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Losing Faith in Humankind

Started By drtrmiller , Jan 13 2019 10:16 AM

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#1 Offline drtrmiller - Posted January 13 2019 - 10:16 AM

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Edited by drtrmiller, January 13 2019 - 10:20 AM.

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#2 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 13 2019 - 10:21 AM

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why


#3 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted January 13 2019 - 10:35 AM

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Maybe you could direct her to some fluon


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#4 Offline FSTP - Posted January 13 2019 - 1:22 PM

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I love this!

 

But seriously, you're just now loosing faith in humanity? I lost that decades ago.


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#5 Offline CoolColJ - Posted January 13 2019 - 5:06 PM

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It can IMO, add some insecticide to the sugar water and your done :)

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#6 Offline T.C. - Posted January 13 2019 - 5:11 PM

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I look both ways before crossing a one way street. that's how much faith i have left in humanity. :P
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#7 Offline drtrmiller - Posted January 13 2019 - 5:21 PM

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It can IMO, add some insecticide to the sugar water and your done :)

 

I replied:

"This product is intended for people who keep ants in the home as pets. However, if the feeder was filled with an ant poison/bait, it may possibly rid your home of ants. No bait/poison is included with this item, so you would need to locate and purchase that separately."


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#8 Offline FSTP - Posted January 13 2019 - 6:48 PM

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Perhaps you found a new demographic to sell even more products.

 

 

You'll have to change your name from "BYFORMICA Antkeeping Products" to "BYFORMICA Ant Killing Products"


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#9 Offline Superant33 - Posted January 13 2019 - 7:35 PM

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Wow. Just wow.

#10 Offline Subverted - Posted January 13 2019 - 9:51 PM

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Perhaps you found a new demographic to sell even more products.
 
 
You'll have to change your name from "BYFORMICA Antkeeping Products" to "BYFORMICA Ant Killing Products"


I told him to go that direction ages and ages ago...WAY bigger market.
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#11 Offline Reacker - Posted January 13 2019 - 11:00 PM

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Why is this an unreasonable question? Are you all so soaked up in this hobby that you've forgotten that people consider ants in the home to be a pest deserving of extermination rather than as pets? If the feeder is designed to be the optimal solution to feeding ants, why wouldn't it also be an optimal way to feed ants poison? There's a million bait trap mechanisms and feeders out there and to someone without any exposure to ant keeping as hobby this may easily look like just another one of the same. You'd almost have to write "Uncle Milton Ant Farm" somewhere on the copy to make them begin to think otherwise. 


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#12 Offline nurbs - Posted January 14 2019 - 12:15 AM

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I find stray cats immensely annoying and consider them pests. All over my street. I should ask if any of those Amazon pet bowls can be used to hold poison and place them outside.


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I find stray cats immensely annoying and consider them pests. All over my street. I should ask if any of those Amazon pet bowls can be used to hold poison and place them outside.

Can’t they be taken to a shelter for adoption though? (I’m not an expert don’t quote me on this)
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#14 Offline Guy_Fieri - Posted January 14 2019 - 3:43 PM

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I find stray cats immensely annoying and consider them pests. All over my street. I should ask if any of those Amazon pet bowls can be used to hold poison and place them outside.

Can’t they be taken to a shelter for adoption though? (I’m not an expert don’t quote me on this)

The toxoplasmosis has gotten to you. Put on your tinfoil hat.

#15 Offline gcsnelling - Posted January 14 2019 - 3:59 PM

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If this has caused you to lose faith then do not read about what has happened out at Joshua Tree National Monument lately.


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