Re: OT: GivesMeHope.com

OT: GivesMeHope.com by Sedri on 2009-06-22 23:48:00 UTC Reply

Plugging a lovely if utterly un-PPC-like website called Gives Me Hope .Com.

It's basically a reservoir for uplifting stories about the lovely things people do for each other - big and small. Reading a few of these every day could, I think, make everyone in this world just a little more optimistic. And just to prove that I'm a softie, this one made me cry:

A boy was dying of cancer and needed an expensive brain surgery, but his family, broke and desperate, couldn't afford it. His eight year old took sister Tess took her piggy bank savings to a pharmacist in order to buy a 'miracle'. It just so happens that the right man witnessed the little girl's tears at the pharmacy counter: a neurosurgeon. He performed the surgery for free.

Re: OT: GivesMeHope.com by Paladin on 2009-06-23 05:54:00 UTC Reply

There's another similar site, MylifeisG.com, which is basically the same premise, if a little more down to earth and mundane. There's a lot of "OMG, the guy I like likes me!" Still, kind of cute, though sometimes the bitterness in me overwhelms it all. I still think FML is still more amusing, though.

My Life is Average (mlia.com) on the other hand, is just plain depressing and utterly boring.
Sorry to be a skeptic... by Maudlin Hart on 2009-06-23 00:58:00 UTC Reply

http://snopes.com/glurge/price.asp

Frankly, I don't much care. by Sedri on 2009-06-23 04:24:00 UTC Reply

No offense, of course, but it's the sentiment that counts, not the veracity. And anyway, it was jut an example. Most of the stories there are in first person and somewhat more reliable.

Ah well. (nm) by Maudlin Hart on 2009-06-29 00:51:00 UTC Reply