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What are some things you like but tend not to admit liking out of fear you'll be castigated?

Usually when I ask this kind of question I go first as a gesture of hospitality. But here my naked motive is that I want to castigate someone. Will it be you or must a stranger suffer?

Relatedly, how fucking great a word is "castigate"? It's a shame it means castigate. Rather than casting a gate across a fence, which is maximum punk rock. Because we think of casting as an offhand gesture. To toss aside a gate requires great strength. As well as disdain for bystanders. Perhaps it is this that attracts me about the word and makes me want to castigate you.

I wrote this after finding out people tend to hate Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. I refuse to say whether I agree with them.

Anyone who reads this and does not respond runs a risk they can probably guess.

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there is some cinema i admire that others - let's call them Heartless Bastards - are pleased to call "maudlin" (well, it probably is / but all maudlin isn't created equal, dammit ..): Snoopy, Come Home, Portrait of Jennie, and - sure - aspects of Bridesmaids mebbe possibly come under that umbrella.

"Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share." - Graham Greene

Hear! Hear!

Yes!

YES

Oh, fine.

I mean.

Fine.

But listen.

You had to at least suspect Snoopy was going to make it home.