I'm really thinking about maybe bringing a slow cooker, like a Crockpot or a Cuisinart pot with me if I go to the Penobscot Job Corps in Maine. I know it's gonna be super cold there in the winter and it makes sense to want to make something warm and filling.
And it would help me learn and try out recipes for myself while I learn and catch up on advanced culinary education.
As a kid, and still, even as an adult, one thing that's bothered me whenever I rewatch the older episodes, is just how mean spirited and rather rude the Bikini Bottomites are, mostly to SpongeBob, but sometimes they'll even turn on each other.
What really pisses me off, not in like an angry way, but in a "Seriously?" way, is how unprovoked the hate and disdain is, especially towards SpongeBob when all he does is serve them Krabby Patties with the biggest smile on his face. Honestly he deserves better.
I'm sure there's most likely a plain simple answer, but come on. The show has been around since 1999. You would think a show element like this would get played out after awhile, but no. It still happens, 27 years later.
I've been rewatching and kinda binge-watching the Toy Story films, including the shorts, but Toy Story 2 kinda struck a chord with me. Yeah we know Al is an inconsiderate and rather greedy guy who only sees toys as sources of income, even straight up stealing to get what he wants, but the Prospector is just as bad, except he is more manipulative, embittered and evil.
Either way, I consider them both villains, as they both have a peak in their overall manner and character, and an eventual defeat.
But tell me. In your honest opinion, who is MORE of the film's real villain?
I'm about to be moving soon, from Los Angeles Job Corps, to Penobscot, to further advance in my culinary trade, but while I am in the center, I'd like to ask. For anyone who is already there, what is the center like? I know it's not run by the MTC, (thank God), but that means some rules, I won't be used to following at first. I also know the staff there are very nice and kind to the students, especially the culinary staff. I heard the instructor in culinary arts is very nice and likes to help his students and really challenges them. I want that in a teacher.
But, for everything else. What is the student life like on center? What is there to do in the Bangor area? Please let me know soon. I'm gonna be moving in August.
It was said that DJT's name was taken down from the JFK Center for the Performing Arts, and we all saw the construction crews build up scaffolding, but then they put up a tarp to cover the whole thing. Because of it, now some people wonder if the name was really taken down. When I heard about this, it got me thinking. Why doesn't anyone who lives in the area take a drone with a camera, and fly it over the tarp and finally see for themselves? Or better yet, why don't they show the footage over the Internet and show EVERYONE at the same time?
So, I need to do some last minute things here at Los Angeles Job Corps, including some academics and workbased learning, but i'm almost done here as a whole. Once I am done with my things, I will be sent off for advanced training. I will be going to the Penobscot Job Corps center in Maine, so that I can learn more about how to be a pastry chef. I've heard many great things about the class, like that the teacher is very nice to his students and even challenges them, but what else is there to do in the center, and around the town of Bangor? For anyone there, please tell me what's it like.
Why is it so easy to just get on the Metro subways? Why are the TAP card insisted upon people so much only for there to be hardly any enforcement? I can't even go to a metro station without seeing someone either jump over the turnstiles, or push open the emergency gates. I can't even go on a damn subway line without seeing some disgusting tweaker or crackhead who is either playing with himself or openly doing drugs, both of which I HAVE seen. Trust me, don't ask.
My point is this. I feel the subway lines aren't safe anymore. I feel it's just become a homeless shelter on wheels! I feel scared riding the subway now, and I feel this not just for myself but I'm scared for others, especially families with little ones.
It's supposed to be public transportation! Not fucking Skid Row!
At my center, the staff had made some new rules for this summer, and one of them was that no student is allowed to use social media to "defame the program". If they do it, they IMMEDIATELY get termed and booted out. I thought we were allowed to have a freedom of speech, even online. Is Job Corps REALLY putting in this much effort to protect its image?
Is anyone else noticing this? What are your thoughts?
I'm a student about to graduate from my culinary school, with intentions to relocate for more and higher training. One thing my teacher did was show us an episode of KN, and the episode we saw, was the one on Samy and Amy. We were being taught about how arrogance and denial is one of the worst things ANY chef can have, and that being the way Samy and Amy were, especially Amy, being that way can ultimately ruin you.
But after I saw the episode, I began to think. And...after looking at past Yelp reviews of Amy's Baking Company, Facebook reviews, posts, old memes from the Internet's good ol' days of the 2010s, and even Reddit mentions to which she is STILL pissed off about, even by ones done 2-3 years ago, I began to think. How is she now? Is she still the same stuck up pos as she showed herself on KN?
(Just a vent)
In Los Angeles, I've done the TABE test 8 fucking times and every single one has had the same exact score. How?! How TF does this shit happen?! I'm trying so hard to get the fuck out of this center, out of this cracked out and scummy city and out of this scummy ass state so I can do advanced training in a new state. I'm done with it. I'm done with this whole damn cycle.
It also doesn't help that I've been in my trade for the past 5 months and I haven't had adequate time to study. The trade is almost done, and once it finishes, I'm gonna be subject to this pointless cycle of failing TABE after TABE again and again. I personally feel the staff are intentionally doing this to make me feel like a complete idiot. I took a TABE once a few months back, and for a bit, I had actually celebrated because I had a 5, when I've been getting 4s this whole time, but then I find out a mistake was made and I got the wrong test, and my score means nothing. That is NOT a mistake. A mistake is stepping on someone's shoe by accident. This honestly feels intentional.
I'm done with this whole cycle, and I'm just...I'm done! I wanna end my time here at the center, in the city, and maybe...my own future. Maybe I should just give up on my future and my life.
I try so hard and it feels like nothing actually improves. I'm tempted to just resign and quit and end everything if I take one more TABE test and fail. I have accommodations and it's still not enough.
I guess I could ask to see if the center will let me waive it, but even then that feels like it won't work.
(Thanks for listening to me vent)
Hello everyone. I wanted to ask something. So, I've been at the Los Angeles Job Corps center since October of 2025. I've been in my trade,(Culinary), since January of this year. The trade will soon end in June, and part of the ending assignments I've done, was completing my ServSafe Manager's Exam. If I get my certificate, my center will send me to one of 3 centers for advanced training. Treasure Island, in San Francisco, Exeter, in Exeter, Rhode Island, and Penobscot, in Bangor, Maine.
I wanna pursue advanced training in baking, but I'm a little skeptic of some things. I've been thinking about wanting to go to Treasure Island for awhile, because I know The Bay is in the same state as LA, so at least I'd know it a little, but I've also heard some bad things about the center and island. "The island is radioactive", "The staff are mean", "The staff steal things from students", and apparently there's big rats that live on the island and in the center too.
So, tell me. Anyone at Treasure Island, Exeter, or Penobscot, tell me. What is it like, and should i go there? Thanks for listening.