Wishing for some Cricketts

Newsflash: normal, well-adjusted adults don’t want to keep reptiles (or rodents) as pets. Get a cat or a dog.

Thanks Miles! I thought the stroller thread was an isolated incident, but Frannie you really are a troll.

Yeah, Frannie is getting a bit annoying. Some people’s children…It would be good if she would close her mouth and open her mind. Or in this case, stop typing and start reading.

Miles, say I did live in the suburban bubble you described. What would be so wrong with that? What do you have against picket-fences and well-manicured lawns? And educated children who play sports? What is so wrong with all of that?Just so you know, I don’t live in the ‘burbs. I live in the city, with my partner, we have one car (not two), no kids, and no picket-fence. Most of the time though our lawn looks pretty good.

Jammie my question for you is this: should people who are living paycheque to paycheque, who don’t know if they’ll be able to pay the rent next month, put food on the table, or heat the house be having children? Is this fair to the child? Don’t we all as adults owe it to our kids to provide them with stable homes? Homes we might be kicked out of next week? Don’t we owe it to them to have access to reliable transportation to get them to doctor’s appointments, or the pharmacy, should they develop a fever at 10:30 at night?

Speaking of which….can’t people raise their own crickets at home? Would that maybe be a cheaper and more stable source of reptile food and it could be fun too. Anyone know how hard it is to keep a cricket colony? I’m thinking you could set up an aquarium to do the trick and keep you in good supply of crickets.

So this is my bitch. And I would like to say Frannie, go fuck yourself. People have been keeping reptiles for years. I have two Fire Bellied Toad who will live 20 years. And maybe you didn’t realize this inside your little bubble but amphibians, such as toads and frogs are dying out and probably won’t be around in 30-40 years. The only ones that will be left are the ones kept as pets. So I am sorry that me keeping these things as pets offends you so much but I would like my future children to be exposed to them so fuck you. Get down off of your fucking high horse and look around you – there is no such thing as normal. Most people with you outlook on life are older than my parents so maybe you are the fucked up one. Get with the times! Oh and fuck you! In case you didn’t get that first couple times I said that.Oh, T, I stopped in yesterday and the owner (I believe it was the owner) said they would be closed for a couple months for renovations. She didn’t say anything about being closed permantly. I will post if I learn anything different though. =)

Actually Frannie it is the rich that do NOT have children because they are too busy making money. The poor have lots of kids because they need all the help they can get to help each other survive. Traditionally a poor parent had eight to fifteen kids and each one had a role to help with the house and upkeep with the family. They didn’t have money, they had each other and as such learned to rely and function as a unit. That’s where the ‘traditonal family values’ stem from. Rich people on the other hand were lucky to have one child and god help them if they wern’t a boy to carry on the family name. Think about the Great Depression where probably your parents were born in. The ENTIRE WORLD was poor, only rum runners and gangsters were making any money. So by your logic you probably should not exist because your grandparents, unless they were criminals feeding off the suffering of others, could not have AFFORDED to have your mom or your dad and as shuch were a detriment to society. Meaning that they were not well ajusted. Cats and dogs are a recent fad. Dogs were utility beasts and cats were viewed as tools of witches to well-adjusted society members. Birds were more common pets. And considering that we are in the north, our typical normal well-adjusted adult society should be having cardinals as bets and view people who have dogs as shepards or hunters and people with cats as loonies who practice dark magic.Historically you are dead wrong and your assertations don’t even scratch the surface on what has and always will be a social norm. Poor people have kids because they need them. Rich people don’t because they are too busy trying to stay rich. Fact of life like Tootie, only without the bootie…Morning noon and night, Gimpy is always right.. (patent pending)

Nicole,Yah thats what they told me too when I was up there stoking up on some food for my fish but their add on kijiji seems to say that they are closing outhttp://halifax.kijiji.ca/c-pets-accessories-Used-Fish-Tanks-different-shapes-and-sizes-Filters-Lighting-W0QQAdIdZ73975204

I breed crickets and sell to every major petstore in Nova Scotia. You want crickets, I got em. 7 cents per cricket or 100 for $6email me at howell.todd@gmail for delivery times.

What’s wrong Frannie? Not having any fun being “normal” all by yourself?

I assure you they wouldn’t be friends for very long if they knew that you would write them off as crazy if they chose to do either of the two…..along with taking their children on a bus…..GASP! Your fucked up views are shared by few!

My friends and I all graduated from university several years ago and guess what? There wasn’t an unplanned pregnancy among us! Go figure! Oh, and none of us have rodents or reptiles for pets!

Frannie, you are such a dingleberry.

Out of the hundreds of acquaintances I had at university, not one chose to have a baby while they were going to school. I’m pretty sure I could say the same for the universities my friends went to also.

You’re right, I take that back. Thinking back, there was one guy whose girlfriend had a babypeople I knew over the course of six years and two degrees, he was the only one. I guess you had an irresponsible group of friends – or you were a bunch of sluts!

Or maybe you were too busy looking straight ahead that you missed getting to know anyone who may have been slightly different than your fucked up idea of normal.No, never mind you must have went to a convent. So when did you decide that becoming a nun wasn’t for you.BTW, those who use the word slut to describe a group of girls are usually the ugly boots that are really just jealous.

No, I wasn’t looking straight ahead. I did my undergrad degree at a relatively small school (4,000 or so) so even if you weren’t friends with everyone, you knew who of them or you knew someone who knew them. Trust me, there weren’t scads of girls having babies.Being careful about birth control is not akin to living in a convent.

Woah, i just totally had deja-vous. I’m getting the feeling that i’ve already read this conversation, and the troll formerly known as Frannie was posting her one-sided opinions, (in that Homie-esque way that she does), and that she was burned several times..I also wonder if the troll (formerly known as Frannie) is actually a poor mother of 5 on welfare, posting on LTWWB from her laptop which was stolen by one of her not-so-well-rounded teens. This would of course be in between her frequent trips to the food bank, after which she schleps her non-parishable items home in a stoller on the bus.

Oh Frannie, you’re so dingleberryesque.

YEAH.

Surely after 6 years of college you can fucking read Frannie!I said PLANNED…..not unplanned….what if someone you consider a friend, decided to put their education on hold to have a child? What then? Would you re-think your friendship with that person?

Thank you to all who helped out with the ideas =) Muchly appreciated. I can’t believe Frannie is still around… I thought you guys would have chased her off by now!Newsflash Frannie – all your so called “normal” friends probably have some kind of sick fetish they aren’t sharing with you. Maybe they’re serial killers! Oh! Maybe they’ll do away with you and the LTWWB form can get a new uptight, snot nosed bitch who thinks she’s better than everyone else but yet still finds the time to come hang out with us! BTW… whatever happened to Allison?!

Hey Frannie,I once had a very “normal” girl in high school scream at me, “Why do you have to be so $@^% weird!?!”. She started crying right afterwards. I found out later in the day that she and her friends were upset with me because I liked to wear red lipstick, which I guess at the time wasn’t “normal”. Years passed before I discovered she had been a closeted lesbian, though I’d always kind of known. It must have been hard for her to keep the secret. I’m glad she finally mustered the courage to come out. People should have the right to live different lives without the fear of people telling them that they are wrong or bad or evil. Even though I’m saying all this to try and let you know it’s okay to not be afraid of people like myself or others who hold different views and values than you do, I’d also like to acknowledge that I’m partly doing this for selfish reasons. Someone who is afraid of difference or change can be a very dangerous person. I often have to deal with people who try to restrict my rights due to their own views or ignorance.I’ve found over the years, that a lot of times, people become angry at individuals who symbolise change or progressive ideas; things that may threaten their feelings of security.You don’t have to be angry Frannie or insecure and you don’t have to be repressed.There’s no such thing as normal. Though there are such things as average or mean.

Aw, take it easy on the ole girl. It’s hard for her to think and masturbate to Sarah Palin speeches at the same time.

I know! I miss my babies…they’d come when you called, they liked their tummies scratched, they were just incredibly intelligent, caring animals.but oh wait, I guess if I wanted to be ‘normal’ I should have stuck with a cat. and my parents who got me my rats when I was a kid, well I guess they’re just negligent weirdos, right franfran?seriously- you’re just judgemental, that’s what it is. And as much as I hate to agree with lilac (smooch smooch), she’s got a point: usually the judgemental are that way because they are incredibly envious or scared.don’t be scared franfran…come to our side…oh wait, we don’t want you!ps oh crap it sounds like you may have gone to my university…small, in the city…..which is hard to understand seeing as this school was a haven for weirdo freak theatre geeks with a tendancy to joust in the quad whilst discussing Descarte………….ah I get it. you must have been one of those closeminded girls no one really liked who sat in her Virgin-Vault room reading the bible and listing all the ways everyone else was going to hell (possibly putting them into a neatly labled diagram of which ring in hell they were in fact going to occupy), while her roommate went out, drank, had sex, bought crickets, and general actually experienced life in all it’s messy, bizarre, glory.now usually I love a good troll poke…I’m a little addicted in fact…but you fran fran just make me sad. I mean, you’ve completley missed out on life by so ridgidly adhearing to your definition of ‘normal’ and ‘right’. Usually those people with the least real, tangible, tell-it-to-nurses-who-don’t-care-at-the-old-folks-home-before-you-die type life stories are the ones so hung up on collecting experiences and being well rounded. It’s just a shame you’ve completly missed life. You’re wasted.