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RamblingRenegade

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
I'm going to say people in this neighborhood have half a brain, brother and I hauled a working air compressor home from curb last night, massive one ( not cheap) because when moving it he pulled the plug off end of cord, and then got mad and broke a wheel off, so what did they do spend $500 + on a new one and throw it away, 5 min later and a saudering gun we had it up and running. Got a $800 snowblower last year because someone read 50/1 mix on it and literally thought it ment 2 gallons of oil in 2 gallons of gas and clogged the carb, 5 min fix, again just bought a new one
 
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TrixieFox said:
should I make a thread just for religious venting?
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RamblingRenegade

RamblingRenegade

Just a Horse Trying to Avoid Life's Manure
TrixieFox

TrixieFox

Blood Rose Faction Leader
RamblingRenegade said:
I'm going to say people in this neighborhood have half a brain, brother and I hauled a working air compressor home from curb last night, massive one ( not cheap) because when moving it he pulled the plug off end of cord, and then got mad and broke a wheel off, so what did they do spend $500 + on a new one and throw it away, 5 min later and a saudering gun we had it up and running. Got a $800 snowblower last year because someone read 50/1 mix on it and literally thought it ment 2 gallons of oil in 2 gallons of gas and clogged the carb, 5 min fix, again just bought a new one
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my good sir... good on you!
 
Rayd

Rayd

profound asshole
BooTheHamster said:
It's actually kind of interesting how much furries, y'know, despise each other.

It's weird, really.

I'm sure people have their reasons.
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i don't think it's really weird. the way i see it, with furries, there are those who inhabit the inner circle of the fandom, and those who stay as far away from it as possible while still enjoying and participating in furry aesthetic, without being as "extra" as people in the inner circle can be.
 
quoting_mungo

quoting_mungo

Well-Known Member
Rayd said:
i don't think it's really weird. the way i see it, with furries, there are those who inhabit the inner circle of the fandom, and those who stay as far away from it as possible while still enjoying and participating in furry aesthetic, without being as "extra" as people in the inner circle can be.
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The idea that there is an “inner circle” seems to me to be deeply flawed. If for the sake of argument we entertain the notion that such a thing exists, you’d still have practically everyone disagreeing on who belongs to it and who doesn’t, for one. Who is the arbiter of that?

It’s just people enjoying and engaging with a hobby in different ways. As with most hobbies, people will disagree on what are “proper” ways to enjoy the hobby, people will have different socialization styles which will sometimes be incompatible, and people will sometimes just have bad chemistry. Boyfriend has a few friends that grate on me to various degrees, but that doesn’t make them bad people. No matter how much they make me want to avoid them.

Like, I’m not going to pretend I don’t sometimes roll my eyes and go “fucking furries,” but I do that with a certain amount of tongue in cheek, and I recognize that the only difference between furry drama and drama in other communities in 99% of cases is just, like… the specifics of subject matter. Broad strokes tend to be the same.

Because of past trauma I’m super uncomfortable in social situations with other furries (like, I cannot do the local furmeets or things like VR Chat - FAF works for me in part because my presence here precedes the trauma). I already have social anxiety but it’s many times worse with furries. Contrast me in my late teens and twenties, where furries were pretty much the only group that I reliably had very low anxiety around. This is a me problem. (I mean, I guess you could make the argument that it’s a people-who-caused-the-trauma problem, but realistically they’re not anywhere near the majority of furries and my anxiety brain is ridiculous for generalizing them to all unknown furries.)

“At least I’m not as cringey as those guys over there” is not a good look, not gonna lie.
 
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Rayd

Rayd

profound asshole
quoting_mungo said:
The idea that there is an “inner circle” seems to me to be deeply flawed. If for the sake of argument we entertain the notion that such a thing exists, you’d still have practically everyone disagreeing on who belongs to it and who doesn’t, for one. Who is the arbiter of that?

It’s just people enjoying and engaging with a hobby in different ways. As with most hobbies, people will disagree on what are “proper” ways to enjoy the hobby, people will have different socialization styles which will sometimes be incompatible, and people will sometimes just have bad chemistry. Boyfriend has a few friends that grate on me to various degrees, but that doesn’t make them bad people. No matter how much they make me want to avoid them.

Like, I’m not going to pretend I don’t sometimes roll my eyes and go “fucking furries,” but I do that with a certain amount of tongue in cheek, and I recognize that the only difference between furry drama and drama in other communities in 99% of cases is just, like… the specifics of subject matter. Broad strokes tend to be the same.

Because of past trauma I’m super uncomfortable in social situations with other furries (like, I cannot do the local furmeets or things like VR Chat - FAF works for me in part because my presence here precedes the trauma. I already have social anxiety but it’s many times worse with furries. Contrast me in my late teens and twenties, where furries were pretty much the only group that I reliably had very low anxiety around. This is a me problem. (I mean, I guess you could make the argument that it’s a people-who-caused-the-trauma problem, but realistically they’re not anywhere near the majority of furries and my anxiety brain is ridiculous for generalizing them to all unknown furries.)

“At least I’m not as cringey as those guys over there” is not a good look, not gonna lie.
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i didn't mean "inner circle" as in an actual established group that exists, moreso using a circle as an analogy as a way to visualize those based on their level of involvement in the fandom (the center being more involved, whereas the outer edges being less)

a lot of people who relate to those kind of memes do so because more often than not, they're overwhelmed by other furries for one reason or another. they may have had countless experiences in the past where they were made uncomfortable by the typical bubbly energy of the fandom, or the bizarre, frustrating or even toxic traits that are common in large, populated furry spaces, like various websites or cons - thus they grow to tend to be more reserved when it comes to fandom participation, and opt for primarily socializing with those that feel the same way, or socializing outside the fandom. it doesn't make us judgmental or mean, we just understand our energy isn't typical for the fandom and express that feeling through.. very harmless memes. as you said, it is normal, just people enjoying the hobby in different dosages.

BooTheHamster said:
no amount of "I'm not like those other furries" is likely to make most people care, we're all dysfunctional dipshits to them
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i don't think most people post these kind of memes to express that statement
 
Kellan Meig'h

Kellan Meig'h

Kilted Luthier
Fallowfox said:
The thing I miss is trains. I was able to get between cities in the UK and even rural locations with them.
In the US plenty of rural locations have freight trains, but nothing for people. Even a lot of cities aren't connected.

The buses thing is just me worrying 'what if my pass gets rejected, what if I go to the wrong stop, what if I am late for work?' though.
When I first got given my pass it didn't work properly, so I've only ridden the bus like 3 times because every time I had to explain to the operator that the pass was new and needed time to be registered.
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There are a few systems that sort of work and are cheap (relatively) to use. Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and the Eastern Virginia corridor work to some degree. Anything else will usually be AMTRAK and cost $$$ to use. Indianapolis to Oakland in a seat, not even a roomette, is too expensive. That's 54 hours(!) in a frigging seat! I can drive it straight through with the wife in 36 hours, fuel costs both ways is less than train fare one way.
Our rail system is broken and the gummint has no clue how to fix it. Even California's commuter train from the Bay Area to L.A. (now cancelled) only served those two areas and would generally bypass towns that could be stopping off points for commuters. Even the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the bay area doesn't run in the black like it should.
In the city I grew up in, a bus ride 5.4 miles from my house to work took three hours to complete, as all bus traffic in town HAS to go through the local BART station where the bus drivers take a 30 minute break. I can ride my bicycle that same distance in 45 minutes while dodging drivers that found their license in a Crackerjack box. Oddly enough, it takes an hour to drive that same distance so you could say average speed is 5.4 miles per hour.
 
Baron Tredegar

Baron Tredegar

Master of Forgotten Lore
TrixieFox said:
yk that sounds awfully familiar.... "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." Matthew 7:3-5 XD... Why am I like this???
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I too know way too much about the Bible despite no longer being a Christian.
 
TrixieFox

TrixieFox

Blood Rose Faction Leader
I haven't slept in forever and my brain wont focus for one gosh dang second
 
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