Interests meme / Facebook

[shewho]

While I’m here (oh lord, 3 posts in one day again, getting too much again woman, behave!) emmelinemay asked me about 3 of my interests. So, a meme. Just because. Kind of similar to one I did a while back but I’m doing it again. Ok? Good.

Comment and I will give you 3 interests on your profile-list for you to explain about. [If I can be bothered. Which means I probably won’t.]

obsessively hating furries
Heh, people like asking about this one! Exactly what it says. Furries. You are not right. You are actually Very Wrong. I have NO TOLERANCE AT ALL for your beliefs. I am a furry-racist. You aren’t big, you aren’t clever, and you make me a little bit sick. However I will look at anything anyone posts on the internet poking fun at you which will only serve to make me hate you more. I should stop that really, and ignore your existence.

the gin defence
I like gin. I like gin a lot. I drink too much gin. If I have drunk a lot of gin and done something stupid and don’t remember, it DOESN’T COUNT. The gin defence *is* recognised in a court of law. (Sssh, don’t disillusion me…) The gin defence also makes p_dan_tic’s life a misery from time to time. I try not to use it.

crazy medical grotesqueries
They’re just great, aren’t they? Having spent a few years at medical school there was a time when I knew a million freaky stories about things that could go wrong with the body and the exact pages of my textbooks to turn to to freak you out. And occasionally in anatomy spot tests they’d have the freaky things on display. In fact, anatomy departments are BRILLIANT in general. I still love finding out about weird stuff. How can that be alive? What is that? Which possibly comes across as horribly voyeuristic. But don’t you find it intriguing to see what can go wrong? And a little bit scary. Embryology is another fascinating subject. It’s all so clever and intricate. Really puts you off having children, certainly when it gets to the long shot not-how-it-should-be bit.

Films and books about carnivals and freakshows still inspire me.

***
I have got very bored this afternoon and made myself a facebook. I still don’t get it though. Mainly because no one I know appears to exist on it. Well, I can’t find anyone before I get bored anyway. Except for Phil, and I’m still in contact with him anyway. shewho verdict = RUBBISH. Well, unless I’ve never actually known anybody….

Comments

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

what's a furry?

[shewho.livejournal.com]

really?

a person that thinks they are really an animal spirit. this sort of thing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom)

if only i could link to encyclopedia dramatica, you'd see the sort i normally come across. did you ever see the csi episode where a guy in a wolf suit got run over? the terms 'fur pile' and 'yiffing' were possibly introduced to my poor little brain then....

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

oh ffs!
give me a shotgun and I'll go hunting with you.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

YEAH!

(i try and avoid them in real life, and just vent my spleen on the internet.)

[darkship.livejournal.com]

This is the link.

you'd see the sort i normally come across

Except you haven't actually met any furries, right? So the point is moot.

[darkship.livejournal.com]

(Encyclopedia Dramatica's down at the moment, however)

[shewho.livejournal.com]

come across on the internet you freaking pedant. the point still stands. and actually, i have. hello whitby. so, y'know, whatever.

that link isn't working for me, i know where it is.

[darkship.livejournal.com]

I was linking more for rentaghost21's benefit (sorry if that user name is invented, I went off memory and my memory for names is atrocious).

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

oh phew i always pretended i knew what it meant but didn't and was afraid to look it up. hooray! i am assuming there is sex stuff involved too. meep.

[darkship.livejournal.com]

What's the point in hating furries to this degree? It's not as if they're outside your house handing out leaflets or anything.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

there isn't one, is there. it's completely irrational (hello! you've met me!) and obsessive, as the interest would suggest.

[darkship.livejournal.com]

I realise it's obsessive, but it's also pointless, as my comment would suggest.

Incidentally, Kyly's on Facebook somewhere, should you need proof of your popularity on yet another medium. I don't have it, as I fear that having an LJ, Facebook and MySpace would really underline my lameitude.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

most obsessions are.

anyway, i don't just want to have the same people on lj on facebook, otherwise that too would be pointless. i was curious about finding people from other walks of life that i'd perhaps forgotten about, but it seems woefully lacking in those. relevant to me, anyway.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Dude, go here and let it judge you find your friends that are already on FaceBook.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

yes but what's the point of it finding people i'm in contact with? doesn't it exist to stalk find people you haven't heard of in ages? i can email everyone i want to email ;)

(also, i'm not letting it at my address book. no.)

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

It exists to invite people to secret parties that we don't mention on Livejournal. There are a few with Your Name, and three with no picture, so you'll have to find me (search London network.)

[shewho.livejournal.com]

i know what you're saying MUST make sense, but eh? wha?

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

I tried searching for your name and there were three pages of people with Your Name. So you'll have to search for me, I'm fairly sure I'm the only person with My Name.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

i have a picture now. with a duck egg. yeah! i'll have a look, but it's rather confusing. i want to find randoms from my school! they don't appear to exist. they are allowed computers in prison these days aren't they?

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Aw, I have met nice furries! But they were on the moderate wing.

Last night I dreamt that barrysarll and I were running a wedding reception in a hotel and he was making me drink gin. I think this is probably your fault.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

oh gosh, i do apologise! for the crazy dreams, not the furries.

(i'm not that bad. i won't seek them out to hurt them. i just don't get it. similar to stupid facebook i suppose!)

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Oh well, we didn't end up snogging so it was quite tame as crazy dreams go! And to be fair, it was also beingjdc's fault for making a pub table-ful of people do barrysarll impressions yesterday, which was fine family entertainment.

I will find out what this gin thing is about, but I can't promise to like it!

[shewho.livejournal.com]

i shall ease you in with perhaps a nice cocktail made with sloe gin? tasty goodness!

[roy-dcour.livejournal.com]

Yes..come and join the facebook party!!!
I give you a few hours before you're completely hooked .

Go here http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=522650684 and add me!

[shewho.livejournal.com]

well i've added you at any rate, i remain unconvinced at the becoming addicted part of the game!

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

I've tried it for a couple of weeks and I still can't see the point.

[roy-dcour.livejournal.com]

Me neither but I still can't help but watch it...

:s

[shewho.livejournal.com]

oi! what's this poking nonsense??

[roy-dcour.livejournal.com]

that's the great facebook mystery...

you can poke me back. which will result in me poking you back, which, if experience is anything to go by, will make you poke me back. this becomes an unending chain of poking.

The point? No idea, maybe it powers the internet?

[shewho.livejournal.com]

ooh, the poking must be generating electricity or something. maybe facebook was only invented once the hamsterwheel had been retired for THIS SOLE PURPOSE!

(er, i might have poked you back. sssh.)

[despina.livejournal.com]

I have to add crazy medical grotesqueries to my interests!

I LOVE anatomy departments and displays and stuff. It's amazing just how wrong things can get, isn't it. Makes it just so boggling that most of the time people get born looking pretty much like people.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

feel free to nab it, i'm amazed no one else has it listed to start with!

anatomy departments, body works, it's all brilliant. i feel very privileged to have seen a lot of stuff from the inside, so to speak.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

i asked about two of those mainly because i agree, and the thirsd because i thought it might be along the lines of 'if you will feed me food colouring...'. I am actually banned from candyfloss. I'm not allowed to eat it.

did you ever join stupid_free? there's regularly furry stupid over there, and they almost always come to try and defend themselves, and then get their furry asses handed back to them on a plate.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

banned from candy floss? *commits to memory*

cydrephrexia (sp?) is allergic to blue, which makes whitby 80s night Good Fun! :)

i didn't join, it looked too high traffic even for me! i look in occasionally. i used to read lj drama for my anti-furry fun, but it seems to have died a death a while back :(

*coughs*

[catbo.livejournal.com]

....I think you can now add to that the "whisky mac defence"...?
mmm underwear.

Re: *coughs*

[shewho.livejournal.com]

hush now. ahem. i'm sure they don't mind me writing on walls really!

(!)

[therealjo.livejournal.com]

Gin Defense is unarguable - it's A Fact. I've used it once today already.

Crazy Medical Grotesqueries. I hadn't thought of describing it thus. I have it down as Physiology in my interests. It rules.

Facebook = addictive. And a good way to check out which cute people you met at that party are on your friends' facebooks. Oh, is that stalking? Technically?

[shewho.livejournal.com]

i haven't used teh gin defence in AGES. don't want to wear it out!

it's a very particular part of physiology though. and not really physiology, is it? *she says wracking her brains about physiology lectures*

i generally know most people at parties now. how tiresome ;) and people i don't are usually on lj. added stalking tools are always fun! i presume you're on there too then...?

[col-d.livejournal.com]

why is everyone on about Facebook lately? I've got two emails in the last couple of weeks from people I know, inviting me to join their friends list or summat. I've never even set eyes on the thing!

[shewho.livejournal.com]

my excuse is boredom, and an inherent sheep-like mentality ;)

i think if you let it, it emails everyone in your address book. i'm not letting it. that coudl be embarrassing!

[green-badger.livejournal.com]

Mainly because no one I know appears to exist on it.

Oi!!
(I don't get what it's for though.)

[shewho.livejournal.com]

tsk, like i explained somewhere else, no one i know that i've lost contact with! anyway, you haven't let me be your friend anyway beeyatch! sort it!

[green-badger.livejournal.com]

It's because I don't like you. ;p
(I wasn't online yesterday afternoon. Only just seen that you've added me. Sorting it now.)

This is the other problem with Facebook (apart from its main purpose being stalking, and it making you use your real name) - you can't just add someone, you have to actually request them to friend you. Meaning I'm having to pointedly ignore a friends request from someone I used to work with. Stupid Facebook.