Town Hall Hotel Furry Alert!

01 November 2009 in Enmore, Human Nature by Stilgherrian | 8 comments

Photograph of young man with long grey fake-fur tail

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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JonoH on 01 November 2009 at 4:52 pm

Gah! my eyes have been soiled!

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Stilgherrian on 02 November 2009 at 6:21 am

@JonoH: It’s perhaps not as bad as this photo, eh?

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Bob Bain on 02 November 2009 at 12:40 pm

It’s FAKE fur Sir ! If it were real fur the animal liberation people would be up in arms.

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Stilgherrian on 02 November 2009 at 5:46 pm

@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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Bob Bain on 02 November 2009 at 6:56 pm

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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Stilgherrian on 02 November 2009 at 8:10 pm

@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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Luke on 04 November 2009 at 4:56 pm

Reputable? LOL

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Stilgherrian on 06 November 2009 at 6:16 am

@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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