😢 😃 Actual cheerful nice stories that may give you hope in people

This is pretty awesome

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Was about to go to bed as early flight at stupid o’clock but had to log on to upcite some of these stories … must be tired as eyes seem to be watering…

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Awesome?? Awesome doesn’t go anywhere near it.

I’m trying to write something to express how shit life is and I can’t really find the words.

I’m giving up, I can’t find the words, I’m slightly drunk, 2 of my pool team mates are arguing over shit and you want to grab them and tell them that there’s more to life than they know…

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You have to hang in there BT. The world culture may have become obsessive with ‘self’ and ‘look at me’ and all the shit storm politic of the self obsessed cunts, but stories like the ones above show that there are still times when people show their better side and that they do actually care. Hang on to that when the world being shit depression kicks in…

https://twitter.com/SBOnet_/status/964070899300356096

Edited to include the original tweet

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Fuck sake @goatboy , just seen this!

Good job my eyes are streaming from my cold otherwise people in my office would think I’m soft…

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Not only that, just been reading an article that says that highly processed foods, like chocolate, can cause cancer!

Well done centreparcs…

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I got a hug and a kiss on the cheek from a gran for helping sort some accommodation for her daughter fleeing DV with her little baby today.

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Don’t know if this is cheerful but it appealed to me…

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I done a little cry.

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Man the fuck up @fatso .

Real men don’t cry they just.get things in their eyes.

I’d of got rip grandad’s old phone and text back. “Just been chatting with Jesus and he says to make your dad a cheese sandwich.”

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Not only an amazing (& humble) story, but probably going to become a cracking feel good movie

Once a month ÂŁ10 a hand Poker player from Bridlington takes his bucket list dream a step further than expected then goes back to his old life

I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: The ÂŁ10-a-game poker player who won $2.6m - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43156512

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I think this belongs here.

I have had the real privilege of working with a couple of these wonderful examples of the richness of the human species.

And, just as in Iceland, pre-birth testing will soon ensure that these mistakes of nature are extinct in the UK.

The world will be slightly more ‘perfect’ and yet slightly more flawed.

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Over the years MS sufferers have come to expect little in the way of relief.

So many false dawns over the years but…

Stem cell transplant ‘game changer’ for MS patients

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Are they “improving” the testing then @saintbletch ?

When we were told that the girls had larger then normal nuchal folds we were offered the choice of 2 tests, amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, both had a chance of causing miscarriage so we declined. Our neo-natal doctor kept pushing for us to have the tests. We weren’t given any advice on top of that!

The girls are 8 at the end of this month and I’m glad we decided not to have any tests, they’re hard work but they’re worth it.

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Yes, @btripz , DNA profiling will now give a 99% accurate, non-invasive screen at 12 weeks.

Currently in the UK, 90% of people given a Down’s Syndrome diagnosis chose to terminate.

In Iceland over the last 5 years 100% of diagnoses result in termination. Put another way, Down’s Syndrome births no longer happen there.

There is now a very real possibility that the UK will head that way too.

If you haven’t seen it, this it’s a great documentary made by Sally Philips (who I have a huge crush on anyway) who has a Down’s Syndrome boy.

A statistic that shocked me from the film was that there are only 40,000 people with Down’s Syndrome in the UK.

If you didn’t already know it, your girls are very, very special - and they are beautiful too BTW, but that’s obviously down to Mrs B.

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Aye @saintbletch I have seen that documentary, I must have missed the bit about the DNA screening though.

Apparently twins with Downs is a 1 in 2,000,000 occurence, so yes they are indeed very special :lou_lol:

Their beauty without is certainly not down to me, however their internal beauty is all mine :lou_surprised:

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