to a gone body for closure. But, I look at these imprinted pawprints, my sweet girl gone on yond, so sudden, and am grateful for that thoughtfulness of those veterinarians who know that it matters. Good to know that it is protocol at NCSU, taught with heart. Good medicine there. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280/57 "2009-08-01T15:01:27Z")
For all that the world is full of arseholes,criminals and the totally pig ignorant there are still a not inconsiderable number of complete strangers who will do a good deed for another complete stranger on the spur of the moment for totally no advantage to themselves,not even recognition of their act. They help you and then go there own way. This always inspires me and I try as best I can to emulate them when the opportunity arises. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-say-something-nice/504280.md?page=2)