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[Mothra]

Well I'm judging furry culture, people who identify as furries (not just "a furry fetish") and would consider someone dressing up in a fursuit not somewhat insane.

The difference I suppose would be that one is actively trying to live as something they cannot possibly be, and the other is just a fat fuck who makes Gundam LPs and doesn't particularly identify as anything.

[sei]

I can't think of any other group that goes this far to try and make their real selves into an abstract fantasy personas. The sheer scale of this kind of rejection of reality is impressive.

Some MMO players, especially ones who role-play.
Some D&D players, especially ones who role play.
Most long-term MUCK/MOO-ers, some MUDders.
Actors.
Probably much of Second Life's userbase (though I guess the joke is that 50+% of them are furries).
etc.

[Mothra]

Yeah but the people actors and LARPers portray could potentially exist, they're just different personalities.

Something like a fursuit is an attempt to literally become a different thing entirely, an animal with no semblance to yourself. The fact that it is a full-body replacement of who you are is what I find so nuts.

You're not trying to be a different person, you're trying to be an abstract idea.

[yyler]

One day, it won't be abstract or an idea. That's kind of what freaks me out. Not what it is, who does it, what they do, why they do it. Just that eventually a complete replacement of self will be possible.

[Mothra]

I think we all know where this is going:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1WqKXSyXGk

fucking furries, man

Anyways I suppose it would be more accurate to say

You're not just trying to be a different person, you're trying to be a convincing representation of an impossible character.

[yyler]

That episode owns

[Mongrel]

I was an unintentional tourist in the land of terrifyingly bad gamers and furries for several years. I have seen the worst extremes of gamery, furry-shit, and everything in between.

I was once trapped in a room with a fat chick so socially inept that THE ROOM WAS FILLED WITH A THICK VISIBLE HAZE CREATED BY HER OWN PUTRID BODY ODOUR.

The horror... the horror.

My various experiences have left me unable to pretty much all forms of rpg-based gaming and extrmely leery of most things involving anthropomorpic animals.

[Thad]

Man, Larry. You just have a knack for pissing people off these days! (Madonna/whore Carrie Prejean storms off Larry King Live after being asked about her sudden settlement with the Miss Universe Organization)

Weird thing is that she didn't actually storm off, she removed her mic and then JUST SAT THERE.

Not sure "knack" is the right word; she was straight-up attention whoring.  Larry King is about the most nonthreatening interviewer in the goddamn universe; she wasn't upset by his line of questioning, she was waiting for another opportunity to extend her fifteen minutes of fame.

[Thad]

(Separate post in case this shit needs to get split later.)

Well you're judging an entire culture by the extreme, but yes there are a lot of those people out there.  The majority of so-called furries are probably more along the lines of otaku who just really like animals, though.

This.  I dabbled in Sonic the Hedgehog fandom over a decade ago, and in those days, yeah, there was furry porn and there were MUDs where people role-played as furries fucking each other, but "furry" itself didn't really connote the sexual fetish side of things, or dressing up, or any of that stuff.  It was a general term for fans of fiction involving anthropomorphic animals -- Watership Down, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, etc.  The fringe fetishists have kind of turned it into a dirty word; my recollection (itself from probably 10 years ago) is that a splinter group calling itself Burned Furs split off trying to dissociate themselves with the crazies, but were somewhat unsuccessful based largely on the fact that they were themselves equally fucking crazy.  (I haven't read the Burned Fur Manifesto in ages but distinctly remember that it ranked vegetarianism above bestiality in terms of annoying furry habits.)

(A tangent: The Thundercats are not anthropomorphic animals.  They're not cats with human attributes, they're humans with cat attributes.)

(I fucking need to go to bed.)

[JDigital]

The Internet and media magnifies the weird side of things. Most Nigerians aren't scammers, and  most D&D players aren't satanists, but that's where the interesting news stories are. Maybe most furries aren't porn-grabbing perverts, or maybe that was originally true but the porn side of things really took off on its own.

[King Klown]

Chinese develop a way to fry a fish so that its still alive. Video is the top link.

http://digg.com/food_drink/Whoa_This_just_seems_wrong_Disturbing_Footage

 

[Mothra]

That is one of the most fucked up things I've ever heard of.

Why

[Brentai]

SUPER FRESH.

Considering the quality of Chinese fish to begin with, I can sort of get behind that.

[The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji]

Brace for PETA reaction in 3... 2... 1...

[Mongrel]

The Internet and media magnifies the weird side of things. Most Nigerians aren't scammers, and  most D&D players aren't satanists, but that's where the interesting news stories are. Maybe most furries aren't porn-grabbing perverts, or maybe that was originally true but the porn side of things really took off on its own.

One of the main things is that even at relatively 'harmless' baseline levels, furries (here for our purposes defined as "people who identify with or have a particular love for anthropomorphic animals") are kind of creepy as-is.

When you throw sexual fetishism and childrens's cartoons into that mix, most folks' CREEPYRADAR goes into overdrive.

[François]

At the height of the excitement this ancient Korean dude in huge sunglasses and a three-piece suit kind of drifted up to the front of the action, and he had a ceramic bowl with a lid. It got real quiet when people saw this guy, and all the money stopped changing hands. Ray sucked a big gulp of Tsing Tao down and looked around, confused by the silence. Then he spotted the guy and the bowl, looked coolly at him for about five real tense seconds, and nodded resolutely. The crowd went mad, waving money around like crazy, and the ancient Korean dude smiled with a barely perceptible thinning of the lips. He set the bowl down on the table and put on one thin white cotton glove. The crowd grew silent again.

He took the lid slowly off with his ungloved hand, set it down, and then reached into the bowl with his gloved hand. Out he pulled a tiny little live baby bird, without even any feathers, squirming and squealing like crazy.

All eyes were on Ray, and he didn't change his expression for about a full minute. I'm not really sure he knew what he was supposed to do with the bird, but when he tied his napkin around his forehead like a bandanna the place went nuts. The ancient man walked over, motioned for Ray to open his mouth, and when he did, the man gingerly pushed the squealing bird down his throat with one finger while a waiter set a little glass of the snake liquor down. Ray took it with one shaky hand and drained it. Then the little man leaned over and whispered into his ear, "Now you know what it is, to have death inside you." He patted him on the shoulder and disappeared into the crowd with his bowl as they erupted into deafening applause, hollers and fist-pumping.

[Büge]

[Brentai]

Sooner or later I bone everyone.

[Defenestration]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/nov/13/stephen-harper-margaret-thatcher

A text message reading "Thatcher has died" sends the Canadian government in a rush... but it has a SUPRISE ENDING

[Mongrel]

Oh yeah.

Being Canadian and all, we were laughing about that a week ago. Not because the mistaken death story was funny, but at the thought that there is or was a living thing that John Baird actually cared about.