ANTSTORE World of Ants

[miszt]

very true! if you spend your life trying to be someone your not, just because you want to be liked, you'll find yourself very lonely eventually even when surounded by lots of people


but i think this discussion is a bit deep for an ant forum lol

[ant dude]

damond....
i know theres already someone harder! i dont tell 'people'/just the forum to give my reason why i dont tell loads of people i collect/intrested in ants. i will let more people know about one of my hoby's(ants) but like u say its better when your older to tell more people that is wot i will do anyway! its only one thing (ants) i dont tell them about this 1 thing because as i said before i dont wanna be known as some sort of geek, do
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i appricate your help/concern, but u have to put your self in my shoes. i wanna try and get girls not creep them out by saying i keep ants, that would really freak them out etc!..............by the way i have anouth of my mom,dad,grandparents and my teachers in the skool lecturing me without u doing it aswell

ill take that on board damon, just please dont lecture me it proper p*sses me off

[adam james]

Hello to all

I have kept ants since i was 13 , My first colony was lasius niger , caught a queen after the mating flight and keept her in a small test tube in my draw , she managed to raise her first workers just before my mom found her and told me to put them outside . Always been interested in ants , and think there are way amazing . Im always happy to tell people about my hobby and its always an interesting subject. I always find that when people find out i keep them, they ask so many questions and show a big interest .

Be proud about ants there worth being proud about .

Greetings

Adam

[ant dude]

thanks for the feedback adam, its always nice to get back on topic

Be proud about ants there worth being proud about .

i know they are there amazing. but where i live its different u see or not because ur were lucky but where i live u get picked on 4 dat sort of thing

very true! if you spend your life trying to be someone your not, just because you want to be liked, you'll find yourself very lonely eventually even when surounded by lots of people

i dont be someone im not! and i probaly wont be lonely cos ill tell people about this probaly when i leave skool or something, but just not now

everyone give me a break

[damondeionno]

i wanna try and get girls not creep them out

Antdude - nobody is having a go or lecturing. This is a friendly forum.

btw. I guessed you'd want to impress girls. We all did, and I imagine that most of us still do. There are lots of clues in the poem. Hope it helps.

[ant dude]

not really lol. anyway im not a poem sort of guy lol i dont like reading them, ok at writeing them but thats basicaly it lol! ill check out again later to go though see if it helps but i doubt it

just fault ill say this,when i first joined dis forum i fault it would be full of geeks and boths! but most of u seem not to be nerdy and that(even though theres always a few! lol) anyway a lot of people seem to be well alrite on ere, your one of dem damond i guess your not so bad after all..... amongst others that seem to be alrite aswell:D

[miszt]

preconceptions have lead to many problems in this world

[ant dude]

ok ill bare that in mind miszt

[mpir]

My little contribution to this topic: For as long as I can remember I was fascinated with ants. I´ve never destroied an anthill like lots of my friends. I wanted to keep them but I never knew how and if it is possible at all. I wanted to study biology but I changed my mind as I never liked chemestry. Anyway few years ago I found a new friend over the internet who was also intrested in ants and he gave me my first colony of L. niger. I was just crazy about them. Checking them all the time, observing what they do and how they forage. I was addicted right away. Now I have 6 colonies and hopefully will have some more next year.

@ant dude
I guess I understand you in a way. You are in that age when self-oppinion is based on oppinion of others. I guess we were all in your shooes once just that we are over that now. You talk about rep like you are the king of the world and all eyes are on you lol. Anyway, with years it doesn´t get any easier. People will tell you:"Aren´t you a bit grown up to be playing with this things?" Thanks God I can say I´m in age where I give a rats ass about what other say.

[ant dude]

@ant dude
I guess I understand you in a way. You are in that age when self-oppinion is based on oppinion of others. I guess we were all in your shooes once just that we are over that now. You talk about rep like you are the king of the world and all eyes are on you lol. Anyway, with years it doesn´t get any easier. People will tell you:"Aren´t you a bit grown up to be playing with this things?" Thanks God I can say I´m in age where I give a rats ass about what other say.

wot u chatin, i dont say im like a king no way i hate da royal family anyway! a bit old to be playing with wot?(ants)no way look at u guys 4 a start lol. well good 4 u but dats wot a g**k would say lol not being mean just spiting da facts m8te

nice to hear though,your story i mean

[mpir]

You completly misunderstood me... but that doesn´t matter. I didn´t expect you to understand me anyway. And what you wrote... it´s just completly off... but that doesn´t matter too. We all know that you are young and I don´t mean that as an insult. One day you´ll see that "geeks" as you call them drive Ferraries and mingle with top models and high school hotshots work 9-5 and drive Polo.

[SteveUK28]

lol mpir i must admit.. i'm still in contact with a lot of my old friends from school.. and some of the ones who was all hip n cool or whateva u wanna call it... all now have dead end jobs drivin little crappy cars.. or not driving at all lol.. and the ones who was so called geeks.. or not really cool have got along really well..

[adam james]

Think this is all gonna turn into an argument !! Ants are cool and its up to everyone to keep them how they like and tell who they like . Can we please go back to the forum discussion of keeping ants lol lol

[damondeionno]

It's like Jesus said - 'the geek shall inherit the earth'...

I think this all comes down to a slight difference in the use of the word geek. Some people use it to refer to people who are not connected to the real world. And others use it to refer to people who have particular specialist knowledge or who get good grades.

What about Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Richard Branson? Geeks? Cool? Both?

Basically variety is the spice of life. Most people I meet (not online) have never talked to anyone who knows as much as I do about ants, but then I'm interested in a lot of other things too (current affairs, classical literature, biology, evolutionary theory, football, community action, pool and snooker, hockey, the internet etc, computer games, political theory, philosophy, religions, fishkeeping, gardening, cooking, economics.), I score a lot of goals at the weekend (even now at 30!), I also have an active social life, and when I want to I can turn it on with the ladies (there is less demand for that these days - being attached and all) - I even work in the supposedly 'cool' marketing industry and I have my own company.

Having said all that, I'm definitely a lot of a geek, in that within my specialist areas my knowledge is fairly technical. Would someone who met me in the pub know that if I didn't tell them? Probably not. I'd rather be able to play both roles, when necessary, than be limited to one.

I know this is off-topic, but so what? It's a forum for discussion.

[damondeionno]

Jesus didn't really say that btw. Typo!