DasFaultier

Yes Pinocchio.

Damn, UP nearly killed me! I mean, he loses Elli (yes, i know that name and it made it hit doubly hard) AND the dog?

(Also, there seems to be an updog joke hidden somewhere in here, but I can't seem to find it.)

Yeah man, all the time, and for the stupidest shit. Everything from children's series to grown-up movies. My wife sometimes side-eyes me for it, but she's not much better herself and usually, when one of us cries the other one joins in. It's become a cute thing between us to catch or make the other one do it first, and I love it. Also, it's a way to teach my little son that it's OK to cry and not a matter of shame. Yes, ugly cry as well. Yes, also in front of others.

For reference I’m a 39 year old dude, not that it matters.

EDIT because I saw it in the thread: Lyrics! I have songs that I can't listen to while driving, because I can't drive while I ugly cry because that wouldn't be safe.

One thing that especially hits me are acts of selflessness, be it in fiction or the actual real world. We have semi-regular floods on the river meat where I live, and I usually try to volunteer to help out with sand barriers. And everytime just seeing all those people coming together in their free time, getting wet and dirty and sweaty and exhausted, not expecting a single thing, just because it's the right thing to do and because apparently we look after one another in this 600k people city... Just typing it out makes me tear up again.

Yeah, they're clearly picking a fight, aren't they? *cracks knuckles*

Also, fried bacon!

I like what the Hitchhiker's Guide proposed: have their clothes make one step to the left. Or, even better for some people (esp. men): do it with their makeup. Perhaps fake teeth/hair.

Also, why manipulate the mug they're drinking out of when you can manipulate the fluid inside of it?

You could tie their shoe strings mid walk... Constantly switch the key caps on their keyboard around (you just know they have to look down while typing)...

Auch nein.

We would domesticate large carnivores in no time by just providing food and back scritches.

Damn those are fine reasons to be proud! We all despise ourselves, I sure know I do, because we see the inside of our heads. But we also have to look beyond that. You seem like a good person; I hope you get through your struggles soon.

• I very literally survived the baby years of my son without killing myself or him, and now I'm still here. And that also means that I get to see the cool little boy that he's become, and that I get to tell me I helped make due to my efforts.
• I learned to whistle with fingers in mouth, which makes a) for a very loud whistle and b) me fell unreasonably proud and manly.
• I managed to buy a pretty run down house with my wife and we've rebuilt a huge part of it, so it can be a home for our family. I've leaned a shitton of things that I never thought I could do, and some that I never wanted to learn. And it have me a great excuse to buy all kinds of tools that I've always wanted but never needed. Like, I even own an old-timey scythe and 2 axes. \o/
• I was recently voted staff council member (which, yeah, k), and after that, several colleages, some of which I barely know, came up to me to tell me they were glass I made or, because they liked my style of working.
• I managed to raise a puppy without having him starve to death because I was an unresponsively piece of shit, and I was rewarded with my soul dog and just a very, very good girl in general.
• I was able to make some modernizing changes in IT at work, and that's even though I'm in public service, where things move with the swiftness of tar.
• I recently was able to set a border with someone on something I didn't want to do anymore. It was a small thing, but felt big for me.
• I recently passed my chainsaws license, so now I'm allowed to fell trees in public woods. Again, totally unreasonably proud and manly.
• I can back up my little trailer almost all the way into or long and narrow driveway. Not all the way yet, but someday.

Thank you for asking, that was actually a wonderful way to start my morning to early. :-D You can be proud for instilling that feeling in people, or at the very least in me.

What about you, @TehBamski, what else are you proud of?

I'm too lazy to search for the image I usually use.

Fuck yeah, ATCs are heroes in my book.