OT:...and "furries" are supposed to be strange?
unidyne
A British outfit called "Friction Furniture" sells fetish-wear, and a
strange collection of ''Vacuum Beds".
http://www.frictionfurniture.co.uk/en-gb/dept_24.html
For some strange reason, I see these and I think of Jell-o molds...
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Steven F. Scharff
Obvious Fake. Do Not Harvest.
Yeah, they do look like molds, don't they?
Have to tell you, though, that they aren't the only company making those -- and
that particular type of furniture has been around for a number of years, if not
a decade or longer (anyone interested in more info can Google an entirely
different newsgroup, soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm -- but don't bother the
locals: the posts and links should be more than enough).
Thanks for sharing, and for giving us some warning! Okay you guys, Furry is
being out-weirded by another social group -- what's next on the list to keep
our place in infamy? :D
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The Saprophyte
Raise your hands if you immediately thought "Fire In The Sky" when you
viewed this.
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Kathmandu
"Obvious Fake. Do Not Harvest." <ratfinks...@aol.comNOREPLY> wrote in
message news:20031118224615...@mb-m25.aol.com...
> >From: "unidyne" uni...@cox.net
>
> >Check THESE out!
> >
> >A British outfit called "Friction Furniture" sells fetish-wear, and a
> >strange collection of ''Vacuum Beds".
> >
> >http://www.frictionfurniture.co.uk/en-gb/dept_24.html
> >
> >For some strange reason, I see these and I think of Jell-o molds...
>
> Yeah, they do look like molds, don't they?
>
> Have to tell you, though, that they aren't the only company making
those -- and
> that particular type of furniture has been around for a number of years,
if not
> a decade or longer (anyone interested in more info can Google an entirely
> different newsgroup, soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm -- but don't bother the
> locals: the posts and links should be more than enough).
>
> Thanks for sharing, and for giving us some warning! Okay you guys, Furry
is
> being out-weirded by another social group -- what's next on the list to
keep
> our place in infamy? :D
Furry's infamy stems from folks saying/doing things like, "I can only truly
feel my inner _____ (badger, squirrel, dragon, wolf etc.) until I have
smeared _______ (peanutbutter, cheezewiz, fecal matter, etc) all over my
body while wearing my ______ (fursuit, diaper, Star Trek uniform, strap on,
inflatable boobs, Admiral Akabar costume, Jar Jar Binks puppet on my penis)
and tightly bound up in my ________ (Gimp outfit, emperor swing, dress made
from human skin, giant body condom, underwear with the spikes on the
inside, etc) while "YIFFING" my _______ ( dog, horse, hamster, stuffed Meko
plushie, someone else's used stuffed Meko plushie, 1967 Camero's tailpipe,
brother's tailpipe, blow up doll, blow up doll with Bea Arthur's picture
taped on the head, girlfriend/boyfriend with a picture of Jack Salem taped
on their forehead, fur covered computer case with dick, balls and a
"patented" rectal reset switch, etc) and using my spiffy new Vacu-bed.
That seal-a-meal style thingamabob sorta seems kinda tame actually...
An 'anthro fan' could own one of these things and do all sorts of weird
things with it but no one would raise an eyebrow because an 'anthro fan'
has a modicum of taste and is smart enough not to tell anyone.
Viva la Revolution!
BTW, I generally don't read replies to my posts anymore since it is the
same people saying the same tired things over and over. No one is going to
change my mind. Turbine whozits, Samantha what's her name and everyone else
who thinks I'm an ignorant Neanderthal can quietly killfile me and go on
living in their ivory tower of universal acceptance of all things labeled
'furry' just don't come crying when the shit starts flowing through the
windows of that tower. My 'give-a-shit' meter is pegged at zero.
(no malice is intended for anyone, especially those who originated this
thread. I just thought I'd try to be funny)
DishRoom1
Ratfink wrote --
Unidyne wrote --
So, you anthro fans can do the same perverted stuff as furry fans do, and that
makes you superior?
>
>Viva la Revolution!
!Me Quiero Taco Bell!
>
>BTW, I generally don't read replies to my posts anymore since it is the
>same people saying the same tired things over and over. No one is going to
>change my mind. Turbine whozits, Samantha what's her name and everyone else
>who thinks I'm an ignorant Neanderthal can quietly killfile me and go on
>living in their ivory tower of universal acceptance of all things labeled
>'furry' just don't come crying when the shit starts flowing through the
>windows of that tower. My 'give-a-shit' meter is pegged at zero.
Then why do you post here at all?
>
>(no malice is intended for anyone, especially those who originated this
>thread. I just thought I'd try to be funny)
Oh, no, no malice to us who "are ruining the fandom".
John Shughart
Obvious Fake. Do Not Harvest.
>Raise your hands if you immediately thought "Fire In The Sky" when you
>viewed this.
Uh, sorry. The reference is lost on me. Is it a film or book?
Obvious Fake. Do Not Harvest.
[snip]
>That seal-a-meal style thingamabob sorta seems kinda tame actually...
That is actually a good description! I have no idea how "fresh" anyone would be
after using it, however.
[snip]
>(no malice is intended for anyone, especially those who originated this
>thread. I just thought I'd try to be funny)
(shrug)
BR
> BTW, I generally don't read replies to my posts anymore since it is the
> same people saying the same tired things over and over. No one is going
> to change my mind. Turbine whozits, Samantha what's her name and
> everyone else who thinks I'm an ignorant Neanderthal can quietly
> killfile me and go on living in their ivory tower of universal
> acceptance of all things labeled 'furry' just don't come crying when the
> shit starts flowing through the windows of that tower. My 'give-a-shit'
> meter is pegged at zero.
And when it doesn't? Then what?
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-- James Fenimore Cooper
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes,
knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
Matt Harpold
truly
> feel my inner _____ (badger, squirrel, dragon, wolf etc.) until I have
> smeared _______ (peanutbutter, cheezewiz, fecal matter, etc) all over my
> body while wearing my ______ (fursuit, diaper, Star Trek uniform, strap
on,
> inflatable boobs, Admiral Akabar costume, Jar Jar Binks puppet on my
penis)
> and tightly bound up in my ________ (Gimp outfit, emperor swing, dress
made
> from human skin, giant body condom, underwear with the spikes on the
> inside, etc) while "YIFFING" my _______ ( dog, horse, hamster, stuffed
Meko
> plushie, someone else's used stuffed Meko plushie, 1967 Camero's tailpipe,
> brother's tailpipe, blow up doll, blow up doll with Bea Arthur's picture
> taped on the head, girlfriend/boyfriend with a picture of Jack Salem taped
> on their forehead, fur covered computer case with dick, balls and a
> "patented" rectal reset switch, etc) and using my spiffy new Vacu-bed.
God, I WISH furries were that interesting. ;-)
(and is it just me, or do I hear more about sexualizing Meeko plushies from
you angry burned-fur-type dudes than anyone else?)
> That seal-a-meal style thingamabob sorta seems kinda tame actually...
Rubber fans are really on a par with furries for pure spectacle. Check out
an issue of Skin Two. Note that perverts with good bodies seem to get cut
more slack than overweight perverts. It's a law of the universe.
> An 'anthro fan' could own one of these things and do all sorts of weird
> things with it but no one would raise an eyebrow because an 'anthro fan'
> has a modicum of taste and is smart enough not to tell anyone.
>
> Viva la Revolution!
The Revolution will be sanitized, right?
> BTW, I generally don't read replies to my posts anymore since it is the
> same people saying the same tired things over and over. No one is going to
> change my mind. Turbine whozits, Samantha what's her name and everyone
else
> who thinks I'm an ignorant Neanderthal can quietly killfile me and go on
> living in their ivory tower of universal acceptance of all things labeled
> 'furry' just don't come crying when the shit starts flowing through the
> windows of that tower. My 'give-a-shit' meter is pegged at zero.
I am so totally stealing "Turbine Whozits" as my name. :D
But you can call me Matt.
> (no malice is intended for anyone, especially those who originated this
> thread. I just thought I'd try to be funny)
I wager your give-a-shit-meter is just above zero, because you're still
posting!
-Matt/Turbine Whozits
Paul Johnson
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The Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:00:48 -0800, unidyne <uni...@cox.net> wrote:
> A British outfit called "Friction Furniture" sells fetish-wear, and a
> strange collection of ''Vacuum Beds".
>
> http://www.frictionfurniture.co.uk/en-gb/dept_24.html
Do babes stay fresher when you vacuum pack them like that?
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The Saprophyte
Obvious Fake. Do Not Harvest. wrote:
>>From: The Saprophyte NormD...@nolocale.com
>
>
>>Raise your hands if you immediately thought "Fire In The Sky" when you
>>viewed this.
>
>
> Uh, sorry. The reference is lost on me. Is it a film or book?
>
Both. It's a movie based on a book about the allegedly true alien
abduction experience of the author, played by D.B. Sweeney, and his
subsequent ordeal coming to terms with what happened to him.
During the obligatory examination scene, He's held down by a
device extremely similar to the vacuum bed, albeit more like
alien cling-wrap.
Say, maybe all those "abductions" are really just interstellar
BD/SM parties. ;)
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The Saprophyte
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Ken Pick
I think of "Foreverware" in the first episode of _Eerie, Indiana_...
DishRoom1
Saprophyte wrote --
>>Raise your hands if you immediately thought "Fire In The Sky" when you
>>viewed this.
>
>Uh, sorry. The reference is lost on me. Is it a film or book?
>
This is this Steely Dan song titled "Fire in the Hole".
John Shughart
mouse
heh
that was exactly what i thought of, particularly since they are
refering to these as beds
Ken Pick
It was especially creepy when I saw it. My late mother was a
Tupperware freak (had Tupperware parties in our home all thru the
Sixties) and seemed completely emotionally invested in keeping my
brother and me as her six-year-old widdle kiddies -- forever. (When
she died in '75, I had to grow up emotionally from 6 to 20 -- and from
feminine to masculine -- literally overnight. It wasn't fun.)
Doubly so when you realize the Foreverware Mom's eternally-little kids
were pushed into feminine pursuits -- what was then called "sissy" and
is now called "metrosexual" (just look at the old school yearbooks --
FM's kids are the only boys in the Home Ec class photos, looking
sooooo kyooote in their frilly ruffled aprons...).
This was early _Eerie, Indiana_, before the hiatus and return with
conventional vampire/werewolf/mummy/ghostbusting plots. The early
stuff was probably the best TV portrayal of "Growing up Martian", i.e.
growing up fannish in a mundane world. And secondarily, the best
portrayal of how total unrelived normality can itself be abnormal.
iBuck
>living in their ivory tower of universal acceptance of all things labeled
>'furry' just don't come crying when the shit starts flowing through the
>windows of that tower.
Nobody, is living in an ivory tower thinking ther'e a univerral acceptance of
things labeled 'furry'. You ont he other hand seem to be living in an Ivory
tower where you think that calling yourself an 'anthro fan' actually means
something, and that you can keep the twinks from glomming that too...
"You can have it Quickly,Correct, Complex - Pick 2"
mouse
> You ont he other hand seem to be living in an Ivory
> tower where you think that calling yourself an 'anthro fan' actually means
> something, and that you can keep the twinks from glomming that too...
Of course he can keep the twinks from glomming onto that
VICIOUS RIDICULE
-mouse
funny-animal fan
Matt Harpold
"iBuck" <lncra...@aol.com.star> wrote in message
news:20031122095100...@mb-m02.aol.com...
Yeah, how can I be living in an ivory tower by extolling the virtues of
furry populism? :D
-Matt/Turb
Matt Harpold
"mouse" <mo...@blackvault.com> wrote in message
news:a4a687a1.03112...@posting.google.com...
Didn't work for gay people. Ridicule a subculture and you give them strength
and a reason to develop a tighter community.
-Matt/Turb
mouse
either you missed the point, or shame on you for attempting this sort
of fuckery on me , it wont work
see in this example
if it is widely know that 'anthro fans' hate fetishists
and furthmore that fetishists are ridiculed by 'anthro fans' then why
would said fetishists (or whatever fucked up unrelated groups tried to
latch on) hang around where they KNOW they are not welcome?
see?
im not saying there is an anthro fandom or that there is enough people
who give a shit anymore to do anything anyway..i was just saying
hypothetically its very possible to keep undesirable people away
and before you come back at me with some sort of accusation of being a
fascist or whatever
i dont want to associate with: pedophiles, age-roleplayers,
plushophiles, bestialists, people who are into extreme/bizarre
fetishes (and are in-your-face about it), people who are WAY TOO INTO
porno, adult babies, whiney obsessive nerds, and various other types
of fuckups
if that makes ME a prick...
i dont give a fuck.
Matt Harpold
> > > VICIOUS RIDICULE
> >
> > Didn't work for gay people. Ridicule a subculture and you give them
strength
> > and a reason to develop a tighter community.
> >
> > -Matt/Turb
>
> either you missed the point, or shame on you for attempting this sort
> of fuckery on me , it wont work
Maybe I have missed your point, or maybe you haven't made it clear enough.
;-) No fuckery here, sir.
> see in this example
> if it is widely know that 'anthro fans' hate fetishists
> and furthmore that fetishists are ridiculed by 'anthro fans' then why
> would said fetishists (or whatever fucked up unrelated groups tried to
> latch on) hang around where they KNOW they are not welcome?
>
> see?
Sure, but there's too much crossover in furries as it is. Most people have
friends among both crowds, you can't just draw a line down the middle. A lot
of my friends wouldn't make adult/X-rated art, but they have no problem with
it existing. They just don't do it themselves. If you went up to them and
pitched this kind of line to them, they wouldn't agree, because there's no
wall, no line in the sand. There's only shades of grey, and extremes. They'd
go down the list and they'd think, "well friends X, Y and Z of mine sell
porny art at cons, and I like them, and have fun seeing them at cons, so who
the hell are you to tell me I can't hang with them?"
And so on. Not to mention the number of closet cases, who wouldn't go public
with all their kinks, but would certainly defend the right of them to exist.
> im not saying there is an anthro fandom or that there is enough people
> who give a shit anymore to do anything anyway..i was just saying
> hypothetically its very possible to keep undesirable people away
Hypothetically it is. And if you had a fandom that was by its nature pretty
clean, it'd probably work. But furry has alwas been about upending social
conventions, turning imagery meant for children on its head, and all that.
At least in the last 10-15 years I've known about it. So it just ain't going
to happen. If the people in the 40's want to bitch about the good old days,
let them. As long as I've ever known about furry, it's had a fairly robust
sexual component. My "good old days" are right now, at this moment, so
pardon me if I tell the Brian Hendersons of the world to take a long walk
off a short pier. He can go sink to the briny deep along with all those
other dorks who talk about the Greatest Generation. The good old days are a
big lie.
> and before you come back at me with some sort of accusation of being a
> fascist or whatever
No, no, no. I wasn't meaning that.
> i dont want to associate with: pedophiles, age-roleplayers,
> plushophiles, bestialists, people who are into extreme/bizarre
> fetishes (and are in-your-face about it), people who are WAY TOO INTO
> porno, adult babies, whiney obsessive nerds, and various other types
> of fuckups
>
> if that makes ME a prick...
>
> i dont give a fuck.
Welcome to America, is all I gotta say. :D If you think the fuckups are all
here in furry fandom, you haven't met many of my coworkers over the years. A
more degenerate bunch of idiots, schizophrenics, wackjobs, racists, drunks,
illiterates, addicts, tweekers, and other various worthless rabble you have
never seen. I bet fully half of the people I have known through my work have
committed felony crimes at one point in their life. The real world is full
of fuckups. They just don't introduce themselves. ;-)
-Matt/Turb
? the Platypus {aka David Formosa}
It hasn't worked yet. But I suspect that it doesn't mattor that the
tactic is ineffective, what you realy wish to have is a way to feel
justified about playing "Larf at people who are diffrent to you"
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Free the Memes.
iBuck
>> and furthmore that fetishists are ridiculed by 'anthro fans' then why
>> would said fetishists (or whatever fucked up unrelated groups tried to
>> latch on) hang around where they KNOW they are not welcome?
Mouse seems to entirely miss the point..
Why? Because the fetishist's -know- that regardless of how unwelcome they are,
that the people calling themselves anthrofans CANNOT MAKE THEM LEAVE. And so
they will remain there, enjoying whatever common themes they happen to enjoy.
That's the whole point.. Kathmandu, wanto to have his little group where all
the people who he dislikes "Need not Apply" well, of course they need not
apply, because their is no application process, no interveiw, and no showing
someone the door and no ability to add those processes. 'furry' or 'antho'
fan is a self descriptor, Kathmandu, can no more keep the twinks from using
the term, than King Canute, could stop the sea. Pointing that out is not
'vicious ridicule' it's straight line logic... furry or antho, by any other
name it smells as sweet...
iBuck
>> Of course he can keep the twinks from glomming onto that
>>
>> VICIOUS RIDICULE
I think I owe mouse a -bit- of an appology, I misread that bit before... Not
that he's not more of a reactionary twink than Henderson. but due to some copy
pasting, I thought he was labeling my post as vicious ridicule of Kathmandu..
Considering all the invective thrown around here, and the fact the the twinks
(Reactonary and otherwise, though we seem to have more reactionary twinks than
we have actual twinks, which is odd, because overall the reactionary twinks,
prolong and perpetuate the bad name of the fandom, more than the others do...)
are still here, would seem to indicate, that its'a completly ineffective to
the point of counter productivity.
Keeping someone from using something you don't -own- like the label to a
generic fandom, just can't be done...