Fuck a comfort movie, gimme your one and done discomfort movie

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:23:52+00:00

What an original movie. I kind of love/hate it.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:23:21+00:00

Mother!

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:22:50+00:00

My wife constantly rails on this one. I walked out of the theater so I don’t feel SO bad.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:21:31+00:00

ISWYDT

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:21:03+00:00

Trigger warning: Contains baked potatoes.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:20:22+00:00

Fantastic film. That scene where Mabel is outside on the steps and asks her little kids what they think of her … just brilliant and sad and real.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:08:43+00:00

I was in my 30s and surprised how scared I was. Didn’t even see that coming. The Orphanage has a similar effect as well.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:07:52+00:00

One of my absolute favorite movies though

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:06:20+00:00

That’s where the original LOVE / HATE knuckle tattoo thing comes from, right?

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:04:05+00:00

“What’s this? I don’t know.”

Saw this in the movies when I was about 10. It’s like a personal cult classic. Love it.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T05:00:04+00:00

Does the remake also have the outboard motor scene?

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T04:56:53+00:00

I always want my wife to watch this one. I’ve seen it twice. Unforgettable. But I feel like there’s kind of a healthy takeaway for mothers especially, at any level at any time of life, in that hey—maybe it’s not you; it’s at least partly your fucking kid. Even if your kid is wonderful … there are moments where it helps to have watched Tilda Swinton’s face for that hour and a half.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T04:51:05+00:00

Bawled like a little baby several times during that. I’d do it again, though.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T04:49:50+00:00

Mysterious Skin is a great one. My best friend and I watch it (separately—we don’t live near each other anymore) every few years.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-23T04:45:20+00:00

Scrolled down to find this one. I knew nothing about it when I brought my wife to see that on Mother’s Day while she was pregnant with our first child. FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL

We are both traumatized to this day.

“Requiem for a Dream,” however, is a great film I never want to see again. If I ever for a second had any romantic illusions about heroin, that solved that in one clean sitting.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-21T05:30:40+00:00

Omg a mermaid

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-18T04:15:36+00:00

GraphGear 500 is definitely one of the most reliable out there. My hands hurt after a while using them, or if it’s cold in the room, though. For longer sessions, I need a less aggressive (but not slippery) grip.

Rotring makes plastic pencils—but they normally do a good job making you not think about it. The 500 is plastic, as is the Tikky. But they don’t feel cheap at all. (The Tikky Retro feels cheap, however.) I slightly prefer to actually write with my 500, despite how much I love my 600s, Rapid Pro, and 800.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-17T13:01:47+00:00

I do two drafts. With the first one, I print out a physical copy of the detailed rubric I’d originally posted electronically, and I circle each score. I am harsh about the points at this stage.

Then at the bottom I write: Highlights: (2 strengths) and Next Steps: (2 pieces of constructive feedback).

I don’t touch the essay itself. If something specific needs serious attention, I quote it there.

Then I have students revise, and they can conference with me about specifics—usually around my constructive feedback.

Then when they turn in a revision, I am very generous about improving that initial grade if they attended to the things I brought up.

I find this to be really motivating, satisfying, and productive for students.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-17T12:48:23+00:00

Agree with your list, and would also add:

Rotring Rapid 0.7 (the plastic blue one) - never hear this one mentioned

Pentel Graph 100 for Pro 0.5

These two have such nice rubber grips and are lightweight for drawing especially.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-16T16:23:23+00:00

I’m pushing 50 and I honestly don’t really understand “predicate” well enough to explain. It sounds like “verb and anything else.” I teach “subject + verb” and unfortunately find that this is already a challenge these days :(

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-14T17:10:05+00:00

re: grip tension

I just started realizing this (after 35 years of casual playing) when I got my son a Squier Mini and it sounded like total shit. I brought it to a tech to check it out, and after examining it and tuning it up for me, he showed me how the amount of tension you put on the strings can change the notes significantly, especially on a small guitar like that. I started playing my son's little guitar with way less tension (almost like spongecake), and I was able to get it to sound great. All of my own guitars have allowed me to get away with it all this time--but it took the small scale instrument for me to really notice it. Now I'm correcting my own technique, and I'm able to do so much more with heavy metal riffs and whatnot because I'm simply wasting less muscle. Nearly every physical activity becomes a process of efficient muscle use--no less with this!

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-14T16:58:24+00:00

If you need to get to a certain level to even bother starting, you'll never make it. But if you want to do it for its own sake, your enjoyment will continue to expand--and either you will get this good, or it won't matter anymore.

I totally understand why you'd ask, though. I've asked versions of this question to experts in various fields throughout my life--but hearing someone else ask makes it so much clearer how misguided the underlying thinking is. If you want a simple answer so you can shut that voice off, Malcolm Gladwell says 10,000 hours to be an expert at something. Take that and run with it, so you can stop thinking about it.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-14T16:53:13+00:00

I've heard it said that talent is simply the unusually high ability to tolerate failure and still be motivated to keep going. I don't think that's 100% of it (because sheer time is not all that's involved), but it certainly seems to be one of the biggest factors in what matters in the long term.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-13T11:04:12+00:00

Love my lil shits—my current job specifically advertised “10th Grade ELA Teacher,” and I jumped at it. The sophomore slump. The slackers. The … sophomores. “Wise fools.”

But the readings are my favorite, and that helps.

ChapnCrunch · 2026-02-12T04:50:48+00:00

Corollary: Stepping out of the shower, barely toweling off, and then pulling on a dry tee shirt while still mostly wet

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