Look, I know it was Halloween yesterday, but it’s no excuse.
The Snarky Platypus and I were intending to enjoy a quiet drink at one of our local hostelries when we were confronted with the sight of a young man sporting a long — nay, very long — fake fur tail. In public.
In daylight!
This, Young Man, is the Town Hall Hotel! A reputable establishment. We do not need your bizarre sexual proclivities to be displayed so prominently. We do not need your bizarre sexual proclivities to be displayed at all.
Look, I’m pretty broad-minded, and generally I’m OK if you stay within the order Mammalia. But fake fur? Really?
Just where do you draw the line?
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Gah! my eyes have been soiled!
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It’s FAKE fur Sir ! If it were real fur the animal liberation people would be up in arms.
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@Bob Bain: Animal Liberation types are always up in arms. They’re such a humourless bunch. Now, surely real fur would offer a more… shall we say, primal experience?
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Speaking of animal liberation I tried sheepsex.com (mentioned in your speech at Byteside) but there’s nothing to subsribe to other than links to various forms of sex. There are pointers to goats and I located places in Sydney where it’s possible to purchase goats and goat meat and indeed to donate a goat at $75 per goat to the poor and needy in downtrodden countries. I possibly tweeted about it.
Indeed I did !
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@Bob Bain: Hmmm… sheepsex.com was a hypothetical example, I didn’t actually know if the site existed, I just made it up. But it’s inevitable that it exists, I suppose…
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Reputable? LOL
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@Luke: “Reputable”? Well, the Town Hall Hotel “has a reputation”, I think you’d agree? Doesn’t that mean the same thing?
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Hey! Guess what, you just got unlucky. I’m a furry, so I hope your prepared for this comment.
Number one, not all furries have a sexual fetish involving animals. Some of us just like to express are interest the same as people like to get tattoos. Its just a visual representation of there interests. Number two, you really have no idea what you talking about. Number three, does that kid seriously look like he has a sexual interest in animals. That is probably the most innocent looking teen i’ve ever seen. Number four, i think that most of the people on the planet would rather talk to him then listen to your conceded, arrogant, and straight up rude way of speaking. And by the way I wear a tail. -
@kitthewolffox: No, it’s fine. I’m quite prepared for your comment. I see this kind of drive-by idiocy every day, particularly on my pieces for ABC’s The Drum. So I can skip over your obvious inability to use apostrophes, or tell the difference between “there” and “their”, or between “conceded” and “conceited”, for that matter. That’s just everyday ignorance.
Your standout piece of stupidity is that you’ve completely missed the fucking point.
The post is a mock attack on Furries. Written in a pretentious archaic style (“hostelries”? “proclivities?”) leading to the final outrage, that it’s not even real fur.
There’s a further clue in the reference to Newtown’s Town Hall Hotel as “reputable”. It’s a dive. But you couldn’t have known that — you’re in Canada, right? But if you were a local, you’d know that Newtown is one of the most culturally-varied localities on the planet, and one of the most tolerant, so any outrage over some childish dress-ups is even more out of place.
“Does that kid seriously look like he has a sexual interest in animals?” you ask. I don’t know. It’s a motion-blurred cameraphone image and his face isn’t even pointing towards the lens. Can you tell whether someone is aroused by animals just by looking at a blurry photo of the back of their head?
“That is probably the most innocent looking teen I’ve ever seen,” you assert. Really? What are the tell-tale signs? The scale of measurement? Or did you, as I suspect , just make shit up?
And if you thought the original post was rude, you really out to get out more. Enjoy wearing your tail. Most of the people on the planet would think the better of you for it. Or not.
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Ok. Number one I will start by apologizing. Clearly, my inability to pick up on your meaning is my bad. I’m serious about that, I’m not the greatest at picking up on the subtleties. “We do not need your bizarre sexual proclivities to be displayed at all.” That just kind of offended me as I wear a tail, and I have no such proclivity. The reason that I said that he looks like the most innocent teen I have ever seen is because, look at how he is dressed. He doesn’t dress like a stereotypical teenager. He actually dresses like a normal human being. To me he seem like a very respectable young man. Also, obviously the tail is going to be fake fur. No furry that I know would ever wear REAL fur. Why would someone who loves animals, wear the skin of a slaughtered animal.
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What I’m really curious about is how you actually came across this blog post. Was it from a google search of ‘furry sex’ or something like that?
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I’m just curious why you go from this to thinking about “sexual proclivities” so easily. Almost everything in life could spur thoughts of sex (say, your grandparents going to a nice dinner together), but why would you go there? Why make some puritanical leap and start thinking about sex acts?
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When ever I see anyone, doing anything I instantly make it sexual in my head. Like thinking about you typing out that comment……..
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What the heck is a furry when its at home??
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Go on – Google it. You know you want to. At work. With safe search switched off. While some ultra thin skinned HR busybody is looking over your shoulder.
(What could _possibly_ go wrong?)
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By gum some people are odd but each to their own I guess!
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