You're exactly right. It seems like the further south you go, the harder people try to be Southern…though there's pretty much nothing to be proud about in those places. So glad to not live there anymore.

I've always wanted to attend a furcon seeing as I've done just about every other kind of geek con out there. But NOT in summer. Mascot costumes get rancid fast. There's a reason why every good furcon has a headless lounge for fursuiters to take off their animal heads and cool down—even ventilated, those costumes are…

I recall that! There was a dog show in a nearby hotel that same weekend, so there was a lot of overlap between members of the two events, with people from the dog show staying in the furry con's hotel. Given how intense the competition between human owners can be at dog shows, it was pretty widely speculated that the…

Like PedanticEditorType said, furry fandom is not a fetish. Most furry fans just thing talking animals are cool and enjoy cosplay. It's just that people love to embrace the most offensive and negative aspects of something they don't understand, for pure shock value. So, American football fans get a reputation for…

I lived in Pittsburgh (pre-Anthrocon, I suspect) and I can also attest to its horrifying-ness.

I KNEW IT.

Worry not. THEY'RE the ones who need to apologize!

Oh god. If they come into my corner of IRC, they'd better update their wills in advance. We will vaporize them. Totally cool with sending them to 8chan.

I tried real life. Highly overrated.

Stormfront? There seems to be a lot of overlap between people who yell sexist shit at female gamers and people who think the world would be better off without "them coloreds takin our jobs and rapin our wimmins."

I know what abstract is! It's that thang with all the slide-y beads, and ya use it to count fish or mud or somethin' in countries that ain't invented calculators!

I work in politics and Christ some people are just the biggest dicks about their small amounts of power

*Shrug* Too little, too late.

More like the BEST thing!

I actually was about to post the same damn thing!

Don't mind me, just going down this thread upvoting every single thing you post….

Really, this just makes me want to rewatch the 1995 Pride and Prejudice.

Well, I AM stone cold! But not a fox or a killer.

I've been saying over and over again that my childhood and early adulthood would have been far more bearable and filled with a lot fewer thoughts of suicide if we'd had shows like this when I was growing up, to tell me I wasn't a sick monster.

They're more intelligent.