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3894 12-07-2009 03:49 PM

In What Are You A Muggle, Pray Tell?
 
People like iPod cozies and you don't. You're an iPod cozy muggle. Quite possibly you're a Indiana Jones DLR attraction muggle. A Taylor Swift muggle. A Coke Zero muggle.

I am all of these things. Now it's your turn. Spill!

Moonliner 12-07-2009 04:04 PM

By that definition, I'm a Harry Potter Muggle.

JWBear 12-07-2009 04:24 PM

I'm a sports muggle.

Disneyphile 12-07-2009 04:25 PM

I'm a Twilight muggle. And, a text-messaging muggle. (I'll only do the latter when necessary.)

Kevy Baby 12-07-2009 04:26 PM

I'm a life muggle

lashbear 12-07-2009 04:57 PM

I am the ultimate sports muggle. I am also a car mechanics muggle.

wolfy999 12-07-2009 06:42 PM

I'm a football muggle during this time of the year.

€uroMeinke 12-07-2009 08:04 PM

Comic book and Super Hero Muggle

Alex 12-07-2009 08:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3894 (Post 308434)
People like iPod cozies and you don't.

I have nothing to add since I am known far and wide for my slavish adherence to the mass taste in things.

But thought you might find this of interest.

Cadaverous Pallor 12-07-2009 11:11 PM

I'm a pajamas-in-public muggle, a cult-of-celebrity muggle, a soccer muggle.

I'd also add "seafood muggle" and I think that's the most appropriate, because I try and try to get into it and I just can't. (Maybe that makes me a seafood squib?)

Strangler Lewis 12-07-2009 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor (Post 308477)
a soccer muggle.

Wait five years.

Gemini Cricket 12-07-2009 11:42 PM

I am a...

Electronics Doings Muggle

and a...

CSI Muggle

and a...

Dancing with the Stars Muggle...

There are more...

flippyshark 12-08-2009 08:07 AM

I have a friend who is such a dedicated Harry Potter fan (and active scribe of HP "chan' literature) that she might well describe herself as a muggle muggle.

Disneyphile 12-08-2009 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark (Post 308501)
(and active scribe of HP "chan' literature)

Is that what they're calling "fan fiction" now? Is it supposed to make it sound like it's more mature than coming from the minds of tweens and 30-year-olds living in their parents' basements? (No disrespect to your friend - I just can't stand the fan fiction "culture".)

3894 12-08-2009 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Disneyphile (Post 308527)
I just can't stand the fan fiction "culture"

A fan-fiction culture muggle, eh? I'm beginning to think I'm a facebook muggle.

flippyshark 12-08-2009 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Disneyphile (Post 308527)
Is that what they're calling "fan fiction" now? Is it supposed to make it sound like it's more mature than coming from the minds of tweens and 30-year-olds living in their parents' basements? (No disrespect to your friend - I just can't stand the fan fiction "culture".)

If I understand correctly, chan specifically means that category of fan fiction featuring homosexual erotic content. My friend is a lesbian writer of erotica of all types and categories, but she got caught up in the whole Potter-mania thing, and, well, all of her friends roll their eyes when she brings it up. (No, none of us have read any of it.) Apparently, her stories focus more on the faculty at Hogwart's, and any student involvement is strictly with those who are of legal age. Hey, you gotta have standards!

Andrew 12-08-2009 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by 3894 (Post 308529)
A fan-fiction culture muggle, eh? I'm beginning to think I'm a facebook muggle.

Oh, I'm a total Facebook muggle. That's the latest version of my prior Myspace muggle and livejournal muggle status.

JWBear 12-08-2009 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark (Post 308531)
If I understand correctly, chan specifically means that category of fan fiction featuring homosexual erotic content. My friend is a lesbian writer of erotica of all types and categories, but she got caught up in the whole Potter-mania thing, and, well, all of her friends roll their eyes when she brings it up. (No, none of us have read any of it.) Apparently, her stories focus more on the faculty at Hogwart's, and any student involvement is strictly with those who are of legal age. Hey, you gotta have standards!

I thought that was called "slash".

flippyshark 12-08-2009 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by JWBear (Post 308536)
I thought that was called "slash".

You are right and I am hopelessly muddled.

Disneyphile 12-08-2009 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flippyshark (Post 308531)
Apparently, her stories focus more on the faculty at Hogwart's, and any student involvement is strictly with those who are of legal age. Hey, you gotta have standards!

Well, that's comforting, considering some excerpts I've seen before. Some of the stuff... holy cow! :eek:

SzczerbiakManiac 12-08-2009 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket (Post 308483)
Electronics Doings Muggle

I don't understand what you mean by "Electronics Doings"
___________________

I'm a muggle for:
  • all forms of social networking sites (MySpace, FaceBook, etc.)
  • cell phones
  • pop(ular) music written after the 80s, especially rap
  • seafood (other than canned tuna)
  • alcohol
  • Sondheim
    I want to like his work more, but most of his stuff I just don't "get".
  • high fashion
  • bling

ToriBear 12-08-2009 01:02 PM

I'm a Miley Cyrus muggle, and a MySpace muggle.

SzczerbiakManiac 12-08-2009 01:04 PM

BTW, is one still considered a muggle if one deliberately avoids a thing as opposed to just "not getting it"?

Chernabog 12-08-2009 01:28 PM

I'm a giney muggle!

Kevy Baby 12-08-2009 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Chernabog (Post 308559)
I'm a giney muggle!

Your loss: the giney is a wonderful thing!

Jazzman 12-08-2009 03:07 PM

Total Twilight muggle. Total...

3894 12-08-2009 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac (Post 308555)
BTW, is one still considered a muggle if one deliberately avoids a thing as opposed to just "not getting it"?

No. A muggle neither avoids nor seeks that which he does not "get".

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jazzman
Total Twilight muggle. Total...

Yeah, not trying to rain on anyone's parade but that Edward is one pale creeper. He'd probably say the same thing about me, though.

Chernabog 12-08-2009 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 308560)
Your loss: the giney is a wonderful thing!

I now have a decidedly more dirty version of "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" stuck in my head.

BarTopDancer 12-08-2009 03:32 PM

Re: FanFic

I read and attempt to write some for a couple shows. Usually stories are missing scenes, alternate realities or 'ships that should happen but don't/won't (same-sex pairings).

It's no different then writing short stories that don't have established canon or characters. It just has a pre-established storyline and characters to use. Some of it is better than the actual show writing.

JW is right. Slash is fan-fic featuring homosexual pairings.


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As much as I try not to be, I am a baseball muggle. I'll go to games and enjoy them in person. But otherwise it's too slow.

Ghoulish Delight 12-08-2009 03:39 PM

Going with the more authentic "born without ability" sense of muggle - music.

Alex 12-08-2009 03:46 PM

Oh, in that sense of the word, I'm mostly a sympathy muggle.

3894 12-08-2009 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight (Post 308570)
Going with the more authentic "born without ability" sense of muggle - music.

Math, here.

BarTopDancer 12-08-2009 04:41 PM

Math, music, programming (see math comment).

Disneyphile 12-08-2009 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 308572)
Oh, in that sense of the word, I'm mostly a sympathy muggle.

Right there with you. ;)

Yet, I do have sympathy for unforeseen tragedies like deathfo a loved one, loss of job, etc. But, I don't have sympathy for repeated patterns of self-inflicted drama. Maybe I'm a naivety muggle then?

BarTopDancer 12-08-2009 05:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Disneyphile (Post 308576)
Right there with you. ;)

Yet, I do have sympathy for unforeseen tragedies like deathfo a loved one, loss of job, etc. But, I don't have sympathy for repeated patterns of self-inflicted drama. Maybe I'm a naivety muggle then?

You're a dramallama muggle

Not Afraid 12-08-2009 08:52 PM

I'm probably a muggle about way too many things to list.

lashbear 12-08-2009 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chernabog (Post 308568)
I now have a decidedly more dirty version of "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" stuck in my head.

"their tops are made out of rubbers"

€uroMeinke 12-08-2009 09:20 PM

Walmart Muggle - or is that just elitist?

Not Afraid 12-08-2009 09:58 PM

Yes, what IS the difference between an elitist and a muggle?

Kevy Baby 12-09-2009 08:48 AM

About 3"


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