Fur Friday

Posted by jesse.in.mb | Apr 14, 2017 | Fun | 107

I know most of you want me to get back to nothing but (NSFW) sexy otters for Fur Fridays, but beloved commenter Pope Jimbo sent in a story that I just couldn’t pass up: Unsuspecting Woman Brings Therapy Dog to Local Furry Convention.

Before last weekend, Cheryl Wassus had no idea what a “furry” was. So naturally, when the Motor City Furry Convention chose Pets for Vets (a nonprofit that pairs dogs with military veterans) as its charity of choice, she assumed that she and Link, her one-year-old Bernese mountain dog, would be spending the day at an animal event. She wasn’t wrong, necessarily — it’s just that the animals were maybe slightly more anthropomorphized than she had envisioned.

Seriously though click through and read the whole interview, it’s charming as all get out. Also the Dog’s name is “Link” and there’s a Legend of Zelda shield in there.

my mom thought furrycon was a pet event and volunteered w our therapy dog ? pic.twitter.com/mizlydLxjl

— kenny wassus (@kgw) April 8, 2017

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Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:05 pm

So freaking glad I clicked that link on my phone.
- Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:09 pm
  
  Also, otters are now just that much less innocent. Thank you Jessie, and your people.
  - jesse.in.mb on April 14, 2017 at 5:20 pm
    
    Let me give you some otter innocence back. This one is totally safe for work.
    
    And this will take that innocence regained and tweak it (but it’s still safe for work).
    - Chafed on April 15, 2017 at 9:20 am
      
      Still not getting over the first link.
- Number.6 on April 14, 2017 at 5:14 pm
  
  *clears browser history wid’ a quickness*
- jesse.in.mb on April 14, 2017 at 5:16 pm
  
  The sexy otters one?
  - Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:16 pm
    
    yes, that one.
- AlmightyJB on April 14, 2017 at 5:20 pm
  
  Yeah, I read 5 words and backed out before seeing anything that I’m sure I wouldn’t care to.
  - jesse.in.mb on April 14, 2017 at 5:22 pm
    
    There are words?
    - AlmightyJB on April 14, 2017 at 5:28 pm
      
      I stayed focused cause I already had my suspicions.
- Festus on April 14, 2017 at 5:30 pm
  
  Stunned mom is the best mom.
AlmightyJB on April 14, 2017 at 5:09 pm

Lol
AlmightyJB on April 14, 2017 at 5:17 pm

“I was talking to one of the moms [of a furry]”

I’m a little confused.
- AlmightyJB on April 14, 2017 at 5:22 pm
  
  I thought these were sex clubs
  - Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:24 pm
    
    furry cons are not at all sex clubs and furries aren’t even necessarily sexual in nature (although it does frequently overlap). Think comic book convention with about 50% more autism.
    - Marty Comanche on April 14, 2017 at 5:29 pm
      
      Wait that mean’s there’s (calculting …) 60% autism at Comic Con. That seems high.
      - Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:31 pm
        
        I said comic book convention, not comicon… the normies own comicon now.
    - Florida Man on April 14, 2017 at 5:29 pm
      
      You know what’s funny? Furries don’t bother me, but those guys that dress up as women and wear plastic mask really freak me out.
      
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2565884/The-men-masks-The-peculiar-world-female-masking.html
      - Number.6 on April 14, 2017 at 5:32 pm
        
        “BurnVictimCon 2017”
      - Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:32 pm
        
        If I saw someone doing that in real life I would assume I was about to be gruesomely murdered and used as some sort of skin suit or other grotesque fetish.
      - jesse.in.mb on April 14, 2017 at 5:33 pm
        
        Well that’s uncanny.
      - coax on April 14, 2017 at 5:47 pm
        
        And here I thought kigurumi was creepy. At least Japan has that cute factor.
      - Scruffy Nerfherder on April 14, 2017 at 5:49 pm
        
        Nope.
        
        I will not put the lotion in the basket.
      - Rhywun on April 14, 2017 at 6:04 pm
        
        Oh lord
  - jesse.in.mb on April 14, 2017 at 5:26 pm
    
    If Juvenile Bluster shows up you should ask him how he feels about “clomp”
    - Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:28 pm
      
      This is now the third time in this thread I have had to abort a google search in mid keystroke because I forgot I was on a work computer.
    - quincy on April 14, 2017 at 6:11 pm
      
      Explain. I Googled it, and found nothing fapworthy. Nothing at all. Even the shoe ads were boring.
      - John Titor on April 14, 2017 at 6:37 pm
        
        It’s masturbating to clips and/or fan made content of My Little Pony.
      - quincy on April 14, 2017 at 6:38 pm
        
        eww.
      - quincy on April 14, 2017 at 6:46 pm
        
        eh. who am I kidding.
      - John Titor on April 14, 2017 at 6:47 pm
        
        I believe this was the response Jesse wanted.
      - Heroic Mulatto on April 14, 2017 at 6:51 pm
        
        Just the right height, no bucket required.
- Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:23 pm
  
  A furry mom, or a furry’s mom? This goes back to the oxford comma story a few days ago.
  - Ted S. on April 14, 2017 at 6:56 pm
    
    Ah yes, I remember Amy Irving in The Furry.
Old Man With Candy on April 14, 2017 at 5:17 pm

You know, you get a little older, a little menopausal, and being in that many layers and layers of fur.

Perfect. Just… perfect.
Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 5:30 pm

Pakistan: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” lynches student for “blasphemy”

An eyewitness at the scene of the incident said Mashal and Abdullah, two Mass Communication students, were attacked because they were believed to be “promoting the Ahmadi faith on Facebook”.

The eyewitness said a mob of university students first surrounded Abdullah and forced him to recite verses from the Holy Quran. Although he repeatedly denied the accusation that he was an Ahmadi, the students beat him nonetheless.

…

One of Mashal’s teachers later told Reuters that he was a passionate and critical student.

“He was brilliant and inquisitive, always complaining about the political system of the country, but I never heard him saying anything controversial against the religion,” the teacher said.

The Ahmadi faith is an Islamic sect considered heretical by many Muslims in Pakistan. The Ahmadi stress tolerance and non-violence.
- Florida Man on April 14, 2017 at 5:33 pm
  
  The Ahmadi stress tolerance and non-violence.
  
  Never bring peace and tolerance to a radical fundamentalist fight.
- Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:34 pm
  
  I have a friend that is off the boat Pakistani that I am going shooting with this weekend. I need to ask him about these stories. He is extremely down to earth (he even know I’m (((one))) and still hangs out with me) so he should hopefully be able to shed some light on this stuff.
  - Number.6 on April 14, 2017 at 5:36 pm
    
    We’ll check in again with you on Monday.
  - jesse.in.mb on April 14, 2017 at 5:38 pm
    
    The only Pakistani in my close circle of friends is a female nuclear physicist/pole dancer who moved to Ireland and then married someone from an old Irish Republican family who converted to Islam for her family’s sake.
    
    They’re a riot to hang out with, but are wary of coming back and visiting the US because of the demographic boxes they check off.
    - Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:41 pm
      
      nuclear physicist and pole dancer… I have the most awkward boner right now.
      - Number.6 on April 14, 2017 at 5:45 pm
        
        … not to mention it glows in the dark
    - Chafed on April 15, 2017 at 9:24 am
      
      You hadcme at nuclear physicist/pole dancer.
- mikey on April 14, 2017 at 5:36 pm
  
  “The Ahmadi faith is an Islamic sect considered heretical by many Muslims in Pakistan. The Ahmadi stress tolerance and non-violence”
  IOW heresy in Pakistan.
- Rhywun on April 14, 2017 at 6:15 pm
  
  forced him to recite verses from the Holy Quran
  
  Is that like “Who won the World Series?” to ferret out German spies?
  - Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 6:17 pm
    
    Even in their topsy turvy logic, this would prove nothing since Ahmadis also memorize Quran verses.
    - Rhywun on April 14, 2017 at 6:19 pm
      
      Yeah, these probably aren’t Pakistan’s sharpest knives.
      - Heroic Mulatto on April 14, 2017 at 6:55 pm
        
        [insert tasteless Daniel Pearl joke here]
      - Swiss Servator on April 14, 2017 at 9:05 pm
        
        *fiercely narrows gaze*
Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 5:38 pm

Chechnya: Muslim clerics call for “retribution” against journalists who revealed persecution of gays

“Those infidel journalists called us murderous barbarians!”

“How *dare* they! I’ll kill them with my bare hands!”
- Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:42 pm
  
  Self awareness is a rare commodity these days.
- AlmightyJB on April 14, 2017 at 5:50 pm
  
  They learned well from Hillary.
- Scruffy Nerfherder on April 14, 2017 at 5:51 pm
  
  Such a peaceful religion
Gilmore on April 14, 2017 at 5:48 pm

Don’t have time to read article. Did the dog get raped?
- AlmightyJB on April 14, 2017 at 5:51 pm
  
  Yeah, but did you see how it was dressed?
- jesse.in.mb on April 14, 2017 at 5:53 pm
  
  I believe in this context it’d be “forcibly yiffed”
  - Gilmore on April 14, 2017 at 7:29 pm
    
    “She was presenting your honor. My species considers this implicit consent”
    “Sir, you are an accountant from Grosse Point who dresses up as a Coyote. This is technically not a species”
Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 5:50 pm

They showed a clip on Fox News of the MOAB explosion with “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue” as the soundtrack.

Blech.

Everybody likes fireworks. Few want to look at the remains.
- Scruffy Nerfherder on April 14, 2017 at 5:52 pm
  
  Jingoist assholes. I hate that crap.
- Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 5:53 pm
  
  At least they didn’t call it beautiful.
- Rhywun on April 14, 2017 at 6:18 pm
  
  Where that “anti-war left” I’ve been hearing will rise up?
Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 5:59 pm

Great moments in bathos:
The Greatest Liberals In American History And What They Did For Our Country

Entries include Nixon, Wilson, and Ted Kennedy.

George Washington) The Father of Our Country was a liberal, as were most of the founding fathers. Washington became the first President to serve under the newly formed Constitution that gave more powers to the federal government. And contrary to what most conservatives believe of Washington today, he did not support war.

Yeah, he didn’t support war, except for the one that earned him the title of The Father of Our Country.
- Scruffy Nerfherder on April 14, 2017 at 6:03 pm
  
  Lumping Samuel Gompers with John Adams, that’s impressive.
- John Titor on April 14, 2017 at 6:13 pm
  
  He also served as a major in the colonial militia, hoping for a British Army commission in the Seven Years War.
- John Titor on April 14, 2017 at 6:17 pm
  
  Also, is the person who wrote that retarded? Because they seem to think you can just interchange 18th and 21st century ideas of what ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives’ are. Might as well just call modern conservatives monarchists, because that’s about as coherent.
- Heroic Mulatto on April 14, 2017 at 6:57 pm
  
  Remember when Washington solved the Whiskey Rebellion through negotiation and compromise?
- westernsloper on April 14, 2017 at 7:12 pm
  
  Washington became the first President to serve under the newly formed Constitution that gave more powers to the federal government.
  
  Well, given the fact there was no federal government prior to that, the author is not entirely wrong. The idiot does miss the point that the federal government was established to protect individual rights. He seems to think it was established to gain power. Interesting that is.
Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 6:10 pm

file under: to absurdity, and beyond!

Rachel Dolezal Declares She’s on Historic Mission to Fix South Africa’s Racial Divide

The controversial former NAACP leader, who was outed as white in 2015 but who says she “identifies” as black, is headed to Africa to speak in favor of a non-racial society.

“Race is a lie,” Dolezal recently told the BBC. “How can I be accused of lying about a lie?”

Dolezal, who recently changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, will speak on April 19 at the first inaugural meeting of a group called the Quest for Non Racial South African Society Dialogue.

The announcement was met with widespread criticism on social media and in the South African press.
- AlmightyJB on April 14, 2017 at 6:26 pm
  
  My wife was watching Dr. Phil tonight and looks like Dolezal is going to be on his show Monday. Looked like he was not being easy on her on the preview.
  - Ted S. on April 14, 2017 at 6:59 pm
    
    Why does your wife watch Mr. Phil?
    - AlmightyJB on April 14, 2017 at 9:21 pm
      
      I don’t know. I hate it.
- DEG on April 14, 2017 at 6:43 pm
  
  I can see Dolezal, sometime in the future, claiming she fixed South Africa’s racial divide. That claim will have the same truth level as her claim that she is black.
Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 6:14 pm

Today’s award for misunderstanding the first amendment goes to the student paper at Wellsley College:

Wellesley students are generally correct in their attempts to differentiate what is viable discourse from what is just hate speech. Wellesley is certainly not a place for racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia or any other type of discriminatory speech. Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech. The founding fathers put free speech in the Constitution as a way to protect the disenfranchised and to protect individual citizens from the power of the government. The spirit of free speech is to protect the suppressed, not to protect a free-for-all where anything is acceptable, no matter how hateful and damaging.
- Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 6:15 pm
  
  and:
  
  if people are given the resources to learn and either continue to speak hate speech or refuse to adapt their beliefs, then hostility may be warranted. If people continue to support racist politicians or pay for speakers that prop up speech that will lead to the harm of others, then it is critical to take the appropriate measures to hold them accountable for their actions.
  
  Oh, get bent you twats.
  - Rhywun on April 14, 2017 at 6:21 pm
    
    Dalmia-approved
  - Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 6:22 pm
    
    This is why they hate guns as well. They believe that speech they justify as ‘wrong’ is violence, and that physically attacking someone over speech is justifiable self defense. Naturally the courts absolutely will not side with them on this (yet) so they need to remove the tools of self defense from their victims in order to maintain their pogroms.
- Rhywun on April 14, 2017 at 6:27 pm
  
  Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech.
  
  Anyone else having trouble parsing this?
  - Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 6:31 pm
    
    I know what it’s trying to say. ‘it’s hate speech’ is referring to ‘rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others’, which then supports her argument of ‘not a violation of free speech’.
  - Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 6:32 pm
    
    It appears the writer got the antecedent and its predicate mixed up. As written, it looks like the writer means to say “shutting down rhetoric…is hate speech.”
    
    I suspect the writer meant to say “rhetoric which undermines the rights of others is hate speech and shutting it down is not a violation of free speech.”
    
    I’ve spent about a year parsing Klingon hear at the DLI, so I’m a lot better at untangling badly written English.
    - Ted S. on April 14, 2017 at 7:02 pm
      
      Do you parse Klingon look and smell, too?
      - Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 8:52 pm
        
        Damn homophones!
- quincy on April 14, 2017 at 6:28 pm
  
  Relevant cartoon.
- westernsloper on April 14, 2017 at 7:16 pm
  
  protect individual citizens from the power of the government.
  
  Key words there. And then off the deep end with gibberish.
- Juice on April 15, 2017 at 12:04 pm
  
  Shutting down rhetoric … is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech.
  
  It’s both.
Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 6:27 pm

Huh. Andrew Sullivan says something clever and coherent:

Let us review the facts: Clinton had the backing of the entire Democratic establishment, including the president (his biggest mistake in eight years by far), and was even married to the last, popular Democratic president. As in 2008, when she managed to lose to a neophyte whose middle name was Hussein, everything was stacked in her favor. In fact, the Clintons so intimidated other potential candidates and donors, she had the nomination all but wrapped up before she even started. And yet she was so bad a candidate, she still only managed to squeak through in the primaries against an elderly, stopped-clock socialist who wasn’t even in her party, and who spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union. She ran with a popular Democratic incumbent president in the White House in a growing economy. She had the extra allure of possibly breaking a glass ceiling that — with any other female candidate — would have been as inspiring as the election of the first black president. In the general election, she was running against a malevolent buffoon with no political experience, with a deeply divided party behind him, and whose negatives were stratospheric. She outspent him by almost two-to-one. Her convention was far more impressive than his. The demographics favored her. And yet she still managed to lose!

https://glibertarians.com/2017/04/fur-friday-3/#comment-71795
- Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 6:28 pm
  
  oopsy- correct link
  
  http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/why-do-democrats-feel-sorry-for-hillary-clinton.html
- Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 6:34 pm
  
  “(his biggest mistake in eight years by far)”
  
  This is certainly not settled science.
  - Festus on April 14, 2017 at 9:36 pm
    
    Allow me to reiterate – “Haw haw!’
Derpetologist on April 14, 2017 at 6:38 pm

In other furry news:

The issue at hand, making headlines from the Denver Post to the The Daily Beast was the cancellation of the Rocky Mountain Furry Convention, a gathering of about 1,600 furries going back annually for 10 years.

The event was cancelled after back and forth “threats” made on Twitter by antifa (anti-fascist) and an anonymous person who were considered “credible” by the police, which resulted security costs of the event to skyrocket to around $22,000. Antifas are known for their strong arm tactics and their willingness to use violence to “stop fascism.”

The clusterfuck began when an antifa/communist furry by the name of Deo, who’s “fursona” is a Tasmanian devil, was talking shit on Twitter about punching Nazis at RMFC. Deo had beef with people called the Furry Raiders, an group of over 100 furries with no stated political agenda, painted as a Neo-Nazi group by leftists in the furry community.

The Furry Raiders wear arm bands that some consider Nazi iconography, but their leader, Foxler Nightfire, denies the arm bands have anything to do with Nazism. Foxler (who is gay and half asian) is also criticized for his Nazi-like outfit (a black collared shirt with a red tie) which he says was inspired by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
- Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 6:44 pm
  
  If God grants me one wish before I die, please let me be a battalion commander in the upcoming civil war. I just want to say “Send in the furry platoon!” once in my damned life.
- Rhywun on April 14, 2017 at 6:51 pm
  
  *opens mouth, closes it*
- Heroic Mulatto on April 14, 2017 at 7:02 pm
  
  Please let this be a normal ~~field trip~~ link!
  
  With the Glibs? NO WAY!
- Ted S. on April 14, 2017 at 7:07 pm
  
  Dear god lefties destroy everything.
- westernsloper on April 14, 2017 at 7:21 pm
  
  You might want to check with DenverJ and Doom about this. They might have first hand knowledge.
- jesse.in.mb on April 14, 2017 at 7:48 pm
  
  In all fairness to the antifa on this one Deo has specifically made comments on both sides of the issue, so the idea that they aren’t deliberately using fascist iconography is a bit of suspect reporting. I read up on this a few months back and I don’t remember all the details but It remember thinking it was a bit like the Hitler Indian restaurant where the owner didn’t quite get what the big deal was, but should have known better.
  
  I’m horrified that this beat has me having opinions on Furry subgroups. I might need a sabatical.
  - Gilmore on April 14, 2017 at 7:52 pm
    
    a bit of suspect reporting.
    
    Yeah, we need to get woodward and bernstein on this one ASAP.
  - jesse.in.mb on April 14, 2017 at 7:57 pm
    
    Sorry, Foxler has specifically made comments. I’m exhausted and sober. Forgive the mistakes.
    - jesse.in.mb on April 14, 2017 at 8:18 pm
      
      And, you know, this.
  - Heroic Mulatto on April 14, 2017 at 7:58 pm
    
    YOUR FIRST YIFF WASN’T JOJO! IT WAS ME, DEO!
    - Vhyrus on April 14, 2017 at 8:27 pm
      
      It’s actually frightening how well I fit in here.
    - Festus on April 14, 2017 at 9:42 pm
      
      Another weekend, another bow with flourish. You’re gonna suspect that I’m not here for the hunting opportunities and then my facade will be shattered and the wife and her lawyer are gonna rape me for realz.
- Gilmore on April 14, 2017 at 7:50 pm
  
  an antifa/communist furry by the name of Deo
  
  I need a drink
  - Festus on April 14, 2017 at 9:45 pm
    
    Bartender, make it a double! A round for the house, too! (I said that just once, cost me two hundred dollars).
westernsloper on April 14, 2017 at 6:54 pm

It was a little embarrassing at first because Link was just a little curious why people were wearing tails, so he was doing some serious tail-sniffing and checking out people. They weren’t offended, though, they just embraced him.

How many did Link try to hump? That is a nice story, even if I find the furry thing not my cup of fur. And the first link……uh, well, always an education those links are.
- Festus on April 14, 2017 at 9:50 pm
  
  A joke from last weekend but maybe “Link” was try-curious? “Link”. Dear Pethouse, I never dreamed that this would ever happen to me, Link, but here we go…
Pope Jimbo on April 14, 2017 at 7:43 pm

“beloved”?

*scuffs shoe on the ground*
*mumbles thanks to Mrs. Caron my 3rd grade teacher*
- Festus on April 14, 2017 at 9:58 pm
  
  Slate tried “Trusted Commenter”. It lasted about a week. “Turd burglar, Apple-polisher, Bum-kiss, Noses so Brown” and the like… Say what you will about them but they are Libertarian when it comes to their comment section.

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