A bunch of furries caught HIV?
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A bunch of furries caught HIV?
Don't know much about this story, but I heard rumors ( only rumors ) that a bunch of furry fans caught HIV at the last convention. Is this true?
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There are a lot of things that happened "at the last Furry Convention"...only the teller wasn't there in person; but rather heard it from someone else....
I've also heard that, at "...the last Furry convention..."
>There was a real Werewolf, passing as if in costume
>There was a big fight and the some of the Furries were bounced out
>There was a Suit Orgy in room something or other and a lot of Furries were ejected from the Con.
>The Con organizers banned the wearing Suits except for Judging and Competition.
>The in-house restaurant wouldn't serve suiters.
>A group of Fundie Christians caused enormous trouble for everyone.
>The organizers hadn't cleared the wearing of Suits with the hotel...
In short: Just about every story concievable "happened at the last Furry Con". Been to some. Nothing unusual happened. Everybody had a good time...but that isn't interesting.
Matt- I suspect you've been Conned (sorry about the pun).
I've also heard that, at "...the last Furry convention..."
>There was a real Werewolf, passing as if in costume
>There was a big fight and the some of the Furries were bounced out
>There was a Suit Orgy in room something or other and a lot of Furries were ejected from the Con.
>The Con organizers banned the wearing Suits except for Judging and Competition.
>The in-house restaurant wouldn't serve suiters.
>A group of Fundie Christians caused enormous trouble for everyone.
>The organizers hadn't cleared the wearing of Suits with the hotel...
In short: Just about every story concievable "happened at the last Furry Con". Been to some. Nothing unusual happened. Everybody had a good time...but that isn't interesting.
Matt- I suspect you've been Conned (sorry about the pun).
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That must have been when it happened!>There was a Suit Orgy in room something or other and a lot of Furries were ejected from the Con.
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Re: A bunch of furries caught HIV?
Read this.MattSullivan wrote:Don't know much about this story, but I heard rumors ( only rumors ) that a bunch of furry fans caught HIV at the last convention. Is this true?
http://www.crushyiffdestroy.com/frontpa ... &tb=1&pb=1
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That's why I said in my first post, these are RUMORS ONLY. And i didn't bring it up only to "spread rumors", I did it because this board is populated by a number of furry fans, and they ought to be informed in order so they may protect themselves. ( Just in case some of them intend on engaging in sexual behavior with other members of this fandom, WHICH, ( and you can deny this all you want ) goes on all the time.
Be safe guys, even if this isn't true.
Be safe guys, even if this isn't true.
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I've been to Anthrocon four years in a row now and havent gotten it on with other con-goers. Didnt even hear about that rumor till now I did hear about the 4chan protestors out front though. Wasnt outside when that happened.
Yeah, sorry, that was meTeh_DarkJokerWolf wrote:That there is the only one that caught my eye, but if there was a real werewolf people would know..Geez if you can tell real fur from a fursuit's fur you must be blindRedEye wrote: There was a real Werewolf, passing as if in costume
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Ditto about rumors. Any bit of info passed around by entities known only by the pronoun "They" should be regarded with the deepest of suspicion. (King Diamond's "Them" album comes to mind. That, and giant ants.)
HIV is spread only by pretty close contact. If people did get it at a convention, it wasn't by casual glomping. (I scare myself knowing what that means.) The same rules of caution regarding bodily fluids applies in and out of fursuits. Sex with strangers is inherantly risky.
But, it takes about two to six weeks to seroconvert from exposure to having positive test results. Is the rumor about this Anthrocon? Did it start only a few days later? If so, it's pretty safe to dismiss it as an urban legend. Anyone got a kidney stolen in the process, or explode after mixing Pop Rocks and Pepsi?
HIV is spread only by pretty close contact. If people did get it at a convention, it wasn't by casual glomping. (I scare myself knowing what that means.) The same rules of caution regarding bodily fluids applies in and out of fursuits. Sex with strangers is inherantly risky.
But, it takes about two to six weeks to seroconvert from exposure to having positive test results. Is the rumor about this Anthrocon? Did it start only a few days later? If so, it's pretty safe to dismiss it as an urban legend. Anyone got a kidney stolen in the process, or explode after mixing Pop Rocks and Pepsi?
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Any reports of werewolves choking on burglars' fingers?Scott Gardener wrote:But, it takes about two to six weeks to seroconvert from exposure to having positive test results. Is the rumor about this Anthrocon? Did it start only a few days later? If so, it's pretty safe to dismiss it as an urban legend. Anyone got a kidney stolen in the process, or explode after mixing Pop Rocks and Pepsi?
But yes, it looked very much like an "urban legend" to me... No mention of it on the Snopes web site when I first read it and haven't bothered to check again, but it's the usual story... a statement designed to play up to people's prejudices against a minority group, which was "heard" from an uncredited source, who themselves "heard", and so on and so forth...
I sincerely hope you are not including Van Morrison's old band in that particular blanket statement...Scott Gardener wrote:Any bit of info passed around by entities known only by the pronoun "They" should be regarded with the deepest of suspicion. (King Diamond's "Them" album comes to mind. That, and giant ants.)
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Rumors are such fun!
Unless they involve you-
or People that you know.
Then, it never happened-
even if it's the truth.
BTW: Figarou: I liked the header illustration for the CrushYiffDestroy page. Exactly like I feel sometimes, when I come across such deliberately negative stuff.
As for the Werewolf bit; I heard it from an A-Kon goer, who heard it from a CostumeCon goer, who claimed to have heard it from...
Of course, no Were' would show up in Fur at a Con. They'd wear a Fur suit, lilke everyone else...
Unless they involve you-
or People that you know.
Then, it never happened-
even if it's the truth.
BTW: Figarou: I liked the header illustration for the CrushYiffDestroy page. Exactly like I feel sometimes, when I come across such deliberately negative stuff.
As for the Werewolf bit; I heard it from an A-Kon goer, who heard it from a CostumeCon goer, who claimed to have heard it from...
Of course, no Were' would show up in Fur at a Con. They'd wear a Fur suit, lilke everyone else...
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Bull. I wouldn't even call this a rumor -- more like another lame furrybashing story, the kind where the original author later comments on how baffled they are at how many people were dumb enough to believe it.MattSullivan wrote:And i didn't bring it up only to "spread rumors", I did it because this board is populated by a number of furry fans, and they ought to be informed in order so they may protect themselves.
What is it with you Matt that you can't even mention the fandom in passing reference without somehow bringing up massive fursuit orgies? I can understand a little confusion here and there, but this is ridiculous!
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Re: A bunch of furries caught HIV?
Figarou wrote:Read this.MattSullivan wrote:Don't know much about this story, but I heard rumors ( only rumors ) that a bunch of furry fans caught HIV at the last convention. Is this true?
http://www.crushyiffdestroy.com/frontpa ... &tb=1&pb=1
I don't like furry stuff either, but that site really has a problem with them haha.
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You DO realize that that website is mainly designed to poke fun at the REAL filth that hangs around the furry fandom (and s*** of the more gullible furries who'd rather brand them as devils than realize their true purpose), do you?Morkulv wrote: I don't like furry stuff either, but that site really has a problem with them haha.
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Or in this case, the filth they make up. Just because it's bashing furry doesn't mean it's true.kitetsu wrote:You DO realize that that website is mainly designed to poke fun at the REAL filth that hangs around the furry fandom (and s*** of the more gullible furries who'd rather brand them as devils than realize their true purpose), do you?Morkulv wrote: I don't like furry stuff either, but that site really has a problem with them haha.