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RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - Norgarth - 02-17-2021
30 Taliban Militants Killed In Own Explosion During Bomb-Making Class
https://9gag.com/gag/a4EZxe1
Karma strikes again
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - Star Ranger4 - 02-17-2021
*looks closely at the url* Sounds too good to be true Norgarth.
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 02-17-2021
... and to think, Rajvik decided we were all too squishy-soft bleeding heart liberal hippy-dippy-doo to get along with.
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - Norgarth - 02-17-2021
(02-17-2021, 03:53 PM)Star Ranger4 Wrote: *looks closely at the url* Sounds too good to be true Norgarth.
A reasonable concern, here's their source, an Afgani newspaper
https://www.khaama.com/30-taliban-killed-in-own-ied-explosion-332233/
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - DHBirr - 02-19-2021
Turtlepocalypse ... not if the US military has anything to say about it.
Headline: Hundreds of helpless cold-stunned sea turtles rescued by Navy pilots and pickup trucks
What the headline itself doesn't make clear, by the way, is that this wasn't an assigned military mission, but volunteers, many of whom happened to be military members or trainees, performing animal rescue after their normal duty hours.
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Up, lad, up! We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 02-19-2021
(looks down at .sig) Do turtles count as dragons, then?
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - DHBirr - 02-19-2021
(02-19-2021, 01:15 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: (looks down at .sig) Do turtles count as dragons, then?
Check out m'main reptile Gamera, the original mutant turtle. Flies and breathes fire ... he's dragon enough for me!
Edit: And here is another morsel of "feel-good." All is not cold and selfishness in Texas at present....
Quote:Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale is known for his showmanship, even airing television commercials in which he’s actually wearing a mattress to draw attention to his stores.
But McIngvale is becoming more famous for something else: turning his expansive showrooms into lifesaving shelters.
He opened his Gallery Furniture stores to people who fled Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019.
Now he’s doing it for those who have been hit hard by a deadly winter storm that has left more than 3 million Texans without power and running water in record-setting freezing temperatures.
“The logistics are a little hard, but we’re making it work,” said McIngvale. “The main thing is to get people out of the cold.”
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Anyone is welcome to use the beds and sofas in his showrooms, take in a movie or basketball game on his big screen televisions and sit down to a hot meal, said McIngvale, 70.
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 03-07-2021
Why this homeowner accepted the lowest bid in London's hottest market
London, Ontario, that is.
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - Dartz - 03-07-2021
That's not really a feel good story.
It's an abherration in a broken system that is creating an artifical social strata.
Or maybe I'm just becoming a misereable bastard these days
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 03-13-2021
They called him 'Bruce'.
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 03-15-2021
This should count as "feel-good" to a large number of board members:
Netflix’s Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Series Wraps Production!
I hadn't even heard it had restarted, although it had certainly been long enough for John Cho's leg to heal.
Interestingly, there's still no word about the casting of Ed. Given we've even seen Ein's "performer", this is very odd indeed. Could it be Ed's a CG character, just to handle some of her eccentricities?
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 03-15-2021
If she can't stick a toe in her ear, it's not really Ed!
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 03-15-2021
Yo-Yo Ma celebrates his second COVID-19 shot by giving an impromptu performance to everyone who was still waiting in line
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 03-24-2021
Dolphins spotted swimming in Venice's Grand Canal
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 03-25-2021
The most Canadian story you'll read all day:
Beaver spotted in Toronto subway station
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 03-25-2021
Centuries-old French oaks selected and harvested for new spire for Notre Dame
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 08-19-2021
Olympic athlete Maria Andrejczyk auctions off silver medal to pay for an infant's heart surgery
That isn't the only heartwarming part.
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SpoilerRE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - Norgarth - 08-20-2021
Olympic Gold Medalist tracks down stranger who payed for his cab
EDIT:
Oklahoma mom flies to Afganistan to rescue members of all-girl Afgan robotics team (stub)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/oklahoma-mom-rescues-girls-afghan-robotics-team?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 08-31-2021
At the world's oldest social housing, rent hasn't changed since 1521
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 09-03-2021
A simple little memorial to one person, located in the middle of a major government-funded reconstruction project, is still worth protecting.
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 09-15-2021
Hurricane Larry kept these newlyweds from seeing Alan Doyle live. So he played at their wedding
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - Labster - 09-15-2021
Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater
Prices unheard of since… July last year. Another clickbait headline by the sensationalist CBC, but normally priced lumber still makes me feel good.
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 03-20-2022
I don't know which is worse - the fact that there have been so few feel-good stories lately that we let this thread slip down to page 4 of the thread listings, the fact that this is a feel-good story, or the fact that it's so rare as to be newsworthy.
B.C. coffee shop owner starts paying his staff a living wage
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - robkelk - 03-25-2022
Fairy tale partially defictionalized
![[Image: goat-arret-on-the-back-of-horse-bouge.jpg]](https://i.cbc.ca/1.6395634.1648080798!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/goat-arret-on-the-back-of-horse-bouge.jpg)
RE: Feel-good stories spotted in the news - Norgarth - 03-25-2022
(03-25-2022, 06:12 AM)robkelk Wrote: Fairy tale partially defictionalized
so? You're acting like you've never seen a kid riding a horse before.
