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BBC News Magazine furry article
16 years ago
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My brother just sent me this (which was a bit of a surprise in itself, to be honest): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/.....ne/8355287.stm
I was prepared for the worst, especially when it started off by saying that furries had been propelled into the public consciousness of the UK by a court case involving two of them who were planning to kill one of their sets of adoptive parents, but after that things calmed down remarkably - it seems to just describe things objectively and makes a good distinction between some of the different flavours of people who exist in the fandom.
Although there is the cringeworthy glossary of terms... and "Little research has been done on the furry world" makes it sound as if this is a bit of an asteroid that's just fallen off and been left to drift around the Earth, until someone sends a rocket up to it with a group of scientists possibly led by Jeff Goldblum.
And the comments are like stepping into an alternative universe of tolerance compared to the usual Internet reaction, although the signature "Trisha Storey, aka Bitsy the Space Kitten, United Fluffdom" did jump out at me a bit.
Maybe most furries aren't British enough :)
I was prepared for the worst, especially when it started off by saying that furries had been propelled into the public consciousness of the UK by a court case involving two of them who were planning to kill one of their sets of adoptive parents, but after that things calmed down remarkably - it seems to just describe things objectively and makes a good distinction between some of the different flavours of people who exist in the fandom.
Although there is the cringeworthy glossary of terms... and "Little research has been done on the furry world" makes it sound as if this is a bit of an asteroid that's just fallen off and been left to drift around the Earth, until someone sends a rocket up to it with a group of scientists possibly led by Jeff Goldblum.
And the comments are like stepping into an alternative universe of tolerance compared to the usual Internet reaction, although the signature "Trisha Storey, aka Bitsy the Space Kitten, United Fluffdom" did jump out at me a bit.
Maybe most furries aren't British enough :)
ValkoGlacies
~valkoglacies
This is fucking awesome.... This is the kinda attention we need, leave it to british newscasters to do stuff right :p Well, positive views like this we just can't get enough of. i need to forward this onto all my friends,
kyaama43
~kyaama43
I'm British enough, in character, but not physically sadly. I make people's days when I actually speak in a completely unintentional British accent apparently. I also have been spelling colour, favourite, honour, and all that with the u since I was a younger person. o.O
