I'll take "that totally happened" for 200, please.
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Clearly you have not regularly been to bars in Capitol Hill.
That's nothing, that's tame, that's barely even remarkable as odd for all the wild shit I've seen and heard (and done -cough-) at and around the bars there.
That's horrible! Truly awful! Which bars, specifically, should I be avoiding?
Well its been a while since I've been, but the Unicorn hopefully still has deepfried Snickers, uh, going to the Wild Rose as a dude is always... an option, lets say... aw fuck, they cancelled taco tuesday, apparently... and one of the original owners passed this year =(
Yeah I guess I'm a bit past my bar cruising prime years.
More or less, just avoid anywhere flooded by college kids, and you'll probably find somewhere that matches your vibe.
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Indeed I haven't.
Well, perhaps you could try a Jeopardy-like quiz/trivia game at one of them some time =P
But that would require travelling to the US. I'll have to pass on that until some semblance of sanity returns there. I don't expect to see that in my lifetime.
Welp, thats entirely fair.
Yeah... we're kinda all completely beyond fucked these days, over in the US.
I guess our death rattle will at least serve as the most extreme season of reality TV that's ever been created, so... woooo for that I guess...
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Which capitol hill, lmao?
Its a neighborhood of Seattle.
They famously historically LGBTQ+ neighborhood, that also has a lot of music venues, bars, nightlife, etc.
Its also where the uh CHAZ/CHOP momentarily existed, after Cap Hill got tired of being abuses by the local police force, barricaded/seiged them in their own Police HQ in the district, and forced them retreat from it entirely, in the dead of night, after literally burning a bunch of documents that would have proved they were knowingly breaking the law in their own 'riot control' actions, destroyed a bunch of their own computers too.
Anyway, I brought it up because the OP specifically mentions Seattle.
It was originally named 'Capitol Hill', because it was built with the idea that it would seat the actual Capitol of Washington state... but that ended up being built in a different city, Olympia... so... the name still persists, despite kind of being a misnomer / confusing.
Hah, got it. I know of at least two capitol hills I've been to in other major cities, so I wasn't sure.
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Sort of a similar situation with me and renfair people. I build and fit people with custom orthopedic braces and prosthetics and have access to a metal and leather lab.
I wouldn't claim anyone is overly flirtatious, but they do seem to get friendlier and ask a lot of questions about things like hand setting rivets.
Cosplayers would also love you, but the venn diagram between cosplay and ren fair is nearly a circle, so
I do work with a lot of moldable foam. I've always kinda figured if I get kicked from the field or get bored I can always build costumes or custom leather kink gear.
If you are worried about too many furries in your line of work, try changing jobs! Maybe get into IT or something?
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Stupid sexy Nuclear Engineer!
Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!
If you don't like this meme, post your own. That's how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless it's a closed, invite-only forum. That's the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
The people who whine the loudest in situations like this are always the people who have like three posts in their history.
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Sounds like a honeytrap, those Furries must be up to something
The last thing we need is for them to develop nuclear capabilities...
Don't get the question. Sounds like telling people you're a nuclear engineer is working out well.
Embrace the furries, could be fun for a fling.
I don’t get it. Why furries?
STEM fields are just full of furries, I don't make the rules.
Because Seattle is full of them
What’s it got to do with being a nuclear engineer though? It just seems so random, it feels like I’m missing something.
Yes, and therein lies the humor, the juxtaposition of opining in casual tone what feels implied by the speaker to be mundane and relatable but which is in fact extremely niche and specifically un-relatable.
I suspect they are hoping to get their hands on some radioactivity which will turn them into an animal-human hybrid.
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I seem to be attracted to musicians more than any other hobby or profession. If you can sing or play an instrument, it makes me wet af.
I slap the end of pipes and tubes with a sandal. Sometimes I use two sandals, but society can't always handle the intensity of that.
Are you painted blue while doing this?
Not as blue as my balls waiting for him to finish playing
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Many such cases!
Don't go to bars in Seattle?
You guys just hate furries...
As with many things, you can love the content they produce while hating the fandom and all the people in it.
what is this content you're referring to?
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Maybe don't brag about your job.
We don't know if they were bragging or not. It's pretty common to ask what someone's job is during small talk. For all we know they literally just said their job title and left it at that.
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If i were a nuclear engineer, everyone around me wouldn't hear the end of it
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Jobs come up pretty damn often in conversation with strangers. If they ask, youre obliged to tell them the truth. Doing so would hardly constitute bragging in my opinion.
Breeder reaction 😳
Hmm, maybe you should become a vampire. That usually does the trick.
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