Is this high school pizza thing just a universal constant??? I mean, my college’s pizza was actually great, but my high school’s pizza was all homemade and amazing and stuff, so better. No, it wasn’t a private school, just had a relatively good staff running lunch.
It’s very much not. Our pizza was garbage, to the point where students went to a nearby Little Caesars as a better alternative.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
My secondary school, the lunches were …pretty meh. 4th and 5th years were allowed to leave the school grounds during lunch hour, so we basically all went to the McDonalds just around the corner. Then down to the train station where there was this cool video arcade centre, and spent the rest of our lunch hour (and our lunch money) there. xD
Those arcade games helped me to not gain as much weight for a couple of years in my teens there. In exchange, I temporarily became awesome at Daytona USA. xD
If I were judging objectively, our high school pizza was on the level of Totino’s
However, our college’s pizza was like literal grease discs and I never ate it, while high school Totino’s is ok but I do crave it lots, like Pizza Hut pan pizza
me
Ours either had almost no sauce, or things would slide off. No happy medium, and no good pizza. Jalepeno corn dogs on the other hand…..
You’re like the Justin Y. of this webcomic’s comment section, except I’ve been reading your comments on here much longer than I’ve seen his anywhere. So other way around, I guess.
Also, my high school was really small, so it was more cost effective to just hire a private chef rather than a corporate food service, so our pizza was delicious. The food would be the only reason I’d ever go visit.
That rectangle pizza was the best, and I will crave it until I die.
PSadlon
Overspiced watered down meat sauce & greasy cheese on matzo-like crust vs. Pizza Hut quality. Both did in a pinch but is it any wonder I stopped by a real pizza place on my way home when I could.
I don’t know how they made those little pencil eraser pepperonis taste better than real pepperonis, but one day I will discover the secret!
Then I will open a pizzaria with “Those little pencil eraser pepperonis you remember from high school and which you’ve been missing all these years and haven’t realized until you read this sentence, so order them and become complete” as a topping option.
My pizza restaurant will put all others out of business, I will become a trillionaire, and then rule the world!
I loved those pizzas with the eraser shaped pepperonis on them, they were delicious. The pepperonis on Totinos are slightly similar in shape but not quite in flavor, at least to the ones we had.
hueloovoo
Which is why Totinos makes the most delicious freezer pizzas out there. If they ever perfect the recipe, they will dominate the freezer aisles.
While I am often the first to compare myself to Billie (like yesterday), this is completely foreign to me. When I started making out with girls in highschool, I was like “oh – guess I’m gay” and never had this “I kiss girls but am still straight” thing that Billie has.
Cause yeah, if I was Billie in this situation, I’d be all like “yeah Lucy, this is the RA I totes seduced. She’s my girlfriend now. Isn’t she sexy and awesome? I bet you wish you had a girlfriend as awesome as mine.”
I think Billie’s issue is more that being affectionate and loving with someone is not alphabongoy. Her new dorm sees her exactly the way she wants to be seen, and if she’s seen being anything other than former head cheerleader and totally cool person who everyone tries to be like that facade will start cracking and eventually crumble, and then she’d have to deal with being (and being seen as) depressed Billie with a drinking problem again.
Bluesnake462
I don’t really think Billie has an issue with her sexuality considering she’s pretty open about it with most people and in public. I think she just might be bisexual Sunny is right about her just trying to portray a certain image to her new dorm.
thejeff
She does have something of an issue with it, in the sense that she’s denied being any kind of queer. She’s just a normal girl who likes girls sometimes like everyone does.
She’s pretty clearly bisexual, but she wouldn’t say that. Probably because her alpha bongo cheerleader self-image doesn’t mesh with her image of queerness. She’s fine with the kissing girls part and doesn’t have any issue with people knowing it, but just doesn’t want to be associated with some label that suggests she’s something weird.
Sam
She has said she is bisexual before to Becky who said it wasn’t real which irritated Billie but she flipflops on whether that it is real or not herself, telling Howard it was made up for porn. Billie definitely has some internal biphobia to work out and it is tied to her image – she has said she thinks ‘it is inevitable’ to Joyce a.k.a. all girls will like some girls at some point, that is totes what happens to all girls, not at all an experience only some people have.
Sol Karas
… what? No she hasn’t. The only interaction with Billy/Becky that I could find WRT Billy’s sexuality was this:
Billie said she liked girls sometimes, but everyone did, so it wasn’t weird. Becky said you can’t like both. Neither used the word bisexual, because Billie thinks bisexuality is a porn thing.
She vehemently denied being gay and said “I’M NOT GAY! Sometimes I like a girl.” She is not aware that bisexuality is a thing.
Jenna
This. Yes. This strikes me more as an issue of being uncomfortable with her new community seeing her as a vulnerable human, who she is ashamed to be, rather than an inherent issue with Ruth. Also, coming out is hard. And you have to do it repeatedly, and it is not a straightforward thing.
thejeff
Still not really coming out here though. She’s never had much problem with that – at least as far as people knowing she’s into girls. She’s not okay with the labels for reasons.
The Forrest girls know she’s slept with Ruth. That’s not the issue. It’s that vulnerable human part.
WOAH! I get not wanting to be associated with Walky and Joyce (Get, not like) but that’s serious fucking shade, whether it’s Billie not wanting to be seen with Ruth or that she doesn’t want Lucy to know she’s gay/bi
She’s been treating Ruth like a conquest rather than a girlfriend over at her new dorm. She booted Joyce out when she was trying to tell them how cute she and Ruth’s relationship was.
“Real women can have sex with partners but not feel for them. Also, they can only be angry and cool all the time.”
– Said no one ever until the people at Forest Quad.
I don’t think it’s so much that as that Billie’s never actually *dated* a girl before, as part of it. It’s come up before that even her highschool “ex” was a with-benefits thing that clearly meant more to the other girl than Billie, judging by how hurt they seemed.
Hmm, has Billie *dated* anybody, come to think of it? She was sexually active, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything in terms of relationships.
We do at the very least see that Billie endeavors to not showcase any vulnerability around the “nerd wing” people to maintain her status, whether she’s trying to or not. It feels like she’s backsliding on her previously rejecting her highschool mentality and giving up defining herself as head cheerleader anymore.
BBCC
Billie’s told Ruth she’s not very experienced at dating, but she told those in her new quad that she came onto Ruth hot and heavy because she takes what she wants. That’s treating Ruth more like a conquest than a girlfriend. Her booting out Joyce when Joyce tried to talk about them as a relationship also is not a good look.
Makkabee
She booted out Joyce when Joyce started talking about her being flawed and vulnerable and human.
BBCC
Said vulnerability was about how Billie smiles adorably when Ruth’s around.
Discussion (277) - “Nerdsville”
Ana Chronistic
the 22-year-old doesn’t happen to be one of the staff serving the food…?
also agree on high school pizza
Jimi
Is this high school pizza thing just a universal constant??? I mean, my college’s pizza was actually great, but my high school’s pizza was all homemade and amazing and stuff, so better. No, it wasn’t a private school, just had a relatively good staff running lunch.
Knayt
It’s very much not. Our pizza was garbage, to the point where students went to a nearby Little Caesars as a better alternative.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
My secondary school, the lunches were …pretty meh. 4th and 5th years were allowed to leave the school grounds during lunch hour, so we basically all went to the McDonalds just around the corner. Then down to the train station where there was this cool video arcade centre, and spent the rest of our lunch hour (and our lunch money) there. xD
Those arcade games helped me to not gain as much weight for a couple of years in my teens there. In exchange, I temporarily became awesome at Daytona USA. xD
Ana Chronistic
If I were judging objectively, our high school pizza was on the level of Totino’s
However, our college’s pizza was like literal grease discs and I never ate it, while high school Totino’s is ok but I do crave it lots, like Pizza Hut pan pizza
me
Ours either had almost no sauce, or things would slide off. No happy medium, and no good pizza. Jalepeno corn dogs on the other hand…..
Batman
You’re like the Justin Y. of this webcomic’s comment section, except I’ve been reading your comments on here much longer than I’ve seen his anywhere. So other way around, I guess.
Also, my high school was really small, so it was more cost effective to just hire a private chef rather than a corporate food service, so our pizza was delicious. The food would be the only reason I’d ever go visit.
PSadlon
Not a universal thing
Representative of my highschool’s pizza
Representative of my college’s pizza
David M Willis
That rectangle pizza was the best, and I will crave it until I die.
PSadlon
Overspiced watered down meat sauce & greasy cheese on matzo-like crust vs. Pizza Hut quality. Both did in a pinch but is it any wonder I stopped by a real pizza place on my way home when I could.
Romanticide
We didn’t have pizza on mine but they had a concesion with a local restaurant and omg I regret not buying more of those nachos.
Doctor_Who
“Billie!”
“Lucy!”
“Billie!”
“Ruth!”
“Walky!“
UniqueSnowflake2
“Chief!”
“McCloud!”
KingMonster
In before KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!
Annonymouse
Hoooooogaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!
PB
BULLWINKLE!
Sorry. My time in the GSA/Drama club Rocky shadowcasts at college flashed before my eyes.
Unfeignedship
BRING ME THANOS!
insomniac
“Janet!”
“Dr. Scott!”
“Janet!”
“Brad!”
“Rocky!”
Roborat
“Grunt”
Keulen
Tetsuo!
Kaneda!
Deadjolras
DONKEY!
CastawayJ
ROCKY!
Bobcat
Adrianne!
MatsuoTanuki
Nora!
JoeCovenant
STELLAAAAAAA!!
CianM1301
WIIIILLMAAAA!!
fire_daws
JETSOOONNNNNNN!
LauraS
KHAAAAAN!
LookingIn
YOGI!!!!!
keithcurtis
HOGAAAN!
Annonymouse
MAX!!!!!
Batman
Snake!?
Snake?!?!?
SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!?!?!?
Batman
or, alternatively:
LIQUIIIIIIIIIIIID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roborat
Gary?
MatthewTheLucky
Donkey!
AGV
Steeeeveeeen!!!
FacelessDeviant
Dillon!
Abel Undercity
“Janet!”
“Dr. Scott!”
“Janet!”
“Brad!”
“Rocky!”
merbrat
Norm!
Tan
Wrex.
SgtWadeyWilson
Shepard.
ninja_jesus
“INUYASHA!”
“KAGOME!”
Deadjolras
“SASUKE!”
“NARUTO!”
C.T Phipps
I’m going to be honest and say I think Ruth deserves better. Alas, this isn’t the smarting of age.
Also, high school pizza was the bomb. I don’t know why or how it was better than everything else I’ve ever eaten. Especially with corn.
Sam
She deserves better than this reaction at the absolute minimum.
Doctor_Who
I don’t know how they made those little pencil eraser pepperonis taste better than real pepperonis, but one day I will discover the secret!
Then I will open a pizzaria with “Those little pencil eraser pepperonis you remember from high school and which you’ve been missing all these years and haven’t realized until you read this sentence, so order them and become complete” as a topping option.
My pizza restaurant will put all others out of business, I will become a trillionaire, and then rule the world!
…Holy shit, I think I just figured out Galasso.
Kyrik Michalowski
I loved those pizzas with the eraser shaped pepperonis on them, they were delicious. The pepperonis on Totinos are slightly similar in shape but not quite in flavor, at least to the ones we had.
hueloovoo
Which is why Totinos makes the most delicious freezer pizzas out there. If they ever perfect the recipe, they will dominate the freezer aisles.
LeslieBean4Shizzle
While I am often the first to compare myself to Billie (like yesterday), this is completely foreign to me. When I started making out with girls in highschool, I was like “oh – guess I’m gay” and never had this “I kiss girls but am still straight” thing that Billie has.
Cause yeah, if I was Billie in this situation, I’d be all like “yeah Lucy, this is the RA I totes seduced. She’s my girlfriend now. Isn’t she sexy and awesome? I bet you wish you had a girlfriend as awesome as mine.”
Sunny
I think Billie’s issue is more that being affectionate and loving with someone is not alphabongoy. Her new dorm sees her exactly the way she wants to be seen, and if she’s seen being anything other than former head cheerleader and totally cool person who everyone tries to be like that facade will start cracking and eventually crumble, and then she’d have to deal with being (and being seen as) depressed Billie with a drinking problem again.
Bluesnake462
I don’t really think Billie has an issue with her sexuality considering she’s pretty open about it with most people and in public. I think she just might be bisexual Sunny is right about her just trying to portray a certain image to her new dorm.
thejeff
She does have something of an issue with it, in the sense that she’s denied being any kind of queer. She’s just a normal girl who likes girls sometimes like everyone does.
She’s pretty clearly bisexual, but she wouldn’t say that. Probably because her alpha bongo cheerleader self-image doesn’t mesh with her image of queerness. She’s fine with the kissing girls part and doesn’t have any issue with people knowing it, but just doesn’t want to be associated with some label that suggests she’s something weird.
Sam
She has said she is bisexual before to Becky who said it wasn’t real which irritated Billie but she flipflops on whether that it is real or not herself, telling Howard it was made up for porn. Billie definitely has some internal biphobia to work out and it is tied to her image – she has said she thinks ‘it is inevitable’ to Joyce a.k.a. all girls will like some girls at some point, that is totes what happens to all girls, not at all an experience only some people have.
Sol Karas
… what? No she hasn’t. The only interaction with Billy/Becky that I could find WRT Billy’s sexuality was this:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/fancy/
Where BILLY has the issue of being labelled as any form of queer and Becky’s like “uh okay then”.
Sam
My apologies, I guess my memory was playing tricks on me. I thought she had said it – probably my brain taking shortcuts as brains tend to do.
Deadjolras
They did have more interactions about it (kind of). This one might be the one Sam is remembering, though: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/sneaking/
BBCC
Billie said she liked girls sometimes, but everyone did, so it wasn’t weird. Becky said you can’t like both. Neither used the word bisexual, because Billie thinks bisexuality is a porn thing.
BassBone
She vehemently denied being gay and said “I’M NOT GAY! Sometimes I like a girl.” She is not aware that bisexuality is a thing.
Jenna
This. Yes. This strikes me more as an issue of being uncomfortable with her new community seeing her as a vulnerable human, who she is ashamed to be, rather than an inherent issue with Ruth. Also, coming out is hard. And you have to do it repeatedly, and it is not a straightforward thing.
thejeff
Still not really coming out here though. She’s never had much problem with that – at least as far as people knowing she’s into girls. She’s not okay with the labels for reasons.
The Forrest girls know she’s slept with Ruth. That’s not the issue. It’s that vulnerable human part.
AnvilPro
WOAH! I get not wanting to be associated with Walky and Joyce (Get, not like) but that’s serious fucking shade, whether it’s Billie not wanting to be seen with Ruth or that she doesn’t want Lucy to know she’s gay/bi
C.T Phipps
Its kind of bizarre that she can seduce her bisexual RA but apparently not have feelings.
Toxic Femininity exists in Forest Quad it seems. Which…is a thing apparently there.
BBCC
She’s been treating Ruth like a conquest rather than a girlfriend over at her new dorm. She booted Joyce out when she was trying to tell them how cute she and Ruth’s relationship was.
C.T Phipps
“Real women can have sex with partners but not feel for them. Also, they can only be angry and cool all the time.”
– Said no one ever until the people at Forest Quad.
BBCC
I don’t recall angry, in their defence.
C.T Phipps
Mind you, I’m making a joke about male chauvinist stereotypes which Billie kind of weirdly has a gender inverted version going on.
BBCC
Ah, I see, I didn’t realize you were joking.
DailyBrad
I don’t think it’s so much that as that Billie’s never actually *dated* a girl before, as part of it. It’s come up before that even her highschool “ex” was a with-benefits thing that clearly meant more to the other girl than Billie, judging by how hurt they seemed.
Hmm, has Billie *dated* anybody, come to think of it? She was sexually active, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything in terms of relationships.
We do at the very least see that Billie endeavors to not showcase any vulnerability around the “nerd wing” people to maintain her status, whether she’s trying to or not. It feels like she’s backsliding on her previously rejecting her highschool mentality and giving up defining herself as head cheerleader anymore.
BBCC
Billie’s told Ruth she’s not very experienced at dating, but she told those in her new quad that she came onto Ruth hot and heavy because she takes what she wants. That’s treating Ruth more like a conquest than a girlfriend. Her booting out Joyce when Joyce tried to talk about them as a relationship also is not a good look.
Makkabee
She booted out Joyce when Joyce started talking about her being flawed and vulnerable and human.
BBCC
Said vulnerability was about how Billie smiles adorably when Ruth’s around.
Illjwamh
Billie’s new dorm is not good for her at all. She’s basically a recovering alcoholic trapped in a liquor store that’s giving out free samples.