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SkunkDogFromSpace · Venter Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 222

..i thought they were called "muggles" ;P

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 459

I really hate the term "mundane". It just feeds back into the mindset that the average public is just too closed minded and OMG FURSECUTION to accept the furry concept. Mind you, my favorite part of furry conventions is the looks on the faces of the other hotel patrons, but I don't like the implied notion that they're somehow obligated to be accepting of these strange people walking around in fursuits.

Not that a term like "muggle" is much better, but the elitist habits of a bunch of fictional wizards doesn't concern me much.

Dr. Dos · Vociferator Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 718

mundanes muggles and moogles.

RailFoxen · Vociferator Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 625

"Stupid."

Stoneth · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 1225

Mundane as I understand it simply reffers to anyone outside of any group within the context in which it is used. Nothing more. It has been used in the computer industry, science fiction fandom, and the furry fandom among other places. I don't see anything wrong with it. It's also easier to say than "non-furry fan".

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 459

I just use the term "normal people".

Zod God · Prattler Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 105

Zing zing, score 1 for Monkey King.

Foxid · Venter Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 298

mundanes muggles and moogles.

That sounds like the title of a Jerry Springer episode about the furry, Harry Potter, and Final Fantasy fandoms.

SkunkDogFromSpace · Venter Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 222

You know.. i've really been waiting to see some furries in Jerry Springer show. Honestly! Think about it!
"Well, we have really interesting subject today; Honey, I love our dog more than you, let our guest tell more clearly about this. Go ahead David."
"Well.. it started when I had really bad day at work and my wife started nagging at me, and then I went to my room to cry and convulse in my angst and the dog came into the room and..."
*Audience start yelling "WHOOoooOOO!" to him and then "Dog-fu-cker! Dog-fu-cker!"*
"HEY! Shut up! SHUT UUP! You don't know what it's like! You should try it too some time!" etc..

:lol:

Like that episode with the guy who wanted to marry a donkey. Tho it never got aired because it was so explicit.. even for Jerry Springer show :P

Xarai · Coadjutor Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 87

Mundane as I understand it simply reffers to anyone outside of any group within the context in which it is used. Nothing more. It has been used in the computer industry, science fiction fandom, and the furry fandom among other places. I don't see anything wrong with it. It's also easier to say than "non-furry fan".

"Muggle" means the same thing, except nobody uses it anymore except in Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling was hardly original.

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 459

Muggle is/was an actual word? I thought Rowling was just making up some wizard shibboleth.

Xarai · Coadjutor Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 87

Er... actually, I wasn't quite right. It was an actual word as early as the 20s, but Rowling gave it its current meaning.

Monkey King · Vociferator Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 459

Muggles is a slang term for marijuana, mostly used in the 1920s and 1930s by United States jazz musicians. To muggle or to muggle up was to smoke marijuana, and to experience the "high" from marijuana was to be all muggled up.

Ahahahaha! The books are ruined for me now! I will NEVER be able to read them without that crossing my mind whenever someone says "muggle" now.

Captain Cowgirl · Needs to get out more Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 1091

You know.. i've really been waiting to see some furries in Jerry Springer show. Honestly! Think about it!
"Well, we have really interesting subject today; Honey, I love our dog more than you, let our guest tell more clearly about this. Go ahead David."
"Well.. it started when I had really bad day at work and my wife started nagging at me, and then I went to my room to cry and convulse in my angst and the dog came into the room and..."
*Audience start yelling "WHOOoooOOO!" to him and then "Dog-fu-cker! Dog-fu-cker!"*
"HEY! Shut up! SHUT UUP! You don't know what it's like! You should try it too some time!" etc..

:lol:

Like that episode with the guy who wanted to marry a donkey. Tho it never got aired because it was so explicit.. even for Jerry Springer show :P

Just you wait...
I can just see Jerry Springer's 'Final Thought' for that episdoe...

SkunkDogFromSpace · Venter Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 222

I will NEVER be able to read them without that crossing my mind whenever someone says "muggle" now.

HAHA! Ditto!

Just you wait...
I can just see Jerry Springer's 'Final Thought' for that episdoe...

i think even Jerry would be speechless after furries :P

Lim-Dul · Coadjutor Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 73

Muggle? What type of a damned word is muggle?! (besides stupid slang)
When I read it, I get the combination of the words mugger and snuggle running in my mind.

Jerry Springer furry episode... I'd like to be an audience member for that if it were ever to become a reality.

LSH · Apocrisiary Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 49

mundane: outsider, one who does not know the ways of (insert subculture here)

muggle: one who would beat you severely if given the chance, because you are strange to him.

moogle: weird little bat-kitten from Final Fantasy.

AlbinoHagfish · Prattler Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 199

You know.. i've really been waiting to see some furries in Jerry Springer show. Honestly! Think about it!
"Well, we have really interesting subject today; Honey, I love our dog more than you, let our guest tell more clearly about this. Go ahead David."
"Well.. it started when I had really bad day at work and my wife started nagging at me, and then I went to my room to cry and convulse in my angst and the dog came into the room and..."
*Audience start yelling "WHOOoooOOO!" to him and then "Dog-fu-cker! Dog-fu-cker!"*
"HEY! Shut up! SHUT UUP! You don't know what it's like! You should try it too some time!" etc..

The depressing thing is...my ex's aunt had the similar thing happen. It started when she showered with the dogs. Then when she kicked her husband off the bed so the dogs could sleep there. Then she divorced him for the dogs. Now she regularly bangs said dogs.

Troggler · Venter Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 246

Your ex's aunt is a terrifying woman who now lurks in the shadows of every corner in my mind.

Jeez, what did your ex's UNCLE think of that whole situation? Surely there must have been a call for intervention at some point.

baserock love · Vociferator Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 685

I just call furrys furrys, and everybody else is normal people. Pretty simple. And albinohagfish.....wtf. I'm sorry man, and i though i had a dysfunctional family. I couldn't imagine being divorced for a mutt.

AlbinoHagfish · Prattler Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 199

Well, the uncle now makes bitter angry jokes about the whole thing, and since then one of the dogs had to be put down for agression issues. If anyone approached his human "mate" he went ballistic. The leader of the dogs has a sentance to the same hanging over his head, but she is fighting to keep him alive. He's her favourite lay.
The rest of her family isn't the most stable. Her grandma thinks I'm an evil lesbian out to turn her family to the dark side of gayness (strange, because I've been with a guy for over a year now), her mom has skitzophrenia, and she thinks she's the chosen one of the ancient gods.

cheberet · Coadjutor Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 71

As a big fan of the English language, hearing people toss "mundanes" around with that little sneer in their voices makes me sad. It's in the same vein of thought as those obnoxious Hot Topic "You laugh because I'm different..." shirts.

Also, yeah, oh my fucking god your aunt. Or more so your uncle. He may be one of the few people in history who can honestly claim they were dumped for a dog.

AlbinoHagfish · Prattler Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 199

As a big fan of the English language, hearing people toss "mundanes" around with that little sneer in their voices makes me sad. It's in the same vein of thought as those obnoxious Hot Topic "You laugh because I'm different..." shirts.

Also, yeah, oh my fucking god your aunt. Or more so your uncle. He may be one of the few people in history who can honestly claim they were dumped for a dog.

I LOVE pointing out to people that those shirts are mass-produced. It makes me giggle. And naw, not my aunt, my ex girlfriend's. Thank god gay marriage is illegal. I never thought I'd say that, but if it weren't she'd probably still have me in her little marriage-fueled fantasy net.

cheberet · Coadjutor Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 71

Off topic, but I love your screen name and your avatar. I always wished that I could pose as a Native American shaman and tell eager furries that their totem animal was a hagfish. Beautiful.

AlbinoHagfish · Prattler Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 199

Off topic, but I love your screen name and your avatar. I always wished that I could pose as a Native American shaman and tell eager furries that their totem animal was a hagfish. Beautiful.

As have I. Hagfish, roaches, Cookie Cutter Sharks, daphnia, planarian worms...all of them are awesome totem animals.

TheBobSays · Venter Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

Off topic, but I love your screen name and your avatar. I always wished that I could pose as a Native American shaman and tell eager furries that their totem animal was a hagfish. Beautiful.

As have I. Hagfish, roaches, Cookie Cutter Sharks, daphnia, planarian worms...all of them are awesome totem animals.

Don't forget the noble dung beetle!

Catching up on posts now, other linky goodness, courtesy of google:
Listing of Jerry Springer episodes
"I Married A Horse" Didn't air, but involved a man and a horse, and the other guests was a man and a cat.
"Amazing Tales 1,2,3" Man having affair with a stuffed panda in the first show. Girlfriend, upon finding out, destroys said panda on the show.
"Freaky Fetishes" Same as above, except with a stuffed duck.
"My Day As A Dog" Man has unhealthy fetish to be treated like a dog, complete with hired dominatrix. It costs him his girlfriend and job on national TV.

LoKi · Venter Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 262

Off topic, but I love your screen name and your avatar. I always wished that I could pose as a Native American shaman and tell eager furries that their totem animal was a hagfish. Beautiful.

Therians = lolz... I am a FOXCOONWOLFLIONTAUR you stupid hy00mans.

I seriously, seriously hope to God that I never run into some idiot that tells me that they really have the spirit of a whatever inside. >:<

Captain Cowgirl · Needs to get out more Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 1091

As a big fan of the English language, hearing people toss "mundanes" around with that little sneer in their voices makes me sad. It's in the same vein of thought as those obnoxious Hot Topic "You laugh because I'm different..." shirts.

Also, yeah, oh my fucking god your aunt. Or more so your uncle. He may be one of the few people in history who can honestly claim they were dumped for a dog.

I LOVE pointing out to people that those shirts are mass-produced. It makes me giggle. And naw, not my aunt, my ex girlfriend's. Thank god gay marriage is illegal. I never thought I'd say that, but if it weren't she'd probably still have me in her little marriage-fueled fantasy net.

Haha. That reminds me of a pin my BF gave me that says "You Nonconformists are all alike". Of course, that's mass produced too, but hey.
Anyways, you all seem to be forgetting the episode about the guy who had 3 stuffed animals that he was obsessed with, and his morbidly obese GF threatened to break up with him over them. It wasn't exactly plushophilia, but it was still kind of funny.
He made up a voice for his bear plush that sounded earily like Mr. Woodchuck from 'Full House'.

SkunkDogFromSpace · Venter Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 222

"My Day As A Dog" Man has unhealthy fetish to be treated like a dog, complete with hired dominatrix. It costs him his girlfriend and job on national TV.

i saw that one D: he was fat and ugly=instant furry!

Edge · Qualificator Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 7

"Mundanes" was started by some fukctard in the fandom, and by some act of satan it stuck. I just call you guy's 'Normies'.

Sinclair · Prattler Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 125

I've only heard the term used by irritating Goths.

Figuring out what Goth is may be even more confusing than Furry.

My opinion: If you're really Goth, then you'll dress up in animal hides and head down to Little Italy with an axe.

Computolio · Needs to get out more Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 865

When furries use the word "mundane", it cracks me up because that's what the "telepaths" would call the rest of the population on Babylon 5. Pathetically nerdy reference, yes, but if you've seen the show....

TheBobSays · Venter Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

When furries use the word "mundane", it cracks me up because that's what the "telepaths" would call the rest of the population on Babylon 5. Pathetically nerdy reference, yes, but if you've seen the show....

I've got a friend who was on AOL back in the mid-90s. Fortunately, we saved him, and his typing has vastly improved once he left it, but that's besides the point. Anyways, he reported that "Mundanes" was the term used for real people. That is, in the AOL RP circles (gag) a character referred to the real life person playing the character as 'his mundane' or 'mun' for short.

AngryPuritan · Needs to get out more Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 1361

When furries use the word "mundane", it cracks me up because that's what the "telepaths" would call the rest of the population on Babylon 5. Pathetically nerdy reference, yes, but if you've seen the show....

I only ever heard Checkov use it though (I forget his character name on Babylon 5). I thought that was part of his superiority complex, not the official term for non-telepaths.

Mitch · Vociferator Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 658

When furries use the word "mundane", it cracks me up because that's what the "telepaths" would call the rest of the population on Babylon 5. Pathetically nerdy reference, yes, but if you've seen the show....

I only ever heard Checkov use it though (I forget his character name on Babylon 5). I thought that was part of his superiority complex, not the official term for non-telepaths.

They used it in B5 as a nod to its fans in the SF fandom, which has been using it since the 50s to describe non-fans. And of course furry fandom has (loose) roots among SF fans.