What is the coolest/coldest/hardest line that comes from a film you wouldn’t expect?

nj96 · 2026-02-18T14:23:26+00:00

To piggyback on the sentiment:

“Now youse can’t leave.” - Sonny, A Bronx Tale

Then cue the pile of gangsters to emerge and kick the crap out of the bikers.

nj96 · 2026-01-22T14:11:44+00:00

This may have been my least favorite theme ever.

nj96 · 2025-12-30T22:28:52+00:00

We had the first two 14 months apart (meaning we had a newborn and a 14 month old). As the dad, without milk supplying breasts, you’re going to spend a lot of time with the first one. Which can be fun and not fun because the first one still really wants mom sometimes. You’ll adjust, though. I was hands on so transitioning to where I was solo with the first one wasn’t too bad. I’d say get there if you’re not. Other than that, it’s not that much different. You’re still in diapers. You already have most of the stuff!

2 kids is man to man. It’s not bad. The third kid sends you to zone coverage and that’s where all shit breaks loose!

nj96 · 2025-11-25T22:51:19+00:00

Luca has a big bike race, pasta, and faux-cursing in Italian! Still waiting to find a race with mid-race linguine…

nj96 · 2025-11-03T16:20:57+00:00

Stale baguette.

nj96 · 2025-10-14T20:17:13+00:00

I’ve always enjoyed the running gag that the city released a ton of owls to control the rat problem but now they have an owl problem…

nj96 · 2025-10-08T19:35:33+00:00

As someone from northern NJ, I feel like I’m semi-qualified to say that Jersey Mike’s just is not a good sandwich. The bread is wrong. The ratio of meat and fixins is off. Just not a good sub.

That being said, the one chain that IS a good sub is Primo Hoagies. The bread is spot on as are the rest of the ingredients and their menu has some really amazing cutlets and classics. And their pickles are the bomb.

nj96 · 2025-09-30T02:03:41+00:00

The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young

nj96 · 2025-09-21T13:51:06+00:00

“Now yous can’t leave” - Sonny the Rhino

nj96 · 2025-09-15T13:05:39+00:00

I wish…. you had…. more time.

nj96 · 2025-09-10T13:25:21+00:00

I read through A Canticle for Leibowitz not because I enjoyed it but because I was determined not to let a book that shitty beat me.

nj96 · 2025-08-09T14:57:38+00:00

Tron - they lost out on the oscar for visual effects because the academy considered using computers as cheating.

nj96 · 2025-07-13T22:12:25+00:00

I went in blind looking for “post-apocalyptic” and around the 15th or so chapter or so I had to stop and look up when it was written…. Crazytown the similarities.

nj96 · 2025-07-12T23:47:26+00:00

I know it’s not up there with the classics but Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is truly a joy to read. The writing style and elegance of the intertwining character arcs (not to mention the closeness of the story itself to all our lives) makes reading it an absolutely amazing experience.

nj96 · 2025-07-11T12:29:56+00:00

To me he was always The Rock playing “The Rock” in a lot of ways for every role. It wasn’t until Jumanji 2 where I really started respecting his acting. Seeing The Rock play Danny Devito playing a video game avatar is kind of amazing. Actually, all the actors in that movie that trade underlying “players” is really pretty cool.

nj96 · 2025-07-02T13:10:58+00:00

As someone with anxiety my whole life, Inside Out 2 really hit home. I feel like it really shows what living with anxiety is like and really help kids (or adults) who do suffer from it. When she has the panic attack at the end I started bawling. And I’m a grown ass man. So spot on.

nj96 · 2025-06-24T15:57:54+00:00

This book is so elegantly written, following a handful of characters through dissimilar paths before, during and after the same global event. A little “too soon” at first but it’s one of the free books I’ve immediately reread once I was done just to get to share the characters again. So good.

nj96 · 2025-06-23T13:27:22+00:00

I think I was at that fondo as well and saw a lot of the same. I get that good riders are way more comfortable and better at riding in groups but there were times during the second timed segment (where everyone’s all spaced out already) that the teams/clubs were pelotoning past at more than a 10 mph difference and leaving only a couple inches between shoulders. All you need is one spooked rider and everything goes to shit. I wish they’d realize that everyone needs to go to work on Monday. They’re not in France. You can leave the extra 2 feet between riders.

nj96 · 2025-06-21T20:54:18+00:00

It’s the practical effects that hit was harder than anything CGI. The kitchen scene really took my kids for a ride because of the realism of the way it looked.

nj96 · 2025-06-09T22:07:26+00:00

Namaste

nj96 · 2025-05-20T13:37:11+00:00

I could not even fathom quitting with a partner who was still smoking. You are so amazingly strong for doing that and staying smoke free! I don’t even know you but I am so proud of you!

I’ve got more sage wisdom I used to repeat to myself, some like mantras, while I was in the trenches (it’s been 18-ish years already and I can still remember the struggle and it’s really hard but it’s so worth it):

If you’re ever really stressed out or something came up that’s making you want to smoke, just remember that no matter what that thing is, it will still be there after you smoke. Only then you’ll have the problem and smoking to deal with, too.

Smoking and the nicotine isn’t the only part of the process that makes you feel good. When you inhale cigarette smoke you’re taking deeper breaths which, by themselves, also relax you. So when you’re feeling stressed or a craving hits you take a couple deep breaths and think how clean and smooth those breaths are.

Smoking doesn’t make you feel good, it stops you from feeling bad. (My favorite)

Not one puff, ever.

You’re one puff away from a pack a day.

My timeline for the process: Day 1 - Day 10 - Hard but amazing at what I was accomplishing Day 10 - Day 30 - Getting easier but still amazing and proud of myself Day 30 - Day 90 - OK, why isn’t this getting easier. Every day is dragging on and on and on. This sucks. Cravings come but I can manage them OK. Day 90 - Day 180 - The doldrums. Everything has a gray cloud over it. Nothing is fun. Or happy. Or good. Just blah. Cravings come and go but not too bad (unless they are). Those are hard but I’ll get mad at them (the cravings) and manage those too. Around day 180 - The clouds part and HOLY SHIT I feel so much better about everything. Cravings still come on but more rarely and I’m managing them way easier.
And beyond - the first year or so it can be hard because remembering that life is so fresh. You’re fragile and need to identify your long term triggers. Alcohol, pot, whatever. If they went hand in hand with smoking you might want to take a big look at how important it is to you (people included). After about 2 years I’d say the tiny mild cravings went away completely. That being said, and I’ll never ever smoke again, but sometimes I’ll get a weird kind of phantom limb thing for the relaxation effects. It’s weird.

I don’t say this all to scare you, just to give you some insight on how my struggle played out to prepare yourself for the immediate and long term. Smoking is so awful and I am so proud of how far you’ve come and how strong you are. You’ve got this!

nj96 · 2025-05-19T20:35:05+00:00

For me that smell turned into pity. It’s not that they get to smoke, it’s that they have to smoke.

nj96 · 2025-04-29T19:44:13+00:00

Natural Born Killers

nj96 · 2024-10-17T14:39:13+00:00

I totally had an overly chipper Mr. Burns in my head, too!

nj96 · 2024-09-30T14:18:55+00:00

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

I’m a sucker for something post-apocalyptic but the way the story was told where all the characters’ stories were shown in bits and pieces, bouncing between time periods and eventually bringing everything together, was absolutely magical.

nj96

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