I find this thread very amusing.



MLP is good.  I've watched most of the episodes.  As with anything some fans can get a little bit obsessive.  I don't think anyone expected MLP to develop such a large and obsessive fandom though.  But the show is funny and well written and the characters are likable.  



I don't consider myself a brony.



A friend of mine is though.  He has dressed up and went to this convention last year.  He has bought very expensive hand made plushes off of Ebay of his favorite characters. He regularly says "everypony" in conversations.



I have no problem with any of that.  I merely like the show.  He loves the show.


 

It's about the same for me.



I like the show.  I don't try to look or act like it's part of my life, though.



If bronydom has many levels, from mild to extreme,  then I'm on the extremely mild side.     Maybe a 1.0 on the 10 scale.



(At 1.0, you make an effort to catch every episode.  if you are OK with missing episodes, you score less than 1.0.)



While I appreciate the fan art and creations that have arisen from it, I don't aspire to own or make any.

I wouldn't know.  I drive a car with 8 windows in total including rear door corner windows that don't move.





Really, in all honesty I SERIOUSLY doubt that there are very many bronies who are into kids in a sexual manner.





Now,  wanting to screw horses, ponies, etc...it's possible there might be a few.
But then again, based on the disaster that was one of my more recent dating adventures, I could sort of imagine


some people preferring animals to human females.   I don't talk about my dates, good or bad,  in general, but


let's just say that I'd rather remain single than pay another cent for another moment of online dating insanity.





I'll say that I know now why a fox will gnaw a leg off and escape on three rather than remain trapped for one night.





No matter how pretty she is, someone else is tired of her shit...and she just sent you a message to your eharmony account.  


What will ensue next is worthy of calling hilarity only if you are a true sadist.





Meanwhile,  all a horse asks of you is to be fed, watered, groomed, and petted a little first.
 

Well, where the fuck hay else am I going to keep all of my candy and chloroform? In my house?! This apartment is tiny, man!

And the FBI party vans revving over the hill...

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Now watch him folks cause he's a fairly dangerous man.  Well, you may not know it but this man is a spy.  He's a undercover agent for the FBI.  And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.  Would you believe this man has gone as far as tearing Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars, and that he voted for George McGovern for President?  He's a friend of them long haired, hippy-type, pinko fags.  I betchya he's even got a commie flag tacked up on the wall inside of his garage.  He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys.  He may look dumb but that's just a disguise, he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage.

Well said.



I'm extremely suspicious of any man that says he just happens to like a little girl show but feels the need to put it in their avatar (and almost all of them do this, much like furries), talk about it constantly, and defend it like their religious faith has been attacked.  

 

God save the queen. He cut 175*95 pixels out of an image! He must be utterly obsessed, and possibly crazy! An image of a thing he's interested in! Prithee, leal, of what should my avatar be a picture?

He said, entirely without irony, on AR15.com.

If you read this thread carefully, about a quarter of the posts accuse (tongue-in-cheek or not) bronies of being literally the most despicably vile kind of people that can possibly exist. When people ask why I like the show, I tell them. When they assume I'm a rapist who is titillated by little children because I watch a TV show and like to talk about it, I feel compelled to respond (or at least to appear, because people who assume I'm the antichrist because I like a silly TV show lack the capacity for reason).

I have no interest in defending or arguing tastes in television: there's no accounting for taste, and I'm totally fine with people who are totally disinterested in the show, or who have seen it and don't care for it, or just can't be bothered.

Consider how you might feel if someone insinuated that you were a murderer, a racist, sexually inadequate, socially stunted, and a radical political extremist because you like guns, because you talk about guns a lot on the internet, and because you have a little picture of a gun (or a guy with a gun, or something symbolic of your association with gun-owners [e.g., a BFL]) next to your name.

you mean like glock fanboys?

or 1911 fanboys?

or ar15 owners? :3

What BakerMike said is exactly right.





People who like MLP:FiM get nearly as much respect as pedophile sociopaths from some of the idiots running amok on

this board.   It's like being lumped together with the furries, which also receive much unwarranted hate.  





Poking a little fun at somebody for enjoying a cartoon about animated ponies is one thing, but to accuse them of being

pedophiles goes far, FAR beyond anything rational or tolerable in polite society.    



If any of you made that kind of accusation toward someone in real life, there would be teeth on the floor, police involvement,

and hate crime charges brought against someone.



I'm surprised it hasn't led to a bear pit thread or two yet.   Really.



Maybe it will, soon.





And if you're unaware of how pit threads work,  it's where people who have a gripe with somebody get to air their laundry

and present information about the cause of the butthurt,  and Ed Sr. judges.   The loser gets a vacation away from arfcom

for however long Ed considers appropriate.   It has resulted in members being banned for a long time, maybe permanently.



In this case, if this went to the pit,  it'd be very clear who's accused whom of involvement in pedophilia and Ed Sr. would

NOT be kind to the accuser.    



So those of you who think it's funny to associate fans of a cartoon with pedophilia really need to STFU and back off from

such things right now before they find themselves called into the pit.   And you don't even have to make a single post in

"your" pit thread for Ed Sr. to check out the situation and determine whether or not you should take a vacation from the site.





You've been warned.



From this point forward,  I absolutely PROMISE that I will personally call any individual into his own pit thread if any one

of you fools chooses to make that sort of allegation, even in jest,  against anyone who claims to be a fan of the show,

as I will interpret that to mean me.

This picture shows the Brony type. Grown men, who in previous generations were learning a trade, or preparing to defend their country, now spend their time watching cartoons.
Peter Pan's desperate to hang onto child hood innocence. Here it is, the middle of a scorching summer, yet everyone of them is pasty white.
The man boy on the left could be my son. They have been told there is no God, no country worth fighting for, no real chance to achieve anything worthwhile, so they live in fantasy worlds.

I weep for them and our country.

Were you there?

and your some how surprised?

I honestly have no idea why arfcom is so freaked out about this. bunch of people children in adult bodies getting together to celebrate their love for a kids show and play dress up...just like these people children in adult bodies: Adult Children Playing Dress up

Can you post the original image your old avatar and new avatar is from?

The least scary thing in the world is a threat from a dude who into little girls cartoons.

 

Shouldn't you be off in Skyrim-land giving Skyrimjobs to fellow players today?  You're into playing out fantasies in

online worlds, and not only that, you PAY to do it.  



I don't try to insert myself into a pony world even in my imagination.  You're into MMORGs.



I guess that means I win.

Sure thing. You win. Adult-marketed video games versus living in some fantasy land where little girls cartoons and merchandise is an acceptable adult behavior.

 

You make fun of me,  I make fun of you.  That's how this works.





But at the end of the day, it's all in good fun and please don't forget that.

Well of course. Note that I don't START any Brony-bash threads. But I am compelled to participate.  

The power of Pony compels you!



 

Skyrim is not a MMO you fail!

I've never played it.   Not much interested in it.    So I'm no expert in it.

Tomislav, don't get me wrong, but telling women that you'll impale them, while having pictures of Vlad in your apartment just doesn't work as a thing buddy

Backing up the last few previous posts though... You are a MMO player?  *record scratches*  Huh... Never figured on that.  Thought you were more of the flagellant monk sort of guy

We need more arfgamers though

(below not directed at tomislav)

On topic though, I agree with Jonson though, and I'll back up any pit thread he starts.  Seriously, this pedo/beastiac/necro/waffle shit needs to get nipped in the bud.  Its a freaking tv show guys *twirls finger*

How many members on here dressed up as brownshirts?  Or go to conventions for a show?  Or own the freaking DVD of the show?

Pretty much all the guys just watch ponies on youtube.  Big whoop.

Then again, I guess it is easy to be threatened if you are so dogmatic that you forget to use critical thinking.  I'm not even sure how you guys are linking a cartoon to sexuality.  Yes the content exists, but 99% of the people don't look at it.  Hell, there is probably content of a gal getting her freak on by jamming a glock into a sticky place.  Doesn't mean all glock owners are deviants into fisting with firearms.  (seriously, I'm not even going to Rule34 search that one )

I'll be checking this thread later when I get home.  Off to a family funeral

This is sad on so many levels.

Just remember to show some respect.  Ponies may be cute but they're not defenseless.

Nah. Video gamer, yes, but MMOs are too confusing and chaotic. I played Everquest once and someone ran up to me and starting yelling in Korean and I decided fuck this, AI is plenty good and haven't touched a MMO since.

If someone accuses you of being a pedophile on this board, why would you NOT call them out in a pit thread?



I await your rational, carefully considered response to this simple question.
 

Don't hate on the show until you watch it.



It's a funny show.

This guy wants to remind you that he is not the weirdest thing you will find in New York.

Honest question,

On the highlighted, you don't see why some of us would get a bit "weirded out" when the mention of a MLP plush doll with a working anus comes up, and of the local bronys is able to not only find it quickly, but jokes about it, and tells us it's not big deal?

His answer was not "you mean this? yeah there are some weird MFers out there". It read more akin to "you mean this? yeah, its hilarious, you guys just dont get bronys"

Honestly, I dont care if you guys like a kids cartoon. There are some great ones out there, and doubly so if you have kids you're watching them with. What myself, and many others out there find disconcerting is a grown mans self-identify as a "brony" that in all social reality is much MUCH different than being a "gun guy", "sports lover", or any number of normal or even oddball hobbyists.  

I dont mean any offense by this, as I'm sure you and most of the local "bronys" are most likely decent guys, however, as an outsider looking in, you need to understand how awkward a hardcore "brony" looks to to use "unwashed". There's a difference between having an MLP avatar and a couple of toys on the office shelf, and dressing up and going to a convention. If we express concern, it's because the idea of grown men obsessed with little kids girls toys is not normal.

Don't ban me bro!

Good thing my kids don't like this stuff
 

Pedo pony...

Yes. My last, uh, four avatars are from an ask-tumblr called "Ask Lil Miss Rarity", the premise of which is that after the events of S01E25 "Party of One" (where Pinkie Pie freaks out because she thinks her friends have secretly begun to hate her), that Pinkie Pie not only freaked out, but turned into a murderous psychopath, which then caused Rarity to go completely bugnuts fucking bananas-crazy and become a masochist (a hallucinating masochist: nopony else can see the 'camera' she's interacting with, or perceive the tumblr's commenters).

The premise is a totally ridiculous extrapolation from the events of one episode of the show (weird horror/slasher stuff is not only 180* from the show, it's 180* in the conventional way, and then also ninety degrees in some fourth, unexplored spatial dimension), and I want to know where its plot is going to end up. The illustration in it is steadily making the ponies more anthropomorphic, though, which I'm not sure about.

I'll put these behind spoiler tags because they're bloody (and might not be 100% kosher for work), but they don't violate COC (there exist panels in the tumblr that do):

My last-last avatar (Pinkamena responding to a tumblr commenter): Click To View SpoilerMy last avatar (Rarity's screaming for help after Rarity flips the fuck out):Click To View SpoilerMy current avatar (Rarity wrapped in bandages after she started bleeding for reasons unknown):Click To View SpoilerMy August avatar will either be AJ after she gets brained with Rarity's sewing machine, or Rarity's "Mommy's still pretty, right?" panel from the header of the tumblr.

ETA: It has never been my position that I'm not crazy, or that I'm not grossly deficient in every possible respect (), just that being a brony is not sufficient basis for heaping the most outrageously vile slanders upon someone.
You're a quick study. It is a picture of a Brony convention.

I'm... 95% sure that the central subject of the picture is a girl dressed up as Vinyl Scratch / DJ PON-3.
God help us, a bunch of people interested in the same thing went someplace to enjoy events related to some silly thing they all like!

I hope you never find out that parties exist, you might never stop crying.

This just in: MLP:FiM (first air date: November 2010) the first cartoon show by which men aged 15-25 have been fascinated.

"Pans".
"Scorching" seems like the answer to this question. One would be more surprised if they didn't have tans in a very mild summer. Furthermore, I'm not sure why I'd expect high-school and college-aged men to exclusively work in.. construction, lawn care, lifeguarding, and other outdoor tasks. In fact, I'd expect the kind of people who are big enough nerds to attend a nerd-convention probably have indoor jobs or internships and hobbies. I, on the other hand, am working on a moderately-sexy Farmer's tan, and that's just from walking back and forth from my truck for deliveries.
Uh.. What?
What-what?
What-what-what?
There, there, friend, don't cry! It's going to be alright. Here, let me get you a drink.

 

How many milligrams of Adderall are you on?

How much of that is ACTUALLY on your prescription?

How long does it take you to go through a 10gram baggie of MDPV?

Bronies found a meme they like and a clique to be a part of. Part of it is annoying the shit out of everyone. The other part is feeling like they belong.

None. My only prescription at the moment is Synthroid for mild hypothyroidism.
I don't know what that is. D:
I think that that's the most fair, evenhanded assessment of "some other group of people" I've ever read on the internet.
I ain't no kind of troll, but bronies (and furries, and everybody else) on 4chan definitely are all the time trolling /b/.

I picked this post at random.

It hits an 11 on the Gay O Meter of posts... is the rest of the thread this horrendously bad??

the brownies I've seen so far are disgusting, effeminate, basement-dwelling neck beard homos.

+1. Thank you for summing it up quite well.

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There is nothing wrong with pointing out aberrant behavior.

A bunch of pasty, effiminate man/boys obsessing over a little girl's TV is FRICKIN' WEIRD.

I find it unsettling, unseemly and unbecoming of a man.

zoophile

MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm      

It's got Rainbow Dash's cutie mark on the grip panel. That's adorable.

Bunch of us went out to dinner.  My buddy had a pony shirt on.  Random women.  Yes women.  Of the proper age.  Came up to him and hugged him and struck up conversation with him.  The rest of us aren't bronies and were wearing normal clothes.  We got no love.





Ponys man... they attract the women.



ETA: so far as I can tell... to women... flagging yourself as a brony is like confirmation for them of you being a nice guy who's very secure and confident in himself.





 

In skyrim you fight in a civil war and kill people, there is a big difference between it and My Little Pony.



 

When I was that age I was banging out as many whores as possible getting ready to leave for basic training.



 

I see a lot of childishness and posturing, but nothing worthy of a "rational,  carefully considered response".

Anyone get called in yet?


I'm thinking about tempting fate here