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Dude232
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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 05:50
What is whith the furries (the pictures of animals with human bodies). When was it started because i really dotunder stand...

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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 05:57
I'm sure your bestfriend could answer that for you.

Hey, what do you know, the first link he's giving us is a

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Though, I can see this thread going bad somehow somewhere sometime.

So remember fellas, just keep everything on topic and normal for this one. Thanks.

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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 06:34 Edited at: 15th Apr 2008 06:35
oh gawd...

Please lock... as this is only going to turn into INH bait and cause useless posting... I'm almost inclined to want to see what humor it leads too, but I know better

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Ever think maybe if we don't bait INH he wont a come a knockin'?



I think those things look kinda cool anyways haha.

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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 08:56
furries....
i decided to look into this at one time. I found out that there are quite a few people who are into this thing (certainly every forum ive been to had at least one proud fan of the furries).

I am guessing that furry fandom (am i using the correct word here?) is similar to maybe anime fandom? maybe.... i dont know, I have been invited to an anime convention once and i am sure i have seen some people cosplaying furries (or maybe they were some anime chars)

I have visited a furry forum once out of curiosity, looked around, seems people like drawing furry characters, making up characters, writing stories about them and role playing them.

I guess imagining humans in form of different animals can be pretty interesting. Maybe its the cuteness factor (i really don't know its just my opinion on the subject)

and thats as far as i will go, if you want to find out more, you can google it.

With all the respect to the furry community, this is just my opinion based on what i have seen myself when i decided to look at it out of pure curiosity. My opinion is not aimed for or against anyone, neither it is meant to depict anyone in any negative way.

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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 13:10
I personally havent seen INH post in a while.

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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 15:18
i saw some really adult furry pictures and was amzed at how nasty some are... but they aare anthromorphic animals that are posing for a picture and not anime because some are as realistic as a picture can be...

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I have nothing against furries. Whatever floats their boat is their business. They think dressing up as animals (not everyone) is fun? Well, good for them. Better that animals dressing up as humans I suppose.

To have something against them would be like to have something against gays or seppuku arts. Some people are just different. As long as they don't get in my face with their ideas and practices, i'm alright with it.

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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 18:51
<Leans back>

Ahhh, this should be fun.

Right, so there are two definitions of 'furry' (Or 'anthro')
1. A humanoid character/person with distinctive animal traits and usually fur, although scales and feathers are also acceptable.
or 2. A person who is a member of Furry Fandom, that is, someone who is a fan of definition 1.

Contrary to popular belief, not all furries cosplay as anthropomorphic animals, and nor are all furry artists furries.

Furries have a bad reputation for being sexually orientated in lots of cases. Of course, it's rule 32, (or is it 42?): If it exists, there is porn of it.

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Furrie porn? Wow, um...ick...

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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 19:08
Some people seem to enjoy it, I personally don't.

Furry, the final word to end all arguing

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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 22:09
Just pop into Second Life to see the disgusting side of furries.


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Thank you for not brandishing the aforementioned bad reputation, Jeku.

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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 22:15
Well what do you expect? It's weird, in my opinion. Take that however you want.


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Roughly 200,000 people are going to be visiting your house tonight, Jeku



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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 23:33
Maybe kids raised watching disney movies and cartoons where animals talk and walk upright - never realized it wasn't real and so now need to act like one?

I dunno, just a thought. (Not blaming the media outlets)

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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 23:42 Edited at: 15th Apr 2008 23:43
Quote: " never realized it wasn't real "


so.. every furry in the world thinks that animals walk and talk just like humans? is that what you're saying?

Think about that for a while, then realise how stupid that sounds.

sorry if i sound harsh, it's just that any talk about furries where something as far from the truth as this is said, just makes me angry..

Stuff that has something to do with other stuff... that usually leads to more stuff..
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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 23:44
i never even heard of them until now :S


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Posted: 15th Apr 2008 23:52 Edited at: 16th Apr 2008 00:02
I think I might keep my personal opinions to myself but yeah, furries are people who roleplay as anthropomorphic animals, whether that roleplay be art, cosplaying or anything else. And really if you don't want to see some strange and disturbing things just don't visit second life at all.

Oh and INH it's rule 34 (If you don't know about it don't search for it unless you have a strong constitution and mind.)

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Posted: 16th Apr 2008 00:11
I find furries creepy and think you'd have to be a bit messed up in the head to do something like that. I have little tolerance for weird and strange people though, they just annoy and frustrate me . A couple (weird) girls started wearing clip on tails to their pants, which I really don't understand .


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Quote: "so.. every furry in the world thinks that animals walk and talk just like humans? is that what you're saying?"


Not exactly. "Never realized....." as in never realized when they were kids that animals don't talk and got a rude awakening when they finally did realize. Of course, your outrage sounds like a typical whiner that assumes one means every individual when speaking of groups as a whole. Let me make it politically correct for you then; act as if I'm speaking to a small child so my opinions don't "hurt".

Maybe some kids raised watching disney movies and cartoons where animals talk and walk upright - never realized it wasn't real and so now need to act like one? These media companies are responsible for some our children and young adults liking furries and should be blamed for it.

Everyone has a reason for everything they do, some of those reasons being derived from childhood experiences. Some things I do that may be considered odd are influenced by my own childhood, and I do some pretty odd stuff. My point was that perhaps this is a reason people do it - oops - some people. It's just big reason I deduce by thinking logically about it.....I never really saw these furries until after the generations that grew up with these cartoons came into adulthood. Just like you didn't see many people thinking/RPing they were vampires until after they had been romanticized and popularized by books and movies.

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Posted: 16th Apr 2008 00:25 Edited at: 16th Apr 2008 00:30
Maybe you should be more clear about what you're saying then.

Quote: "as in never realized when they were kids that animals don't talk and got a rude awakening when they finally did realize"


oohh, so that's what you meant by never realized. I'm sorry for not getting that when you said "Never realised" you actually meant "Realised later in life". oh how very stupid and childish of me not getting what you said.

Quote: "These media companies are responsible for some our children and young adults liking furries and should be blamed for it."


When you say "should be blamed for it" and i'm only asking because your posts do seem to have some deeper unwritten part of them i dont seem to understand, for some reason, do you mean that as in being a furry is something wrong or sick?

Stuff that has something to do with other stuff... that usually leads to more stuff..
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Furries... Ah. Well, I mean, as long as the fur isn't on a certain person I need to sleep with later when I'm grown and married, I'm okay with it - whatever people want.


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Quote: "These media companies are responsible for some our children and young adults liking furries and should be blamed for it."


Oh please, have a look at what you're saying. It's ok for people to like (and in fact be obsessed with) action movies where every 5 minutes someone dies in the most bloody way possible, but people who like furries are freaks and someone should pay for these poor, obviously lesser humans being brainwashed? People are far too prejudiced.

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Good point, Kentaree. I think it has something do with it being a somewhat new thing. People are always more critical towards new things. I want to mention religion here, just what-if it was introduced now, in the 21st century? Maybe not the best example, but it's something to ponder about.

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Some people find furries pleasing in an adult way...scary idea. Some like anime fans like them for cutesiness and the girly thing...unless it's something more masculine of course (like Mechs, I guess)

I am neither an anime fan or a furrie fan, but I have friends who like both (even those liking the cutesy stuff, both guys and girls)

There isn't always the adult effect in watching them.


As for adults furries, I am one of the few that have seen the images, well lets to be honest there are those out there that watch adult farmyard videos - so I think the furrie kind is a step down from that - at least it isn't real and it is anthropomorphised. I mean they might just like humanoid cute things in their perverted fantasies.

But, I think the complains on it shows how our society is more fixated on sex, lets be honest, there are pretty eff'd up violent movies out there that are accepted by society, but when it comes to sex, there's a bigger taboo. Well movies like Hostel and Saw are just snuff films - their main focus seemed to be gory as possible and some pretty sick stuff is done - and guess what, there are people that get a pleasure from extreme violence as well as abnormal sex...so I ask why is one more acceptable than the other? A guy (or girl) getting 'one off' on humanoid cartoon animals, over people being ripped limb from limb graphically - with the bones snapping and tearing and lots of screams and pain and so on.

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i totally agree
i work in a video store and it disturbs me to see how many people rent slasher films like saw, even pregnant women!
if someone likes a film like that i seriously question their sanity (not sarcastic)

no one ever complains about the gore, the only fuming complaint i've had was for Sleeping Dogs (spoiler)


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Furries... Er... Yeah some people's obsessions over them disturb me... Admittedly they're cute and a fun looking art style. But please... can we keep them clothed and on paper?

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Uhm, Saw isn't that gory, by the way. Saw was an artistic masterpiece, an example of how horror should be. There were only three 'bloody' scenes which totaled about 4 minutes on a full movie.

I do agree sex and violence should be on a more equal level in age restrictions.


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I never have a problem with gore...(an american thing?)

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Hm..... I know allot of people who likes "furries" (I prefer the term Neko, but that is half cat. >.> Allot of those people I know are friends, and they are disgusted by the "adult furries."

Just because they are "furries" does not make it sexual. For the role playing (RP), they do that too, that is just to basically like video games to allot of us. (If you do not like video games, I do not know why you are here, buut..)

I have nothing against them, and I could not care less for them. They are there and they satisfy some people, if it is in the adult way, so be it. I may not like it, but it is there freedom.

Quote: "I find furries creepy and think you'd have to be a bit messed up in the head to do something like that. I have little tolerance for weird and strange people though, they just annoy and frustrate me . A couple (weird) girls started wearing clip on tails to their pants, which I really don't understand ."


0.o NO TOLERANCE FOR WEIRD PEOPLE! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!? I am seen as a very weird individual. At the same time, I have almost no enemies at school, and I get along with allot of people. If it were not for weirdness, or video games, I may be insane/crazy right now....

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Everyone has to be weird in some way...
For instance, I have a huge collection of pencil caps. Yeah, the shiny things on the tops of pencils. Everytime I run into a pencil I slip the cap off + keep it. Even if the pencil is not mine.

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I am just random. I get sudden impulses to do something, and then stop, and do something else. I make random conversations out of no where, talk while thinking (I am in the middle of a thought, and reply aloud to someone thinking I was talking to them.) and allot of other things. It makes me laugh and get through my day.

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Why Zeke? Purely out of curiosity... Why?

I used to collect tickets... like those little raffle tickets you get at bowling alleys or prize drawings... I still ask myself to this day... why?

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I still have my first ever concert ticket lying around. (Slipknot, Lamb of God, and Shadows Fall.) from over 2 years ago. =P I have all my tickets of concerts I went to somewhere.

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I've been asked that many times - I dont know why, just everytime I see one on the floor at a supermarket or whatever, I just have an urge to take it. I even memorize what pencils have what caps - look.

Dixon Ticondiroga - My worst enemy. The caps are glued on, even with my vice and plyers the wood comes off with it. GRR.
Dixon Oriole - My 2nd worst enemy - the vice will get it off, but it's bolted on pretty good.
Papermate pencils - These are tough to get off new, but the older they are the looser they get exponentially.

Thats just a couple.

EDIT: come to think of it, I have another weird collection. You know the randomly generated headers at the top of the forum. I collect those. Big folder full of em. Several are missing, and I get angry because I dont have them all. There are over 160, believe it or not.
EDIT: WOAH!!! While refreshing this page I found a new one! #32! woot!

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i like the art of the "furries". All i think it is that they like some type of art and are good at drawing it. I like abstract art and i also like art made by "furries" so they dont have to bbe people in costumes. All it is the art of taking a human anatomy and putting features of people on animals so it is mostly your imagination..

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Zeke's a Geek

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And I'm proud.

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And I wasn't making fun There's a whole pride thing to true geekhood. Welcome to the fold brother.

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I've always been a geek. That is, the computer kind. My collections are more of a "weirdo" attribute.

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Quote: "When you say "should be blamed for it" and i'm only asking because your posts do seem to have some deeper unwritten part of them i dont seem to understand, for some reason, do you mean that as in being a furry is something wrong or sick?"


No, if you read the posts, you'd notice that I never said it was wrong or sick. Also, you'd notice that the post which you quoted was me turning the first post into a politically correct one - i.e. shifting blame for people who like furries, from the individual to a larger richer third party, in the event someone tries to say they are sick. Basically, me making a point in a smart@$^ way.

But since you said it, yes, I do think the furry thing is very strange. But its not my place to judge people, so whatever gets them happy I guess. I would have a problem with it if I had to interact with someone in a work/school/etc capacity who was wearing something such as a tail, then it becomes "grow up/get serious, this isn't playtime/dress weird time". But I can say the same thing about anything such as dressing like a pirate (yes Ive seen it), vampire, makeup that doesn't blend with a person's complexion, etc.

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See my first post, and the first paragraph of this post.

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Quote: "Uhm, Saw isn't that gory, by the way."


No, but Saw 2 was repulsive. Good, but repulsive


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Saw 2 was repulsive. Saw 3 wasn't any good and Saw 4... just, no.

It was Saw that did the trick, and it's a trick they won't pull off twice.


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People seem to be saying that the more perverted? side of furries are extremes, but really consider why anyone would want to dress as an animal just for fun, if it wasn't a sexual thing then only a few people would do it.

We might as well ask about bondage, or other fetish stuff, it boils down to the same thing at the end of the day. Most people can't understand the attraction and a lot of people find it just a bit creepy, have to admit I'm in this group.


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Quote: "Hm..... I know allot of people who likes "furries" (I prefer the term Neko, but that is half cat. >.>"


*Pounce* Nekos aren't furries. Nekos have mainly skin and only things like ears/tails and stuff. No fur

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Quote: "Saw 2 was repulsive. Saw 3 wasn't any good and Saw 4... just, no."


Wait a sec--- I meant Hostel 2. I got the movies mixed up. Saw 2 was still crap though heh. Saw 1 was *excellent*.


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Quote: "Saw 2 was still crap though heh."

Agreed. I liked the first, but I felt that the second was just a load of twisted traps put together in an attempt of a movie.

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Personally I like all of the saw series besides saw 2, I had to watch Saw 4 twice to get it but after I did I thought it was pretty good.

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Quote: "Uhm, Saw isn't that gory, by the way. Saw was an artistic masterpiece, an example of how horror should be. There were only three 'bloody' scenes which totaled about 4 minutes on a full movie."


Saw, as in the first one, I actually liked - it was well done. It's the one that follow that seemed to say "how much further can we take the sadism?" and Saw 3 seemed too much like a snuff film and on the same level as certain sex movies...so although I don't have a problem with them, I still think they're just as bad - or in the same sort of league.

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