Draxon

I give my friends hugs a lot, but admittedly that's because we've had so much close interaction with each other.  It's taboo to just start hugging everyone you meet, although in some cultures people greet each other with a kiss, so I suppose a big part of it is regional culture.  On that note, the one time I attended a furry convention, there was someone raising money for charity by walking around in a fursuit giving out hugs to everyone (and yes, I did contribute).  I think you'd be hard pressed to find a furry who would turn down a hug, even by a stranger (just be sure to ask them first).

A bit of closing advice, don't get into the habit of shaking hands with your friends when you part.  Give them a hug instead, it's much more fulfilling.

What a curious thread, but I like it.  And considering I've moved 300 miles from all of my friends, this may be beneficial.

Name: Jimmy

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Location: Western Pennsylvania, USA

Likes: MLP (duh), Star Trek, Star Wars, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, Harry Potter, Studio Ghibli, cooking, rock climbing, skiing, camping, kayaking, mud runs, adventure races, books by Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Dune series, Naruto, South Park, Metalocalypse, the Lord of the Rings, an eclectic variety of music artists such as System Of A Down, Jimmy Buffett, The Mills Brothers, Rammstein, VNV Nation, John Denver, Jethro Tull, Don McLean...

Dislikes: The news, cars, ham, moving hastily, showing up on time, yet waiting a long time for everyone else to arrive

Hobbies: Reading, running, cycling, orienteering, hiking, collecting vinyl records of artists I enjoy

Other info: I'm also a furry (raccoon), although I'm nowhere near as involved in that fandom

http://www.bronyland.com/pony-personality-test/?q=Mzc4N3wxMTMwMjcx

I am most like Applejack, followed at a distance by Twilight.  That's actually pretty accurate, in my opinion.  Especially considering I avoid lying at all costs, and always try to work my hardest when given a task.

What about this moment from the "At the Gala" song?

Considering that's Prince Blueblood Rarity is touching horns with, at the Grand Galloping Gala, no less, I really don't think touching horns is taboo in Equestria.

...unless Rarity is thinking dirty thoughts as she's singing.

I think that people's values shift as they grow older, which changes the way they view the holidays.  Not everybody becomes less interested with them than when they were younger; in fact, some people go crazy with Christmas decorations or Halloween costumes when they're grown up and supporting themselves.

Personally, I'm still enthusiastic about most holidays, but not for the same reasons as before, and to differing extents.  When I was little, my favorite holiday was Christmas, since I always got presents on that day.  Now that I'm grown up, I'm more concerned with getting other people good gifts, and my list of desires has decreased considerably.  I'm not as eager about Christmas as I used to be, but I still enjoy it because it's a chance to get together with my family.  On that note, my favorite holiday, which I definitely do look forward to every year, is Thanksgiving.  That's the one day in the year where I'm guaranteed to be with my family and enjoy some good food and some football.  What's not to love?

I'm on the fence concerning the existence of the paranormal, but I'm much more inclined to believe in it than not.  I walk through a cemetery to get between my apartment and campus everyday (often around midnight), so I'm sure I'll be back in a while to confirm my belief.

I had a similar problem with an order I placed with them at the end of October for the MLP vinyl records they came out with. They sent an email saying my order had been shipped, but after two weeks, I still didn't have them. So I called them, and found out that they lost my order, so they processed a replacement order for me. Except that a week went by with no update, so I called again, and they never put it through. After a lovely conversation, they finally did it correctly, and I now have my order. But I would follow up with them if I were in your position, just in case.

I'd be a sport and let them cut me down and turn me into furniture when room ran out. Plus, maybe nobody who remembered me would be alive by then.

This is how I want to be buried. Where's the sense in filling graveyards with stone monuments? Hundreds of years from now, think about how much space will be taken up by tombstones. I'd rather have a sapling planted over me, and maybe a small bench with my name where people can sit. I think it would be much nicer to visit.

The graveyard I walk through on my way to campus every day has a new mausoleum, now. It's really the antithesis of what I want to happen to me when I die. Preserved forever in an artificial environment.

Here's a picture of my college I took in September on my way back from the grocery store on my bicycle.  It's very pretty out here.

My siblings and I played with them a few times when we were little.  Despite the often one-sided debate about whether or not something supernatural is actually happening when a group sits down with an Ouija board, the doubt that does remain makes it a lot of fun.  I would love to sit down with some friends and do it again.  I'm undecided concerning various aspects of the supernatural, so doing these sorts of things tends to be a lot of fun (or just really creepy).

Plan for Black Friday this year: avoid shopping at all costs and do some wall painting in my parents' house with my siblings.  Nowadays, I do the majority of my Christmas shopping online, but even if I went out to a store, going out on Black Friday is at the best frustrating and at the worst dangerous.

Here are a bunch of my favorites:

Actors:

Robert Picardo

John de Lancie

Hugo Weaving

Patrick Stewart

Harrison Ford

Jack Nicholson

Nick Frost

Simon Pegg

Ian McKellen

Alan Rickman

Bill Murray

Heath Ledger

Actresses:

Maggie Smith

Kate Mulgrew

Sigourney Weaver

Julie Andrews

Uma Thurman

I'll update my list if I think of any more I'd like to add, but that's all for now.

This is easily a top contender for me:

I think his reactions throughout the whole video are what really makes this so funny.

This one is particularly excellent at full blast when you're driving down a lonely highway in the very early hours of the morning:

And this one is best with the bass cranked up:

Damien from Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga.  I have to clarify this by saying that the plot revolved a great deal around him, so he wasn't useless in that respect, per se.  But he has multiple opportunities to just end your life throughout the course of the game, and he always either just walks away or summons some underlings who are easy to defeat.  He's totally nonthreatening and makes stupid speeches.  Here's a prime example:

By the way, Zandalor is awesome.

This is relevant to this thread:

http://mlpforums.com/topic/111726-do-you-have-a-form-of-autism/

I think the survey is very interesting.  It's almost a 50/50 split for everyone who participated in it.

If we can count drinks, then I can't drink Bawls Energy Drink anymore.  The last time I did (which was about a decade ago, now), I caught a virus and threw up three times in one night.  I can't even look at the stuff anymore without getting sick.  Also, Bacardi 151, but that's a totally inappropriate story...

Ok, embarrassing moment just happened this morning.  My sister and my brother in law were driving 300 miles to visit the area (I'm attending the college she graduated from eight years ago), and I knew she was going to visit my apartment, so I did a little bit of cleaning and I moved anything which shouted "brony!" out of sight.  She comes in, and the first thing she does is walk directly to the furthest corner of my apartment, where I thought she couldn't possibly see any reason to venture, and asks me if I put that MLP decal on the window there (which can't be seen unless you're standing in that corner).  She didn't know it was there until she was standing there, either.  So I said yes, and she says "Ok, I'm not going to ask".

And then I face palmed.

To relate another, less embarrassing story while I'm at it, I decided to tell one of my friends about being a brony while I was driving us to our friends' wedding on Sunday.  Here's how it went:

Me: "So I've gotten really into My Little Pony."

Him: "Well, I'm out of here."  *Motions to open the door in the still moving car*

It actually turns out that he hasn't watched the show at all because he knows that he'll probably get really into it if he does, which, ironically, is the same reason I put off watching the show for so long.  He'll probably watch it now that he knows one of his friends is into it.

I'm going to have to go with IronPonyApplejack's choice of impaling Ganondorf through the face at the end of the Windwaker.  After crossing the seas countless times, delving through so many dungeons, defeating so many monsters, and fighting through so many stages of the final battle, seeing Link suddenly plunge the Master Sword through his face provided the greatest sense of finality I could have ever hoped for.

I've never seen sunburns referred to as "sun poisoning".

It's basically the terminology which describes a very severe sunburn.  If I was just as red as a lobster, that would still have constituted a sunburn, but the presence of blisters covering most of the burn and the degree of painfulness bumped it into another category.  http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/sun-poisoning

After a couple of days, I went to my dermatologist seeking some sort of medication to help heal it, and she actually gasped when I took off my shirt.

Sun poisoning. Went on a seven hour kayaking trip with my friends, and I did use and reapply sunscreen, but it was apparently ineffective. I had horrible sunburns all around my shoulders, arms, and neck. There were awful yellow blisters everywhere. I took the first day off from work that week, and you know what I did the entire day? I lay perfectly still on the couch, doing my best to not move a muscle, because every little movement hurt. Now, whenever I go swimming or boating, I'm obsessive with how much sunscreen I use.

One funny thing did happen because of the sun poisoning, though. I was walking around the office bent over because it hurt to stand up straight with my shirt rubbing against my skin, and the manager finally got fed up and told me to take my shirt off and work like that for the rest of the day. So I take my shirt off, and I'm standing in front of three of my coworkers who are all females when the shop foreman walks in and asks what the hell am I doing with my shirt off in front of all of them.

So far, this is my favorite PMV:

The exit.

Used to be a mall rat, so things changed for me quite a bit.  Favorites used to be EB Games, Tower Records, Hall of Heroes, Spencer's, and Hot Topic.

When I was in fourth grade, I learned how to roll my eyes, and I was practicing it in class when my teacher spotted me and thought I was mocking her.  She forced me to stand in the hallway for the remainder of the math lesson, and I promptly began to cry.

I did the same thing when I learned how to slide bases in baseball.  My little league coach yelled at me for sliding every single base going around when I learned how to do it.

There was also an instance in calculus class (another math class!) where my professor directly addressed me to find out if I was playing games on my graphing calculator, which I was.  He didn't really care, though, and just remarked on how far technology has come.