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TetsuoTW posted:I'm sorry but if you don't think making "hugging strangers for three hours for totally non-sexual reasons guys this is totally just hugging and stuff totally platonic its for chemical reasons there's absolutely nothing sexual about it" a significant part of who you are is at least kinda creepy you might be broken too. I was listening to the latest Lou Reads episode and when he read the phrase "puppy play is not my fetish, it's an integral part of who I am" I heard an almost audible "Ding!" in my head. Broken person alert going off! RareAcumen posted:that looks like how I imagine frat parties ending This is also how raves usually end, only in this case there is no MDMA involved. Cat Planet fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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I'll admit I didn't really laugh much during this episode, but you know what, that's okay. Sometimes there are dud episodes, y'all. Let's just go listen to F Plus Sings and the John Kitchin episode again.
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BKPR posted:I liked the constant oxytocin talk. It reads like someone who needs an excuse to reconcile enjoying stranger cuddling, or like someone who doesn't enjoy it but is convinced it's good for them anyway. I liked all the Oxytocin talk too, but mostly because I kept thinking Oxycontin instead whenever it was brought up.
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RareAcumen posted:that looks like how I imagine frat parties ending Close but if it was a frat party everything would be covered with cum and or feces
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Haruharuharuko posted:Close but if it was a frat party everything would be covered with cum and or feces If it's a Christian fraternity, replace feces with blood.
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RareAcumen posted:that looks like how I imagine frat parties ending
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 08:37 |
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i liked it when they read the things by the people that were funny
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 08:51 |
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I stog it when they read the stog from the stog that are stog
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 08:55 |
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The episode that broke the F+
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 09:04 |
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It is legit really weird how all the screeds selling this idea are about how adults are apparently not allowed to have physical contact without loving. Like, no? That's just not really true and if you had friends you would know that friends hug and poo poo, it's no big deal to functioning adults(keyword functioning). There's not really some huge impassable social wall there. The saddest part about it was that one guy who after thinking about how he was only into doing this with women was like "but is it... at all possible that it's sometimes a sexual thing?" because he was so close to realizing that yes, it is and it's sorta hosed up but you know that a hundred other guys came in and told him no, of course not, it's all above the level.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 09:19 |
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I feel like part of the thing with a cuddle party is that the demographic makeup is going to be super skewed compared to the normal population. A random selection of people in the same general age range cuddling is like, okay. A selection of people who have self-selected as "I want to be in a cuddle party" is something else.
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Djeser posted:I feel like part of the thing with a cuddle party is that the demographic makeup is going to be super skewed compared to the normal population. A random selection of people in the same general age range cuddling is like, okay. Well, not really, because a random group of well adjusted adult people won't just lie on the ground on a pile on account of it not being a thing done by most well-adjusted adults, which is why it's a good episode topic.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 09:44 |
I find the whole culture around how cuddling is the greatest thing ever really weird. It's not that there's anything wrong with cuddling but the Internet has started treating it like The New Sex™ and I find the elevation of it super weird. It's almost like the internet can't like something without making it out to be the greatest thing ever. The episode had some amazing jokes though, I laughed quite a lot at the whole "I always greet my friends by giving them a blowjob" thing.
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Added Space posted:A lot of it stems from Lemon, who thinks that a lot of people are hiding nefarious and violent motives behind their odd quirks. You might say it's a joke most of the time, but sometimes he sounds dead serious. Such as the end of the Plush Lovers episodes, where he said with apparent seriousness that people were dangerously violent because they cut a hole in a plush animal one time and had completely non-violent fantasies about inanimate objects. I agree about Lemon a little bit, but come on, man: these people were taking something that wasn't meant to be a sexual object, declaring it the love of their life, stabbing it open with a knife and then loving it. That's pretty drat violent.
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Bean posted:I agree about Lemon a little bit, but come on, man: these people were taking something that wasn't meant to be a sexual object, declaring it the love of their life, stabbing it open with a knife and then loving it. That's pretty drat violent. Not really. Violence requires an intent to harm. The people never harmed or intended to harm any person as far as I could tell. They never intended to destroy the objects of their affection, simply arrange things so they were more convenient. There was another F-Plus which did feature people getting sexual gratification from destroying toys, the language was quite different. Even then there was no evidence of intent to harm towards any person, only inanimate objects. What these people experience is a fantasy they are engaged with to an unhealthy degree, similar to godspouses. It's a common claim that people too involved in fantasy become violent, but there is little consistent evidence of this. Even when the fantasy itself is violent (the old canard about violent video games producing super-violent teens) there seems to be little crossover into actual violence. People who like to fantasize remain in their fantasies, and people who like to be violent commit violence, and there's relatively little overlap. A person with a taste for one finds little sustenance in the other. They even explained in the episode the excuses the person would make: turn off the fantasy for a few minutes, imagine it as harmless cosmetic surgery, etc. They are probably not framing the act mentally as violent. "Oh, but couldn't they easily do that to people as well as plush?" you exclaim. Not really - their plush companion is almost entirely a voluntary mental construct in their own mind, which they imagine is eager to go along with all this. The object itself provides very little sensory feedback and no resistance. A human would be pumping out lots of sensory feedback which would be sending powerful "STOP THAT" signals to the offender's brain, and presumably quite a bit of resistance. Now it's possible that a person could get off on the resistance and sensory feedback of violence - there are certainly people who do. However, if that's what got them off, that's what they would fantasize about. If they were interested in violence, they wouldn't be bothering with this plush nonsense. Now there are kinds of mental illness, most famously schizophrenia, which do involve imagined other personalities and which do often lead to violence. However, that's not what's happening here. Plush lovers have all the hallmarks of fantasy, where their imagined lovers agree with them, are comforting and supportive, and can be turned off at will. Schizophenics are highly disturbed by voices they can't control, which are often perceived as threatening and abusive, and cannot be ignored or turned off. The only way I can see to get from "They cut a piece of cloth, therefore they would stab a human" is either to make the unsupported claim that fantasy leads to violence, or to commit to the fallacy of composition by saying "Some mentally ill people are violent, therefore all mentally ill people are violent." edit: vvvv I'm not saying that they would be pleasant to be around, that anyone should enter a relationship with them, or that it's not right to make fun of them. Just that they're not secretly serial killers. Added Space fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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I liked it better when the few posts in this topic were when an new episode came out. Defendin' dudes who cut open plushies to gently caress 'em is... not where I want this thread to be.
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Added Space posted:
Or maybe it's just that these guys are really creepy and the amount of times they use the word 'mother' is reminiscent of Norman Bates. Because I don't think anyone besides you is bringing up the idea that plushophiles cutting a gently caress hole in a stuffed animal is going to lead to them doing it in real life...
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 18:40 |
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Or maybe the serial killer accusation wasn't entirely serious but a hyperbolic expression of how unsettling their weird poo poo is. I think you're thinking about this waaaaaaaaaaaay too much, man.
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Added Space posted:edit: vvvv I'm not saying that they would be pleasant to be around, that anyone should enter a relationship with them, or that it's not right to make fun of them. Just that they're not secretly serial killers.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 18:59 |
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Hmm, but what if the plushie fuckers didn't get a fair, respectable treatment, wouldn't it be terrible?
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Midnight Voyager posted:Or maybe the serial killer accusation wasn't entirely serious but a hyperbolic expression of how unsettling their weird poo poo is. Seriously right before it they were saying how hosed up it was so many posted involved anger to 'motheeeer' so they were making a serial killer joke. It's almost like the 'anger' or 'shock' is played up, especially by guys like Lemon who saw the document ahead of time and know what's in it. It's actually about ethics in F-Plus journalism.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 19:26 |
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and what's the deal with airline food. I mean, we make these rude jokes about it, but someone had to design the in-flight menu and select the ingredients. Someone had to work at the factory where the food was prepackaged. Someone had to lovingly load it onto the airplane. I mean yeah, the common conception of airline food is that it's terrible and overpriced, but if you think about it, there's no inherent link between airline food and terribleness. Won't someone think of the airline food. PLEASE, I urge you, stop making fun of airline food, you could hurt someone's feelings and the planet would spin uncontrollably into the sun forever. well anyway scuse me gonna go cut fuckgashes in my plushwives
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Added Space posted:
hahahahaahahahah
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Sitting Here posted:and what's the deal with airline food. I mean, we make these rude jokes about it, but someone had to design the in-flight menu and select the ingredients. Someone had to work at the factory where the food was prepackaged. Someone had to lovingly load it onto the airplane. what's the deal with airplane food, is it made of airplanes?
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Djeser posted:what's the deal with airplane food, is it made of airplanes? Why can't they make the airplane - out of the food?
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 22:44 |
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Why can't they make the black box out of WOMEN???
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Added Space posted:
Don't you have to source your poo poo for f-plus documents?
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Don't you have to source your poo poo for f-plus documents? Your posts read as very angry, and you are making an effort at jokes but they don't work. Please take a week off of posting to regroup.
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Added Space posted:
same
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BKPR posted:Your posts read as very angry, and you are making an effort at jokes but they don't work. Please take a week off of posting to regroup. Ahaha nah man. But seriously doing armchair psychological analysis about the kind of weirdo fetishes the F plus reads about is sadder than most of what the F plus reads about and is probably not good for you. Just chill and laugh at how hosed up Officially Licensed Cuddle Party Overseers are.
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alcharagia posted:I'll admit I didn't really laugh much during this episode, but you know what, that's okay. Sometimes there are dud episodes, y'all. Let's just go listen to F Plus Sings and the John Kitchin episode again. Weirdly I thought the John Kitchin episode was a dud, and the cuddle stuff was extremely my poo poo
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The Chairman posted:Weirdly I thought the John Kitchin episode was a dud, and the cuddle stuff was extremely my poo poo You know what, that's okay! You are still a completely valid human being with fine opinions. I disagree with this specific opinion, but whatever makes you laugh is what works for you, buddy.
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The Chairman posted:Weirdly I thought the John Kitchin episode was a dud, and the cuddle stuff was extremely my poo poo I'm actually feeling the same, but the John Kitchin episode might fare better on a re-listen. It's the type of crazy that's really hard to get a hold on; I was just too baffled to laugh at it for the longest time, it's just an impenetrable wall of Crazy Old Man. I know there's funny in there, but I couldn't grab onto it enough to laugh at it. Cuddle parties are pretty accessible for someone who's got a good grasp on the particular kind of weirdness that spawns both it and a lot of Tumblr's ideas about sex.
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Cleretic posted:I'm actually feeling the same, but the John Kitchin episode might fare better on a re-listen. It's the type of crazy that's really hard to get a hold on; I was just too baffled to laugh at it for the longest time, it's just an impenetrable wall of Crazy Old Man. I know there's funny in there, but I couldn't grab onto it enough to laugh at it. I'm usually doing something else when I first listen to a new episode of the F Plus, so I generally need to listen to them twice before I decide if I really liked them or not. The John Kitchin episode definitely fared better when I listened to it again and could focus more on the individual bits of insanity it contained.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 04:48 |
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I loved both of them equally, and I seriously considered including both of them in my top ten favorite episodes. On the other hand, it might just have been the contrast in quality after the weird pointlessness of the Luscious one.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 05:04 |
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John Kitchin at least has the best stinger I've heard so far.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I loved both of them equally, and I seriously considered including both of them in my top ten favorite episodes. On the other hand, it might just have been the contrast in quality after the weird pointlessness of the Luscious one. I enjoyed Hentaint Misbehavin more than Kitchin but then again I really enjoy hearing Frank West's voice read erotica. "Oh my god I squirted and came to the max! "
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 05:13 |
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Kitchin uninterrupted takes some focus for me, much like nanowrimo, it's so all over the place and you gotta follow along as he "connected to dots" to get the full hilarity. Second time I had to pause 3-4 times to do things, and then I got so much more out of it.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 05:19 |
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I'm more into perverts and general nerd un-selfawareness, so the Kitchin episode fell short for me. Luscious one was pretty great.
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General nerd un selfawareness makes for the best episodes. I should really try to make a Bitcoin document...
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