Author Topic: Bronies. Why'd it have to be bronies? (Read 8057 times)

Firethorn · « **Reply #25 on:** August 10, 2014, 10:29:13 PM »

Quote from: AJ Dual on August 10, 2014, 01:11:22 AM

Clever, but not enough to create a subculture out of, especially one that has creepy pedophillic undertones to it, however unintended it is.

You haul out the pedos and not bestiality?

Quote from: White Horseradish on August 10, 2014, 04:29:27 PM

No. Same idea, different ponies - they were a pink and a dark blue one.

Pinkie Pie and Luna perhaps?

I'll admit, I'm a guy without kids and I've watched the shows. I'll have to say that Laura Faust did a very good job, the storylines are much better than most of the cartoons I watched back in the '80s and '90s. However I do NOT own any memorabilia and have watched the series ONCE.

I think part of the fun for 'bronies' is that once you start 'looking behind the scenes' you realize that the ponies are living on a death world. Seriously. Outside of extensive support from the ponies, a human that lands there is likely going to be dead within the hour. Wolves made of wood, hunting manticores, house sized bears(and that's the cub), cockatrices, dragons, poisonous plants, giant snakes, the list goes on. Heck, they even have to face an invasion by dopplegangers at one point.

As one guy put it 'The place is dangerous enough to make your average D&D party think twice about venturing there'.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #26 on:** August 11, 2014, 12:51:23 AM »

Quote from: Firethorn on August 10, 2014, 10:29:13 PM

I think part of the fun for 'bronies' is that once you start 'looking behind the scenes' you realize that the ponies are living on a death world. Seriously. Outside of extensive support from the ponies, a human that lands there is likely going to be dead within the hour. Wolves made of wood, hunting manticores, house sized bears(and that's the cub), cockatrices, dragons, poisonous plants, giant snakes, the list goes on. Heck, they even have to face an invasion by dopplegangers at one point.

As one guy put it 'The place is dangerous enough to make your average D&D party think twice about venturing there'.

Holy Crap! The only MLP I've seen in the last few years is the old stuff (I have two young daughters TYVM). Might have to look up the new series and introduce the older daughter to it.

Chris

MechAg94 · « **Reply #27 on:** August 11, 2014, 06:18:34 PM »

I had never heard of this term until a local radio station did a comedy spot making fun of them. Lots of angry calls from Bronies for a couple weeks. The radio host just laughed at them more. I thought it was strange then. The pictures above make it seem worse.

Phyphor · « **Reply #28 on:** August 11, 2014, 09:14:20 PM »

Quote from: Firethorn on August 10, 2014, 10:29:13 PM

You haul out the pedos and not bestiality?

Pinkie Pie and Luna perhaps?

I'll admit, I'm a guy without kids and I've watched the shows. I'll have to say that Laura Faust did a very good job, the storylines are much better than most of the cartoons I watched back in the '80s and '90s. However I do NOT own any memorabilia and have watched the series ONCE.

I think part of the fun for 'bronies' is that once you start 'looking behind the scenes' you realize that the ponies are living on a death world. Seriously. Outside of extensive support from the ponies, a human that lands there is likely going to be dead within the hour. Wolves made of wood, hunting manticores, house sized bears(and that's the cub), cockatrices, dragons, poisonous plants, giant snakes, the list goes on. Heck, they even have to face an invasion by dopplegangers at one point.

As one guy put it 'The place is dangerous enough to make your average D&D party think twice about venturing there'.

I saw a couple eps with my niece.

Only a few scenes really stuck out to me:

The purple unicorn (Twilight?) being used as a gatling gun.
The "let's make the pink clones watch paint dry and blast the ones who get distracted" one.

And the one that REALLY caught my attention.

"OMFG, it's CERBERUS."
"That's ok, I got this. I'll just run him back to the GATES OF TARTARUS and I'll be right back. "

Yeah, the gates of Tartarus are just a short hop, skip, and a jump away.

My niece was like "What?"

Fitz · « **Reply #29 on:** August 12, 2014, 01:26:45 AM »

I have a friend who is a brony. He's a good guy, and really loves the show. Has some t-shirts , goes to cons.

It's certainly not the weirdest hobby out there.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #30 on:** August 12, 2014, 02:26:19 AM »

Quote from: Fitz on August 12, 2014, 01:26:45 AM

I have a friend who is a brony. He's a good guy, and really loves the show. Has some t-shirts , goes to cons.

It's certainly not the weirdest hobby out these.

True, some weirdos like Glocks.

Regolith · « **Reply #31 on:** August 12, 2014, 04:00:20 AM »

Some people juggle geese.

Firethorn · « **Reply #32 on:** August 12, 2014, 05:58:46 AM »

Quote from: Phyphor on August 11, 2014, 09:14:20 PM

"OMFG, it's CERBERUS."
"That's ok, I got this. I'll just run him back to the GATES OF TARTARUS and I'll be right back. "

In the last season you discover that somebody escaped

roo_ster · « **Reply #33 on:** August 12, 2014, 10:48:22 AM »

Quote from: Regolith on August 12, 2014, 04:00:20 AM

Some people juggle geese.

Hey, now!

KD5NRH · « **Reply #34 on:** August 12, 2014, 10:55:19 AM »

Quote from: RoadKingLarry on August 12, 2014, 02:26:19 AM

True, some weirdos like Glocks.

Stop reminding me of those disgusting perverts.

GigaBuist · « **Reply #35 on:** August 12, 2014, 10:52:20 PM »

Quote from: Boomhauer on August 10, 2014, 12:11:29 AM

Are you saying that you are a Brony or that you watch it like a parent with small kids has to watch Barney? Are you way into it like obsessed with it? Do you yearn to attend the Brony conventions?

I'm saying I watch it and enjoy it. I watch a lot of shows and have over many years of my life. I've never considered myself obsessed with any of them and I have never wanted to attend a convention. Not even for Firefly.

Most kids shows suck monkey balls. MLP is decent work.

Scout26 · « **Reply #36 on:** August 13, 2014, 02:18:52 PM »

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/08/09/atlantic-writer-tries-convince-readers-adult-male-bronies-are-ok?utm_source=Marketing&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_term=Facebook&utm_content=Facebook&utm_campaign=Atlantic-Bronies

KD5NRH · « **Reply #37 on:** August 13, 2014, 02:24:50 PM »

Quote from: GigaBuist on August 12, 2014, 10:52:20 PM

Most kids shows suck monkey balls. MLP is decent work.

No doubt. Even Pinky Pie could curb stomp Dora and Diego at the same time.

Balog · « **Reply #38 on:** August 13, 2014, 02:25:01 PM »

Here's a better link to that article. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/08/09/atlantic-writer-tries-convince-readers-adult-male-bronies-are-ok

Bronies are pathetic, emasculated overgrown children advertising their fail to the world as clearly as if they had neckbeards and fedoras. I pity them.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #39 on:** August 13, 2014, 02:36:11 PM »

Quote from: Balog on August 13, 2014, 02:25:01 PM

Here's a better link to that article. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/08/09/atlantic-writer-tries-convince-readers-adult-male-bronies-are-ok

Bronies are pathetic, emasculated overgrown children advertising their fail to the world as clearly as if they had neckbeards and fedoras. I pity them.

can you just dial down the hate? for like one day?

Scout26 · « **Reply #40 on:** August 13, 2014, 02:50:47 PM »

Someone has to post it.

Balog · « **Reply #41 on:** August 13, 2014, 02:56:03 PM »

Can't you just give the hate a rest Scout?

White Horseradish · « **Reply #42 on:** August 13, 2014, 03:02:55 PM »

Quote from: Balog on August 13, 2014, 02:25:01 PM

Bronies are pathetic, emasculated overgrown children advertising their fail to the world as clearly as if they had neckbeards and fedoras. I pity them.

Methinks your Cheerios have some horse pop in them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl9_5kK9ts

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #43 on:** August 13, 2014, 03:45:59 PM »

Quote from: White Horseradish on August 13, 2014, 03:02:55 PM

Methinks your Cheerios have some horse pop in them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl9_5kK9ts

links like that should require warnings about eating or drinking. I almost died!

KD5NRH · « **Reply #44 on:** August 13, 2014, 05:22:23 PM »

Quote from: Balog on August 13, 2014, 02:25:01 PM

Bronies are pathetic, emasculated overgrown children advertising their fail to the world as clearly as if they had neckbeards and fedoras.

I have a fedora, but I do shave my neck.

Most of the neckbeard types wear trilbies, though.

Mannlicher · « **Reply #45 on:** August 13, 2014, 05:32:18 PM »

Bronies have issues. What a bunch of disgusting perverts.

Fitz · « **Reply #46 on:** August 13, 2014, 05:48:18 PM »

Quote from: Mannlicher on August 13, 2014, 05:32:18 PM

Bronies have issues. What a bunch of disgusting perverts.

Disgusting perverts because they're really into a show?

Interesting viewpoint

RevDisk · « **Reply #47 on:** August 14, 2014, 10:18:32 AM »

Quote from: Boomhauer on August 09, 2014, 11:29:23 PM

Oh, you're going to love this one.

Bronies are dudes who are into a little girl's TV show/toy franchise called My Little Pony. In other words, they are freaky mother *expletive deleted*ers.

It's just another sign of our decline. 50 years ago, if somebody proclaimed themselves to be a Brony they would have had the *expletive deleted* beat out of them. Now they have *expletive deleted* conventions. And dress up in costumes.

Well, if nothing else, Boomhauer hit the nail on the head for one of the best justifications for the absolute requirement of the right to keep and bear arms. The dark side of democracy is the mob. The famed "two wolves and a sheep voting for dinner" metaphor of the tyranny of the majority. The counter to the mob is superior firepower.

AFAIK, while individual members may or may not be problematic, the group as a whole is dedicated to a legal and mundane subject. If 50 years ago, they'd be physically harmed for this, it says volumes of how much our society has improved. And the absolute need for the right to defend oneself from people that would attack them for doing nothing legally or morally wrong.

I also think Bronies are weird, but I'd have no problem with any of them shooting someone that wanted to injure them for their hobby and would only wish them good shot placement.

MillCreek · « **Reply #48 on:** August 14, 2014, 10:47:29 AM »

^^^Although I don't hear much of them any more, this was the same rationale behind the Pink Pistols group: gays who armed themselves to protect against gay-bashing. I have a vague recollection of some years ago, a gay-bashing miscreant was shot by a member of the group in Seattle.

Mannlicher · « **Reply #49 on:** August 14, 2014, 09:30:01 PM »

As usual, there is little tolerance for those with an opposing viewpoint. "Haters" eh? For not sharing the joy of being a boy pony? Amazing.

However, I, and of course all the other deniers are supposed to be tolerant. Of course.

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Author Topic: Bronies. Why'd it have to be bronies? (Read 8057 times)