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Pizza - 05- HD
🕑 Added 2019-07-02 05:39:24 +0000 UTCA new challenger appears!
Commentary
I probably should have determined Ashley's acting abilities before I bought her that opera house.
I would say "at least she's a better actor than George", but this assumes George was giving this his all, and, well... Call it a hunch, but I think he might be phoning this in.
Pizza everywhere
The reason I chose pizza is because I don't care much for pizza, either, and have dealt with the same things that George lists here.
Put another way, I deliberately chose a food one could have issues with for reasons beyond subjective taste that could be articulated and understood without feeling the same way.
Incidentally, I do like buffalo wings with mild, and some other, sauces. This is what I generally get if a pizza place is involved. That, or I just eat pizza. It's not like I hate pizza. I just like other things significantly more.
Comments
Jared Fattmann
Unrelated to my earlier comment (and ensuing discourse)... George's piece there (and Dan's bit in the commentary about "it's not like I hate pizza") is basically how I feel about tacos (and all Mexican food to some degree, except nachos)
ZekeStaright
Same, but for me it'll depend on the place, cause some pizza joints have awful wings. Burnin' Hot from Hut are some of my favorites & their pizza is top of my list for pizza, but pizza is pretty low on the list of preferred foods. Then there's the topping debacle...
Kyman201
Given what Dan said with acting metaphors, I had figured that George is literally just reading the script.
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
I think it is hilarious that George, sans his phone, tablet or game machine, is just staring at a piece of paper. :)
Daryl Sawyer
Someone want to bring me in the loop? If there is any metaphor, it's for personal preference, and the difficulty of expressing that in a mass culture situation. Whether that preference be sexual, musical, storytelling, or, yes, even culinary.
PSadlon
i got what you were going for. Not any one topic that was plagued with the drama specifically but the drama that plagues certain topics including ones that affect you personally and things you didn't even consider at the time you were writing this.
Dan Shive
I can understand in this instance. There's been some persistent speculation about what the pizza means, and some have considered it being about LGBT+ things given my writing it and the timing with some mild recent Facebook page drama. A desire to be clear that one is being literal about pizza suggestions and isn't being metaphorical isn't unreasonable.
coredumperror
I hate to sound like an asshole here, but... don't be ridiculous. Suggesting alternatives for *pizza* is not even REMOTELY on the same level as suggesting that a gay person just hasn't met the right opposite-sex partner. It's literally just making a culinary suggestion. I feel like you're spent way too much time on tumblr or something.
Jared Fattmann
I am talking about literal pizza. It just... sounds like a Bad Thing that people say to Gays and Aces when they want them to go back in the closet (maybe you just haven't found the right boy/girl/sex partner)
Dan Shive
That is a hazard with the intentional lack of specificity, HOWEVER, it's worth noting that since it can be nearly anything, you can simply specify an example of the sort of thing you mean, up to and including literal pizza.
Jared Fattmann
I have this terrible feeling that filtered through certain versions of the metaphor this is a microaggression or something, but... pizza is such a broad umbrella, maybe you just need to find the right pizza for you? Alfredo or even pesto instead of marinara for sauce? Super-crunchy cracker-thin St. Louis style crust? Detroit style deep dish?
IvyReed
I love the middle-school musical aesthetic you've brought to this story. I almost want a curtain call for the final strip!
