What are your opinions on the pony fanbase

So basically what kval said, you base your opinion of the entire group on the vocal minority?

Well, it's not so much the vocal minority. I have personal contact with people. Some don't vocalize it until I know them then share that info about themselves with me and may or may not be abhorrent about it. Some legitimately do it as a personal thing and don't share it obnoxiously. Some actually do.

I am just taking my brother for example. I can't use my brother as an example of one kind of stoner now, without being stereotyping or the "racist" here? I mean, obviously not everyone does the exact same thing.

If I am stereotyping anyone ever, it is gamers. They are a vocal minority that ruins things, but they ruin something I am passionate about, and if CoD players don't keep supporting balances of overpowered SMGs and the such in other video games, I swear I just want that to stop. Anything I can do to make their highly vocal stay at the internetz annoying, I will do, pony memes, trolling, hampering of any kind, ANYTHING, I will be as unpleasant as possible as long as they keep ruining the gaming industry for me.

Stoners, I personally have a lot of contact with them, they are alright. Bronys, my personal contact with them leads me to believe they are pretty talented and fairly contributing and pleasant members of society. Wiccans and gothic people, I always seem to date them so that must say something about their "usual" personality, albeit a stereotype what is the difference between a "stereotype" and "trend"? I mean, if the stereotype is false, don't people say jewish people are greedy, yet in my personal experience they are more spiritual and generous than christians? If the stereotype is true, and you literally do notice a trend that everyone you meet who is a brony usually is more talented with technology and design work, then why would you resist that just out of personal common sense?

I mean, the worse thing is when I present a case using hard evidence, and someone claims I am being stereotypical. What, am I just imagining things in the physical recollections I recite to you? Do people I mention not act the way I portray? I am not even talking about people I don't even know, just the ones I do. The ones I know, personally, happen to act that way.

There's the cards from the show you can collect for funsies; the Friendship is Magic cards. And then there's the MLP:CCG packs that are a card game instead. Two very different card packs

I really don't understand how people can smoke in Australia. Look up the Quit smoking ads. On an empty stomach. It's horrible. Even the Worksafe ads are bad. There's one where you see a guy having some social difficulty because he has one hand, and then there's a flashback moment where he sticks his hand inside a jammed piece of machinery because he didn't want to bother his boss, and then there's a crunch and blood sprays over the guard and it's just... ugh. There's another where a woman splashes herself with acid, and one where some apprentice doesn't wear his safety goggles and a nail from a nailgun ricochets into his eye... It's so horrible I always have to mute the TV and look away. The cigarrete packs have disgusting pictures of gangrene and rotting teeth, so when you're walking down the street you see it because some potatoe didn't throw it in the bin... I just find it astounding you can go through all that and still smoke.

The only thing that isn't that bad is the drink-driving ads, but even then there are plenty of horrific ones.



I just love that one, so clever.

I've very recently quit smoking so I might be able to explain why.

Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances there are. When you can't smoke a cigarette for some time, you literally feel a sense of hunger and you're willing to go through to almost anything to still that hunger.

A pack of 28 cigarettes costs 8 to 10 euros in the Netherlands. The average smoker will finish that pack within a day. That means the average smoker spends between 56 and 70 euros every week just on cigarettes. On a year basis, that is between 2900 and 3600 euros - which equals two months of minimum wage.

One in two alcoholics feels the urge to smoke equally or even stronger than the urge to drink.

Nicotine dependency is rated higher than heroin dependency on the Henningfield/Benowitz ratings. Think about what heroin users are willing to do for a fix and then realize nicotine addicts might be willing to go even further if the need arose.

I understand that but I'm confused about the people who enjoy smoking, not just physically addicted.

Oh that, well I personally just liked the sensation of smoking going down my lungs (yes it was that bad), I've always liked the taste and smell and nicotine is a very, very mild sedative and your breathing slows considerably when you smoke so it can be very relaxing. Plus everything looks kuwler if you do it smoking, trufax

But the ads! The horrible horrible ads!

There isn't a smoker on earth who doesn't know he's slowly but surely poisoning himself. Reminding him of that does nothing. I made a list of reasons to quit to stay motivated and I didn't even mention health on it.

That's just adding to my confusion.

Holy **** I thought my 20 pack @ 4.70€ was expensive. Where'd you pull this "average smoker goes through a pack every day"? I don't know a single person who smokes a pack a day.

This topic has gotten really weird, but for US stats, here you go:

http://visual.ly/average-daily-cigarette-consumption-adult-smoker-state

Most smokers I know smoke a pack a day, maybe I just know the hardline addicts or something. I was the lightest smoker I knew at 15 cigarettes a day.

Just looked it up and in 2011 the average amount of cigarettes a day was 14 in the Netherlands, so halve every number.

People don't make decisions solely based on what's good for them. To be honest it's pretty far down the list, often until you or someone you know has an 'oh ****' moment, like a heart attack or something.

Have you seen the Australian anti-smoking ads!?

It doesn't matter how you remind him. It can be as gruesome as possible or as nice as possible, it will be ineffective. That being said, my personal favourite anti-smoking ad is one I saw in France once. It was a picture of what looked like two heroin junkies giving you a dead-eyed stare. I laughed my *** off every time I grabbed a cig.

E: Looked up the ads, would not deter me one bit. Besides, you'd probably grow used to them within a month. Also these aren't nearly as bad as some of the french I saw

Don't know if you saw it but there was one that got banned where this kid is shown lost in a busy train station and starts crying in distress. There was a caption that said something along the lines of "this is how your child reacts when he's lost you for five minutes. Imagine if he lost you for life".

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Found it

That is not an effective advert imo. Certain shock adverts move me a little, most don't, and that's not even on the radar.

You're obviously an unloving robot .