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Ironic yes, but can you honestly tell me you weren't expecting it?

So it took only 5 approximately off topic posts to declare the thread derailed.

I think there is a greater desire to see derailment than there is an actual derailment.

(two more posts on derailment and there will be as many derailment posts than actual derailing posts).

Once you hit half a dozen or so coherent off-topic posts in a row the spirit of the thread has significantly altered and it most likely will not return to form without mod intervention or a number of new posters who didn't bother reading through the entire thread.

I feel this thread can safely be declared derailed, except that our calling attention to that fact could create a desire, conscious, or subconscious, to rebel against the current activity and return to form. So honestly it's still up in the air at this point, but only because of the side effects of the three of us commenting on the derailment. Aren't human interactions fun?:thumb:

Let's just all agree that 4chan sucks, derailing is annoying and furries are disgusting and let's get on with seriousposting.

I don't agree that furries are inherently disgusting, I find a lot of anthropomorphic art beautiful, a lot of stuff associated with us is very disgusting, but the concept of anthropomorphization of animals has existed for thousands of years before the internet opened it up to its current market and turned it into one big revolting orgy, for the most part; furries, at least those who chiefly designate themselves as such, seem to be inherently neurotic though. I also don't find derailing annoying, it opens up new channels of thought and discussion.

the_taken at [unixtime wrote:1191101342[/unixtime]]My only wish is that I had prehensile tail like tree monkeys. It's not for kink, it's for tree climbing and being able to hang around literally.

I'm glad I don't. It would really put a crimp on my enjoyment of modern chairs and sofas.

As for furries; heck even men with enough dark hair on them that it starts to obscure their skin (my arm hair tends to be thin and light) and who has more chest hair than head hair unnerves me a lot.

I'm amused by the idea that a person whose signature is taken from an extended treatise on a woman's crotch has much of anything to tell me about lasciviousness.

-Desdan

tzor at [unixtime wrote:1191118483[/unixtime]]

the_taken at [unixtime wrote:1191101342[/unixtime]]My only wish is that I had prehensile tail like tree monkeys. It's not for kink, it's for tree climbing and being able to hang around literally.

I'm glad I don't. It would really put a crimp on my enjoyment of modern chairs and sofas.

That's just a logistics error. If humans had kept their prehensile tails, modern chair would be build to accommodate. Hell, some chairs can already support a human sized tail, by accident.

Loafing wouldn't change, so couches would be just as comfortable.

Trust me, you can use modern chairs with a tail; it merely needs a normal amount of flexability - unlike a stabilizing tail.

But people will step on it and small children will be confused.

"Mommy, does that lady have a ...tail?"

-Crissa

I find a lot of anthropomorphic art beautiful, a lot of stuff associated with us is very disgusting, but the concept of anthropomorphization of animals has existed for thousands of years

Artwork depicting the beautification or idealization of humanoid anthropomorphic animals predates there even being human beings on Asia so yeah. I don't have a clue where the idea that anthropomorphic animal=rotten and wrong.

Well, what I mean is people who insist that such artwork is inherently disgusting.

And to bring things back full circle:

I'm not positive, but wasn't it 4chan that is responsible for the current reinassance of furry hatred? Or was it Something Awful?

Something Awful's goons are more famous for their hatred of furs, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're the progenitors. Internets history isn't really my best subject.

My friend had an insight some months back, all the internet communities, and I use the term community loosely, like something awful and the chans exist mostly just to hate each other, but the one thing they have in common is that they hate Fchan the most; which, those of you who have been their should be able to attest, is at the very least understandable.

SA came before 4chan.

Furry porn has been around since the beginning of Teh Intarnetz. It's eternal.

And I vote for tails too. And hooves. Maybe horns, but styling hair would be restricted in some ways.

Being Transhumanist, I just don't get body-based discrimination. We'll be able to change humans to fvcking spaceships in less than 50 years. Who gives a flying fvck about somebody having a tail or whatever?

In any case, I'll third tails. They are awesomely useful for balance, look cool and count as a third "hand" despite being weak. Very useful. And there are ways around the chair problem. You can wrap it around your waist or even sit on your foot (seiza, lotus or something similar).

Change humans to spaceships? Chances are we won't even have spaceships yet in 50 years-science advances fast, but there are limits and we don't even know if we're going to be able to make real spaceships. In 50 years we may very well be dead, or at least brought down to 1/3rd our population.

"I'm not a sexual deviant! I can point to at least...five fine gentlemen on these very forums who have the same tastes as I do!"

If you honestly think there isn't anything very very wrong with getting sexually turned on by anthropomorphic animals your frame of reference is incredibly fucked up.

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MrWaesel wrote:frame of reference

1) If you you think it is a problem of a degree such that it requires even a fraction of the air play its getting around here then I think we are getting back to the whole frame of reference thing again.

2) Your avatar is an anthromorph, and your name is a different anthromorph, I mean you ARE an anthromorph. Whats up with that?

Edit: and I mean heck, 2a) Mister Weasel is easily a sexual euphamism. And Dr Zoidberg has an entire episode dedicated to him having sex...

Yeah that segues nicely into me jacking it to furry porn doesn't it?

You really can't blame Mr. Waesel for having a Dr. Zoidbherg avatar, he is definately one smooth character.

I'll throw my support in for prehensile tails, but hooves would be limiting, and horns seem rather unnecessary to me. Personally I'd be more interested in feline muscle fiber, times 3 efficiency FTW!

I say fuck giving humans animal traits, let's gives octopodes hemoglobin and watch them take over the world.

wrote:let's gives octopodes hemoglobin and watch them take over the world.

They already rule the world, how many humans do you see living in their 70% of the surface of the planet?

Calibron at [unixtime wrote:1191176134[/unixtime]]I'll throw my support in for prehensile tails, but hooves would be limiting, and horns seem rather unnecessary to me. Personally I'd be more interested in feline muscle fiber, times 3 efficiency FTW!

All my life, I've had cats.

And I'm sorry, there is nothing about cats I find sexy at all. Never saw the appeal in catgirls myself. Unless someone can convince me shitting in sand or pissing in my shoes is somehow erotic.

Count_Arioch_the_28th at [unixtime wrote:1191207526[/unixtime]]

Calibron at [unixtime wrote:1191176134[/unixtime]]I'll throw my support in for prehensile tails, but hooves would be limiting, and horns seem rather unnecessary to me. Personally I'd be more interested in feline muscle fiber, times 3 efficiency FTW!

All my life, I've had cats.

And I'm sorry, there is nothing about cats I find sexy at all. Never saw the appeal in catgirls myself. Unless someone can convince me shitting in sand or pissing in my shoes is somehow erotic.

Unless you are an Otaku, you will never understand.