There is always something worse. Think the SCA is full of people who need a life? Watch Trekkies. Think Trekkies are bad? They pale in comparison to Plushophiles.
Um, and I think the claim that a plushie will never give you a disease might be wrong- I could have nightmares about the cleanliness status of those things for days.
Well, you see, it all started when Moira, quite innocently enough, asked on her blog what w00bie meant. The discussion that followed led inexorably to plushies.