Hostile Dialect; A Word, Please.

The BBQ Pit
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[QUOTE=Furry Article]
Peter, Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” blasts over the JBL speakers lined along the front of the hotel ballroom. Underneath the dimmed lights, a giant gray rabbit, a dark red fox and a spotted floppy dog bop back and forth to the beat, their massive fur-covered feet plopping heavily on the portable wooden dance floor. To the left of them, a cheetah and puma grasp each other’s paws as they sway together in time to the music. The dance floor is crowded with dozens of tall furry creatures: cats, raccoons, possums, skunks, bears and bulls, all gyrating their giant bodies to the music spun by a live deejay.
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hahaha

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[QUOTE=Telperien]
To be fair, around here, one’s dickhead radar doesn’t need to be all that sensitive to pick things up.
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And some have their settings wrongly aligned, so they are picking up their own signal.

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[QUOTE=5-HT]
hahaha
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Holy fucking LOL!

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That’s just completely sold “Furry-ism” to me. Do you think they’ll let me back in the “Furry Doper’s” thread to ask when their next planned knees-up will be? ?

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Btw, what does being a “Furry” skunk say about a persons self-image? Are they just trying to hide a bad B.O. problem?

(Damn, I could have stuck that in the edit window. Soz for taking up valuable space, gang. )

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[QUOTE=Measure for Measure]

In the Rust survey, only 2% identified themselves as zoophiles and less than 1% were plushphiles.
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Plushphiles.

Okay, laughing like a loon. I’ve coasted down to mere hiccuping chuckles but…plushphiles? I finally understand the longevity of those cheesy Make-A-Bear mall places.

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[QUOTE=TVeblen]
Plushphiles.

Okay, laughing like a loon. I’ve coasted down to mere hiccuping chuckles but…plushphiles? I finally understand the longevity of those cheesy Make-A-Bear mall places.
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I think there is a sub-set of “animal-shaped cushion-o-philes”, that are currently making a bid for dominance within that realm.

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[QUOTE=j666]
That’s one of the neatest updates on an antiquated expression I’ve seen; did you create it?
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Sorry I didn’t reply to this earlier, j666. Yeah, hogging the fast lane seemed the closest modern analogy to scaring the horses. It sure doesn’t flow off the tongue though.

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[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
I didn’t know what SCA was either, but after a Google search, I think LurkMeister may have been talking about the Society for Creative Anachronism – some kind of medieval re-creationists. They look like losers to me
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Fuck you, too.

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[QUOTE=MrDibble]
Fuck you, too.
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Can’t you declare war on his kingdom, or something?

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[QUOTE=ivan astikov]
Can’t you declare war on his kingdom, or something?
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Shut the fuck up, you fucking troll.

Congratulations, Maatorc, on your century.
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[QUOTE=MrDibble]
Shut the fuck up, you fucking troll.
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Have you ever seen “Anger Management”, you lightweight fucking sap!

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[QUOTE=ivan astikov]
And some have their settings wrongly aligned, so they are picking up their own signal.
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I think this may be the most ironic post I have ever read.

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[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
I didn’t know what SCA was either, but after a Google search, I think LurkMeister may have been talking about the Society for Creative Anachronism – some kind of medieval re-creationists. They look like losers to me.
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Well, I see you’ve managed to raise douchebaggery to an artform. Let me know when you move up to fingerpainting.

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[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
Well, I see you’ve managed to raise douchebaggery to an artform. Let me know when you move up to fingerpainting.
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SCAdian, are you?

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Maybe he just doesn’t classify people as losers simply for having unusual hobbies. Why the constant presumption that a defense of X or surprise at apparently unnecessary antagonism towards X must come as a result of personal membership within X?

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There’s having a hobby and then there’s dressing up in chainmail and going around saying “forsooth,” pretending to be a knight. It seems a little childish to me. Sorry.

ETA, I realize I don’t know any of these people personally. I just get an image of the Patton Oswalt character on Reno 9/11, if anyone is familiar with that reference.

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[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
There’s having a hobby and then there’s dressing up in chainmail and going around saying “forsooth,” pretending to be a knight. It seems a little childish to me. Sorry.
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The more this conversation goes on, the less I’m convinced that “childlike (in the fantasy/imaginative sense)” is a priori bad, like many others seem to think.

I’d agree that “childlike (petty and small-minded)” is to be condemned, certainly, but I don’t understand the hate for traditionally playful pursuits carried into adulthood.

I realize they’re not traditional, but at the same time I can’t really take too seriously anyone who’d suggest that I, with my manager-level job and college degree and shelves with hundreds of well-thumbed boos, am somehow less mature or less worthwhile of a person because I happen to have a collection of legos, or play video games as my primary recreation, or play airsoft/paintball with a Russian uniform with appropriate patches, or whatever it is I do. I don’t think those things define my maturity level any more than enjoying watching TV regularly makes one a drone or reading a lot makes one a boring bookworm.

Is there some list of approved adult leisure activities that I could be referencing here so I can scoff dismissively at it? Hell, my freakin’ grandmother-in-law understands video games once she saw a LAN party (True story–she was curious and dropped by when I attended one in her town. Her response was along the lines of “when you strip away the computers, it’s not so different from bingo or bridge circle, is it?”)

[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
ETA, I realize I don’t know any of these people personally. I just get an image of the Patton Oswalt character on Reno 9/11, if anyone is familiar with that reference.
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I think maybe the biggest issue here is that you’re seeing the stereotypes/caricatures out there. My wife’s in the SCA, and she does it as a method to learn/teach classical/archaic textile techniques–sewing her own costumes, doing pattern research from historical texts, recreating spinning/weaving methods. She only dresses up in the garb for weekend events once or twice a year, and at that point it’s effectively the Super Bowl Weekend for history dorks.

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[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
There’s having a hobby and then there’s dressing up in chainmail and going around saying “forsooth,” pretending to be a knight. It seems a little childish to me. Sorry.
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What’s the difference that makes this childish, but being a stage or film actor acceptable? If I get a kick out of dressing up like a knight and speaking archaically, why does it say something different about me if I’m improving my own lines, or reciting the St. Crispin’s Day speech?

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[QUOTE=Zeriel]
and shelves with hundreds of well-thumbed boos
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Does anybody else find this hot?