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[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 42 points 4 days ago

Good on you for find and sharing some nice indie / alt-style stuff!

I kind of lost momentum on that, but I still have a pretty good stash that I might get around to sometime. :S

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

I try to find a variety when I can, to keep it interesting.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 11 points 4 days ago

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

[-] sockinggood@piefed.social 32 points 4 days ago
[-] 5too@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago
[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

Hah, thought that's what it was.

I absolutely ❤️ the graphic novel, but the film was solid IMO.

[-] sockinggood@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

I loved both:)

[-] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 18 points 4 days ago

Bottom left panel, the dad is talking in Dr's Hand Writing. It's hard to tell but trust me.

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 days ago

The joke is actually subversion. You are supposed to think it's about music, but the joke is you are subverted into realizing it's about the material.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

This comment in itself is a subversion. It leads you to believe it's going somewhere but then

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nothing beats titanium and I fight everyone who thinks otherwise.

I know it's no heavy metal but it's still metal as fuck. Also with a density of 4,5g/cm³ it's almost there.

[-] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

It's non reactive but it's quite dull and not very shiny.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You can change that with just some oxidation

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

It's also hard to weld and otherwise work with.

[-] agentTeiko@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago

The Demon core will take everyone as a sacrifice in the end.

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

you need a microscope to look at that cadmium? how little do you have

[-] appelkooskonfyt@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 days ago

She's not looking at the cadmium under the microscope. He is simply stating that he also has cadmium that might interest her.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

It's Baby Metal, duh.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Maybe they're opening teeny tiny metal collectibles of some kind

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Are you even really a metal fan if you don't examine your cadmium under a microscope?

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

I guess you could be looking at geological samples and/or exotic salt crystals of heavy metals

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

As long as it's not lead. That heavy metal can really mess you up...

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lead is far from the only toxic heavy metal.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[-] r4venw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Woah i never knew he was quebecois! Pretty awesome

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There are some instances where he name-drops Quebec and Canada when talking about buying things locally (here in Quebec, Xyz is available at ABC) or dealing with the government (due to import laws in Canada)

Also when he shows things in packages they are bilingual french/eng, but that should be like that all across Canada AFAIK

[-] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 days ago

I don't think it should be like that across Canada, but nobody bothers making different packagings.

(Disclaimer: not Canadian.)

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

https://inspection.canada.ca/en/food-labels/labelling/industry/bilingual-food-labelling

People complain that this regulation makes non Quebec parts of Canada comply with french language, while in Quebec, allegedly, products are able to be presented in only french

[-] Ertain@feddit.online 11 points 4 days ago

Wow, cadmium? That's metal AF.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

I don't get the joke.

I take that back. I think I do get the joke, but I don't get the comic.

So, I'd say the joke is that "heavy metal" can refer to either music or chemistry.

What I don't get is why is the man in the first panel upset at what she's wearing? Doesn't the context mean that he understands she's going to a chemistry lab, and that she's not properly attired for it? That would mean that he's just trying to get her to wear proper safety equipment in a lab, so then the joke is just that they all know what they mean by heavy metal, and the audience doesn't know?

Or are we inferring that she just told her presumably dad that she's going to some "heavy metal" something or other without explaining it was the science version, just to make him mad? The way the dad is written in that case seems like there's some ongoing problem. So, she's always going to a science lab to learn, but just lying to her father? I don't get it.

[-] Vespair@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

He says "like that," which is supposed to suggest attire for the sake of the joke mislead, but he is never actually referring to her clothing.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

That does work grammatically, but what is he supposed to be mad about, then? Just the fact that she's leaving the house?

[-] Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

That's she's fallen in with the "heavy metal crowd."

That's the whole premise of the joke

[-] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago

Its supposed to just be a play on the “bad girl goes off with her delinquent boyfriend to do drugs, listen to heavy metal, and have sex” trope, with the twist being heavy metal refers to doing science, subverting ecxpectations.

The original trope is a pretty boomer ‘kids bad’ joke that I haven’t seen for a long time, so not super surprising it’s confusing.

this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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