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WCDT Strips 3101 to 3105 (30th November to 4th December 2015)
TheEvilDog:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 05 Dec 2015, 02:59 ---Pizza Girl seemed pretty healthy.
Probably why she gets no screen time, come to think of it.
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How can you tell? She was only in two strips or so… and running around pretending to be a super hero doesn't seem super healthy to me.
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I don't think she was meant to be a super hero, more of a gimmick for the pizza place. She might have to play the role and stay in there while on the job.
Method of Madness:
Plus, if Penelope gets promoted, she won't have time to be Pizza Girl anymore.
Pilchard123:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 05 Dec 2015, 07:11 ---I don't think she was meant to be a super hero, more of a gimmick for the pizza place. She might have to play the role and stay in there while on the job.
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Papa John's (it's a pizza place) near when I live has people dress as Batman and hold advertising signs1. I don't know if it's just a local thing or not, but superhero-delivery-people is not far removed from that.
I still think that it would be funny to have the delivery drivers dressed as The Killing Joke-style Joker, but that probably wouldn't go down too well.
Omega Entity:
I've never seen them do that at the Papa John's around here, but admittedly the closest one is like half an hour away, and I only go by it when I'm housesitting.
I have, on the other hand, seen statue of liberty costumes for Liberty Tax Service in winter going in the spring (what a sucky job that has to be!), the Aaron's dog for Aaron's furniture and electronics rental, the Frog for Computer Frog PC repair... Apparently we like our costumed mascots around here.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: RetroRefractive Noodle on 04 Dec 2015, 23:57 ---
--- Quote from: dawolf on 04 Dec 2015, 23:51 ---
However, my point wasn't about me, but about Dora. She's stressed from work, doesn't know who to promote etc, talks to her girlfriend about it and the response is: drugs or psychologist (ok, fair difference on the word).
It's not a common (yep, a better word) response in the UK IMO for what are very minor issues really.
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There is NOTHING minor about Clinical Depression.
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That's true. Good thing then, that that's not what Dora has.
Dora isn't dealing the hopeless, causeless, permanent-state pathological depression that you're talking about. There are no signs that she's lost years of her life to this nor that she will without intervention lose more years of health, happiness, and productivity. Dora is depressed for a specific reason, at a specific time, in response to specific stress. This is situational, not pathological.
It's true that people who suffer *real* pathological depression often don't consider it serious and don't seek the help they need. But that's because to them there is no remarkable state. From their POV, "This isn't depression, this is just how life is, and has been forever, and why should anyone think it could be better?" So there's a genuine need to fight against the tendency to trivialize it.
But that's not where Dora's at. Dora's more in the "oh, but I don' wanna deal with seeing a therapist, it'd be inconvenient and I'd have to spend time and emotional effort on it and I'm not looking forward to that work," state than the "there's nothing that needs to be done because this is just how life is" state. Dora knows darn well that she's unhappy and that this isn't normal.
And BTW, don't fling words like 'clinical' around when all they mean is that it's been diagnosed. Dora doesn't have clinical depression because she hasn't even been to see anyone who could clinically diagnose it. If she had, then she would be in the exact same emotional state she's in now but it would be clinical.
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