It really depends on the group of people. I know the local furry group has (used to, at least, I stopped checking in) a really hard time with "behaving appropriately" and would get kicked out of every bowling alley or restaurant they went to. They'd go to restaurants and look at porn on laptops in full view of everyone, would leave without paying, would get a little gropey at bowling alleys, they'd not follow the directions laid out by the bowling alley, etc. They got kicked out of enough bowling alleys in the area that word started getting around and they'd get denied requests to hold meets at ones they'd never been to. I stopped participating in the mailing list because I got tired of seeing this:
Where do you live? I think it depends a lot on the part of the country (or which country) you're in, as to how far you can push the envelope as far as public behavior goes. And, let's compare apples to apples here, a raunchy comedy club is not a family friendly bowling alley.
As far as the things people do in "adult" establishments, I think furries are pretty tame. Believe it or not, it's the otherwise normal people who tend to get out of line when drunk.
I don't blame anyone for not buying alcohol out on the town; since I know the profit margin on that sort of thing is obscene. I'm a conservative person when it comes to my own personal finances, honestly. If the entire business model is predicated on that (as it tends to be with comedy clubs), I'd just rather not go.
I meant more that furries seem to have a problem with basic courtesy such as tipping. There's a difference between being a stingy bastard and wanting to get value for your money. A lot of furries clearly don't seem to want the latter; as evidenced by their spending on video games and gadgets.
I think you can break furries down into 2 groups of people. There are the furries who can hold down a job and can still function in society when happy, fun, furry time is over. People who have fursuits and travel long distances to cons tend to be these people, since those require a lot of disposable income. And then there is everybody else who brings the fail. I would think this being a 21+ venue and having a cover charge would discourage the latter group from attending in the first place.
I understand how you feel about furries being stingy. The local fur meets/BBQ here have all but vanished, mostly because the guys running it got burnt out on doing it so many times and having 50+ people show up, of whom only about 10% were willing to make any contribution to the cause. Most of the people wouldn't even put $2 in a jar to help fund the event, which is less than the cost of a bus ride to get there. So the organizers wound up losing money every time. Seriously, if you can't come up with $2, WTF???!!1 A couple guys want to get another meetup going and want my mate and I to organize it, apparently we are the most responsible furries in the area now and we kind of get this feeling of
do not want.
I've heard the same thing from other people about furries not expecting to tip. I don't know where that comes from, maybe these people have never gone out on the town in their whole lives, but I don't think the management of a comedy club would care. Well, they might care a little bit but their main concern is getting bodies in the door, not how much their staff made on tips that night.
