5 minutes. Where I come from, 5 hours is considered close!

I live in the same US province/state as Anthrocon ... and it's STILL six hours away.

Sounds reasonable.

Fuel up and hammer down.

*pushes pedal to the floor*

*watches car do 0-60 in 8 seconds <_< *

*almost tips over cause its a medium height vehicle*


*YOLO*

SACRE BLEU!

OUI

MERDE

Enchanté!

fromage

omelette du fromage

Password Identification, please.

Daft punk?

Dexter's Lab reference :3

Ceci n'est pas l'art furry.
Voulez-vous yiffer avec moi, ce soir?
Mais je suis le tired.
Comme ci, comme ca.

Reference jokes everywhere, as far as the eye can see!

Continuez, mecs!

Translate server error

Is all he can sa-ay

Qui coupé la fromage?

Qui a* coupé le* fromage ?

Hmm...marks that translator as "SUCKS!"

TACO OWO

YOU! *sits on*

sigh, true in half europe.

Doesn't only happen in France with furries, I'm afraid. :P

tru

tellement classic :D

I'm french, and I approve this meme ! :v

... ok I'm going to say it, typical French and surrendering. *shot*

I love when people say this, we surrendered against an opposent full prepared for a war. We surrended one time and never before and after and the only thing you memorized is that :/

I know right? Sometimes those people forget they lost the war against Vietnam, but I suppose some people prefer not to refer that, cuz not convenient xP

... France lost Vietnam first. 0=)

But that point aside. France gets a bum rap for it. They knew they were overpowered and were trying to spare the lives of their citizens.

Then again, at the dawn of the 1800's Napoleon had most of Europe fearing him.

Ancient History. Do the Canadians still rub it in that they burned down the White House? ... Ok, maybe a little. But its ancient history.

They didn't even, the British military has always kept great records of troop assigments; the ones they sent to burn the White House were all England-based. Yorkshire, etc etc. A bit off topic here, but I have to put up with the "we burned the White House down!" trope all the time living in Canada now and I wouldn't care so much if it were actually true :P

Choo Choo! All aboard the Butthurt Express!

Yeah, but it's still funny. Heck, if anything, that's half the reason it's funny.

50% because it's an unfair stereotype.
50% because of the length and width of the stick so many French people get up their asses when it's brought up.

it's just boring at the end. Like Beykall192 said, you got your ass kicked against an opposent underarmed and we don't say anything on it

You're doing it right now.

And Beykall192 can lick my shit, as can everyone else who doesn't understand the difference between a war and a football game; who can't tell the difference between a scoreboard and a war memorial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSZosqXOyc0

In fact, it's precisely those types of people who I consider the joke to be on when I make fun of France. Like I said, the French surrendering is not what's funny. It's seeing how big of a stick up the ass the average Napoleon-obsessed crouton couch commando will get whenever someone brings it up.

So, you're trolling for a convenient excuse to unleash your raft of insults and attitude. Got it.

Actually, it started with me explaining to someone why he shouldn't have such a huge stick up his butt about it.

But not only did someone decide to get a huge stick up his butt about it anyway, he did so by doing the exact same thing he had the stick up his butt about.

So unless you're one of those Napoleon-worshiping couch commandos that can't tell the difference between a list of war dead and a scoreboard, no, this isn't trolling.

And there you go again. Way to go. Keep digging yourself that hole.

I also can't help but be amused when people repeatedly call me a troll for identifying someone as a troll.

Repeat it as many times as you want Teko, but don't expect chanting it over and over again to ever magically make it become the truth.

You've already dug yourself that hole -- no magic from me was needed. Congrats!

Terastas has now sent people insults via PM and then blocked them from responding.

Just letting folks know. He's a real class act.

Am am fairly certain that nobody cares at this point. No need to point this out. It's just people on the internet doing what they do. If he harassing people, report him. If not, you can simply block him. Announcing his actions for people to see in a comments in the comment section does the world no justice and is completely irrelevant to the image it is on. In fact, this whole thread of comments shouldn't be here. It was amusing to see people get all up-in-arms at first but it's kinda annoying now.

Excuse me, I meant to say "Announcing his actions for people to see in in the comments section does the world no justice and is completely irrelevant to the image it is on."

I disagree. I think that when multiple people on a comment thread have complained about a single person's inappropriate behavior, and then that person starts retaliating at random people off the board and then makes it impossible for them to respond in any way, it's important for others to know what that person's doing.

If you are annoyed by that, please ignore my posts.

Wow, so much butthurt.
Being polite, clean and quick here:
You're being the joke, as you're burying yourself.
Everyone else is/was having a polite discussion about the (randomly brought up) subject. You just found it as an excuse to be a douche.
Keep on being that way. You'll get somewhere in life like that for sure :V

I love it when people try to rewrite events even as they're still chronicled in text format in the very place they're trying to rewrite them.

Here are the actual events, and anybody can go back and see for themselves if they don't believe me:

1) Begorle01 made the "typical French and surrendering" joke.
2) Teckly and Beykall complain about that just being one time and name drop Vietnam.
3) Terastas tries to explain, in jest, why people joke about that even though it was just one time and why they shouldn't take it so seriously.
4) Teckly name drops Vietnam again.
5) Terastas reiterates his point about idiot couch commandos and how the joke, at least from his perspective, is intended to be solely at their expense.
6) Beykall tries to rewrite events.

Notice that, by the time I arrive on the scene at #3, you and Teckly both already had massive sticks up your asses about it.

I honestly didn't expect anyone to come out and label themselves one of the idiot couch commandos I was referring to. But thank you, Beykall, for letting everyone know that at least one of those "war dead = scoreboard" types is indeed here.

You, I like you.

Look at this glorious shit storm he created!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese.....render_monkeys

0% because it's an old joke and old jokes by definition aren't funny.

You know..... There was a guy named Napoleon..... maybe you've heard of him. He didn't turn out so well....

And then there was that whole thing with Marie-Antoinette.

And the thing with the Spanish.

And that other thing with England and France fighting waging holy war on each other for a couple DECADES.....

Napoleon hmmm...yes he just conquered 3/4 of the europe before beein betrayed and assassined, then his stupid son lost everything

Marie-Antoinette was a crazy woman

I don't remember

and we never got along with england

but well everything you said hadn't any relationship with the white flag :/

Uhh, Napoleon wasnt assassinated, dear, he was exiled. :/ and I'm American. How do I know this better than you (if you're french)?

he's been assissned after. The guy who exiled him just couldn't live on the same world so he payed his servant to poison him

a yeah, in the past a material was used to isolate houses against the cold. But years later scientific discovered it was toxic and now when they learn a house or everything else have this, they remove it. It just take a lot of time

and it was'nt at this time xD

naaa he's dead in his bed or chair I don't remember

don't know i'm not an expert

I apologize, then. I wasn't taught that he was poisoned as well.

Actually, Marie-Antoinette was French by marriage only, she was Austrian by birth.

In fact, while the French originally welcomed her and respected her in the early years of her marriage to the French king, as years progressed, the people came to despise her because of she was Austrian and thus a "outsider".

And then there were the bread-riots, because the people of Paris were starving while Marie spent money the country didn't have on herself and her huge wardrobe of literally THOUSANDS of dresses.

Never mind the jewelry she wore.... mostly melted down or stolen and lost after her beheading.

And Napoleon..... he went into exile, right? That means he was defeated by his own, and forced to abdicate his seat as what was it? Emperor? Something lofty and pompous.

Actually, it was the never the French that forced him into exile twice. Yes, while his generals did and ministers did encourage him to surrender both times, they had all assumed that he'd still be allowed to live out his life in France after abdicating the throne, it was the alliance of nations that defeated him that exiled him to the island twice, both after the first time he abdicated and the second time after his return to France and infamous defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

The French have a rather glorious military record. For quite some time they were the powerhouse of Europe. We Americans have a lot to thank the French for if it wasn't for them we would still be English or something akin to Canada. Also the French had beaten the Germans before in the Franco-Prussian war right before WWI. France has never outright surrendered France itself before or after WWII and that was only because they were totally caught off guard and had too much faith in a line of small forts that the Germans ended up going around anyways. If the French are guilty of anything it's arrogance

The Franco-Prussian war of 1870? The one that ended with Paris besieged, resulted in Alsace and Lorraine going from France to Germany, marked the end of the II French Empire and the beginning of the II German Reich (proclaimed at Versailles, no less)? A strange victory indeed.

Oops My Bad could of sworn the french won that one...mah bad :V

Considering the inspiration for Conan the Barbarian came from a Frank King...they had some badasses in their history.

France has been researching a new tank. An advanced piece of weaponry with multiple gears; the first of its' kind. 1 forward, 4 reverse...

*Trollolol*

yeah and if that works?

don't see what's funny in ingeneering but well

well it builds on the french stereotype of running away.

The more gears it has, the faster it goes.

tss and where we're running away those time?

The 1950s French tanks were designed to fight from battlements and stationary positions with big autoloaders with 5-10 shot magazines, BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM ...then pull back at ludicrous speed to rearm.

So this is *kinda* true?...

coin

That about sums it up~

This .... this is gud! o.o

And here I thought I was the only one who did troll cumix D:

too bad I live in the U.S and willl probably cost me an arm and leg to attend lol.

Yush .w." I have no money and I live in a fucked country which's really far away from convections

€100? That's about $130 USD, which seems to be two or three times the going rate for conventions around here.

The convention prices in yurope are usually including accomodation!

Oh, that's not a bad deal, then. Generally about $100/night per room at convention hotels.

Everything is cheaper in the usa though but 100 euro/$135 not that much if your working and saving with advanced warning

I didn't even know Furries existed where I come from until I went abroad.

horse les gens ne comprennent pas trop la caricature dans ça la :/

C'est pas une caricature, c'est la vérité !

Je confirme.

attend 100€ pour 5 jours? t'as pas l'hotel dedans c'est pas possible

Probablement pas, mais c'est surtout pour montrer que dès qu'il faut payer, y'a plus personne!

la crise. Et honnetement ce que tu fais la c'est pas du troll mais c'est juste etre con.

On est deja pas specialement bien vu, c'est pas la peine d'en rajouter

La crise ? ça fait 8 ans que je traine un peu dans le milieu, et y'a 8 ans c'était PAREIL, et pourtant ce n'était pas la crise, que je sache ?
Si dire dévoiler des vérités c'est être con, j'assume. :3
Si on est "pas spécialement bien vu", comme tu dis, c'est pas pour rien.

pas la peine d'en rajouter. les gens n'ont pas besoin de savoir des trucs comme ça. C'est pas parce qu'il y a 10 personnes qui te font ça refusent qu'il faut mettre tout le monde dans le même panier

Oh, on m'a jamais fait ça, j'ai jamais essayé d'organiser un truc public, j'ai rapidement constaté que c'était souvent voué à l'échec à cause du non-sérieux de pas mal de gens.
Effectivement, heureusement que tout le monde n'est pas comme ça, je ne sais pas où on en serait actuellement.
Enfin bon, on m'a posé plusieurs fois la question à ce sujet, tu aurais préféré que je dise que c'est à cause de la météo, ou que le bon dieu en a voulu ainsi ?

ba plus simple "je sais pas, je suis pas au courant, me suis pas interressé"

Effectivement, ce serait plus simple si - d'emblée - les gens disaient franchement qu'ils n'ont pas envie de venir...
Par expérience, je sais qu'ils disent des trucs du genre : « Ah ouais, ça m'intéresse, je viendrai... » alors qu'ils n'ont souvent aucune envie de le faire !
Souvent, ils disent ça, tout simplement pour que tu ne les embêtes pas davantage... Dans le même genre, je dis toujours aux Témoins de Jéhovah que je vais lire le numéro de la Tour de Garde qu'ils me laissent. Alors que je m'empresse de le jeter dans le carton aux vieux papiers... ^^

et puis tous tes watchers vont te demander de sauter par la fenetre tu va le faire?

quand ya une tare, on fait en sorte de la cacher et pas "VOUS AVEZ VU? ON A UNE GROSSE TARE!"

Faux: quand il y a une tare, on fait en sorte d'essayer de la guérir, par tous les moyens possibles. On y arrivera peut-être pas, mais si on essaye, peu importe le moyen, on a une chance d'y arriver, alors que si on la cache, non seulement on a aucune chance de la guérir, mais elle risque de se transformer en cancer pernicieux qui ronge de l'intérieur.

Bien sûr que c'est de la caricature, mais ce n'est pas si exagéré que ça...
Comme je l'ai expliqué plus bas, ce genre de situation ne m'étonne pas : j'ai déjà connu ça dans un autre milieu.
C'est juste lié à un manque de motivation et de volonté de s'investir personnellement.
Pour ma part, je n'ai jamais vraiment été attiré par les grosses conventions furries... Et je n'en ai jamais réclamé non plus.

ouai mais regarde tous les commentaires des autres gens. C'est sur que ça arrange bien l'image que les gens on de nous.

Organise une convention en France, après on en reparle :3

mais j'ai pas envie d'en organiser, deja pas la patience, pas les contacts, je connais pas assez de monde en france

Aussi j'imagine que tu ne connais pas le véritable visage du fandom français.

quand je vois la reactions de personnes ici je prefere même pas en entendre parler. Surtout ceux qui n'essayent même pas de relever la barre et de donner une meilleure image.
S'ils aiment pas ils peuvent partir hors de France, on les retiendra pas

Ca changera pas la face de la France je crois

peut etre mais ça soulagera deja pas mal de monde.

De toute façon un truc pareil qui enfonce bien la reputation comme il faut n'est que de la merde, et je passe mon chemin. Ceux qui approuvent et qui ne défendent même pas un petit peux histoire de relever la tete peuvent aller au diable

Le fandom français n'a pas attendu cette publication pour se faire une réputation de merde.
On va pas toujours te prémâcher du bonheur surtout là où il n'y en a pas.

Techniquement, ce n'était pas un hotel mais un gîte en pleine campagne dans l'Eure (ce qui explique efficacement le prix)

+1

well it's the same story for conventions in other fandoms as well...

When you see that small countries such as Czech republic or Netherlands (I hate saying good thing about this country, but well! :D) have a successful convention for several years, you know that there's a problem somewhere.

What's so bad about Czech republic or the Netherlands? =P

Just the NL, Czech republic is great :D

Fucking great for a "small" convention!! :D

Yes, but what exactly is 'bad'? ^^;

Netherlands is just the country of Poor taste!

You're thinking of Belgium. :p

http://uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com

Well I can't argue with that. =P

French mentality is "we want everything without paying anything" mostly

I remember when i was active in sci-fi cons, they were horrified to have to pay an entrance fee to the con..

Uuuuh? you think that actors are coming to these events out of kindness of heart?

And i don't even tell you what we heard when they realised they had to pay for the autographs.. (Like photos are growing on trees...)

Yeah.. France is an horrible country for that...

But that makes sense. In a small country, the whiners can't complain it's too far away.

€100 for 5 days is much? I think it is really cheap.

Too expensive for our little sissies :D

And I would drive 10 hours just to go one time to a furry con.

Ça me rappelle des choses ça... *regard coulé en direction d'un certain forum*

Bref, comme le disent nos amis anglo-saxons: 'this is why we can't have nice things..." :p

Attention, pas de marques!

J'ai rien dit, j'ai pas cité de marques, ceux qui savent savent, les autres ne savent pas, chut... :p

Gender: Herm? x3

Psh, the same would happen in Portugal, and we are a fraction the size of France.

Il y a pire comme situation : il y a environ 20 ans, dans mon patelin, j'essayais d'organiser des journées consacrées aux jeux de société...
Faut dire qu'avec quelques copains, on avait constitué une sorte de petit club, et on essayait d'élargir notre cercle.
Ah ouiche... Ce truc était gratuit et ne durait qu'une journée... Mais n'attirait pas un chat !
Le plus dur à digérer était de voir que même les gars du club avait toujours une bonne excuse pour ne pas participer... L'un de mes copains se marie, J'ai un repas de famille ce jour-là, J'avais promis à ma femme / fiancée / petite amie de l'emmener à la mer, j'en passe et des meilleures...
Finalement, j'ai laissé tomber.

Ouais, voilà, c'est un peu de ce genre là mais à plus grande échelle :P

Note que, depuis 2004, on a organisé des minifurmeets à Bruxelles, avec généralement cinq ou six participants... Et ça marche !
Gratuit, totalement informel, et bref (une après-midi)...
D'accord, c'est pas extraordinaire, mais ça permet de rencontrer des furries une ou deux fois par an. ^^

Ah ben y'a que ce genre de choses qui fonctionnent en France (En belgique francophone aussi, du coup). Faire des trucs plus petits avec des gens de confiance que tu connais déjà un peu, qui vont pas te faire un plan foireux 2 jours avant, etc. C'est le genre de chose que je fais aussi depuis quelques années, et c'est tout à fait satisfaisant !

Confiance est le mot clé... Organiser un truc avec quelques personnes que tu connais bien, généralement, ça marche.
A partir du moment où tu commences à regrouper 10 ou 12 personnes, automatiquement, tu ramasses un fouteur de merde dans la bande. C'est fou mais, ça s'est toujours terminé comme ça : impossible d'y échapper.
Voilà (entre autres) pourquoi notre club n'est jamais parvenu à dépasser la douzaine de membres, et pourquoi on est jamais parvenu à organiser quoi que ce soit de plus grand qu'une fancy-fair d'école communale !

L'espoir d'une convention n'est pas exclu.
Pour cela, il faut attendre qu'un noyau assez conséquent de furfans ayant un revenu et une situation se forme.

Pour le moment, batir une convention sur un regroupement de jeunes majoritairement sans emplois et pas forcément sociables en plus, c'est sûre que ça reste du casse-pipe.

pretty much the same story here, in Russia

Not true! I'm not russian, but I know that you have a rather big convention (Russfurence), and considering the size of the country, I could understand the "Two far away" argument.

Well, several years ago, a person tried to organize a summer con at St. Petersburg, and it went exactly the way your rage comic describes )

Oh my god

100E for 5 days... 5 minutes... parents.... *gasp*

i'm used to that. same shit since 14 years.

I was at Disneyland Paris once, and it'S true, don't even try to talk english to french people... Dunno what ego trip they're on.

I know, right? I was there August of '01, and I went into a pharmacy to ask for directions. I tried to use what little french I remembered from third grade, and she kewpt saying something along the lines of <no no no, I have no idea what you're saying. you need to use proper sentences for me to understand you.> after he fifth failed attempt, I said 'ok, thanks fer nuthin' bitch'. she understood that. 'oh, you know that one?' she expressed utter horror, and picked up her phone. so I left, thinking if it's french police, I didn't want to piss them off.

thinking back, I should've waited, and if asked, said 'I said thank's fer nuthin' mitch. mitch is a friend that didn't help me learn french.' the police might've known better how to get back.

on a better note, when I got lost again three days later, I found this nice sorbet shop if you follow the left side of Notré Dame back across the bridge, and take the second right, on the left.

Y'know, I'm more than willing to talk english when being in an english country. It goes both ways though. When you're in a french country you can try to talk a little of the local language.

I'd rather say english people are the one who don't do a lot of efforts to learn another language. I'm extremely surprised everytime one of them say something in french.

They are not on an ego trip, blame shitty educational system instead. Plus France being a large country, they are not exposed to english much. Everything is translated here, US films, TV series,etc. Unlike in smaller countries where it's in english, so they are exposed to it all their life and are fluent in english.

yes - exactly - this is the fandom in a nutshell

oh yes i know this xD but there are enough furs at my events :3 the easteuropean furs like it

So true on many aspects.

Qu'est-ce que tu veux. On est français ou on ne l'est pas

Actually this is wrong. There's no conventions cos, if anyone protests against furs, the french furs runaway.

British War Humour. *troll face* Problem society?

not really, the fandom is not know in France so people accept it pretty well when we explain it. They take it like it's cosplay convention

I'm both happy and sad to this comment. Happy cos I half expected flack from my joke but sad cos now it lacks logical meaning.

Ah well, still fun. ^^

How Eurofurence would be today if it's origin was France:







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It would have stopped after 3 editions :P

LOL! This comic is spot-on. =P
Many people tend to be supportive of this and hook off when it's realised. XD

I lold a little C:

Same story in Malta. I LIVE ON A GOD DAMN ISLAND!

dude, this is every furry convention ever

I can confirm that : )

I knew that you would agree :D

Also to mention:
Convention Still on Track, only 10 people attend it
have the convention nicknamed "Elite Convention" by all the jelly people who didnt/couldnt attend : p

We will see if the finnish convention turns the same way. :P

all of those are still rather true in the USA for furry conventions.

People complain about hotel room costs, then admit they were putting 6 people in a room at a cheap motel down the street instead.

People have sent complaints to the convention and tried to make us enforce their non-legal restraining orders by banning someone they don't like. (usually by making up a story about how ______ is a huge trouble maker.)

and have directly heard the 'you should move back to <horribly undersized hotel that we outgrew> because it was just down the street, so they didn't need to buy a room for the weekend

and that coming from people that still pay to travel across the country for a hobby-based vacation and don't realize that most normal people can't afford to drop $500 a year for flight and hotels and food for a weekend.

It is not the french, or the Americans, or even furries. People will always complain

Complaining people are indeed everywhere... but at least in US you DO have something !

Sounds like you're talking about further confusion almost... I recall people wishing it was still at the old hotel, even though that's mostly for nostalgia and not because it was better. Then there are hipster basement furs who hate it when we get these things called dances because they miss when it was all D&D nerds who didn't fit in with the rest of society. Limitless problems and needless drama to ignore. XD

The hotel prices can be prohibitive for some. Mostly anyone who doesn't have money. If I can't afford it I just won't go. Who needs that at a con anyway? I also have some people I dislike that will probably be at further confusion but y'know, they can go you-know-what themselves. I'm going to have a good time and means I don't have no time for that. :3

Well it only costs me about $50 USD for Further Confusion and no con around here costs anywhere near 100 £... Not even Anthrocon is more than $60 USD. I wouldn't spend 100£ on a furry conventions registration unless it was one epic convention. Just saying~.

Also five days is a long time to be gone. Not everyone can do five days.... Sigh, I'm just being a nitpicker.

Yes, it was a bit confusing, but when I said 100€, for me it includes the accomodation! I was at AC2013, so I know that in US, you usually pay the registration fee, which is rather cheap, but after you have to deal with the accomodation by yourself. Every con I attended in europe, the hotel is usually included in the whole price. For example, I paid around 400€ for last EF, but it was including the Reg fee and 5 nights in the convention hotel. Of course you can find another accomodation, if you wish.

Yeah. That sounds more appropriate. I wouldn't be able to afford a room without roommates for that but if I had a few that's not so bad once in awhile. Once I get through school I'll be able to have this thing called money and then not have to worry as much. Haha

By that I meant eurofurence. If it was just 100£ for the con and the room damn. Wtf are they whining about?

Many years ago there was EF in France but that happened a couple times only and they are too comfy now and wont leave Kartoffelnland.

Actually, EF was never in France (Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany only). And it stays in Germany these days because of insurance and legal reasons.

True, my mistake, for some reason I thought it happened there once or twice, but maybe it was something else. I'd suggest Spain, it has way better clima for the summer, and the beaches, the food :P next to my place there's a hotel with 1500 rooms and it has their own convention center too, and the best of it its they have their own amusement park, which the entrance is included to the hotel price (quite cheap and its 4 stars), and 5 minutes from it there's the beach :P all those with the suits would surely love to walk in the amusement park wearing their fursuits :P

I guess you missed the point when Cairyn said something about "legal and insurance reasons". :)

I don't think those reasns applies to ALL countires in Europe. It should be called "Deutschefurence" if so.

No.

Please learn the history of Eurofurence before babbling bullshit.

Thanks in advance, I'm out. :3

I just think they all got too lazy and comfy and will keep doing it in Germany, which is a shame, thats all.

Personally even if franfurence existed, I wouldn't probably not going there, visiting other country is WAY MORE FUN.

Poor chap. Alas, that is everywhere.

I'd assume that an underage person wouldn't even be on this site.

You would be suprised

I know, unfortunately.

I have been on FA since I was about 14. I know there must be more people on here that are even younger than I was when I started.

If I could I'd travel around the world to all fur cons andi plan on doing soasap

ça troll sec ici :D

Mais tellement vraie ...

Sometimes it's just more fun hanging out with your mates. Going out to the park, buying some shaved ice and just relaxing. :3

France. "Too far away." You must be poor because I have to drive 14 hours to get to a con here. :/

*General you, not literal.

Whoooa, you're french? Sweet! Most french artists that i know only make content in french and do not speak anything else but french (which kinda sucks because you cannot fully enjoy their work without knowing the language) and you guys are basicly "the Japan of the western world". So, for that mr. H0rs3, i salute you.

I'm a mexican that had to learn english in order to thrive and find relative success.

A lot of us French speakers actually don’t use a lot of French online, in order to fit in…

=O you're like internet ninjas, hiding in the shadows of language~

The truth is we're... averagely not good in other languages. -_-'
Even at english XD

The japan of the western world? I like this way you see it XP

too far away? what do you mean too far away?

France is about the same size as Wisconsin, you know. Americans driving that far call that Thursday morning, as in breakfast, drove that far plus half again, then lunch. and that's only an average. Americans visiting Europe might say 'South french beaches are nice, but what are we doing for lunch?' Amsterdam! 'really?' Yeah, why not? only a couple hundred miles, we got a car.

''France is about the same size as Wisconsin''
Not really, you know?
Wisconsin: 169,639 km2
France: 640,679 km2

It's actually around 550,000 if you don't count overseas territories. But yeah, Americans and geography... :D

Mais en théorie, il faut compter les territoires d'outre-mer

ok, I'm slightly off on that comparison. but the rest of my previous comment is pretty accurate.

Except that you are wrong about France size, I agree with you. The longest trip you can do in France is something like 12 hours, from West to East. Car is not the best way to move in France, due to the overpriced toll roads, but there are a couple of faster way to move from one place to another : the TGV (High speed train), Plane, etc.

English people usually don't even try to learn another language.

Still it's amazing to see how french people stay together and won't even try to hang out with furs from other countries at cons...

I tried to learn french in school. But failed :c

At least you tried :) and that's honorable.

xD well it's for myself but i think i will totaly Go around stranger People knowing i will look stupiid xD saying "said what ? " xD I think it's a funny way to talk and make some stranger friend xD ( in my way ^.^)
But yea 90% of other will just passe away :( that's sad ><

Also, "Un Rassemblement de Poilus" might not work too well in the media…

They wouldn't believe this because all the poilus are aldready dead I think :D

“Un rassemblement de poilus? Quelqu’un a appelé SOS Fantômes?”

This is pretty true in most places.
USA has their big ones which are nice and diverse but usually they're pricey and far distances.
the small ones that are closer usually involve a close-knit group that are the 'leaders' of the convention. If they don't like you, boot to the head

I thought the procedure was to fail the first couple of times, but spin it on FA as a success until it catches on. Surely there are some wealthy furry investors in France who understand this process, it's essentially the same model as retail. Maybe if you tell them the Germans are running away with all the profits.

Fuck I'd go, only €100? :D

That's true for the U.S.A. too really.

:]

furryCON
ça porte bien son nom lol

Ah nos chères compatriotes français X3
Dès qu'il est question de thunes, plus personnes XD Les quatre cas sont malheureusement assez commun... ce qui nous amène à ne plus rien organiser et donc, après ils se plaignent que rien ne fasse XD

To non-frog speakers: sad but true :I That kinda greatly sum up average people XD

La vérité qui fait mal.

Et quand j'en entends certains petits nouveaux qui arrivent la bouche en coeur pour proposer d'organiser une espèce de "EF" à la française, on rigole bien d'avance quand on voit déjà comment les petites furmeet dérivent.

De toute manière, une convention furry en France, vu le nombre de personnes dans le fandom, cela ne serait pas non plus une "énorme" convention, juste une très grande furmeet.

Mais les soucis énoncés dans ton petit résumé du fandom, sont véridiques.

Bonjour l'image.

Tellement vrai ... *ex-co-organisateur de la dernière Franfurence*

we are doing one in Spain, is our second year ..... and I think the last XDDDDDDDDD


(This is from one of its founders .....me XDDDDDDD)

sooooo desperately true.

100€ for 5 days of furry fun...sounds like a good deal to me

Au contraire, je trouve ça très vrai XD

Sapristi. :P

Incroyable!

Over here in SoCal, we do not have issues with the cost of a con. The issue is the drama that comes with it. Idiots who elect themselves as Con-Ops that let their power go to their head.

That is why Antheria did not work.

As a Canadian, I can go both ways.

Also, furries (insert 'aliens' meme here)

ça me déspere de le dire , mais ta raison Horse, malgré la caricature, on est dans le vrai. Ça serait vraiment nice si y en a avait une sur Paris, même étant a 500 bornes, j'irai!

I used to have a good con that was only a couple hours drive from me, was getting seriously big fast, and was generally a great thing for my life. Then they quit, because they didn't feel like running a con anymore.

I'm pissed that I sponsored them multiple times.

That wouldn't be FCN would it?

... I have this odd feeling I remember you from... somewhere...

I know I've talked to you before, but I can't remember when or why... Heh. It happens on the internet...

Really I think this is typical of any new con for a country.

Haha... likely a true story (regardless of country)

"Why are there so many cons?"

"I would go but I'm saving for EF"

my toes are cold and my passport is expired :(

lol at the bottom line :D

Perhaps I'm just too pessimistic, but I think you can replace "Furries" with "Everyone On Earth", and "Conventions" with "Anything that costs money or requires effort".

I've noticed a trend in people over the years. If people WANT something to happen, great, they're all for it.....as long as they don't have to do anything or spend any money.

Kinda like commissions.
"It'd be AWESOME if you could do THIS"
"Sure, that'll cost X amount of monies"
"Awwwww, I didn't expect you to charge me for that"

Loving all the arguing about France and Europe...all i hear in my head is this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M

I don't even like America all that much, I just like being able to say "AMERICAAAA FUCK YEAH!" and ignore any and all hate that comes from people who don't like people from other countries (a lot more then I would like in this world)

But people seriously need to get that stick out of their ass...who cares where you were born!? Judge people on how the act...not if their country surrendered to some other country of a depute that probably meant jack-shit

Please stop using memes.

Tu as oublié: Non je ne viendrai pas car il parait qu'il faut s'amuser et - pire - organiser des trucs soi-même !

Lol!

At least Eurofurence isn't that far away from France. Most French furries could still travel there if they want to go to a furry convention -- if they can go to a furry convention at all.

Around here, one fellow tried to organize a local furry convention. He personally lost a $2000 non-refundable deposit on a
meeting space when the convention fell through and didn't happen. But a few years later, he was one of the principal
organizers of RainFurrest (which had 2202 attendees this year), and more recently Vancoufur, another local convention.

So, don't give up. The furry fandom continues to grow, and €100 for 5 days' accommodation is a steal of a deal.
Make take refundable deposits for people who pre-register to pay for the hotel... if you don't get enough, cancel the
convention for that year, refund the deposits, and try again the next year.

It would make a good excuse for me to visit France again.

well it could be nobody likes france all that much..historically..

des français sur ce site Oo, je suis surpris !


Quand au comic, c'est sans doute vrai, bien que pour ma part, j'aurais bien aimé une convention mais oui en France, cela existe pas !

Je me contente des rencontres, et si y'a des français sur ce site intéressé, venez me parler, je mords pas et je peux être très gentil :D

MERCI HORSE POUR CE GRAND MOMENT DE VERITE, et vive la france.... meh...

ben ouais mais c'est la crise....eeh...

Hypnotiseing icon you have.. Can't take my eye's from it.. And i'm soooo tired~

oui, une crise qui dure depuis que le fandom existe

Je suis venu en France avec l'espoir que je pourrais attendre une convention furry, mais tous mes espoirs sont disparus avec cette BD :P
En tout cas, en ce qui concerne le contenu de cette image, je voudrais bien espérer que tu plaisantes, mais il me semble que c'est bien la vérité claire et nette ;_;

After having lived 6 years in France I can confirm; there is hardly a single person around, with the exception of very touristic places, that can speak more than maybe one or two words in English.

Anyway, I'm in Denmark now and... still bad news.
There's only ONE TINY furry convention MAYBE once a year on Jutland... usually with only 30 attandees.
Completely none here in Copenhagen.
The furry map also says there's just ONE furry in the entire capitol besides me...

you are in france ? D:

Damn, have my fave. That's hilarious with the trollface.