# I saw a furry at Safeway. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652 "2012-10-13T22:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/21 "2012-10-14T22:17:22Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > A quick Google search suggests there are regular Furry meets at the Edmonton Mall. You realize now that Google now has you flagged as a furry. You’re going to get wonderful targetted ads… ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/22 "2012-10-14T23:47:28Z")
I saw a girl wearing a fox tail a week ago Friday night. Just walking down the street. Good for her. There were hundreds of people around, but I only noticed one guy really gawking. I got the impression that he wouldn’t know what a furry was. She was just a girl with a fox tail. I think he just thought it was odd. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/23 "2012-10-15T00:19:23Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > You realize now that Google now has you flagged as a furry. You’re going to get wonderful targetted ads… Nope. i never signed up for Google anything. ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/24 "2012-10-15T03:21:14Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Where I live, the locals tried to burn down the mosque, calling it a " > terrorist training center". > > Back to square 1.☹ Those fools. The Madrasa is the smaller building around back. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/25 "2012-10-15T03:48:38Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > I have seen a strip-teasing faun tho. He was funny as hell. _pause_ Oh, hey, I’ve dressed as a faun, serving for a fantasy-themed SCA feast. Does that mean I’m a furry, or just weird? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/26 "2012-10-15T15:55:12Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Nope. > > i never signed up for Google anything. You’re still using the same IP and [browser fingerprint](https://panopticlick.eff.org/). Signing up has nothing to do with it. Though that joke is obviously inaccurate–it takes more than one lookup to label you a furry. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/27 "2012-10-15T17:49:22Z")
> [@2gigch1](#): > > It’s stuff like this that gives me hope for humanity more than almost anything else. As one type of “harmless yet viewed as weird by the general population group” after another goes public, the ability for the masses to accept _different does not equal evil_ is slowly bumped along and the world becomes a better place. > > My personal mindset is far different than it was 10 years ago, which is even further than 25. I still despise evil and nasty people, but my experience has definitely peeled _groups which I can only find to be different_ away from the core group of those who concern me, and has made the world a nicer place. > > I know not everyone shares my view, but I find it interesting that as I age the ‘folks who would persecute Mr. Furpants’ seem to stand out as more odd than those who wear fur pants. Indeed, it’s brilliant but there is a big risk still, it’s only a tiny part of the globe that shares values of tolerance and individual self determination. Much much much more work needs to be done. By the way we should never lose the right to laugh at furries, and that could also happen. Fortunately there is no history of rampant furry-burning or enslavement or similar so there probably won’t be hate crime legislation passed… but be vigilant. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/28 "2012-10-15T17:54:51Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Oh, hey, I’ve dressed as a faun, serving for a fantasy-themed SCA feast. Does that mean I’m a furry, or just weird? Did you do a striptease? I’m not sure if that’s relevant to your position on the weirdness scale, but I feel it has to be asked. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![turtledove\_river](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@turtledove\_river](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtledove_river)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/29 "2012-10-16T02:44:42Z")
Kind of related. I saw my first real life Brony a couple of weeks ago at Walmart. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/30 "2012-10-16T02:49:29Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > … I have seen a strip-teasing faun tho. He was funny as hell. > > (He had on his “legs” of course, but was bare-chested with a long scarf that he did a sort of “dance of the seven veils” with. It was hysterical.) I feel left out. ☹ I really wish I could have seen this! (YouTube … ?) ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/31 "2012-10-16T03:02:29Z")
How do you know it’s a furry and not just someone goofing around in a costume? ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/32 "2012-10-16T06:21:13Z")
Consider me educated. I’ve never seen or heard of this concept before. Nor did I know what “cosplay” was, or “brony” seems like the world mostly passes me by. Sounds like weird behavior to me but ultimately harmless unless taken to extremes (which also applies to pretty much all human quirks and hobbies) ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652/33 "2012-10-16T06:36:16Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > _pause_ > > Oh, hey, I’ve dressed as a faun, serving for a fantasy-themed SCA feast. Does that mean I’m a furry, or just weird? I am sensing an excluded middle fallacy here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-a-furry-at-safeway/637652.md?page=1)