Beads?

[altivo]

*temporarily aborts planned entry*

"Furry bead code?" Huh?

This is a joke, right? Like the handkerchief codes and all that other nonsense? You're face to face with someone and you can't ask them a question if it's something you need to know? You'd rather be completely confused by a dozen contradictory color codes being passed around and your inability to distinguish "sparkles" and "stripes" in poor light conditions?

Jeez, as if there wasn't enough masochism inherent in being visibly furry, we have to dream up stuff like that?

Comments

Re: ...making life easier through overly-complicated tasks.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It depends on the context, as I've said. It wasn't offensive here because you were just giving generic examples (or at least, that's what I understood you to be doing.)

Whether it would offend me if you (or someone else) said it in person would really seriously depend on where we were, how well I knew the speaker, who else might have overheard it, what had passed in the conversation prior to that, and so forth.

If a stranger walked up to me and said "I want to fuck you," I'd probably turn and run. It wouldn't be a question of offensive, but rather fear.

You're not a stranger, so my reaction would depend on other contextual elements. :)

Re: ...making life easier through overly-complicated tasks.

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

*thinks for a moment, then laughs* Okay, I get it now. Given your example, I can understand that reaction... I should thank you, because that clarified a lot for me... and you were right, I wasn't being clear... heh... I think maybe the words you were using to try to make that point had- up until just now- been misinterpreted as something else. *rests my chin on my palm and smirks as I look away for a long while silently*