Speaking with non-mantid people.

[angelofdeathzz]

Yeah, I have alot of kids in my neighborhood that love to look at (and some of the braver ones hold) my mantis, they won't touch adults especially the big Chinese females, but they do gather around me when I hold them and give them some dialog about the breed, asking me many questions that I love answering. as far as adults I don't talk muck about them to people I don't know well, as I know they will think It strange since all they know is cats and dogs, I mean just the thought that I raise flies for them to eat will make them shiver lol. But some of my friends see the Idolos and they can't help but say "now that is cool !" but most adults that have seen them always want to see them again when they come over.

So I think they need to be broke in first to appreciate them. I can't really blame them as they are a unusual pet, and not for everyone.

 

[Domanating]

Back at school they ask me how is it possible to like a bug. I don't really know how to answer, i just like them. They're interesting.

Almost all of my classmates flee when they see an ant or a moth... Things got funny when i brought one of my mantids to the school for a work. They were simply terrified :devil2: lol. Some didn't even know mantids existed. What i don't understand is why people are not afraid of for example a lion ,which could kill you with a single strike, and flee screaming like idiots when they see a creature that could be killed between 2 fingers...

What i don't regret doing and gave me a lot of fun was teaching some of my friends to tolerate the presence of insects and actually hold them. One of my last students was a girl. Although bugs didn't really scare her, she was reluctant in holding one of my mantids. However later that day she had my mantis religiosa crawling all over her body. Success!

What amazes me is the fact that she is the only girl i know that was tolerant with insects. The others couldn't stay closer than five meters from a bug. That's why i got somewhat impressed when i saw so many women in this forum. No offense obviously , it's just that i was alone in this life of pet praying mantis and i didn't know if there were people like me until i found this forum. From my short 17 year life experience, if only one girl in all others wasn't afraid of bugs, i could conclude that besides one exception: women don't like insects. Everything went upside down when i came here . People are always learning something new.

 

[geckoboy3]

Back at school they ask me how is it possible to like a bug. I don't really know how to answer, i just like them. They're interesting.

Almost all of my classmates flee when they see an ant or a moth... Things got funny when i brought one of my mantids to the school for a work. They were simply terrified :devil2: lol. Some didn't even know mantids existed. What i don't understand is why people are not afraid of for example a lion ,which could kill you with a single strike, and flee screaming like idiots when they see a creature that could be killed between 2 fingers...

What i don't regret doing and gave me a lot of fun was teaching some of my friends to tolerate the presence of insects and actually hold them. One of my last students was a girl. Although bugs didn't really scare her, she was reluctant in holding one of my mantids. However later that day she had my mantis religiosa crawling all over her body. Success!

What amazes me is the fact that she is the only girl i know that was tolerant with insects. The others couldn't stay closer than five meters from a bug. That's why i got somewhat impressed when i saw so many women in this forum. No offense obviously , it's just that i was alone in this life of pet praying mantis and i didn't know if there were people like me until i found this forum. From my short 17 year life experience, if only one girl in all others wasn't afraid of bugs, i could conclude that besides one exception: women don't like insects. Everything went upside down when i came here . People are always learning something new.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I laughed so hard when I read this

 

[hibiscusmile]

me too! we bug people are funny, what a lot we have to offer!

 

[dgerndt]

When I was in elementary school, we had pet beetles and I used to hold them and let them crawl on my face. People thought I was weird.

 

[Domanating]

People expect other people to be normal. Define normal... If each one of us has different tastes we should be all weird to each other.

"you like bugs?! You're weird"

"you don't like candy?! You're weird"

"you don't like chicken?! You're weird"

"you don't like me?! You're weird"

And so on lol

P.S: I appreciate you liked my comment

 

[geckoboy3]

People expect other people to be normal. Define normal... If each one of us has different tastes we should be all weird to each other.

"you like bugs?! You're weird"

"you don't like candy?! You're weird"

"you don't like chicken?! You're weird"

"you don't like me?! You're weird"

And so on lol

P.S: I appreciate you liked my comment

lol :lol:

 

[hibiscusmile]

haha, LOON! on the loose :lol:

 

[geckoboy3]

haha, LOON! on the loose :lol:

Maybe we can put bait out:

Here, loonie loonie. I'll give you inverts..... Here loonie loonie, where are you you crazy? I have some inverts.... :lol:

 

[lancaster1313]

Everyone is weird, but in my opinion, the weirder the better. :lol:

 

[hibiscusmile]

Bait! ha, smarter mantisnoid!

 

[PhilinYuma]

So anyway, what do you guys think of MasterBurner (yep, right out of the MasterCarver stable, "somewhere in China!") and the claim that their pen tips generate 130W? Sounds to me like those old crazy claims for HiFi outputs before they had to state the amt of distortion at those volumes! I know that Mike at PJL has tested them out with volt and amp meters in line (you know, W = V x A) and even with heavy duty, 16G cable was only drawing between 50-60 watts. The guys at Colwood have made similar claims. I use the cutting tips where the material "sinks" a lot of heat, and I find that a clean 50W on a HD pen does the trick. So I tell folks just starting out to get a one port Optima which comes with one pen. Make that an 18M and get a 12M for another double sawbuck, and you're in bus......

OMG! Wrong forum! Wrong jargon! :stupid:

 

[dgerndt]

Luckily, Phil, I understood a small amount of your jargon due to a physics class in my junior year of high school.

 

[geckoboy3]

Thanks for letting us know that :smarty: :tt2: :sweatdrop:

 

[hibiscusmile]

Phil,. when I started to read that post without looking to see who it was, I almost pushed the report button for spam

 

[lancaster1313]

:lol:

 

[dgerndt]

So I was talking to my therapist about my mantids, and she was so confused to know that there are different ones than the "huge green ones you see once in a blue moon". You should have seen the look on her face when I told her I have Gambian Spotted-Eye Flower Manttis nymphs! :lol: And then when I told her I counted and I have 22 mantids... classic!

 

[geckoboy3]

So I was talking to my therapist about my mantids, and she was so confused to know that there are different ones than the "huge green ones you see once in a blue moon". You should have seen the look on her face when I told her I have Gambian Spotted-Eye Flower Manttis nymphs! :lol: And then when I told her I counted and I have 22 mantids... classic!

:lol: