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Nirvanacat13 wrote:

sunhawk wrote:

Nirvana, i loooove your gecko, what pretty eyes! ^_^ And what kind of snake do you have?

Northern Pines Gopher Snake, I got her about two weeks out of the egg, when I was 8. She is now 16 years old and 7.5′ long

That’s really cool! I like her coloration, very pretty ^_^

[sunhawk]

Technically speaking, do you still have to have the original box for it to be mint? I know with toys you generally do but they are packaged differently than statues.

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Nirvanacat13 wrote:

Sweet, now we can’t tell if those are blood or paint stains! =P

Exactly! 😈

Actually, i added a twist to the costume, instead of the back saying “FORENSICS” it actually says:

strip
FORENSICS

and at the party i went to, i went with the zipper partly down and a sparkly bra on underneath. Hey, when in Las Vegas! :X

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Nirvanacat13 wrote:

sunhawk wrote:

holy stars, who would have thought beer cans were stronger than a bumper??! @_@;;

Now in this situation, would that be abuse of the alcohol, or abusive alcohol? Either way I think someone needs to go to AA…..:mrgreen:

OH HO HO HO! *LOL* 😆

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Nirvanacat13 wrote:

I wanted to throw in a little something something, just out of random connectiveness….

I associate better with animals than humans, my family growing up was my cats, and I cry more and am more heartbroken when one of them dies than when a human family member dies….Sounds cruel, but there it is….

However, I never understood the idea of Furries, and don’t believe I’d ever like to participate (if the opportunity arrises I’d try it, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to) I respect peoples choice and don’t think anything negative of the person or group. I understand it to the degree that it is like my Ren Faires, just not that particular facet….

I believe i am of the same opinion as yourself on the subject. Or rather, i understand it but don’t have an interest or the mindset required to be a part of that particular fandom, despite my interest in animals. I do like making fursuit-related things though, those are fun 🙂 I’ve toyed with the idea of making a gryphon suit a few times but i’m not sure i could actually wear it, funfur is hot! LOL

Ironically, given the other topic of discussion in this thread, i do have a CSI outfit that i made for halloween one year, it now doubles as my coveralls for messy art heh heh.

[sunhawk]

holy stars, who would have thought beer cans were stronger than a bumper??! @_@;;

[sunhawk]

LyoMoonheart wrote:

sunhawk wrote:

skigod377 wrote:

Bees are pretty scary. 😯

I have to tell you, i’ve been stung by wasps (though my shirt), yellowjackets (in the face), hornets (accidently swatted one into my leg cos i thought it was a mosquito :X) and all kinds of bees (one in my kiddy pool when i was little cos i thought it was already dead) LOL In the end, bees are DEFINITELY the least scary stinging insect.

I do love bumblebees though, i used to pick clover blossoms and offer them to bumblebees to drink from ^_^

I like these more 😛 (also taken by me)

Sadly that image didn’t show up for me @_@ But i looked at the link and i LOVE dragonflies as well, that’s a beauty you got there! 😀

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skigod377 wrote:

Bees are pretty scary. 😯

I have to tell you, i’ve been stung by wasps (though my shirt), yellowjackets (in the face), hornets (accidently swatted one into my leg cos i thought it was a mosquito :X) and all kinds of bees (one in my kiddy pool when i was little cos i thought it was already dead) LOL In the end, bees are DEFINITELY the least scary stinging insect.

I do love bumblebees though, i used to pick clover blossoms and offer them to bumblebees to drink from ^_^

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starbreeze wrote:

Great story!!! Can we have story time tomorrow too, please??

LOL sure! More animal stories? I have tons of those LOL

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dragonessjade wrote:

That is funny. I hope the other kids were alright after the inital shock and they didn’t have nightmares. 😆

One of my co-workers is afraid of snakes. I put this rubber one on her desk one time and she freaked out. I also changed the mouse arrow so it was a snake. OMG, it was soooo funny.

I hope so too! The snake wasn’t scary and i totally pulled it out of my shirt ten seconds later LOL

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SPark wrote:

I can’t see any point in debating this further.

I could make all kinds of arguments, you would just ignore or counter them, and we’d still disagree. You love it, I don’t like it, never shall the twain meet, etc.

Since we both have and would do that, that does seem to be the case.

[sunhawk]

LOL alright, it’s not a long story. Basically, my family was visiting a reptile zoo when i was 6 and they had a lady come out with a black rat snake and a cornsnake and all us kids in the place could come over and pet the snake. She asked if anyone wanted to hold one of the snakes and since i love snakes, i immediately volunteered.

So i was given the black rat snake and a bunch of other kids crowded around me to watch me hold this rather-large-for-a-six-year-old snake move around my shoulder and in my hands. That day, i was wearing a shirt that was actually too big for me (birthday present) and it featured really big short sleeves. As any smart snake would do, it decided to find somewhere warm to hang out and crawled into my sleeve and into my shirt! LOL All the other kids SCREAMED at the sight, i dunno if they thought it was gonna eat me or what, while i just stood there and laughingly complained he was really cold! LOL

That’s my “snake in my shirt” story LOL

It was a unicorn shirt, incidently heh heh

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SPark wrote:

*shrugs*

I still will never like the show. End of story. It badmouths everyone and adds nothing positive or good to the world.

And it’s not accurate about ANYTHING nor does it promote fighting crime. (I mentioned this to some friends of mine, and they all scoffed at the idea of CSI being dedicated to accuracy. Apparnetly there’s not a single thing in the show that’s truly accurate to how real SCI teams work.)

I’m not trying to crusade against it. Watch it if you like. But don’t think it’s accurate about anything, and don’t believe what it says about anybody, because it’s not.

(That’s what got me going here, was Sunhawk claiming that it was trying to be accurate. Buncha balogna.)

*shrug* We just have different opinions about accuracy and science. I’ve seen them make stuff up and i’ve seen them be as accurate as I know about the subject. It’s usually hit or miss in terms of being exact to the science in question, as they attempt to make cohesive whole within the constraints of an hour. They have to edit some stuff out or modify it to suit the medium.

I still don’t understand how you think it doesn’t promote fighting crime since almost every criminal in that show is portrayed in a negative, usually-unsympathetic light and they are caught. The forensics and police are *always* smarter than the criminals. It’s a modified cop show.

If you don’t like contemplating the negative aspects of human society that’s your decision. But i find it a little unfair to tar and feather the show because a friend of yours used it as an excuse to treat you unfairly. I can respect the fact that you don’t want to watch it but if you aren’t a fan of the show, how many episodes did you watch before you decided they always get it wrong? Did you watch more than the “Fur and Loathing in Las Vegas” episode?

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starbreeze wrote:

…and also the thread that’s gone the farthest off topic… 😆 😆

LOL i don’t mind ^_^ When i was a kid, i used to raise tent caterpillars because they were the easiest to find and get little brown moths in my glass jar a few days later after feeding them leaves LOL Actually, i even have a scar from one of my caterpillar jars from one day when i was walking to a friend’s house to show my caterpillars off and tripped, smashing the jar into the curb. Got me a nice triangular scar for my troubles LOL

I love moths, they are sooooo fuzzy and cute! I worked one summer as a forest ranger and one of my favourite memories was of the one particular cabin that faced sunrise and almost every morning we’d have HUGE luna moths sunning around the front door! 😀 (My other favourite memory is the day we discovered our cabin site was right in the middle of a box turtle migration – turtles everywhere! Every time we moved the truck, we had to move turtles out of the way first! LOL)

Nirvana, i loooove your gecko, what pretty eyes! ^_^ And what kind of snake do you have?

I’ve told at least two stories in this post, should I also tell the one about the time I got a black rat snake down my shirt? LOL

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Nirvanacat13 wrote:

Ok, ok, time to throw in my $50 worth….

I do Ren Faires, this is, I believe, on par with Cons of all types, furries, comicon, ect. We get dressed up in costumes, make products that could or were made centuries ago, put on armor, carry weapons, do mock battles etc. It’s a time for all of us “weirdos” who don’t wish to conform to society but have to, to get together, be ourselves and have fun. There is a lot of sexuality involved (how can there not be when a girl in a corset can use her own clevage as pillows..) but we usualy save it for after hours, and it’s usualy the same groups of people. There are a LOT of people who don’t understand us, IT’S BECAUSE WE ARE BEING OURSELVES, WE ARE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT, we all believe we were born to the wrong era, so we re-create it. I believe this is the case with all “groups with strange interests”. It’s about finding your own, finding others who share your outlook on life. EVERY “group” is comprised of human beings (however much some of us don’t want to be humans) from all walks of life, from all levels of perverseness. There are Rennies who give the rest of us a bad name, the ones who get drunk and start waving a sword around (meant in more ways than one), some that get a too carried away with slobbering over a woman, a guild member who gave a 11 year old a seriously loaded pot brownie and had him stumble home to his parrents stoned (this happened about a month ago). My point, is that there are people involved in every group, you get the bad with the good, religious zealots, Rennies, Carnies, soccer moms, workaholics….it doesn’t matter, most of us are harmless, we do things because we belive in them, want to have fun, live. The bad apples are the ones who give us bad repputations, and they are out there.

SP you are focusing on CSI as giving Furries bad names, well, the same could be said about the episode about the rave party, or the eppisode where the wife hired her ex-navy seal bf to kill her husband in a swimming pool….Yes, they pick out the “bad” groups of people, but they do it consistantly, from all walks of life….Furries, teens expirimenting with drugs, jealous wives with rich ex-husbands, complete strangers who happened to push eachother over the edge, little people….Yes it is sensationalism, trying to put on a good show, they try and incorportate science in an interesting way. If you say they give Furries a bad rap, then you have to say they give the whole human race a bad rap. Which, in short, is what they do, it’s just a different group of people each time for the sake of something new to get people to watch.

Honestly, I hope they do a show about the Las Vegas Renniasance Faire, that would be hella cool. Yes, it would show the “bad” side of Rennies, but who cares! People will think what they want, the people who know what Ren Faire is about will still come, some won’t come anymore, others will come because of it….It all ballances out.

You know the value of what you are part of, enjoy that, enjoy the good times you have, expect that there will be biggots and zealots and those who won’t listen. Maybe one day people will understand, become more tollerant, maybe not. Above all else, be secure in who you are don’t give a crap what others think, or what a show portrays, it is still just a show, people who are shallow will forget in time, and those of us who see it as just entertainment will know the difference, will know that there is a difference, and if interested, find out what that difference is for our own growth.

Thanks for that Nirvana, you said it much better than my sad efforts did ^_^ I agree completely

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