What’s the difference between the Sharks and the Jets? The Greasers and The Whatever the Other Group Was Called in The Outsiders? Tastes Great and Less Filling? When it comes right down to it there is no difference. We are all Jellies. We are all Flutherites. We are all Lurverts.
The Sharks and the Jets were deadly rivals! I think this is more like the difference between Americans and Yankees, or Englishmen and Brits. One is a more “official” term and the other is a casual nickname.
A Jelly is an individual user and a Flutherite is part of a collective. Other names for a Jelly collective are a Bloom, or smack, smuck, brood, and smuth,
‘flutherite’ brings ‘flutheritis’ to mind. i think using ‘flutherite’ is more appropriate in the context when you’re referring to someone as a fluther addict, but ‘jelly’ is more appropriate in general, when referring to yourself or someone else as part of the community.
perhaps there are books to be written on the topic.
or maybe, this will be the next theist vs atheist question!