cool I like this guy not afraid to show his brony pride

@Exedrus  
another advantage risque newspapers over digital porn viewers?
 
makeshift whacking devices (either people or the cockroach kind) XP
 
true on the computer-tv thing but the one who said they’re obsolete wants ALL tvs gone (he’s assuming everyone in the planet can afford mobile viewing devices) since it’s an ‘obsolete’ concept according to him.

@OptimusPrimevil  
Well then its a little more comparable. I mean, risque newspapers probably cost a few bucks. So it’s easier for people who can’t buy computers/tablets/smart phones to purchase those. But TV costs are more comparable to super cheep computers. (And IMO a computer is probably more useful than a TV.) So it might make more sense to save up a little more and purchase a computer rather than a TV.
 
Although, TVs can get free over-the-air content, whereas internet usually ain’t free. So the comparison between TVs and computers isn’t quite as simple as I’m making it out to be…

@Exedrus  
situation kinda reminds me of guy who dismissed all tvs as useless now thanks to mobile devices.
 
iirc he compared people who still use tvs to cavemen.

@OptimusPrimevil  
Yeah, that’d make sense.
 
I hadn’t considered that somehow.

@EddersCPFC
 
@Exedrus
 
’cause not everyone has fancy tablets/gizmos to see them?

@Exedrus  
I agree. I don’t see the point of it any more, I mean, it’s a lot less risky for one thing just to search for it online ;P

@EddersCPFC  
I always find the idea of physical/printed risque material being sold in this day-and-age kinda surprising. I mean, in lieu of the internet where there’s unlimited free explicit material, how does this sort of stuff still actually sell? XD

he looks pretty normal to me  
just a guy with a fun hobby

@OptimusPrimevil  
That’s what the Daily Star is as well. I’m sure most times I’m in the shop I just see it with some half naked girl on the cover and the other papers have news that is actually front page worthy.

@EddersCPFC  
wow.
 
one of the ‘tabloids’ here was just basically porn until they went more ‘mainstream’ with just gravure/swimsuit idols.

@OptimusPrimevil  

 
Yep, the Daily Star (which is where this article is from) and The Sun (Ergh) have that.

@armadiloeater  
not familiar with english journalism but do they have japanese gravure models in the front/back and inside pages?

@Exedrus  
English yellow press. Pretty much the worst kind of journalism you’ll find around.  
They are the original click-baiters.

@Exedrus  

 
It feels like really bad toilet paper.

>newspaper  
This feels more like a tabloid…

@Lillian  
A very ironic one.

@Lillian  
Lmao I was reading it wrong

“Bonkers Ian Taylor” seriously wtf kind of name is that

I’m not sure showing your true power level in public like this is a good idea, m8.

@orbsah  
it becomes unhealthy when the collection becomes top priority over almost everything else.
 
i know of a story about a local collector whose family got in financial trouble (enough for him to ask for investors) but not enough for him to sell his collection to help out (it probably wouldn’t have done any good but it’s the gesture that counts).

He spends £12K on ponies, who cares really? Even before the whole brony thing happened, people were still spending a shit lot of money on G1/G2/G3 toys. If this guy wants to spend his money on ponies, then that’s his decision.

@orbsah  
There is a difference between collecting things and obsessing over them. The same difference between someone who enjoys a drink once in a while and an alcoholic.

@armadiloeater
 
@atalarikt
 
it’s more on the nerd totem pole than for norms.
 
based on my experience in local toy conventions, a display case full of ecchi figs (from a group specifically dealing with that) is more in ‘theme’ with the convention than a MLP one (sure there are MLPFiM vendors and booths but they really stick out.
 
then again the group just probably has the connections and money (most of the stuff they show almost NEVER gets a local release) so it just appears that they have some ‘credibility’.
 
on the other hand they could say “hey at least OUR stuff is HUMAN (though not realistic humans)”