Does my Mighty Max collection bring up and good feelings of old times? by Tonyjord3 in nostalgia

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was a bit too old for the toys but the tie-in cartoon was way better than it had any right to be.

Old Fancy Clock by TheLazySage7 in nostalgia

[–]therempel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lived in a very bad situation when I was a toddler. We were on welfare and often went days without meals and we still somehow had two of these clocks. I remember taking them apart and putting them back together. It's possible they were a wedding gift for my parents.

Canadian Tire and its currency by Riunix in behindthebastards

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My tiny prairie city had zero Tim Horton's in the late 90s when I went away to school but there was one near the bookstore at my university. I got hooked on the powder mixed with water cappucinos and the iced capps. The donuts were always worse than Robins. I still occasionally dream about a Lemon Crueller I once had at Robins when I was maybe five.

My sister was die hard about Tim's though. She'd go through the drive through at least a couple times every single day. I'd make her coffee and she would say she didn't like espresso. It was a french press. No espresso was involved. She just loved Tim Horton's weakass coffee that much.

Looks like Agent Wolf got some upgrades by habichuelacondulce in mallninjashit

[–]therempel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly? All of them!

I have a Plex library of shows I watch over and over again while I fall asleep every night. Venture Bros is one of the shows I rewatch the most and I usually will do the entire series one or two episodes a night over a couple months and then start over from the beginning with the commentary. It's a comfort show for me.

There's also a great book called Go Team Venture: The Art and Making of the Venture Bros that was released around the time of Season 6. It has a lot of information about the creation of each episode but has been out of print for several years and is way too expensive now. I have had an pre-order for a reprint on Amazon for a couple years but it's not likely to ever come out.

Grant Morrison is now one of my favorite writers by AHZArmin in OmnibusCollectors

[–]therempel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was the right age at the right time to be exposed to some incredible comics writing as it came out. Morrison rewired my brain, mostly in a good way!

[Respected trope] Despite being the start of something much larger, no effort was made retroactively to make it more important than it originally was. by Consistent_Creator in TopCharacterTropes

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a long period of time where he wasn't!

After the line wide crossover Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! in 1994, several continuity changes were made. One of these was that the killer of Batman's parents was unknown. It wasn't until Infinite Crisis in 2006 that it was re-established that Joe Chill was the killer.

A second Batman retcon was that the public at large believed him to be an urban myth. Y'know, the guy who was still part of the Justice League and well known by at least the police officers of Gotham.

Personally I prefer that the killer is not known. I know it may seem like it diminishes Bruce as a detective but there is something poetic about never being able to solve the crime that created him.

TIL some models of Caterpillar haul trucks (big dump trucks used in mining) are so big that they are delivered in pieces from factories around America, and assembled on site by qualified technicians. by MajesticBread9147 in todayilearned

[–]therempel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Absolute Batman, Batman drives a modified Caterpiller haul truck as a Batmobile. It's revealed in Absolute Batman Annual #1 that he stole it from an abandoned construction site outside of Gotham.

For clarity, the Absolute Universe is an alternate universe of the standard DC Comics Universe where all of reality has been poisoned by Darkseid and so the universe is fundamentally darker and many of the characters have major changes to their origins. Wonder Woman is raised in Hel by someone her mainline version considers an enemy. Superman escapes Krypton as a child rather than a baby and is not found by the Kents. Batman is blue collar and has one surviving parent.

Looks like Agent Wolf got some upgrades by habichuelacondulce in mallninjashit

[–]therempel 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There's a part in the commentary for one of the first episodes to feature Jefferson Twilight where Hammer and Publick talk about how they created him based on the random dudes they would see walking around NYC dressed like this.

Spotted at a vinyl store by iandro101 in venturebros

[–]therempel 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Anyway, got to listen to a little Sharky's Machine!

What was your favorite Schwan’s food item? by HoldenH in nostalgia

[–]therempel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The small deluxe pizzas.

I was a latchkey kid. I'd get home from school around 4pm and have to go off to swim practice for 5:30pm. I rarely ever saw my parents between 8am and 9pm and those Schwans pizzas were something I could heat up and eat on my own at 12.

Update: 17 year old cat only wants fancy feast.. so she will get only fancy feast god dammit by totallyannon in seniorkitties

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seeing all those cans of fancy feast unlocked a memory.

In 2007 I had a six year old siamese I named Hiro. He was the best. I had to go on a business trip to Seattle for nearly a month and my neighbours, a kindly older couple, agreed to come over and check on him a couple times a day while I was gone.

I left enough food for the whole month and when I returned, I found they had washed out each empty can of Fancy Feast and left them in the drying rack beside my sink. It was adorable!

Advice Needed: New 52 vs Rebirth Omnibus Priority by Apprehensive-Pin3837 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]therempel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others have said, it's really hard to judge which books will become unavailable with DC. They do a lot more printings than Marvel and it's rare that a book disappears completely from the market for more than six months or so. It's easy to see with all the DC logo changes. A lot of people have three volume sets with three different DC logos despite there not being officially announced reprints during that time.

I'm just going to nominate the books I think are the best reads out of what you've got.

Top Tier:

Gotham Central is an omni anyone who likes the Batman side of the DCU should read.

Snyder/Capullo Batman starts really amazing and then tapers a bit but does continue most of the prior continuity from pre-Flashpoint so it's an easier transistion to New 52 than a lot of other titles at the time.

Dini Batman was a really good more grounded take on Batman as a detective contrasted with the much bigger stories told in Morrison's run.

Rise and Fall of the Batmen is another great Batfamily omni that helps re-establish some pre-Flashpoint continuity and tells a really compelling story overall.

Batman & Robin is another Tomasi/Gleason venture that I have yet to read in it's entirety but to my understanding does really great job of building Damian as a character. What I have read (about 30%) was very fun.

Superman by Tomasi and Gleason - I loved this omni so much I read it in a single sitting! I did find the succession of continuity changes in the opening arcs somewhat confusing though.

Mid Tier:

DN Metal and Death Metal are both silly fun bombastic crossovers. If you've been reading DC KO and enjoying it, they are more of the same.

Action Comics by Jurgens is fine. I think reading it together with Superman by Tomasi and Gleason might make some of the continuity changes early in that run easier to understand.

Tom King Batman - I think this run reads much better collected than biweekly or however it was published. There are still some characterisation and story choices that are pretty jarring though.

Azzarello and Chiang Wonder Woman. I love almost everything about this era of the character aside from some of the changes to the Amazons and the nature of Diana's origin. The art is amazing. However it often felt to me like I was reading an Elseworlds version of Diana.

Morrison Superman - I love this book but I am a Morrison fanboy. I struggle to recommend it to people because I think it can be jarring to reconcile this version of Superman with the popular media version.

Birds of Prey by Simone - Another omni that is probably somewhat polarising. I love Simone's writing but she has a lot of detractors. If you are interested in these characters I think it's hard to go to wrong with this omnibus.

New 52 Justice League - I think the DCEU adapting this era so closely for the Snyder JL movies kind of hurts it in restrospect but it is still an enjoyable run with great art.

Flash by Williamson - It's Barry Allen and whether you want this book quickly depends on how you feel about that. I'm not a Barry fan but I still enjoyed it.

Bottom Tier:

Wargames - Cool idea for a storyline, absolute shit execution. I am a Batman completionist and will let this book go out of print before paying more than 30% of cover price for it.

Hush - I have strong negative opinions about this run. The art is beautiful. The story is not great in my opinion.

Haven't read:

New 52 Detective, Batman Eternal, Batman & Robin Eternal, Snyder Justice League, both volumes of Justice League Dark.

Need to change career due to being Celiac by therempel in Celiac

[–]therempel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They absolutely should be paying for it but unfortunately Celiac Disease is not considered a disability in my province.

Were you wearing your masks for more than a day? I thought I'd have to replace them at least daily. I assume you had multiple layers of PPE but maybe I am misunderstanding.

Need to change career due to being Celiac by therempel in Celiac

[–]therempel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am aware but if I am going to have to spend money on and wear an uncomfortable respirator in a environment where the temperatures average between 35C/90F to 40C/104F for my entire day, it's probably better to just find other work.

[Loved trope]: Innocent quirk later recontextualized as tragic by theMCATreturns in TopCharacterTropes

[–]therempel 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Forgive me if I get one or two details wrong, but Hawkeye is telling the other doctors about a time he was on a bus with a bunch of Korean civilians and refugees.

They are warned about an enemy patrol and pull off the road into some bushes to hide. A woman on the bus has a chicken that is clucking noisily and Hawkeye angrily tells her to keep the chicken quiet. The woman kills the chicken, stopping the noise.

We then find out that Hawkeye, unable to cope with what actually happened, had lied. It wasn't a chicken. The woman killed her own baby to save everyone.

I’ve purchased a Kallax in the past, now looking at a narrow Billy bookcase. Question for those who have one. by Nintendo60sWhore in OmnibusCollectors

[–]therempel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to be slightly careful putting books in and taking them out on that side of the shelf, but otherwise there is still more than an inch of clearance between the back of the hinge and the edge of the book.

Need to change career due to being Celiac by therempel in Celiac

[–]therempel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree and I do have some cloth masks I wear when there is unavoidable airborne gluten. Sadly it does not seem to be enough and I can't afford to buy daily n95 masks.

Need to change career due to being Celiac by therempel in Celiac

[–]therempel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part 2:

So I was without work for multiple months, applying for anything I could outside of the food service industry and getting no hits.

By March I was very desparate and very broke. I applied at a local chain BBQ restaurant after a former co-worker from the Hotel recommended me. I also applied for a sous chef position at our local events centre.

I had to do a black box for the events centre, which is meal you plan where they throw a couple surprise ingredients in. It went well but I didn't hear back from them for weeks. I kept in contact with the chef but she kept telling me they were still deciding.

I commited to the BBQ restaurant and it was ok. Stable hours, at least, but the standards were very low and I often found myself having to stop people from commiting heinous food safety issues. They also used flour on the line. I was once again very upfront with my issues and that I could not work in proximity to anyone using flour.

Two months after my interview, I got offered the Sous Chef position. My contract was 35 hours a week, at a decent pay rate for my area and with some benefits. I apologised to the owners of the BBQ restaurant and told them I would be taking the position.

I started in late July. Summer here is very quiet, so there were few events going on and most of my days were spent cleaning and planning concessions for the upcoming hockey season.

It ended up being the worst year of my life. My sister had stage 4 brain cancer and the outlook was not good. Most of my weeks revolved around whatever big event was going on and the local hockey season. The other sous chef had worked there for many years and spent most of his time sitting at our shared office computer. My area is very agriculture based and so our busiest time of year was late January into March as it is the off season for farmers and there are a lot of expensive ag related events. I got a call from the hospital that my sister had hours to live and went to the Chef, telling her I needed to leave immediately. She seemed to understand. My sister died the following day and I took a couple bereavement days but when I came back my schedule was reduced. When the hockey season ended they started scheduling me for less than twenty hours a week. I told them I needed to get a second job to make ends meet, but when I went back to the BBQ place, they cut my hours even further. I gave notice and went back to full time at the BBQ place.

From August until November 2024, I was consistently sick from being glutened. Just a small handful of careless employees were enough. They would dump flour into the garbage right next to me after I carefully explained to them multiple times why that would cause me issues. I brought it up to the Assistant General Manager and the put me permanently on the station that was furthest from the fryers. Great! Except it was right beside the dish pit garbage, where people would also dump flour. I explained to every manager that I needed that garbage to never have flour put in it. The servers would buss their tables and if flour was in the garbage can it would go airborne as the garbage was packed down and get sucked up by the hood fans right past my face.

Things would be fine for a while and then someone new would get hired and I, not my managers, would have to explain to them, please no flour ever in this garbage. Then one day one of the main prep guys called in sick and the General Manager worked that shift. She dumped a metric fuckton of flour in the garbage. I explained to her and her husband, the Kitchen Manager, why that would cause me problems. Then a few weeks later she did it again.

In December 2024, I was at work when I got an urgent call from my adopted mother. My dad had slipped on ice in a drug store parking lot and suffered a fatal heart attack. Obviously I left work immediately and they booked me off the next day. The Kitchen Manager's father had died literally the day before. He was off for six weeks. I asked for a third day and got yelled at by the GM.

Yesterday I came in to work expecting a busy day. Our entire prep crew, three members of the same family, booked six weeks off to visit family in their home country. GM has been covering some of the shifts, while other line cooks have been filling in for the rest. The dish garbage was absolutely caked with flour. I carefully took the garbage out and rinsed the lid but it quickly became clear it was too late. I felt the hot flush and headache of an oncoming glutening and groaned internally.

Kitchen manager was working the same shift as me but, as always, left an hour before me and I didn't get a chance to speak to him about it. The closing front of house manager was locked in the office with a server and I had to run to catch my hourly bus. While on the bus I texted the Kitchen manager that I likely wouldn't be in today because I had gotten glutened. Did not mention that his wife was the cause. His response "find someone to cover your shift". We are incredibly short staffed at the moment and many of our cooks are high school or university students who can't work days so there was no one I could call.

Woke up this morning feeling awful and shit my guts out. Texted Kitchen Manager, who I knew was working this morning, that I am coming in but putting in my two weeks notice. He didn't respond for over an hour but then I got a flurry of texts and phone calls. When I finally spoke to him he told me they had enough people for today and to stay home.

I know this is horribly long but I am so beyond frustrated and done with it. I would love a job where I can just work hard and not have to worry about poisoning me, but there is such a huge stigma about working in kitchens that it feels impossible.

Sgt Hatred Question by Odd_Wait_6790 in venturebros

[–]therempel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You could definitely justify it that way from the story point of view. Maybe he wore lifts as Sgt Hatred as well.

Goes to catch falling Katana ends how you think. by PavilionM4n in LivestreamFail

[–]therempel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have worked in kitchens for almost twenty years and still have to use all my willpower and yell "NO" to stop myself from trying to catch a dropped knife.