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shran wrote:In protesting proposed and planned education budget cuts, the student body has decided to do a study marathon. The University library is open 24/7 until Friday. How awesome is that? I can get huge loads of studying done now.

How does studying = protest?

thelordharry wrote:

Oh, Myyyy!!! Thank you for following me on "The Twitter." I'm new to all this so be sure to "retweet" me, and hard!
GeorgeTakei > benjohnmiller

George Takei wants me to "retweet" him hard!

Better watch out for his jealous husband.

So, I was talking to a friend of mine who is a Furry, and they are an interesting group. I happen to like a number of them from the college, and they sent me an article from the Furry's wiki, and it was quite interesting to me...

I also am now trying to learn as much as I can about the furry fandom, IDK why.

I know I shouldn't extrapolate, but I can't really generate any sympathy for them after the Blackstar fiasco here.

See, the thing is, I thought the same thing, but the 8 Furries I know, are intelligent, actually really smart, like 3.5 GPAs and all, very good at debating, very interesting, and good at realizing they are wrong.

3 of them are girls, who are cute, and think I'm like amazing because I care about them, which thus they care about me. And my favorite one, a guy, is awesome, we debate everything, politics, religion, everything, he's an atheist, but he'll gladly debate religiously without being judgmental about it.
So yeah, They are quite great, and Blackstar was an idiot, which for us killed any idea of an intelligent or decent Furry, although there seem to be a lot of them.

I know I'm not being fair; it's just one of those biases we learn.

Yeah, I had the same bias, I didn't know them as Furries first, two of the girls were cute, one was in my class, so we got to talking and then I decided to stick with their group most often since they weren't idiots, and now I am interested in the culture of the Fandom.

Of the furries I know, one of which I dated (heh, another story), they have always seem fairly normal. I take blackstar as a universal idiot with severe loyalty issues.

Is the dressed up as stuffed animals during sex thing real? Or just BS's insanity?

Depends on the furry. I'm pretty sure there are some that go that far, but the majority don't. The furthest I have gone is wear a blonde haired pair of cat ears (on a headband, of course) which apparently made me cute.

I do know a couple who are going out who enjoy dressing up in their fursuits when they have sex, although the whole CSI furry conventions are giant orgies of people dressed up as animals is false.

That indeed is highly irregular.

Which one? The latter is almost non-existant, the former is not as uncommon, but still not very common.

The former I meant.

Yesterday I went for a walk with the wife, son, and dog in a local bayside community. On said walk, we encountered a group (flock?) of guineafowl. They were unconfined, free to roam the streets, and unaccompanied by anyone or anything except each other. There are no zoos or aviaries nearby, and guineafowl are native to western Africa - which is rather distant for a flightless or semi-flightless bird from Barnegat Bay in New Jersey. They were not, moreover, helmeted guineafowl, which is the kind that has been domesticated and is known in the UK as "gleanies."

Maybe the took the subway?