Off Topic Reasons to be Cheerful

Spotted this in a FB post. Absolutely nothing to do with football, but quite uplifting. if you follow the link & go to their website, there's a lot of detail. Don't think Greta Moaneyface has read it. She should!

Cheerful 100

Doctors cured someone of HIV for the second time
Saudi Arabian women gained the right to drive
Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalize gay marriage
India was declared polio-free
America got its first openly trans judge
Canada got its first openly trans judge
India got its first openly trans judge
El Salvador banned metal mining to save their water supply
China banned the ivory trade
We developed a bionic eye
A river in New Zealand gained the same rights as a human
France and Israel banned dangerously underweight models
Giant pandas were removed from the endangered list
So did manatees... and they’re super cute
Beyond Meat hit the market
Australia got its first Indigenous minister
Iceland made gender pay equality mandatory
Canadian doctors prescribed free museum visits for chronic pain and depression
We taught people’s own cells to treat their leukemia
More women are going to college than ever
El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala banned child marriage
(the U.S. still has not)
Kerala declared internet access a basic human right
The last western country legalized gay marraige
Sesame Street created a muppet with autism
Costa Rica ran without fossil fuels for almost a year
#MeToo changed the world
Estonia’s capital made mass transit free
Egyptian women got equal rights to inheritance
Sweden reached its 2030 renewable energy goals
Nine Indigenous tribes in Indonesia got rainforest land rights
A Guatemalan court convicted a palm oil company of “ecocide”
We 3D printed people new body parts
We treated cataracts with eye drops
The EU banned bee-killing pesticides
Humpback whale populations rebounded
Electric cars outsold gas and diesel in Norway
Canada crowdfunded a protected provincial park
Japanese buses began running on algae
The number of democratic countries neared a record high
Europe banned preventative antibiotic use in farm animals
Oslo banned cars from its city center
More American urbanites are living car-free
New Zealand banned automatic weapons
London elected its first Muslim mayor
New HIV infections in New York fell by half
Same-sex marriage reduced LGBT suicide rates in Scandinavia
America’s biggest health insurer started housing its homeless patients
The U.S. prison population fell to a nine-year low
Biofuel powered over 150,000 flights
And SO
MUCH
MORE

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-decade-in-cheer/

 

and after all that Leeds United still struggle to score!?!?

 

Look on the bright side, Johnny, they're still in the Championship, along with Millwall.

 

Picky, picky, WJ, but Australia has it's first PART Aboriginal Minister.

 

And it's only their country, you racist ****s
Sent our criminals over there, and you stole the country.

 

Wtf how's that a reason to be cheerful?

 

When Muslim terrorists assassinate the mayor of London we don't need to worry about it.

 

Nothing racist in my comment, Chesh. He is only part aborigine. I have French ancestry, doesn't make me a frog.

 

Ow yes it does Kermit

 

Why should an autistic muppet improve my mood?

 

Shows that you're not alone?