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Domino's Pizza - Raising The Bar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Q2Y2ZQ-4Y#)

Damn, before I watched it, I was ready to berate you for assuming! LOL

That's ABSOLUTELY either an ftm or androgyne. Go Domino's!!! Now I have even more reason to like them.

Now if they could only make a pizza that tasted better than the box it came in.

Quote from: tekla on August 22, 2011, 12:02:21 AM
Now if they could only make a pizza that tasted better than the box it came in.

Hahahaha. It's not thaaat bad :P

Quote from: tekla on August 22, 2011, 12:02:21 AM
Now if they could only make a pizza that tasted better than the box it came in.

Better than Pizza Hut. *shivers*

How do I know you've never had real pizza in NYC or Chicago?

I'll stick with the roasted chicken and bacon with all organic sun-dried tomatoes that the hippies out on the River make.

Quote from: tekla on August 22, 2011, 12:12:41 AM
How do I know you've never had real pizza in NYC or Chicago?

I have, I live a block away from the best pizza in the bronx.

Quote from: xxJuliaxx on August 22, 2011, 12:12:27 AM
Better than Pizza Hut. *shivers*

Eww no, Idk where you live but over here, Pizza Hut is good and Domino's is greasy and disgusting. >.<

I have, I live a block away from the best pizza in the bronx.

And yet you'd actually eat pizza that was (shudder) delivered?

Quote from: tekla on August 22, 2011, 12:19:08 AM
I have, I live a block away from the best pizza in the bronx.

And yet you'd actually eat pizza that was (shudder) delivered?

*shrugs* I like to try new things.

Quote from: tekla on August 22, 2011, 12:02:21 AM
Now if they could only make a pizza that tasted better than the box it came in.

Hey, you get a two fer.  After you eat the pizza, you can eat the box!

Cindi

The box has some nutrition at least.  And a lot less grease.

Quote from: tekla on August 22, 2011, 12:26:36 AM
The box has some nutrition at least.  And a lot less grease.

And more fiber!

It still has all the grease that was seeping out of the pizza, ugh

I dont even order it anymore, I ALWAYS make my own brickoven pizza

I despise pizza.

I love pizza.

but I despise it.

It is round.

I do not want to be round.

Cindi (the worst poet in the world tonight)

Regardless of how anyone feels about Domino's Pizza or Jess's gender status, Jess obviously knows what taking pride in ones self without being a braggart is

You know if he's not FtM, but he's a she, she is going to be highly offended by being called this.  And all I see is a bad haircut, no binding.

i wasn't thinking they were ftm. i just thought they were a butch lesbian. it can be hard to say. it is good that they would make a commercial with someone like that in it, without having to make such a scandal out of it.

Pizza--yum.  Unless it's got anchovies on it.   ;D

OMG LOL. That is so crazy because I thought the EXACT same thing when I saw Jess on the commercial! Either FTM or butch lesbian, because I noticed no binding really. But either or I thought it was awesome of course :) Idk why but Pizza hut is disguisting here. Dominos has changed drastically here though, they used to be greasy and really gross, but now everything's improved 100% and, its super cheap!

I used to like Domino's quite a bit before they "improved" their recipes; now it has too much tang or something. Just don't like it.  These days, I just pick up a Papa Murphy's  "take-n-bake". Yum!

After viewing the commercial a number of times, I can't say if Jess is trans or cis...but as long as she is happy with who she is, I don't think it really matters.   :)

i just thought Jess might have been a butch lesbian too.

Especially because if they were ftm, i doubt (no matter what part of transition they were in) they'd want to be publicly on tv, especially with a female name.

Jess isn't a girl's name, it's unisex. To me it looks like "his" face is being affected by testosterone, and also he has no boobs. And also his hair is spiky lol

Well, usually for male's i've seen Jesse not Jess so that's what i'm saying.

Either way, i wish there was a way to know for sure if he/she was trans or not =p

One example of guy's named Jess is the main character in Bridge to Terabithia. Also there's a bunch if you type it in on Wikipedia.

Oh, haven't seen that =p

i wouldn't doubt it's a guys name though, just haven't seen it used as a guy's name personally.
but even Ashley is a guys name (Evil Dead >:3)

I would NEVER name my son Ashley. >.< That's just cruel lol

XD

but then you can call him Ash and it'd be like in Evil Dead series lol

EAT PIZZA, BE HAPPY

Quote from: rexgsd on August 22, 2011, 03:39:33 AM
Well, usually for male's i've seen Jesse not Jess so that's what i'm saying.

There are guys out there named Jess.  Is it common in the current day and age?  Don't know...the ones I knew were back in the 70's and 80's. 

QuoteEither way, i wish there was a way to know for sure if he/she was trans or not =p

I will never understand the incessant need for trans-persons, no matter whether they were transsexual or transgendered, to have to know someone's personal history.

Quote from: FullMoon19 on August 22, 2011, 01:19:00 AM
i wasn't thinking they were ftm. i just thought they were a butch lesbian. it can be hard to say. it is good that they would make a commercial with someone like that in it, without having to make such a scandal out of it.

If we are going to speculate...

I agree with the above quoted post. Nothing about her screams FTM to me? More masculine butch lesbian than anything else? Jess is a fairly andro name... it's not like her name was Charles or something?

I'm not digging the "trendy spike front" do either.

I don't care, Jess is cool.

Quote from: tekla on August 22, 2011, 12:02:21 AM
Now if they could only make a pizza that tasted better than the box it came in.

You are obviously a barbarian with no true ability to diferentiate good pizza from a piece of cardboard.

I'm civilized enough to know that pizza doesn't come in a box.

Quote from: cynthialee on August 22, 2011, 09:42:38 AM
You are obviously a barbarian with no true ability to diferentiate good pizza from a piece of cardboard.

Dominos will NEVER be confused with GOOD pizza...many years ago, before they jacked with the sauce, it was an OK grab-n-go or delivery option during a ballgame. 

I do have to disagree with tekla's sentiment that good pizza does not come in a box...I have a small non-chain place near the lake house that does a kick-ass pizza and will box it to go and have it ready fresh from their oven for me if I call it in ahead of time and let them know when precisely I expect to be there.

I'm not completely convinced that that's more than a fan page but, ughhhhhh >.<

What difference does it make about what gender the person is, who gives a rats ass, it's a commercial for pizza.  Oh! and ya I like pizza.

You do know the only reason that Domino's or any other mega-corporate chain does anything like this is to fool you into thinking that they are just a bunch of OK people, people you like, so you can give them your money.

I'll bet they put an obvious lesbian in their ad, not because of any support of gay rights, or human rights, but because a couple of marketing surveys told them that it would help them target a specific target demographic that they were not selling to.  They want to make more than the $236 million they made last year, and they don't care much how they do it.

And the founder?  All that money you paid him?  Most of it went to fund right-wing Catholic organizations like the Thomas More Law Center, a public interest law firm dedicated to promoting social conservative issues such as opposition to abortion, same sex marriage, and secularism.   He also started his own law school: faculty members have included conservative legal scholar and Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert Bork. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia assisted in developing the school's curriculum, and the school's first annual Ave Maria Lecture was presented by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 1999. The school's stated goal is to educate competent "moral" attorneys who will influence all aspects of the legal profession and advance natural law theory.

So it's not like you're sleeping with the enemy, you're just funding them.

So enjoy that 'za knowing that part of the money you gave to the delivery guy just went to fund the fight against your rights.

Quote from: tekla on August 22, 2011, 02:41:31 PM
You do know the only reason that Domino's or any other mega-corporate chain does anything like this is to fool you into thinking that they are just a bunch of OK people, people you like, so you can give them your money.

I'll bet they put an obvious lesbian in their ad, not because of any support of gay rights, or human rights, but because a couple of marketing surveys told them that it would help them target a specific target demographic that they were not selling to.  They want to make more than the $236 million they made last year, and they don't care much how they do it.

And the founder?  All that money you paid him?  Most of it went to fund right-wing Catholic organizations like the Thomas More Law Center, a public interest law firm dedicated to promoting social conservative issues such as opposition to abortion, same sex marriage, and secularism.   He also started his own law school: faculty members have included conservative legal scholar and Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert Bork. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia assisted in developing the school's curriculum, and the school's first annual Ave Maria Lecture was presented by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 1999. The school's stated goal is to educate competent "moral" attorneys who will influence all aspects of the legal profession and advance natural law theory.

So it's not like you're sleeping with the enemy, you're just funding them.

So enjoy that 'za knowing that part of the money you gave to the delivery guy just went to fund the fight against your rights.

I would have a response, but unfortunantly I agree. But I just dont care.

Wow, I hadn't known that Tom Monaghan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Monaghan), the founder of Domino's Pizza, was such an um...

He founded the Thomas More Law Center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More_Law_Center#Founding_and_history).

"The Thomas More Law Center has sued Michigan State University over their policy of providing health care benefits to same-sex domestic partners employed by the university."

"He has also committed to spending what remains of his $1 billion fortune on philanthropic endeavors."

I'm quite sure that his views on "philanthropy" are different than mine.

Gives new meaning to the term Uncle Tom  :P   Take and bake or homemade pizza is sounding better every minute

I'm not really worried though, the supermarket has a little pizza deal in it's cafe area that serves up $5 pepperoni or cheese pizza that is just as good if not better than any and you can get it fresh baked or take 'n bake

I can't get enough Round Table pizza. Their gourmet veggie pizza is the greatest thing ever.

I hate Dominos and Papa Johns, but Jess seems like a cool person. From what I gather, Jess is a lesbian. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jess-Hreniuk/173083796093049 (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jess-Hreniuk/173083796093049)

I'm a Jesse. I prefer Jesse, but don't mind being called Jess. I get Jess Jess too. Jess isn't as popular as it used to be, but it's definitely a mans name too.

Jess is definitely short for Jessica, folks. Some of the replies on the fan page are from her personal account which has her full name and not just "Jess."

  She says that she's not a dude, then she is not a dude!  She may not even be a lesbian!  Leave her alone!  I seen a lot of women of her body type that look like that and they are married to fine fellows and they have kids!   Sheesh!
  Joelene

Leave her alone!

NFW, she cashed the check, she sells fattening food to the fattest people on earth and works for a right-wing corporation. Now she can take the crap that comes with it.  Which in her case is half the people calling her a ->-bleeped-<- (which in the way it's being used is almost like saying that you're so ugly they have to tie raw meat around your neck to get the dog to play with you), while the other half gets off in their bunk thinking of her doing it or being naked.  And a few people like me who just think she's another corporate tool.  Nah.  She asked for that.

ProTip: If you want to be left alone, don't go on TV or run for office, when you do either (or both) of those things, all bets are off.

when i saw the video, I didn't see a transguy at all.

I saw a butch lesbian who uses Jess versus Jessica or a masculine straight girl

Quote from: Ann Onymous on August 22, 2011, 04:18:28 AM
I will never understand the incessant need for trans-persons, no matter whether they were transsexual or transgendered, to have to know someone's personal history.

Me either.  Especially since our personal history becomes a main topic of conversation for those who know us early in transition or people who find out we once lived as our birth genders.

Quote from: Renate on August 22, 2011, 08:56:20 AM
I don't care, Jess is cool.

Agree

She's not a trans guy, I've seen a lot of girls who look like Jess. Some girls who carry extra weight can give them an androgynous appearance, if she was reed thin she would definitely look very female, but she looks happy just the way she is!  ;D
But as others have said above, who really cares? We come in all shapes and sizes, and most people's suspicions are usually wrong. *Awkward*

I would never order Domino's regardless.  I worked for them in the summer and winter of '96 because they had a guaranteed rehire policy for college kids.  In the winter, I gave them the date that I'd be leaving my job to go back to school, but my grandmother's health declined severely a week before I was supposed to leave for school.  Three days before the date I gave to Domino's that I'd be leaving, my mom called from Illinois and told us to start driving because grandma wasn't going to make it.

The people in the store were very understanding, but when I went to corporate in the summer of '97 to start work again, the lady at the front desk asked if I'd left on good terms.  I said yes, but that I'd had to leave three days earlier because my grandmother passed away.  Her response was, "Oh, we get a lot of dead grandmothers at quitting time."  I walked back to the parking lot in tears and vowed I'd never touch another Domino's pizza.  Fourteen years later, I've kept that promise.

I watched the video and saw nothing amiss. I don't know anything about her except that she got a work award and goes by "Jess".

Zoë
  That's corporate.  My company fired for less.  A fellow tech was laid off a month after he was reprimanded for mentioning "cockroaches" on his repair ticket and the customer didn't like that.  The customer somehow got in direct contact to the one VP that headed the retail support department.  That tech was one of the several from our 24 different repair shops that got fired for that.  A lot of those units have roaches in them because the electrical parts have a charge on them and that attracts the kitchen aerosols, grease mainly.  The roaches love a place that is warm and has food available.  We could say that we cleaned the unit, but mentioning cockroaches was suicide with that company and the one VP who was very sensitive to that.  We had to warn the newbies in our shop since then. 
  Domino's is and was a very aggressive company when it comes to advertising.  In the 80's, they would have someone at the televised sporting and other events then with a simple sign with a Domino's logo on it and they would raise it to when the camera was panned to the crowd.  One event I noticed was the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic games.  Back then Yugoslavia was a communist country and they did not allow any kind of advertising during the game events.  No corporate logos anywhere.  During a luge event as the cameras were panning an athlete going down, the camera followed the athlete around a sharp corner and got the crowd watching just a few meters from the track.  A Domino's sign appeared for a few seconds, with a fellow in front of that crowd.  When the next athlete went down around that same curve, the shot was a lot tighter.  I always wondered what happened to that guy.  Jailski?
  I wasn't too fond of their product.  I've gotten better pizzas from our local restaurants.  Pepperoni and mushrooms, please. 
  Joelene.

Quote from: Chase. on August 22, 2011, 01:34:22 AM
OMG LOL. That is so crazy because I thought the EXACT same thing when I saw Jess on the commercial! Either FTM or butch lesbian, because I noticed no binding really. But either or I thought it was awesome of course :) Idk why but Pizza hut is disguisting here. Dominos has changed drastically here though, they used to be greasy and really gross, but now everything's improved 100% and, its super cheap!

I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who had  "Wait a second..." moment.


On the pizza note, I effin' hate Pizza Hut. Its mushy and just blah. Dominos around here isn't half bad, but home made will always win out for me.

Quote from: Logan Bann on August 23, 2011, 07:40:56 PM
Homemade all the way, except for one local place that makes one with chicken and green bell peppers, delicious.

ME TOO!!!!

When I was moving into my new place, I was too tired to look up local pizzerias, so I ordered a couple of pizzas from Dominos. I hadn't had one in maybe twenty years.

It may well be the only pizza that improves when you eat it straight from the fridge.

Quote from: heatherrose on August 22, 2011, 02:11:00 PM

Quote"I think the pizza guy in that new Domino's commercial is an ftm"

See now, with your correction there I end up parsing the sentence as saying that perhaps it's the pizza that might be trans.  :D

See now, with your correction there I end up parsing the sentence as saying that perhaps it's the pizza that might be trans.  :D


It would depend on if the pizza was being delivered or not  :laugh:

A girl with short hair? Wow, I have never seen anything like that. She must be a FTM or a butch dyke!

Quote from: ravij on August 27, 2011, 09:30:51 AM
A girl with short hair? Wow, I have never seen anything like that. She must be a FTM or a butch dyke!

I hope you aren't serious.

A girl with short hair ... who works in a kitchen, that's an OUTRAGE!

ALERT THE MEDIA...oh wait...

I don't care what Jess is in terms of her/his gender unless they want to advertise it to make a statement in which case a debate about what it is might be of interest. That being said, I do think Domino's knows exactly what market base it is targeting in the commercial and it will have been tested to death first.

As for Domino's... Disgusting. I remember ordering exactly 1 pizza from them and never again. I could see my reflection in the pools of grease on top. Homemade pizza from top to bottom...

Im a pizza boy at a papa ginos, and i make a pretty damn good pizza, if i might say ;)

Quote from: heatherrose on August 28, 2011, 11:45:20 PM
Well, there's enough room under the great big pink, purple and blue umbrella for trans-pizza...
...isn't there?
...but what would it be Trans-ing from and/or to?

Calzone?

Quote from: Michael Joseph on August 29, 2011, 12:23:46 AM
Im a pizza boy at a papa ginos, and i make a pretty damn good pizza, if i might say ;)

You look like a dude that would make a damn good pizza  :)

My town has at least 10 pizza places in it, none of which are mainstream. Actually, my entire town is notorious for pizza places, drug stores, nail salons, and banks, each of which we have at least 3 of. Our town isn't really that big, mind you. Let's put it this way, it's small enough that McDonald's was able to strike a deal with it that they could be the only fast food place in the entire town. Nevertheless, if you were hungry for pizza, all you would have to do is look left or right and you'd most likely see a pizza place. Not necessarily great-tasting, mind you, but at least it's real.

As for Jess being anything, I'll admit that I may have thought that she might be something, but it's kind of disrespectful to discuss that I think. On the other hand, she did volunteer to go on TV, so she kind of asked for it. Either way, I don't really care. Just another TV spokesperson as far as I see it. It's not like she's the Old Spice guy or something.

she did volunteer to go on TV, so she kind of asked for it

Well it's not like something she did out of the goodness of her heart as a humanitarian.  She got paid, scale, with residuals (meaning every-time you see that commercial it's going Ka-Ching in her bank account), and that can add up to a lot of money.  I'm sure she's made more from the commercial than two years of full-time pizza manager pay.

Quote from: V M on August 29, 2011, 03:31:26 AM
You look like a dude that would make a damn good pizza  :)

haha thanks :D

You do. o.O

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who was convinced that they were an ftm  :laugh: Good on Domino's if they are :D

Quote from: RomanAlexander on September 06, 2011, 02:34:53 PM
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who was convinced that they were an ftm  :laugh: Good on Domino's if they are :D

Jess is a butch lesbian woman.

Quote from: Andy8715 on September 06, 2011, 03:02:00 PM
Jess is a butch lesbian woman.

why do you assume shes a lesbian?

Quote from: xxScarletxx on September 06, 2011, 03:49:28 PM
why do you assume shes a lesbian?

I'm too lazy to go find the post, but I recall someone had posted about seeing their Facebook page...

I haven't speculated on that person's gender. Mostly I've been trying to place the accent.

Quote from: xxScarletxx on September 06, 2011, 03:49:28 PM
why do you assume shes a lesbian?

I don't assume I know it to be a fact. 

Jess and I have a friend in common apparently. Personal facebook page says female.

I looked it up. It was ignorant of me to assume her gender in the first place.