Meet 'bronies' -- grown men who are fans of My Little Pony

IIRC pictures of what I was doing have been posted to ILE, which mostly involved stalking the halls dressed as an extra from Degrassi High and doing the cabbage patch in my friends' kitchens

(should note said cabbage patch was usually to "The Days of Swine and Roses" by TKK)

Most of those people look pretty normal to me, aside from wacky-hat guy. The only cue I could really take to suggest that they're all the risible nerdy virgins you think they are is the fact that they're at a brony meet-up.

fedora looks like he wandered into the wrong room and was too polite to leave before they took the picture; I imagine 30 seconds afterward he was all "so just to clarify, the Mad Men meetup is on the right"

I hope Degrassi does a brony ep

i was a risible nerdy virgin through the vast majority of time i was in high school ... game recognize game, yo.

fedora looks like he stepped offa a 1979 Specials EP cover.

is this just what furries do now? do furries still exist? is there some venn diagram overlap here? I still don't 'get' this.

Yeah, they all seem like they'll be ok in the long run. Fedora will grow out of his suit, even. Not sure why their sex lives have anything to do with it.

RIP Wheels ;_;

furries are eternal, man ... or at least since "the shining"

there's always a fedora guy, isn't there?

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, February 27, 2012 10:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

such a truth bomb

I think these are just nerdy fanboys who like a cartoon. xp

I owned a fedora as a teenager. yikes! never got the courage to wear it out though

I don't see a whole lot of difference between nerdy fanboys who like this cartoon and nerdy fanppl who like all manner of things and attend conventions about them. Right down to their penchant for silly hats.

xp I totally have a fedora pic of me from jr high.

I desperately wanted a porkpie hat in the days of third-wave ska. Thankfully e-commerce was a little less developed and I sure as fuck wasn't going to find one locally.

guys, I owned a fedora, a bicycle cap with the name of my German camp on it, a Dr Seuss raver hat and a green baseball cap with a cartoon mascot from a Japanese baseball team on it by the time I was TWENTY; I think I have put in my time in the bad hat trenches and am allowed to chuckle at those that came after me

oh, also a reversible skull cap

there are a lot of bronies who are not into like furry shit, but there are definitely furry bronies

I came pretty close to ordering a t-shirt with the japanese baseball player on it that the dude wore in the big lebowski

idg reversible skull cap - does it reverse into a normal looking baseball cap or something

like, 'oh shit some hot chicks are coming by - quick, before they see me!' *reverses skull cap*

one side was black with a partial headband around the front; the other side was a red striped pattern

i'm fascinated with just how much goggles girl looks like a videogame character http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/05/07/WorldEndsYou460x276.jpg

at any rate, nothing could really hide my non-perscription Dwayne Wayne sunglasses

http://i.imgur.com/9seGZ.jpg

i was rather fond of a gilligan-style hat when i was a college freshman, which was my bad-hat phase.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B002ZSWPD0/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&s=miscellaneous

unless you count baseball caps.

oh shit I had one of those too, also reversible

xxp speaking of jet set radio, here's a contest to get ur graf in the rerelease of the game

http://www.jlh-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/bucket_hat.jpg

more like this one, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPB1uLEBkD0

JSR is getting rereleased? on what platform? whoa!

XBLA and PSN iirc

mocking people with alternative lifestyles, what have we come to

at any rate, nothing could really hide my non-perscription Dwayne Wayne sunglasses

OK, I take back my previous statement

aw one day I will get an xbox that fell off the back of a truck.

we need to start a 'bad hats you have owned' thread

eisbaer that is known as a BUCKET HAT and it is ALWAYS HIP

goggles-girl does kind of look like Tank Girl, come to think of it:

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjE3ODMxNzU3NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTQzMTM3NA@@._V1._SY317_.jpg

when i was in elementary school i had dwayne wayne flip-up sunglasses over my regular glasses for awhile, to match my dad. NOT HIP.

I went on a high school orchestra trip my freshman year of high school. This was when I had long hair. I ended up buying some french-style wool beret and wore it around WDW most of the next day, after we performed in the Magic Kingdom.

Wool beret, long hair, Florida in spring. Makes perfect sense.

did you wear a fanny pack

pics pls

my friends had 1. clip-on shades via magnets and 2. glasses that grew dark in sunlight

huge nerds

I had another pair of sunglasses that were round frames with square lenses inside them, and another pair of those shutter sunglasses Kanye started wearing around circa Graduation

fyi I never spent more than $10 on any of these

was gonna try to work "bronyoner" in somewhere, but it's all about hats now

and i was way nerdier in hs than any of those posers

I actually lost track of that beret a few years ago and am still fuming about it for some reason. I think I wanted to use it for a halloween costume.

never owned a fedora

pretty sure i owned a top hat, tho

^^^ respect

i've always wanted a fez

there are at least two girls in every high school in california that wear big tank-girl style glasses

"nerdery" maybe seems not quite as mocked as it was when "we" were kids (realize i'm writing to a wide audience but i'm assuming i'm around the upper end of the median at 35) ... it seems like a LOT more kids are into stuff like video games, anime, cartoons than when i was a teenager.

not sure how or why this is but i bet it has something to do w/ everyone having cable and internet

my brother is holding on to his collection mid-90s Kangols, waiting until they're cool again

a fez?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cIEJkD82e60/TKUq2M0wGeI/AAAAAAAAD8o/jC2I2fK6E5M/s1600/Akbar-and-Jeff.jpg

my brother is holding on to his collection mid-90s Kangols, waiting until they're cool again

wow, I didn't know LL was your brother